i was just about to comment that the "IT'S YA BOY--i can't do youtube intros" thing has really grown on me. i legit love them as the actual intro. (edit: and bonus points for the unenthusiastic riff on the viewer/subscriber stats and reminders to subscribe. there's just something hilarious on PC ripping on the conventions to improve his visibility on youtube while still benefiting from those same conventions.)
Its the same reason 3 shotting something is so much stronger on opponents, they can sack every fight, where you can't, or in the case of effect spore, trading a mon's life to put yours to sleep is worth it for the opponent and not you
I um has that happen in a randomiser my starter Flareon had Colour Change and a fucking Ho-Oh had Arena Trap and Outrage I lived becuase I killed it but fuckkkk was that scary
Arbok and Luxray are the best examples. The former being pure poison typing is pretty meh and the latter is slow. But relatively good movesets and intimidate make them very viable on nuzlockes
Imagine how much cooler every single starter would be, if they were enveloped in water/fire/leaves during Torrent/Blaze/Overgrow The showcasing visuals would probably scare the opponent but also make it more predictable potentially on the other hand. Nice idea
10:18 As One - Signature Ability of both Calyrex forms, the one from the DLC. This abilities has two abilities at once. Unnerve for Calyrex, and either Chilling Neigh (Moxie) Glastrier or Grim Neigh (SpA Moxie) Spectrier 24:48 Curious Medicine - Sig Ability of G. Slowking. Whenever you enter the field, your ally's stats changes will be reset
As One isn't particularly better for nuzlockeing than Chilling Neigh or Grim Neigh, partially because Unnerve is a rather situational ability, and partially because you can't get either in a Nuzlocke anyways.
@@chriskoloski32it makes so you cannot depend on setup moves, which means you need to have a pokemon which can 1shot everything for it not to be niche.
@@ZaWRLD Yeah, but talking about it (venting or just sharing opinions) makes one feel a bit better, and many warnings i got as i was thinking about joining Twitch when life has become better in many way, which i'm not sure about after seeing so many crazy people and insane happenings there. It may even be worse than Twitter in many cases, imo.
So for the blaze, torrent, etc type abilities, I always felt that they should do something like what the anime does. When infernape enters blaze, his flames grow exponentially, so game freak could just make a slightly different sprite
If the solgaleo and lunala's brief transformation when using their signature moved counts as a different form, this means every starter would have a second form for their abilities.
Literally just put some effect on their HP bar. That way you signify that it's happening, and even if you're illiterate or just never read abilities you can piece together that your getting a low HP boost. Make one for each type so you know what element is being boosted or just do a generic glow if you wanna cheap out.
Oh I love this but I'm torn! On the one hand seeing the sprite change would be a definite "Oh crap" moment when you realize the ability activated. On the other hand I also love how sneaky the power up can be if you don't know or just forget about it. Either you suddenly get rolled or your pokemon wrecks your opponent and you're just like "Where did that come from, Buddy?!"
One important factor in the ability is the game in which the ability is used. I don't mean gen 4 Sturdy vs Gen 5 Sturdy. I mean the romhacks. Because as shown in many streams, NPCs LOVE to switch out in challenging ROM hacks, especially Radical Red and Blaze Black, so abilities like Arena Trap, Shadow Tag and Magnet Pull are broken as fuck
kinda heart breaking too that he shit on people on his jaiden animation react youtube video even though that's basically the reason he got these high peak of new viewers so fast in the first place
The difference between Furr Coat and Fluffy is that Furr coat doubles your defense while Fluffy makes you take less damage from contact moves (alongside taking more damage from fire moves) In case it's not clear, doubling your defense makes you takes less damage from physical attacks, including earthquake/close combat etc But taking less damage from CONTACT moves for example make you take less damage from Petal Dance / Draining kiss and Close Combat but Earthquake will deal full damage (Petal dance and Draining kiss are Special moves)
Another reason Flare Boost is incredible is because when your burned you cant be paralyzed or poisoned and therefore it’s essentially just taking low Damage everyturn in return for 50% Special Damage and Para/Poison immunity.
Intimidate is one of my favourites abbilities since I only won my Platinum Nuzlocke because of it. My Luxray intimated Flintʼs Infernape and sadly died, but after that I was able to switch in Torterra which survived an attack and killed it. It wouldn't have survived without Intimidate.
@@me-le1juPretty late in this, but grinding is better since your pokemon get EVs, which help them out a lot. It's best to research which pokemon give you EVs beneficial to the pokemon you're grinding, ie. Ponyta giving speed EVs for your Gabite. Rare candies don't give any EVs, so only really use them if you really need a few extra levels for a power creep, or if you're at an area where you can't get good EVs for a certain pokemon and don't have EV reducing berries
Cloud Nine Golduck is epic on a sun team, especially in gen 4 when weather is permanent. Being able to switch in water type and not have the sun negatively effect it is great.
Regarding Bulletproof, some of the moves you mentioned are (or maybe were, I'm not that versed in Pokemon knowledge) quite commonly used as coverage/stab moves. So it sounds like Bulletproof could be a legitly decent ability to have. Although some of the choices completely surprised me.
commonly used outside of the games, yeah. romhacks help make them more common as they're just good moves in general, but the main series games don't really give their trainers solid move sets for the most part.
@@Dracon350 I'm not so sure about that. Granted I haven't played anything past 3rd Gen, but the moves that i recognize in the list that bulletproof blocks are used quite consistently up to 3rd Gen... especially Shadow Ball which is on almost every single Ghost or Dark type
Jan's comment about Hustle was really good. That's the kind of theory I like this channel for. The 50% damage boost v.s. 20% miss trade-off isn't so simple when you're not getting 50% value if say you were going to do 80% damage originally (only 25% in that case), and you're getting no value if you were going to do 50-65%.
