GameFreak treats Regigigas so terribly,Seriously I find it so insane how Regigigas has no ability yet it's still in the game! Regigigas should be treated as a Titan!

If this IS the reason, I don’t see why they couldn’t just have it start at neutral and give it an attack boost after five turns.

That gives me an idea of an "unleashed" form of Regigigas where it loses the rocks and its ability becomes Insomnia.

Slow Start wouldn’t be that bad if it just lowered speed. There’s still no reason for it to lower attack as well.

It would be SOOOOO EAAAAASY to balance this, and keep the lore intact. Just make it so that the first turn is 50%, second is 75%, third 100%, fourth 150%, and fifth 200%. This makes you work for a balanced boost, keeps in line with Regigigas being Arcesus’s strong executioner, and humans being able to subjugate it.

This theory actually have some official backing to it. Regirock's pokedex entry in Pokemon Shield says "Cutting-edge technology was used to study the internals of this Pokémon’s rock body, but nothing was found-not even a brain or a heart." So it's not a stretch to say all the golems are of a similar vein. Just being alive, but not sentient.

I liked it. I always tought it was because he was asleep for so many milenia that he had trouble moving, like someone out of a coma... but your theory is way cooler

Honestly, I just want to see a “Legends: Regigigas” to witness our big boi in his full glory

Considering I knew that Regigigas was based on Golems, and I knew Golems were beings who's power grew the longer they were alive, slow start always made sense to me. It's interesting to learn that the "power grew the longer they were alive" comes from a specific story of a Golem though, didn't know that part. That would explain why the other golems don't have the same limitation.

They should give Regigas a buff when it’s the 5 turn it’s speed and attack doubled, giving the trainer a reward for surviving for 5 turns and now it be able to haul @ss

My balancing idea: Slow start: Decrease the Attack and Speed Stat by 50%. Then, on the start of each turn, increase the Attack and Speed Stat by 10%points. (no limit) That would still make sense to the lore and give Gigas the balance he need. He would need 6 turns instead of 5 to gain his full power, but he can growth beneath that. Well, tibia honest, it wouldn't happen so often since A pokemon is barely longer then 6 rounds alive (not to mention most fight don't even take 6 turns), but it can be funny. :3

"Alright, Lets start with the Dots" this line is just absolute perfection, I love it.

I think slow start would have been ok if the turns ticked down while it was off the field. That would make it a great late game sweeper, if you can last five turns before bringing it out.

I remember first encountering Regigigas in Snowpoint Temple and thinking, "Wow, the god of the other Regis, surely he's going to be insanely strong", only to be insanely confused at how bad he was. Sad that to this day he retains that lack of power just for lore.

Something I’ve noticed personally, that I don’t think anyones really pointed out. Regigigas is clearly based on a computer (obvious), and his Dex number is 486. That also happened to be a very popular processor (The Pentium 486), from close to 30-40 years ago now, and despite being “good” at its time, when Pokémon originally released, let alone Gen IV, that processor was a dinosaur and SUPER slow. I can’t help but think Regigigas is an homage to those old 486 machines.

I remember when I first encountered Regigigas in the game. I felt so sorry for him when I realized he was one of three Pokemon who still had their abilities

Lore wise, I think this is cool... But I also wonder if someone at game freak really just hated regigigas and decided to make it as Terrible as they could.

What if instead of creating a ability that hinder him, they create some that make him stronger at each turn and in the fifth he becomes really powerful. I like normal type Pokemon, but the majority of them is kind of horrible. But I love the exceptions lol

It Is kinda evil Regigias still has Slow start, but you gotta appreciate how Deep to the lore the devs went

I feel like Regigigas should have a Hidden Ability that reverses the effects of Slow Start, where it buffs Regigigas after five turns. After seeing this video, it’s be cool if, say, after five turns, its attack doubles, but it becomes disobedient. It goes berserk, just like the golem it’s based on.

Honestly, even according to your insanely good lore, slow start is a bad ability battle and lore wise. The Golem grew in power along the week, and needed to be set to rest lest his power become Uncontrollable. Regigigas doesn't grow with time, and his power is far from uncontrollable. If they wanted him to really have something both Thematic and with good balance, they could just give him -5 stacks of attack and speed when being switched in, and a speed boost-like constant in which his stats raise by 1 every turn. At turn 5, the last day, his power is normal, just as powerful as he could be while controllable, and after that it would very quickly gain more and more power.

Imagine if slow start was just, "After five turns attack doubles." Thus turning Regigigas into a time bomb sweeper.

