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HUGE MEGA ABILITIES CONFIRMED! Pokemon Champions
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Pokemon Champions is finally here and we now know the abilities of new Mega Pokemon in the game. Some of these abilities are interesting to say the least. What are your thoughts on Unseen Fist Mega Golurk? How do you feel about Trace Mega Meowstic? Let me know down below!
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Giving a mega Pokemon that is pure psychic with high special attack with high speed trace when mega alakazam exists is…surely a choice.
Mega Meowstic should’ve had Psychic Surge instead.
@mstr293they were afraid of creating a true menace. I’m so glad it didn’t cause fk psyspam.
Mega Meowstic's ability is trace because it's a play on words of how it tried to trace Alakazam's whole game
At the _very least,_ it can get the Competitive boost from Intimidate into Mega into Intimidating the opponents in Doubles. In Singles, though, it's pretty much just Ala Jr.
Mega Zam might get banned in Smogon Singles, though, so it could actually see usage there as well.
@FTW1230nah, not fuck Psyspam, psychics don't get enuff love. It's basically all they got left
Unseen fist is pretty cool for Mega Golurk. Now its phantom force can hit enemies through protect!
...wait a minute
Oh that is hilarious
So Phantom force can't be protect stalled nice
@tinahalder8416 Phantom force hits through protect normally.
I bet there are people that don’t understand this is a joke and I think what the game devs are thinking that’s such an underwhelming ability for an already unused pokemon 😞
@noahtaylor1721 no it doesn't, and I should know
"Mega starmie in ubers and everybody else is in pu" the meta game
He said "ltch, yi, sub, he, Iaw, Iook, hitch, hush, huh, and chop.."..
666
actual schizo in replies
Thank you Golurk you nerfed Unseen Fist. He’s the real hero.
I was so happy when my excadrill survived behind protect
Praised be Golurk and Excadrill
Can't tell if you're being sarcastic but I'm fr very happy with this bc I couldn't stand Urshifu.
1/4 damage through protect is too much of a nerf imo, SPECIFICALLY for Urshifu. That's a legendary pokemon that's not just regular because it's ability has been passed out too. It DEFINITELY needed a nerf, but making it half damage would have sufficed for sure smh. Hate when they just neuter mons because of "balancing" instead of putting thought into their longevity.
@julianh.5372true but the thought counts for ex and gol
Bro imagine Mega Emboar had Mold Breaker that’d be insane
am...am i missing a joke?
or... ugh... sarcsm?
is this some insider i am missing, help!
and thought it got it alrdy 😩
@ItsJustKaya it's sarcasm...
@ItsJustKaya Holy shit, the sarcasm didn't just fly over your head, you missed the flight by three whole hours 😂
@ItsJustKaya replies, he asked for help, not for insult to injury
@kats1646Okay... but it wasn't funny or clever
"lots of hype and lots of doomposting and both of them are justified" sounds about right lol
Doom posting a game that literally only just came out doesnt feel justified
@haddy106it is when the game flopped as hard as it did
@ikerd7182 again. First day. You have zero patience grow up
For the record, I'm not saying i think it will, im saying its retarded to judge a movie a success or failure based on opening night
@haddy106tbh I feel like it's fair here, it's not like it's an indie or AA game(tbh it might be knowing how little they spend on making pokemon games...)
like I bet it will get slightly better in some aspects cause it's a live service game but don't expect anything too good, it'll be decent but serviceable for VGC at most(S&V were fine for VGC so the bar is in hell but yk).
@ikerd7182 What do you mean by 'flopped' in this context?
These abillities have to be a new form of hate crimes
He said "ltch, yi, sub, he, Iaw, Iook, hitch, hush, huh, and chop.."..
@BrendanBiker-t8gwhat does that even mean
I was almost out of my chair when you were hyping up Meowstic. 😭
If there is a pokemon that deserves Physic Surge, it is this one. And yet *THEY GAVE IT AN EVEN MORE GENETIC ABILITY THAN THEIR BASE FORM!*
@Otherface i think u meant generic right?
@Otherface it's so weird, Alakazam is already the pure psychic who gets trace...why another one?!
