Cool thing about multi-hit moves that I wanted to bring up but couldn’t find a good way to: When boosted by a gem, each hit gets the boost. This idea’s success with Cloyster is one of the big reasons why they were banned in Gen 5. However, with Cloyster now being removed from the tier, some players want to bring the item back in exchange for another common abuser: Volcarona.

They just said "Lets give an absurdly strong move to a mon with a shitty attack stat so its balanced" when designing gigaton hammer and then a year later made blood moon...

I love how they gave quiver dance to a bunch of notably awful bug types and then went "fuck it, Volcarona is a moth, ship it"

This made me realize cross chop is just fighting type stone edge

Disappointed by the lack of Scary Face. I mean it's right there in the name, truly horrifying indeed!

Eruption, Dragon Energy and especially Water Spout are so hilariously terrifying in VGC. Suddenly the game turns into "Target this thing or else" and it's especially horrifying when you have to take into account speed control and Protect

Triple axle is simply insane

Just remembered the ability Perish Body exists not exactly relevant now but holy shit

Seeing Machamp in the thumbnail made me think of Fissure instead of Cross Chop, considering everything Game Freak did to make sure Machamp could not have Fissure and No Guard at the same time. Bonus points for Ting-Lu.

I find boomburst absolutely terrifying. Something about its name and the execution of the move represents its power really well.

If Tinkaton had a bit more attack Gigaton Hammer would be a nuke

For the 1 year anniversary we need a power point presentation about ElectricWindGirlfriend power presentations

To elaborate on Machamp’s gen 1 fighting moves: Machamp has access to 3 fighting type moves. One is counter, which is a whole separate mess in gen 1. Submission is the first option, which is 80 base power, 80% accurate and inflicts 1/4 recoil. The only other choice is Low Kick, which has a pathetic 50 base power and 90% accuracy. However, the flinch chance and better consistency has made it more popular in recent years. Its utility as a late-game cleaner also gets kneecapped by paralysis, which is awful when at least 4, 5 and sometimes all 6 Pokémon on your opponent’s team can paralyze you with Thunder Wave, Body Slam or Stun Spore. It also lacks the special bulk it gains in later generations, and has a Sp. Def stat of 65. Combined with the oppressive power of Starmie, Exeggutor and Alakazam, Machamp is an incredibly fringe pick, and is almost always worse than Pokémon like Persian or various Swords Dance sweepers. TL;DR Machamp sucks and is a noob trap. Use actually viable mons in RBY OU.

Triple Axel with Skill link or Loaded Dice only makes the one 90% accuracy check, effectively giving you a free 14% extra chance to land all three hits (that’s a better than wide lens usually gives!) It’s definitely one of my favourite moves in recent gens, I run it on all three of my shiny fast physical attackers. Meowscarada, Cinccino and Weavile.

I can’t believe you hate corviknight

Me and my homie GigaChad always do our daily clicks for Palestine. Great plug, king

Encore is my favorite move in the game. I love getting Illumise in random battles and just knowing I can shut down all my opponents setup attempts by switching in this random bug and getting priority encore on it. I feel like there's gotta be downside to running encore and swords dance on the same set though, that really limits your coverage, right? I've always felt like encore is a much more anti-setup option than an option to enable setup sweepers, and I've generally used it on more bulky pokemon that want to set it up, heal, and pivot out.

I really like all the funnies you put in the slides :)

Multi hit moves were even dumber in Gen 1, since if one hit crit, every subsequent hit would also crit. And that’s not even taking into account the normal crazy Gen 1 crit mechanics based on speed and scaling damage with level or every Pokémon that has over 64 speed has a 99.7% chance to crit with high crit rate moves.

I really despise the way Gigaton Hammer is designed due to how it contradicts Tinkaton's lore. They could probably change it with a line or two of code by making it so it ALWAYS does super-effective damage to Corviknight so it can live up to how Tinkaton hunts Corviknight. Instead Corviknight takes the attack easily because of a Steel resist. They do something similar with Freeze-Dry anyway. It's another monster that inspires me to avoid such an issue.

Oh THAT'S why it's called Triple Axel

Multihit moves are also very scary in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon where they can and will shred through your health bar with terrifying efficiency

This channel gonna blow up. Keep up these cool trivia videos.

I like how everyone is saying that blood moon is overpowered even though in singles it is just a worse boomburst

I will never not be sad about how they massacred Tinkaton. Poor girl has the attack stat of Bellsprout.

Great video as always

The tsar bomba (the most powerful nuclear bomb) is 50 megatons. Therefore, gigaton hammer is 20 times stronger than the most powerful weapon ever made.

Ironically, I've actually seen Encore used more as a set-up sweeper counter. Let them set up, encore them, then switch to a pokemon that can 1 hit ko them or has a better set-up

Imprison, Extremly rare but nonetheless deadly, especially when you don't expect it. Mew Imprison + transform is a menace in singles.

