How Charjabug Just Won Pokemon GO Worlds.
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- Опубликовано: 26 окт 2024
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In Pokemon GO, everything is different. The Speed Stat isn't here. There is no Special Attack. People are tapping the screen on their mobile phones.
And yet this is a nuanced dance of Resource management and Mindgames that most don't respect.
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Some will never figure out how to get Charjabug in Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet. But famous player Jim Cool is well aware of the Best Charjabug in Competitive, and even how to Stunky Shiny Farm. Many aren't and never will be. That's just the unfortunate reality of the world.
If anyone knows How to get Charjabug in Pokemon Go, I would be surprised.
Arceus exists.
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Correction: The type chart is different in Pokemon Go as immunities don't exist. They are replaced by resistances
Something you forgot to mention is that different stats are weighted differently in the Combat Power formula. Specifically Attack adds more to your total CP than HP or Defense. Because of this bulkier Pokémon tend to have more overall stat points than an attack focused mon.
For example a 1500cp Rampardos will always be lower level and have less overall Stats than a 1500cp Bastiodon.
@@jimothycool yup immunities are replaced by a double resistance. So certain dual type Pokemon can have a triple resistance, it's pretty interesting. Another reason why charjabug is so strong is because x scissor and discharge are really cheap in terms of energy needed while volt switch is one of the most efficient energy generators, allowing you to spam charged moves and outpace other pokemon to them. You can also look into baiting, catching, alignment & ABB, counting moves, and IV selection if you want to research more about go pvp tech. Enjoyed the video and glad to see more exposure for go battle league
Double resistances
Being a mobile game, it’s important for pokemon go gamers to carry a charjabug to make sure their phone battery doesn’t run out
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A detail about Pokémon GO's Combat Power that was missed is that it is calculated based entirely on the Pokémon's current stat total. What this means is that Pokémon with meager base stats can actually attain a similar power level in Great League to those with much higher base stats, if they can be levelled up enough. It's entirely why Charjabug is even relevant to begin with. The stats featured in the video for Vikavolt are its stats at level 17.5 (Yes, Pokémon Go has half levels, don't ask how that works) and Charjabug's stats are those at *level 38*.
Pokémon GO also (for some reason) assigns more combat power to the attack stat than other stats. All this means the league favours pokemon with defensive stats, and it also means that type combinations / Pokémon moves are much more relevant to what determines a pokemon's viability than their base stats.
Yes, finally another POGO pvp player on here!
Also, thank you Jimothy for covering this format, and on Mobile-gaming Monday noless. This is insane, but not as insane as the folks who designed this experience.
Please don’t shorten combat power to CP 😭
Tell that to Niantic. It's the official in game stat. @@sheban777
This. This is one of the key aspects why Charjabug is being used.
Pokemon GO, being a mobile game trying to appeal to a more casual audience, made up this Combat Power stat as a (over)simplification of the Pokemon's strength. Problem is that the formula was made back when the game was exclusively PvE, with no PvP modes. So it gives more weight to Attack, because the PvE content is time limited and dealing damage faster is everything.
Problem is that when they made up the PvP mode, they decided to filter the tiers based on Combat Power. So in this league that only goes up to 1500 Combat Power, the higher defense/hp and lower attack your Pokemon has, the more total stats you can fit under the 1500CP limit. The Vikavolt in the video has 30 more Attack than the Charjabug, but 38 less defense and 15 less stamina/hp.
So because of this nonsensical system, Charjabug is the 5th bulkiest Electric type in the League, which is a very useful type. Its Bug type helps with the Ground and Fighting damage that's common in the League. It's a solid baseline.
There's another key aspect that's tied to this insane stat system. We're talking about something so insanely made that it results in Pokemon like Jumpluff and Tropius being the BULKIEST Grass types in the league. Both have WAY higher bulk and total stats than something you'd think is a bulky Grass type like Tangrowth. This is common with all types. For example, Medicham is the bulkiest Fighting type by far.
To compensate for this insane disparity in stats, they give each Pokemon very limited movesets (around 5 to 10 moves) that are wildly unbalanced as a counterbalance.
For example, Chansey is far and away the Pokemon with the highest stat total in the League, but it's bad because they gave it a really bad moveset to compensate. This approach could work if they were good at balancing, but what ends up happening is that it becomes very random who gets good and bad moves. Charjabug got good ones.
