I think most the time he just using the base pokemon for the abillty. So its great for the particular pokemon, but in the overall rank he puts in B Same otherwise
When he was talking about Inner Focus, I immediately remembered when he lost his Infernape on the final attempt of Renegade Platinum to an Inner Focus Golbat not getting flinched.
I've been playing Infinite Fusion and in that Wonder Guard is like, there aren't enough 'S's or '+'s to describe how busted it is. You can solo the Elite 4 with a Shedinja/Umbreon fusion, without overlevelling (although you do need a little luck). I had to take Shedinja off my team, it just put the game on easy mode too much. XD
“Pickup is d-tier” Pickup is great for the grind. If you’re going to be battling a hundred enemy Pokémon anyway, might as well have a chance to pickup a rare candy. On my Emerald cartridge, I have a full Linoone team levels 41+ that makes the level grinding so much easier.
also the main thing youre looking for is leftovers, which is usually obtainable elsewhere (and jan has a rule limiting leftovers to one pokemon on his team)
Honestly, I just hack in items at the point they become normally accessible in game (excluding stuff like the pickup drop table). Stuff like game corner and pokeathlon grinding is really time-consuming and often very un-fun. I’d rather spend my time thinking about team strategy than mindlessly toiling for resources. Same thing with rare candies. I only intentionally grind exp to edge and level mid-battle. This isn’t prescriptive, just something I found really improved the experience for me personally.
You turn around, surprised that Jan even noticed your comment, "Stoic, you know you forgot to calc for one thing, my love for you." Bonk welcome to horny jail
7:25 "Long Reach is what I see when I watch PragerU videos." As someone who had to watch PragerU videos in school, this joke resonates on a wavelength I didn't know I had in me. 11:21 But both Plusle & Minun have Entrainment, meaning in a Double Battle, you only need 1 of them to put your entire field under its effect. Also, in future gens, they were buffed so that you just needed 2 with one or the other, not 1 of each.
Super late on this, but I really love snow warning on Alolan Ninetails. You get 100% blizzards and can set aurora veil. Suddenly you get an extremely fast and now somewhat bulky mon firing off 100% stab blizzards, plus you can switch and maintain aurora veil.
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Its cool how different it is between the different challenge you apply. I do Professor Oak Challenges (fill the dex completely before the next badge) and people often ban pickup cus at level 21, when most pick up pokemon evolve anyway, you start getting rare candies. Its just cool to see how in this it gets like D but for other challenges it could be A or S
around 41:00 you forgot to mention that Synchronize gives you a 50% (or 100% for gen 6 onwards) chance of the wild pokemon having the same nature as the Synchronize user if you lead with it.
@@soulhoney1227 I don't know, it was probably a decade ago, well before I realised there was anything to team building other than 'strong move go boom'
In that case, I'd think Electric and Psychic Surge would be S-tier, especially with Rising Voltage and Expanding Force. Grassy and Misty Surge are probably high A-tier, since they're not quite as busted as the other two. Getting an Ability Patch for your Rillaboom, Indeedee, Pincurchin, or Galarian Weezing is theoretically simple as well, provided you don't consider losing to Peony as losing the entire run since the result of the battle doesn't even matter
Idk about pickup dude, I've been using it in nuzlockes and if you check while grinding enough stuff like potions and status healing items become a non problem. Also pokeballs as well. It really saves money and time early game without the pokemon having to do anything at all. Also you can get balls and potions earlier then when you get them naturally in shops (like ultra balls, hyper potions, etc.) so it's less about the rare items dropped for me as much as it is the money it saves you later when grinding or going through sections without pokemon centers. It's really broken early game in ruby and sapphire too considering your common drop is a super potion and the next pool (10% drop rate) includes stuff like revives, big nugget, ultra ball, full restore, etc.. Maybe not an amazing one, but C at least
I mean, as cool as that is, you probably didn't freak out because you got a pokemon with that ability, and that's kinda niche as well, as some don't use items, and not catching most pokemon you encounter makes money alot less scarce, so you probably won't run out of balls. Free money's free money, won't argue that, but it's not as good as some in mid c.
@@shadowsnake5133 I mean sometimes that money can be crucial for TMs, and I don't personally play with items in battle. I just think it saves so much time grinding to have potions and other healing items in constant stock, but that's just me. Yeah it's not great in battle like intimidate, but I really do think that people underrate out of battle effects way too often.
