I actually still have Mindys Haunter. I kept it, and used it a lot in my first Diamond Run. I eventually chanced upon someone to help me evolve it, and my Gengar is still one of my strongest Pokemon to this day.
Haunter using explosion in stadium is actually terrifying because it's like he's laughing hysterically about his own demise with the thought that he'll be taking his opponent with him.
When you put it like that, I'm reminded of Black Fog from the rather obscure Electric Tale of Pikachu manga! Black Fog was a gargantuan Haunter who was notorious for killing people AND Pokemon by using Hypnosis to lull them into sleeping before taking away their life force with Dream Eater. Sabrina lost one of her Pokemon as a kid to Black Fog and was almost killed too and when Ash tried fighting it, just before he could catch Black Fog with an Ultra Ball, it commits suicide by using Self-Destruct! Yeah, plenty of Pokemon mangas can be pretty messed up...
Gen 5 Onix was one the best Stealth Rock setters in Little Cup. Not only does it already have a monster defense, with Eviolite, it’s Defense and Special Defense became higher than Steelix. Also with Sturdy getting a much needed buff, there was no knocking Onix out in one hit with Surf or Giga Drain.
Haha, this so much. I remember a) not knowing anyone who I could trade with and b) not having Wi-Fi to use the GTS, and hence being thrilled when I found the in-game trade for a Haunter in Pearl. But then it actually came holding an everstone.... Thankfully I soon found out you could use a GBA cartridge to actually find wild Gengar which made up for it
Chansey's remake will be so long than Haunter's. Chansey has always remain a threat in OU to some degree sometimes even without Blissey Heck even part of GSC LC
good SpAtk / decent Speed / typing & ability that is decent offensively and GREAT defensively for an offensive mon (3 immunities is a godsend for a mon this frail)
There are plenty of NFE that actually do decently well. Most of them are lower tier Mons but Kadabra, Haunter , Porygon2, Chansey, Dusclops and funnily enough even Vigoroth who does better than Slaking
I mean, that really isn't true since Haunter has shown that you only need 3 things to succeed, 2 of which are stats. High speed, high attack/special attack, and a good movepool. Haunter has literally sub-50 in all but 2 stats but those 2 stats are the only things that matter 90% of the time.
@@Mwisd402 Poor Shedinja needs seriously buffed stats its only usable stat is base 90 attack and it has a shitty movepool which GF has for some incredulous reason only continued to remove its options by making old moves incompatible or removing moves entirely that had given it some semblance of a unique quality... for a glass cannon it is utterly terrible with no unique traits other than being immune to neutral coverage moves which is rendered moot due to it possessing weaknesses to nearly every common coverage move types and due to it getting instakilled by all residual damage. By far one of the worst gimmick mons
@@Dragrath1 thwy could have just removed his def and sp def by making it 1 def and transfer those stats on atk spe attk and speed instead gamefree is stupid it cant even hit hard
@@marcosantiago8821 I know right? It still would have been fairly low if they relocated those stats but at least it might actually be usable. 90 base attack is usable with set up but Shedinja isn't going to get to set up. Probably the only use thing it can do is be annoying with Ally Switch but given its low speed it isn't doing that effectively except maybe if you are running trick room >_>
@@marcosantiago8821 yeah all though it can find some use in doubles with some support and also a neiche te which include entertinment shedinja has the single most potential for a mon wonder guard is such an op abilty but the real problem is his typing he got quite a bit of weakness he could have been pure ghost which would mean he would get ko by ghost and dark but he will have a lot of switch in he got willowisp shadow sneak stab shadow claw and if he gets destiny bond whih will let him truly wreck chaos as then becuse he will get one hit by any super effective move making him not be threatened by other mons will trenmamdos
Correction: NFEs that aren't named Scyther. Scyther being a successful NFE surprises people for "Wait, Scyther's NFE- oh right, Scizor exists" as opposed to "Wait, Haunter's a successful pokemon?" because Scyther has the same BST as Scizor.
@@thisman8056 True, but he only covered them until their evolved forms came into play (with the exception of Gen 5 NU Tangela I think). The only times when Little Cup was covered we’re Gen 1 Pikachu and Wynaut (and that was half a joke video).
Top-performing OU staple: I sleep Lower-tier Pokémon with a long career of stellar performance: real #*@$! Edited because apparently memes have to be accurate.
I think that a Pokémon with a rocky competitive history is more interesting to cover than "it was always good, the end". The Pachirisu episode brought a tear to my eye.
Just taking a moment to appreciate how much FSG has changed over the years in regards to lower-tier pokemon. Early FSG: "This pokemon was generally too bad to be used in OU, and dropped to NU, though it was pretty good there." Current FSG: **many minutes detailing what the pokemon could and did do in NU** It was a more subtle change than finally covering Gen 7 (and abandoning the "wait for the metagame to develop" rule for Gen 8), but just as welcome.
well in the arcanine video FSG also says it's "meh" bc it never was OU despite being a consistent choice in UU also a very common choice in VGC until incineroar outclassed it there.
