Abilities Tier List - Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald Nuzlockes
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2024
- Abilities were first introduced in Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald, and they would forever change the way we play these games. In this video, I’m going to rank every ability from Generation 3, and determine how good they are in Gen 3 nuzlockes.
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Intro: 0:00
Air-Lock: 1:17
Arena Trap: 1:46
Battle Armor: 2:21
Blaze: 3:07
Chlorophyll: 4:08
Clear Body: 4:35
Cloud Nine: 5:08
Color Change: 5:50
Compound Eyes: 6:50
Cute Charm: 7:19
Damp: 7:46
Drizzle: 8:22
Drought: 8:40
Early Bird: 8:46
Effect Spore: 9:19
Flame Body: 9:45
Flash Fire: 10:10
Forecast: 10:32
Guts: 10:49
Huge Power: 11:22
Hustle: 11:35
Hyper Cutter: 12:17
Illuminate: 13:18
Immunity: 13:42
Inner Focus: 13:52
Insomnia: 14:24
Intimidate: 14:45
Keen Eye: 15:08
Levitate: 15:40
Lightning Rod: 15:54
Limber: 16:28
Liquid Ooze: 16:40
Magma Armor: 17:16
Magnet Pull: 17:45
Marvel Scale: 18:12
Minus: 18:15
Natural Cure: 19:09
Oblivious: 19:31
Overgrow: 19:50
Own Tempo: 20:27
Pickup: 20:52
Plus: 21:23
Poison Point: 21:26
Pressure: 21:40
Pure Power: 22:02
Rain Dish: 22:28
Rock Head: 22:46
Rough Skin: 23:15
Run Away: 23:34
Sand Stream: 23:58
Sand Veil: 24:13
Serene Grace: 24:45
Shadow Tag: 24:57
Shed Skin: 25:09
Shell Armor: 25:43
Shield Dust: 26:01
Soundproof: 26:30
Speed Boost: 26:47
Static: 27:18
Stench: 27:35
Sticky Hold: 27:48
Sturdy: 28:07
Suction Cups: 28:35
Swarm: 28:44
Swift Swim: 29:24
Synchronize: 29:35
Thick Fat: 29:49
Torrent: 30:14
Trace: 30:28
Truant: 30:37
Vital Spirit: 30:53
Volt Absorb: 31:00
Water Absorb: 31:40
Water Veil: 32:04
White Smoke: 32:17
Wonder Guard: 32:31
Outro: 32:48
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Whether you’re nuzlocking, playing casually or competitively, what is your favorite ability, regardless of generation?
flash fire/ volts absorb any of those
Speed boost is broken af, i love using it
Moxie any day it’s like intimidate but not dumb
@@YashMaj1248 Competitive players reading you say intemidate is bad: So you've chosen.... Death
this is a little lame but, i really enjoy using Sturdy pokemon. While rock types have a lot of problems (way too many common weaknesses, generally poor speed, very susceptable to special moves in general, most stab moves have poor distribution and bad accuracy, to name a few), i tend to really gravitate Rock type pokemons' designs, and i love being sure that i can never be OHKO'd. genuinely a great ability!
Trace is useful early game if you have Ralts because none of it's moves can damage wild poochenya in the early routes. Also fun fact Poochenya almost always have run away. So you can always run away from it if you need to by tracing it's ability. That also makes poochenya routes safe for trace Ralts.
Why run away when you can just switch it to your starter pokemon to sweep poochy and get XP for both of your ralts and your starter. I mean getting your Starter to level 10 or higher is not that hard. Maybe when you are in emergency with all of your pokemon are died except for ralts, well i guess it could be usefull but most of the time ralts can just outspeed and run away.
@@Shape1425 It gives attack EVs. Maybe you don't want them on your starter and don't really need the xp.
I wish there was a rom hack that gave this games a little more balance, but not buffing everything like crazy like they generally do. Like, fixing sturdy, giving bugs more moves, giving nuzleaf and sceptile more moves
15:24 Keen Eye can be useful against Sidney, as his Mightyena’s AI is programmed to always begin the battle with Sand-Attack
Having a fighting type is already enough to solos most of his team including Mightyena. No need for pokemon that has keen eye.
