200 base special goes kinda crazy

​@@shirshobanerjee7751who needs Amnesia when you already get 200 Special

deoxys attack would also be crazy

200 base Special is a bigger war crime than Red/Green Blizzard.

@@glitchedoom and it gets stab blizzard for good measure

I mean it's manageable there's 13 fully evolved poison types to cover and most would have already been covered before making them easier to skim over

Goated username reference. Shoutout to KungFuCutman

So they don't like the snow... lol

why are you drinking root beer with your nose

Snow also helped. Like, it was genuinely part of why Baxcalibur went to Ubers if I recall.

Something someone I knew noticed about Snow early on in gen 9 was that Snow buffs ice types, and it’s a step up from hail teams, but it doesn’t buff mono ice. Particularly the best snow setting move was given to slowking of all mons and the only snow warning mon we got was snowbama which is uhhhh ouch. I don’t know how much this changes things but I thought it was pretty notable

@@SomeAsian mostly due to aurora veil from a-ninetails in combination with bax. If snow had worked like prior gens instead of giving a defense boost, bax still would have gone to ubers for sure, but may have taken longer to do so. Obviously, with the new snow defensive buff and Aurora veil, bax was genuinely unbreakable on the physical side.

@@SomeAsian Yep, Baxcalibur got scale shot which has amazing chemistry with the loaded dice item (since baxcalibur also has icicle spear, it has 2 quazi-skill-shot mulit-attacks that play into its stab) that, combined with the re-introduction of alolan ninetails with snow warning and arguably the move with the most busted effect ever, aurora veil, coming back, baxcalibur with scale shot now has what can usually be a 250% defense and 200% sp. def. pokemon with already okay bulk, which means the defense drop of scale drop barely matters, and its just a stab dragon 4-5 hit move that also raises speed on a pseudo-legendary So, yeah, ubers

​@@mainzer45In addition to that, Baxcalibur also, for some Arceus-forsaken reason, got *Scale Shot* from DLC1...when Loaded Dice was already one of its best items and when it could easily forego Leftovers despite Gen 09 being hazards hell due to Ice Body + Snow's defense buff (+ Slowking & Glowking's free pivoting via Chilly Reception). DLC1 really was just a perfect (hail)storm of various factors for it since it was already bordering on Ubers even beforehand.

My personal favourite bits are the nicknames for the mons. It's such a small and insignificant part of the video but it always puts a smile on my face

Gengar going ._. Is priceless

@@werisekk3YOU HAVE CUNO

disappointed cloyster made my day

Scared jinx is my favorite

Disruptive Wave is in DQ9 as well.

It also may be ice because in Japanese it's just called "black mist" which mist is ice

@@bobjoe3492 Like the Japanese word for ice is also the word for mist? Not sure what this means

@@tatherva7387 By definition, mist can be made up of ice crystals as well as water vapor. Also, while Haze is "Black Mist", Mist is "White Mist", so the moves are kind of counterparts to each other.

​@@Leet-iz2fz I guess I could see that. The technical definition seems like a stretch but the explanation of the Japanese names makes sense with the White Mist and Black Mist thing so I get that part. Reading it again I think they just meant that the move Mist is ice, not some deep galaxy brain introspection on the nature of water in its various states of matter like I originally read it lol

dewgong is one of the best pokemon in gsc nu, so thats cool.

I'm a dewgong enthusiast mostly because I love basic pokemon. With no special traits, nothing notable about them, nothing.

Dewgang

Heyy. It’s good in stadium 2

I was going to say the same! It is a monster in Stadium 2 Rentals!

Huge agree. I wouldn't have held it against them at all if they had just used text and pngs for those jokes, and they often do anyway, but the little changes in facial expression and stuff like that adds so much and helps give these videos a unique feel

Makes me laugh like crazy everytime xD

also i'm glad she finally started using the sw97 sprites, they fuck severely

i thought i was going crazy until i really paid attention to the eyes and realized they were indeed actually changing

Was just about to comment this, they make me smile a lot

It’s hilarious seeing the words “threat” and “Venonat” being used together in the same sentence.