Bulletproof seems way better than you seem to think. Many of the moves it invalidates are super common amongst dangerous opponents (Gym Leaders, E4, Champion), and having free switch-ins in those fights is huge. It seems better than berserk tbh.
I honestly agree with your statement on Blaze, Overgrow, Torrent and Swarm. There should be an indicator that shows you when your in that damage because the only time I have effectively used it was in Pokémon mystery dungeon
I feel like at least for the mainline games, hidden abilities should all be in "too uncommon" for the most part. Since you can't breed for them and you can't chain for them or whatever other mechanic is usually used to get hidden abilities in games, it feels like you will rarely run into them. Sometimes you can get them, but you have to plan way ahead of time how you're going to go about doing it and it feels like you're just "gaming" the nuzlocke. Probably different for romhacks that either let you change abilities or random encounters have chances for hidden abilities, but at least for the mainline games you are almost never going to see them.
8:06 For cases like this, I feel like it'd be best to make separate lists for different types of Nuzlockes. For example, Anticipation is ass in a vanilla Locke where you have every enemy's movepool memorized, but as you said, its great in a blind/rando Locke, because of its info-granting abilities. 18:33 If an ability is good enough that it warrants it being banned across several gens worth of comp scenes, I think "pretty good" is the understatement of the year. Besides, most mons that have Chlorophyll have Sunny Day, which means they back themselves up with a boosted stat & a 1-turn 120 power move in Solar Beam. 47:24 I actually really like what you did with the !ability command, basically saying "Hey, only mods can use this, but if you want to use this for yourself, here's where you can find it." Makes it so that viewers can use it, but trolls can't flood chat with it.
@@geekymedia1614 yeah, the only permanent sun setters are groudon in ruby (obv banned) and *_technically_* ninetales in b2w2, but it requires *E X T R E M E E N C O U N T E R S H E N A N I G A N S* to obtain
Your point on Blaze etc not being visually clear is really good cuz they managed to do it for the animé in gen 4 with Ash’s Infernape. Surely there should be a visual indicator in the games by now as well
Drizzle honestly deserves to be even higher because in addition to water moves boost, fire debuffs, and speed boost it also lets you get a thunder that will bypass accuracy check and makes moves like Moonlight heal extra HP
Imagine if Arena Trap (and things like it, such as Block) prevented Dynamax and Gigantamax, seeing as activating those (stupid and poorly balanced) gimmicks require the trainer to withdraw their Pokemon back into their ball.
@@EyeOfArgus -Doubles your HP -Makes you immune to flinching and weight moves -Disables your Choice item in case you get locked to a move and your opponent switches in something that's immune/strong against it. -Three turns of free set up That's basically it
Halfpace any pokemon on both your side and the opponent’s has the ability to dynamax, and its not even something that can be done everywhere like mega evolution, nor does it last the whole fight.
@@SongokuJidai so what I'm getting is that crits are bullshit and if you lose a Pokemon to a crit, it's because the game is bullshit and the NPC is a filthy, cheating bastard and there's no way you could ever possibly be at fault. That's what you're trying to say, right?
Been watching you since 10k and It's insane to see how quickly your channel is growing. Keep up the amazing work and congratulations on the 200k, PC :)
This may be something you already considered, but I wanted to point out for the cute charm ability that AS FAR AS I KNOW, the genders of a gym leaders and rivals pokemon are always consistent. Usually they're male, so if you get a female pokemon with cute charm, I think the utility of it is a lot more than people may think. I would consider it to be a lesser static.
That’s some awesome advices for abilities over here especially in a game where u can swap abilities in between can be really effective like radical red. Ty for the tips PC!
Dude, early game Cute Charm is incredibly dangerous when you have to face it, looking at you Whitney. At that point you probably don't really have many special attacks so hitting one of those pokemon with attacks from, say, your starter who will be male most of the time would force you to switch out, and hope that you have a pokemon of the same gender.
Something to note about Cloud Nine Golduck is that its a mon with Water and Ice moves that can fit in a sun team, which, since most games require Surf, is something you'll probably want to look at in any rom hack where you can get a drought mon.
I will say, I feel like Dancer should be in low A tier to high B tier. Some of the more popular harder romhacks that get nuzlocked where you have access to Oricorio have a lot of battles where mons try to set up on you. You can abuse this with Sensu (Ghost/Flying Oricorio) because the AI will always try to set up on it in every game that has access to Oricorio, which allows you to get a lot of value out of its Dancer ability.
Castform's Weather ball + forecast makes sure that the 50 power weather ball is always 100 power, and always STAB, I think the combo makes it decent for rain teams, being able to consistently fire off 150power water moves and 120 power thunders with 100% and unmissable thunders are great. And 70 stats all around isn't terrible. I'd recommend anyone to try out castform if you're able to get a single drizzle- or drought mon on your team, it's pretty funny to use as a pivot, remember that you can run say a Rain dance, thunder, solarbeam, weather ball castform even on a sun team, so whenever someone is firing a water-type move you give them the rain boost, but you yourself turns into a water-mon and still has the ability to fire back a thunder. Castform is a great weatherpivot whenever you have drought or drizzle, because you can always just tempo back the weather for your team, and the AI almost never plays around you turning your type from fire to water and back.
I am terrible at nuzlockes, I tried to do a ultra moon nuzelocke, it took me 3 tries, and all three times my starter died, on the 3rd attempt, I won, and my team was as follows. Furfrou Ribombee Scrafty(moxie) Eevee (moral support) I was going to evolve him into an espeon, but I was so confident I was going to lose that I didn't see the point of grinding for 3 hours to catch her up. But I shouldn't have decided so soon, the elite four was a breeze, ribombee for fighting and some help on ghost as well. Scrafty for rock and a little help on ghost as well for dark type And furfrou, the most unexpected member of the team, was insane, and fur coat saved him multiple times, he had crunch, play rough, headbutt, and return. He helped me power through the elite four, and I will never forget that, furfrou went from being one of those pokemon I forget about, to being in top 5 favorites. And if it weren't for fur coat, I wouldn't have won. So I cried when he didn't put fur coat at S+ tier.
