I can’t believe the “Citizen Snips” set of Resttalk, Acupressure, Knock Off wasn’t mentioned in Gen 6/7. It was probably one of the most hilarious, well-known, and memeish Drapion sets.
My favorite moveset with Drapion - albeit a junky one - is an "Oops! All Crit!" Set of Focus Energy, Cross Poison, Night Slash, and Ice Fang/X-Scissor/Knock off set with Sniper and Scope Lens.
Fun fact: Skorupi was considered for a niche in Sword and Shield ZU before the Crown Tundra released! Its access to Toxic Spikes while absorbing them, but was mostly overshadowed by Mareanie while it was in the tier. After the first DLC released, Skorupi basically fell off.
Used the standard SD set (with Knock Off, EQ, and Poison Jab) in ORAS online battles, along with Arcanine (my staple mon across all games), MegaMence, Magnezone, Breloom, and Starmie. Jolly, max ATK, 200 speed, and the rest into Sp.Def. Holding a Shuca Berry. With all the Intimidate support, this monster could swap into most physical attackers and smash things up. It was great, love this scorpion!
yeessss it's finally here. Let's GOOOOOOOOOO Fun set I like running in gen 8 Bulky taunt/toxic spikes user. More utility based rather than it's incredible offensive capabilities but can seriously catch a toxapex user off guard. Taunt/ knock off/ toxic spikes/ then your pick of it's vast move pool Definitely a surprise not alot of people see coming
drapion has always been my secret favs. I always forget he exists until I find one and I always catch it! Plus I’m so shocked that lilligant was used in sword and shield meta game. Im more curious now about how good lilligant was :>
Completed unrelated to this video. I just got a 30,30,31,31,31,30 IV gift zorua in my B2W2 nuzlocke wtf?!?!?!?? Zoroark lvl 52 with 172HP, 129ATT, 74DEF, 178SPA, 83SDEF, 141SPD (252HP+252SPA EVs & HASTY +SPD -DEF) someone tell me the odds?!?
Paul's drapion was honestly one of the most intimidating pokemon ever depicted in the anime, especially with how they chose to depict toxic spikes as an omni present force
I feel like you should make a video on the history of Knock Off, since it comes up so often especially because you mention "the newly buffed Knock Off" for like every Pokemon that has it when you get to gen 6
As I understand it, in early gens, knock off was a utility move that was commonly run on stall teams and sometimes balance, but not that valuable on offensive teams. Removing an item, specifically negating leftovers recovery, is super nice in longer battles where you need that extra punch to break through, but its low damage output means that its really only viable on pokemon that don't deal much damage in the first place or against pokemon that won't take much damage from any moves. Gen 3's meta was particularly stally, so it probably had more use there than in gens 4 or 5. Gen 6 improved its base power from a pathetic base 20, to a very strong base 65 with a 1.5x boost if it removes an opposing item. This made it so that when it removes an item, it is the strongest physical dark type move in pokemon, which drastically increased its utility to become viable on pretty much any physical attacker in the game. The other most common physical dark type moves, crunch, sucker punch, and night slash, only have 80, 70, and 70 bp respectively, so knock off became the dark type move of choice due to its higher initial power while not losing too much power on subsequent hits. The knock off buff drastically improved dark type physical attackers, but also was a buff to pretty much every physical attacker in the game that could run it. It was also a massive buff for many fighting types as well since it hits ghost and psychic pokemon super hard, while also just crippling any physical wall that might want to switch in to them. Using knock off as a utility move never really went away either, pokemon like ferrothorn and toxapex can still viably run it just for the item removal effect. It hasn't been all buffs for knock off, the addition of unremovable items like z moves and mega crystals allows for some pokemon to switch in to the move in gens that support them. This means that teams often had pokemon that could switch in to knock off in gens 6 and 7, and while the move was extremely strong, there were checks to it, and a well constructed team could play around it. In gen 8, the addition of poultergeist has also made knock off a bit less of an autoinclude on teams, because if you knock off an opponents item, you might set up your opponent with a pokemon that can switch in to your physical attacking ghosts. Still, as long as you're aware of the dangers of using these moves together on the same team, its not that big a downside, and knock off is still the premiere physical dark type move of choice today.
