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I think it wouldve been cool if you made Volbeat and Illumise Bug/Fire and Bug/Electric because of fireflies vs lightning bugs.

every day i wake up and remember how much game freak screwed over tropius

Castform needs a sand form. I have no idea why that weather would weirdly be missing

I legit thought for YEARS that Chimecho debuted in Gen 4

I don't think Seviper should be faster, but instead a lot bulkier. Thematically, this makes it a more interesting rival to Zangoose (strong and fast vs. strong and durable) and I think it just fits its design more. Seviper LOOKS like someone who can take a hit, not like someone who can outspeed most threats.

I was always irritated by the number of amazing designs that are non-viable to battle with 😂

Spinda: what is my purpose? Trainer: you do teeter dance in doubles Spinda: oh my god

At first when I was child I thought Serviper was a Poison/Dark type because serviper has a sinister vibe in it's design

Chimecho is based on a type of Japanese glass wind chime, making it part Steel type would feel pretty weird... I personally would give it secondary Normal typing. It already has Levitate, so gaining a second immunity to Ghost and removing a weakness at the same time seems pretty interesting for a defensive Pokémon without breaking it's theme. My personal take on changing how it battles would be to lean into the strong support movepool it has it has, increasing it's defenses. 95 Special Attack is already great and it can hit pretty hard even without going all-in on offense, so I would bump it's HP up to 95 and it's Defense up to 85 to make it able to take hits better, and add Wish to it's levelup movepool.

Chimecho's internal ID in Gen 3 implies that it was the last Pokemon added, possibly meaning it was a scrapped Legendary or just added last minute

I'm surprised you didn't mention Banette. Had a lot of potential as the ghost with the highest Attack stat in a time when Ghost was a physical type, but suffers from the same problem as Seviper: slow and frail. The solution is really just the same, making them faster. The same applies to Absol, though in their case they have the additional problem of having the wrong offensive stat for their typing-- maybe also increase their Special Attack a bit? Not too much, since their design is too indicative of a physical attacker to take that away, just enough to be usable.

6:50 I would make one of them bug/electric and the other one bug/fire. I would help with both the lack of electric and fire types in the region + it references both of the names commonly used for their species. In both firefly and lightning bug. It would also help diversify themselves from each other.

Honestly the most disappointment I have from castform is trying to get its non existent sand form to work as a kid

I agree with the Castform form stat changes a lot, but something that I think would make it really interesting is Forecast summoning weather on switch in based on the first move in its move slot's type: (i.e, Hydro Pump summons rain, Flamethrower summons Sun). That alone would make it interesting because it would be a highly adaptable Pokémon that you could use to make any weather team work. You can argue if it would be broken at that, but like. 1. It's still Castform and 2. The weather Pokémon should be the ultimate weather Pokémon!

I think giving Castform a weather duration boosting rock should automatically set up that weather upon switching in. Castform is not surviving the turn it uses to change the weather, and needs all the help it can get.

Masquerain part isn’t really realistic at all imo. 512 BST on an early route bug is kind of insane especially noting the 100 special attack and 120 speed (which are the almost same as sceptile’s 105 special attack and 120 speed). Also glare is specifically for snake pokemon (it’s called something like snake glare in Japanese) AND is explicitly worse than stun spore in gen 3 since it’s the same accuracy but doesn’t affect ghost types. Good video though I enjoyed it Edit: changed wording of first sentence

Its sad, Tropius' legacy will be that in platinum between it and bibarel can use every hm in the game. That is when it was most useful, such a waste of a cool design. And funny enough I have always thought that medicham and chimecho were gen 4 Pokemon since chingling and meditite were easier to find.

Why is this video unnecessarily horror edited?

