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Tyranitar no longer having physical crunch, dragonite having physical stab Hurricane, knock off being special, and the possibility for specs outrage users are also very notable changes
Tough Claws on Zard-X would still boost the special attacks as long as they where contact moves, which I think outrage and flare blitz still would be. Grass Knot on m-meta was always boosted by tough claws still. I think that makes special zard-x really interesting in this situation
A nice set would be a mixed Flare blitz, D claw, brick break and roost/thunder punch. You get to lure chansey in and smack it pretty decently with uninvested 90 bp brick breaks
I’m not sure we would even HAVE the Fairy type without a Gen 5 dominated by DragMag. No physical Outrage means the dragons really don’t hit as hard as they did in our timeline, meaning there’s no need for Fairy to come along and say “no fun for you Dragons.” Alternatively, maybe Fairy is a more balanced type altogether. Maybe it only resists Dragon, maybe it has a relationship with the Bug type that gives Bug something new to do. Who knows?
I mean that's quite possible though that's its own thought experiment because he explicitly said the rules were "nothing changes except there's no physical/special split".
Outrage wasn't the only thing making DragMag so powerful, remember that. Latios is the obvious example of a mon that to this day is still, in my opinion, to its very core a gen 5 OU terrorist. Now imagine it can spam specs outrage rather than drop to -2 after the hit with draco. It's less immediate power on the initial hit but all of a sudden you're threatening grab more than just one kill every time it comes in after you chip one of the few checks to it. Not to mention that pursuit is special in this alternate timeline, so ttar isn't trapping it as effectively and I can't really think of any special dark types from gen 5 that would want to sit in front of a specs latios and click pursuit.
All the dark type moves in Sucker Punch, Knock off and Pursuit will make special attackers way more threatning than physical attackers in theory. So maybe Pokemon like Zoroark and Houndoom could be way better. For oras case Tornadus T and especially Serperiors Knock off will hit way harder. And Pokemon like Scizor losing pursuit is really bad too, managable but having pursuit was alwas a great tool. Also rest in peace Weavile :(
Some interesting things I think are worth mentioning: Nidoking becomes really weird, because now it's stabs of earth power and sludge wave are physical nukes, but it loses its incredible cover unless it runs mixed sets. Lando I is probably just even more broken Lando-t can run HP flying, which would probably be decent on some sets. Mega Gengar is bizarre to even think about. Lucario has much greater coverage issues in all of the generations it's featured in Blissey is probably way better in gen 4 ubers
Eh SD Lucario in modern DPP generally prefers Crunch to Ice Punch because Rotom/Gengar tend to be bigger concerns than Gliscor/Dragonite for the teams its featured on, so SD Lucario would just slot Shadow Ball to serve the exact same purpose. Sure you're now walled by Gliscor and don't threaten Dragonite ever, but that's not really a big deal in terms of how you build for Lucario. Sure Nasty Plot sets become unviable but SD is the better set anyways, and it can run a mixed Lure set with Ice Punch. And Mega Lucario's most popular set is SD CC Iron Tail BP so that's the exact same.
This also would be really interesting for GSC uu with haunter and Scyther and some other lower tiers in ADV. Chansey would be rediculous but this is defenetly an interesting topic
There was a little period of time in PokeMMO where it was still only the first three generations of Pokemon, moves, and abilities available but it had a bunch of updated mechanics from new gens like physical/special split, 5 turn sand, stat buffs to certain mons, buffed moves (although iirc they deliberately withheld the knock off buff and maybe the outrage buff too?) and gave Pokemon their current gen move and ability options. It was an interesting window into what may have been.
One thing I didn't hear talked about. Skarmory. Skarmory will forever keep its status as weak to 0 physical moves, which means it'll be the forever ultimate physical wall. Same thing for Chansey/Blissey with special moves.
I think tough claws would affect lots of special moves like dragon claw, since being special doesn't preclude moves from making contact. See grass knot or draining kiss. So maybe we'd see special mega zard x benefit from it.
