You might put Ledian at the beginning of the video and say that he is the worst of the early-game bug-type Pokemon, but I believe that as the early bird gets the worm, Ledian has the right to graduate from this status and become the worst early game bird
12:06 Fun fact about Insomnia on Spidops- the IRL spider they're based on, the ogre-faced spider, has better vision than even cats and owls thanks to a special membrane in their big ol' eyes. However, in daylight, the membrane BURNS UP, so they have to regrow a new one every night.
It appears Jimothy is improving and instead offering gifts to the weak and defenseless Pokémon. Will this streak continue or are we doomed to see the beloved Pokémon Stufful come under threat? Only time will tell.
I'd like to talk about a non fully evolved early bug. Charjabug! I know this is not a double's video, but he is so fun to use as a support mon with his unique ability and speed control. Eviolite makes him a tank, battery gives his partner a 30% sp attack boost, then you just spam thunder wave, electroweb, stringshot, struggle bug, light screen or whatever other supporting move. So so fun to use, I love Charjabug.
A few years ago I drafted Charjabug in the D tier and actually used it successfully in one match as a Zeraora switch-in and Sticky Web setter. ^^ Without the Sticky Web my defensive Arcanine would've been slower than the opposing Victini and I managed to win the match. 😁
In some sort of freak accident, I woke up at a decent hour today. 7:00 AM. This tragedy, however, has been justified with some prime new Spidops analysis. Thank you Jim, very cool.
Mothim is one of my favorite Pokémon of all time. I like the design and colors, it has a cool face with those eyebrows/antennae and it's just a cute little guy. Wormadam is also one of my favorite pokemon, but it's more because of personal experience and less because of design appreciation. I guess it's cool that mothim has both decent atk and spatk. It's also cool how it can't make use of either
Dustox isn't great in competitive, but it is quite strong in nuzlockes, at least. It learns stalling moves like protect and moonlight very early by level up even in its debut generation, and is one of a short list of pokemon to learn toxic by level up in gen 4. Combine that with passable defensive stats for the early game and you have a great early game carry, especially in gen 3.
I'd argue dustox could be ranked higher as it shows up and is definitely usable in PU/ZU in some gens. Ledian, krikitune and beautifly have been untiered garbage as far as I know.
Butterfree was more known for using Baton Pass in Gen 8 Anything Goes. The infamous Butterpass Hyper Offense. Not so much as the sweeper itself. Also no Mega Rayquaza in Gen 8. Only Nat Dex
6:36 If Mothim has a million fans, then I am one of them. If Mothim has ten fans, then I am one of them. If Mothim has only one fan, then that is me. If Mothim has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth.
17:23 is genuinely the best description of Wormadam Trash I've ever heard (not that anyone talks about it) "Are people throwing steel in the trash?" Is the question we've all been waiting far too long to start asking
QOTD: I gotta say lokix, fun design in both a casual and competitive standpoint, and despite the low stats, they are distributed well enough for the whole kit of the Pokémon to function in such a significant way Centiskorch, vikavolt, and araquanid are also runner up favorites as they really challenged the idea of bugs being flat out terrible with their designs and competitive merit without resorting to cheap tactics like ninjask (they’re still not great but there was some attempt made with them)
Dont forget Vespiqueen. It failed miserably but it tried its best to be a good defensive mon. maybe if stealth rocks didnt exist it would've been decent...
It really cant be understated how bad Ledian is. Alot of the low ranked bugs are so much better when you take an ingame perspective, focusing on how they scale with the early game. But not Ledian. I'd unironically argue that Ledian is even worse from an ingame perspective than it is from a competitive perspective.
@@jaide1312Bad screen setter that has access too toxic and sub screen. Honestly caterpie got more of a competitive precense then the entire lady bug line. Give the thing an evo tied to super heroes or something.
Yeah. Guys like Beedrill, Beautifly, Dustox, etc.. may seem bad but they also evolve at level 10. A Beautifuly with 90 Special Attack or a Beedrill with 80 Attack just hit really hard at level 10. A Dustox with 70 Defense and 90 Special defense and Shield Dust is legitimately a wall at level 10. It walls of multiple early game gyms in Generation 3. Ledian is a truly special case because it doesn't even have that. With 35 Attack, even the likes of Pidgey and Rattata hit harder. Generation 2 had so much stupid design. It's only held in high regard with Gen 1 and 3 because of we were kids and nostalgia.
