Also, unlike regular Ursaluna, Bloodmoon gets priority in vacuum wave so it has a built in way to deal with faster opponents and to finish off things that barely survived blood moon without having to take more damage.
I like how they took a Pokemon like Ursaring, who to me has been unremarkable for years, but then they gave it a new evolution and a separate version of said evolution with kickass designs and is actually good competitively. They redeemed the bear for me.
I've loved Teddiursa and Ursaring so much ever since I first played GSC as a kid, but was always sad that it wasn't actually very good. Seeing it get such a glow up has been like watching the success of one's kid. 🥰
So weird that Gamefreak is giving the Teddiursa line so much attention out of nowhere, feels like it and Ursaring kinda just got introduced in gen 2 and thrown to the wayside for so long, and then out of nowhere Legends gives it an evo and now S/V gives it an alt form lol.
@@umbrellaeyethingguy4665I just hope this is a sign we're getting another game like Legends Arceus but refining some of the issues from that game. The core gameplay loop for Legends was a nice change.
Like other VGC players have said, there needs to be an anti IV bottle cap item to lower the IVs to 0. It was kind of Gamefreak to do the ditto raid back in April where you can catch 0IV dittos.
Gamefreak is so committed to making sure that people don’t hack and then introduce potential Pokémon that are *exactly* the reason why people want to hack. It’s comical
Bloodmoon Ursaluna luckily isn't as bad as Enamorus-T, but yeah, this is getting insane (& some of the formats where all the legal Pokemon are easily accessible are also being given less time compared to the formats where the powerful Pokemon are harder to access too)
This would be insanely unbalanced, but imagine running both Uras to hit both types of walls for incredibly high damage. With trick room/tail wind these 2 would just turn into the destroyers of everything that’s not a steel type capable of dodging ground moves. It would be hell to set up, but once it is-there’s little to stop you.
Sadly, in most formats, you can only bring one species of mon. For example, you can use Gardevoir and Gallade despite evolving from the same mon since they're different ones, but you can only use one Basculegion form despite being different mons.
the way it's stats are spread makes me think it's was made to counter the heavy amount of physical attackers that are being used right now. it's bulky enough to tank any most attacks and then hit them back on there weaker special side. Also i don't know the story of how this pokemon exist but if it survives by fighting other Ursaluna it makes sense why it is 2 base speed higher.
Considering the Dex entry saying how the mud turned as hard as steel, I thought it’d be our first normal/steel, but I’ll take the first poison/fairy being added since I love Fezandipiti
One thing that's notable about its moveset is that it learns Vacuum Wave via TM. Even without STAB, that move might have some viability to make up for the low Speed on some turns and to outpace slower pokemon in TR dittos
@@daniellejackson6543 The idea is to hit Flutter Mane hard enough to break the Sash, leaving it at 1HP. Then Vacuum Wave will kill regardless of whether it's resisted or not.
All im saying is if shiny hunters can soft reset thousands of times, then there is gonna be a few who will have the determination and patience as a shiny hunter to soft reset till he gets a 0 IV attack and speed
one thing im 100% sure about is that bloodmoon ursaluna is a f*cking cool pokemon design. its one of the most intimidating mons in the 3d sprites era, the standing pose and red moon on its head look awesome, blood moon the move looks amazing, i could go on
@@sayvionwashington1939 Killing IVs would likely require the sort of wipe that happened when they moved to the GBA. It also completely kills the potential to bring back Hidden Power, and, based on the random stats that have been passed from Gen to Gen (Sheen, Ribbons and Megas come to mind), GF is probably not willing to commit to that move.
@noxtide7043 no no no, you dont release it. Tpc waits till worlds and reveals they have a new hack check. 🤣 Or maybe just say a few days prior before using it in worlds, but not send it out to every switch for hackers to reverse engineer it. That way every hacker would stress over that thought they can be banned at any time
With normal Ursaluna already being such a beast, seeing it given a very different special attacking form like this is /really/ interesting to me. A slow special attacker that functions as a defensive wall with low special defense is NOT what I saw coming when i first heard about this thing. Regardless of build, I am so, SO excited to get my hands on it.
