The unique property of threatening normal types is underrated imo. Blissey, Mega Kangaskhan, Snorlax etc... these mons are scary... The fighting type keeps bulky normal types in check.
Isn't it weird that other than Keldeo there are no pokemon that you look at their stats and say "This is definitely a special attacker". The only ones that can use special attacks effectively are all mixed attackers.
Fun fact also, Lucario is the only other fighting type Pokemon with a higher special attack than physical attack. Nasty plot also makes it exceptional at wall breaking (but as you said he can also be a mixed attacker)
My favourite fighting type is Jimothy Cool, who fights off people laughing, mocking, and otherwise deriding him for the proper pronunciation of grew-don.
Main reason not to use Hidden Power oN heracross in Gen 2 is because you have to drop your multiple different EV's including your HP EV to below 5, which significantly impacts your bulk. In a bulk scentric meta game this makes it too much of a cost to use
Quaquaval is way too slept on. Max Hp evs and assault vest. Then substitute swords dances with triple axel and you got a late monster in singles. Not so much in doubles.
Fighting type is an interesting offensive typing as it's a bad mono STAB (which is the reason Zamazenta is not banned) but great secondary STAB or non-STAB coverage. The reason that it's great coverage is that it hits both Steel and Dark super effectively which compliments a lot of types very well. Also hits Normal, Rock and Ice but that's less important. However, Fighting is resisted by Flying, Fairy and Poison and Ghosts are immune to it. Psychic and Bug are some less important defensive typings that resist it too. This makes Fighting a bad mono STAB despite the high base power of fighting moves. TLDR; Fighting hits some key types super effectively making it useful coverage but is also resisted by many key types making it not so spammable.
51:42 Iron Hands gets Supercell Slam now, which is a huge power increase for it's STAB but also risky for your bulky fighting type to potentially lose 50% of it's health.
Fighting type is my favourite because all of its moves are so high risk high reward. High jump kick, super power, close combat, focus blast, no retreat, focus punch, dynamic punch, counter, cross chop etc On top of that, it is super effective against 5 types (most), and resisted/immune by 5 types (3rd most) It’s by far the most exciting type in the game and has some of the most iconic designs
Can you make a video on strong type combinations that got powecrept? For example water fighting is great... Why not poliwrath at all when Keldeo existsM
My favourite would definitely be Mienshao ^^ I really like their Chinese-style fighter flavour, they're pretty and elegant. Gameplay-wise, their combination of physical and special prowess with decent speed, regenerator, fake out... Makes it interesting, both for Smogon lower tiers and VGC I guess. But they're starting to age! I really hope they can get a mega evolution next year :P I also like Gallade, and specially Mega Gallade a lot! He's so elegant and gallant. It'd be nice if they changed his mega evolution ability to be Sharpness, maybe that'd make him viable again for both OU and VGC... Maybe not in OU as long as Iron Valiant is there, though :/ Anyway! I've got to thank you for this very enteresting and entertaining series of videos :D It's been me go to to watch during breakfast, dinner or lunchtime ^^ I've not been really playing competitively for a lot of years, but I always like to follow how things are going. Now only flying type left! Which I know it's already uploaded. PD: Yeaah I know I'm not a subscriber of yours, my bad :P I'm just very selective about the channels I want to receive notifications about. I'll still click the like button though.
Infernape is my favorite fighting type 🔥 👊 Would love to see him get a Mega Evolution where he gets the Ruyi Jingu Bang 🪄 and Kintoun ☁️ to go full Sun Wukong/Son Goku!
