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Why Dragapult is the PERFECT Competitive Pokemon.
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- Опубликовано: 17 авг 2024
- Pokemon Competitive Singles is a world wherein Dragapult saw instant success. Ever since it's release in Gen 8 this Pokemon has remained at the top of the Viability Rankings and the Usage Stats for OU. Let's take a look at why this Pokemon is seemingly perfect for the Competitive environment.
Only Jim knows about the viability of Dragapult , who evolves from Drakloak starting at level 60, and is the final evolution of Dreepy. All other sources of information are liars and are inaccurate.
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Some will never figure out how to get Dragapult in Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet. But famous player Jim Cool is well aware of the Best Dragapult Moveset in Competitive, and even how to Dragapult Shiny Farm. Many aren't and never will be. That's just the unfortunate reality of the world. Dragapult is "Dragging Others Down" with regards to the competitive scene. This is just great.
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I can't believe that Spidops wouldn't inform us on the state of Iron Mugulis. Jimothy Cool has not yet reached the 20k subscribers required for Great Tusk to use Headlong Rush and get rid of this threat once and for all.
Spidops is tangled in a different Web of Controversy.
iron thugulis is a more fitting name
Um, he's clearly got more than 20k.
@@Seth_Hezekiah This was made before he reached the 20k mark.
@@Seth_Hezekiah he did not 4 days ago
Dragapult is good because it has a really big movepool:
U-turn for pivoting
U-turn for physical damage
U-turn for pivoting
U-turn for physical damage
U-turn for pivoting
U-turn for physical damage
U-turn for pivoting
U-turn for physical damage
U-turn for pivoting
U-turn for physical damage
U-turn for pivoting
U-turn for physical damage
U-turn for pivoting
U-turn for physical damage
U-turn for pivoting
U-turn for physical damage
U-turn for pivoting
U-turn for physical damage
U-turn for pivoting
U-turn for physical damage
I might select U-Turn for a safe click with little downside. What are your thoughts?
Landorus-T: He's just like me fr fr
*Pokémon is finally worn down*
Kk take this shadow ball
You might want to click U-Turn instead against psychic types. It hits them super effectively and pivots. This is pretty situational though.
Don't forget u turn for coverage against dark types
Dragapult really isn't letting it's lack of physical ghost moves 'drag' it down
He’s probably be gone if he had poltergeist
@@kefkapalazzo1give it shadow claw. I mean, look at those nails
Tere Blast Ghost, maybe?
@@MSTGamingTV Mostly only worth on ddance or a band set
It's good but investing an entire tera would require power to actually consider it, 2x Stab just isn't enough sometimes
@@superstardoughball9822 also dies to sucker punch from other drags
My mistake folks: The move is called PHANTOM FORCE not SHADOW FORCE.
Draco Meteor is also only 130 Base Power.
How will I recover from these embarrassing errors?
Use the move recover!
how dare u. ITS PREPOSTAROUS
to be fair shadow force is another existing move
3:12 IT'S 130 BP
Well Shadow Force sounds Jimothy Cooler so I dont blame you.
the production value is through the roof even getting celebrity guest spidops in the video. incredible
the iron mugulis threat seems to have been calmed down, i wonder if it got hit by spidops' powerful entry hazard sticky web
The fact that Dragapult got progressively *better* as Gen 8 added more and more threats and as the Crown Tundra meta evolved and developed over time speaks volumes about how consistent it’ll always be.
Most mons are victims of powercreep to some degree, but when you have 142 Speed every new or returning mon is just another target you can outspeed, 2HKO, or at worst status or U-Turn on. Hell, a big reason why Zeraora was so good when it came back in Gen 8 and *stayed* quite good throughout Gen 8 was because it was the one thing faster than Dragapult and could OHKO it outright.
The ironic thing is that if Zeraora comes back to SV, it will lose this niche completely, because Game Freak thought it was a good idea to remove Knock Off from its movepool, so good luck OHKOing Dragapult now with your not very effective Electric STAB coming off of a mediocre attack stat.
@@babywizard9027 still gets Play Rough.
