Leftovers on Heracross is the standard though, so not sure what you mean. Band has its uses but is greatly limiting on mons that aren't immune to sandstorm or spikes already. Even Medicham prefers Lefties more nowadays because it becomes much harder to play around.
Beetelmon is one of my favourite Pokémon of all time, so I must say I'm conflicted to hear confirmation of the news he has taken a criminal action, killing renowned player JimothyCool
Gen 3 has a pretty interesting rule when it comes to physical attackers. The stronger you are, the more weak you are to passive damage and the harder it is to stick around. By strength, im not just talking about attack stats, but also move bp and stab type. On one end there's aero, who is immune to both sand and spikes, but compare to the psuedos and hera it has a far lower attack stat that basically required cb. It stabs are also rather weak with 75 rockslide and 70 hp flying. The three psuedos; ttar, mence and grosse, share the same problem with a weak stab (except for grosse, but we'll get to that) and are all immune to only one sand or spikes, making them easier to wear down. But their naturally higher attack stats allows them to use other items than cb, but they become destructive with cb. Now grosse does has a high attack stat and a high base power move in meteor mash, but its steel stab means that bulky waters and skarmory can resist its attacks, though it can potentially get through with a lucky attack boost or explosion. Then there is hera, whose is without question not just a glass Canon, but a glass tactical nuke. It is weak to both sand and spikes, so sets without leftovers can be outlasted, but it wont be without causties. Its attack is 10 points lower than the psuedos, but where they suffer from weak moves and stab, hera is here with 120 megahorn that whallops waters and a 150 focus punch that even skarm needs to respect. It also has access to swords dances and two abilites that can increase its power even more at the cost of health.
The moment gamefreak started minmaxing pokemon specifically for competitive play (gen 6 onwards, gen 5 was an obvious oversight by gamefreak) was when competitive pokemon became an absolute joke. It lacks any creativity now, and everything feels like it was designed for a specific purpose.
As a Heracross enjoyer, Gen 3 OU has quickly become my favourite metagame. On top of that, Mr Cool and his very epic tournament, ADV Revival, has begun to rapidly invade my home. This video is insane.
@@Wing_cap only if Mr Cool, the leader of the invasion, the Napoleon if you will, allows me to. Otherwise, I might have to do it from the closet I am currently hiding in.
Listening to this video while opening at work on Halloween. It’s dark out and I’m scared when I go around a corner a Hera in swarm range with salac boost will be waiting for me. This is insane folks.
Dude your videos are seriously entertaining. As someone who’s favourite gen is gen 3, I never thought it had the complexity that you’ve shown it does in competitive Pokémon. Keep up the good work!
Wow, I can't believe that great RUclipsr Jimothy Cool is dead. Let's hope that Decidueye used Spirit Shackle at the last second so he may still be able to give commentary on the mortal plane.
i actually love band heracross. I focus punch salamence and i do like 37% at -1 by the way, i love the intro, reminds me of those donation messages you keep getting in the adv revival tournament
(it was originally a dono message, and started out the memes. Read in one of the vids, posted on his community page, and now here. It flashed on the screen after he read it here!)
I love this format for videos. Much more in depth and informative with some lore. Sorry that you got KOed by Heracross but glad you found it in your heart to forgive the gigantic bug type.
The venomoth into something idea could be how he was inversing power creep, getting better and better for each generation, from being trash, to niche, to alright in NU with niches above, to great in RU and banned from in Gen 5 and 6 and 7 to finally being legitimate into Gen 7 UU
Been really enjoying Gen 3. I dipped into it for a couple of months now since Gen 9 got too turbulent and frankly having to keep track of so many Pokémon and Moves gets pretty exhausting after a few games. Heracross has been a surprise staple on my Porygon2 teams. While risky (and debatably not too viable), Endure Salac has been good at dealing with Dugtrios for times I feel like ditching the plastic ducky. Gen 3 really does let you play around with silly sets and its nice to run dumb stuff and still have a somewhat viable team. Gen 9 lately has been feeling a bit to suffocating.
Heracross is the best example on how to make a bug type right. Give it a great design, the best possible stats it can have, and it has access to two great stab moves. *this applies to Scizor and Volcarona, those two are awesome too without being too broken before tera)
Two of my favorite breakers are Mamoswine and Heracross. They are healthy additions to any metagame without being dishonestly powerful like modern metas would often introduce. Heracross does cool things. Fighting is generally great for breakers, and the bug type complements it to handle the common psychic type counter to fighting. But it isn't a guaranteed kill because poison and flying are still natural counters to the STABs. It's a balanced breaker that isn't pure min/maxed.
