Lmfao I watched the video like 3 times before uploading and didn’t catch the mouse slip, either iMovie bugged or I’m very stupid

Dragons, No. Weather Monsters, No. A dog with a sword that gains an attack boost on switch in, No. Just 2 dumb horses, Yes.

Cant wait for Primal Calyrex Water and Primal Calyrex Fire where Calyrex is just riding on Primal Kyogre and Primal Groudon, RU at best in gen 12

It is undeniably funny that despite all the special treatment mewtwo got, game freak literally made a psychic type that literally just outclasses it.

Its kinda funny how both the Gen 8 DLC Legendaries got massively boosted in Gen 9 cuz of the removal of Dynamax and addition of Tera

Man I'm so hungry for a broken mon. how hungry...

"And first of all, let's talk about its stats." *talks about its typing*

Epic rap battles of history: Hydrogen Bomb, Versus Significantly Slower Hydrogen Bomb, BEGIN!

"Let's balance our Legendries around this one specific mechanic we have no plans to bring back any time soon. What could go wrong?" - Game Freak, probably

"This town ain't big enough for the two of us...." *Kills everyone with overbearing shadow power*

wide guard went from like 0% usage to 90%

they're making my flutter mane cry and putting yveltal in jail i am convinced that game freak hates me and only specifically me

since this isn't getting into singles, imma get into them here: caly-i is generally pretty fine, hits hard as hell but its low speed, bad offensive movepool and god awful defensive typing really hold it back from doing a lot, although it can set up trick room for itself to off-set the first problem caly-s is an absolute war crime that completely ruined gen 8 ubers, forcing most teams to run yveltal, which in turn forced eternatus, whom also forced necrozma-dm, basically locking in 4/6 slots for most teams, and was so god damn insane thanks to tera in gen 9 that it was banned to anything goes, becoming the fourth ever pokemon (behind mega rayquaza, gen 4 arceus and gen 8 zacian) to be banned from ubers, which is extra impressive with the bike lizards running around

What if they designed Arceus in the next Gen? Base stats: HP: 180 Attack: 180 Defense: 180 Sp. Attack: 180 Sp. Defense: 180 Speed: 180

ghost horse is admittedly a smidgen easier to deal with due to Snarl and Assault Vest, but the ice horse? oh my lord, with clamulet and tera fire that thing is a literal war crime

0:45 Calyrex was so strong they took you out of presentation mode.

I can’t believe some of the most broken Pokémon we ever got are two half-assed rendered horses.

the fact that the horse gets expanding force is a crime

I really like the idea of running clear amulet cause you’re just like “Fuck it, have 3 abilities now”

Gen 8 dlcs only objective was creating two of the most broken legendaries in the entire franchise, a fucking bear that punches hard and an onion doe who likes riding horses.

“its ok! I’ll use tera dark wide guard mienshao” The urshifu in the back:

The only thing I will give them is that they have made Zamazenta a good counter meta option but I am still surprised that their signature moves didn’t get at least a 20 BP nerf each because of how good each stab is

I have been lied to thats Google Slides NOT Microsoft Powerpoint. What do I do now?

Can't wait for people to discover how snow makes caly ice even more broken. I used caly ice with alolan ninetales and i took 20% damage from a super effective sucker punch from urshifu

The fact that their signature moves doesn't have any drawback on accuracy with spread damage while kyogre and groudon signature move does show that gamefreak did this abomination on purpose

Everyone needs a funny kung fu cat or the toilet bird to use a big wall to stop these two.

i was always anticipating when this thing would be allowed back in vgc, though i still felt a nasty chill when it finally happened

Who is laughing about the brocolli head now????

tysm for making this video it feels great to have my hatred for these two validated. reg G ladder is fucking insane right now. I played snow in reg F (even before articuno won the regional) and the chances of me facing a snow mirror then were genuinely higher than the chances of me facing ANYTHING BUT calyrex riders in this reg. it's abysmal

Garganacl would’ve been a good counter with its purifying salt that can stand up to astral barrage from shadow but oh yeah because calyrex without the horse is grass type it also has access to giga drain, so dumb

Remember when Dynamax turned Calryrex blue instead of the typical red, and they just, never elaborated on that whatsoever?