I miss BKC laddering :') If you're over the ladder peaking goal, laddering with teams from the previous generation could be neat? I've always gotten a kick seeing people bringing BW-esque teams in ORAS, ADV in DPP, etc I think it's pretty doable for most gens Maybe give yourself leeway with access to Z Crystals/Mega Stones/Items not available in the previous gen
Also special outrage means dmeteor without a special attack drop, so ttar doesn't check specs latios anymore, or at least doesn't switch in to that set
For ZardX, contact moves don’t have to be physical (grass knot). For Mega Mawile, physical play rough may not be the most essential, but physical sucker punch is really essential
Something important to mention: Gen 5 Latios would be busted (More busted i mean) because no physical crunch and pursuiters being bad against latios in general (houndoom for example dies to surf). So it would be the only dragon type that gets better (appart from maybe kingdra or other niche options). Also Latias would be almost unbreakable unless you run specs houndoom or sth like that
Tough claws boosts moves that make contact. So Petal Dance, even though it's a special move, would get a tough claws boost. So Flare Blitz would likely be contact as well, or even Overheat would likely remain contact as it was in Gen 3. Mega-zard X would definitely still be good.
Physical attackers would be slightly better just because they will still have access to hidden powers for coverage without having to use their weaker special stat
20:30 Pretty sure tough claws boost moves power based on contact instead of physical/special orientation (Any move that incurs rocky helmet, such as grass knot.), so special flare blitz/outrage should still be tough claws boosted.
Spectier would plummet to like RUBL without special Ghost moves which is just hilarious to think about. It's still plenty fast with utility and set up moves so it probably wouldn't sink to the depths of it's sibling but having no stab and your entire suite of coverage be Psychic and Dark would not bode well for the horse.
I think Chansey would be worse in Gen 6 and 7, since she usually wouldn’t be switching into Knock off users (physical attackers) but if they’re special attackers then she would be more prone to losing her Eviolite. Probably could work around it but I think Blissey would be preferred
For Gen 5, physics and ghosts and keldeo losing fighting might mean some of the UU fightings get called up to OU. Mienfoo would be super important to deal with TTar, Ferro
mons from gen 1-3 had their stats balanced around the LACK of a physical special split, the most obvious being skarmory and they should have all gotten a rework after the split was introduced
skarmory is honestly doing fine imo. SpD investment FTW! Its just, that there is this even bigger metal bird now, plus everyone and their mother is wearing boots.
Chien-Pao would be absolutely murdered. No physical STAB to take advantage of its ability. Basically locked into CB Tera-Fighting Sacred Sword, which will hit like a truck but make it extremely easy to play around. Coverage options are Aerial Ace/Acrobatics, Hex, and then you might unironically be best off with Hyper Beam for raw wall breaking.
You mentioned early in the video that fire punch does not exist in gen 1 but it actually does. Only magmar and hitmonchan can learn it though. In tradebacks (which is the tier where gen one pokemon are allowed to have moves they learn in gen 2) more pokemon have access to it namely alakazam and gengar.
Fairy would probably be special if only because it would mean an even 9 types of each physical and special. Also Fire Punch existed in Gen 1, it just, like Waterfall, wasnt a TM/HM/Tutor move so its distribution was very bad, only on terrible Pokemon (competitively) who were also rather late in the game and not super appealing.
@@jaredletobestjoker mamo would have to run hidden power bug/ghost or something stupid like that in order to hit latios 252 Atk Choice Band Mamoswine Hidden Power Bug (physical) vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Latios: 276-326 (91.6 - 108.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO after Stealth Rock
For mega maw you forgot that it wouldn’t get the fangs, knock or sucker. Iron head would be pretty much all it gets and would make it way weaker into offense
I think the fairy typing being special isn’t such an obvious way game freak would handle it. They could have also made it physical and given fairy typing to psychic Pokémon with physical oriented stats to let it act like a physical sister type to psychic
I was thinking of something similar to this around a week ago, I was thinking what if gen 9 had no physical/special split and how that would look with terastalize.
I kind of think this misses that, yes, offensively some broken pokemon would be less broken but defensively things would change as well. It'd be a totally different meta, with different checks and such. I really don't think Gyrados, Volcarona and such not being great is a huge loss. Contentious Pokemon not being as bad is if anything a positive
One major benefit would be that the type chart actually matters. Right now, stats matter way more than typing because every pokemon can use their best stats to hit any pokemon in the game for super effective damage. That is, perhaps, a bit of an over-exaggeration, but that's effectively what the physical/special split does. I think it'd be pretty interesting to see teams being made to counter general strategies rather than specific teams, and removing the physical/special split would make that a much more impactful teambuilding style.
