happy to have been asked to help with this video! I'm hosting an LGPE UU tournament on the Smogon Forums soon, signups should be up on Monday so keep an eye out if you wanna use Eevee and Pikachu in a meta where they're high tier :D also feel free to ask me any questions about lgpe! I'd be happy to answer
@@corruptedshadow5241sizzly, sparkly, glitzy, sappy is a pretty easy set to recommend, debuffs opposing attacks on both sides while spreading residual damage and providing the cleric support that eevee is used for!
@@edgargaebolg9307 Those sounds like the Capsule Monsters names from Lufia 2. XD Also, I am pretty sure Betamon used a Biribiri something in Digimon somewhere.
That's a bunch of them though. See literally all the good electric physical moves being signature or formerly signature and given primarily to shitmons or mons which never needed it, physical fire has a similar issue but it's not quite as bad because flare blitz is actually great and they've been increasingly letting everything have it. And there are multiple shitmons that are or were viable in high tiers for years because they got a busted signature ability. And Tinkaton doesn't deserve this fate. She should have been the pseudo legendary and/or Paldea could have given us a second one like Hoenn did as the ninth/ 3² gen.
The Let's Go Partners are so funny. Yes, Pikachu has a paralysis counterpart scald, a guaranteed crit stab priority move and a 30% flinch move. It's an underused tier Pokemon.
I remember doing calcs once and with its custom stats its power is on par with Life Orb Mewtwo. Combined with the naturally high speed and the custom moves, it's honestly a little too much even with Gen 9 power creep. You can say priority moves, but Pikachu has priority of its own and most cases you're still trading 1 for 1 guaranteed.
I am eternally grateful we don’t get partner pikachu in gen 9 so we don’t have to deal with the updated zippy zap with Tera electric sword of ruin and light ball
one of the many things i learned from evevee is that the moves Vevee volley and Pika papow aren't usable in pvp play. they'd be pretty good, esp for pikachu, but sadly it doesn't get to use it.
It should be noted that Zippy Zap and all of partner Eevee's moves had their effects changed from Gen 8 onwards, though they are unusable in gameplay. Quoting Bulbapedia: Zippy Zap: Its PP was changed to 10 while its power was changed to 80. Additionally, its secondary effect is raising evasion by one stage, instead of a guaranteed critical hit. Sizzly Slide, Buzzy Buzz: Its PP was changed 20 while its power was changed to 60. Bouncy Bubble: Its PP was changed to 20, its power was changed to 60, and 100% of the damage dealt to the target is restored to the user. Glitzy Glow, Baddy Bad: Its power was changed to 80 and its accuracy to 95%. Sappy Seed, Freezy Frost: It now has 100 power, 90% accuracy, and 10 PP. Sparkly Swirl: Its power was changed to 120, its accuracy to 85%, and its PP to 5.
Spoken like nuzzle isn’t one of the best moves in the entire game. This is tbolt with guaranteed paralysis, if it were distributed in any gen it would be immediately banned because the best strategy would always be a bulky medium speed team that spreads para and essentially gets 1.25 times more actual turns than the opponent, hell it would probably make soak a relevant move
@@ElectricWindGirlFriend don't forget that it ignores Taunt because it is, technically, an attack. The entire subset of guranteed effect attacks is interesting. We used to just have things like Zap Cannon and Dynamic Punch that have guranteed effect if they connect but also poor ability to connect in the first place, but then after we got No Guard DP Golurk one day it seems that the floodgates were opened, first for moves like Nuzzle and now for stuff like Ceaseless Edge and Stone Axe that are actual attacks in their own right.
I came here to say this exactly. I get why they wouldn't want to give them all to Eevee because it being able to carry them all to each Eeveelution of choice would be nuts, but at bare minimum they could give Vaporeon Bouncy Bubble, Flareon Sizzly Slide, etc. For whatever reason, Game Freak hates the Eeveelutions and takes every opportunity to deprive them of moves, especially coverage.
@@FatherOfGrayinclement emerald let's you devolve eeveelutions for that purpose. So, if you wanted a glaceon with flamethrower for example, you could evolve your eevee into flareon, teach it flamethrower, devolve it into Eevee, and evolve it into glaceon. And there you go, glaceon with flamethrower
@@FatherOfGray I'm still angry from Legend Arceus that only give Water Pulse as best STAB for Vaporeon (through, Flareon, who lost Flare Blitz, is even worse).
Let’s see how they would benefit these Pokémon in a theoretical case where they did get these moves. Let’s Go from F to S tier. F: none! All of them would benefit from their moves enough so that none would land in F tier, in my opinion. D: Sylveon and Glaceon Sylveon has better things to be doing than clearing status conditions. Typically in gen 9, it’s a setup sweeper with Calm Mind, and you’d rather run Moonbladt for that extra bit of power and the chance to lower special attack, letting you potentially sweep for a bit longer. Glaceon is just kinda shit anyway, so removing stat changes wouldn’t be very useful. That being said, it would completely shut down baton pass setup sweep teams, so it might have the tiniest niche in AG with a Focus Sash. C: Espeon, Flareon Espeon is usually a Stored Power setup sweeper, but it might be able to run this to be able to switch in and smack an opponent without having to boost first, then use it’s boosted special defense to help it set up. Flareon really needs anything it can get, and it would greatly appreciate a way to guaranteed burn the opponent. Still, once it gets that burn off, it would not have much to do afterwards. B: Jolteon Jolteon would like the guaranteed paralysis of Buzzy Buzz, and Thunder Wave would likely cease to exist in its movepool the day this happened. A: Vaporeon, Umbreon These both fill holes in their owner’s strategies. Vaporeon lacks reliable recovery and leftovers don’t really cut it, so it would eat this move up like Caseoh in a museum when he sees paintings of food. It would free up a move slot from Wish, so it could run an actually good move like Ice Beam. Umbreon is weak on the physical side but it can’t afford to run Reflect lest it be walled endlessly by the average poison or steel type. With Baddy Bad, it would no longer be threatened by the fighting types that keep it in the lower tiers. S: Leafeon This gives Leafeon good recovery that it normally wouldn’t have. It no longer would be damned to running either Leech Seed or Leftovers, and now it could realistically run Protect without Wish. I could see it being a good UU mom with a set of Swords Dance, Sappy Seed, Trailblaze, and Last Resort if it could get this move.
