The state of OU right now is crazy: "This Pokémon has an 100 base power STAB move that has a 50% chance to badly poison and confuse a Pokémon at the same time. It's not very good..."
@@sovietspaceshipExactly. It has some niche, but said niche makes its survivability worse. That's why it doesn't feel like it'd ever be good in OU or even UU. Below that, it may've a shot though, which is silly to think about, especially because of the signature move and ability it has. Powercreep is gonna powercreep, it seems.
@@AZV0108 I was suprised when i saw the stat spread too i was like damn is that a suboptimal distribution in a post gen 7 game? is gamefreak actually starting to test some of their stuff?
Powercreep is really insane this gen. The viability of a pokemon these days depends of the answer to "how does X handles kingambit /Gholdengo / Buffed Donphan"
To be fair it's always been like this, the viability of all pokemon except the top threat is dependent on how they interact with the top threats. The only thing that has changed is that the power level of top threats has increased through generations.
That's not really unique to this gen, that's just how a meta works. Powercreep IS insane this gen, but that's not why the viability relies on other pokemon
I feel like every bad matchup of Pecharunt is the phrase "this pokemon that relies entirely on poisonning to do anything cannot do anything to this good pokemon that is immune to poisonning" repeated over and over again
the design of it is just not very well-rounded compared to other mythicals, sadly. it DESPERATELY needs any kind of coverage but has literally nothing but stab moves and a couple of utility options that don't really help at all
@@iantaakalla8180 I mean Avalugg's issue is less its type, and more the fact that it basically doesn't have a Special Defense stat. If you gave it like 40-ish more Sp. Def it would probably be fine.
One thing of note: mythic Pokemon tend to have a BST of 600 with 100 in each stat. Pecharunt basically took 12 points out of each stat to add them to def
I'm kind of relieved to see a new DLC Pokemon that isn't a new meta-breaking threat. Pecharunt's gimmick may be annoying but there are good steel types (and even some poison) that exist to ruin its day if it ever becomes a major threat. Overall I like it. My impression of it so far is that it's an awkward pivot that would've been great in the Dondozo days but doesn't really keep up right now.
While I think mr. Cool brings up some good points, I think he’s seriously underestimating Pecharunt’s insane ability to make others do the chicken dance against their will, which could surely shake up the ou metagame
I feel like its not meant to be a good mon. Mythicals are supposed to be unique, special and fun, as well as being big to the lore. It will be a solid RU mon but its jist a bit of fun. Much better than the usual 100 stat spread across the board
i get the attempt at novelty and variation but i agree with jim in which this thing is a coinflip machine and will make any metagame in which it is relevant less fun
@@happydude142 Yes. And Mew, Celebi, Jirachi, Darkrai, Victini, Volcanion and especially Marshadow had shaken up the competitive scene when they debuted. The only time they didn't is when they suck deeply, like Zarude and now Pecharunt. The newer Mythicals have no right to suck this much when previous ones were pretty decent when they were in their hayday and sometimes even beyond.
@@GoinGreninja dude most of those aren't even good nowadays lmao. They're better back then with less powercreep (and I'm not a huge fan of people blame everything on powercreep either). Mew is usually UU nowadays, Shaymin is like RU or in this gen PU (Skymin is shit in Ubers post gen 5), Victini is mostly a UU to UUBL mon, Phione is phione, Manaphy is solid. Besides Pecharunt is still cool and have a unique fighting style. Not all mythical needs to be OU or UU mons
I mean, I wouldn't call it disappointing. It's the only bulky ghost that has curse and recover, and it perfectly checks kingambit if it kingabmbit teras. That on it's own is not bad at all. A grassy seed / leftovers with toxic - sub - curse hex / parting shot / protect combined with a rilaboom is... quite annoying. so it's not that bad
i think the main thing thats holding back percharunt is how offensive the tier is so, each game is going to be fast and trying to get anything out of the confusion and toxic can be hard.
Imo you’re kinda discrediting how good the peach can be, I reached 1800 with a grassy terrain team that actually lets it beat stuff like Lando and some tusk sets with ease, and it’s not like they want to come in on malignant chain, the fact that the move basically forces your opponent to either bring in their steel/poison type or face a coin flip to get toxic and confused is lovely cuz you can bring in your checks to them
yep, which is why it is severely underrated in my opinion. Being an awful annoyance against anything non steel or poison means that you are forcing them to switch in, which is an inherent value in on itself. You can also run a bulky curse - recover set to similar results. Also peachrunt teraed into anything not weak to steel or dark is a perfect counter to kingambit to the point of making that mon useless, so you are also forcing kingambit not to tera, which is huge in managing that mon. So yeah it is severely underrated
Pecharunt's issue is that it's a predictable, one-trick pony. Its ability only works if you poison the opponent. Which means you have to inflict poison/bad poison for it to be useful, which then takes away any other status you might want to inflict. And it has to be specifically from Pecharunt, so something like Toxic Spikes won't trigger the ability. Beyond that, it has 88 stats across the board (save Defense), so it's not exactly sweeper material. I can't say it's bad so much as it's just the moment you see it, you know exactly what it's going to do. Bring in a Steel type.
Better he doesn't have it. Cheap RNG based design, only fair he doesn't do anything against steel. Just move into RU in a couple of months and no one is gonna miss you.
