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Jim, do you think any Gen 3 Ubers could be considered for Gen 3 OU? I think that could make an interesting discussion regarding viability/possible impact on the metagame
Such insight as “it’s only 50% accurate but if you hit it’s a great move” is what makes me keep coming back to the Jimothy Cool channel. With this newfound wisdom I went looking for some other great moves and found this one called fissure. It literally instakills the opponent! Why aren’t more people talking about this?
In competitive, it's only an option in VGC. Other formats heavily limit the usage of Fissure for being quote: 'uncompetitive,' end quote. It's a bad move anyways, since it can't hit Flying types, Flying is meta. Guillotine has the same effect but suffers from the same issue with Ghost types. Bad move too, Ghost is meta. It also is heavily limited in other formats besides BGC. Sheer Cold is definitely the best one, but it's got super limited availability, which hampers it's effectiveness. Same as Guillotine and Fissure, it also is heavily limited formats besides VCG.
@@aquatazer I know. I was too. You really thought Fissure was bad because it can't hit Flying types? It's bad because it can't hit anything... And I intentionally misspelled VGC after talking about Fissure. I just wanted to sprinkle in a little bit of truth in that it's only an option in VGC. That's all. Edit: YES, I know Sheer Cold and Fissure recently won VGC. That doesn't mean that they are great moves to put on every Pokemon.
Actually Flareon's niche in rby comes from using tail whip You use it on a paralized Starmie to reaply it's speed drop and make body slam into hyper beam a ko
I feel fire is not actually as defensive as it would seem Ice moves are typically thrown around by water types Steel is a lackluster offensive type even with Fairies Grass is a lackluster offensive type Bug is a lackluster offensive type besides U-Turn which is nice but can land the fire type in literal hot water Fire res is fine though most fire moves are used by fire pokemon so it's a stalemate. I feel the introduction of Fairy type is what really puts fire types on the map defensively. And as someone else points out. Fire has some horrible resistances to common and dangerous types: Ground, Rock, and Water are not types you want to be weak to.
Ninetales in RBY can use fire spin which lets it safely chip jynx lead into fire blast KO range and if it misses and gets slept it’s a good sleep absorber since it likely won’t do much else than ruin jynx’s day. Very niche but notably more consistent than flareon using tail whip to stack paralysis speed drops, and not the most flaccid mon in the game like charizard. Moltres is definitely the best though.
This channel has done a lot of great things. The greatest thing it’s done is shine a light on magcargo. Not that it needed it of course, but appreciated nonetheless.
One of the videos I've been waiting for the most. Dragon, normal, steel, and the very long water type Pokemon videos will be here before we know it. Thank you
This is the only channel where I watch for the ads because I wanna hear about horsea wanting to see his friend ponyta. I haven’t played competitive Pokémon in my entire life lol
Shoutout to Gen 3 Arcanine for having a great ability, the best priority attack move (can be life saving vs Dug) and having a Base Stat Total thats higher than any non (pseudo) legendary (and Slaking).
I'm also a big fan of Fire types. My personal one is Charizard, this was my first mon ever back in Pokémon Red, but big credits to the forgotten Rapidash
@jimothycool I appreciate how you organize your videos, explain things well, and how its not clickbaity or full of unnecessary filler. Like I enjoy learning about gen 3-6 onwards (the ones I got to experience most) and the video chapters and formatting make it easy for me to watch just that. And how you explain things makes it easy to learn even for people who aren't super experienced with a specific format.
Jimothy you should play Gen 4 UU, Arcanine is fantastic, and Moltres in Gen 4 UU is probably my favorite Pokémon to use in a competitive format it just feels so powerful but you have to work to get rocks off the field and remove certain water types first. But once you do Moltres just feels like an Ubers mon running around in a lower tier.
Something that kept coming up in relation to Volcarona (and Fire types in general) in this video was they're relation to mechanics changes, such as Steal Rocks, Boots, and Terra. I'd love to see a video about something like "Pokemon most buffed/nerfed by mechanic changes"
Magcargo not being immune to water is a war crime, it makes sense too, its a lava-pokemon, so its so hot water should evaporate. Isn't one 4x weakness enough?
