Fun fact: i'm pretty sure that back in gen 3, there was a competition held, and the winner would be able to pick any Pokémon and have it given away as an event with any move it normally cannot learn. The winner chose Octazooka Sableye. I know that the Octazooka Sableye is real since i have one from that event, but i might be wrong on how it came to be. Still, if i'm right, that's pretty funny.
This Sableye is from a Japanese morning entertainment kids' TV show! It's the host's favourite Pokémon, and on the show guests will get slimed / inked or something. Octazooka was supposed to reference that.
I remember begging my parents to take me to Barnes & Noble because there was a Ruby and Sapphire strategy guide there, and I brought a sheet of notebook paper with me to write down all the steps to get the Regis. 😂 Pre-internet days sure were something else...
Honestly, my favorite event is the movie victini that...well, had the signiture moves of the legendary dragons for absolutely 0 reason. Like literally no reason at all, that is not even a reference towards the movie besides for the fact that the dragons were major plotpoints in it.
@@ragnaricstudios5888 i think the sableye was made to create the most annoying Pokemon possible (im serious) it had octozooka, some evasion moves and it held an item i think it was focus band or a berry from my memory. If you're interested in it im sure serebii has a page on it ! :)
@@lpfan4491 i love that victini! Reminds me of the spacial rend roar of time darkrai lol from platinum?? I wanna say platinum. My memory is very bad sometimes!
@@lpfan4491 and then it was actually meta relevant because suddenly you had this small little creature running around dropping bolt strikes on people like it was no one's business
With how easy they give you Legendaries these days, I actually miss the old days like getting the Regis in Gen 3 and even the Sevii Islands in FRLG. Sure it was difficult to understand the Braille but it was the most satisfying thing to accomplish as a kid. It was the only time the encyclopedia set my family bought felt useful 😂😂 plus it felt like an actual adventure.
The developers realized late that most wouldn't understand braille, so they put a braille guide in the little instruction booklet that came with the games.
I like going to ember Island and catching moltres there instead of in victory road, but the Regis were just BS. Like they could have just made it so they opened up after the red/blue orb was stolen or something.
Regis seems easier than catching the Dogs.. also in RBY version you can easiy catch legedaries (legendary birds) so it's not a new thing that devs makes legendaries easier to catch..
I actually did all that stuff in 2008. I made a doubles team with Shaymin and Regigigas for Battle Revolution's wifi battles. Shaymin would Worry Seed Regi to get rid of slow start.
I remember being so confused and frustrated with the Regi ruins when I played Ruby at 13. I tried everything I could think of for hours and eventually gave up. A few months later I was waiting for my foster parents to get done talking to my teacher and I was absentmindedly touching the bumps on the sign on my teacher's office door when I realized the bumps were arranged the same as the dots I'd seen. The next day I snuck my gameboy into school so I could try to find some kind of braille book that I could use to translate it, but I couldn't find anything. I asked the librarian and she offered to search it up on her computer and printed a copy for me. Easily the most satisfying puzzle I've ever solved.
Wide Slash is a complete lifesaver in the Mystery Dungeon games. Its a common TM that nearly every pokemon could learn and it was a very powerful move, especially if you lacked a move that hit the whole room. I remember that I always teached it to my main and it being typeless made it unresisted by anything. Definitely not a forgotten move in my book. Some shadow moves might be more obscure, just like the mentioned Vacuum-Cut, which was 10x as useless.
@@cultreader9751"premise" motherfucker do you play a game or watch a fucking movie? get the fuck out of here , "premise" my ass, what an idiotic shit to say
Regigigas is level 1 in Platinum because an event distribution for a level 100 Regigigas was done with the game's release. Having it lets you catch the 3 Regis in Platinum, so the Regigigas you can catch is level 1 since you're expected to already have a level 100 one anyway.
I honestly really like the level 1 Regigigas since it's viable for a playthrough. And a game where you can have a legendary on your team, one that isn't brutally strong is very nice. Not to mention how hype it is when you challenge the team leader and/or the mascot legendary with the colossal titan on your side.
And I thought the reason why Regigigas it at Lv.1 is because it has spent so much time as a statue that its as good as just being born anew when it wakes up
Actually it was done because they wanted the players to choose the level up set for it AND for lore reasons. Regigigas is an ancient collosus that' has been sealed for many many years. it doens't make sense for it to be at level 70 power when it's been dormant for so long, the moss growing on it's legs are part of it's design now. So they made it level one to indicate it doesn't have the power of it's prime.
Actually, those 4 event moves aren't all bad. - Happy Hour doubles prize money earned, so combined with an amulet coin or Luck Incense, you can quadruple your earnings at the cost of wasting a turn in battle (and a move slot) - Hold Back is literally just False Swipe under another name, so while it's not great in battle, it's still great for putting wild pok'e mon in the red to make them easier to catch (barring ghost types since damaging normal moves can't hit them). - Hold Hands actually increases the user's friendship stat, so if the event pok'e mon happens to need friendship to evolve, it's quite useful. (useless on other pok'e mon though, outside maximizing friendship for the footprint ribbon). Not sure if it can be used outside of double battles though. If it does fail outside of double battles, then it makes it significantly less useful. - The only actually useless one is celebrate, since it has no in battle effect at all.
I think the reason why Excavate and Wide Slash are only translated in some languages comes down to different localisation teams. Some teams might have known they were unobtainable and gave them a dummy name, but others may have just translated everything, not realising the moves were unused. It is also possible they simply translated the moves regardless as a little exercise.
Dude i still have my old notes on the regis in a binder in my room. I've got the braille including the alphabet that's in the first room, as well as all the translated slabs from emerald specifically. That was probably the most interesting puzzle I've ever seen in a pokemon game
I don't know if you already mentioned this in a different video, but Kinesis was unobtainable in Red and Blue. It could only ever be called by Metronome. That's always been weird to me. I assume they must have forgotten to make it learnable. It was only first obtainable in Yellow when they added it to Kadabra's level-up moveset. But you know what is even crazier? It is ALSO unobtainable in Scarlet and Violet (but programmed into the game), and can only be called by Metronome, the same situation as the original games all those many years ago! If you are someone who has only ever played Red/Blue and Scarlet/Violet (I bet there's one person), then it's probably the most obscure move ever.
Next time, I'd like to hear you mention a move so forgotten it's not even on list of most forgotten moves: Meditate, a Psychic-type Status move that increases the user's Attack by one stage.
Lol I searched it and Meditate was since Gen 1!😲 I really thought it was introduced alongside Meditite and Medicham in Gen3. Never saw that move before that gen.
