That bit on how the Chien Pao ban encourages the use of other offensive options could honestly be a fine short. Newer players really need to learn that banning a centralizing threat does not decrease offensive options.
Does not NECESSARILY decrease offensive options. Think of a situation where a wall can only be OHKO'd by a single pokemon in the meta and said mon gets banned. But in a situation like this where sweepers are competing for the same slot in the team, the strongest naturally gets picked, decreasing the viability of the second best option
@@CubeBizz its increasing the offensive options against that pokemon because now players are forced to play with more ingenuity and to play around that mon rather than just press a button and kill it because you're faster and stronger than it
A classic example of well constructed Pokémon that have natural synergy between each of their aspects, Weak Armor + healing move is a perfect combination and its stats are perfectly balanced to make it good but not overwhelming, also I like how they didn't give him a Ghost STAB stronger than Shadow Claw. I love Pokémon like this one
4:07-4:50 Bit that deserves to be framed Adding broken mon to the meta DECREASES the number of pokemon you can choose from. It might be counterintuitive, but the explanation is that if you want to check those OP mon, you're narrowing the pool of mon that can deal with them: you end up with "cookie cutter cores" and lots of pokemon don't get used because it's not worth it
I genuinely hate that the casual playerbase cant differentiate Balance over Stall. Toxapex is definitely Big Stall™️ but if it werent for Toxapex something like Magearna, Ash-Greninja and Rain would be broken in Gen 7.
@@butteredsalmonella Tbf balance in the hands of a high ladder smogon player plays like stall, and both Toxapex, Ash-Greninja and Magearna were broken in gen 7 yet action was never taken; that being said the meta of that generation is overpowered compared to every other one but the current one so I guess it was fine on that specific envoriment, and without the pex Z-moves as a whole would have been banned.
Flash fire is really good on bulk up sets, since you keep the fire and will-o-wisp immunity after changing type with tera. I recommend trying tera bug, since neither flying or rock are huge offensive threats in the current meta, and it covers your base typing’s ground weakness when going up against great tusk and the like. Tera grass does this too, but there are a lot more relevant weaknesses tied to grass like poison and ice that make the set a lot more vulnerable. Using covert cloak to set up works well too, since you can tank salt cures from garg through bulk up.
Ceruledge is a cool Pokemon with even cooler typing and is great in the current ou Meta Definitely my favorite gen 9 Pokemon and i generously appreciate that you made a video on it Thank you
While I still do think Ceruledge would appreciate dropping to UU since it would definitely thrive there, being able to use Great Tusk (and likely Lando-T because who the hell runs Fly, god forbid Terablast Flying) as total bait has been good Ceruledge Stocks so far. Tera Bug has officially graduated from being an r/stunfisk meme.
he was the MVP of my team on the voilet playthrough and on that alone a managed to hypetrained it naturally, and have it white the standard fire terra type, and the move set of Bitter Blade, Psycho Cut, Shadow Claw and Night Slash, and the flash fire ability. And Bitter Blade has done wonders for me on terra raids.
Honestly i kinda thought while using ceruledge to run tera bug with flash fire considering there isnt many flying attackers aswell rock attackers the ground resistance aswell fighting that would help possibily agaisnt great tusk. the versatility of ceruledge is preety great although i still think garganacle should have an action
yooooo didnt think youd do it that quickly, glad to see you had only good things to say about it, those gargs never expect the tera fighting close combat one shot, personally im not a fan of weak armor with all the priority moves that are used in this gen, and dont use swords dance myself so i have more attacking options but its cool to see these all work
I remember at the start of Gen 9 I would always run Tera Water Appletun with Thick Fat to wall Ceruledge. Then, I would spam Apple Acid, the damage would start of weak enough to give them a false sense of security, they would set up Swords Dance while Apple Acid lowers their defence, by the time they realised Apple Acid would kill them, it was too late.
@@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8If I revealed I had Tera Blast they would commonly switch out to save their Ceruledge to deal with the rest of my team, Apple acid made them believe that they had me walled, but the Spdef drops increased it’s damage over time, plus they didn’t want to lose the boost they thought they had gotten for free. So more commonly than not, Appletun would kill Ceruledge.