The gen 3 games were designed under a lot of crunch, which makes me think that things have changed less than Pokemon consumers think it has. Some of the gen 3 Pokemon movesets and stats feel incomplete or underpowered, especially seeing as they would have their sets further enhanced in FRLG, Emerald, and beyond. A large number of gen 3 Pokemon have very depressed base stat totals and average distributions compared to gen 4 and beyond. Mawile, Sableye, Lunatone, Solrock, Zangoose, and Seviper fill out a lot of the low BST version exclusive slots in the game, juxtaposed with Pinsir and Scyther or Mantine and Skarmory of previous games.

I think the way to make Chimecho viable is to swap the locations of it and Abra. It can be a sort of Heracross type, bringing incredible strength in the early game, though unlike Heracross it would fall off later on.

A bit late, But why not make Chimecho Psychic/Ghost? Very unique before Gen 6 and fits absolutely PERFECTLY with the area its found in

The main problem with Hoenn is that there are a lot of pokemon that have no evolution once so ever. And even if they evolved, their evolution line kind of felt incomplete

I wish tropius had an offensively-oriented evolution, that way tropius can become a bulky SubSeeder. Similar to porygon-2 and porygon-z

It still annoys that Zangoose got a better stat spread than Seviper consider there supposed to be constantly at odds with each other

Bro me and my brother loved this video. I agree WITH EVERYTHING YOU ARE SAYING! All of these Pokemon had so much potential, and it's sad they got left in the dust. Good video bro, as always.

Imagine an in game event in gen 3 where instead of just giving you a cast form, they give you a quest to track weird weather and discover what is causing it and you chase the weather events to find cast form and catch it.

Masquerain just needs to remain Bug/Water. Its typing is just horrible. It having wings shouldn't matter either because we already have Beedrill and Dustox.

I think for Chimecho instead of making it a fast special attacker I think you should’ve joined in on its supportive capabilities. It being faster is fine but I think you should’ve prioritizes it’d HP stat instead to be around base 85 with its speed at base 75. I think the extra bulk from the HP goes a long way especially for a Steel Psychic and while it’s not outrageously bulky it provides a valuable steel type that other psychic types want. As for the moves itself I think for Gen 3 giving it access to Thunder Wave like they did in Gen 4 would be super helpful. For early game I can see it using Hypnosis instead of Yawn and using Disable instead of Double Edge. For coverage I think instead giving it access to Icy Wind as a level up move would be best since a Wind Chime usually handles cold winds.

Talking about the speed always makes me think of gen 7, specifically Vikavolt. I never understand some of these stat decisions made for these pokemon, especially those which you cant get until late in a playthrough.

honestly masquerain should have much less speed since it can be found pretty early in ruby and sapphire, 95 speed would still be pretty fitting and usable at that. it also learns quiver dance in later gens so having 120 speed with that move would be kinda busted

One of my favorite parts about playing difficulty ROM hacks (my favorite and best example of this being inclement emerald) is the rebalance thats often done to make bottom tier mons useable. Some of my favorite examples of this being togedemaru, spinda, ledian, the list goes on. Always so fun to use mons I would, or could really never have touched before .

Tropius is such a cool looking Pokémon, with the clear dinosaur and banana tree motifs blending so well together… not to mention a flying sauropod is just incredible. I didn’t use it much, but I defeated Wallace’s level 40+ Whiscash with a level 25 Tropius since it’s basically the perfect counter to ground/water types.

You should do a big video talking about how ABYSMAL old Pokémon movesets where especially before gen 4/5

I really liked this type of video, would love to see a take on gen 2 as well! As for Chimecho, I've always found it kind of weird how he's heavily wind-related but doesn't learn any wind-based moves. Its dex entry even claims it can create powerful winds.

I would love to see this for gen 2. Just fix about 90% of gen 2 mons😂

Mightyena was such a disappointment. I love it's design too. Too bad the stats aren't great. Moves aren't that good either. It's best moves are hyper beam, body slam, crunch, double-edge, shadow ball, and iron tail. Only one is stab and it's off of it's sucky 60 special. 90 attack is okay but it is the best stat it has.

Would love to see a gen 4 version for mons like Kricketune, Lumineon, etc.

