Shoutouts to NatDex Kingambit, who has the option to use Knock Off and Pursuit since it evolves from Bisharp. It is about as absurdly powerful as it sounds and it got banned from that tier quite a long time ago.
Z-moves is the case behind Pult's ban, as it was the reason behind its ban in gen 8 NatDex as well. However, Ghold didn't Z all too much from my recollection, playing primarily similar to how it did in normal OU. Ghold is currently sighted as a notable problem in the OU tier, with NatDex simply addressing the problem far quicker than OU is.
National dex is a funny tier. kingambit who normal checks dragapult and ghouldengo gets banned and they run rampant and the other dark types can’t check them because of Z moves or other factors and they get banned as well
@the_bookworm8281 ghold is not a problem in ou at all right now, it's not even top 10 if you were to rank overall impact and game presence in the tier. Tusk, pult and gambit are the big 3, then gouging fire and raging bolt, kyurem, volcarona, and roaring moon slot in any order after and then two of ogerpon, zama, valiant and possibly weavile fill out the the top 10 for offensive options and ting-lu, gliscor, slowking-g and lando-t are also vying for the lower end of top 10 as defensive options. Also in natdex, gambit was the reason pult and ghold were holding on and even then ghold was banned by just 1 vote so it's definitely not as busted as the ban suggests
@@alexlee4154 Sorta but also not really. The word Koma in its Japanese name can mean Chess/Shogi piece, but doesn’t refer to any piece in particular let alone a pawn, but since it’s written in Katakana, the meaning is vague. I think more accurately, the Koma in its name refers to Komagiri, which means to slice/chop finely, which is more in line with Bisharp and Kingambit’s Japanese names, which also have a variation of “cut/slice” in their name, and 0 references to chess or shogi.
@@Endershock1678anything to do w/ shogun giving king gambits model is sitting down, in a Hitler stance. Wow the sitting takes the Hitler outta it! Genius.
The Bisharp line is one I didn’t think needed an evolution, it already looked complete to me. Now that were in Paldea and Kingambit exists, the already goated line became even more top tier
Agreed if anything I would've liked to see Heatmor or Maractus get an evolution as the Unova rep or if it HAD to be a 3rd stage evolution, perhaps Beheeyem? Gen 5 already has a high ceiling of power tho, it was the first gen that truly introduced full on power-creep (lest we forget the weather wars).
I wanted one for it ngl. It was my favorite gen 5 pokemon but it always felt like the design could have been a 3 stage evo line. But in terms of power it definitely didn't need one, for my scarlet play through I had a bisharp from the late game through kitikami and half way into indigo disk, and it was just putting in so much work.
Both Pawniard and Kingambit being solid #2's in their tier where #1 is an offensive Fighting type with immense utility that is used to keep it in check is hilariously coincidental
@@Hnui03not really? Gambit has beaten tusk in usage many many times. Pre dlc 2 gambit had 2-3 months where it had a solid 5-10% more usage than tusk. Post dlc 2, gambit has once again risen to the top of usage statistics outclassing tusk.
@@NicholsMediaPressdefinitely. Kingambit wouldn’t be a third of the problem it turned out to be without Tera, like most threats in gen 9 ou. If it wasn’t for Tera, even annihilape might still be ou.
If you are lucky King Ambit will win you a game you almost lost if it comes in last. It has beaten like average 3 Pokemon from opposing teams as my last Pokemon
-If great tusk were to regain his power, would he knock You down? +If i have already used tera or if he acted accordingly after reading it or sucker punch, i might be on a little trouble -But would You lose? +Nah, i'd win
Wait what's the 2nd ability killing vgc? Thought it's HA was pressure and supreme overlord gets no play due to being typically a 10-20% boost most times.
@@1_KingDom Defiant. Since Intimidate is very common in VGC with a lot of Physical Attackers running around, Defiant is essentially an Uno Reverse Card. Not in the same way as like Corviknight’s Mirror, but you’re basically getting a free Attack buff by Intimidate.
@meta1429 yea defiant is 1/3 and the only good one in vgc as far as I'm aware. No idea what the 2nd good vgc ability is you were referring to since pressure and supreme overlord are both niche/meh in vgc
It only has one good ability in Defiant. Only Pawniard and Bisharp get Inner Focus, which is amazing in VGC. Supreme Overlord replaced Inner Focus, however this ability is far worse in VGC since it can only max out at 3 allies defeated (which certainly won’t help in a 1v2 scenario). Pressure also isn’t good in VGC since Stall in Doubles is pretty much impossible/nonexistent.
King's gambit is a chess opening that sacrifices a pawn to create a more aggressive position. Kingambit's ability supreme overlord is in a similar spirit as the chess opening the pokemon is named after.
One of the oldest Pokémon I have was a Bisharp from White 1. Along with his other teammates from 2011, I beat the Unova League with it, won a few IRL battles with it, transferred it all the way to Gen 9 and picked up the Hall of Fame entries along the way, and raised it up to Level 100. And I then evolved it to Kingambit, because if there’s one Bisharp who “stands above all others”, it’d be mine. (Let’s hope the BW remakes have Kingambit included in the Dex!)