Cloud Nine Golduck is a lot better when you take into account that you can negate your own weather disadvantace. For example you can have golduck on your sun team now because it's water type attacks will not be reduced in power and they won't take damage on sand/hail teams Even better on blind/randomized game if you didn't account for a trainer having a fire or solar beam mon on their team and able to counter it without taking down your own weather. It can also be REALLY good for overworld weather encounters since ever if you use a weather move it'll revert back once it's over, the wandering legendaries in swsh dlc for example can be stuck on a hail/sand route making encountering them easier and of course the red fight in hgss
If you ever watch the Nuzlocke I am working on right now, you are going to hate how much I relied on Kecleon's Color Change to counter Type Advantages. Crowning moment for my Kecleon was when he took down a Mewtwo that nearly wiped me out.
@@nguyenminhquang9393 well yes but what I’m saying is comparatively to Slacking it would “suck” so it wouldn’t be fair to rate it based on if Pokémon like Slacking or Regigigas got it
@@nguyenminhquang9393 not exactly… he’s rating how good Air Lock is on ray. Air lock is a great ability but if my Ray could have any ability it wouldn’t be air lock while if my Azumarill could have hugs power it’d be the best ability it gets
@@Idjardine0805 not really, I'm just watching in 1.75 speed when the video is almost one f**ing hour. And yea I know that. But that's just legit confusing that the game doesn't tell you when it activates.
Also, on guts, Toxic Boost is basically the same, ATK+ when Poisoned only, but it just so happens the pokemon with this ability, Is a normal type with high Phsyical ATK, that learns Facade, Facade Zangoose is a god tier threat
The fight after Cinder Volcano and Vega, the Dark type gym leader are insanely difficult. I'm playing on Sandbox mode and actively building basically perfect teams to take these fights on and I'm still losing
I think Jan is at his best when he can show his personality, obviously his nuzlockes are fun but stuff like this and the Pokémon roasts where he's just riffing and just chatting shows he's really entertaining
“I guess you could be playing a randomizer and get darkrai or mega salamence or this... this guy” edit: I wasn’t trying to make fun of PC for forgetting zygarde’s name, it just made me chuckle.
Emergency Exit is my least favorite ability after trying to use golisapod for shield. You pretty much get 2 1st impression which is nice but you almost never get more than 2 hits per fight with it unless you also play switch instead of set.
When randomizing in gen 3, i always love it when my favorite pkmn have battle/shell armor or white smoke/clear body, and when Zangoose gets pure/huge power, i'm double happy XD I don't always randomize wild pkmn, and caterpie with pure/huge power is funny, but gotta watch out. Beast Boost good on Shuckle, eh? :P CB/WS do negate accuracy drops, too. Compoundeyes is great on pkmn with 75 accuracy moves :P I love randomizer, as it gives a lot moreto figure out, even with abilities and TMs(buffed a bit to have more decent/good TMs) alone it's fun to me :)
I'd rank Azumarill's abilities as- 1.Huge Power (Obviously Insane) 2.Sap Sipper (turning a weakness into an immunity is amazing and the free attack boost is just cherry on top) 3.Thick Fat (It makes fire & ice go from x2 resisted to x4 resisted which Azumarill doesn't mind but doesn't love either since the only fire or ice it's scared of is freeze dry which isn't too common)
I really agree with the Blaze torrent overgrowth comment. Back then I didnt even know what in a pinch means and thought that start abilities are useless.
*Any poké experts in the comments plz help.* Just started getting into Pokémon and wanna play the game in order. For each generation there was always the better enhanced version with more Pokémon for example gen 1: yellow, gen 2: crystal, gen 3: emerald, gen 4: platinum. Well I finished playing yellow, crystal, emerald, and platinum and now I’m on the gen 5 games. Gen5 doesn’t have that 3rd better version though. Which one is the best one to start with for your first gen 5 game? Black, white, black2 or white2?
@@figent6672 I was reading that black has a black city and white has a white forest . Are they the same other than aesthetics? I guess if I’m really stressing over getting the full experience I can always go back and play the opposite version as I do have all versions downloaded on my ds
@@Tristan02539 In BW you either have black city or white forest depending on your game, which you said. Aside from the aesthetic and music (and possibly the pokemon you can find there) there aren't any differences. In bw2 the same thing applies, but there is a key system where if you send a key to the opposite game, that game will have the ability to switch between both areas (and vice versa). Pretty cool. If you beat the black city tower in black 2, you get a shiny gible, whereas you get a shiny dratini in white 2 for beating white tree hollow. You might wanna watch CandyEvie's gen 5 game differences comparison to get a more fleshed out understanding between the differences in general (there are WAY more differences between versions in gen 5 than in other gens to this day xD)
Sunny Day, Solar Beam Vileplume with Chlorophyll was my MVP in a Emerald Nuzlocke. With the extra speed instant solar beam and naturally good attack it would OHKO almost all opponents that didn't resist it.
In a nuzlocke, I'd assume Aura Break is EXTREMELY niche because it literally only affects Xerneas and Yveltal. In unmodified XY nuzlockes, you can't really use it yourself afaik. As One would definitely be S tier if your Too Uncommon tier wasn't there. It literally has 2 abilities that both are pretty good iirc (one of them is basically just Moxie but specific to whether it's a physical or special pokemon, AND Unnverve which is really good in nuzlockes, at least against the player lol) on a very strong legendary. Oh yea also agreed on Overgrowth/Blaze/Torrent, idk why theres no UI popup for it.
dlc legendaries are useless until after raihan, especially calyrex and his steeds. most people dont even pay attention to the dlc either in nuzlockes because all the legendaries are above even leons level.
