:D

Finally I can sub. Now that's what I call a deal!

I didn’t know you were vegetarian. Why are you?

I just want to say that i will be using Soak move in competitive play alongside grass or electric move. This way i won't care about terastalization since it happen before moves are used.

New wideo on the new S/V trailer coming soon?

Ice types need my changes to really shine

Somehow there will be mons that Tera INTO Ice types because no one expects it and won't run the right moves to counter them :P

@@BaconNuke You'll see it on a lot of Electric Pokemon so they can have coveted BoltBeam coverage. If you didn't know, there are only 8 type combinations that resist or are immune to Ice/Electric, and most of them are pretty bad. I doubt you'd see it on many other Pokemon. I could see it on Weavile to turn Triple Axel into a targetted nuke, but the uses for Ice are limited.

I don't know that Cetitan looked pretty buff. It tanked a flamethrower.

I can finally use Frosmoth without dying in one hit!

yeah it sucked that, since you had to give up your item, the majority of pokemon were actually stronger in their base form with a conventional item than they were with a mega. so only the megas who got absolutely broken abilities, typings, and/or stat redistributions were really worth using.

That's literally the exact meaning of z moves but in a attack

You saw Mega Mawhile.

I think introducing more megas over time and patching some of the more problematic ones would have gone a long way. It was a great mechanic imo. Lore wise it was amazing and it has great potential if game freak could just give it some time. Also I hate that they are changing mechanics so often it's really unhealthy imo

@@nathanpfirman625 which is much more lame

FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT! Ty lmao! Him calling mega beedrill trash really highlighted the differences between what a VGC player would be looking for vs a singles player. Beedrill could very much work in singles, but he’s right that in doubles it’s a waste of a mega

@@custardapplecat2902 Well, that's the thing, almost any pokemon has at least a niche in singles due to the tiering format, mega beedrill was quite decent in UU if I remember correctly

@@holyketchup2514 it actually saw tona of ou play despite being uu. It was a powerhouse of the uu tier but was still decent in ou cause of its insane power

Yeah any singles format with dynamax allowed is absolutely unplayable, wasn't the biggest z-move fan but I was fine with them, dynamax is just z-moves on steroids expanded to not just one but 3 turns while doubling the bulk at the same time on top of getting ridiculous boosts, making the dynamax mon snowball and instawin more often than not with absolutely no counterplay at all and no skill involved whatsoever. Oh yeah and it doesn't even require an item slot... The most broken and uncompetitive thing gf has come up with so far though I have the feeling terestralizing could match or even top that level of brokenness, then they would at least stay consistent at making every gimmick less competitive than the one of the generation prior

Not even talking about how it invalidates stuff like taunt, encore and phazing completely which is what I meant woth zero counterplay

Lore wise, RayRay needs mega evolution to combat Primal Groudon or Primal Kyogre. I agree that the other Pokémon don’t really need mega though.

Damn I forgot Tyranitar had a Mega

I heard Garchomp’s mega was actually worse lmao

Z moves are my favorite ultimate idk I just found them cooler then Megas

A lot of mega's don't seem to have been designed for singles. If I remember correctly the only mega that ever dropped below Ru was audino, but most were uu or above. Pretty much every mega was quite solid in singles. Like you said, beedrill is pretty good in singles. He says 5 were used in vgc, well in gen 6 ou right now there are 11. With a further 11 in uubl/uubt.

@@Serendipity_GamingX even if that’s true, everyone does lol

@@Serendipity_GamingX How do people like you still exist in 2022? No one cares about hacking in competitive Pokémon since the only thing it does is save time during teambuilding.

Off-topic: Y'all remember that one Mario game? Y'know, that one with the jumping? And the platforming? Ahh, you know what I'm talking about. That game was cool. Could be better though.

@@Serendipity_GamingX Think of opinions like mountains and trains. If you can build track around the mountain, you should. Only if a mountain stops you from moving forward should you dig through it. This mountain is entirely circumventable, so please go around.