You're absolutely crazy for those Masquerain buffs, 120 speed is just pure nonsense, it's literally already decent and more than usable in general with or without the latest gen's buffs, for casual play or even competitive

Very cool video and idea! Did some of this in a more broader scope of gens before as a game design major with a hyperfixation and a problem (these are more focused on creating something with at least a niche or something it can do in a competitive sense, not centralizing but not unnotable while still making sense thematically): Magcargo gets Mold Breaker and Dry Skin to replace Magma Armor and Weak Armor -I think that Magcargo is held back by two key weaknesses; it's typing and abilities. Neither serve its defensive stats or strangely decent movepool, but this pokemon is also not necessarily best served as a sweeper or wall. Its kit serves it more as a utility or support mon, and this is where Mold Breaker comes into play. Magcargo gets access to great status moves like Yawn, Stealth Rock, Toxic, and Will-O-Wisp. All of these moves can be blocked by abilities, whether it's Magic Bounce, Magic Guard, sleep immunity like Insomnia/Vital Spirit, or other abilities like Flash Fire or Water Veil. Mold Breaker not only allows Magcargo to ignore these abilities, but others like Levitate, Filter/Solid Rock, or Flash Fire when dealing its damage. It's a surprisingly good ability for a rocks setter to have, as seen with Excadrill (who also had Rapid Spin to compliment that but whatever). It also makes sense from a semantic perspective, because a being made of pure magma would obviously melt down hypothetical molds very easily. Magcargo also has access to a wide berth of unique resistances, those being Normal, Flying, Poison, Bug, Fire, Ice, and Fairy. It also gets reliable recovery in Recover. Unfortunately, those benefits come with a caveat in its double weakness to both Ground and Water, as well as being also weak to Fighting and Rock. All horrible weaknesses that make an otherwise solid defensive lynch pin turn into mush very quickly. How can this be amended? Give it an immunity to one of those key weaknesses. Dry Skin comes to mind out of all the other immunity abilities it could benefit from. Not only does it heal during rain, but it also gains immunity and restores HP from Water type attacks. This makes it uniquely positioned to function as a surprising rain team wall with a unique set of resistances/STAB coverage allowing it to hard wall most waters with ice coverage, and it still has Mold Breaker as a backup option if someone doesn't like the sun damage. The drawbacks of taking double fire damage also barely affect it as it's quad resistant to that damage anyways. And while I'm not sure how much sense it makes to have it heal from rain and damaged from sun, it definitely has dry skin on its shell that might fortify itself cooling down, instead melting further with heat. It is a snail at the end of the day after all. Better in rain than sun. I'm not saying it would be amazing or anything with these changes, but it would at least stand more of a chance this way. Chatot gets Punk Rock to replace Keen Eye and Gale Wings instead of Big Pecks -Chatot I think suffers from a similar condition as Magcargo (it is much better though for many reasons), it has lackluster abilities and stats with a stellar movepool for a sweeper. Punk Rock Allows Boomburst and Chatter to really shine as both almost flagship moves of Chatot's sweeping kit directly benefit from its boost. It also makes a lot of sense for its musically oriented design, though I would say it deigns itself to something far more classical. Gale Wings might be a hard sell, especially considering it's a signature ability and all that, but we all know gamefreak isn't afraid of giving out previously signature abilities or moves to new pokemon. I think this one actually has a lot more to offer from a utilitarian perspective. Defog and Tailwind are both incredibly useful to have priority on in both singles and doubles respectively, see Murkrow's stints in VGC as an unevolved pokemon for how important that kind of priority could potentially be. Chatter also provides another annoying priority benefit, having a 100% confusion chance while also dealing some damage. If you go first with this kind of move, the opponent will instantly have a chance to hit themselves and the gamble of this status suddenly becomes far less risky. This ability only works on a few moves because of the 100% health caveat, is still useful enough to be good, but not broken due to meager stat pool/typing. It also makes sense as a flying type to get gale wings in general, though I'm not sure if a parrot necessarily deserves the same level of aerial prowess as a peregrine falcon or whatever Talonflame is based on. Glaceon gets Refrigerate instead of Ice Body, Leafeon gets Sharpness instead of Leaf Guard -I grouped these two together bc a) this comment is getting really long and b) I think they go together thematically. Glaceon gets access to a whopping 130 special attack, with decent defensive stats and mediocre speed/attack. This would work perfectly for a tanky attacker, but there's just one issue; Ice type is bad lmao. Defensively it's one of the worst, though offensively it's one of the best to have STAB on. Ice Body does next to nothing for it because it would have to live more than one hit or have any good recovery to make any use of it on already niche hail teams. This is where refrigerate comes in. while it's Ice STAB is already okay, imagine if this thing could ramp up to Pixilate Sylveon Hyper Beam or Hyper Voice levels of damage but with an even higher Sp. Atk? The achilles heel being the Ice typing that it already has and lack of speed to pull KOs. Glaceon already has decent coverage to compliment those sets, and after doing some calcs it's tremendous how many pokemon this thing can potentially KO with a boosted hyper beam. Albeit it would probably just be a trade when the next mon revenges but it's still impressive. Refrigerate makes sense for a pokemon of the cold, I feel like it's a pretty generalized ability and fits thematically considering Sylveon also has an adjacent ability in Pixilate. -Leafeon's Leaf Guard ability is just one of the most redundant payoffs for this pokemon for many reasons. Oh wow, can't get burned or paralyzed because the sun is up, glad I spent a whole team slot to get that up reliably instead of using Chlorophyll and just outspeeding... Anyways, Sharpness shores up Leafeon's otherwise underwhelming offensive power. It has a decent speed and attack stat, but lacks a good boosting ability to make use of 110/95 stats outside of sun. Sharpness affects many moves it already has in its kit like Leaf blade, X-Scissor, and Aerial Ace. If paired with SD, that could get dangerous fast (though it's admittedly not the best coverage, I could see adding some other Sharpness boosted moves for this purpose). I think this one makes sense because Leafeon's leaves look sharp and crinkly as opposed to smooth and soft. It's a very angular look, and plants can definitely be sharp in general. I think that's all I'll include bc this got wayyy too long and these were my favorites out of the changes I wrote down, glad to see more people engaging with this type of game balance stuff! Love discussions like this, always fun to think about what could be and how that would affect a pokemon's viability.