Meditate might become a bit more famous again because Pokemon Stadium 2 has just came out, and Hitmonlee, one of the best rentals in the game, knows Meditate. The rest of the rentals are so bad I think a lot of people will have to use this Hitmonlee.
I think one of the biggest losses of them removing moves from the game was Foreseight. Like I think people don't get how useful it is when you need to use False Swipe on a Ghost type, especially a shiny Ghost type. Now people have to basically buy Legends Arceus in order to get access to Hisuian Decidueye with the hidden ability Scrappy and teach it False Swipe in order to weaken a Ghost type without killing it, which could easily be eliminated if they had just kept Foresight in the game since it can be learned by a wide variety of Pokemon
That's why a Golduck with Simple Beam (to change abilities), Soak (to change type), Hypnosis/Yawn (Sleep), Encore (to lock opponents into safe moves) and the Damp Ability (to prevent explosions before locking them out), is the best friend of any false Swipe User. Gallade + Golduck is the best catching combination since Gen 4, and has only gotten better over time. Literally, the only better combination is 2 Gallades and a Golduck! Gallade 1: False Swipe (duh~), Hypnosis(Sleep), Mean look (preventing flight), Encore/Taunt (to lock opponents into safe moves) Gallade 2: Encore (to keep Pokémon locked), Grudge (to deplete PP of problematic moves like Recoil moves), Heal Pulse (to prevent Recoil Users from suiciding), Taunt (to easier force Recoil users into using them to be grudged) Being once more only improved by adding another Gallade with Encore/Wish/Fling/Recycle holding a Leppa Berry... Simply said.. Gallade can do nearly everything you need to catch Pokémon as securely as possible, and the only things it can't do, Golduck can do!
I mean I understand outta all the abilities pangoro or Kenga have even the mega I go for scrappy for that reason alone u can pretty much punch anything to death besides fairies and flying types
@@Robin93k but simple beams is not a good ability to be used to change ur opponents abilities u can end up buffing them immesnly I used to think that’s all simple beams usages where but when u start looking into what the simple ability actually does unless u plan on casting simple n throwing a buncha sand or smoke in their eyes I would use gastro acid instead
Funny enough I have a strat that can only be shut down by foresight and hidden power moves essentially! U use delcatty or skitty with normalize ability then u can use entrainment on mons around the field with say audino once everyone has normalize throw out gourgiest use trick or treat on audino then throw in mega Gengar shadow tag will allow no switching once every mon has normalize ability on opponents side they can’t hit u cuz ur ghost and all they have is normal type attacks making u invincible besides hidden power moves they always register as a normal type but hit as a different type so they work but only way out would be to use foresight and nobody runs that move besides I guess u XD
I don't know if you have already mentioned them in prior Videos but there are also the Shadow Moves from Colosseum and XD. There is Shadow Rush, Blast, Blitz, Bolt, Break, Chill, Down, End, Fire, Half, Hold, Mist, Panic, Rave, Shed, Sky, Storm and Shadow Wave. These were revolutionary in the Way that they were the first Moves split into Special and Physical.
Also the fact that only Shadow Pokémon know them, they’re super effective against all non-Shadow Pokémon and not very effective against all Shadow Pokémon.
You know what's especially insulting about dexit? "This move can't be used. It's recommended that this move is forgotten. Once forgotten, this move can't be remembered. This special Pokémon that you got from a very limited event and has a really unique but admittedly used move with a fun animation is now forced to lose the only thing that makes it really unique"
What's crazy is that they decided to get rid of so many moves in the games, meanwhile they decided to take Leech Life and turn it into an X Scissor that restores health
It’s a very big buff that the bug type needed. The bug type has a ton of great moves like X-scissor, leech life, quiver dance, bug buzz, etc. to make up for a lot of the Pokémon with the type not being very powerful
I did that regigigus thing when I was a kid I went to the library and matched the Braille from the book to the game for days and then when gen 4 came out all I had to do was transfer them and I ask shiny hunted the level 1 regigigus in platinum
Hold Back is interesting, it can be given to a Pokemon that is not able to use false swipe Such as the event munchlax in gen 7, I played through the game with that event Munchlax and I have found using Snorlax to help catch certain Pokemon to be quite handy
The Shiny Beldum given out at the first few months of ORAS was also an example of a Hold Back pokemon, but honestly I used that Beldum as a main stay and it became my Shiny Metagross that is stuck in my Omega Ruby game that is currently in storage.
I guess the Shadow moves will be another video? There was only one Shadow move in Colosseum, Shadow Rush, which was basically a typeless version of Take Down that dealt neutral damage to all Pokémon. Gale of Darkness introduced more Shadow moves, such as Shadow Blast, Shadow Down, Shadow Half, and Shadow Sky, while also changing the effectiveness of Shadow moves so that they now dealt super-effective damage against non-Shadow Pokémon, while being resisted by Shadow Pokémon. Shadow moves could only be used by Shadow Pokémon, and once the Shadow Pokémon was purified it forgot any Shadow moves that it knew. A Shadow Pokémon could not be traded until it was purified (and was no longer a Shadow Pokémon), and hence Shadow moves were exclusive to the games in which they appeared.
Seeing clips from my own videos caught me off guard but otherwise great video! About moves exclusive to Mystery Dungeon games, it makes sense in some way that they were limited to PMD games since they were created with the Mystery dungeon gameplay in mind (notably Wide Slash which damages foes in front) though them being typeless moves is certainly a strange decision. Excavate would be a great example of a PMD move created for the game's exclusive mechanics (in this case being able to break walls [which can be very strong and useful] ) though it was most likely replaced by the already existing Rock Smash which (in PMD1) does virtually the same thing as Excavate. Same goes with Spin-Slash whose effect is the same as Cut. As for Vacuum-Cut, having a set damage move ( 35 in RT, 18 in Explorers) which damages all foes in the room is only useful in very specific scenarios (Monster House in level 1 dungeon and still...) and would be a bad forgotten move in a mainline game anyway. Besides with the introduction of new moves in later gens, Vaccuum-Cut was just redundant and a move no one knew of anyway... Overall, unique moves all around (damaging ??? type moves that almost all Mons can learn!) , but ones you've probably never heard of if you haven't played Mystery Dungeon games!
Oh hey! I'm surprised you found this video lol. Thanks so much for the footage! Yeah, the mystery dungeon games had some interesting mechanics. I also noticed in another video that the orbs actually have corresponding moves, probably for debug purposes
Trump Card is kind of interesting because it's the only move that punishes you for maxing out its PP. The extra uses you get out of it are the same as the first use with 5PP, so you'd never want to max it out.
