Top 6 Best and Worst NEW Abilities from Gen 9 of Pokémon
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- Опубликовано: 28 ноя 2022
- I love abilities in Pokémon, and of course a new generation brings plenty of new ones to figure out, however while some of them are great others are quite questionable, so let's see which of the new Gen 9 abilities are the best and the worst in Scarlet and Violet!
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Well baked body is a good ability, it’s literally an immunity. Saying the science doesn’t back it up is a ridiculous statement when referencing this game 😂
best and worst doesnt have to be just stats personal opinions are just fine too.
It's one the worst side because it's too specific and not super useful on the Pokemon that gets it; okay, they're immune to Fire, and then they... barely do any damage with a not very effective Play Rough?
@@emperorcubone Daschbun does get Body Press so the defense boost can bring some utility
Exactly, one of my favourite abilities lol. When used correctly it can make Dachsbun totally op
Its a good ability on a bad mon
Surprised that Good as Gold and Purifying Salt didn't make the list.
Good as Gold makes the Pokemon immune to all status moves, and Purifying Salt makes them immune to all status conditions AND gives a resistance to Ghost attacks
To be frank, this is coming from the same person who put lingering aroma as the number one worst ability, all because of the Pokemon it's on. Sure, maybe the Pokemon they gave it to doesn't particularly benefit from it that much, but it's still a decent ability, regardless of rather or not it's just a repeat of an existing ability with a different name. Because of that, I'd personally say that the ability shouldn't be on the worst list at all, and even if it somehow does deserve to be (which I don't think it does, all things considered), it shouldn't be at the #1 spot
Give Gholdengo a Covert Cloak and you're immune to secondary effects and shut down all status type moves used against it
Good as gold is sooo broken
the ghost resistance provided by Purifying Salt can help with teras, particularly tera psychic since it cancels out one of its weaknesses and Garganacl can learn Hammer Arm and rock moves like Stone Edge.
its truly a great ability for a tank with 100+ Hp and defense bases, which can learn curse via egg moves and mirror herbs.
@@slow_mk8 granted Garganacl is a potent stall breaker with Salt Cure to scare mons like corviknight and toxapex, recover to stick around longer and the combo of iron defense + body press to use his high def as a weapon, and personally: you don't need to invest much into Garganacl's def
"Fire type immunity bad, boost attack good"
This is what I've gathered from this. Put aside the fact that you now have a Pokemon that can safely switch into a Fire Blast or an Overheat, but because the science doesn't add up, it's a bad ability
Well baked body: provides a fire immunity which is great for switch-ins. Given to a fairy type so that apparently makes it bad.
Thermal Exchange: Does not change effectiveness of fire attacks (edit: but prevents burns), grants attack boost. Is on a Dragon/Ice type with sub-par def and sp. def, so it's apparently good.
Both of these abilities are good, immunity is superior to no immunity.
Well baked body is actually really useful, especially since dachsbun gets body press, so switching into an incoming fire move not only deals no damage, but also raises your defense, so your body press gets stronger. Tera fighting and it’s a pretty nice matchup. Wind power also activates with tailwind if i’m not mistaken, so kilowattrel can volt switch or tbolt pretty strongly after that, but i do recognize it’s really niche
Yeah that would he cool. I have a dactsbun with a ground Tera type do deal woth both of its weaknesses. My moveset is Play rough, Body press, Stomping Tantrum, Misty Terrain.
@@levistokes3960 Why misty terrain
@@GortinTime bc it’s a fairy I guess
@@kingteddieP4 Still a useless move xd
My Dachsbun with Well-Baked Body saved my skin during my raid of Team Star's Fire base. To be honest, going into the raid I forgot it even had the ability, it was only until the battle with Mela's Starmobile started that I realized _she literally couldn't touch me._ All she could do was use Swift which barely did any damage and use Screech until she couldn't make my defense any lower while I spammed Bite over and over to whittle her down to zero. I guess being so used to going in ovens DOES have its perks!
I’ll send the well baked dog against a fire type when it’s immune to fire…and it doesn’t matter if most fire moves are special; I’m immune…
Wandering Spirit isnt a copy of Mummy, Mummy just replaces the opponent's ability with Mummy, while Wandering Spirit exchanges the abilities of both pokemon, essentially being a Skill Swap
2:25
If any immunity is helpful, then well-baked body isn’t bad. It’s a viable switch in on fire attackers, especially physical mons.
Edit: Plus it gets access to body press and can just invest heavily into special defence or run assault vest.