Flash Fire Ceruledge can work similar to annihilape (ghost type, similar stats, 10 more base spdef for just 5 less speed and lower hp which isn't a big loss when u use hp draining moves) With stab recovery, with max spdef evs, a couple bulk ups, flash fire tera bug it becomes very hard to deal with, most people doesn't carry a strong rock or flying stab and if you don't OHKO it, it's gonna keep healing and destroying/chipping your team constantly specially if it gets flash fire activated: Bulk Up, Bitter Blade, Close Combat (garganacl can be a threat, but u can use covert cloak) and X-Scissor (meh), Shadow Sneak or Taunt (all of the most common toxic users are slower and can be taunted just as annihilape could, and protects from whirlwind/roar), with flash fire you forget of the most common bug weakness and prevents getting burnt, turning a weakness into boosting those bitter blades even further, 2x Atk from a bulk up and flash fired, bitter blade can tear up any fire resistant mon. I love it, truly love it, I'm not a fan of using setup mons, but i truly like this one even more than Annihilape, the biggest flaw is lacking a strong ghost stab to deal with pelipper and azumarill (the only 2 mons that may break the strat specially spatk pelipper, the rare dragon tail garchomp can be dealth with CC although a third bulk up previously might be necessary, still most prefer roar with lots of hatterenes around and no soundproof mon in OU) if it had poltergeist it would be Uber material (so better not 😅)
Imagine if Aggron got a paradox form Armor Behemoth Type - Steel and Dragon Total stats 590 Hp - 100 Attack - 120 Defense - 200 Special attack - 30 Special - Defense - 100 Speed - 40 Signature move Armonize Status Boost the user defense or special defense if it's hit by attack or special attack. Defense or Special Defense increase by 2 stage if hit by a super effective move
I've run Flash Fire/Swords Dance/Shadow Sneak/Bitter Blade Ceruledge alongside Spidops for Sticky Web support, Banded Scizor for pivot and extra priority support, and Gholdengo to keep the Sticky Web up for amazing results.
Can''t believe this man didn't cover the Tera Bug Ceruledge set, it's only weak to Flying and Rock with Flash Fire and neither are particularly common offensive types in the meta and allows it to set up in the face of Ground types like Great Tusk. Honorable mention should also go to Tera Grass Solar Blade on sun teams, which can catch a few Grass weak pokemon that like to switch into Ceruledge off guard.
This guy was really close to surpass Garchomp as my new favorite Pokemon. Best part is that is a fire type with a trully reliable signature fire move that has 100% accuracy. No more missing Pyro Balls for me.
Your point about Chien Pao was really good. I think this is ultimately why I think Pokemon like Gholdengo and Garganacl should also be suspect tested. I truly feel they overcentralize the metagame, in ways which make things less interesting overall. Gholdengo hard-counters any pokemon that relies on non-damaging moves, and Garganacl is just too efficient a wall to make any other worth using by comparison. Neither of these pokemon are unbeatable, by any means, but I feel they unnecessarily limit the kinds of pokemon that can feasibly compete in OU. Variety is something that I think makes for a healthy metagame, and as someone who was previously not familiar with the Gen 3 metagame, watching your videos on it has made me really appreciate how nuanced and healthy it was, and I'd like to see the Gen 9 metagame end up in a similar place. Maybe Gholdengo and Garganacl won't be too powerful once pokemon home is released, although I sincerely doubt it in Gholdengo's case, but for right now, I think both should go the way of Chien Pao and make way for a more interesting and varied metagame.
Garg defines should go, but Ghold whether you hate it or not, is a centralizing but good aspect of the metagame. On its own its an amazing Pokémon that can fulfill a plethora of roles from a breaker, spinblocker, speed control, stallbreaker, fairy resist, etc. There is enough checks to it to where its not broken on its own. Tusks is the no. 1 mon rn, has tons of utility including being the best hazard removal, and there is no opportunity cost for running it. Outside of that there is Clod, Gambit, Ting-Lu, Moon, etc. It doesn’t force stale defensive cores like Pao did, it doesn’t force a fat Tera Dark mon like Espa did, and it doesn’t force a Covert Cloak mon like Garg is doing. If you don’t want to run Tusks, you have other ways of dealing with hazards such as Boots spam Teams, Cinder, Treads, or playing to limit their opportunities to get hazards. Treat this as DPP OU, where hazard removal is sparse. I think the only reason people want to see Ghold banned is mostly cause we haven’t seen a force like this since the DS era with GSC Lax, ADV Ttar, etc.