Drapion is my favorite poison type, it’s got such a menacing and cool design and I will never forget how strong it was in the anime. Seemed like such an unstoppable force.
The main reason why Paul's Drapion appeared to be so powerful was because Paul could predict Ash's moves. Ash never changed his team whenever he battled Paul, so Paul knew Ash's team inside out.
Fun fact- Drapion in SS monotype got the move Accupressure banned, basically thanks to battle armor preventing crits it could just Accupressure and stat ball all you’d need is (note if the opponent even had a ground type move to hit you with) kill any counters or set him up on a Mon who’d want to switch out
Have you thought about doing a video on pursuit? Like how good it was in gens 2-7, it’s mechanical changes, and it’s notable users. Maybe even why it was removed from future games and how a lack of pursuit affected those meta games?
Not to mention buffing hit and run ghost pokemon, which was further improved by heavy duty boots meaning you're more free to switch around. Like, does any ghost run Colbur berry anymore? A lot of them did to play around knock off and pursuit.
@@bakes1324 tbh, physical dark type mons have too many great tools. Knock-off, pursuit, sucker punch. Yes, they can be weakened by burn but Weavile is dominating gen 8 ou now
@@ispeakcockney5387 bro but that’s all they can do. There’s no reason to remove pursuit. Look at how good ghost types have been this gen as well as psychic. Game freak was like “ calyrex and dragupult need to be op!!”!”!”.
Drapion is already threatening but it becomes even more so when you realise that a Pokédex entry states that it takes down its foes slowly with a poison to make them suffer more, even though it can kill them quickly with its claws 😭
I’m surprised it took so long to cover this guy. He’s a really solid lower tier Pokémon from a Gen that has had most of its good Pokémon covered by now. I remember trying to look up this video like a year ago, thinking it was covered at some point, but nope lol
@@darianclark3980 it would be higher if they increased it's attack by 10 or 20 points and it's defense by 10 and give it an ability like moxie. They also could increase it's speed but that's pretty high anyway
One thing to note about Drapion is how similar it is to another Gen 4 scorpion based Pokémon, Gliscor. Both have good defensive typings, and similar stat spreads. If only Drapion was stronger and had recovery, it’d be in higher tiers.
Everyone's talking about Paul's Drapion, but Pokemon Hunter J's Drapion deserves mention as well, since it was ordered to grab Ash so tightly that he had to resort to kicking its face just to make it let go of him.
Drapion was and still is one of my favorite Pokémon. When I first started to play competitively one of the first Pokémon I bred with perfect EVs was Drapion. I had Night slash, Cross poison, Earthquake and Swords dance on it. I gave it the berry that reduces ground damage. It was jolly and had max EVs in Speed and Attack, it was hilarious to use in online battles. Almost as hilarious as Hurricane Vivillon with Quiver dance, the second Pokémon I bred :}
Drapion has one of the few 3D models (from main line games) that I actually hate. It was intimidating in sprite form, but at 3D looks so deepy, and for some pokemon it can work, but not for Drapion.
Drapion would’ve been a good candidate for the sun and moon stat buffs. He could’ve gotten 10 or 20 in attack and hp or special defense and it would’ve benefited.
13:39 What is up with Virizion's eyes??? Also, little story with Drapion: I was playing Brilliant Diamond when I caught one with Acupressure in the Underground. Thanks to Cynthia opening up with Spiritomb, I swept her entire team with it due to getting maxed out stats, including evasion! XD
Glad to hear the crit set actually got some usage, I brought scope lens drapion to ubers in gen 6 to catch xerneas spammers off guard. It may not have been optimal, but it was definitely fun.
I love Drapion in monotype, he covers so much for either type of team he can be on. Dark hard counters Psychic, Poison is great for Fairies and resists Fighting.