I think Purifying Salt is probably the best. Since it completely blocks statuses but also gives a resistance to ghost type moves. It's a double whammy and is one of the main reasons I loved having Garganacl on my team.
I think Good as Gold is a little bit better since it's an immunity to ALL status moves
@@stotab8700 I think both are pretty equal. Yes Good as gold blocks all Status moves (which is huge, no one disagrees with that), but you can still be paralyzed, burnedy etc by secondary effects. Purifying Salt doesn't block all status moves, but it prevents secondary statuses. So I personally think they both on par.
€: Except for the fact, that purifying salt isn't on the best Mon it's probably better in competitive. Except for a very few examples all Status moves that are used in competitive are used for statuses. Which both abilities block. But Purifying Salt also blocks Scald, Nuzzle, etc from applying their status. Which is pretty huge.
@@t1r1g0n good as gold being on the mon it is prevents hazard removal, so it's quite op
@@t1r1g0n I use a hidden cloak item on my Gholdengo, I’m pretty sure it negates negative secondary statuses-so he’s effectively completely immune to statuses. At least I haven’t had any statuses yet during Tera raids.
It is really cool that earth eater turns Orthworm’s weakness into a benefit. I was very caught off guard with my only super effective move for the titan healing it instead.
Earth eater also reminds people sand attack has a type. Nothing quite like watching your pokemon heal when a wild bird tries to blind you. Lol
Like lantern with volt absorb
Now, all we need is a normal version, and the game will break right open. Lol
@@Flamewave7 been building a monotype normal team and the fighting weakness is the main issue with how prominent those attacks are.
Luckily there are a good amount of normal/ flying types to negate some of them.
@CQchaos7474 Thankfully Hisuian Zorua and Zoroark exist/are coming soon to the new games too. Ghost and normal is a good counter too, and they have an ability that helps play around more with it in mono type
Well-Baked Body actually makes Dachsbun the perfect counter to Koraidon, because it usually uses Fire moves for coverage. Because of that ability Dachsbun is pretty good in Ubers.
I think in general, any ability that gives an immunity is pretty useful
Gonna defend Well Baked Body. While niche, it can be useful in doubles or switching into. Especially since Daschbun gets Baton Pass.
As some one who used a well baked Fidough and really enjoyed it, I have to disagree with well baked being on the worst side. Fidough losing a weakness and getting that immunity to fire types is helpful and Fidough actually gets quite a few non-fairy moves so hitting back with a non-fairy move isn’t hard. Plus the game mechanics is they will test the fire move on Fidough because of the weakness (and not knowing what the ability is until after it is activated) so you can actually block a lot of fire type moves thanks to this Good Dog.
One correction but Fidough isn't weak to Fire, it's neutral.
What do mean? Fairy isn't weak to Fire, Fire just resists it. It's like Water resists Steel, but that doesn't mean they're weak to a Metal Claw...
@@emperorcuboneDachsbun gets body press by TM and it already has a good defense stat so the ability is really good for it
@@nazeersadek6705yeah then you just switch in a fairy type or a ghost type which are everywhere rn and this mon gets countered
@@plabcentral630 that's how it works for like, every other pokemon. And besides fidoughs evolution gets other moves too like crunch. Or neutral stab play rough. Ghost and fairy aren't an end to the strategy just because they can render body press useless.
4:18
Sucker Punch, a Dark-type move that Farigiraf is weak to, is blocked by Armor Tail.
It made the Ghost Gym much easier.
Farigiraf for me just blocked like 90% of the Ghost Gym thanks to Armor Tail
Sure, but that's just one; It's not inherently weak to all of them, like sure Aqua Jet would be annoying, but minor damage...
Also Fake Out.
I wonder if it works on Prankster mons...
This, plus First Impression that Farigiraf would be weak to normally. I had a bunch of bug types try and use First Impression on me and fail
@@silverwind9999 Good call. I had forgotten about First Impression. I associate it with Golisopod, but Falinks gets it too. Lokix as well now that I'm looking at it.
Now I'm not sure if it's any good for competitive play, but Seed Sower works really well with my Arboliva in my casual playthrough. It helps with the strategy of always healing back its hp (it has Leech Seed and Mega Drain, which I will replace with Giga Drain once I get the chance) and the Grassy field also turns Terrain Pulse into a 100 damage Grass type move.
Dude me too. Leech seed sorta negate opponent healing. Plus u get 1.3 boost + stab 1.5. making giga drain 135. If u tera it get more boosted. I also use shellbell to help heal more
seed sower is viable in VGC
Arboliva were such a pain for me to fight because of this that I set up my own in the same way. Giga Drain, Terrain Pulse, Leech Seed combo to make a rather tanky mon.