@@amphibiansriseup596 Those are all fair points. I guess I'm mostly just wary of a pokemon that's just flat-out immune to as many things as Gholdengo is, but you're right that it's far from unstoppable.
I'd like to think that both Ceruledge and Armarouge are semi-persudo legendary Pokémon. They are in a similar boat to volcarona in almost every way and are beasts in combat.
Funny how one signature move and suddenly the physical fire type is viable in ou. This is the second time it's happened. Except for Heatmor lol that pokemon sucks.
I love ceruledge! That and iron valiant are my 2 favorite offensive options this gen, I’m glad chien pao got banned so it’s a little easier to use them
hey uh, Jimothy, on the weak armor set, would tera grass be good? im thinking abt tera blast, shadow sneak, bitter blade and swords dance, with focus sash, a fast and offensive ev spread, and ofc, weak armor.
@@jimothycool thanks for answering my question jimothy! Is my set on ceruledge good? Btw, can ya pls giv me some tips on building a team around it? Thank you!
So for me I do mostly just do online pokemon and am rather casual. You can tell because I have 3 dragon types on my team. But ceruledge normaly is great at cleaning up everything that my miridon or flapple haven't taken out
4:23 THANK YOU holy shit I feel like people see stall as this type of boogeyman when it's really not that bad all a pokemon like chien pao does is centralize the metagame and steal the spotlight from less OP pokemon tha't snot fun nor does it require brain power
I hoping you could make a video about Arboliva. I really want to use this pokemon but I have no idea what sets to put on it, what its role would be, or what pokemon I would use it with
I'm the only one who thinks they should have giving him Poltergeist via level up? I mean in counter part to Armarouge Expanding Force. Because two moves introduce in the last generation that was taught by a move tutor only in those games
the only problem is that skeledirge is always a better option no matter what way you look at it, and just like skeledirge, all anybody has to do is bring in Garg, but i must say it has a ton of potential so i really hope to see where ceruledge goes, bc skeledirge can't one shot ting lu without set up, and punching that big of a whole in stall teams is very nice, i also like the idea of tera steel it's a very cool concept, but i feel until if garganacl gets banned, skele and ceruledge will be mediocre at best :(
Bitter Blade, Shadow Sneak, Endure and Destiny Bond is a set I like to use for revenge killing. Shadow Sneak obviously helps ending the weakened rival Pokémon, Bitter Blade is strong enough to dent almost any switch-in, Destiny Bond does what Destiny Bond does, and Endure is great to allow you to pull off said Destiny Bond against physical Pokémon that don't pack priority and are naturally faster or scarfed. With the help of Revival Blessing, Rest, Sleep Talk Pawmot, you can easily take at least two physical attackers with you
Breloom is such a vibe keep up great uplaods Hte chien pao ban has made ou so much more fun to play I love being able to consider other options without going chien pao better tho
Depends on the set. I think it's fine on Bulk Up because Ground and Fighting attacks are normally physical. On other sets I would agree that other Tera types are better.
I'm a National Dex player and I always use Ceruledge as my main sweeper, I run Tera grass bulk up set I've optimized myself, on the right conditions Ceruledge will 1v1 Urshifu rapid strike, Floatzel in rain and beat most Skeledirge sets straight up. I do not understand how this pokemon is RU, I must make sure everyone sees his true potential as a sleeper threat. Also, fu** Gholdengo and Espathra.
Armorouge is better IMO. Ceruledge is easier to stall. No answers for Dondozo. Weak Armor is a bad pairing due to bad physical defensive stats. Too many dragons in OU makes bitter blade overrated
4:07 "banning chien pao has not created a metagame dominated by defensive strategies" people are speculating that sloking is going to see more usage now that chien pao is gone so shut up.
@@jimothycool slowking is a defensive pokemon, you argument is invalid. nerfing offense does buff stall. also gen 8 toxapex was ban-worty yet it avoided the ban-hammer just fine.