TL;DR: Because of weird systems, Charjabug has good stats and a good moveset in Pokemon GO
Only true gamers are able to pop all the bubbles
nah you dont always want to pop them all
Not only is popping the bubbles incredibly easy with practice, there are actually some scenarios where you don't want to do that.
I'm so sorry you have people with no humor replying to you 😢
@@Gatebreakerglitcher just different sense of humor I think
@@Gatebreakerglitchernot only no humor, they didn’t even watch the video all the way through to know it was a quote from the video.
1:05 Yoooo that's me
Thanks for the shoutout! It was a privilege to teach a fellow gamer about Pokemon GO PvP
Ayyy didn't think I see ya here :P
Are the fingerless gloves required for this metagame? Does it make the fast attacks deal more damage. This is vital knowledge
@handoverthestromboli6715 the fingerless gloves are recommended, but not required. They make you feel more like an anime protagonist
Fellow magmar fan 🤝🏻
yooooo wait i think i know that guy
Anyone else remember when a go player said the tcg took no skill and the comments section was filled with people saying: "tap tap tap tap tap tap tap"
Bro Pokémon go has absolutely no skill, Ultra cup is literally just Giratina-A, Swampert, and a filler mon like Melmetal or some other spammy mon, there isn’t any variety and there isn’t much reason to vary from the meta picks in most of the cups, at least master cup has really strong legendaries so you can at least mostly just focus on using whatever is the absolute strongest legendary you have with a few exceptions, plus some extras tacked on to improve your matchups. Also Great Cup used to be epic until shadow charm spam and gligar became meta xd.
@@fireblazenotbulgaria3053little brother, when was the last time you touched the PvP? Swampert usage has decreased massively on Ultra League, Giratina isn't as strong as before, because Feraligatr has a great matchup against it. Melmetal hasn't been meta relevant for a ton of seasons, no league is kind to it and most of all, the meta isn't Shadow Charm spam, Charm isn't even a good move since it's only fast move pressure and a Pokemon with quick enough energy generation can stop any user of charm on it's tracks
Tap tap tap tap
@@Toy-Bonnie. it’s been a year or so lol I’d imagine it may have changed some but the low ladder last I checked was just swampert on every team, I just find it insanely repetitive that’s all.
@@d4560yt true
Pokemon Go actually diverges significantly in how the type chart works. A small change is the change is super effective and resist multipliers work but the main one is that there are no immunities, only resists
You can earthquake every flying type, thunderbolt every ground type and outrage every fairy type etc.
Also you absolutely could use powerful legendaries like Groudon or something they would just have to be at such a low level they become unviable
Like if you could use mega Rayquaza in UU but it could only be at level 15 it would simply be inferior to something that could be at level 50
Exactly. The super effective multiplier is 1.6x, while the not very effective multiplier is 0.625x (1/1.6).
Immunities are calculated as double resists, so a Mandibuzz would take approximately 0.39x damage from an Earthquake or a Psychic.
Secondary typing can come into play after immunity does, for instance: Swampert has a single resist to Electric (0.39 * 1.6), while Bastiodon has a *triple* resist to Poison (0.39 * 0.625).
I love that because everything does some damage, sometimes you want to use the double resisted move or immune/resisted move for chip damage. It’s such a cool thing that change one fundamental part of Pokémon.
Ooooo Pokemon go pvp talk, I can weigh in on this.
So about Under charging (not hitting all the bubbles on a charge move) The goal with this strat is deal damage with your charge move WHILE also keeping the opposing pokemon alive to farm them down with your Fast move. This allows you to have more energy when your opponent brings in their next pokemon, compared to when you just straight up KO something with a charge move.
At high level you also sometimes see players stop tapping all together to take MORE damage so the next pokemon brought in gets less farm from Fast moves.
Another cool mechanic about Pokemon Go PVP is Charge Move Priority ties or CMP ties. CMP ties occur when BOTH players hit their charge moves at the same time. The winner of the tie is determined by which pokemon has the higher attack stat. Sometimes you see players invest into a pokemons attack stat with their IVS (because also keep in mind pokemon go has no EVS only IVS) to win a CMP tie in the mirror match. But that also comes with the trade off of cutting into their bulk, since Attack stats are weighed more than Defense and HP (if you have a higher attack stat in pokemon go, you're waaaay less bulky)
I could go on and on about pokemon go PVP, like how it's preferred to have a low Attack IV for Great League and Ultra league, but I'll stop. It's such a cool format that is VERY different from the Main series. Charjabug isn't even the only pre evolution BETTER than it's evolution. Gligar, Vigoroth, Lickitung, Golbat, Ursaring, and Dragonair come to my mind right away but there could be more.
