How GOOD was Durant ACTUALLY? - History of Durant in Competitive Pokemon
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
- Durant is today’s Pokemon for our competitive history series! Join False Swipe Gaming in this brief overview of Durant in competitive Pokemon!
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0:00 - Intro
0:25 - BW/Gen 5
4:27 - XY/Gen 6
6:22 - SM/Gen 7
8:31 - SS/Gen 8
11:38 - Gen 8 VGC
17:22 - Outro
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I love how its hidden ability is truant; only for the True Ant.
Slacking be like
:/
Oh my god that's the reason!
It’s also pretty cheese with entrainment
No joke, it was broken when using it in stuff like Battle Tree, Battle Power etc.
@@SoggySlopster good with skill swap, worst ability ever without skill swap. But luckily if someone has a weezing with neutralizing gas it makes him better, or if someone like uses core enforcer, gastro acid, worry seed, simple beam, etc..these type of ability effecting moves
Fun Fact, a Hustle Durant has more attack than a Pure Power Medicham and it is equivalent to about base 190 base attack.
It also misses about the same due to medichams best stabs having 90 accuracy.
Imagine getting a Hone Claws off
Isn't there an item that helps with accuracy? Or that won't help for diddle
@@themachoechidnaugandarandy7583 I mean you would be better off using home claws. However there is an item for it
@@laperers. that move I know but due to it's low sp defense and hp I would think the player would want to start causing damage and panic rather then gamble it will land a hit or use a buff move
The Sceptile and Durant missing each other with Focus Blast and X-Scissor at 3:38 was a thing of beauty.
"After all, this wasnt much different from using Focus Miss & Hydro Miss" but more power
Why couldn't you miss aerith 😔
@@wigglingwiggs Because she forgot to exercise and was kinda hard to miss as a result
@@skullerclawerbandicoot7966 Doh we missed!
Focus miss stone miss hydro miss and fire miss usually miss
“Hustle turning 100% accurate attacks in stone edge” is the worst fear of any Pokémon player
If only we could be the CPUs and NPCs; where they've been screwing RPG RNG accuracy in the face since the '80s...
That ability really makes you think: "Why do the Wide Lens and Zoom Lens have to be so fucking bad???"
Can confirm as someone running Choice Scarf Daramuka in Little Cup /:
@@yungmuney5903 The only exception to that is anything using Triple Axel, for only that makes the move effectively hit all three times.
@@iantaakalla8180 Issue however is that triple axel(and triple kick...) are the only moves to get a meaningfull advantage off of it. It's a 1.1x multiplier accuracy making even 90% moves miss out by 1%. For reference sake of damage vs accuracy the item is worse than Muscle Band, which itself has less than 5% usage typically, even on analysis sets mentioning it as an option. Even making the item boost by an absolute of 10%, thus making it even more favourable to use low accuracy moves like stone edge or Iron Tail and assure 90% moves always hit, would only marginally make it better.
I only now realized that Durant is an ant made of metal, is fast and hits hard...
It's a literal bullet ant.
…
Bullant
OMG GOD
As far as memories of Durant go, these buggers were hard to run away from when traversing through Unova's Victory Road.
More on that route in kalos after Anistar City than the victory road
@@TryClyde3 I mean you can avoid all of them
@@superzockertvyt9630 curiosity sometimes best you thought
That is exactly my durant experience.
You always try to run away with a fast lead, but when it fails you just receive a huge chunk of damage.
I'd loose more pokemon in my victory road runs to durant than to the trainers.
@BluBlo They should be a lot faster than Emboar and they have dig.
A dig shouldn't do less than 50% your hp if you weren't overleveled.
For starters, Kevin Durant was drafted to the Seattle SuperSonics with the 2nd pick in the 2007 NBA draft.
Durant the only ant who's also a snake
Lmao
Thank you. Kevin Durant was my first thought and I'm happy you delivered.