@@videakias3000 That does buff offense as slow king is a pivot that can bring in threats safely, while also using future sight to combo wombs the pex. its not a good wall as its weak to the best special attacker in OU and physical hits do a number to it. New players always spout “stall” whenever they see a defensive pivot.
@@alexisreal okay maybe labeling it as a wall was an overeaction,but it still is a specially defensive pivot so you can't call it an offensive pokemon.
@@videakias3000 Its a defensive pokemon that fits on offensive teams rather than defensive teams. It is somewhat of a grey area BUT what it does guarantee is strengthening both defensive backbone as a pivot and offensive backbone with FuturePort which goes hand-in-hand in offense rather than defense. I would say it is a unique kind of "offensive" Pokemon. You'll rarely see the Slow Twins in defensive teams, there is seldom need for FuturePort or a Teleport Pivot.
I’m not subscribed because I’m interested in vgc and smogon players keep saying “competitive Pokémon” as if OU is the main competitive format. When we all know the oficial format worldwide is vgc. So please use the correct tittle. “Smogon singles”
Ceruledge is exactly the type of Pokemon that would be sick in an earlier Generation. Say, 2 or 3 when they barely had Ghosts at all, let alone Physical attacking ones.
Check out this video about Iron Valiant, the strongest Future Form in OU.
ruclips.net/video/OPPxvCwsZIs/видео.html
That bit on how the Chien Pao ban encourages the use of other offensive options could honestly be a fine short. Newer players really need to learn that banning a centralizing threat does not decrease offensive options.
Does not NECESSARILY decrease offensive options. Think of a situation where a wall can only be OHKO'd by a single pokemon in the meta and said mon gets banned. But in a situation like this where sweepers are competing for the same slot in the team, the strongest naturally gets picked, decreasing the viability of the second best option
@@CubeBizz ... Then you'll simply have to 2HKO that wall? I don't see the problem here?
@@castkeyboard Going from OHKO to 2HKO is quite literally decreasing the offensive power and hence options
@@CubeBizz its increasing the offensive options against that pokemon because now players are forced to play with more ingenuity and to play around that mon rather than just press a button and kill it because you're faster and stronger than it
New players also have to learn that defensive options have to actually exist in order for the game not to be stale
A classic example of well constructed Pokémon that have natural synergy between each of their aspects, Weak Armor + healing move is a perfect combination and its stats are perfectly balanced to make it good but not overwhelming, also I like how they didn't give him a Ghost STAB stronger than Shadow Claw. I love Pokémon like this one
Not like there was any outside of phantom force and signature moves...
@@just_a_rebel8261 poltergiest
@VanomtheFurryLoseabsolutely worthless move. Just a free switch in for Kingambit.
he got poltergeist
4:07-4:50
Bit that deserves to be framed
Adding broken mon to the meta DECREASES the number of pokemon you can choose from. It might be counterintuitive, but the explanation is that if you want to check those OP mon, you're narrowing the pool of mon that can deal with them: you end up with "cookie cutter cores" and lots of pokemon don't get used because it's not worth it
B-but muh stall!
Seriously though people need to realize that having a wall and stalling are two different things
@@dribble909 defensive walls are fine and fun to fight against, stall is just a bitch, thankfully stall is getting weeded out of the current meta.
I genuinely hate that the casual playerbase cant differentiate Balance over Stall. Toxapex is definitely Big Stall™️ but if it werent for Toxapex something like Magearna, Ash-Greninja and Rain would be broken in Gen 7.
Exactly, just like everyone in Gen 7 (and 8) needed a Landorus-T check on their teams, or a Ground Pokémon in Gen 8 to check Regieleki
@@butteredsalmonella Tbf balance in the hands of a high ladder smogon player plays like stall, and both Toxapex, Ash-Greninja and Magearna were broken in gen 7 yet action was never taken; that being said the meta of that generation is overpowered compared to every other one but the current one so I guess it was fine on that specific envoriment, and without the pex Z-moves as a whole would have been banned.
Flash fire is really good on bulk up sets, since you keep the fire and will-o-wisp immunity after changing type with tera. I recommend trying tera bug, since neither flying or rock are huge offensive threats in the current meta, and it covers your base typing’s ground weakness when going up against great tusk and the like. Tera grass does this too, but there are a lot more relevant weaknesses tied to grass like poison and ice that make the set a lot more vulnerable. Using covert cloak to set up works well too, since you can tank salt cures from garg through bulk up.