Major respect to PokeRogue for letting them learn these moves so my runs with Raichu are the easiest thing ever. Zippy Zap is insane. Edit: they nerfed it. They nerfed my boy. My beautiful baby boy. Now it gives +1 to EVA instead of guaranteed crit.
I'm now wondering if giving Gorochu in my future fangame a 2+ priority 75 BP guaranteed paralysis physical electric move based on Zippy Zap is a good idea ...
@@dse763do it, it's a fan game so it's not like there will be a huge competitive scene. Give some pokemon busted options and they'll make for fantastic boss fights
extreme evoboost is the only other time when these guys have been good in higher pokemon tiers to my knowledge. i guess pikachu is usable in gsc ou but good is a huge overexaggeration.
@@Gold_Gamer_100yeah, it was hclat. Same guy brought butterfree to a tournament game. Out of the two tournament games butterfree has been in, it has a 100% win rate. ADV is fire.
@@ChromaBiscuit Partner Eevee can't use eviolite, even in scenarios where a game has been hacked to either put partner eevee in a game that has held items (SwSh, for example, still has the slot for it, as do PLA, BDSP, and SV) or hacked LGPE to allow held items, as Eviolite checks if the holder's data slot has any evolutions in its evolution table (which is empty for mons that do not evolve) and if that table is indeed empty, eviolite does nothing. Even if it was a hardcoded species list like a lot of people think, "species" in the context of functionality means the same thing as "data slot." (Keep in mind this means there are 18 Arceuses and 18 Silvallys in the game data. Why? Because it's a funny thing to know.) so even then, they'd have to hardcode for it to allow Partner Eevee, which would be an intentional decision.
They could legit give regular Pikachu all of its Let's GO moves and it would still suck overall, even after Life Orb. Raichu would be cooking though, but I wouldn't expect more than one tier jump from either of them.
@@GeorgeDCowley Lightning Rod Raichu would cook deliciously! Electric E-Speed that always crits for wall breaking would be great. (The Evasion version could also be good enough to even forego Protect)
Having played both Pikachu and Eevee, i can safely say that while Eevee is more versatile with coverage, Pikachu is the better starter. The main caveat being Eevee being really frail with only 2 mons it can pivot into to tank a fighting type move(Gengar and Alolawak), Pikachu keeps the same frailness but can pull off insanity if it can paralyze something and can easily pivot into one of the many flying types when needed. My preferred movesets are: Pikachu (Naive Nature +Speed-SpDef) Zippy Zap Floaty Fall Splishy Splash Protect/Thunder Wave Eevee (Jolly Nature +Speed-SpAtk) Sizzly Slide Sappy Seed Sparkly Swirl/Freezy Frost Protect
Something PokeRogue has done is give each of the Eeveelutions and Raichu the let's go starter moves. Does anyone think this would be actually kinda cool to happen in main series?
The game is also good, you're just an asshole. I'm super sorry if a game that wasn't for you didn't cater to your extremely specific niche requirements for a game, but that's a personal problem for you to GET OVER in your own time, rather than say dumb shit like "lets go bad" and make an ass of yourself. "I don't like it" is not the same thing as "it's bad"
This is actually part of a bigger issue, signature moves are awesome but they’re also often locked to one or a few Pokémon that often don’t see use or don’t use that move well and we’re left with big power gaps in the move chart when the moves exist to fill them without adding anything new. Volt tackle on the pikachu like is the most grievous offender but there a bunch of others. There are no widely distributed special flying type moves between air slash at 75 bp, 95 acc, and hurricane at 110 BP, 70 acc, while aeroblast just sits on Lugia, a Pokémon that is rarely ever used even when it’s legal in a rule set or tier. There’s so many of these really obvious holes, and I get that signature moves add flavor but the direction of Pokémon has almost always been towards wider distribution over time, entei got sacred fire for example, and a ton of Pokémon are less viable because they don’t have a decent STAB move. Playing the type split meta really illustrates this point.
For a while I’ve been a huge advocate of bringing back zippy zap as a pikachu exclusive move, I could genuinely see it being a pretty solid, albeit still somewhat niche pick in VGC
This is the reminder for everyone wondering where those weird egg moves in PokeRogue came from, if they got names like Baddy Bad or Bouncy Bubble, they are probably from LGPE
These weird superpowered moves that Partner Pikachu and Eevee have would, little did we know, end up pulling way more weight as egg move options in PokéRogue.
Yeah they were in context fs. In theory pretty much all of these are completely absurd and broken, but on these guys it’s way better. In hindsight I kinda oversold how good the moves are, sorry about that.