@@ZKazeLP That makes sense. I can't remember which video the transition to more lower-tier coverage took place, but I guess it must have been after Kellen's patreon started doing well. I only remember consciously noticing the change in the Mismagius video.
11:05 This may be my personal headcanon here, but I think "Ghost" Pokemon aren't really dead. They are in fact living things that just happen to have spectral-like properties. The fact that most of them are able to breed should be evidence of this.
By my count, it's three out of eight. Boulder, Marsh, and Rainbow. Considering that he was on track to actually winning his Cascade Badge, I give him a pass for that one.
@@malikbeat Giovanni had been beating trainers with a freakin Mewtwo at that point in the anime, so I'd consider him fighting Jessie and James but with those two having good Pokemon a fair enough thing.
I fully agree. It’s kinda like Dragonair vs Dragonite. You’ve got this sleek stylish second evo only to get some weird chunky third evo that doesn’t really match with the second.
I was actually glad to see alot of pepole celebrating normally ( or at least kindannormal) and that made me happy that pepole needed some cheering up and Halloween is a thing that everyone can get involved in. Thesse next two months are gonna be good
“How good was Corsola actually” sounds like a fun one to do, mainly because I want to hear about how a pathetic piece of coral died and became one of the best defensive Pokémon in the game
Galarian corsola actually had quite a fall of grace since its debut. Strength Sap may be good for stalling out physical Dynamax Pokémon, but it was soon discovered that Galarian Corsola hard loses to nearly every special attacker as well as literally anything with reliable recovery, since GCorsola's recovery got weaker with each use vs the same target and thus was extremely vulnerable to special attackers overwhelming it or recovery users outlasting it. These days, GCorsola doesn't even see play in NU where it currently resides, and is expected to drop to PU soon. But hey, at least it's better than Dusclops in Singles.
@@breloommaster12 Also, it's double weak to Knock off. First because it is a ghost type and second because it requires it's eviolite. And to think it's heyday was just a year ago ....
I remember using a team of Kadabra, Haunter, Graveller, Machoke, Typhlosion and Pidgeot in Pokemon Crystal back in the day and Haunter was my biggest powerhouse. Kadabra could put out danage too but Haunter resisted or was immune to so much he just destroyed everything. I miss that guy.
@@IschmarVI So are Graveler and Machoke in Johto specifically, the early game practically requires using Rock-types and Muscle slew Whitney's infamous minotaur that was trying to teach kids to use strategy and type matchups to win Pokémon battles instead of just overleveling Cyndaquil and mindlessly mashing A.
@@RandomPerson-fg1jf Delibird and Ledian were pretty much joke videos, Leavanny and Luvdisc were so awful competitively there isn't much to talk about. Tauros and Porygon-Z were before the videos started covering Gen 7, as well as not going as in-depth in the lower tiers. Hell, Porygon-Z only got 3 gens covered.
@@alexdrake4081 No, Gastly is horrible in GSC NU. It has absolutely no defensive utility outside of blocking Pineco's explosion. It’s a complete MU pick
Intresting Trivia: Haunter was actually formerly NU in GSC, but was actually used so much in UU, that it got moved up Gastly, however, couldn’t take its place. Gastly is awful and MU reliant. There is absolutely no reason to use Gastly on a serious team
@@agentblackbird9435 Matchup Reliant. That means it needs the right Pokémon on the other team to be any use. Like without Pineco on the other team(aka the best Spiker) it’s useless
It’s all about the typing, stats and movepool distribution There were VERY few Ghost 👻 in the Old Gens so Haunter was basically the Gengar of UU and Gastly was the only Ghost in Petit/Little Cup
goes to show how good of a type ghost really is. It turns the only ghost types in the generation into meta staples despite their weakness against both psychic AND earthquake
If there’s a silver lining to that, at least you can dequip the Everstone, trade with a friend, and then you can use Gengar. Otherwise, thank Arceus for Sw/Sh letting us catch Trade Evolutions in the Wild Area.
They thought that with gengar having buffs almost evrey gen,it would be broken with levitate too.No.Just no.At this point gengar is UU,and even there...it just is a gimick beacuse of the marowaks.
UH OH! Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar are my favorite pokemon of all time. I've had to use a haunter my entire life because i never had anyone to trade with. Very excited for this!!!
When a NFE mon has had (an overall) more viable competitive history than several fully evolved mons, some of which have been untiered since gen 5... :/ Both life and the afterlife can be so cruel!
Gengar's Video length (released on 16 May. 2017): *10:53* Haunter's video length (released 3 years later): *19:52* Love the improvement of these videos.
I like seeing the ghost Pokémon in the background. It’d be cool if you did this for standard videos too except you used the Pokémon that were staples in whatever tier you are discussing.