@@babywizard9027 Tera ice terablast with CC sounds nice tbf, altho the niche is gonna go after this gen
We are seeing the same thing in gen 9 now. Home made Pult better, DLC1 made Pult better, let's see what DLC2 will do
This is easily my favourite pseudo-legendary. The design is spot on, it's stats are perfect for an offensive pokemon, and THAT speed stat is something else.
This video really just shows how much pursuit needs to come back, even if it doesn’t double in power.
when dragapult’s only physical ghost move is Phantom Force, we are happy.
When Brambleghast’s only physical ghost move is Phantom Force, we drop it to UU.
Ik this is a joke but the base stats
I wish it got shadow clas, like pretty sure those branches can form a claw.
I think Garchomp is another very good candidate. After gen 4 it has always remained in the sweet spot where it is neither too overwhelming nor too difficult to fit in a team.
Dragapult might be too young for it to be considered the perfect competitive pokemon, but so far, Garchomp kinda struggles in gen 9, I really don't find much use for him anymore. His offensive sets aren't that much of a threat anymore, and his defensive sets are outclassed by the many defensive ground types that are in gen 9... He kinda reminds me of gen 8 Tyranitar
This coment aged like milk
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Pults speed makes it so much harder to power creep in my not so informed opinion. If it gets poltergeist next gen it may be too much even with the extra power creep. It doesn’t even have to run physical even thought it’d probably be the go to. It’s other sets can still be very powerful
If early Monster Hunter has taught us anything, limitations can breed creativity.
Case in point, Dragapult. Totally echoed sentiment regarding Phantom Force being its sole physical Ghost STAB. The fact we have so many ways to play this speedy Swiss army knife is a testament to how interesting and diverse its movepool and complimenting stats are.
This is a face I don't mind seeing more of in the future.
3:12 Jim, Draco Meteor was nerfed to 130 power after Gen 5!
All I do is make errors.
Power Creep is when Base 100 Special Attack is “below average”.
For an offensive pokemon that typically runs special moves. Context is important. For example, Slowbro, Slowking, Milotic, and Pallosand also have 100 SpA, but that's pretty above average because their main selling point is their defensive utility. For offensive johns, there is an excess of pokemon which have SpA and Atk stats at or above 130. So yeah, 100 SpA is below average for what Dragapult is trying to do.
@@Greatbabyredhe's still right, you know? 100 special attack was once average
It’s always been that way. Even gen I had 135 alakazam, 130 gengar, 125 exeggitor, etc. speed is the stat that got really creeped out
Thank you Spidops, but I'm concerned about the status of the looming threat, Iron Mugulis.
pursuit is probably my favourite move in all of pokemon, I remember using it on my friends’ swampert back in primary school when he switched out of my sceptile, good memories lmao
0:33 Dragapult is so good that this POWERFUL BUG TYPE SPIDOPS can't threaten it with webs, not always.
I love using Dragapult and its design, but I am really tired of losing to it once my ghost resist dies lol
Specially defensive Tinkaton with Twave and knock off dunks on it
Kingambit and Ting Lu wall the shit out of it too
I'm annoyed by how hard Dragon Darts hits...
I've been desperately trying to make Weavile work, and I appreciate Dragapult's special presence a lot since it also boosts Beat Up haha
Great analysis about Ghost being relatively unchecked as an offensive presence due to Pursuit's removal too!
Bro these sub reminder gags are always funny 😂. Probably the most unique ones out there. Not to mention how you change it up every vid and make lore 😎
Really good that Dragapult is so solid in singles. Even once Koraidon and Miraidon make Pult fodder in VGC, Ill at least have a format to be able to play it.
