every time we think we can predict the story line, he pulls the most random stuff, we have better odds at predicting metronome then we have at predicting jimothy cool
@@Imitationist dusknoir can also ohko zamazenta if it was skill swapped tinted lens, has +6 attack and zam is -6 defence People are sleeping on dusknoir tbh It's unbeatable vs most popular threats
This video reminds me of another stalwart and altruistic Pokemon who has unfortunately fallen just short of competitive viability: the Water and Rock-type Corsola. She possesses many desirable qualities, such as the abilities Natural Cure and Regenerator, access to useful defensive moves in Stealth Rock, Mirror Coat, and Recover, as well as a winning smile and cheerful personality. I only wish the best for Corsola in her future endeavors. Thank you.
@@ThorozakCorsola possesses four stubby hoof-like legs, as well as horns not too dissimilar from antlers. These traits make Corsola much more of a horse than contemporaries such as Rhydon, who rely far too much on their Ground-type horse-themed attack.
I have good news and bad news from the future. Good news is that she is very good with eviolite and a new evolution! Bad news is that she’s dead. Like, “entirely extinct due to pollution killing the coral reef,” level of dead.
I can only hope Macargo remembers all of the clients, loyal supporters, and common folk who funded, campaigned, and sacrificed to ensure his rightful position on The Horse Council. Failure to acknowledge and reward such devotion and service will surely come back to haunt him.
Snorlax absolutely should have gotten Slack Off in Gen 4 onwards to be more viable. You know, the Pokemon who is known for being lazy and sleepy to the point where it's a static encounter in the Kanto games because it fell asleep in two separate locations.
Being lazy is not quite the same as being asleep all the time, though. Slack Off is just the Pokemon taking it easy. Snorlax is more about outright sleeping. But yes, it definitely needed Slack Off to keep up.
it always bothered me that a pokemon like Infernape, the embodiment of hyper activity, can learn slack off, but Snorlax, the embodiment of slacking off, doesn’t
Due to the fixed bonus of 100 base stat points for Mega Evolutions, for Mega Pidgeot, they probably should've done what they did with Mega Beedrill: take points out of its less important attacking stat and add it to the other. As far as I know, Mega Pidgeot only uses its Attack stat for U-Turn, so it wouldn't have lost anything major by losing base stat points from that. But yeah, having a better movepool would definitely help it, too.
meanwhile there was that CAP mega with no guard and every low accuracy high power special move under the sun that was so powerful they had to nerf its movepool
Dusclops needs to be traded while holding the reaper cloth to evolve, so overcoat makes perfect sense! It's just wearing the cloth now and using it to protect from weather
Renegade Platinum gave Dusknoir Iron Fist and Drain Punch, which is a potent mix. With a moveset of elemental punches, drain punch, and shadow punch all boosted by iron fist, it could make Dusknoir more viable. And While it is technically good for its tier, its still insane to think that Kyurem Black is just an ordinary OU pokemon for its debut in competitive, despite being a Boxart Legendary.
Dusknoir is such a cool and menacing design, I’ve tried to make him work a bunch of times but all of his assets are just not quite good enough to work well in any gen I’ve tried, it always feels like there’s a better option available on whatever tier it ends up in. I guess he’ll just have to make do with being the villain in PMD2
I mean, every mega form only added 100 bst to the original forms, so the issue wasn't on the mega form, but the base form. Mega alakazam reaches high stats because they were already high before the mega. Mega pidgeot musst work like mega beedrill, being a fast one trick poney (not that they are horses) in order to have any chance of doing something.
Actually, you may be onto something. If Pidgeot learned High Horsepower, Mega Pidgeot could be classified as a horse, allowing it access to the horse council and greatly boosting its viability...
Agreed Dusknoir needs a healing move and not rely on Pain Split. I am aware that in Legends Arceus they gave it Leech Life but they can do better than that. Boosting moves like Bulk Up would really help as well.
The one mon that always comes to mind for "almost good" is Cresselia in Gen 4 OU. On paper it is the bulkiest mon in the entire metagame, but in practice, it has quite a few drawbacks holding it back. I think Crobat getting low sweep as a fighting move in Gen 3 would make sense, even if it isn't the best fighting move. I think Magic Guard would make more sense than Overcoat for Dusknoir, and it would be a slightly better ability. Maybe it would be too much, though?
the reason mega pidgeot has such medocre stats is 1. It decided to be a special attacker when in base form it has a higher attack stat. 2. And more importantly, megas only give 100 bst above the base version which makes mega pidgeot only have 579 bst and 65 of those 100 stats go to special attack.