Haunter was one of my favourite pokemon since the beginning of the franchise, much moreso than Gengar. Glad to see that it has gone above and beyond in terms of expected competitive viability over the years!
I know I'm a day late but Happy Halloween everybody! As for the vid I honestly was expecting Haunter to be considered good to ok as the tiers go on, but I didn't expect Haunter to not only be a good UU Pokémon in the first 2 gens, but an iconic NU staple of the later gens despite being PU in gen 7! I didn't think Haunter was that good to not only be considered top tier but also to the point that it was so good in Sw/Sh that it got banned Twice, and this is coming from a NFE Pokémon! That alone is unheard of, I legitimately had no clue Haunter was actually THIS good but seeing this video I have to say, it's amazing to see the NFE staple rise to the top of NU and reign Supreme for so many generations which is a testament of itself. Fantastic video and I hope to see "HOW GOOD WAS DRAPION ACTUALLY?!"
One time, I used Haunter in Gen 8 OU as a spinblocker and it was amazing. My set was: Item: Choice Scarf Ability: Levitate Moves: Trick, Sludge Wave, Shadow Ball and Destiny bond. I don't know why, but Haunter was amazing in the Team I had. It's truly incredible seeing an NFE Mon compete in higher tiers and it's really fun playing with it. Thanks FSG, never knew about Haunter's competitive history.
For the longest time I was 100% sure that not a single one of my favourite Pokémon would be competitively viable in any tier post gen 6. This video changed all that. Thank you
Yes, FSG. Yes. I actually have used either specs or scarf in competitive. Agreed in competitive potential. It has tricks up its sleeve and can pull of some stuff with decent speed and good spexial attack. Very frail but with levitate and 2 interesting immunities. An interesting choice to be sure. Even has an 'advantage' over Gengar since it lost levitate that can bring you to consider it. Sometimes it can even take a hit, and eviolite provides maximizing chances for 2HKO if used properly.
Haunter, Machoke, Kadabra, Graveler, etc.
AKA the Pokemon we were stuck with because we didn't have friends to trade with...
Yep then Sword&Sheild gave us the blessing of raids with their full evolution (minus Golem since Geodude was still stuck in USUM)
In my experience I’ve used a Magmar, but for single player it was cool bc of it’s higher speed
Worst part is that the best pokemon were trade evolutions. Alakazam and Gengar are my favorite gen 1 mons
@@Ju5t4l1z4rd or you can run into them in the wild.
Tru
Anyone else go through regions like Kanto and Johto with Haunter since you didn't have a friend to trade with to get Gengar? 😰
Me
Haunter was actually quite strong
Sinnoh in my case
@@skyslasher2297 Mindy’s Haunter?
@@theprokoking7156 I still have flashbacks of Casper
Remplace Hauter with Graveler and thats me in Cristal
Most people remember THAT Haunter, or specifically the person who slaps an Everstone on it to screw you out of Gengar
That lady in snowpoint
Mindy, and there's even a whole group dedicated to hating her
Her name is Mindy. There's an entire subreddit dedicated to hating her. I'm pretty sure GameFreak was laughing when they added her in.
I actually still have Mindys Haunter. I kept it, and used it a lot in my first Diamond Run. I eventually chanced upon someone to help me evolve it, and my Gengar is still one of my strongest Pokemon to this day.
screw mindy
When a NFE mon almost hits the 20 minute mark, you know it has done a good job!
chansey intensifies
@@beanson2323 Chansey will be a movie
Uh haunter is in nu bl in gen 8
@@vaporterra aka "i eat focus blast for breakfast"
@@tytar2132 it's not like Haunter's an Not Fully Evolved Pokémon!? Wow!!!
Haunter using explosion in stadium is actually terrifying because it's like he's laughing hysterically about his own demise with the thought that he'll be taking his opponent with him.
also, 250 base power that also does double damage is terrifying even when it comes from Haunter.
When you put it like that, I'm reminded of Black Fog from the rather obscure Electric Tale of Pikachu manga! Black Fog was a gargantuan Haunter who was notorious for killing people AND Pokemon by using Hypnosis to lull them into sleeping before taking away their life force with Dream Eater. Sabrina lost one of her Pokemon as a kid to Black Fog and was almost killed too and when Ash tried fighting it, just before he could catch Black Fog with an Ultra Ball, it commits suicide by using Self-Destruct! Yeah, plenty of Pokemon mangas can be pretty messed up...
I mean it's already dead
Ooh, if we’re doing NFE Pokémon, then a Little Cup episode could be fun!
Well haunter is a pokemon that exist in actual tiers so it is very different compared to little cup
We had a Wynaut episode already, but they barely have four moves and had Uber use so its you could not count them.
Ferroseed NEEDS one!!!
We also did Porygon 2 and Pikachu
Gen 5 Onix was one the best Stealth Rock setters in Little Cup. Not only does it already have a monster defense, with Eviolite, it’s Defense and Special Defense became higher than Steelix. Also with Sturdy getting a much needed buff, there was no knocking Onix out in one hit with Surf or Giga Drain.