This was a great video. Gen 3 is my absolute favorite, but I was very confused with the choices gamefreak made, namely the huge number of 'Gimmick' pokemon like the Rodent Duo, Keckleon, Slaking, etc. Many Dark types have huge physical attacks despite having only special STAB types, Banette lacking a steel typing despite being based on Voodoo dolls and the zipper mouth being a prominent visual feature, Feebas being purely frustrating to find and catch and then having a further annoying method to evovle despite being the counterpart to Magikarp, a pokemon able to found in nearly every body of water. I still love Gen 3 to death, but I would love to see the fully realized potential it could have with enough tweaks.

Yeah Chimecho is a tricky one. Because it's supposed to be a pretty feeble glass chime. I remember thinking about how I would have changed it a while ago and the only thing I came up with was adjusting its moveset. I originally thought it should be psychic ghost, but I think I was just being biased based off of where it is found. I think that instead it should be psychic/flying type, since its a wind chime. I don't think any changes to its base stats would make sense except maybe a boost to sp. Atk. But I think that it's movepool should be expanded to be more "mystical" and whimsical. Like it should get psychic really early, but also stuff like mirror move and metronome. Also moves like sing/hypnosis and dream eater/nightmare. I feel like pokemon like chimecho with stats that bad are the perfect candidates to just get every move under the sun for any and every playstyle. Because when you really look at it, no amount of broken moveset could make it overpowered, which makes it the perfect candidate. Alternatively it could be given the Azumaril treatment and get a "doubles sp.atk" ability.