On Shedinja, it infamously DIDN'T learn Swords Dance, but has always had a way to trick Swords Dance onto it by evolving Nincada at the precise level that Ninjask learns swords dance, and teaching Ninjask swords dance as it evolves. They eventually gave Shedinja swords dance because so many sets transfered from earlier gens had tricked swords dance on in this way.
Jim says in VGC they are useless: Escavalier won a World Championship and both Vivillion and Butterfree made waves through regional events over the years
Escavalier is a great trick room pokemon in doubles, its 20 speed and overcoat make it a great counter to amoonguss and while torkoal is a serious counter you can get around that with other pokemon so its fine and it does get razor shell and drill run I think so its not like it cant possibly win the speed tie and hit it with a super effective attack. Its great with swords dance life orb and with choice band, it just depends on what Pokémon you have on the team because escavalier has 4 move slot syndrome sometimes.
@@_Rhatsody Karrablast is pretty early game in pokemon black, rout 6 I think. To be fair though its evolution requirements mean a lot of people wont ever evolve it in a playthrough
@@galvsparks6295 Yeah fair, but it is in the earlier half of the game and also the first 4 gyms go by faster then the later 4 and late game content, for me at least. Mid game but closer to being early game then late game.
masquerain's access to intimidate is based off of the eye patterning on its wings, which is an evolutionary advantage some real world bugs have to ward off birds (and perhaps other predators). in terms of masquerain itself, i used it at the very start of BDSP with a choice scarf and unnerve to be able to outspeed and OHKO garchomp with ice beam even through a yache berry. it was not good, but it was pretty funny.
Legends Z-A/Gen 10 is going to introduce Mega Ledian. All 100 bst from the Mega are given to Attack and it's ability changes to Speed Boost. Boom, Ledian gets to have its revenge.
Sadly even that would be kinda mediocre. Blaziken still has better stats, better STABs, better moves... And sure, being weaker than *Mega Blaziken* isn't bad, but you're also arguably worse than stuff like Yanmega and Scolipede.
When Gen 1 came out, I used Butterfree with Confusion to get past Brock's gym since I had Charmander. In later generations I was thrilled to see it get Giga Drain and near perfect Sleep Powder. Always gonna love Butterfree
"Early-Game Bug" definitely doesn't apply to most of these, Pokémon like Escavalier and Accelgor, who are found around the time you beat the fifth gym in the game they first appeared in, have nothing in common with stuff like Beedrill and Ledian other than the Bug type
Shout out to kricketune for being the only reason cynthia was easy for me in bdsp. I got past the rest of her team without a ton of trouble, then sent out kricketune and clicked perish song into her garchomp. And i had enough pokemon clinging onto life in the back so that the garchomp died before it finished one-shotting them all
The main thing about Shedinja is that it boils everything down into a very binary option - if you can hit this, you get to fight on. If you cant, I win no qiestions asked. Which is an insane proposition when it comes to the metagame because Shedinja is weak to fire, just like the steel type which happens to be one of the dominant defensive types and of course people will prepare against it. But on a purely personal note, I want to sind an entire ode to Shedinja. You see, I happened to have a team of five solid members when I had my first ORAS playthrough. So when it was time to enter the Elite Four, a vastly underleveled Shedinja happened to be my best bet as a sixth team member. Shedinja can thrive on moves like Toxic or Will-o-Wisp. Modern AI is smart enough to switch if they can damage it by any means but if you lock them down? Wonder Guard walls them to the end of time. Steven had a Mega Metagross that would nuke everything I had in a single turn but that also couldnt touch Shedinja. And so, Will-O-Wisp and Wonder Guard ended up granting me my first ever ORAS hall of fame. I survived because this insane Metagross was prevented from hitting a level 34 afterthought of a pokemon.
Masquerain is designed after mimic insects. They have eye spots on their wings or body that imitate the eyes of large predators, warding off potential threats. Hence the pokemon has intimidate!
Masquerain is one of my favorites of all time: It's wings are the eyes, it's body is the nose, it's smaller little wings one the bottom are arguably a mustache. The idea is that it is a bug which uses mimicry to intimidate foes, hence it's amazing ability.
The only time I've ever acknowledged Mothim previously was when doing a mono-Bug nuzlocke of Pokemon Platinum; after a few attempts, I quickly learned that Mothim is so awful that if your Burmy encounter is a male, you might as well restart, because you're missing out on Trash-Cloak Wormadam who can solo significant portions of the early- and midgame with its incredible typing and respectable movepool. After receiving my third male Burmy in a row, I truly said to myself, "It's Mothim Monday, folks."