@@nerddwarf I know that one! Pretty good game, not gonna lie.

hated them removing pacharisu

Megas have and always will be my favourite mechanic They were awesome and entirely new pokemon to think about :(

@@nimnim3311 that was 8 years ago. Seems like it just needs to be let to rest

I think that's one big thing people forget about mega now, is that during gen 6, they weren't a gimmick at all, it was just the new step in Pokémon evolution. Like I hear a lot of people arguing that gen 6 introduced a lot of what ruined pokemon, like one gen gimmicks, never changing 3D models, ... but that's only something we learned to hate in retrospect. The problem is that gen7 and 8 kept the aging models and made megas a 1 gen-gimmick rather that building upon its foundations, not that gen 6 came up with them at the first place.

That, and the lore of megas was interesting.

You mean in smogon?

usage based tiers in vgc 😍

That's probably because Singles and Doubles are wildly different games

Ikr, Dynamax is incredibly broken and unfair in Singles. Z-moves were totally fine and predictable in the Singles format, especially due to the fact that we (the players) developed our own tiering system based on usage statistics, aka Showdown, so whenever you saw a certain threat it was *expected* that they would be holding a Z-Crystal. Very predictable. But it's not the "official" format sponsored by Pokemon company themselves, so a lot of "professional" Pokemon players like to rate gimmicks like Z-moves as "broken" because of how they played out in the Doubles format, without considering that MOST people who play Pokemon seriously are actually Singles players.

@@redguard1607 yeah i understand ur point but singles are not really competitive even if they have a rank for them at world only the vgc format is featured single is more for casual

@@redguard1607 Z-moves are pretty broken in the doubles format though. I don't see why you have a problem with professional vgc players saying that, they play vgc so of course they would rate z-moves in terms of vgc not singles.They never made a statement about z-moves in singles format.

@@redguard1607 your comment on "most people play singles instead of VGC" is really projecting and there is no evidence to prove your claim. Competitive was once singles, then turned into 2v2s and since then never changed back.

I think conceptually too megas are problematic cuz they should be conceptually a upgrade than and their previous form A upgrade that GF envision for a certain pokemon is not the upgrade that he needs or deserves for fans eyes design wise and stat wise, even GF too that they didn't come up with "a good design" for mega flygon themselves And many of them ended up being too broken or too trash compared to their previous form to the point that isn't even worth to use their mega forms And kinda limits team building too cuz you need to have that mon that is in the mega group to counter a mon of the same group for the most part

Yeah, I don't know why he goes so hard against Megas when most of the issues are most pokemon just not being competitive in the first place and all the other gimmicks suffer from the same issue. Megas only needed more megas to be more balanced and less gimmicky.

I agree. I think they just ran into a wall when they realize that not every Pokemon feasibly can use it, and it would turn Pokemon into a logistic nightmare where the whole series would be defined by Mega Evolution.

@@JorgeMartinez-pq1ph Honestly, all of his Mega criticisms can be applied to Dynamaxing as well. Aside from Charizard, not many Pokemon were able to compete against the stronger meta threats, because guess what? They can Dynamax their own powerful threats. Max Kyogre and Calyrex running around doesn't mean that your Flygon is suddenly going to become more viable due to its own ability to Dynamax

Megas were great in singles because there were tiers. Mega-Beedrill was amazing in singles, as was Mega-Altaria. They didn't have to compete with broken megas like Mega-Medicham or Mega-Lopunny since they were kept in OU, so they could flourish in UU. RU even saw Mega-Camerupt and Mega-Glalie get a lot of usage, and they even got banned from various tiers are certain points. Smogon just does a better job at balancing than Game Freak since it's run by fans and not creators.

Something I learned is that sometimes its quite easy to see who is the outliar. Its like playing Among Us within pokemon. Its a huge deceiving battle.

Open team sheets moment

This is the initial concern for a lot of players. But as time passes and metas are formed, it will become more and more predictable. It will depend of course on what Pokémon are available in the game, as well as the moves and items they will have access to. And of course it's hard to imagine terastalizing into a different type that shares weaknesses with your original type (like going from Bug to Grass or from Steel to Rock). That will start to narrow down which Pokémon will likely terastalize into which type(s). Worrying about it is just unhelpful, so the best we can do is wait.