The “I don’t have friends to trade with” pokemon
Pretty much any trade evolution
I was so heartbroken when I found out I couldn't evolve my haunter. I took it all the way to level 50 as well.
I just edit trade Evo Pokemon into their evolutions when I play ROMs
The same could be said for Kadabra
Haha, this so much. I remember a) not knowing anyone who I could trade with and b) not having Wi-Fi to use the GTS, and hence being thrilled when I found the in-game trade for a Haunter in Pearl. But then it actually came holding an everstone.... Thankfully I soon found out you could use a GBA cartridge to actually find wild Gengar which made up for it
When Game Freak decided to remove levitate from Gengar. So you use Haunter instead and win. What a legend.
Pro plays
that's what i do these days. it's amazing to see people willingly use earthquake on it because they don't know it has levitate.
@@gregorymirabella1423 they think that Haunter lost Levitate like how Gengar did? Some people are really lost in time.
@@geometryemperor i guess i can't blame them. as they said, how often do you see a fucking haunter? what's it gonna do?
@@gregorymirabella1423 I'm too much of a pokémon nerd to actually do something like that.
When haunter's vid is longer than the vids for fully evolved mons like fearow, dodrio, hitmon chan/lee, etc.
Chansey's remake will be so long than Haunter's.
Chansey has always remain a threat in OU to some degree sometimes even without Blissey
Heck even part of GSC LC
also, gengar
It’s longer than it’s own evolution
Hitmonchan/lee are not fully evolved
@@darkyz8538 Gengar hasn't gotten a Remake yet
Snowpoint City. Medicham for Haunter. Everstone.
Most Horrible Horror Story.
I hate Mindy
@@Straviradius Everyone hates Mindy.
I read that in Osaka's voice and that made your comment ten times funnier lol
Thankfully you can encounter gengar in the old chetau
@@EruditoGaming If you had a Gen 3 GBA game also inserted, yeah.
Man, how does a NFE pokemon do better at not getting murdered by power creep than a lot of former OU staples?
good SpAtk / decent Speed / typing & ability that is decent offensively and GREAT defensively for an offensive mon (3 immunities is a godsend for a mon this frail)
@@fungmanhei also the movepool alongwith that, they knew what they were creating
There are plenty of NFE that actually do decently well. Most of them are lower tier Mons but Kadabra, Haunter , Porygon2, Chansey, Dusclops and funnily enough even Vigoroth who does better than Slaking
This was "How surprisingly good was Haunter in the lower tiers?"
I did not expect that Haunter would be that good in NU throughout the Gens
I was literally just thinking the same thing. I had no idea Haunter was this good!!
it was very impressive
It would be pu this gen if it wasn't for the pursuit removal lol
Someone needs to draw a picture of Haunter holding a Professional Wrestling Championship Belt that reads "King of NU"
Haunter is really a mini Gengar down in the lower tiers.
There’s an oddly satisfying and depressing feeling knowing Haunter has been more consistent in the tiers than some legendarios
Are you spanish?
@@a-10warthog72 he prob says "the latino twins" too
*triggered supercomputer beep noise
Ya veo, el autocorrección jodiendo como siempre
@@Nightwing_. fun
"There is more to a pokemon than just stats, also known as the Rampardos Theorem."
Lol so basically, Rampardos is FSG's new butt of all jokes now?
I sure hope so
Not as bad as Ledian
@@thatsabruhmoment17 You misspelled good there.
Headbutt of jokes
I mean, that really isn't true since Haunter has shown that you only need 3 things to succeed, 2 of which are stats. High speed, high attack/special attack, and a good movepool. Haunter has literally sub-50 in all but 2 stats but those 2 stats are the only things that matter 90% of the time.
fsg:stats aren’t everything
Regigias: gee you think??
Sad un un un un un
@@Mwisd402 Poor Shedinja needs seriously buffed stats its only usable stat is base 90 attack and it has a shitty movepool which GF has for some incredulous reason only continued to remove its options by making old moves incompatible or removing moves entirely that had given it some semblance of a unique quality... for a glass cannon it is utterly terrible with no unique traits other than being immune to neutral coverage moves which is rendered moot due to it possessing weaknesses to nearly every common coverage move types and due to it getting instakilled by all residual damage. By far one of the worst gimmick mons
@@Dragrath1 thwy could have just removed his def and sp def by making it 1 def and transfer those stats on atk spe attk and speed instead gamefree is stupid it cant even hit hard
@@marcosantiago8821 I know right? It still would have been fairly low if they relocated those stats but at least it might actually be usable. 90 base attack is usable with set up but Shedinja isn't going to get to set up. Probably the only use thing it can do is be annoying with Ally Switch but given its low speed it isn't doing that effectively except maybe if you are running trick room >_>
@@marcosantiago8821 yeah all though it can find some use in doubles with some support and also a neiche te which include entertinment shedinja has the single most potential for a mon wonder guard is such an op abilty but the real problem is his typing he got quite a bit of weakness he could have been pure ghost which would mean he would get ko by ghost and dark but he will have a lot of switch in he got willowisp shadow sneak stab shadow claw and if he gets destiny bond whih will let him truly wreck chaos as then becuse he will get one hit by any super effective move making him not be threatened by other mons will trenmamdos
This video really brought into light how not fully evolved Pokémon can still be successful. You should do more of these
yh espically with eviolite
To think there was a time that Fletchinder of all pokémon saw more usage over Charizard (base) and even Moltres!