I think your “I don’t do intros” intro, is your actual intro and it totally suits you
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i was just about to comment that the "IT'S YA BOY--i can't do youtube intros" thing has really grown on me. i legit love them as the actual intro.
(edit: and bonus points for the unenthusiastic riff on the viewer/subscriber stats and reminders to subscribe. there's just something hilarious on PC ripping on the conventions to improve his visibility on youtube while still benefiting from those same conventions.)
100% yes
God bless you bro
youtube comments are so cringe
“Wake up babe, new PC video”
Love it thanks babe ❤️
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effect spore feels like its like 2 tiers higher when the opponent has it compared to when u have it 😅
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Its the same reason 3 shotting something is so much stronger on opponents, they can sack every fight, where you can't, or in the case of effect spore, trading a mon's life to put yours to sleep is worth it for the opponent and not you
Facts
Its also really annoying to deal with status conditions across battles grinding
Same with arena trap
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"It's not good."
"It's not devoid of good though."
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What a roller coaster
“Funny words, magic man”
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Why tf does it sound like simpleflips is the one saying this?
Imagine being locked to a Color Change mon while the foe starts using Outrage
Imagine that against scale shot Garchomp
@@yujiandou4658 ooooooof.
I um has that happen in a randomiser my starter Flareon had Colour Change and a fucking Ho-Oh had Arena Trap and Outrage I lived becuase I killed it but fuckkkk was that scary
You wouldn’t be locked for long
@@cosmiclikesminecraft damn, your Flareon almost had the same silhouette as Diglett
Even if a pokemon is shit, if it has intimidate, it's fine
when you channel the power of competitive god (im talking lando but incineroar last gen is basically similar enough) you just can't go wrong
facts, I just said this to myself
Arbok and Luxray are the best examples. The former being pure poison typing is pretty meh and the latter is slow. But relatively good movesets and intimidate make them very viable on nuzlockes
Mightyena is not fine lol
@@endinessendiness7842 it's decent early game
Imagine how much cooler every single starter would be, if they were enveloped in water/fire/leaves during Torrent/Blaze/Overgrow
The showcasing visuals would probably scare the opponent but also make it more predictable potentially on the other hand.
Nice idea
And in games post-Gen 4, the idle and attacking animations get a little faster, as if the Pokémon is bursting with power and adrenaline
Swarm the pokemon would be covered by flys
Just look at how cool blaze infernape was in the anime
Remember in the anime where Blaze was treated like a Super Saiyan form for Infernape?
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As One - Signature Ability of both Calyrex forms, the one from the DLC. This abilities has two abilities at once. Unnerve for Calyrex, and either Chilling Neigh (Moxie) Glastrier or Grim Neigh (SpA Moxie) Spectrier
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Curious Medicine - Sig Ability of G. Slowking. Whenever you enter the field, your ally's stats changes will be reset
As One isn't particularly better for nuzlockeing than Chilling Neigh or Grim Neigh, partially because Unnerve is a rather situational ability, and partially because you can't get either in a Nuzlocke anyways.
That ability for slowking seems pretty good, I'm surprised I dont see it in competitive
@@chriskoloski32 it's used in competiitive sometimes. It's just too niece with it's other things to make it great.
@@chriskoloski32it makes so you cannot depend on setup moves, which means you need to have a pokemon which can 1shot everything for it not to be niche.
His chat is still as awful as ever, they’re like drones, they just copy each other.
Tbh thats twitch chat in general
Yeah the chat is so childlish and are always saying cringe
When you gather a large group of people in one area that's what happens it's simple psychology complaining about it does nothing, it's just annoying
Thats twitch, twitter, reddir and youtube in general, bunch of npcs and bots.
@@ZaWRLD Yeah, but talking about it (venting or just sharing opinions) makes one feel a bit better, and many warnings i got as i was thinking about joining Twitch when life has become better in many way, which i'm not sure about after seeing so many crazy people and insane happenings there.
It may even be worse than Twitter in many cases, imo.
So for the blaze, torrent, etc type abilities, I always felt that they should do something like what the anime does. When infernape enters blaze, his flames grow exponentially, so game freak could just make a slightly different sprite
Exactly. It's the starting pokemon. Can't they put a bit more effort?
If the solgaleo and lunala's brief transformation when using their signature moved counts as a different form, this means every starter would have a second form for their abilities.
Or at the very least they could make a type-colored aura appear around them
Literally just put some effect on their HP bar. That way you signify that it's happening, and even if you're illiterate or just never read abilities you can piece together that your getting a low HP boost. Make one for each type so you know what element is being boosted or just do a generic glow if you wanna cheap out.
Oh I love this but I'm torn! On the one hand seeing the sprite change would be a definite "Oh crap" moment when you realize the ability activated. On the other hand I also love how sneaky the power up can be if you don't know or just forget about it. Either you suddenly get rolled or your pokemon wrecks your opponent and you're just like "Where did that come from, Buddy?!"
Please, never tell us again the right % of people who follow you. It gets funnier everytime you make up a number.
Also, great video, as usual.
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One important factor in the ability is the game in which the ability is used. I don't mean gen 4 Sturdy vs Gen 5 Sturdy. I mean the romhacks. Because as shown in many streams, NPCs LOVE to switch out in challenging ROM hacks, especially Radical Red and Blaze Black, so abilities like Arena Trap, Shadow Tag and Magnet Pull are broken as fuck
True, and you don't realize that your mon is trapped in until it's too late.
And also for other abilities
In some rom hacks legendaries are common af
He says this in the video.
So long as it's the enemy is stuck in there with you and not the other way around.