Butterfly had the smallest of niches in VGC a couple of times, too. The combination of tailwind+accurate sleep on a usable base speed stat is something that would be quite broken on any other pokemon
Butterfree's paralysis of ground types as an advantage over Smeargle is false Smeargle can have Glare which can do the same thing and isn't blocked by later gens grass immunity to powder moves
MOTHIM FAN HERE, on my first playthrough of Diamond I got a Mothim and the black and orange color scheme really stood out to me, one of my top 5 Pokemon even if it sucks
Vespiquen lost Heal Order during the Dexcut too. It now learns Roost which is arguably better, but it's yet another example of Game Freak deciding to just delete moves from the game rather than inventively rework them. Heal Order would have been really cool as a recovery move that healed your ally as well and maybe continued to heal for several turns similar to Aqua Ring (and also making it not just a Life Dew clone). While we're at it, Defend Order and Attack Order could be something similarly useful for Doubles. Maybe Defend Order stops being a Cosmic Power clone and instead now becomes a sort of "sacrifice a little health" move that grants you and your ally each a low HP sub? And Attack Order could be a stronger Infestation variant that doesn't trap but continues to deal damage like Salt Cure? Might be broken but Vespiquen needs the help
i played a lot of pokemon colosseum when I was younger and one of the first mons you get in that game is ledian, and I was fascinated by the movepool of all the punches that it got, only to realize that it did effectively no damage. I love ledian, needs a mega to bring it back into the spotlight because I love this superhero bug (why is it not bug fighting even like how)
my first thought was "i bet lokix inspired this" my second thought was "pretty sure there isn't anything above lokix" was a really wonderful part of my dark gym leader run
Funny fact about Kricketune - it’s actually a meme in the Chinese Pokémon player community and got a HUGE number of fans but that’s mainly to do with how weak it is.
I love Venomoth, I regularly used it in lower tiers :) Tinted lens saved that mon, but with sleep powder and quiver dance to set up with it it can actually get out of hand pretty fast if you don't have a 4x resist, plus with gen 9 it can tera to gain new options :D I like tera grass for stab on Giga Drain, or fire with tera blast to be a fake iron moth
My favorite early bug is Charjabug, very much not Vikavolt. I've used Charjabug a ton in Doubles on trick room teams, even had fun using it and Chi Yu in a gen 9 triples tournament recently. And if you want you can run him as a sticky web setter in singles with eviolite. I love how him and Vikavolt specialize in opposite attacking stats.
Ariados is part of my favorite niche of "Terrible stats that managed to end up in ubers at some point due to a later gen tool they gave it" A.k.a Ariados, Qwilfish, Quagsire, Politoed, Azumarill, Xatu You gotta give the gen 2 dex that they go aganst the odds of their base stats
Masquerain has angry face wings. Close a bit your eyes and you'll see the intimidating dark red eyes and the nose in the middle. Like a flying angry face on water.
quite a few of these bugs are pretty good in vgc, araquanid and escavalier are both excellent trick room attackers for one thing, araquanid is a calyrex-ice counter that hits like a truck, and escavalier has been great in multiple formats (it even won worlds once). also vivillon has unique utility with rage powder, tailwind and friend guard which is a pretty powerful combo, in lower power level formats it's pretty nice and it's been used in gen 9
I figured that Bug was meant to be a check for the grass type, which at the time was primarily poison and the two were counters to one another It kind of goes into my theory that physical and special variances were supposed to have a sort of podium, calling out for people to come to their side respectively and elect a playstyle If you were too physical, you would be outclased by special. If you were too special, trickery will be employed to oust that dependency. But at the time, the trickster was either normal or dark which gets pummeled by fighting or capped by stats Fairy hadn't been introduced yet, so the normal type slotted them to be sort of one off, one hit wonders like Chansey. Fairy came along and really confused things resisting Fighting or having the most pear shaped stat distribution. Usually you can count on a typing being very good at one thing, but not so much the other such as Alakazam or Golem. We don't really get into all out resistance spreads until Gen IV with the split At any rate I was always fascinated by how gamefreak interpreted rock paper scissors checks. Like why Gengar was a ghost in concept, but ended up being poison and ruined by all things ground These checks made it hard to interpret what was actually effective. You end up thinking that all rock types resist other rocks because they were all predominantly ground early on. Making bug have this weird swing angle was probably Gamefreaks way of making younger players feel like they were getting somewhere really fast Then you get scyther and it has literally no bug moves. In game you just make things up as you go along, catching things like that because they look cool and maybe it will evolve into something even more crazy and badass. It's not supposed to be competitive. You're literally that early route bug catcher thinking they'll do the trick
im not exactly a Kricketune fan but i love its call. Its extremely unique and very recognizeable among pokemon calls. It kinda scared me me as a kid tho, its call and the arms just very intimidating
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Lokix mentioned!! 🗣🗣🗣
I can't believe jimothy didn't include the fully evolved pokemon male combee
My thoughts exactly
Can male Combee use eviolite? Or does it only works on female Combee?