It's actually dealing more damage after getting hit by a dark type move, sorry if you got it and I just read wrong, just seemed to me like it wasn't right
Personal opinion on the "don't know" abilities, based on PC's style of ranking (I'm trying my best): As One: Too Uncommon, otherwise A tier. Calyrex gets two abilities, even if Unnerve isn't often used outside competative or w/e. Calyrex is also a strong pokemon, so him getting Chilling or Grim Neigh just makes him stronger. Chilling Neigh/Grim Neigh: Too Uncommon, but basically regular moxie and moxie for special attack, so whatever rank Moxie got Curious medicine: high C. Very situational, only good in double battles, only activates when the pokemon switches into battle Quick Draw: Possibly A tier. Basically the pokemon has a quick claw. Probably helps make Slowbro cool. Transitor: Too Uncommon, but boosts electric type moves.
@@shadowsnake5133well hed have to google the pokemon as well since hes basing it off what pokemon get the ability as well and he doesnt know any of those mons. Probably too much effort considering how many other abilities there were
I think you totally wrote off the insane double battle setup strats that justified lets you do. Like especially in romhacks with tons of double battles, justified completely changes the way you would balance your team. I guess you could make the argument its a little niche because not all pokemon games have many double battles, and because finding setup pokemon with the correct moveset isn't always possible, but even still it should be bare minimum at the very top of A tier for what it actually does when you get it working.
Um mirror armor does reflect rock tomb stat drops. Its magic bounce for stats. So anytime ur stats are lowered, its bounced back. Honestly way better than clear body and many abilities
I didn't know about magnet pull increasing the encounter rate on steel types, that's sick! Now I can cheese a black 2 hardcore nuzlocke with Skarmory lol
Personally Pick Up for my runs has been very valuable. Ulta Balls before you can even by great balls is great - and if you're on an item randomize I think what it can find goes a little wild, yeah?
All this talk about how powerful pure power is makes me feel super lucky in my randomizer nuzlocke to have a randomized base stats highest stat attack adamant pure power Cleffa on route 1 (it will keep that attack as it’s highest stat as it evolves). It absolutely destroys everything in its path and I love it.
one combo i use is banded staraptor (uturn-return-bravebird and closecombat) and gyarados, u turning out to make it -2 attack before they move is really good
One thing many people forget about Keen Eye is that it also ignores enemy evasion so in the case of Cynthia’s Spiritomb, you will always be able to hit it with a Keen Eye Pokémon if it sets up too many Double Teams. It helps a lot when it comes to accuracy and it is actually super useful in games like Gen 5 where double team is common mid game
@@HelloHelloHellobby I knew about it not having it in Gen 4 but I thought it had the buff in Gen 5 too cause I remember hitting a +6 Evasion Emolga with my Watchog Maybe I got lucky lol
If youre playing very specifically Ruby or Sapphire and no level caps, pickup is 100% busted S rank. You can farm rare candies out the ass with a zigzagoon or linoone and it only has to be like lvl 20. If anyone is curious look up the pickup chart for those games. They nerfed it in emerald tho
transistor, the neighs, and as one could've easily been too uncommon since they're only on legendary/mythical mons, and the 2 galarian slow-evo abilities are pretty easy to break down: quick draw is built in quick claw (it's slowbro so of course it won't be bad) and curious medicine is haze on your side when it switches in (aka only useful in a double battle when you aren't using any setup moves and terrible otherwise)...but in both cases, you remember slowbro and slowking could have regenerator and go "screw both of them"
I had to use the illusion strat against ultra necrozma. I went from demolishing anyone I came up against, to necrozma 1 shotting every single one of my Pokémon.
I would %100 believe someone if they said ultra necrozma was the hardest ever mainline battle, it will absolutely demolish you if you dont know whats happening and illusion is basically one of the only strats that can beat it other than maybe ridiculously over leveling
"Sap Sipper isn't as useful as being immune to electric is" I think Swampert, Quagsire, Gastrodon, etc. would say otherwise since its a grass immunity to its quad weakness AND boosts Atk which works oh so well on Earthquake if given the chance so if say Swampert got Sap Sipper as a HA then it would be VERY good.........i think also just use Focus Energy with Sniper to make it deadly, my Inteleon can vouch for me
If only white smoke prevented self status reduction... just imagine Torkoal shell smashing and spamming overheat without status drop, it would become super viable
Should rerank this, for Randomized Nuzlockes. Best abilities that work on any pokemon, as opposed to abilities that only work on Pokemon they were designed for(such as Forecast).