They switch in blaze black?
The Anticipation for PC rating Intimidate Unnerves me
An it’s not in this video
Very punny
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these puns are pretty scrappy
These puns Rattled me so hard I got Tangled Feet.
I clicked on this video just to listen to him rant about how god tier intimidate is
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@@whizhunk4007 chill bud
@@whizhunk4007 It's either based or cringe. So it's 100% based.
and he doenst even get to intimidate in this part xD
My favorite ability is Algorithm Boost, which lets a video be more visible just by commenting
No words Just a s tier * put this ability in s tier*
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Man jumped to 200k so fast, I know he hates us here at youtube but man am I happy for him!
I couldnt care less about twitch, so hes either getting my views on youtube, or nowhere.
I don't know why he hates us because his twitch chat is cringe afff
@@merychan13 you’ve never been on his twitch clearly
@@adamrussell7604 who said that? I'm subbed lmao
kinda heart breaking too that he shit on people on his jaiden animation react youtube video even though that's basically the reason he got these high peak of new viewers so fast in the first place
The difference between Furr Coat and Fluffy is that Furr coat doubles your defense while Fluffy makes you take less damage from contact moves (alongside taking more damage from fire moves)
In case it's not clear, doubling your defense makes you takes less damage from physical attacks, including earthquake/close combat etc
But taking less damage from CONTACT moves for example make you take less damage from Petal Dance / Draining kiss and Close Combat but Earthquake will deal full damage (Petal dance and Draining kiss are Special moves)
Another reason Flare Boost is incredible is because when your burned you cant be paralyzed or poisoned and therefore it’s essentially just taking low Damage everyturn in return for 50% Special Damage and Para/Poison immunity.
Intimidate is one of my favourites abbilities since I only won my Platinum Nuzlocke because of it.
My Luxray intimated Flintʼs Infernape and sadly died, but after that I was able to switch in Torterra which survived an attack and killed it.
It wouldn't have survived without Intimidate.
Congrats on your win man
guts is so incredible for cheesing. I used a guts heracross for my hgss playthrough and it just annihilated everything.
pretty sure guts rattata smashes every game you can get it in lmao
@@danlorett2184 should I use rare candies or grind in nuzlockes
@@me-le1juPretty late in this, but grinding is better since your pokemon get EVs, which help them out a lot. It's best to research which pokemon give you EVs beneficial to the pokemon you're grinding, ie. Ponyta giving speed EVs for your Gabite. Rare candies don't give any EVs, so only really use them if you really need a few extra levels for a power creep, or if you're at an area where you can't get good EVs for a certain pokemon and don't have EV reducing berries
“Chilling neigh, that’s not a real Pokémon”😂🤣
DLC Legendaries? Those aren't real XD
It honestly makes me wonder if this was streamed before the CT when they were leaked, because he sounded genuinely like "wtf is this?"
@@golduck7495 Nah, he just literally didn't try XD Notice he looked up tons of other abilities he didn't know XD
@@kaiyamazaki1684 true
Can you get them in nuzlocke though ?
Cloud Nine Golduck is epic on a sun team, especially in gen 4 when weather is permanent. Being able to switch in water type and not have the sun negatively effect it is great.
You got me at the “some bulls*it statistics that I just made up”
Regarding Bulletproof, some of the moves you mentioned are (or maybe were, I'm not that versed in Pokemon knowledge) quite commonly used as coverage/stab moves. So it sounds like Bulletproof could be a legitly decent ability to have. Although some of the choices completely surprised me.
commonly used outside of the games, yeah. romhacks help make them more common as they're just good moves in general, but the main series games don't really give their trainers solid move sets for the most part.
@@Dracon350 I'm not so sure about that. Granted I haven't played anything past 3rd Gen, but the moves that i recognize in the list that bulletproof blocks are used quite consistently up to 3rd Gen... especially Shadow Ball which is on almost every single Ghost or Dark type
Jan's comment about Hustle was really good. That's the kind of theory I like this channel for.
The 50% damage boost v.s. 20% miss trade-off isn't so simple when you're not getting 50% value if say you were going to do 80% damage originally (only 25% in that case), and you're getting no value if you were going to do 50-65%.
Bulletproof seems way better than you seem to think. Many of the moves it invalidates are super common amongst dangerous opponents (Gym Leaders, E4, Champion), and having free switch-ins in those fights is huge. It seems better than berserk tbh.
I honestly agree with your statement on Blaze, Overgrow, Torrent and Swarm. There should be an indicator that shows you when your in that damage because the only time I have effectively used it was in Pokémon mystery dungeon
I think the real PC intro was the friends we made along the way.
We need a Critlocke run, where every move has either 100% or 0% chance of criting, both of which adds different strats and threats.
Why didn’t I just say a rom where the only ability is Battle Armor.. Derp.
@@BossBoomBox so pokemon, but all the bs is over, but cosmic power is broken?
Huge thing for Dry Skin; the AI doesn't adapt to it, at least in Gen 4, and will continue using water type attacks while a Dry Skin pokemon is in.
I had a toxicroak with dry skin and just cheesed the entire water gym while getting healed by crasher wakes mons
I feel like at least for the mainline games, hidden abilities should all be in "too uncommon" for the most part. Since you can't breed for them and you can't chain for them or whatever other mechanic is usually used to get hidden abilities in games, it feels like you will rarely run into them. Sometimes you can get them, but you have to plan way ahead of time how you're going to go about doing it and it feels like you're just "gaming" the nuzlocke.
Probably different for romhacks that either let you change abilities or random encounters have chances for hidden abilities, but at least for the mainline games you are almost never going to see them.