I think it's an OU-caliber Pokemon due to being a tanky physical wall that's insane at spreading toxic and can pivot out of bad matchups with Parting Shot. ...The issue is the current OU metagame has a LOT of things that threaten it that are on the majority of teams like Ghold and Kingambit. It's just got a poor case of bad matchups against the top OU threats. I imagine it'll end up in UU. Some people seem to think it's utter garbage that'll fall to the bottom tiers but I find that very doubtful.
The 8 thing is a theme because 8 in Japan represents good luck, so it's supposed to be ironic since Pecharunt is part of the concept of a monkey's paw, it can grant wishes but also turn those it grants the wishes of into generally bad people. The Loyal Three are really mean Pokémon because of it and even if he wasn't fully controlled, Kieran was influenced by Pecharunt as well causing some of his angst in the DLC
(Potentially) Hot take: Kingambit and Gholdengo should both be banned from OU, not for being overpowered, but for being over-centralizing. Almost every team has to have both a solid answer to them and have them yourself as a win condition, and even with good counters, they (especially Gambit) can often just decide to win anyway with hyperpowerful Sucker Punches and the such. Great Tusk is debatably in the same boat, but it tends to be a good but a bit less mandatory and without its two biggest targets in the picture, it’d probably drop to being a great but not dominating threat.
I really like Pecharunt, it's ability reflects its powers from the story and pokedex and its not too broken Hex, chain, fighting tera and recover works
When talking about Pecharunt's Kingambit matchup, it's important to note that a Sucker Punch powered up by Supreme Overlord from Kingambit will only do about 88% to Pecharunt. Despite the type advantage, it doesn't OHKO. It's low base special attack is also pretty deceptive, it's just high enough to hit relevant damage thresholds. If you have tera, Pecharunt will on average beat most Kingambits with good play. That being said, it's definitely a rather difficult mon to use. But I think the potential is there.
2HKO isn’t much better, and if your best option is to sac something for Pecharunt to get very good damage on Kingambit the team is not an OU team or you have lost and you are playing out your loss.
The worst part is: that was the first mythical that had a presentation that wasn't just "here, free mythical" in years. The fact that a hyped mythical was the weakest one we got is just sad.
Pecharunt's toxicity only makes way for the arrival of its future form, Iron Gamer with its signature move Toxic Gamer Moment which not only poisons and confuses, but inflicts the infatuated status because we all know the most attractive thing is being yelled at in a voice chat. Dark times lie ahead.
dont think i didnt notice the outro music changed. you were quick with that one haha -- your channel was actually one of the first things i thought of when i heard the (extremely disturbing) news
I see a lot of comments blaming Pecharunt’s performance on “power creep” in SV as though SM or SS would be kinder to Pecharunt with even more powerful pokemon like ash greninja, melmetal, magearna, ferrothorn, kartana, rapid strike urshifu, etc. I’m putting that term on a high shelf until pokemon fans understand what it means.
how i would make it better: of the bat, reduce its attack stat since it knows abysmal physical moves. making its stats: 98 hp, 28 atk, 160 def, 108 sp atk, 108 spdef, 98 speed. give it access to body press, make it able to hit steel types with poison moves as neutral or not very effective damage and able to poison steel types.
I'm not sure how many people realized this, but Pecharunt has base 88 in every stat to keep in line with the other mythicals. They all have base 100s across the board, sp if you take 12 away from 5 of those stats you leave those stats with 88, but you have 60 stats to play with which they gave to its defense. Ergo, base 88 in ever stat and base 160 defense.
@@wumpoooo Well, but it's not just 600 BST. All the psuedos also have 600 BST. What sets the mythicals apart is that specific uniform base 100 across the board. And even though Pecharunt has a bit more variance, it keeps the spirit of the other mythicals by keeping all of its other stats uniform at base 88.
I feel that it should have either been a poison and dark type, or should have at least learned body press or, the move that a lot of ghost types have, will o wisp. Its clear that this mon was meant to spread status by switching into physical attackers, but the physical attackers it is supposed to "check" aren't really hampered by it. Most physical attackers run EQ just bcuz of coverage, so instead of letting it die to EQ, it should be able to threaten physical attackers. Unfortunately its role isnt so good, so it will end up in RU most likely. Hey, at least Flamigo has a good check down there
I'm far from high ladder, but in OU lately I've been running a terra steel Azumarill with substitute and belly drum, holding a figy berry. It's so easy to just just click terra when it comes out because the first thing it's gonna try to do is malignant chain. You can use that turn to get a free substitute. And then, with nothing to hit you, it's forced to switch out, so free belly drum, activating the figy berry, bringing you back up to just above half health, allowing you to belly drum a second time if need be, or just survive a bit longer. As long as you've taken out any checks first, like Dondozo, you can basically just wipe the entire team. What's unfortunate is that Pecharunt probably isn't gonna stay OU, which means this strategy will have a lot less openings to abuse.