Well, it's kind of easy, it's just ground really. I always kept in mind that a Perfect Pokemon (I mean in base of weaknesses and resistances) would be a Poison/Dark Pokemon with Levitate
@@kintaro1851 Also Yes, as Ground resists Rock, Water resists Steel and Electric immunity is very good. But i guess Poison/Dark has more valuable resistances
@@Rakkun_Streak Dont forget Bug Steel with Flash Fire. Poison Dark can be Trick/Switcheroo'd a Ring Target so its weak to Psychic and Water/Grounds 4x weak to Freeze Dry
@@skullerclawerbandicoot7966 Oh yeah, i forgot about Freeze Dry. The Bug/Steel is also true, but i find more (realistically) posible for a Poison/Dark Pokemon with like, wings to justify Levitate. Although Bug/Steel would be a great typing doesn't have that many resistances, though Pokemon like Scizor and Durant make it work even they are aren't really that bulky.
I find it so ironic how Drapions only weakness is ground and its highest stat is its base defense Then you remember that most ground type moves are PHYSICAL attacks
@@ShawFujikawa It's ironic, because the type it is supposedly weak to, it tanks a good amount of their hits due to high base defense, and most of the moves of that type being physical.
Ah, Drapion, one of my favorite mons. Scope lens, Night Slash/Cross Poison was fun to run in Gen 4 Smogon when it came out. People hated that I was getting crits so often
I'll always remember Drapion as the perfect Cynthia sweeper: spam Acupressure while Spiritomb can barely hurt you, then wipe the floor with her whole team
Not that this is generally a good idea but you might have taught it a special move - ANY SPECIAL MOVE. Because DARK types are immune to Mirror Coat (a psychic move.)
Way to go Giovanni for using Sniper + Scope Lens Drapion in VGC. I like using it too, however I prefer using it in Singles so I can set up Toxic Spikes.
Latios and Gigalith deserve a video! Never gonna give you up boys (Also I always found interesting the fact this one isn't Bug type... Wich was really weird for me as a kid)
I had a pretty crap day today, never mind that because coming home to see my favorite Pokémon finally get its own FSG video has certainly cheered me up.
Skorupi/drapion were a 100% include in every single playthrough. fuckin loved that Pokemon in that gen. Especially bc you get black sludge around the same time. Good stuff
FSG I love you guys, but I always thought it was “Dray-peon” for some reason, so this video kept scratching my brain wrong😂 keep up the great content ❤️
Drapion has to be one of my favorite Gen 4 pokemon. I still call it a bug regardless of its current typing. It's quite fast for being a giant scorpion and has decent bulk. You can either go full set-up sweeper or lay out toxic spikes for hazards.
An important edit / error for gen 8: Max Knuckle is a weaker attack than Focus Blast in all circumstances, and increased attack - thus making it extremely rare to use, and you'd never click it vs Drapion if you had Max Starfall available.
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nice to see FSG getting that sweet, sweet Ad money.
If you thought Kellen's pronounciation of Reuniclus was controversial, "Drop"-ion is about to be even more contentious.
It's physically hurting me...
I don’t think I can even make it through this
I mean the way he pronounces Reuniclus is the official pronunciation. The official pronunciation for Drapion is “Drah-pion”, which he doesn’t say.
There’s wolfey purposefully mispronouncing names for comedic effect then there’s Kellen just being wrong
He also pronounces SD kind weird
I can’t believe the “Citizen Snips” set of Resttalk, Acupressure, Knock Off wasn’t mentioned in Gen 6/7. It was probably one of the most hilarious, well-known, and memeish Drapion sets.
Got to give credit to Aaron since if I remember correctly, his gimmick for Drapion was just to go for crits. Man was a gambler at heart.
It’s kind of sad that Drapion is one of the strongest physical Poison types considering it only has 90 Attack.
Toxicroak has still the highest atk stat of any poison type (not counting arceus) and it's 106
Then there's gengar and his 130 Spa
@@Drakorre At least we finally have Sneasler with 130 Atk.
YES!!! Drapion is one of my favorite Pokémon! Thanks for covering him!
My favorite moveset with Drapion - albeit a junky one - is an "Oops! All Crit!" Set of Focus Energy, Cross Poison, Night Slash, and Ice Fang/X-Scissor/Knock off set with Sniper and Scope Lens.
I LOVE Drapion, just recently used it in a Platinum run. Criminally underrated Pokémon.
Fun fact: Skorupi was considered for a niche in Sword and Shield ZU before the Crown Tundra released! Its access to Toxic Spikes while absorbing them, but was mostly overshadowed by Mareanie while it was in the tier. After the first DLC released, Skorupi basically fell off.