Eh I think Dragonite is better than Dragonair and it can be used in all 3 formats since it actually has stats
@@victor_gators idk if that's a fair argument. All three leagues are different formats and should be treated as such. In Great League, Dragonair is arguably better than Dragonite. It'd close for sure, but I do think Dragonair is better.
Fair point but that might be about to change now with BS nerf
@@victor_gators dragonair is good for more things than dragonite but both are good
Competitive Pokémon go is all about resource management
Yeah. Tapping the screen very fast is another factor.
Also, fast move counts, energy generaton, baiting, etc.
@@jimothycool both of these are TRUE
@@jimothycool Don't forget having a decent connection too^^ It's hard to play this game competitively if your phone lags every now and then. Having friends that play it too also helps - certain Pokemon simply cannot be caught alone, period.
"Competitive wii fit is about resource management"
As a competitive SVOU player and a POGO pvp player, im surprised you mentioned POGO!
About the failing the minigame on purpose, think of it as youre both locked in power up punch, but your opponents attack does little of your hp to you. Essentially you prevent killing them so you can "farm energy" so youre ready to throw your charge attack on a more dangerous pokemon.
The most important information to mention is, that CP increase more rapidly with attack than defense or HP, so with a CP limit, more offense based Pokémon are at a lower level and even more frail than usual, so bulky Pokemon can have a much higher stat total than offensive ones, which is why much more defensive Pokémon like Charjabug, Lickitung, Altaria, Azumarill, Registeel, Cresselia, Skarmory and similar Pokémon get used. It's also not surprising to see Pokémon with usually lowish BSTs, since they just have a higher level and then reach similar stats to a Pokemon with high BST on a lower level.
1:37 I don't know if this has been mentioned by someone else in the comments yet but the type chart isn't one to one because immunities don't exist in Pokemon Go. That means, for example, ground can hit flying and dragon can hit fairy albeit with damage that is even more resisted than a regular resistance.
I’m doing a playthrough of Ultra Sun with a team of 6 Charjabug. They are my precious children and I would give the world for them.
Charjabug is shockingly good in that game yeah
@@joao20able*shockingly* is a great way of putting it
@@joao20able heh.
*shockingly*
I love charjabug so much! I tried using it as a bulky support in SM vgc and it worked surprisingly decently
My sister did something similar in SV with Teddiursa.
Worth noting: sept 3 the switch timer changes to 50 seconds, Which will significantly change the game
Also: failing charge attacks purposely is usually used to close a gap and farm energy on a low health mon
@@unscsnip3r main evidence I see why they change the timer is because of the Morpeko's quirk of changing form mid-game.
@@naturalharmoniagropius4486 changing forms will open the door for stuff like Aegislash and Darmanitan Zen Mode. Can't wait to use Zen Mode Galarmanitan in raids!
High tier rectangles? This is insane, and he may even get cancelled for his comments.
I actually very briefly considered running it on my vgc team. It's got decent bulk and a not bad typing, that with an eviolite could work really well. Also battery would be really cool for a pokemon to have, giving charjabug a similar role to the one that flower gift gave to cherrim.
Unfortunately tho, it seems like Vikavolt is when it gets all of the good moves, cuz this little dude's movepool really sucks.
I might still go back and make it work someday, tho.
I used him in a trick room team in Gen 7, love, him. Not sure what you mean by only Vikavolt getting moves? He got X-Scissor (lunge now), Wild Charge, Poison Jab, and Crunch. And well, harder to slot but Acrobatics, and Dig with presumably Groundium Z. He's a physical attacker, used him with Mega Camerupt/Torkoal/others. Now, the move he truly deserves is Helping Hand, that'd be crazy good.
Okay, I see Vikavolt gets Supercell Slam now and not Charjabug, so that's 1 move that sucks to not have.
@@NivramAxuf when I wanted to use him, I was looking into a support set. Not an unusable movepool, with stuff like sticky web, struggle bug, t-wave, screens, and slow- volt switch. Bug bite could serve as a check, if a Mon that really likes to run berries ever becomes meta. Obviously, it also gets protect. You could definitely make support set work, but....
It doesn't have any of the moves that you really want on a support Mon. Stuff like helping hand, follow me, trick room, knock-off. Nuzzle would be nice too. Granted,
Vikavolt doesn't get any of these moves either tho, so I suppose the comparison in my original comment is invalid.