#BringBackTheSupersonics
Durant is also the one of the tier's best late game sweepers when utilizing pull-up jumper, a move seemingly tailor made for it. In addition to his silky touch, his massive height stats also allows him to shoot over shorter opponents like Patrick Beverley and Russel Westbrook.
"The opposing pokemon avoided the attack"
"Durant is loafing around"
Imagine getting a Hone Claws off, the Accuracy problem is fixed & you also have a +1 Attack with the buffs of Hustle.
@@zekrom320 i use him with z hone claws in showdown OU hahah.
@@jelleposthuma8786 So how does he fair in OU for you?
@@zekrom320 either he is very powerful or completely useless usually, once you have sticky web and z hone claws set up and you outspeed, the game might be over!
Shoutout to Kevin man, his hustle knows no bounds.
Ayyyyy _finger guns_
i named my shiny durant i acidentally hatched Kevin like 6 months ago.
this was destiny
ALL HAIL KEVIN!
Context??
@@phoenixa4212 Kevin is the real name of veteran singles player BKC, who writes for False Swipe. He has his own channel where he does in-depth analysis of all things gen 1-5 (he's famous for making 2 hour videos about one move in one tier in one generation) and occasionally covers some gen 6 or 7 tourney battles
He’s pretty good, going to be a Hall of Famer when he retires
Here is another one!
@@AudioGAWD it is funny that one of the best shooters in history’s namesake has an ability that makes it less accurate
@@williamhumphrey2530 It's absolutely hilarious.
Sadly Durant doesn't learn Harden so I don't have a funny response
@@ufoparty69 too bad Harden can’t learn recover
Durant: Cover themselves with steel to protect themselves from Heatmor, only to become 4x weak to it.
*TASK FAILED SUCCESSFULLY*
Durant: Also learns Stone Edge and can flatten Heatmor in one hit with it .
Durant using an ant's more recognizable move, Dig:
Problem, my Predator?
@@kamiwriterleonardo6345 heatmor can easily eat it with its tongue because it is an anteater so dig isn't a good defense imo
@@unmployedvillager7341
Heatmor is a fire type, though, making dig a pretty effective offence.
I never ever ever ever ever got that logic
Ah yes, the lower-tier version of Staraptor: A glass cannon that's been in BL for at least 3 generations
Except Durant can't take some hits with it's defense and steel typing.
*Cries in Diggersby
@person person *cries in Scolipede*
The greatest pain a player can face is realizing all of Durants moves are stone edge...
Thankfully hone claws exists
Durant shouldn't have said it cherished its accuracy most.
more like Stone Miss
And stone edge turns into 64% accuracy. Yikes
Hone claws+dynamax Is great tho
I love Heatmor and Durant, great duo of mons. I don't get why they're not talked about more, barring the fact that they're incredibly unavailable until late game.
In theory Durant is kind of a cool but dumb(brain wise) mon.
It grows an iron skin to defent against Heatmor but Pokemon logic gets incinerated by Heatmor and fire types in general(pun intended)
Heatmor will probably be the next Pokémon
Heatmor is just a forgettable fire-type Pokémon (a type filled with fan favourites that gain all the attention) plus it's generally not a very strong nor visually appealing pokémon (sorry...).
Durant does deserve a little more attention however it's potential shenanigans in doubles did give it some notoriety tho
@@darianclark3980 where pun
@@lynxfresh5214 Idk, I feel like fire is a type full of potential but I can't seem to find one I like besides Blaziken, and that's only because I like naming it Urai while I name my own character Tyber Zann.
Durant is one of the NBA's premiere scorers.
When durant completely outclasses heatmor, its natural predator.
Heatmor takes it out in one hit though
@@roninwarriorsfan Durant can stone edge Heatmor too
@@cheruledge heatmor takes neutral damage from rock though
@@roninwarriorsfan wtf. No it doesn't. It's part fire.