Honestly, they should do all the new cross-gen evos for the BW remakes up to the first 5 gens 649 mons. Then add the others that had a new evo in gen 6 and onwards up until the current ones in gen 9.
Bisharp is an excellent pokemon with a long list of resistances and immunities and notably, access to False Swipe, Swords Dance, and Thunder Wave. I caught one in the Wild Area in Sword and used her to fill my pokedex. When the DLCs came out, she did excellently against the new legends. Then when Home was added to SV, I brought her to Violet and evolved her into Kingambit. She did excellent against the legendaries of the Indigo Disk, with most being completely unable to damage her. Even the fire types had trouble. I look forward to clicking False Swipe with her many generations into the future. Long live Queengambit!
Hopefully they give Ghetsis Kingambit too (and have him send it out last w/Supreme Overlord) to have him be unique from Grimsley (who also has a Bisharp).
Nah, the Gastly line has gotten videos all up and down. Ghost type was so good in early generations that even Gastly got low-tier usage, and Haunter was legitimately UU for the first two generations, might've been UU in Gen 3 if not for their bizarre NFE clause, and was PU as recently as Gen 7 (and ZUBL in Gen 8).
Why was Pawniard's presence in other lower tiers completely ignored? Like, it's more interesting to see baby Pokemon being able to take on fully evolved ones than just Little Cup.
I remember Pawniard as the most annoying Pokemon to go up against in Pokemon Conquest's ninja stories, where you can only use Poison, Ghost, Dark, and Dragon type Pokemon (which means Dragon Rage is a thing in a story where you're going to remain at low levels) unless you have Pokemon of other types registered in the Gallery. It being immune to Poison, quad resisting Ghost and Dark, resisting Dragon, and its ability Parry to cause contact moves to sometimes miss is why.
I can just imagine the five Pokémon facing in front of you ready to fight and the Kingambit sitting at his throne , observing as if it were his subjects and comrade in arms. Then when the line is breached, he gets up, sharpens his blades, and is out for one thing: Revenge. The boss now fights with fury as each hit from those blades are a piece of his comrades that fight for him and unleashed it 10 full.
Each time I see kingambit in a game, it makes my blood boil. I swear the OU council has favourites, and the golden cheese string and literally fucking gojo in pokemon form are those favourites. I love Bisharp, but kingambit is a disgustingly powerful pokemon, and the council KNOWS that.
@ravioliman7218 Gholdengo is here to stay unfortunately I think. But I don't think Kingambit will be as good when Tera is gone. It's not that good In draft when it can't use it. Unless they give it Knock Off
@@TheRealLifeNuzlocke Kingambit falling off is going to be like drinking hot cocoa on a winter night with the fireplace on. I actually cannot wait to never see that thing again. Not surprised about gholdengo, either. I have this teeny lil' hc that gholdengo pays the OU council in millions of pokédollars to keep it in OU.
I find it hard to believe that Bisharp was one of those Pokemon that bounced between OU and UU throughout the years before finding solid footing in OU this gen as Kingambit. Terastalization is one hell of a drug along with Supreme Overlord. Do wish it kept Knock Off, though.
As a former LC player back in gen 8 it was kinda nostalgic watching those synergies once again, Pawniard is my fav Pokémon because of competitive play so I really enjoyed this video, thanks FSG
An hour-long video talking about just Kingambit wouldn't be very surprising, despite only existing for one generation. If that doesn't show how absurd Kingambit is, even on a conceptual level, then I don't know what will. A prime example of expanding power creep and min-maxing in the mainline Pokémon games, if Kingambit existed in Gen 6 it would be a Mega Evolution as is, even without Tera.
It's so wild to that they had to remove knock off from the entire line and Kingambit is still THAT good- the timeline where they didn't makes me shudder..
Reminder that Game Freak themselves caught on to how much Kingambit abuses Terastallization, that in the Indigo Disk's League Club Room fights, they changed up Geeta's team so that she now not only leads with Glimmora, but finishes with Tera Flying Kingambit.
10:46 Kingambit is amazing! One odd reference it has is to Miyamoto Musashi one of the most legendary swordman in Japan As when Kingambit is standing (The animation that goes off whenever he gets out of his PokeBall and stands on his legs) he has the exact same pose as Miyamoto Musashi has on his most famous painting Apparently that goofy pose is one of the best guard poses ever developed... But has yet to be replicated by a KING of the art After all some experts says that Miyamoto Musashi is stronger than the athletes of the modern day Wich is fitting for the Pokemon that represents the King piece Pawniard is amazing on Little Cup too and I like how he looks cool and cute at the same time
The Bisharp line is certainly most impressive with how Pawniard, Bisharp and Kingambit have a superb career in the competitive scene, even with the 4x weakness to fighting types, they still manage to remain a top tier threat in competitive Pokémon.
I played B2, my Pawniard is the ace of my team (alongside Lampent). I nicknamed him after Rex, as in Generator Rex; the steel superhero from Man of Action.
Pawniard's prevalence in Gen 8 LC makes Abra forced to run a Physical Fighting move out of its 20 Base Atk, since Abra can't learn Focus Blast of all things.