@a_Rand0m_Guy For sure I'd be so happy with Helping Hand/Follow Me/Ally Switch. Or, hell, give it First Impression, wide guard, quick guard.
As a Pokemon Go player, I feel so represented right now. This is incredible.
They never talk about us i was all excited
Makes sense for a Pokemon who looks like a phone charger is one of the best in a mobile game
Charjabug is my favourite gen 7 mon. What a huge w for our collective child.
A bulky bug type that resist Counter and can hit the water and flying types that plague the Great League.
September 3rd will bring BIG changes to the meta!
The fact that Pokémon Go has a tiering system but not the actual mainline games is wild honestly ....
It’s not really a tiering system. It’s more like level caps that you might see in the battle tower.
I've never heard a single human being before now talk about Pokémon Go's competitive scene.
trust me, its pretty fun, easy to get into, and surprisingly deep
0:28 oh my god Jim's a dunkey fan
Magcargo’s Monarchy 😂😂 i love the story of this weird fire snail “horse”
There are so many hilarious Pokemon Go pvp incidents. Such as the 5 month reign of Steel Wing, people traveling hundreds of miles to get a Tropius, and the slaughter of Vigoroth 2024.
Hello, competitive GO player here from Argentina (aka, the country of this years 3rd place)
I will just ignore all the sarcasm in the comment section as we deserve some respect as well and clarify some other "weird" and messed up stuff that made the format kinda unique:
-As many have noticed: some NFE Forms are better and in most cases directly outclassed their fellow evolved forms not only by bulk but for moveset (For example: Lickitung has Power Whip to hit waters/grounds that could threat its teammates, Lickilicky doesn´t)
-NFEs are not the only mons that can be good in GO unlike in VG: The clearest example i can think of rn is WHISCASH being a menace in GO since it got Scald but being laughably bad in VG
-"Do i have to bring a perfect iv to compete?" NO. In almost all scenarios thats a TERRIBLE IDEA: How IVs work on GO is weird, the CP is defined by ATK, DEF and HP but the thing is the ATK stat affects more on the CP. What most competitive players will tell you is that you want a pokemon with LOW ATTACK & HIGH DEF/HP IVs. So why is that? Well, bcuz you can give it more levels until it reaches its 1500 CP limit. So instead of having a lvl 33 Charjabug you can have a lvl 38 charjabug with a similar attack stat but WAY BETTER bulk. And in a real time battle you WANT to have a chance to be in clutch and survive at 1HP to throw a last minute charged move or to farm down your opponent
-"Why do you fail the minigame?" There´s occassions where you can (and should) afford to not immediately KO your opponent active pokemon with a charge move bcuz you want to KO it with fast moves, farm down all the energy you can AND throw a needed charge move to the Pokemon in the back that will get in. A charged move that in other cirscuntances you wouldn´t have reached but that you needed to get either cheap or big damage on it to win
I like to win CMP so somtimes it's great to have a bit more attack to win CMP especially in mirror matchups
I really appreciate this video because as a TCG/VGC fan I always forget Go is apart of Pokemon events everytime I watch one. Kinda nice to finally learn about what can make Go competitive.
Finally he's talking about comp pogo
The mainline competitive scene is hard enough as it is, I can't play something that also requires me to go outside.
Jimothy, you are my favorite PokeTuber. I got into Pokemon Go around the same time last year and have been fully immersed and love the game to an absurd extent. PvP in PoGo is also about as stressful and strategic as Pokemon on Showdown, to a more simplistic extent. Climbing the ladder in GBL takes tremendous skill and knowledge. I beg you, please start playing this game and make more videos about it!
I really liked this insight into another competitive game of the franchise. Would definitely enjoy seeing more.
Thank you so much. I unsuccessfully tried googling multiple times to learn how comp PoGo works, so this explanation was perfect
Jimothy, I freaking love pokemon go PvP. It is a super unique and nuanced ecosystem. Thank you for going down this rabbit hole sir.
As someone who tried to get into competitive Pokemon go. It's way harder than anyone would expect. This video kinda makes fun of it (and the video is hilarious at times) but he's right that there is a lot of depth in a game that looks lile mindless tapping
This is insane. As someone who plays go battle league a ton, it’s great to see you discuss it
This is insane
I LOVE CHARJABUG HES MY FAVORITE
As a pokemon go pvp player. Nice video. Funny enough through it's gbl , it brought me to vgc and the competition the series brings
Love to see jimothy covering pokemon Go content
I enjoy the GO and PTCGL. Your videos help me understand the main games and that helps me in go
Pokémon Go players are real gamers, Jim not matter how much sarcasm you have!
