Fun Fact: Imposter Chansey is partially responsible for the ban of Magnet Pull in the tier back in 2017. It's not the only reason people voted to ban Magnet Pull, but it is the funniest reason! Since Imposter Chansey is so common (i.e. ~100% usage), some particularly devious fellows created a trap using Registeel. The Registeel would have two recovery moves, such as Roost and Shore Up, alongside both of the attacking moves that force your opponent to switch out: the Fighting-type Circle Throw and the Dragon-type Dragon Tail. Registeel was given the ability Magnet Pull along with the item Shed Shell, allowing it to switch out when trapped. The strategy goes as follows: 1) Switch in Registeel 2) Use Circle Throw or Dragon Tail to switch in your opponent's Imposter Chansey. ...and just like that, you have already won the game. Chansey will have Transformed into a Magnet Pull Registeel, but it won't have Shed Shell so it will remain trapped with 5 Circle Throws, 5 Dragon Tails, 5 Roosts, and 5 Shore Ups. The original Registeel, however, is allowed to switch out thanks to its Shed Shell item - and this is when it switches out into Magnet Pull Mimikyu. With Mimikyu out, the trap has been sprung and there's no escape. Mimikyu's Ghost and Fairy typing makes it immune to being forced out by the newly-transformed Chansey's Circle Throw or Dragon Tail. From there, the plan is simple: Use Substitute to gain safety from status, use Ingrain so you cannot be forced to switch, use Accupressure 21 times to get +6 Attack/+6 Defence/+6 Special Attack/+6 Special Defence/+6 Speed/+6 Accuracy/+6 Evasion, and finally Baton Pass it to a teammate to sweep. Chansey will have 20 moves before using Struggle (one of which is used when Registeel switches out), and then will have up to 5 Struggles before it KOs itself from recoil. Getting the Substitute, Ingrain, +6 in everything, and finally Baton Passing to a teammate only takes 24 turns, so you have plenty of time to set up everything you need before the pass. Assuming that your opponent has no fainted Pokemon, there is a 1/5 chance to bring Chansey in whenever you use Dragon Tail or Circle Throw. No skill; all luck. You don't even have to use a gimmicky Pokemon like Mimikyu - you could simply use 3 recovery moves with Circle Throw and Baton Pass to Magnet Pull Giratina, or use 3 recovery moves with Dragon Tail and Baton Pass to Magnet Pull Xerneas.
fun fact, any mon with a specific item can abuse it with imposter, which is why pikachu technically has a niche since it can copy a mon except it has double offensive stats. there's also a pretty complex metagame around imposter and imposter proofing, where sweepers can either have sets designed to be easily countered by their teammates, or (usually by using a ghost type with a spooky/dread plate) you can 1v1 chansey since they aren't holding a plate, which is why zoroark-hisui is viable since it can run a simple no retreat set with astral barrage, boomburst and dark type judgement which is a lot better coverage than other imposter proof sweepers. but chansey has adapted to this, if you were paying attention at the start you saw that one of chansey's 3 best items was spooky plate which is meant to catch these ghost types off guard
@@enoyna1001 zoro-h is also good for that reason, but if it became too common chansey would run dread plate, which is still good enough to deal with other ghosts but prevents zoroark from ruining you. it's more of an uncommon tech than a meta strategy, when i said chansey had adapted i meant to ghosts not zoroark
I personally prefer a torch song or clangorous soul set with vocal spray and unburden, on a ghost mon, if you find an opportunity you boost, best case you sweep, worse case you bait in the Chansey and 2 hit ok them since the unburden speed boost cannot be copied by impostor, leaving the path open for any other dedicated boost sweeper you might have
I feel like I should bring up a pretty big topic that wasn't mentioned about Imposter Chansey, or Imposter as a whole for the matter. For a lot of new players, Imposter seems uncharacteristically broken in Balanced Hackmons for the same reasons you gave. It lets you cheat matchups with a better copy of the opponent's Pokemon, invalidates setup sweeping, and feels mindless and uncompetitive at the worst of times, so how is it allowed? Easy, it's because Imposter acts as a skill check. For one, without Imposter the tier would just become a hyper-offense hell where the first player to set up their broken sweeper with no possible switchins wins. At worst, Imposter is a necessary evil for the tier to even function. More importantly, Imposter-proofing is when you build your sweeper (like the Arceus-Ghost running Spooky Plate + Judgement), or even the entire team, to fully counter itself when copied off Imposter, and this has a MASSIVE effect on how impactful Imposter is and how teams are built. The threat of Imposter ironically promotes better team and moveset compositions by forcing players to manage their own threats and thus have a wider net of things to cover in the meta, promoting even more diversity despite how overcentralizing it seems. Put simply: If your team automatically loses to just an Imposter Chansey, odds are it was never a good team to begin with. It's best to think of it like GSC Snorlax, where, yeah it's obscenely overpowered in the tier it resides in, but the meta would be FAR worse if it weren't there.
this type of tech is beyond surface level, people that want to learn more about the meta will easily find it, and it's really a sight to behold (like, wandering spirit is a meta ability)
@@ThistlewickTheGhostGSC snorlax is the jack of all trades. You let it do its thing, it’ll completely barrel you over. However just like imposter chansey, you have to build your team to stop basically every lax set, like imposter proofing, normal resists are a necessity to phase lax out from curse sweeping. Without lax, special attackers would completely dominate the tier and zapdos would also immediately get banned if lax gets banned, similar to how imposter chansey stops the tier from turning into HO spam. Then the tier would turn into stall because not only is lax one of the best special walls, but it’s also the best offensive mon at making progress against every mon.
Surprised you didn't mention "Imposter Proofing", basically for every Pokemon on your team, you need counterplay to them in case your opponent tries to copy them with Chansey. This is especially important with sweepers. A Ghost type with Spooky Plate and Judgement works well, as the Chansey's Judgement will be Normal-Type, making you immune. Another thing I've seen is running a Steel-Type that can't touch your Magnet Pull mon. If your opponent ever tries to copy it, you can trap it for free
Topsy-Turvy was a life saver playing around in Hackmons. Majority of hacked monsties grabbing for the powerful boosts, so suddenly turning it into debuffs cripples a lot of them.