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Yes
They're not bugs, they're features.
Features of the early game.
Oh you.
TELL ME LIES TELL ME SWEET LITTLE LIES
Feature-type
*creatures
You might put Ledian at the beginning of the video and say that he is the worst of the early-game bug-type Pokemon, but I believe that as the early bird gets the worm, Ledian has the right to graduate from this status and become the worst early game bird
Unfortunately birds are all fake government spies created by a secret part of the horse council. But you didn't hear that from me
At 0:46 jim says that bug pokemon are "underdogs", therefore ledian is also the worst dog pokemon
This thread is insane, someone should inform the horse council
Since this comment horsing around as well, it also gets worse horse Pokémon
I'm not sure Ledian is actually worse than Pidgeot though
my favorite early game bug type is magcargo
It's a snail, so it's gotta be bug
Magcargo is a remarkable pokemon, being both a bug and a horse.
Well it is a snail, and so is Shelmet who’s a bug type
Great choice! My favorite early game bug type is stantler
His access to High BugPower has landed him yet another prestigious position unusual to pokemon of the rock or fire types
12:06 Fun fact about Insomnia on Spidops- the IRL spider they're based on, the ogre-faced spider, has better vision than even cats and owls thanks to a special membrane in their big ol' eyes.
However, in daylight, the membrane BURNS UP, so they have to regrow a new one every night.
One must imagine Sisyphus as a spider
What if they just stay inside do they get more membranes that night? Imagine the vision with hundreds of membranes. It would be insanity.
@@guilhermedalcin1136sounds more like Prometheus
@@Petsinwinter2is that the eagle liver guy
@@usernametaken017Yes, that is him
My favorite early-game bug is Arceus-Bug. He was there, before the “game” even existed.
I would reckon this is truly a Wormadam Wednesday to remember
I am a proud Mothim fan. I chanced upon him in my first Pearl playthrough and though he did nothing I like his visual design
Wormadam >>
Early-game Bug types are some of the most tragic Pokemon in the entire series.
of course not every Pokemon is supposed to be amazing
of course not every Pokemon is supposed to be amazing
Especially those that you encounter near the beginning of the game
Ice types: 💀
But still many of these early game bugs feel pathetic
It appears Jimothy is improving and instead offering gifts to the weak and defenseless Pokémon. Will this streak continue or are we doomed to see the beloved Pokémon Stufful come under threat? Only time will tell.
Imagine if Jimothy Cool from UA-cam was a bug type Pokémon.
Hes be big/fire because he drops bangers every week. Probably a horsefly. Maybe ground/bug with levitate
bug/flying with swarm ability
That would be insane, folks.
I'd like to talk about a non fully evolved early bug. Charjabug! I know this is not a double's video, but he is so fun to use as a support mon with his unique ability and speed control. Eviolite makes him a tank, battery gives his partner a 30% sp attack boost, then you just spam thunder wave, electroweb, stringshot, struggle bug, light screen or whatever other supporting move. So so fun to use, I love Charjabug.
Charjabug is awesome! Id love to see more usage of such a wonderful bug.
A few years ago I drafted Charjabug in the D tier and actually used it successfully in one match as a Zeraora switch-in and Sticky Web setter. ^^
Without the Sticky Web my defensive Arcanine would've been slower than the opposing Victini and I managed to win the match. 😁
Pokemon go reference
KRIKETUNE FANS LET ME HEAR YOU MAKE SOME NOISEEEE DELELELELEWHOOOOPPPPPP
In some sort of freak accident, I woke up at a decent hour today. 7:00 AM.
This tragedy, however, has been justified with some prime new Spidops analysis. Thank you Jim, very cool.