Used the standard SD set (with Knock Off, EQ, and Poison Jab) in ORAS online battles, along with Arcanine (my staple mon across all games), MegaMence, Magnezone, Breloom, and Starmie. Jolly, max ATK, 200 speed, and the rest into Sp.Def. Holding a Shuca Berry. With all the Intimidate support, this monster could swap into most physical attackers and smash things up. It was great, love this scorpion!
"Drop"-ion, sir, Imma bout to "drop"-kick you if you don't stop.
Anyone remember way back in gen 4 when 90% of burns weren't caused by water moves?
Drapion and Scolipede are head to head on my list of coolest looking Poison types.
I absolutely love Drapion. It's so beautiful and scary. It's the perfect Pokemon for my dark-type team.
yeessss it's finally here. Let's GOOOOOOOOOO
Fun set I like running in gen 8
Bulky taunt/toxic spikes user.
More utility based rather than it's incredible offensive capabilities but can seriously catch a toxapex user off guard.
Taunt/ knock off/ toxic spikes/ then your pick of it's vast move pool
Definitely a surprise not alot of people see coming
I’m 50 seconds and I’m like
“is he actually going to say drop-ion the whole time?”
Was hoping we'd see the Gen 7 gimmick set up where you run Z-Acupressure on drapion, super fun and underrated strat
I have an all bug-type since gen 6, and train bug types in general. Despite not being techinically one anymore, sniper drapion keeps his place anyway.
I’ve been eager to see this one!
Phineas and Ferb reference that nobody seemed to pick up. Gets a like from me, just for that.
Has there been a drifloon video? If not can it be covered? My favorite ghost pokemon
It takes a poison-dark to be a best bug in gen 4 lol
Paul's was such a menace took out 3of ash's pokemon
Nice Phineas Ferb reference at the start :)
16:27 for once, we don’t get the infamous “unfortunately”
I love this guys and tyranitar they have a lot of power
Let’s go, sponsorship!!!
When there's more tournaments played would you maybe add pokemon go to these?
The pronunciation Dropion actually makes me shake with anger and I don’t know why. Why did False see drap and think the a was pronounced like an o.
This thing was so hard to catch in Pokemon Ranger Shadows of Almia
If Paul used Ursaring in the final fight with us he might have won.Along with Drapion and Electivire.
I would like to see:
How GOOD was Conkeldurr ACTUALLY?
drapion has always been my secret favs. I always forget he exists until I find one and I always catch it!
Plus I’m so shocked that lilligant was used in sword and shield meta game. Im more curious now about how good lilligant was :>
Paul’s most broken Pokémon
Ursaring: WHEEZE
Ursaring enters the chat
@@junglezone7323 I mean hey, both took out half of Ash’s team when they went 6v6
@@goldenhydreigon4727 Drapion > Ursaring
Comments are good for the youtube algorythm
Ah yes, the Pokemon used by big type elite 4 trainer Aaron that wasn't actually bug type.
Please do a diancie/mega diancie video
Drapion!! One of my favorite bois!
I recognize that gamefreak made a decision (drah-pee-on) but given it's a stupid decision, i;ve elected to ignore it (Drape-eon)
I always thought it was pronounced "Drape - ion" .... Hearing "Drop-ion" kinda hurt to hear.
How GREAT was Heatran ACTUALLY?!
Can you do a video on Zygarde!
the gen 4 animation of drapion using earthquake is kind of- obnoxious
What country do you think you're in? At least it has *Ice Fong* for those pesky Gligars.
why is gliscor not in the main Shino dex
You should revisit Venusaur because he is the GOAT :)
Drapion my favorite pokemon
Also, am I the only one mad that Drapion isn't a Dark-Poison-Bug-Ground type? Just me?
Perhaps. I like his typing as it is
Completed unrelated to this video. I just got a 30,30,31,31,31,30 IV gift zorua in my B2W2 nuzlocke wtf?!?!?!?? Zoroark lvl 52 with 172HP, 129ATT, 74DEF, 178SPA, 83SDEF, 141SPD (252HP+252SPA EVs & HASTY +SPD -DEF) someone tell me the odds?!?