The screwier alternative is Heart Swap, allowing you to steal all the opponent's Stat increases leaving them with nothing. As well this can still be usable even if the opponent doesn't set up as you can run self debuffing moves like Close Combat, or take debuffs the opponent uses on you like with Strength Sap, then Heart Swap to give them all the stat reductions instead. 😈
@@bearchamer I find nothing wrong with this, I'd never heard of balanced hackmons and getting a quick 5 minute rundown of how it works and what hackmons are popular was great
Yeah. Items' effects are USUALLY tied to the transformed Pokemon's original form (exceptions being Metal and Quick Powder, as @lyndontan2260 said). It's cool for Balanced Hackmons, but it can put a damper on what would be some very funny cheese, like if you have your Ditto hold a Thick Club and transform into Marowak, it won't apply the Thick Club boost. Same story for stuff like Light Ball, Stick, etc.
I miss the days of Blue Shrek. The imposterproof Toxic Orb, Poison Heal, Quiver Dance + King's Shield Primal Kyogre that had Scald and Leech Seed, so you'd easily beat Chansey. Now people just use Heart Swap or Spectral Thief to take your boosts :(
@@themister.s-1stWASP stands for Wandering Spirit the idea is that Wandering Spirit activates on RegenVest pokemon, who runs multiple contact moves such as U-Turn or Knock Off, and this stealing their Regenerator and denying them recovery while getting free recovery yourself. Usually it's done on stall (hence, WASP stall) because you can use the ability to steal Regenerator to punish Imposter, who otherwise would farm recovery off of your own RegenVests with little you can do due to being a Stall team (you can't offensively Imposter-proof them)
It stands for Wandering Spirit, an ability that was experimented with and is now a firm part of the meta as per this post EDIT it won't show, but post 760 of the BH thread on smogon that's link in the description
hey there! as a bh main, you did a pretty good job at explaning of why imposter chansey is arguably the best mon in bh. i have a small nitpick though is that during your example of chansey vs. arceus-ghost, arceus-ghost almost always runs spooky plate, and the one arceus-ghost that doesn't runs itemless poltergeist. spooky plate + judgement retains ghost type for arceus but turns into normal for chansey, and itemless means arceus is immune to poltergeist but imposter isn't due to it holding eviolite. basically, this is not a good example because a well played chansey is switching into arceus-ghost exclusively to scout it's moveset and sometimes to PP stall, and never to reverse sweep like you showed in the video as it physically cannot unless if you're running a bad arceus-ghost.
Fun Fact! In the highest level of PURE hackmons (Gen 7) chansey is still one of the best mons. It uses two different sets though. This one bc boosting sweepers are even stronger in pure hackmons. But also a set with inards out as an ability, which is designed to kill a sweeper that had gotten to strong. Funny how it’s one of the most slap-able mons to add onto a team in both formats!
Chansey is a big part of the format being balanced tho. If your team loses to it, it wasn't a good team to begin with. "Improofing" is arguably the most important thing in the format lol
For beating imposter you can make a team that depends on judgement or multi-attack with memories or plates to be able to even hit yourself. Since items are not copied over it'll mean that the transformed chansey will be using a normal type move instead of a powerful stab or super effective move. Going with a moveset using things like collision course and judgement for attacking moves while being ghost type means the transformed chansey wont be able to attack and will be forced to switch out or later forced to struggle if it's still alive that is.
if you have a powerful ghost type like flutter mane or calyrex shadow, you can give it normalize, giveit the spooky plate or ay other playe that isnt fighting, and give it judgement, this means that judgement wll be ghost type despite the ability normalize while the chansey that copied you is stuck with all nornal type moves with its eviolite, although blissey with spooky plate/dark plate can counter this.
You don't need to give it Normalize, Judgement is already Normal-type without the Plate. The only thing it would change is whether or not your coverage gets turned into Normal type anyways, but you can always just run only Judgement/Multi-Attack+Fighting move to stuff Imposter. Also, Caly-S is banned lmao.
@@ANinjaDude-o7v i didnt know that, i havent played in so long, also, are you dumb? if your judgement is normal type then how will you hit the imposter pokemon, who is ghost type, with the normal type judgement use your brain, you need spooky plate or dread plate to make it super effective, while they can't hit you cuz they're probably eviolite
really good video, i would like to say tho rn id probably personally say eternatus is #1 over chansey in the current meta (but generally yes chansey is #1). eternatus has the stats and typing to fill every niche on a team (there is a reason its viable with fur coat, unaware, regenerator, magic guard, beads of ruin etc etc) alongside being splashable, while chansey takes up a team slot in a metagame where you have to prep for so much. chansey is really best when you dont need to use all 6 slots, but when you have to prepare for ash greninja and its 3 equally broken sets, mglo dragon energy mons, mortal spin, magic guard spam, mega garchomp, kyurem black, rain etc etc, fitting chansey on a team is just really difficult to do consistently.
Chansey + Eviolite + Imposter Me: Standing here, I realize You were just like me Trying to create history But who's to judge? Of right or wrong When our guard is down I think we both agree That violence breed violence But in the end, It has to be this way.
Counters: - Already Transformed pokemon. - Trap and stall PP out to struggle if can. - Imposter wont work at subtitutes. - Your team had a counter for the copied pokemon. - Use a ghost type and use a fighting move with Multi attack or Judgement with plate / memory... So the enemy's move will be normal type but had copied user's ghost type and vulnerable to user's ghost typed Mult atk / Judg. - Shedinja Sturdy (Based on generations, banned or not) ... Any other bright ideas?
i remember playing 'hackmons' as a kid which i think is 'pure hackmons' now, the point is the restrictions of balanced hackmons weren't there, so you just put wonder guard sableye or spiritomb in your team and the fairy type wasnt a thing yet
one of my favorite strats back in gen 6 was stacking a few Shedinjas with a mix of Aeralate / Refrigerate / Pixilate and Sturdy to Endeavor+Prio cheese
Speaking counterplay, there's very little to Impostor directly either. Substitute blocks Impostor, as does Illusion. Illusion is ironically one of the few things in Hackmons that's consistently banned, though. (It'd be hilarious if you could predict switch a pursuit-- also unavailable-- trapper in under the cover of Illusion, but c'est la vie)
I was expecting Chansey to be Nuke button with a meme set like 255 HP Speed Choice Scarf Speed Boost Protect Final Gambit to remove anything that has boosted beyond any chance of being defeated
For that you just give it Innards Out as an ability. All damage done by a killing blow is dealt to the attacker, which for a boosted mon like that is any move.