It is interesting, though. Most poison types punish the opponent for switching with toxic spikes. Pecharunt punishes the opponent for staying in with confusion.
wonder if they would consider creating a mythical/legendary that has an ability to dump stats into one stat based on the circumstances, that or something akin to shedninja
Pecharunt would benefit a lot more from an "Toxic Leech" ability, it would work that if the opposing Pokémon is poisoned or badly poisoned, Pecharunt recovers HP based on the enemies HP loss. Poison and Toxic would work like a Leech Seed, recovering its own HP on top of doing damage to the foe. I know this sounds busted, but it's less rng than the actual ability and this is a Pokémon that needs an OP ability to carry it's ok stats and movepool, Pecharunt is just kinda lame by gen 9 power level
I feel like Pecharunt is one of the most situational pokemon in the new DLC. It thrives against stall, who has no way of chipping away at it with toxic (and gets toxic/confused to hell from malignant chain) and their only answer is probably blissey, who has to switch out for natural cure anyways. However, it also has good matchups into rillaboom and valiant, two staples on more balance/defensive teams. (I can't believe I'm saying that valiant is defensive now this meta is messed up) But against general offense and most hazard-stack, it struggles to break through gholdengo, great tusk, and darkrai, who I've been seeing a lot. Especially kingambit, who is basically the definition of a hard counter. Extremely offensive teams can beat it with iron boulder, roaring moon, raging bolt, and volcarona - although they might get poisoned, it usually trades for pecharunt which is pretty good. tl;dr pecharunt is sometimes fantastic but most of the time does nothing when kingambit ghold and tusk are on like every team
Today I will discuss the second box art in my hypothetical series see my prior comment for the first one. If you didn't get the hint then january 11 was my birthday but brownie points if you guessed the release of the epilogue and the mythical discussed(joke). Now we have the second pokemon degradeus(de gra duece or de us) named after degradation. Type is poison ghost and lore explains its relation to the guy in the video as well as its connections to death, decay, degradation, sickness. Ability Field of decay. When the opponent is poisoned or badly poisoned, they are trapped and cannot switch. The user cannot be poisoned unless the opponent also has the ability. Stats Hp: 80 Attack: 85 Defense: 80 Special attack: 175 Special defense: 140 Speed: 140 Bst: 700 Signature move blast of decay an 100 bp 100 accuracy ghost type move that has a 100 percent chance to badly poison. This ignores type, field, and ability resistances to the status. Design. The main idea was making it a plague doctor that is actually a bird because I think it is neat. I came up with this before but now they have a counterpart. Banned from ubers? Slightly less likely than Lucideous but basically guaranteed. I made it into a less well rounded pure glass cannon to make it match up to the other but Lucideous while less so, is fast and strong and more so, bulky. I will create the Lucideous lore comment next.
I wished for this lil guy to not be too broken, I got a lil guy who's not too broken. I don't know where is the disappointment coming from, I'm very satisfied.
Wait a minute...why would Iron Mugulis leave his new peaceful life to commit a crime against you that only _benefits_ you? It's like you're holding _yourself_ hostage just to get us to Subscribe...it won't work because I'm already Subscribed, and I think you guys went on a -date- Pokémon Stroll and ended up eating some of Pechachump's bad mochi then woke up with a hangover on top of the bridge together and looking at the pictures from last night trying to figure out how the Hell you ended up there. 😂
This is a great example of how an ability warps playability - this Mon has all the tools it could ever want, and it isn't good enough simply because it doesn't have regenerator.
The way i decided to run Pecharunt is kinda gimmicky but fun. I made it a speedy defensive build that has its signature move Malignant Chain, Parting Shot, Curse and Recover. Because i figured, if I cant poison steel or poison types, ill just curse them instead. Then I run it with the tera dark type in order to avoid psychic types ruining my day and to potentially use the none ghost type version of curse for more defense and stalling capability.
its actually pretty good in Mix And Mega with latiasite, i got it to rank 1 on ladder earlier today. its a great and much needed regieleki counter and offers role compression for offense teams who want a tox immune booster. it runs bold nature with max hp and a mix of spa and spdef evs to pose a threat after a nasty plot and maximize its mixed bulk. definitely way better than anyone in the mnm community hoped for
@@Lh0000It depends on the meta. Supreme Overlord is objectively better right now because Defog is next to useless with gholdengo in the tier. But if Gholdengo were to be banned, Defog, and thus defiant as an ability would also become better.
Being Kingambit and Gholdengo’s little punching is an apt fate for that little shit. It led the Loyal Three and killed Ogerpon’s master and made her lonely for generations, AND it possessed your friends. Mine will never leave the PC box lmao
I love it that we finally got a pokemon who's all about messing around with status. Only took us until the probably last big patch of gen 9 maintitle. But damn, 88 has to be the unluckiest stat to have so often. For those who don't know, in the far right scene that stands for Heil . Awkwaaard~~~
I ran Pecharunt in ForteMons, with its Item being Malignant Chain, and it uses Acid Spray, Hex, Protect, and Recover. It’s utterly annoying to go up against, so much so that I started calling Pecharunt the Malignant Pain.
I can see Pecharunt being an absolute menace in Doubles. Run a solid Fighting type or Ground type (or both!) and suddenly Pech's counters really don't want to switch in.
Pecharunt wasn't supposed to be that strong tbh. Not like the tier warping Flutter Mane and the reliability of Great Tusk/Gholdengo but just an annoying physical wall which it excels at. I find that when Malignant Chain lands a poison and confuses the enemy via its ability, they often just forfeit 😆
My biggest gripe with this thing is that it has 0 tools to deal with steels and its signature move has eight pp. that means on average you will poison four times IF the other team has no steels or poison types. Without poison it also has essentially no ability. They could release tgis thing in lc and pawniard would wall it so hard it wouldnt be used.
