Weird Niches in Competitive Pokemon

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  • Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
  • neesh
    / letsblowdrobro
    / humanreverend
    sources:
    pac's ubers golbat post
    www.smogon.com...
    plague von karma's jigglypuff desync video
    • How a Level 3 Jigglypu...
    crystal_'s rby desync guide
    • How a Level 3 Jigglypu...
    enigami safetwo spreads
    www.smogon.com...
    enigami caterpie stats discovery
    www.smogon.com...
    plague von karma's pika cup spreadsheet
    docs.google.co...
    Gen 6 ubers Solrock RMT
    www.smogon.com...
    addressing baton pass smogon thread
    www.smogon.com...
    Revive Cats Strategy video by Elo Bandit
    • Pokemon Gimmick #20: R...
    Assist ban smogon post
    www.smogon.com...
    !! USE THIS COMMANDS TO PLAY PIKA CUP ON POKEMON SHOWDOWN !!
    /challenge USERNAME, gen1japaneseou @@@ Team Preview, Min Level = 15, Max Level = 20, Max Total Level = 50, Min Team Size = 6, Picked Team Size = 3, !Evasion Clause, !OHKO Clause, -Venusaur, -Charizard, -Blastoise, -Pidgeot, -Arbok, -Sandslash, -Golbat, -Gloom, -Vileplume, -Venomoth, -Persian, -Primeape, -Machoke, -Weepinbell, -Victreebel, -Graveler, -Rapidash, -Magneton, -Dodrio, -Seel, -Grimer, -Hypno, -Marowak, -Weezing, -Seaking, -Electabuzz, -Magmar, -Tauros, -Eevee, -Vaporeon, -Jolteon, -Flareon, -Omastar, -Kabutops, -Aerodactyl, -Snorlax, -Articuno, -Zapdos, -Moltres, -Dragonite, -Mewtwo, -Mew, -Koffing, -Ponyta, -Seel, -Kangaskhan, -Golem, -Muk
    music used:
    pokemon RBY trainer battle
    ghost master ghoul roomtetris attack moon world
    killer 7 rave on
    bayonetta gates of hell
    lode runner 3d bonus stage
    garfield 2 ds avoid traffic
    melee icicle mountain
    jurassic park 2 dark jungle
    sonic cd stardust speedway bad future
    california games surfing theme
    ratchet and clank pokitaru resort

КОМЕНТАРІ • 734

  • @catisticallyspeaking
    @catisticallyspeaking Рік тому +3387

    I guess you could say you found your niche!! In 2018 I watched a man be dragged into an alleyway and did nothing

    • @ScoutMelon
      @ScoutMelon Рік тому +174

      Thanks for that, by the way.

    • @bernardoveloso1520
      @bernardoveloso1520 Рік тому +19

      based

    • @obamagaming9456
      @obamagaming9456 Рік тому +399

      Hahaha! I think your niche might be telling jokes! In 2018 I was dragged into an alleyway and some guy watched and did nothing.

    • @tommyortega7796
      @tommyortega7796 Рік тому +37

      Thanks obama

    • @alexantone5532
      @alexantone5532 Рік тому +217

      @@obamagaming9456 wow that’s crazy! In 2018 I dragged a guy into an alleyway

  • @masked-feraligatr1094
    @masked-feraligatr1094 Рік тому +914

    Assist Revival Blessing is the only niche which has the distinct quality of straight up just fucking killing an entire tier. Not just making it bad to play, but legitimately ending its run on smogon

    • @amaramist_
      @amaramist_ Рік тому +274

      Not the only one: Eternamax Eternatus fucking killed Gen 8 Pure Hackmons. With max EV investment and a boosting nature, level 100 eternamax can get so much defense it breaks the fucking game and takes 1 damage at a time off physical/special moves.

    • @Sheepie_
      @Sheepie_ Рік тому +103

      ​@@amaramist_I think max EV investment and a positive nature actually overflowed into having like 3 or something defense, so it was a bit less than max investment

    • @-libertyprimev1-902
      @-libertyprimev1-902 Рік тому +119

      ​@@amaramist_ ah the simpler days of Hackmons, when you could for some reason Mega Evolve a Charizard Y into Charizard X to wipe house with Sun Boosted DD Flare Blitz...

    • @katelundberg2029
      @katelundberg2029 Рік тому +59

      Idk maybe people should've just ran prankster imprison assist Mewostic to counter revive-cats, seems kinda obvious to me /s

    • @joenoah2563
      @joenoah2563 Рік тому +22

      @@katelundberg2029 i mean having to use a otherwise useless pokemon to beat one strategy which has no use outside of countering said strategy which is nearly unbeatable otherwise seems pretty unhealthy to me

  • @BigYellowSilly
    @BigYellowSilly Рік тому +1953

    Pika Cup Magikarp feels like the holy grail of goofy little niches in silly little tiers, like surely it doesn't go any deeper than that, any future endeavours could only dream of being so goofy

    • @jamesellis983
      @jamesellis983 Рік тому +50

      Big yellow! I was surprised when I clicked on this and it wasn't your video. But I found you here anyway!