Balanced Hackmons is such a fun set of formats. I played Gen 7 BH, and honestly, it's a lot of fun, because the way that Gen 7 worked, things could be absolutely goofy.
Here’s an idea: arceus ghost with simple, no retreat, EQ, Espeed, and triple arrows (or stronger equivalents). The, also on your team, you have a ghost with levitate. Now, when chancey comes in on boosted arceus, you are trading your arceus for their chancey, and you can probably even use it as boost fodder for your ghost-levitate mon.
Finally a video on a gamemode I used to play! With my friends we used to play with random encounters and random movesets on each mon, and every two gyms we used to load our teams to showdown and fight
@@zdelrod829 mmm i am spanishspeaker so i don't know ig that is the name, but the fun was that we weren't playing any meta, we were playing full random. I still remember swiping teams with my wonderguard bibarel
It would be cool to use a Chansey with fur coat and foul play or something, but it sucks to know that most of the ideas I come up with in this format are overshadowed by something crazy like this.
the other seen chansey set is magic guard with a recovery move, teleport, ruination, and any miscellaneous support move, due to the concept of sap blocking
My memory of this format is of it being mostly defined by Sturdy Shedinja, not because there weren't ways to deal with it but because so much of the metagame came down to counters, counter-counters, counter-counter-counters... That was a few years ago, so I assume it must have been banned at some point.
I also use Shuckle, trying to make the most broken Body Press set possible. At first, I used Fur Coat as an ability, but I ended up realising it didn't need it neither for defense or offense. Currently I use Good as Gold, with an Covert Cloak, and the moves Body Press, Cotton Guard, Strength Sap and Soak (so I can hit ghost types)
Is neutralising gas allowed? I imagine you could give your whole team it and build the team around no abilites, since both teams lose out on abilites it does no detriment to your team build with this in mind yet the opposing team, which may use strategies where abilites are their core (prime example being effectively neutralising chansey as imposter will not activate) and then you are one mon up?
I love this format I remember using a all imposter team with pikachu for light ball since it stills gives double Attack and spA which makes some funny interactions
I used to play pure hackmons (my highest elo was about 1560+ when the top 1 had smth like 1800-2000) and i met the top 2 at the time in a match, i can confirm i wish chansey didnt exist
I play balanced hackmons and my entire team is built around setting up a substitute for my Ultra Necrozma to use No Retreat with Simple and proceed to sweep with Stored Power (+20 damage for each of your stat boosts) and coverage moves
Normally i think the sentiment "smogon bans anything that threatens the top pokemon" is completely ridiculous, but in balanced hackmons... yeah its definitely true
When I saw this in my recomendad beacuse I had only heard of pure hackmons which has no restrictions at all so the best Pokémon there is wonder guard darkrai beacuse it is the only Pokémon that can use dark void and will be immune to light that burns the sky which normally ignores wonder guard and is also immune to all ohko moves
1) Sunsteel Strike, Teravolt, Mold Breaker, and Turboblaze also bypass Wonder Guard, and you can always use moves to change their ability like Worry Seed or Entrainment. 2) Spore is a move that exists, and is given to everyone because it's PH.
Imprision is actually banned because it beats imposter and haze. basically just have a mon with imprison, haze, maybe victory dance, just any setup move, and power trip, probably with simple as an ability. Its technically beatable, but to beat it you have to play inoptimally.
1) Scarf isn't great for Imposter because it locks you into a move, meaning you lose PP a lot faster. 2) Pikachu means if you lose the speed tie you probably just die, and you're much weaker to revenge killers. 3) As most teams have multiple Imp Proofs for each mon, I don't think stacking a bunch of Imp mons is a great idea.
@@Yardo The issue is that pokemon are a lot bulkier in BH, so you normally aren't able to just sweep them like you could with a ditto in Ubers, not to mention that a lot of the time, you'll see Chansey switch in and click Recover or Spin or such to help support the team, and with a Scarf, that's exploitable.
but the real threat of chansey is that it doesn't need to be eviolite, it can also be lucky punch for a 50% chance of critical hit, choice scarfed and can bluff holding any of these items, while blissey is stuck with leftovers, heavy duty boots or choice scarf and doesn't lead to that much mindgames in comparison. there's even a case to be made for any arceus plate that allows to hit a pokemon with normalize (there used to be in previous generations normalize sets that would rely on multi-attack instead of judgment, so too were the rare dark/ghost memory chanseys.)
Haven't watched yet but i think its because imposter keeps ur hp and chansey has the second highest Then if an eviolite works after the transformation its defensive stats are better than blissey making it the best choice
Wouldnt cheese aron even be better with the classic sturdy shell bell endeavor meme since u can give him priority now still ofc the ghost types running around, but after theyre taken out, that cheese would be funny
I mean there's Salt Cure everywhere, along with stuff like Rocky Helmet being common, Ghost-types like Flutter Mane and Arceus-Ghost being common, a lot of pokemon using moves like Population Bomb, Moongeist Beam, or Sunsteel Strike, which would ignore Sturdy, Knock is fairly common, and hazards are everywhere, so it would be very hard to do.
Hacking discontinued event pokemon for collecting purposes and NOT for competitiveness is 100% JUSTIFIED. Gamefreak is enabling hacking on a grand scale if they keep doing this.
I remember I was playing hackmons with a freind and I used a full blissey team and I swept with there regieleki and they got so mad by it they blocked me and we never talked again
Once they give us back the legendary lucky punch chansey will be broken, also the prankster transform imprison combo worked better then imposter, so much the it is banned.