@@MMurine that is true, i honestly forgot they did that to beedrill. it loses 30 spatk whem mega evolving, but idk if any other actually redistributes the stats like that, if they changed mega pidgeot's attack to give it more special attack or speed it would have been cool though.
@@Isabelle-mp8rk A lot of them lower the base form's speed. Heracross, Garchomp, Camerupt, Ampharos, Sableye and Abomasnow all lose speed when mega evolving.
great video, but I think its important to mention that Pidgeot faces SIGNIFICANT competition from tornadus-t in its format, which can hold an item, has similar stats (bulkier and can actually switch in on things), focus blast, knock off and has regenerator which is amazing. Pidgeot would probably have to be made into a fighting-type and given focus blast to have an actual niche
I dont want to alert anybody but with that 85 base attack on Magcargo-Horse-Prime would've had to crit High Horsepower on Horsea to kill. I think he did it. Ran the calcs with 252+ Atk 85 Base Attack Magcargo and it rolls for 77.1-91%. 252+ Atk Magcargo High Horsepower vs. 0 HP / 0- Def 0 IVs Horsea: 155-183 (77.1 - 91%) -- guaranteed 2HKO 252+ Atk Magcargo High Horsepower vs. 0 HP / 0- Def 0 IVs Horsea on a critical hit: 232-274 (115.4 - 136.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO
from a VGC perspective, Hisuan Qwilfish and Overqwil couldve been genuinely fantastic intimidate options IF they had access to Flip Turn (like johnto qwilfish does)
I have an important lore question? Does Tyrek Lannister have a seat on the horse council? This could affect the politics of King Magcargo’s reign greatly.
Me and my friends made a fake gen 4 meta game where we edited move sets and abilities. It’s really surprising how once dusknoir gets tools like intimidate and recover makes it such a good wall. I mean yeah those two tools are really good but stopping adaptability garchomp and brave bird banded ayro is really cool.
Aerodactyl in gen 2 could have been good, but they gatekept good rock stab from it Solution: Give us access to Lance's Aerodactyl, it literally has Rock Slide and is the only gen 2 Aerodactyl with Rock Slide
Rumors are going around that King Magcargo is about to be assassinated with the ability defying 4x super effective Snipe Shot, we can only hope the perpetuator will miss and only hit the right ear.
I think it would be really cool of slowly throughout the vids mcargo got slowly more evil and horsea had a redemption arc, learning from the errors of his ways and coming strong, with an arc and stuff
Another fantastic video from Mr. Cool. Great work sir!! Congratulations to Magcargo in his victory. I do however once again ask for your support in exposing the injustices that Raichu is still suffering. On behalf of the F.E.A please help, thank you.
Macargo is still 4x weak to ground, presenting another extreme weakness. He must beware, for traitors are ahoof everywhere. The high horsepower that brought him here might be his undoing.
Revaroom is waiting for his invite to the horse council since he learns high horsepower, and is quite clearly more horsey than any other horsey on the horsey panel
i've used dusknoir in dpp ou and bdsp ou, and whenever i used it i was mainly making use of its wide coverage to be surprisingly threatening, that's what sets it apart from the other old gen ghost types, so if you ask me it should be getting an offensive ability rather than overcoat. a fun one would be iron fist since it has all the elemental punches (and at the time its only stab was shadow punch so that would be a bit less pathetic)
Porygon-Z is in multiple metagames almost good, but if you gave it basically any significant buff, it would easily become crazy powerful. Noivern is a similar case, where multiple OMs show how devastating STAB Boomburst on that thing would be.
Dusknoir has such a big mouth that I'm shocked they've never given it Strong Jaw (which didn't exist in Gen IV tbf) to let it use moves like Poison Fang or Crunch/Jaw Lock (in later generations). Having a move that causes toxic without giving up on damage potential sounds really nice, if not necessarily game changing.