I don't really like it tho...Two abilities in one(similar to as one)and 140 bp move isn't good design.Also I hate trick room pokemon in general, like imagine making a pokemon's only weakness, that is supposed to balance it out, and make it a quality Edit:Happy you find it cool tho
Even if Corvi can take on both stabs, u can EV the Luna to be Slower than Corvi, and catch it with Earth Power on the roost. That’s more costly tho, as Bloodmon is considerably frailer than regular Luna, but that is only in the Sp.Def, where Corvi can’t hit you
I guess I didn’t put it the best way either hahaha 😅 What I meant to say is that, in regards to Bloodmoon’s Sp.Def, it’s considerably weaker than regular Luna (113/65 vs 130/80), which is ultimately unrelevant in the Underspeeding Corvi strat. I don’t even know why I even brought the SpDef stuff, it just served to make my point confusing
Well Bloodmoon’s special bulk is significantly lower than that of regular Ursaluna, which has several implications for its tanking capability. Combined with similar physical bulk, more optimized attacking stats and even lower speed for TR, regular Ursaluna just has a lot of advantages that BM Ursa just can’t seem to compete against. The bulk case is also a major reason Corviknight outclassed Skarmory
Alright what do you think of this: I have two proposals to buff Tinkaton Proposal 1: Give it Huge Power and have Gigaton Hammer work Like Red Blue Yellow Hyper Beam (maybe also lower the attack by 5-10 points for balancing) Proposal 2: Buff it’s Attack stat to around 105-130 and give it an ability to Have it’s Hammer Moves Bypass Resistance as well as boosting their power by 1.3x
Alright I have a great idea to make things fair: We Change Gigaton Hammer to Work Like Hyper Beam does in Red Blue and Yellow and we give Tinkaton the ability Huge Power or alternatively we buff Tinkaton’s Attack stat to around 105-125 and give it an ability that powers up Hammer Moves by 50%.
“Nobodys going to be turning their nintendo switch on and off to reset for 0 speed ursaluna” Me sweating in the corner from 100+ hours of resetting for IVs over the past 10 years
Gotta say Freezai, you've been popping off lately. Your videos are so insightful and educating on the metagame. I remember the 10k subs days, so proud to see you grow!!!
8:13 "slow, offensive pokemon are very rarely overpowered" Freezai, gen 5 wants to talk to you about a certen multi-celled pokemon... you might want to answer that.
@@notshockwavedemon7543 yeah, it was ,along with the dominance of rain teams, the main reason why excadrill was unbanned in b2w2. It had an especially nasty set of magic guard + calm mind + recover set that could until exca could only be defeated by... another reuniclus with the same set that uses psyschock. Don't get me wrong; gen 5 was absolutely messed up but reuniclus was a fun, but stil broken part of it.
A Calm Mind tank with recovery that is bulky enough to set up in your face and then sweep you back to front… that doesn’t have to worry about recovery… I do think a Blood Moon/Calm Mind/Moonlight/Flex Move would be really good. There is counterplay of course but, I think you can be creative with that fourth slot, especially considering Tera Blast is a thing.
One thing to note is that Ursaluna isn’t able to outspeed Great Tusk at +1 with Adamant, while Bloodmoon Ursaluna barely can with Modest, which I find funny. But the bigger advantage for Bloodmoon is that it can free its item slot and isn’t taking constant chip damage. Meanwhile Bloodmoon can heal itself with moonlight, making it much harder to really deal with. Oh and it also gets priority with Vacuum Wave, something regular Ursaluna wishes it had.
Gives it the speed edge over gambit too speed wise. Also this thing with calm mind shores up its special defense weakness and can start to really get out of hand with only one or two calm minds
Tried out the Calm Mind Moonlight build you mentioned in singles. It's strong, but it does require good support from your team. I think Alolan Nine-Tales/Grimmsnarl will be good partners with it since they can setup screens to make Bloodmoon bulky and hard to kill. If you add in Rillaboom with that, you make Bloodmoon tankier on physical side while also helping you deal with water types.
Blood moon plus minds eye sounds kinda strong. It gets vacuum wave as well whether or not it is good I'm not sure but hey special priority. Ogerpon hearthflame looks like a terrifyingly powerful tera user as well with ivy cudgel and embody aspect.
how long have players been asking for a way to minimize IVs? since sun and moon introduced bottle caps in 2016??? and they still haven't done anything about it. Now they introduce this pokemon with the most convoluted way of getting it and it thrives by having minimum attack AND speed? game freak knows what they're doing, and they're insulting the players with their developments. this pokemon is ban bait at tournaments and we all know it
hello youtube algorithm? where are the rest of the pokemon DLC videos? it's weird to see this video as the first coverage of the DLC ... but good analysis, as always!