I don’t get why they don’t ban imposter. Like this is literally every generation it’s in at this point. I get maybe the “it is an anchor for the meta” thing applying here, but it really is silly how they just blatantly let this happen every time.
it's akin to gsc snorlax in this way, if it was scrutinized under current tiering philosophy it would certainly be suspected but back when bh was created in gen 5 the tiering was much more lax and now the wider bh community has accepted it as a mostly good part of the metagame
@@tecul1 yeah I was aware of that potentially, hence why I mentioned it, I just think its stupid. I mean... EVERY generation? really? You can compare it to gen 2 snorlax all you want but imagine if something like it existed in every single fucking generation of OU, that would be terrible and asinine and I shouldn't even have to say that. also its just that its inherently stupid and suffocating. its not like other overcentralizing mons where theoretically tides could turn to make them less dominate. The principle of Imposter chansey 99% of the time is "any mon in the game potentially+250 HP and 1.5 in each defense". Like its such and intuitively unfair thing to have in the game.
@@shady8045 1) Imposter proofing isn't the hardest to do once you've got a bit of practice in it. 2) It's the only thing that stops broken setup sweepers from shredding the tier apart.
I think you also have to give credit to the non imposter chansey sets like fur coat which are also just ridiculously strong. 400 def and 500 spdef on a base 250 hp mon is just moronic
Your telling me the pokemon with the most HP with imposter, the ability that copies the opponents stats except for hp, is broken to all hell?!? I'm SHOCKED. SHOCKED I SAY!
Using hacks like save editors, pokemon can be given moves or abilities that are impossible to obtain legitimately in game.(free subtitles for you jimothy)
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Fun Fact: Imposter Chansey is partially responsible for the ban of Magnet Pull in the tier back in 2017. It's not the only reason people voted to ban Magnet Pull, but it is the funniest reason!
Since Imposter Chansey is so common (i.e. ~100% usage), some particularly devious fellows created a trap using Registeel. The Registeel would have two recovery moves, such as Roost and Shore Up, alongside both of the attacking moves that force your opponent to switch out: the Fighting-type Circle Throw and the Dragon-type Dragon Tail. Registeel was given the ability Magnet Pull along with the item Shed Shell, allowing it to switch out when trapped.
The strategy goes as follows:
1) Switch in Registeel
2) Use Circle Throw or Dragon Tail to switch in your opponent's Imposter Chansey.
...and just like that, you have already won the game.
Chansey will have Transformed into a Magnet Pull Registeel, but it won't have Shed Shell so it will remain trapped with 5 Circle Throws, 5 Dragon Tails, 5 Roosts, and 5 Shore Ups. The original Registeel, however, is allowed to switch out thanks to its Shed Shell item - and this is when it switches out into Magnet Pull Mimikyu.
With Mimikyu out, the trap has been sprung and there's no escape. Mimikyu's Ghost and Fairy typing makes it immune to being forced out by the newly-transformed Chansey's Circle Throw or Dragon Tail. From there, the plan is simple: Use Substitute to gain safety from status, use Ingrain so you cannot be forced to switch, use Accupressure 21 times to get +6 Attack/+6 Defence/+6 Special Attack/+6 Special Defence/+6 Speed/+6 Accuracy/+6 Evasion, and finally Baton Pass it to a teammate to sweep.
Chansey will have 20 moves before using Struggle (one of which is used when Registeel switches out), and then will have up to 5 Struggles before it KOs itself from recoil. Getting the Substitute, Ingrain, +6 in everything, and finally Baton Passing to a teammate only takes 24 turns, so you have plenty of time to set up everything you need before the pass.
Assuming that your opponent has no fainted Pokemon, there is a 1/5 chance to bring Chansey in whenever you use Dragon Tail or Circle Throw. No skill; all luck.
You don't even have to use a gimmicky Pokemon like Mimikyu - you could simply use 3 recovery moves with Circle Throw and Baton Pass to Magnet Pull Giratina, or use 3 recovery moves with Dragon Tail and Baton Pass to Magnet Pull Xerneas.
This is such a hyperspecific setup I'm actually dying with laughter lmaaaao
Dude that is actually wild, good read
that shit is straight diabolical for a goofy ahh fat kangaroo with eggs in his fucking belly and in an environment plagued with gods😭😭😭😭
Mimikyu is ghost fairy not dragon fairy
Magnificent. Thank you for sharing, very (jimothy) cool of you
fun fact, any mon with a specific item can abuse it with imposter, which is why pikachu technically has a niche since it can copy a mon except it has double offensive stats. there's also a pretty complex metagame around imposter and imposter proofing, where sweepers can either have sets designed to be easily countered by their teammates, or (usually by using a ghost type with a spooky/dread plate) you can 1v1 chansey since they aren't holding a plate, which is why zoroark-hisui is viable since it can run a simple no retreat set with astral barrage, boomburst and dark type judgement which is a lot better coverage than other imposter proof sweepers. but chansey has adapted to this, if you were paying attention at the start you saw that one of chansey's 3 best items was spooky plate which is meant to catch these ghost types off guard
But Zoro-H is immune to Ghost attacks. How's Chansey answering it?
There's also the ol' reliable sub/shed tail
@@enoyna1001 zoro-h is also good for that reason, but if it became too common chansey would run dread plate, which is still good enough to deal with other ghosts but prevents zoroark from ruining you. it's more of an uncommon tech than a meta strategy, when i said chansey had adapted i meant to ghosts not zoroark
I personally prefer a torch song or clangorous soul set with vocal spray and unburden, on a ghost mon, if you find an opportunity you boost, best case you sweep, worse case you bait in the Chansey and 2 hit ok them since the unburden speed boost cannot be copied by impostor, leaving the path open for any other dedicated boost sweeper you might have
so chancey with plates instead of eviolite is still used over blissey ig to hide information about the item?
I feel like I should bring up a pretty big topic that wasn't mentioned about Imposter Chansey, or Imposter as a whole for the matter.
For a lot of new players, Imposter seems uncharacteristically broken in Balanced Hackmons for the same reasons you gave. It lets you cheat matchups with a better copy of the opponent's Pokemon, invalidates setup sweeping, and feels mindless and uncompetitive at the worst of times, so how is it allowed?