They gave what could’ve been the meta game counter to spam spread moves, which are mostly all special attacks except earthquake, high Defense instead of high Special Defense. It should’ve been either the defenses switched or a bit higher base special defense
I love it, cool that they’re making interesting and different designs with potential to be decent rather than generic and op mons. (Well. Sometimes they still make those lol) He IS annoying tho, but definitly has big weaknesses, so you can’t be too mad I think ppl look at it wrong, it’s not amazing standalone but give it a team to properly support it, maybe will o wisp or aurora veil, status or neutralizing gas, certain terrain, certain terrain seeds, wish, eliminate threats… he can soar. His movepool also has WAY more tricks than ppl are open to rn It’s inherent weaknesses are a fundamental/essential element of good design, and the only way to balence/ make interesting its otherwise disgusting traits Pecharunt4prez
This guy could be particularly mean as a way to trap Pokemon that can’t hit it hard. It can use Mean Look to trap, poison with Malignant Chain or Toxic, recover off chip damage with Recover, and it can even add a flinch chance with Astonish if it wants to add another layer of Paraflinch antics. It’s clearly not an OU threat, but I could see this thing tearing through a lower tier.
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The state of OU right now is crazy: "This Pokémon has an 100 base power STAB move that has a 50% chance to badly poison and confuse a Pokémon at the same time. It's not very good..."
Agreed. Having an amazing Def means nothing if it doesn't've a decent SpD as well, sadly, especially when it has meh HP comparatively.
@@GoinGreninja AV is good since you can spread status by just attacking but you lose recover and parting shot so idk
@@sovietspaceshipExactly. It has some niche, but said niche makes its survivability worse. That's why it doesn't feel like it'd ever be good in OU or even UU. Below that, it may've a shot though, which is silly to think about, especially because of the signature move and ability it has. Powercreep is gonna powercreep, it seems.
What having no coverage moves and odd balanced stats does to a Pokémon
@@AZV0108 I was suprised when i saw the stat spread too i was like damn is that a suboptimal distribution in a post gen 7 game? is gamefreak actually starting to test some of their stuff?
Powercreep is really insane this gen. The viability of a pokemon these days depends of the answer to "how does X handles kingambit /Gholdengo / Buffed Donphan"
I like how u said buffed do Phan not great tusk I was confused for the first time I read it....
@@harshjaria2136 if it makes you feel better, I read it as buffed dolphin and instantly thought of Palafin.
To be fair it's always been like this, the viability of all pokemon except the top threat is dependent on how they interact with the top threats. The only thing that has changed is that the power level of top threats has increased through generations.
That's not really unique to this gen, that's just how a meta works. Powercreep IS insane this gen, but that's not why the viability relies on other pokemon
@@sancheetb Ubers is like that, but OU generally isn't
As a VGC player my heartrate dropped when you parting shot the kingambit
Yeeeeah defiant gambit would be fine in singles if supreme overlord wasn't so broken
That's gold lol
Who in their right mind would Parting Shot a Kingambit!?
@@Connowot387 any singles player. That boy doesn't run defiant there
Defiant was standard on Bisharp from gens 5-8 at least, somehow they made an even better ability for Kingambit though
Missed opportunity to give the runt’s chain a corrosive effect, but it makes sense for the lousy trio’s leader to be a bit lousy also.
Definitely.
Sucks how only salazzle has that
@@69metersbelow25 Glimmora has it too. But not many use it compared to Toxic Debris.
After watching the lore video, it's hard to call it lousy.
The fraud trio lmao
@@69metersbelow25 in the main ladder sure. the less corrosion mons in randbats the better. though salazzle is in its own category
I feel like every bad matchup of Pecharunt is the phrase "this pokemon that relies entirely on poisonning to do anything cannot do anything to this good pokemon that is immune to poisonning" repeated over and over again
Steel-types everywhere
the design of it is just not very well-rounded compared to other mythicals, sadly. it DESPERATELY needs any kind of coverage but has literally nothing but stab moves and a couple of utility options that don't really help at all
Pecharunt reminds me of Avalugg; technically bulky, is easily crippled by one type, and counterplay is so abundant.
@@iantaakalla8180 I mean Avalugg's issue is less its type, and more the fact that it basically doesn't have a Special Defense stat. If you gave it like 40-ish more Sp. Def it would probably be fine.
@@satyrsatyr2957I dunno. Pecharunt looks quite round to me
One thing of note: mythic Pokemon tend to have a BST of 600 with 100 in each stat. Pecharunt basically took 12 points out of each stat to add them to def
88 are chains and 160 is just 80+80
@@infinitydesuOHHHHHHHHH
@@infinitydesuthats new.
Thanks, now i appreciate pecharunt even more.
this may take the crown from tropius and other harvest leach seed mons as the worst mon to face in random battles.
Na, except if you don t have any poison/steel types
Shoutout to Salazzle. Nothing like realising nothing on your team is faster than it, so you essentially just auto-lose.
You don't exactly get to choose you mons or their typing. @@Nizazel
@@hailthequeenFM yeah I know
But harvest pokemons are harder to deel with (and with tera you will have more chance of having one)
shoutout to last mon Polteageist!
I can already see people running Pecharunt in UU just to discover that all the teams run a defiant bisharp with eviolite.
They do?
I'm kind of relieved to see a new DLC Pokemon that isn't a new meta-breaking threat. Pecharunt's gimmick may be annoying but there are good steel types (and even some poison) that exist to ruin its day if it ever becomes a major threat.
Overall I like it. My impression of it so far is that it's an awkward pivot that would've been great in the Dondozo days but doesn't really keep up right now.
0:40: Jim with the thousand-yard stare…….
honestly these new amazing signature moves are doing more for hackmons players than the original pokemon
Pokemon in STABmons getting banned because they are unsurprisingly too strong when they can run busted signature moves meant for mid pokemon.