Ceruledge is a cool Pokemon with even cooler typing and is great in the current ou Meta
Definitely my favorite gen 9 Pokemon and i generously appreciate that you made a video on it
Thank you
Ceruledge is perfect in all manners. I would have had a huge poster of it if I played Gen9 as a kid.
While I still do think Ceruledge would appreciate dropping to UU since it would definitely thrive there, being able to use Great Tusk (and likely Lando-T because who the hell runs Fly, god forbid Terablast Flying) as total bait has been good Ceruledge Stocks so far. Tera Bug has officially graduated from being an r/stunfisk meme.
Thanks for the Pokémon information Jimothy
he was the MVP of my team on the voilet playthrough and on that alone a managed to hypetrained it naturally, and have it white the standard fire terra type, and the move set of Bitter Blade, Psycho Cut, Shadow Claw and Night Slash, and the flash fire ability. And Bitter Blade has done wonders for me on terra raids.
I actually see tera bug on flash fire a lot, pretty nice seeing that get used.
Honestly i kinda thought while using ceruledge to run tera bug with flash fire considering there isnt many flying attackers aswell rock attackers the ground resistance aswell fighting that would help possibily agaisnt great tusk. the versatility of ceruledge is preety great although i still think garganacle should have an action
You’re the only person who ever brought up the “80% are not subscribed” and it made me subscribe.
yooooo didnt think youd do it that quickly, glad to see you had only good things to say about it, those gargs never expect the tera fighting close combat one shot, personally im not a fan of weak armor with all the priority moves that are used in this gen, and dont use swords dance myself so i have more attacking options but its cool to see these all work
Flash fire plus balloon = 4 immunities. Insane!
It looks edgy and that's all I need to put him on my team
I remember at the start of Gen 9 I would always run Tera Water Appletun with Thick Fat to wall Ceruledge. Then, I would spam Apple Acid, the damage would start of weak enough to give them a false sense of security, they would set up Swords Dance while Apple Acid lowers their defence, by the time they realised Apple Acid would kill them, it was too late.
I imagine you can also tera blast if you want
@@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8If I revealed I had Tera Blast they would commonly switch out to save their Ceruledge to deal with the rest of my team, Apple acid made them believe that they had me walled, but the Spdef drops increased it’s damage over time, plus they didn’t want to lose the boost they thought they had gotten for free. So more commonly than not, Appletun would kill Ceruledge.
Okay analysis video! Thanks for uploading!
Jimmy the editing for your videos is on point! Do you edit your cids yourself? What software do you use? Keep up the great work!
I do everything myself, I use Sony Vegas and Photoshop
I like the armour duo. They don't look like pocket monsters, but they aren't game ruining like much of Gen 9.
That's because they were made by a Mega Man artist
@@MeatOfJustice i only wish they LOOKED like Pokémon. Charcadet did
@@MeatOfJustice That same Mega Man artist also made the Nacli family, Espathra, & Flutter Mane as well.
@@RFE812 and a Fire Emblem artist made the Revavroom and Cetitan lines
@@MeatOfJustice he didn't, I don't think he ever claimed them
Flash Fire Ceruledge can work similar to annihilape (ghost type, similar stats, 10 more base spdef for just 5 less speed and lower hp which isn't a big loss when u use hp draining moves) With stab recovery, with max spdef evs, a couple bulk ups, flash fire tera bug it becomes very hard to deal with, most people doesn't carry a strong rock or flying stab and if you don't OHKO it, it's gonna keep healing and destroying/chipping your team constantly specially if it gets flash fire activated: Bulk Up, Bitter Blade, Close Combat (garganacl can be a threat, but u can use covert cloak) and X-Scissor (meh), Shadow Sneak or Taunt (all of the most common toxic users are slower and can be taunted just as annihilape could, and protects from whirlwind/roar), with flash fire you forget of the most common bug weakness and prevents getting burnt, turning a weakness into boosting those bitter blades even further, 2x Atk from a bulk up and flash fired, bitter blade can tear up any fire resistant mon.