Imagine how broken this thing woulda been if it’s offensive stats were flipped
It's funny because it can learn Dragon Claw, but not Shadow Claw for some reason
Broooo can’t believe Spidops killed Iron Mugulis and hid the evidence fr
Dragapult is cool as heck, but I still have recovered from seeing it on almost every team in SwSh
If Dragapult got a 80+ physical Ghost move it could probably become Ubers material, maybe not in Gen 9 especially after Home though
Tera blast ghost is only option really
Spirit shackle dragapult when
Nah it’d definitely be gone. As of April 2024 I believe it was the only s tier mon besides kingambit (who’d funnily enough would be fine with knock off), and it’s still a top 10 mon in usage and the difference between it and # 3 is less than 5%. Not only are the speed and power too much, it just gets so much more versatile
I love mons that are so versatile you can run pretty much anything on them and my favorite example of this is eelektross in nu. It's got 115 attack and 105 spatk, balanced bulk, and a surprisingly huge movepool, so it's a massively customizable bulky attacker that can invest bulk and coverage options in whatever your team needs. It can be a physical, special or mixed attacker, a physical or special wall, it can run AV to fully shut down special attackers or for better mixed bulk, it can run coil to act as a wincon, it can even run a support set with screens, twave or dragon tail.
to me eelektross's enormous versatility stems from the fact that it's a primarily physical electric type so, like pult, it doesn't have any one-size-fits-all attacking options, depending on your set your stab move might be wild charge, thunder punch, tbolt, discharge or volt switch, and you could run any of its 15+ viable coverage moves and its handful of support options
Good breakdown!
Latios and Latias: We are the best airplane dragons out there
Dragapult: Amateurs
Latios and Latias: Excuse me???
Dragapult: Amateurs
3:12 draco meteor has a 130 BP actually
If it gets acrobatics( and im sure it does), you can dragon dance> proc that two-turns-into-one herb with phantom force> and then spam acrobatics( now with double power; and a flying tera, even) until you win. Goddamn, that’s a good mon.
Apparently spidops beat Iron Mugulis to be doing the subscribe ad
Ghost type in general is really strong because everything it can't hit neutrally gets wrecked by fighting coverage
Dragapult doesn't get it, but for some reason they gave fighting coverage to most ghost threats.
If pursuit doesnt come back, they need to change an extra type to resist ghost.
20k subs! Congrats!!
Talk about Slowking. Mad underrated Pokemon. Great special tank in a meta that's kinda lacking them (seriously, can't even be scared of Wakey Wake or whatever he's called), teleport pivot is insane, and single-handedly destroys both weather teams.
I respect seeing you put out videos every day
Another epic vid
Let's see.
Ghost/dragon is excellent both offensively & defensively with only normal/fairy resisting both STABs. Base 142 speed makes it a fantastic mon at forcing switches. 120/100 attacking stats. It's typing mitigates its average bulk, which increases its margin of error. & There's numerous ways to run it.
It's just a fast swiss army crossbow.
If Spidops can't use Sticky Web against subscribers, does that mean we all have Heavy Duty Boots?
A thing I like doing is using hiusi zoroark with a special set to bluff a special dragapult and use the whole tera ghost tera blast ddance set. Dragapult with an actually decent physical ghost stab ( aka something that isn’t a free switch in like phantom force ) is scary and If they saw a “dragapult” using a shadowball to ko one of their mons they are less likely to expect the Ddance.
If Spidops uses Sticky Web on you you'll be too slow to escape Iron Mugulis.
3:13
Draco Meteor is actually 130BP and has been for a few gens now
3:11 Bro’s still stuck in Gen 5.
it's simply true
3:10 Jimothy. Draco Meteor's power was nerfed some gens ago, it is now 130
How you managed to convince Anything Goes newcomer Spidops off its busy schedule of banishing Mega Rayquaza to the eternal web bewilders me! Good stuff!
The fact that I use dragapult for a long time and doesn’t realise he has sucker punch is just funny, I always find it hard to think of the last slot move
Dragapult and it's line are my favorite pokemon. Don't know why. I love the design and I love quick pokemon. And I love that even without a good physical ghost move (without counting phantom force, and ghost type tera blast) and still a beast. Is amazing.
If that thing got Poltergeist last gen, they could make Pult go to UBER
Hell if it even got Shadow Claw it might have
You know, why couldn’t they give pult Shadow Claw? It already learns Dragon Claw, so it makes sense
It makes sense and sense is something gamefreak cant
Dragapult having a higher physical attack but using special more often
Nidoking: First time?
