How GREAT was Blaziken ACTUALLY? - History of Blaziken in Competitive Pokemon
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- Blaziken is once again today’s Pokemon for our History Video! Tune in with False Swipe Gaming for this history of Blaizken’s competitive career! #pokemon #pokemonscarletandviolet #pokemonshowdown
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0:00 - Intro
0:58 - ADV/Gen 3
3:54 - DPP/Gen 4
6:22 - BW/Gen 5
10:53 - XY/Gen 6
16:07 - SM/Gen 7
18:45 - SS/Gen 8
23:02 - SV/Gen 9
24:39 - Outro
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Fire user✅
Signature move is a rising uppercut✅
Skilled fighter✅
Mainly focused on offense✅
Blaziken is basically Ken (from Street Fighter) as a Pokemon
*remembers ken from sf6.
"Oh no."
Also has Ken in its name
Its signature move is blaze kick. Multiple fighting types got sky uppercut in gen 3.
Also lights limbs on fire
And Lucario is Ryu? Urshifu dark is Akuma? 😅
Alternate title : “How good was speed boost ACTUALLY?
Ninjask had speed boost too but it did not have 120 base attack and ferocious stabs like blaziken. Speed Boost on blaziken is terrifying as it has the stats to abuse speed boost
@@rishabhb307 ninjask has too many flaws lol, terrible type, terrible stats except speed, all it’s good for is speed boost swords dance baton pass set up but even then it did that pretty well
@@bangoouygi6372 my guy, it’s not just Speed Boost. You could give Flareon Speed Boost and it would still be terrible.
@@Charleyyy678 flareon not that bad anymore, guts + toxic orb combo with facade, flame charge flare blitz and maybe will o wisp and its pretty fun lol
@@Charleyyy678, that would make it significantly better though
Blaziken, the trailblazer for all Uber starter Pokémon. Also, Gen 3 had arguably the best starters of all time.
sceptile tho... uh
But Trailblaze was only a move introduced in Gen 9, not Gen 5 ☝️🤓
@@harunammie4898not shaming my boy
@@ohhellwhereami2574 oh I am, imagine them changing the champion to Wallace so that sceptile could be better. Imagine becoming 4x weak to ice when going mega knowing that megapert knows ice punch and outspeeds you in the rain. Not to mention on who gave mega sceptile an ability to make you immune to a type that you quad resist
@@jaretco6423 Yeah yeah, but you gotta admit Blaziken, Sceptile and Swampert are cool af
It's insane how one ability made Blaziken bonkers
flareon theorem applies significantly here
To be fair Speed Boost is a brokenly powerful ability. Blaziken was just the first good Pokemon to have the ability and do something other than baton pass
@@artilireIsn't that about moves and not abilities?
@@artilireFlareon theorem is about movepool, not ability, it doesn't apply here
@@artilire I think that's the Quagsire Theorem, aka Abilities are what are making it standout. As without it they'd fall off.
"Okay, here we go. Focus. Speed. I am speed."
Now Imagine Mega Blaziken X with 160 Att, 90 Def, 70 SpAtt, 90 SpDef, 140 Spd, and an ability like Flame Body or something.
@@aninass If blaziken got a new mega form, would the current be X or Y? Plus i think Blaziken's offensive stats would be swapped (like how the X and Y megas of Mewtwo and Charizard attack on different sides of offence, physical and special).
Now that i think about it, the current form would be X
“One Swords Dance. Six walls. And I eat walls for breakfast…”
@@Khristolfhur From what we know of X and Y denotations, X means a change in Typing and Y means same typing. Mega Blaziken is already Fire/Fighting, so it would be Y. And no, Mega Charizard Y is a Special attacker while Mega Charizard X is a MIXED attacker.
@@aninass But X is stronger as a Physical attacker so in my head, X is a Physical attacker regardless if the stats are for mixed or not
What mad scientist thought to give Blaziken Speed Boost? Cuz I absolutely approve. My favorite starter.
Chicken on a balloon special? Agency provides
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Blund3r? Blundino
agent BlaZeeKen
Agent Blaziken
Given that it keeps falling into UU before people realize how terrifying it is, I think it's safe to say that BlaziKen *anywhere else would be a 10*
I think it will end up banned again
The fact that Blaziken is not in Super Smash Bros, not even as a Echo Fighter for Captain Falcon, is incomprehensible to me.
My guy, we have enough clones. We don’t need more.
@@Charleyyy678it would be cool though 😢
It deserved Incineroar’s spot more.