Porygon-Z is also really close to being a great pokemon competitively. Just barely too slow, and just barely not enough coverage. Hopefully they give it some love later down the line. It’s one of my favourite pokemon
As a counterpoint to the potential buffs you highlighted during this vid, is it worth considering what nerfs (stats, movepool etc.) could be made for notoriously broken mons in tiers to bring them in line? A potential idea, perhaps... Anyway, thanks again for the interesting history of competitive Pokemon, and of course for the latest update in the Horse Council.
Dusknoir's state in Gen 5 is especially cruel. Not only it finds itself in RU, which is tiered below its pre-evolved form, but it is completely unviable in RU, so it finds itself in tiering limbo. What makes this especially cruel is that Dusclops too is stuck in tiering limbo, as it is completely unviable in UU.
Whats really unfortunate about dusknoir, is that if they updated tiers and dropped it to UU, it would likely be fairly balancedand useable in some situations
I felt this really hard with Specs Sylveon in ORAS OU, and is something I originally discovered as an anti-meta threat to make mega sableye players regret their lives. It was amazing then, but now it struggles too much I think. If Sylveon had just like, one more thing, specs/pixie plate Sylveon would be one of the scariest wall breakers in the tier. Spammable special fairy stab on a nonmega is nonexistent in the tier, and 90% of Pokemon just get deleted by specs hyper voice, and even resists take huge damage. If it was a tiny bit faster, it could speed creep some common counters. If it had a tiny bit more hp it could set up 101 hp subs. If it had a slightly better move pool, it could tech something to deal with Chansey (something like trick, taunt). The baton pass ban for pivoting also really hurt it. It's stats and movepool are ultimately just a little too bad. I've tried to make this thing work so much, and it often goes 2.5 for 1 vs balance teams and is bulky enough to be a huge nuisance to offense, but it just can't justify a role when the opponent has certain defensive cores that just kill it.
Crobat is in UUbl, but on the surface it looks calm and ready to use hp ground, but it kept on forgetting what it's trainer said, my opponent's crowd goes so loud, times up my turn's over I'm disqualified from the jimcool tournament
I feel Zebstrika... I love this Pokémon. But it needs volt tackle. It also needs Flare Blitz (it already has overheat, flame charge). And get rid of one of its redundant electric immunity abilities and give it Reckless because the PokeDex talks of Zebstrika's poor temper and rage. It even gets thrash as a move to support this. Hell, for giggles give it Outrage too. But the ideal set would be: Life Orb + Reckless: -Volt Tackle -Flare Blitz -High Horsepower -Volt Switch
Magcargo was just showing off against horsea. Magcaro-horse-prime has an insane base special attack and horses has a terrible base special defence and still he opted to use a non-stab physical attack to one shot horses. One might to so far to say he was horsing around.
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every time we think we can predict the story line, he pulls the most random stuff, we have better odds at predicting metronome then we have at predicting jimothy cool
Your next metronome shall roll explode
The Usurper always wins at The Trident
The next lord of the Horse Council will be Magcargo's illegitimate son, Carkoal
@@susamogus8331 it rolled flame wheel
@@shelmet5 I lied
i appreciate the improv at the start of he vids so much lol
I propose that Crobat should learn High Horsepower instead of Earthquake, so that it may use its Infiltrator ability to infiltrate the Horse Council.
The community just hasn't woken up to ice punch dusknoir yet.
Yes, it kills landorus therian with a crit
crit ice punch ohkos lando t 100% of the time, pretty good set
@@Imitationist dusknoir can also ohko zamazenta if it was skill swapped tinted lens, has +6 attack and zam is -6 defence
People are sleeping on dusknoir tbh
It's unbeatable vs most popular threats
I recently found out about this meme. Zo I got the joke
His ability is actually MUCH more sinister, hoarse neigh. Combining the dry skin ability with unnerve. What an ability folks
That’s unnerving
This video reminds me of another stalwart and altruistic Pokemon who has unfortunately fallen just short of competitive viability: the Water and Rock-type Corsola. She possesses many desirable qualities, such as the abilities Natural Cure and Regenerator, access to useful defensive moves in Stealth Rock, Mirror Coat, and Recover, as well as a winning smile and cheerful personality. I only wish the best for Corsola in her future endeavors. Thank you.