Pokémon like the obvious Weavile but also Darmanitan, Krookodile, Bisharp, Gallade, Palossand, Incineroar, Zekrom, Torterra, Avalugg, Mabostiff, Leafeon, Beartic, Haxorus (yeah let's go further than OU because no Physical/Special Split would drastically change things for many Pokémon)... would significantly get gutted in some way without Physical/Special split as they lose at least one STAB on their best offensive stat and the rest of their movepools won't come close to compensate that loss.
the logic behind ghost being physical is that the only ghost type move that didn't do fixed damage in gen 1 was .... lick. For dark type ... I don't think that game freak has any excuse here, lol
I think it's funny that almost everything you said here is "the game would be significantly better balanced", when the general attitude of the pokemon community is that the physical/special split was a very good thing for the game.
Maybe it would be more "balanced" but at the same time you would have mons cannot are basically useless: weavile, mawile(sucker punch+coverage moves), m-gyarados, m-absol and so on. Many more mons would not be usable while others can thrive in this environment.
@@wenxiwu6480 You're describing a problem of movesets, not game mechanics. STAB is only relevant when the 'mon lacks the coverage to hit for super effective damage. That's basic math. 1.5 is a lower number than 2. And for the record, Gyarados has always been very strong. Even before the split. Trying to revise the history there only serves to weaken your point.
tbh I see gen 3 as being a bigger jump in power than gen 4 due to the ev limit making everything much much more frail. I kinda take issue with gen 3 for it's lack of split since it can cause some very polarizing effects for consistency as mons don't really always have things to click that are able to at least make some progress. Generally I find gen 3 has some of the most extreme differences in matchups for Pokémon which often makes midground plays much less practical creating situations where the whole game can suddenly be over from a turn in a manner much like gen 5 and in some ways worse as the lack of speed control like scarf or priority in a ev capped metagame really cuts into back ups to deal with threats, god forbid it's other factors that lead to it such as trappers. I say this as someone who plays a decent amount of each gen and enjoys all of them except 3.
@@Blanktester685 bro gen 3 literally has the more clickable buttons than gen 5 💀 Don't need to fear a scarf when dd'ing if scarf ain't real💀💀💀💀 Cm kinda great when your pursuit weak don't get pursuited no more and now 1v1's ttar💀💀💀 Dugtrio and magneton: 💀💀💀 💀💀💀 Cap harder bro
I don't think I agree with physical hurricane being bad for Torn-T. It is 100 vs 110 for its attacking stats. Hurricane, Superpower, U-turn, and Hidden Power Rock/Ground could be pretty sick.
It's not only about the offensive, but looking at the types and stats some mons have big defensive coverage. Like psychic beeing hit by darc type. Darc is special, so high special defense psychic pokemon do not have a threat in darc type. With these clear physical and special splits you can invest stats differently and have a LOT less threats.
Some stats were good to negate types only. Like darc types advantage was to negate a stab from psychic hits on your team. While psychic had nearly no threats and was one of the strongest types.
So the video is missing the defensive side of the physical/special split nearly completely. There were only 2 mentions: Rock type beeing hit by fighting changes, yes. Rock becomes stronger. Dragon type with special defense is great -> BKC said Latias needs to be hit by a ghost type. So that's the only analysis about type changes. There is like half a Video missing in my opinion!
22:50 "This doesn't really affect defensive pokemon" ... BKC himself said rock gets coverage against fighting, so how does this statement make any sense?