Oh, THAT'S what people mean when they say BKC, all this time I thought it was just about Smogon drama and Ryan Gosling references.
Sometimes bkc just turns into a pokemon to kick ass
The Donphan remake video is gonna be crazy. Donphan, Iron Treads AND Great Tusk. It'll be a Triple Feature.
Blaziken is basically the Incinaroar of singles
Except Blaziken was banned because it destroyed everything as opposed to just being a really good support mon
No, Landorus
The Motherclucker is always fun to use, and seeing it being great makes my day.
Blaziken was so popular that it got a mega way before sceptile and swampert.
Talk about popularity
That gift Torchic was one of my favorite parts of XY’s story team!
Yep, I still have my spare Gift Torchic and megastone code that I havent used to this day if I ever want to start XY new again!
@@Labyrinth6000 it doesnt expire? Thats pretty cracked if it doesnt
@@Labyrinth6000 you should claim it soon, before the servers shut down next month
Everybody loves fried chicken
Last time I was this early, Mega Blaziken was playable in X/Y from a Torchic you got via Mystery Gift
What happens when you give a Pokemon a good ability.
This comment was brought to you by Pelipper.
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Pelipper and Blaziken were always on my Ruby/Emerald teams as a kid. I'm so proud of my boys
Torkoal and Gigalith: did someone mention my name?
Pincurchin in the distance: you! ... you *lied* to me!
Pelliper’s stats are garbage though. Politoed has way better stats and coverage. Hence why I think the latter is better despite having zero reliable recovery.
The funny thing is that Blaziken is also one of the rare starter lines where the whole line including the middle evo stage is competitively viable in their own rights (not just in Middle Cup or NFE for Combusken's career, for example)
Combusken in Gen 7 PU has some viable uses
Ooh boy. Can't wait to see the gen 4 starter remakes! Torterra had a huge glowup!
Kellen: Chugs out the Hoenn starter remakes
Also Kellen: Has yet to finish the Alola starters
BKC keeping you big as hail
It does stand for blaze kicking chicken after all
James harden fitness ah comment
@@drew.peacock69 there's your comment
Still waiting for the counterparts to complete:
- Carracosta
- Serviper
- other gen 5 monkeys
- Gothitelle
And I guess we could finish up Gen 2 with Sunflora., Magcargo and Corsola. I think those are the only gen 2 Pokemon left to wrap it up.
Corsola, Magcargo, Sunflora, Delcatty, Grumpig, Kecleon, Lunatone, Relicanth, Seviper, Solrock, Spinda, Swalot, Torkoal, Bronzong, Carnivine, Chatot, Cresselia, Drifblim, Lumineon, Mothim, Rotom, Wormadam. All of those gen 2, 3 and 4 Pokemon has never had a review.
@@x7251z I really want a Chatot video. I think people will be surprised at how good this little cute parrot is
The chatot theorem: you just cant have super unique features
@@x7251z Funnily enough, Bronzong won the comment vote when those were still a thing almost 4 years ago, and never got made.
@@Kresswell I just looked it up. Bronzong won the vote with 42%. It's under False Swipe's YT channel under his community section. I never knew that before you said that. Thanks.
Blaziken actually was in Gen III OU for a bit. Like in 2004 or 2005. I joined Smogon and played NetBattle back then, all 3 of the starters were OU (or Standard as many of us called it).
His Blazikenergy is MAXIMUM
Watched a Chick-fil-A ad before the video.
Ferrothorn kills Blaziken, opens homophobic chicken restaurant
Blaziken and espathra eyein each other across the road as “almost bird speed boosters sent to Uber”
Man, that Charizard v Blaziken battle in my top five Pokémon battles of all time!
MY BOI, THE GOAT, HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED ONCE AGAIN
B-but…. The boi be a chicken
@@CollegeBallYouknow a chicken that kicks your ass with fists and fire
This came out as I was soft resetting for a shiny Torchic in Alpha Sapphire. Great videos as always!
Did you get it?
Imagine getting one of the most possibly broken abilities in the game in a generation with permanent sun and somehow the ape still outclasses you in vgc lmao
speed boost is a scaling ability and blaziken is frail. vgc is a fast pace 2v2 format. it just doenst mix well. you dont have the time to abuse the ability, cuz youd have to protect spam, which would leave your ally pokemon in danger, or youd loose entire turns going for protect in both slots. and even then, blaziken only has single target attacks so there is also the issue of it will get hit back without propper support. and its hard to build a team arround a mon that just gets owned by kyogre lol.
yes, the monke has the same issue, but infernape is way faster and has a better ability for a fast pase game, making it easier to work with without building arround it.