Back during Pokémon Legends Arceus, I had a Shiny Ursaluna named Rhubarb. I loved this shiny so much, so when I found out in game about a supposed “Blood Moon” Ursaluna, I thought they were going to give me back my precious crimson bear, but instead I was met with Splatoon 3’s Mr. Grizz. And man this fella is cool. What funky bears.
So Blood Moon is going to have trouble against Steel and Rock types but Ursaluna is part Ground type so it can hit them for super effective damage. Skarmory wins again
Hmm in singles I think it will be better than regular because it can live much longer than without the burns intimidates and rocky helmet chip and calm mind and moonlight for more bulk and recovery, in doubles it will be dependent on how well you team can handle physical or special walls
Welp, I'm gonna just be resetting for a TR and an icy wind version in my Scarlet and Violet games respectively right away. It's just worth it to have them in the box IMO
Corviknight might be the go to counter since it has the normal resist and ground immunity, interested to see if ghost Tera becomes less common due to its ability.
I think you forgot to mention one of regular luna's key strengths. Spore immunity. Amoonguss is an amazing trick room counter since it can underspeed and spam spore but thanks to guts+flame orb physical luna doesn't need to worry about this. You could run goggles to deal with this but then you're losing out on damage Also a minor point is ting lu vs wo chein. While wo chein is a better standard luna counter than ting lu is a blood moon counter due to grass typing, ting lu isn't a bad pokemon like wo chein and so having your main attack stat and 1 of your stabs disrupted by ting lu which can then ruination you down hurts it a bit (not an issue rn since ting lu has fallen off a bit but it could see more use if blood moon becomes popular)
They just combined Chatot and Exploud (Keen Eye + Scrappy) but put Truant on their Boomburst in exchange for generally higher stats. (Also single-target and part ground and yadda yadda)
Am I the only one who finds Bloodmoon Ursaluna to sound like a Monster Hunter variant? Like you have your silver rathalos, acidic glavenus, dreadqueen rathian and Bloodmoon Ursaluna
I just don't see it going anywhere nearly as much as regular Ursaluna did. Ursaluna was this ridiculous perfect storm of well-distributed stats, Guts and STAB Facade, Ground-type Close Combat, and great Trick Room speed. Bloodmoon is literally worse at all of these things because its primary attacking stat is lower, its ability doesn't boost it, it'll be trading Headlong Rush for Earth Power, its new signature move is basically just worse than STAB Active Facade because it's the same base power but with a downside, and it's slower than regular Ursaluna so it loses out to its cousin in Trick Room. Like... it might not be *bad*, but I don't expect it to be taking the meta by storm. If mashing go on a really strong Scrappy Normal-type move were meta-breaking, Exploud would be in Ubers, and we're not in that timeline.
Would oranguru be able to instruct a second turn of the blood moon on the same turn to remove the requirement to wait a second turn thus I can run truck room turn one with guru and instruct past the second turn requirement. Or even if you have to instruct on turn one to blast off a second one turn two while you set up trickroom. But hopefully it can be instructed thru on turn two when you are locked in and your potential “struggle” turns into a blood moon choice specs nuke.
I'm not sure how I feel about this mon. Cool typing, again, and I love the addition of effectively a slightly drawn back Boomburst, but the lack of immediacy in it's power combined with it's notably weaker HP and Spdef makes me feel like this thing is going to struggle to get moving in singles. In VGC i think it definitely has a lot better tools, but 52 speed hurts it pretty bad when it comes to things like trick room. I'm seeing missed opportunities. One can only hope I'm wrong.
this thing is a nightmare to handle in singles, if you give it enough physical defense, it’s hard to deal damage to it, and by the time you calm mind once or twice, it’s over
I’m so excited for Gen 10 to introduce Solar Eclipse Ursaluna
dusk moon ursaluna...
Ursolarna incoming with 64 speed
@muddak3292 that names pretty good ngl
@@muddak3292I first assumed you made a typo until I got sunstroke..
Then in Gen 11 we get New Moon Ursaluna, where there is no moon symbol on its forehead
Also, unlike regular Ursaluna, Bloodmoon gets priority in vacuum wave so it has a built in way to deal with faster opponents and to finish off things that barely survived blood moon without having to take more damage.
Koncern
Great, a non stab 40 power priority. True it has a niche, but this is not worth putting in the moveset
Calm mind
Moonlight
Vacuum wave (which can hit ghost)
Blood moon
Plus Tera fighting is super viable as a late game sweeper
@@HesiJimboSplash viable as a late game sweeper? It has no speed and the best set up move it has is calm mind. You just outspeed and goob it
@@tbone6032 Base 113 hp and 120 defense: Am I a joke to you?