There are other moves that do typeless damage in the series. Beat up and future sight in Gen 3, despite being labeled as dark and psychic respectively, do typeless damage. This is really good in beat up’s case since it’s good in competitive on a few Pokémon
So actually fun fact about the last part of the video, I stumbled into the cave where you needed to learn braille to get access to the golems when my mom, who was going to a college for the deaf and hard of hearing at the time, happened to notice that it was braille and was confused on how it work for a blind person to use when the screen itself was flat which was my clue to unlock them. I swear this is one of my most fond memories of getting access to a legendary pokemon because I had to basically decipher a different language to a child out of the game. Bless that premier ball that caught Registeel.
The thing that makes Crush Grip so much worse is that it was introduced in the same Gen as Wring Out, which does the exact same thing but is learned by significantly more Pokémon.
It's not the same. Crush Grip is physical, while Wring Out is special. That's pretty important, since Regigigas's attack is double its special attack. That's also why it learns Giga Impact at 100 and not Hyper Beam. It's also better than Superpower against most full HP pokemon because Regigigas gets STAB from Crush Grip and not from Superpower. Honestly it's a good move.
9:39 man it's such a core childhood memory translating the Braille into "Relicanth first, Wailord last" and being like "the fuck is a Relicanth", Internet wasn't that common around where I lived back then so it took me some hours lol
Love the woop Edit: I solved the gen 3 regi puzzle without internet because my mom happens to be blind, so I wrote the braille down and had her help me solve it.
There iso ne move I know of, a newer one which I have not seen anyone use it to good effect and it may as well not exist sometimes. The move is called "Belch" Belch is a special poison move with 120 power, 90% accuracy and 10pp. The move is powerful, but has the catch that the user has to eat a berry in the battle before it can be used. This can be accomplished in three ways. Either holding a berry yourself and having the effect triggered, either stealing and eating the berry held by an opposing pokemon via Pluck or Bug Bite or if you gain a berry effect by being hit with Fling and the attacker throwing a berry.
The curse of accuracy based moves is that they dare not make them powerful or accurate in case they ruin competetive. Spore literally won the finals this weekend and even i wondered maybe its time to knock it back 5-10 accuracy. Early games were intended for kids to play everyday with story telling moves that ad to the lore. But Gen 8 and 9 seam to of cut these to focus on competetive move sets. It starts at competetive moves and works its way back and cut out the flavour moves. It feels like we lost some fun
If you dig far enough you'll eventually have to bring up momes like Feint Attack that got removed just to make room for a Signature Move version of it on a new Pokemon. Gonna be a rough one to work into a video though since there's not really a good explanation for it.
Had a legit Regigigas back in the Gen 4 days. Having been a dedicated Pokémon fan before, it wasn't difficult to achieve this feat. Crush Grip was incredibly underwhelming however...
I feel like the shadow moves from Colosseum/XD also deserve a mention. They are completely typeless (and in XD only, they were super effective against all non-Shadow Pokémon) and can't be obtained outside of their respective games because Shadow Pokémon can't be traded. And since Game Freak has 100% forgotten about the Orre games, it's unlikely that they'll ever exist again. We didn't even get Shadow Rush back in Pokémon Go when they released Shadow Pokémon
ive been playing scarlet with randomized eggs and its amazing how many moves in that game are literally broken and actually say "this move does nothing, it should be deleted"
You made a mistake. Excavate isn't removed, it's been repurposed as an IQ Skill. It's the very last one you learn, allowing you to burrow through walls and make your own paths/tunnels. Spin Slash is also an early version of Cut, which does the exact same thing Spin Slash does.
I was surprised the move Rolling Kick was on the list. But to be fair, the only two games I still occasionally pick up are Crystal and Colosseum. Both have Hitmontop and especially in Colosseum, the move is used quite a bit more because there aren't many other options available.
5:00 I like the idea the super rare event moves have little effect in battle. That way it's not giving a massive advantage in the competitive scene to the few people who can obtain them. Instead, they just act as trophies.
Me and my cousin had Regigigas bc we absolutely loved gen 3 so we already had the Regis and then the classic ds having the game boy cartridge slot made it easy to transfer, but it was really funny seeing that mine was lv 70 (pearl) and his was lv 1
Octazooka should just get the accuracy lower effect set to 100%. It would still be a bad move, but there would be a niche justification for it at that point.
So about the last line in this video... I never thought about it like that before, but you are definitely correct. I was one of those kids. Although I didn't have enough stability or opportunity to participate in events, I did have these games, and enough interest in ciphers to translate and figure out the regi-quest. I guess in the moment I didn't I think about it that way, I was quite jealous of people whose parents helped them attend events, but when gen3 came around I guess all of us did what we could.
As difficult as it is, I really like how you find the Regi trio in RSE. It reminds me of the Ruins of Alph mystery from Gen 2 but with an actually good reward, and unlike the overwhelming majority of hidden or mythical Pokémon there's no outside requirements. You don't need to get an item or trigger from a limited time event, you don't have to trade for them (except for Regigigas), yes it's hard to do, but it's still 100% possible to obtain them legitimately, the same can't be said for Latios/Latias, Darkrai, Ho-Oh, Mew, Celebi, etc.
Great video Was cool to see Spin-off games get a mention Wide Slash being ??? type makes me think of the new 19th Terra Type that they released recently
That kid who got crush grip on platinum was me. My older brother had pearl and I wanted a big broccoli man, so he told me that I had to get the Regis in emerald and told me vaguely where the underwater cave was. After catching the Regis, he told me how to get regigigas, but didn’t know it would be level one
They should've gotten rid of splash and given magikarp an actual usable move that way you could actually train him to evolve rather than relying on Evs from your party.
The only reason i know about excavate is because when i was younger i was friends with a gamestore owner, ds, wii, gamecube, anything older or vintage. and he had plenty of game sharks or whatever other things like that, and could do basically whatever they wanted, i saw them tunneling around in mystery dungeon at like 10 maybe, and was like "AYYYYO HOW DO YOU DO THAT??!?" and he said you unlock it after beating the game 😭 it wasnt till like a month later i saw him using a gameshark or something and asked about it, and he explained. that was also the only time i actually ever seen excavate i think, so thanks for helping me find some lost memories 😂
man in 20 years when bank is gone and we're in generation 17, gens 1-7 will be ancients retro relics lost to time, on the level of pokemon stadium today. people may know about it, but few people will be ancient enough to have experienced it in person.
If there's another video like this (they're really great, by the way), one obscure move I can think of is Vacuum Wave. Not many Pokemon learn it by level up, and it stopped being a tutor move after Gen 4
Dang I'm surprised Kinesis wasn't on here. It existed all the way back from the OG Gen 1 games. It was even in the guidebook and could be hacked onto your pokemon with cheat devices but there was no legitimate way to actually get it
I used Hold Back so much back in ORAS, I got the shiny mystery gift Beldum and used it throughout my first playthrough! I still have it somewhere in my Pokémon Home.