Makes me wonder if randomizers have an option to allow for encountered pokemon to have a chance to have their hidden ability instead
8:06 For cases like this, I feel like it'd be best to make separate lists for different types of Nuzlockes. For example, Anticipation is ass in a vanilla Locke where you have every enemy's movepool memorized, but as you said, its great in a blind/rando Locke, because of its info-granting abilities.
18:33 If an ability is good enough that it warrants it being banned across several gens worth of comp scenes, I think "pretty good" is the understatement of the year. Besides, most mons that have Chlorophyll have Sunny Day, which means they back themselves up with a boosted stat & a 1-turn 120 power move in Solar Beam.
47:24 I actually really like what you did with the !ability command, basically saying "Hey, only mods can use this, but if you want to use this for yourself, here's where you can find it." Makes it so that viewers can use it, but trolls can't flood chat with it.
I think competitve is different from nuzlockes, in the sense you may not have a guaranteed sun team to back it up in a nuzlocke
@@geekymedia1614 yeah, the only permanent sun setters are groudon in ruby (obv banned) and *_technically_* ninetales in b2w2, but it requires *E X T R E M E E N C O U N T E R S H E N A N I G A N S* to obtain
Holy crap I got here when this chnnel had 20k subs and that really wasn't that ong ago, dang dude you're growing fast
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sad that he probably hates us for commenting
Now he has 200k subs
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I hate twitch more than he hates youtube
Your point on Blaze etc not being visually clear is really good cuz they managed to do it for the animé in gen 4 with Ash’s Infernape. Surely there should be a visual indicator in the games by now as well
Or they could just tell us that blaze/torrent/overgrow is active
These videos have definitely been increasing in quality, I almost can't go back to watch the old ones anymore because it is so night and day lol
Drizzle honestly deserves to be even higher because in addition to water moves boost, fire debuffs, and speed boost it also lets you get a thunder that will bypass accuracy check and makes moves like Moonlight heal extra HP
Damn, as a kid i hate this ability. I thought it was just a annoying animation that did nothing lol. I wound rather sandstorm.
Moonlight heals less in rain, it only heals more in sun
It's literally in S+ tier...
Imagine if Arena Trap (and things like it, such as Block) prevented Dynamax and Gigantamax, seeing as activating those (stupid and poorly balanced) gimmicks require the trainer to withdraw their Pokemon back into their ball.
Poorly balanced in what way
@@EyeOfArgus every way, its just a "get out of jail free card" for every single pokemon
@@EyeOfArgus -Doubles your HP
-Makes you immune to flinching and weight moves
-Disables your Choice item in case you get locked to a move and your opponent switches in something that's immune/strong against it.
-Three turns of free set up
That's basically it
Halfpace any pokemon on both your side and the opponent’s has the ability to dynamax, and its not even something that can be done everywhere like mega evolution, nor does it last the whole fight.
Mastema The Dank yeah, if only there was a way an opponent could counter it by maybe, i dunno, also dynamaxing
Another niche thing about drizzle is it lowers the healing on moonlight and morning sun
I'd love to see a Jan's nuzlocking tips and tricks video or beginners guide.
Jan
@Harry Large I think you forgot to mention crits. You see, crits are a part of the game and if your Mon dies to one it's a bad play on your part.
@@SongokuJidai so what I'm getting is that crits are bullshit and if you lose a Pokemon to a crit, it's because the game is bullshit and the NPC is a filthy, cheating bastard and there's no way you could ever possibly be at fault. That's what you're trying to say, right?
@@masonbaker1677 The crit chance is normally 6.25% but for the enemy it's
62.5%
Been watching you since 10k and It's insane to see how quickly your channel is growing. Keep up the amazing work and congratulations on the 200k, PC :)
Dancer is pretty sick ngl especially with doubles or goin against a dragon dance/swords dance user
Fastest growing Pokémon Channel on RUclips 🔥🔥🔥 keep up the great work!!!
This may be something you already considered, but I wanted to point out for the cute charm ability that AS FAR AS I KNOW, the genders of a gym leaders and rivals pokemon are always consistent. Usually they're male, so if you get a female pokemon with cute charm, I think the utility of it is a lot more than people may think. I would consider it to be a lesser static.
Gender actually tends to match that of the gym leader, unless one gender is more common
chats a genius. When chlorophyll was brought up someone said "good on sunteams"
I think battle armor should be S, it makes everything so much easier not having to play around with crits
Especially in a hard game with lots of important battles like emerald or platinum
That’s some awesome advices for abilities over here especially in a game where u can swap abilities in between can be really effective like radical red. Ty for the tips PC!
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Very cool
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"It's ya boi"
GUZMA??
anyway, I guess I'm quite early
Lmao 😂😂😂
This is what he meant when he talked about 99% of his RUclips commenters being dumb fucks.
@@hajidle guess its illegal to have fun with things now
Definitely not first . Still commenting to help and annoy jan
Thats the reason I commented as well
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It is time for the algorithm
I love how he hates on RUclips comments so much, yet twitch chat is literally just 3 words. Cringe, based, cum.
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Dude, early game Cute Charm is incredibly dangerous when you have to face it, looking at you Whitney. At that point you probably don't really have many special attacks so hitting one of those pokemon with attacks from, say, your starter who will be male most of the time would force you to switch out, and hope that you have a pokemon of the same gender.
Okay but these abilities are rated from the perspective of the player, not their opponent.
Cute charm is even a threat late-game. Having a Pokemon with it can save you
There's that trade where you can trade a Drowzee or Abra (Depending on the version) for a female Machop.
Something to note about Cloud Nine Golduck is that its a mon with Water and Ice moves that can fit in a sun team, which, since most games require Surf, is something you'll probably want to look at in any rom hack where you can get a drought mon.
I love these tierlist type videos. Especially coming from the best nuzlocker on the tube
Bulletproof is the king of oddly specific, getting immunity to a bunch of different types strongest moves, and some weaker ones, ain't a bad deal.