You can also use this to mitigate life orb issues, due too life orbs damage happening before grassy terrains heal, granted it doesn't heal all of life orbs damage but it does get most of it, it feels sweet using life orbs damage boost at minimal cost, also said life orbs damage boost basically negates emperor cubones issue of healing the opponent since they will probably be gone already due to being hit by a giga drain that is suddenly as powerful as a solar beam before STAB is applied. (With the separate 30% bonuses from grassy terrain and life orb bringing giga drain up to power 120, the same as solar beam) but without the charge and with the bonus of healing you on top of it.
Seed sower is good in competitive.
the wind power one also works with tailwind, which can kinda be good for a really hard thunderbolt/volt switch.
ya ive been watching some online battles and wind power killowatrel with tailwind out can hit very hard
The protean ability I belive was changed so it didn't interfere with the terastilisation mechanic.
I know that you don't play competitively but Well Baked Body allows that early route dog to be one of the best counters to Koraidon in the entire game
Ok so, this is coming from competitive player and will not take into account how great abilities are in main game (they are so easy almost anything works tbh) but purely from pvp angle and I disagree with a lot on this list.
First of all, Well baked body is not bad ability by any stretch of imagination. Having imunity is always good and saying "Oh its not good since fire resist fairy" is not really that relevant since first of all it has ways to deal with them (Stomping tantrum and body press, especially if it gets +2 defense) and second, its like saying "oh, water absorb is bad on mantine and flash fire is bad on Typhlosion since they both resist thsoe types". That doesnt matter since taking no damage is better than taking low damage plus you get benefit from that, and on top of that Well baked body makes you imune to will o wisp which is also nice.
Slight nitpick on Protean, while its cetanly worse its not really all that bad it jsut pushes gren (or meowscarada) into choiced set, which is a nerf but not that big one.
Wind rider while nice in theory falls short in practice as it mostly beneftis from being imune to hurricane which while nice is just too situational to be good, sure you can set tailwind but Brambleghast is jsut not worth runing just for that, especially with other mons that can setup way easier and are stronger. Now this maybe has potential for next gen if any better mon gets it, for now it is just meh at best.
Armor Tail is similar, while not bad at all it's just slightly better quenly majesty or dazzling, it's fine but situational, it blocks first impresion and sucker punch which makes it better but it's nothing that special. It is better in VGC to block opposing fakeouts, but thats about it.
Opportunist I would argue is straight up bad ability, sure it works vs AI and new players but experienced player will have that in mind and not mindlessly boost, what doesn't help taht pokemon which learns this ability also has speed boost, which is one of the best abilities in entire game and has abismal attacking stat meaning even if it copies pokemon that used swords dance it cannot use anything with it, and if that was not enough best setup pokemon right now are boosting with protosynthesis which cannot be copied anyway. In short its way way too situational and depends too much on your opponent actually providing you stats to copy. If you want to copy boosts just use Ditto instead.
Also I am shocked you did not mention Good as Gold which is one of the best abilities ever released which makes goldhengo able to block all hazard removal, being imune to any status and even thigns like leech seed.
Or puryfing salt which makes Gargabacl imunte to status, which is big for it since it wants to stack Iron defense and being unable to be toxiced is huge for that, on top of granting it free ghost resist
Anyway, this is just my competitive view on those, but Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and this is jsut my personal take on them and respect your list.
Thank you, I do appreciate it because I'm literally the opposite and never look at the competitive scene, so getting that perspective is nice. I will admit some abilities were left out because I wanted to do it without spoiling things for those that haven't played the game, but Good as Gold is indeed fantastic!
@@emperorcubone Hopefully I was not too harsh, sometimes I get too passionate about subject and it turns out a bit too defensive
Yeah this was the most off EC’s views have been, well said.
@@emperorcuboneYou don't consider competitive play when looking at abilities!? No wonder you think poorly of abilities that are objectively good, such as Well-Baked Body. It doesn't matter what Pokémon you are, an immunity is objectively good.
Well baked body could also, in theory, be put onto a clay themed pokemon. You bake clay afterall. Claydol can currently only have levitate so it could have it. And a ground type would make better use of it than a fairy type.
Levitate Pokémon don't get alternate Ability options unless it gets replaced entirely like with Gengar.
Still, I agree that it makes sense for a future clay-based Pokémon.
@@Compucles koffing and weezing can have levitate or neutralizing gas. Bronzor and bronzong can have levitate, heatproof, or their hodden ability heavy metal.