As someone who's never going to play the DLC, I legit thought this was a sh'tpost.
Me too lmao
I thought this was a new moveset
👍🏻cool.
"Blood moon ursaluna" 💀
ok we arent alone
I like how they took a Pokemon like Ursaring, who to me has been unremarkable for years, but then they gave it a new evolution and a separate version of said evolution with kickass designs and is actually good competitively. They redeemed the bear for me.
I've loved Teddiursa and Ursaring so much ever since I first played GSC as a kid, but was always sad that it wasn't actually very good. Seeing it get such a glow up has been like watching the success of one's kid. 🥰
Hoping they do the same to Beartic and Pangoro
@@lordtoomas yeah rooting for that
So weird that Gamefreak is giving the Teddiursa line so much attention out of nowhere, feels like it and Ursaring kinda just got introduced in gen 2 and thrown to the wayside for so long, and then out of nowhere Legends gives it an evo and now S/V gives it an alt form lol.
Tbf they probably noticed how popular Ursaluna was in the legends games, which in turn probably gave them incentive to keep supporting the line
@@umbrellaeyethingguy4665I just hope this is a sign we're getting another game like Legends Arceus but refining some of the issues from that game. The core gameplay loop for Legends was a nice change.
Pokemon XD ursaring all grown up!
@@caldw615I'm not sure if GF is capable of refining gameplay with the ridic dev cycles they're stuck in.
Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu (Johto) and Pokemon Let’s Go Teddiursa (Johto) are going to come out soon, I can feel it…
Like other VGC players have said, there needs to be an anti IV bottle cap item to lower the IVs to 0. It was kind of Gamefreak to do the ditto raid back in April where you can catch 0IV dittos.
Gamefreak is so committed to making sure that people don’t hack and then introduce potential Pokémon that are *exactly* the reason why people want to hack. It’s comical
Bloodmoon Ursaluna luckily isn't as bad as Enamorus-T, but yeah, this is getting insane (& some of the formats where all the legal Pokemon are easily accessible are also being given less time compared to the formats where the powerful Pokemon are harder to access too)
Don't let the casuals hear you, they'll call you lazy for pointing that out
Well it’s gmax melmetal all over again it’s shiny locked by default because we can’t make shiny ursaring evolve into it
They could avoid this issue entirely if they only introduced a Rusty Bottle cap that minimizes a specific stat when used on a Pokemon.
Bro as a fan of Ursarang for 7 gens straight for him to get not one but two fucking evolutions is sooooo satisfying.
It's not another evolution, just a variant of Ursaluna.
i named my blood moon ursaluna Cocaine bear
This would be insanely unbalanced, but imagine running both Uras to hit both types of walls for incredibly high damage. With trick room/tail wind these 2 would just turn into the destroyers of everything that’s not a steel type capable of dodging ground moves. It would be hell to set up, but once it is-there’s little to stop you.
Sadly, in most formats, you can only bring one species of mon. For example, you can use Gardevoir and Gallade despite evolving from the same mon since they're different ones, but you can only use one Basculegion form despite being different mons.
Neither Singles nor Doubles allow you to take both at them at the same time since both formats have species clause
Mousehold could counter via population-bomb them since both variants are running Specs or flame orb.
@@Andy-xn9znspecs bloodmoon is unviable
Use blood moon once then what? Struggle?
@@stallsunguy3064 Hay, people had run choice band giga Hammer tinkaton
With this level of power creep I'd not be surprised if its ability let it set trick room on entry
It might as well get +30% attack and defense, but its moves cost 20% more PP.
@@bld9826 it's a solid plan. Would make it invincible under Samurai Spirit
@@Kanbei11Ursaluna must have bases!
I am surprised it's a special attacker and yet not a special defensive wall
I honestly thought it was going to be ground/steel
I think it's the first time we get a good physically defensive special attacker, it's an strange but useful stat spread
@@SakhotGamer oh no Slowbro is the first I think
Yeah we get a lot of physical attack mons with special defense
When first I saw it, I said "wtf is that", and I thought he was like normal/physic.
the way it's stats are spread makes me think it's was made to counter the heavy amount of physical attackers that are being used right now. it's bulky enough to tank any most attacks and then hit them back on there weaker special side.
Also i don't know the story of how this pokemon exist but if it survives by fighting other Ursaluna it makes sense why it is 2 base speed higher.