Corsola would absolutely be a great horse to join the horse council, sadly it doesnt learn High Horse Power
As a fellow Water and Rock type who commonly found itself either in UU or Ubers, but rarely OU, Kabutops understands and sympathizes with Corsola.
@@ThorozakCorsola possesses four stubby hoof-like legs, as well as horns not too dissimilar from antlers. These traits make Corsola much more of a horse than contemporaries such as Rhydon, who rely far too much on their Ground-type horse-themed attack.
I have good news and bad news from the future. Good news is that she is very good with eviolite and a new evolution! Bad news is that she’s dead. Like, “entirely extinct due to pollution killing the coral reef,” level of dead.
@@ThorozakHorsola
I'm like "But couldn't Crobat run Super Fang to deal decent damage against anything?"
Well, turns out it didn't get Super Fang until Gen 4 >.>
I can only hope Macargo remembers all of the clients, loyal supporters, and common folk who funded, campaigned, and sacrificed to ensure his rightful position on The Horse Council. Failure to acknowledge and reward such devotion and service will surely come back to haunt him.
Snorlax absolutely should have gotten Slack Off in Gen 4 onwards to be more viable. You know, the Pokemon who is known for being lazy and sleepy to the point where it's a static encounter in the Kanto games because it fell asleep in two separate locations.
Being lazy is not quite the same as being asleep all the time, though. Slack Off is just the Pokemon taking it easy. Snorlax is more about outright sleeping.
But yes, it definitely needed Slack Off to keep up.
it always bothered me that a pokemon like Infernape, the embodiment of hyper activity, can learn slack off, but Snorlax, the embodiment of slacking off, doesn’t
@@Brandon.thebaby it's because Sun Wukong was famous for slacking off haha
King Magcargo, now ruler of the Horse Council must beware of those who do not accept his rise to power.
Will the horse council even survive these insane developments? Only the future knows for sure.
A horse that disapproves of King Magcargo would be called a "neighsayer"
Michael cargo is our new overlord
He should be aware but he also must punish them. He must show them why he is leader and why he is worthy.
I will never bend the knee to the usurper Magcargo
Due to the fixed bonus of 100 base stat points for Mega Evolutions, for Mega Pidgeot, they probably should've done what they did with Mega Beedrill: take points out of its less important attacking stat and add it to the other. As far as I know, Mega Pidgeot only uses its Attack stat for U-Turn, so it wouldn't have lost anything major by losing base stat points from that. But yeah, having a better movepool would definitely help it, too.
meanwhile there was that CAP mega with no guard and every low accuracy high power special move under the sun that was so powerful they had to nerf its movepool
Bro wants to give Crobat Earthquake but it doesn't fit thematically
Me: High Horsepower should be fine
It only took 14 years to give Dusknoir a strong Ghost STAB move
are you not the guy who would comment under like half of every EDM video on UA-cam 7-5 years ago? that's insane.
Let’s see how long it takes for them to give it strength sap
@@pc31754 I still do at times
@@DudeLover-wo7gw It should get Drain Punch
@@MaahirMomtaz12i think It has It already
I was betting on grass tera Magcargo. What a twist.
My upcoming D&D campaign was inspired by iron mugulis and the horse council saga
0:56 i can’t be mad. macargo horse prime is very creative. i hope you do more funny things like this in the future to keep it fresh
Dusclops needs to be traded while holding the reaper cloth to evolve, so overcoat makes perfect sense! It's just wearing the cloth now and using it to protect from weather
Dusknoir makes me so sad gave dusclops an evolution just to make the pre evolution viable
To think this all started with magcargo trying to bring his old friend horsea back to his senses…I can only hope he will be benevolent
Renegade Platinum gave Dusknoir Iron Fist and Drain Punch, which is a potent mix. With a moveset of elemental punches, drain punch, and shadow punch all boosted by iron fist, it could make Dusknoir more viable.
And While it is technically good for its tier, its still insane to think that Kyurem Black is just an ordinary OU pokemon for its debut in competitive, despite being a Boxart Legendary.
Days since Groodon: 7.