i think you undersold gen 3 blaziken a bit. it's not the greatest wallbreaker of all time, it's slow and frail and theres mons that hit way harder like medi, marowak and slaking, but that typing is unbelievable. arguably the two best attacking types in the metagame are fire and fighting, since they're pretty hard to resist and the mons that do resist them are scared of your other coverage or get chunked by the resisted hit, which is why fire blast + brick break is pretty much universal on mixed attackers regardless of typing. when you add stab onto both along with high attack and special attack, then add on blaziken's solid mixed coverage (it can use thunder punch, hp ice/grass/ghost, rock slide, etc) it's literally impossible to safely switch into it. blissey, snorlax and celebi are the 3 main special walls and you 1-2 shot all of them with stab moves (the other good special wall is regice which i don't think i need to explain the matchup for lol), and enemy fire types either die to 4x effective rock slide or don't resist fighting, and mence dies to hp ice so it's not safe either unless you risk your defensive mons to scout the set. if you get a good lead matchup, use the right team or play to its strengths then blaziken is up there with the scariest mons in the tier, it's just very hard to make it work
I like the idea of fighting types being weak to psychic, because i always thought it was like their brains would just explode from being too dumb to handle them.
I will always be miffed they basically squandered Lucario's abilities as a Special Attacker. Nerfing Aura Sphere and generally no good ability to synergize with Aura/Wave based moves. Always makes me sad to them just be another physical beat stick. 😢
kommobros........ we won i don't think there's a single mon in the past few gens that can run as many *types* of sets as him. access to damn near every boosting move, three equally viable abilities, synergy with at least a dozen held items, what a guy
The history of fighting types is simple. Most people will agree Lucario is the real sweeper but i think Primeape and Heracross will usually stand as the best of all gens.
I also didn't understand the legendary/mythical distinction until I realised mythicals are only given away at Nintendo events So if it's Legendary, I have one of it per save file If it's mythical, I don't bloody have it, nor will I ever
I admittedly felt cheated by the rocket wing media cancelling the horse councel since macargo, our lord and savior, took over. Manipulative media and i cant believe jimothy is collaborating with them.
I forgot Scraggy’s Gen 5 sprite has him pulling his weird skin pants up to his chest like some old timey boxer and now I hate Post-3D with a burning passion.
Zamazenta is the worst box legendary in singles, but the best box legendary in doubles (at least right now). This thing is insane. PS: I just want to add that these are the most balanced 680 stats I've ever withnessed. 138 speed, 120 Attack being the best stats is quite, special. It seems that GF wanted that thing to be a presence in ou all along. And its even a bit min maxed, because the useless special attack is the worst one too! Wierd one here, for sure, hopefully it will never fall to UU.
No. It will count as a neutral hit. Against an Aegislash, a normal move off scrappy will be resisted, because ghost is neutral to a scrappy normal move, but steel resists it.
Ah yes Gen 1 Fighting types, the wannabe flinch hack noob trap, the guy who wishes he wasnt a fighting type 70% of the time, the guy whos getting outclassed by Clefairy in 7U, the glass cannon whos not cannon enough to kill, and primeape
Steel Types in Competitive Pokemon:
ruclips.net/video/SlFpalBGWcQ/видео.html
Scraggy slander is a crime punishable by watching a gen 4 Blissey's hp slowly decrease
Blissey HP draining to 0 is always satisfying to watch
@Blanktester685 Fine. ALMOST draining to 0 and then softboiling
@@D461Sageyou can put a kid through college with that amount of time
babe wake up new horse council drama with 50+ min of fillers just dropped
We love Jimothy Cool dont we folks?
If he was a pokemon I’d have an entire PC full of shiny hims
This is very sane
@@cabrondemente1 complicatedly rageous
I love the jimpanzee
❤
When I was a kid I thought having Inner Focus meant you could use Focus Punch without charging
Whenever jim says "what a concept" it comes off as "I hate this broken shit"
Fighting type is one of the most solid types in competitive pokemon
known for having fantastic attacking options
@@SuperSonic3557and being among the best offensive types in the game.
@@morganbush7775Fighting type attacks are widely threatening
Super effective against 5 other types
Normal, ice rock dark and most crucially of all steel.
21:49 "Grand beings of another magnitude" my friends describing my mom in middle school recess
Hitmonlee? More like, -High Jump Kick-, -misses-, Hitmyknee.