The thing is, the worst that happens if you guess wrong on the tera type is not as bad as guessing wrong on a z move and basically guaranteed lose a Pokémon. It doesn't change a Pokémon's base power (assumedly), so it allows for more normalize damage calculations

Hi, I think it’s because there are definitely some types each Pokémon will be more likely to terastalize into, like tyranitar terastalizing into ghost or ground, while I doubt you’ll face a tyranitar wanting to terastalize into a bug or ice type.👍

I might be reading into it wrong, but I was under the assumption that it was like Mega Evolution, and only SOME pokemon would get to change types. It's still variable, but you can still guess what tera form some pokemon will be. Like Tyranitar for example. It's gonna be a ghost type, or Eevee could be a grass or water type, thanks to its evolutions. So there IS some predictability there.

I think it purely comes down to damage dealt. Terastalizing can boost a move's damage by 50% by giving the pokemon a new STAB, or further boost a move's damage (i think also by 50%) by terastalizing into a type the user already had, these damage boosts are similar to dynamax. Z moves are basically just 1 time nukes that would mess up even pokemon that resist them.

In a way it's an absolute shame Sw/Sh only had one Worlds, despite being around for about 3 years

@@guguy00 Yeah, this was incredibly unlucky. SwSh had the absolute best competitive VGC format Pokemon has ever managed to pull off.VGC was clearly a big focus in the development of the game. Sadly, it's best, most varied format which was the original 400 roster, never managed to have an event due to the world situation. And even when finally by then of the cycle there was world with the 800 roster, which offered a lot less valid choices players could use than the original roster, it still had to be held remotely, and they couldn't use the spectator camera developed for the game. Early SwSh regional tournaments are some of the very best competitive pokemon you can watch, it's really unfortunate we never got to see it at worlds

Dmax is very fluid in use, you can change strategy on which to dmax depending on your opponents move

that's why I love dmaxing-battles became almost like a tennis match, back and forth back and forth. You can bait a pokemon to dynamax too early or you can set up grassy terrain AND harsh sunlight depending on who's on the field it's so FASCINATING Im gonna miss this mechanic lol

I still dont think some people understand that dynamax is a shitty mechanic. Most pokemon players play singles. Dynamax is BROKEN in singles. It completely ruins it. This is one of the few things i dont like about wolfey. He doesnt look at the bigger picture. He said megas and z moves were bad mechanics when they were fine in singles (which the majority play) but op and doubles. And then goes and says dynamax is the best when its balanced in doubles and broken op in singles.

@@nah-dx3wc Would love a source on "the majority".

@@nah-dx3wc Also Wolfey is a VGC player and content creator. Of course he's speaking from the perspective of VGC

Actually Dynamax were imo unhealthy for the game. And like 90% of the vgc players would agree it's the worst of the three.

The flexibility for dynamax and the fact you can target it with 2 Pokemon instead of one, plus how common protect is, definitely help Dynamax to be less broken in doubles.

@@lordofcastamere9376 90% seema like an exaggeration, especially on a video coming from someone who's played enough vgc to have been world champion

@@melovespoon he's the first one i heard saying that dynamax was the less worse of the 3. so i would say, even if he's a world champion, opinions are still opinions

Because dmax was designed around doubles,and gamefreak doesn't care about singles

Yup, agreed. No offense to VGC and doubles players but in my heart pokemon is 6v6.

Wrong💀

@@GlideAndSlide123 forget double battles its time for sextuple battles

Nah

Lmao fr People just complain to complain at this point

It has really good stats in general expect speed but it’s type is what keeps it in check. Imagine if Tyranitar didn’t have it’s arceus awful typing.

@@cyanideytandcuriousseadogg4160 You don't have to imagine it. Ghost Tyranitar is fully real now. Bait in every single Fighting type and ruin them!

Tyranitar is like a guy that bleeds a lot that got really really buff and wears armor to fights.

Sand Stream increasing its special defense and its great natural bulk and high attack stat help it a lot.

@@sekaihunter9378 what is gamefreak smoking? I have a massive skill issue and I can see how this is dumb. I’m predicting this gets Ttar sent to Ubers or AG from this mechanic or it single handle gets the mechanic banned as a whole for being too problematic of an user of this mechanic.

There is National Dex Anything Goes on pokemon showdown but assuming you're saying this, you probably mean it in a doubles format or an official format. I could see that sort of thing making very intense combo play IE: Dynamax pokemon setting rain for mega swampert's swift swim into some rain boosted water Z move.