I am in shambles right now. I cannot imagine our favorite bug would commit such a crime against Jimothy Cool. Surely the dastardly Iron Mugulis has some sort of involvement in this catastrophic occurence.
Heracross is by far and away my favorite pokemon. The design, the coverage, the usefulness in game and in competitive, my team building starts and ends with Heracross. A true gamer's pokemon.
Heracross is by far my favorite Mon in the tier. Adamant Hera with the sub salac has won me so many games that were lost otherwise. If setup properly by removing physical checks, megahorn after an SD and swarm proc is so beautiful. Seeing suicune die in one hit without an explosion is feral. The elation on my face when I clicked focus punch with my guts heracross in front of a blissey who had just clicked toxic and shot my attack up to obscene heights, only fueling its eggstinction… insane.
Always been my favorite pokemon. Reminds me too that though i was so excited to see this insane buga get a mega evolution that the playstyle of megahera just felt different. We just love heracross don't we folks? This is insane.
I know it’s not really a hot take but I feel like Heracross is such perfect Pokémon - has a unique+lovable design but not overdone,is extremely powerful but not gamebreaking and easily punished, 2 (4 if you count HA+ME) that gives a lot of versatility with different sets, and is just fun to use
Makes me wonder how good bugs would be if X Scissor existed back then. As frustrating as Gen 3 can be with some mons not having usable STAB, I'm beginning to believe this was a feature not a bug.
Haracross is a really cool pokemon, great shiny and great everything honestly. It really is too bad power creep shafted it so hard but it still puts in work in lower tiers where all the op bs isnt around.
I'm hosting a $3500+ Gen 3 OU Tournament. Check out the commentary here:
www.youtube.com/@jimothygaming/videos
The fact that the swarm boosted megahorn could beat Jimothy Cool despite him being a ghost steel type is crazy
he used to be steel/normal before The Incident
This is insane. Bug infestation moment.
Heracross is great for a metagame. Insane wall breaking but not braindead clicking with all the checks it's lack of leftovers brings
Imagine if it had close combat instead of brick break or focus punch.
It can definitely be brain dead, you ever seen the sub salac set? Actually disgusting
@@funkymachinemy brother in christ run some phasing moves on your squad❗️❗️
Leftovers on Heracross is the standard though, so not sure what you mean. Band has its uses but is greatly limiting on mons that aren't immune to sandstorm or spikes already. Even Medicham prefers Lefties more nowadays because it becomes much harder to play around.
@@youri7229 *ohkos your offcune at +2*
Beetelmon is one of my favourite Pokémon of all time, so I must say I'm conflicted to hear confirmation of the news he has taken a criminal action, killing renowned player JimothyCool
Mm, bug type supremacy. He didn’t believe hard enough.
could he have been hired by Old Money, sent to silence the truth
Gen 3 has a pretty interesting rule when it comes to physical attackers. The stronger you are, the more weak you are to passive damage and the harder it is to stick around.
By strength, im not just talking about attack stats, but also move bp and stab type.
On one end there's aero, who is immune to both sand and spikes, but compare to the psuedos and hera it has a far lower attack stat that basically required cb. It stabs are also rather weak with 75 rockslide and 70 hp flying.
The three psuedos; ttar, mence and grosse, share the same problem with a weak stab (except for grosse, but we'll get to that) and are all immune to only one sand or spikes, making them easier to wear down. But their naturally higher attack stats allows them to use other items than cb, but they become destructive with cb.
Now grosse does has a high attack stat and a high base power move in meteor mash, but its steel stab means that bulky waters and skarmory can resist its attacks, though it can potentially get through with a lucky attack boost or explosion.
Then there is hera, whose is without question not just a glass Canon, but a glass tactical nuke. It is weak to both sand and spikes, so sets without leftovers can be outlasted, but it wont be without causties. Its attack is 10 points lower than the psuedos, but where they suffer from weak moves and stab, hera is here with 120 megahorn that whallops waters and a 150 focus punch that even skarm needs to respect. It also has access to swords dances and two abilites that can increase its power even more at the cost of health.
I wonder how much of this was intentional. They couldn't've thought of all that way back then.
@@CjqNslXUcMlooking at gen 9 I very much doubt this was intentional.
God I love gen 3
The moment gamefreak started minmaxing pokemon specifically for competitive play (gen 6 onwards, gen 5 was an obvious oversight by gamefreak) was when competitive pokemon became an absolute joke. It lacks any creativity now, and everything feels like it was designed for a specific purpose.
The problem with using Heracross is you’ll eventually tilt so hard after missing 5x mega horns that you’ll need a new computer 😢
-Margaret Thatcher
This is a "Heracross has invaded my home" moment.