Imagine if this thing had body press
With what body lol
@@MaahirMomtaz12just think of it like a living iron ball
@@ebitachya steel ball perhaps?
@@umrayquazashinyapareceu1672a ghost Ball
While I think mr. Cool brings up some good points, I think he’s seriously underestimating Pecharunt’s insane ability to make others do the chicken dance against their will, which could surely shake up the ou metagame
So called free-thinkers when a tiny purple thing offers them free food:
The enemy can't play if they can't build a team, and they can't build a team if they're too busy chicken-dancing.
Its not Mr. Cool. Cool isnt his last name but actually his first name. Jimothy is his title.
Pecharunt is an all-new mythical pokemon, finally available to use in Gen 9.
And it might just be the most annoying new DLC Pokemon yet.
This thing's signature move and signature ability are downright nefarious.
however, this pokemon isnt without its shortcomings
And it may actually struggle to keep up with the high power level of Gen 9 OU.
No
I feel like its not meant to be a good mon. Mythicals are supposed to be unique, special and fun, as well as being big to the lore. It will be a solid RU mon but its jist a bit of fun. Much better than the usual 100 stat spread across the board
i get the attempt at novelty and variation but i agree with jim in which this thing is a coinflip machine and will make any metagame in which it is relevant less fun
What are you talking about? Almost every mythical has been good at some point lmao
@@kefkapalazzo1 any mon with 600bst will have been good at some point. It just so happened that it's not the main focus of them.
@@happydude142 Yes. And Mew, Celebi, Jirachi, Darkrai, Victini, Volcanion and especially Marshadow had shaken up the competitive scene when they debuted. The only time they didn't is when they suck deeply, like Zarude and now Pecharunt. The newer Mythicals have no right to suck this much when previous ones were pretty decent when they were in their hayday and sometimes even beyond.
@@GoinGreninja dude most of those aren't even good nowadays lmao. They're better back then with less powercreep (and I'm not a huge fan of people blame everything on powercreep either). Mew is usually UU nowadays, Shaymin is like RU or in this gen PU (Skymin is shit in Ubers post gen 5), Victini is mostly a UU to UUBL mon, Phione is phione, Manaphy is solid. Besides Pecharunt is still cool and have a unique fighting style. Not all mythical needs to be OU or UU mons
I mean, I wouldn't call it disappointing.
It's the only bulky ghost that has curse and recover, and it perfectly checks kingambit if it kingabmbit teras. That on it's own is not bad at all.
A grassy seed / leftovers with toxic - sub - curse hex / parting shot / protect combined with a rilaboom is... quite annoying.
so it's not that bad
You call it "unfun variants" I call it "let's gamble babyyy"
RNG Bad
-The forum that named itself after a Koffing
mfs already be gambling by guessing which set iron valiant is using
i think the main thing thats holding back percharunt is how offensive the tier is so, each game is going to be fast and trying to get anything out of the confusion and toxic can be hard.
Imo you’re kinda discrediting how good the peach can be, I reached 1800 with a grassy terrain team that actually lets it beat stuff like Lando and some tusk sets with ease, and it’s not like they want to come in on malignant chain, the fact that the move basically forces your opponent to either bring in their steel/poison type or face a coin flip to get toxic and confused is lovely cuz you can bring in your checks to them
yep, which is why it is severely underrated in my opinion. Being an awful annoyance against anything non steel or poison means that you are forcing them to switch in, which is an inherent value in on itself. You can also run a bulky curse - recover set to similar results.
Also peachrunt teraed into anything not weak to steel or dark is a perfect counter to kingambit to the point of making that mon useless, so you are also forcing kingambit not to tera, which is huge in managing that mon.
So yeah it is severely underrated
That’s what I made the minute Pecharunt dropped, built a Grassy terrain team with Ting Lu hazard stack and built a pretty decent team around the runt.
Two weeks later. “How Pecharunt was slept on”
Pecharunt's issue is that it's a predictable, one-trick pony. Its ability only works if you poison the opponent. Which means you have to inflict poison/bad poison for it to be useful, which then takes away any other status you might want to inflict. And it has to be specifically from Pecharunt, so something like Toxic Spikes won't trigger the ability. Beyond that, it has 88 stats across the board (save Defense), so it's not exactly sweeper material.
I can't say it's bad so much as it's just the moment you see it, you know exactly what it's going to do. Bring in a Steel type.
This isn't insane.
I will never forgive gamefreak for not giving pecharunt body press
You want a ghost Pokemon to use body press?
@@aekaralagonisi At least it does something with it's defense stat
@@aekaralagonisi It would work with the high defence stat and some ghost pokemon already have body press like runerigus, houndstone and dhelmise
@@aekaralagonisi if griefford the ghostly dog can do it why not this floating fella with peach-shaped shields around him
Better he doesn't have it.
Cheap RNG based design, only fair he doesn't do anything against steel.
Just move into RU in a couple of months and no one is gonna miss you.
Pecharunt, a nightmare of a pokemon... for the wrong metagame.
Imagine if Steel types kept their resistances to Dark and Ghost in this gen...
I think it's an OU-caliber Pokemon due to being a tanky physical wall that's insane at spreading toxic and can pivot out of bad matchups with Parting Shot.
...The issue is the current OU metagame has a LOT of things that threaten it that are on the majority of teams like Ghold and Kingambit. It's just got a poor case of bad matchups against the top OU threats. I imagine it'll end up in UU. Some people seem to think it's utter garbage that'll fall to the bottom tiers but I find that very doubtful.