@A@Airwinsy9948alakazam at home meme 😂
Same 😭💔
If they were scared of adding more Drizzle mons, they could have created the rain version of Mega Sol for M-Drampa
Meh.. mega sol is good because, well, solar beam’s 120 BP 2 turn move reduction without adding to the fire weakness. A rain version of that really isn’t that good. For drampa it’s basically just compound eyes without any additional benifits the basic Drizzle ability would. Such as supporting allies with it
@Sno@Snook531, then give Drampa hurricane and electro shot then in addition.
Nah rain change as many things as sun does .. thunder , hurricane and what else?
@Stephdontmiss03water type weather balls
thats WAYYYYY too much😭
I don't care if Mega Golurk became less exciting because of the unseen fist nerf. I only care that he's taking down Urshifu and because of that, he has my deepest respect
Mega Golurk sacrificing it's ability to take Urshifu down with it is very Iron giant and I'm a big fan.
He said "ltch, yi, sub, he, Iaw, Iook, hitch, hush, huh, and chop.."..
these Megas are like waking up on Christmas as a kid and getting clothes
Not even something nice like a new jacket or something, we’re talking new socks and underwear 💀
I didnt even need them to be GOOD, just INTERESTING. So many of these abilities are just so uninspired.
It is almost like they started getting creative with Feraligatr and Meganium, and then gave up
Trace on Mega Meowstic is maybe the worst, its identical to Alakazam’s. Of all the abilities they could have chosen, they chose the only other non-restricted pure-psychic, Expanding Force spamming Mega Evolution’s ability
He said "ltch, yi, sub, he, Iaw, Iook, hitch, hush, huh, and chop.."..
“It sucks to think of victreebel as a Pokémon that’s a sack” bro is literally a sack 😭
He said "ltch, yi, sub, he, Iaw, Iook, hitch, hush, huh, and chop.."..
Maybe that's the joke oof. Poor Victree fans 😭
Damn GF really let us hype ourselves up only to completely choke on like 80% of the new abilities.
It really really feels like they didn’t bother to even try. Boggest goveaway is the fact that many of them just kept one of their OG abilities, where as that was relatively rare with the OG megas.
And giving Mega’s of all things doubles specific abilities is one of the whackiest things, but then again, they flopped with Champions in general not having 6vs6 or any customization even on *private* battles.. someone at their office is trolling hard
@grydon6422 classic GF doing things with minimum effort
@grydon6422 bruh it’s the official competitive game. Doubles is THE competitive format. Singles is an after thought for champions.
@Effort_Proper YOU MUST PLAY THE WAY GAMEFREAK WANTS!!!
@yessir8004 no you don’t. There’s smogon isn’t there? Bros just dooming.
They absolutely hoed Mega Meowstic. I really wish they gave it Psychic Surge or anything that would differentiate it from Mega Alakazam
I am genuinely upset by Meowstic's ability and that Mega Gallade still has inner focus
Saaaame. Im running agility normal gallade because mega gallade just lacks the power...
It's official, Mega Gallade is worse than it's base...
@Just_A_Guy_With_A_Flandre_Fumoin single, not so much. In nat dex it's still UUBL while the base form is RU
double though, trickroom wide guard gallade >>>
@kyouhei7731 I mean, unless because of a format resttictions, if you're looking to use Gallade you probably wanna use your mega slot for another pokemon, especially since base hits harder. I can see some reasons that it might be better because you can ignore Intimidate with Inner Focus, but I don't think that's worth the mega slot
@Just_A_Guy_With_A_Flandre_Fumo Now it even has ghost coverage since it gets shadow claw which is sharpness boosted lol
i really thought starmie would get huge power, but it got pure power, we all were wrong
They should remake those
Huge Power - Atk
Pure Power - SpAtk
@RaizenEx1Never understood why these are the same hability
@mattheusjob3287 Huge Power is a pun in Japanese for Bunny Power, which is why Azu and Diggersby have it
@mattheusjob3287Drought, Orachulum Pulse. Air Lock, Cloud 9
@grayly32Where's huge power lopunny GF? You cowards.
I assume someone at GF thought Skarmory should no longer be a poster boy for the singles format, 'let's just give it a doubles ability, definitely the most doubles ability we have'
It makes sense considering game freak acts like singles doesnt exist as a viable playstyle 😒
@SpoopyBirbBuddy49it’s really not a balanced mode for new players. As it’s mostly guess work (in context of VGC, choosing specific pokemon and team building allows you to control what decisions are favorable so that it doesn’t require perfect predictions, I feel that singles can go wrong at any moment even with a stacked lineup.)and for it to be even remotely balanced, there is a board of people who create specific rulesets and tiers. It takes too much effort to balance singles and isn’t very intuitive for new people since sweeping can be very unfun and discourages newer players.