Can’t wait to see how good Kingambit will be once the Ubers become legal. I’d say the sun summoners of Ubers could give it trouble as well as Zacian and Zamazenta, but it does seem like a good counter to Solgaleo, Lunala, and the Calerex riders.
Kingambit is probably one of my favorite new pokemon in Gen 9. Amazing design, great moveset, and singlehandedly reminds Tera lovers everytime they face it hoe bs the mechanics is
Love this video! Kingambit is one of my favorite vgc mons and first shiny in gen 9! The ban suspect for singles OU makes me wonder if OTS would alleviate some issues with tera being overbearing. Knowing tera types at team preview could be so much more balanced imo
Kingambit is likely to have a very, very strong competitive career down the road from how Kingambit has been so far at the time of this video. With a second look on Kingambit with the appropriate title “How GREAT was Kingambit?” Plus with the pawniard line now being a three stage evolution Pokémon goes perfectly with the axew line, as both Pokémon have a long history of natural rivalry with one another.
Pawniard was in Subzero Used in gen 8, despite a good niche in Zero Used. In gen 9, it’s fallen out of both metas after losing Knock Off while the DLC has increased the power level.
I always loved Pawniard and its evolutions since generation 5. I still remember finding one for the first time, catching it and being amazed by how cool it was and its typing, ability and attacks. Instant bros
kingambit and gholdengo will probably go down in history as the most iconic duo when it comes to dominating a meta where the only things that kept them in check were familiarity
It's so wild that a single evolutionary line can have top tier representation in the lowest tiers and the highest tiers at the same time (Ubers excluded)
@@BigBossMan538it's good enough to keep up in a playthrough but uhh it's currently PU, at least it's apparently good there so like that's something but I'm not very knowledgeable in how PU is so like
I think the most absurd thing about gambit, is that it's usage stats have 99.98% usage for sucker punch, 99.96% for swords dance, and 91% kowtow, with the remaining move being 66% iron head then 27% low kick. while being the #1 mon in the tier, it completely abandons diversity and runs an identical set nearly every time and its just so unreasonably effective that it doesn't matter. almost like its broken or something
Kingambit is my absolute favourite shiny, he gave me reason to play violet for shiny hunting I also really like the idea of doing baby Pokémon who got new final stage evolutions, such as Teddyursa and Ursaluna or Mankey and Annihilape
Pawniard/Bisharp are my favorite Pokémon, not to mention they have the cleanest shinies getting that royal blue. Honestly I don't like Kingambit, but it's nice to have an eviolite for my Bisharp in Scarlet/Violet. it's defense is crazy now, I like to run Fairy Tera on it, set up with a swords dance and smack people with sucker punch/iron head, and if a fighting type comes in to fight him, I tera-blast them with fairy. It's honestly just so fun to play with.
Surprised pawniards other niches weren’t really discussed, it being a legit pu Pokémon with an nu niche in gen 6, having a pu niche in gen 7, and I believe being viable in pu and maybe nu pre dlc for gen 8
I would like to compliment those who work on False Swipe Gaming’s videos. I love learning about the history of each Pokémon’s competitive history. Unfortunately, I also learned the competitive scene, Smogon and VGC’s rules and regulations stifle team building and battle creativity. I don’t play competitively because of their influence! It’s safe to say that you guys do an amazing job with these videos and that’s all that matters.
I mean if something is broken or unhealthy, it has to go and smogon handels weaker pokemon better then VGC because of its tiering so I like smogon more.
Got me thinking, if there's "little cup" for first stage evos and the other tiers for fully evolved pokemon, should we have a middle ground for middle stage evos? Call it lets say Middle ground?
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I think Showdown should reveal Tera types in Team Preview, but not ban Terastallization outright. VGC does it with their Open Team Sheets. Banning Dynamax in Gen 8 made sense - it gave Pokemon access to the broken Max moves and doubled their HP for three turns. Tera adds so much more strategic depth to Pokemon, even with the mind games. But revealing Tera in Team Preview would make dealing with Kingambit much easier without ruining - if you know what your opponent's team CAN Tera into, you can make an educated guess on who will get Tera'd and when, then plan accordingly. But it's still no guarantee...after all, your opponent is human and can do unexpected things, and then there's RNG. They could also ban Supreme Overlord. It's not like Kingambit needs that Ability to be good, and banning Kingambit outright seems like it would open the door for even more unfair Pokemon to run rampant - Pokemon that the kowtowing steel ninja keeps in check. It would be sort of like banning Landorus-T in 5-8, or worse, Snorlax in Gen 2. Now if you want a Pokemon that needs banning, it's Gholdengo.
Gambit and Dengo have been in OU for a while now. I think both of them glue the OU Tier together and are fine additions That said Gholdengo has a lot of counter play. Being slow and having 4 of the most common weaknesses in addition to being check by one of the best Pokémon in the tier Gambit ensures it’s not broken Banning Dengo also isn’t gunna make Corviknight top tier for its defog niche
Kingambit is my favorite fairy/dragon/flying type!
And ghost type
And fire type
And fire type
Ive never for the life of me have seen a dragon Tera kingambit
@@jetayhernando1444 it's mostly in VGC not singles
“Some of you may die but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make”- king gambit probably
Lord Farquad reference?!😂
For me it felt like X-factor from UMVC3 but without the speed boost
Lore accurate kingambit
Farquambit
@@jaretco6423 😂
Shoutouts to NatDex Kingambit, who has the option to use Knock Off and Pursuit since it evolves from Bisharp.