Pokémon showdown: ... V:

@@Candyy248 Yes :V

I wanna know what all battle gimmicks in one battle would do to the competitive scene... not just only using one, using all of them. It's a horrible idea but I want to see how it would work

@@Nuclearstomp The only thing idk is if it also applies to doubles v: For singles there is NAT dex AG but for doubles..

Honestly I've always argued that moves like Low Kick and Grass Knot should be max strength and double damage to dynamax pokemon it makes so much more sense.

The important part about d-max is how the game develops after you d-max being immune to roar or low kick is the less important part

@@nunocarvalho6671 being immune to roar is kinda big for it if you get follow me’d into a resist and roared out you just wasted your dmax

@@NocturnalPyro They are immune to them probably for narrative reasons. Dynamax is kind of the Pokémon warping space around them to appear bigger, the weight-based moves miss to give this idea. (At least that's what I assume GameFreak was thinking)

@@shadowbonbon3 the issue is, that would complely ruin the mechanic as a whole on competitive

One of the best parts of gen 6 was how mega evolution was woven into the story. It didn't feel tacked on and I don't think that XY or, to a lesser extent, ORAS could have existed without it without feeling incomplete.

@@cjaymeme def

Exactly what I was thinking, the Smogon ban was absolutely necessary for Max but it really is cool for doubles.

Dynamax is also broken in vgc. It makes Hyper offensive just way too powerful. What were they thinking was gmax wildfire for example

@@lordofcastamere9376 Dynamax isn't that bad in doubles. If you're faster than a Charizard which regieleki is, then you have no problem taking it out before it can get a hit on you with wildfire.

zacian is a huge reason why dynamax is balanced, imagine xerneas without zacian in the game

@@TheRibottoStudios Agreed. While dynamax did reward hyperoffensive play, the usual setups started to get just as easily countered. They even introduced 3 Pokémon whose entire purpose was to counter it. It's also hard to discredit how using dynamax defensively heavily rewarded a lot of top players.

PETA comes and protests Pokemon again :p

Huh... Z moves in the middle of it kinda ruin it, but I really really like what you noticed! That's really cool!

As a smogon singles enthusiast, I HATE dynamax.

@@Raminator243 yeah for the 3 months we even got it (besides random battles

Nah, you just have to build different and figure out what the big dynamax threats are. For new players, it is easier to get snow balled, but for thoese that build teams around a singular sweep, it is just as easy to mess up their plans.

@@furyofyuriy It was literally banned because it was to OP. It’s the same reason they banned Cinderace or Dracovish. You have to think about how you counter it when you build the team. They were essentially too good to not pick. Dynamax could end a game in one turn. You could SD with Kartana, then max airstream twice. Pow, you’re faster than releki and kill everything in one hit. This is the definition of a busted feature. Megas never had this problem in OU. There was actual counterplay.

@@Elitus those 3 months were horrible. Gyarados getting a free dragon dance at the cost of knocking out a pokemon with a 130 power stab flying move and doubling hp was the worst shit ever. It also blocked a lot of traditional singles set up counter play like encore for some reason. Like, okay thanks for encoring my dragon dance, I'll just dmax as soon as you switch to something to take advantage of encore. If you stay in I just keep setting up until I can break past with my dmax button. Basically any flying type became broken, because for some reason air stream doesn't have reduced power like ooze and knuckle. Braking choice lock also made every turn a 50/50. If a galar darm is locked to icicle crash will it suddenly break choice lock and max quake pex? You arent really predicting as much as guessing nearly every turn when your opponent hasn't maxed and that just has no place in a competitive game.

Gamefreak really said "Let's make a mechanic where a pokemon can, without warning, double its health for a few turns, avoid phasing, and use powerful moves that can set weather, set terrain, or raise one of its stats by one stage". It's insane.

@@cjaymeme Don't forget they're immune to moves like Grass Knot or Low Kick, moves that are more common in singles since Pokemon like Zeraora or Weavile rely on them for coverage. Imagine losing your Zeraora and losing the game because the Swampert you were about to Grass Knot into the shadow realm Dynamaxed and hit you with a Max Quake.

Dynamax also had a shit ton of viable users. Drifblim, Clefable, Appletun, Hydreigon etc. It was insanely versatile & overcentralizing.

