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Just a Spiritomb stat buff

It was crazy nostalgic to hear Mewmore music, wow! Great video and great choice in tunes. ^_^

I feel like there’s two abilities that should be higher. Mycelium Might should absolutely be higher simply because Gholdengo exists. Being the top Pokemon right now in doubles and having an ability that prevents status is amazing, but with Mycelium Might ignoring the ability all you need to do to immobilise the top Pokemon is survive a hit, which a minus special defense, 0 IV and 0EV Toedscruel survives from a plus special attack 31 IV and 252 EV Tera Steel Gholdengo when in doubles, and I think being able to put Gholdengo to sleep is enough to put it up to at least the niche group. The other is Scrappy, simply because WolfeyVGC used it in the early era of ScaVi and got Top 1 with a Dondozo + Tatsugiri team that had Scrappy Flamigo on to get Dondozo’s boost by having the Tatsugiri faint and not the Dondozo, and a Belly Drum Cetitan as a back up when Dondozo + Tatsugiri wasn’t a good option.

Does Magic Guard block the splash damage from Flame Burst?

Rock Tomb and Bulldoze, Icy Wind, Glaciate, Pounce... only differences are slight Base Power & Accuracy (and PP?) variations.

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Ruination is a little better than nature's madness, because it can hit shedinja like night shade, although shedinja didn't in scarlet and violet

If they give Golisopod another ability it would be a lot better. I would give it Water Veil to do more damage and less from fire moves. U-Turn to fit the theme of retreating to its previous ability. This will be a good counter to Incineroar since First impressions does neutral damage, its a water type, and slower then Incineroar which it can use U-turn to give it a safe switch in to your pokemon. This will give it so much utility. Also that Attack and Defense is already very high.

Ok but if you considered VGC, Frisk would fall down 100 spots cus… open team sheet

I wonder where pressure went. Surely it’s not that good of an ability…right?

Stall is situationally pretty useful in VGC. I would definitely put it higher

I feel like Steadfast should be listed higher. Fake Out is one of the best and most used move in a VGC team, along with other damaging moves like Rock Slide. Most mons that get Steadfast are not incredibly fast, meaning they could easily benefit from the extra speed buff next turn.

31:50 and even WHAT???

I wish this video has the abilities compared in a vacuum not for each mon. Also snow cloak and sand veil are both viabole strategies in doubles when used with bright powder, and have won some tournaments as well. overall great video tho

I think you forgot to rank Huge Power

Anyone else feel like Anger Shell would work really well for golisopod? Keeps the activation requirement of falling below 50% hp, and the stat changes could be viewed as golisopod going from running away from an opponent as whimpod, to it running towards the opponent as golisopod

33:20 Well someone’s gotta be straight cause god knows competitive players ain’t

I'm genuinely surprised to see klutz be so high on the list

Before Sharpness, I used a Steadfast Gallade as an answer to Fake Out Pokémon. No one likes a Close Combat that always came first.

putting truant above slow start is crazy? sure, you get weakened stats for five turns which sucks, but thats nowhere near just completely missing half of your turns, effectively halving your damage and health if you're not one shotting shit.

As one being broken af.

i'd argue that truant is worse than slow start since it can be walled altogether by protect: a move already used by just about every pokemon

For steadfast, I actually had the exact situation shown in the video happen in a draft league mock battle, with the same two mons and everything. Never seen it before or since.

Am I stupid or is Klutz not in here?

i think Rivalry isn't as bad as it seems. If you know which Pokemon you are going up against, or in competitive you know which Pokemon are meta. (for example, the forces of nature always being male) You can purposely use a Rivalry pokemon to deal extra damage.

Wait, damp prevents mind blown but not chloroblast? I thought those were literally the same except for typing and learners

IMO truant is much worse than slow start, slow start is only temporary and you can stall it out with protect/sub. And also, slow start still lets you PLAY THE GAME, Truant making you skip every other turn is so detrimental and gives your opponent so much time to setup, especially in doubles where missing a turn hurts even more compared to singles.

i think truant should be considered worse than slow start. there are mons where having slow start wouldnt even matter (for example, chansey). whereas truant cripples every mon in every situation. i know this is a nitpick

Normalize is WAY too low. It really is only bad because Delcatty is unusable. On a good normal type, a 20% boost would be super good. Evaluating the ability in a vacuum, it would be super strong on other pokemon.

8:15 I actually had this happen in a battle. An absol flinched my gallade which made it faster which then lead to it sweeping the rest of the team.