If current OU has an easy time beating it then its not really a pn OU caliber Pokemon is it
If current OU has an easy time beating it then its not really a pn OU caliber Pokemon is it
If current OU has an easy time beating it then its not really a pn OU caliber Pokemon is it
If current OU has an easy time beating it then its not really a pn OU caliber Pokemon is it
If current OU has an easy time beating it then its not really a pn OU caliber Pokemon is it
The 8 thing is a theme because 8 in Japan represents good luck, so it's supposed to be ironic since Pecharunt is part of the concept of a monkey's paw, it can grant wishes but also turn those it grants the wishes of into generally bad people. The Loyal Three are really mean Pokémon because of it and even if he wasn't fully controlled, Kieran was influenced by Pecharunt as well causing some of his angst in the DLC
Let's take a look at how Pecharunt could be used in Gen 9 OU competetive singles, and whether it's any good or not.
honestly i love this thing, its just fun, and that's all really
Right in time for my daily "Jimothy Cool video to watch while eating lunch"
Breakfast for me
(Potentially) Hot take: Kingambit and Gholdengo should both be banned from OU, not for being overpowered, but for being over-centralizing. Almost every team has to have both a solid answer to them and have them yourself as a win condition, and even with good counters, they (especially Gambit) can often just decide to win anyway with hyperpowerful Sucker Punches and the such. Great Tusk is debatably in the same boat, but it tends to be a good but a bit less mandatory and without its two biggest targets in the picture, it’d probably drop to being a great but not dominating threat.
If only it had Body Press to make use of that titanic defense....🛡
Even if you could Parting Shot the Kingambit, there's always a chance it could be Defiant.
not in ou
Hey, he got them fake Supreme Overlord!
i love running destiny bond on pecharunt to take out kingambit n great tusk
it rarely works but when it does its rlly funny
Apparently in doubles it gets to do something truly foul and use Poison Gas to Poison+Confuse both enemies.
I really like Pecharunt, it's ability reflects its powers from the story and pokedex and its not too broken
Hex, chain, fighting tera and recover works
When talking about Pecharunt's Kingambit matchup, it's important to note that a Sucker Punch powered up by Supreme Overlord from Kingambit will only do about 88% to Pecharunt. Despite the type advantage, it doesn't OHKO. It's low base special attack is also pretty deceptive, it's just high enough to hit relevant damage thresholds. If you have tera, Pecharunt will on average beat most Kingambits with good play. That being said, it's definitely a rather difficult mon to use. But I think the potential is there.
2HKO isn’t much better, and if your best option is to sac something for Pecharunt to get very good damage on Kingambit the team is not an OU team or you have lost and you are playing out your loss.
Bro’s getting the Zarude treatment
"Access to parting shot at least gives you something to click on incoming kingambit"
That one guy who runs defiant kingambit: nuh uh
Strikes me as a UUBL pokemon because every lower tier would prob just see this and go "HELL no"
This is a pecha-tastrophe
The worst part is: that was the first mythical that had a presentation that wasn't just "here, free mythical" in years. The fact that a hyped mythical was the weakest one we got is just sad.
pecharunt is an all new mythical Pokemon that is finally available to use in gen 9.
if it worked off any status, and used thunder wave then we would have a much more different problem
I love the Legend of Zelda Fairy Fountain soundtrack in the back. The nostalgia
Pecharunt's toxicity only makes way for the arrival of its future form, Iron Gamer with its signature move Toxic Gamer Moment which not only poisons and confuses, but inflicts the infatuated status because we all know the most attractive thing is being yelled at in a voice chat. Dark times lie ahead.
toxic gamer moment gets buffed the next gen so instead of infatuating it also burns
i miss seeing videos like this you’re the only one to do it like this and i love your content. you got me into gen 3 OU so thank you jimothy
"Money got different" I like the gentle ending I wish the words were with it
If they gave it t spikes and will-o-wisp it could had been SO much better
Gholdengo saying I'm confused is comedic genius.
It works great in Doubles, as it can use Poison Gas, poisoning both enemies and confuse them.
dont think i didnt notice the outro music changed. you were quick with that one haha -- your channel was actually one of the first things i thought of when i heard the (extremely disturbing) news
I see a lot of comments blaming Pecharunt’s performance on “power creep” in SV as though SM or SS would be kinder to Pecharunt with even more powerful pokemon like ash greninja, melmetal, magearna, ferrothorn, kartana, rapid strike urshifu, etc. I’m putting that term on a high shelf until pokemon fans understand what it means.
The production value off the charts. Ganon music and that Sydney screen lmao
Ghost/poison can be great defensively and it can be good but those stats aren't that good though that ability is kind of crazy
how i would make it better: of the bat, reduce its attack stat since it knows abysmal physical moves. making its stats: 98 hp, 28 atk, 160 def, 108 sp atk, 108 spdef, 98 speed. give it access to body press, make it able to hit steel types with poison moves as neutral or not very effective damage and able to poison steel types.
The newest UUBL threat he gon be crazy in Limbo
I think it would be a strech if it was classified on NU, imagine UUBL
Glad to see the outro music has evolved...
I'm not sure how many people realized this, but Pecharunt has base 88 in every stat to keep in line with the other mythicals.
They all have base 100s across the board, sp if you take 12 away from 5 of those stats you leave those stats with 88, but you have 60 stats to play with which they gave to its defense. Ergo, base 88 in ever stat and base 160 defense.