It is so unfortunate that after they did this entire Pokémon Fusion concept correctly with Dondozo, we still have to boggle with this coming back.

Fun fact: Glacial Lance used to have 130 BP to then be nerfed to 120 in gen 9.

The part with no crazy coverage is wrong, specifically Ice Rider. Glacial Lance, High Horsepower and Close Combat is incredible and it also gets niche moves like Crunch and Seed Bomb

0:45 mouse slip!

God... like I wouldn't mind them so much if they were actually well designed aesthetically, but they're not to me. Calyrex has that direction issue where I can't tell if I'm supposed to take it seriously or not, that sock monkey doll looking ass body with that more grounded rabbit head with a stoic expression. It's just looks plain off, like pick one direction GF. Wheras the horses just look TOO plain. Nothing about them looks significant enough to come across as legendaries. Glastrier looks like just an Ice Mudsdale and Spectrier looks like ghost Rapidash. They're too empty and unfinished. They could've added more decorations on it like saddles to compliment the 'fusion' steed gimmick, maybe give Glastrier an ice barding, give Spectrier some ghoulish caparison, like give them SOMETHING to look more significant. And then you get the real spotlight with the Rider forms and man... Calyrex does not stylistically match either of the horses, like, at all. The way Calyrex crams more detail into a smaller outline makes it look more like a different piece of artwork scaled down and pasted onto these cleaner and roomier horse designs. Neither horse shares any common shapes or design cues with the rider. Calyrex's white elements don't even match Glastrier's white elements, and its grey elements don't even match Spectrier's grey elements. These Pokemon were simply never designed to actually look stylistically pleasing together or play off one another in any identifiable fashion.

Worst thing is both of caly shadow’s weaknesses become resistances with tera dark, very balanced

On october 22nd 2020, Spectrier and Calyrex combined for 63 points. Spectrier scored 62, while Calyrex scored 1.

psst, spread the word. run eviolite bisharp with inner focus and a 196hp 252+ def spread, using sucker punch and foul play. my brother one shots every caly shadow with either move, and it eats two high horsepowers from ice while two hitting it back (at least one of those hits needs to be foul play). there are 4 scenarios when you use him, either you destroy their restricted and win on the spot, they refuse to attack with it while you sweep their other mons, you force an early tera, or you lead wrong and get annihilated👍

I'm not that much into competitive, but when I did rank battles in SwSh to be able to get the Master Rank Ribbon, the mon I used to counter Calyrex Shadow was Focus Sash Shedinja with Shadow Sneak and Poltergeist. It worked every time (unless I had to send Shedinja while C-S was already on the field)

The one thing that kept Calyrex Shadow in check was its typing and in Gen 9 they absolutely carried it over the edge with Terastilzation. That is truly insane.

Given that the one form is called Ice Rider, it’s my head canon that they originally wanted to call the other form Ghost Rider but couldn’t because, as badass as that name is, that’s already a Marvel character

Calyrex Shadow is so op, it got quick banned from balanced hackmons before Zacian C did. CalyrexShadow is the ultimate offence beast while Calyrex Ice is a heavy hitting tank but is kinda held back by its type

My calyrex-S and Galarian weezing core shall never be broken

I find it hilarious that Origin Pulse and Precipice Blades are only 85% accurate, yet Astral Barrage and Glacial Lance are 100%. *Game balance has left the chat*

This is the season of WideGuard. I've had some fun with various WideGuard users paired with a restricted trick room user that's slower than Shadow but faster than Ice. Definitely haven't found a solid 6 around a core pairing but it's got good principles. Al-Golem/Palkia has insane pressure.

Base Form Calyrex is in ZU in singles, below the PU Glastrier and well below the Ubers Spectrier.