I really love the effect spore ability because it’s a random benefit that you can play around with. I love experimental stuff like that
Magnet Pull is actually C tier because you can delay the Route 113 encounter, get a Magnemite in New Mauville and then try and nab a Skarmory eheh. It's leagues better than Spinda, Slugma or Sandshrew, so it might be worth the shot
Wow, I forgot about Skarmory haha. That is a good one actually
Trace has its uses. If you know what abilities your enemy has, Trace works very well. Like for instance, Gyarados. You know it always has Intimidate, so send Gardevior out for a free -1. Tate and Liza in Emerald start with Xatu and Claydol. If you are lucky, you can blank and tank Claydol’s Earthquake while defeating Xatu with Shock Wave or Thunderbolt. Tracing Swift Swim from Juan’s Luvdisc lets you easily set up 1 calm mind and sweep his team if he sets up rain. Similarly you can use it to Trace Thick Fat vs Glacia. Tracing Sand Veil in the desert makes you immune to Sandstorm chip damage.
In one of my runs, it was quite amazing to Trace Intimidate on Sydney, lowering Mightyena’s attack so I can clean swap into Hariyama to destroy a good amount of his team with Vital Throw, before swapping in a Persim Berry Absol, setting up Swords Dance and ending up +4 from Swagger to sweep the rest of his team with Slash.
Great ideas!
Trace doesn’t activate intimidate in the gba games. Only in the GameCube games or gen 4 onward.
If keceleon can get the move skill swap, you could then equip it with different moves that are super effective against eachother. Otherwise color change is still bad.
Edit: Just checked. So Kecleon can learn skill swap. Then, although not a perfect chain, you can teach it 3 other moves that can make some super effective hits.
That does make him a lot more interesting at the very least!
Kinda want to give my two cents on Magnet Pull really quick, if you delay your encounter on Route 113 until you get Magnemite with Magnet Pull you do increase your odds of finding Skarmory in Emerald and Skarmory was a big help in most of my nuzlockes other than that yeah, I do agree with your placement in the tier list
Yes, that is actually a super good point
Magnet pull is horrible but if you use repels on route 113, and get a magnemite you really increase your odds of encountering skarmory. Loving the videos btw
Another great video! Great job with making high quality content. I hope the rest of your week goes well.
love your content man. Keep up the great work
Damn man, you're growing fast and your content is great tbh
I love the speed you talk, man. Most RUclipsrs I watch today I put at least 1.5x, but not you, bro. I appreciate the way you work.
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Soundproof can be useful for preventing the 3 trainers on cycling road that have a magnemite with screech to lower your Pokémon’s defence.
Damn.. you got me there haha
personally i like the abilities that turn what would normally be a disadvantagous situation into a benefit like poison heal guts and marvel scale
Imagine showing a competitive player the 3 min in tier list without any context (Battle Armor in S and Arena Trap in D), they'd have an aneurysm. Of course it makes perfect sense in context but I thought it was funny.
About Keen Eye and sandstorm: it doesn't work there either, sandstorm by itself does not lower accuracy. The reason why you sometimes miss the enemy in the desert route is because half the encounters there come with Sand Veil, and unfortunately Keen Eye does not ignore it (it's even used as an example in the Bulbapedia page for Keen Eye)
Good points
Great video! This makes me want to do a Emerald Nuzlocke!
21:15 "You could potentially get Leftovers if you're insanely lucky."
Not if you're playing with level caps. Lefties can only be Picked Up starting from level 81, which is above even Steven's post-game fight (78). Had to look it up, obviously. I don't have the Pickup chart memorized. >_>
I did not either so that is good to know
When I saw the thumbnail I was confused what such a useful ability (Compound Eyes) is doing in D tier, but then I looked up what Pokemon in Hoenn have it and... yeah. Makes sense.
I'm really liking this content. I just subscribed. The one thing I will say is Jigglypuff is also available that gets Cute Charm besides Delcatty in RSE. It's pretty defensive so it could be more useful.
Having used Medicham Brick Break, I had no idea how crazy it was since it was my first time playing Gen 3.