@@uniatrix You're right He's too much of a gentleman to harm anybody Except maybe that rapscallion Meowth

sometimes

I did legitimately use Venonat in a challenge run. Unbound Insane, Monobug LC. Venonat was the only thing that got Skill Swap in time for Gym 3 to get Aerilate off of Mega Pinsir.

@@DoctorSpacebar I fell in love with Venonat after using him in a LC Draft League He did a lot for my team for a pokemon worth so little points, being second in usefulness to my Bulk Up Crabrawler

is it a permanent reset or only for the battle? asking because gen 1 is gen 1

@@tomatomanpan647 You can fix this issue by just switching out the Pokemon. The badge boosts will be re-applied.

has this ever been a problem for anyone other than jrose's solo pokemon challenges

⁠@@brasilballs honestly he’s probably the one who discovered it if I had to guess, wouldn’t be the first time he has

Zapdos getting Drill Peck and not the other two is criminal. Also, the fact that Moltres can't learn Flamethrower.

Moltres getting Leer instead of Flamethrower because someone at Game Freak typed in the wrong number will always be the funniest thing.

​@@glitchedoom wait is that true

@@calvin8857 Yeah, the hex value of Leer is one away from Flamethrower, they used the wrong number.

Literally what I thought when I saw the thumbnail while preheating pizza 😂

Excuse me Big Yellow choice band salamence my sister.

Shittt if only I had a gf that also played competitive pokemon

@@liamthecrusader5056It’s not too late to introduce her to it

@@GoldGuard oh I don’t even have one lol

I had no idea that's absolutely disgusting I'm ngl

Hail was legit the best weather in gen 8 ou for a while. Arctozolt and alolan ninetales went hard

Don't forget GMax Lapras setting up Aurora Veil for free

I also gotta point that Hail was actually dominant in DPP UU and resulted in Abomasnow and Froslass getting banned (and is still decently viable with Snover)

They also started making busted ice types Like chien pao is weavile from almost any ability but with higher stats, bax has not only a ridiculous attack but an enormous dragon stab and every boosting move it could wish for, mecha santa has the best stab combo to ever exist thanks to freeze dry and was the fastest pokemon in the tier when it was free And last gen they just gave busted moves to already good pokemon, regular kyurem always had some insane stats but with freeze dry to break waters and dd and icicle spear to finally make use of its high attack it managed to get graduated from ou and weavile did just get a 120 bp ice stab

@@ultrayoshi100not sure how gf thought that would be fair. Luckily d-max was banned in singles so only vgc had to deal with it

Glaciers are slow. That’s why

​@@Skullhawk13a glacier isn't going to explode into a million billion pieces if you punch it

@@slimestudios9748 I didn't say it made total sense, I just explained the reasoning. I think it's stupid Ice types are mostly mighty glaciers or walls when they're built to be glass canons.

They do the same shit with Rock types, who are also very obviously offensively focused given their weaknesses and things they hit SE.

The fact that some types are designed to be offensive threats (rock/ice are particularly outrageous in this case) while having a good bit of slow, bulky members in their rank is really silly. I get that buffing the offense of ice types would be bad for the overall balance. Please though, boost their defensive side then. Make it neutral or even resistant to fire (ice is just cold water after all), resist water and bug (if that’s even relevant for the latter lmao), just please, do something about that. I would also like it if Fairies were weaker defensively and if Steel were weaker offensively, but that’s just me. Some types really aren’t properly balanced and it’s sad. Ice deserves so much better than just 5 turns of +50% defence.

i mean, the weather ball thing ain't that weird, considering it blatantly just exists so that castform can use its type-changing gimmick offensively. it's kinda like asking why judgement, techno blast, and multi-attack are exclusive to their respective pokemon, 'cept weather ball is a lot less tricky to give to other pokemon thanks to relying on a general mechanic instead of one that's fully pokemon-specific hell, funnily enough, terrain pulse has actually become a _reverse_ weather ball, owing to the fact that no pokemon learned it naturally prior to the smoliv line introduced in the same generation that move tutors stopped offering it. which is ... genuinely a whole lot more "gamefreak why" than the weather ball thing, considering the line's whole interaction with terrain is a. learning grassy terrain and b. arborliva getting the ability to set grassy terrain when hit, so terrain pulse basically just exists as 100 power stab move that you have to do a varying degree of set up to utilize ... on a pokemon that gets energy ball, petal dance, leaf storm, and, hell, if you're wanting a set up-reliant move in particular, the ol' classic of solar beam and, uh, petal blizzard and solar blade. for those who want to take full advantage of arborliva's very nice 69 base attack