You'd think the existence of the Splatoon franchise would cause the Pokémon designers to remember that Octazooka exists and make it more Splatoon-themed. D: 6:20: I see what you did there.
One move that nearly everyone forgets is Synchronoise. No, that’s not a typo. It had 70 power in Gen V. Gen VI increased that all the way to 120, but no one cared because it only affects Pokémon of the same type as the user. Yeah. It’s actually great for Jolteon. The Eeveelutions usually can’t do much against their own types beyond non-STAB Dig and Shadow Ball, so surprising another Electric-type with an unresisted 120 base power move no one’s ever heard of is super satisfying. And now it’s impossible because it’s been removed. I get why, but it’s a little disappointing to me and the other two or three people who used it.
I remember that one of my Pokémon learned Refresh in Pokémon Emerald, and I couldn't get it to work (I was like 9). I used it in a Pokémon Contest just to see its battle animation. Turns out it heals status, but that's still something not so useful to spend a moveslot on. I also found Beat Up to be very mysterious. Exclusive to Sneasel (at least back in Gen II, now a few handsful of Pokémon learn it) and with a mechanism that renders it practically unusable, it's best avoided. Bone Club and Bonemerang are also pretty forgettable. It's kind of wild how Marowak got three signature bone-related moves that no other Pokémon could use.
Tbf for regigigas, it got easier to get them. I only know how to do it in the Gen 3 and 4 remakes, but for ORAS it was just the question of "how was I supposed to know to do this" by coming into the cave you caught regice with having all three other regies. And in BDSP they made the legendary park I forget the name of that let's you get the regies, albeit in a tedious fashion so that you can get gigas purely in game.
you can obtain the regis in gen 4 through an event distribution item (just use a time-preserving dns like wiimmfi or kaeru) instead of transferring from gen 3. theres also a level 100(?) regigigas through an event distribution too so you could have two regigigas on the same save file
I did get Regigigas as a kid. I used the Pal Park to gradually send over everything from Sapphire, Emerald, and Firered. Those games themselves also had everything I'd caught and transferred over from Colosseum and XD so you can imagine how full the boxes on the PC were after that - almost every Pokemon in Pokedex order (never did 100% complete the 'dex though) and at least a full box of duplicate legendaries, pseudo legendaries and rare stuff. I did the Regigigas stuff on my own but never liked the Regis in general so didn't use them. Braille wasn't an issue as I had the manuals for Sapphire/Emerald and the "language" was printed in there so easy to reference
I know you said happy hour doesnt do anything, but i use happy hour constantly while spam fighting the tournament in Violet. While wearing a lucky coin you get 4X prize money. Its great for getting pokemin competitively ready.
10:19 One funny thing in gen 4 is that you need regigigas to get the regice, registeel, and regirock, but you need regice, registeel, and regirock to get regigigas.
Wide Slash was my go to move in PMD for crowd clearing especially in monster houses. I feel with the introduction of Brutal Swing Wode slash has mostly become redundant.
Fun fact: i'm pretty sure that back in gen 3, there was a competition held, and the winner would be able to pick any Pokémon and have it given away as an event with any move it normally cannot learn. The winner chose Octazooka Sableye. I know that the Octazooka Sableye is real since i have one from that event, but i might be wrong on how it came to be. Still, if i'm right, that's pretty funny.
This Sableye is from a Japanese morning entertainment kids' TV show! It's the host's favourite Pokémon, and on the show guests will get slimed / inked or something. Octazooka was supposed to reference that.
I'd be like "Sketch Arceus"
@@Laezar1 Back in gen 3
@@theknightwithabadpictotall7639 True, initially I was going with "sketch mewtwo" but I thought arceus sold the idea better =p but yeah you're right
Magma Storm Wooper pls 😂
I remember begging my parents to take me to Barnes & Noble because there was a Ruby and Sapphire strategy guide there, and I brought a sheet of notebook paper with me to write down all the steps to get the Regis. 😂 Pre-internet days sure were something else...
There was internet back then, you dork.
Fun fact about octozooka, there was a gen 5 event sableye that came with octozooka, not many people know about it but so are a lot of gen 5 events.
I like events where they learn unique moves, but… really? What’s even the theming behind that?
Honestly, my favorite event is the movie victini that...well, had the signiture moves of the legendary dragons for absolutely 0 reason. Like literally no reason at all, that is not even a reference towards the movie besides for the fact that the dragons were major plotpoints in it.
@@ragnaricstudios5888 i think the sableye was made to create the most annoying Pokemon possible (im serious) it had octozooka, some evasion moves and it held an item i think it was focus band or a berry from my memory.
If you're interested in it im sure serebii has a page on it ! :)
@@lpfan4491 i love that victini! Reminds me of the spacial rend roar of time darkrai lol from platinum?? I wanna say platinum. My memory is very bad sometimes!
@@lpfan4491 and then it was actually meta relevant because suddenly you had this small little creature running around dropping bolt strikes on people like it was no one's business
According to Bulbapedia, Crush Grip can be called by using Metronome as of version 1.3.0 of Sword and Shield, meaning it's not a lost move.
Regigigas *is* available in Crown Tundra DLC after all.
isn't it available in legends arceus, which can now be brought into scarlet and violet?
I think Judgement is also possibly like this? I think it's usable in SWSH even though Arceus isn't
@@sonicrunn3r895judgment is also in Scarlet and Violet
I don’t think it was described as lost, just hard to get.
With how easy they give you Legendaries these days, I actually miss the old days like getting the Regis in Gen 3 and even the Sevii Islands in FRLG. Sure it was difficult to understand the Braille but it was the most satisfying thing to accomplish as a kid. It was the only time the encyclopedia set my family bought felt useful 😂😂 plus it felt like an actual adventure.
Yeah, it would be really cool if they made some of the newer legendaries an actual task to get
The developers realized late that most wouldn't understand braille, so they put a braille guide in the little instruction booklet that came with the games.
If it's too hard for anybody, they can just search it up anyways 🤷♂️
I like going to ember Island and catching moltres there instead of in victory road, but the Regis were just BS. Like they could have just made it so they opened up after the red/blue orb was stolen or something.
Regis seems easier than catching the Dogs.. also in RBY version you can easiy catch legedaries (legendary birds) so it's not a new thing that devs makes legendaries easier to catch..
I actually did all that stuff in 2008. I made a doubles team with Shaymin and Regigigas for Battle Revolution's wifi battles. Shaymin would Worry Seed Regi to get rid of slow start.
