Great video, I have played and researched a lot of old generation VGC so I can explain why Bronzong was particularly good in VGS 2008. As it was played on the DP and PBR games, one of its best moves, Hypnosis, had 70% accuracy instead of 60% as in future games, and sleep was better because it lasted an insane 2-5 turns in the Japanese versions and 1-5 turns in international versions of these games (compared to 1-3 now). This combined with having no Dark or Ghost weakness meant that Bronzong effectively had just one weakness (Fire) and could set up trick room and then just spam Hypnosis to enable its offensive Trick Room partners. It also had an advantage over Cresselia as a Trick Room setter because it resisted the moves Explosion and Self-destruct which still halved the defence stat and were big threats as they could ignore the redirection support that Trick Room setters relied on.

i once had 4 identical bronzong, 2 with heatproof, and 2 with levitate. 2 were named Levitate, and 2 were named Heatproof. It worked more than it probably should have.

Bronzong has never missed a hypnosis, I'll defend that Point until I die

Didn’t mention the legendary bronzong you can find on the battle subway with rain dance, sunny day, sandstorm and hail

Always has a soft spot for Bronzong, such a cool design and overall just a chill dude

Bronzong is one of those pokemon that made me realize how complicated Pokemon is. I remember looking at sets for a VGC once. The speed stat on one of the Bronzongs was for it to be JUST fast enough to outspeed other Bronzong's but slower than Kyogre. Blew my mind.

Ask not for whom the Bronzong tolls, it tolls for thee.

Tera electric Stored Power calm mind iron defense body press Bronzong is the funniest set ever made

Bronzong and Claydol are my two favorite objectmons, just love their alien design. Always thought of them as counterparts of sort even though they're different generations.

Bronzong actually feels like it learns fckn everything, i've used it in a draft league once and fell in love with it immediately. Who else could Block stall a stored power calm mind Magearna (the set was leftovers max Hp/SpDef Block Psych up Imprison Stored Power)

Bronzong it's usually remembered as a bulky support (A good title) but people forget how in Gen 4 OU it was able to run surprise offensive sets like choice banded explosion in a pseudo-metagross way or how it could set trick room for itself and then sweep weakened teams with gyro ball, that attack stat is not that low as it looks, specially as something so bulky.

Fun fact! In the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games, rather than one ability, Pokemon have ALL of their abilities at once. In the Explorers games, this means Bronzong gets Heatproof AND Levitate, causing it to have no weaknesses since this was Gen 4 where Steel still resisted Dark and Ghost.

I think speaking of worlds a video going over mons that have won not just once but 2-3 times could be really interesting! How their roles have changed or adapted over the years, or even just covering which have landed on a worlds winning team!

I love videos like this, bronzing isn’t even a Pokemon I think about or encounter often, but every Pokemon is someone’s favorite so it’s cool to learn about them and how they may be (or at least have been) competitively good in their own way

Ground/Ice: you cannot beat me Steel/Flying: I know. But he can. this mf:

I brought bronzong to my first major, last year's Italian special event in Turin, VGC 2023 reg. C, there were more than 800 masters. I ended up 6-3, 101st. My beloved bronzong helped me so much during that tournament and that weekend was one of the single best experiences of my life. I have a soft spot for the bell now.

I DONT USUALLY COMMENT BUT THIS FEELS MADE FOR ME, I LOVE THE LITTLE BELL CHAP. SO MANY DIFFERENT SETS. I've used a power herb meteor beam, trick room, psychic and any fourth special move (ive even used *steel beam* here before) Bronzong in my monotype team in natdex to great success as a fire type bait. Theyre bulky enough to tank even strong fire stabs, or bait a volcarona into quiver dancing, and you know what happens after. Honestly, Bronzong's biggest issue is that most of its moves are NOT levelup. If you want to build one in a game, you have to invest actual resources into them.

As a Trick Room guy, Bronzong is indeed very good at Trick Room, but its lack of pivot moves hurts it quite a bit.

I always thought it was a maid robot when i was a kid. Literally found out those red spots were eyes only this year.

Fireproof is rare but the biggest argument for it that i have is people will never press a non mold breaker earthquake into bronzong, but they will always press fire blast

Bronzong will always have a permanent place in my heart. I am a shiny hunter and one of my targets when BDSP and PLArceus released was to shiny hunt Arceus. But after getting into the battle my first time with arceus using my original team, i quickly realized how little PP arceus had (iirc its like 25 or 30 pp split between all 4 of its moves) and how annoying it was to keep in the low yellow/red bars (knows recover and healing wish). Enter Bronzong. Hypnosis w/ wide lens or leftovers + confuse ray + psychic and bulldoze for lowering HP slowly. had 6 of these beasts on my team all with the same EVspread/IVspread/movepool/ability/holditem etc. Found arceus in about 2500-2600 resets and dude never struggled (but was still close despite my best effort to stall, had 9pp left iirc.)