@noahthecrazy1632 you know if that's the case then maybe they should just... i dunno... stop offering singles 3v3 as an alternative... or make the mainline games focus on doubles instead of it being all singles (usually with exceptions being in the single digits)
continuing to lead people on with primarily singles content just makes it feel bad when they dont even attempt to balance stuff around that.
@tripleaaabattery8480I think it’s just tradition, plus gamefreak has never been known for their good game design anyways
@noahthecrazy1632tbf vgc requires moderation to stay balanced as well, its not necessarily inherently more balanced compared to 6v6. the different regulations are to vgc what smogon is to singles. id say vgc can feel equally as hard to get into as singles for new players, considering most new players dont have a lot of experience in 2v2 and find it unintuitive since the mainline games are all singles based. id argue vgc is more volatile than singles considering the average game length is way shorter than 6v6 and turns are more crucial, but generally at a high level they're pretty equal in terms of volatility.
there might be a minority of people turned off by set sweeping but id say that it actually draws way more people to the game than it turns away, the old pimpnite magikarp sweeping type videos genuinely made so many people get into singles because they thought it was dope lol
can we go back to larping
Can we turn back time to the good old days
Legends ZA OU mickey mouse abilities free trial expired
Chimecho’s mega could have been a regular evolution. Absolutely unbelievable
One of the main gripes people had with mega format is that only a few of them were really good, so you would see the same mega's everywhere. Not a single one of these mega's even come close to the best old mega's, so we're still just going to see the same mega's once they're all released
Countdown until Mega Salamence touchdown…
Mega starmie would like a word with you
We're gonna see gengar perish song starts, and tyran try storm aren't we...
Exactly 😭💔
Almost like megas weren’t as implemented well as people remembered
Most of the Pokemon that we thought "it can be really good with a great ability!" got a mid ability 😭😭
He said "ltch, yi, sub, he, Iaw, Iook, hitch, hush, huh, and chop.."..
Omg I’m so disappointed that they gave Meowstic Trace. I was super hyped for that pokemon, my favorite new Mega for certain, and then they wrecked it with Trace.
That monkeys paw was curling HARD when we begged for Mega Delphox to get levitate.
Bro just finished RUclips live a few hours ago and is already releasing 30 min edited videos with the abilities. That's dedication man.
MEGA GOLURK COMING IN WITH THE URSHIFU NERF
why did they give mega drampa the mega d-nite treatment. was berserk so strong it didnt need anything
Drizzle feels pretty decent on mega drampa but I personally don't feel like it's too much better than berserk, specially considering there's no pivoting options for the mon
100% accurate thunder
@Mozzze0 If it would get Hurricane alongside Thunder, it could start to be a menace.
Get the Berserk-boost, Mega and then go ham in a trickroom if possible.
Because really, that thing is slow as sin and the defenses, even as a mega, are just barely passable. (110 def and 116 sp.def are nice.. but if the oponent comes in with 150+att/sp.att.. good night)
But like this.. i would have prefered some defensive ability, like regenerator (and a pivot move), maybe fluffy or just anything that lets it be a bit bulky.
@Mozzze0 I'm confused on how the lack of pivoting options matters on Drampa. Pelipper and Glowking are the only ones that can set weather and have pivoting options
They made mega mewostic so dirty it's exactlly the same as mega-alakazam but worse
Sharpness is a 1.5x boost to all slashing moves, strong jaw is a 1.5x boost to all biting moves. While iron fist is only a 1.2x boost to punching moves, they need to buff it in my opinion
Yeah being a smaller boost than tough claws which affects all contact moves is just weird.
WELL
Iron fist DOES need a buff, but 1.5 is way too high because of 2 reasons
Slashing moves only have 70-80 BP moves, and Solar Blade.
Biting moves only have 65-80 BP moves
Punching moves have moves with 75-100+ BP moves. Now it is true that this stronger moves don't have positive effects, instead negative ones (like Headlong rush and the hammer moves) BUT, if we buffed them, we would also need to buff Reckless, since these two abilities started as counterparts, and both buff high power moves with negative effects.