Easy, it's because Imposter acts as a skill check.
For one, without Imposter the tier would just become a hyper-offense hell where the first player to set up their broken sweeper with no possible switchins wins. At worst, Imposter is a necessary evil for the tier to even function.
More importantly, Imposter-proofing is when you build your sweeper (like the Arceus-Ghost running Spooky Plate + Judgement), or even the entire team, to fully counter itself when copied off Imposter, and this has a MASSIVE effect on how impactful Imposter is and how teams are built. The threat of Imposter ironically promotes better team and moveset compositions by forcing players to manage their own threats and thus have a wider net of things to cover in the meta, promoting even more diversity despite how overcentralizing it seems. Put simply: If your team automatically loses to just an Imposter Chansey, odds are it was never a good team to begin with.
It's best to think of it like GSC Snorlax, where, yeah it's obscenely overpowered in the tier it resides in, but the meta would be FAR worse if it weren't there.
this type of tech is beyond surface level, people that want to learn more about the meta will easily find it, and it's really a sight to behold (like, wandering spirit is a meta ability)
that's really interesting, could you explain how GSC Snorlax fills a similar role?
@@tecul1 core enforcer, gastro acid?
@@ThistlewickTheGhostGSC snorlax is the jack of all trades. You let it do its thing, it’ll completely barrel you over. However just like imposter chansey, you have to build your team to stop basically every lax set, like imposter proofing, normal resists are a necessity to phase lax out from curse sweeping. Without lax, special attackers would completely dominate the tier and zapdos would also immediately get banned if lax gets banned, similar to how imposter chansey stops the tier from turning into HO spam. Then the tier would turn into stall because not only is lax one of the best special walls, but it’s also the best offensive mon at making progress against every mon.
@@zuils awesome, thanks!
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“What ridiculous combination of traits makes Chansey so strong?”
Me looking at base 250 hp: You know, I couldn’t tell you
Surprised you didn't mention "Imposter Proofing", basically for every Pokemon on your team, you need counterplay to them in case your opponent tries to copy them with Chansey. This is especially important with sweepers. A Ghost type with Spooky Plate and Judgement works well, as the Chansey's Judgement will be Normal-Type, making you immune. Another thing I've seen is running a Steel-Type that can't touch your Magnet Pull mon. If your opponent ever tries to copy it, you can trap it for free
this type of tech is beyond surface level, people that want to learn more about the meta will easily find it
Too much to talk about
magnet pull is banned
sorry jimmothy "cool" but i must remain unsubbed in order to resurrect Horsea and give him enough power to defeat the fake "horse" Magcargo.
Horsea doesn't even have legs
@@azeria1it has horse in it's name
Who let this traitor in here?
I still think spectrier should be king.
This twisted game needs to be reset. Abolish the horse council outright and start again from zero
Topsy-Turvy was a life saver playing around in Hackmons. Majority of hacked monsties grabbing for the powerful boosts, so suddenly turning it into debuffs cripples a lot of them.
The screwier alternative is Heart Swap, allowing you to steal all the opponent's Stat increases leaving them with nothing.
As well this can still be usable even if the opponent doesn't set up as you can run self debuffing moves like Close Combat, or take debuffs the opponent uses on you like with Strength Sap, then Heart Swap to give them all the stat reductions instead. 😈
I run arceus ghost with good as gold and take heart as both a chansey-proof as well as immunity to stat changes
Chancy is Among Us.
Oh no, that means it learns Spore!!
@@meltingzero3853 Honorary member of the Mushroom Council
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There's one pesky egg among us.
The actual part about Chansey starts at 5:03.
i know right?
@@bearchamer I find nothing wrong with this, I'd never heard of balanced hackmons and getting a quick 5 minute rundown of how it works and what hackmons are popular was great
To be fair, because Ditto always runs 252 HP, it often does have more HP than some of the frail offensive threats it copies, like Gengar.
Can't Chansey just do that too?
In balanced hackmons, you have all 252.@@212mochaman
@@212mochaman yes, but not outside hackmons. that's just how ditto has a use in normal tiers
This new alliance might prove to be rather powerful. I am hoping Macargo and Quagsire know what's right.
real
I hope quagsire doesn't realise that he can easily overthrow macargo with a combination of water and ground type moves.
there must be betrayal somewhere, they arent even horses.
So that's why nurse joy has one in every pokemon center (literally her body guard)
Not far off; it's actually one of the most powerful Pokémon in non-hacked matches as well, using most of the same traits.
@@HeraldOfOpera Far from it... it's a good pokemon but it's not one of the most powerful, it's UU (underused)
@@reuven2010 It used to see regular play in Ubers, where it's insanely durable even by that tier's standards.
Evolite works after transform? The more you know
Now if only Metal & Quick Powder works that way too.
Yeah. Items' effects are USUALLY tied to the transformed Pokemon's original form (exceptions being Metal and Quick Powder, as @lyndontan2260 said). It's cool for Balanced Hackmons, but it can put a damper on what would be some very funny cheese, like if you have your Ditto hold a Thick Club and transform into Marowak, it won't apply the Thick Club boost. Same story for stuff like Light Ball, Stick, etc.
light ball too
what about booster energy
@@Magikarpadortransform does not copy booster energy boost
I miss the days of Blue Shrek. The imposterproof Toxic Orb, Poison Heal, Quiver Dance + King's Shield Primal Kyogre that had Scald and Leech Seed, so you'd easily beat Chansey. Now people just use Heart Swap or Spectral Thief to take your boosts :(
my favorite acronym this gen has to be "wasp stall"
@@tecul1 what does wasp stall mean please?
@@themister.s-1stWASP stands for Wandering Spirit
the idea is that Wandering Spirit activates on RegenVest pokemon, who runs multiple contact moves such as U-Turn or Knock Off, and this stealing their Regenerator and denying them recovery while getting free recovery yourself. Usually it's done on stall (hence, WASP stall) because you can use the ability to steal Regenerator to punish Imposter, who otherwise would farm recovery off of your own RegenVests with little you can do due to being a Stall team (you can't offensively Imposter-proof them)
It stands for Wandering Spirit, an ability that was experimented with and is now a firm part of the meta as per this post EDIT it won't show, but post 760 of the BH thread on smogon that's link in the description
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thought this was gonna be about how wish bliss was always hacked in cause the wish chansey event was like impossible to get
I always found it funny how one of Blissey's most iconic moves is one almost no one has gotten without hacking.