I can't be the only one who pronounces it "Dray-pee-on", right?
Paul's drapion was honestly one of the most intimidating pokemon ever depicted in the anime, especially with how they chose to depict toxic spikes as an omni present force
Agreed
Accurate depiction of competitive, with stealth rocks being the only thing worse.
I think Ursaring was more intimidating, it BODIED buizel, staraptor, pikachu in the lake verity battle and traumatized Chimchar
@Kurtis You again? Why haven't you been shut down by now, spam bot?
@@onionlamento true.
But I do think Drapion had the edge of intimidation bc it straight up said, "Staraptor, You're Getting Poisoned Too!"
I feel like you should make a video on the history of Knock Off, since it comes up so often especially because you mention "the newly buffed Knock Off" for like every Pokemon that has it when you get to gen 6
Yeah, how Knock Off used to be a niche move till Gen 6. Especially how some Pokémon in Gen 3 (Alakazam and Armaldo) used the move competitively.
@@IgnitedQuils i wouldn't even call it a niche move, it's genuinely an amazing utility move in early gens.
As I understand it, in early gens, knock off was a utility move that was commonly run on stall teams and sometimes balance, but not that valuable on offensive teams. Removing an item, specifically negating leftovers recovery, is super nice in longer battles where you need that extra punch to break through, but its low damage output means that its really only viable on pokemon that don't deal much damage in the first place or against pokemon that won't take much damage from any moves. Gen 3's meta was particularly stally, so it probably had more use there than in gens 4 or 5.
Gen 6 improved its base power from a pathetic base 20, to a very strong base 65 with a 1.5x boost if it removes an opposing item. This made it so that when it removes an item, it is the strongest physical dark type move in pokemon, which drastically increased its utility to become viable on pretty much any physical attacker in the game. The other most common physical dark type moves, crunch, sucker punch, and night slash, only have 80, 70, and 70 bp respectively, so knock off became the dark type move of choice due to its higher initial power while not losing too much power on subsequent hits.
The knock off buff drastically improved dark type physical attackers, but also was a buff to pretty much every physical attacker in the game that could run it. It was also a massive buff for many fighting types as well since it hits ghost and psychic pokemon super hard, while also just crippling any physical wall that might want to switch in to them. Using knock off as a utility move never really went away either, pokemon like ferrothorn and toxapex can still viably run it just for the item removal effect.
It hasn't been all buffs for knock off, the addition of unremovable items like z moves and mega crystals allows for some pokemon to switch in to the move in gens that support them. This means that teams often had pokemon that could switch in to knock off in gens 6 and 7, and while the move was extremely strong, there were checks to it, and a well constructed team could play around it.
In gen 8, the addition of poultergeist has also made knock off a bit less of an autoinclude on teams, because if you knock off an opponents item, you might set up your opponent with a pokemon that can switch in to your physical attacking ghosts. Still, as long as you're aware of the dangers of using these moves together on the same team, its not that big a downside, and knock off is still the premiere physical dark type move of choice today.
@@IgnitedQuils And Hariyama
Maybe a video about moves that remove items in general (trick, switcheroo and knock off)
Poison/Dark is such a good type combo
Only x2 weakness is Ground. BST is not bad too.
Yeah 1 immunity, 1 weakness and 4 resistances. And a good offensive type as well
Probably one of my favorite types
Yeah, its so good being super effective to fairy, though losing the resistance is kind of a downside
@@Squirtle_Squad_Supremacy on the flipside, you get immunity to psychic and prankster. Drapion is a joker.
Drapion is my favorite poison type, it’s got such a menacing and cool design and I will never forget how strong it was in the anime. Seemed like such an unstoppable force.
Me too along with scolipede, salazzle, toxiccroak, gengar, nidoqueen, nidoking , Crobat, and Roserade.
Same here, along with shiny Scolipede. I'm a fan of big intimidating mons, esp when they have more unique designs like those two
The main reason why Paul's Drapion appeared to be so powerful was because Paul could predict Ash's moves. Ash never changed his team whenever he battled Paul, so Paul knew Ash's team inside out.