I think that charizard x woundnt change all that muck it has base 130 spatk and tclaws is based on contact so blitz and claw would still work due to contact thunderpunch would rise over eq and roost and wilo wisp would become more common sence dd woundnt just give you a speed boost that and some of the other moves zard has even crunch
without STAB would look a bit like Gen 1 where mons like Gengar run Tbolt, Psychic/ Mega Drain and no STAB. Or Starmie runs Tbolt + Blizzard, only sometimes a Psychic STAB. Ofc you have STAB Hyper Beam Tauros which nukes almost everything. Without STAB Pokemon would live longer and it's just what Mon has the highest attacking stat. A lot of Pokemon would lose their niche as another can do it too without STAB. Without weaknesses... how do you kill Pex?
nah, it still needs to go because of sand veil. That ability is beyond stupid in generations with permanent sand (it caused CACTURNE of all pokes to be banned from OU in gen 3). But without it it suddenly starts to struggle against a lot of the other dragons (unless it runs the chain chomp set but thats a different story) and might be reasonably enough to handle to be able to stay. But again, sand veil ...
I think I heard something about chomp running a mixed set with spAtk investment, although I suppose the main benefit to that set is the fact that the opponent had to respect its physical set.
considering that beat up always used the physical attack stat, foul play might do so as well. But at the very least, foul play would be considered a special attack for the purposes of screens and counter/mirror coat.
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Tyranitar no longer having physical crunch, dragonite having physical stab Hurricane, knock off being special, and the possibility for specs outrage users are also very notable changes
Outrage Dreigon
Would anyone use Outrage if Draco is still available?
@@ExpandDong420 better accuracy? more spammable?
Also: Physical Hurricane Moxie Gyarados
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Tough Claws on Zard-X would still boost the special attacks as long as they where contact moves, which I think outrage and flare blitz still would be. Grass Knot on m-meta was always boosted by tough claws still.
I think that makes special zard-x really interesting in this situation
Zard Y may be a bit worse than zard X since its now hard walled by heatran unless u invest some EVs in phys attack and starts using EQ
A nice set would be a mixed Flare blitz, D claw, brick break and roost/thunder punch. You get to lure chansey in and smack it pretty decently with uninvested 90 bp brick breaks
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Hydregion may have been a higher OU threat with other’s power dropping, while it gains special sucker punch, knock off, and outrage
I’m not sure we would even HAVE the Fairy type without a Gen 5 dominated by DragMag. No physical Outrage means the dragons really don’t hit as hard as they did in our timeline, meaning there’s no need for Fairy to come along and say “no fun for you Dragons.”
Alternatively, maybe Fairy is a more balanced type altogether. Maybe it only resists Dragon, maybe it has a relationship with the Bug type that gives Bug something new to do. Who knows?
I mean that's quite possible though that's its own thought experiment because he explicitly said the rules were "nothing changes except there's no physical/special split".
@@AdumbroDeus Yeah this comment wasn’t a direct add-on to his proposal, just a realization I had while he was talking
@@J3Puffin all good, it's an interesting addition!
Outrage wasn't the only thing making DragMag so powerful, remember that. Latios is the obvious example of a mon that to this day is still, in my opinion, to its very core a gen 5 OU terrorist. Now imagine it can spam specs outrage rather than drop to -2 after the hit with draco. It's less immediate power on the initial hit but all of a sudden you're threatening grab more than just one kill every time it comes in after you chip one of the few checks to it. Not to mention that pursuit is special in this alternate timeline, so ttar isn't trapping it as effectively and I can't really think of any special dark types from gen 5 that would want to sit in front of a specs latios and click pursuit.
at the very least we know that fairy would be a special type, because there's an eeveelution for it :p
All the dark type moves in Sucker Punch, Knock off and Pursuit will make special attackers way more threatning than physical attackers in theory. So maybe Pokemon like Zoroark and Houndoom could be way better.
For oras case Tornadus T and especially Serperiors Knock off will hit way harder. And Pokemon like Scizor losing pursuit is really bad too, managable but having pursuit was alwas a great tool.
Also rest in peace Weavile :(
Landorus-Incarnate suddenly being able to use Earth Power and Sludge Wave off of its physical attack stat would be absolutely absurd
Focus blast too
So now it can invest in Attack and make U-turn sting even more while it pivots
Azumarill would really suffer from lack of physical water or fairy stab
Some interesting things I think are worth mentioning:
Nidoking becomes really weird, because now it's stabs of earth power and sludge wave are physical nukes, but it loses its incredible cover unless it runs mixed sets. Lando I is probably just even more broken
Lando-t can run HP flying, which would probably be decent on some sets.