@@roninwarriorsfan that’s HeatRAN not HeatMOR
Ah yes, the Hustle + Flinch chance roulette. This brings me memories of both pain and laughter
We have the Crit+miss stone edge
And the flich+miss air slash and rock slide
Very fitting to upload this episode today as Nets won against Bucks lmao.
wonder how many people watched both
I didn't watch both, but I'm familiar and had the same thought.
Bucks honestly should’ve won but ig a week away from a court makes 3’s more difficult or smth
Real ones will always name their durants Kevin
Then got swept by the celtics 10 months later
This thing murdered so many of my pokemon in White while I was trying to grind for the Pokemon League. I still find myself impressed by just how amazing Durant's stats are, it just looked like some low BST shitmon at a first glance. But boy howdy did it prove me wrong SO many times...
Why would it be a low BST mon if in its first game you can’t obtain until the victory road ?
@@galvsparks6295 Honestly, I have no idea. Maybe it's because Durant is a Bug-type and past gens taught me to think Bug-types are weak/mediocre early route mons. But today I know better.
@@Sazandora123 *heracross intensities. Volcarona intensities*
@@Sazandora123 scizor and gen 5 bugs would like to have a word with you. plus its stats are pretty great once you realize that 109 speed is faster than the 4 musketeers like keldeo (dominant in gen 5 and 6 OU) and terrakion (super strong in gen 5 OU)
Gen 5 in general buffed the bug type with so many good bugs. Speedy mons like Scolipede, Accelgor, and Galvantula, the powerful Escavalier and Volcarona, and while Leavanny’s arguably the least of them, it is at least an early game bug with a great design that doesn’t suck. And has Chlorophyll for sun teams.
I was expecting FSG to briefly mention the NBA when talking about Durant.
I was not disappointed.
Durant is so powerful that its X-Scissor has 80% chance of OHKOing Slowking
Not even Slowbro?
Yeah so does Choice Banded Kricketune but you don't see me posting stats about that here.
@@Sleeper800 because kricketune is about as fun to use as wet socks
@@EddieB-ready This right here ladies and gentlemen, this is the one i'm stealing
The other 20% of the time it unfortunately does not deal damage.
I got a string of incredible luck once laddering with Durant. I laddered for an hour and missed not a single move, I was running already inaccurate moves like T Fang on top of hustle. This was during Isle of Armour. It actually genuinely felt like a great OU mon that day. Really if Hustle didn't reduce accuracy, I could see it in OU.
so like gorilla tactics Durant nice
@@fernerture2432 but without the lock
@@aSh-pi1in nah huge power is better
I got mine with Thunder Fang and not only did I not miss but also managed to paralyze two pokemon in one battle. The other guy was so pissed he rage quitted after saying "haxx haxx".
@@aikou2886 i once got thunder fang paralyse crit into a flinch... Totally did not quit
Up next week: How PATHETIC was Heatmor ACTUALLY?
So pathetic that its own prey can slay it with Dig or Stone Edge.
Honestly if you look at all the fully evolved fire types, Heatmor might be the worst of them all or top 3 worst at best (battle wise)
Edit : never mind I actually remembered that Magcargo is a thing but still top 3 worst though
For context, It's actually less competitively viable than both Monferno and Simisear... :P
@@lynxfresh5214 and combusken, and silvally fire...
Fun fact: Heatmor has stats comparable to Simisear, but with half the speed.
Durant, ironically, ended up being the ultimate glass cannon
my homie durant finally gets his moment in the sun
@This username is not unnecessarily long and its gone
Hope not someone get a politoed
@@liaminator4950 I've got a Primal Kyogre instead is it Ok?
NOOOOO! this thing is 4x weak to fire, it'll die!
@@artandem9637 technically the sun isn't made of fire (big brain moment)
Should have made the title
"How durable is Durant"
How ant was durant 😳😳😳😳
Not very...that SPD tho...
