That reminds me of that time, when I drove from work to home, and I had a vision of my best friend, Ryan Gosling, who told me that landorus t is absolutely broken and I should do my best to finally ban it
Frankly my favorite installment of pokemon was Pokémon HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAFJDSZCKHjxldk.fjvdgnfx sD: Gale of Darkness for the Nintendo GameCube. Frankly an epic win if I do say so myself.
BKC pinned comment, and explanation is literally a form of intimidation to not post MORE LIKE A HISTORY OF LANDROVER AMIRIGHT? AAAAAAAAAAAAAARR E RDDTF As you can see my own comment is now only 0.67 effective.
Here's some tech with Intimidate: Name your Intimidater "The Math Test" so that the text will say somethinf like "The opposing Tyranitar has been intimidated". It does nothing competetively, but it's very funny, which is arguable just as good
I'll never forget playing Gen 4 OU in 2009 with a buddy and him saying with his Québécois accent: "Forretress is a terrible Pokemon. I dunno how you can Rapid Spin with something so slow" Something about the way he said it made me laugh a lot, so I'll never forget it
Wanted to cover some stuff about gen 8 that I thought was missed A large part about what allows Lando T to run Spdef in gen 8 is Intimidate, so it can still slow down physical threats like Kartana and friends like you mentioned while also being able to pivot around Tapu Lele, Blacephalon, Dragapult, Heatran etc., basically acting as a stopgap on both sides while still doing whatever you want it to like knocking off, rocking, defogging etc. Speaking of Dragapult, Lando doesn't actually stop the physical sets that well since they run Clear Body which you missed. It is also worse off into Urshifu Rapid, another very prevelant physical attacker since Surging Strikes bypasses Intimidate. Still it's the best mon in the tier given its ability to switch into so much largely owing to Intimidate. Anyway great video as always!
I think there is a specific interaction that exists between Landorus-T and Weavile, where you will actually get rewarded for switching it in; Choice Band Weavile was everywhere in Gen 8 OU and usually it would look for opportunities to click Knock Off and bust a hole in your team. If you did find yourself in a position staring down a Weavile with a free shot to click Knock Off (and let's assume it got a hit off once before and you know it's Banded), usually it's a safe bet to switch in Landorus-T once. That strong Knock Off is so, so enticing that the Weavile player clicking an ice move instead in those situations should be considered making a play. You then threaten the Weavile out with a U-Turn that will chunk it hard if not outright KO it, and you get momentum. If it were some past gen Weavile with Night Slash I don't think this interaction would be as reliable, but, I have definitely switched in Lando in these situations before and gotten consistently rewarded for it
Intimidate is a reliable ability rather than a broken one, it’s a support ability that makes good Pokémon better not something that makes bad Pokémon broken it’s one of the most reliable abilities but not the best imo
I honestly think it's the best ability in Doubles/VGC even above weather abilities, unnerfed Prankster or Urshifus ridiculous ability, just look at history of official circuit tournaments and todays tournaments and how Incineroar, both Arcanines, Landorus-Therian & (Mega-) Salamence dominated placements and earnings at different times. As for singles, there's a bunch of much stronger abilities in history and now, one of those being Tyranitars Sandstorm at start of the video that used to be permanent.
when i was little, i used to think that intimidate was complete dogshit. i think my logic was "why would i want to lower attack? that doesnt even do damage."
