Im so shocked that vikavolt is so slow, its design makes it look extremely fast

Decidueye and Vikavolt have incredible designs that absolutely do NOT match their stats, they should both be strong, fast and frail, but whoever decided a bettle based on a jet and an archer bird should be slow must have been high as a kite.

Vikavolt expected base speed: 110-130 actual base speed: 43

Grass types always have 5 weakness, so when they get dual typing, they usually still do, taking a weakness, but gaining one. Tropius is no longer weak against bug, but gains rock, and 4x ice.

Castform’s stats have one redeeming quality: It’s base stat total is *420*

MAKE A SHIRT THAT HAS SHINY HAIL CASTFORM THAT SAYS "Can I get a hail yeah?"

“All of the good physical-type electric moves are signature moves” Zing Zap is crying in the corner

10:23 Shell armour is actually really good for nuzlockes since you don’t have to worry about random crits.

Side note: You need Castform to encounter the legendary genies in ORAS.

Imagine if Castform got a stat buff in different weather forms. Like, it gets more defense in hail form, more attack in sun form, and more health in rain form.

Micheal: Can i get a hail yeah? Me that knows i still have class later: **tired hail yeah**

Imagine giving Vikavolt Quiver Dance

Gamefreak should make more water and electric physical moves. That's really necessary

Michael: I don’t Think any Pokemon fans hate Luxray Me: Genwunners

For Drednaw, in order to make use of Strong Jaw, they should add new biting moves for its type. In Radical Red, it got Aqua Fang. For rock, it could be Stong Fang or Rock Fang

Talonflame can use Protect on the first turn to keep up its health and guard against Fake Out. Next turn, you can get Tailwind up. From there, you can use some combination of defog, roost, and brave bird. Also, it outspeeds Kilowattrel by one base point, and is faster than Murkrow, allowing it to out-priority it.

I feel like talonflame’s ability should only be disabled if it’s below 50% hp. I’d say this would be able to make our flaming bird get back on top while still keeping it balanced. Edit: so clearly I didn't think everything through with this idea, so I came up with a new idea. Instead of full hp, I think having the first 3 flying type moves be prioritized and only flying type moves meaning you can't waste them by choosing a different type move. I was also thinking about having the 3 priority moves would refresh upon swapping, but I'm gonna need the insight for the ok on this decision.

The Gale Wings nerf should have been "over half HP" as opposed to "only at full HP"

If I was designing Castform, I would have its ability as something that changes the weather every 1-3 moves or so. Then I would buff its stats from 70 across the board to 100 special attack and 100 speed. You wouldn't have to waste space in its move pool for weather moves, and you could have flamethrower, thunder, surf, and blizzard! Hail yeah!!

It would have made sense to have made it so Castform can evolve into various forms, based on the weather. Like maybe you level it up with high friendship, while it is raining, it will evolve into a a water pokemon permanently. Maybe give each of the evolutions the abilities that set up the weather for their types. Like the Ice one gets Snow Warning. Maybe even go further by making the evolutions represent different kinds of storms. Water/Electric for thunderstorms, Flying/Water for hurricanes, etc.

Do the opposite “Ten pokemon I wish were awful”

Just give Zebstrika the ability "Galvanize" And boom, lots of powerful physical stab moves!

Agree with most of this video. I would also add Ninetales. Such an elegant design, but it's stat spread isn't great. Wish they lowered its attack and upped it's special attack and speed.

One redeeming quality about castform is that you could have half special moves and the other half physical moves.

The sad thing is the thumbnail is true talonflame got hella nerfed in sun and moon

Micheal: greetings pokefans Micheal here Captions: greetings bookie Finn’s Micheal here

Aggron was cool af even his mega was cool yet still in NU

I actually finished a Shield nuzlocke recently, and my Hulbury encounter was an adamant Chewtle with Strong Jaw. Koopa is now one of my favorite team members.

This video in a nutshell: "I love you, but you're all terrible."

“You can’t be bad if your base stat is 530...” Hahahaha Meganium hahahaha

At the time of my comment, it's been 4 years, and at least 1 of these pokemon got some new love from gamefreak. Tauros getting 3 new forms in Paldea, and each of them getting a new typing. Way to go, Mikey, for the gold star prediction!

Radical Red Castform is amazing. Better stats and forecast now makes weather happen automatically depending on the held item, using the weather rocks

How to fix Castform: Boost Forecast. Forecast: Depending on the weather, Forecast will change Castform's form, which also changes its type, and increase the SpA. and Speed by 1.5 . That's it.

Mikey: Wild Charge is bad because of recoil!! Also Mikey: BrAvE BiRd TaLoNfLaMe

Because they appeared in the emerald title sequence, I used manectric and Volbeat in my emerald team. But man, I really wish manectric had a more varied movepool and Volbeat had better stats. Still use them both, even if there are better options.

I think Luxray should be made an Electric/Dark type. I know it's supposed to be a really loyal Pokemon but if Absol can be a Dark type (Dark type is originally called Aku type in Japanese, which translates to Evil), so can Luxray.