@@blakdeth Touché.
Just wait until the Charizard event goes live, you'll be changing your tune about Well Baked Body.
Immunity to Dragon AND Fire type moves thanks to type and ability, Dachsbun will be the ultimate counter to this 7* behemoth.
Situational, yes... But it just so happens that the exact situation it will benefit us in is about to drop.
I wish you showed a picture of the Pokémon that had these new abilities. It really would have let me put context as to why some of them do what they do or why they are named something
I personally like Sharpness, it works well with the movepools of the Pokemon that get it and powers up some pretty good but middling moves. Also I can’t say anything against Commander, I just love that little fish and its doubles gimmick.
Samurott is loving life right now
I do think Sharpness is good, it's almost weird that it took this long to get, but I do wish it were on some new Pokemon as well...
@@emperorcubone On that note Veluza gets it as a hidden ability.
Doesn't Veluza get it?
@@dixailia Yeah, I think it´s Veluza, Samurott(Hisui), Kleavor and Gallade.
Well Baked Body- use it with a Tera Type that is weak to it like Grass, Bug, Ice, and Steel
Seed Sower- While yes it does heal the target hear me out. Using Giga Drain, Leech Seed, Your choice of either Hyper Voice or Substitiute, and Dazzling Gleam/Earth Power while using Leftovers. Arboliva becomes a tanky Special Defender, I used one the whole way through my playthrough and it worked wonders. And you get resistance to Ground moves.
Another issue with Mycelium Might is that it doesn't cancel out the effect of abilities, just ignores them. Pokemon with insomnia and vital spirit will just wake up instantly the next turn because of their ability preventing sleep making that a wasted turn.
Something he didn't mention is that it doesn't guarantee a Pokemon goes last, it just has the least priority.
It's a bit complicated. Basically, it does nothing to your speed, honestly. Pokemon slower than Toedscruel don't affect the calculation, and it will automatically move last if the other Pokemon has the same speed or greater speed, it will also move past against priority moves which would happen anyways.
Cud chew allows you to eat a berry twice without using a move, so using a sitrus berry on farigiraf which has a high hp is pretty usefull. Good as gold makes gholdengo immune to status moves of other pokemon, so less chance of getting status conditions and lowering stats. Purifying salt has immunity to status conditions and halves damage of ghost type attacks. Sharpness increase power of slicing moves, gallade learns psycho cut and sacred sword.
While not broken, Sharpness is an infinity better Ability for Gallade than Steadfast and Justified, since it doesn't have to rely on getting hit to activate. Run this thing with Sacred Sword and Psycho Cut for STAB, Night Slash and Aqua Cutter for coverage, and your choice in Choice Scarf for speed, Life Orb for even more damage, or Assault Vest for extra special bulk, and you got a pretty unique threat on your team.
I think u underestimate the usefulness of immunities in competitive Pokémon. One rly important aspect of competitive is switching ur Pokémon around to take the least damage possible from incoming hits. For example, let’s say we start the battle and my Pokémon is 4x weak to ground, and the opponent sent out a ground type Pokémon. Well, this isn’t a problem if we have a flying type Pokémon on our team bcuz we can just switch to that instead and not take any damage.
Fire is a very strong and common offensive type right now, and there aren’t any types naturally immune to it. Well-baked body is a pretty decent ability imo bcuz it gives Dachsbun the ability to consistently shut down fire type attackers and increase the number of hits it can sponge up in the process.
First of all, I hate constant switching and think it's stupid; stand and fight you cowards. But more importantly, is Dachsbun all that strong? Even if it is I'm sure there are many tougher Pokemon to use instead, just leading to feel like this dog is nipping at your heels...
@@emperorcubone switching is gaining momentum and can be used aggressivwly as countering what ur foe brings in
Im assuming the switch comment was a joke but i just had to throw my hat in ring
@@emperorcubone Dachsbun is at least strong enough to beat the playthrough. It's a fairy type that can be immune to dragon and fire. It can use Body press, Protect, Wish, Play rough/ Yawn/ Roar
It fire very common with so many water type Pokemon.
At least now u have 3 ability to deal with. Flash fire, well bake and heat exchange
@@enzoforgets9456 right, Pokemon it just over complicated rock,paper, scissor
I don't think that greninja's nerfs are that bad.
mewoscarada also has protean and she is a pretty poweful pokemon.
as for battle bond...okay maybe that one isn't that good ,but who knows, maybe they will give it some move that will make up for it, greninja hasn't been released yet so we should be a bit patient.