I love it, truly love it, I'm not a fan of using setup mons, but i truly like this one even more than Annihilape, the biggest flaw is lacking a strong ghost stab to deal with pelipper and azumarill (the only 2 mons that may break the strat specially spatk pelipper, the rare dragon tail garchomp can be dealth with CC although a third bulk up previously might be necessary, still most prefer roar with lots of hatterenes around and no soundproof mon in OU) if it had poltergeist it would be Uber material (so better not 😅)
Imagine if Aggron got a paradox form
Armor Behemoth
Type - Steel and Dragon
Total stats 590
Hp - 100
Attack - 120
Defense - 200
Special attack - 30
Special - Defense - 100
Speed - 40
Signature move
Armonize
Status
Boost the user defense or special defense if it's hit by attack or special attack.
Defense or Special Defense increase by 2 stage if hit by a super effective move
Tackle does more damage than dracometeor lmao
I've run Flash Fire/Swords Dance/Shadow Sneak/Bitter Blade Ceruledge alongside Spidops for Sticky Web support, Banded Scizor for pivot and extra priority support, and Gholdengo to keep the Sticky Web up for amazing results.
goes to show how a lot of mons can be overshadowed, even by bootleg weevil
Can''t believe this man didn't cover the Tera Bug Ceruledge set, it's only weak to Flying and Rock with Flash Fire and neither are particularly common offensive types in the meta and allows it to set up in the face of Ground types like Great Tusk. Honorable mention should also go to Tera Grass Solar Blade on sun teams, which can catch a few Grass weak pokemon that like to switch into Ceruledge off guard.
At the very beginning, I used Ceruledge on my sun team with Grass Tera and Flash Fire. Solar Blade put in work.
Babe wake up, new Jimothy Cool video just dropped
I wish i was him
Such an amazing design, so cool
This guy was really close to surpass Garchomp as my new favorite Pokemon. Best part is that is a fire type with a trully reliable signature fire move that has 100% accuracy. No more missing Pyro Balls for me.
Protoman.Exe really has been an underrated threat.
i now understand why people get the insane urge to comment first
First
Can’t lie I love how Ceruledge sits on Volcarona for days
Your point about Chien Pao was really good. I think this is ultimately why I think Pokemon like Gholdengo and Garganacl should also be suspect tested. I truly feel they overcentralize the metagame, in ways which make things less interesting overall. Gholdengo hard-counters any pokemon that relies on non-damaging moves, and Garganacl is just too efficient a wall to make any other worth using by comparison.
Neither of these pokemon are unbeatable, by any means, but I feel they unnecessarily limit the kinds of pokemon that can feasibly compete in OU. Variety is something that I think makes for a healthy metagame, and as someone who was previously not familiar with the Gen 3 metagame, watching your videos on it has made me really appreciate how nuanced and healthy it was, and I'd like to see the Gen 9 metagame end up in a similar place. Maybe Gholdengo and Garganacl won't be too powerful once pokemon home is released, although I sincerely doubt it in Gholdengo's case, but for right now, I think both should go the way of Chien Pao and make way for a more interesting and varied metagame.
Garg defines should go, but Ghold whether you hate it or not, is a centralizing but good aspect of the metagame. On its own its an amazing Pokémon that can fulfill a plethora of roles from a breaker, spinblocker, speed control, stallbreaker, fairy resist, etc. There is enough checks to it to where its not broken on its own. Tusks is the no. 1 mon rn, has tons of utility including being the best hazard removal, and there is no opportunity cost for running it. Outside of that there is Clod, Gambit, Ting-Lu, Moon, etc. It doesn’t force stale defensive cores like Pao did, it doesn’t force a fat Tera Dark mon like Espa did, and it doesn’t force a Covert Cloak mon like Garg is doing. If you don’t want to run Tusks, you have other ways of dealing with hazards such as Boots spam Teams, Cinder, Treads, or playing to limit their opportunities to get hazards. Treat this as DPP OU, where hazard removal is sparse. I think the only reason people want to see Ghold banned is mostly cause we haven’t seen a force like this since the DS era with GSC Lax, ADV Ttar, etc.