That's true.
@@jimothycool I was being sarcastic.
@@AngryAyrab this is insane
No
With Jimothy's delivery it's hard to tell if he's being sarcastic.
Maybe Iron Mugulis truly is a huge threat and he's been trying to warn us.
Thank you for informing us about the meta of competitive cookie clicker
You told me that this was a skilful game, and I didn't believe you. But then I saw that you had to pop all the bubbles.
Very excited to see my favorite pokemon RUclipsr talk about my favorite pokemon game, I hope more is to come
I saw the finals live and was confused about the team combos. Pretty cool stuff
I was literally just talking to my friends about the bus winning worlds, then I saw this in my recommended :)
Finally somebody goes in depth on the pogo comp scene, I used to be addicted to this
"..or something, I'm not really sure but it does get crazy."
I'll be taking your word at face value.
charjabug is an enemy of the horse council? this is insane.
I need a compilation of every piece of jimothy cool lore. I dont know how many eras there were, but iron mugulis and magcargo are seperate seasons
Something people don't consider is how much harder it is to build a team for pokemon go than other teams. You want low attack but high defence high hp IVS, and the only way to get ivs like that is through pure luck. It's way easier to get a pokemon with perfect IVS than with PVP IVS. On top of that, certain pokemon aren't always available, and sometimes their moves aren't available outside of Elite Tm. It could take like six months or longer to build the team you want, and there's no shortcut. Especially if you want a legendary like registeel or cressellia, who are only obtainable via raids, and THEN need to be traded to try get pvp ivs (as the floor for raids is 10/10/10).
On top of that, IVs are randomised AGAIN upon trading, so you can't have someone gift you a trained Pokemon already. And, you can only trade a specific Pokemon once, so you can't even keep trading back and forth to reroll IVs
@@VideoGamer110 plus, there's an increased floor for traded Ivs based on friendship. If you want a perfect pvp IV pokemon from trading, you gotta do it with a new friend
@@alexhughes2754 PLUS PLUS *PLUS*, shadow pokemon can only have frustration removed during takeovers or other events, meaning that you might have to wait even LONGER!
*also GL eligible legends can also be obtained via research btw
Lmao 4:40 i can explain, the bubbles are actually insane. You can literally choose how much damage you can do with your charge attack, based on how many bubbles you pop. You may be wondering why youd want to do less damage. Its so you can farm the enemy down with your fast attack so you have more energy going into the persons next pokemon. Say you know your opponent has a lantern in the back that can kill you with one charge attack, and that lantern can also kill you in one charge attack. You also know that if you ko tijs Pokemon that you are attacking right now lantern can reach its charge attack before you and you will lose. So instead you use you charge attack to get the current opponent to die a couple fast moves (instead of dying to a charge move), now you have leftover energy and you can reach your charge attack before the lantern when it comes in.
Lmk if that made sense
I accidentally said the lantern could kill you with a charge attack twice, one of those times i meant you could kill the lantern with a 1 charge attack mb g
There is a speed stat that is “hidden” it’s based on attack. Because if both players pull off their special at the sametime it will go to the player with the higher attack and if both are 100 stats then it will be based off the individual hidden speed mechanic. Just thought that was worth mentioning
I heard that someone hard walled a Giratina with a Lickitung in this Event. Funniest competetive scene ever
That's actually exactly how the finals ended. Giratina only uses Ghost moves in this meta (both fast attacks and charge attacks). Lickitung, being the normal type he is, not only hard walled Giratina's entire moveset, but was also dealing super effective damage with Lickitungs fast attack, Lick. The Giratina just stopped playing because there was nothing he could do lmao
Jimmothy Cool doing a pogo video was not on my list of things that were gonna happen but I love it.
Type chart is NOT 100% accurate, as immunities don’t exist in Go. Instead, immunities are treated as double resistances, as a consequence Sableye only singly resists fighting types. This is to prevent locking the game completely if two pokemon only have moves which the other is immune to
The reason Charjabug is preferred over Vikavolt is not higher defenses per se, but higher defenses compared to its attack.
In effect, Pokemon GO's combat power calculations use a point buy system. Each point of defense gives you one unit of Combat Power, each point of HP also gives you one unit, but each point in attack gives you two units. Since Great League forces you to remain under 1500 CP, Pokemon with high attack stats compared to their defenses are greatly penalized. They can't "buy" as many stats as more defensive Pokemon, making them worse overall.