I used a weak armour vanilluxe in volt white. Weak armour actually works with vanilluxes stats because while its bulk and speed arent impressive in a vacuum, its bulky enough to always take one hit then fast enough to outspeed everything after a boost and not have to worry about being hit again. But in the vast majority of cases it is just a garbage ability
To me Stamina is S Tier. You pair Mudbray/Mudsdale with Leftovers or Chesty Resting and it makes that thing nigh unkillable. Super easy to see the moves it has to worry about coming that would make the boosts irrelevant coming and those weaknesses are all types that are easy to pivot against. I watched mine on a Sun run virtually solo the Electric and Ghost trials largely because of this.
Technically Toxic Boost is actually sliiiiiiiiightly different from just being a poison-only guts. Toxic Boost increases the base damage of your moves, not your attack stat itself. So reduced foul play damage I guess? Also means you gain more from using swords dance, but not by much. It's basically the same though and this is kinda splitting hairs lol, a +2 toxic boost or guts boosted facade is gonna be killing everything anyways more often than not
Wow thats crazy, i never thought of swift swim + rain dance like that. I usually only bother with rain teams if i get a Drizzle mon, but thats a real eye opener. Definitely see more rain in my future lol
Pickup is S tier in one game - FireRed LeafGreen, because it's like the only consistent way to get berries if your thief mon dies. FireRed Omega can be carried by having a Pickup Meowth on your team throughout the midgame while grinding.
Looking at Defeatist and Schooling in the same context is an interesting study. Defeatist is a BAD ability period, and you want to get rid of it as quick as you can. Losing half of your attacking stats at less than half health is objectively terrible. On the other hand, Schooling is framed as a good ability, it's something Wishiwashi gets to take advantage of after level 20 to give it extremely high stats, but it loses those stats at below quarter health. This is a better trigger hp for sure, and you can play around quarter hp alot easier than Archeops can play around half. Wihiwashi cannot get traded a different ability, and the stats Wishiwashi gain are much more than just offense. On the downside, the weakened Wishiwashi are much weaker. If Defeatist instead said Archeops gains double offenses above half health, it might be considered a better ability. But it could also just make Archeops look like a bad Pokemon, who knows.
Long reach is good, hitting a Pokémon with static ability, flame body, or anything like that get treated as if it was a special move without having to worry about getting paralyzed or burn
Poison Touch with poison chanced moves is busted in nuzlockes, and if you’re running a physical moves that have a chance to para/burn/freeze, you still have a 30% chance to poison, works great for all elemental punches.
Weird that you rank Libero as "too uncommon" because it "is a hidden ability on a starter" but Protean, a hidden ability on a starter, is S tier? Is it really just because Kecleon gets it as well? lol
Now that I think about it, if you decide to put in a special Peony loss clause, you could theoretically farm Dynamax Adventures or Max Raid Battles for Dynite Ore for an Ability Patch. You could get a Hidden Ability starter before the first gym
Just realized as he read the description for Power of Alchemy, if you're not nuzlocking you could use that pokemon right after shedinja and just be like, "Can't touch me now!"
Typically Weak Armor is really bad, but I’ve found that stored power on Polteageist with withdraw is extremely strong. It worked out for me on my SwSh play and it may be good on a nuzlock too
Pickup in specifically Ruby and Sapphire is broken as all hell, there’s a set chart of like 8 items that it will pick up, regardless of the level, and includes rare candies. You can literally farm rare candies from the start of the game if you feel like it, and if you’re not using dupes clause then you can just have 5 of them in the back for getting free shit while you grind one Pokémon. Like obviously does not deserve any change in ranking since it’s not even every game in the generation, but there’s a reason they changed it in Emerald
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"This ability's not really useful, I guess it's B tier."
"This ability's actually really good. I'm thinking B tier."
That's actually relative, the ability is trash in comparison to what people think and vice versa.
I get the joke, just wanted to say that.
Logik
I think most the time he just using the base pokemon for the abillty.
So its great for the particular pokemon, but in the overall rank he puts in B
Same otherwise
"Surge Surfer doubles speed in Electric Terrain... On RAICHU?! Who f*cking cares? That sucks."
Drops it in B tier.