I think that the reason why they nerfed libero and protean was because greninja got banned in gen 6 and cindergrace got banned in gen 8.
No thank you, Greninja has more than enough, they don't need a new anything, they need to sit back for a few generations...
@@emperorcubone they shouldn’t be nerfing really good abilities cause that kinda defeats the purpose of having them battle bond and protein being good examples of that also it’s never sat well with me that they ban certain abilities if they are overpowered just don’t put in the game if they are just going to ban them cause there op cause what’s the point of putting in the game then
@@mattsultimategamingandrevi8249 Those Abilities are still really good even in their nerfed forms. They nerfed them in part so that the competitive communities won't have to ban them anymore, just as they do some balancing with every new generation.
@@Compucles good point
Seed sower is pretty great since it give arboliva a boost to all of its grass type attacks when it gets hit and its also a grass type which will always benefit from grassy terrain.
“Tell me you don’t play vgc without telling me you play vgc”
If you come to any of my videos looking for competitive VGC advice that's on you. I've made no secret about my disdain for the whole scene...
I think the nerfs to Geninja are the most bizarre. Like, those two abilities are hidden abilities so it's unlikely to have them anyway. And you can't get Greninja in this game normally, you have to transfer. So why would anyone want to transfer their Greninja with a special ability to a game that's going to nerf it?
The Protean nerf is meant more for Meowscarada (plus Kecleon gets it, too), and it was indeed an OP Ability before.
Meanwhile, Battle Bond was also pretty overpowered. Between that and dropping the Ash-Greninja form, you're right that nobody should bother transferring a Battle Bond Greninja, but there's nothing wrong with that. Just transfer or trade for a normal Torrent Froakie.
5:25 I'm curious about your source on this? Nothing I've read about the change to Battle Bond mentioned the stat boosts having any kind of turn limit. That is they should last until Greninja faints or is switched out.
As for Mycelium Might, it's presumably an effort to balance giving Spore to a pokemon with 100 Base Speed and overall better stats than other pokemon that learn Spore.
I love that Farigiraf gets immunity to priority moves, the amount of trainers that have tried to use Sucker Punch or First Impression (that would both normally be super effective) on my Farigiraf and just completely fail is hilarious
Kinda surprised that Sharpness is not on here. A 50% buff on a group of really good move is crazy. Kleavor and H-Samurott will be able to actually do solid damage with their signature moves and Gallade legitimately gets the buff on its entire move set, including STAB Psycho Cut and Sacred Sword.
Sharpness isn't on here because it wasn't introduced in Gen 9 and he was only covering abilities that were either introduced in or massively changed in Gen 9
Protean is still good even after the nerf you can use choice scarf/band/specs for an offensive set or you can still use the same sets as before and Meowscarada, Cinderace, and Greninja all have U-turn so they can use stab u-turn and negate the nerf by switching out anyways and it’ll still activate next time you switch in
Fun fact, the pokemon with the number 1 best and the number 5 worst abilities work well together, orthworm is only weak to fighting and fire, two types that dachsbun either resists normally or is immune to due to the ability
I really can't agree with Seed Sower. My Arboliva was able to effortlessly stall plenty of teams and protect my Skeledirge from earthquake with Seed Sower. With leech seed, giga drain, leftovers and grassy terrain I had a lot of fights where Arboliva ended up being full health by the end
Were these in gyms and such? Because most random trainers I'v found have about 1-2 Pokemon max, so that doesn't leave a lot of room to try these tricks out.
Yeah, that whole section made me question if Emperor Cubone is aware that Grassy Terrain does a lot more than heal a bit each turn. Indeed that's probably its most minor effect.
@@emperorcubone yeah in gyms, elite four, titan battles and even random strong Pokemon. Just saying it has a lot more utility than you're giving it credit for and definitely isn't that bad of an ability compared to stuff like Mycelium might
Earth eater seems good in doubles. Your garchomp uses earthquake and dose a large amount of damage to enemies while healing its earth eating ally
Well Baked Body works pretty well when you have something on your side that can trigger it, like in doubles I’ve been running a Pokémon with Lava plume alongside Dachsbun, so you are guaranteed the defense boost, then you can hit hard with body press
To be honest, when I saw the signature move of my Meowscarada (Yes, I went with the Weed Cat) I was really surprised how strong it is. And then, the same happened with Tinkaton.
So... I am anticipating a Top 6 Best and Worst NEW moves video soon!
And Thank you, for your work! Keep up!
Honestly I haven't even looked at many of the new moves yet, but I'm sure there are some great ones!