Since legendary Pokemon nearly always have good offenses, they're useless in Great League, as they can only get in at a very low level that leaves them basically defenseless. The hyper-bulky Cresselia and Registeel are the main exceptions. This is also the reason that the "ideal" PvP Pokemon has very low IVs in attack and high IVs in defense/HP - you're trying to cram as many points as you can within the 1500 CP cap, and the double cost of attack makes it undesirable. As a consequence, other bulksters with no offenses (e.g. Umbreon, Carbink, Stunfisk, Azumarill, Greedent and Bastiodon) are also very prominent in this format.
The "under-charging" of a charged attack is easy to understand: since your regular attacks charge your energy, you can leave your opponent with a sliver of HP, whittle it down with your fast attack to charge up energy, and fire it at the next 'mon to come your way. Of course, if you miscalculate and give your opponent too much time, they will have enough energy to shoot their charged attacks at you too, hence the skill involved.
(The miniscule, miniscule amount of skill involved. Pokemon GO's PvP is a dust mite compared to ADV OU, the best and only official format of Pokemon).
Thank you Cool.
Yo Jimothy Pokémon GO content wooooo
GO PvP is a really cool interesting format. I wish it were more accessible though; Pokemon GO is really hard to get into without money
Its not so much money as it is time and dedication. There's no way to get Registeel or Cresselia unless they're available in raids that week or through some other event. Once mons like Mankey are spawning, its not hard to build an Annihilape, but your stuck twiddling your thumbs until the right things are spawning.
Definitely doesn’t require money but like the comment above, it does require time since resources take much longer to get in go. The best thing to do is take advantage of event spawns and always do go rockets to aim for pvp shadow pokemon to save for a rocket event to remove frustration
Jimothian making PoGo cool again, all for spicy gbl content.
It’s fun to see a meta where cresselia, lickitung, charjabug, and annihilape are all high tier picks
lickitung is getting nerfed
lickilicky buff tho
It's a little bug battery that looks like a bus and makes dreams come true. Isn't that amazing?
01:35
The type chart in Pokemon Go is not the same as the core series game. There are no immunities, they are replaced for double resistances. That means:
- Ghost type is double resistant to Normal and Fighting moves.
- Normal type is double resistant to Ghost moves.
- Flying type is double resistant to Ground moves.
- Ground type is double resistant to Electric moves.
- Dark type is double resistant to Psychic moves.
- Steel type is double resistant to Poison moves.
- Fairy type is double resistant to Dragon moves.
Now these result in some really intersting changes, some of them are:
Zapdos (Electric/ Flying)
Core series: Unaffected by Ground type moves (Flying is immune to Ground)
Pokemon Go: Takes resisted damage from Ground type moves (+1 for Electric & -2 for Flying giving a net -1 effectiveness)
Garchomp (Dragon/ Ground)
Core series: Unaffected by Electric type moves (Ground is immune to Electric)
Pokemon Go: Takes triple resisted damage from Electric type moves (-1 for Dragon & -2 for Ground giving a net -3 effectiveness)
Sableye (Dark/ Ghost)
Core series: Unaffected by Fighting, Normal and Psychic type moves (Dark is immune to Psychic, Ghost is immune to Fighting and Normal)
Pokemon Go: Takes resisted damage from Fighting type moves (+1 for Dark & -2 for Ghost giving a net -1 effectiveness)
Pokemon Go: Takes double resisted damage from Normal type moves (+0 for Dark & -2 for Ghost giving a net -2 effectiveness)
Pokemon Go: Takes double resisted damage from Psychic type moves (-2 for Dark & +0 for Ghost giving a net -2 effectiveness)
No matter how you feel about this game or its scene, it's fun to see what are normally shitmons like charjabug, lanturn, wigglytuff etc be not only viable but top tier
you forget bastiodon(this is the chansey of pogo)
jimothy covering pogo? this is a crossover i never imagined.
As a go battle league player, this is a very good analysis on the game. you got almost everything right, but there are a few innacuracies:
1. The great league doesn't determine which pokemon can be played; only the stats. CP, or combat power, is a rough calculation of stat product. However, this system isn't completely accurate as it counts the attack stat as two points, while defense and stamina are only given one. Since there is a limit on CP, attack weighted pokemon(such as gengar, or in this case, vikavolt) have lower stat products and are therefore weaker in neutral scenarios.