As a Heracross enjoyer, Gen 3 OU has quickly become my favourite metagame. On top of that, Mr Cool and his very epic tournament, ADV Revival, has begun to rapidly invade my home. This video is insane.
Since the next couple of sets are being held in your living room, will you be commentating?
@@Wing_cap only if Mr Cool, the leader of the invasion, the Napoleon if you will, allows me to. Otherwise, I might have to do it from the closet I am currently hiding in.
Rumor has it that Iron Mugulus ordered the hit on Jimothy from behind bars.
I love the reference to the heracross donation message, it’s hilarious
Heracross has invaded my home
Same
Listening to this video while opening at work on Halloween. It’s dark out and I’m scared when I go around a corner a Hera in swarm range with salac boost will be waiting for me. This is insane folks.
This is the best new copypasta that I've seen. I'm glad that you have built a community strong enough to enable such amazing content.
Dude your videos are seriously entertaining. As someone who’s favourite gen is gen 3, I never thought it had the complexity that you’ve shown it does in competitive Pokémon. Keep up the good work!
Wow, I can't believe that great RUclipsr Jimothy Cool is dead. Let's hope that Decidueye used Spirit Shackle at the last second so he may still be able to give commentary on the mortal plane.
I’ve heard reports that past paradox form of Decidueye, Phantom Foliage, arrived just in the nick of time to rescue the megahorned man
Cant believe the popular pokemon youtuber jimothy cool recently passed away
Rest in peace 😔
The Meta-morphosis, with Gregor Samsalamence
i actually love band heracross. I focus punch salamence and i do like 37% at -1
by the way, i love the intro, reminds me of those donation messages you keep getting in the adv revival tournament
(it was originally a dono message, and started out the memes. Read in one of the vids, posted on his community page, and now here. It flashed on the screen after he read it here!)
Picked up on the Phoenix Wright background music - great choice, one of my favourite PW tracks
I love this format for videos. Much more in depth and informative with some lore. Sorry that you got KOed by Heracross but glad you found it in your heart to forgive the gigantic bug type.
YAY! LET'S GO! THE HERACROSS VIDEO IS HERE! THANK YOU, JIM!
Rest in peace JamNCam, you will be missed
The venomoth into something idea could be how he was inversing power creep, getting better and better for each generation, from being trash, to niche, to alright in NU with niches above, to great in RU and banned from in Gen 5 and 6 and 7 to finally being legitimate into Gen 7 UU
Been really enjoying Gen 3. I dipped into it for a couple of months now since Gen 9 got too turbulent and frankly having to keep track of so many Pokémon and Moves gets pretty exhausting after a few games.
Heracross has been a surprise staple on my Porygon2 teams. While risky (and debatably not too viable), Endure Salac has been good at dealing with Dugtrios for times I feel like ditching the plastic ducky. Gen 3 really does let you play around with silly sets and its nice to run dumb stuff and still have a somewhat viable team. Gen 9 lately has been feeling a bit to suffocating.
Endure Reversal Hera is very fun to break out every once in a while when you just need to see the biggest numbers on your screen.
Heracross is the best example on how to make a bug type right. Give it a great design, the best possible stats it can have, and it has access to two great stab moves. *this applies to Scizor and Volcarona, those two are awesome too without being too broken before tera)
Literally the most iconic Jimothy opening out there.
bro your voice is so relaxing and your commentary skills are cookin'! keep it up!
ADV OU is so incredible
Despite costing my life, I have nothing but love for the beetle 🪲❤️
Two of my favorite breakers are Mamoswine and Heracross. They are healthy additions to any metagame without being dishonestly powerful like modern metas would often introduce.
Heracross does cool things. Fighting is generally great for breakers, and the bug type complements it to handle the common psychic type counter to fighting. But it isn't a guaranteed kill because poison and flying are still natural counters to the STABs. It's a balanced breaker that isn't pure min/maxed.
Loving these intros as well as just the content in general. Fantastic stuff all around. Insane, even
that's a big horn
I am in shambles right now. I cannot imagine our favorite bug would commit such a crime against Jimothy Cool. Surely the dastardly Iron Mugulis has some sort of involvement in this catastrophic occurence.
Porygon2 finally getting some love.
My favorite silly billy thing to do is running a suprise sleep talk on guts Heracross to punish sleepers in the funniest way possible.
In early ADV for Japan, Heracross was actually banned for a while
The thing that you can never deny about Heracross is that it hurts really, really bad
lets see iron mugulis wallbreak this good
Heracross is by far and away my favorite pokemon. The design, the coverage, the usefulness in game and in competitive, my team building starts and ends with Heracross. A true gamer's pokemon.
This is one of the most interesting bug-type moments in recent history.
