Trivia: Basculin was added in the BW dex late due to the region lacking fish Pokemon. This may explain the different forms reminiscent to Shellos and Gastrodon, another Pokemon line that was supposed to be in Gen 3 but couldn’t due to time constraints. Luckily, it’s getting an evolution! Hoping it’ll give it resurgence.

Complete FSG evaluation so far: 1. Charizard - pretty decent/had its up and downs, but the vast majority has been on the upside 2. Venusaur - consistently good 3. Unown - I don't know, who cares/who are you, what are you doing? 4. Blastoise - very, very mediocre 5. Dragonite - incredible/one of the greatest Pokemon of all time 6. Starmie - great 7. Snorlax - edge early on, but later dropped off 8. Gengar - phenomenal 9. Alakazam - great start, but later pushed down 10. Gyarados - pretty good 11. Chansey/Blissey - one of the best Pokemon [of all time] 12. Machamp - decent 13. Arcanine - wasn't a bad Pokemon, wasn't a top threat 14. Lapras - not that good 15. Articuno - even more not that good 16. Zapdos - pretty damn good 17. Moltres - better than I expected 18. Tauros - it were rough two decades for him/certainly's seen its lows, but also had some of the highest heights 19. Aerodactyl - decent 20. Nidoking - pretty good 21. Scizor - great/truly great 22. Tyranitar - was and is amazing 23. Rhydon/Rhyperior - decent, at least for a bit 24. Shuckle - bad, until maybe gen six 25. Heracross - honestly, it was pretty good 26. Smeargle - pretty good 27. Skarmory - amazing, in singles/among the best singles Pokemon of all time 28. Golbat/Crobat - OK 29. Slowbro - pretty good 30. Wigglytuff - outclassed 31. Porygon/Porygon2 - Porygon sucked, but Porygon2 was pretty good 32. Porygon-Z - OK 33. Seadra/Kingdra - hard to say, OK, I guess? Seadra just kinda sucked, really 34. Onix/Steelix - Onix was outclassed, Steelix started out well, but never really got anything 35. Azumarill - certainly wasn't a Pokegod, but once it got its combination, it was terryfying 36. Magneton/Magnezone - pretty good, especially after evolving 37. Sneasel/Weavile - Sneasel was pretty bad, but Weavile was pretty good 38. Poliwrath - not great 39. Espeon - hard to say, potentially one of the strongest non-uber Pokemon 40. Umbreon - pretty decent 41. Ampharos - wasn't that good 42. Cloyster - pretty damn good 43. Houndoom - a little underwhelming 44. Togetic/Togekiss - Togetic f**king sucked, but Togekiss was pretty damn good 45. Pikachu - pretty bad 46. Raichu - pretty bad 47. Breloom - pretty amazing, to be honest 48. Garchomp - in a word, amazing 49. Gardevoir - up and down 50. Gligar/Gliscor - Gligar wasn't great, but Gliscor was awesome 51. Feraligatr - it depends, kinda well, not great, but certainly not atrocious 52. Typhlosion - not great 53. Quagsire - man, I don't f**king know 54. Meganium - sucks 55. Dunsparce - sucked 56. Donphan - pretty dang average 57. Jolteon - for most of its life, really good 58. Vaporeon - pretty good 59. Flareon - sucked and still sucks 60. Metagross - incredible 61. Salamence - amazing 62. Swampert - good 63. Blaziken - probably best starter of all time... for now 64. Wobbuffet - hard to say 65. Sceptile - pretty below average 66. Clefable - dramatically shifting its whole life, nowadays strong placement 67. Tentacruel - OK, for a while 68. Jumpluff - honestly not very good, but better than you might expect 69. Exeggutor - steepest decline of all covered Pokemon 70. Mewtwo - you're kidding, right? 71. Mew - really good 72. Lucario - really strong 73. Kangaskhan - OK 74. Flygon - never face of the tier, but always important and defining 75. Milotic - proud representative of its kind 76. Dugtrio - once it gain Arena Trap, it become the force 77. Suicune - as good as it is regal 78. Raikou - pretty good 79. Entei - not that good 80. Marowak - had a bone or two to pick 81. Ninetales - not very good at all 82. Gallade - pretty decent 83. Tangela/Tangrowth - among the most forgettable Pokemon, but once it evolved, it become the damn important pick 84. Electabuzz/Electivire - for the most part, quite bad 85. Magmar/Magmortar - not good, like, ever 86. Misdreavus/Mismagius - OK 87. Pidgeot - bland, until mega made it viable 88. Persian - sucked after first generation 89. Roselia/Roserade - pre-evo wasn't great, Roserade was 90. Weezing - always decent, at least in the lower tiers 91. Ledian - one of the worst Pokemon of all time 92. Muk - pretty alright 93. Delibird - one of the worst competitive Pokemon in history 94. Piloswine/Mamoswine - Piloswine was underrated, but since it evolved, it become the wrecking ball 95. Froslass - definition of a specialised Pokemon 96. Beedrill - until it got mega, one of the worst Pokemon, but after, one of the most important in UU 97. Celebi - great, great Pokemon 98. Aggron - pretty much on the below average side 99. Lugia - every