Strength not being a fighting type move always felt like an oversight that was never fixed
Detractors of Scraggy shall be subject to cruel and unusual punishment
It's Submission Friday, folks.
This treatment of Scraggy is completely unwarranted and unfair. The Jimothy Non-Subscribers will pay dearly for their cruel abuse of this sweet boy.
We're punchin folks
Scrafty is my favourite pokémon, I'm glad to see his funny little pre-evolution mentioned.
I love the silly face.
The unique property of threatening normal types is underrated imo.
Blissey, Mega Kangaskhan, Snorlax etc... these mons are scary...
The fighting type keeps bulky normal types in check.
Fighting types are the best. They're the only ones who understand what battle even means, it's in the name.
Isn't it weird that other than Keldeo there are no pokemon that you look at their stats and say "This is definitely a special attacker".
The only ones that can use special attacks effectively are all mixed attackers.
Fun fact also, Lucario is the only other fighting type Pokemon with a higher special attack than physical attack. Nasty plot also makes it exceptional at wall breaking (but as you said he can also be a mixed attacker)
You mean fighting types specifically?
i think flutter mane is pretty special attack
@@canblockbaguettesFlutter Mane is a fighting type now?
@@Mr.Sax. wait thats your point??? shit let me check shit rq
My favorite fighting type was the one my dad showed me every time he drank. I also like Breloom because hes a silly little guy.
And while you may wish your father put you to bed sometimes, Breloom consistently does!
@@imfiguringitout_ holy shit the jam after the lob
I was just adding all of these videos into a playlist yesterday and was surprised to see that fighting types hadn’t been done yet
I need a 4 hour lore and storyline video on the Jimothy Cool intros. Thanks
Get yourself a Chople berry, folks
My favourite fighting type is Jimothy Cool, who fights off people laughing, mocking, and otherwise deriding him for the proper pronunciation of grew-don.
Fighting is super effective against Magcargo
Main reason not to use Hidden Power oN heracross in Gen 2 is because you have to drop your multiple different EV's including your HP EV to below 5, which significantly impacts your bulk. In a bulk scentric meta game this makes it too much of a cost to use
Quaquaval is way too slept on. Max Hp evs and assault vest. Then substitute swords dances with triple axel and you got a late monster in singles. Not so much in doubles.
Sub+ SD on AV quaquaval?
Fighting type is an interesting offensive typing as it's a bad mono STAB (which is the reason Zamazenta is not banned) but great secondary STAB or non-STAB coverage.
The reason that it's great coverage is that it hits both Steel and Dark super effectively which compliments a lot of types very well. Also hits Normal, Rock and Ice but that's less important.
However, Fighting is resisted by Flying, Fairy and Poison and Ghosts are immune to it. Psychic and Bug are some less important defensive typings that resist it too. This makes Fighting a bad mono STAB despite the high base power of fighting moves.
TLDR; Fighting hits some key types super effectively making it useful coverage but is also resisted by many key types making it not so spammable.
Rip to Pawmot not getting a mention! I think its pretty useful
And Chestnaught but after using it in my playthrough now i see why it might not have
@@Taexer chesnaught is pretty solid as a lower tier tank imo
51:42 Iron Hands gets Supercell Slam now, which is a huge power increase for it's STAB but also risky for your bulky fighting type to potentially lose 50% of it's health.
I just gotta say that i really enjoy your thumbnails.
Can't believe he forgot the absolute Metagame staple that is Meloetta-Pirouette forme
Thank you for this enlightening video Jimothy, I am excited to utilize these strategies to dominate RBY OU with my Machamp
Fighting type is my favourite because all of its moves are so high risk high reward. High jump kick, super power, close combat, focus blast, no retreat, focus punch, dynamic punch, counter, cross chop etc
On top of that, it is super effective against 5 types (most), and resisted/immune by 5 types (3rd most)
It’s by far the most exciting type in the game and has some of the most iconic designs
Fighting types and Psychic types switched places since gen 1
Now Psychic is bad and Fighting is great
Toxicroak was my jam in gen 5. Life orb, Sub, sucker punch, drain punch, swords dance on a rain team carried me
I had to fight to get this comment out early...