Correction: NFEs that aren't named Scyther. Scyther being a successful NFE surprises people for "Wait, Scyther's NFE- oh right, Scizor exists" as opposed to "Wait, Haunter's a successful pokemon?" because Scyther has the same BST as Scizor.
Kadabra was also decent as an NFE Pokemon
Me, following the serie since the beginning: "yes, we almost finished all the gen 1 mons!"
Not fully evolved mons: helo
Just wait until FSG hits us with some little cup.....
@@sweetschmeat7417 he did with onix and tangella
@@thisman8056 Because Wynaut?
@@thisman8056 True, but he only covered them until their evolved forms came into play (with the exception of Gen 5 NU Tangela I think). The only times when Little Cup was covered we’re Gen 1 Pikachu and Wynaut (and that was half a joke video).
Which Gen 1 mons (not NFEs, unless they got a evo later) weren't covered yet?
Top-performing OU staple: I sleep
Lower-tier Pokémon with a long career of stellar performance: real #*@$!
Edited because apparently memes have to be accurate.
The meme is "i sleep" and "real $#!&"
I think that a Pokémon with a rocky competitive history is more interesting to cover than "it was always good, the end". The Pachirisu episode brought a tear to my eye.
Yeah, they have to be accurate
of course, they have to be accurate. After all, this is the internet and there is no fun allowed in the internet.
Klappa
Never knew about the NFE Clause in Gen 3.
Just taking a moment to appreciate how much FSG has changed over the years in regards to lower-tier pokemon.
Early FSG: "This pokemon was generally too bad to be used in OU, and dropped to NU, though it was pretty good there."
Current FSG: **many minutes detailing what the pokemon could and did do in NU**
It was a more subtle change than finally covering Gen 7 (and abandoning the "wait for the metagame to develop" rule for Gen 8), but just as welcome.
So true
well in the arcanine video FSG also says it's "meh" bc it never was OU despite being a consistent choice in UU also a very common choice in VGC until incineroar outclassed it there.
BKC writes the scripts now and he drops documentaries weekly on teams/metas/playstyles
@@te0nzin That may have been the one I was subconsciously remembering.
@@ZKazeLP That makes sense.
I can't remember which video the transition to more lower-tier coverage took place, but I guess it must have been after Kellen's patreon started doing well. I only remember consciously noticing the change in the Mismagius video.
11:05 This may be my personal headcanon here, but I think "Ghost" Pokemon aren't really dead. They are in fact living things that just happen to have spectral-like properties. The fact that most of them are able to breed should be evidence of this.
There are literally Pokédex entries who says the contrary
@@thecriticalghost4626 Most of the time they’re actually presented as just folk tales, but for some reason fans take them at face value.
@@DannyDog27still you should go with the Pokedex over literally headcanon or BFH. Also what do you mean most? The vast majority are factual
Yes, there is even a Trevenant in the anime that dies despite being ghost-type, so they are definitely alive
Ash didn't even own the Haunter that made Sabrina laugh and was still given the badge
Talk about kanto Ash smh. So many badges were just given to him.
By my count, it's three out of eight. Boulder, Marsh, and Rainbow. Considering that he was on track to actually winning his Cascade Badge, I give him a pass for that one.
@@gengarzilla1685 You also have to remember he didn't have to fight Giovanni for his 8th badge, he just fought Jessie and James for the hundredth time
@@malikbeat Giovanni had been beating trainers with a freakin Mewtwo at that point in the anime, so I'd consider him fighting Jessie and James but with those two having good Pokemon a fair enough thing.
@@malikbeat But they we're using decent Pokémon
And Giovanni was with Mewtwo so...
I feel like it’s a sign that we need a gengar remake when the haunter episode is longer
I still to this day like haunter’s design more than gengar (despite the clefable shadow theory).
I fully agree. It’s kinda like Dragonair vs Dragonite. You’ve got this sleek stylish second evo only to get some weird chunky third evo that doesn’t really match with the second.
Yeah, Gengar looks stupid so I prefer Haunter
Finally someone who thinks like me. I think it would be cool if ghastly was branched evolution, like Flapple and Appletun
Thank you!
I honestly forgot it was Halloween with everything going on nowadays.