Mega Gengar is bizarre to even think about.
Lucario has much greater coverage issues in all of the generations it's featured in
Blissey is probably way better in gen 4 ubers
Eh SD Lucario in modern DPP generally prefers Crunch to Ice Punch because Rotom/Gengar tend to be bigger concerns than Gliscor/Dragonite for the teams its featured on, so SD Lucario would just slot Shadow Ball to serve the exact same purpose. Sure you're now walled by Gliscor and don't threaten Dragonite ever, but that's not really a big deal in terms of how you build for Lucario. Sure Nasty Plot sets become unviable but SD is the better set anyways, and it can run a mixed Lure set with Ice Punch. And Mega Lucario's most popular set is SD CC Iron Tail BP so that's the exact same.
A video on "what if eviolite was in gens prior to gen 5 (particularly gen 4 LC)" would be cool.
This also would be really interesting for GSC uu with haunter and Scyther and some other lower tiers in ADV. Chansey would be rediculous but this is defenetly an interesting topic
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Dracopult would be crazy with physical shadow ball
specs dragapult could still be really cool, with psychic fangs and sucker punch
There was a little period of time in PokeMMO where it was still only the first three generations of Pokemon, moves, and abilities available but it had a bunch of updated mechanics from new gens like physical/special split, 5 turn sand, stat buffs to certain mons, buffed moves (although iirc they deliberately withheld the knock off buff and maybe the outrage buff too?) and gave Pokemon their current gen move and ability options. It was an interesting window into what may have been.
One thing I didn't hear talked about. Skarmory. Skarmory will forever keep its status as weak to 0 physical moves, which means it'll be the forever ultimate physical wall. Same thing for Chansey/Blissey with special moves.
I think tough claws would affect lots of special moves like dragon claw, since being special doesn't preclude moves from making contact. See grass knot or draining kiss.
So maybe we'd see special mega zard x benefit from it.
.... Fire Punch definitely existed in gen 1, thought I was being gaslit for a second
What if it never happened?; physical-special split
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4:00 Actually, Fire Punch was in Gen 1, but only Magmar and Hitmonchan got it.
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I miss BKC laddering :')
If you're over the ladder peaking goal, laddering with teams from the previous generation could be neat? I've always gotten a kick seeing people bringing BW-esque teams in ORAS, ADV in DPP, etc I think it's pretty doable for most gens
Maybe give yourself leeway with access to Z Crystals/Mega Stones/Items not available in the previous gen
Latias with special Outrage sounds scary
i wouldn't say latios would check volc in bw because latios is going straight to ubers without physical pursuit
and latias might as well follow it without physical pursuit. That thing takes nothing from special pursuit after a few calm minds, lol
Also special outrage means dmeteor without a special attack drop, so ttar doesn't check specs latios anymore, or at least doesn't switch in to that set
For ZardX, contact moves don’t have to be physical (grass knot).
For Mega Mawile, physical play rough may not be the most essential, but physical sucker punch is really essential
I think dragon claw would have been a better example
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Something important to mention: Gen 5 Latios would be busted (More busted i mean) because no physical crunch and pursuiters being bad against latios in general (houndoom for example dies to surf). So it would be the only dragon type that gets better (appart from maybe kingdra or other niche options).
Also Latias would be almost unbreakable unless you run specs houndoom or sth like that
Fire Punch did exist in Gen 1, Hitmonchan (lol) and Magmar learned it. It was just entirely inferior to Flamethrower and Fire Blast.
Tough claws boosts moves that make contact. So Petal Dance, even though it's a special move, would get a tough claws boost. So Flare Blitz would likely be contact as well, or even Overheat would likely remain contact as it was in Gen 3. Mega-zard X would definitely still be good.
Hoopa-unbound having special Knock Off would be nuts tbh
And just special Knock Off in general
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Physical attackers would be slightly better just because they will still have access to hidden powers for coverage without having to use their weaker special stat
Fun fact, the elemental punches were in Gen 1, but were exclusive to Hitmonchan
unless you trade back mons from generation 2 because they were TMs in gen 2. Makes pokes like alakazam a LOT scarier.