Suer interesting video! I never really knew what some of these abilities do and this is sick to see them ranked.
Congrats on 200k!!! The best pokemon nuzlocker in the world deserves this
“Chilling Neigh: That’s not a real Pokémon”
I will say, I feel like Dancer should be in low A tier to high B tier. Some of the more popular harder romhacks that get nuzlocked where you have access to Oricorio have a lot of battles where mons try to set up on you. You can abuse this with Sensu (Ghost/Flying Oricorio) because the AI will always try to set up on it in every game that has access to Oricorio, which allows you to get a lot of value out of its Dancer ability.
Castform's Weather ball + forecast makes sure that the 50 power weather ball is always 100 power, and always STAB, I think the combo makes it decent for rain teams, being able to consistently fire off 150power water moves and 120 power thunders with 100% and unmissable thunders are great. And 70 stats all around isn't terrible.
I'd recommend anyone to try out castform if you're able to get a single drizzle- or drought mon on your team, it's pretty funny to use as a pivot, remember that you can run say a Rain dance, thunder, solarbeam, weather ball castform even on a sun team, so whenever someone is firing a water-type move you give them the rain boost, but you yourself turns into a water-mon and still has the ability to fire back a thunder. Castform is a great weatherpivot whenever you have drought or drizzle, because you can always just tempo back the weather for your team, and the AI almost never plays around you turning your type from fire to water and back.
I am terrible at nuzlockes, I tried to do a ultra moon nuzelocke, it took me 3 tries, and all three times my starter died, on the 3rd attempt, I won, and my team was as follows.
Furfrou
Ribombee
Scrafty(moxie)
Eevee (moral support) I was going to evolve him into an espeon, but I was so confident I was going to lose that I didn't see the point of grinding for 3 hours to catch her up.
But I shouldn't have decided so soon, the elite four was a breeze, ribombee for fighting and some help on ghost as well.
Scrafty for rock and a little help on ghost as well for dark type
And furfrou, the most unexpected member of the team, was insane, and fur coat saved him multiple times, he had crunch, play rough, headbutt, and return. He helped me power through the elite four, and I will never forget that, furfrou went from being one of those pokemon I forget about, to being in top 5 favorites. And if it weren't for fur coat, I wouldn't have won. So I cried when he didn't put fur coat at S+ tier.
Finally some good content in my RUclips Feed
Cloud Nine Golduck is a lot better when you take into account that you can negate your own weather disadvantace.
For example you can have golduck on your sun team now because it's water type attacks will not be reduced in power and they won't take damage on sand/hail teams
Even better on blind/randomized game if you didn't account for a trainer having a fire or solar beam mon on their team and able to counter it without taking down your own weather.
It can also be REALLY good for overworld weather encounters since ever if you use a weather move it'll revert back once it's over, the wandering legendaries in swsh dlc for example can be stuck on a hail/sand route making encountering them easier and of course the red fight in hgss
Basically having both cloud nine and swift swim makes golduck one of the very few pokemon that are good on any weather team
"chilling neigh, nah that's not a real pokemon"
Glad im not the only one who caught that
I guess he didn't like the DLCs either. Lol
Harvest is 100% in Sunlight too. Resto-Berry with Sunny Day stalls basically forever.
an addition to chlorophyll： in sun growth which like every chlorophyll user can learn gives you swords dance and nasty plot basically
I always just put return on the Download Porygons
I came here just to hear about Intimidate since every time he reviews Gyarados he just nonstop compliments it for having intimidate.
happy 200k man! congrats! love the content
Drizzle: What tiers? I am the tier
Man, where's Part 2? :( I love this so far.
Congrats on 200k subscribers! Keep up the amazing content man!
If you ever watch the Nuzlocke I am working on right now, you are going to hate how much I relied on Kecleon's Color Change to counter Type Advantages. Crowning moment for my Kecleon was when he took down a Mewtwo that nearly wiped me out.
By the time the next video comes out, each individual Ability will probably have its own tier level.
Congrats on 200k my man. One of my favorite Pokemon content creators.
I agree with the rating system, imagine huge power on Slacking
Now imagine it on Azumarill
huge power is broken with an properly ev invested azumarill wdym
@@nguyenminhquang9393 well yes but what I’m saying is comparatively to Slacking it would “suck” so it wouldn’t be fair to rate it based on if Pokémon like Slacking or Regigigas got it
@@michaellogozzo2073 Yeah but he rated air lock at B, and guess what? ONLY rayquaza get it, he's basically rating rayquaza at B for nuzlocking
@@nguyenminhquang9393 not exactly… he’s rating how good Air Lock is on ray. Air lock is a great ability but if my Ray could have any ability it wouldn’t be air lock while if my Azumarill could have hugs power it’d be the best ability it gets
15:51 this is quite true, especially taking into account how does the ability acts in the anime (remember Chimchar?)
Hmm you must off skipped the video to get that far. Also the anime means nothing
@@Idjardine0805 not really, I'm just watching in 1.75 speed when the video is almost one f**ing hour.
And yea I know that. But that's just legit confusing that the game doesn't tell you when it activates.
i've seen a lot of smart plays with a very resiliant pokemon, with Lagging tail and analytic to get an OHKO, so i'd honestly put that at low s
Ball Fetch may be D in usefulness, but it's S in my heart. It's absolutely adorable. Yamper is literally playing fetch with you.
Definitely cute. “Trainer threw a Ball! IT’S FOR MEEEEE!”
When you realize all the tapu’s terrain abilities where given to other mons
Looking at one Grass Monke in particular....