2. tapping the screen faster doesn't make you do any more damage, people just do it as habit or to ensure that they don't miss any moves.
As a PoGO competitor myself, one trick I have to determine whether any given pokemon has good stats for Great League play is to look at the *proportions* between their Main Series base stats rather than the raw base stats themselves. Charjabug's base defenses are, on average, much higher than its base offenses, and while its HP is lower than both it's not far behind. If you compare that to a pokemon like Metagross, which is considered very bulky in the main series and is better than Charjabug in every base stat, you'll notice that Metagross's attacking stats are slightly higher on average than its defenses, and its HP is significantly behind both averages. Even though Metagross actually can be used in Great League, due to these proportions between its stats, it ends up having significantly lower Defense and HP than Charjabug in that format. Really comprehensive video though! Pretty much everything you covered here is stuff I couldn't have put in better words. Subscribed!
honestly an amazing primer on the gbl im gonna show this to my friends
I personally use Galvantula instead! It has the coveted Lunge charge attack, which lowers the opposing Pokémon's Attack stat by 1. This leads to an effective increase in bulk, which allows Galvantula to fire off more Charged Attacks. The opponent is forced to either stay in and get whittled, or swap in a counter (which will be trapped in by the switch timer) which will be debuffed and cleaned up by my second 'mob
seems like a fun strat, might try it
Galvantula used to be meta back in the day but i think its bulk really holds it back and it’s slightly slower to lunges than x-scissor in a meta where fast pacing is paramount
I've really enjoyed using it. I really like how the pokemon go meta allows for some really unexcpeted pokemon to climb up to the spotlight, like dragonair, gligar, lickitung. That said, this is not the time to invest in these pokemon, with the new move updates, Charjabug is not looking so hot anymore. Its actually not getting nerfed at all, but flying types are, and there goes a lot of its usefulness.
"Jermaine Cold" has taught me how Charjabug just won Pokemon GO worlds.
I think the pokemon go GL and UL metagame is extremely interesting, especially with pokemon like lickitung, jellicent, togedamaru and carbink seeing serious usage, especially compared to mainline. It really brings new light to how we view pokemon.
Yo, it's ya boi, Chargie-B!
A better explanation of the charjabug over vikavolt thing is that attack stats are weighted most heavily when determining CP. this means that it will take a higher level for a charjabug to hit the CP cap than a vikavolt. Essentially it’s a choice between a lvl 100 charjabug or a lvl 50 vikavolt. That’s also partly why bug-electric is so good defensively. Most fire types are aggressively stated so they are too frail for great league
charjabug is actually insane in singles and anyone can fight me on it. i love that little dude.
As a Pokemon Go pvp player, I am surprised about this video! I have been watching some of your videos recently.
One thing i want to say is that, Mewtwo can actually be used in Great League format, you just need one from Team Rocket as you get one that is always under 1500cp. It is extremely impractical though and you shouldn't expect one in worlds. many other Legendaries can also be used in GL format
I can't imagine this being very engaging to watch
Wait, Luckitung is picked over Lickilicky? Why?
That's a question for Albert Einstein.
It's got better bulk than lickylicky; in Pokemon GO attack contributes to CP more than defense/special defense so bulky Pokemon tend to do better (they have more stats before they hit the CP cap). But just like in main series games, a Pokemon's type and moveset are equally important.
they need to change the abbreviation for combat power man
It's pretty much for the exact same reason as to why Charjabug is picked over Vikavolt
it has better bulk than lickilicky and better movepool
I myself adore Charjabug (in general, I think it's cute) and I feel it's got some potential for Doubles/VGC given a support moveset (it can set Sticky Web, inflict paralysis, it can lower speed or special attack with String Shot or Eerie Impulse, and of course it may Protect), but more importantly is the ability Battery which gives ally pokemon a 30% boost to special attacks. If they are a special attacker, it's like putting on an additional life orb that doesn't hurt you, and you can still use a different item as well. Being weak to Fire and Rock does hurt, I agree; Incineroar and Rock Slide are everywhere, but having that mentioned ground neutrality definitely helps against all of the earthquakes used. But yeah, I think it's pretty neat, and as mentioned I think there's potential.
Another important note is how attack contributes more points towards combat points than defense does. This is why pokemon like deoxys attack and rampardos are so laughably bad; they have too much attack so they get very little stat points in their total CP. Meanwhile bulky mons like cress and charjabug get more stat points as their low attack stat means they get more total points
I never thought we’d see Jim stepping into the PoGo arena. This is insane.