bit as good and some as in other media 100. Infernape - overall, pretty good 101. Sandslash - went from being decent to despondent 102. Empoleon - pretty great 103. Ho-Oh - pretty good 104. Mawile - for its first three generations, seriously awful, but then become one of the biggest threats around 105. Torterra - wasn't fantastic 106. Golem - not all Pokemon can be amazing, and it is a prime example 107. Shedinja - honestly pretty terrible 108. Rayquaza - only superlatives describe how powerful it was 109. Ditto - may not be the best in the older games 110. Scyther - in the grand scheme of things, awful 111. Staraptor - one of the best non-OU Pokemon of all time 112. Lopunny - quite decent 113. Ludicolo - wherever best aplicable has made its trainers jubilant 114. Slowking - wasn’t a superstar, but was a solid overall Pokemon, and it deserves some pants 115. Nidoqueen - her reign has been fruitful 116. Pinsir - functioning quality, then launched into successful territory 117. Murkrow/Honchkrow - the Sopranos of Pokemon weren’t great, but they had their place 118. Claydol - victim of power creep 119. Groudon - amazing and then some 120. Kyogre - every bit as amazing as its legendary status would suggest and then some 121. Jynx - fantastic 122. Volcarona - one of the most powerful Pokemon around 123. Rapidash - not very good 124. Forretress - one of the most successful singles Pokemon of all time 125. Sableye - unique case, for the most part done well 126. Hydreigon - pretty phenomenal run 127. Dialga - very good 128. Palkia - went from utterly dominant to having its viability slashed 129. Jirachi - always ranged from good to great 130. Regirock - good, in the lower tiers 131. Pelipper - before gen 7, not great, putting it kindly 132. Manaphy - quite decent 133. Hitmontop - as unique competetively as design-wise 134. Regice - had a bumpy ride 135. Darkrai - one of the scariest monsters, then unusable 136. Registeel - consistently got the job done like nothing else 137. Miltank - has always found a niche 138. Victini - spotty in OU, until it pulled through 139. Regigigas - most neuter Pokemon of all time 140. Kabutops - mostly been known as one of the best Pokemon in whatever lower tier it landed in 141. Absol - hasn’t been given a toolset well-rounded enough for success 142. Lord Helix - has been dealt a tough hand, but made something of itself regardless 143. Spiritomb - wherever it ended up, was a solid Pokemon 144. Politoed - possibly the best „zero to hero” story in Pokemon 145. Altaria - prime example of new life breathe in with a mega 146. Crawdaunt - hasn’t been a high-tier superstar, but had its place 147. Yanma/Yanmega - Yanma was one of the worst Pokemon in history, but Yanmega found legitimate use 148. Leavanny - even in the lower tiers, it didn’t really have a niche 149. Glaceon - not really very good at all 150. Dewgong - never really been good, at all 151. Sudowoodo - perfect example of a Pokemon that needs an artificial push 152. Giratina - overall solid through and through 153. Hariyama - alright 154. Slaking - kids should overcome their laziness and go to school 155. Dusclops/Dusknoir - lifetime of crippling mediocrity 156. Pachirisu - had utterly nonexistent usage in any singles ever, but the world rejoiced at VGC 2014 157. Abomasnow - quite a good Pokemon 158. Parasect - one of the worst Pokemon of all time 159. Luvdisc - tragedy of Shakespearean proportions 160. Serperior - in its short existence, it has made its presence felt, and then some 161. Toxicroak - quite a fine Pokemon 162. Golduck - never has been truly excellent 163. Emboar - lower tier lifer 164. Haxorus - ferocious and then some 165. Samurott - an NU lifer 166. Victreebel - always had some sort of forceful impact 167. Zoroark - wasn’t good at all, while also being one of the most definitive Pokemon of all time 168. Wynaut - philosophically, it was hella finna woke 169. Leafeon - call it Bill or Ted 170. Galvantula - wasn’t spectacular 171. Chandelure - quite good 172. Greninja - absolute terror 173. Krookodile - UU lifer 174. Hitmonlee - it’s kicked around lower tiers 175. Medicham - epitomy of fear 176. Scolipede - absolutely dominating (UU) as a trend 177. Luxray - wasn’t good at all 178. Sharpedo - genuinely good (as UU lifer) 179. Vileplume - one of the best lower tier Pokemon 180. (AT)Venomoth - hail Venomothra 181. Rampardos - had been punctuated with heartbreak 182. Hitmonchan - relatively pretty good 183. Excadrill - incredible 184. Bellossom - has been dealt a rough hand 185. Dodrio - had its ups and downs 186. Raticate - to put it lightly, not great 187. Qwilfish - one of the most used lower tier Pokemon of all time 188. Camerupt - mostly lower tier Pokemon 189. Xatu - not a world beater, but a terrific support 190. Shaymin - both of its forms had successful competitive history