@@hi-i-am-atan Yeah, Terrain Pulse is definitely the far more "What? Why?!" move for the reasons you say. My lament about Gen 03 Weather Ball was more about its exclusivity making Gen 03 Hail even worse than already was acknowledged to be in this video, which is saying something. That and lamenting it being stuck on Castform as insult to injury, a mon unfortunately so crappy even in its own gimmick that said gimmick doesn't even work with one entire weather, Sand,...which also ended up being the most dominant weather in the entire gen. (Unsurprising given it was the only weather with a weather-setting ability given to a non-legendary mon. All hail Gen 03 Tyranitar but, you know, with sand.) Additionally, as weird as Terrain Pulse is, Arboliva is at least still a weirdly decent and good mon even after Rillaboom's return and can make good use of it. Castform couldn't even be decent in its debut generation and has only gotten far worse with all of the power creep

@@MusicoftheDamned alas, poor castform. i have to wonder if being introduced a single generation later could've given it a better fate, considering the only reason i can imagine for its perfectly balanced stats is so that it could pretend to leverage base weather ball, stuck as it was being a physical move due to gen 3's mechanics no, i'm not even gonna pretend to imagine rock weather ball entering the devs' minds once while designing castform, since, y'know it's just kinda unfortunate. thing's clearly meant to be an adaptable special attacker with some real solid elemental coverage, and ... yeah, that's what it is. that's what it is, except its stat spread is yes and it does not remotely have the bst to do anything with that. it's one of the pokemon that would benefit the most from gamefreak finally allowing themselves to do full base stat reworks, because that's the singular thing holding its concept back

Totally. Yellow was the reason I even got into Pokemon. I'll never not appreciate that

Elon went gay hes not good anymore

​@@Seinsmelled...what?

@@slimestudios9748 big yellow looks like elon

Snow boosts defense, yeah. And still works with Aurora Veil. Granted this has opened up a different problem of Pokemon being hideously overpowered with Alolatales' support. (See Baxcalibur which literally becomes unstoppable thanks to snow/veil's buffs and also getting a damaging speed increasing move while also _being immune to burn._ Silly nonsense.)

They do the same thing with rock types despite them being in a similar situation of being more of a glass cannon type, Made even worse by all the bulky ground/rock which have TWO 4x weaknesses to 2 common types and as a cherry on Most rock types have sturdy which will only help getting off one move before your defensively focused mon get out sped and dies next turn.

@@DMSwordsmaster i played around with an alolatales/bax/chien-pao core for a bit in VGC, it was fun. Bax is a menace if it gets a SD off. Not busted like it is in singles though

Indeed! Jynx's pissed face is just hilarious!

had me happy the same way as seeing a nine inch nails reference in BTD5 / Bloons Monkey city

Mamoswine did a lot in Gen 4 OU, but time wore it down. Platinum made a lot of threats a lot stronger and made a hard counter to it strong and HGSS added to that, and a lot of the things it was good against got banned. It's OU by technicality now, sure, but unlike Electivire (which was OU by technicality back in fucking DP and everyone knew it) it actually had the history to justify that position.

Plague von Karma has a great video about that, if you haven't seen it already. It's called "Why was Snorlax buffed in gen 2?" or something like that, if you want to find it easily

As a fan of Big Yellow, this is the video I was hoping for. Thank you, ice types (for giving BY another topic)

Elon went gay stop being a fan of him

​@@Seinsmelledwhat is blud waffling about?

