Ah yes a physical wall that's 4x weak to the two biggest physical offensive types, what could go wrong

The best sign of how terrible the Rock/Steel typing is Mega Aggron going from Steel/Rock to just Steel.

In _Pokemon Legends: Arceus,_ in the Coronet Highlands region, there is a small cave tunnel where inside you can find the partially unearthed fossilized skeletons of a Bastiodon and a Rampardos. The orientation of the fossils means the Nosepass that spawns next to them always spawns looking at them, and the main entrance of the cave is guarded by an Alpha Probobass. Game Freak sure have a cruel sense of humor.

Bastiodon: I LOVE DEFENSE! Machop: *lightly Karate Chops it* Bastiodon: *Shatters like glass*

Dual types are almost always better than mono types, due to better move pools and two STAB types. Keyword here is almost.

The most surprising part of this video is that it isn't called How BAD was Bastidon ACTUALLY

Man someone needs to check up on Bastiodon, I'm pretty sure he's one generation away from ending it all from the looks of it.

Apparently Bastiodon has now been buffed. It has Foul Play, Body Press, and Iron Defense, and it can tera out of its terrible Rock Steel typing.

It is still a complete CRIME that the literal SHIELD Pokémon is not in Pokémon Shield.

Bastiodon really is a prime example of a Pokémon BDSP *should* have buffed. But didn’t.

If you ever think stats are the only thing that matter- remember that Toxapex and Bastiodon have VERY SIMILAR stat distribution. One is an annoying OU staple the other got buried 6 tiers under like the fossil it is.

Back in the days of xerneas I would destroy teams with Bastiadon sturdy, metal burst, red card. It was extremely unexpected.

To pair it with the Rampardos theorem, here is the Bastiodon theorem: If you are an unbreakable wall, you need some way to actually threaten the opponent, otherwise you are a sitting duck, just like Bastiodon.

Ah yes the Aggron conundrum of "combining two defensive types actually is a really bad idea"

Something sad Kellen didn't mention is that Probopass got Body Press, including in BDSP where almost nothing else has it, but Bastiodon didn't and it doesn't look like it will if it ever does come back at this rate. Aggron also got it in swsh, so Probopass and Aggron have yet another tool to outclass Bastiodon with. Pokemon Go really is the only place you could feasibly use Bastiodon.

From both an in game and competitive standpoint, Bastiodon is the worst fossil Pokemon. Rock/Steel and offensive stats on par with basic Pokemon don't really do it any favors.

I'm gonna have to disagree and say that Rock is a bad defensive typing. Its only relevant resistance is Flying (and Fire to some extent), and it stacks weaknesses with actual good defensive typings like Ground, Water, and Steel to make them significantly worse as tanks.

I vividly remember fighting Byron and not knowing all the type advantages and being shocked when his Bastiodon got 1 hit KO by my Machoke’s cross chop

The Rock type. Weighing other types down defensively with the exception of maybe Grass.

Rock/Steel is SUCH A PATHETIC TYPE. Rock adds literally NOTHING to Steel other than a Fire neutrality, and honestly? I'd rather take the fire weakness

One of the saddest parts about Bastiodon is that it doesn’t have a recovery move outside of Rest, which is something every wall needs to be, y’know, a wall. Without it, Bastiodon just sits there and dies, it’s so sad

I hope he does Tyrantrum next, I want to see how good Tyrantrum is

There's a massive problem with this typing and the fact that so many mons get EQ, and the ones it could potentially check get focus blast.

Everytime I watch an FSG video I get reminded how much I liked Pokemon Battle Revolution. Most animations look still good even till today. Especially Icebeam.

If Rampardos is a glass hammer, then Bastiodon is essentially a glass wall

I don’t get why Gamefreak gave so many slow defensive Pokémon, that are meant to take multiple hits Sturdy. It directly contradicts their gameplan, since it only does something when your defenses fail.

Bastiodon in normal pvp: Meh Bastiodon in Pokemon Go pvp: One of the best pokemon around

How GOOD was Mantine Actually? It’d be interesting to see how a special counterpart to Skarmory would fare.