It is about as absurdly powerful as it sounds and it got banned from that tier quite a long time ago.
And then Ghold and Pult got banned
@@xy394With Z-Moves they hit way too hard
Z-moves is the case behind Pult's ban, as it was the reason behind its ban in gen 8 NatDex as well.
However, Ghold didn't Z all too much from my recollection, playing primarily similar to how it did in normal OU. Ghold is currently sighted as a notable problem in the OU tier, with NatDex simply addressing the problem far quicker than OU is.
National dex is a funny tier. kingambit who normal checks dragapult and ghouldengo gets banned and they run rampant and the other dark types can’t check them because of Z moves or other factors and they get banned as well
@the_bookworm8281 ghold is not a problem in ou at all right now, it's not even top 10 if you were to rank overall impact and game presence in the tier. Tusk, pult and gambit are the big 3, then gouging fire and raging bolt, kyurem, volcarona, and roaring moon slot in any order after and then two of ogerpon, zama, valiant and possibly weavile fill out the the top 10 for offensive options and ting-lu, gliscor, slowking-g and lando-t are also vying for the lower end of top 10 as defensive options. Also in natdex, gambit was the reason pult and ghold were holding on and even then ghold was banned by just 1 vote so it's definitely not as busted as the ban suggests
Fun fact, the whole chess motif with this line is a localization addition and not present in their Japanese names
Still worked pretty well, however
This is techically true but not entirely. Pawniards japanese name is after a shogi piece.
@@alexlee4154
Sorta but also not really. The word Koma in its Japanese name can mean Chess/Shogi piece, but doesn’t refer to any piece in particular let alone a pawn, but since it’s written in Katakana, the meaning is vague.
I think more accurately, the Koma in its name refers to Komagiri, which means to slice/chop finely, which is more in line with Bisharp and Kingambit’s Japanese names, which also have a variation of “cut/slice” in their name, and 0 references to chess or shogi.
That's super neat
@@Endershock1678anything to do w/ shogun giving king gambits model is sitting down, in a Hitler stance. Wow the sitting takes the Hitler outta it! Genius.
The Bisharp line is one I didn’t think needed an evolution, it already looked complete to me. Now that were in Paldea and Kingambit exists, the already goated line became even more top tier
Agreed if anything I would've liked to see Heatmor or Maractus get an evolution as the Unova rep or if it HAD to be a 3rd stage evolution, perhaps Beheeyem?
Gen 5 already has a high ceiling of power tho, it was the first gen that truly introduced full on power-creep (lest we forget the weather wars).
@@lynxfresh5214 Beheeyem would be AWESOME
I wanted one for it ngl. It was my favorite gen 5 pokemon but it always felt like the design could have been a 3 stage evo line. But in terms of power it definitely didn't need one, for my scarlet play through I had a bisharp from the late game through kitikami and half way into indigo disk, and it was just putting in so much work.
Honestly i just like that they give some older mons a new evolution. Lets just hope they dont go overboard and make gleigar 3.0 😅.
Joated
Ah yes, the Supreme Overlord of Gen 9 OU! The epitome of, "You'll NEVER guess what type I'm gonna be today!"
SIMPLY AMAZING LORD AINZ, I COUL-
no, wait, nvm.
Both Pawniard and Kingambit being solid #2's in their tier where #1 is an offensive Fighting type with immense utility that is used to keep it in check is hilariously coincidental
bisharp was also really good in gen 5 as well
not to mention the period where kingambit overtook tusk in usage
@@abhishekverma8303 Very briefly, but it did happen. A Mon being so strong that it outcompetes it's best counter is kind of insane
@@Hnui03not really? Gambit has beaten tusk in usage many many times. Pre dlc 2 gambit had 2-3 months where it had a solid 5-10% more usage than tusk. Post dlc 2, gambit has once again risen to the top of usage statistics outclassing tusk.
@@tempestgreen1125 ☝️🤓
Just opened my phone and that rat bastard is just looking at me, Kingambit
We swiping falsely with this one
We gaming falsely with a swipe with this one
With this treasure we are summoning the Supreme Overlord
Staying at 1hp w this one 🔥🔥🔥
We getting out of pallet town with this one 🔥
That pun is a cut above the rest.
"Kingambit gained strength from the fallen!" Is one of the most reassuring and concerning things to see
Kingambit is probably going to end up having a very, very long competitive video down the line.
Do you think it will lose viability in futures generations without tera?
@@NicholsMediaPressSupreme Overlord will never be anything less than amazing.
@@NicholsMediaPressNah, it’ll be great still
It 100% becomes less of a guessing game and losing Tera dark will keep it from blasting through would-be checks
@@NicholsMediaPressdefinitely. Kingambit wouldn’t be a third of the problem it turned out to be without Tera, like most threats in gen 9 ou. If it wasn’t for Tera, even annihilape might still be ou.
My favorite part of king gambit is winning games I absolutely shouldn’t have
If you are lucky King Ambit will win you a game you almost lost if it comes in last.