I'm actually a big advocate for Trace, even if only Gardevoir gets it. Even before Gardevoir's ascension to a goated Psychic/Fairy type that went from fearing dark types to stomping them into the pavement, Trace is still pretty good. I'm unsure how many Pokemon you face down get abilities like Volt Absorb, Flash Fire, etc; but Tracing those usually completely stuffs the Pokemon you're facing since the type they absorb tends to be one of if not their only STAB.
It's definitely better in later gens (who would've thought) since more Pokemon with more abiltiies means more chances to troll with Trace. You can do things like Trace Sheer Force to boost Gardevoir's Psychic, Shadow Ball, Thunderbolt...(in later gens, Moonblast and Mystical Fire)
However I feel like the most practical utility is being able to come in on Intimidate Pokemon and bounce their Intimidate back at them, to ensure safer KOs and even maybe set up opportunities with Calm Mind. Since Intimidate mons also tend to be physical attackers.
I'm pretty sure that when trace copies intimidate you do not actually lower the opponent's attack, at least not in gen 3. And if you switch out you just regain trace as your ability
@@jimmymeisterich8564correct. Trace only activates intimidate in the GameCube games and gen 4 onwards.
So about Insomnia, it actually helped me a lot when i did my first Nuzlocke. I didn't have any good answer for Juan's Kingdra, couldn't even toxic stall it till it unalived because of Rest, so i then crafted a strategy where my Banette would Skillswap his Insomnia onto it and then BAM, Kingdra was no more (:
Skill Swap is so cool and I feel like I need to use it more.
I kind of hate synchronize, because nine times out of ten, even in gen 3 when electric types can be paralyzed, it will fail because most Pokemon who inflict poison and burn are going to be poison or fire type and therefore immune to the status. It is better than trace tho so if you use Gardevoir you're going to want synchronize
That is a very good point and one that I did not consider. Thank you for that!
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Kecleon has always been kinda meh for me, but color change has saved me from sacing a pokemon by reducing a ton of damage from Juan's kingdra (fringe case but still cool)
Imagine a parallel universe with a Bug/Ground Ninjask who's Compound Eyes makes Earthquake 130% accurate.
A man can only just just dream, the marvel, the horror...
😂
I hate that they gave him the Flying type honestly. I get why, but Bug-Ground just seems cooler to me.
Magnet Pull is actually better than you think it is. Here's why:
-Skarmory is a pretty good encounter you don't usually get because of how rare it is. If you delay route 113 encounter until beating Norman, you can pretty much guarantee this encounter, because chances go up from 5% to a whopping 50%, that can be increased even further if you catched Slugma previously. Not to mention Spinda is garbage.
-Sturdy is completely useless, you don't have any reason to prefer it over Magnet Pull.
-Sending Magneton to fight against a steel-type is such a bad idea that you should be punished for doing so.
The Skarmory point is excellent!
Trace was always cool whenever it had been a while since i last played one of the games and didnt let myself look up what abilities my opponents pokemon would have
I can't see cloud nine being good in a hardcore nuzlocke. Now, I did play through pokemon XD for the first time ever this year. I was thoughly schooled in doubles battles by the Orre Colosseum in that game. Double battles are such a different beast and weather plays a huge role in it. I can see this being the place to use something like cloud nine.
For the record I did finish the whole thing too.
That's a game I have yet to try myself
Illuminate can be nice for grinding especially if you trying to get lucky with a shiny.. And you "could" get a Munis and Plus at same time, if you play with a shiny clause.
Wow, you actually waited for me to grab my drink
I got you
"Suction Cups... sucks..." Goodnight everybody.
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I once had an huge power slaking in a randomized nuzlocke. It was a breeze😄
Oh God that's terrifying
Trace. Switch in against Flygon which is going to use EQ.
I had a really funny Trace moment in Platinum. I copied Flint's Flareon's Flash Fire. He then proceeded to use almost nothing but Fire moves, despite knowing Quick Attack and Giga Impact, which would surely do more damage to my physically-frail Gardevoir, but I guess Flint is as dumb as he looks.