I love how they made a dark and psychic move with a good bp set screen and went “this is op we should nerf it a bit” and all they did was lower the accuracy by 5 lmao
they're perfectly accurate in Let's Go for the record! For some reason the moves have different attributes in Sw/Sh but in LGPE all the Eevee moves are 90bp, 100% Acc
On one hand, I'm still upset that they bothered giving all of these moves to the Let's Go starters and not buffing their evos at all. Imagine Jolteon with Buzzy Buzz or Vaporeon with Bouncy Bubble. On the other hand, I'm sad that these starters have to stay in Let's Go and not be usable versions of these weaker Pokemon. Someone pointed out that a Light Ball Starter Pikachu with a STAB, defense raise ignoring E-Speed would be too much, but honestly with the prominence of Ground and Dragon types plus Knock Off, I'd see it even falling a few tiers. It's all fun and games until the opponent sends out Raging Bolt and you can't do jack.
for what it's worth, both Jolteon and Vaporeon are already excellent in Let's Go OU (definitely better than Starter Eevee!), so they aren't missing out too much there
IDK, Helping Hand/Follow-Me, Friend Guard Clefairy w/Eviolite would be probably be permanently attached to Pikachu in doubles. Pikachu also gets access to Play Rough, Draining Kiss and Alluring Voice for Dragons and with Splishy Splash as coverage, it would literally be the icing on the cake. Partnerchu also has 120 base Spd so.... I don't deny, it would be fun as heck tho.
the wacky ahh buddy move things (????) weren't accesible to me (i played on switch lite) which made my experience so much worse. also i got stuck in the seafoam caves for 4 hours and deleted my whole file out of anger. maybe it's worth another shot..?
Real missed opportunity to have them get access to only items in the game with light ball for pikachu and eviolite for Eevee, make it some sort of late game challenge that you can use to even further upgrade them
Man if Pikachu got Zippy Zap in an actual game, we could know the terror of Light Ball Pikachu with Zippy Zap. It probably still wouldn't be OU viable, but there are worse things to be than a mixed wallbreaker with a priority move that does similar damage to unboosted Arceus-Normal e-speed.
Controversial take, they should bring some of these moves back and give them to more Pokémon. Floaty fall is kinda dumb but it nicely solves the problem of non-bird flying types not having access to physical moves, especially dragonite and gyrados. The flying Tera hat is even balloons.
FINALLY the competitive scene giving a fuck about LGPE! I will happily die on the hill that it's an objectively good game that got torn to shreds by a community it WASN'T FOR. -I thought at first it was just because of its relation to GO but nope this cycle has been repeating infinitely since then and it's frustrating!- It's a game that was *for* those of us who were interested in the main series, hadn't played it yet, but had played GO. Every single complainer didn't fall into any of these categories, including interest in the main series, clearly, since we should be celebrating the games that cause notable increases in size of community. Shouldn't we WANT the GO players to experience the main series too? There'd be a lot fewer dumb questions from the GO-Only crowd if that were the case :) (Also Niantic could just. Explain how literally fucking anything works. That would help too! But we can't do anything about Niantic. We can do something about the community, and the Something to Do is to just be nicer ffs)
I wish all of those eevee moves where back in newer games. and that all eevees can learn them and still evolve. imagine how good flareon can be with that type coverage
I say, baisic Pikachu should have its stats buffed to those of Partner Pikachu. This will make it actually competitive with all of the 400-ish stat single-stage pikaclones like Pachirisu and Emolga, while not obsoleting Raichu. And it'll turn Light Ball Pikachu from a funny meme to a proper RU-tier threat at least. Keep the moves in LGPE tho.
When are we getting “Let’s Go Furret” and “Let’s Go Ledian” for the Jhoto games? Jk, but I adore both of these Pokémon’s designs I wish they were better and had actual niches.
Gamefreak: "So we've added all these overpowered moves again..." Me: "uh huh, and given them to Incineroar and the legendaries" GF: "We gave them to eevee and pikachu" Me: "You're joking, that's fantastic!" (I wish the game had a hard mode that would really press your team so these moves could shine)
I didn’t see anyone talking about this, but Zippy Zap is 100% the most broken of them. It’s Electric Type Extreme Speed (yes, 80 BP) with guaranteed crit AND raises your evasion by a stage. Dumb move.
Yeah the Japanese names are cute-cool but the English translation just left the cute. Bad-Bad Zone isn't the coolest thing but it's better than Baddy Bad. Then you have the Spanish names that add the Eeveelutions' names in Eevee's moves (Baddy Bad's name translates to Umbreo-zone) and Pika in Pikachu's (Zippy Zap is Pikaturbo)
Man, imagine if these guys were legal in natdex I would abuse the hell out of Eevium-Z Starter Eevee in NDUbers(cuz let's be honest that's where it would end up)
What game is this from again? Oh yeah, Pokemon Hell No you didn't just remake gen 1 for the second time but appealing to the modern climate with a move/ability/item dexit that you think the cutesy starter moves will somehow make up for.
I mean, it's nice for weaker mons to have a chance again after power creep, but giving several cracked moves to the box pokemon takes out my immersion. Like, there's no real narrative reason why any other pokemon couldn't be given the same treatment, NOT to say that others should be given the same treatment. It's just a weird feeling
I def get that. the new signatures are nuts in a way that doesn't really feel in line with the games sometimes. im very focused on uniqueness when it comes to pokemon so I like it, but i could very well be in the minority on that one.
The "immersion" in this case is on the level of running around the room with a toy aeroplane, making engine sounds with your face. The realization of the kids who played yellow at such a young age that they didn't even understand that the Pikachu was weak AF because they were overlevelled by the time they made it to a gym- from days of illiterate meandering. That's why the names are so fuckin dumb, and its glorious.
As someone who loves pikachu and eevee i want these two back. You dint understand ill even just take the stat increases. Ill use partner pikachu on a competitive team with light ball and itll be fine please GF why isnt ash cap pikachu just this. GF PLEASE!