Jynx, electabuzz and Magmar also have their respective punches, but of course they would rather use the 95 bp option
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Weavile found dead in untiered
On the other hand, no Weavile means no Chien Pao.
*Cries in azumarill*
Technician scizor, once hidden power was nerfed to 60, would be amazing.
Would love to see this continuing on through the rest of the generations
(Like no hidden abilities no fairies etc)
Mawile losing Play Rough, Sucker Punch, Fire Fang and Sucker Punch to run Brick Break Iron Head Rock Slide
You know honestly the effect of the split or not having the split is so cool on both sides it's hard to say which one is better than the other
20:30
Pretty sure tough claws boost moves power based on contact instead of physical/special orientation (Any move that incurs rocky helmet, such as grass knot.), so special flare blitz/outrage should still be tough claws boosted.
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Spectier would plummet to like RUBL without special Ghost moves which is just hilarious to think about. It's still plenty fast with utility and set up moves so it probably wouldn't sink to the depths of it's sibling but having no stab and your entire suite of coverage be Psychic and Dark would not bode well for the horse.
psychic
I think Chansey would be worse in Gen 6 and 7, since she usually wouldn’t be switching into Knock off users (physical attackers) but if they’re special attackers then she would be more prone to losing her Eviolite. Probably could work around it but I think Blissey would be preferred
Serperior gets more coverage with water and dark
Weavile and Chien Pao find a new home in PU
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Fire Punch totally existed in gen 1 even if only magmar and hitmonchan got it.
For Gen 5, physics and ghosts and keldeo losing fighting might mean some of the UU fightings get called up to OU. Mienfoo would be super important to deal with TTar, Ferro
mons from gen 1-3 had their stats balanced around the LACK of a physical special split, the most obvious being skarmory and they should have all gotten a rework after the split was introduced
skarmory is honestly doing fine imo. SpD investment FTW! Its just, that there is this even bigger metal bird now, plus everyone and their mother is wearing boots.
Kyurem b at has fallen to its knees. Feraligatr comes to comfort it, but it too knows it will fade away
And Kingler joined them, knowing the same fate
Mixed Keldeo with CC would be kinda funny. It can actually make use of Justified now!
Chien-Pao would be absolutely murdered. No physical STAB to take advantage of its ability. Basically locked into CB Tera-Fighting Sacred Sword, which will hit like a truck but make it extremely easy to play around. Coverage options are Aerial Ace/Acrobatics, Hex, and then you might unironically be best off with Hyper Beam for raw wall breaking.
Fire Punch did exist in generation 1.
Been waiting for this one
You mentioned early in the video that fire punch does not exist in gen 1 but it actually does.
Only magmar and hitmonchan can learn it though.
In tradebacks (which is the tier where gen one pokemon are allowed to have moves they learn in gen 2) more pokemon have access to it namely alakazam and gengar.
I don't even want to know but I'll listen nonetheless.
That brings us back to the ancient question: where is the dragon eeveelution: fast physical, fast special eevees are still open
Fairy would probably be special if only because it would mean an even 9 types of each physical and special.
Also Fire Punch existed in Gen 1, it just, like Waterfall, wasnt a TM/HM/Tutor move so its distribution was very bad, only on terrible Pokemon (competitively) who were also rather late in the game and not super appealing.
100% accurate Physical Stab hurricane in permanent rain on dragonite in Gen 5
Will watch later but the very first thing that comes to mind would be Draco Meteor and CC would still exists lol
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Kyurem black might actually be pretty decent with ice beam + physical earth power
Elemental punches did exist in gen 1
Latios annihilates Gen5OU even harder then it already does, it's move get virtually unchanged and it is far less concerned about Pursuit Trapping
calm mind, recover, hp fire, dragon claw is literally unstoppable. zam and mamo lose shadow ball and ice shard too
@@jaredletobestjoker mamo would have to run hidden power bug/ghost or something stupid like that in order to hit latios
252 Atk Choice Band Mamoswine Hidden Power Bug (physical) vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Latios: 276-326 (91.6 - 108.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO after Stealth Rock
For mega maw you forgot that it wouldn’t get the fangs, knock or sucker. Iron head would be pretty much all it gets and would make it way weaker into offense
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I think the fairy typing being special isn’t such an obvious way game freak would handle it. They could have also made it physical and given fairy typing to psychic Pokémon with physical oriented stats to let it act like a physical sister type to psychic
I'd love to see a video on unfreezing RoA tiers with dedicated councils and a large enough player base.