P
When he was talking about Inner Focus, I immediately remembered when he lost his Infernape on the final attempt of Renegade Platinum to an Inner Focus Golbat not getting flinched.
Omega yikes. Lol
46:56 Notice how fast Jan scrolls up when he goes on to rank Wonder Guard. Deep within, he knows that this is an SS+++ ability.
I've been playing Infinite Fusion and in that Wonder Guard is like, there aren't enough 'S's or '+'s to describe how busted it is. You can solo the Elite 4 with a Shedinja/Umbreon fusion, without overlevelling (although you do need a little luck). I had to take Shedinja off my team, it just put the game on easy mode too much. XD
“Long reach is what i see when I watch pragerU”
This man is reaching levels of based never seen before
He did a sicker burn than any firetype move could make
ayo PragerU sometimes be making some good ass points. Makes sure you read the “sometimes”
@@israelmontero4762 A broken clock is right twice a day, so pragerU at best is half a broken clock
@@mvjbass9561 true that’s why I said sometimes
@@israelmontero4762 The “sometimes” is doing a lot of legwork there lol
im still devastated that gengar lost levitate tbh
Straight up knee-capped him 😔
And shadow tag to
It was pretty dumb having 3 immunities, all being common attack types, plus being immune to ally’s Earthquake.
Give him a air balloon
@@MayHugger Mismagius kept it tho. As do Haunter and Gastly.
“Pickup is d-tier”
Pickup is great for the grind. If you’re going to be battling a hundred enemy Pokémon anyway, might as well have a chance to pickup a rare candy. On my Emerald cartridge, I have a full Linoone team levels 41+ that makes the level grinding so much easier.
Yea but this is in the context of a nuzlocke, you're not going to have a full team of pickup in a nuzlocke which makes its utility a lot more limited.
also the main thing youre looking for is leftovers, which is usually obtainable elsewhere (and jan has a rule limiting leftovers to one pokemon on his team)
rare candies can be nice but also a lot of people give themselves infinite rare candies with a level cap
Honestly, I just hack in items at the point they become normally accessible in game (excluding stuff like the pickup drop table). Stuff like game corner and pokeathlon grinding is really time-consuming and often very un-fun. I’d rather spend my time thinking about team strategy than mindlessly toiling for resources. Same thing with rare candies. I only intentionally grind exp to edge and level mid-battle.
This isn’t prescriptive, just something I found really improved the experience for me personally.
The only time pick up would be good in a Nuzlock would be if you disabled dupes, and genuinely allowed multiples as just… really team space warmers
Yooo Jan doesnt read comments so you can write your own Reader x Jan Fanfic Poggers
You turn around, surprised that Jan even noticed your comment, "Stoic, you know you forgot to calc for one thing, my love for you."
Bonk welcome to horny jail
@@pyropete206 bruhhhhhhhh why did I come here
@@yashvardhan5975 I felt terrible writing that
@@pyropete206 imma go bleach my eyes
@@yashvardhan5975 Yo wassup, remember me from pokeaim?
Time to help out our friend with the algorythm.
Insert cringe comment here
@@blenderowl6495 insert cringe answer here
Yes
It worked!!
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7:25 "Long Reach is what I see when I watch PragerU videos." As someone who had to watch PragerU videos in school, this joke resonates on a wavelength I didn't know I had in me.
11:21 But both Plusle & Minun have Entrainment, meaning in a Double Battle, you only need 1 of them to put your entire field under its effect. Also, in future gens, they were buffed so that you just needed 2 with one or the other, not 1 of each.
jesus, prageru is getting shown in classrooms?
Dear god thats terrifying.
What fucking school would play PragerU in class? Yikes man.
Super late on this, but I really love snow warning on Alolan Ninetails. You get 100% blizzards and can set aurora veil. Suddenly you get an extremely fast and now somewhat bulky mon firing off 100% stab blizzards, plus you can switch and maintain aurora veil.
Ninetails the Dragon Slayer for President of Ice Types.
Don't worry guys he admitted he dosent read the RUclips comments on stream. So there is no need to type a comment, especially for the algorithm.