Charizard is much better than Flareon in RBY due to better moves and being faster. Swords Dance is key in making it go from Poorsman Moltres to its own thing. Swords Dance, Hyper Beam, Fire Blast and either Earthquake/Body Slam is dangerous if used right.
Fire has always been my favorite type as well. Typhlosion was my first starter, and he was pretty awesome. I liked camerupt alot too. My favorite fire of all has to be darmanitan tho. Carried me through black on my first playthrough.
Torkoal is ZU in Gen 7 despite having Drought because the ability Drought itself was banned in lower tiers, and with just White Smoke Torkoal was only able to perform at ZU
What you can do with Gen 1 Flareon is run Tail Whip on it. If you’re paralyzed, and a Starmie that’s switching in is also paralyzed, you can Tail Whip it as it comes in to not only lower its Defense, but re-apply the Paralysis speed-drop, making your paralyzed Flareon faster than the paralyzed Starmie. Flareon Hyper Beam vs. -1 Starmie: 217-256 (67.1 - 79.2%) - guaranteed 2HKO Needs some chip, but it’s not difficult to get it to that range with your teammates. Pray you don’t get paralyzed as you try to Hyper Beam it, though LOL
15:47 We should also give a shoutout to Charizard's coolest set in gen 3 OU the sunny day sweeper set. It rans Fire Blast, Sunny Day, Substitute and Blast Burn (yes Blast Burn) with the item petaya berry. It comes in on something like Choice Band Dugtrio stuck into Earthquake, uses that opportunity to set up a sub, uses sunny day the next turn and then subs constantly until it puts itself in both Blaze and Petaya Berry range. Sunny Day, blaze, petaya boosted Blast Burn OHKOs both Blissey and Suicune (after spikes chip) while Fire Blast OHKOs common resists such as Salamence and of course everything else. Its not the most consistent but damn is it hilarious and satisfying to pull off. And Charizard's coverage option help a lot in scaring certain threats that would want to come in on a sub
I've been tormented for months now trying to figure out what the song is that plays at 1:00. I think it's Iron Mugulis messing with me. Does anyone in the comments have enough horse power to know what the name of the song is so I can add it to my chill game music playlist?
Huh! I can't say I was expecting Rapidash to ever turn up, but I'm surprised to realize Arcanine is a purely VGC Pokemon. Could have sworn he'd pop out at some point, especially if we're making Flareon mentions (I mean I love the fluffy guy, but we know..)
Not to put pressure on, but I'm hoping/looking forward to you doing these vids for each type, I feel like I always come away with some new strat or knowledge I wasn't aware of before
I used to love running rocky helmet magcargo vs talonflame when talon was king, really fun when it takes te brave bird (or flare blitz, I forgot if it gets flare blitz but if so that too) recoil plus rocky helmet 🤣it wasn't much recoil considering it does nearly no damage, them threatening "the king" out with ancient power
5:35 if you didn't know crits ignore your boost in Gen 1 then I might as well add that they also ignore defensive boosts and debuffs. So if someone is -2 def and you land a crit you'll do less then if you landed a noncrit because crits also aren't 2.5x damage I believe it's a range of some number
Seeing you talk about Fire types getting nerfed for no reason with the release of Stealth Rocks, could you make a video about Pokemon that unfortunately got hit in the crossfire? Kecleon getting nerfed due to Protean Greninja is a good example
my favourite fire type is Iron Moth, I think. I am a big fan of the substitute + 3 attacks set with booster energy. I go for booster energy speed, which lets me invest some of my evs into physical defence I like tera fairy dazzling gleam, but energy ball and tera blast ground are also very good
Gamefreak buffed fire types with the Fairy resistance and the new moves because Japan is known as the land of fire, and fire is a common 'protagonist element' in shonen - not to mention charizard being the fan favorite of all pokemon.