Mikey should rename the video "I wish my favorite pokemon were better".

Me at the beginning of the vid: Soooo castforms number 1

2:48 i always wished castform had like a hidden ability where it’d cycle through all the weather on every turn so it’s form would keep changing, which couldve probably made it a lot more decent

I really hope a lot of pyshical electric types get galvanize. It would really boost the viability of a lot of pokemon

You should do “top 10 Pokémon I want nerfed”

i have an idea on how to buff castform: make the ability like protean but for the weather effects it has like if you used ice beam it would summon hail and turn into the hail form this concludes my TED talk

For me, I wish Magnezone Line got levitate for an ability and better move pool, and that's all I want it to be upgraded to.

I've been thinking about a change of Castform's ability. Castform upon entering generate a random weather so it can set itself upon entering but a buff on stat especially on speed would be great.

Me as soon as it releases: *D e f i n a t e l y N o t C a s t f o r m.*

Micheal: Can I get a hail yeah Me: Hail yeah

I think a unique buff for Castform would be that it changes the weather when entering play based on what weather rock it holds (would also change type to match that like normal). This would allow it to be a weather setter for every weather type. If they do this though, should Castform’s form remain Normal outside of battle? Or should it’s form just change based on its held item? (i.e. if you look at your opponent’s team before a battle starts, would you see what form Castform they have?)

In my own personal pokemon region (Untaro) I made/found a few moves that could (most likely) really help Zebstrika. 1. electro arc: electric type physical quick attack. 2. Stampede: ground type physical move that boosts in power for each teammate it has in battle. 3. Crashing bolt: physical electric type move with 120 power, so fairly high, a 50% chance to paralyze but sadly only 85% accuracy and deals large recoil (I actually made this Zabstrika's signature move)

Decidueye being so limited depressed me. It had no need for that special attack whatsoever, but it got pumped up while its speed, something it desperately needed, remained awful.

Since this video came out, Decidueye got a new form in Legende Arceus and Tauros got multiple new forms in Scarlet and Violet. Glad to see some of the Pokémon he mentioned actually got some attention. Same cannot be said about Zebstrika though. That Pokémon hasn’t appeared in any Nintendo switch game, and was last found in the wild in Pokémon black and white 2 😬

What’s crazy I would always keep a castform in my party as a kid just based off how cute it was 😭

“Not all of the Pokémon are unusable” 1. Castform

I'm still so pissed that tropius didn't get sun/moon/us/um variation. THIS WAS SUCH A MISSED OPPORTUNITY

I love how no one’s talking about how this bit at around 19:15 aged beautifully.

Talonflame should be the best route one bird since it’s the coolest looking (beside maybe Corviknight)

"Wow, im impressed many of you said it" Mom can i get a new phone, Mikey is listening to me

To make Talonflame much better, remove 25 base points in Special Attack and it give it to it's physical attack. Gale Wings only works if Talonflame is above half health.

I love castform. So much in fact I used so much of my grinded money on stat enhancers all I needed was a weatherball and set a lot of terrain

Give my boy Gengar his damn levitate back

Also hail yeah! Castfom ability idea: barometer: sets weather when castform enters the battle( the weather that will be summoned is depended by its nature ) and gives a sp. Attack boost to allies in hail and rain and an attack bonus in sun and sandstorm

Chimecho! It has an amazing design, was adorable in the anime, and inspiration form Japanese folklore. Yet every regional dex it’s in also has Alakazam and/or Gardivor making it severely outclassed

When you mentioned luxray i was slightly startled because i was battling using a luxeay at that very moment.

I'm from the future, good news, Tarous got it's regional variant

Second I saw this title, I knew castform would force it’s way on this list.

I feel your pain. When I got my random shiny Grapploct at the Lake of Outrage, I was excited, but I was quickly disappointed when I found out it was slow and it’s moveset wasn’t the best. I was so sad.

Michael got his wish of not one but three new Tauros variants!

9:45- Radical Red giving Flare Boost to Zebstrika, and removing the burn damage: Allow me to introduce myself.

me: sees title also me: tropius is gonna be on this list

I think Castform should have the same gimmick as Rotom, So you could for example choose to keep Castform as it's base form and have access to all of it's weather forms, OR in the same style as Rotom forms, use an out of battle item to make your Castform stay in a weather form,.. This would give GF the chance to Buff Castform's ability to act as the other switch in weather abilities while it is in that weathers form. Example: choose Castform to stay as Snowy Castform, and when sent into battle Forecast instead causes it to Hail. This would work the same with the Sunny and Rainy forms causing Forecast to make it Harsh Sunlight or Raining. This buff would also be the perfect way to introduce a Sandstorm form 'Sandy form?' i can image it to look like a mini dust devil with it's head peeking out at the top. Making the Forecast ability to cause the weather when Castform is in it's respective form would be easy because it won't have any effect unless a Castform is sent out already in a weather form. This might also make the Normal form a viable option in 2 v 2, Normal Castform uses a weather attack, change form, second turn switch out, now when it is sent back in it restarts it's form's weather. So you can essentially have a multi' weather switch in ability battery tied to a single pokemon.