Magcargo Horse Prime is fucking insane and an immunity to its 4x weakness?😂
Add on 165 Special attack and 150 Speed God Help Us All
it will be a significant RU threat in Gen 10. insane
Surprised Staraptor wasn’t mentioned! That thing spent like four generations in UUBL haha
Dusknoir is such a cool and menacing design, I’ve tried to make him work a bunch of times but all of his assets are just not quite good enough to work well in any gen I’ve tried, it always feels like there’s a better option available on whatever tier it ends up in. I guess he’ll just have to make do with being the villain in PMD2
Dusknoir does work. I've tried it before.
I mean, every mega form only added 100 bst to the original forms, so the issue wasn't on the mega form, but the base form. Mega alakazam reaches high stats because they were already high before the mega. Mega pidgeot musst work like mega beedrill, being a fast one trick poney (not that they are horses) in order to have any chance of doing something.
I mean... it COULD get the ash greninja treatment for a 110 stat increase with no item needed. ASH PIDGEOT would be a happy present for some xD
Mega Beedrill infiltrates the horse council imminent
Actually, you may be onto something. If Pidgeot learned High Horsepower, Mega Pidgeot could be classified as a horse, allowing it access to the horse council and greatly boosting its viability...
My boy Staraptor de reckless king of BL for 4 generations...
Till he returned without roost and plumeted to PU...
Dusknoir just needed recover or a boosting move like Bulk up.
Maybe even both.
Agreed Dusknoir needs a healing move and not rely on Pain Split. I am aware that in Legends Arceus they gave it Leech Life but they can do better than that. Boosting moves like Bulk Up would really help as well.
The one mon that always comes to mind for "almost good" is Cresselia in Gen 4 OU. On paper it is the bulkiest mon in the entire metagame, but in practice, it has quite a few drawbacks holding it back.
I think Crobat getting low sweep as a fighting move in Gen 3 would make sense, even if it isn't the best fighting move.
I think Magic Guard would make more sense than Overcoat for Dusknoir, and it would be a slightly better ability. Maybe it would be too much, though?
the reason mega pidgeot has such medocre stats is
1. It decided to be a special attacker when in base form it has a higher attack stat.
2. And more importantly, megas only give 100 bst above the base version which makes mega pidgeot only have 579 bst and 65 of those 100 stats go to special attack.
I mean, they could've moved some of its base form's attack to special attack. Mega Beedrill has a BST 490 and it still managed a 150 Attack/145 Speed.
@@MMurine that is true, i honestly forgot they did that to beedrill. it loses 30 spatk whem mega evolving, but idk if any other actually redistributes the stats like that, if they changed mega pidgeot's attack to give it more special attack or speed it would have been cool though.
@@Isabelle-mp8rk A lot of them lower the base form's speed. Heracross, Garchomp, Camerupt, Ampharos, Sableye and Abomasnow all lose speed when mega evolving.
Loving the new thumbnail artstyle
Jim is on his million sub grind and I’m SO here for it :’3
great video, but I think its important to mention that Pidgeot faces SIGNIFICANT competition from tornadus-t in its format, which can hold an item, has similar stats (bulkier and can actually switch in on things), focus blast, knock off and has regenerator which is amazing. Pidgeot would probably have to be made into a fighting-type and given focus blast to have an actual niche
power corrupts even the greatest of horses. i hope that magcargo does not forget its roots and will lead the council with humility.
Damn this video and the False Swipe Gaming video in rapid succession, Dusknoir is getting absolutely hosed out there
I dont want to alert anybody but with that 85 base attack on Magcargo-Horse-Prime would've had to crit High Horsepower on Horsea to kill. I think he did it.
Ran the calcs with 252+ Atk 85 Base Attack Magcargo and it rolls for 77.1-91%.
252+ Atk Magcargo High Horsepower vs. 0 HP / 0- Def 0 IVs Horsea: 155-183 (77.1 - 91%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252+ Atk Magcargo High Horsepower vs. 0 HP / 0- Def 0 IVs Horsea on a critical hit: 232-274 (115.4 - 136.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO
returning to the magcargo story after not watching for a month and seeing how far it progresses:
Watching a Crobat with the name “flinch immune” eat a rock slide is actually incredibly funny
The Horse Council situation is really, heating up.
Everyone is so into the Horse Council storyline that I feel the need to add Electivire.
from a VGC perspective, Hisuan Qwilfish and Overqwil couldve been genuinely fantastic intimidate options IF they had access to Flip Turn (like johnto qwilfish does)
I'd really love a JimothyLore video one day.
love the ASOIAF references in the silly little intros, keep it up mister jimbo :)
Magcargo going to Horse-Prime mode was so funny, I loved it more then I used to thanks to, this crazy story ark it is in.