No one gets it!! I'll even tame smogom just making them legal in anything goes or something But please somebody bring these two back so i could put items on them im begging you
My friends always ask why I bought lets go eevee instead of Pikachu. Eevee just offers better gameplay than Pikachu. If i wanted a souped up Pikachu i just replay Pokemon yellow
happy to have been asked to help with this video! I'm hosting an LGPE UU tournament on the Smogon Forums soon, signups should be up on Monday so keep an eye out if you wanna use Eevee and Pikachu in a meta where they're high tier :D
also feel free to ask me any questions about lgpe! I'd be happy to answer
What would you recommend on a competitive partner eevee moves wise?
@@corruptedshadow5241sizzly, sparkly, glitzy, sappy is a pretty easy set to recommend, debuffs opposing attacks on both sides while spreading residual damage and providing the cleric support that eevee is used for!
I like how a lot of these signature moves are broken but have names like “baddy bad”
What are their Japanese names by curiosity?
@@MewseekerThey combine an onomatopoeia with a noun.
- Sizzly Slide: Meramera (blazing) Burn
- Bouncy Bubble: Ikiiki (lively) Bubble
- Buzzy Buzz: Biribiri Eleki (shocking electricity)
- Glitzy Glow: Dobadoba (gushing) Aura
- Baddy Bad: Waruwaru (bad) Zone
- Freezy Frost: Kochikochi (frozen stiff) Frost
- Sappy Seed: Sukusuku (growing fast) Bomber
- Sparkly Swirl: Kirakira (Sparkling) Storm
damn so baddy bad really is the best that they could have done..
@@edgargaebolg9307 Those sounds like the Capsule Monsters names from Lufia 2. XD
Also, I am pretty sure Betamon used a Biribiri something in Digimon somewhere.
I like when broken signature moves are given to pokemon with bad stats for a change
cough cough tinkaton
And then you have Make it Rain because F*ck you, thats why
Decorate on Alcremie:
Smeargle existing: 👁️ 👄 👁️
That's a bunch of them though. See literally all the good electric physical moves being signature or formerly signature and given primarily to shitmons or mons which never needed it, physical fire has a similar issue but it's not quite as bad because flare blitz is actually great and they've been increasingly letting everything have it.
And there are multiple shitmons that are or were viable in high tiers for years because they got a busted signature ability.
And Tinkaton doesn't deserve this fate. She should have been the pseudo legendary and/or Paldea could have given us a second one like Hoenn did as the ninth/ 3² gen.
The Let's Go Partners are so funny. Yes, Pikachu has a paralysis counterpart scald, a guaranteed crit stab priority move and a 30% flinch move. It's an underused tier Pokemon.
Baddy Bad will always be the best move in pokemon right after holding hands ❤
ok but imagine partner pikachu with a light ball
I remember doing calcs once and with its custom stats its power is on par with Life Orb Mewtwo. Combined with the naturally high speed and the custom moves, it's honestly a little too much even with Gen 9 power creep. You can say priority moves, but Pikachu has priority of its own and most cases you're still trading 1 for 1 guaranteed.
@@FatherOfGray I say we allow him in OU and see how it goes
I am eternally grateful we don’t get partner pikachu in gen 9 so we don’t have to deal with the updated zippy zap with Tera electric sword of ruin and light ball
Fairly certain it would have been banned considering it boosts evasion from gen 8 onwards.
If Regieleki knew Knock Off it'd be an excellent counter.
The names of the moves may have been hilariously done but damn were they good. Veevee volley and Pika papow are just fun to say
one of the many things i learned from evevee is that the moves Vevee volley and Pika papow aren't usable in pvp play. they'd be pretty good, esp for pikachu, but sadly it doesn't get to use it.
It should be noted that Zippy Zap and all of partner Eevee's moves had their effects changed from Gen 8 onwards, though they are unusable in gameplay. Quoting Bulbapedia:
Zippy Zap: Its PP was changed to 10 while its power was changed to 80. Additionally, its secondary effect is raising evasion by one stage, instead of a guaranteed critical hit.
Sizzly Slide, Buzzy Buzz: Its PP was changed 20 while its power was changed to 60.
Bouncy Bubble: Its PP was changed to 20, its power was changed to 60, and 100% of the damage dealt to the target is restored to the user.
Glitzy Glow, Baddy Bad: Its power was changed to 80 and its accuracy to 95%.
Sappy Seed, Freezy Frost: It now has 100 power, 90% accuracy, and 10 PP.
Sparkly Swirl: Its power was changed to 120, its accuracy to 85%, and its PP to 5.
@@TLNT2103-zg3sbchanging a move's accuracy to 95% is very mean and fucked up
I mean, it’s return and electric special return, but there’s no real reason you couldn’t make it a separate move
1:33 EWGF's mind going insane looking at Nuzzle
yeah nuzzle is super good, guaranteed para with chip is amazing. imagine if it was 90 BP tho.
Spoken like nuzzle isn’t one of the best moves in the entire game. This is tbolt with guaranteed paralysis, if it were distributed in any gen it would be immediately banned because the best strategy would always be a bulky medium speed team that spreads para and essentially gets 1.25 times more actual turns than the opponent, hell it would probably make soak a relevant move
@@ElectricWindGirlFriend don't forget that it ignores Taunt because it is, technically, an attack.
The entire subset of guranteed effect attacks is interesting. We used to just have things like Zap Cannon and Dynamic Punch that have guranteed effect if they connect but also poor ability to connect in the first place, but then after we got No Guard DP Golurk one day it seems that the floodgates were opened, first for moves like Nuzzle and now for stuff like Ceaseless Edge and Stone Axe that are actual attacks in their own right.