I think it's notable that Fire couldn't get a footbhold in Gen 1 OU despite the fact that one of Gen 1 OU's bugbears was a grass type. Every fire type was so bad that none of them qualified for the job of countering Eggsy
Gen 1 Fire types are lowkey almost great because the threat of burn forces out the two best Pokémon in the game in addition to stacking passive damage with Fire Spin before taking advantage of pivoting off of the partial trapping effect. If it wasn't for the 70% accuracy on that move, Moltres would be able to pretty much dictate the pace of a match on its own.
my favourite fire type has to be charmander. it beats breloom and skarm leads with overheat and destroys blissey with a surprise beat up. it can even toxic something as it goes out.
Per your request, your local competitive RBY nuance whiz reporting Something you haven’t mentioned in regards to the partial trapping moves (Wrap/Clamp/Fire Spin) in particular is allowing the user to switch risk free the following turn. I calculated the number of RBY games I’ve played since 2003 in the Netbattle days, and the lower bound is 6 digits worth. This is notable because I literally cannot play an OU game without using at least one risky but fun ‘mon per game. Victreebel with Sleep/SD/Hyper Beam/Wrap is a 6th slot staple Imagine your Vic is out against a 50% health Starmie. You know they’re getting out of there and have a perfectly safe way to maneuver around you Instead of firing off a Razor Leaf, attempt to predict with SD, or maybe trying to catch a sleep, you read their obvious, safe middle middle ground switch and use Wrap Momentum is now back in your favor. You can switch now freely next turn. There are now a plethora of threats to switch to. Maybe you just wanted to lure out X Pokémon. Maybe you just wanted to get Vic out of there. Lots of optionality after hitting them with Wrap. Also, don’t sleep on a +2 wrap and bluffing HB or Razor Leaf Best way to think about it for those who are even more confused at reading this…RBY Wrap can also function as a risk free (as long as it lands) Baton Pass
What do you think would be the most interesting Pokémon to be dropped into RBY OU with RBY mechanics? They wouldn’t take the moves, abilities, or types from games that weren’t RBY but just their stats and move pool (limited to moves available in RBY). My thoughts would be Bouffalant as a pseudo lax/Tauros or Banette as a physical pure ghost with stats and a move pool that are still conceivable by gen 1 standards.
Bouffalant in particular intrigues me since it’s significantly bulkier than Tauros while having higher offenses but it is significantly slower. It’s also got swords dance which would make it super dangerous, but it very noticeably lacks Hyper Beam. I wonder if it would get pushed out of the meta by virtue of not being specialized one way or the other, or if it would be splashed in more places as a tech option
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Jim, do you think any Gen 3 Ubers could be considered for Gen 3 OU? I think that could make an interesting discussion regarding viability/possible impact on the metagame
Im confused is there a reason why arcanine isnt in the video? Just not any impressive placements?
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> “Some of the most wonderfully designed Pokemon of all time”
> shows Magcargo
Truly this is a peak Magcargo moment
Magcargo enjoyers just keep winning; this is insane
I laughed when he listed all the traits about Magcargo that were cool like its design and then skipped over anything related to gameplay lol
Michael Cargo
slugma ballz lmao rekt
Magcarjoe
"Some of the most wonderfully designed Pokemon of all time"
*shows Magcargo, whose power was limited to Mondays*
Hello, what does this mean?
dont worry about it
@@dongaldwilliams8071 magcargo mondays
@@dongaldwilliams8071magcargo mondays
What about Magarco's month?
Most wonderfully designed pokemon of all time with Magcargo on screen is a moment of beauty and truth
Such insight as “it’s only 50% accurate but if you hit it’s a great move” is what makes me keep coming back to the Jimothy Cool channel. With this newfound wisdom I went looking for some other great moves and found this one called fissure. It literally instakills the opponent! Why aren’t more people talking about this?
Fissure Fridays incoming
In competitive, it's only an option in VGC. Other formats heavily limit the usage of Fissure for being quote: 'uncompetitive,' end quote. It's a bad move anyways, since it can't hit Flying types, Flying is meta.
Guillotine has the same effect but suffers from the same issue with Ghost types. Bad move too, Ghost is meta. It also is heavily limited in other formats besides BGC.