Gigaton Hammer is very nice, the move takes inspiration from pokemon cards with the strong move and "you can't use this move on the next turn." The reason I thought they haven't done it yet was because it can be paired with protect/any other protecting move
@@Squirtle_Squad_Supremacy
Its' basically a steel type hyper beam, but on the cooling turn, you can still use other moves and items.
@@emperorcubone my favorite new moves this gen are both signature moves: Population Bomb (Maushold), and Fillet Away (Veluza).
The former is a multi-hit move that can hit up to *10* times, and the latter is a Shell Smash that raises Speed, Attack, and Special Attack at the cost of HP.
@@Squirtle_Squad_Supremacy You mean like Hyper Beam and Giga Impact?
However, Gigaton Hammer is more useful, as you can still use other moves on the recharge turns, so it's not a complete sitting duck and only partially affected by a Protect/Detect strategy.
I actually really liked seed sower personally. The pokemon that has it is quite slow, and grass type so it was very common for mine to take the hit, set up grassy terrain for relatively free, and then fire back with a terrain boosted energy ball or giga drain to get health back
Opportunist is so funny to have in Falinks raids, they always end up using No Retreat and basically give your Espathra a guaranteed free omniboost
Libero also got the Protean treatment by the way. Kecleon is not in Scarlet and Violet so we don't have anything to go for with Color Change ability. But I feel like if it does return with the Terastal gimmick, it will be treated the same as Protean and Libero.
Yea most likely poor kecleon tho he can't ever take advantage of his gimmick again or is it a buff so your opponent can't make you be weak to another attack they have
Razor WInd and Ominous Wind would probably be included if they were implemented into the game.
It's not just those, there are other "wind" moves that don't count as wind. It's a bit confusing...
@@emperorcuboneThat's usually because those aren't called 'wind' in japanese
@Emperor Cubone what wind moves are there that don't count as wind moves?
Wind Power activates when tailwind starts. With the dynamic speed changes in battles now, the double speed and the increased attack power could be deadly. Although it is still quite niche.
Personally, I think Mycelium Might is the ideal way to do the whole "bad ability to balance an otherwise OP 'mon" thing. Because unlike Truant, Slow Start, or Defeatist, MM actually does provide Toedscruel with some benefits, being able to use Spore on Pokémon with Insomnia or Overcoat. Even so, it doesn't become an automatic win condition by using its high speed stat to instantly Spore because MM prevents it from doing specifically that.
Even more useful now since they also added purifying salt and good as gold, two of the best abilities introduced this gen
Also gholdengo is pretty big in vgc so it might have some niche in dealing with the cheese man
Well Baked is going to be crucial against the Dragon-Tera Charizard this weekend. You're forgetting the added dimensionality of Tera types because pokemon might have access to super effective moves for a type that doesn't factor into their defense.
Something I learned about wind power, it's a really good move to use tailwind and electro ball. Not only are you boosting it from speed alone, you are doubling it too. It's not a great ability, but definitely can hurt or kill. Definitely if you use a focus sash. Fear me you rock types!
I think well baked body is pretty solid. Being able to get a free switch alone on an incoming fire attack is HUGE. Not to mention it boosts the defense stat on a Pokémon that gets body press. You could use your logic to say that Flash Fire is also a bad ability, because you'd likely be boosting your fire moves against an enemy fire type.
I had to box my looked forward to Smolive evo because of that ability. It kept healing the Pokémon I was trying to capture!
Game Freak really saw the “better nerf Greninja” meme from Smash 4 and said “hold my beer.”
Wind power is actually really good. In doubles I set up tailwind and this triggers wind power and gives you charge for you next electric move. Note that I can go protect afterwards if I want and than do a tbolt afterwards for double damage. I typically one shot virtually everything for neutral damage with wind power kilowattrel
Opportunist is my favourite - makes Espathra very fun to use
I disagree with you regarding the well baked ability since Dachsbun gets body press by TM and it already has a good defense stat so the ability is really good for it
Windpower works with tailwind. You use tailwind and then next turn you go first with a boosted attack
Great, now I could maybe break even on if I had just used TWO attacks in that time instead. It's already a fast bird Pokemon, not too much is gonna outspeed it...
@@emperorcubone dragapult , electrode, any mon at +1 speed since u can run sash + tailwind and in vgc tailwind is pretty good
@@emperorcubone tailwind into volt switch. New Pokemon which isn't as fast is now the faster?