    • @BlazeElPadrino662
      @BlazeElPadrino662 Рік тому +17

      I love you @BigYellowSilly! Thanks to your content now I'm being able to learn more from topics like this. Best regards ☺️

    • @diegodankquixote-wry3242
      @diegodankquixote-wry3242 Рік тому +11

      "I went to college!" -Magikarp

    • @darkridoom
      @darkridoom Рік тому +16

      I’m watching the video please don’t send the boys after me 🙏

    • @kazuichisouda2026
      @kazuichisouda2026 Рік тому

      @@darkridoom The boys stop for no one and nothing.

  • @Slaking_
    @Slaking_ Рік тому +911

    Trubbish having a niche in NatDex AG as the one true counter to the most degenerate strategy in mons history is the perfect representation of the tier, honestly

    • @Natibe_
      @Natibe_ Рік тому +77

      The best part is, trubbish wasn’t enough
      Revive cats killed natdex AG regardless, it doesn’t exist anymore because no one wants to play vs assist liepard and Tera electric shedinja

    • @diethylmalonate
      @diethylmalonate 11 місяців тому +23

      I mean AG as a tier pretty much started with Numel being that NFE degen counter so it tracks

    • @juannaym8488
      @juannaym8488 10 місяців тому +27

      @@Natibe_ it's so wild that a tier with literal Gods was killed by some fucking cats and still had to limit Slowbro

    • @subekyuuke
      @subekyuuke 10 місяців тому +10

      ​@@Natibe_wait, NDAG is gone? shit man, I spent all the time I was a Pokemon fan during Gen 8 (which wasn't long) playing NDAG.

    • @ultimaterecoil1136
      @ultimaterecoil1136 9 місяців тому

      @@juannaym8488dude liepard’s known for these shenanigans. Gamefreak’s had to change how the game worked several times just cuz of it

  • @im_totally_human8216
    @im_totally_human8216 Рік тому +230

    the assist revival blessing thing at the end was actually so consistent that it caused the deletion of the nat dex anything goes ladder 💀

  • @maxmaus4402
    @maxmaus4402 Рік тому +72

    On the note of really weird Assist shenanigans, did you know that it's a banned move in exactly gen 6 Balanced Hackmons? A buddy of mine made a joke-ish team back then that ran 2 Prankster Primaldon (ability clause prevented more than 2 copies of an ability per team), Imposter Chansey, and 3 mons that used only non-callable moves + V-create, and it worked alright.
    Then someone thought "you know, idrc if half of my team is PDons that only have Chatter, non-priority V-create, Whirlwind, and protecting moves, that's still cracked." This was followed shortly by someone innovating on it by using Thousand Arrows instead of V-create since it nullified a larger pool of already-niche answers like PrimSea Ferro (which was checked by your DesoLand Pdon) or Flash Fire (similarly handled by the one with Mold Breaker). Pretty much the only true silver bullet I remember to the strategy was Prankster Imprison Mega-Gengar, a pretty useless set in any other matchup.
    Then someone proved that Primal Kyogre could do the same thing with the raw power of Steam Eruption, and Assist wound up banned shortly after. Funnily enough Mega Rayquaza was never able to pull the strategy off well bc it still lost to most steel-types, which is also the main reason that it remained legal in gen 6 BH while the Primals were both eventually banned. These are two of the funniest facts I'm got from oldgen BH, besides the fact that it was BH players who first developed endless battles

    • @HumanReverend
      @HumanReverend  Рік тому +46

      You know maybe dexit wasn't so bad

    • @lifeenjoyer9699
      @lifeenjoyer9699 6 місяців тому +8

      @@HumanReverend its just standard rotation for vgc guys dont worry😃

  • @SinclairLocke
    @SinclairLocke Рік тому +982

    Surprised that you didn't mention Shelmet as a Urshifu counter. With eviolite it has a surprising physical bulk. Has recover, and shell armor makes it immune to being crit by Surging strikes/Wicked blow. It can kill them back with infestation or put them to sleep with yawn. And Iron Defense makes you not setup bait against them.

  • @YayapLives
    @YayapLives Рік тому +234

    "prankster haze murkrow"
    In the end, murkrow decided to give this win to musharna. He could wait.
    _His time would come._

  • @hellothisismufin
    @hellothisismufin Рік тому +332

    The fact that you can type "good" into showdown and get Gholdengo is so funny

  • @pikarceuseternamax6269
    @pikarceuseternamax6269 Рік тому +184

    In order to deal with Cats, I suggest we bring Funbro back into Nat Dex AG, that way we will be able to stop the death chain

  • @metsfan222
    @metsfan222 Рік тому +97

    I like reverend because this feels like having a text to speech bot read smogon while I have a fever and am tripping on nyquil. Thanks.