Yeah, I saw in a few videos that crush grip works pretty well in doubles
Oh my god that's actually so smart. A double team with a simple beam user would also be excellent
I remember being so confused and frustrated with the Regi ruins when I played Ruby at 13. I tried everything I could think of for hours and eventually gave up. A few months later I was waiting for my foster parents to get done talking to my teacher and I was absentmindedly touching the bumps on the sign on my teacher's office door when I realized the bumps were arranged the same as the dots I'd seen. The next day I snuck my gameboy into school so I could try to find some kind of braille book that I could use to translate it, but I couldn't find anything. I asked the librarian and she offered to search it up on her computer and printed a copy for me.
Easily the most satisfying puzzle I've ever solved.
godlike story
W librarian
Wide Slash is a complete lifesaver in the Mystery Dungeon games. Its a common TM that nearly every pokemon could learn and it was a very powerful move, especially if you lacked a move that hit the whole room. I remember that I always teached it to my main and it being typeless made it unresisted by anything. Definitely not a forgotten move in my book. Some shadow moves might be more obscure, just like the mentioned Vacuum-Cut, which was 10x as useless.
I couldn't get into the Mystery Dungeon games. The premise was too hard a sell.
@cultreader9751 it was actually tms that are coded in the games
I think you got Vacuum-cut and Wide Slash reversed. VC hit all enemies in the room, Wide Slash just attacked the 3 spaces in front of you.
I ginsenged the heck out of wide slash back in MD Blue. It really is one of the best moves in the entire game.
@@cultreader9751"premise" motherfucker do you play a game or watch a fucking movie? get the fuck out of here , "premise" my ass, what an idiotic shit to say
the horror ambience of these videos is so funny to me with the actual subject matter. i'm kind of obsessed
love the odd and liminal vibes of these vids
Right? It's almost soothing in a way.
its kinda creepy and saddening but also increasingly familiar
Regigigas is level 1 in Platinum because an event distribution for a level 100 Regigigas was done with the game's release. Having it lets you catch the 3 Regis in Platinum, so the Regigigas you can catch is level 1 since you're expected to already have a level 100 one anyway.
Secret key was first distribution event for platinum. Tf are you on about
I honestly really like the level 1 Regigigas since it's viable for a playthrough. And a game where you can have a legendary on your team, one that isn't brutally strong is very nice. Not to mention how hype it is when you challenge the team leader and/or the mascot legendary with the colossal titan on your side.
Gen 4 had the crappiest event unlocking methods of all time.
When I was little, I thought Spiritomb and Rotom were Mythicals.
And I thought the reason why Regigigas it at Lv.1 is because it has spent so much time as a statue that its as good as just being born anew when it wakes up
Actually it was done because they wanted the players to choose the level up set for it AND for lore reasons. Regigigas is an ancient collosus that' has been sealed for many many years. it doens't make sense for it to be at level 70 power when it's been dormant for so long, the moss growing on it's legs are part of it's design now. So they made it level one to indicate it doesn't have the power of it's prime.
Actually, those 4 event moves aren't all bad.
- Happy Hour doubles prize money earned, so combined with an amulet coin or Luck Incense, you can quadruple your earnings at the cost of wasting a turn in battle (and a move slot)
- Hold Back is literally just False Swipe under another name, so while it's not great in battle, it's still great for putting wild pok'e mon in the red to make them easier to catch (barring ghost types since damaging normal moves can't hit them).
- Hold Hands actually increases the user's friendship stat, so if the event pok'e mon happens to need friendship to evolve, it's quite useful. (useless on other pok'e mon though, outside maximizing friendship for the footprint ribbon). Not sure if it can be used outside of double battles though. If it does fail outside of double battles, then it makes it significantly less useful.
- The only actually useless one is celebrate, since it has no in battle effect at all.
The Z-versions of all those status moves also raise each stat one stage, so they saw some niche usage in competitive.
Celebrate is the coolest one though imo :3
@@hpswagcraft visually yeah
@@bullzeye399 yeah, as Woop mentioned in the vid
I believe Hold Back is special based unlike False Swipe. But that’s not saying much because it has the same base Power iirc.
I think the reason why Excavate and Wide Slash are only translated in some languages comes down to different localisation teams. Some teams might have known they were unobtainable and gave them a dummy name, but others may have just translated everything, not realising the moves were unused. It is also possible they simply translated the moves regardless as a little exercise.
Yeah, I think they were removed very late in development, which is why they're half fleshed out
Dude i still have my old notes on the regis in a binder in my room. I've got the braille including the alphabet that's in the first room, as well as all the translated slabs from emerald specifically. That was probably the most interesting puzzle I've ever seen in a pokemon game
They definitely need to make more crazy puzzles like that in the newer games
@@PokemonWoopthey made a step in the right direction w/crown tundra
I don't know if you already mentioned this in a different video, but Kinesis was unobtainable in Red and Blue. It could only ever be called by Metronome. That's always been weird to me. I assume they must have forgotten to make it learnable. It was only first obtainable in Yellow when they added it to Kadabra's level-up moveset. But you know what is even crazier? It is ALSO unobtainable in Scarlet and Violet (but programmed into the game), and can only be called by Metronome, the same situation as the original games all those many years ago! If you are someone who has only ever played Red/Blue and Scarlet/Violet (I bet there's one person), then it's probably the most obscure move ever.
Next time, I'd like to hear you mention a move so forgotten it's not even on list of most forgotten moves: Meditate, a Psychic-type Status move that increases the user's Attack by one stage.
Lol I searched it and Meditate was since Gen 1!😲
I really thought it was introduced alongside Meditite and Medicham in Gen3. Never saw that move before that gen.
Was playing the pokemon rocket rom hack today and had a mr mime use it against me lol
@@kelp5801wow same man, I was going to mention medichan too but gen 1? Wow
Interesting how a psychic type move increases physical attack
Meditate might become a bit more famous again because Pokemon Stadium 2 has just came out, and Hitmonlee, one of the best rentals in the game, knows Meditate. The rest of the rentals are so bad I think a lot of people will have to use this Hitmonlee.
Hold Hands is such a funny move, your pokemon just hold hands. It's adorable
I think one of the biggest losses of them removing moves from the game was Foreseight. Like I think people don't get how useful it is when you need to use False Swipe on a Ghost type, especially a shiny Ghost type. Now people have to basically buy Legends Arceus in order to get access to Hisuian Decidueye with the hidden ability Scrappy and teach it False Swipe in order to weaken a Ghost type without killing it, which could easily be eliminated if they had just kept Foresight in the game since it can be learned by a wide variety of Pokemon
You can also soak ghosts that dont have water absorb.