All in all, blaziken if you want to build a team arround it, infernape if you need a good fire and or fighting mon
The original video was the first one I watched of yours. Been a while but thank you for all the hard work you put into all your videos!
I'm surprised these gen 3 remakes are so short, when I thought these would be over 40 mins at least.
To be fair, there’s barely anything new to say. Especially since they were never or hardly used in VGC.
@@Charleyyy678 the original videos were almost 6 years ago. Their is a lot to say especially with 3 more generations added in the remakes. Though it's whatever
@@mandalorianhunter1 But we only got three Gen 3 remakes, and those are for the Starters. None of which were as metagame defining as say, Starmie. That deserved a fifty minute long remake, since it had a massive impact in OU for five generations.
But I guess I failed to specify what I mean by there being nothing new to say. Just because there’s more Gens to cover, that doesn’t mean the video will be 40 minutes long. Especially since here, it’s literally just saying “Blaziken reks” and for three Gens “it’s in Ubers”.
Yeah, the main thing is that Blaziken is extremely 1 note. I go fast, I go boom, I win, bye bye. It has no defensive niche at all so it can't finagle a niche set to counter an extremely powerful pokemon like some others can, which then deserve their own segment. It doesn't have a X set to counter Y mechanic/abused strategy cause it doesn't need things like scarf to do such a thing due to to Speed Boost. And almost no VGC presence means it is bound to be shorter than some other pokemon who have found surprising success.
The original Speed Boosting Chicken
The answer to the question is that he was Kenough, and he’s great at doing stuff.
I’m so hyped for this. Been waiting since sceptile remake.
Gamefreak:
I love all my children equally.
*Gives blaziken speed boost, gives meganium leafguard*
Favoritism
leaf dinosaurs fucked over by gamefreak club: Meganium and Tropius.
Speed boost on a Pokemon with high attacking stats is truly disgusting. Exhibit A: Blaziken.
Blaziken was my starter of choice for Sapphire and Emerald, and it didnt disappoint. Sky Uppercut being able to hit flying types using Fly with STAB, Blaze Kick as the fire type STAB move for everything else, Thunder Punch for any cheeky water types, and Aerial Ace as the last move for anything SU and BK couldn't handle. Was so happy to find a shiny Torchic in Indigo Disk, but sad that Sky Uppercut isn't in the game.
@jaretco6423 to add some context, I've never played any form of competitive, I'm strictly speaking about its use for me in the story of the game as well as at Battle Frontier.
Blaziken starting in Ubers for generation 7 was certainly an impressive achievement for the original fire/fighting starter Pokémon. Though Blaziken still drops to UU whilst also making it into OU, which is still impressive for Blaziken keeping a mostly consistent career in the competitive scene.
This is exactly what I’ve been waiting for lfg
You know BKC was watching the Oscars with the ken reference 😂
It’s kind of wild to me that such a great Pokémon in Blaziken, swapping between UUBL and Ubers, isn’t ranked as OU in any generation.
It's usage by the end of Gen 8 would've made it an actual OU mon if the generation had lasted a month longer
@CaptainJLinebeck
That doesn’t count most players especially the good one would be burnt out if the gen abd no longer playing it
Blaziken have spot in Ho
If ppl Finna spam Ho it will rise
It’s mediocre at best poor bulk need to get an Sd without getting chunked and put in range of priority
I love that power creep now makes Blaziken usable in ou after 3 generations of Uber.
Also just happy to see my boy in another false swipe video
Blaziken: An example of what perfection looks like. 🔥
Carried me thru my first elite 4 all those years ago
Blaziken is awesome! I won a Regional Uber Tournament with him as a Mega.
My personal favorite Fighting type, High Jump Kicking his way through any tier. Can’t get any better than this.
I’ve been revisiting and binging these videos and I remember a long time ago hearing a how good was cresselia video in the works I’d be soooo interested to know if that’s ever gonna come out
My glorious king blaziken
drew peacock jumpscare
Oh i love your videos
Blaziken had a phenomenal career
I'm outraged BKC didn't commentate this video
Blaziken, forever my goat. Tied with Gardevoir for my favorite pokemon of all time. Gen 3 really had some bangers.
You mean the starter that actually got a good amount of love for being cool in general and super broken in certain competitive formats? Yeah it did pretty good
This Pokémon’s popularity felt like it rivaled charizard. Both are great character in the anime and just as competitively viable.