Go hone
Typo but go hone CLAWS
More durable than Harden this season
@@kevinflynn4649 Leave him alone at least he ain't AD
Just imagine what a scary mon Durant would be if only he had U-turn.
Bold of you to assume Durant would run away.
@@leoxesyude2021 “You’re arena trapped in here with me”
I would say that durant made a pretty good *first impression* in gen 8
No
@@minnijawsx9060 yes
Yeah it was really stomping me
Next time you should do Durants fellow gen 5 Bug/Steel type, Escavalier.
Hello there
Imagine it gets gyro ball, we can wish
Ray won Worlds 2011 with one on his team, so the VGC section will likely be longer.
6:54 That alliteration was top tier 👌👏
Another amazing application! Always appreciate astoundingly awesome alliterations
Pretty good I’d say. An MVP, multiple time champion, finals MV- oh. We’re talking about the RU GOAT instead.
“Colossally calamitous corkscrew crash”
FSG, please never change
I always though a neat addition to Durant would be something like heatproof or flash fire. Then also add mold breaker to heatmor to make it one of Durants only natural counters
The fact that durant was nicknamed Kevin...
Imagine complaining about Iron head being toxic on a non-serene grace pokemon.
I mean you also got Togekiss Air Slash, which is just as annoying if worse.
@@astralguardian5930 but togekiss has serene grace
@@hopekeeperscott1399 Thats the point, and Iron Head Serene Grace is just Jirachi. Plus in "PvP" outside of Showdown you are far more likely to see Togekiss then Jirachi.
It's insane the things that the smogon people whinge about. They'd ban rockslide if they could :)
@@Cillianx1 it’s more like games coming down to multiple RNG rolls near the end is kinda dumb
How Good was a Basketball Player ACTUALLY? Better than those Minnesota Furnaces, that's for sure
When I saw the April's fool Durant design in Showdown literally went 5 minutes straight laughing 😂
Glad to see the obligatory Kevin Durant joke
Just wanted to remind people that Truant Durant is broken using it against the Battle Subway, Battle Tree, Battle Tower etc thanks to entainment and allowing your Pokemon to set up while Protecting in turns when your opponent attacks. My +6 Closter swept so much. No HaxRain could kill it.
That dp I see you are a man of culture as well
That is some savagery. Thanks for the idea. I'll remember it whenever I want to unleash hell on battle facilities as revenge for all the hax I've suffered there.
durant is just a really well made pokemon, simple to the point design but still cool and unique
And RU is suspect testing this again. Goes together like bread and butter
durant is my favorite power forward in unova
Sad how the entrainment set didn't get featured. :(
It's a gimmick though
Maybe because that gimmick was really uncompetitive and was primarily used to exploit the NPCs in the post game battle challenges. If used in competitive Pokémon, unless Durant can trap the opponent in, the enemy can just switch out to get rid of truant. Also, Durant still had truant after using entrainment, so it was pretty unfavorable to keep Durant in, thus becoming deadweight.
Because you pull out durant and put in Dugtrio to set up on the truant turns and then swap.
@@jacksonxu9901 ... Except when you pair it with shedinja in doubles. Shadinja using mimic to obtain entrainment, then giving its wonder guard to an air balloon Drapion is the most annoying gimmick you can put on a team. I started running Haxorus on my sun team just to deal with it.
@@andrewpenn1145 True, but those kinds of tricks are deemed uncompetitive and would only be allowed in Ubers if at all. It’s the same reason Shadow Tag Wynaut/Wobbuffet got banned when they came out. Besides, so many things have to play out correctly to pull it off so it would be a very risky play
I fear the upcoming “How GOOD was Amoonguss actually?” in the future.
I fear the 1:30 hour long "how good was landorus/heatran/ferrothorn" or the remake of tyranitar lol
Lando, t-tar remake, and ferrothorn would be way longer
Amoonguss in Unova (sus, sus)
VGC section alone would bring it up to at least an hour I bet, even if it started gen 5(?)
why not call it "How SUS was Amoonguss actually?"