Mothim is one of my favorite Pokémon of all time. I like the design and colors, it has a cool face with those eyebrows/antennae and it's just a cute little guy. Wormadam is also one of my favorite pokemon, but it's more because of personal experience and less because of design appreciation.
I guess it's cool that mothim has both decent atk and spatk. It's also cool how it can't make use of either
Mothim Mondays on the DPP OU ladder, let's make it happen.
Dustox isn't great in competitive, but it is quite strong in nuzlockes, at least. It learns stalling moves like protect and moonlight very early by level up even in its debut generation, and is one of a short list of pokemon to learn toxic by level up in gen 4. Combine that with passable defensive stats for the early game and you have a great early game carry, especially in gen 3.
I'd argue dustox could be ranked higher as it shows up and is definitely usable in PU/ZU in some gens.
Ledian, krikitune and beautifly have been untiered garbage as far as I know.
Seriously it caried hard in my BDSP nuzlocke
18:59 Sunny Day to make Rain with priority 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥
Butterfree was more known for using Baton Pass in Gen 8 Anything Goes. The infamous Butterpass Hyper Offense. Not so much as the sweeper itself. Also no Mega Rayquaza in Gen 8. Only Nat Dex
6:36
If Mothim has a million fans, then I am one of them.
If Mothim has ten fans, then I am one of them.
If Mothim has only one fan, then that is me.
If Mothim has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth.
Bethesda is gonna be happy with this video
17:23 is genuinely the best description of Wormadam Trash I've ever heard (not that anyone talks about it) "Are people throwing steel in the trash?" Is the question we've all been waiting far too long to start asking
QOTD: I gotta say lokix, fun design in both a casual and competitive standpoint, and despite the low stats, they are distributed well enough for the whole kit of the Pokémon to function in such a significant way
Centiskorch, vikavolt, and araquanid are also runner up favorites as they really challenged the idea of bugs being flat out terrible with their designs and competitive merit without resorting to cheap tactics like ninjask (they’re still not great but there was some attempt made with them)
Dont forget Vespiqueen. It failed miserably but it tried its best to be a good defensive mon. maybe if stealth rocks didnt exist it would've been decent...
It really cant be understated how bad Ledian is.
Alot of the low ranked bugs are so much better when you take an ingame perspective, focusing on how they scale with the early game.
But not Ledian. I'd unironically argue that Ledian is even worse from an ingame perspective than it is from a competitive perspective.
It can use it's underwhelming special attack to throw out underpowered ice and thunder punches! And uhhh, baton pass agility? I got nothing.
@@jaide1312Bad screen setter that has access too toxic and sub screen.
Honestly caterpie got more of a competitive precense then the entire lady bug line.
Give the thing an evo tied to super heroes or something.
Yeah. Guys like Beedrill, Beautifly, Dustox, etc.. may seem bad but they also evolve at level 10. A Beautifuly with 90 Special Attack or a Beedrill with 80 Attack just hit really hard at level 10. A Dustox with 70 Defense and 90 Special defense and Shield Dust is legitimately a wall at level 10. It walls of multiple early game gyms in Generation 3.
Ledian is a truly special case because it doesn't even have that. With 35 Attack, even the likes of Pidgey and Rattata hit harder.
Generation 2 had so much stupid design. It's only held in high regard with Gen 1 and 3 because of we were kids and nostalgia.
Imagine if Dark Magician from Yu-Gi-Oh was a bug type Pokémon.
On Shedinja, it infamously DIDN'T learn Swords Dance, but has always had a way to trick Swords Dance onto it by evolving Nincada at the precise level that Ninjask learns swords dance, and teaching Ninjask swords dance as it evolves. They eventually gave Shedinja swords dance because so many sets transfered from earlier gens had tricked swords dance on in this way.
mothim is so forgettable as an early game bug that they forgot to even put it in the early game
Jim says in VGC they are useless: Escavalier won a World Championship and both Vivillion and Butterfree made waves through regional events over the years
Escavalier is a great trick room pokemon in doubles, its 20 speed and overcoat make it a great counter to amoonguss and while torkoal is a serious counter you can get around that with other pokemon so its fine and it does get razor shell and drill run I think so its not like it cant possibly win the speed tie and hit it with a super effective attack. Its great with swords dance life orb and with choice band, it just depends on what Pokémon you have on the team because escavalier has 4 move slot syndrome sometimes.