I had a similar idea but with Close Combat. I figured it'd be a terrible idea to drop your defenses because you want to take as many hits as possible, so I didn't teach it to my Staraptor in Pokémon Platinum
@@reesecarltonI did teach it, but I hated the move so much! Exclusively because it kept making me go back to pokemon centers to restore that tiny pp pool
one ability I would love your perspective on is natural cure. I started playing a bit of gen 3 and in it, natural cure feels like the second most important ability in the game behind sand stream. But as I started playing showdown in gen 6 my opinion of natural cure has prior to this foray been pretty meddling. I know from watching your other videos we get abilities like toxic heal and magic guard on gliscor and clef that sort of changes just what a status absorber can be, but i do just find the gameplay natural cure provides in gen 3 to be very fun and would love your thoughts edit: maybe even as an extension status absorbers as a whole such as rest mons, or even just the act of choosing a mon to hold status, in my experience usually a defensive mon over offensive
5:30 - I've done a lot of SSBM coaching and it used to be surpring to me how often people believe doing a mixup for the sake of mixing it up is a good thing, rather than having a purpose for it
“If I do this, then I have better odds of getting the reward I want than playing safely”: Healthy mindset about competitive games and risk, the core idea behind any setplay character in traditional fighters, A+ “They won’t expect the fifth [move]”: They will, and I hope you’re joking, C “Hey wouldn’t it be funny if I-“: You’re gaming, not at a comedy club, D “They won’t expect this!”: The inner thoughts of every newcomer and every intermediate getting too big in their britches, the mind killer, probably responsible for most salt about “lack of meta variety” and subsidiary complaints, F
correct me if im wrong but its like 3 times as good in doubles lol you get 2 Pokemon at once, there's only 4 mons, and each turn counts more because there are less turns
Intimidate is meta-defining in VGC or Doubles, and a valuable lesson in role compression. Any mon able to Fake Out + Intimidate + Pivot (U Turn or Parting Shot) is an instant S Tier Mon. I wish we could see a Special version, I would even settle for Confusion cutting your Special Attack like Burn does for Attack and then instead of damaging yourself, your Confused mon selects a move at random like Sleep Talk
In Video "What if the physical-special split never happened?" I wrote a post about how half the content was missed in the Video. MR UA-camr, your Video had information about the offensive changes of pokemon, but no information about the defensive situation with types. For example your statement with Starmie was, it won't have a change. But Starmie will lose the physical eletricity weakness, the physical plant weakness and the physical darc weakness, while the ghost type barely has pokemon with high physical attack. So Starmie could be build differently with high special defense. Another example is dragon type with a need for special defense only (for Ice, dragon). (More infos in my posts there) Mr UA-camr, you and the people commenting missed out on a lot of information on that topic. Have a nice day
You don’t need to stop repeating yourself, you need an editor. Especially so if you can’t be bothered to spend the 5 minutes editing out a literal bathroom break.
MORE LIKE A HISTORY OF LANDORUS-THERIAN AM I RIGHT HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAFJDSZCKHjxldk.fjvdgnfx sD
That reminds me of that time, when I drove from work to home, and I had a vision of my best friend, Ryan Gosling, who told me that landorus t is absolutely broken and I should do my best to finally ban it
Epic fail, my dude.
Frankly my favorite installment of pokemon was Pokémon HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAFJDSZCKHjxldk.fjvdgnfx sD: Gale of Darkness for the Nintendo GameCube. Frankly an epic win if I do say so myself.
How GREAT was Landorus-T ACTUALLY?
BKC pinned comment, and explanation is literally a form of intimidation to not post MORE LIKE A HISTORY OF LANDROVER AMIRIGHT? AAAAAAAAAAAAAARR E RDDTF
As you can see my own comment is now only 0.67 effective.
My comments are now 33% less aggressive
If there isnt a jimmy31428 reference in this video i will riot
Woah hi aim
I came here to say this I’m glad the Doctor did 😂 really showing our age w that reference tho wish Jimmy would return
Jesus I forgot about the grandmother of all poketubers
Here's some tech with Intimidate:
Name your Intimidater "The Math Test" so that the text will say somethinf like "The opposing Tyranitar has been intimidated". It does nothing competetively, but it's very funny, which is arguable just as good
I'll never forget playing Gen 4 OU in 2009 with a buddy and him saying with his Québécois accent:
"Forretress is a terrible Pokemon. I dunno how you can Rapid Spin with something so slow"
Something about the way he said it made me laugh a lot, so I'll never forget it
That’s very funny!
The accent makes it funny
Thinking 'epic fail' and 'no cap' are similar levels of stupidity is flat out an epic fail (no cap)
Wanted to cover some stuff about gen 8 that I thought was missed
A large part about what allows Lando T to run Spdef in gen 8 is Intimidate, so it can still slow down physical threats like Kartana and friends like you mentioned while also being able to pivot around Tapu Lele, Blacephalon, Dragapult, Heatran etc., basically acting as a stopgap on both sides while still doing whatever you want it to like knocking off, rocking, defogging etc. Speaking of Dragapult, Lando doesn't actually stop the physical sets that well since they run Clear Body which you missed. It is also worse off into Urshifu Rapid, another very prevelant physical attacker since Surging Strikes bypasses Intimidate. Still it's the best mon in the tier given its ability to switch into so much largely owing to Intimidate.