That's why a Golduck with Simple Beam (to change abilities), Soak (to change type), Hypnosis/Yawn (Sleep), Encore (to lock opponents into safe moves) and the Damp Ability (to prevent explosions before locking them out), is the best friend of any false Swipe User.
Gallade + Golduck is the best catching combination since Gen 4, and has only gotten better over time. Literally, the only better combination is 2 Gallades and a Golduck!
Gallade 1: False Swipe (duh~), Hypnosis(Sleep), Mean look (preventing flight), Encore/Taunt (to lock opponents into safe moves)
Gallade 2: Encore (to keep Pokémon locked), Grudge (to deplete PP of problematic moves like Recoil moves), Heal Pulse (to prevent Recoil Users from suiciding), Taunt (to easier force Recoil users into using them to be grudged)
Being once more only improved by adding another Gallade with Encore/Wish/Fling/Recycle holding a Leppa Berry...
Simply said.. Gallade can do nearly everything you need to catch Pokémon as securely as possible, and the only things it can't do, Golduck can do!
I mean I understand outta all the abilities pangoro or Kenga have even the mega I go for scrappy for that reason alone u can pretty much punch anything to death besides fairies and flying types
@@Robin93k but simple beams is not a good ability to be used to change ur opponents abilities u can end up buffing them immesnly I used to think that’s all simple beams usages where but when u start looking into what the simple ability actually does unless u plan on casting simple n throwing a buncha sand or smoke in their eyes I would use gastro acid instead
Funny enough I have a strat that can only be shut down by foresight and hidden power moves essentially! U use delcatty or skitty with normalize ability then u can use entrainment on mons around the field with say audino once everyone has normalize throw out gourgiest use trick or treat on audino then throw in mega Gengar shadow tag will allow no switching once every mon has normalize ability on opponents side they can’t hit u cuz ur ghost and all they have is normal type attacks making u invincible besides hidden power moves they always register as a normal type but hit as a different type so they work but only way out would be to use foresight and nobody runs that move besides I guess u XD
I don't know if you have already mentioned them in prior Videos but there are also the Shadow Moves from Colosseum and XD.
There is Shadow Rush, Blast, Blitz, Bolt, Break, Chill, Down, End, Fire, Half, Hold, Mist, Panic, Rave, Shed, Sky, Storm and Shadow Wave.
These were revolutionary in the Way that they were the first Moves split into Special and Physical.
Also the fact that only Shadow Pokémon know them, they’re super effective against all non-Shadow Pokémon and not very effective against all Shadow Pokémon.
You know what's especially insulting about dexit? "This move can't be used. It's recommended that this move is forgotten. Once forgotten, this move can't be remembered. This special Pokémon that you got from a very limited event and has a really unique but admittedly used move with a fun animation is now forced to lose the only thing that makes it really unique"
What's crazy is that they decided to get rid of so many moves in the games, meanwhile they decided to take Leech Life and turn it into an X Scissor that restores health
It’s a very big buff that the bug type needed. The bug type has a ton of great moves like X-scissor, leech life, quiver dance, bug buzz, etc. to make up for a lot of the Pokémon with the type not being very powerful
I did that regigigus thing when I was a kid I went to the library and matched the Braille from the book to the game for days and then when gen 4 came out all I had to do was transfer them and I ask shiny hunted the level 1 regigigus in platinum
you're a legend
Hold Back is interesting, it can be given to a Pokemon that is not able to use false swipe
Such as the event munchlax in gen 7, I played through the game with that event Munchlax and I have found using Snorlax to help catch certain Pokemon to be quite handy
The Shiny Beldum given out at the first few months of ORAS was also an example of a Hold Back pokemon, but honestly I used that Beldum as a main stay and it became my Shiny Metagross that is stuck in my Omega Ruby game that is currently in storage.
Wait can only the event snorlax have hold back? That means I have an exclusive event pokemon?
@@n7x that is right
I absolutely loved this series.
I ADORED the dubious tone and the unsettling feeling
You won a sub
I guess the Shadow moves will be another video? There was only one Shadow move in Colosseum, Shadow Rush, which was basically a typeless version of Take Down that dealt neutral damage to all Pokémon. Gale of Darkness introduced more Shadow moves, such as Shadow Blast, Shadow Down, Shadow Half, and Shadow Sky, while also changing the effectiveness of Shadow moves so that they now dealt super-effective damage against non-Shadow Pokémon, while being resisted by Shadow Pokémon. Shadow moves could only be used by Shadow Pokémon, and once the Shadow Pokémon was purified it forgot any Shadow moves that it knew. A Shadow Pokémon could not be traded until it was purified (and was no longer a Shadow Pokémon), and hence Shadow moves were exclusive to the games in which they appeared.
Yeah, those are some interesting moves for sure
Seeing clips from my own videos caught me off guard but otherwise great video!
About moves exclusive to Mystery Dungeon games, it makes sense in some way that they were limited to PMD games since they were created with the Mystery dungeon gameplay in mind (notably Wide Slash which damages foes in front) though them being typeless moves is certainly a strange decision. Excavate would be a great example of a PMD move created for the game's exclusive mechanics (in this case being able to break walls [which can be very strong and useful] ) though it was most likely replaced by the already existing Rock Smash which (in PMD1) does virtually the same thing as Excavate. Same goes with Spin-Slash whose effect is the same as Cut.
As for Vacuum-Cut, having a set damage move ( 35 in RT, 18 in Explorers) which damages all foes in the room is only useful in very specific scenarios (Monster House in level 1 dungeon and still...) and would be a bad forgotten move in a mainline game anyway. Besides with the introduction of new moves in later gens, Vaccuum-Cut was just redundant and a move no one knew of anyway... Overall, unique moves all around (damaging ??? type moves that almost all Mons can learn!) , but ones you've probably never heard of if you haven't played Mystery Dungeon games!
Oh hey! I'm surprised you found this video lol. Thanks so much for the footage! Yeah, the mystery dungeon games had some interesting mechanics. I also noticed in another video that the orbs actually have corresponding moves, probably for debug purposes
Trump Card is kind of interesting because it's the only move that punishes you for maxing out its PP. The extra uses you get out of it are the same as the first use with 5PP, so you'd never want to max it out.
There are other moves that do typeless damage in the series. Beat up and future sight in Gen 3, despite being labeled as dark and psychic respectively, do typeless damage. This is really good in beat up’s case since it’s good in competitive on a few Pokémon
Sky uppercut, Signal Beam and Pursuit are some of my favorite deleted moves.