I am going to hard defend Wind Power here. Considering the Pokémon it is being used on, Kilowattral, it is a v e r y good ability, especially in doubles with a peculiar tumbleweed. Considering both of their abilities can be activated with tailwind, not only will you get your speed raised, not only will you be giving your friendly weed that attack boost, NOT ONLY will your next electric attack be boosted, but a stab speed-boosted charged electroball off of an already fast bird can do h u g e damage. I have been using this doubles set along with other mons and it has been great, hope y’all find this as enjoyable as I have
I don't mind wind power. I use it on my kilowattle with tailwind and either electro ball or volt switch. It got me set up in many of my late game battles
Seed Sower allows you to set up grassy terrain multiple times in one turn, on top of spam 150 base power stab terrain pulse. Gonna have to disagree on that one.
An important note with mycelium might it only allows you to hit the Pokémon with a status move. So for example if something has insomnia it will wake up at the end of the turn anyway. I learned that the hard way because I used toedscruel
I think im with everyone else when it comes to well baked body, it complements Dachsbun's strength's (mainly it's high defence) by letting it raise it's defence by 2 stages while also letting it be immune to fire, which is always nice.
Being immune to a type of which most of it's moves are "special in nature" is also good for it since it's main strengths is it's physical defence.
It also gets body press which suits it and it's ability well, together letting it hit hard and take hits on the physical side well.
Dachsbun isnt necessarilly meant to be a hard hitting sweeping menace but instead more of a tanky pokemon, BUT it can become a hard hitter if it gets a boost to it's defences by soaking up a fire type move that one of it's allies would have taken, letting it use a powerful body press.
I wonder if the protean nerf is there to balance adding terastalisation on top. I don't know how those two actually interact though because I hadn't thought about it until now.
On my arboliva ( nickname oliv-card, the vegan vampire 👍😀👍) his grassy terrain help by giving his move a 1.3 + 1.5 stab boost. With leech seed and giga drain.
Isn't heat exchange a worsen flash fire.
Wind rider kind force me to use that tumberweed Pokemon for being so good
I know I'm late here, but the Mellow Mushroom reference in the pic is hilarious, especially given how few people will actually pick up on the mascot being from a limited pizza chain
Surprised you didn't mention Gholdango or Garganacl's abilities. Immunity to status and a random ghost resistance are so nice
Emperor Cubone: "An immunity, no matter how niche, is always helpful"
Also Emperor Cubone: "#5 worst: well baked body"
Summoning grassy terrain isn’t the worst considering it boosts your grass moves. In fact i say it could be decent in competitive when you can switch into a resisted attack
Ngl, well baked body came in handy when I was battling Mela (was pleasantly surprised because my Fido had recently evolved), but that will probably be the only time
Honestly purifying salt is a phenomenal ability. I used a garganacl Mt entire first run of violet and it came in handy multiple times
0:46
Okay, that was quite the throwback for me. Captain Planet was a part of my childhood
With how early in the lifespan this game is at this point, this video kinda feels like a day 1 smash fighter review. It would have made more sense to wait about 3 or 6 months once we've seen the full potential of all abilities. That's just how I see it
Can you link/list the music you use in your videos?
I think the well baked body is pretty good I was thinking of the skill swap moves that could work like scizor or something that’s actually weak to fire maybe they should’ve gave that pokemon a fire weakness
a great gen 9 abilitiy is the "good as gold"
thanks to this ability gholdengo becomes the ultimate hazard defender since it is immune to rapid spin mortal spin AND defog.
the only way for the opponent to remove your hazards is by using maushold's signature move tidy up.
I think Razor Wind and Ominous Wind I’m not included in the effect of the ability because they’re not in the game at all
* boosting attack stat by 5-10 wind moves * “good!”
* boosting defense by every fire move * “bad!”
* boosting attack while still getting hit by fire moves * “good!”
* full immunity by fire moves while also raising defense by two stages * “bad!”
One of Revavroom’s abilities is pretty bad tbh (though it’s not new)
Overcoat gives it immunity to sandstorms…
…on a steel type…
It also gives immunity to spores and powders, but poison powder isn’t fixed by this since it’s a poison type…
half of overcoat is made useless by it’s typing
It's worse on the pre-evolution Varoom, when it has Slow Start...
Well lingering aroma is quite nice to put on an enemy by using a physical move. Then switch in Slaking who has truant , hit that same enemy who now has lingering aroma with a physical move. Now you have a slaking without truant that you can easily do without it having to be a double battle or a bunch of set up. It is like a short cut.
I think they made mycellium might so that toesdcruels speed wouldn’t let it abuse spore in competitive like it was with smeargle
With Protean being nerfed was Libero also nerfed ?