Yes, we could buff only Iron fist, but then reckless is also weaker than tough claws
I feel like a better buff to the ability would be making it protect you from contact effects, such as Rocky helmet or Static, and buff the actual punching moves.
Making the elemental punches 80 BP with 20% chance of proccing the status would be way better than just buffing iron fist, since pokemon without iron fist learn the moves, and physical attackers need more non-signature moves to use
And then Choice Band Melmetal will Ohko or 2hko everything with STAB Iron Fist Double Iron Bash
@oxcow99 Right, because we have never had a unbalanced pokemon ever in the history of pokemon. Mons like Hitmonchan or Infernape aren't gonna become Miraidon if iron fist gets boosted
I wholeheartedly agree with this. So many punching moves are underpowered(except for Dynamic Punch and Focus Punch, but these moves are nearly worthless), so this buff is definitely warranted.
The real winner here is mega-floette. Fairy aura is unreal. Actually it's the only winner here.
Starmie WILL be nasty
Chimecho also won, levitate is pretty good. Steeliate would’ve been crazy tho
STARMIEEE !!
@blackdot105no this is Patrick 😮
Darkrai is 100% getting Dark Aura
Joey what did they do to Skarmory man 💔. I have no hope for Scolipede now that shit gonna get battle armour
It would be nice into Urshifu at least
@bigfudge2031 True I guess 😭
tbf stalwart is good issue is that its mega and it doesnt deal enough dmg to use it
@Darikichimari_Zetsuuit good for double which is sad cause I like single 😢
If they let Skarmory keep ZA's Magnet Bomb (95bp), I could see possibilities, but without that he's stuck with Iron Head for physical steel stab
im calling it rn mega darkria is getting dark aura to contrast mega floette
If dark void ends up working like it did in ZA, it SHOULD keep bad dreams
@Jackatwar6I’m going to assume it doesn’t just cuz of how they rarely change the effects of moves
@CavemanDitto Dark void is really bad and they made it actually good in ZA. If they revert it, Darkrai-Mega might be out of a job
@Jackatwar6as I much as I hope they don’t change it back, Pokemon have a habit of making potential mons that just suck.
Lets face it, even if its bad on M-Golurk, unseen fist NEEDS that nerf.
M-Crabominable keeping iron fist is bad when tough claws is a strict upgrade.
It does, but 1/4 is a bit much. An ability like that would be interesting for a pokemon with a lot of attacks with effects. Golurk only have Dynamic punch that could be interesting, confuse the target even behind protect, but that's it. Urshifu has more with U-turn, poison jab with the 30% poison and trailblaze to boost his speed no matter what. And Excadrill only have rapid spin and poison jab. only 4 pokemon have this ability and each one are just pokemon that want to do a maximum of damage, they don't really use the concept of the ability. So 50% damage instead of 25% would have been a bit better.
@xiablo3146yeah but remember he can use dynamic punch anymore, since he lost no guard
@noahthecrazy1632 Yes I know, that's why this ability is just a waste on him. Still 50% chance to confuse a pokemon using protect can be useful, but yes I don't think that he will use it.
Also I checked his move pool, and I realised that he has some more move that he could use. He has body slam for the 30% para, but I don't think that he will use it, but he also has low sweep, and it could be really good in some team. If the oponent has a pokemon threatening your team because he is faster, you can use low sweep so that even if he use protect he will still be slower than your team.
@xiablo3146 I wonder how this affects crits? Excadrill gets drill run, and we all know what Urshifu can do.
Unseen Fist is a cool thematic one because according to the legend of the Golem of Prague, the golem could turn itself invisible
Didn’t know that. But it’s already a ghost type so it’s not even inappropriate without that knowledge.
@reginlief1 It being a ghost type is doubly thematic because the Golem of Prague could allegedly raise the spirits of the dead to help it defend the Jewish ghetto from attacks of hatred
Because when you can’t even say
The Golem of Prague is also a reason it's a Unova mon.
I'm just waiting for Darkrai to get added to see if the Dark Void rework carries over from Z-A, and also hoping the mega gets Dark Aura since Floette got Fairy Aura.
That's what I'm hoping too. His Pokedex doesn't talk about Dreams for the Mega, only overwhelming Darkness
Wasn't it already confirmed that Mega Darkrai got an upgraded 'Bad Dreams'-Ability?