Every day is another day to be absolutely thankful that real ants aren't a foot tall and covered in armor that crunch through solid rock.
I can't believe you never talked about the legendary Truant + Entrainment + Dugtrio meme set with Protect. I know it wasn't meta, but it was legendary for its ability to kill noobs.
Durant's ability Hustle: turns every move into Focus Blast.
Durant has been tearing up the NBA for years now. Ohh wait... The pokemon Durant
Considering how dangerous one of those is, could you imagine being stuck inside a colony of them
Just use fire that will incinerate them
@@raamiz3076 just one of them getting through the flames would earn you a heated up iron head though, that wouldn't be fun
@@darkness74185 good point but they gonna eat you anyway, this ain't Pokémon they won't wait their turn 😂
Ah yes how good was Kevin Durant actually
Durant: 60% of the time it works every time
"That doesn't even make sense."
@@bashhammer6172 go watch Anchorman lol
@@pattyice1570 .......I know. That's what Ron says in response to the above quote.
I used a Dynamax Durant against my friend and he lost so many times in a row he got mad and he used a team of 3 fire types and still lost 😂
I tried but i sweeped 1 time in showdown
it is good
n a n i
Dynamax life orb Durant bypassing Hustle and powering itself up with max moves 😍
That durant Lmao
Dang, as a Steel Type Trainer I gotta try this out, what was the moveset?
i know it's not part of this channel but it's worth mentioning that durant was part of the first successful pokemon trading game mill deck, durant mill which used durant's devour ability to deck the opponent out and prevent them from drawing and was only stopped by set rotation of some of their key cards
The first good Hustle Pokémon. Durant inching just ahead of Infernape and the Swords of Justice by 1 base Speed always stood out to me, even when Heliolisk did the same thing in the next gen.
Me: *in the back of my mind* “What are the chances we get a Kevin Durant joke from a Pokémon based channel?”
Also me: By god he did it
Fun fact: I spent 3 days trying to figure out where Durant was in SwSh
My man Kevin had RU on lockdown for years.
2:24
Kevin: Lands a 60% Accurate Stone Edge after Hustle..
Me: Damn, Durant couldn’t even shoot a 3 pointer from half court like that.. (The NERVES..)
The music you use is just great for these videos. It fits in a way I cant describe.
Well he averaged 30 in the playoffs and won finals mvp so he’s pretty good I’d say.
Durant popped off so hard in VGC 20, it’s crazy.
Who would win?
A Legendary entity of light?
Or
Smol iron ant?
But for real, Durant is super cool and fun to use.
I used him in BW2 when I still cared about playing online.
Nobody really knew how to handle him, it was great.
“Im a durant” -altrive
Shoutouts to Durant for carrying my mono Bug run through Pokemon Reborn
Fun fact, Durant was also super OP in the card game- to the point where they released pokemon to counter it but they still failed
True gamers will also remember Durant being one of the four Pokémon available at the Hidden Grotto in Midna Garden, with its quad weakness to Fire putting it at an extreme disadvantage against Orion's Vulpix and Fletchinder. However, it proved extremely effective against the Abyssal Cult's early-game Skrelp and Corphish, so it wasn't a complete waste!
I am a true gamer
@@aceofspades4782 as am I
It took me way too long to realize this was a Pokémon insurgence reference.
@@bjingram8499 Well then you're not a true gamer. Sorry :(
@@lillianmutesus1646 Good
I've been waiting for this episode and am glad it ended relatively well. Glad to see one of my biggest favorites actually be good in game.
Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!
I'm a Simple man. When I see "How GOOD was Swoobat ACTUALLY?", I will click.
Durant is one of those Pokemon that I just can't explain why I like it. Really makes me hate hustle though.