Rumor has it that lots, and I mean a TON of people are doing an Among Us theme this year because it fits so freaking well
I was actually glad to see alot of pepole celebrating normally ( or at least kindannormal) and that made me happy that pepole needed some cheering up and Halloween is a thing that everyone can get involved in. Thesse next two months are gonna be good
@@jamesrobson8308 lol
@@Licw-Luxus it wasn't funny
"Even if it gets banned to PU again..."
Meanwhile in ZU
Haunter: You guys fell here too?
Shiftry and Klinklang: Yeah.
Wynut is still the king of non-fully evolved pokemon. Being in Ubers and the lowest teir is the best feat
Haunter: *exists*
Mindy: I'm about to do what's called a pro-gamer move
Me:(Gives her my medicham for her haunter.) Thank you!
Haunter's cry is one of my favorites, especially its Gen 1 version. It sounds like it's sneaking up and spooking you from behind.
I was expecting a remake of How Good was Gengar Actually. Oh well, this will do.
They already did one on gengar 👌🏼
@@HorizonLine01 what didn't "remake" did you get?
@@HorizonLine01
The word “remake” must not register in your brain huh
@@HorizonLine01 bruh.
Wait did FSG do a second vid on gengar then? I've only seen the one
“How good was Corsola actually” sounds like a fun one to do, mainly because I want to hear about how a pathetic piece of coral died and became one of the best defensive Pokémon in the game
Galarian corsola actually had quite a fall of grace since its debut. Strength Sap may be good for stalling out physical Dynamax Pokémon, but it was soon discovered that Galarian Corsola hard loses to nearly every special attacker as well as literally anything with reliable recovery, since GCorsola's recovery got weaker with each use vs the same target and thus was extremely vulnerable to special attackers overwhelming it or recovery users outlasting it.
These days, GCorsola doesn't even see play in NU where it currently resides, and is expected to drop to PU soon. But hey, at least it's better than Dusclops in Singles.
@@breloommaster12 that’s sad to hear. I guess at this rate it actually will be possible for it to die twice😅
Crawdaunt is his new predator since is able to kill it with one knock off.
@@breloommaster12 Also, it's double weak to Knock off.
First because it is a ghost type and second because it requires it's eviolite.
And to think it's heyday was just a year ago ....
It's bad, it needs eviolite to be defensive and it's weak to Knock Off... One of the most common moves in the game
I remember using a team of Kadabra, Haunter, Graveller, Machoke, Typhlosion and Pidgeot in Pokemon Crystal back in the day and Haunter was my biggest powerhouse. Kadabra could put out danage too but Haunter resisted or was immune to so much he just destroyed everything. I miss that guy.
kadabra and haunter are unironically really good playthrough pokemon, yes.
@@IschmarVI So are Graveler and Machoke in Johto specifically, the early game practically requires using Rock-types and Muscle slew Whitney's infamous minotaur that was trying to teach kids to use strategy and type matchups to win Pokémon battles instead of just overleveling Cyndaquil and mindlessly mashing A.
Slap a eviolite on it and now you have a g max haunter
NFE pokemon: gets almost a 20 minute video
Furret, who didn’t even get FSG his 10 minute ad revenue: wut
@@sirdabsalot1yt83 yeah someone pointed that out on my comment about this on the furret video, let’s go ahead and ignore that
@@esqimo6647 I thogut it was still 10 too.
Tauros, Porygon-Z, Delibird, Ledian, Luvdisc and Leavanny didn't hit 8 minutes.
I literally forgot there was a furret episode. Poor li'l walking boi.
@@RandomPerson-fg1jf Delibird and Ledian were pretty much joke videos, Leavanny and Luvdisc were so awful competitively there isn't much to talk about.
Tauros and Porygon-Z were before the videos started covering Gen 7, as well as not going as in-depth in the lower tiers. Hell, Porygon-Z only got 3 gens covered.
F that girl in Snowpoint City who gives you a Haunter holding an Everstone. Especially if you don't have friends or 2 DS's/3DS's.
Honestly, Haunter has had legitimate mid and low-tier success and I honestly think its cool to see videos that tackle such things.
The Christmas Special must be: How FESTIVE Was Stantler ACTUALLY?
@Teth Adam all terrain lmao
No it's definitely xurkitree, or delibird
Delibird was covered and I doubt it will be covered again given how bad it is.
@@iantaakalla8180 Tf you mean, Present is pretty epic
In England, where I live, they just announced a second lockdown. Having a bonus FSG video up means today is overall pretty decent actually.
Now we REALLY need a how good was Gastly
Definitely, I want to see little cup analysis
@@Kanbei11 funny how it was useful in NU in Gen 2
Decent/niche in lower tiers, including being banned from little cup this gen
Yeah I would like to see little cup videos
@@alexdrake4081 No, Gastly is horrible in GSC NU. It has absolutely no defensive utility outside of blocking Pineco's explosion. It’s a complete MU pick
I have not the greatest memory of Haunter and I pretty sure you all know where I’m getting at:
The horrible trade with that NPC in Platinum.