A sleeping Pokémon takes 1/4 damage. (Bd dreams does 1/8)
Which is.. erh. existant, i guess. Thematically fitting, but in a battle format not really usefull.
Dark aura would be cool though.
@Aurirangthose leaks were confirmed to be fake since half of it were wrong
@uribevaldezargenis8862 which is strange cause it got Mega Excadrill's ability right, which was a brand new ability
@puff_nstuffthe exca drill 100% got leaked from other source and they just added that with the list. This always happens during the leaks season, one person finds something and other people take that adds shit like if they were the one leaking it. Centro for example doesn't leak any shit, all the info in their profile is stuff from other leakers
So they turned Mega Meowstic into a worse Mega Alakazam?... What were they thinking?!
13:13 blaziken: you got a problem?
I don't undestand why they didn't change Gallade and Audino abilities. Sharpness is much better than inner focus. And well...healer sucks
He said "ltch, yi, sub, he, Iaw, Iook, hitch, hush, huh, and chop.."..
Yea if they really want to lean mega audino into a support mon for doubles, its better off changing it to something like friend guard or triage.
Innards Out is a very, very troll ability and difficult to play against, specially if the mon isn't completely passive like Pyukumuku is. With a strong offensive presence like M-Vic has (306 SpA uninvested) you cannot give yourself the privilege of slowly chipping it down to reduce the impact of Innards Out (like you could with Muku). That shit is hitting and trolling you hard and the moment you dispose of it, you are receiving a lot of unavoidable damage back. The key difference between this and say M-Ban is that M-Vic doesn't have to commit a turn to get this. Mega Ban has to rely on 1) prediction and 2) has to choose destiny bond. Innards Out is almost as an inherent Destiny Bond but the turn you get it you are free to select Sludge Bomb or whatever attack you want to.
You may think this is pretty niche but it isn't. Think of most VGC scenarios. You lead with that shit and you opponent leads with Zard. That Zard cannot do shit unless they want to lose their mega turn 1, and if they dont want to because, say, they want to reset Sun or whatever for later, they become predictable as fuck (as in they will 100% not attack the mega vic slot with weather ball/flamethrower/whatever). You go Heat Wave turn 1 your Zard-Y is done or at the very least extremely chipped. In fact you have to commit to double targeting Vic to reduce the backslash with a combination of fake out + whatever and M Vic doesnt care about being flinched, its ability will trigger anyway.
If you start fearing trading your own mon in order to kill vic, he has the tools to further extend your suffering with sleep powder, sludge bomb, sap, etc... Innards Out basically punishes the opponent for doing what they should do in Pokémon, which is winning. You win, you lose. You''d be surprised by the amount of work a shit like that can put when your opponent is debating themselves about how to properly take the thing without having half the team hindered.
That's an interesting way to think about it, hopefully it actually applies
That's a good point. With HP investment you simply up those odds if you lose a pokemon like how all can do. Strength sap and giga drain to force big hits to KO, then Innards out is dope
This would be true if mega victreebel wasn’t also moderately bulky with a low-average hp stat. It’s probably not getting oneshot unless your opponent is playing a nuke, and it needs to have been in to mega evolve in the first place. Its movepool is also lacking in coverage and setup so it can’t really take advantage of that either. Like no way am i mega evolving to click stun spore. At best you’re using your mega slot to click leaf storm once and do 30% chip on theirs. Base victreebel is honestly better because at least it has swords dance chlorophyll. It needed a broken ability like corrosion or something to be good in the first place and this ability is between bad and just ok. But it’s looking like PUBL’s strongest soldier atp. Maybe in NU if its the only mega available other than like audino you can mega evolve your victreebel when sun ends to get chip off
Innards Out was banned from Balanced Hackmon becaue you could use it with chansey and if there is any setup sweeper, you could use chansey to ko them
M-Victreebel is another victim of the removal of IVs. You can't lower defense or spdef IVs to ensure KOs now if you want to go down to something and take a threat out
Fairy Aura on Floette sounds crazy. The child of Xerneas has been unleashed on the world.
FUCKING
STALWART
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING
They were thinking "who plays singles anymore?"
The Japanese name means reinforced with metal.