Nuzzle is also balanced by it being mostly on pikachu clones (like that draco-meteor tanking pachirisu...)
@@TheLaXandro Also ignores Good as Gold for the same reason. :P
It would be cool to make the eevee moves the signature moves of their respective eeveelutions.
I came here to say this exactly. I get why they wouldn't want to give them all to Eevee because it being able to carry them all to each Eeveelution of choice would be nuts, but at bare minimum they could give Vaporeon Bouncy Bubble, Flareon Sizzly Slide, etc. For whatever reason, Game Freak hates the Eeveelutions and takes every opportunity to deprive them of moves, especially coverage.
@@FatherOfGrayinclement emerald let's you devolve eeveelutions for that purpose. So, if you wanted a glaceon with flamethrower for example, you could evolve your eevee into flareon, teach it flamethrower, devolve it into Eevee, and evolve it into glaceon. And there you go, glaceon with flamethrower
@@FatherOfGray I'm still angry from Legend Arceus that only give Water Pulse as best STAB for Vaporeon (through, Flareon, who lost Flare Blitz, is even worse).
Let’s see how they would benefit these Pokémon in a theoretical case where they did get these moves. Let’s Go from F to S tier.
F: none!
All of them would benefit from their moves enough so that none would land in F tier, in my opinion.
D: Sylveon and Glaceon
Sylveon has better things to be doing than clearing status conditions. Typically in gen 9, it’s a setup sweeper with Calm Mind, and you’d rather run Moonbladt for that extra bit of power and the chance to lower special attack, letting you potentially sweep for a bit longer.
Glaceon is just kinda shit anyway, so removing stat changes wouldn’t be very useful. That being said, it would completely shut down baton pass setup sweep teams, so it might have the tiniest niche in AG with a Focus Sash.
C: Espeon, Flareon
Espeon is usually a Stored Power setup sweeper, but it might be able to run this to be able to switch in and smack an opponent without having to boost first, then use it’s boosted special defense to help it set up.
Flareon really needs anything it can get, and it would greatly appreciate a way to guaranteed burn the opponent. Still, once it gets that burn off, it would not have much to do afterwards.
B: Jolteon
Jolteon would like the guaranteed paralysis of Buzzy Buzz, and Thunder Wave would likely cease to exist in its movepool the day this happened.
A: Vaporeon, Umbreon
These both fill holes in their owner’s strategies. Vaporeon lacks reliable recovery and leftovers don’t really cut it, so it would eat this move up like Caseoh in a museum when he sees paintings of food. It would free up a move slot from Wish, so it could run an actually good move like Ice Beam. Umbreon is weak on the physical side but it can’t afford to run Reflect lest it be walled endlessly by the average poison or steel type. With Baddy Bad, it would no longer be threatened by the fighting types that keep it in the lower tiers.
S: Leafeon
This gives Leafeon good recovery that it normally wouldn’t have. It no longer would be damned to running either Leech Seed or Leftovers, and now it could realistically run Protect without Wish. I could see it being a good UU mom with a set of Swords Dance, Sappy Seed, Trailblaze, and Last Resort if it could get this move.
Eeveelutions don't have signature moves.
Major respect to PokeRogue for letting them learn these moves so my runs with Raichu are the easiest thing ever. Zippy Zap is insane.
Edit: they nerfed it. They nerfed my boy. My beautiful baby boy. Now it gives +1 to EVA instead of guaranteed crit.
For real, it just invalidates anything that isn’t tanky or a resist
I'm now wondering if giving Gorochu in my future fangame a 2+ priority 75 BP guaranteed paralysis physical electric move based on Zippy Zap is a good idea ...
@@dse763do it, it's a fan game so it's not like there will be a huge competitive scene. Give some pokemon busted options and they'll make for fantastic boss fights
Those nerfs were actually done by game freak for gen 8, but they also got dexited
baddy bad is still the best move name in the entire pokémon franchise
Certified extreme evoboost moment. (Imagine if it wasn't a z move...)
extreme evoboost is the only other time when these guys have been good in higher pokemon tiers to my knowledge. i guess pikachu is usable in gsc ou but good is a huge overexaggeration.
@@ElectricWindGirlFriend People try to cook with it in ADV. Key word, try
@@Gold_Gamer_100 I mean, it's usable in ADV. Having the strongest special attack in the game gives Pikachu a definite viable niche.
@@notme8232yeah. Some players try it from time to time for this reason. Hclat i think? I forget who it was exactly, but it was used in a tournament
@@Gold_Gamer_100yeah, it was hclat. Same guy brought butterfree to a tournament game. Out of the two tournament games butterfree has been in, it has a 100% win rate. ADV is fire.
Guess we should be thankful Partnerchu's damage is mid. Imagine if LGPE had held items and the little guy gets its hands on a Light Ball!
Hmm, wonder what item they'd give Eevee in that case?
@@megarayquaza2240 To be fair even if eevee got their own item they’d probably run eviolite
@@ChromaBiscuit hmm, would it even work? Because the partner eevee can't evolve.
@@ChromaBiscuit Eeveeolite
@@ChromaBiscuit Partner Eevee can't use eviolite, even in scenarios where a game has been hacked to either put partner eevee in a game that has held items (SwSh, for example, still has the slot for it, as do PLA, BDSP, and SV) or hacked LGPE to allow held items, as Eviolite checks if the holder's data slot has any evolutions in its evolution table (which is empty for mons that do not evolve) and if that table is indeed empty, eviolite does nothing.