That explains why it would have felt unfinished in Gen 1, but not why they took so long to bother trying to finish it

"almost"? Do you have a source? Because it's hard to believe when one of the legendaries is ice, as well as an elite four member, and the first gym is rock

Source: I made it up

​@@JagGentlemann They split off from Water and Ground respectively - Articuno would have originally been Water/Flying, and Brock would have been a Ground type leader (Giovanni was originally Flying or possibly even Bird, we have an early version of his team in the leak and even in the final his badge is a feather). The biggest smoking gun is the internal order of types used for determining physical or special - Ice and Rock are right at the end, just above Bug, Ghost, and Dragon, which definitely make sense as last-minute additions (Bug largely because most of the Pokemon that have it also have a second type - the exceptions are the Caterpie line, which are the last Bug types in the internal order and probably made after the type being created, and Pinsir, which you can easily imagine being Fighting type originally). More circumstantially, there was a clear trend towards fire/electric/[water/ice] trios in development that was obscured by both the Water and Ice split and the fact that a couple of the third members got cut. Only Articuno/Zapdos/Moltres and Flareon/Jolteon/Vaporeon survived completely unscathed, and to a lesser extent Electabuzz/Magmar/Jynx - there was a cut yeti Pokemon that had a stronger connection to Electabuzz and Magmar. In addition to that, Goldeen, Ponyta, and Kotora from the leak (Electric type based on its reappearance in the more-complete Gold beta leak) are all next to each other in the internal order, as are Vulpix, Pikachu, and a cut two-stage line of sumo wrestling frogs (almost definitely Water type). Personally, my guess is the split happened largely because of Articuno - it just felt weird for this obviously ice-themed bird to resist fire, and there were probably already moves like Blizzard and Mist using the Water type that were easy to switch over.

​@@porygonlover322go off king

Honestly there's a fair arguement that blizzard is better than those even. It's using better sheer cold and 90% accurate blizzard at the same time.

@@SPZ-gv2on there's an argument to be made there for sure... But a 140 BP move that boosts your speed... It would have tough competition there

I do wanna revisit that style soon, I've been meaning to do it for a while but haven't had anything click, I will get to it though, just not sure how or what game

Honestly same. It was actually the video on... Either Melee Kirby or Melee Ness that got me into this channel in the first place. I've stuck around because you still make great stuff and you're just really funny, but it's still a little bit sad that the series that got me into this channel is just kind of dead.

@@BigYellowSillyI feel like Alpha 3 R Mika would be a great pick for fighting game garbage. She is considered one of (if not) the worst characters in the game with a lot of issues holding her back but despite this due to having access to things like V ism she is able to do major damage and elaviate some of her weaknesses. You could also make a lot of comparisons between Alpha 3 and sf5 due to her being significantly better (I haven’t played much sf5 so I am not too familiar with her in that game though)

bug has gen 5 w Scizor and Volcarona

damn, Nintendo ninjas killed this commenter before they could reveal the massive buff to Bug coming in gen 10

Volcarona, Genesect, Scizor and Scollipede in gen 5

thank you knack from knack 2

@@BigYellowSilly Ok now that I've actually watched the whole vid, the edits, humor, and as always the information and everything else in this video were fantastic. You always make the comfiest videos and I could watch them for like 8 entire hours and never get tired of it.

I think ice moves like anyone else were to use its okay. but if its an ice pokemon use it well... weavile would be decent but besides that. even the good ones are usually frail except for the ice turtle which is a big wall and pretty decent if u know what your doing. but u can make it work depending on how much effort u make lol

And whenever they try to introduce something for ice that isn't "brain dead offense spam" it's most of the time absolutely awful. Like defensive ice types. Yeah, a defense with exactly one resist and more weaknesses than any defensive pokemon wants period. So they try to introduce weird overpowered stuff for ice to do like snow/veil and pretty much all it does is make those offensive powerhouses utterly busted. See Baxcalibur. Just. For God's sake, make it resist water or rock or something. Give it some defensive utility. Why does water resist ice but ice doesn't resist water? Why does rock, which ice generally slices through, do super effective damage to ice?

articuno can be decent but only in mystery dungeon lol

​@@DMSwordsmasterIndeed. I still don't understand why Ice is weak to Rock or Fighting. You could take away one of those and give Ice the still missing Ghost resistance that Steel lost in Gen 06 due to Aegislash's sins. Those two "small" changes alone would make Ice like 300% better defensively than it is now.

​@@ladyriethegoldendelmo5441 MD meta is a whole different ballpark to pokemon meta tbh. Mostly because a Pokemon's initial stats rarely actually matter so pretty much anything can be forced into a mold it has the moves for. Hariyama that uses Focus Blast? Go for it fam.

this was only changed in a weird sidemode in yellow