It has beaten like average 3 Pokemon from opposing teams as my last Pokemon
All love to kinggamt
Just means your opponent is bad.
losin mind games don't make you a bad player @@fulltimeslackerii8229
The King of Reverse Sweeping 👑 🧹
Kangambit:
“Stand proud Great Tusk, you were bulky”
“Kingambit used Tera Blast!”
-If great tusk were to regain his power, would he knock You down?
+If i have already used tera or if he acted accordingly after reading it or sucker punch, i might be on a little trouble
-But would You lose?
+Nah, i'd win
@@RockHoward256*gets off screened*
"Who wants to have two of the best abilities in VGC?"
Kingambit: Raises Hand
"Who wants to be Dark/Steel?"
Kingambit: Tera Fairy/Ghost/Flying Noises
Wait what's the 2nd ability killing vgc? Thought it's HA was pressure and supreme overlord gets no play due to being typically a 10-20% boost most times.
@@1_KingDom Defiant.
Since Intimidate is very common in VGC with a lot of Physical Attackers running around, Defiant is essentially an Uno Reverse Card. Not in the same way as like Corviknight’s Mirror, but you’re basically getting a free Attack buff by Intimidate.
@meta1429 yea defiant is 1/3 and the only good one in vgc as far as I'm aware. No idea what the 2nd good vgc ability is you were referring to since pressure and supreme overlord are both niche/meh in vgc
If it was double ou I would understand but definitely not vgc
It only has one good ability in Defiant. Only Pawniard and Bisharp get Inner Focus, which is amazing in VGC. Supreme Overlord replaced Inner Focus, however this ability is far worse in VGC since it can only max out at 3 allies defeated (which certainly won’t help in a 1v2 scenario). Pressure also isn’t good in VGC since Stall in Doubles is pretty much impossible/nonexistent.
“Are you the last pokemon because you’re Kingambit? or are you Kingambit because you’re the last pokemon?” Nah i’do win
Lobotomy Gen 9
“If my teammates were KO’d, they might give me some trouble.”
“But would you lose?”
“Nah, I’d Cleave.”
@@darianjenkins2630sukuna after losing kenjaku
Brain growth
King gambit with tera flying: "Stand proud, you're strong"
Great tusk: "what is this feeling?"
*Great Tusk switches into Kingambit*
"Would you lose?"
Kingambit with Tera-Flying: "Nah, I'd win"
Mega Rayquaza in Gen 6 uber and Zacian in Gen 8 uber : Nah I'd win
Also Is ThAt a MoThErfUckIng JJK REfErEncE
The lobotomy spreads
Still glad Geeta revamped her team so her King/ambit is finally good and threatening
@@ihavenothingtodo4932 foul 😭
When fighting Kingambit, you lose by winning. Therefore, Kingambit is a paradox Pokėmon.
I'm a Simple man. When I see "How GOOD was Swoobat ACTUALLY?", I will click.
Ha, simple
that was good
I'm just wanting Seismitoad
But this is Pawniard & Kingambit :/
Sorry disregard this I thought you said "I click" not "I will click".
you be posting this every vid... You be bot?
The only line that has abs made of literal steel.
And a metal asf mustache
Not just a mustache, but a M O U S T A C H E.
King's gambit is a chess opening that sacrifices a pawn to create a more aggressive position. Kingambit's ability supreme overlord is in a similar spirit as the chess opening the pokemon is named after.
jimothy cool comment section ass comment
Kingambit sucker punching it's way into my notifications
Having over 90 power sucker punch after swords dance makes all glass cannons useless, and as Kingambit user... I love it ❤
why did you attack first?
One of the oldest Pokémon I have was a Bisharp from White 1. Along with his other teammates from 2011, I beat the Unova League with it, won a few IRL battles with it, transferred it all the way to Gen 9 and picked up the Hall of Fame entries along the way, and raised it up to Level 100. And I then evolved it to Kingambit, because if there’s one Bisharp who “stands above all others”, it’d be mine.
(Let’s hope the BW remakes have Kingambit included in the Dex!)
Honestly, they should do all the new cross-gen evos for the BW remakes up to the first 5 gens 649 mons. Then add the others that had a new evo in gen 6 and onwards up until the current ones in gen 9.
Bisharp is an excellent pokemon with a long list of resistances and immunities and notably, access to False Swipe, Swords Dance, and Thunder Wave. I caught one in the Wild Area in Sword and used her to fill my pokedex. When the DLCs came out, she did excellently against the new legends. Then when Home was added to SV, I brought her to Violet and evolved her into Kingambit. She did excellent against the legendaries of the Indigo Disk, with most being completely unable to damage her. Even the fire types had trouble. I look forward to clicking False Swipe with her many generations into the future. Long live Queengambit!
Hopefully they give Ghetsis Kingambit too (and have him send it out last w/Supreme Overlord) to have him be unique from Grimsley (who also has a Bisharp).
I think this is the first time a Pokemon's whole evo line got a video, this is crazy
Nah, the Gastly line has gotten videos all up and down. Ghost type was so good in early generations that even Gastly got low-tier usage, and Haunter was legitimately UU for the first two generations, might've been UU in Gen 3 if not for their bizarre NFE clause, and was PU as recently as Gen 7 (and ZUBL in Gen 8).