It kinda sucks that Gen 8's legendaries all have that thing in common of being absurdly strong (even Zamazenta is now seemingly?), cause I think they have extremely cool designs but clearly they were not toned down enough to account for the power level and mechanics of the gen 9 format. But hey…on the bright side, at least we have Eternatus. I don't think it was ever broken (I think), and it looks so bizarre and cool.

If you've played Radical Red, the most difficult battle in hardcore mode wasn't some of the rigged nonsense with cheating field effects or enemy stat boosts. It's one calyrex shadow in agatha's team with grim neigh and astral barrage that can delete your team if it kills even one enemy. Sucker punch isn't available, so if you lose a pokemon you'll likely get wiped. Keep in mind this is a game where in other battles your opponents' pokemon start with +6 all stats or field effects that halve your own speed, make enemies immune to super effective moves ar take half damage or take a fourth of your health each turn. And the hardest battle before post game is just one normal calyrex.

1:58 isn't that thundurus not tornadus?

The delivery on "the silly funny side effect of fucking healing it" was perfect

I kid you not, I put a Farigiraf on my reg g team and tested it on showdown because it seems like the *perfect* counter to Calyrex shadow on paper. Normal/psychic type to resist caly's psychic stab and be immune to astral barrage, trick room to make itself and its allies move before the god forsaken speed demon, and armor tail to prevent any of caly's allies from doing potential fake out into astral barrage combo. But nope, even with ALL of that, I had a match where my Farigiraf was ohko'd by SPECS DARK PULSE from Calyrex because that was totally expected. To make matters worse, in another match, my Farigiraf was ohko'd by specs POLLEN PUFF. It's so mind boggling to me that something that's supposed to be counter on paper just gets annihilated in the blink of an eye if you don't either make the hardest read of your life, or burning your tera turn 1 and still possibly get read

Turns out everyone was looking at horses and totally forgot about Miriadon’s unbelievable damage output. The calyrexs need to set up or pick up some KOs to become machine guns, but as Rajan put it on tub, miraidon is a shotgun turn one.

I think if Astral Barrage/Glacial Lance lowered sp.atk/atk respectively, they might be more manageable. Idk why they did that with Make it Rain but not with those moves

funniest thing about gen 8 was when yveltal became the hero of smogon being the only pokemon that could effectively check calyrex shadow

BREAKING: Jackalope and horse form symbiotic relationship, destroy ecosystem

Funny to know that they both get walled by a funny bird. Birb > horse

Oh the purple horse and weird dude we giga banned from Gen 9 Ubers cuz of Tera LOL

moral of the PowerPoint: horses are just special dogs

Yeah I used to be eh on Calyrex. Like it was fine, a somewhat unremarkable legendary with an admittedly cute story in the dlc but once I got into competitive more seriously because of my Ribbon Master quest my opinion on Calyrex nosedived hard, this thing is incredibly annoying to deal with. Besides Amoongus I don't think I've ever changed my mind about a pokemon so quickly. Really not looking forward to fighting this thing with my Koraidon team.

The Crown Tundra DLC is what made me quit competitive Pokemon tbh. I fucking hate those stupid horses

Seeing how much better Epona does when Link uses a carrot, we shoulda known how strong a legendary horse would get when you use a whole Bugs Bunny. Seriously though, as much as I genuinely enjoy the concept of these legendaries, they're so fucking busted, they're kinda ruined for me. Its basically the opposite of how I came to actually appreciate Pokemon like Forettress, despite it just being a random bagworm (which are so gross irl) because its been useful in game. Heck, I even developed a bit of fondness for Luvdisc because of a rando nuzlocke Huge Power lil fishy who was actually a competent team member before dying tragically at the end of Victory Road. Use makes players love Pokemon.

Its a google slide, not a powerpoint. Ive been clickbaited.

I'm a modern gen apologist when it comes to new OP stuff, but the fact that we have a power crept MEWTWO is insane and wrong on so many levels. The gap between the two isn't even close.

Wait a second, that's not PowerPoint, that's google slides! Im unsubbing!

Peter... The Horse is here...

Let's be real: At least Xerneas isn't in the game, too.