  • @spacemanspiff7138
    @spacemanspiff7138 Рік тому +243

    If you try hard enough you can find a niche for any Pokémon.
    Did you know that gsc charmeleon has the highest dragon type move while not being a dragon type itself in gsc NU? With a dragon scale, it can beat dragonair one on one a little over 60% of the time. The reason why you want a dragon type move and not an ice type is because you want to chunk the common teammate of dragonair and likely switch in Kingler, which is very dangerous if it can get up a swords dance for free

    • @Eroil
      @Eroil Рік тому +12

      Alright they got me on Magikarp, surely Feebas has nothing though, right?
      Right???

    • @wadespencer3623
      @wadespencer3623 Рік тому +4

      "If you try hard enough you can find a niche for any Pokémon."
      I mean if you're willing to go into tiers nobody plays... and the battle tower which isn't even a tier. Otherwise... not sure about that.

    • @Evan-mt7bc
      @Evan-mt7bc Рік тому +30

      @@Eroil Sash Feebas is actually a lead not to be slept on in Little Cup because it threatens a ton of super common leads with it's absurdly niche combination of Oblivious, Protect, Hypnosis/Toxic, Mirror Coat and Flail. It's superior Speed to similar sweepers and access to Oblivious making it taunt immune and Mirror Coat to destroy any special attacker with the X factor of 200 BP Flails means Feebas can occasionally blow games completely wide open in more situations where similar Pokemon might faulter.

    • @Eroil
      @Eroil Рік тому +6

      @@Evan-mt7bc what gen?

    • @CesarTorres61296
      @CesarTorres61296 10 місяців тому

      Very true. Every pokemon has their uses!

  • @StarfieldDisarray
    @StarfieldDisarray Рік тому +337

    It's worth noting that despite Assist being a cut move, the flag that decides whether or not a move can be called by it is still in the game which is why Revival Blessing works with it on Showdown. Of course if Assist were kept in the game then it probably wouldn't be flagged as Assistable, but NatDex doesn't like adjusting data like that cause it can set bad precedent.

    • @HumanReverend
      @HumanReverend  Рік тому +150

      That's pretty interesting. Like when they imported all the old move data over they had the assist flags so it was probably less work to give ever new move a flag than it was to remove it as a whole

    • @theexplodingblock3883
      @theexplodingblock3883 Рік тому +115

      @@HumanReverend Even more bizarrely, if you take a look at the game data, you'll come to find that not a single new move has the flag set... except for the Story exclusive Starmobile Torque moves which are used by the Team Star leaders

    • @StarfieldDisarray
      @StarfieldDisarray Рік тому +123

      @@HumanReverend It's also not the first time Liepard has abused moves that should be on the Assist blacklist but aren't. In exactly Gen 5 NU Assist Liepard was a viable strat that wound up being banned for being awful to play against because you would run Liepard with Assist, Dark Pulse, Nasty Plot, and Substitute and then 5 backup dancers with cobbled together movesets that avoid running a single Assistable move except for Roar and Whirlwind.
      The goal was to leverage one of two win conditions; the first being hopefully getting hazards up through Ditto and just shred your opponent's team with Priority Roar, the second being to utilize the Priority Roar to fish for Pokemon that Liepard can set up on to sweep. The problem is that Liepard is kind of bad and struggles to execute this gameplan in higher tiers where it gets threatened out of setting up or just outright killed and walled despite +6 and a sub. However Gen 5 NU had Musharna as a common defensive staple and Musharna was free set-up for Liepard as it would have to give up one of its valuable move slots for *Signal Beam* to not be cat food.
      It was probably the worst best team strategy to ever exist until NatDex brought us the Kitty Hospital and I'm glad it got to pull some final bs after Game Freak tragically blacklisted Roar and Whirlwind.

    • @minerturtle45
      @minerturtle45 Рік тому +67

      @@StarfieldDisarray There's also DiveCats, which is where ReviveCats got its name! In, once again, literally only gen 5 (and only really being viable in vgc i think?) two-turn moves like Dive and Fly are able to be called by Assist. Liepard and its pre-evo which i can't remember the name of right now would use that and some way of making sure they go last like iron ball or lagging tail or something to use a +1 priority first turn of Dive and a neutral priority second turn to effectively be invincible against basically all regular damaging moves.

    • @akumeoy2642
      @akumeoy2642 Рік тому +56

      While we're on the topic of Gen 9 flag setting that matters to *almost* nobody, the flag that Triage uses to check whether something is a recovery move (& thus granted +3 priority) is not set for Bitter Blade, despite the fact that Bitter Blade does recover HP.
      This is completely irrelevant for 99.999% of Pokemon players because Comfey isn't in S/V so the interaction would never come up. It is, however, very vexing to people who play Other Metagames, where Ceruledge might otherwise run a sweet Triage set.