@@amphibiansriseup596 Those are all fair points. I guess I'm mostly just wary of a pokemon that's just flat-out immune to as many things as Gholdengo is, but you're right that it's far from unstoppable.
People really understimated Ceruledge. Many have said that it will never be OU with its stats before the games came out.
Finally someone talks about Cerueledge I always wondered why it’s still in OU
Ceruledge is a fantastic Pokémon that's only going to get better I feel, it's so dangerous
is that description a fucking ASOIAF reference? if so, that's awesome
GameFreak: *Creates Sharpness ability*
Also GameFreak: *Creates Ceruledge without Sharpness*
I'd like to think that both Ceruledge and Armarouge are semi-persudo legendary Pokémon. They are in a similar boat to volcarona in almost every way and are beasts in combat.
I just wish it had Sharpness as an ability. And that Armorouge had Mega Launcher. But I like using a bulky variant on my Mono Fire team.
A pokemon I had to have on my team on my first playthrough
Can i bring chandelure to work?
No we got chandelure at work
*Chandlure at work*
Ill do it later
B0t
I've been using Ceruledge to make raid bosses into a joke. I haven't had a chance to play it in the competitive scene
Funny how one signature move and suddenly the physical fire type is viable in ou. This is the second time it's happened. Except for Heatmor lol that pokemon sucks.
Fire Lash was added in Gen 6 IIRC
My favorite Pokémon from this generation alongside Gholdengo!
Can you also do Armorouge to round off the Charcadet evolution duo?
Hahaha I was expecting this video because I got swept twice on ladder by this mon
As a uu player, i was hoping for it to drop in usage, now I'm in pain
it's 4x bug resistance would be huge in uu
I think it would've been cool if ceruledge got sharpness and armarouge got mega launcher with their signature moves getting boosted
I love ceruledge! That and iron valiant are my 2 favorite offensive options this gen, I’m glad chien pao got banned so it’s a little easier to use them
I wish it had 100 base speed...
They really wanted weak armor to be the way it’s design makes sense apparently
I dig this mons design, it’s a shame I suck at using it lolol
I hope it drops to UU because it has a really good matchup against slither wing
hey uh, Jimothy, on the weak armor set, would tera grass be good? im thinking abt tera blast, shadow sneak, bitter blade and swords dance, with focus sash, a fast and offensive ev spread, and ofc, weak armor.
Grass is another good option yeah. Water and ground resists are very useful
@@jimothycool thanks for answering my question jimothy! Is my set on ceruledge good? Btw, can ya pls giv me some tips on building a team around it? Thank you!
So for me I do mostly just do online pokemon and am rather casual. You can tell because I have 3 dragon types on my team. But ceruledge normaly is great at cleaning up everything that my miridon or flapple haven't taken out
4:23 THANK YOU
holy shit I feel like people see stall as this type of boogeyman when it's really not that bad
all a pokemon like chien pao does is centralize the metagame and steal the spotlight from less OP pokemon
tha't snot fun nor does it require brain power
We need more Pokemon that look like that. And less that look like washing machines and TVs.
They rly should have given Ceruledge sharpness ngl
I hoping you could make a video about Arboliva. I really want to use this pokemon but I have no idea what sets to put on it, what its role would be, or what pokemon I would use it with
I made too 10k on master league with ceruledge love em
I love megaman zero he so cool
cant wait for tera shedinja to become a thing
Maybe one day we'll get a physical ghost move with 90 power and without a turn of waiting...
Poltergeist exists
Lol, Garganacl was nicknamed Bocchi the Salt
I'm the only one who thinks they should have giving him Poltergeist via level up? I mean in counter part to Armarouge Expanding Force.