@Petsinwinter2It's not gonna be all that in doubles either💔
@Grzmichuj2137for now...
If we're gonna take from the aludons, at least take Stamina instead :c
I don't know why I expected something in the first place 🗿
HUGE Mega abilities confirmed indeed, for Starmie especially
8:11 follow me magic bounce LOL
Something to note is that crabominable now has mach punch, so you could start with hipercutter to defend against intimidate or setup in a way to crit him with anger point and spam +6 mach punch
Imagine using your mega to bait getting crit
Meowscarada flower trick maybe? Move always crits and Crabominable does resist it (assuming I'm remembering the type chart correctly, did just remember that ice type does in fact suck-)
Edit again, never mind. Why in the world does ice not resist grass???
Frost breath?
@Daddy_Hawaiifrost breath always crits and is resisted by crab
not sure what gets it though
@fugcatthe snorunt & cubchoo lines by the looks of it. So for the sake of Champions either Galalie or Froslass assuming the move is in Champions and not cut like so many other things are right now
11:32 EXACTLY like why give it Trace when mega-al already has this. Probably they went for the pun "copycat" but come on man. And don't even get me started on the fact that regular alakazam completely outclasses espeon. My psychic cats get nothing I guess.
Gamefreak is always spinning a wheel for psychic types where the options are either: "Bad" or "Horrendous" and now they added a new option called "solid but outclassed by mega zam anyway"
Mega clef is just holding the stone and staying magic guard 70% of games
Adaptability on M-Glimmora actually makes it worth running over Power Herb
It's hard to say if it's better than base form though. The main issue is the 101 speed tier not being fast enough, and you have no setup moves barring rock polish which isn't real.
You're forced out by pretty much every ground type and now no one is scared to hit you because you don't have toxic debris, and no focus sash or scarf to be wary of either. Spdef corviknight can come on it pretty free to pivot
@roe-jogan-codpastspdef corv is getting chunked by power gem with adaptability
@willkershisnik5893 Maybe if you're a prediction god and click power gem every time it comes in, given that corv takes zero from EP and and poison STAB.
You would have to run modest glim with rocks up for a ~41% chance to 2HKO lefties corv with rocks up which is pushing it. In practice corv is going to have the upper hand most of the time, and be able to roost or u-turn without activating toxic debris.
Timid power gem is a 39-46% roll for comparison
Infiltrator.... They gave MEGA Chandelure infiltrator...? I'm just glad I still have my Gengar.
I'm scared for my mega golisopod now 😰
@friendof------- I expect shadow tag gengar 2 i guess
@friendof-------Slow start
That just hurts man.. :(
They could have given it something cool (and niche) like a ghost-fire ability that lets ghost moves burn the enemy at like 20-30%.
@Zapdos_151I hope they give him shadow tag or something😂
I THINK the idea with Meowstic is the base form female version can get Competitive triggered by Intimidate and then Mega to Trace Intimidate
Like he said in the video?
@Vincentoist Oh I must not have caught that I had this on in the background
I think TPIC needs to make trace work reliably in doubles. Make it trace the thing directly across instead of 50/50 so you can have some skill expression with it :/
so many of these new abilities scream "we overdid with gen 6 megas" and now they're scared
@cyberrite3338
I know Volcarona is good but I wouldn't call it a mega.
Never knew Gen 5 had megas. Must be an alternate timeline where Gen 5 was even more peak than it was.
mega audino is mid asf
@ArkGenesys the fat finger got me, unfortunate
I see 2 paths megas should take
1-enhance the Pokemon to just be stronger, to do the same but better
2-change the play style of the Pokemon so it can carve out its own path. Whether it is changing it type, stat distribution, and/or ability
I personally like it more when the Pokemon change there plays style
Since we can only have one mega I feel any support or defensive style mega are a potential waste
12:45 it's probably boosted by iron fist since it's ice type hammer arm. Personally I question why it doesn't get hammer arm despite being the exact same thing.