I don’t play singles so whenever I hear the word ban I have an immediate negative reaction. My first thought was “WHO AND WHY would do this to Ogerpon when she’s been through so much already?” 😂

Scary face scares me.

Focus Punch is another butt clencher. Call out a switch or get a free sub up? Enjoy the 150 BP fighting move. Even against physically tanky mons that resist fighting that's gonna hurt.

I straight up forgot about triple kick triple axel is so much better. It makes technician hitmontop a menace.

it never clicked with me that triple axel could be a 120 bp move if all 3 hits land, not counting multiple chances to crit too

Triple axel having double the power of triple kick is a crime

What keeps me up at night is fighting tera type super boosted attack form deoxys with huge power. All possible in gen 9 and it's rather easy to pull off. A deoxys with more than 3k base attack after being fully boosted with fighting stab is absolutely terrifying.

did not expect back to the future reference

I finally got my hisui liligant today but I don't have the dlc so for now I'm using ice spinner instead of triple axel

"NO PROTECTING PRIVATE PROPERTY" i also hate cops

I like the Breloom loaded dice swindler

What really gets me about moves like Gigaton Hammer is that they exemplify how bad powercreep has hit the past couple of generations of pokemon compared to the earlier ones, (which still had it but were more consistent). It's only held back because of Tinkaton's somewhat mediocre attack, but in all other regards is just a flat out better version of what moves like Hyperbeam and Giga Impact go for, which is a high powered move that can only be used once every two turns. The difference is it has higher accuracy, power, and still lets you act on that second turn. Blood Moon is even better because it's the same gimmick, (albeit with 10 less power), on a pokemon that can make use of it due to its high satk stat. There's of course other things that have appeared over the years that are just as absurd, and are likewise limited to specific pokemon, but it's still weird how balance has taken more and more of a backseat over the years.

Does triple kick also check accuracy each time like population bomb and triple axel?

Didn't mention V-create, 0/10

Technician Loaded Dice or Skill Link Choice Band?

Kyurem black redeemed itself in G9 with loaded dice.

I can't wait until Tinkaton gets buffed in a gen of two.

They should've boosted triple kick to triple axel when triple axel was released. Hitmontop deserves it

is using encore with blood moon and gigaton hammer a useful strat in vgc? as it has no cool down

How about Perish Song? No seriously, imagine how horrifying that is in concept and in-universe. You in range of hearing someone use it? YOU. DIE. And you get the horror of slowly realizing what's about to happen to you and your friends. They even NAMED it something terrifying. And probably accurate. Imagine having an entire song BANNED from use because it actually kills people and their Pokemon, NOT faint them. Imagine not being able to turn off your hearing OH WAIT THAT'S A NATURAL FLAW. Someone could just broadcast Perish Song through the radio in a busy city and everyone who hears it is doomed to kick the bucket. It's literally worse than a brown note, it's a complete song of brown notes. What is the time frame of three turns in real time? IS IT THREE MINUTES? YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES TO LIVE IF YOU HEAR PERISH SONG?!?! The only thing that saves it is that nowadays Pokemon just faint from hearing it and switch out nulls it. But imagine actually hearing it, figuring out what it is, and realizing what's about to happen. The sheer dread.

TINKATON MENTION LETS FUCKING GO!!!! #1 PINK WOO!!!

No Guard is such an amazing ability

Wuwu mentioned(?)

You know, after they nerfed crit damage they should have buff high crit rate moved, crosschop having 50% chance to miss everytime for a mere 20% chance for and aditional 50% damage?

Attract

These videos are like crack to me.

seriously though what the hell is blood moon. The reasoning behind moves like gigaton hammer and pop bomb was that they were given to weak Pokémon with less than 90 base attack. Then they give better gigaton hammer to a Pokémon with better damage, and offensive typing and ability. What were they thinking

Gotta be honest Astral Barrage & Glacial Lance are much scarier bcoz u know 30$. Unlike the spread moves which other legendaries & Gholdengo have got with their own drawbacks

personally I think scary face is quite scary

I thought u were calling machamp chopped and i was saying to myself how he isnt that ugly… then i realized ur talking about cross chop

gigaton hammer >>>>

Critical hits do 1.5x damage not double. Pokemon with the ability Sniper do double damage with crits At least thats how works currently, iirc it was double damage pre-gen4

ME AND MY HOMIES HATE ENCORE

Personally, i wish they wouldnt ban any moves/mons unless the format restricts them specifically. I feel that half the fun of playing competitive is not knowing what you're gonna get from your opponent and trying to build a team that can deal with anything... or do what i do and just build a team of pokemon you enjoy and not worry about "the meta" or what have you.

Boingus

People swear by stone edge and hydro pump, but 80 acc sucks. In fact 95 acc sucks too, unless you have wide lens or something.

Forcing struggle with encore will never not be funny

Neither are as scary as scary face im afraid

No scary face, no glare, no astonish, this video fell off

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