So actually fun fact about the last part of the video, I stumbled into the cave where you needed to learn braille to get access to the golems when my mom, who was going to a college for the deaf and hard of hearing at the time, happened to notice that it was braille and was confused on how it work for a blind person to use when the screen itself was flat which was my clue to unlock them. I swear this is one of my most fond memories of getting access to a legendary pokemon because I had to basically decipher a different language to a child out of the game. Bless that premier ball that caught Registeel.
The thing that makes Crush Grip so much worse is that it was introduced in the same Gen as Wring Out, which does the exact same thing but is learned by significantly more Pokémon.
It's not the same. Crush Grip is physical, while Wring Out is special. That's pretty important, since Regigigas's attack is double its special attack. That's also why it learns Giga Impact at 100 and not Hyper Beam.
It's also better than Superpower against most full HP pokemon because Regigigas gets STAB from Crush Grip and not from Superpower. Honestly it's a good move.
4:20
This isn't true actually. In Pokemon XD, if Weather Ball is used during Shadow Sky, the move becomes ???-type
Finally someone that talks about the secret ??? Moves
9:39 man it's such a core childhood memory translating the Braille into "Relicanth first, Wailord last" and being like "the fuck is a Relicanth", Internet wasn't that common around where I lived back then so it took me some hours lol
why is this edited like a true crime video?
Heh Octazooka can also be learned via breeding to the horsea line! Since Gen 2 too
I'm losing myself over the vintage,VHS tape vibes ❤
Fun fact. Celebrate was once a used in a VCG tournament to stall for time.
Love the woop
Edit: I solved the gen 3 regi puzzle without internet because my mom happens to be blind, so I wrote the braille down and had her help me solve it.
Oh wow, that's an amazing story
There iso ne move I know of, a newer one which I have not seen anyone use it to good effect and it may as well not exist sometimes. The move is called "Belch"
Belch is a special poison move with 120 power, 90% accuracy and 10pp. The move is powerful, but has the catch that the user has to eat a berry in the battle before it can be used. This can be accomplished in three ways. Either holding a berry yourself and having the effect triggered, either stealing and eating the berry held by an opposing pokemon via Pluck or Bug Bite or if you gain a berry effect by being hit with Fling and the attacker throwing a berry.
Crush grip actually has another user. But the player can't use it.
Oh, and Smeargle can sketch it too.
2:28 In Pokémon GO, Kingdra also learns Octazooka, and I don't know why
11:13 I’m that kid, I remember diving with the relicanth and wailord and the little room and the braille, but I don’t remember ever getting past that
The curse of accuracy based moves is that they dare not make them powerful or accurate in case they ruin competetive. Spore literally won the finals this weekend and even i wondered maybe its time to knock it back 5-10 accuracy. Early games were intended for kids to play everyday with story telling moves that ad to the lore. But Gen 8 and 9 seam to of cut these to focus on competetive move sets. It starts at competetive moves and works its way back and cut out the flavour moves. It feels like we lost some fun
You should do more mysteries and obscure Pokemon facts with this type of format and editing style, its oddly comfy.
If you dig far enough you'll eventually have to bring up momes like Feint Attack that got removed just to make room for a Signature Move version of it on a new Pokemon. Gonna be a rough one to work into a video though since there's not really a good explanation for it.
Today I learned they removed feint attack.
Faint Attack or Feint?
Had a legit Regigigas back in the Gen 4 days. Having been a dedicated Pokémon fan before, it wasn't difficult to achieve this feat. Crush Grip was incredibly underwhelming however...
Gamefreak basically introduced "Set Rotation" on pokemon games.
I feel like the shadow moves from Colosseum/XD also deserve a mention. They are completely typeless (and in XD only, they were super effective against all non-Shadow Pokémon) and can't be obtained outside of their respective games because Shadow Pokémon can't be traded. And since Game Freak has 100% forgotten about the Orre games, it's unlikely that they'll ever exist again. We didn't even get Shadow Rush back in Pokémon Go when they released Shadow Pokémon
ive been playing scarlet with randomized eggs and its amazing how many moves in that game are literally broken and actually say "this move does nothing, it should be deleted"
Fun fact: Octozooka sees some play in Pokemon Go PVP as an option for Kingdra since its accuracy drop becomes a defense drop instead.
It’s a 2 stage attack drop for the opponent instead of defense. I hated that move but kingdra doesn’t see all that much play anymore
Horsea line used to have access with Octozooka too before it was abandoned off the face of the earth.....
I remember Octazooka because I used it quite a bit when I first got Pearl.
You made a mistake.
Excavate isn't removed, it's been repurposed as an IQ Skill. It's the very last one you learn, allowing you to burrow through walls and make your own paths/tunnels. Spin Slash is also an early version of Cut, which does the exact same thing Spin Slash does.
I was surprised the move Rolling Kick was on the list. But to be fair, the only two games I still occasionally pick up are Crystal and Colosseum. Both have Hitmontop and especially in Colosseum, the move is used quite a bit more because there aren't many other options available.
Excavate and Spin Slash are news to me! I got surprised this time!
Good vid :)
I dunno why but I really like Rolling Kick and Octozooka.
5:00 I like the idea the super rare event moves have little effect in battle. That way it's not giving a massive advantage in the competitive scene to the few people who can obtain them. Instead, they just act as trophies.
I somehow never noticed Trump Card couldn't miss and I'm decently knowledgable in obscure Pokémon trivia.
But thanks to your efforts, there will always be a small memory of these moves in our minds
There is also the Water sport and Mud sport that i forgot existed and really only seen playing HGSS
Awesome video! Feels a lot more cinematic
Thanks! That was the aim
Me and my cousin had Regigigas bc we absolutely loved gen 3 so we already had the Regis and then the classic ds having the game boy cartridge slot made it easy to transfer, but it was really funny seeing that mine was lv 70 (pearl) and his was lv 1
Octazooka should just get the accuracy lower effect set to 100%. It would still be a bad move, but there would be a niche justification for it at that point.
So about the last line in this video... I never thought about it like that before, but you are definitely correct. I was one of those kids. Although I didn't have enough stability or opportunity to participate in events, I did have these games, and enough interest in ciphers to translate and figure out the regi-quest. I guess in the moment I didn't I think about it that way, I was quite jealous of people whose parents helped them attend events, but when gen3 came around I guess all of us did what we could.
Octazooka and Rolling kick going to 100% accuracy would make them very good
As difficult as it is, I really like how you find the Regi trio in RSE. It reminds me of the Ruins of Alph mystery from Gen 2 but with an actually good reward, and unlike the overwhelming majority of hidden or mythical Pokémon there's no outside requirements. You don't need to get an item or trigger from a limited time event, you don't have to trade for them (except for Regigigas), yes it's hard to do, but it's still 100% possible to obtain them legitimately, the same can't be said for Latios/Latias, Darkrai, Ho-Oh, Mew, Celebi, etc.