I like Weezing, but drapion is also one of my faves
@@UltimateDragonX9999 Guessing Poison's your favorite type
I keep forgetting how surprisingly fast Drapion is, always thought it was about 70-75.
Never underestimate the Ogre Scorp.
Fun fact- Drapion in SS monotype got the move Accupressure banned, basically thanks to battle armor preventing crits it could just Accupressure and stat ball all you’d need is (note if the opponent even had a ground type move to hit you with) kill any counters or set him up on a Mon who’d want to switch out
Fun Fact- those idiots don't know the move haze or roar.
Have you thought about doing a video on pursuit? Like how good it was in gens 2-7, it’s mechanical changes, and it’s notable users. Maybe even why it was removed from future games and how a lack of pursuit affected those meta games?
I legit think that gamefreak tried to nerf the dark type hard for reason. They removed pursuit, and snatch.
Not to mention buffing hit and run ghost pokemon, which was further improved by heavy duty boots meaning you're more free to switch around. Like, does any ghost run Colbur berry anymore? A lot of them did to play around knock off and pursuit.
tyranitar, tyranitar, tyranitar, tyranitar, tyranitar, and um... oh yes, tyranitar.
@@bakes1324 tbh, physical dark type mons have too many great tools. Knock-off, pursuit, sucker punch. Yes, they can be weakened by burn but Weavile is dominating gen 8 ou now
@@ispeakcockney5387 bro but that’s all they can do. There’s no reason to remove pursuit. Look at how good ghost types have been this gen as well as psychic. Game freak was like “ calyrex and dragupult need to be op!!”!”!”.
Drapion is already threatening but it becomes even more so when you realise that a Pokédex entry states that it takes down its foes slowly with a poison to make them suffer more, even though it can kill them quickly with its claws 😭
Some of its Pokédex entries even state the opposite. That it can take down does without the need of poison!
@@asuuki2048 i mean the ones OP is talking about don’t say it can’t, they just say that drapion chooses to take them out with poison
@@galvsparks6295 I know, I’m just saying that it goes both ways haha.
Small meany claws.
Imagine Drapion with Wicked Blow, just like Radical Red, and it would be more powerful than ever.
I’m surprised it took so long to cover this guy. He’s a really solid lower tier Pokémon from a Gen that has had most of its good Pokémon covered by now. I remember trying to look up this video like a year ago, thinking it was covered at some point, but nope lol
Bean Burrito I would think if FSG covered Drapion before SwSh, he would had said that Drapion was in fact the King of all RU
@@darianclark3980 I wouldn't say ru I would say mid uu
Same here. My thoughts exactly.
@@idkmehboi1972 Drapion was only in UU in Gen 4.
The rest b4 Gen 8 was RU.
Aka why I said Drapion would had been the king of RU
@@darianclark3980 it would be higher if they increased it's attack by 10 or 20 points and it's defense by 10 and give it an ability like moxie. They also could increase it's speed but that's pretty high anyway
One thing to note about Drapion is how similar it is to another Gen 4 scorpion based Pokémon, Gliscor. Both have good defensive typings, and similar stat spreads.
If only Drapion was stronger and had recovery, it’d be in higher tiers.
Or maybe they could have made drapioon the offensive version of gliscor
@@darrellsimon4462 Gliscor can already be offensive version of Gliscor tho.
@@Entelarmer lol I get that I was just thinking maybe give it the stats of gliscor. 120 base attack lol
@@darrellsimon4462 gliscor has 95 base attack
@@galvsparks6295 right but 120 base defense.
So I was thinking of giving draping the 120 for his attack
Dark/Poison is just such a cool type combination. Add a cool overall design and you've got yourself an awesome Pokemon. Drapion rocks!
Everyone's talking about Paul's Drapion, but Pokemon Hunter J's Drapion deserves mention as well, since it was ordered to grab Ash so tightly that he had to resort to kicking its face just to make it let go of him.
Fun fact: Drapion has the distinction of being one of the few Pokemon that Ash intentionally hurt in the anime.
What does that mean?
@@thefrubblewarrior4678 Ash kicked Hunter's J's Drapion IN THE FACE to escape it. He's not the smartest kid around, but he's got guts.