Oh God, thanks for reminding me of...her.
😡
If they ever remake those games, hopefully they'll let us battle that troll and beat up her Pokémon, that'll teach that baka!
Thanks, Mindy...
MINDY IS THE REASON RHODESIA DOESN'T EXIST ANYMORE
That girl was clearly the real Sinnoh villian.
Intresting Trivia: Haunter was actually formerly NU in GSC, but was actually used so much in UU, that it got moved up
Gastly, however, couldn’t take its place. Gastly is awful and MU reliant. There is absolutely no reason to use Gastly on a serious team
It is funny how Ghastly is viable in GSC NU. Looks like they missed Haunter so much that they tried to replace it with Ghastly.
@@geometryemperor lol. Gastly is terrible in GSC NU. It’s a complete MU pick. No reason to use it on consistent teams
Another interesting trivia: Gastly is a beast in LC. Not as big as Abra overall or Fletchling in Gen 6, but a beast nonetheless
@@dawn2955 What is MU?
@@agentblackbird9435 Matchup Reliant. That means it needs the right Pokémon on the other team to be any use. Like without Pineco on the other team(aka the best Spiker) it’s useless
Wow, how fitting.
I know
It is fitting
It's almost as they did it on purpose.
/s
It's sad that Haunter is better than most fully-evolved mons from gen 1.
@The OG i have a Gmax gengar in SW/SH and damn that asshole is busted
It’s all about the typing, stats and movepool distribution
There were VERY few Ghost 👻 in the Old Gens so Haunter was basically the Gengar of UU and Gastly was the only Ghost in Petit/Little Cup
goes to show how good of a type ghost really is. It turns the only ghost types in the generation into meta staples despite their weakness against both psychic AND earthquake
Vietnam flashbacks of that haunter trade in Snowpoint City.
Biggest troll in Pokemon history
There’s an entire subreddit devoted to hating mindy
If there’s a silver lining to that, at least you can dequip the Everstone, trade with a friend, and then you can use Gengar. Otherwise, thank Arceus for Sw/Sh letting us catch Trade Evolutions in the Wild Area.
Fortunately for me I think I completely missed that trade as a kid
I just used that Haunter lol
Could’ve done a Gengar redo but this is fine lol. Haunter is sort of better than Gengar because it still has levitate. Gengar caught that dirty nerf
They thought that with gengar having buffs almost evrey gen,it would be broken with levitate too.No.Just no.At this point gengar is UU,and even there...it just is a gimick beacuse of the marowaks.
I still can’t get over the fact that charizard was in the same tier with wartortle at one point
and then there's that normalize swap strat of Wolfe Glick that revolved around Haunter and Gengar being untouchable by endgame
UH OH! Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar are my favorite pokemon of all time. I've had to use a haunter my entire life because i never had anyone to trade with. Very excited for this!!!
Chansey: Hehe purple stone
Scyther: Hehe big boots
Haunter: Hehe no annoying trapping move
Sneasel: Hehe im speed
Natu: why hat kid has me ability
Or
Natu: hehe rocks go boing
Tangela: Hehe i can heal forever
LOL
underrated comment
Scyther do be rocking those timbs though
porygon2 and dusclops, best trick room setters
When the gengar video is less minutes than it’s pre-evolution, haunter
When a NFE mon has had (an overall) more viable competitive history than several fully evolved mons, some of which have been untiered since gen 5... :/
Both life and the afterlife can be so cruel!
I always loved Haunter’s design. The spooky floating head and hands always seemed more ghostly than Gengar. Of course I love them both, though!
6:06 first time I hear about Flareon since its video 2 years ago
Thank you for actually showing the special split in gen 2.
Can’t we get a ‘how good was drapion’ I just want to see the scorpion king
Still waiting too man. Still waiting.
FFS man seriously!! I've been dying to see drapion, it's my favorite one and I need to see a breakdown. Just keep commenting! We will get through
@@SamTimelapseMan Drapion is Badass
before the video: did we run out of ghosts?
after: that was actually interesting!
The spooky background in this video looks great!
Gengar's Video length (released on 16 May. 2017): *10:53*
Haunter's video length (released 3 years later): *19:52*
Love the improvement of these videos.
And keep in mind he wanted to go fast on the Gengar video. Just imagine how long a remake would be
YES, I ASKED FOR IT FOR SO LONG, HE IS FINALLY HERE!!! THANK YOU, PATRONS!!!
Can we talk about how terrifying Haunter's Gen One sprites are? I swear, that gave me nightmares as a kid.
I love this line a lot. Glad to see haunter spooked out some stuff too! Happy Halloween!!
Ah yes Haunter the “Snowpoint City Troll Pokemon”.
oh good, I'm not the only one that remembers that heccing eviolite haunter...