Nice
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@@user-ep9sv4yg9i good for u 👌
Jan doesn't read the comments , so he wont hate me for commenting , which means I can boost the algorithm without being hated
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He didn’t even mention Krookodile when he talked about Moxie😔
Its cool how different it is between the different challenge you apply. I do Professor Oak Challenges (fill the dex completely before the next badge) and people often ban pickup cus at level 21, when most pick up pokemon evolve anyway, you start getting rare candies. Its just cool to see how in this it gets like D but for other challenges it could be A or S
Hey it's been a year and all, but... who THE FUCK would BAN the only thing making PO Challenges "agonizing torture" instead of "Hellish Torture"?
around 41:00 you forgot to mention that Synchronize gives you a 50% (or 100% for gen 6 onwards) chance of the wild pokemon having the same nature as the Synchronize user if you lead with it.
That’s definitely a gamble, though. Depends on what you caught and what you’re trying to run into.
Imagine typing a comment for the algorithm, that would be stupid
Yeah. Imagine.
What kind of idiot would do that?
Could never be me
yeah thats just stupid lol
REALLY wouldn't be me
Also love your profile picture OP
I still remember the time I came across a poison heal Breloom in the battle frontier. After that fight I never went back, it humiliated me.
What team you have?
@@soulhoney1227 I don't know, it was probably a decade ago, well before I realised there was anything to team building other than 'strong move go boom'
me: Why did i only get recommended part 2, but not part 1 by youtube?
Jan: its super niche
2:42, as of Gen 8, it is one of the abilities that makes you immune to Intimidate
I love how there’s so many abilities that have an added effect of being immune to Intimidate because it’s so busted.
Finally...
Indeed
Yes
True lol
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Wait does Jan know that some of the Gen 8 Pokémon get the surge abilities now? They aren’t ridiculously uncommon anymore.
In that case, I'd think Electric and Psychic Surge would be S-tier, especially with Rising Voltage and Expanding Force. Grassy and Misty Surge are probably high A-tier, since they're not quite as busted as the other two. Getting an Ability Patch for your Rillaboom, Indeedee, Pincurchin, or Galarian Weezing is theoretically simple as well, provided you don't consider losing to Peony as losing the entire run since the result of the battle doesn't even matter
@@grunkleg.2934 Why wouldn't you count it as losing the run? There's plenty of fights in swsh where the plot keeps moving if you lose.
@@kingwinifred4393 nuzlocke
Most sensible people only see the Pokédex up to 809
@@grunkleg.2934 Dawg how is Grassy glide not busted, if psychic surge and electric surge are S tier then so should be Grassy surge
Didn't think you'd wait 7 weeks to release part 2 considering they were both part of the same livestream
Great RUclips content creator he is
Idk about pickup dude, I've been using it in nuzlockes and if you check while grinding enough stuff like potions and status healing items become a non problem. Also pokeballs as well. It really saves money and time early game without the pokemon having to do anything at all. Also you can get balls and potions earlier then when you get them naturally in shops (like ultra balls, hyper potions, etc.) so it's less about the rare items dropped for me as much as it is the money it saves you later when grinding or going through sections without pokemon centers. It's really broken early game in ruby and sapphire too considering your common drop is a super potion and the next pool (10% drop rate) includes stuff like revives, big nugget, ultra ball, full restore, etc.. Maybe not an amazing one, but C at least
I mean, as cool as that is, you probably didn't freak out because you got a pokemon with that ability, and that's kinda niche as well, as some don't use items, and not catching most pokemon you encounter makes money alot less scarce, so you probably won't run out of balls. Free money's free money, won't argue that, but it's not as good as some in mid c.
@@shadowsnake5133 I mean sometimes that money can be crucial for TMs, and I don't personally play with items in battle. I just think it saves so much time grinding to have potions and other healing items in constant stock, but that's just me. Yeah it's not great in battle like intimidate, but I really do think that people underrate out of battle effects way too often.
iirc, you can also use pick up to get TMs, like hidden power. It’s like a 1% chance but could still be useful for coverage in those early gyms.
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Earthquake TMs, leftovers, kings rock.
It has its purpose
He normally doesn't use items sooo that might be a bit of influence
For those who don’t know, Inner Focus and Oblivious got buffed in Gen 8; they are additionally immune to Intimidate
Hot damn, i stopped playing at gen 6 so knowing Crobat is immune to intimidation is mad
Been waiting for this. Let’s go
Don’t you dare say those cursed words!
I love the name Justified for dealing more damage on dark type moves.