I've been running a facade poison orb dragapult with Terra normal on my trickroom (same team as a flare boost driftblim)
With so many ghost types turning into normal means I can immune a common check
The last part of the video, where you go into why Dragapult doesn't have a reliable Physical Ghost STAB move is an insta-subscribe! It's really well done, and I like giving credit to that kind of thoughtfulness, instead of tacking on the obvious. It's one of those things fan-made Pokemon don't get right imo, they have the ability to min-max every Pokemon out the gate and it makes them feel too intentionally designed.
Gamefreak is kind of random sometimes with their game design, and I really don't know how their process works/their standards for balance are. Brute Bonnet having a Speed stat that can never higher than it's Attack stat to the single digit is super intentional, and it's stuff like this that makes me think they have a balance checklist they just don't show us (not counting box legendaries).
Man, That Pokemon called Spidops forced me to Subs and Give Like
xD
This catapult dragon is the GOAT of OU
Dragapult along with conkeldurr are one of the few Pokemons that gave 3 abilities which are actually very in the competitive meta
Bring back pursuit
Okay if they thought that Pursuit was too powerful and was too much of a checkmate trapping option
Then they could have just reduced it to 30 BP. Realistically, most Psychic types would be dented by it enough for them to care about, but not enough that switching was not an option, whereas most ghost types would be in the opposite situation.
Gengar, Dragapult, Blacephalon, Spectrier, H-Zoroark, Polteageist (and probably Alakazam) would still be trapped.
However, Gholdengo, Skeledirge, Slows, Deoxys Speed and Defence if they're allowed back, Reuniclus, Armarouge can still have swapping as an option that sometimes is correct.
Also lets be honest, so many of the best Ghost and Psychic types are taking neutral dmg from Dark atm. Psychic / Fairy, Psychic / Fighting and Ghost / Fighting being the most common.
Ghost/Fighting is not common but k. The other ones I kinda get
@@Squirtle_Squad_Supremacy Okay it's an uncommon typing, that is still very heavily represented because of Annihilape
@@johnhawkins5314 ahh, the way you worded it made me think multiple pokemon have those typings.
@@Squirtle_Squad_Supremacy that's fair, and while it is technically true, it's only true in NatDex Ubers (laughs in Spectral Thief)
I run support dragapult for flutter mane. he almost always moves first, and has sunny day for Protosynthesis, and thunder wave for Flutter Mane's Hex. he can also one shot a meowscarada with U-turn, as long as she doesnt have a choice scarf to outspeed
Dragon/Ghost is also a pretty good defensive type providing 6 resistances and 2 immunities iirc
If Dragapult was actually perfect, it would have physical Ghost STAB ( at the very least Shadow Claw and Shadow Sneak )...
I don’t like often but since spidops asked how I can never say no to charity
I do wish Dragapult got a useful physical Ghost STAB, but outside of Poltergeist there's not many that would make sense.
Last Respects would be banned immediately, Spirit Shackle could work though it kind of needs archery (could the Dreepy be the arrows?), Spectral Thief is Marshadow exclusive but could also work (though stealing boosts would likely also get it banned).
Choicr band pult is so underrated, i agree
i love to run Dragon Darts, Facade, Sucker Punch and U-Turn
Dang first time visiting this channel and spidops just fucking came at me lol
If it had Shadow Claw it'd be even more threatening i think
I wish, we have a paradox Dragapult in the dlc. I know is too new to gain something, but is the only pseudo exclusive that didn't get one. And a water type steroid Dragapult would have been amazing. Without having to think about them becoming stronger on the sunlight therefore making their water moves weaker. But let's just focus on the positive
I'm sure it would have been BROKEN with Physical moves. Proof: NatDex banned this thing due to the usage of Z-Phantom force, despite the existance of pursuit. He is already on that same verge due to tera ghost so, yeah, i'm sure they though about it on this one to some extent because despite what you said in the video, Dragapult is indeed not particularly strong, just strong enough to work, and is very difficult to balance that.