Could've just said 600 BST
@@wumpoooo Well, but it's not just 600 BST. All the psuedos also have 600 BST. What sets the mythicals apart is that specific uniform base 100 across the board. And even though Pecharunt has a bit more variance, it keeps the spirit of the other mythicals by keeping all of its other stats uniform at base 88.
I feel that it should have either been a poison and dark type, or should have at least learned body press or, the move that a lot of ghost types have, will o wisp. Its clear that this mon was meant to spread status by switching into physical attackers, but the physical attackers it is supposed to "check" aren't really hampered by it. Most physical attackers run EQ just bcuz of coverage, so instead of letting it die to EQ, it should be able to threaten physical attackers. Unfortunately its role isnt so good, so it will end up in RU most likely.
Hey, at least Flamigo has a good check down there
I'm far from high ladder, but in OU lately I've been running a terra steel Azumarill with substitute and belly drum, holding a figy berry. It's so easy to just just click terra when it comes out because the first thing it's gonna try to do is malignant chain. You can use that turn to get a free substitute. And then, with nothing to hit you, it's forced to switch out, so free belly drum, activating the figy berry, bringing you back up to just above half health, allowing you to belly drum a second time if need be, or just survive a bit longer. As long as you've taken out any checks first, like Dondozo, you can basically just wipe the entire team.
What's unfortunate is that Pecharunt probably isn't gonna stay OU, which means this strategy will have a lot less openings to abuse.
It is interesting, though. Most poison types punish the opponent for switching with toxic spikes. Pecharunt punishes the opponent for staying in with confusion.
wonder if they would consider creating a mythical/legendary that has an ability to dump stats into one stat based on the circumstances, that or something akin to shedninja
Pecharunt would benefit a lot more from an "Toxic Leech" ability, it would work that if the opposing Pokémon is poisoned or badly poisoned, Pecharunt recovers HP based on the enemies HP loss. Poison and Toxic would work like a Leech Seed, recovering its own HP on top of doing damage to the foe.
I know this sounds busted, but it's less rng than the actual ability and this is a Pokémon that needs an OP ability to carry it's ok stats and movepool, Pecharunt is just kinda lame by gen 9 power level
I actually quite like this idea. That way, it'd actually keep its annoying stratagems while being somewhat viable while it doesn't've to rely on luck.
This thing is hilarious in doubles though thanks to poison gas and curse.
I feel like Pecharunt is one of the most situational pokemon in the new DLC.
It thrives against stall, who has no way of chipping away at it with toxic (and gets toxic/confused to hell from malignant chain) and their only answer is probably blissey, who has to switch out for natural cure anyways.
However, it also has good matchups into rillaboom and valiant, two staples on more balance/defensive teams. (I can't believe I'm saying that valiant is defensive now this meta is messed up)
But against general offense and most hazard-stack, it struggles to break through gholdengo, great tusk, and darkrai, who I've been seeing a lot. Especially kingambit, who is basically the definition of a hard counter.
Extremely offensive teams can beat it with iron boulder, roaring moon, raging bolt, and volcarona - although they might get poisoned, it usually trades for pecharunt which is pretty good.
tl;dr pecharunt is sometimes fantastic but most of the time does nothing when kingambit ghold and tusk are on like every team
Today I will discuss the second box art in my hypothetical series see my prior comment for the first one. If you didn't get the hint then january 11 was my birthday but brownie points if you guessed the release of the epilogue and the mythical discussed(joke).
Now we have the second pokemon degradeus(de gra duece or de us) named after degradation.
Type is poison ghost and lore explains its relation to the guy in the video as well as its connections to death, decay, degradation, sickness.
Ability
Field of decay. When the opponent is poisoned or badly poisoned, they are trapped and cannot switch. The user cannot be poisoned unless the opponent also has the ability.
Stats
Hp: 80
Attack: 85
Defense: 80
Special attack: 175
Special defense: 140
Speed: 140
Bst: 700
Signature move blast of decay an 100 bp 100 accuracy ghost type move that has a 100 percent chance to badly poison. This ignores type, field, and ability resistances to the status.
Design. The main idea was making it a plague doctor that is actually a bird because I think it is neat. I came up with this before but now they have a counterpart.
Banned from ubers? Slightly less likely than Lucideous but basically guaranteed. I made it into a less well rounded pure glass cannon to make it match up to the other but Lucideous while less so, is fast and strong and more so, bulky.
I will create the Lucideous lore comment next.
Man, at this rate Pecharunt is going to NU. (JK, it can't be worse than *current* Mew)
I wished for this lil guy to not be too broken, I got a lil guy who's not too broken. I don't know where is the disappointment coming from, I'm very satisfied.
Can the ‘runt learn Toxic Spikes? If he uses them do switches get poisoned and confused?
Asking the important questions!!!
It can't learn Toxic Spikes, according to Bulbapedia. Maybe it's intentional so that it's not insanely annoying to fight against.
Pecharunt+glimmora boutta go crazy on the stall tactics
@@gabrielalves303 until H.Samarott with its Water and Dark coverage shows up
Its ability doesn't activate when the opponent gets poisoned by Toxic Spikes.
Poison is such a meta typing
Wait a minute...why would Iron Mugulis leave his new peaceful life to commit a crime against you that only _benefits_ you? It's like you're holding _yourself_ hostage just to get us to Subscribe...it won't work because I'm already Subscribed, and I think you guys went on a -date- Pokémon Stroll and ended up eating some of Pechachump's bad mochi then woke up with a hangover on top of the bridge together and looking at the pictures from last night trying to figure out how the Hell you ended up there. 😂
This is a great example of how an ability warps playability - this Mon has all the tools it could ever want, and it isn't good enough simply because it doesn't have regenerator.