Considering the Dex entry saying how the mud turned as hard as steel, I thought it’d be our first normal/steel, but I’ll take the first poison/fairy being added since I love Fezandipiti
One thing that's notable about its moveset is that it learns Vacuum Wave via TM. Even without STAB, that move might have some viability to make up for the low Speed on some turns and to outpace slower pokemon in TR dittos
It can also hit ghost types with it thanks to scrappy so it can deal with things like sash fluttermane
dairy resists fighting even with scrappy.
@@daniellejackson6543 no shit
@@daniellejackson6543 dairy
@@daniellejackson6543 The idea is to hit Flutter Mane hard enough to break the Sash, leaving it at 1HP. Then Vacuum Wave will kill regardless of whether it's resisted or not.
I'm just surprised they even made a variant already. Regular Ursaluna literally just came out over a year ago.
" no one is going to be spending hours turning their switch on and off"
shiny hunters where deeply offended. its super effective
OG shiny hunters maybe.. shiny hunters these days just make sandwiches and ride their dragon around until they see a different color
plus this Ursaluna is shiny-locked unfortunately, so don't waste your time
All im saying is if shiny hunters can soft reset thousands of times, then there is gonna be a few who will have the determination and patience as a shiny hunter to soft reset till he gets a 0 IV attack and speed
@@jbrill3134 why do they keep doing this
I'll be doing it for the zero speed I have nothing to do RN lol
one thing im 100% sure about is that bloodmoon ursaluna is a f*cking cool pokemon design. its one of the most intimidating mons in the 3d sprites era, the standing pose and red moon on its head look awesome, blood moon the move looks amazing, i could go on
And I also have literally nothing else to do so I certainly will be resetting for 0 speed
The photo Perrin shows you of the red moon glowing in the fog is the most badass official Pokémon art ever
@@Roseyfinchartworksfrrrr that shit is wallpaper worthy
I’ve been ruined because I just point and yell “freDDY FAZBEAR??” whenever it hits the field
surprised they haven't added an item that can set a Pokemon's IV to 0
If a silver bottlecap can perfect an IV, a bent/rusted bottlecap should zero one out
forget pokerus we getting tetanus ingame w this one
If GameFreak doesn't want people to hack Pokemon, they really need to implement a way to reduce IVs. They could call it Rusty Bottle Caps
Didn't they introduce a new item? Or is that next DLC?
Or just gut IV's entirely. That would be even better
@@sayvionwashington1939 Killing IVs would likely require the sort of wipe that happened when they moved to the GBA. It also completely kills the potential to bring back Hidden Power, and, based on the random stats that have been passed from Gen to Gen (Sheen, Ribbons and Megas come to mind), GF is probably not willing to commit to that move.
Or you know... update hack check again just before worlds. Seeing hackers getting caught was quite entertaining lol
@noxtide7043 no no no, you dont release it. Tpc waits till worlds and reveals they have a new hack check. 🤣 Or maybe just say a few days prior before using it in worlds, but not send it out to every switch for hackers to reverse engineer it. That way every hacker would stress over that thought they can be banned at any time
With normal Ursaluna already being such a beast, seeing it given a very different special attacking form like this is /really/ interesting to me. A slow special attacker that functions as a defensive wall with low special defense is NOT what I saw coming when i first heard about this thing.
Regardless of build, I am so, SO excited to get my hands on it.
Both seem OP, at least the specie close will stop them both to be on the same team
I was expecting it to change bulk for speed as it looked like it'd be faster, I was NOT expecting it to be special.
@@NightmareZerogbs i mean, technically it IS faster, not by much though
Imagine facing both Ursaluna versions in a trick room at same time
Say it with me, everybody: genning mons is normal
BEAR WITNESSSSSSS
I gotta say, this has to be one of my favorite pokemon designs of all time.
Freddy Fazbear energy is very spooky for a pokemon
I don't really like it tho...Two abilities in one(similar to as one)and 140 bp move isn't good design.Also I hate trick room pokemon in general, like imagine making a pokemon's only weakness, that is supposed to balance it out, and make it a quality
Edit:Happy you find it cool tho
@@bruhhhhhhh527oh i think they mean visual design which i agree is pretty cool
@@bruhhhhhhh527Oh no, a Pokémon doesn’t have the most optimal stat spread. You heard the guy, trash design 🤷
With Calm Mind and Moonlight, it's like the special Snorlax with Slack Off some always wanted.