  • @Cthulhunoms
    @Cthulhunoms Рік тому +74

    "He went to college... but really he was just there for the RAGERS." I haven't gotten caught off guard so well in such a hilarious way in a long time. Thank you for that. lol

  • @braden24
    @braden24 Рік тому +40

    u should marry big yellow so ur kid would have double the useless pokemon knowledge

  • @Thaddeus_Crews
    @Thaddeus_Crews Рік тому +424

    You had every opportunity to make a "get bitches" joke at the beginning and took the high ground, I'm so proud of you
    Ceaselessly disappointed, obviously, but proud

    • @HumanReverend
      @HumanReverend  Рік тому +226

      Aw man and I could have used a screenshot of ditto in the day care this will be the greatest sorrow of my life

    • @InternetLad
      @InternetLad Рік тому +32

      C'mon man. There's a moderate likelihood that you'll make like. . . At least one more video. Just shoehorn it in there and do what I do and ride the muddy wave of all my prior failures towards some form of success.

  • @cherryb0ng
    @cherryb0ng Рік тому +58

    "Now you only have to kill 52000 caterpies" I'm dead.

  • @NeoGraena
    @NeoGraena Рік тому +102

    Gen 1 Ubers is like, fighting the final boss (Mewtwo for instance) and it's minions (Mew, Tauros and other main meta mons) and you resort to do ANYTHING to win

    • @perturbo4253
      @perturbo4253 Рік тому +1

      Not really? Since you have a mewtwo of your own, it really doesnt play out like that

    • @Day-eb9po
      @Day-eb9po Рік тому +11

      ​@@perturbo4253
      That's your overleveled carry that's been with you the entire game.

  • @quinndepatten4442
    @quinndepatten4442 Рік тому +76

    I love that golbat has that niche. The absurd hyper-specificity of it is the product of a very old and storied meta.

  • @galelululu
    @galelululu Рік тому +65

    I’ve just realized heal block might have been able to stop revival blessing but we’ll never know because it’s *also* a dexited move

    • @intan4722
      @intan4722 Рік тому +6

      Guess we’ll see if it does in a couple weeks when psychic noise comes out

    • @slimestudios9748
      @slimestudios9748 4 місяці тому +1

      ​@@intan4722well considering Liepard is a Dark type it definitely isn't
      even ReviveCats being "nerfed" in the form of needing Pawmot/Rabsca instead of Smeargle wasn't enough lol

  • @odompiano
    @odompiano Рік тому +128

    That Mega Gyarados image at 19:28 may go down in history as the single greatest frame of any niche competitive Pokemon discussion video ever. I guess only time will tell.

  • @R.P.Genocraft
    @R.P.Genocraft Рік тому +311

    The intro rhyme is the only instance where your pronounciation of niche didn't give me arthritis, good job

    • @plank9456
      @plank9456 Рік тому +14

      Personally, I heard that rhyme and nearly turned the video off... but I'm a fuckin wierdo so 🤷‍♀️

    • @bigdaduhbouncer
      @bigdaduhbouncer Рік тому +11

      This is actually how you pronounce niche in this context. There is neesh for specialized info and whatnot and nitch for an organism's way of surviving

    • @sertank735
      @sertank735 Рік тому +8

      @@bigdaduhbouncer either is fine.

    • @borismuller86
      @borismuller86 Рік тому +32

      @@bigdaduhbouncerconfidently incorrect there, chief.

  • @galelululu
    @galelululu Рік тому +211

    weird but gratifying to see rev on a more consistent schedule and seeing as much success as he deserves. fuck it up big man

  • @agentblackbird9435
    @agentblackbird9435 Рік тому +45

    “Hold hands” is that one joke move where you dance with your partner Pokemon in double or triple battles

  • @chainswordcs
    @chainswordcs Рік тому +62

    wow! y'know, I've been deep-diving into gen 1 glitches for like 8 years but I never knew how stat experience actually worked. what an interesting niche game mechanic.
    it's also beautiful in a way to see the smallest of small and insignificant details being evaluated and optimized in an old competitive game like pokemon or melee

  • @armorbearer9702
    @armorbearer9702 6 місяців тому +4

    Perhaps the Aerodactyl dominating Crystal Battle Tower made the developers realize they needed to ban Dragon Rage in Sunny Park Colosseum.

  • @heartnet40
    @heartnet40 Рік тому +99

    I swear to God I was enjoying this video happily and with a very normal and even temperament.
    But that Cat Assist strategy.
    That shit hit me like a left-hook from Mike Tyson. I actually thought I was going to die from laughter, like no joke I started spasming from the pain of nonstop laughter.
    Actually the funniest thing in Pokemon history, thank you for sharing this with the world. That was suffering well spent.

  • @lavalord96
    @lavalord96 Рік тому +31

    *Mom said it's my turn to use the porygon.*

  • @agisuru
    @agisuru Рік тому +18

    Fun fact: Meowstic-M also gets (prankster) Recycle, so with a leppa berry, it can theoretically use Revival Blessing infinitely

  • @BeefiusGravius
    @BeefiusGravius Рік тому +106

    The funniest thing about ReviveCats its that it might had been the killing blow to NatDex Anything Goes Ladder as a whole.