And everyone knows at this point that Basculin was added in at the last minute of development of Pokémon B&W

I’m glad that basculin is getting an evolution cause these stats are good for a first evolution or middle evolution

If you're doing Pokemon who get a evolution in Legends Arceus, then you should do Stantler next week.

In gen 6 PU, I used a Mold Breaker Basculin set with Surf that was able to ohko Golem and prevent it from setting up rocks.

So it's basically not that bad on its own, just that a lot of the time there were other pokemon that could easily take its place. oh also at 4:30 it seems like you accidentally put "Rock Smash" into the move list rather than "Head Smash" since you mentioned that move and also it's the rock-type color

Basculin has decent stats already, its evolution could really bring him to new heights in competitive. And it looks freaking sick, which is also very important :D

Forget Zuko and Amity, Basculin's redemption arc is the best redemption arc in history.

Ya know for what’s basically an ancient Sinnoh region. Hisui seems to have more Unova unique forms than Sinnoh.

man, rock smash basculin was terrifyingly strong.

I honestly love its design. It’s so simple yet effective. Plus it looks like a rabuta berry.

If Basculegion remains a physical attacker then i could see Adaptability Poltergeist being an extremely powerful offensive tool for it to have assuming it can learn and have access to that move.

Basculin was one of my favorite meme picks during gen 6 competitive, so seeing it thrive in gen 8 brought a tear to my eye.

I'm so glad my favorite fish managed to go from "I need assistance" to PU's metagame menace

Right now would be a good time to list this: Basculegion is the first Pokémon to have all vowels in its (English) name. Not sure if there’s a Pokémon with all single-character kana in its Japanese name, though.

As an appreciator of obscure Pokemon that are largely forgotten and/or disliked by the general fanbase (shoutouts to Wormadam, Mothim, Bouffalant, Gogoat, Barbaracle, Komala, Crabominable and Drampa) I appreciated this episode.

Next one how good was floatzel

I really hope there’s a blue striped Basculegion. Spoilers: I stand corrected(Somewhat)

At this point, you can easily guess a mon's viability by the duration of the video

I honestly didn't think we'd get this video till Legends of Arceus released. Basculegion looks like it's gonna be one of the strongest Hisui Pokémon if it has Adaptability.

Honestly, I didn't expect basculin being good, nice job piranha! Now, basculegion looks even more terrifying

Alternative title- "How DELICIOUS was basculin ACTUALLY?"

When Basculin hits LC when Arceus comes out, I will cry

This is a nice video to see now that Hisuian Basculin is coming out soon!