Escavakier is NOT an early game bug. Sewaddle and vinipede are from 5th gen
@@_Rhatsody Karrablast is pretty early game in pokemon black, rout 6 I think. To be fair though its evolution requirements mean a lot of people wont ever evolve it in a playthrough
@@Exquailibur route 6 is quite literally 4 badges into the game, that's NOT early game
@@galvsparks6295 Yeah fair, but it is in the earlier half of the game and also the first 4 gyms go by faster then the later 4 and late game content, for me at least.
Mid game but closer to being early game then late game.
This video is bugging the horse council. Don't let them take it down.
Scolipede is really an agent of the Horse Council this video is all part of their plan
Ledian may be bad in competitive battles but he is very good at being named Crap Gorps, a feat no other Pokémon can claim
Personal Ranking
S-Tier: Araquanid, Lokix, Ribombee
A-Tier: Escavalier, Scolipede, Yanmega
B-Tier: Accelgor, Centiskorch, Leavanny, Ninjask, Venomoth, Vikavolt, Vivillon
C-Tier: Butterfree, Masquerain, Orbeetle, Shedinja, Wormadam-Trash
D-Tier: Ariados, Mothim, Illumise, Parasect, Spidops, Vespiquen, Volbeat, Wormadam-Sandy
F-Tier: Beautifly, Beedrill, Dustox, Kricketune, Ledian, Wormadam-Plant
Tf is Leavanny doing in B tier 😭, it's god awful
masquerain's access to intimidate is based off of the eye patterning on its wings, which is an evolutionary advantage some real world bugs have to ward off birds (and perhaps other predators). in terms of masquerain itself, i used it at the very start of BDSP with a choice scarf and unnerve to be able to outspeed and OHKO garchomp with ice beam even through a yache berry. it was not good, but it was pretty funny.
Legends Z-A/Gen 10 is going to introduce Mega Ledian. All 100 bst from the Mega are given to Attack and it's ability changes to Speed Boost. Boom, Ledian gets to have its revenge.
Sadly even that would be kinda mediocre. Blaziken still has better stats, better STABs, better moves...
And sure, being weaker than *Mega Blaziken* isn't bad, but you're also arguably worse than stuff like Yanmega and Scolipede.
Orbeetle deserves a bit of respect he can set sticky web and screens. He is also highly intelligent due to his large brain
Mothim is a pro at what it does best. Aggroing you in Arceus and forcing you to run out of aggro range when you were trying to fast travel.
When Gen 1 came out, I used Butterfree with Confusion to get past Brock's gym since I had Charmander. In later generations I was thrilled to see it get Giga Drain and near perfect Sleep Powder. Always gonna love Butterfree
Dude your humor is amazing, keep up the great content man :)
Ninjask being a problem < ninjask having the longest section
"Early-Game Bug" definitely doesn't apply to most of these, Pokémon like Escavalier and Accelgor, who are found around the time you beat the fifth gym in the game they first appeared in, have nothing in common with stuff like Beedrill and Ledian other than the Bug type
Shout out to kricketune for being the only reason cynthia was easy for me in bdsp. I got past the rest of her team without a ton of trouble, then sent out kricketune and clicked perish song into her garchomp. And i had enough pokemon clinging onto life in the back so that the garchomp died before it finished one-shotting them all
Comet Punch is not a signature move for Ledian, it's been in Hitmonchan's moveset since Gen 1
Mothim is unironically the favourite pokemon of an old friend of mine. He's truly one of a kind
The main thing about Shedinja is that it boils everything down into a very binary option - if you can hit this, you get to fight on. If you cant, I win no qiestions asked.
Which is an insane proposition when it comes to the metagame because Shedinja is weak to fire, just like the steel type which happens to be one of the dominant defensive types and of course people will prepare against it.
But on a purely personal note, I want to sind an entire ode to Shedinja.
You see, I happened to have a team of five solid members when I had my first ORAS playthrough. So when it was time to enter the Elite Four, a vastly underleveled Shedinja happened to be my best bet as a sixth team member.
Shedinja can thrive on moves like Toxic or Will-o-Wisp. Modern AI is smart enough to switch if they can damage it by any means but if you lock them down? Wonder Guard walls them to the end of time.
Steven had a Mega Metagross that would nuke everything I had in a single turn but that also couldnt touch Shedinja. And so, Will-O-Wisp and Wonder Guard ended up granting me my first ever ORAS hall of fame. I survived because this insane Metagross was prevented from hitting a level 34 afterthought of a pokemon.