Cough cough zap spikes thing
Also, on guts, Toxic Boost is basically the same, ATK+ when Poisoned only,
but it just so happens the pokemon with this ability, Is a normal type with high Phsyical ATK, that learns Facade,
Facade Zangoose is a god tier threat
Please do a Nuzlock run of Pokemon Unbound on Insane difficulty. Might be your hardest challenge yet, but also potentially quite fun and entertaining.
The fight after Cinder Volcano and Vega, the Dark type gym leader are insanely difficult. I'm playing on Sandbox mode and actively building basically perfect teams to take these fights on and I'm still losing
Wait till you get to the normal gym leader. That fight is complete horseshit
I think Jan is at his best when he can show his personality, obviously his nuzlockes are fun but stuff like this and the Pokémon roasts where he's just riffing and just chatting shows he's really entertaining
“I guess you could be playing a randomizer and get darkrai or mega salamence or this... this guy”
edit: I wasn’t trying to make fun of PC for forgetting zygarde’s name, it just made me chuckle.
Every episode you make me frantically verify in subbed just to be safe
Emergency Exit is my least favorite ability after trying to use golisapod for shield. You pretty much get 2 1st impression which is nice but you almost never get more than 2 hits per fight with it unless you also play switch instead of set.
Not gonna lie, I had no idea what you just said until you gave the example with Huge Power. Great video as always!
When randomizing in gen 3, i always love it when my favorite pkmn have battle/shell armor or white smoke/clear body, and when Zangoose gets pure/huge power, i'm double happy XD
I don't always randomize wild pkmn, and caterpie with pure/huge power is funny, but gotta watch out.
Beast Boost good on Shuckle, eh? :P
CB/WS do negate accuracy drops, too.
Compoundeyes is great on pkmn with 75 accuracy moves :P
I love randomizer, as it gives a lot moreto figure out, even with abilities and TMs(buffed a bit to have more decent/good TMs) alone it's fun to me :)
Problem w/battery it is only on chargabug and it doesn't even show an effect like moxie
Yet another algorithm-boosting dedicated comment, nothing so interesting.
If you're reading this, tho, hiii!
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Azumaril seems to only have good abilities.
Huge Power is obviously the best by a wide margin but Sap Sipper and Thick Fat definitely aren't bad.
I'd rank Azumarill's abilities as-
1.Huge Power (Obviously Insane)
2.Sap Sipper (turning a weakness into an immunity is amazing and the free attack boost is just cherry on top)
3.Thick Fat (It makes fire & ice go from x2 resisted to x4 resisted which Azumarill doesn't mind but doesn't love either since the only fire or ice it's scared of is freeze dry which isn't too common)
"This ability is too uncommon"
*"Disguise is amazing, 'S tier"*
Uncommon doesn’t mean the ability it means the pokemon that have it. Sorry if you already knew this
I mean, getting a Mimikyu in a nuzlocke is way more common than getting a box art legendary, and most people wouldn't use box art legendaries anyway.
Yeah ur more likely to get a mimikyu than a legend
I really agree with the Blaze torrent overgrowth comment. Back then I didnt even know what in a pinch means and thought that start abilities are useless.
Haha you almost had the intro this time around! Lol. You definitely have the charisma to become a "RUclips heartthrob" if you keep at it!
Very glad you explained the abilities!
*Any poké experts in the comments plz help.* Just started getting into Pokémon and wanna play the game in order. For each generation there was always the better enhanced version with more Pokémon for example gen 1: yellow, gen 2: crystal, gen 3: emerald, gen 4: platinum. Well I finished playing yellow, crystal, emerald, and platinum and now I’m on the gen 5 games. Gen5 doesn’t have that 3rd better version though. Which one is the best one to start with for your first gen 5 game? Black, white, black2 or white2?
Start with Black or White it dosen't matter which one you choose. Afterwards you should play the corresponding sequel.
@@figent6672 I was reading that black has a black city and white has a white forest . Are they the same other than aesthetics? I guess if I’m really stressing over getting the full experience I can always go back and play the opposite version as I do have all versions downloaded on my ds
@@Tristan02539 In BW you either have black city or white forest depending on your game, which you said. Aside from the aesthetic and music (and possibly the pokemon you can find there) there aren't any differences. In bw2 the same thing applies, but there is a key system where if you send a key to the opposite game, that game will have the ability to switch between both areas (and vice versa). Pretty cool. If you beat the black city tower in black 2, you get a shiny gible, whereas you get a shiny dratini in white 2 for beating white tree hollow. You might wanna watch CandyEvie's gen 5 game differences comparison to get a more fleshed out understanding between the differences in general (there are WAY more differences between versions in gen 5 than in other gens to this day xD)
Sunny Day, Solar Beam Vileplume with Chlorophyll was my MVP in a Emerald Nuzlocke. With the extra speed instant solar beam and naturally good attack it would OHKO almost all opponents that didn't resist it.
In a nuzlocke, I'd assume Aura Break is EXTREMELY niche because it literally only affects Xerneas and Yveltal. In unmodified XY nuzlockes, you can't really use it yourself afaik.
As One would definitely be S tier if your Too Uncommon tier wasn't there. It literally has 2 abilities that both are pretty good iirc (one of them is basically just Moxie but specific to whether it's a physical or special pokemon, AND Unnverve which is really good in nuzlockes, at least against the player lol) on a very strong legendary.
Oh yea also agreed on Overgrowth/Blaze/Torrent, idk why theres no UI popup for it.
dlc legendaries are useless until after raihan, especially calyrex and his steeds. most people dont even pay attention to the dlc either in nuzlockes because all the legendaries are above even leons level.
& suddenly our boi has hit 200k... so proud man
Are you gonna continue the ranking nuzlocke tiers of gen 6 plus pokemon?
It would be neat if abilities like Blaze did what they do in the anime and give the pokemon a rad aura.
Hey PC. when are we getting part 2?
Arena Trap also doesn't stop moves like Volt Switch or U-Turn.