@@rubenduenas5881 He also tackled Jessie's Seviper in the Hoenn League
No one cares
@@connorhancock2096 The comments section begs to differ
Drapion was and still is one of my favorite Pokémon. When I first started to play competitively one of the first Pokémon I bred with perfect EVs was Drapion. I had Night slash, Cross poison, Earthquake and Swords dance on it. I gave it the berry that reduces ground damage. It was jolly and had max EVs in Speed and Attack, it was hilarious to use in online battles. Almost as hilarious as Hurricane Vivillon with Quiver dance, the second Pokémon I bred :}
my only experience with breeding was just to get prevos i didn't have yet.
@@gregorymirabella1423 I bred 3 boxes of Pokémon with perfect IVs xD
To be fair, I had 2000 play hours in Pokémon X
@@DefinitelyNotEmma Ever breed yourself a shiny perfect IV mon? I bread a 6 IV shiny Froakie in gen 6
@@Dubile Yes, I had a Garchomp
@@DefinitelyNotEmma rad af
Drapion has one of the few 3D models (from main line games) that I actually hate. It was intimidating in sprite form, but at 3D looks so deepy, and for some pokemon it can work, but not for Drapion.
Derpion
Yes!! One of my all time favorites, such a cool mon. Pronouncing it as “drop”ion though… questionable at best
I genuinely thought it was drap... not drop
You can probably just attribute it to a difference in accent, since “a” being pronounced as “ah” or “ay” is a common difference been some accents.
At least he's not saying "dray-pion". I've always hated that pronunciation, personally, it just sounds so wrong to me
its weird cuz he pronounced it correctly before. why did he change it now lol
@@matthewkuscienko4616 That's how you actually say it though.
Drapion would’ve been a good candidate for the sun and moon stat buffs. He could’ve gotten 10 or 20 in attack and hp or special defense and it would’ve benefited.
Even 10 in Attack would be big
This thing would be Incredibly horrifying to encounter in real life
Most Pokemon would, tbh
You're watch a bunch a bunch of pre schoolers only to here a talking origami talking backwards in Japanese threatening to cut a worthless object.
Pretty sure it's based on the Vinegaroon which looks quite terrifying.
13:39 What is up with Virizion's eyes???
Also, little story with Drapion: I was playing Brilliant Diamond when I caught one with Acupressure in the Underground. Thanks to Cynthia opening up with Spiritomb, I swept her entire team with it due to getting maxed out stats, including evasion! XD
Glad to hear the crit set actually got some usage, I brought scope lens drapion to ubers in gen 6 to catch xerneas spammers off guard. It may not have been optimal, but it was definitely fun.
I still remember Drapion annihilating half of Ash’s team in his 6v6 battle against Paul.
I love Drapion in monotype, he covers so much for either type of team he can be on. Dark hard counters Psychic, Poison is great for Fairies and resists Fighting.
Drapion is one of these pokemon that have a type combination that makes me have an aneurism whenever I try to remember its weakness
Well, it's kind of easy, it's just ground really. I always kept in mind that a Perfect Pokemon (I mean in base of weaknesses and resistances) would be a Poison/Dark Pokemon with Levitate
@@Rakkun_Streak Or Water/Ground with Sap Sipper
@@kintaro1851 Also Yes, as Ground resists Rock, Water resists Steel and Electric immunity is very good.
But i guess Poison/Dark has more valuable resistances
@@Rakkun_Streak Dont forget Bug Steel with Flash Fire. Poison Dark can be Trick/Switcheroo'd a Ring Target so its weak to Psychic and Water/Grounds 4x weak to Freeze Dry
@@skullerclawerbandicoot7966 Oh yeah, i forgot about Freeze Dry.
The Bug/Steel is also true, but i find more (realistically) posible for a Poison/Dark Pokemon with like, wings to justify Levitate.
Although Bug/Steel would be a great typing doesn't have that many resistances, though Pokemon like Scizor and Durant make it work even they are aren't really that bulky.
Drapion has such a cool design, ive always liked it. Nice to see it had success in the competitive scene.
I find it so ironic how Drapions only weakness is ground and its highest stat is its base defense
Then you remember that most ground type moves are PHYSICAL attacks
How is that ironic?