Even if Corvi can take on both stabs, u can EV the Luna to be Slower than Corvi, and catch it with Earth Power on the roost. That’s more costly tho, as Bloodmon is considerably frailer than regular Luna, but that is only in the Sp.Def, where Corvi can’t hit you
or you can just be terra fire
Is bloodmoon really that much frailer he has 120 def and 113 hp I wouldn't say that's frail at all?
I guess I didn’t put it the best way either hahaha 😅 What I meant to say is that, in regards to Bloodmoon’s Sp.Def, it’s considerably weaker than regular Luna (113/65 vs 130/80), which is ultimately unrelevant in the Underspeeding Corvi strat. I don’t even know why I even brought the SpDef stuff, it just served to make my point confusing
Well Bloodmoon’s special bulk is significantly lower than that of regular Ursaluna, which has several implications for its tanking capability. Combined with similar physical bulk, more optimized attacking stats and even lower speed for TR, regular Ursaluna just has a lot of advantages that BM Ursa just can’t seem to compete against. The bulk case is also a major reason Corviknight outclassed Skarmory
Terra blast grass choice specs corvi
i'm honestly just surprised this exists in the first place.
U forgot that Bloodmoon Ursaluna has Vacuum Wave so even in trick room, Bloodmoon would perform the first attack.
If I had a nickel for every really strong bear Pokémon introduced in a dlc with a name based on ursa, I’d have 2 nickels.
Game Freak with Tinkaton: Gigaton Hammer is too powerful, we need to give it really low attack."
Game Freak with Blood Moon Ursaluna: "Fuck 'em."
Yeah they lost their minf
Since Gigaton Hammer on Tinkaton was safe, prolly attempting a good Pokemon with a Normal variant since it'll be unable to hit Super Effective
True that could be the case since normal doesn’t hit anything super effectively, however they let it hit ghost types
I don't think giving a 140 bp steel move (that only can be used one turn out of two by the way) is the only reason why Tinkaton has a base 75 attack.
Alright what do you think of this: I have two proposals to buff Tinkaton
Proposal 1:
Give it Huge Power and have Gigaton Hammer work Like Red Blue Yellow Hyper Beam (maybe also lower the attack by 5-10 points for balancing)
Proposal 2:
Buff it’s Attack stat to around 105-130 and give it an ability to Have it’s Hammer Moves Bypass Resistance as well as boosting their power by 1.3x
Did they seriously give this thing Tinkaton's signature move, but also give it an actually good stat for said move?
...Why?
Lol exactly. Makes them “balancing” Tinkaton make less and less sense
Gigaton hammer does 160 tho
Cause Normal/Ground is less busted than Steel/Fairy.
@@dse763 tell that to Gholdengo, a mon with a comparatively busted typing and great stats plus a nuke move.
Alright I have a great idea to make things fair: We Change Gigaton Hammer to Work Like Hyper Beam does in Red Blue and Yellow and we give Tinkaton the ability Huge Power or alternatively we buff Tinkaton’s Attack stat to around 105-125 and give it an ability that powers up Hammer Moves by 50%.
Iron Ball Blood Moon + helping hand trick room setter fixes the speed issue
“Nobodys going to be turning their nintendo switch on and off to reset for 0 speed ursaluna”
Me sweating in the corner from 100+ hours of resetting for IVs over the past 10 years
I imagine a consistent vgc set for this ursaluna is going to be assault vest and it could be used exactly like a special attacking iron hands
Gotta say Freezai, you've been popping off lately. Your videos are so insightful and educating on the metagame. I remember the 10k subs days, so proud to see you grow!!!
Gamefreak just needs to release Rusty Bottlecaps already
There is something you didn’t seem to mention, but bloodmoon ursaluna has access to vacuum wave. So i wonder what advantage that could give
Gholdengo: "Is it safe to come out now?"
I can easily see Blood Moon Luna running its own Assault Vest
Yeah. It can buff special defense with that, but can lost potential healing...
@@IvanoktVandoesnt matter,if kartana with 0 spdef can run av then so does bloodM
it's nice to see some big strong normal types be good
y’all are on a whole nother level, it don’t even seem as fun when things get so technical.
Take a shot every time he says “blood moon ursaluna”
Big decisions, lots to think about…
Some of if not the best pokemon content out there. Keep doing your thing man
The blood moon rises once again...
8:13 "slow, offensive pokemon are very rarely overpowered" Freezai, gen 5 wants to talk to you about a certen multi-celled pokemon... you might want to answer that.