Dude same here! I was like why are they ranking difficulty of hacking event mons??
hey there! as a bh main, you did a pretty good job at explaning of why imposter chansey is arguably the best mon in bh. i have a small nitpick though is that during your example of chansey vs. arceus-ghost, arceus-ghost almost always runs spooky plate, and the one arceus-ghost that doesn't runs itemless poltergeist. spooky plate + judgement retains ghost type for arceus but turns into normal for chansey, and itemless means arceus is immune to poltergeist but imposter isn't due to it holding eviolite. basically, this is not a good example because a well played chansey is switching into arceus-ghost exclusively to scout it's moveset and sometimes to PP stall, and never to reverse sweep like you showed in the video as it physically cannot unless if you're running a bad arceus-ghost.
Fun Fact! In the highest level of PURE hackmons (Gen 7) chansey is still one of the best mons. It uses two different sets though. This one bc boosting sweepers are even stronger in pure hackmons. But also a set with inards out as an ability, which is designed to kill a sweeper that had gotten to strong. Funny how it’s one of the most slap-able mons to add onto a team in both formats!
imagine teching false swipe to counter innards out chansey
It's also pretty crazy in OU IIRC, for many of the same reasons.
Some might say that chansey is the true work horse of balanced hackmons
Chansey is the reason I only play "balanced" hackmons on low ladder
Chansey is a big part of the format being balanced tho. If your team loses to it, it wasn't a good team to begin with. "Improofing" is arguably the most important thing in the format lol
Cuz u make a team full of setup sweepers with no Improofing
Once you showed the imposter evolite i knew we were in for some real Other Metagames shenanigans.
For beating imposter you can make a team that depends on judgement or multi-attack with memories or plates to be able to even hit yourself. Since items are not copied over it'll mean that the transformed chansey will be using a normal type move instead of a powerful stab or super effective move. Going with a moveset using things like collision course and judgement for attacking moves while being ghost type means the transformed chansey wont be able to attack and will be forced to switch out or later forced to struggle if it's still alive that is.
"Who are you?"
Impostor chancey: "I'm you, but better"
if you have a powerful ghost type like flutter mane or calyrex shadow, you can give it normalize, giveit the spooky plate or ay other playe that isnt fighting, and give it judgement, this means that judgement wll be ghost type despite the ability normalize while the chansey that copied you is stuck with all nornal type moves with its eviolite, although blissey with spooky plate/dark plate can counter this.
You don't need to give it Normalize, Judgement is already Normal-type without the Plate. The only thing it would change is whether or not your coverage gets turned into Normal type anyways, but you can always just run only Judgement/Multi-Attack+Fighting move to stuff Imposter.
Also, Caly-S is banned lmao.
@@ANinjaDude-o7v i didnt know that, i havent played in so long, also, are you dumb? if your judgement is normal type then how will you hit the imposter pokemon, who is ghost type, with the normal type judgement use your brain, you need spooky plate or dread plate to make it super effective, while they can't hit you cuz they're probably eviolite
really good video, i would like to say tho rn id probably personally say eternatus is #1 over chansey in the current meta (but generally yes chansey is #1). eternatus has the stats and typing to fill every niche on a team (there is a reason its viable with fur coat, unaware, regenerator, magic guard, beads of ruin etc etc) alongside being splashable, while chansey takes up a team slot in a metagame where you have to prep for so much. chansey is really best when you dont need to use all 6 slots, but when you have to prepare for ash greninja and its 3 equally broken sets, mglo dragon energy mons, mortal spin, magic guard spam, mega garchomp, kyurem black, rain etc etc, fitting chansey on a team is just really difficult to do consistently.
there was this rain craze at one point it's pretty crazt
No guard etern 🙏🙏
you could do a funny and actually just use mg chansey (huge mon it eats ssword from ghostceus trust me dont calc)
@@rightclicker_5306 +2 252+ SpA Arceus-Ghost Secret Sword vs. 252 HP / 252 Def Eviolite Chansey: 554-654 (78.6 - 92.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Chansey is the number one hacked pokemon in the entire game…..
It is ranked above multiple powerful legendaries, including Eternatus, Miraidon, and Necrozma-Ultra.
chansey after seeing one, silly, population bomb + skill link + rocky helmet: Oh f*ck
Chansey + Eviolite + Imposter
Me:
Standing here, I realize
You were just like me
Trying to create history
But who's to judge?
Of right or wrong
When our guard is down
I think we both agree
That violence breed violence
But in the end,
It has to be this way.
Counters:
- Already Transformed pokemon.
- Trap and stall PP out to struggle if can.
- Imposter wont work at subtitutes.
- Your team had a counter for the copied pokemon.
- Use a ghost type and use a fighting move with Multi attack or Judgement with plate / memory... So the enemy's move will be normal type but had copied user's ghost type and vulnerable to user's ghost typed Mult atk / Judg.
- Shedinja Sturdy (Based on generations, banned or not)
...
Any other bright ideas?
i remember playing 'hackmons' as a kid which i think is 'pure hackmons' now, the point is the restrictions of balanced hackmons weren't there, so you just put wonder guard sableye or spiritomb in your team and the fairy type wasnt a thing yet
welp, this just gave me a infinite fusion build idea. thanks!
one of my favorite strats back in gen 6 was stacking a few Shedinjas with a mix of Aeralate / Refrigerate / Pixilate and Sturdy to Endeavor+Prio cheese
that is a fun strategy
Speaking counterplay, there's very little to Impostor directly either. Substitute blocks Impostor, as does Illusion. Illusion is ironically one of the few things in Hackmons that's consistently banned, though. (It'd be hilarious if you could predict switch a pursuit-- also unavailable-- trapper in under the cover of Illusion, but c'est la vie)
They should make a "Balanced Hackmons UU" where it's everything that is balanced hackmons but it's only UU and lower Pokemon
They already have BHUU, which acts like UUbers, where anything above a certain usage cutoff in BH is banned.