I surprisingly got sucked into the pogo pvp rabbithole. Now I, too, am good at tap
really cool video, i didn't know competitive pokemon go was a thing
It's a bug shaped battery. Gaming has gone too far.
A battery shaped bug too😂
From what little I've interacted with go's PVP, most of the tiers prefer very bulky pokemon, because Attack contributes more to CP than defense or HP, so having a very bulky pokemon can be "leveled" higher than an offensively minded pokemon in the tiers with a CP cap.
When Charjabug told Magcargo he wasn't very fond of him, I cried
The best thing to say about competitive pokemon go is that nearly all the best Pokemon are things you'd never see in VGC, since you want low attack stats and high defenses/hp
The type chart is similar but not the same, no immunities. Also certain charge attacks have secondary debuff effect that goes threw shield. So shield don't negate EVERYTHING from charge attacks.
Fun fact the type matchups aren’t exactly one to one! Ground can still hit flying for not very effective damage (this applies to other type immunities as well)
In Pokemon GO, bulk and the speed at which you get to moves is king. This is because of the game's CP system. In Pokemon GO's system, the Combat Power is derived harder from attack than it is from defence or HP. So if a bulky Pokemon can KO the opponent in two moves, it's far better than a heavier hitter who can't quite one-hit the opponent.
The higher bulk also provides better stat product. Rather than looking at the BST, you have to look at the stat product which gains more value from the defensive stats. Fun fact, Pokemon such as Deoxys Defence, Whiscash, Pidgeot, Vigoroth, Lanturn, Sableye, Gligar and even Abomasnow are all meta in GO's system.
Charjabug is relevant because it actually has a really good stat product and typing at this 1,500CP range. It has far better bulk than Vikavolt because it's level is so much higher at this arbitrary 1500 CP number.
What a limited power tier does to a mf. And I believe Charjabug is pretty well received in the community, unlike their top meta like azu, lickitung or vigoroth.
Though I've read that there's a big balance patch coming up.
Glad charging bug found its niche in the phone relevant metagame pokemon GO
What really screws things like Vikavolt over in Great League metagame is how Combat Power is calculated.
Roughly, it's Attack*Defense^0.5*HP^0.5. Because Vikavolt has pretty high Attack, it reaches the Combat Power cap with a much lower stat total than Charjabug. It's the reason why most good Pokemon have insane bulk but lower offenses (Registeel, Cresselia, Azumarill, Bastiodon, Mandibuzz...).
Is it ever worth evolving a Charjabug? Well, yes. Raids are a popular game mode in GO and while Bug type is extremely niche as a raiding type, Vikavolt can do a lot of work against bosses such as Hoopa-Unbound. Niche, but useful.
Good video
Every Charjabug has it's Charjathursday
5:00 just a small correction, any pokemon is allowed on those leagues as long as it hass less than the max cp allowed, you can use legendaries in the lower cp leagues as well, shadow mewtwo being one of them, but they are generally worse because of how stats and CP interact, pokemon with higher max possible CP like mewtwo become extremely frail, and are severely nerfed overall when at a low CP. Thats why people don't use them, because they are bad compared to other mons not because they can't use them.
For the longest time i didn't even know Go had any combat.
The Pachurisu of Pokémon Go
@@H20ZTS Pachirisu is decent in GO, although the fact that it is a regional in Americas, and you need a so-called "Hundo", having 15 IVs on all of its stats, and having ALL Electric type moves. It's max CP is 1300
Not even close
giratina origin is a lot closer on pachirisu than charjabug to pachirisu since giratina usage is not that high
Also atk is not the most favorable stat in Pokémon go. As you can see the world championships format are drafting Pokémon below 1500 cp. since atk gives twice as more cp than defense, a high atk Pokémon actually have less stats than a more defensive ones under the 1500cp rule. Therefore people usually look for the ones with lower atk ivs too
Actually the type chart isn’t exactly 1:1. Immunities in the main series are treated as double-resistances in Go, so Dark types still do take minimal damage from Psychic type moves, for example.
Bulk is often valued more highly in Go, as you’re more likely to do greater amounts of damage over time. Charjabug at 1500CP has more bulk than its evolved form, so it’s better.
Go actually has a ton of uniqueness to it and Charjabug is just one example of a Pokemon that would never see play on a competitive team in any of the main series games, but works great here. Thanks for making more people aware of it!