    • @iantaakalla8180
      @iantaakalla8180 Рік тому +18

      The funniest thing is that NatDex AG had nothing broken in Generation 8.

    • @mrschrubelhupfyay6397
      @mrschrubelhupfyay6397 Рік тому +6

      The tier was done dirty, revivecats took skill to both use and beat and the lower ladder casuals now have to suffer for the council being cowards

    • @hppern3971
      @hppern3971 Рік тому +19

      ​@@mrschrubelhupfyay6397that it had skill isn't the issue. It made the ladder annoying, which made the ladder less popular, which fed into the Council not wanting to split the user base & led then choosing NatDex AG Ubers over it.
      It's the same logic for why NU-RU-UU-Ubers for every previous gen aren't on permanent ladder. Showdown only has so many players, & you want to concentrate where they are for non-current gen OU tiers so that people can actually find games in decent amounts of time.

    • @mrschrubelhupfyay6397
      @mrschrubelhupfyay6397 Рік тому +5

      @@hppern3971 thing is, theyve got different target audiences, Natdex AG is mainly for casuals who want to use 6 rattata for their epic youtube video, Natdex Ubers is for more competitively minded people. The casuals generally outnumber in AG, so Natdex AG even toward its end was a more popular ladder than Ubers prolly will ever be.

    • @blueyandicy
      @blueyandicy Рік тому +1

      @@mrschrubelhupfyay6397 I'm glad someone here is speaking up for the casuals. I use to run this dumbass Gen 7 Mega-Ray set just for free wins, and I had about 1500~ elo. The only other game mode i played was random mons because I don't like spending 3 years researching and working around clauses, and I can't even do that anymore :c

  • @Solon_Ghebauser
    @Solon_Ghebauser Рік тому +27

    You sound like a guy who would be speaking out loud to nobody in particular at a party after everyone else has bailed. Great vids.

  • @user-eg4ox7uk6y
    @user-eg4ox7uk6y Рік тому +43

    Thank god you didn't stop making videos I can only rewatch the others so many times

    • @CaptainWwowW
      @CaptainWwowW Рік тому +14

      I could probably watch Pokemon Cryptids every day for the rest of my life and die not having watched it enough

    • @Julford
      @Julford Рік тому +8

      @@CaptainWwowW Personally I love the Gen 1 Ubers video, something about the long, borderline-irritated assurance that Chansey is meta sticks with me and I'll rewatch the whole video just for that bit.

  • @snowballskies5857
    @snowballskies5857 10 місяців тому +9

    This man's voice is miraculously good at making any pokemon sound wildly pathetic

  • @EdgarAllan2pointPoe
    @EdgarAllan2pointPoe 5 місяців тому +7

    19:28 I went to google to get a clean version of this image but I could only find a single picture of a shrimp next to banana and yet somehow it wasn't this one.

  • @thornrosealex
    @thornrosealex Рік тому +35

    18:30 I'd be interested in a Baton Pass Bans video, like how did we get to the point where 5 gens have a series of increasingly desperate restrictions on the move. What teams were made with "One pokemon can have it and can't pass speed boost" where it STILL got banned

    • @HumanReverend
      @HumanReverend  Рік тому +20

      Not a bad idea tbh

    • @thornrosealex
      @thornrosealex Рік тому +7

      Could extend it to weird bans in general, or partial bans that turned into total bans (Dugtrio banned => Arena trap banned cause people were running fucking diglett)

    • @DynamoTwentyTwo
      @DynamoTwentyTwo 10 місяців тому

      As someone who played with full Baton Pass legal back in the day I always wondered at the time what was going on that such heavily nerfed versions were still considered unsalvageably broken. Like, I get how magic bounce was the tool that full chain teams needed to bully the metagame but something like standard baton pass ninjask was kind of laughed at as noob strat even in NU and then suddenly it was banned. (for something else's sins I imagine but even still, if the face of the strategy was so bad then how could something I had never heard of be so good?)

    • @furiouscorgi6614
      @furiouscorgi6614 8 місяців тому

      ​@@DynamoTwentyTwoI'm pretty sure it was because crimes in later gens, it got banned, and then the BP people started going backwards so they banned it

  • @agiruda8380
    @agiruda8380 Рік тому +33

    Man, Gen 1 Ubers is either magical or maddening. Can’t decide which

  • @perturbo4253
    @perturbo4253 Рік тому +15

    Thank you for talking about Golbat in Ubers. My life is now complete (I'm the guy who commented it on your ubers video btw)

  • @amir9178
    @amir9178 Рік тому +43

    When you brought up Urshifu-SS, I thought you were going to mention Shelmet, which basically ignores Wicked Blow's 100% critical hit chance and has access to recover allowing you to stall them out.
    The downside is that CB variants can just 2HKO Shelmet after rocks damage because Urshifu-SS was stupidly busted.