Yep
Pretty much.
Haha, that'd be hysterical if it wasn't!
@@emperorcubone it would make Libero not be the version no one cares for a generation
Wind Power is exclusive to a flying/electric type special attacker. An easy way to make it at least a little better would be to have it activate with the pokemon's own wind-based attacks. The way it is now it's just a worse version of electromorphosis with one niche in tail wind.
So if a Pokemon you are fighting burrows under ground and you switch to Orthworm you could get health when it finishes Dig?
That's right! Eat up!
I love how a lot of the arguments for why certain abilities suck is due to the Pokémon’s typing in game. It’s not like there’s a way to change it to possibly even bait out these moves
My problem with the wind abilities is that not even all of the wind moves on bulpapedia activate it. Sandstorm is listen as a wind move but won’t activate wind rider which I think is a massive missed opportunity.
I haven’t finished scarlet yet but the fact that paldean wooper gets water absorb is pretty great as a troll imo 😂
I feel like a lot of people are disagreeing with the Well Baked Body placement and you seem to be taking it personally or nitpicking those comments? Idk a lot of your replies just seem rude to me
He tends to do that
Well it's never my intention to be rude. Well... almost never, but I'm just trying to let people know why I thought the way I did. Sometimes I do it with a little sarcasm, and other times I legitimately don't know what the things they were bringing up, asking real questions.
But I do appreciate whenever anyone comments, and I like to think that I interact at least a little bit more than other creators out there, so I hope they appreciate it too...
I don't know how Good as Gold didn't make this list.
Just gonna put this out there, but burned bread can actually be great at not burning any more. Its like the ablative shielding on a space shuttle, as it burns it becomes more resistant to heat. Science is fun
Can thermal exchange be paired with the flame orb to force the activation?
Have the ability Opportunist and then use swagger/flatter so you get the 2 stage attack bump without the confusion
No, you want a #1 crap ability? Overcoat on Revavroom. Overcoat makes it so you’re not hurt by weather. Except they changed hail to snow which doesn’t hurt you anymore, and sandstorm wouldn’t hurt it anyway because it’s a steel type.
Well, being resistant to some wind moves (and only 6 out 16 of them are resisted by Electric types, of which only 5 of them do damage) also means you'll be more likely to tank them and then get off that super powered Electric attack. As for the likelihood of them being used against you, you just have to switch into a Pokémon that is likely to use it on its next turn. That's one of the best strategies behind switching Pokémon!
Besides, it's a moot point, since the only Pokémon that get Wind Power are Electric/Flying types, so they take normal damage from Flying type attacks in the first place.
Still, you are correct that the limited pool of wind moves makes it a pretty niche Ability.
8:03 was the "+40" intentional?
It was; I know it's not possible, but that's what it feels like...
One of my favorites is Eartheater
I just wanna comment on how you just didn’t bring up any of the positives of grassy terrain when talking about Seed Sower, it boosts the power of grass type moves by 50% and halves the power of earthquake, bulldoze and magnitude and from what I know, was a massive reason why Rillaboom was so insanely good in competitive in gen 8. And yeah, seed sower is just kinda a worse version of grassy surge, but it’s not as bad as you’re making it out to be lol
Feels like the Worst category were only on here because something needed to be. Baked Body is an objectively good ability, especially on a mon with Body Press. ‘Fairy doesn’t do good against Fire types’ yeah, now it’s immune to a type that would normally beat it, how’s that a bad thing? Plus Seed Sower has like, a minor drawback of healing the opponent, but healing yourself while also getting to unleash Terrain Pulse and boosted Grass moves more than makes up for it. And Protean isn’t even a new Ability, just an updated one that, sure, got nerfed, but the nerf doesn’t make it a bad ability, just a more balanced one
I feel like earth eater isn’t too specific a name to be put on other mons. There’s tons of Pokémon with sap sipper, which is essentially the exact same situation. It’s not like we actually imagine them sipping sap when they get hit with a grass type move lol
I use a Wind Power Kilowattrel with Tailwind and Electro Ball for most water or flying type raid dens, even 5 stars I usually take out 1/2 to 2/3 of the HP by turn 2
In almost any ability on Showdown I gave my Iron Moth (4x weak to ground) Earth Eater. It’s really not much but I guess it confuses someone?? (Also to deal with said ground types if they stay in after figuring out that I have Earth Eater, I gave Iron Moth Energy Ball. It’s the most rounded member out of my Almost Any Ability team, despite not having a stab fire move.