Illuminate should be in useless dawg why is it not there

38:00 Shouldn’t Justified be place a little higher? There is the Beat Up combo to raise your attack by 5 stages in one turn

Hustle that high... That hurts to see as a randbats lover

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Slow Start would be a pretty okay ability on a Mon Like Reuniclus. The lower speed would help with outspeeding other Reuniclus in Trick Room and the lower attack reduces damage fromm Foulplay and confusion.

I feel like Stall is worse than Defeatist. Stall will get you killed before attacking, Defeatist at least lets you get an attack off first.

The question is, can there be any ability on First Place other then Wonder Guard?

It's kinda wild that propeller tail and stalwart are above costar. Slept on doubles sweeping ability! Think of the belly drum strats with that!

12:40 not that it particularly changes anything, but rivalry haxorus saw play in Gen 5 vgc to counter the always male genies. Once people knew about it though everyone started to run female Pokemon when possible

id say truant is worse than slow start because it gets fully countered by protect and even if your attack and speed is halfed given 2 turns thats the same damage it also goes away after 5 turns and in the turns you would lose from truant you could use setup moves too

How could you not mention the fact that soundproof is banned in Gen 3 OU?

I appreciate the work this took great job i only have one problem specifically in the rules. signature moves make sense to keep separate but i feel general abilitys would be more interesting to rank if its considered outside of the mon that lear it. Otherwise no notes amazing work

8:10 other people have probably mentioned it but fake out is very common in VGC, so steadfast boosting speed when flinched can be quite useful, still very niche but I think it should be a few spots up at least, not one of the worst abilities by far

You say that klutz can be combined with trick, but you don't say that truant can be skill swaped

i would just like to add that frisk is useless in oficial VGC tournaments because they're open sheet tournaments, meaning that you know all of the foe's items, attacks and abilities, so it is kinda useless on these

39:50 I'm not sure what you mean by "since gen 5" when talking about Flower Gift changing Cherrim's form. It's ALWAYS had that effect.

I disagree on placing Defeatist above Truant. Undoubtedly Truant sets you back, but I think that Slaking is more capable of pulling its own weight than Archeops is. Archeops' low defenses (65 each) see that Defeatist activates too easily. Truant does have the benefit of allowing the Pokémon to disregard recharge because it will loaf around anyway (meaning that Slaking is built for Hyper Beam and especially Giga Impact), although that can also be spun as requiring a recharge after every move. Truant is easy to counter with Protect and its ilk, admittedly, but Slaking can learn Taunt to put those moves out of commission (unfortunately, it cannot learn Feint and related moves as well). Also, I have never played competitive, but how often do people run Slaking with a Rocky Helmet? I do not think highly of Anticipation, Forewarn, or Frisk, although I do agree that Frisk is the most useful of the three. I like Abilities that have an active effect, not ones that just tell you what to expect. Why did Earthquake not work on the Meowscarada at 25:11? Was it holding an Air Balloon? I see that most Ability twins/triplets are together, but seeing as you placed Gooey above Tangling Hair because Goodra benefits from it more than Fake Dugtrio (I hate that mechanic and refer to fake, false, spurious, or bogus regional variants by contrast with their real, true, genuine, or actual counterparts instead), I assume that Cotton Down is even higher because it benefits Eldegoss even more. (EDIT: I forgot that Cotton Down lowers the Speed of all other Pokémon, not just the attacker, so of course it goes above Gooey and Tangling Hair.) Is there a similar reason as to the separation of Cloud Nine and Air Lock? I do not get why everybody touts Normalize on the grounds that it can facilitate using Thunder Wave on a Ground-type Pokémon. You can paralyze a Ground-type Pokémon with Stun Spore or Glare. Normalize is never worth it, and the power boost that it gained in Generation VII does not help. Cute Charm and Wonder Skin are both far more worthwhile for Skitty and Delcatty, although I prefer Cute Charm myself. Finally, what would you all think of an Ability that turned into a random Ability upon entering the battle and reset upon leaving? (If the Ability activated upon leaving, like Natural Cure or Regenerator, then it would activate before resetting. Also, it would not be able to turn into itself, Abilities that facilitate form changes, Abilities designed to work with specific Pokémon, or Illusion [because the illusion would be spoiled by the Pokémon appearing as itself before the Ability changed].)

Slow start is too high 🤓

Cloud nine a hard one to rank because it can often be completely useless, as if the Pokemon has no ability at all, but it can also make Golduck viable in ubers.