I used a Talonflame on my violet play through, and it helped me a lot. Mine had the ability flame-body, which helped with tough opponents. I do wish it was better though.

Well.. Tauros did end up getting a regional form in Scarlet and Violet. They heard ya. _Or would it be three regional forms? There's the Combat Breed (pure Fighting type), Aqua Breed (Fighting/Water) and Blaze Breed (Fighting/Fire)._

Talonflame is a fire flying, but have you noticed the most types begin with the letter F, including fire flying fairy and fighting. Next, in my research is G with ghost, grass and ground then D with dragon and dark.

watching this on 4/20 to find out castform has a BST of 420, "hail yeah"

A good upgrade to Castforms ability would be to have it change the weather with it’s attack prior to actually attacking. Sort of like protean but with weather. Heck maybe even let it change it’s type to correspond to its form before attacking too.

How to become one of Mike’ favorite pokemon: -Have a Blue and Yellow Color Scheme

Michael: I wish Vikavolt wasn't so slow Me: *Dusknoir would like to have a word with you*

Michael: "Castform has a base 70 in all stats." Me: "Perfectly balanced. As all things should be."

0:13 MWEOSTIC! I used it in one of my shield runs and his reflects and light screens helped a ton

I spent so much time hunting for and training a pyukumuku in swsh for my postgame rematch mono-water team. I got it to around level 70 and I went to the move reminder to create it's moveset and... it can't learn a single attacking move. not even via tm/tr. I love pyukumuku, I love nudibrachs and I think it's just adorable, but it's, well not good. it might be good for setup, but I never really use setup because younger me never saw a need to and that's kinda transfered over to me now. oh well, I still love the little man ^^

Gen 6 Talonflame still haunts my dreams. priority Tailwind, and Brave bird and Roost was far to much. If you couldnt take out 75% of its HP in one shot it could just roost stall you because it has a move that heals 50% of its HP first turn. So it could just sustain a heavy attack while a partner Pokemon took out any threats

I wish that Meowstic was stronger in battle because it’s one of my favorite Pokémon and wish it got more love

2 years later and Tauros has a regional form 🎉🎉🎉

Zebstrika, Electivire and Luxray should form an Electric Type Physical Attackers club. It’s more like therapy though, honestly.

I totally agree, I wish Castform was stronger because its design and mechanics are already unique

This video is about every of my favorite pokemon

Know what would be a cool hidden ability for castform? A libero like ability that changes the weather along with its type based on the move it chooses to use. Give it a Stat boost in sp atk and give it either more defense or more bulk

I had a blast with Vikavolt, but I had it hold a Quick Claw. Worked really well.

What I've learned today is that Apatosaurus has been Mikey's favorite dinosaur since he stopped wearing coats - since he was five years old.

I just realized the true reason why Michael loves Castform so much... *Its base stat total is 420* Edit: *HOLY CHICKEN NUGGETS-* Oh uh sorry, I’m just surprised that a comment posted by me got 72 likes & 9 replies in 2 weeks. I mean the most I’ve ever gotten is like 10 so uh... thanks!

My moveset for my Talonflame in my Pokémon Shield Team Sky playthrough was Flame Charge, Acrobatics, Steel Wing, and Hone Claws. Unfortunately, Talonflame lost Hone Claws in Gen 9 which really sucks.

Hey 👋 In the news game I'm using Talonflame with Heat Wave,Arial ace, Flame Thrower and Steel wing and it's holding leftovers for healing 😊

One pokemon i have to include is my favourite mon dusknoir. His defenses are sky high but his hp is dog poop. So he now is in the tierless limbo of untiered .

13:19 is also the reason for lucario

Got Tropius as a Starter in a Black Rando. Very mixed bag, Slow Start as the ability, and the first level up move I got was Aeroblast.

Me and my friends are making a fake pokemon region and it has a regional form for castform. It looks like a adom and the electrons are the different types of forms it can take being rainy, sunny, hailing, metal coat, cave, and lush forest. It has steel form from the metal coat item, a grass form from being an a lush forest, (wether and a metal coat can still change it's form in this forest) and rock or grownd from being in a cave.

“I guess the devs thought that was too OP?” Lol yes priority Brave bird was broken af Michael.

Sableye is my favorite Pokemon but even though it has bad base stats I still always find ways to abuse prankster. Sableye with Dracovish Sableye with Quash and Prankster Dracovish with the move you know that really benefits from going first

I really like grapploct and think it works well limber isn't good but the immunity is a little bonus and as for that weak defences just give it drain punch, protect and leftovers along with octolock I used one to great effect in the battle tower

16:25 Mikey: your Pokémon are gonna take damage in a Pokémon battle! SmallAnt: *chuckles*

I always wondered why talonflame disappeared in 7G... Now I know why