(not that I hate Flint's design)
While for regular pokemon runs, compound eyes isn't great due to it being on bad mons, in a randomizer setting compound eyes is great.
Yeah I can definitely see that
Accepting the challenge for soundproof being useful. Supersonic is voided, Screech is voided, and I believe there is one more stat changing move that is sound based that is voided as well because of soundproof. That said sonic boom is not voided so Watson is still a problem for the whismer line.
Yeah why does Sonicboom work? I figured it would
@@grumpygengar22 Sonic boom is a damaging move while it is themed as sound it is treated like something between tackle and shock wave.
@@burningaegis803 gotcha
The only use I see for magnet pull is greatly increasing your odds of getting skarmory over spinda or slugma, I realised grinding special attack EV's on a magneton made skarmory a solid 50% plus encounter. There would be times where I'd see it 5 or 6 times in a row
Actually a super good use for it!
@@grumpygengar22 yeah definitely gonna try that next nuzlocke I attempt
kecleon is not bad. it pretty much solo'd wallace for me. color change was especially useful since most of his moves are resisted by water. sometimes it's bad (like against drake) but kecleon's special tankiness is quite handy.
other points:
- i can't believe you considered cloud nine for a
- lightningrod is d for sure, how many double battles against electric moves do you think there are? and how many of them do you think are difficult enough to actually warrant this ability?
- sand stream is not s. it's great competitively but it just sounds like a nightmare in-game. you basically have to build your team around it or else everything is slowly getting chipped down. imagine something barely surviving a hit only to die to sandstorm. it's nice if you plan on soloing with ttar but that's not always practical. i'd give it a or b. in later gens with more sand buffs/abusers you could make a case to bump it higher.
- everything that gets sand veil sucks, lol
- soundproof - blocks roar. can help you catch a mightyena (which you think is good.) gimme my money!
- i have no idea why you hype up walrein's 8x resistance to ice. 4x is enough.
- i don't think water veil should be so high. the only water type you get before flannery is goldeen which sucks anyways. after that the only thing i can really think of is will-o-wisp on phoebe but that's like one whole trainer for water veil huntail/wailord to deal with. furthermore, these pokemon will probably be specially oriented anyways so mitigating the attack drop isn't very relevant. obviously avoiding the burn chip is quite good but burn is so rare it's just way too niche.
- thanks for reading, i hope i don't sound too harsh.
Not at all, I appreciate the comment!
- I have no idea what I was thinking with Cloud Nine either.. it sounded nice in my head but the idea become worse and worse the more I sat on it.
- While you're right about soundproof, that scenario will alost never happen in a nuzlocke setting since your chances of running into a poochyena before it learns roar is very high. No dollar for you! Haha
- the only reason I give a little bit of credit to lightning rod is for the few double battles on the later water routes that have Manectrics. There's 2 or 3 of them I believe, and those random trainers are actually capable of ending your run. With that being said it is still very niche I suppose.
All good points!
15:18 don't want to be a "well actually" but keen eye ignores evasion boost too
If that's the case then it's great!
@@grumpygengar22 nvm, used Google, gen 4 effect. Would be excellent if it was able to cuz there's alot more double team bosses in gen 3
16:33 You can catch Limber Dittos in Emerald
Hmm, interesting! Is that post game only?
It's nice to see transformed Ditto absorb a paralysis and then get healed the next time you switch it out.
Do one for Platinum! 4 Gen Platinum is Peak Pokemon!!
PS. I pronounce it "Wray-quae-zah" I guess it's more Legendary with a Scandanavian accent!😅
And Nincada sounds more like "Nin-câ-dãn" to me 😂
Compound Eyes was for item hunting only in Emerald I guess.
Milotic is usable in the main game.
Truant is S if you just wanna be a gangster.
flame body (yes on slugma) is way better than early bird lol
Only placed it so low because Slugma is pretty much useless. In later games Flame Body is much better in my opinion.
hustle corsila with a non-evading move? haha
Yeah I suppose lol
Flash Fire being talked down a lot, eh? ;D
Haha xD
ninth!
trace has one really good use tho, you can trace normans slakings truant kappa
Best use!
Truant is top tier for letting you save pp
Well you got me there