I think it’s cool that we got Roark’s dad’s ace on Father’s Day. Who was the Mother’s Day video for again? Edit: It was Delphox and Snivy, who coincidentally tend to fall more on the feminine side anyways

At least Aggron had a good attack stat along with rockhead+head smash to hit hard, and when it got its mega, it fixed the issues and became one of the best tanks in UU with some OU viability.

**Looks at the length** **Sweats nervously**

My bastidon had sturdy and metal burst, so cynthia in bdsp was a cakewalk

i love bastiodon and have fond memories of it unfortunatly despite it can learn a lot of tm's flamethrower, thunderbolt, but it really should have gotten the move of body press in gen 8

Shieldon and bastiodon will always be my favourite Pokémon. I always struggle to use one on play throughs but it's so rewarding when you beat a champion with one 😍

Bastiodon is one of my favourite designs, so I always feel like using it in any gen 4 playthrough...then I'm quickly reminded why I never keep it in my team.

Oh boy, this one's gonna be rough.

Just imagine if this thing was a pure steel type with the filter ability.

If not remove the duel typing could also make him ground instead of rock. Maybe even buff his base hp from base 60 to 75 or even 80

Being completely outclassed by Probopass is a truly depressing place in the meta

Bastiodon needs the combo of Iron Defense and Body Press.

Bastiodon: You took everything from me! Probopass: I don't even know who you are.

The Mega Evolution potential with this thing was staring Game Freak right in the face & they still didn’t take it. Imagine a giant diamond monster with a metal face the shape of a castle. They could even base the castle on historical castles from whatever real world place the region would be based on.

I love how that rampardos and bastiodon are by all means terrible in normal games but one of the most coveted in Pokemon Go, with Rampardos as one of the best rock type gym attackers and Bastiodon being a staple in Great League play.

At least Rampardos could do things sometimes. But this? There was no hope for Bastiodon. You know you failed as a Steel type when an ICE type is a better physical wall.

I actually like Bastiodon, but yeah they really didn't do much for it over the generations besides having high defenses.

Due to the length, I feel he’s going to be even worse than Rampardos

Steel + Rock is never a good combo* *unless you're Aggron and you have good abilities + a deep movepool to compensate

If it’s any consolation Bastiodon is a fantastic nuzlocke Pokémon in the games you can get it

Buff idea time. Firstly, give it more utility moves, like Spikes, Spikey Shield, & regift it Magnet Rise (it lost that move in BDSP). Secondly, nerf it’s Special Attack by 20 and move the over to HP, so it’s HP goes from 60 to 80, then gift it 30 points in Attack, so going from 52 to 82. Thirdly, give it a recovery move, specifically Slack Off. Fourthly, give it two new abilities (and drop soundproof). For the first ability, I’ll just spitball a name like “Shatterproof” or something that’d make Bastiodon immune to Fighting Moves. Secondly, give it Dauntless Shield because the thematic appropriateness is just too good to pass up. But if you don’t like the idea of it get Dauntless Shield because that’s Zamazenta’s thing, Stamina or Solid Rock works as well. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

Bastiodon is my definition of a glass wall, and you cannot change that fact. Maybe except shuckle but its shuckle.

Bastiodon: I LOVE DEFENSE! *Gets OHKOed by Earthquake*

Both it and Rampardos REALLY need a mega evolution, where their strongest stats are buffed by 50% along with some rather decent speed. We already have Mega Steelix with massive defense and somewhat viable offense, so maybe give these two some nice buffs to make them better