Even if it was a hardcoded species list like a lot of people think, "species" in the context of functionality means the same thing as "data slot." (Keep in mind this means there are 18 Arceuses and 18 Silvallys in the game data. Why? Because it's a funny thing to know.) so even then, they'd have to hardcode for it to allow Partner Eevee, which would be an intentional decision.
im playing Pokerogue and its actually really nice how Raichu gets the special lets go moves, has saved my ass alot.
I'm so glad I grabbed Pikachu in my run to fill the "Pokedex" bc it evolved and zippy zap is carrying, it's crazy
They could legit give regular Pikachu all of its Let's GO moves and it would still suck overall, even after Life Orb. Raichu would be cooking though, but I wouldn't expect more than one tier jump from either of them.
Raichu's OK in VGC, or so I hear, so it might be good there.
@@GeorgeDCowley Lightning Rod Raichu would cook deliciously! Electric E-Speed that always crits for wall breaking would be great. (The Evasion version could also be good enough to even forego Protect)
The partner starters may be good, but they'll never be as powerful as Boingus
The names are so silly I love them! Ngl Zippy Zap was like how I thought Flower Trick. Since Meowscada was so soft it kinda "had" priority
SHOUTOUT TO BADDY BAD. GOTTA BE MY FAVORITE MOVE.
They probably made Pikachu worse because they thought Pikachu would sell more than an Eevee that can't evolve
You forgot the busted mechanic of multiple focus sashes at max friendship.
i have never even tried to play pokemon competitively and yet i've been stuck watching all of your videos for the past week
Any other Pokémon from the respective typing having these moves would be absolutely deranged.
Having played both Pikachu and Eevee, i can safely say that while Eevee is more versatile with coverage, Pikachu is the better starter. The main caveat being Eevee being really frail with only 2 mons it can pivot into to tank a fighting type move(Gengar and Alolawak), Pikachu keeps the same frailness but can pull off insanity if it can paralyze something and can easily pivot into one of the many flying types when needed.
My preferred movesets are:
Pikachu (Naive Nature +Speed-SpDef)
Zippy Zap
Floaty Fall
Splishy Splash
Protect/Thunder Wave
Eevee (Jolly Nature +Speed-SpAtk)
Sizzly Slide
Sappy Seed
Sparkly Swirl/Freezy Frost
Protect
Something PokeRogue has done is give each of the Eeveelutions and Raichu the let's go starter moves. Does anyone think this would be actually kinda cool to happen in main series?
Sappy seed leafeon carrying my pokerogue runs alongside thunderous kick lucario
Regular Pokémon shouldn't get the signature moves of Legendaries.
@@Nosretep I think they should but ONLY as an egg move where the parent is a Smeragle that sketched that move
@tangerinepaint3643 Smeargle would've have to sketch it from a different Pokémon.
@@Nosretep yeah that’s what I meant
@Nosretep its fun in pokerogue. Lets the enemies be more challenging since more pokemon are viable
WRONG- or wait you just mean the starters and not the game itself?
Alright fair enough
The game is also good, you're just an asshole. I'm super sorry if a game that wasn't for you didn't cater to your extremely specific niche requirements for a game, but that's a personal problem for you to GET OVER in your own time, rather than say dumb shit like "lets go bad" and make an ass of yourself.
"I don't like it" is not the same thing as "it's bad"
This is actually part of a bigger issue, signature moves are awesome but they’re also often locked to one or a few Pokémon that often don’t see use or don’t use that move well and we’re left with big power gaps in the move chart when the moves exist to fill them without adding anything new. Volt tackle on the pikachu like is the most grievous offender but there a bunch of others. There are no widely distributed special flying type moves between air slash at 75 bp, 95 acc, and hurricane at 110 BP, 70 acc, while aeroblast just sits on Lugia, a Pokémon that is rarely ever used even when it’s legal in a rule set or tier. There’s so many of these really obvious holes, and I get that signature moves add flavor but the direction of Pokémon has almost always been towards wider distribution over time, entei got sacred fire for example, and a ton of Pokémon are less viable because they don’t have a decent STAB move. Playing the type split meta really illustrates this point.
There's a reason those demon spawns are stuck in their respective games
For a while I’ve been a huge advocate of bringing back zippy zap as a pikachu exclusive move, I could genuinely see it being a pretty solid, albeit still somewhat niche pick in VGC
sappy seed fucked me up in pokerogue once and i didnt even know it was a lets go move
This is the reminder for everyone wondering where those weird egg moves in PokeRogue came from, if they got names like Baddy Bad or Bouncy Bubble, they are probably from LGPE
These weird superpowered moves that Partner Pikachu and Eevee have would, little did we know, end up pulling way more weight as egg move options in PokéRogue.
In Pokerogue Pikachu and Eevee can get these moves, wich makes them actually usable, but also other mons can use them too, floaty fall os so good
> omg why did they make all of these broken overpowered moves
> "solid in underused"
seems like they were balanced pretty well?
Yeah they were in context fs. In theory pretty much all of these are completely absurd and broken, but on these guys it’s way better. In hindsight I kinda oversold how good the moves are, sorry about that.
Honestly, I'm just glad these moves never made it into the mainline games- imagine Smeargle with Sizzly Slide or Buzzy Buzz in VGC...
I love how they made a dark and psychic move with a good bp set screen and went “this is op we should nerf it a bit” and all they did was lower the accuracy by 5 lmao
they're perfectly accurate in Let's Go for the record! For some reason the moves have different attributes in Sw/Sh but in LGPE all the Eevee moves are 90bp, 100% Acc
@@evevee oh my bad, it’s been a bit since I’ve played LGPE so I’m just going off how pokerouge has them cause I assumed they would be unchanged
No wonder these moves are Let's Go! exclusive.