Good to see my fish boy receiving some attention

4:30 truly brave of the player base to run rock smash on this. That sort of innovation is the product of rigorous testing, surely.

Lets hope Basculegion gets revenge for all his brothers who fell in Competetive Ghost Salmon Hype

I used a Basculin in my gen 5 VGC team alongside lots of slow Trick Room mons. Final Gambit was meant to be my ace in the hole...eeexcept at the second prelim match, I ran into a Jellicent and realized I ran Waterfall and Aqua Jet...and no Crunch. I lost through stall-out. RIP, Sakanamama. You will never be forgotten.

Wow, I just caught a shiny basculine today, what timing!

Can't wait for you to talk about it's new form ;3

I’d love to see a How good was Sigilyph actually, since I’ve had a lot of fun using it even in gen 8 OU

I never knew basculines stats were as good as they are, i imagine basculigeon will be really strong

Basculegion is such a formidable looking water-type pokemon design. I mean, I thought Basculin looked intimidating, but Basculegion blows that out of the water! Great vid as always 😁 Can we get Decidueye next?

Nice, now do the other fish. "How GOOD was Lumineon ACTUALLY?"

I hope Basculegion becomes a good competitive Pokémon.

Hello, an PU player here. For a long time, water-types offense was a menace, but was regulated thanks to many water absorbers like Jegglicent, Vaporeon, Toxicroak and Heliorisk. When the tier shift came in, there was some CRAZY power level. Kingler, Clawtizer, Belly Drum Poliwrath to bait Vaporeon, Omastar, at some point even Kingdra was there. So for a lot of time Basculin was overlook. But nowadays, 3 of the 4 pokemon are now on NU, and thus forcing every team to run a Jegglicent wasn´t cool, so thats why Kingler, Claw, Omastar and Kingdra were banned, opening the gates for our boy Basculin. Nowadays for Water offense you got Kabutops, Basculin and Silvally -Maybe Carracosta- o overall Basculin is doing great! GIVE THEM THE PU BADGE THEY DESERVE IT

4:50 ahhh yes, my favorite Rock type coverage move to run on Basculin, Rock Smash

I unironically love Basculin, have done so since Gen 5, and was overjoyed to learn about Basculegion. :)

Wishlist from 2022 - Ursaring - Zangoose - Drapion - Drifblim - Exploud (done) - Scrafty - Floatzel - Rotom for a bigger video - Gengar for a remake

This is one of the single stage no evolution Pokemon that I loved using in my runs of later generations that had it

I was not expecting Basculin to have any success anywhere. The more you know. Can't wait for when you eventually cover Ferrothorn

I start college tomorrow, so seeing this video in my feed is nice to relax too

Small thing but the text on screen says Choice Specs when you really meant Choice Band, Great vids!

Hey now that BDSP Meta is a thing, I'd love a video checking it out, whether to see how the staples of DP OU hold up, or how new staples have appeared thanks to stuff like the Fairy type.

Basculin is a pretty underrated mon

You know, it’s pretty fishy that we haven’t done relicanth yet. You couldn’t even get the Regis without him

Another main thing about Gen 6 was that Floatzel’s speciality was very anti-meta. It had Taunt, Bulk Up, and was immune to burns so it could prevent hazards, protect its own, and set up all day on stuff like Lumineon, Monferno, and Clefairy.

If basculegion has adaptability, we gonna get dracovish part 2

3:16 New Pokémon Move! Floatzel, use *Water Fard!*

Rei: (reads Basculegion’s Pokédex entry and questions game logic) Akari: “Hey! Look at this Basculin that I just caught! Tasty looking, am I right?”

When you got to Gen 8 half way through the video, I thought the other half was going to be for Blue Strip Basculin

@False Swipe Gaming we need a Generational review of the tiers from years past! A video on OU and UU in Gen 2, a video on all the tiers from Gen 5, that sort of thing, it'll help finding some useful mons for people to request.

Where it says common moves: you wrote 'Rock Smash' instead of 'Head Smash'

Basculegion: "My name is Legion, for we are many, forever swimming upstream."

A surprisingly positive video.

4:35 nice rock smash on the side bar lol

I've waited years for this moment

Huh i didn't know this came out on my Bday. Can't wait for basculegion!