@@cjaymeme because gamefreak doesn't balance the games around singles. In doubles dmax is much more balanced and it's the official format both in game and in tournaments.

Amd that's an understatement.

Pls do it wolfey

I see breeding so I will say this: imo breeding actually needs to be GONE, at least in the current state. what does it bring in 2022? almost nothing - Egg Moves = grindy/obsolete, IV breeding = grindy/obsolete (as Arceus showed) and it destroys ANY rarity of any mon (except legendaries/unbreedables). Eggs can still be a thing (given by NPC's for instance), but I am really over these Gen 2 cloning stations.

PS: while IV's should imo be done with, EV's should be given more fun ways like Pokéathlon minigames to boost. basically, get rid of the grindy prehistoric features and give me game content that is fun - and get rid of the silly barriers (IV's, Egg moves) that prevent casual players from being able to battle online without having to breed/grind/get through a very complicated IV/breeding/Destiny Knot/Bottle Caps BS system.

@@charliez077 As someone working on a living dex...yeah fuck that, breeding makes things so much more convenient. I can see the argument that it's useless for competitive play, but I'd much rather just breed a Pokemon I already have rather than need to catch 2-3 of them per line that evolves.

I want to see all the gimmiks from every game all crammed into a single massive open world pokemon game.

it wasn't just legendary, but also powerful pokemon that came back with the DLC like regieleki

@@raismin739 regieleki is new Pokémon introduced in Gen 8 Pokémon. Plus, you don’t even need to dynamax it because it provides speed control w/ electoweb combined w/ its unbelievable speed

I think you meant to say returning Pokémon like Landorus and Thunderus (they got stronger, but they’re considered minor legendaries).

@@pokatana4130 i meant "introduced in the metagame", so not just old pokemon like lando, but also new pokemon like eleki or even new HA like Cinderace's Libero

@@raismin739 "It wasn't just legendary, it was also this specific legendary Pokémon." Wat. (This is mainly meant as a joke I'm just a bit confused by your choice of examples, I assume you were thinking of restricted)

Coolest? Definitely megas by far. But competitively they were the worst. I know said you weren't competitive. Just agreeing with you on the coolness 😁

@@goldenghost2001 I thought z moves were the worst

@@goldenghost2001 megas were no where near the worst. That was dynamax 100%. Megas were easilly identifiable, hardly surprising, and werent too over powered (This is worse if you play vgc over smogon) they werent as opprrssive and Dynamxing or tide turning as Zmoves.

I just wish with megas all of them were actually given X Factor abilities that set them apart and made them worth using. Like Charizard Y and Kengiskhan were always just the best to use generally since they just had crazy abilities.

@@servine1212 did you not watch the video you commented on?

Mewtwo isnt even that good of a mega which is funny

Most of the Mega Evolutions took Pokemon that weren't very good beforehand and made them good, broken even. Even those that took a mon that was already really solid didn't typically break that Pokemon, it just created an alternative style (Salamence and Gengar being the big exceptions). This is coming from the perspective of a singles player.

@@jacobjensen7704 What are you talking about? Most of the good mega evolutions were given to pokemon that were already good (Metagross, Salamance, Gengar, Charizard, Gardevoir, Lucario, Rayquaza, etc.). The only good mega outlier is Kangashkhan.

@@huntersmith1413 in what competitive formats were Metagross, Charizard, Gardevoir, and Lucario already good? And I already mentioned the large exceptions of Gengar and Salamence. We don't talk about Rayquaza.

The main, main issue with Mega Evolution is absolute lack of flexibility. When you go into a battle you MUST Mega evolve the one pokemon you chose. (the designs are also up there ^^'). Even if you know you will get outsped and one hit KO'd you still press the Mega evolve button, hoping your opponent made a mistake or misses their attack. Because if you do not press the button, you just wasted a pokemon slot on your team. As for why the mega evolution desings being the second biggest issue - putting aside the fact they look like they were designed by angsty teen - One mega evolution takes about the same amount of work to create as one whole new Pokemon. Each mega evolution form they created, basically equals to one new pokemon they did NOT create. So 46 Pokemon were not created, so that the players could use the 5 or so mega's that were actually viable. Dynamax on the other hand allows you full flexibility - but not too much, to the point your opponent has no idea what you can do - If the Pokemon you planned on Dynamaxing gets one shot, or your opponent used a different team than you thought, maybe you got paralyzed - you can Dynamax any other pokemon on your team and still use it to near full extent. Yes some Pokemon are better picks to dynamax than others, but depending on the situation on the field another pokemon MAY be a better Dynamax choice than one that is usually good. The fact that the Pokemon "are lazy" is what makes it possible. And let's be honest, giant Pokemon look really intimidating and would have only gotten better carried forward, as we can see in Arceus they CAN do giant Pokemon in the overworld