The real value of heatproof is that most people won't try to use ground moves anyway, so when their fire move fails they'll be legit shocked

2016 Skill Swap was ONE of the reasons to use it since u could swap the Weather Abilities and set the weather up again even if your Kyogre was faster than the opposing Groudon.

For over a decade Bronzong has been my second favorite pokemon of all time; I like the way he looks and they're pretty strong, I always felt I was one of the very few Bronzong enjoyers cause nobody really seems to talk about this loveable bell, I think he's neat.

Heat Proof really needed to grant fire immunity. Between that and Levitate, would have made it nasty guessing game.

The slide said Bronzong worked as a Zam counter in Gen 5 OU and I genuinely thought it meant Zamazenta at first, powercreep goes crazy

Yo! This is a real one! You want to set something, like Stealth Rock, Trick Room, Weather, bring Mental Herb Bronzong! That bulk on this guy is solid! I was also popping off as a sui-lead using Steel Beam like others use Explosion! Another great PowerPoint!

Bronzong sits comfortably in my personal top 3 all-time favorites (next to Aggron and Cobalion). Also, if you want to know how much I love it, just look up "Bronzong Song" by Fisdunction. You're welcome.

choice banded bronzong with trick, boom and gyro ball in gen 4 is one of my favourite sets ever, i believe thats a BKC classic

Got top 4 in one of the first Reg G online tours and bronzong single handedly carried a round. Tera fire + Iron/press walled his calyrex ice and the opposing bloodmoon ursaluna literally couldnt hurt it thanks ti steel + levitate. If you need a bloodmoon answer or a general physical defensive wall this is the guy

Glad to see some Bronzong appreciation, love that guy.

Now I wonder what the most over appreciated pokemon is?

This was THE reg G peliper back in VGC 2016

Huge fan of bronzong! I tend to run him in playthroughs of fan games whenever i can get one

Pleasantly surprised to see a vid on my favorite pokemon of all time! King Gongbit doesn't get enough love.

A PowerPoint about certain formulas in Pokemon like damage and such could be a cool topic to cover, I don’t fully understand them

Bronzong makes a great anchor to a team on an adventure. With fantastic bulk, great resists, and decent power, it makes for a good pokemon to throw out in front of the opponent while you spam revives and potions on the rest of your team.

Gen 7 I remember messing around with a Z-Trick Room Bronzong in doubles. Z-Trick Room boosted accuracy letting Bronzong land accurate hypnosis with its low speed in trick room to sleep whatever its trick room sweeping parter wasn’t trying to knock out.

While the video does bring up some solid points, regrettably, Risk of Rain 2 has caused me to have a irreversible hatred towards them, because a common, very powerful enemy responsible for ending your run faster than you can say "thank you hopoo" later on, the Brass Contraption, is a giant brass bell that psychically throws spiked balls of pure hatred at you, and very much looks similar to them

Most Underappreciated? Have you forgotten about poor Raichu?

I know PowerPoint gets memed on a lot, but this was an enjoyable presentation. Well done!

Bronzong is one of my favourite psyquic type pokémon, in fact for a while it was top 1 but now it's Deoxys.

bronzong is just such a friend :3 and theyre an INCREDIBLE nuzlocke encounter

Shoutout to blue/green floating psychic types, gotta be one of my favorite genres of Pokemon

i used a bronzong in my first play through of Renegade Platinum. It was on a rain team and i was running dual screens/stealth rock/explosion for bosses; it would take a couple hits setting up screens and rocks then explode for a free switch. for catching legendaries it had heal block and hypnosis iirc, so it was all around a fantastic member. that was the latest generation where i actually sat down and completed the pokédex and it was the key element that let me do that

Fun fact: Mr Beast picked Bronzong in his gen 5 Pokemon Showdown team :D

I like Bronzong. Its minor in terms of balance in competitive but I like the Heatproof/Levitate thing where what its weakness is changes depending on the ability

The fact it doesn't learn Heal Bell or Rapid Spin is a travesty, the dude is literally a bell!

I remember back when Action Replay was a thing, I hacked a new playthrough of Black/White to do a "Sinnoh run" where I got myself the 3 Sinnoh starters, and 3 other mons (I forget exactly which ones, but I _know_ one of them was a Bronzor. I think _maybe_ the other two were Shinx and Skorupi?) Anyways, good memories. Bronzong was way better than I imagined it would be, tanking pretty much everything while still hitting extremely hard with Psychic. ...man, I miss action replay shenanigans.

After I almost swept someone with a bronzong by it existing long enough I have never undervalued it

When Bronzong is talked about, I remember my first Draft League battle where it set up in front of Iron Bundle and ran over 4 mons, tera-ing in the middle to dodge a dark pulse and finishing the sweep off killing Tapu koko. Absolute legend.

Always loved Bronzong, i'm glad my boy is getting some appreciation

One of my favorite spicy defense types, along with claydol and cofagrigus

Special shout out to how good Bronzong performs in nuzlockes too, more specifically in Plat. As it turns out, a super bulky pokemon with tons of support moves and resistances with only 1 weakess as a tradeoff is super good when you don't want your team to faint.

i feel personally attacked whenever bronzor line is mentioned, i have phased so many times on them while shiny hunting throughout so many games

I'm thinking of using iron defense body press trickroom to be a counter to the funni dog with shield and calyrex ice Any tips?