Sheer Cold is definitely the best one, but it's got super limited availability, which hampers it's effectiveness. Same as Guillotine and Fissure, it also is heavily limited formats besides VCG.
@@hv433OP was joking.
@@aquatazer I know. I was too. You really thought Fissure was bad because it can't hit Flying types? It's bad because it can't hit anything... And I intentionally misspelled VGC after talking about Fissure.
I just wanted to sprinkle in a little bit of truth in that it's only an option in VGC. That's all.
Edit: YES, I know Sheer Cold and Fissure recently won VGC. That doesn't mean that they are great moves to put on every Pokemon.
You say this ironically as if fissure ting lu wasn't a major threat in vgc up until a couple of months ago
Magcargo is so good that the smogon council had to put it in PU so no one would realize how incredible it is.
Ponyta's new law is insane.
I can't believe ponyta would do such thing
Fire types that are not legendary pokemon or starters need more love.
does that exclude arcanine?
Volcorona: I am growing *stronger*
Darmanitan should learn thunder punch
the only good ones are both of arcanines forms, volcarona and gouging fire (It’s not technically a legendary, it’s a paradox pokemon, fight me.)
@@legthieff torkoal?
They are also immune to rock moves 10-20% of the time.
Sorry Jim, I'm already subscribed so I cannot help anymore in stopping the "Rapid dash" of Ponyta's political career.
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they're hot
It is unsurprising that Pontya turned out to be villainous. It's ambitions, like it's hooves, are harder than diamonds.
Actually Flareon's niche in rby comes from using tail whip
You use it on a paralized Starmie to reaply it's speed drop and make body slam into hyper beam a ko
This is true gaming
@@rokkumanex2293 Flareon ou?
Ah, a Reverend viewer too. How nice.
Ah, of course. How could he miss that obvious interaction. Truly a blunder in his end
"Confuse Ray's just gambling"
True, but can you explain why I become upset when they don't hurt themselves in confusion every turn?
It’s funny to realize that Fire type is one of the best defensive types with 5 resistances. I think it’s the most buffed type of all time.
6 actually, bug steel fire grass ice fairy
extremely common weaknesses tho, I think thats why it doesnt feel as bulky
Stealth rock @@wheatleythebrick2276
I feel fire is not actually as defensive as it would seem
Ice moves are typically thrown around by water types
Steel is a lackluster offensive type even with Fairies
Grass is a lackluster offensive type
Bug is a lackluster offensive type besides U-Turn which is nice but can land the fire type in literal hot water
Fire res is fine though most fire moves are used by fire pokemon so it's a stalemate.
I feel the introduction of Fairy type is what really puts fire types on the map defensively.
And as someone else points out. Fire has some horrible resistances to common and dangerous types: Ground, Rock, and Water are not types you want to be weak to.
and yet it's still mid.
Magcargo is one of the founders of the horse council
Flareon being screwed over for 5 generations is painful, it's attack stat was so wasted.
It's still being screwed over as we speak, losing superpower as well while gaining nothing.
Ninetales in RBY can use fire spin which lets it safely chip jynx lead into fire blast KO range and if it misses and gets slept it’s a good sleep absorber since it likely won’t do much else than ruin jynx’s day. Very niche but notably more consistent than flareon using tail whip to stack paralysis speed drops, and not the most flaccid mon in the game like charizard. Moltres is definitely the best though.
This channel has done a lot of great things. The greatest thing it’s done is shine a light on magcargo. Not that it needed it of course, but appreciated nonetheless.
If Magcargo gets high horsepower, then surely it has the capability to join the horse council.
This is a certified "Magcargo moment™"
Fire types have had kind of a rough experience in competitive Pokemon
They started out terrible in the very early games
and always seem to get inadvertently punished by the addition of new mechanics
to the series
Then in vgc they have Incineroar. Just Incineroar
*Incinerator coming to find your IP address to fake you out, and parting shot out of there before the police arrive*
One of the videos I've been waiting for the most. Dragon, normal, steel, and the very long water type Pokemon videos will be here before we know it. Thank you
You’re the man Jimothy, Keep up the awesome work!