    • @fourthmatchflame
      @fourthmatchflame Рік тому

      and bug resists dark and fighting so thats fun.

    • @amir9178
      @amir9178 Рік тому +3

      @@fourthmatchflame Bug doesn't resist dark bro. It does resist fighting types tho.

    • @fourthmatchflame
      @fourthmatchflame Рік тому

      @@amir9178 doesnt it?

    • @mr.sniffly5297
      @mr.sniffly5297 8 місяців тому

      @@fourthmatchflameno, bug deals super effective damage to dark but takes neutral damage

  • @deleus
    @deleus Рік тому +12

    I like Golem-Alola in SM OU being used in a smogon World Cup game solely as a bootleg magnezone that can trap heatran if it has a scarf. This is basically the only use for this mon in singles btw, it’s even outclassed by golem and Probopass in ZU

  • @delibirdite
    @delibirdite Рік тому +15

    the delivery of this entire video is absolutely *chefs kiss*
    my favourite pokemon has bad numbers and bad words but I still love it

  • @snowrat9551
    @snowrat9551 Рік тому +16

    good god i kind of got distracted from showdown a while back, hearing about what happened because of revival blessing assist is just.. sad, honestly. there was tera electric shedinja too but that one i was able to counter by just throwing a necrozma on my team and killing every shedinja in my path in the most overkill way possible. i remember one time on natdex AG actually i got my shit kicked in by a team consisting of five weaviles and a tinkaton, the idea being that the tinkaton only knew gigaton hammer and so it was basically just the 5 weaviles using gigaton hammer over and over again. it was both really stupid and funny as fuck

  • @superhomsar2112
    @superhomsar2112 Рік тому +13

    your penchant for the howie scream is one of the many reasons I keep coming back to your channel despite not being very interested in competitive pokemon lmao
    my man is just Good at Videos

    • @HumanReverend
      @HumanReverend  Рік тому +16

      I have to go out of my way to stop myself from just using it 10x in every video

    • @superhomsar2112
      @superhomsar2112 Рік тому +2

      @@HumanReverend peerless restraint o7

  • @MidoriNatsume
    @MidoriNatsume Рік тому +7

    "And if they are lucky, maybe they even can ride that success all the way to the bottom of the top of the meta charts".
    I will adop this phrase as my life mantra from now forward.

  • @stealthy9156
    @stealthy9156 Рік тому +23

    I'm here again purely because I remembered the one time my solrock beat some dudes zacian crowned 1v1 with will o wisp and EQ. This technically makes solrock the greatest anti ubers meta threat of all time, and in natdex ubers it becomes the ultimate role compressor being able to check both of the broken legendaries

    • @tysondennis1016
      @tysondennis1016 Рік тому +2

      And my Gigalith beat a six Shedinja team in one move: Stealth Rock. They dropped like flies all on turn 1.

  • @gabrielalves303
    @gabrielalves303 7 місяців тому +3

    Randomly found this video again, i cannot express how much i love your script writing and vocal delivery
    Thank you for the content❤️

  • @namvutranngoc6945
    @namvutranngoc6945 Рік тому +5

    I finally found what the "Musharna BRB Saving OU" meme is based off of.

  • @SaladBowlz
    @SaladBowlz 11 місяців тому +5

    This was a great video to watch while grinding an inconceivable number of caterpies for my competitive link battle mewtwo.

  • @PiePie453
    @PiePie453 Рік тому +7

    Oh like a Big Yellow video but without the slay

  • @kylemartin2487
    @kylemartin2487 Рік тому +26

    You’ve quickly become my favourite UA-cam personality. No hyperbole whatsoever. You remind me of what UA-cam used to be back before everyone made this a career. Just about making videos on the things you enjoy for better and for worse. Keep it up man!

  • @thebrickinquestion
    @thebrickinquestion Рік тому +6

    1:00 seeing gholdengo when searching up good is.....
    Comedy ghold

  • @grunkleg.3110
    @grunkleg.3110 Рік тому +14

    Had no idea how stat exp worked before this video, no wonder they gave up on it completely

  • @martialmushi918
    @martialmushi918 6 місяців тому +4

    You have the driest sense of humor ever and it's fucking hilarious.

  • @shattermelon496
    @shattermelon496 Рік тому +66

    it was really cool of smogon to include that scarlet & violet fangame in their simulator. Hopefully one day the devs behind it can make a full-fledged video game!

    • @AbsolXGuardian
      @AbsolXGuardian 11 місяців тому +2

      Yeah, imagine how stable and fleshed out it would be if there was a professional team who was working on it as their day job

  • @Vernatio
    @Vernatio Рік тому +31

    It's time. For reverend.

  • @airtempest8945
    @airtempest8945 Рік тому +6

    15:02 The moment you said "Pokémon Stadium", I knew where the Rage was being channeled to.