Because two moves introduce in the last generation that was taught by a move tutor only in those games
the only problem is that skeledirge is always a better option no matter what way you look at it, and just like skeledirge, all anybody has to do is bring in Garg, but i must say it has a ton of potential so i really hope to see where ceruledge goes, bc skeledirge can't one shot ting lu without set up, and punching that big of a whole in stall teams is very nice, i also like the idea of tera steel it's a very cool concept, but i feel until if garganacl gets banned, skele and ceruledge will be mediocre at best :(
Bitter Blade, Shadow Sneak, Endure and Destiny Bond is a set I like to use for revenge killing. Shadow Sneak obviously helps ending the weakened rival Pokémon, Bitter Blade is strong enough to dent almost any switch-in, Destiny Bond does what Destiny Bond does, and Endure is great to allow you to pull off said Destiny Bond against physical Pokémon that don't pack priority and are naturally faster or scarfed. With the help of Revival Blessing, Rest, Sleep Talk Pawmot, you can easily take at least two physical attackers with you
Breloom is such a vibe
keep up great uplaods
Hte chien pao ban has made ou so much more fun to play
I love being able to consider other options without going chien pao better tho
This is more legit then my parents' marriage papers stfu
It's only 80% complete, but the hands are just for show anyway.
Tera steel is not that good compared to bug, fairy and grass. You really shouldn't be making yourself weak to ground and fighting.
Fighting is better
Depends on the set. I think it's fine on Bulk Up because Ground and Fighting attacks are normally physical. On other sets I would agree that other Tera types are better.
Ah yes, Ceruledge. My favorite Gen 9 mon.
I'm so biased towards it that it overflows and feel he's never as good as he actually is.
I guess we can say the Gen 9 comp are loosing their *E D G E* agaisnt Ceruledge.
*I am very sorry...*
I'm on the fence of Ceruledge. I think it's a uu mon without Tera.
drainer?
What about Armorouge?
It’s in UU. It’s really good there!
It’s top 10 in UU
I'm a National Dex player and I always use Ceruledge as my main sweeper, I run Tera grass bulk up set I've optimized myself, on the right conditions Ceruledge will 1v1 Urshifu rapid strike, Floatzel in rain and beat most Skeledirge sets straight up. I do not understand how this pokemon is RU, I must make sure everyone sees his true potential as a sleeper threat.
Also, fu** Gholdengo and Espathra.
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Bitter blade should've been ghost change my mind
i always thought ceruledge wasnt a very good mon after the flutter mane ban, ig i was proven wrong
I thought it was gonna fall off when Cinderace dropped. Maybe it's gonna happen when Lando comes back.
@@MeatOfJustice i wish it got sharpness so it could do even more with bitter blade
@@sheeplol2161 me too
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Armorouge is better IMO. Ceruledge is easier to stall. No answers for Dondozo. Weak Armor is a bad pairing due to bad physical defensive stats. Too many dragons in OU makes bitter blade overrated
Chandelure's still cooler imo 😤
Hell yeah it is! Chandelure Gang ☝️
4:07 "banning chien pao has not created a metagame dominated by defensive strategies"
people are speculating that sloking is going to see more usage now that chien pao is gone so shut up.
if it does theres plenty of ways to adapt to it with offense. a shifting metagame is a good thing
@@jimothycool slowking is a defensive pokemon, you argument is invalid.
nerfing offense does buff stall.
also gen 8 toxapex was ban-worty yet it avoided the ban-hammer just fine.
@@videakias3000 That does buff offense as slow king is a pivot that can bring in threats safely, while also using future sight to combo wombs the pex. its not a good wall as its weak to the best special attacker in OU and physical hits do a number to it. New players always spout “stall” whenever they see a defensive pivot.
@@alexisreal okay maybe labeling it as a wall was an overeaction,but it still is a specially defensive pivot so you can't call it an offensive pokemon.
@@videakias3000 Its a defensive pokemon that fits on offensive teams rather than defensive teams. It is somewhat of a grey area BUT what it does guarantee is strengthening both defensive backbone as a pivot and offensive backbone with FuturePort which goes hand-in-hand in offense rather than defense. I would say it is a unique kind of "offensive" Pokemon.
You'll rarely see the Slow Twins in defensive teams, there is seldom need for FuturePort or a Teleport Pivot.
I’m not subscribed because I’m interested in vgc and smogon players keep saying “competitive Pokémon” as if OU is the main competitive format. When we all know the oficial format worldwide is vgc.
So please use the correct tittle. “Smogon singles”
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Sash weak amour destiny bond....your welcome
I prefer Armarouge
Ceruledge is exactly the type of Pokemon that would be sick in an earlier Generation. Say, 2 or 3 when they barely had Ghosts at all, let alone Physical attacking ones.
anti chien pao propaganda
Absolute waifu mon.