I've had good OU/UU success with Bastiodon in gen5/6. It is entirely prediction reliant, but I really liked using it as an anti-lead. If the starter was an attacker, Metal Burst and remove the fast sweeper starter. If the opponent was a setup, Stealth Rock and Roar. And most importantly, if the opponent was a setup lead, Magic Coat deflects it back. If they used spikes as setup I can even follow up with Stealth Rock or phase them our with Roar. Sturdy's Buff in Gen 5 helped out a lot alongside the terrible Rock/Steel type since BOTH resisted normal moves meaning fake-out leads did nothing against him as Leftovers could bring it back up to full. And those x4 are a blessing in disguise when you can neuter one of their powerful fighting or ground pokemon in a turn with Metal Burst and max EV HP. It did fail against focus sash, but I had priority moves to back it up. And against defoggers in gen 6, I usually had either a contrary pokemon to turn the evasion drop into a boost (which was usually banned in the form of no double team), or I could swap in Bisharp for a free +2 to it's attack with Defiant. (rapid spin was irrelevant since x4 resist to normal allowed me to use phasing against it). To me I could use it as essentially a 1-time counter against anything the opponent leads with, only losing out really to mold breaker pokemon like excadrill. It wasn't a good pokemon but it was one that perfectly fit my team, even more so than Probopass due to access to Metal Burst allowing it to take an opponent down with it while still being able to deal with opposing leads. If I had to change anything honestly... I would give it a mega evolution that boosts it's defenses and removes it's Rock weakness while giving it a new ability to redirect attacks/damage from it's allies in doubles. Just overall buff it's ability to tank a hit but allow that to apply to allies in doubles since I can't find any use for it there yet. Maybe a new ability that redirects attacks all the time to itself, or Friend Guard that use to be only on baby pokemon to boost it's allies defenses in general. What a good ability that perfectly applies to the shield pokemon who uses it's face to help protect it's young.

"Rock type isn't a bad defensive typing at all - far from it" Genuine question: outside of sandstorm when is Rock type good to have on a defensive Pokemon? Maybe if there was one that's part flying and had good defensive stats. Part Bug types too kinda? Replacing your weaknesses from Flying/Fire to Steel/Water is fine but losing your resistances to Ground/Fighting/Grass for the ability to only resist Normal/Poison? Ehh...

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

Bastiodon needs a filter like ability. Make 4x effective moves only deal like 3 or 2.5x with that I could even see a weird ou niche if you needed a support Steel who wasn't weak to fire

One of my favorite mons… it’s even hard to use on casual play

Can't be worse than Rampardos, right? ...right? Ohhhh...

This is saddening, Bastiodon was my favorite fossil on Gen 4 :( I would buff it by giving it Solid Rock, it would keep having a X3 weakness to Fighting and Ground after the Solid Rock effect but it would also gain extra bulk vs water moves. Also buff the Atk stat to like 80, so it doesn't became so passive.

2:05 When FSG says Rock is not a bad *defensive* typing, he actually meant *offensive* (as it hits Fire, Flying, Ice, Bug) Defensively, Rock is just dogshit. It has 5 weakness (most of which are common like Water, Ground, Fighting, and even Steel) whiling half of it's 4 resistances (Fire, Flying, and then Normal and Poison lol) are nothing to right home about. It's no wonder nearly any slow ass rock-type (90 spe or less) are useless with the 1 outlier being T-Tar, and even then it's unreliable offensively too because of inaccurate STABs (Rock Slide, Stone Edge) or poorly distributed special STABs among rock-types (Power Gem) or 100% accurate but are just weak (Ancient Power and Smack Down)

If Bastiodon was outclassed just imagine the poor Shieldon

since they obviously arent adding more megas, it would be cool to at least see both of these get a 3rd evo in their line. Bastiodon could go to something like 85hp/90atk/175def/30spa/150spd/10spe, keeping the typing it has but gaining an ability that works like the move flying press, where it choses its typing based on whats better for it, so instead of it being neutral to fire its resisted, 4x to ground/fighting? nope just 2x, i think it could go a long way to making it viable if not even busted with that stat distribution

Bastiodon needs the Body Press move to do something in a low tier, but it at least got Power Shift. But how will it play in Scarlet and Violet?

The most tragic thing of all it's that Metal Burst depends of your lost HP, which was very low so even if you took a hit and returned it, your damage output would be low

Counter: Deals 2× the damage taken. Only works on Physical moves Mirror Coat: Deals 2× the damage taken. Only works on Special moves Metal Burst: Deals 1.5× the damage taken. Works on all damage dealing moves. Bide: Wait 2 turns. Deals 2× the damage taken. Works on all damage dealing moves. Edit: Comeuppance: Deal's 1.5× the damage taken. Works on all damage dealing moves.

Finally I have been waiting for this video for years holy crap let’s f-ing gooooo!!!!!!!!!!

Shieldon was one of my favorites to us in LC a while back, with berry juice and mirror coat. Most the time people would just try to one shot with a 4x effective move, it would love from sturdy one shot them and heal to full from berry juice.