I was thinking of something similar to this around a week ago, I was thinking what if gen 9 had no physical/special split and how that would look with terastalize.
Dragapult having actual physical ghost moves would make it so annoying
Choice band crobat brave bird/sludge bomb/shadow ball/u turn?
I kind of think this misses that, yes, offensively some broken pokemon would be less broken but defensively things would change as well. It'd be a totally different meta, with different checks and such. I really don't think Gyrados, Volcarona and such not being great is a huge loss. Contentious Pokemon not being as bad is if anything a positive
One major benefit would be that the type chart actually matters. Right now, stats matter way more than typing because every pokemon can use their best stats to hit any pokemon in the game for super effective damage. That is, perhaps, a bit of an over-exaggeration, but that's effectively what the physical/special split does. I think it'd be pretty interesting to see teams being made to counter general strategies rather than specific teams, and removing the physical/special split would make that a much more impactful teambuilding style.
Pokémon like the obvious Weavile but also Darmanitan, Krookodile, Bisharp, Gallade, Palossand, Incineroar, Zekrom, Torterra, Avalugg, Mabostiff, Leafeon, Beartic, Haxorus (yeah let's go further than OU because no Physical/Special Split would drastically change things for many Pokémon)... would significantly get gutted in some way without Physical/Special split as they lose at least one STAB on their best offensive stat and the rest of their movepools won't come close to compensate that loss.
Imagine CB talonflame priority hurricanes along with dd hurricanes in general
BKC can you make a video about Spidops
Knowing gamefreak they would make fairy physical type. Just look at ghost and dark types
the logic behind ghost being physical is that the only ghost type move that didn't do fixed damage in gen 1 was .... lick.
For dark type ... I don't think that game freak has any excuse here, lol
@@IschmarVI Dark vs Fighting is basically evil type vs hero type. Of course they'd be opposites.
@@dontmisunderstand6041 even with moves like BITE and CRUNCH lmao
@@IschmarVI and gengar was the only ghost type in gen 1 with base 65 atk and 130 special...
Giga Impact and Hyper Beam: 🤼♂️
Waterfall over aqua tail? I guess the little bit extra damage does not do enough for it to justify the chance of missing?
Doesn't tough claws effect contact moves. Wouldn't that still boost char X's moves even if they were special if they are contact moves?
I think it's funny that almost everything you said here is "the game would be significantly better balanced", when the general attitude of the pokemon community is that the physical/special split was a very good thing for the game.
Maybe it would be more "balanced" but at the same time you would have mons cannot are basically useless: weavile, mawile(sucker punch+coverage moves), m-gyarados, m-absol and so on. Many more mons would not be usable while others can thrive in this environment.
@@wenxiwu6480 You're describing a problem of movesets, not game mechanics. STAB is only relevant when the 'mon lacks the coverage to hit for super effective damage. That's basic math. 1.5 is a lower number than 2.
And for the record, Gyarados has always been very strong. Even before the split. Trying to revise the history there only serves to weaken your point.
Weavile comes to mind
Do the lati twins get outrage? Would they use it so could use a strong dragon stab multiple times in a row without the special attack drop?
tbh I see gen 3 as being a bigger jump in power than gen 4 due to the ev limit making everything much much more frail.
I kinda take issue with gen 3 for it's lack of split since it can cause some very polarizing effects for consistency as mons don't really always have things to click that are able to at least make some progress. Generally I find gen 3 has some of the most extreme differences in matchups for Pokémon which often makes midground plays much less practical creating situations where the whole game can suddenly be over from a turn in a manner much like gen 5 and in some ways worse as the lack of speed control like scarf or priority in a ev capped metagame really cuts into back ups to deal with threats, god forbid it's other factors that lead to it such as trappers.
I say this as someone who plays a decent amount of each gen and enjoys all of them except 3.
Gen 3 also added abilities, which are unarguably the biggest change pokemon has ever made to the formula.