It's actually dealing more damage after getting hit by a dark type move, sorry if you got it and I just read wrong, just seemed to me like it wasn't right
Personal opinion on the "don't know" abilities, based on PC's style of ranking (I'm trying my best):
As One: Too Uncommon, otherwise A tier. Calyrex gets two abilities, even if Unnerve isn't often used outside competative or w/e. Calyrex is also a strong pokemon, so him getting Chilling or Grim Neigh just makes him stronger.
Chilling Neigh/Grim Neigh: Too Uncommon, but basically regular moxie and moxie for special attack, so whatever rank Moxie got
Curious medicine: high C. Very situational, only good in double battles, only activates when the pokemon switches into battle
Quick Draw: Possibly A tier. Basically the pokemon has a quick claw. Probably helps make Slowbro cool.
Transitor: Too Uncommon, but boosts electric type moves.
Yeah, honestly kinda surprised he googled the other moves yet didn't for these ones.
@@shadowsnake5133 He probably just didn't care for them, makes sense, he had to speedrun the vid a little.
@@shadowsnake5133well hed have to google the pokemon as well since hes basing it off what pokemon get the ability as well and he doesnt know any of those mons. Probably too much effort considering how many other abilities there were
I just love how we can make Pokémon so much technical with nuzlockes
Rillaboom has Grassy Surge
Indeedee has Psychic Surge
Pincurchin has Electric Surge
and Galarian Weezing has Misty Surge
Lmao the Prager U burn was excellent
Battle armour and shell armour are great in nuzlockes as the number 1 killer in nuzlockes are critical hits which those two abilities prevent
Never thought Jan would shit on PragerU. That made my day.
Woah when was that
@@dominickperez2952 when Jan was talking about Long Reach ability, dk time stamp tho
@@jak3358 Found it, it's at 7:26 Thanks yo
I think you totally wrote off the insane double battle setup strats that justified lets you do. Like especially in romhacks with tons of double battles, justified completely changes the way you would balance your team. I guess you could make the argument its a little niche because not all pokemon games have many double battles, and because finding setup pokemon with the correct moveset isn't always possible, but even still it should be bare minimum at the very top of A tier for what it actually does when you get it working.
I thought the day would never come
Been waiting for this drop since 2005 thank you, highly honourable Mr. Challenges
Um mirror armor does reflect rock tomb stat drops. Its magic bounce for stats. So anytime ur stats are lowered, its bounced back. Honestly way better than clear body and many abilities
17:15 own tempo in a lilligant with petal dance is op
got a Nincada in my Shield nuzlocke and came here to see what evolution was most viable... very in-depth video👍
I didn't know about magnet pull increasing the encounter rate on steel types, that's sick! Now I can cheese a black 2 hardcore nuzlocke with Skarmory lol
Personally Pick Up for my runs has been very valuable. Ulta Balls before you can even by great balls is great - and if you're on an item randomize I think what it can find goes a little wild, yeah?
1:37 when the ditto is sus 😳
Amoonguss 😳😳😳😳
So sussy😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Two things:
1) The PragerU gag got me good
2) Your BGM choices fucking slap
All this talk about how powerful pure power is makes me feel super lucky in my randomizer nuzlocke to have a randomized base stats highest stat attack adamant pure power Cleffa on route 1 (it will keep that attack as it’s highest stat as it evolves). It absolutely destroys everything in its path and I love it.
the long reach reference had me dead lol my man
"When the fuck are you Confused??"
My Pokémon team in White and Black 2 fighting the team plasma grunts with their patrats and Watchogs: 👁️👄👁️
one combo i use is banded staraptor (uturn-return-bravebird and closecombat) and gyarados, u turning out to make it -2 attack before they move is really good
it's good until they use eletric/rock move and staraptor is really frail
One thing many people forget about Keen Eye is that it also ignores enemy evasion so in the case of Cynthia’s Spiritomb, you will always be able to hit it with a Keen Eye Pokémon if it sets up too many Double Teams. It helps a lot when it comes to accuracy and it is actually super useful in games like Gen 5 where double team is common mid game
They didn’t make that change until maybe gen 6. Def didn’t have that effect in gen 4
@@HelloHelloHellobby I knew about it not having it in Gen 4 but I thought it had the buff in Gen 5 too cause I remember hitting a +6 Evasion Emolga with my Watchog
Maybe I got lucky lol
Does cyntias spiritomb even jsve double team?