Jimothy your channel is great and you make very cool videos ❤
Now hold your horses partner isn't Arceus still the Supreme horse?
Arceus is Chairman of the Horse Elite
are things magcargover for the horse council? Magcargo-horse-prime could use his new position to use ally swap and bring about a potential coup
Magcarjoe is weeping joyously
I have an important lore question? Does Tyrek Lannister have a seat on the horse council? This could affect the politics of King Magcargo’s reign greatly.
So does the held item "Gaming Cap" only work for Macargo or can other Pokémon that learn high horsepower transform into their horse primal form?
The horse council has been taken over by a hostile, not horse force. We need a hero from the sea!
It would be really cool if crobat got Super Fang like it does in future games
The real tragedy of dusknoir that never gets mentioned is it would be an excellent curse user and learns the move but can’t actually use it
Crazy flex to use High Horsepower when your physical attack is half your special. It certainly sends a message, doesn’t it
Me and my friends made a fake gen 4 meta game where we edited move sets and abilities. It’s really surprising how once dusknoir gets tools like intimidate and recover makes it such a good wall. I mean yeah those two tools are really good but stopping adaptability garchomp and brave bird banded ayro is really cool.
Aerodactyl in gen 2 could have been good, but they gatekept good rock stab from it
Solution: Give us access to Lance's Aerodactyl, it literally has Rock Slide and is the only gen 2 Aerodactyl with Rock Slide
Rumors are going around that King Magcargo is about to be assassinated with the ability defying 4x super effective Snipe Shot, we can only hope the perpetuator will miss and only hit the right ear.
haven’t seen this channel in a while, and it went from Iron Mugulis to the Horse Council😂 I missed out on some crazy lore
It doesn’t make thematic sense for sableye to be able to use octozooka but here we are
Mega Pidgeot does get STAB Hyper Beam with 100% accuracy. There’s no guarding that.
I think it would be really cool of slowly throughout the vids mcargo got slowly more evil and horsea had a redemption arc, learning from the errors of his ways and coming strong, with an arc and stuff
The buffs on crobat reminds me of Pokeaim universally suggesting Close Combat on everything imaginable
Another fantastic video from Mr. Cool. Great work sir!! Congratulations to Magcargo in his victory. I do however once again ask for your support in exposing the injustices that Raichu is still suffering. On behalf of the F.E.A please help, thank you.
I’m worried that magcargo will become a despot and target his critics…
Macargo is still 4x weak to ground, presenting another extreme weakness. He must beware, for traitors are ahoof everywhere. The high horsepower that brought him here might be his undoing.
what is the opinion of the horse council on Palkia origin?
Revaroom is waiting for his invite to the horse council since he learns high horsepower, and is quite clearly more horsey than any other horsey on the horsey panel
Thank you Mr. Cool, very Jimothy.
So every UUBL mon?
Yeah Mate. Yeah Mate.
@@jimothycoollmao
i've used dusknoir in dpp ou and bdsp ou, and whenever i used it i was mainly making use of its wide coverage to be surprisingly threatening, that's what sets it apart from the other old gen ghost types, so if you ask me it should be getting an offensive ability rather than overcoat. a fun one would be iron fist since it has all the elemental punches (and at the time its only stab was shadow punch so that would be a bit less pathetic)
Very sad about the loss that my favorite Pokémon, Horsea, suffered. Hopefully it will be back in action soon.
Porygon-Z is in multiple metagames almost good, but if you gave it basically any significant buff, it would easily become crazy powerful.
Noivern is a similar case, where multiple OMs show how devastating STAB Boomburst on that thing would be.