I actually used a Castform on my original Emerald team. As expected, it wasn't very good. But the main reason for that in my opinion was because it didn't have full access to it's versatile moveset since TMs weren't reusable. I played an Emerald hack that added recent mechanics like the Physical Special Split, the Fairy Type, and of course reusable TMs, and because I was able to change its moveset for whatever situation it was actually very useful.

Great video! Masque has become one of my favorite pokemon recently and its bc its such an incredible pivot against fighting types dude to the x4 resist and ground immunity with intimidate. I know theres alot of bug/flying types but intim gives it a unique roll the others cant fill.

The transitions looks like a literal analog horror

Linoone can learn the combo Extremespeed + Belly Drum, it's a BEAST if well trained...

What about making chimeco a psychic/normal? Would give it a ghost immunity, and it could get stab on sound moves like uproar. Could also give it something like prankster in later gens, since it is pretty playful usually, and it would make it's non offensive moves more viable. Idk what else would be good though.

This was such a fun video to watch!! i also love your channel avatar of a wooper!! wooper is so cute

why are your bg clips so spooky 😂

It doesn't make sense to give Masquerain the water typing. It's dex entries say that it hates water because of it's antennae.

These seem easy enough to implement in a hack.

Pretty cool video! I like how you actually took the design and lore into account and not just go "Hurr durr, give it +20 Attack and Speed" and called it a day.

I like these sorts of retcon idea videos! So many mons need a bit of a buff to help them find a niche, whether that be through increased/redistributed stats, new moves, and/or new abilities. Keep up the good content!

Now fix the gen 2 Pokemon...oh wait it's every single flippin one

Masquerain, Volbeat and Illumise were fixed really well in pokemon radical red, especially Masquerain it's a fantastic pokemon there.

just coming here to say that the video editing is really cool, the dark theme is very refreshing, even if you are speaking about pokemon i never saw anything like it, i literally had to comment because its so good, so yeah amazing stuff

I love the designs from gen 3, I feel like they were honestly really creative and some of my favorite Pokémon designs like Banette, Tropius, Absol, Flygon, and Breloom. They all have a lot of personality and are so unique and eye-catching. I have been playing the mystery dungeon games recently and because the play style is a bit different, less strong Pokémon are able to shine a bit more. Absol for example is a pretty strong pokemon in the game, as well as shiftry and mightyena, and it was really fun to be able to use Pokémon that I would never choose for my team in the main games. I think a lot of the gen 3 Pokémon deserve a little revamp, or at least a new way to sort of break them out of their current standing, whether it be new regional variants or a new way to play with them, instead of another Meowth regional variant or something annoying like that. It’s kinda sad that mega evolutions are done too because with Absol and Banette at least it helped make them more playable and built on their already strong designs.

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5:42 Glare is exclusive to snakes and snake-like Pokemon (and Druddigon cuz it's kind of like a basilisk I guess) because of its Japanese name "Snake Glare", so sadly it doesn't really make sense on Masquerain. No, those fake eyes don't look snake-like enough to me... although if you _really_ want to buff it this badly, then I guess it's ok.

Pretty cool video with tons interesting points on theses mons. Though was hoping on what you would do to help Cacturne. My poor cactus get melted by simply existing, seriously it's literally the Serviper problem but some how with even more extremes with slower speed, greater base attacks stats, typing with several weaknesses, and pretty cool battle ability interaction.

one thing you missed about delcatty that they also buffed in gen 7 aside from its speed stat, is its signature ability, normalize. it gets a 1.2x boost, the same as pixelate/glaciate/aerialate, meaning in some ways, all of delcatty’s moves (which are all turned to normal type) have a sort of technician-esque boost. with a small improvement in speed like you said, and a +20 attack boost, delcatty couldve been a sweeper but with zero ways to attack steel, rock, or ghost types. very niche, but a niche similar to cincinno/ambipom, strong normal type hitters that have no way of beating its established weaknesses. anywho, nice vid! subbed~

I actually really dislike playing through Hoenn because of all the designs I just don't jive with/a lack of good Pokémon. It feels difficult to make a unique team in that gen; I've always felt like everyone's Hoenn team has/ends up with the same small handful of Pokémon: Their starter, latios/latias, gardevoir, metagross, (Insert your favorite dewford cave encounter here), maybe sharpedo, or something, and a linoon HM Slave. Perhaps an Altaria or a Salamance if you're spicy. Granted, Milotic is one of my favorite Pokémon of all time.