@@webbowser8834 It's an Everstone. Sorry if this 10 months late.
@@justinnzamora5366 I can't believe it took me 10 months to realize I got eviolite and everstone mixed up. Lordy it's been awhile.
This video is longer than the Gengar analysis, this channel sure went up in production value
Plus its writers BKC and zane
You know Gengars popular when it's mid-evolution gets a longer video
YES! The best of the family getting its own video!
I like seeing the ghost Pokémon in the background. It’d be cool if you did this for standard videos too except you used the Pokémon that were staples in whatever tier you are discussing.
Haunter was one of my favourite pokemon since the beginning of the franchise, much moreso than Gengar. Glad to see that it has gone above and beyond in terms of expected competitive viability over the years!
I know I'm a day late but Happy Halloween everybody! As for the vid I honestly was expecting Haunter to be considered good to ok as the tiers go on, but I didn't expect Haunter to not only be a good UU Pokémon in the first 2 gens, but an iconic NU staple of the later gens despite being PU in gen 7! I didn't think Haunter was that good to not only be considered top tier but also to the point that it was so good in Sw/Sh that it got banned Twice, and this is coming from a NFE Pokémon! That alone is unheard of, I legitimately had no clue Haunter was actually THIS good but seeing this video I have to say, it's amazing to see the NFE staple rise to the top of NU and reign Supreme for so many generations which is a testament of itself. Fantastic video and I hope to see "HOW GOOD WAS DRAPION ACTUALLY?!"
That akward moment when Haunter's video is longer than Gengar's
Huge change in production over the years.
Give it a minute. I’m sure it’ll get a remake soon enough.
I never got to evolve Haunter since I have nobody to really trade with.
But now that I see how good it is in the low tiers, I'm glad I never did.
I did not expect a pre evolution like Haunter to get a video, but then again it’s pretty good.
Pursuit: Gets removed
Haunter: It's free real estate
"The rampardos theorem"!? That one got me.
Never thought we'd see the day that there's a dedicated video for a mid-stage evolution!
And one that doesn’t even get power creeped off the tiering ladder.
NU: I fear no man, but this thing
*Haunter*
NU: It scares me
imagine your so good at competitive, that your secondary evaluation get a video
Great analysis! Thanks for uploading!
So no one’s gonna talk about how haunter’s sprites lost a finger as time went on? 😂
Another really great video, I always look forward to these! I'm not cut out to play competitive Pokemon, but I love learning about it from you guys!
Disappointed that Wolfey’s normalize trap team didn’t get a mention for VGC usage
No kidding dude, this mon is truly the most reliable special offense for my teams back in gen 7 PU. I love this mon
Was expecting a Gengar video remake, but this'll do.
Your videos are so good, that i learn by watching them and also can fall asleep to them due to your voice!
Thanks!
-Mom can we have a Gengar remake video?
-We already have a Gengar remake video at home
-The Gengar remake video at home:
Haunter: I don’t need to be fully evolved to kick your ass!
*Cries in Electivire*
finally
you're doing the thing
unevolved
Nice to see Haunter did well, was always my favorite design in its family
This is an awfully long video for a gen 1 NFE. I am very impressed
One time, I used Haunter in Gen 8 OU as a spinblocker and it was amazing. My set was:
Item: Choice Scarf
Ability: Levitate
Moves: Trick, Sludge Wave, Shadow Ball and Destiny bond.
I don't know why, but Haunter was amazing in the Team I had.
It's truly incredible seeing an NFE Mon compete in higher tiers and it's really fun playing with it.
Thanks FSG, never knew about Haunter's competitive history.
The important part is a nfe Pokémon is good enough to consider in lower teirs. Like being banned from the second lowest tier is crazy.
Scyther: First Time?
My goodness. Thank you so much for this one
Next year we want a Gastly video!
For the longest time I was 100% sure that not a single one of my favourite Pokémon would be competitively viable in any tier post gen 6. This video changed all that. Thank you
Who else remember the days when you couldnt trade and you were stuck with Hunter? You kids today have it easy. lol
I play on emulator so I understands.
I was expecting Gengar to have a remake but im glad I got to learn about Haunter c:
cant wait for how good was gastly for next year's halloween
this video made me completely happy.
it made my Halloween perfect.
NFE clause just got dropped
Funny how Haunter’s video is much longer than Gengar’s. Give that ghoul a remake
No joke I have pseudo ptsd of this thing ruining my Stadium runs when I was a kid by spaming Hypnosis and Dream Eater.
Yes, FSG. Yes.
I actually have used either specs or scarf in competitive.
Agreed in competitive potential. It has tricks up its sleeve and can pull of some stuff with decent speed and good spexial attack. Very frail but with levitate and 2 interesting immunities. An interesting choice to be sure. Even has an 'advantage' over Gengar since it lost levitate that can bring you to consider it. Sometimes it can even take a hit, and eviolite provides maximizing chances for 2HKO if used properly.
You are lying