Before watching the video: There was peace in the fire nation up to Gen 3, but everything changed when the Stealth Rock Nation attacked.
Thank you so much for these longer form videos Jim!
This is the only channel where I watch for the ads because I wanna hear about horsea wanting to see his friend ponyta. I haven’t played competitive Pokémon in my entire life lol
Fire types are weird.
On one hand, weak to rocks and earthquake , on the other, super effective against steel
And resist Fairy too
Similar to Grass-types, with fantastic defensive qualities but clear, impactful weaknesses
This video is FIRE 🤣
I'll never get over the fact that Skeledirge doesn't get enough usage to be OU but it's used too much to be UUbers.
More hot new content from Jim. In preparation for a Magcargo Monday perhaps.
Victini is my favorite fire type. Love that little guy. Shoulda made it Fire/Fairy in gen 6 IMO, woulda been a cool change to give it a unique combo
I think you should have mentioned around the gen 3 mark how burn does 12% instead of 6%
I genuinely like Magcargo's design. Who wouldn't love a lava snail named after escargot?
5:30 here's another fun fact about gen 1 if your opponent uses haze on a freezing Pokémon it will thaw
Really like the series as I’m getting back into Pokémon and love learning about all the gens, good job
The horse council bit is a fun one
Shoutout to Gen 3 Arcanine for having a great ability, the best priority attack move (can be life saving vs Dug) and having a Base Stat Total thats higher than any non (pseudo) legendary (and Slaking).
I'm also a big fan of Fire types. My personal one is Charizard, this was my first mon ever back in Pokémon Red, but big credits to the forgotten Rapidash
@jimothycool I appreciate how you organize your videos, explain things well, and how its not clickbaity or full of unnecessary filler. Like I enjoy learning about gen 3-6 onwards (the ones I got to experience most) and the video chapters and formatting make it easy for me to watch just that. And how you explain things makes it easy to learn even for people who aren't super experienced with a specific format.
Magcargo is the leader of the shadow goverment of the horse council.
He is a dark horse, ladies and gentlemen
Actually can't wait for the 30 min each gen 3 and gen 5 water mon segment.
Fire blast in gen 1 sounds really good, but you really don't wanna burn starmie, or chansey, both of them are everywhere.
I love the casual dissertation. Great content as always
Jimothy you should play Gen 4 UU, Arcanine is fantastic, and Moltres in Gen 4 UU is probably my favorite Pokémon to use in a competitive format it just feels so powerful but you have to work to get rocks off the field and remove certain water types first. But once you do Moltres just feels like an Ubers mon running around in a lower tier.
Also worth noting that Blaziken in Gen 8 also dropped from Ubers to UUBL
It is still UUBL to this day
Blaziken was never ubers in gen 8
we are reaching BKC lengths of video documentaries, this is insane
Magcargo didn't get Power Gem till Gen 9 that is disrespectful. Amorouge is also good on terrain teams.
Something that kept coming up in relation to Volcarona (and Fire types in general) in this video was they're relation to mechanics changes, such as Steal Rocks, Boots, and Terra. I'd love to see a video about something like "Pokemon most buffed/nerfed by mechanic changes"
Wonderful video, felt intrigued throughout the whole thing
Magcargo not being immune to water is a war crime, it makes sense too, its a lava-pokemon, so its so hot water should evaporate.
Isn't one 4x weakness enough?
That's why we need a magna type
@@majesticgothitelle1802 Or just give it water absorb, i guess.
@@et34t34fdfDry Skin Magcargo would go hard
Charizard is much better than Flareon in RBY due to better moves and being faster. Swords Dance is key in making it go from Poorsman Moltres to its own thing. Swords Dance, Hyper Beam, Fire Blast and either Earthquake/Body Slam is dangerous if used right.
I am fired up, folks
that's right
"This is heat" -Joey
This video will be fire
Crazy how a little over a quarter of the video is dedicated to gen 3. Truly the best metagame.