Remember Abra had to run focus punch in lc because hidden power was banned and hence left with no fighting moves
Now it can use Tera Blast ( Tera fighting )
@@bryanc1772 unfortunately, now it can't use anything since it's dead
Kingambit is great, but it sucks that he can only move one space at a time
Edit: Also he forgot to mention that Pawniard was good in XY PU
You sir...are a genius
@@Giratina575You sir…Are stating the obvious
google en passent
Holy hell
@@darthhydreigon820that’s not a king related thing? Do you mean castling?
Why was Pawniard's presence in other lower tiers completely ignored? Like, it's more interesting to see baby Pokemon being able to take on fully evolved ones than just Little Cup.
Yeah, that was a miss.
I think there needs to be a better researcher (or a tertiary one alongside BKC and Zane). I kinda want to take up the mantle.
4:05 I swear this channel is so good with alliteration! I love it!
I remember Pawniard as the most annoying Pokemon to go up against in Pokemon Conquest's ninja stories, where you can only use Poison, Ghost, Dark, and Dragon type Pokemon (which means Dragon Rage is a thing in a story where you're going to remain at low levels) unless you have Pokemon of other types registered in the Gallery. It being immune to Poison, quad resisting Ghost and Dark, resisting Dragon, and its ability Parry to cause contact moves to sometimes miss is why.
Kotaro's is a walk in the park.. Nene's story is the hardest of the 4.. It's one of only a couple stories i haven't completed in Conquest
The funniest part of Kingambit, is how he Supreme Overlord'd the OU tier with it's suspect test, reverse sweeping them and letting them stay. lmao
I can just imagine the five Pokémon facing in front of you ready to fight and the Kingambit sitting at his throne , observing as if it were his subjects and comrade in arms. Then when the line is breached, he gets up, sharpens his blades, and is out for one thing: Revenge. The boss now fights with fury as each hit from those blades are a piece of his comrades that fight for him and unleashed it 10 full.
Kingambit is the most unexplainable non-ban in pokemon history
up there with gholdengo
@@duncathan_salt true that!
Each time I see kingambit in a game, it makes my blood boil. I swear the OU council has favourites, and the golden cheese string and literally fucking gojo in pokemon form are those favourites. I love Bisharp, but kingambit is a disgustingly powerful pokemon, and the council KNOWS that.
@ravioliman7218 Gholdengo is here to stay unfortunately I think. But I don't think Kingambit will be as good when Tera is gone. It's not that good In draft when it can't use it.
Unless they give it Knock Off
@@TheRealLifeNuzlocke Kingambit falling off is going to be like drinking hot cocoa on a winter night with the fireplace on. I actually cannot wait to never see that thing again.
Not surprised about gholdengo, either. I have this teeny lil' hc that gholdengo pays the OU council in millions of pokédollars to keep it in OU.
I find it hard to believe that Bisharp was one of those Pokemon that bounced between OU and UU throughout the years before finding solid footing in OU this gen as Kingambit. Terastalization is one hell of a drug along with Supreme Overlord. Do wish it kept Knock Off, though.
@@jaretco6423 not gunna lie. I think it be quickbanned if it got knock off or pursuit back
Gaining strength from the fallen like an shonen protag
I would like to recommend doing a video on Meloetta in competitive pokemon.
I think it'll be an interesting one.
As a former LC player back in gen 8 it was kinda nostalgic watching those synergies once again, Pawniard is my fav Pokémon because of competitive play so I really enjoyed this video, thanks FSG
Kingambit:"It's Tera Time!" *uses his Teratrix to switch his type*
Where's Secret Of The Teratrix, Game Freak??
An hour-long video talking about just Kingambit wouldn't be very surprising, despite only existing for one generation. If that doesn't show how absurd Kingambit is, even on a conceptual level, then I don't know what will. A prime example of expanding power creep and min-maxing in the mainline Pokémon games, if Kingambit existed in Gen 6 it would be a Mega Evolution as is, even without Tera.
I like the part when gambit uses SD and says: "It's gambin time"
Kingambit:"MY PEOPLE ARE ALL DEAD BUT SO ARE THOSE BASTARDS!"
Oh cool, this little steel type is based on chess pieces!
O-Oh.. it evolves at level 52...
WTF IS A LEADER'S CREST
Ahhh, truly a gen 5 evolution level moment
@@joeyyoung5173 speak for yourself, level 64 hydreigon makes me want to rip my fingers one by one
I love how Pawniard was basically a less edgy Bisharp that terrorizes toddlers
It's so wild to that they had to remove knock off from the entire line and Kingambit is still THAT good- the timeline where they didn't makes me shudder..
Kingambit was indeed banned from NDOU
@@cynthiacrescent Didn't consider how it gets Knock Off back in Nat Dex! What a guy..
@@heliumpai7627If it did kept Knock Off and Pursuit, than it will get quick banned right away.
Reminder that Game Freak themselves caught on to how much Kingambit abuses Terastallization, that in the Indigo Disk's League Club Room fights, they changed up Geeta's team so that she now not only leads with Glimmora, but finishes with Tera Flying Kingambit.