Anyway great video as always!
I think there is a specific interaction that exists between Landorus-T and Weavile, where you will actually get rewarded for switching it in; Choice Band Weavile was everywhere in Gen 8 OU and usually it would look for opportunities to click Knock Off and bust a hole in your team. If you did find yourself in a position staring down a Weavile with a free shot to click Knock Off (and let's assume it got a hit off once before and you know it's Banded), usually it's a safe bet to switch in Landorus-T once.
That strong Knock Off is so, so enticing that the Weavile player clicking an ice move instead in those situations should be considered making a play. You then threaten the Weavile out with a U-Turn that will chunk it hard if not outright KO it, and you get momentum. If it were some past gen Weavile with Night Slash I don't think this interaction would be as reliable, but, I have definitely switched in Lando in these situations before and gotten consistently rewarded for it
Intimidate is a reliable ability rather than a broken one, it’s a support ability that makes good Pokémon better not something that makes bad Pokémon broken it’s one of the most reliable abilities but not the best imo
I honestly think it's the best ability in Doubles/VGC even above weather abilities, unnerfed Prankster or Urshifus ridiculous ability, just look at history of official circuit tournaments and todays tournaments and how Incineroar, both Arcanines, Landorus-Therian & (Mega-) Salamence dominated placements and earnings at different times.
As for singles, there's a bunch of much stronger abilities in history and now, one of those being Tyranitars Sandstorm at start of the video that used to be permanent.
Thanks for reminding me that I used to use “epic fail” in my life constantly.
when i was little, i used to think that intimidate was complete dogshit. i think my logic was "why would i want to lower attack? that doesnt even do damage."
I had a similar idea but with Close Combat. I figured it'd be a terrible idea to drop your defenses because you want to take as many hits as possible, so I didn't teach it to my Staraptor in Pokémon Platinum
@@reesecarltonI did teach it, but I hated the move so much! Exclusively because it kept making me go back to pokemon centers to restore that tiny pp pool
More short form content I see. I blame smogon
I blame mcmegan
I blame Finchinator
I blame the ban of CTC
I blame the 2019 Smogon Classic
I blame the council
one ability I would love your perspective on is natural cure. I started playing a bit of gen 3 and in it, natural cure feels like the second most important ability in the game behind sand stream. But as I started playing showdown in gen 6 my opinion of natural cure has prior to this foray been pretty meddling. I know from watching your other videos we get abilities like toxic heal and magic guard on gliscor and clef that sort of changes just what a status absorber can be, but i do just find the gameplay natural cure provides in gen 3 to be very fun and would love your thoughts
edit: maybe even as an extension status absorbers as a whole such as rest mons, or even just the act of choosing a mon to hold status, in my experience usually a defensive mon over offensive
MORE LIKE A HISTORY OF INCINIROAR AM I RIGHT
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAhsodihdbwkahgdksk
5:30 - I've done a lot of SSBM coaching and it used to be surpring to me how often people believe doing a mixup for the sake of mixing it up is a good thing, rather than having a purpose for it
“If I do this, then I have better odds of getting the reward I want than playing safely”: Healthy mindset about competitive games and risk, the core idea behind any setplay character in traditional fighters, A+
“They won’t expect the fifth [move]”: They will, and I hope you’re joking, C
“Hey wouldn’t it be funny if I-“: You’re gaming, not at a comedy club, D
“They won’t expect this!”: The inner thoughts of every newcomer and every intermediate getting too big in their britches, the mind killer, probably responsible for most salt about “lack of meta variety” and subsidiary complaints, F
Intimidate pokemon when I switch in a special attacker (Now so intimidating now huh)
Intimidate Pokémon when I whip out that competitive wigglytuff:
In all seriousness, I love defiant and competitive and contrary for trolling intimidate users.
@@CoralReaper707i love the idea of contrary intimidate. I wish that we had better physical contrary mons though
It’s a broken ability in doubles, in single’s it’s just on par with all the other good abilities.
correct me if im wrong but its like 3 times as good in doubles lol you get 2 Pokemon at once, there's only 4 mons, and each turn counts more because there are less turns
Intimidate definitely is the best ability in the game if you also consider doubles tho :o
Who knew something as simple as lowering attack on switch in could be so impactful?