Here’s an idea: Chimecho as a psychic normal type. This gives it far better resistances & ghost type immunity - similar stat distribution you described, but also give it access to crazy amounts of coverage moves you normally see on normal types. Shock Wave, Flamethrower, Ice Beam, etc. Makes it unpredictable and unique for gen 3

My thought for castform: 1) raise all of its stats to 80. It's slightly better but still underwhelming, which is a good thing for the next two changes. 2) give castform a rock type sandstorm form. Really self explanatory, here. Dumb it didn't exist from the start. 3) give castform a hidden ability called "Forecast." Depending on the held weather stone, it automatically triggers that weather when it is sent into battle, like drought, drizzle, etc. I see castform a lot like ditto - it had a unique gimmick, but its low stats and the turn you have to waste setting it up makes them unusable. So what did they do for ditto? They gave it a hidden ability that allows it to transform as soon as it is sent out. So give castform the same treatment: give it an ability that changes the weather as soon as it is sent out. It'll still be weaker than the traditional auto-weather mons, but its flexibility by being able to access all weather types will allow it to fit into any weather team.

great video. i LOVE gen3, it was my introduction to pokemon for real and i still love a lot of what the game done, but it really is sad how many mons there did get the short end of the stick in the gen itself and later down the line not getting proper updates to remain competible/relevant even for main game content most of the time. i do have somethings ido like to say on each of your ideas though i think delcatty could be fine with a +35 BST, (+5 HP, 10 DEF, 15 SPDEF, 5 SPATK) + some new coverage moves. the BST increase puts it in line with the other 2 stage feline mons, i dont think it needs fairy typing. the BST increase to maquerain is way too much, 510 is too much for whats supposed to be an alternate starting route bug, though i agree even those should be competible with other mons, im pretty confident its current BST its fine for what it is. changing it to bug/water, an actually really good combo, and expanding its movepool can already make him a solid pick for a bug special attacker with intimidate. volbeat/illumise suggestions are really good. seviper could use about +20 in speed, but also arbok needs some BST increase to not be overshadowed by virtually his regional clone. i feel like thats probably the reason it doesnt have intimidate. alternatively, seviper could have dark as a secondary typing, making it a great defensive typing and have more coverage. castforms idea is interesting. honestly, if it just had an stat increase when transformed, even if just +15 in every stat it could already be bumped into something interesting to use. also just let it transform into a sand form already in sandstorm and be ground type. tropius could use +40 BST distributed on both his defenses, hes a giant banana tree sauropod, one of the largest dinos that existed, this thing should be THICC! the movepool increase is great though, being based on a dinossaur could potentially let it have some dragon moves, since well, dragon types are ultimately also just the reptilian type to an extent. i think what chimecho really needs is new abilities to make a good supporter, something like prankster or natural cure. also of course a bunch of support moves to help it along. making it part steel type could be interesting and i can see why, but i dont think thats a really good solution, i fact making it yet another psychic/fairy would be more fitting for me personally, considering the mysticism surrounding wind bells in japanese culture.

I’d love to see you do this for gen 2 as well!

I think it would've been neat if Castform had an ability that would select a random weather effect upon entry

men i love that background music. that has some tense narration potencial right there.

I lol'd at the Grumpig shoutout during the Chimecho section. I used Grumpig way back in the day in Ruby ❤

What I learned from this video is that Extrasensory was introduced in gen 3, not gen 4. Apparently it was the signature move of Nuzleaf of all Pokemon. I do think giving Delcatty the fairy type kind of clashes thematically since it's very much a normal Pokemon and has Normalize as its signature ability.