My guy, Blaziken will never reach Charizard’s level of popularity. Unless if you’re talking about competitive.
Charizard isn't good in comp tho
My buddy Ryan Gosling, well known for keeping up to date with the competitive pokemon scene, recommended me this video, and I cant say I am dissapointed
Blaziken: So do you want the Mega on or off? Either way, you're dealing with Speed Boost.
Another day of thanking God for making Blaziken my favorite.
This videeo, doees put a smile on my face
The blazing kickin chicken everyone
Kinda funny that I saw this come up while I was doing a Blaziken-only playthrough of Pokemon Ruby ( on an actual Gameboy Advance SP lol ). It was also my first favorite Pokemon
A fun thing to do too is make a mixed attacker and pair it with Malamar. Upper Hand to almost guarantee it gets the skill swap then spam overheat and close combat
Great video as always, would love to see a competitive history in PokeMMO!
Hear me out... I bet 100 bucks that Blaziken will go up to OU eventually in Gen 9. It's crazy how good it is and how much people underestimate him as a "worse Gouging-Fire". It's obviously not as good, but Blaziken hits harder actually, and he's ofc faster. If you use Gouging-Fire as an attacking option primarily, Blaziken can definitely compete, being a better sweeper but a worse Wall-breaker cause of chip dmg. Now if G-Fire gets banned....
As one of my first starter pokemon after charizard, i have a soft spot for blaziken. This was back in sapphire where i only used my starter in battles bringing it to an obscene level. It was awesome to be able to use it again from the sixth generation as a monster in ubers even with or without its mega evolution.
Mega blaziken and even the regular were so comfortable to use for team sweepers, slotting into the team without requiring much support, since you could swap it in anytime your opponent had an opening. Since it only needed a single turn to ramp up to ridiculous power levels with swords dance and spped boost concurrently, it was like a trumo card to swap in and sweep through the opponent when seeing a single moment of weakness.
Speed boost on a pokemon with a setup ability and decent offensive and speed stats seems like a hilarious combination to blow any metagame wide open. Seriously, after it got speed boost blaziken wasn't out of ou for even a single generation, even being a three consecutive generations ubers threat. It's really been phenomenal at giving power creep the bird this far into the the meta, especially for a starter pokemon.
It's Finger Kickin' GOOD!
Im lovin’ it
The undisputed king of Starters (singles)
Watching this while eating spicy chicken express, Yummy Blaziken combo meal
Blaziken to me, will always receive the nickname, KFC. Not cause of the restaurant, but because it's the Kung-Fu Chicken.
My favorite Pokémon and my first all the way in ruby so fun seeing it in the orange islands tournament I believe against ash’s charizard was so badass.
I remember running sash dance reversal blaze kick and shadow claw in gen 6 ubers and catching people off guard.
16:02 NGL I really want to know what Gilberto's plan was with that Abomasnow
Blazing Kicking Chicken my beloved
This is why I love this videos, now I have the urge to catch a shiny Torchic. Evolve him into a Blaziken and see what I can cook whit him in VGC.
Cresselia, Bronzong, and Rotom have never had a review done yet. They deserve reviews before anymore remakes.
Cress has a HUGE VGC history, Rotom Wash has a huge competitive status. Bronzong is decent in Singles and VGC as a Trick Room setter
My favorite fire type pokemon! We all get 1 OP/Overrated favorite and Blaziken is mine! I love using it's mega and crit sets
Close Combat 120✅️
Brave Bird 120✅️
Flare Blitz 120✅️
Superpower 120✅️
High Jump Kick 100✅️
Knock Off 97✅️
Swords Dance✅️
Protect✅️
Speed Boost✅️
Mega ✅️
Chicken ✅️👨🏿🦲
Best Starter OAT
Blaziken: I fear no mon.
*Slow brothers appear
Blaziken: But those things scare me.
Ahhh yes Blaziken, one of my favorites ever since Gen 3, has been pretty solid, and it also was the 1st starter to ever reach the tier full of legendaries, something that a starter can struggle to reach
Delcatty, Swalot, Torkoal, Grumpig, Spinda, Seviper, Lunatone, Solrock, Kecleon, and Relicanth
10 hoenn mons left
Pokémon Unite made me fall in love with Blaziken, he’s such an incredibly fun and unique Pokémon in that game, nothing compares
Mi gallo siendo un top tier inicial desde que se concibió🗣️🔥🔥
Dragalge, magcargo, drifblim or rotom and all of his forms! 💪💪💪
Ahh 27 minutes to hear about my favorite Pokémon being great!