Yeah I prefer this puzle aproach better than modern way to obtain legends and mytics.
it's the greatest puzzle/treasure hunt in the franchise, imo.
Keep making content like this man! I love it.Oh and I was that kid who figured out Regigigas on his I left a comment on your video with the story.
Hey, thanks so much! I saw your previous comment; crazy stuff :D
Real 'Swift' is also lost.
A great kind of move to have if you expected an opponent to fly or dig.
Great video
Was cool to see Spin-off games get a mention
Wide Slash being ??? type makes me think of the new 19th Terra Type that they released recently
Huh?
What?! How did I miss a 19th TT?
@@0G-GhostThey teased it at Pokemon Worlds for the Indigo Disc DLC. Probably exclusive to Terapagos
That's interesting. The first ever legit ??? type Pokemon?
"Ah yes Pokémon a game held close to my Deer Heart." He said while holding up the still beating heart of a deer. 🦌❤
shhh don't tell them
one of the most underrated youtube channels i’ve ever seen, your consistent quality is that of a channel with hundreds of thousands of subs
That kid who got crush grip on platinum was me. My older brother had pearl and I wanted a big broccoli man, so he told me that I had to get the Regis in emerald and told me vaguely where the underwater cave was. After catching the Regis, he told me how to get regigigas, but didn’t know it would be level one
They should've gotten rid of splash and given magikarp an actual usable move that way you could actually train him to evolve rather than relying on Evs from your party.
I think wake-up slap is pretty forgotten or at least ignored too.
I was 100% that kid in 2008 getting regigigas. Just starting highschool and very bored during winter break. Was a fun time a long time ago. 😂
I can't believe you said hold hands doesn't do anything. It makes them very happy, it says it right there /j
You forgot the Shadow moves, exclusive to the Orre duology.
The only reason i know about excavate is because when i was younger i was friends with a gamestore owner, ds, wii, gamecube, anything older or vintage. and he had plenty of game sharks or whatever other things like that, and could do basically whatever they wanted, i saw them tunneling around in mystery dungeon at like 10 maybe, and was like "AYYYYO HOW DO YOU DO THAT??!?" and he said you unlock it after beating the game 😭 it wasnt till like a month later i saw him using a gameshark or something and asked about it, and he explained. that was also the only time i actually ever seen excavate i think, so thanks for helping me find some lost memories 😂
man in 20 years when bank is gone and we're in generation 17, gens 1-7 will be ancients retro relics lost to time, on the level of pokemon stadium today. people may know about it, but few people will be ancient enough to have experienced it in person.
love the style of your videos dude, fastest subscribe of my life
If there's another video like this (they're really great, by the way), one obscure move I can think of is Vacuum Wave. Not many Pokemon learn it by level up, and it stopped being a tutor move after Gen 4
Dang I'm surprised Kinesis wasn't on here. It existed all the way back from the OG Gen 1 games. It was even in the guidebook and could be hacked onto your pokemon with cheat devices but there was no legitimate way to actually get it
I remember being surprised mirror move was around as long as it was because I couldn't remember seeing it anymore after second gen
The long lost sequel to Abandoned By Disney.
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Your intro was too scary! I can't watch this late at night.
Great vid, Keep it up!
I used Hold Back so much back in ORAS, I got the shiny mystery gift Beldum and used it throughout my first playthrough! I still have it somewhere in my Pokémon Home.
You'd think the existence of the Splatoon franchise would cause the Pokémon designers to remember that Octazooka exists and make it more Splatoon-themed. D:
6:20: I see what you did there.
One move that nearly everyone forgets is Synchronoise. No, that’s not a typo. It had 70 power in Gen V. Gen VI increased that all the way to 120, but no one cared because it only affects Pokémon of the same type as the user.
Yeah.
It’s actually great for Jolteon. The Eeveelutions usually can’t do much against their own types beyond non-STAB Dig and Shadow Ball, so surprising another Electric-type with an unresisted 120 base power move no one’s ever heard of is super satisfying.
And now it’s impossible because it’s been removed. I get why, but it’s a little disappointing to me and the other two or three people who used it.
2:51: That faded frame is almost invisible.
I love these videos, don't stop!
I remember that one of my Pokémon learned Refresh in Pokémon Emerald, and I couldn't get it to work (I was like 9). I used it in a Pokémon Contest just to see its battle animation. Turns out it heals status, but that's still something not so useful to spend a moveslot on. I also found Beat Up to be very mysterious. Exclusive to Sneasel (at least back in Gen II, now a few handsful of Pokémon learn it) and with a mechanism that renders it practically unusable, it's best avoided. Bone Club and Bonemerang are also pretty forgettable. It's kind of wild how Marowak got three signature bone-related moves that no other Pokémon could use.
Tbf for regigigas, it got easier to get them. I only know how to do it in the Gen 3 and 4 remakes, but for ORAS it was just the question of "how was I supposed to know to do this" by coming into the cave you caught regice with having all three other regies. And in BDSP they made the legendary park I forget the name of that let's you get the regies, albeit in a tedious fashion so that you can get gigas purely in game.
you can obtain the regis in gen 4 through an event distribution item (just use a time-preserving dns like wiimmfi or kaeru) instead of transferring from gen 3.
theres also a level 100(?) regigigas through an event distribution too so you could have two regigigas on the same save file
regigigas is adorable but its sad that i cant bring my colossal behemoth to amity square
Those fcked up my games. Even plat has the "saving a lot of data" bug now
I did get Regigigas as a kid. I used the Pal Park to gradually send over everything from Sapphire, Emerald, and Firered. Those games themselves also had everything I'd caught and transferred over from Colosseum and XD so you can imagine how full the boxes on the PC were after that - almost every Pokemon in Pokedex order (never did 100% complete the 'dex though) and at least a full box of duplicate legendaries, pseudo legendaries and rare stuff. I did the Regigigas stuff on my own but never liked the Regis in general so didn't use them. Braille wasn't an issue as I had the manuals for Sapphire/Emerald and the "language" was printed in there so easy to reference
I know you said happy hour doesnt do anything, but i use happy hour constantly while spam fighting the tournament in Violet. While wearing a lucky coin you get 4X prize money. Its great for getting pokemin competitively ready.
Hold Back Snorlax with Yawn was my main capture mon in Sun/Moon, it was great
10:19 One funny thing in gen 4 is that you need regigigas to get the regice, registeel, and regirock, but you need regice, registeel, and regirock to get regigigas.
Wide Slash was my go to move in PMD for crowd clearing especially in monster houses. I feel with the introduction of Brutal Swing Wode slash has mostly become redundant.