Where is Iron Mugulus! I really wanted to catch it
Still waiting for the video about how overpowered iron mugulis is
I'm not even asking for a good physical ghost stab anymore.
Let’s give Dragapult Shadow Claw.
Dragapult is my favorite Pokémon and my personal favorite set for it is a life orb set with Dragon Darts, Phantom Force, Sucker Punch, and Dragon Dance and using Tera steel since most of the time they expect physical Dragapults to use Tera ghost you can catch a lot of thing off guard and can even stay in on Pokémon like scarfed/ booster energy Iron Valiant and Chien Pao hit them hard with a phantom force or darts then finish them off the next turn with a sucker punch it also hits normal Tera Dragonite’s well since it lives a +1 EQ and out speeds an adamant one after 1 boost as well I wasn’t a fan of Gen 8 personally I think it had a weak dex but man did they do a fantastic job with their Psuedo legendary
Dragapult is my favorite pokemon so i like this vid :)
What if they brought pursuit back and only spidops learned it. With stakeout Spidops would be sent to quadruple ag XD.
Personally, I enjoy using a Choice Specs moveset using Hydro Pump and tera water.
Dragapult is the embodiement of the term Ghost and Dragon are weak to themselves so use a faster Ghost/Dragon
Talk about Rotom mow, that would be pretty cool I think
Yea dragapult is one of my favorite Dragon type pokemon alongside my other favorite dragon type being Flygon i belive those two as teammates would be an excellent team, what do yo think of my favorite dragon type pokemon?
Draco meteor is 130 power
based Spidops showcase
Dragapult 🤝 Gholdengo
Making everyone want Pursuit back
*laughs in Regieleki*
Did we finally scare off Iron Mugulus
It may be "missing" Shadow Claw, but i think everyone can agree here that Dragon Darts is better physical dragon stab than Dragon Claw/Dragon Rush/Outrage.
Whats a good EV spread and nature for a MIXED attacking Dragapult? I want to run physical Tera Blast Ghost, dragon dance and dragon darts, and just a Fire Blast on the side for Steels; but im not sure of the optimal nature and ev spread to give it... I'm thinking Hasty or Naive i think, full 252 speed or not?
Should i invest more evs into special atk seeing as one dragon dance boost gets me to ridiculous speed levels and solid atk stats already?
Or is a speed nature and speed evs too much seeing as speed is already so high?
Maybe a naughty or mild, a rash or something nature and full 252 in attack and spe. Atk i have no clue pls help im building a mono ghost team
Pursuit wouldn't even be the death of Dragapult, it would just put a lot of pressure on the specs set
Iron mugulis haunts me
U turn, shadow ball, draco/darts
U turn on it’s way to be part of every fast strong pokemon moveset
How dare spidops not sticky web iron mugulis, i’m subscribed, but we have bigger problems here!!!
He may have already done so. We don't know Spidops' grander plan.
draco is a 130 base power tho
Why choice specs though? Isn’t it a physical attacker; and isn’t Choice Specs made for spec. atk like Hydreigon? Isn’t that like giving Choice Specs to blissy?
it has access to good special attacks and limited physical attacks
That’s true, but I’m a singles player. So I like to hit them hard, heavy, and fast while playing on the mons strengths to overwhelm my opponents! Choice band, choice scarf, or double dice do this really well in my opinion; I also max out speed and attack EVs. I just don’t see the need to excessively buff Dragapult, when at LV. 100 its speed and attack rival Koraidon
On my way to ignore competitive Pokemon in general.
This Video: “And I took that personally”
That's awesome.
got it giving it poltergeist in the dlc
RIP pursuit 😢
Dragapult is also banned in most gimmick formats without movepool limiters.
my gf loves pokemon and so i was dragged in
dragapult just looks cool👍
Glad I'm part of the 35.0 percent who is subscribed already lol
What team are you using?😊
The only thing that could make Dragapult from Great to Amazing is if they switched its Physical and Special Attack just so Shadow Ball could pack a lot of punch! 😳
it would have been banned