I always just saw Regigigas' Slow Start ability as a result of it being frozen for a long time but this makes more sense

I REALLY REALLY love that you have PROPER SUBTITLES!! This is such an easy way for any video to become 2000% more watchable and it's also accessible for people with hearing difficulties, English as a non-native language, or people like me who just are awful at paying attention to videos lol. It can even add to the humor in a video when there are easter eggs in the subtitles. I love your cartoon art too, very cute, though some of the "reactions" don't seem to fit the narration at times? (1:09 or so confused me lol) Also this video was very educational! It's so exciting to see a new channel like this because I can totally see this channel blowing up. Definitely deserves more than just a couple thousand subscribers. Keep it up, look forward to watching more of your videos!

Welp, theory or not this is now my headcanon for Daddigigas.

My theory is that someone in game freak fears normal types being powerful This can be seen as in g1 normal types were dominant in g1 That’s why no new normal types are that powerful

Regigigas was always one of my favorites. He's awesome in doubles but nearly unusable in singles. There is no reason for this nerf. 5 turns is a long time in competive battling.

I always wanted some kind of alpha form for Regigigas, like how we got primal and origin forms, I was hoping in Legends Arceus, that we'd get a Prime form Regigigas, where he'd be somewhat the oppasite, maybe not nerfed but slightly buffed, and he'd be missing the moss covering his body as a form of showing his prime

Can we petition Gamefreak to hire you to write the lore for them? Because you absolutely would put more effort into it than they do. Another great video buddy. Good job

That's a surprisingly cohesive and nice theory!

One thing people forget is that pokemon is a single player rpg first and foremost. Pokemon are designed for this- example; in gen 1 onyx was designed to be the first strong boss you'd encounter, its bulky but also fast, making it theoretically difficult for you to beat. outside of power curve when fighting against a certain pokemon, another part of it is story. Regigagas is not made to be a good pokemon to use, but an interesting fight to go up against. Slow start, because its just waking up, and you have 5 turns to defeat it (kill or capture) or deal with a very difficult enemy.

I’m so happy that regigigas was actually good competitively in swsh vgc. It’s always been one of my favorite pokemon ever since I was a kid and then the fact that it essentially took up two slots on your team (because you absolutely need to run it next to neutralizing gas weezing lol) gives it an interesting and unique niche

If they are gonna keep slow start then atleast change it to last less turns.

The Regis when they have seven dots on them: They are speaking the language of gods!

If you're going to give it Slow Start, give it an enormous stat total.

I like the idea but if it’s supposed to be such a force of nature after five turns. To somehow make it viable, it has to have ridiculous stats. Like a stat total of 850 or something. Half those stats and you get a pretty bad Pokémon. But those stats actually make trying to survive five turns worth it!

Regigigas was given slow start so it could be allowed in battle facilities and VGC tournaments, which only ban boxart legendaries, who are purposefully OP, and mythicals, who some are inaccessible.

they should have given him as second ability like after five turns his attack speed and all other stats get a 50% increase on top of his stats returning to normal

Ooo I am excited to watch this one and shall come back when I have time to give my full attention. But here’s a CFTA for when I inevitably forget to comment later.

imagine when slow start ended it gained 1.5x or 2x attack regigigas ignored your commands and started blasting and using whatever moves it wanted

Regigigas should have an ability called "Elemental" where it gets STAB off of Rock, Ice and Steel type moves.

Idea: instead of making regigigas weaker, make slow start a buff. Make it a sort of countdown to doom. Creating a threat that has to be rushed down before it reaches full strength and becomes nearly unstoppable.

I don't even care if this was the intended story behind it or not, I just chose to believe it now. This video was great!

I actually had my own lore for Regigigas because it seemed to make sense with the lore they had made already for it. In my own lore, most Regigias are not the originals. It's a copy that was made by the REAL Regigias in order to imitate it's master's ability to create golems; who was a blind man who could not see the wickedness of mankind and could only see the beauty of the world and creation. The human gained knowledge to create the first, primal Regigigas through Arceus. The blind man shared the ability to create and also made the other Regis. However, seeing this massive continent puller literally pull the world apart (my lore shares the Pangea theory and the reason why Primal Regigias actually was made, to separate the world to stop humans from fighting.) They feared the power and saw that it started trying to create it's own life in the weaker Regigigas and so they sealed them all away. But Primal Regigigas was to strong even for his own creator to stop. And so (this is going to my own OC pokes so don't worry about this) the creator used the last of the stones made with infinity energy, and matter he discovered of a Distortion World to make Primal Regiaethos, the King of Souls (A Ghost-type counterpart to Regigigas) to fight and tire the beast so the ancients could seal them both into eternal slumber. The humans also made three other regis based on human eras (The Dark Ages, The Age of Enlightenment, and The Atomic Age, respectfully, as well as Regieleki) to combat the ancient ones made previously.