Yeah, mega's are designed for singles and dynamax for doubles it seems like.

yeah but who cares about smogon and their fanmade rules

@@deraisbelial idk maybe the over 5 thousand monthly users care.

Also Community rules >>>>>>developer rules.

@@mistake1197 5k vs the VGC comunitty lmao You are probably gonna say that VGC in Showdown has no players, and that has a reason why, the reason is that VGC gets actual support from the devs so Why playing in Showdown?

@@mistake1197 yes bro, lets ban a whole Pokemon instead of restricting the abilities of the Pokemon, so big brain dude. Lets ban Urshifu-S but Melmetal gets to be playable sheeesh so big brain

As someone who has played massive amounts of many different Smogon singles formats, I must say, Mega Evolution is far and away my favorite of the three. And from a non-competitive standpoint, the same is true. It is much cooler than Dynamax or Z-Moves.

Wtf are you talking about?

@@sptflcrw8583 The website says that you have to go out of your way to charge the Tera Orb outside of battle in order to be able to use it.

Dynamax fits the narrative of the game even more so than the other two mechanics however.

we do not know yet if you can have any type from terrastalization. It could be similar to Gmax where only certain pokemon can gain certain typing

Gems were recently banned in Gen 5 OU Singles, Gamefreak must have realized how powerful those items were because they nerfed them and have basically removed them from the games officially. I think they're still programmed in, give a lesser boost, but only the Normal Gem has been available outside of hacking. I'm not sure if they're still functional past gen 6.

@@TheGuyWhoIsSitting yeah I know but compared to the z moves of gen 7 gems don’t seem as powerful. Of course I can’t talk much since I don’t play in meta games with gems. Something like a gems clause would definitely need to be put in place if they ever were added though.

@@tristantancio8763 Gmax was just dynamax with a slight change. It’s probably more like dynamax where any Pokémon can use it. I don’t know where you got the idea that not all Pokémon can change into every type when that’s literally what terrastalization has been shown to do. They wouldn’t add Tera blast if it was only a few types

@@tristantancio8763 From what i know pokemon can have any Terra type but some will be harder to get

I think wolfey was more so speaking of behalf of competitive doubles so a pokemon like mega beedrill for example, is actually pretty darn good in singles battles, but I can also see why it isn't good in doubles due to the reason that he described, I'll most likely will only take down 1 pokemon before going down itself, making it not the best mega for a doubles format

like a ceratin ice-bug pokeom with an ability that double their sp.def becoming water... and they have roost

How do you make ice types good? Make them not ice type.

Would’ve been awesome

That didnt age very well

Yeah I agree with you in my mind which isn’t competitive based it goes dynamxing a z move then mega evolution

Also maybe buff Beedrills I it doesn't hold up?

I mean, that still would have power crept the game to hell and back

@@FraserSouris but Megas were supposed to make weak pokemon more viable again... SMH Garchomp etc got a form too but oh well

@@otto2853 I'd argue that using Megas to buff weaker Pokes was a bad idea to begin with. For one, The weak poke only gets a buff when Mega Evolved and since you can only use one Mega at a time, it meant most weak Pokes got even more power crept. For instance, if both Manectric and Luxray are weak Pokemon, but Manectric gets a Mega, then Luxray is only going to be more outclassed and thus used even less. But that also means that the only time you'd be using Manectric is for its Mega. So if there's ever a situation where there's a better Mega available, Manectric isn't going to be used then.

Nah dynamax very fun on singles Doubles... Too

Dynamax helps shiftry SO MUCH! It means you can use heat wave for a surprise fire attack on a grass type thinking they can safely switch in them have the sun up to let your fire type attack hit harder and have double speed and after dynamax use solarbeam or solar blade for a strong grass stab attack

@@Ultra289 dynamax is way more OP in singles.