Finally! Been waiting for part 2
If youre playing very specifically Ruby or Sapphire and no level caps, pickup is 100% busted S rank. You can farm rare candies out the ass with a zigzagoon or linoone and it only has to be like lvl 20. If anyone is curious look up the pickup chart for those games. They nerfed it in emerald tho
16:30 normalize in F-tier. Can’t really agree after seeing WolfeVGC’s cheesy normalize/ghost type strats hahaha
This is nuzlocking, not vgc
Wandering spirit also triggers enter the battlefield effects when the swap occurs.
Stealing intimidate from an opponent is amazing.
PC: when the fuck are you confused?
Me: PTSD of my gen 5 Nuzlocke where literally everything had Confuse Ray or Confusion with 100% Confuse chance.
transistor, the neighs, and as one could've easily been too uncommon since they're only on legendary/mythical mons, and the 2 galarian slow-evo abilities are pretty easy to break down: quick draw is built in quick claw (it's slowbro so of course it won't be bad) and curious medicine is haze on your side when it switches in (aka only useful in a double battle when you aren't using any setup moves and terrible otherwise)...but in both cases, you remember slowbro and slowking could have regenerator and go "screw both of them"
I’ve been waiting for this video for ages
You should do a nuzlocke where you have your team set at the beginning of the game, and you can only fight with those 6 pokemon
I had to use the illusion strat against ultra necrozma. I went from demolishing anyone I came up against, to necrozma 1 shotting every single one of my Pokémon.
I would %100 believe someone if they said ultra necrozma was the hardest ever mainline battle, it will absolutely demolish you if you dont know whats happening and illusion is basically one of the only strats that can beat it other than maybe ridiculously over leveling
Dang this video popped upright when I was about to start my own B2 nuzlocke
truant is so good on durant being able to pass it on to you opponent with entrain is stupid good
It’s too gimmicky. I’d rather have all my turns tbh
@@itslexactually you have your first turn which you use it to pass truant, turn two you pivot into your set up mon then play with loaf turns
Learned something new about magnet pull. been hunting for Skarmory for years in O-ruby but I run into Skarmory Easley in gen 3 ruby.
Finally I've been waiting for this video for so long
Aww yeah, it's back! I loved this one :)
"Sap Sipper isn't as useful as being immune to electric is"
I think Swampert, Quagsire, Gastrodon, etc. would say otherwise since its a grass immunity to its quad weakness AND boosts Atk which works oh so well on Earthquake if given the chance so if say Swampert got Sap Sipper as a HA then it would be VERY good.........i think
also just use Focus Energy with Sniper to make it deadly, my Inteleon can vouch for me
If only white smoke prevented self status reduction... just imagine Torkoal shell smashing and spamming overheat without status drop, it would become super viable
Should rerank this, for Randomized Nuzlockes. Best abilities that work on any pokemon, as opposed to abilities that only work on Pokemon they were designed for(such as Forecast).
…Randomized just removes game knowledge from the game.
We don’t need a rerank, just make inferences on base games.
29:40 as a recovering league addict I can confirm that PC is making the right choice here
I used a weak armour vanilluxe in volt white. Weak armour actually works with vanilluxes stats because while its bulk and speed arent impressive in a vacuum, its bulky enough to always take one hit then fast enough to outspeed everything after a boost and not have to worry about being hit again. But in the vast majority of cases it is just a garbage ability
"Long reach is what I see when I watch Prager U videos" DEAD LMFAO
To me Stamina is S Tier. You pair Mudbray/Mudsdale with Leftovers or Chesty Resting and it makes that thing nigh unkillable. Super easy to see the moves it has to worry about coming that would make the boosts irrelevant coming and those weaknesses are all types that are easy to pivot against. I watched mine on a Sun run virtually solo the Electric and Ghost trials largely because of this.
Technically Toxic Boost is actually sliiiiiiiiightly different from just being a poison-only guts. Toxic Boost increases the base damage of your moves, not your attack stat itself. So reduced foul play damage I guess? Also means you gain more from using swords dance, but not by much. It's basically the same though and this is kinda splitting hairs lol, a +2 toxic boost or guts boosted facade is gonna be killing everything anyways more often than not
Take a shot everytime he says ''niche''
"This is so bad and niche"
*B tier*
I’ve been looking forward to this
This was really great thanks for toughing it out
Wow thats crazy, i never thought of swift swim + rain dance like that. I usually only bother with rain teams if i get a Drizzle mon, but thats a real eye opener. Definitely see more rain in my future lol
Nice, Part 2 came out.