One of my favorite things to use with max hp scarfed basculin is final gambit. It was a great way to break teams when my team was struggling

I have always loved Basculin, especially since I watched Wild Kratts. Thank goodness its getting an evolution.

Just saying that basculegion will get last respects A move that took some random ghost to ubers

0:09 LMFAO!!! The sarcasm

I just randomly found a shiny basculin in the dynamax adventures in SwSh, so seen this video right after is pretty cool.

There's a typo around 5 mins. Under popular moves it says "rock smash" in the rock type font color when you meant to write "head smash"

This is amazing

It took a while that Basculin mastered his 4000 years of Unova Martial Arts, let's hope that it's evolution from Legends:Arceus will follow suit

I’m actually really excited because I love Basculegion’s design (specifically male since male is blue and I love the colour blue)

So glad Basculin is going to get a much needed evolution in Legends Arceus. If Basculegion retains Adaptability or Reckless, and attains a improved speed and attack stats, it can use its already incredible new dual stab and great coverage to Cleve through its opposition. Would be checks like Mandibuzz could not take onslaughts of Liquidation and Head Smashes while potential physical checks like Tangrowth can’t take repeated onslaughts of its ghost stab and ice beam. I’m excited to see the new changes Legends Arceus brings to the series.

I had a Basculin. Her name was Scrappy. Didn't take her to the E4 but she did work! So this vid makes me happy.

If Basculegion keeps Adaptability and gains Poltergeist, it's probably straight to OU for him. Assuming it doesn't lose speed/attack that is

SO ready for Basculegion!

Good job

As the world's one and only Basculin fan, this upload pleases me

Story time: I made a comment on a video featuring Basculin and I talked about how underwhelming it is and probably always will be. Fast forward 4 days later and Basculegion was announced along with the other Hisuian Pokemon. Sometimes, I feel like universe just likes to tell me "you thought"

Bro how big is the next big video going to be?

Theres a bit of a mistake at 4:30, seems you got Head Smash and Rock Smash mixed up.

Sheesh. What's next, Lumineon?

basculegion on its way to swift swim last respects everything:

Never seen such a powerful rock smash :O

We getting Pokémon that are getting regional Hissuian forms/evolutions now? Dope. Can’t wait for Braviary.

00:07 Basculin, a “colorful Pokémon”, good one!

im gonna guess the kyurem video is in the workshop but just in case, can you kind fellows make the finisher of the tao trio?

It took a smaller Pokedex for this mon to shine, however briefly. Here's to hoping its evolution can find competitive success when Legend of Arceus gets released.

I randomly got a shiny red stripe basculin while playing Black 2 a few days ago, very funny to see this pop up! Wonder if my shiny will be able to evolve when I transfer to legends Arceus?

I thought this episode was just going to be "Untiered untiered untiered untiered" but I was pleasantly surprised.

Can’t wait for Basculegion!

Addendum: Basculin did find a niche in USUM ZU, where it was a competent revenge killer even in spite of its competition with Floatzel and Silvally-Water. The SS generation has had much more flux, but it currently sits in SS ZU as a great wallbreaker and revenge killer once more with the removal of Floatzel, and it now wholly outcompetes Silvally-Water in the running for an offensive Water type.

I think you meant to put Head Smash over rock smash for popular moves in gen 8

Willing to say that with the new Stat Leaks with Adaptability it'll probably be really good. Maybe OU, but there are checks for it like Dragapult who outspeed and 1-shot it, so actually maybe UUBL.

I made a mistake last week. I meant to suggest: How BAD was Bastiodon actually?

I think you meant to put head smash instead of rock smash in the popular moves list for Sword & Shield.

He's doing Unova Water Types! Seismitoad is inevitable!

To this date I still wish the two different versions had either different stats or abilities and wasn't just a color swap. Basculin isn't the only one who I'd wish for differences like this.

Can you in the next video talk about bronzong? I believe he is underated af

In gen 8 section head smash was changed to rock smash lol

For Basculegion: Maybe raising Attack by 20, Speed by 10, all else by 5 might be worth it. Give it Fishious Rend. Should be quite a machine with that.

4:30 “Ah yes I win by default, my favorite way to win!“

Dis gone be goooood.....

4:51 ah yes, the famous rock type move: rock smash.