Dusknoir has such a big mouth that I'm shocked they've never given it Strong Jaw (which didn't exist in Gen IV tbf) to let it use moves like Poison Fang or Crunch/Jaw Lock (in later generations). Having a move that causes toxic without giving up on damage potential sounds really nice, if not necessarily game changing.
the fact magcargo-horse-prime just has calyrex-shadow's stats copy pasted at it is hilarious
My boy Staraptor the BL Pokemon how can you miss that 😢
dusknoir is actually one of my favourite pokemon designs it’s a shame it’s really difficult to get in most games and is never worth the effort
Staraptor, the pokemon who spent all its time since gen4 in UUBL, its brave bird being too powerful for UU but it's speed being too low for OU
Porygon-Z is also really close to being a great pokemon competitively. Just barely too slow, and just barely not enough coverage. Hopefully they give it some love later down the line. It’s one of my favourite pokemon
As a counterpoint to the potential buffs you highlighted during this vid, is it worth considering what nerfs (stats, movepool etc.) could be made for notoriously broken mons in tiers to bring them in line? A potential idea, perhaps... Anyway, thanks again for the interesting history of competitive Pokemon, and of course for the latest update in the Horse Council.
Dusknoir not getting Levitate is weird as it literally levitates in battle
Dusknoir's state in Gen 5 is especially cruel.
Not only it finds itself in RU, which is tiered below its pre-evolved form, but it is completely unviable in RU, so it finds itself in tiering limbo.
What makes this especially cruel is that Dusclops too is stuck in tiering limbo, as it is completely unviable in UU.
No horsing around I need that hat!
Dusknoir deserves to languish in a meta he had no business being in. Serves him right for what he did to Grovyle.
macargo on his robert baratheon arc
Marcargo the underdog hero turned political villain was not the arc I was expecting in 2024
Dusknoir is such a tragedy when it comes to evolutions
My boi Electivire wishing he got plasma fists.
I fear an equine empire or horse hegemony may result from macargo's monopoly on pokemon power.
Crobat using earthquake is weirdly satisfying
I wish they gave Dusknoir bulk up and drain punch. That'd be so cool. Or an Ability that had a vampiric function that drains health on hits.
i have a crazy idea: 7:13 since dusknoir looses it's legs when it evolves, what if, it get's Levitate? that woud be absurd right?
Whats really unfortunate about dusknoir, is that if they updated tiers and dropped it to UU, it would likely be fairly balancedand useable in some situations
How to make them work, give them moves that doesn’t make sense for them to have or give them abilities that didn’t exist 😂
I felt this really hard with Specs Sylveon in ORAS OU, and is something I originally discovered as an anti-meta threat to make mega sableye players regret their lives. It was amazing then, but now it struggles too much I think.
If Sylveon had just like, one more thing, specs/pixie plate Sylveon would be one of the scariest wall breakers in the tier. Spammable special fairy stab on a nonmega is nonexistent in the tier, and 90% of Pokemon just get deleted by specs hyper voice, and even resists take huge damage.
If it was a tiny bit faster, it could speed creep some common counters. If it had a tiny bit more hp it could set up 101 hp subs. If it had a slightly better move pool, it could tech something to deal with Chansey (something like trick, taunt). The baton pass ban for pivoting also really hurt it. It's stats and movepool are ultimately just a little too bad.
I've tried to make this thing work so much, and it often goes 2.5 for 1 vs balance teams and is bulky enough to be a huge nuisance to offense, but it just can't justify a role when the opponent has certain defensive cores that just kill it.
Crobat is in UUbl, but on the surface it looks calm and ready to use hp ground, but it kept on forgetting what it's trainer said, my opponent's crowd goes so loud, times up my turn's over I'm disqualified from the jimcool tournament
I feel Zebstrika...
I love this Pokémon.
But it needs volt tackle. It also needs Flare Blitz (it already has overheat, flame charge). And get rid of one of its redundant electric immunity abilities and give it Reckless because the PokeDex talks of Zebstrika's poor temper and rage. It even gets thrash as a move to support this. Hell, for giggles give it Outrage too.
But the ideal set would be:
Life Orb + Reckless:
-Volt Tackle
-Flare Blitz
-High Horsepower
-Volt Switch
My friend Magcargo, you kneel for nobody
Macargo won but Horsea could have a revenge arc. I love this plot lol
Magcargo was just showing off against horsea. Magcaro-horse-prime has an insane base special attack and horses has a terrible base special defence and still he opted to use a non-stab physical attack to one shot horses.
One might to so far to say he was horsing around.
Knew it. Ofc Macargo has access to legendary swag items. Can‘t stop thinking whether or not iron mugulis has something to do with this cheezy scheme.
Crobat's name and shape should have given it access to Cross Chop