Can you make a video on strong type combinations that got powecrept? For example water fighting is great... Why not poliwrath at all when Keldeo existsM
Loving the SMT3 music. Demon rankings when?
My favourite would definitely be Mienshao ^^ I really like their Chinese-style fighter flavour, they're pretty and elegant. Gameplay-wise, their combination of physical and special prowess with decent speed, regenerator, fake out... Makes it interesting, both for Smogon lower tiers and VGC I guess. But they're starting to age! I really hope they can get a mega evolution next year :P
I also like Gallade, and specially Mega Gallade a lot! He's so elegant and gallant. It'd be nice if they changed his mega evolution ability to be Sharpness, maybe that'd make him viable again for both OU and VGC... Maybe not in OU as long as Iron Valiant is there, though :/
Anyway! I've got to thank you for this very enteresting and entertaining series of videos :D It's been me go to to watch during breakfast, dinner or lunchtime ^^ I've not been really playing competitively for a lot of years, but I always like to follow how things are going. Now only flying type left! Which I know it's already uploaded.
PD: Yeaah I know I'm not a subscriber of yours, my bad :P I'm just very selective about the channels I want to receive notifications about. I'll still click the like button though.
47:57 someone said that Dire Claw is an attack that's straight out of the TCG, and I've never forgotten that
Scraggy deserves everything he's got. He was a monster back in '89
My favorite RUclipsr to watch while eating spaghetti in my bed
I cant wait for the Stellar type video!
First. This is insane
You were.
When you're done with all the types, it would be cool if you made a tier list like recap video
Fighting going from a joke in gen 1 to a decent all rounder to meta threat is quite the journey.
Slander of Scraggy will be punished with watching a blissey's health go to 1 and than it softboiling
Infernape is my favorite fighting type 🔥 👊
Would love to see him get a Mega Evolution where he gets the Ruyi Jingu Bang 🪄 and Kintoun ☁️ to go full Sun Wukong/Son Goku!
i think you undersold gen 3 blaziken a bit. it's not the greatest wallbreaker of all time, it's slow and frail and theres mons that hit way harder like medi, marowak and slaking, but that typing is unbelievable. arguably the two best attacking types in the metagame are fire and fighting, since they're pretty hard to resist and the mons that do resist them are scared of your other coverage or get chunked by the resisted hit, which is why fire blast + brick break is pretty much universal on mixed attackers regardless of typing. when you add stab onto both along with high attack and special attack, then add on blaziken's solid mixed coverage (it can use thunder punch, hp ice/grass/ghost, rock slide, etc) it's literally impossible to safely switch into it. blissey, snorlax and celebi are the 3 main special walls and you 1-2 shot all of them with stab moves (the other good special wall is regice which i don't think i need to explain the matchup for lol), and enemy fire types either die to 4x effective rock slide or don't resist fighting, and mence dies to hp ice so it's not safe either unless you risk your defensive mons to scout the set. if you get a good lead matchup, use the right team or play to its strengths then blaziken is up there with the scariest mons in the tier, it's just very hard to make it work
Can never go one video without hearing gruudon
Can you do a ranking of the different Ubers meta games from least favorite to favorite?
I like the idea of fighting types being weak to psychic, because i always thought it was like their brains would just explode from being too dumb to handle them.
The classic brains vs. brawn.
My iron mugulis arrived while watching this video, that REALLY makes me want to like the video, subscribe to the channel and leave a comment.