@@bramderacourt9499 Nah, ez to counter

@@bramderacourt9499 this is famous poketuber talk. If you actually took your time to understand the mechanic you would see it's beatable in any situation. Mechanic was banned like a week after it's release by the very mediocre smogon "staff". It's logically impossible to understand the logic behind a mechanic in one week.

I forgot to say the changes Ice now resist rock effectively and is super effective against it, is immune to dragon and flying and resist ghost Bug now resist psychic, ghost and fairy and is immune to dark Electric now is immune to steel Grass now resist also rock Psychic resist poison and fairy I noticed that many combination that Glick had put in F and D are now good, for example Ice and Bug, Ice and Grass and Ghost and Psychic. Also resisting rock makes grass and fire even more good. How I ranked? Simple: I basically took the number of types that another type beats, the resistances subtracting them with the weakness. For example: Ice and Bug have 7 strengths, 9 resistances and only 3 weakness, making for a nice 13 which is B tier. See, Glick? Ice and Bug with good changes are among the best combinations in pokemon world

The issue that could happen if Shedinja was in Scarlet and Violet is it becoming an Electric type while holding an Air Balloon. It would basically become untouchable.

well there is still a chance for a normal type or electric type shedinja other interesting options would be: poison type (immune to poisoning), steel type (immune to poisoning and sandstorm) and ghost type (to get the kind of Adaptability ability that the Terastal gives when it matches the original types of the pokemon)

@@AuraStrikeAce Shedinja isn't in S/V

You can still kill shedinja with indirect damage, like sandstorm. Not saying you’re gonna run it on every team or anything, but it’s still beatable.

I'm not sure how much they could do to balance them as another evolution stage. Like, they got a 100 stat boost from mega evolution. Normal evolving tends to give you bigger boosts and even if it didn't they'd get to hold held items which even if they only got a smaller boost would still probably be broken.

There's a few different solutions to it too. Megas that changed the typing could be reintroduced as a regional forme, megas that changed the ability could have that ability added to their base forme (they have done this in the past with Gengar), and megas that increased stats could come back as evos as you mentioned. It's not unthinkable to give Pokemon like Sableye, Mawile, or Absol evolutions, they really could use them

I absolutely agree, several (lower-power) megas would have made nice evolutions, such as mega steelix (although that means steelix gets to run around with eviolite... but that's exactly what smogon's tiering system is for, and it can always be banned if it becomes a real problem.)

Uh? Dynamax is the most unhealthy mechanic so far. It completely shatters the meta by giving the busted pokemon more power.

@@okagron …and helping the weaker Pokémon get stronger. Imo it was more healthy of a mechanic (for competitive, NOT Singles) then Mega’s and especially Z-Moves.

i'd love to hear anyone's opinion of why i should exist

I think you should.

I love mega Altaria too

??? Rule #0 When you can, always chunk up those rocks. But then again… it is doubled where one wrong move will cost a mon…

They would have been good if they were balanced better/given to pokemon that need them, and not already strong pokemon

Dynamax, and to a lesser extent Z-moves, introduced a randomness that imo was unhealthy. The guessing game of which ´pokemon dynamax, and when, can decide a game on its own. Mega, on the other hand, are "permanent" during battle, and can be accounted for by the opponent from team preview.

70% of those designs suck ass tho

@@megselv6633 but still Mega still have their own faults I think this gimmick could Ben better than Megas imo

@@aaaaaaa9429 i mean... Mega Rayquaza is my favourite pokemon sooo

And again, Shedinja could very well become the greatest Pokemon if you can pull a Salamence and have no type weakness

gen-ing?

@@coca_0146 Hacking in Pokemon. Genning means generating

They should have just turned mega evolution into Dynamax (with regional variants like Charizard, since we already had charizard and mewtwo X/Y). Gigantomax is the Galar regional gimmick, while Dynamax is just renamed mega evolution.

Dear God Ghost/Steel type Aggron...

I have a feeling it’s going to get very predictable in singles but idk just yet

sturdy on a tanky pokemon is a waste of an ability lol

@@Andrews13channel with no defenses to speak of, counter or mirror do massive return damage. Sturdy just makes sure you can destiny bond too. What other ability would help a Mega Wobbufet?