Mothim Monday on a Wednesday? That's insane
Yo Jimothy been on fire, love the content
30:00 you should do the same for Groodon to prove your point
Hearing this at work makes my day ☺️
19:52 it’s based off the phenomenon where animals, mostly bugs, develope fake eye patterns.
Orbeetle is a tragedy. Imagine being a Bug type that's weak to Bug. Lol!
Allow me to introduce you to Parasect
Lokix when someone U-turns on it:
Reoccuring theme of "It can learn u-turn, which is good, because then it doesn't have to fight anymore"
14:13 Orbeetle fan right here. Dude lives super effective hits in most cases. Put respect on my boy's name.
Masquerain is designed after mimic insects. They have eye spots on their wings or body that imitate the eyes of large predators, warding off potential threats. Hence the pokemon has intimidate!
Masquerain is one of my favorites of all time:
It's wings are the eyes, it's body is the nose, it's smaller little wings one the bottom are arguably a mustache. The idea is that it is a bug which uses mimicry to intimidate foes, hence it's amazing ability.
16:25 My child proving why they are the superior Bug/Grass Pokemon over all of those pretenders to the throne
My love for Vivilion knows know bounds… unless… that means using it in competitive.
I am the Mothim fan. He was very useful as a shiny in my Pokerogue runs. Very valuable thing he did.
The only time I've ever acknowledged Mothim previously was when doing a mono-Bug nuzlocke of Pokemon Platinum; after a few attempts, I quickly learned that Mothim is so awful that if your Burmy encounter is a male, you might as well restart, because you're missing out on Trash-Cloak Wormadam who can solo significant portions of the early- and midgame with its incredible typing and respectable movepool. After receiving my third male Burmy in a row, I truly said to myself, "It's Mothim Monday, folks."
Butterfly had the smallest of niches in VGC a couple of times, too. The combination of tailwind+accurate sleep on a usable base speed stat is something that would be quite broken on any other pokemon
Butterfree's paralysis of ground types as an advantage over Smeargle is false
Smeargle can have Glare which can do the same thing and isn't blocked by later gens grass immunity to powder moves
Imagine if Lickitung from Pokémon was a bug type Pokémon.
Mothim should be put on the Horse Council so people will remember him
Grubbin is my favorite pokemon so Vikavolt is my choice for fave early game bug. Great line all the way through, very creative funny bugs!
i think mothim’s design is pretty cool. very nice color palette
These vids calm my over whelming ocd, thank you
Spidops my goat learns Pain Split and I just learned that recently. This changes everything
MOTHIM FAN HERE, on my first playthrough of Diamond I got a Mothim and the black and orange color scheme really stood out to me, one of my top 5 Pokemon even if it sucks
As a UA-cam commenter I appreciate the correct Illumise pronunciation.
That was an uncharacteristically nice sub plug. Let me fix it: “subscribe now, or I’ll spray the Pokémon spinarak”
Vespiquen lost Heal Order during the Dexcut too. It now learns Roost which is arguably better, but it's yet another example of Game Freak deciding to just delete moves from the game rather than inventively rework them. Heal Order would have been really cool as a recovery move that healed your ally as well and maybe continued to heal for several turns similar to Aqua Ring (and also making it not just a Life Dew clone).
While we're at it, Defend Order and Attack Order could be something similarly useful for Doubles. Maybe Defend Order stops being a Cosmic Power clone and instead now becomes a sort of "sacrifice a little health" move that grants you and your ally each a low HP sub? And Attack Order could be a stronger Infestation variant that doesn't trap but continues to deal damage like Salt Cure? Might be broken but Vespiquen needs the help
i played a lot of pokemon colosseum when I was younger and one of the first mons you get in that game is ledian, and I was fascinated by the movepool of all the punches that it got, only to realize that it did effectively no damage. I love ledian, needs a mega to bring it back into the spotlight because I love this superhero bug (why is it not bug fighting even like how)
Orbeetle is based
I hereby acknowledge the pokemon Mothims’s existence, and wish it a happy Mothim Monday
my first thought was "i bet lokix inspired this"
my second thought was "pretty sure there isn't anything above lokix"
was a really wonderful part of my dark gym leader run
Mothim, you exist! You’re a bug/flying type with swarm!
Dustox still claps Brawly's cheeks to this day
Funny fact about Kricketune - it’s actually a meme in the Chinese Pokémon player community and got a HUGE number of fans but that’s mainly to do with how weak it is.