There is some amazing irony in this situation. While Steel is one of the best defensive types, Rock is one of the best offensive types. You'd think that'd give Bastiodon perfect balance. But this shouldn't be a surprise, after all, Aggron has the same typing, but he drops one of them (Rock) when he Mega Evolves. He wasn't just on to something, he knew what was coming. Plus it helps that Aggron's move-pool is pretty dang diverse.

Gotta give props to Pokémon go for having different stats and battle system. Basti is actually top tier in that game lol

Ah yes, rock types getting shafted by gf, my favorite

I really liked the list video! Since you're asking the Smash histories were cool. You could also give histories on notable players, not just Pokemon

This channel's set up for a Pokémon's major disappointment in competitive battles always brings a smile to my face

YES MY FAVORITE POKEMON!!!!!!!! Thank you false swipe gaming!! I know it sucks, but I still love him.

Bastiodon is usually depicted as this large, immovable wall, unfortunately, as the generations went on, this wall would be moved further and further downhill. Now, with it in untiered, it has nowhere to move, but we will hope it gets something helpful soon enough.

I remember when I first got one in pearl. It was fun to use in the story not anywhere else.

Good timing since the Pokemon Go Adventure Event ended a few days ago, featuring Shieldon as one of the two pokemon that was featured in an exclusive 1 day event for them 2. (The other one was Cranidos)

"Now Rock is not a bad defensive typing at all..." That's news to me.

This thing makes me so sad. It's based on one of my favorite species of Dinosaurs, and its design is really cool. I love Bastiodon so much, and yet it's so terrible it's really really sad.

I would love to see an episode about Pangoro

Bastiodon: You think you're better than me?! Probopass: i am better than you

I’m hoping one day that Gamefreak makes another Ceratopsian Fossilmon in a future Gen. Only it’d be offensive rather than defensive. But not be a glass cannon like Rampardos.

Was wondering when this would come out given we got Rampardos a while back

If you can keep hazards off the field metal burst being a counter that works on both groups of moves is fun to mess around with

I love this pokemon so much, I tried using it play throughs but he was just weak to every single damn type man! The only thing he could deal with was birds and bugs

We now live in a time line where basterdon is in a higher tier them terrakion and Emboar...

How GOOD was Escavalier ACTUALLY? Im lurking in the shadows...and wait.

I've been waiting for this ever since he did Rampardos.

I think that by giving both Bastiodon and Rampardos an evolution, Bastiodon gets a mono steel typing upon evolution and Rampardos’ evolution gets a slight defence buff

and now with Body Press and Tera it is tearing up OU 😢

Fun fact had Shieldon/Bastoiodon on my team in Pearl once. Had some issues near the beginning and the end (take down sucks on a mon like this), but it was pretty fun overall and was a good addition to the team.

I feel like not all types started existing at once. Most if the prehistoric pokemon are weak to fighting, which might explain them barely existing in the first place as well as there being no prehistoric fighting pokemon.

Yay, I’ve been waiting for this one

Being denied from Galar, he is also denied the incredibly power Fighting Coverage, *Body* Press, which would’ve given it offensive potential. To make it better, increase HP by 20 and give it Heavy Press!!

my first thought seeing that title was just: "Oh no..."

Bastiodon really needs to get a buff. Mega, new gimmick, whatever, id be happy if it got Body Press so it can be offensive AND defensive, but the double 4x weaknesses really screwed it up

With some arguably Dinosaur looking Pokemon coming into Scarlet/Violet, imagine if they add the Dinosaur type, and gave it to Bastiodon in place of rock. Depending on the weaknesses/resistances, maybe this might make Bastiodon better.

I think the only reason they gave Aerodactyl a Mega was because of two reasons. One: It wasn’t version exclusive prior to post game. Two: It was a one-stage Pokémon while all others are Two-Stage. (Minus Galar, but do they really count the same way??)

Without competition, Bastiodon is most likely the single worst steel type competitively. Also why did you not call the video bad? Maractus who had actual vgc niches or Bastiodon who had nothing?

Red Card with metal burst on this guy is so much fun. Just completely punish a random pokemon on their team

i remember when the probopass video came out and thinking that there’s no way a mon with those stats could be so bad. i stand corrected.