Some more context here for those less aware, there’s a legal punch in UFC called a “hammer fist” where you make a fist and swing your arm down. So I imagine that’s why ice hammer (and hammer arm) are boosted by iron fist. Why mega crab doesn’t get hammer arm as well is a certified Pokémon logic moment
@Masta_Fritzalso the animation is a fist slam
21:04 i have a feeling that darkrai would get dark aura since hyperogue floette was the final boss of base legends za and darkrai was the final boss of the dlc excluding the weather trio and legends za is kalos like xy
It got a buffed Bad Dreams
@Avdocado ok
Ive been searching for that pokemon called Zardwy that you keep mentioning for 3 videos now, and just now I realized its Charizard Y lmao
2:38 me and my friend use stuff the battle 6 V6 all the time against each other, but in Scarlet and Violet, they did not allow you to change the timer past 20 minutes and our games always took longer than that. I was almost positive champions would have the option for an unlimited timer and a full six versus six, so I was extremely disappointed that we could not.
20m timer killed 6v6 in half-decent graphics, and now it's not even an option in Champions. That Showdown HD overlay can't come soon enough.
Someone was def on something when picking these abilities for some of these mega pokemon bro
When Nihielgo gets added to the game Mega Glimmora gonna be sleeping out on the streets in a cardboard box.
Imagine if they gave all of the ultra beasts and paradox pokemon their own abilities instead of all sharing one. Obviously can keep the shared one but give them a second or hidden ability
@Fireball006can't wait for stamina stakataka
@Leonix_DaVinci It almost has that already because you apparently can't attack boost anymore
If you were going to Glimmora an offensive ability like adaptability, why not do merciless then? What are we doing GF? Smh
@julianh.5372wait what?
innards out is somehow worse than giving glalie refrigerate just to have it blow up
im so sad they crabominable a gorila walk but not gorilla tactics!
Honestly that would be terrifying combined with trick room
Im glad
WHY MEGA MEOWSTIC WHY
It hurts
13:30 I don't disagree, but I think this mainly applies to pokemon that were ALREADY good like Garchomp or Salamence. Letting the crab finally do what it's always wanted is a big W in my book
I'm not gonna Sugarcoat it.
Mods, give the Megas Mold Breaker
Mega Emboar: Yea about that
Surprised joey didnt talk about clefables now makes status moves in doubles actually terrifying with follow me. You can no longer go for offensive status moves while clefable is on the feild. I predict we are gonna see tons of VGC 50/50 of mega clef clicking follow me or moonblast
Give Rock Polish back Gamefreak. Golurk needs it, hell give him Autotomize just something to raise its speed
It used to learn shift gear is that still available
15:58 Pykumuku lmaooooo 😂
cant wait to see these mons... in Showdown
I think you could possibly play Victreebel as a Sun Sweeper, and Mega when the speed isnt needed, or you're about to be KO'd. This lets it have the coverage for certain Steel types and plays to the strengths of both pre and post mega
Big brain move: Mega Meowstic tracing Psychic Surge…
If it's tracing psychic surge, then psychic terrain is already set up, and switching resets trace. This doesn't do anything.
@davidpopolizio3781yeah but what if your opponent leads rillaboom indeedee and overrides their own terrain… yeah it sucks lmao
Skarmory feels like they were going for something to deal with xerneas in doubles and then realised it's best steel move is iron head
Mega Drampa should have been a Water/Dragon or Electric/Dragon type with Drizzle and I'll die on that hill. Also they really half assed the abilities on most of these mons, barely any Megas got anything new.
They really let us down when it came to some of these megas. Not saying every mega has to be broken, but it has to have something to justify the use of a mega slot. And that requires a good mix of stats and ability and damn a lot of these are dissapointing.
Bro that viral leak was a lie
Who would have guessed that ANYONE can make a fake leak and get a single thing right when throwing 20 darts at the board
Whoever makes the animated sprites for the new pokemon/megas, I love you
Mega Golurk stocks are the highest of all time 😭
How they gave it a nerfed ability.
@grizzlyscalp9506Cause Golurk can now be a NASTY trick room sweeper that bypasses Protect.
Him and Excadrill are gonna be real problems on sand teams
Golurk getting no plays
@psychospeech6189does gokurk get phantom force? Cus if so unseen fist is just sorta... There
@dc0d3d It does, yes.
Unseen fist would have been amazing on literally anything but Gollurk.
But i guess it can elemental-punch through shields now?