I’ve got 12 years before let’s go Spinda and let’s go Kecleon but I’m waiting it out
I gave eevee enough candies to keep up with my team stat wise, but its moves are so insane it didnt matter lol
Some of these moves made me think this was an April Fools joke, but nah they were real moves.
On one hand, I'm still upset that they bothered giving all of these moves to the Let's Go starters and not buffing their evos at all. Imagine Jolteon with Buzzy Buzz or Vaporeon with Bouncy Bubble. On the other hand, I'm sad that these starters have to stay in Let's Go and not be usable versions of these weaker Pokemon. Someone pointed out that a Light Ball Starter Pikachu with a STAB, defense raise ignoring E-Speed would be too much, but honestly with the prominence of Ground and Dragon types plus Knock Off, I'd see it even falling a few tiers. It's all fun and games until the opponent sends out Raging Bolt and you can't do jack.
for what it's worth, both Jolteon and Vaporeon are already excellent in Let's Go OU (definitely better than Starter Eevee!), so they aren't missing out too much there
IDK, Helping Hand/Follow-Me, Friend Guard Clefairy w/Eviolite would be probably be permanently attached to Pikachu in doubles. Pikachu also gets access to Play Rough, Draining Kiss and Alluring Voice for Dragons and with Splishy Splash as coverage, it would literally be the icing on the cake. Partnerchu also has 120 base Spd so....
I don't deny, it would be fun as heck tho.
In the words of MoxieBoosted:
“Smergal would learn all of these moves”
They could pull a Dark Void and make the moves un-sketchable.
the wacky ahh buddy move things (????) weren't accesible to me (i played on switch lite) which made my experience so much worse. also i got stuck in the seafoam caves for 4 hours and deleted my whole file out of anger. maybe it's worth another shot..?
Real missed opportunity to have them get access to only items in the game with light ball for pikachu and eviolite for Eevee, make it some sort of late game challenge that you can use to even further upgrade them
Man if Pikachu got Zippy Zap in an actual game, we could know the terror of Light Ball Pikachu with Zippy Zap. It probably still wouldn't be OU viable, but there are worse things to be than a mixed wallbreaker with a priority move that does similar damage to unboosted Arceus-Normal e-speed.
Controversial take, they should bring some of these moves back and give them to more Pokémon. Floaty fall is kinda dumb but it nicely solves the problem of non-bird flying types not having access to physical moves, especially dragonite and gyrados. The flying Tera hat is even balloons.
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Imagine if you could put LGPE eevee's moves on the eeveelutions in mainline games
Ngl I mainly chose eevee not just because they’re my favorite but also because of the absurd coverage it had for a playthrough 😭
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FINALLY the competitive scene giving a fuck about LGPE! I will happily die on the hill that it's an objectively good game that got torn to shreds by a community it WASN'T FOR. -I thought at first it was just because of its relation to GO but nope this cycle has been repeating infinitely since then and it's frustrating!- It's a game that was *for* those of us who were interested in the main series, hadn't played it yet, but had played GO. Every single complainer didn't fall into any of these categories, including interest in the main series, clearly, since we should be celebrating the games that cause notable increases in size of community. Shouldn't we WANT the GO players to experience the main series too? There'd be a lot fewer dumb questions from the GO-Only crowd if that were the case :)
(Also Niantic could just. Explain how literally fucking anything works. That would help too! But we can't do anything about Niantic. We can do something about the community, and the Something to Do is to just be nicer ffs)
You forgor the Go power
They do funny thing where they boost a stat by 1 per point up to 200
The fact that all these moves have updated data in Pokemon HOME makes me think they have a chance to come back in a future game. Maybe. Perhaps. Hopefully not.
For those curious, here's the updated data :
[Pikachu moves]
Zippy Zap : Electric - 10 PP - 80 Pow - 100 Acc - Prio +2 - Grants Evasion +1 to user (Buff from 50 Pow, Nerf from 15 PP, Effect changed from Guaranteed Critical Hit)
Floaty Fall : Flying - 15 PP - 90 Pow - 95 Acc - 30% chance of Flinch (No changes)
Splishy Splash : Water - 15 PP - 90 Pow - 100 Acc - Targets all foes, 30% chance of Paralysis on each target (No changes)
[Eevee moves]
Bouncy Bubble : Water - 20 PP - 60 Pow - 100 Acc - Targets all foes, Heals 100% damage dealt (Buff from 15 PP, Nerf from 90 Pow, Effect changed from Healing 50% damage dealt)
Buzzy Buzz : Electric - 20 PP - 60 Pow - 100 Acc - Guaranteed paralysis on target (Buff from 15 PP, Nerf from 90 Pow)
Sizzly Slide : Fire - 20 PP - 60 Pow - 100 Acc - Guaranteed burn on target (Buff from 15 PP, Nerf from 90 Pow)
Glitzy Glow : Psychic - 15 PP - 80 Pow - 95 Acc - Sets up Light Screen (Nerf from 90 Pow - 100 Acc)
Baddy Bad : Dark - 15 PP - 80 Pow - 95 Acc - Sets up Reflect (Nerf from 90 Pow - 100 Acc)
Sappy Seed : Grass - 10 PP - 100 Pow - 90 Acc - Inflicts Leech Seed (Buff from 90 Pow, Nerf from 15 PP - 100 Acc)
Freezy Frost : Ice - 10 PP - 100 Pow - 90 Acc - Resets all stat changes (Buff from 90 Pow, Nerf from 15 PP - 100 Acc)
Sparkly Swirl : Fairy - 5 PP - 120 Pow - 85 Acc - Removes all status conditions on party (Buff from 90 Pow, Nerf from 15 PP - 100 Acc)
I wish all of those eevee moves where back in newer games. and that all eevees can learn them and still evolve. imagine how good flareon can be with that type coverage
I say, baisic Pikachu should have its stats buffed to those of Partner Pikachu. This will make it actually competitive with all of the 400-ish stat single-stage pikaclones like Pachirisu and Emolga, while not obsoleting Raichu. And it'll turn Light Ball Pikachu from a funny meme to a proper RU-tier threat at least.