I truly wanna know what the hell was Gamefreak on during Gen8

In this regulation, the term "not very effective" is subjective

Irony - videos like this made people overprepare for Calyrex, so a 3-Electric move Miraidon ended up winning a huge tournament while no Calyrex got a top placement.

I hate this stupid deer thing and his horses. Nothing about this Pokémon is cool or well designed, it's just "click Astral Barrage/Glacial Lance until everyone is dead." I genuinely hope this Pokémon gets nerfed into the ground, lower it's attacking stats, make their signature moves have actual downsides, or just flat out remove them from the game. I want this Pokémon gone.

They put a pokemon on a pokemon and called it a new pokemon

All fun and games until: 252+ Atk Blaziken Flare Blitz vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Calyrex-Ice in Sun: 228-270 (110.1 - 130.4%) -- guaranteed OHKO 252 Atk Orichalcum Pulse Koraidon Shadow Claw vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Calyrex-Shadow: 264-312 (150.8 - 178.2%) -- guaranteed OHKO

Feels like he has a similar story to Urshi, designed for a format and gimmick that would keep them in check and relatively balanced and went through no balance changes because of that while the things that made them balanced are just gone.

uwu *assaults you with a barrage of astral ghosts*

Game Freak really seems to like giving the mascot of a second wave of dlc a 120bp stab spread move with no secondary effect, huh

Is Boingus a Pokemon Blahaj?

it's funny that because of powercreep we don't have big ass legendary fear-inducing horrors beyond our comprehensions ruining PS but we have two fucking horses running over ubers and VGC

I hate this stupid thing so much, I wish they'd never created it. Edit: I think Gen 8 has been a complete disgrace. Dynamax made everything stale and boring, and it gave us the three most broken, game-breaking pokemon of all time being Urshifu, calyrex and zacian. Cursed generation should be banned from history.

The only thing that kept Calyrex Shadow Rider from being broken was Yveltal. Now that he's not here, he has no reliable check. Not many Dark-types have the raw bulk and HP to take Astral Barrages from Calyrex.

Me personally i think trick room was a mistake

another thing is Yveltal isn't in gen9 make it even harder to counter

can you talk how zamazenta for once is viable?

Disqualified by virtue of stacking 2 Pokemon on top of each other and trying to register a 7 Pokemon team. Problem solved :^)

Game Freak knew what the hell they were doing when they made these things and let them be restricted Pokémon in VGC, guarantees DLC sales just like Urshifu and Ogerpon

Hopefully, gen 10 is about music, so the legendaries can be even more overtuned.

the horse is here

I don't mind Pokemon combining but a Pokemon riding another and call it 1 Pokemon is just stupid. What next? Pikachu riding Charizard is a Pikachu form?

They literally have the best offensive moves in the game for no reason. They are power creep incarnate.

Waiting for Terapagos and zamazenta: Protect the queen PowerPoint

How is this actually allowed tho? Like this Pokemon is ridiculous

What's stopping a handsome, Giratina fan from running Assault Vest Kingambit next to a Wide Guard ally?

I remember the absolute abomination this was in swsh ag times. Not a single team was run without yveltal.

cant even tell the difference, kinda just more matted mmm like a blanket room

Good luck on finals EWGF

And people act as if VGC is somehow more balanced than singles? Yeah, nah, if Pokemon like this and Urshifu are allowed, then Gamefreak barely balances the game around doubles. So not even the meta game is salvageable at this point. Hell, the allowance of legendaries as busted as these is a joke, even if there's only a single one per team.

Calyrex-Ice Ryder needs to get banned as well from Ubers cause it's just ridiculous Also, bring back original zacian crown form, Legends plate Arceus, Mega Rayquaza, Primal Kyogre & Primal Groundon

Imagine if Xerneas was in Gen IX.

Calyrex is literally carried by the Horses, since regular Calyrex is bottom-tier trash. Funny how Calyrex is simultaneously the best AND the worst Legendary all because of a horse.

Its just unfair that groudon and kyogre's special move have onreliabke accuracy while these two hav a move of the same power but with 100 accuracy