I will always be miffed they basically squandered Lucario's abilities as a Special Attacker. Nerfing Aura Sphere and generally no good ability to synergize with Aura/Wave based moves. Always makes me sad to them just be another physical beat stick. 😢
I was confused why DD Groundium was first until I saw that it’s the first analysis set fsr LMAO I fixed it now
Scraggy and Scrafty slander will NOT be tolerated
kommobros........ we won
i don't think there's a single mon in the past few gens that can run as many *types* of sets as him. access to damn near every boosting move, three equally viable abilities, synergy with at least a dozen held items, what a guy
The history of fighting types is simple.
Most people will agree Lucario is the real sweeper but i think Primeape and Heracross will usually stand as the best of all gens.
KAPUNCH
FOCUSSS BLAST
I also didn't understand the legendary/mythical distinction until I realised mythicals are only given away at Nintendo events
So if it's Legendary, I have one of it per save file
If it's mythical, I don't bloody have it, nor will I ever
The fighting type was the best addition gen 4 gave us
You always start woth saying how amazing the topic is. Even for ice types. It's kinda refreshing even if it is somewhat inflated.
I love clicking choice band close combat with my fighting types
I came hear for horse council,and macargo news but the video Seems good
I admittedly felt cheated by the rocket wing media cancelling the horse councel since macargo, our lord and savior, took over. Manipulative media and i cant believe jimothy is collaborating with them.
Iron hands has supercell slam as well tho
Competitive solid is one of the most fighting pokemon types
@43:00 i still wish you (and zeraora) had been electric fighting
Where is Terrakion's iconic Double Kick set?
The Pokémon muk counters the fighting type making it in one of the weakest types
What about fairy
#RunAMuk
This is also why Swalot is a top-tier threat.
Reverend enjoyers know that Machamp's true power in OU is being the best at Countering your own explosion damage
I forgot Scraggy’s Gen 5 sprite has him pulling his weird skin pants up to his chest like some old timey boxer and now I hate Post-3D with a burning passion.
Days since Groodon: 0.
Zamazenta is the worst box legendary in singles, but the best box legendary in doubles (at least right now). This thing is insane.
PS: I just want to add that these are the most balanced 680 stats I've ever withnessed. 138 speed, 120 Attack being the best stats is quite, special. It seems that GF wanted that thing to be a presence in ou all along. And its even a bit min maxed, because the useless special attack is the worst one too! Wierd one here, for sure, hopefully it will never fall to UU.
When a Pokémon with scrappy hits a ghost type with a normal or fighting move is it still resisted?
No. It will count as a neutral hit. Against an Aegislash, a normal move off scrappy will be resisted, because ghost is neutral to a scrappy normal move, but steel resists it.
Scraggy went to worlds, these posers are just jealous
i love scraggy :(
Why did he pronounce Medikam like that?
im all about Lee
fighting types best types
Fighting types are their greatest enemy?
what if scraggys mega was that he got a belt so he can use his hands 😮
Me, an RBY player: The ~what~ type?
What about Ken and Ryu
Scraggy is not the problem.
Scraggy deserves better
Wow
Terra Fighting Incineroar ofc
I wish Bewear was meta.
Ah yes Gen 1 Fighting types, the wannabe flinch hack noob trap, the guy who wishes he wasnt a fighting type 70% of the time, the guy whos getting outclassed by Clefairy in 7U, the glass cannon whos not cannon enough to kill, and primeape
I will #FightForScraggy
Can we have an ice/fighting type with good speed one day?
I guess there’s Crabominable in trick room lol
@@UnchainedPandoran Its a fantastic offensive combo, would be nice to have it on something with 110 speed or something, no need for set up.
its what sneasler should have been
As a jimothy nonsubscriber, all my homies hate scraggy
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Poor Chesnaught, doesn’t even get a mention in Gen 6 because Breloom is better 😔
Fight me
Show me where these non-subs are. How dare they attack Scraggy unprovoked
8:02 I wish this was the case , but it's ok in adv. Fighting/bug both get resisted by flying ,ghost ,poison and fairy later on.
Hariyama > Heracross for gen 3
#StopTheScraggySlander