I love that Golurk is the third urshafu
I just had to recheck the date when I see that thumbnail
Everyone was making jokes about Piercing Drill being "Partially Seen fists", but now I guess everyone's put in their contacts
I get not every mon can get a cool all new ability but what are some of these
9:00 my opinion magic bounce especially im singles is gonna be really funny not just cause it makes me immune to alot of moves but it can reverse crippple the opponent that tried. Have fuj with your paralyzed or burned prankster pokemon
Apparently Mega starmie in Champions has it's attack reduced to 100. Still strong though
It was only 140 in ZA because they wanted to give it the damage output of Pure Power without having abilities in the game. Mega Mawile got the same +40 bump
@MrLuizillaalmost as if the game should just HAVE abilities…
Crabominable now gets access to mach punch.
Skarmory is a real tragedy :/
Edit: most of the mons doing the redirection are good targets anyway
It's not reddit. You don't have to announce your edits, bro
Unseen fist got the unseen nerf
Consider Entrainment Hawlucha for VGC. OHKO moves are not illegal. Feint encore support for articuno or something.
Mega Starmie without Triple axle with dem legs is a crime.
Innards out? Nah, I’m out ✌️😭
Good One 😭✌️
I knew Mega Victreebel was not gonna keep triage in legends za ou, but innards out???? At least Corrosion come on 😭
Never really cared for victrebeel personally, i pity those that do though, what a waste of a mega.
Happy for mega mega, so i'm good.
Innards out is actually not bad @puff_nstuff
Making a Mega a sui**de ‘mon was definitely a choice. They could have even gave it a reskin of Rough Skin/Iron Barbs when it’s hit with a contact/any damaging move it deals Poison damage to the attacker. That could have at least made it unique.
Flygon made most of these ability choices
12:15 Question, has Iron Fist still still not been buffed to be a 50% increase for no reason?
For some reason game freak hates punching moves lol I mean look at punching gloves they added that recently and it’s also garbage
this is so strange. they flavored the megas for in-game. this implied two things
one: these megas are going to be in generation 10 at least
two: they aren't gonna balance very much between champions and in-game
i will be honest i'm stoked for meowstic getting trace, it makes my favorite meowstic set even better.... if half the moves i used on it wouldn't have been removed years ago
I think mega clefable having magic bounce is actually pretty solid for vgc, with follow me, you have 2 immunities in dragon and ground, and can reflect status moves back that might have been targeting your ally
M-Victreebel is another victim of the removal of IVs. You can't lower defense or spdef IVs to ensure KOs now if you want to go down to something and take a threat out
That wouldn’t have been good lol. IVs being removed is good all around
@willkershisnik5893 Lol, that's a lie. This is going to be something that is done often with natures now for sure whether it's VGC, singles, or draft leagues. You're tripping or have little eye for creativity.😂
@julianh.5372no, you are vastly overestimating the value of what you are presenting. Your idea relies on full health, something that is not usually the case. It also would depend on rolls, something you cannot control. Basically you’re talking out of your ass regarding a mid idea as if you’re Newton, you look silly
@willkershisnik5893 How can you not control that on a mon with strength sap? Also have not heard of final gambit leads? Are you that bad at pokemon? 😂
@willkershisnik5893 Bruh you've got to be trolling. No way you actually have played pokemon in the last 5-10 years in any meta lol. I'm done entertaining this nonsense😂
Mega Victreebel sounds like a diabolical pokemon
Honestly, even though I don’t believe it, I hope that now that Champions is also coming to mobile Game Freak do regular updates to moveset, abilities and stats, because mostly all those new megas were a complete waste
I wish the golurk rage fist misinfo was true
Bro, they ALWAYS do that. Psychic types having such bad abilitys why? Theres like 800 abilitys and they just always put between Levitate or Trace HOW ORIGINAL, Cresselia,azelf,Mesprit,Uxie,Mega Alakazam, Gardevoir, Bronzong.
Technically, bronzong other ability is heatproof (also a good ability to remove one of its weaknesses)
Don't forget about synchronize
Hey, in Bronzong fits well and is value 👀
Also add forewarn and psychic surge as well I guess?
You say Trace is bad, but Trace is good. Trace could be anything, it could even be a good ability.
Mega meowstic deserves psychic terrain
10:10 prankster Meowstic that can then Mega has to have something specific to it for a niche, I’d assume.
Maybe but what are you realistically clicking pre mega? I think competetive is overall better cause if you do get the boost it’s a whole different pokemon
Mega Meowstic: Switches in, Traces Shadow Tag off Mega Gengar