I'm loving my belly drum drain punch Mimikyu
I was expecting Chansey to be Nuke button with a meme set like 255 HP Speed Choice Scarf Speed Boost Protect Final Gambit to remove anything that has boosted beyond any chance of being defeated
Scarf protect?
For that you just give it Innards Out as an ability. All damage done by a killing blow is dealt to the attacker, which for a boosted mon like that is any move.
Balanced Hackmons is such a fun set of formats. I played Gen 7 BH, and honestly, it's a lot of fun, because the way that Gen 7 worked, things could be absolutely goofy.
Here’s an idea: arceus ghost with simple, no retreat, EQ, Espeed, and triple arrows (or stronger equivalents). The, also on your team, you have a ghost with levitate. Now, when chancey comes in on boosted arceus, you are trading your arceus for their chancey, and you can probably even use it as boost fodder for your ghost-levitate mon.
precipice blades, but that is an idea yes
Imposter switch in doesn't copy no retreat trap
@@Munby1 that’s crazy
@@The_DGO Also, ghost types can't actually be trapped at all. Even if the Chansey used No Retreat again, it could still switch out.
Finally a video on a gamemode I used to play!
With my friends we used to play with random encounters and random movesets on each mon, and every two gyms we used to load our teams to showdown and fight
So a Cagelocke of sorts?
@@zdelrod829 mmm i am spanishspeaker so i don't know ig that is the name, but the fun was that we weren't playing any meta, we were playing full random. I still remember swiping teams with my wonderguard bibarel
the spoof pokemon 1 soundtrack in the background is a very nice touch
It would be cool to use a Chansey with fur coat and foul play or something, but it sucks to know that most of the ideas I come up with in this format are overshadowed by something crazy like this.
the other seen chansey set is magic guard with a recovery move, teleport, ruination, and any miscellaneous support move, due to the concept of sap blocking
In Japanese the move is called 100,000 Horse Power 🥸
My memory of this format is of it being mostly defined by Sturdy Shedinja, not because there weren't ways to deal with it but because so much of the metagame came down to counters, counter-counters, counter-counter-counters...
That was a few years ago, so I assume it must have been banned at some point.
I also use Shuckle, trying to make the most broken Body Press set possible.
At first, I used Fur Coat as an ability, but I ended up realising it didn't need it neither for defense or offense.
Currently I use Good as Gold, with an Covert Cloak, and the moves Body Press, Cotton Guard, Strength Sap and Soak (so I can hit ghost types)
my hisuian lilligant with judgement:
who could have known that ditto with evolution and higher hp would be so op.
Is neutralising gas allowed? I imagine you could give your whole team it and build the team around no abilites, since both teams lose out on abilites it does no detriment to your team build with this in mind yet the opposing team, which may use strategies where abilites are their core (prime example being effectively neutralising chansey as imposter will not activate) and then you are one mon up?
I knew it would be banned ahhh j built a team w it not reading it was lol oops
crazy strat, i wanna play this tier now
Jim u are a good seller, Outstanding.
Chansey is the queen of 2 tiers now
If you ran arceus ghost maybe if you want to be risking a spectral thief to steal Chansey's stats
I love this format I remember using a all imposter team with pikachu for light ball since it stills gives double Attack and spA which makes some funny interactions
The KH2 music is here, I was just thinking the other day it'd be a good fit for your ladder videos.
no guard ninjask with instakill is wild
TIL there is a competitive scene for hacked pokemon.
I used to play pure hackmons (my highest elo was about 1560+ when the top 1 had smth like 1800-2000) and i met the top 2 at the time in a match, i can confirm i wish chansey didnt exist
she keeps up this act and she'll be bansey soon if you catch my drift
Chansey is in the hacking in the mainframe as we speak
jimothycool is just too cool tbh
I play balanced hackmons and my entire team is built around setting up a substitute for my Ultra Necrozma to use No Retreat with Simple and proceed to sweep with Stored Power (+20 damage for each of your stat boosts) and coverage moves
Isn't Substitute banned in gen 9 BH?
Normally i think the sentiment "smogon bans anything that threatens the top pokemon" is completely ridiculous, but in balanced hackmons... yeah its definitely true
Lol I saw Chansey and Imposter and without knowing anything about balanced hackmons I knew the issue immediately.
I used to run fur coat steelix with ingrain/baneful bunker/anchor shot in gen 7 BH
Not the video I expected but honestly way cooler
I love hearing about these weird formats! Eviolite Chansey was already pretty good before Imposter!
whoever named their sceptile akeboshi rocket needs a kiss on the cheek love that band!
balanced hackmons continues to amaze me
When I saw this in my recomendad beacuse I had only heard of pure hackmons which has no restrictions at all so the best Pokémon there is wonder guard darkrai beacuse it is the only Pokémon that can use dark void and will be immune to light that burns the sky which normally ignores wonder guard and is also immune to all ohko moves
...It's Pure Hackmons. Any mon gets Dark Void. And past gen 6 Sing/Grass Whistle is just better because it bypasses Substitute.
1) Sunsteel Strike, Teravolt, Mold Breaker, and Turboblaze also bypass Wonder Guard, and you can always use moves to change their ability like Worry Seed or Entrainment.
2) Spore is a move that exists, and is given to everyone because it's PH.
Seeing this makes me happy
Imprison + trap + transform is very funny combo, force your opponent to struggle
Imprision is actually banned because it beats imposter and haze. basically just have a mon with imprison, haze, maybe victory dance, just any setup move, and power trip, probably with simple as an ability. Its technically beatable, but to beat it you have to play inoptimally.
Looks like you could also use Blissey as well with a choice scarf and Pikachu with a Light Ball and have three insanely busted imposter mons lol.
1) Scarf isn't great for Imposter because it locks you into a move, meaning you lose PP a lot faster.
2) Pikachu means if you lose the speed tie you probably just die, and you're much weaker to revenge killers.