@@ShawFujikawa It's ironic, because the type it is supposedly weak to, it tanks a good amount of their hits due to high base defense, and most of the moves of that type being physical.
Just wanna take a sec to say thank you to False Swipe Gaming. Y'all are just on another level of quality and consistency.
Ah, Drapion, one of my favorite mons. Scope lens, Night Slash/Cross Poison was fun to run in Gen 4 Smogon when it came out. People hated that I was getting crits so often
I've always called this guy "Dray-p-on"
I pronounce it as “Drah-pion” due to how it’s name is spelled in Japanese (Dorapion).
I mean Drah-pion also makes sense for the english pronuciation
I remember reading Serebii as a kid when Diamond and Pearl’s new Pokémon were being revealed, and being terrified by Drapion’s official artwork.
DRAPION!! YES!! I'VE BEEN BEGGING FOR THIS POKÉMON FOR AGES!! LET'S GOO!!
I'll always remember Drapion as the perfect Cynthia sweeper: spam Acupressure while Spiritomb can barely hurt you, then wipe the floor with her whole team
It's like Ultra Necrozma going against FEAR,Malamar,Zoroark and Marshadow.
Just lost drapion to a freaking wynaut in my nuzlocke
Couldn't have had a better timing
You'll be missed Scar
Not that this is generally a good idea but you might have taught it a special move - ANY SPECIAL MOVE. Because DARK types are immune to Mirror Coat (a psychic move.)
Let me guess, Counter? I still find it funny that Wynaut was in Ubers in Gen 4
@@Krishy-dz4ov smh Special Drapion = Goat
@@CigaretteCrayon it was a randomizer. I didn't had any special dark move yet
I've got a wynaut/wobbuffet clause when I randomize. Their encounters don't count in any way
Way to go Giovanni for using Sniper + Scope Lens Drapion in VGC. I like using it too, however I prefer using it in Singles so I can set up Toxic Spikes.
Latios and Gigalith deserve a video!
Never gonna give you up boys
(Also I always found interesting the fact this one isn't Bug type... Wich was really weird for me as a kid)
Great video false swipe. Watched it all, don't worry you can trust me, I promise.
I believe you bro
I used a Drapion in BDSP, he actually solo'd Cynthia 😌
Just spammed Accupressure on Spiritomb and recovered and it was over after that
Yeah, Cynthia's team may be good but that Spiritomb is basically set-up bait.
Seeing a Raid Shadow Legends sponsor makes me want to use Drapion’s Poison Cross on the game.
Poison/dark is one of the coolest type combos
I had a pretty crap day today, never mind that because coming home to see my favorite Pokémon finally get its own FSG video has certainly cheered me up.
I know this probably doesn't need to be said, but the music for these videos has always been perfect. Never change up the music you do for these vids!
Interesting that Drapion would run Sniper over Battle Armor without using any moves or items to boost its crit rate.
Ash's Staraptor: I'm flying, your Toxic Spikes mean nothing to me
Drapion: _(grabs Staraptor with its tail)_ *GET OVER HERE!*
MK reference?
@@leojamesquiambao1047 ofc
Skorupi/drapion were a 100% include in every single playthrough. fuckin loved that Pokemon in that gen. Especially bc you get black sludge around the same time. Good stuff
I remember when Urshifu Single strike was in OU
I used a bulky toxic Drapion and did surprisingly well.
FSG I love you guys, but I always thought it was “Dray-peon” for some reason, so this video kept scratching my brain wrong😂 keep up the great content ❤️
Drapion has always stood out to me for looking like one of those ring stacker baby toys brought to life.
13:36 for a moment I could have sworn it said "virizion used leg break" and I wondered when that became a move
Drapion has to be one of my favorite Gen 4 pokemon. I still call it a bug regardless of its current typing. It's quite fast for being a giant scorpion and has decent bulk. You can either go full set-up sweeper or lay out toxic spikes for hazards.
Ah yes, Toxic Spikes.
Also, Paul's Drapion was a MONSTER
An important edit / error for gen 8: Max Knuckle is a weaker attack than Focus Blast in all circumstances, and increased attack - thus making it extremely rare to use, and you'd never click it vs Drapion if you had Max Starfall available.