Some intern in 2002 thought that Growl should be free, and they were right
I needed this for my drive home thanks
I needed this to sleep tonight
Where is gen 2
Does he know
@@mmsnorby Dont tell me he read me
Epic FAIL, god i remember that as an Middle Zoomer lol
I haven't heard of *Epic Fail* in years
@@CoralReaper707 same... I remember when I was 10 looking at that stuff lol
An ability so good it singlehandedly made Mightyena rise from the depths of ZU to the heights of ZU(but more viable in the tier).
You shouldve started with an intimidating voice to set the tone. Im disappointed :(
BKC mansplains Intimidante for 50 minutes /j
And i somehow enjoy it
that double crit on turns 4 and 5 on the first game :0
i liked how when Lando-T was added to Gen 9 people were discussing whether kingambit should start running defiant instead
Idt that ever happened because it struggled in dlc1 and supreme overlord ignored unaware and it's more reliable into every other check.
Intimidate in doubles be like:
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.
BKC laddering pls
any gen, just need to see the GOAT in action
watching XY OU CBB vs Bloo with Aegislash and Lando I in the battle is making me remember a lot of things...
Bkc, you can speak your mind, “epic fail” is nowhere near close to the stupidity of people calling media “kino”
i will defend peak, however. i like that one
yessss, wouldn't have thought to ask but this is a perfect video topic
39:45 THE BREAK IS BACK!!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Intimidate is meta-defining in VGC or Doubles, and a valuable lesson in role compression. Any mon able to Fake Out + Intimidate + Pivot (U Turn or Parting Shot) is an instant S Tier Mon.
I wish we could see a Special version, I would even settle for Confusion cutting your Special Attack like Burn does for Attack and then instead of damaging yourself, your Confused mon selects a move at random like Sleep Talk
Hey BKC can you make a video on the power of taunt?
Hopefully we get a Special version of Intimidate sooner than later
Special attackers usually have a lot of bias, so this would be nice
Special Intimidate, frostbite again, abilities/items that harm special attackers... Anything
make poison halves special attack like with burn and attack
Freeze should halve the speed and the spatk
@@nicolasturetta7959 Never cook ever again
the fear of gsc comes despite a lack of intimidate
The best bkc video ever
Incineroar sobbing in the corner
Do you think there should be a special version of intimidate
BKC what do you think about Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee Overused?
are you excited for clear amulet kartana?
A history of intimidate?? Ha, more like a history of landorus therian! Am I right fellas?
You look silly
@@DGFTardin i'd like to formally apologise for my distasteful actions, I hope we can both move on from this.
I was gonna make a joke, but I was too intimidated to do so.
There needs to be an intimidate variant for special attackers
Just use blissey
More like history of Landorus-Thrian am I right haha. :)
I like how growl on switch in is considered one of the best abilities of all time yet permanent rain dance on switch in is still legal in gen 5 xD
INTIMIDATE
Best ability in the game was maybe true in gen 3 it's really good in gen 3
In VGC I think it stopped in gen 8 with the nerfs but maybe 9 now for sure
If only you had dropped this 10 minutes sooner 😔😔 i could have fallen asleep to it instead of that mario maker video 💔
Bideo Kojima's Cintimidate
My attack stat is so low after watching this
gen 3 is so powercrept actually (at least compared to gen2)
Every gen is tbh compared to previous one except for Gen 8 to 7 in Smogon Formats thx to Dynamax ban.
*am intimidated*
BKC
MORE LIKE HOW GOOD WAS INCINEROAR ACTUALLY???????
Brandon
Messi or Ronaldo?
In Video "What if the physical-special split never happened?" I wrote a post about how half the content was missed in the Video.
MR UA-camr, your Video had information about the offensive changes of pokemon, but no information about the defensive situation with types.
For example your statement with Starmie was, it won't have a change. But Starmie will lose the physical eletricity weakness, the physical plant weakness and the physical darc weakness, while the ghost type barely has pokemon with high physical attack. So Starmie could be build differently with high special defense.
Another example is dragon type with a need for special defense only (for Ice, dragon).
(More infos in my posts there)
Mr UA-camr, you and the people commenting missed out on a lot of information on that topic.
Have a nice day
Attention seeker
You don’t need to stop repeating yourself, you need an editor. Especially so if you can’t be bothered to spend the 5 minutes editing out a literal bathroom break.
BKC