Wait was Reuniclus good in Gen 5?
@@notshockwavedemon7543 yeah, it was ,along with the dominance of rain teams, the main reason why excadrill was unbanned in b2w2. It had an especially nasty set of magic guard + calm mind + recover set that could until exca could only be defeated by... another reuniclus with the same set that uses psyschock.
Don't get me wrong; gen 5 was absolutely messed up but reuniclus was a fun, but stil broken part of it.
A Calm Mind tank with recovery that is bulky enough to set up in your face and then sweep you back to front… that doesn’t have to worry about recovery…
I do think a Blood Moon/Calm Mind/Moonlight/Flex Move would be really good. There is counterplay of course but, I think you can be creative with that fourth slot, especially considering Tera Blast is a thing.
Someone high up at gamefreak has a newfound love the the Ursuluna line
One thing to note is that Ursaluna isn’t able to outspeed Great Tusk at +1 with Adamant, while Bloodmoon Ursaluna barely can with Modest, which I find funny.
But the bigger advantage for Bloodmoon is that it can free its item slot and isn’t taking constant chip damage. Meanwhile Bloodmoon can heal itself with moonlight, making it much harder to really deal with.
Oh and it also gets priority with Vacuum Wave, something regular Ursaluna wishes it had.
Those 2 extra base points in speed actually meant something lol
Gives it the speed edge over gambit too speed wise. Also this thing with calm mind shores up its special defense weakness and can start to really get out of hand with only one or two calm minds
i was really scared you were going to say you'd have to replay the whole game for another shot at perfect iVs
How are you gonna leave out that it has Moonlight until the last 30 seconds. Immediate healing is huge
Tried out the Calm Mind Moonlight build you mentioned in singles. It's strong, but it does require good support from your team. I think Alolan Nine-Tales/Grimmsnarl will be good partners with it since they can setup screens to make Bloodmoon bulky and hard to kill. If you add in Rillaboom with that, you make Bloodmoon tankier on physical side while also helping you deal with water types.
Blood moon plus minds eye sounds kinda strong. It gets vacuum wave as well whether or not it is good I'm not sure but hey special priority. Ogerpon hearthflame looks like a terrifyingly powerful tera user as well with ivy cudgel and embody aspect.
Tinkaton in shambles looking at a Gigaton Hammer clone running off of an actually good offensive stat.
Bloodmoon Ursula be pulling up the the baiken look
how long have players been asking for a way to minimize IVs? since sun and moon introduced bottle caps in 2016??? and they still haven't done anything about it. Now they introduce this pokemon with the most convoluted way of getting it and it thrives by having minimum attack AND speed? game freak knows what they're doing, and they're insulting the players with their developments. this pokemon is ban bait at tournaments and we all know it
Tera-Fighting + Vacuum Wave could be a cool niche set. This is the first potentially viable vacuum wave user I’ve seen in a long time.
Holy sh%t what is this? How have I not heard of it even a few days before?! :o
im so getting blood moon this weekend and EV training it for casual battles gonna be a fun weekend
hello youtube algorithm? where are the rest of the pokemon DLC videos?
it's weird to see this video as the first coverage of the DLC ... but good analysis, as always!
Just give us a damn rusty bottle cap already
Hats off to everyone who do the photography hunting quests over and over again for the perfect iv rolls😂
Back during Pokémon Legends Arceus, I had a Shiny Ursaluna named Rhubarb. I loved this shiny so much, so when I found out in game about a supposed “Blood Moon” Ursaluna, I thought they were going to give me back my precious crimson bear, but instead I was met with Splatoon 3’s Mr. Grizz. And man this fella is cool.
What funky bears.
So Blood Moon is going to have trouble against Steel and Rock types but Ursaluna is part Ground type so it can hit them for super effective damage. Skarmory wins again
I am definitely going to be soft resetting til I get one, I'm in no rush to complete the DLC
Tf they gave it GIGATON HAMMER equivalent move💀
Right now the need four blood is rising
-remelia scarlette
This Pokemon model looks so good in-game, somehow
Hmm in singles I think it will be better than regular because it can live much longer than without the burns intimidates and rocky helmet chip and calm mind and moonlight for more bulk and recovery, in doubles it will be dependent on how well you team can handle physical or special walls
YES! URSALUNA POWER IN ATTACK AND ESPECIAL ATTACK!
I am so excited to use this guy
Looks like there's gonna be another crop of genned pokemon at worlds next year
Where can you check all the new mons' BSTs?