10:46 Kingambit is amazing! One odd reference it has is to Miyamoto Musashi one of the most legendary swordman in Japan
As when Kingambit is standing
(The animation that goes off whenever he gets out of his PokeBall and stands on his legs)
he has the exact same pose as Miyamoto Musashi has on his most famous painting
Apparently that goofy pose is one of the best guard poses ever developed... But has yet to be replicated by a KING of the art
After all some experts says that Miyamoto Musashi is stronger than the athletes of the modern day
Wich is fitting for the Pokemon that represents the King piece
Pawniard is amazing on Little Cup too and I like how he looks cool and cute at the same time
I'm gonna rename my kingambit Musashi now I hope you're right
Or sun tzu
I named mine Nobunaga
The Bisharp line is certainly most impressive with how Pawniard, Bisharp and Kingambit have a superb career in the competitive scene, even with the 4x weakness to fighting types, they still manage to remain a top tier threat in competitive Pokémon.
I played B2, my Pawniard is the ace of my team (alongside Lampent). I nicknamed him after Rex, as in Generator Rex; the steel superhero from Man of Action.
Scizor was my favorite ever since gen3. Kingambit haf to come in and take his place!
Pawniard's prevalence in Gen 8 LC makes Abra forced to run a Physical Fighting move out of its 20 Base Atk, since Abra can't learn Focus Blast of all things.
Can’t wait to see how good Kingambit will be once the Ubers become legal. I’d say the sun summoners of Ubers could give it trouble as well as Zacian and Zamazenta, but it does seem like a good counter to Solgaleo, Lunala, and the Calerex riders.
kingambit can't do much in ubers
@@fraud523I was referring to once the Uber legendaries become legal in VGC.
Kingambit is one of those Evos who makes it's pre Evos better just by allowing them to use Eveolite. Bulky Bisharp was ALREADY tricky, with Eveolite?
Kingambit is probably one of my favorite new pokemon in Gen 9. Amazing design, great moveset, and singlehandedly reminds Tera lovers everytime they face it hoe bs the mechanics is
I always forget that y’all upload Sundays but it’s one of the best part of my Sundays
Man, Kingambit should go down in history as another addition to the list of truly broken Pokemon.
Love this video! Kingambit is one of my favorite vgc mons and first shiny in gen 9! The ban suspect for singles OU makes me wonder if OTS would alleviate some issues with tera being overbearing. Knowing tera types at team preview could be so much more balanced imo
Kingambit is likely to have a very, very strong competitive career down the road from how Kingambit has been so far at the time of this video. With a second look on Kingambit with the appropriate title “How GREAT was Kingambit?” Plus with the pawniard line now being a three stage evolution Pokémon goes perfectly with the axew line, as both Pokémon have a long history of natural rivalry with one another.
Dang I should have set you my spread for kingambit when I won the knoxville MSs! Still nice to see gambit make its debut video!
If Gen 5 Gets a Remake…they would have to be crazy to NOT make Kingambit Grimsley’s Ace in the Main or Post Game
Pawniard was in Subzero Used in gen 8, despite a good niche in Zero Used. In gen 9, it’s fallen out of both metas after losing Knock Off while the DLC has increased the power level.
Bisharp has been my second favorite pokemon for years now, so its cool so see it so universally used after Kingambit came into play
Kingambit is probably the reason why Pawniard doesnt get Knock Off anymore
Definitely why Kingambit is banned on National Dex OU
(Unlike SV Kingambit, he keeps Knock Off and Pursuit)
Gambit would be quickbanned from SV OU if it got knock off and pursuit
No way in hell it’s staying in SV OU with those moves
Happy y’all showing more love to VGC props
Kingambit has such an awesome design!
Fun fact: I used a kingambit to completely wall a tera poison espeon raid.
I always loved Pawniard and its evolutions since generation 5. I still remember finding one for the first time, catching it and being amazed by how cool it was and its typing, ability and attacks. Instant bros
How the heck did I miss this one? It's my favorite pokemon line.
kingambit and gholdengo will probably go down in history as the most iconic duo when it comes to dominating a meta where the only things that kept them in check were familiarity
It's so wild that a single evolutionary line can have top tier representation in the lowest tiers and the highest tiers at the same time (Ubers excluded)
I still can't believe they gave Bisharp of all Pokemon while Tropius has been languishing for the past 20 years and gets nothing
Give it time eventually they will add a buff to tropius. After all dudunsparce and ustagon is a thing now.
Yes, but kingambit is sick
@@sayyidagus2480is Dudunsparce remotely good or even passable?
@@BigBossMan538it's good enough to keep up in a playthrough but uhh it's currently PU, at least it's apparently good there so like that's something but I'm not very knowledgeable in how PU is so like
@@BigBossMan538 It's a somewhat decent Boomburst User though it lacks scrappy
The day Kingambit gets banned from OU is the day I come back to competitive
come back by the end of the region where every Mon but gambit is banned
THERE’S ACTUALLY NO FREAKING WAY MAN ABOUT 10H AGO I WAS THINKING “Wouldn’t it be cool if fsg made a vids about the entire bisharp line”
One of the few pokemon that has every member of its line perform well competitively.