  • @thadjarvis9514
    @thadjarvis9514 6 місяців тому +4

    "million billion little goofball dingdongs" metalocalypse quoted ❤

    • @HumanReverend
      @HumanReverend  6 місяців тому +2

      i got on the cover of smokerooni aficionado this week

    • @thadjarvis9514
      @thadjarvis9514 6 місяців тому +1

      @@HumanReverend that's brutal, I wonder if I can burn this video on water

  • @TJF588
    @TJF588 Рік тому +10

    I have been stopped in my tracks from musing about having first caught wind of LV85 Chansey from Big Yellow, but y'know what? I'mma put this forward anyway: I jive hearing competitive nerds explain quirky mechanical nonsense in good humor, and y'all all are in good company as good accompaniment for a chill night in on the UA-cams.

  • @Em1Gvh
    @Em1Gvh 6 місяців тому +4

    I used the desync and won the last two games so pucker up

  • @imablisy
    @imablisy Рік тому +24

    The mewtwo stat exp is exactly my type of shit. Awesome video.

  • @budgetcommander4849
    @budgetcommander4849 8 місяців тому +3

    Love how searching up "Good" brings up Gholdengho

  • @vwts
    @vwts Рік тому +4

    Mewtwo was in that cave because it was afraid of making its way out, with all those Golbat around. On the way in it didn’t know how scary Golbat were.

  • @OffensiveWombat
    @OffensiveWombat 28 днів тому +4

    The annoyed delivery on "what the fuck is 'hold hands'?" is so funny to me, I dont know why. Like you looked under the couch and found an old box of hold hands.

  • @temporaryname8905
    @temporaryname8905 Рік тому +9

    Golbat beating MewTwo and a Mew is amazing. Always loved Golbat. To me it's a Pokemon that was cool enough without another evolution

  • @UncleLayne
    @UncleLayne Рік тому +61

    This is the only time I will every forgive someone for pronouncing Niche (neesh) wrong

    • @pilidod
      @pilidod Рік тому +9

      I FUCKING KNEW I WASN'T WRONG ABOUT THE PRONUNCIATION

  • @Picklemirror
    @Picklemirror Рік тому +6

    He doesn't know about Hold Hands.

  • @Shaymaru
    @Shaymaru Рік тому +7

    You’ve got such a cadence to your videos that I can’t put into words. Love your weird sense of humor and dryness, thanks for the new video!

  • @zzuxon
    @zzuxon Рік тому +10

    10:46
    Me and the boys arriving at the function after having defeated exactly 285 Jigglypuffs and 149 Onixes and precisely nothing else.

  • @adadgamer1
    @adadgamer1 2 місяці тому +1

    Every now and then I have a long day and throw on an old Reverend video to completely relax, it's the best

    • @adadgamer1
      @adadgamer1 2 місяці тому +1

      You are my personal Michael Bublé

  • @dadiscoverychannel
    @dadiscoverychannel Рік тому +7

    Real ones got a sudden urge to backflip up and down a flight of stairs when Pachirisu showed up

  • @squidee
    @squidee 8 місяців тому +2

    The spikes gag with curch had me rolling

  • @emptywisdoms
    @emptywisdoms 2 місяці тому +3

    golbats niche being explosion fodder is fucking hilarious

  • @stealthy9156
    @stealthy9156 Рік тому +9

    I'm glad you don't have to marry your mother in law anymore reverend

  • @parasectkazuyabandicoot5360
    @parasectkazuyabandicoot5360 Рік тому +2

    I’m going to say “normal, non-threatening number” all the time

  • @solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad

    Appreciate all the venture bros clips. Can’t wait for the movie

    • @HumanReverend
      @HumanReverend  Рік тому +5

      Venture Bros is my favorite TV show and maybe just my favorite piece of media of all time. If the movie gets canceled like every other warner animated show I will go postal

  • @glitch9643
    @glitch9643 2 місяці тому +3

    Bro I laughed so hard when I was first informed that Hold Hands is a legitimate move LOL

  • @xavierjchis
    @xavierjchis Рік тому +3

    Amazing vid Rev Run. I like the variety you’ve been putting out. Your edits never get old. Thanks.

  • @courtneys.7113
    @courtneys.7113 Рік тому +2

    omg yes reverend video. i’ve had to watch your smogon singles ou videos like 10 times over waiting for a new upload 😭🙏

  • @theta-8
    @theta-8 Рік тому +10

    Love this series of videos you've done.
    Here's a niche I think you'll like:
    Garganacl has the strongest explosion in Gen 9

  • @Poo_Brain_Horse
    @Poo_Brain_Horse Рік тому +9

    I'm glad to see your subscriber count rising! Your content is fantastic, you deserve it!

  • @KonstantinValentix
    @KonstantinValentix Рік тому +12

    The best humor on UA-cam is back with an absolut banger.