I had a Bronzong with Speed Swap, he was cooking.

THATS MY MF BOY, BRONZONG LOVERS STAND UP!!!!!!!!!!

every generation I always build atleast 1 team with Bronzong. Its such a reliable glue at times

Very few Pokemon have won worlds twice so it’s certainly in rarified air. Probably won’t see to much usage this year unless Groudon or Zacian gets better but it can run iron defense/body press now, that just tends to be better on defensive fighting types like zam and komo

THAT’S MY GOAT BRONZONG!!! I did a casual playthrough of Platinum a while back and my Bronzong named Quasimodo ended up being a sleeper MVP: Surprisingly tanky and INSANE utility movepool.

Love this thing in draft league, insane amount of utility and bulk allows you to do a lot of things with it from setting up trick room to being a body press sweeper. (Shout out to the person who got 6-0 by the latter set)

I want to know if clawitzer was ever good. I love it's design and recently started to use it on my VGC reg g team since it threatens so much damage and can heal allies more than floral healing.

Couldn’t have beaten my first platinum nuzlocke without bronzor/bronzong,flexible yet reliable mon from gym 2 to Cynthia

I think it’d be funny if Bronzong got memento and perish song as well as celebrate helping hand and aqua ring. Coz yknow, death knells and wedding bells

Always liked its design based on the Dōtaku Really cool

Thank you for Shouting out Palestine 🇵🇸 ❤️

Bronzong also hard walls almost the entirety of Platinum so that's sorta hype. They even give you a trick room tm.

bronzong has been my favorite since i played pear on the ds as a kid, i always love using it in teams its just a solid guy all

7-8 year old me not reading levitate against the E4 because I never saw it before and thought only flying types were immune to earthquake. WHY ISNT IT DYING.

Bronzong is awesome. It's never too overbearing defensively since it lacks recovery, and it's never too overwhelming offensively because of its low speed and lower attacking stats. What it does have is an incredible support movepool, an incredible typing, and just enough stats to make it work. It's never going to win a game by itself, but it can be the glue that holds your team together.

I learned to respect Bronzong's defensive abilities when Lucian used it as his ace.

Hypno is underappreciated It's cute It's the perfect hugging buddy

this is my personal favorite mon. god of the ps om “pokebilities” w all three abilities at once

I don't get the notification for this video, my comment streak is now ruined. Anyway bronzong is cool, great video.

It's the only pre-gen9 pokemon that I used in my playthrough of Violet. Cool dude.

Poor bronzong, always being overshadowed by the other psychic/steel pokemon (which are all legendary's or pseudo legendary), but bronzong will always be the best one to us ❤️🫶

I like Bronzong's geometric design but it was a pretty unassuming dude, since the first time I saw it being used in place of cresselia insome teams in 2016 it grew on me

I've gotten away with using heatproof bronzong because people expect the levitate and the turn it takes to test is a turn they can't prevent trick room

I'd love for bronzong to get a bit of love in gen 10 again.

Don’t forget that bronzong pretty much walls Cynthia’s entire team with levitate, my favorite part about it no doubt.

finally, appreciation for the b e l l

welcome to gen iv ou where my custap bronzong goes 3 to one while getting up rocks

Carillon, my beloved

Love my big bronze bell so much

Bronzong is my favorite tank. Iron defense, calm mind, rest flash cannon. I ran heatproof cause it was a free turn of setup thinking i was gonna run levitate, also helped with burn. Went 300:10 in gen 5 1v1s back in the day

Bronzong may be great but back when I played Diamond as my first game and didnt know about type matchups I seriously struggled with every Bronzor I came across, that flat tanky bastard.

damn, this guy goes crazy on 2x speed

Honestly a "better" levitating steel that's not weak to knock can probably bring a lot of ubers back to OU.

Bronzong essentially gets a free ground immunity becsuse everyone just assumes most of the time you are run ing levitate 😂

Literally my favourite mon of all lool

Brongzong is one of my fav Gen 4 moms I just wish it was better in single player

698 views in 13 minutes, this guy balls more than I ever will.

I'm sorry, but I still have terrible memories of trying to grind in Gen 4, and having to fight just **so many** wild Bronzong and play "guess which ability", and invariably if I lead off with a ground type attack they would have Levitate, but if I tried fire first it would be Heatproof. Combined with how bulky they were, it made leveling up so tedious.

YESSSSS BRONZONG POSTING 🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔

How OP would Bronzong be with Drizzle? Because the ability would be perfect considering its dex entries.

Love bronzong. Bros an absolute monster of a steel bell.

By far my most hated pokemon I had to fight as a kid in gen4

listening at 2x speed

Not rekated to mainline pokemon but this thing is such a good mon in rejuv and reborn