I'm so glad that Magcargo is both one of the best ROCK types and one of the best FIRE types!!
Fire has always been my favorite type as well. Typhlosion was my first starter, and he was pretty awesome. I liked camerupt alot too. My favorite fire of all has to be darmanitan tho. Carried me through black on my first playthrough.
Torkoal is ZU in Gen 7 despite having Drought because the ability Drought itself was banned in lower tiers, and with just White Smoke Torkoal was only able to perform at ZU
Ponyta should be stopped. Some would say using the bizarre water type move soak to change its type to water would be helpful in this situation.
What you can do with Gen 1 Flareon is run Tail Whip on it. If you’re paralyzed, and a Starmie that’s switching in is also paralyzed, you can Tail Whip it as it comes in to not only lower its Defense, but re-apply the Paralysis speed-drop, making your paralyzed Flareon faster than the paralyzed Starmie.
Flareon Hyper Beam vs. -1 Starmie: 217-256 (67.1 - 79.2%) - guaranteed 2HKO
Needs some chip, but it’s not difficult to get it to that range with your teammates. Pray you don’t get paralyzed as you try to Hyper Beam it, though LOL
15:47 We should also give a shoutout to Charizard's coolest set in gen 3 OU the sunny day sweeper set. It rans Fire Blast, Sunny Day, Substitute and Blast Burn (yes Blast Burn) with the item petaya berry. It comes in on something like Choice Band Dugtrio stuck into Earthquake, uses that opportunity to set up a sub, uses sunny day the next turn and then subs constantly until it puts itself in both Blaze and Petaya Berry range. Sunny Day, blaze, petaya boosted Blast Burn OHKOs both Blissey and Suicune (after spikes chip) while Fire Blast OHKOs common resists such as Salamence and of course everything else. Its not the most consistent but damn is it hilarious and satisfying to pull off. And Charizard's coverage option help a lot in scaring certain threats that would want to come in on a sub
43:00 this reminded me of when I used Z-Splash Gyarados in USUM's fire trial
Jimothy cool lore goes hard
I've been tormented for months now trying to figure out what the song is that plays at 1:00. I think it's Iron Mugulis messing with me. Does anyone in the comments have enough horse power to know what the name of the song is so I can add it to my chill game music playlist?
Banana Fairy Isle from DK64
@@jimothycool Incredible, thank you Jimothy!
Ponita's gerrymandering will be put to a halt
Does Macargo have a chance to be in the Horse Council?
He may have a claim.
@@jimothycoolpossibly the biggest news this week - hoping magcargo has the requisite horse power
I honestly thought typhlosion would be in ur worst starter videos, but i was thrilled to hear he wasnt lol. always been my fav starter
Its magma cargo monday (its friday)
Competitively Magcargo is out standing in the cold
Huh! I can't say I was expecting Rapidash to ever turn up, but I'm surprised to realize Arcanine is a purely VGC Pokemon. Could have sworn he'd pop out at some point, especially if we're making Flareon mentions (I mean I love the fluffy guy, but we know..)
Not to put pressure on, but I'm hoping/looking forward to you doing these vids for each type, I feel like I always come away with some new strat or knowledge I wasn't aware of before
I used to love running rocky helmet magcargo vs talonflame when talon was king, really fun when it takes te brave bird (or flare blitz, I forgot if it gets flare blitz but if so that too) recoil plus rocky helmet 🤣it wasn't much recoil considering it does nearly no damage, them threatening "the king" out with ancient power
This is heat.
5:35 if you didn't know crits ignore your boost in Gen 1 then I might as well add that they also ignore defensive boosts and debuffs. So if someone is -2 def and you land a crit you'll do less then if you landed a noncrit because crits also aren't 2.5x damage I believe it's a range of some number
Ponyta is horse adjacent? Brother I think it literally is a horse
I'm sure Blunder will forgive you for the Ogerpon mistake
Jimothy Cool you’re my hero
Seeing you talk about Fire types getting nerfed for no reason with the release of Stealth Rocks, could you make a video about Pokemon that unfortunately got hit in the crossfire? Kecleon getting nerfed due to Protean Greninja is a good example
Fire is my favorite type. The slander is truly insane. Water gets all the good stuff
Houdoom also has Beat Up, so it can also take some Blisseys by surprise
My favorite types are fire, ground and dragon. Wich is why Gliscor and Reshiram are my two favorite mons of all time.