3) As most teams have multiple Imp Proofs for each mon, I don't think stacking a bunch of Imp mons is a great idea.
@@ANinjaDude-o7v I feel 2 to 3 but scarfed ditto works even in AG and Ubers so IDK about the first part.
@@Yardo The issue is that pokemon are a lot bulkier in BH, so you normally aren't able to just sweep them like you could with a ditto in Ubers, not to mention that a lot of the time, you'll see Chansey switch in and click Recover or Spin or such to help support the team, and with a Scarf, that's exploitable.
I always read Entrainment as Entertainment. I've been a fool for so long....
That’s why he’s the Goat he doesn’t lose.
I found out that as one is immune to entrainment so the chilling neigh variant was given to my chien pao
also some combos ive been enjoying are regieleki with speed boost/take heart/electro ball and zamazenta with stamina/cosmic power/body press
I love peace between Macargo and Quagsire but I’m wondering about Horsea… is it plotting in the background?
Hello I am a mathematician. There are finitely many combinations of possible hackmons.
but the real threat of chansey is that it doesn't need to be eviolite, it can also be lucky punch for a 50% chance of critical hit, choice scarfed and can bluff holding any of these items, while blissey is stuck with leftovers, heavy duty boots or choice scarf and doesn't lead to that much mindgames in comparison. there's even a case to be made for any arceus plate that allows to hit a pokemon with normalize
(there used to be in previous generations normalize sets that would rely on multi-attack instead of judgment, so too were the rare dark/ghost memory chanseys.)
This is incorrect, if you’re running non-Eviolite Chansey its gonna be Covert Cloak
o hey big fan
Wouldn't big man Zygarde be really good for this as well with its stats?
Haven't watched yet but i think its because imposter keeps ur hp and chansey has the second highest
Then if an eviolite works after the transformation its defensive stats are better than blissey making it the best choice
”lol gen9 😭” ting lu
Do people ever run both Chansey and Blissey?
Unaware shuckle with stockpile, rest, recycle, infestation and a chesto berry
Why Stockpile instead of Cosmic Power?
@@2goodsharks i forgot that existed
Hear me out: imposter shedinja
Not gonna lie, I miss the OU Horse Council lore this video
Wouldnt cheese aron even be better with the classic sturdy shell bell endeavor meme since u can give him priority now
still ofc the ghost types running around, but after theyre taken out, that cheese would be funny
I mean there's Salt Cure everywhere, along with stuff like Rocky Helmet being common, Ghost-types like Flutter Mane and Arceus-Ghost being common, a lot of pokemon using moves like Population Bomb, Moongeist Beam, or Sunsteel Strike, which would ignore Sturdy, Knock is fairly common, and hazards are everywhere, so it would be very hard to do.
Hacking discontinued event pokemon for collecting purposes and NOT for competitiveness is 100% JUSTIFIED. Gamefreak is enabling hacking on a grand scale if they keep doing this.
I remember I was playing hackmons with a freind and I used a full blissey team and I swept with there regieleki and they got so mad by it they blocked me and we never talked again
Once they give us back the legendary lucky punch chansey will be broken, also the prankster transform imprison combo worked better then imposter, so much the it is banned.
I don't think that's why Imprison got banned, Iirc it was banned because it could let you imprison anti-setup moves and cheese.
Hi Jim, how was the weekend? Do anything fun?
I Gamed.
@@jimothycool lemme guess , some classic Gen 3 stuff? Emerald maybe?
@@themister.s-1stparasocial ahh
I don’t get why they don’t ban imposter. Like this is literally every generation it’s in at this point. I get maybe the “it is an anchor for the meta” thing applying here, but it really is silly how they just blatantly let this happen every time.
it's akin to gsc snorlax in this way, if it was scrutinized under current tiering philosophy it would certainly be suspected but back when bh was created in gen 5 the tiering was much more lax and now the wider bh community has accepted it as a mostly good part of the metagame
@@tecul1 yeah I was aware of that potentially, hence why I mentioned it, I just think its stupid. I mean... EVERY generation? really? You can compare it to gen 2 snorlax all you want but imagine if something like it existed in every single fucking generation of OU, that would be terrible and asinine and I shouldn't even have to say that.
also its just that its inherently stupid and suffocating. its not like other overcentralizing mons where theoretically tides could turn to make them less dominate. The principle of Imposter chansey 99% of the time is "any mon in the game potentially+250 HP and 1.5 in each defense". Like its such and intuitively unfair thing to have in the game.
@@shady8045Without Imposter every team would turn into matchup fish hell of "who can setup their unwallable coverage sweeper first"
@@shady8045
1) Imposter proofing isn't the hardest to do once you've got a bit of practice in it.
2) It's the only thing that stops broken setup sweepers from shredding the tier apart.
@@tecul1 So since it is a good part of the metagame it means that there are no counter strategies banned right? oh wait
Some people pronounce it eviolite, but I pronounce it eviolite.
Thank you to the new Jimothy Cool subscribers for helping Macargo broker a deal with Quagsire, preserving the peace this way!
Folks, Chansey is adorable.
I think you also have to give credit to the non imposter chansey sets like fur coat which are also just ridiculously strong. 400 def and 500 spdef on a base 250 hp mon is just moronic
Your telling me the pokemon with the most HP with imposter, the ability that copies the opponents stats except for hp, is broken to all hell?!? I'm SHOCKED. SHOCKED I SAY!
I wish I could go in and out and never run out of PP like Chansey :(
The only ruleset regigigas has a real chance in
can you baton pass those stat bonuses? just curious
Groudon: Is pronounced Grudon
Furfrou: Is pronounced Furfrow
This is insane
Chansey is the #1 hacked pokemon in the entire game...
It is ranked above multiple powerfull legendaries including Eternatus, Miraidon and even Necrozma Ultra
But how is this possible? And what even is a hacked pokemon?
Using hacks like save editors, pokemon can be given moves or abilities that are impossible to obtain legitimately in game.(free subtitles for you jimothy)
-Like this Palkia-Origin, which has Speed Boost and Steam Eruption, the signature move of Volcanion
The enemy Arceus fairy also has pixilate
they banned no retreat ghost Arceus.