When I first saw tropius as a kid I thought he’d be OP, a banana tree dinosaur is such a neat design. He deserves so much better

Ay I love these type of vids man, subscribing to you and I hope these buff videos are made

I've used a Chimecho in the Battle Frontier and it helped me a lot. Here are the moves I gave to him: Yamn Protect Psychic Calm Mind Item: Leftovers So put the foe's pokémon to sleep (first turn yamn, second turn protect), spam Calm Mind and them use Psychic as there was no tomorrow. Dark-Type pkmn were my only problem, of course

This is a great video! Enjoyed the watch and i just subscribed!

Seviper and Zangoose could be changed to actually work as counterparts. Giving them the same speed and HP stat is a good start. Then make Seviper a special attacker with a decent defense vs Zangoose as a physical attacker with decent special defense. Should give them two abilities each, one offensive and one defensive. So poison heal and toxic boost for Zangoose, and intimidate and merciless for Seviper. Although I'd change toxic boost to always crit while badly poisoned instead of being a worse guts, and give guts as a hidden ability so it can also fight against Glare-seviper. All of Zangoose three abilities then rely on it being statused, which we can then choose to use against it by giving Seviper Sheer Force as a hidden ability, even though you'd probably just give a toxic orb to Zangoose to guarantee that it's badly poisoned. I feel like they should also have opposing signature moves. Seviper should have something that poisons and constricts, so like a 20 power poison type attack (special after gen 3) that badly poisons and binds the pokemon for 2-5 turns. Zangoose should have a 60 power normal type attack (always physical) that deals double damage if poisoned or if it "can't escape", and triple damage if both. So we've got: Zangoose HP: 75 Attack: 115 Defense: 60 Special Attack: 50 Special Defense: 100 Speed: 100 BST: 500 Ability: Poison Heal/ Toxic Boost Hidden Ability: Guts Seviper: HP: 75 Attack: 50 Defense: 100 Special Attack: 115 Special Defense: 60 Speed: 100 BST: 500 Ability: Intimidate/ Merciless Hidden Ability: Sheer Force

Kricketune is absolutely not the fully evolved pokemon with the lowest base stat total. 384 - Kricketune 380 - Sabeleye and Mawile 377 - Farfetch'd 375 - Nosepass (Gen 3) 360 - Aipom (Gen 3-4) and Spinda 336 - Unown 330 - Delibird and Lovdisk 320 - the many Pikachus that can't evolve 300 - Meltan can be counted as sort of unable to evolve 288 - Ditto And not only the lowest among fully-evolved but the lowest of all! 175 - Wishiwashi And yes they're all fully-evolved, you just phrased your question badly. X^)

If I were a pokemon trainer, I would keep a Delcatty as a pet alongside my journey and not as a fighter.

Thank you for the shoutout at 1:50

One change for Masquerain that I know would never happen but would still be really cool would be giving it Water Bubble, Araquanid's ability. I think the effects include halving incoming fire type damage, giving a 2x boost to water moves, and a burn immunity. Tbh, it's kinda OP, but sacrificing Intimidate for what is effectively triple STAB and probably some stat boosts would actually be worth it.

Why did this video have the vibe of someone reading creepypastas or talking about haunted corners of the internet?

Does Seviper really need Dig when it already gets Earthquake? Also, Tropius absolutely needs Sunny Day on its level-up moveset. The fact that it STILL does not learn it by level-up is criminal. It learns Solar Beam by level-up and all of its abilities are sunlight-based.

Cool to see the open being Delcatty, recently I’ve been pushing at the idea of a regional variant for skitty based of the black footed cat. I wouldn’t want it to evolve, but it’d get a big enough boost in stats to make up for it. The black footed cat has the biggest success rate of hunting at a whopping 60% (lions have a success rate of 20%), they remain solitary and are almost always on the hunt. These line up in similarity to the dex entries for Skitty that talk about it being difficult to earn their trust and how they always love chasing moving objects. You can write it off as Skitty having an ingrained desire to hunt.