It’s double crazy cause they had a full one perfect chance to give us a real one WITH A ANCIENT PAST REGION THAT SHOULD SHOWCASE HIM

I would've liked it if Regigigas had a bigger base stat pool. Where it was more powerful stat wise than any other legendary, emphasizing it's colossal form and dormant power, but the ability slow start keeping it in check for a while. Both for inspiration lore reasons, and also being asleep for so long and the weathering of time.

Arceus: “Finally, a servant who will fulfill its duty with no hesitation! Now rise my beautiful creation, rise!” Regigigas: *Windows XP activation noise.* Arceus: *sigh* “of course…”

0:25 hopefully within a few more days as Pokémon home was updated

Reminds me of how Nidorina and Nidoqueen are always unable to breed because they were bugged in the original generation breeding was introduced and it was kept that way as an inside joke. It's cute at first, but becomes really annoying in practice, and also very awkward making a giant Pokemon breed with a tiny rabbit. Imagine if Psychics were kept as broken as they were in the first gen, just to keep old lore alive.

They could literally make it more accurate by buffing him "When first deployed, all stats are lowered by 2.5 stages, with each turns for 6 turns they get raised by 0.5" That way he keeps his lore and gets a little buff for having tk go thru that bullshit

Arceus technically has 7 green dots on its body, if you count the eyes as one

Honestly, just change slow start so he starts out at his normal stats and then gets a free +2 to attack and speed on turn 5, that would balance him fine whe also keeping the berzerking function

Glad to see you got in your daily Simpsons quote on this one lol

I think considering Regigas is basically a massive robot they should have given it some high defenses. Would have been cool to have a Pokemon that can withstand oneshots

This theory is believable but I remember hearing somewhere that the punishment was given by Arceus himself as I believe that when Arceus created Regigigas, he was very lonely and decided to make the Regis we see today to accompany him but Arceus was the only one who could make the pokemon so he punished Regigigas and put the stones on him to give him the ability of slow start (and it's effects) and then sealed all the Regis away including Regigigas to be reawakened later and would pay for their master's (Regigigas') mistake. But there was a part of this story that I didn't think could be true but the first Regi was actually a Regi called "RegiAlpha" made by Arceus, who created all the Regis, but Regigigas first and then the rest. Arceus erased RegiAlpha for this and gave his first and most powerful creation (Regigigas) the slow start ability and then sealed him and the rest away, Regigigas with the stones and others, puzzles and what not.

I believe that theory abou the Golem! They take folklore and turn it into Pokemon all the time. I'm sure this was the reason why! Very cool, thank you!

They seem to have only crippled gigas's speed in pla instead of both attack and speed

Never saw a KZfaq video that didn’t hit different with this as the background music

i think better idea would be- 1st turn: 50% stats 2nd turn: 75% 3rd turn: normal stats 4th turn: 1 stage boost to all stats 5th turn: 2 stage boost all stats final

i imagine that regigigas's buggy/glitchy voice in the movies/anime are because of it's slow start. Imagine if slow start wears off and suddenly Regigigas stops, stands tall and says "Regigigas" without intterupting itself that would be so menacing

“Hey bro let’s make titans but let’s make it slow because it’s a titan” This guy:

if that case, it should have been 3 turns, not 5

imagine if gamefreak randomly decide one day to give a event slaking or regigigas with moxie ,iron punch or mold breaker that thing will be almost unstopable

gamefreak: gives arceus a guarenteed stab AND super effective move. also gamefreak: naahhh regigigas would be too broken without slow start. let's work it in even though everyone HATES that

Imagine a prime regigigas regional variant or form similar to Groudon and kyogre and it’s new ability is quick start speed and attack is doubled for 5 turns

Regigigas has one of my favorite designs and I love it's cry in the Hoopa movie but I wish it was actually usable in competitive games because it is far to week

Oh shit im actually from the Czech Republic (the country Prauge is located in) and this is some pretty cool stuff!Never would have thought to connect Prauge lore with pokemon!!

I can’t believe I played through the whole game and never noticed that abilities were removed…

It is time for Regigigas revenge, give him a hidden abillity, my choice would be pure power, and then let's watch him tear the world asunder.