Keep the moves in LGPE tho.
this game is for actual rattle shakers
(0:07) I want a flying Pikachu partner.
This isn't really relevant to competitive, but I think it's worth mentioning that they have guaranteed 31 IVs in every stat.
May you please do Arceus in your next video?
When are we getting “Let’s Go Furret” and “Let’s Go Ledian” for the Jhoto games?
Jk, but I adore both of these Pokémon’s designs I wish they were better and had actual niches.
Pikachu zapped so rillaboom could glide
Oh yeah, they have Let’s Go Competitive
Pls lemme know if Tauros is still OU in Let’s Go
it isn't, but it's the best Pokémon in UU!
me when i have busted moves (i'm eevee)
eevee starter is preety great on lgpe vgc
Bro I love clodsire in my first scarlet play through my team was 60-70 level and clodsire was level 100 I’m not joking LONG LIVE CLODSIRE
Pokemon?! Lets go!!!
I forgot how much they still suck and was surprised to see them have moves that broken and still be in UU haha
I don’t care if the names are lame. It was a missed opportunity to add these moves to the main games.
Gamefreak: "So we've added all these overpowered moves again..."
Me: "uh huh, and given them to Incineroar and the legendaries"
GF: "We gave them to eevee and pikachu"
Me: "You're joking, that's fantastic!"
(I wish the game had a hard mode that would really press your team so these moves could shine)
Imagine they actually gave those moves to already busted mons and you order the fiery wrestling tiger to use Baddy Bad
I didn’t see anyone talking about this, but Zippy Zap is 100% the most broken of them. It’s Electric Type Extreme Speed (yes, 80 BP) with guaranteed crit AND raises your evasion by a stage. Dumb move.
that's what its effect was changed to in Sword/Shield's code- in LGPE it's a 50bp autocrit priority move, as stated
@@evevee it still raised your evasion iirc
i can promise you it doesn't!
They are so insane that they are UU...
I hate Zippy Zaps name because its Japanese name is "Crackling Accel" which sounds awesome and like Lycanroc's Accelerock
Yeah the Japanese names are cute-cool but the English translation just left the cute. Bad-Bad Zone isn't the coolest thing but it's better than Baddy Bad.
Then you have the Spanish names that add the Eeveelutions' names in Eevee's moves (Baddy Bad's name translates to Umbreo-zone) and Pika in Pikachu's (Zippy Zap is Pikaturbo)
why didnt you talk about their base stats? dont they scale differently in LG
I did mention their base stats being better. idk about them scaling different, nowhere have i seen anything about that.
Man, imagine if these guys were legal in natdex
I would abuse the hell out of Eevium-Z Starter Eevee in NDUbers(cuz let's be honest that's where it would end up)
What game is this from again? Oh yeah, Pokemon Hell No you didn't just remake gen 1 for the second time but appealing to the modern climate with a move/ability/item dexit that you think the cutesy starter moves will somehow make up for.
I mean, it's nice for weaker mons to have a chance again after power creep, but giving several cracked moves to the box pokemon takes out my immersion. Like, there's no real narrative reason why any other pokemon couldn't be given the same treatment, NOT to say that others should be given the same treatment. It's just a weird feeling
I def get that. the new signatures are nuts in a way that doesn't really feel in line with the games sometimes. im very focused on uniqueness when it comes to pokemon so I like it, but i could very well be in the minority on that one.
The "immersion" in this case is on the level of running around the room with a toy aeroplane, making engine sounds with your face.
The realization of the kids who played yellow at such a young age that they didn't even understand that the Pikachu was weak AF because they were overlevelled by the time they made it to a gym- from days of illiterate meandering.
That's why the names are so fuckin dumb, and its glorious.
As someone who loves pikachu and eevee i want these two back.
You dint understand ill even just take the stat increases. Ill use partner pikachu on a competitive team with light ball and itll be fine please GF why isnt ash cap pikachu just this.
GF PLEASE!
No one gets it!! I'll even tame smogom just making them legal in anything goes or something
But please somebody bring these two back so i could put items on them im begging you
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Baddy bad zone is the worst name for a move ever.
:)
Never played them wont ever play them
My friends always ask why I bought lets go eevee instead of Pikachu. Eevee just offers better gameplay than Pikachu. If i wanted a souped up Pikachu i just replay Pokemon yellow
All those broken moves and they still can't match OU power creep, absolutely ridiculous.
I LOVE ELECTRICWINDGIRLFRIEND RAHHHHHHHH
Didn't LG Eevee get banned?
it got one of its moves banned from Candy OU, but in standard OU it's fully legal
Im glad I skipped Lets GO.
From the start, I really dont like what LGPE had to offer.
The following animations are the goat though.
whats bro yapping about
Pokemon TCG ass moves.
These move names are quite cringe lol
yeah the names are wild LOL i cant believe moves like baddy bad exist
@@ElectricWindGirlFriendThat name in particular was hilarious. I remember seeing shofu just clowning on these names, it was great. 😆
So fun for pokerogue