Welp, I'm gonna just be resetting for a TR and an icy wind version in my Scarlet and Violet games respectively right away. It's just worth it to have them in the box IMO
Been waiting for the sequel to Cocaine Bear.
"0 Attack IV's matter"
"My Cresselia once got Hurricane Confused"
Also, oh my god, it’s MAN BEAR PIG
Corviknight might be the go to counter since it has the normal resist and ground immunity, interested to see if ghost Tera becomes less common due to its ability.
I love how we already reached calculations about specific pokemon to tell whether something is viable or not :) gives gen 3 feelings
I think you forgot to mention one of regular luna's key strengths. Spore immunity. Amoonguss is an amazing trick room counter since it can underspeed and spam spore but thanks to guts+flame orb physical luna doesn't need to worry about this. You could run goggles to deal with this but then you're losing out on damage
Also a minor point is ting lu vs wo chein. While wo chein is a better standard luna counter than ting lu is a blood moon counter due to grass typing, ting lu isn't a bad pokemon like wo chein and so having your main attack stat and 1 of your stabs disrupted by ting lu which can then ruination you down hurts it a bit (not an issue rn since ting lu has fallen off a bit but it could see more use if blood moon becomes popular)
The bokoblins are respawning again.
Y'know, I'd like to see a special version of Intimidate, or a physical version of Assault Vest.
Give me a moment. Gonna build this mon real quick.
Magnet rise probopass: 🗿
They just combined Chatot and Exploud (Keen Eye + Scrappy) but put Truant on their Boomburst in exchange for generally higher stats. (Also single-target and part ground and yadda yadda)
Am I the only one who finds Bloodmoon Ursaluna to sound like a Monster Hunter variant? Like you have your silver rathalos, acidic glavenus, dreadqueen rathian and Bloodmoon Ursaluna
And both games even like to send you straight to RNG hell.
"Rathalos still won't drop a gem!"
"Another max speed Ursaluna!"
And grassy glide now heals the opponent
blood moon Ursaluna is wild
I just don't see it going anywhere nearly as much as regular Ursaluna did. Ursaluna was this ridiculous perfect storm of well-distributed stats, Guts and STAB Facade, Ground-type Close Combat, and great Trick Room speed. Bloodmoon is literally worse at all of these things because its primary attacking stat is lower, its ability doesn't boost it, it'll be trading Headlong Rush for Earth Power, its new signature move is basically just worse than STAB Active Facade because it's the same base power but with a downside, and it's slower than regular Ursaluna so it loses out to its cousin in Trick Room. Like... it might not be *bad*, but I don't expect it to be taking the meta by storm. If mashing go on a really strong Scrappy Normal-type move were meta-breaking, Exploud would be in Ubers, and we're not in that timeline.
I agree. Looks broken at first glance, but when you think about it Blood Moon has some relevant flaws.
as someone who doesn't play comp, this was a super interesting video +1
Would oranguru be able to instruct a second turn of the blood moon on the same turn to remove the requirement to wait a second turn thus I can run truck room turn one with guru and instruct past the second turn requirement. Or even if you have to instruct on turn one to blast off a second one turn two while you set up trickroom. But hopefully it can be instructed thru on turn two when you are locked in and your potential “struggle” turns into a blood moon choice specs nuke.
An Assault vest blood moon might go crazy
Giving the mon stab special gigaton hammer essentially on an attacking stat that high is already ao bizzare
agreed dude, i just settled for decent atk and decent speed. I'm not bothering grinding this for weeks
I'm not sure how I feel about this mon. Cool typing, again, and I love the addition of effectively a slightly drawn back Boomburst, but the lack of immediacy in it's power combined with it's notably weaker HP and Spdef makes me feel like this thing is going to struggle to get moving in singles. In VGC i think it definitely has a lot better tools, but 52 speed hurts it pretty bad when it comes to things like trick room. I'm seeing missed opportunities. One can only hope I'm wrong.
All i see is a dowgrade from ursaluna
I was thinking vacuum wave for priority
It has Vacuum Wave as a priority move. Would be useful especially with its Mind's Eye ability
this thing is a nightmare to handle in singles, if you give it enough physical defense, it’s hard to deal damage to it, and by the time you calm mind once or twice, it’s over
Ain’t no way they saw ursaluna and thought “What if we make it crazier?”
bro they relaly liked ursaluna. Like from nowhere he just keeps getting love I want love to chimeco too!
imagine if they gave this thing thunderbolt or fire blast to deal with corvinknight...