Gotta love how the Durant in the Gen 5 Footage was nicknamed Kevin.
Im happy you're covering pokemon that are really good in the tier that they are in.
Well Durant is a career 27 ppg scorer at nearly 50% on the field, he's one of the most dangerous sniper in NBA History, and has an unstoppable jump shot. Before injuring his Achilles, he proved himself to be one of thr better perimeter defender of the game and can switch on bigs because of his length. And after limping the Nets into a game 7 loss to the eventual champions, the Bucks. He has proven that he is also a cold blooded man and can lead a team.
"For the first time in history, Durant is not on RUBL..."
Uhhh, yeah that didn't last long 😬
I've always loved durant conceptually. An ant made of steel is just a cool look, and I made it a point to include it in my team during my first Shield playthrough. (I named it DurantDurant)
Oh boi, gen 5 is coming in back to back, lando vid might as well be an hour and I'll enjoy it to the fullest!
It'll be exciting, right?
Might be a hour...? Landorus always viable xD
@@treygreypaws3689 cough cough back to back gen 5 1 hour cough cough ferrothorn]
@@stackstenner8149 hmmmm... But who to cover first? Landorus or Ferrothron?
Apparently Durant put on a metal armor to defend from Heatmor
By making itself 4x weak to Fire...
Probably doesn't matter when you've got Dig.
Or Rock Slide.
Don’t worry everyone, flash forward a few months after this video and Durant is once again RUBL ☺️☺️☺️
The Durant is named Kevin.
Man I love this channel.
Its dunking abilities must be amazing
I agree
😂 lol
As someone who loves the bug type, I appreciate this video alot 😔 My little Ant Man is getting recognized~
The "iron man" version of an ant of the pokemon franchise.
You mean an iron ant
@@johgekpunkt9516 *Even better*
You know you're good when Dugtrio runs HP Fire for you
One of my favourite mons. Hilarious how randomlly has so mutch power
This is a pokemon I really wish had an evolution. Even if it was just a larger ant with more design, I wish it had more to offer.
That would make it kinda O.P. Especially with an Evolite item. It's already good enough.
Now that you've covered Durant, genesect, forretress, and had two videos for scizor, now's the time to cover the next bug steel type: How good was wormadam trash cloak actually?
don't forget about escavalier
Im glad that youre finally covering kevin durant 🙏🙏🙏
How OUTCLASSED was Heatmor actually?
I know pokémon eating other pokémon was nothing new in gen 5 but jeez the prey and predator relationship between Durant Vs Heatmor is brutal!
Tho kinda ironic considering Durant is infinitely more powerful in competitive batting.
Durant has never handled the Heat well. 2012 NBA finals was clear proof that simply having high attack and fast speed stats are not enough to overcome the Heat.
6:53 "A colossally calamitous Corkscrew Crash."
As always, nice alliteration.
Can't wait for Pokemon to release Cury in some of new versions
The alliteration in the gen 7 segment was super good
Hey FSG I think that you miss the setter Durant, the one with Truant, Eject Button and Entrainment, That u use Durant in the first turn and use entrainment and pass the truant, and when you get hit the eject button actives and you practically get a free turn to set up, works great with dragon dance Dragapult, belly drum Kommo-o and maybe with swords dance Rillaboom :3
Gimmicky
Ah, the story of the non-priority move having scizzor
Been using Durant in VGC since 2015, and I've been in love with it ever since. I was so happy to see it getting usage throughout the past year, and I still use it to pretty good effect. Love my Queen
I see your a person of culture lol. My Durant always has to be a female to be faithful to nature.
How good was Durant actually? Surprisingly so. Well done, Kevin. Godspeed
I would love to see an April Fools episode where you go over Durant's viability in the NBA
Maybe you can do: how good was "move". Would be interesting to analyze moves in competitive utility
Love this small friend :D
Was soo tiring watching the old videos.. finally a new video... thanks