Did you pave the way for this video by releasing the one on stealth rock yesterday? 🤔
34:40 a wise man once said “get hit with alladat”
53:44 "I sincerely apologise for this Blunder."
I'm sure he will accept your apology.
my favourite fire type is Iron Moth, I think. I am a big fan of the substitute + 3 attacks set with booster energy. I go for booster energy speed, which lets me invest some of my evs into physical defence
I like tera fairy dazzling gleam, but energy ball and tera blast ground are also very good
Gamefreak buffed fire types with the Fairy resistance and the new moves because Japan is known as the land of fire, and fire is a common 'protagonist element' in shonen - not to mention charizard being the fan favorite of all pokemon.
My favorite fire type is Blacephalon.
I think it's notable that Fire couldn't get a footbhold in Gen 1 OU despite the fact that one of Gen 1 OU's bugbears was a grass type. Every fire type was so bad that none of them qualified for the job of countering Eggsy
I love how you put incin in the video just so the entire comment section didnt tell you wolfe said it was the best fire type of all time
Gen 1 Fire types are lowkey almost great because the threat of burn forces out the two best Pokémon in the game in addition to stacking passive damage with Fire Spin before taking advantage of pivoting off of the partial trapping effect. If it wasn't for the 70% accuracy on that move, Moltres would be able to pretty much dictate the pace of a match on its own.
Wheres zebstrika in the horse council?
Jimothy's favorite type is fire just like me. yaay
Magcargo crawled so Incineaor could run 😂😂
"You can hit Dynamic Punch..."
No, you could. But you won't.
my favourite fire type has to be charmander. it beats breloom and skarm leads with overheat and destroys blissey with a surprise beat up. it can even toxic something as it goes out.
My favorite fire type has to be Fuecoco. He's simply too cute
Per your request, your local competitive RBY nuance whiz reporting
Something you haven’t mentioned in regards to the partial trapping moves (Wrap/Clamp/Fire Spin) in particular is allowing the user to switch risk free the following turn.
I calculated the number of RBY games I’ve played since 2003 in the Netbattle days, and the lower bound is 6 digits worth. This is notable because I literally cannot play an OU game without using at least one risky but fun ‘mon per game. Victreebel with Sleep/SD/Hyper Beam/Wrap is a 6th slot staple
Imagine your Vic is out against a 50% health Starmie. You know they’re getting out of there and have a perfectly safe way to maneuver around you
Instead of firing off a Razor Leaf, attempt to predict with SD, or maybe trying to catch a sleep, you read their obvious, safe middle middle ground switch and use Wrap
Momentum is now back in your favor. You can switch now freely next turn. There are now a plethora of threats to switch to. Maybe you just wanted to lure out X Pokémon. Maybe you just wanted to get Vic out of there. Lots of optionality after hitting them with Wrap.
Also, don’t sleep on a +2 wrap and bluffing HB or Razor Leaf
Best way to think about it for those who are even more confused at reading this…RBY Wrap can also function as a risk free (as long as it lands) Baton Pass
What do you think would be the most interesting Pokémon to be dropped into RBY OU with RBY mechanics? They wouldn’t take the moves, abilities, or types from games that weren’t RBY but just their stats and move pool (limited to moves available in RBY). My thoughts would be Bouffalant as a pseudo lax/Tauros or Banette as a physical pure ghost with stats and a move pool that are still conceivable by gen 1 standards.
Bouffalant in particular intrigues me since it’s significantly bulkier than Tauros while having higher offenses but it is significantly slower. It’s also got swords dance which would make it super dangerous, but it very noticeably lacks Hyper Beam. I wonder if it would get pushed out of the meta by virtue of not being specialized one way or the other, or if it would be splashed in more places as a tech option