Thank you for this vid! quite literally my biggest reason to dislike Gen 3 are those said bad Pokémon That’s probably the reason why team building in Gen 3 felt so constricting

Heeyy!! I hope my comment helped think of this idea! :D Excellent video! I don't necessarily agree with Castform, weather ball is absolutely amazing and underrated. With rain it gains STAB and water boost, add on mystic water and you have a 200 something power attack that can change on a whim, although, having said that, each form having different stats would be a really good idea

Chimecho should be psychic ghost type. Bro is legit found on a cemetery.

Holy crap, I just realized there are only four new Electric-type Pokémon in Generation III.

Dustox and beautifly needs a huge buff too

this vid is really cool. i originally thought you were gonna fix mons within the limits of that gens mechanics, but making delcatty fairy obv isnt gen 3 since fairy didnt exist yet or whatever. but this is still really interesting thank you! masquerain is interesting bc it gets intimidate and tailwind, i think its a fantastic utility mon that can deal some damage. i do still think it could use a buff, either commit to it being an offensive sweeper or to being hybrid utility damage (altaria comes to mind.) A LOT of these mons fit into the category of hybrid mons to me, which i think is a big reason they are weaker. i think the strongest mons have a very clear role, where as hybrids arent ever gonna be as good as specialized mons. i love tropius myself, i wish it got an evo i think thats all it needs. chimecho should have got an evo not a baby mon too. i think it could be an interesting steel/psychic, like a bell. similar to bronzong with less bulk more speed. prankster could also be great on it if you wanted to take it into a more supportive direction too, similar to whimsicott perhaps?

Shoutouts to Tropius for being one of the few non-legendaries I don't own on Pokemon Diamond, as well as being one of the only two non-legendaries/starters that you literally cannot encounter at all in pokemon diamond (the other being Tangela)

Why does this have such a dark ominous mood

Masquerain needs more bulk that other things. 120 is absolutely crazy and unfitting in my eyes. Masquerain is a quiver dancer, with intimidate and now a water typing? I think that's enough.

That's funny, I actually started an emerald playthrough this week where Im using some underused (not in the smogon way) mons. That happens to include a seviper and a Chimecho I just caught. From my experience so far, Seviper is an excellent mon for when you catch it. It's been the powerhouse of the team, outperforming my Seedot, Ninjask, and Skarmory. I initially expected it to be too slow and frail to shine, but its really surprised me in both regards. Every time I thought an incoming attack was for sure going to 2shot, it would only take about 30%. And it's just about outsped everything that doesnt have a 100+ base spe. It might not be all that impressive next to a Swampert or idk Magneton, but its a really unique pokemon I'd recommend people use even without buffs. As for Chimecho I only just picked it up, but it's really nice that it starts out with yawn, Im planning to put the screen moves onto it eventually, but for now I'll be using Shock Wave for coverage, which certainly did its job vs Winona's team, barring the Altaria. One mon you also could've looked at was Mawhile, that thing gets 0 attacking moves. Intimidate + Steel is good, but the most this poor mon will ever get out of is baton passing defense boosts to a real pokemon...

I love this editing. It makes me happy.

This has got to be the most unique Pokemon channel I've ever seen. You've earned a sub, sir.

I love your concept for castform!

love the transition images :)

Awesome video, I’d love to see you do more generations and maybe not even competitively unviable pokemon but ones that just confuse people like Heliolisk being electric normal vs electric fire etc. hope to see more content on the stuff gamefreak confuses its playerbase with 😂

Give Delcatty 130 speed, change nothing else, watch it blossom as a PU support

Tropius is probably the only good grass/flying type.

What’s weird is that another Pokémon in gen 3 nincada also had the unique “at the time” bug/ground type to evolve into yet another bug/flying type…but hey it also has the bug/ghost split too