Had too. Are us looked at Gigas and went “Whoops, my bad. Lemme fix that.”

can't believe regigigas is being held down by the weight of his balls

Alternate Title: Pokemon Lore - Creation of the Demigods

I think Regigigas at first was fine with the nerf, gen 4 was very much different than what we have now. I mean in the OU meta you had Salamence and the Lati@s twins banned to Uber. We also didn't have the power creep that we have now. Also yes, I think Slow Start shouldn't be a thing anymore, it's long past time to get rid of it

Love the pace you present the info with, keeps things interesting. Agree with this origin theory, wonder if we will have a regi of all the typings eventually 🤔

Solid 10/10, keep up the great work!

Honestly, if it a power growing over days scenario then they could "buff slow start" by starting regigigas off at -5 attack / speed when brought on field, and then each turn it boosts itself by +1, +1 speed /atk. meaning in 5 turns it would start to become actually unstoppable. so long as they don't just go ahead and give it a speed boosting move then this solution would be more than fine and prevent it getting out of hand quick in competitive.

It sounds too complicated for me but at the time of posting this it’s almost bedtime for me

I like this idea, because he is awekening so it starts slow. But i think it should take less turns. Like 2.

Gamefreak: **proceeds to be a freak and hard codes slow start in pla** Also gamefreak: **creates mega rayquaza miraidon and zacian**

I think it would have made better sense if Attack and Speed was raised by 1.5x on the 5th turn from normal rather than halved from the start and then back to normal on the 5th turn.

Gastro Acid in doubles is the classic work around.

An idea: slow start simply starts off with bad stats, but increases them all by one per turn. So after 2 turns, regigigas is at his normal power, and after six, all stats have maxed.

i like to think that it got put to sleep for so many time that he needs time to move properly again

Man it's like they have a vendetta against him I mean it would've made perfect sense for him to not have slow start

I have a different theory about why Regigigas has such a terrible ability. But it's pretty unlikely now since I made it when primal reversion was introduced. Regigigas is the one who moved the continents around. My theory is that after that was done, he was allowed to do whatever he wanted. That led him to create the other regis. The humans of the time saw how strong Regigigas was and managed to seal him away through help from other legendary Pokémon sort of like the swords of justice or the legendary dogs. And because Regigigas was sealed away for so long, most of his power was lost. He became smaller, weaker, and slower. But through the use of the other three regis, because regilecki and regidrago didn't exist at the time, the player could make an item that would allow Regigigas to reclaim some of its former strength. It wouldn't get much larger, but instead of having its attack and speed stat halved for 5 turns, it would become something of the opposite. Its stats would be increased by about 50%, and its new ability would either be pressure like so many other legendries, or an ability that boosted its stats when paired with other regis in battle.

Absolutely interesting theory. That poor Regigigas gets treated bad 🥲🥲

Kinda cool watching a channel with a video this high quality with only a few k subs.. clearly this guy gonna have a few hundred thousand in a year or so with quality this high

Slow start should be like: He's charging attack like on 4-5 turn he's attack is low but after 4-5 turn will grow up higher and higher if battle is still going

I think Gamefreak should buff Regigigas with Slow Start Lasting just 3 turns instead of 5 and once those 3 turns are over just be a turn each time you change Regigigas

You never saw this coming _I SUMMON POT OF GREED!!!_

Have any of you guys even fought against a dinamaxed Regigigas while 2 other chucklef*cks are actively going out of their way to make sure 5 turns have passed during battle? Truly the stuff of nightmares.

He needs a mega evolution with huge power.

There's a blunt response to this and that's, Lore is not an excuse to make something unuseable. A variant of 'tradition is not an excuse to impede progress.'

I'm making a Romhack of Emerald that will have Regigigas in it as a secret boss. I wanted to buff him but I didn't want to remove the slow start ability because it seemed so intentional. So instead I gave him a new signature move. A 20base power rock move called Rumbling that gives him a boost to all stats. The idea being that this ancient behemoth rising from it's slumber causes cave ins and other types of collateral damage while it regains its senses.

Late comment. Galarian Weezing says "Evening Govnor. Don't mind my Neutralising Gas ability."

Regigigas has somehow become one of my favourite legendaries because of its ability. I felt so bad seeing game freak just making this pokemon so terrible and i started to look into lore and stuff to see if there was a reason. Only to be very interested in the lore and ending up loving this Regi.

And now the Pokémon home support is announced

I love the idea of Regigigas being fucked over because humans got greedy but none of the other Regis did cuz they just weren't as beefy.

I want a Primal Reversion Regigigas . With mess like Mega Rayquaza , Zacian, and more, I don't see why they don't let my boy loose

regigigas: what did I do to diserve this stats?!