Jan your forehead keeps getting bigger every day. It must be all that Emerald Kaizo knowledge
Pickup is S tier in one game - FireRed LeafGreen, because it's like the only consistent way to get berries if your thief mon dies. FireRed Omega can be carried by having a Pickup Meowth on your team throughout the midgame while grinding.
"Regenerator would be S+, but the Pokemon that get it aren't that good."
Tangrowth and Toxapex: "That's fine, we don't need your approval."
hidden ability most of the time tho
commenting a really horrible youtube meme to piss off jan. Jan: “i’m hiding you chat you guys are cringe.” RUclips comments: “am i a joke to you?” 😂😂
Thank you for putting clips up from the stream. I can't always catch your stream, and some jan is better than no jan. :P
Looking at Defeatist and Schooling in the same context is an interesting study. Defeatist is a BAD ability period, and you want to get rid of it as quick as you can. Losing half of your attacking stats at less than half health is objectively terrible.
On the other hand, Schooling is framed as a good ability, it's something Wishiwashi gets to take advantage of after level 20 to give it extremely high stats, but it loses those stats at below quarter health. This is a better trigger hp for sure, and you can play around quarter hp alot easier than Archeops can play around half. Wihiwashi cannot get traded a different ability, and the stats Wishiwashi gain are much more than just offense. On the downside, the weakened Wishiwashi are much weaker.
If Defeatist instead said Archeops gains double offenses above half health, it might be considered a better ability. But it could also just make Archeops look like a bad Pokemon, who knows.
Poison Heal SubPunch on a Leftovers Breloom has to be wild broken.
Long reach is good, hitting a Pokémon with static ability, flame body, or anything like that get treated as if it was a special move without having to worry about getting paralyzed or burn
Something that could be interesting is a x-axis for power when applicable and a y-axis for consistent applicability
Jan with another banger vid!
I have waited for this for years xD
„Poison touch is better than poison point but not by a lot“
*puts poison touch below poison point*
Poison Touch with poison chanced moves is busted in nuzlockes, and if you’re running a physical moves that have a chance to para/burn/freeze, you still have a 30% chance to poison, works great for all elemental punches.
It’s been 1000 years...
Weird that you rank Libero as "too uncommon" because it "is a hidden ability on a starter" but Protean, a hidden ability on a starter, is S tier? Is it really just because Kecleon gets it as well? lol
Might include romhacks too and there are XY romhacks but not SwSh
he also ranked alola starter hidden abilities, i dont now if there are sun & moon roms so maybe thats why.
You can actually get Protean Kecleon pretty easily in ORAS Mossdeep City. I don't even think you need to beat Steven
But keckleon kinda stinks dosent it?
Now that I think about it, if you decide to put in a special Peony loss clause, you could theoretically farm Dynamax Adventures or Max Raid Battles for Dynite Ore for an Ability Patch. You could get a Hidden Ability starter before the first gym
Just realized as he read the description for Power of Alchemy, if you're not nuzlocking you could use that pokemon right after shedinja and just be like, "Can't touch me now!"
Sadly, you can't. Power of Alchemy only works in double battles and cannot copy Wonder Guard.
«That’s REALLY garbage!»
*puts it in C, when D and F exists* 😂😂
I literally thought to myself when part 2 of this was comin out as i was watching part 1 again. Looks like i got my answer lol
Never noticed the edit after marvel scale to let spega tell his opinion lol, well played
Typically Weak Armor is really bad, but I’ve found that stored power on Polteageist with withdraw is extremely strong. It worked out for me on my SwSh play and it may be good on a nuzlock too
Finally part 2
Pickup in specifically Ruby and Sapphire is broken as all hell, there’s a set chart of like 8 items that it will pick up, regardless of the level, and includes rare candies. You can literally farm rare candies from the start of the game if you feel like it, and if you’re not using dupes clause then you can just have 5 of them in the back for getting free shit while you grind one Pokémon. Like obviously does not deserve any change in ranking since it’s not even every game in the generation, but there’s a reason they changed it in Emerald
They really forgot the second half of this video existed
Yeah rivalry is good haxorus really strive with it
Tbh, I think magic guard is S tier, because of the fact that life orb doesn’t do damage either on your Pokémon.
So is good for ORAS and the endgame of SwSh, neat
We’re getting there guys… 1 half hour later
imposter haha ditto sus haha purple sus PLEASE MAKE IT STOP