The Torchic line is my favorite of all pokemon❤
27 minutes episode of a show ❌
27 minutes of FSG on Blaziken ✅
The 1st Pokemon I ever considered my Main. So glad my pseudo Phoenix boy is so strong!
My boy, so proud of him...
I wish I knew more about SUNNY DAY back in the day to have the advantage over water types 😅
My favorite Pokemon 🎉
it was a little funny when mega blazer chicken was a free mystery gift when x and y first came out, stomping gyms 4-8 with just felt unfair
To this day Blaziken is my favourite pokemon
Ah yes, the flaming chicken that was strong enough to take down the busted Pikachu. My 5th favorite pokemon. Let's just say I've been waiting for this
Yay a remake of my favourite pokemon and happy to hear it's good
Combusken’s even had its own career in ADV PU, a niche in DPP ZU, banned from BW PU, top tier in ORAS PU, and top tier in SM ZU. It’s not likely Combusken will find a niche in SV ZU after failing in SS ZU, but not a bad showing for the smaller chicken given it was better than several legendary Pokemon or fully evolved starter Pokemon in later gens
Its really telling how good, nay, DEFINING an ability can be on a Pokémon. (Sorry for the impending inexperinced essay 😅)
You could make a case for the other Hoenn starters to have a different Hidden Ability. Swampert having Water Absorb, Swift Swim, Shed Skin, or Regenerator instead of Damp are all plausible, and Sceptile having Regenerator works too. Though while I think Unburden worked phenomenally in Gen 5 with the Gems, Chlorophyll would be pretty good too in the weather wars since aside from Ice Beams from Kyogre or Hurricanes from Pelipper, it wouldn't have trouble dealing with rain teams.
But Blaziken... can you imagine it having ANY other ability? You'd never think to give this thing Speed Boost if you didn't know about it struggling compared to Infernape. They could've theoretically given it Reckless with Flare Blitz and High Jump Kick, but they gave it possibly the best ability it could ask for, and it delivered in spades. It's so good it's mega didn't need to change it. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Blaziken,
so nice they did Fire/Fighting Thrice
blaziken, all time fav & sheer brilliance pokemon tho
Blaziken is so good with Speed Boost in Singles that it’s one of the few Pokémon for playthroughs that I’ve actually gone ahead and banned myself from using. The issue with Blaziken in ORAS single player is that it’s still borderline overpowered even when you don’t Mega Evolve this thing.
STAB Flame Charge is functionally a Speed Boost replacement as is, and the Bulk Up TM from Brawly’s Gym being able to be used infinitely now was huge as well. It certainly helps that Water-Types that can actually check Blaziken are surprisingly rare outside of the obvious Swampert, but even this can fall to Sunny Day + Solar Beam. Sharpedo is weak to Fighting, Gyarados isn’t used by as many NPCs compared to Gen 3, and anything not named Gyarados or Pelipper would crumble in the face of a boosted High Jump Kick (assuming it actually hit). That’s just the obvious stuff, too. I haven’t even mentioned Gen 6’s improvements to EV training or the fact that Blaziken just hits neutral matchups so hard to begin with.
Something like Mega Lucario in XY might be even stronger, but ORAS Blaziken’s unique ability to overpower through even its potentially bad matchups gives it an edge over Sceptile and Swampert in this game, heavily influencing casual and hardcore single player playthroughs compared to the aforementioned Mega Lucario and other overpowered Pokémon who could be added to a team regardless of your starter choice. Choosing Sceptile or Swampert for an ORAS team, on the other hand, meant you wouldn’t have access to something this powerful. Especially if you’re using a level cap, you might find one or two matchups in XY that can give Lucario and its Mega some trouble, but it speaks to both of these Fighting-Types that people have said they can dominate their respective games with little effort.
"Or Was it Just Ken?" We all love a Barbie refference. Blaziken is far from living a life of blond fragility
Pretty sure he meant the Ken from Street Fighter
@@Charleyyy678 I mean, BKC, Blazin' Kickin' Chicken himself, 100% worked on this skript and he is great friends with Ryan Gosling the man himself, so it may be a bit of both, but it is also definitely a Ken from barbie reference
YES!!! I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS EPISODE!!
Heck yeah! The Speed Boost kickin chicken!
Also, Gouging Fire, unfortunately, is staying in OU.
My favorite fire starter!!