Jim you crack me up first thing in the morning!
i was still waiting for the ad to stop playing and i already knew what the first sentence was, thank you jimothy cool commenters
Happy Mothim Day, let today's a day to remember in history.
I know you're not looking at the VGC format, but Escavalier is one of the few pokemon who have a World Championship to it's name!
Jimothy might be my favourite comedian
“Wormadam trash i don’t get it steel is a valuable resource” “it should be wormadam treasure” had me dying
On this Mothim Monday, though he may be forgotten, he will always live on in our pokedexes.....
well at least until dexit
I love Venomoth, I regularly used it in lower tiers :)
Tinted lens saved that mon, but with sleep powder and quiver dance to set up with it it can actually get out of hand pretty fast if you don't have a 4x resist, plus with gen 9 it can tera to gain new options :D
I like tera grass for stab on Giga Drain, or fire with tera blast to be a fake iron moth
Too bad it's apparently not considered an early game bug type by mr cool :(
The best bug type is Tera Bug Muk Horse mode
My favorite early bug is Charjabug, very much not Vikavolt. I've used Charjabug a ton in Doubles on trick room teams, even had fun using it and Chi Yu in a gen 9 triples tournament recently. And if you want you can run him as a sticky web setter in singles with eviolite. I love how him and Vikavolt specialize in opposite attacking stats.
Ariados is part of my favorite niche of "Terrible stats that managed to end up in ubers at some point due to a later gen tool they gave it"
A.k.a Ariados, Qwilfish, Quagsire, Politoed, Azumarill, Xatu
You gotta give the gen 2 dex that they go aganst the odds of their base stats
Mothim is without a doubt one of the Pokémon of all time.
I'm so glad Lokix is good. And Araquanid, too. They're my favourites.
Masquerain has angry face wings. Close a bit your eyes and you'll see the intimidating dark red eyes and the nose in the middle. Like a flying angry face on water.
quite a few of these bugs are pretty good in vgc, araquanid and escavalier are both excellent trick room attackers for one thing, araquanid is a calyrex-ice counter that hits like a truck, and escavalier has been great in multiple formats (it even won worlds once). also vivillon has unique utility with rage powder, tailwind and friend guard which is a pretty powerful combo, in lower power level formats it's pretty nice and it's been used in gen 9
I will never forget that i had to grind with kriketot and burmy with BIDE. The most unrewarding kind of battle and ultimately evolution.
I figured that Bug was meant to be a check for the grass type, which at the time was primarily poison and the two were counters to one another
It kind of goes into my theory that physical and special variances were supposed to have a sort of podium, calling out for people to come to their side respectively and elect a playstyle
If you were too physical, you would be outclased by special. If you were too special, trickery will be employed to oust that dependency. But at the time, the trickster was either normal or dark which gets pummeled by fighting or capped by stats
Fairy hadn't been introduced yet, so the normal type slotted them to be sort of one off, one hit wonders like Chansey. Fairy came along and really confused things resisting Fighting or having the most pear shaped stat distribution. Usually you can count on a typing being very good at one thing, but not so much the other such as Alakazam or Golem. We don't really get into all out resistance spreads until Gen IV with the split
At any rate I was always fascinated by how gamefreak interpreted rock paper scissors checks. Like why Gengar was a ghost in concept, but ended up being poison and ruined by all things ground
These checks made it hard to interpret what was actually effective. You end up thinking that all rock types resist other rocks because they were all predominantly ground early on. Making bug have this weird swing angle was probably Gamefreaks way of making younger players feel like they were getting somewhere really fast
Then you get scyther and it has literally no bug moves. In game you just make things up as you go along, catching things like that because they look cool and maybe it will evolve into something even more crazy and badass. It's not supposed to be competitive. You're literally that early route bug catcher thinking they'll do the trick
Imagine if Greymon from Digimon was a bug type Pokémon.
I appreciate the use of Chrono Trigger music
I wish to start a petition to add Mothim to the horse council
Good watch sir. my favorite is Masqurain its doing wonders in the lower tiers
im not exactly a Kricketune fan but i love its call. Its extremely unique and very recognizeable among pokemon calls. It kinda scared me me as a kid tho, its call and the arms just very intimidating
I think you underestimate the mind games you can play with Kricketune, its iconic cry can mess with opponents and throw them off their game!
Butterfree my beloved Random Battles GOAT