@@dontmisunderstand6041 oh easily
bud literally the reason gen 3 takes so much more skill then the other gens lmao you cant just spam brainless win buttons.
@@Blanktester685 bro gen 3 literally has the more clickable buttons than gen 5 💀
Don't need to fear a scarf when dd'ing if scarf ain't real💀💀💀💀
Cm kinda great when your pursuit weak don't get pursuited no more and now 1v1's ttar💀💀💀
Dugtrio and magneton: 💀💀💀 💀💀💀
Cap harder bro
I don't think I agree with physical hurricane being bad for Torn-T. It is 100 vs 110 for its attacking stats. Hurricane, Superpower, U-turn, and Hidden Power Rock/Ground could be pretty sick.
It's not only about the offensive, but looking at the types and stats some mons have big defensive coverage.
Like psychic beeing hit by darc type. Darc is special, so high special defense psychic pokemon do not have a threat in darc type. With these clear physical and special splits you can invest stats differently and have a LOT less threats.
Some stats were good to negate types only. Like darc types advantage was to negate a stab from psychic hits on your team. While psychic had nearly no threats and was one of the strongest types.
So the video is missing the defensive side of the physical/special split nearly completely.
There were only 2 mentions:
Rock type beeing hit by fighting changes, yes. Rock becomes stronger.
Dragon type with special defense is great -> BKC said Latias needs to be hit by a ghost type.
So that's the only analysis about type changes. There is like half a Video missing in my opinion!
22:50 "This doesn't really affect defensive pokemon"
... BKC himself said rock gets coverage against fighting, so how does this statement make any sense?
Cheems Pao now sucks
Solar power charizard thunderpunch
Would like to see a video on if HA was in gen4. (i.e. Magic Guard Zam, PH Gliscor)
Leaf Blade would still be a special move. LIKE IT SHOULD be.
Same with Hyper Beam. Change my mind.
Secret sword would probably be special by secondary effect.
I have no clue why it’s psyshock.
because keldeo totally needed another thing to make it even dumber than it already is. I guess, we should be glad that it doesn't get ice beam.
I think that charizard x woundnt change all that muck it has base 130 spatk and tclaws is based on contact so blitz and claw would still work due to contact thunderpunch would rise over eq and roost and wilo wisp would become more common sence dd woundnt just give you a speed boost that and some of the other moves zard has even crunch
Pardon me if this has been suggested before, but what about a video concerning what Pokemon would look like without stab or without weaknesses?
without STAB would look a bit like Gen 1 where mons like Gengar run Tbolt, Psychic/ Mega Drain and no STAB. Or Starmie runs Tbolt + Blizzard, only sometimes a Psychic STAB. Ofc you have STAB Hyper Beam Tauros which nukes almost everything. Without STAB Pokemon would live longer and it's just what Mon has the highest attacking stat. A lot of Pokemon would lose their niche as another can do it too without STAB. Without weaknesses... how do you kill Pex?
do u think chomp would be OU in dpp. since the reason it got banned was bc of its absurd speed/ bulk in conjunction w SD + perfect stabs?
nah, it still needs to go because of sand veil. That ability is beyond stupid in generations with permanent sand (it caused CACTURNE of all pokes to be banned from OU in gen 3). But without it it suddenly starts to struggle against a lot of the other dragons (unless it runs the chain chomp set but thats a different story) and might be reasonably enough to handle to be able to stay. But again, sand veil ...
I think I heard something about chomp running a mixed set with spAtk investment, although I suppose the main benefit to that set is the fact that the opponent had to respect its physical set.
Why did the spikes not show up on the first replay?
Showdown sometimes has visual bugs
Kyurem black drop to PU lul
not far in the video, but hurricane being physical...
boooooyyyy
I think one of the biggest game changers would be special knock off tbh
zam with special attack knock off :o
Never again bkc
what about foul play ? would it be a special attack that use the opponent's special attack
considering that beat up always used the physical attack stat, foul play might do so as well. But at the very least, foul play would be considered a special attack for the purposes of screens and counter/mirror coat.
Day 5 of asking for what if roost was in ADV
are you sure you really want to know? *an image of skarmory using the move briefly flashes up*