Another great Jimothy cool video. Your format makes Pokémon extremely interesting, and you are really good at making the info digestible. Good job
The Elite 4 doesn't want you to know this but the Heracross in the National Park are free you can take them home. I have 214 Heracross.
Heracross is by far my favorite Mon in the tier. Adamant Hera with the sub salac has won me so many games that were lost otherwise. If setup properly by removing physical checks, megahorn after an SD and swarm proc is so beautiful. Seeing suicune die in one hit without an explosion is feral. The elation on my face when I clicked focus punch with my guts heracross in front of a blissey who had just clicked toxic and shot my attack up to obscene heights, only fueling its eggstinction… insane.
0:47 hell yeah love that song
I think it would be cool if you also included some tips for teammates in these vid. Great job as always
Blissey’s cute little smiling face with the text saying “I’m going to perish” is too funny, in the video’s thumbnail.
Always been my favorite pokemon. Reminds me too that though i was so excited to see this insane buga get a mega evolution that the playstyle of megahera just felt different.
We just love heracross don't we folks? This is insane.
thats my favorite pokemon of all time, very cool jimothycool
Herracross was so scary that the gholdengo in the picture frame disappeared
Let's take a look at all of the different ways you could use Heracross, and examples of it being used in high level play.
I wish gen 5 had people analyzing the meta like this
always loved this fella since his debut in gen 2. he is cool and this is insane.
Thank you JamNCam for such an instant classic
Heracross used to be one of my favorite pokemon back in the day. His design is strangely appealing, even though he's just a beetle.
Heracross was so good, your rival has it when you rematch him in FRLG.
That’s one bug I would not mind keeping in my house.
Gen 3 is a work of art, such a well-designed Gen
That's why you use gust flygon obviously
Heracross is probably my favorite pokemon to use in gen 3 OU, and that's a metagame full of gigachad mons, so that's impressive.
I loved the usage of Chrono Trigger battle music
Heracross, liechi aero, and slaking are some of my favs in adv. you just click buttons and things get obliterated
Glad you survived heracross invading your house so you could make this video
I know it’s not really a hot take but I feel like Heracross is such perfect Pokémon - has a unique+lovable design but not overdone,is extremely powerful but not gamebreaking and easily punished, 2 (4 if you count HA+ME) that gives a lot of versatility with different sets, and is just fun to use
That intro was outstanding
Heracross deleting Skarmory will never not be funny
Don't you 4x resist Megahorn?
It was a inversed battle
Heracross is one of my favorite Pokemon, even if it's fallen off in recent generations. I nicknamed mine Slug Bug.
Glad to see that one of my faves is amazing in Gen 3
It's easy being the best when you got the strongest STAB move and the best dual typing at the time
when is jimothy gonna acknowledge the future paradox form of gordon ramsay, "iron chef"
Heracross has such a cool design. This is insane.
Im not going to lie, when you were talking about needing to get rid of a giant bug infestation, I thought you were about to plug Raid shadow legends
Makes me wonder how good bugs would be if X Scissor existed back then. As frustrating as Gen 3 can be with some mons not having usable STAB, I'm beginning to believe this was a feature not a bug.
She swarm on my megahorn till i wallbreak
she slides on my rocks till i flinch
that sprite is a solid S+ tier
In Emerald Heracross was one of my go to Pokemon for the Battle Fromtier
Nintendo plz buff Heracross. The King of Bugs deserves to reclaim his Throne.
Happy Halloween to the most insane community on RUclips
Herracross, has invaded my home
your music playlist on your videos is good
NOW THIS IS EPIC
I wish bug was a better type in general
good video. Can we get videos on the best Ice Types in Gen 3 OU?
I hope we got more story like the Swarm Megahorn Heracross like maybe a Titan Ariados
i love heracross
Thats it. Time to load up choice band heracross in a heavy cross bow and snipe the OU Meta Immediately
Jimmy, i love u as much u love Heracross
This is insane.
Heracross is one of my favorite pokemon and always winds up on my teams. Though Swords Dance Heracross Sweep is not very meta.
To bad Ubers Hera was not mentioned atleast for a hot second. It might be even stronger there.
RIP to Venomoth in Something
Been watching your channel for a while and I have one question:
How do I play Gen 3 OU?
Haracross is a really cool pokemon, great shiny and great everything honestly. It really is too bad power creep shafted it so hard but it still puts in work in lower tiers where all the op bs isnt around.
Heracross is the #1 Bug of all time
This is enormous.
I love heracross - even in later gens
Modest Moltres is my favourite band.
could you imagine if we had genesect or mega charizard y in gen 3 ou? lol
This is sad. Can’t believe Heracross killed Jimothy