  • @RoKishDubbz
    @RoKishDubbz Рік тому +2

    Never felt so determined to sub to a new channel and binge watch all the stuff in there after only watching one video. Thanks, Reverend! Very cool

  • @shalomanderj2555
    @shalomanderj2555 Рік тому +6

    Always love the uploads. Looking forward to seeing Gen 9 replay vids in the future. Keep grinding bro

  • @melly5741
    @melly5741 Рік тому +5

    WAKE UP BABE NEW REVEREND VIDEO

  • @mrapplegate4065
    @mrapplegate4065 Рік тому +4

    This is some of the best dry humor I have ever heard. Excellent video!! Also your taste in music is baller

  • @L0calLEGEND
    @L0calLEGEND 7 місяців тому +1

    10:24 After seeing 16 But Sensation: Another Layer, I get flashbacks when I see 65535

  • @zachtempleman4034
    @zachtempleman4034 Рік тому +5

    Brock as Lando-T is a beautiful analogy

  • @HadaHarabaz
    @HadaHarabaz Рік тому +7

    Porygon Z was my favorite Special Attacker when I played Showdown in gen 5 can't even remember who else was on that team besides bullet punch technician scizor.
    So seeing porygon in the thumbnail was nice.

  • @Corncycle
    @Corncycle Рік тому +3

    dude i love seeing This Guy (10:15) from the cryptids video making cameos in your other videos

  • @thewash7569
    @thewash7569 Рік тому +2

    Your editing is, honest to god, award winning levels of funny. Love your content man, cheers

  • @katiehass5980
    @katiehass5980 8 місяців тому +1

    i remember in AG people discussed using Numel (immune to thunder wave and confusion, and the only pokémon available to do so) to counter Swagkeys, only to have Swagkeys run HP water as a counter. 2 op man

  • @greensemicircle
    @greensemicircle Рік тому +5

    haven't seen this video but i hope it includes choice band explosion reveleki

    • @volbla
      @volbla Рік тому

      Nay. This video is about way more fucked up things.

  • @allisonfink8883
    @allisonfink8883 Рік тому +1

    I can't put a finger on it but your cadence of speech and editing style put together is such a joy

  • @darkfire714
    @darkfire714 5 місяців тому +3

    I am begging anyone to tell me the same of the resting heart rate song at1:34

    • @HumanReverend
      @HumanReverend  5 місяців тому +2

      It's a live version of Margaritaville by Jimmy buffet

  • @Pumpd_up_kicks
    @Pumpd_up_kicks Рік тому +17

    I personally found crystal battle tower aerodactyl was a large threat to mirror match aerodactyl for one reason, supersonic. It seemed to hit my flappy boy 99% of the time and then he would flap himself in confusion 9 times out of 10.
    I ran bitter berry just for the mirror match and you know what, it worked consistent after that.

    • @IschmarVI
      @IschmarVI Рік тому +1

      It hits 55% of the time and makes you hit yourself 50% of the time. But Pokémon does that great thing where it gives you 20 bazillion opportunities to get screwed over by RNG so it is bound to happen eventually. So yeah, bitter berry is a good strategy here for sure so that there are now only 19.9999 bazillion opportunities to get screwed. It's called "playing the numbers game" and it is a really good strategy.

    • @Pumpd_up_kicks
      @Pumpd_up_kicks Рік тому +1

      @@IschmarVI yes, the rng is damn near rubber banding in some circumstances. When I tried to run an eggs set in battle tower I remember an enemy pokemon getting first turn wake up something like 10 consecutive times. This is why gameboys got thrown through windows world wide!

  • @EternumTagerMain
    @EternumTagerMain Рік тому +3

    Reverend being the most goated content creator on the entire website.
    Seriously, I watched all of your vids multiple times

  • @bigsharon7263
    @bigsharon7263 Рік тому +3

    YEAHHH NEW REVEREND VIDEO I WISH I WASNT IN MATH CLASS RIGHT NOW

    • @bigsharon7263
      @bigsharon7263 Рік тому +3

      i always say the most lamest shit when exciting things happen now im never gonna be invited to the youtube comment section cool kids club

    • @Torexyo0
      @Torexyo0 Рік тому +1

      Mood

    • @bigsharon7263
      @bigsharon7263 Рік тому

      @@Torexyo0 we can form our own club

  • @cobajonicle9639
    @cobajonicle9639 Рік тому +4

    Reverend uploaded? Splendid

  • @buckstop
    @buckstop 8 місяців тому +2

    He's gonna be so mad when he finds out it's pronounced neech

  • @platypuzzled12
    @platypuzzled12 11 місяців тому +1

    the joke with checking Metapod in 14U leading into goddamn "Pikacup" actually killed me, great video

  • @KeroKero_Cola
    @KeroKero_Cola 11 місяців тому +1

    Even without the top tier editing, using Venture Bros. clips is all I need to know that you're a certified cool guy. Sub well earned.