The Onix of mythicals
Iron Mugulis is the greatest evil the world has ever faced.
The way i decided to run Pecharunt is kinda gimmicky but fun. I made it a speedy defensive build that has its signature move Malignant Chain, Parting Shot, Curse and Recover. Because i figured, if I cant poison steel or poison types, ill just curse them instead. Then I run it with the tera dark type in order to avoid psychic types ruining my day and to potentially use the none ghost type version of curse for more defense and stalling capability.
its actually pretty good in Mix And Mega with latiasite, i got it to rank 1 on ladder earlier today. its a great and much needed regieleki counter and offers role compression for offense teams who want a tox immune booster. it runs bold nature with max hp and a mix of spa and spdef evs to pose a threat after a nasty plot and maximize its mixed bulk. definitely way better than anyone in the mnm community hoped for
If a new legendary is good everyone gets angry
If a new legendary is bad everyone gets angry
I can appreciate Pokemon that aren't OU level. I quite liked Okidogi and Munkidori actually. I just don't like the concept behind this mon
@@jimothycool Not referring to that, speaking of people in general . Not that I'd want another stall merchant pokemon either ofc
88 speed is considered slow now
anything below 100 base is average at best, been this way since gen 3
Parting Shot is good IF the Kinggambit isnt defiant, because if it is, Parting Shot will actually give it +3 attack (its counted as 2 different drops)
Who in their right mind runs defiant outside of VGC? Supreme overlord reverse sweep is right there!
@@Lh0000It depends on the meta. Supreme Overlord is objectively better right now because Defog is next to useless with gholdengo in the tier.
But if Gholdengo were to be banned, Defog, and thus defiant as an ability would also become better.
@@presidenttogekiss635 fair
Being Kingambit and Gholdengo’s little punching is an apt fate for that little shit. It led the Loyal Three and killed Ogerpon’s master and made her lonely for generations, AND it possessed your friends. Mine will never leave the PC box lmao
Mine doesn’t even have a name (even my Lousy Three have nicknames)
Curse can definitely mess with them tbh
Mean look / curse / recover / chain almost seems designed for this guy
I love it that we finally got a pokemon who's all about messing around with status. Only took us until the probably last big patch of gen 9 maintitle.
But damn, 88 has to be the unluckiest stat to have so often. For those who don't know, in the far right scene that stands for Heil . Awkwaaard~~~
I love this outro version too
I ran Pecharunt in ForteMons, with its Item being Malignant Chain, and it uses Acid Spray, Hex, Protect, and Recover. It’s utterly annoying to go up against, so much so that I started calling Pecharunt the Malignant Pain.
3:09 And then Kingambit turns out to have Defiant and you lose on the spot lol.
EASY ! 😂👏🏽
@@melvondrewhite2674 it's almost like supreme overlord is too good to pass up or something.
Im still using Gengar everytime as my Ghost Poison
Was hoping its ability would be more interesting, like poison heal but if the opponent is poisoned
I can see Pecharunt being an absolute menace in Doubles. Run a solid Fighting type or Ground type (or both!) and suddenly Pech's counters really don't want to switch in.
Pecharunt wasn't supposed to be that strong tbh. Not like the tier warping Flutter Mane and the reliability of Great Tusk/Gholdengo but just an annoying physical wall which it excels at. I find that when Malignant Chain lands a poison and confuses the enemy via its ability, they often just forfeit 😆
In lower tiers, it would have to deal with Eviolite Bisharp. Same idea as Kingambit
Hey Jim, can we get a video about Archaludon? Since its release I've seen literally nothing about it, which is really weird
My biggest gripe with this thing is that it has 0 tools to deal with steels and its signature move has eight pp. that means on average you will poison four times IF the other team has no steels or poison types. Without poison it also has essentially no ability. They could release tgis thing in lc and pawniard would wall it so hard it wouldnt be used.
They gave what could’ve been the meta game counter to spam spread moves, which are mostly all special attacks except earthquake, high Defense instead of high Special Defense. It should’ve been either the defenses switched or a bit higher base special defense
I love it, cool that they’re making interesting and different designs with potential to be decent rather than generic and op mons. (Well. Sometimes they still make those lol)
He IS annoying tho, but definitly has big weaknesses, so you can’t be too mad
I think ppl look at it wrong, it’s not amazing standalone but give it a team to properly support it, maybe will o wisp or aurora veil, status or neutralizing gas, certain terrain, certain terrain seeds, wish, eliminate threats… he can soar. His movepool also has WAY more tricks than ppl are open to rn
It’s inherent weaknesses are a fundamental/essential element of good design, and the only way to balence/ make interesting its otherwise disgusting traits
Pecharunt4prez
This guy could be particularly mean as a way to trap Pokemon that can’t hit it hard. It can use Mean Look to trap, poison with Malignant Chain or Toxic, recover off chip damage with Recover, and it can even add a flinch chance with Astonish if it wants to add another layer of Paraflinch antics. It’s clearly not an OU threat, but I could see this thing tearing through a lower tier.
As a vgc player my heart sunk when i saw the parting shot going into a kingambit
Iron Mugulis has been staying in my kitchen cupboard lately. I'm going to have a word with him about trapping Jimothy in Sydney this is so not ok
This is insane.
Rip the Viper outro music