I think the most absurd thing about gambit, is that it's usage stats have 99.98% usage for sucker punch, 99.96% for swords dance, and 91% kowtow, with the remaining move being 66% iron head then 27% low kick. while being the #1 mon in the tier, it completely abandons diversity and runs an identical set nearly every time and its just so unreasonably effective that it doesn't matter. almost like its broken or something
Fighting a team with Kingambit is like playing Chess, which is fitting with the inspiration of Kingambit being the King piece of chess.
"Death is not the end for you my allies. I will be our final gambit."
-Kingambit, probably
Kinggambit truly took a gambit and hoped we wouldn't notice his RIGHT hand
-You loosing another pokemon: oh no!
-But you have Kingambit ready to use in any moment: anyways
Kingambit is my absolute favourite shiny, he gave me reason to play violet for shiny hunting
I also really like the idea of doing baby Pokémon who got new final stage evolutions, such as Teddyursa and Ursaluna or Mankey and Annihilape
Pawniard/Bisharp are my favorite Pokémon, not to mention they have the cleanest shinies getting that royal blue. Honestly I don't like Kingambit, but it's nice to have an eviolite for my Bisharp in Scarlet/Violet. it's defense is crazy now, I like to run Fairy Tera on it, set up with a swords dance and smack people with sucker punch/iron head, and if a fighting type comes in to fight him, I tera-blast them with fairy.
It's honestly just so fun to play with.
Kingambit- This isnt even my final form.
Kingambit stands up...
Checkmating enemy's queens is crazy
Easily one of my favorite gen 9 mons. Now if we could just see him stand up
Omg I can't believe y'all actually did this
We got slapped in the face by a Sucker Punch with this one 🔥🔥🔥
Bisharp has its days, but his son Pawniard has his years. what a great evolution line
We need a Gengar Remake "How great was Gengar actually?" 🥵🥵
UNFORTUNETLY not that great since it lost the Ground inmunity...
@@Lissy_YT481 Gengar's video was a very short one many years ago it needs a proper remake like scizor for earlier gens
Kingambit will wait patiently for his revenge, but only for 25 turns. After that, he will begin his assault.
Kingambit is so good it's the best steel, dark, flying, fairy, fire, and fighting type in OU all at once, what a crazy mon.
Poor bisharp suddenly didn’t exist for Gen 5-8 and doesn’t get covered
Kingambit really wasn’t sugercoating it.
Supreme overlord
Tara dark
S.D
Sucker punch. 🤜🏿
Ah yes, kingambit. The Pokémon that means I’m almost never punished for playing badly
Kingambit and Gholdengo, the duo of being extremely overpowered in OU but never seeing a ban
I LOVE FALSE SWIPE GAMING
Thanks for these videos
The king had arrived. Ladies and gentlemen, bow. Now!
You know you’re good when you have your own smogon tunes song
Surprised pawniards other niches weren’t really discussed, it being a legit pu Pokémon with an nu niche in gen 6, having a pu niche in gen 7, and I believe being viable in pu and maybe nu pre dlc for gen 8
Seems like that was overlooked.
I would have loved to see bisharp in this video as well since eviolite changed his playstyle significantly
I would like to compliment those who work on False Swipe Gaming’s videos. I love learning about the history of each Pokémon’s competitive history. Unfortunately, I also learned the competitive scene, Smogon and VGC’s rules and regulations stifle team building and battle creativity. I don’t play competitively because of their influence! It’s safe to say that you guys do an amazing job with these videos and that’s all that matters.
I mean if something is broken or unhealthy, it has to go and smogon handels weaker pokemon better then VGC because of its tiering so I like smogon more.
Some people can't accept that there are broken things that deserve to be banned. @@anzeigefehler6495
Got me thinking, if there's "little cup" for first stage evos and the other tiers for fully evolved pokemon, should we have a middle ground for middle stage evos? Call it lets say Middle ground?
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I think Showdown should reveal Tera types in Team Preview, but not ban Terastallization outright. VGC does it with their Open Team Sheets.
Banning Dynamax in Gen 8 made sense - it gave Pokemon access to the broken Max moves and doubled their HP for three turns. Tera adds so much more strategic depth to Pokemon, even with the mind games. But revealing Tera in Team Preview would make dealing with Kingambit much easier without ruining - if you know what your opponent's team CAN Tera into, you can make an educated guess on who will get Tera'd and when, then plan accordingly. But it's still no guarantee...after all, your opponent is human and can do unexpected things, and then there's RNG.
They could also ban Supreme Overlord. It's not like Kingambit needs that Ability to be good, and banning Kingambit outright seems like it would open the door for even more unfair Pokemon to run rampant - Pokemon that the kowtowing steel ninja keeps in check. It would be sort of like banning Landorus-T in 5-8, or worse, Snorlax in Gen 2.
Now if you want a Pokemon that needs banning, it's Gholdengo.
Gambit and Dengo have been in OU for a while now. I think both of them glue the OU Tier together and are fine additions
That said Gholdengo has a lot of counter play. Being slow and having 4 of the most common weaknesses in addition to being check by one of the best Pokémon in the tier Gambit ensures it’s not broken
Banning Dengo also isn’t gunna make Corviknight top tier for its defog niche