Clutch crossover

It's Seadra Sunday folks

Hahaha!!!

This is insane.

"I understood that reference"

It doesn’t need 95 base attack. Put those points into something else

@@Deadknight237 it does, in singles at least. Kingdra is great in part because you don't know if it runs physical or special

In Doubles/VGC you are almost always running it in Rain for Swift Swim so you already have a 50% boost to those Muddy Waters, etc.

Honestly i had sort of the opposite reaction. I never dabbled much in competitive, but i was surprised when i heard a gen 2 randomizer speedrunner say that kingdra was top A tier. I was like "i didnt think its stats were that good" since to me the only thing it had was good typing/almost no weaknesses. For neutral hits it always seemed like a mid stat pokemon to me. Usually high speed and high offense is preferred for those runs (like Aerodactyl or Dodrio) but i guess bulk helps when you use X items.

@joeyyoung5173 Physical Kingdra has been very very niche compared to Special Kingdra especially post Gen 4. It's not that you are "guessing" when you see a Kingdra in front of you, you'll assume it's special as Physical Kingdra doesn't cross your mind. You might want to run it Physical to catch people off guard, but you'd end up with a much *much* worse Pokemon overall as Physical Kingdra has a worse coverage (by a lot actually as on the special side it can use Ice Beam and Hurricane) and raw power and you'd also be running a severely outclassed Physical rain sweeper (why not use Barraskweda, Kabutops, Basculegion etc ?) and if you're trying to do it with a Sniper Set then you're infinitely worse at abusing it since you don't have Draco Meteor to spam. And if you're trying to do a Dragon Dance set then congratulations, you've got like the 25th best DD user available. Physical Kingdra is a non factor. You could drop it's attack to 55 and increase it's SpA and HP by 20 each and the mon would be a lot better with not a lot lost in the process

Which one?

Makes sense since Kingdra is a known Creator of storms while Dnite is a well known Rescuer during storms.

​@@darkdragon7210Pokémon Sword.

This was actually shown in the anime where Goh used Ash’s Dragonite’s cry to lure one to him

Mega Aggron

Dewgong is starting to have an interesting lower tier history, particularly in Gen 1 UU where it's the best defensive answer to Articuno. But in general Seadra's worse than you think it is, so being outclassed by Dewgong isn't super surprising.

Dewgong is a great in lower tiers pre stealth rocks

Seadra's evolution into a dragon type is anything but random. In fact it is very strange that Horsea and Seadra aren't+ dragons when they are literally "the Dragon Pokemon"

That is not even the most questionable thing in gen 2 lol

I adore that strat so much. It may not be the most optimal, but 100% crit Draco Meteor is amazing.

Does a critical Draco meteor bypass the special attack drop?

@@SkarmoryJr-ov5zy Yes

@@SkarmoryJr-ov5zy There's a WeedleTwineedle video where she was abusing glitched Dragon Cheer to abuse Draco Meteor in doubles

@@MrCactuar13 thanks for telling me

Would be cool to see another evolution of Seadra too.

Or a variant like Paldean Tauros

It’s not popular (Charizard) and it’s not already broken (mence) It has no chance

@@GravityIsFallingaudino Banette and glalie

​@@GravityIsFallingbro forgot about Mawile and Kangaskhan

It's stories/memories like these that make Pokémon special to us!

😊. And I have one in my platinum.

Mistys Goldeen wouldve swept a regular Kingdra

Nah misty goldeen was a weakling

@@booshbear How?

She GameSharked the hell out of it

Then again, Misty looked Kingdra dead in the face first and still decided Goldeen was a good idea

Idk about the poster child, Tauros and Snorlax exist

​@@eliyaskiya Tauros got screwed over more by mechanic changes than powercreep to be honest. And Snorlax tends to be good in most tiers it ends up nowadays. Snorlax issue really is that it lacks reliable recovery outside of Rest which is pretty bad for a tanky pokémon, it doesn't even learn Wish.

@@sussy3778snorlax untiered right now… but yes primarily a recovery issue

@@sussy3778 Snorlax should learn Slack off. Makes no sense why GF didnt give him that

@@rubadub15 Yeah. Being a slow bulky attacker without reliable recovery really hurts it. Sad thing is that stat-wise Snorlax is actually not that behind, and it's movepool and abilities are amazing, but lacks the one thing that makes or breaks most walls.

Steelix:

@@fulltimeslackerii8229I mean that was needed though 😂

​@@fulltimeslackerii8229 It got harder. But also slower.

Don't forget 50 more Special Defense as of Gen 2

@@tktyga77 Wrong, they decreased Seadra’s special defense, and gave Kingdra the special defense that Sedra used to have when special was one stat.

That one might actually be a movie.

And for him to stop referring to ZU as untiered.

I mean tbf most fairies got smashed by water stab

@@terractus9972 Belly Drum Azumarill was Kingdra’s #1 check for awhile, especially Specs Kingdra

@@austinsmothers9868 azu was mentioned in the video already

@@terractus9972 Man, during the Gen 6 section, the only Fairy type he mentioned was Whimsicott. Azumarill was good because it could switch in on Dracos and OHKO with Play Rough, as well as Altaria getting a Mega and being able to DD all over the place. Not to mention that Xerneas and Klefki are also huge reasons why Kingdra wasn’t even thought of in XY Ubers.

@@terractus9972Kingdra also has flash canon

Sounds like a topic for BKC

This is probably more “Kingdra stats” than Kingdra’s actual stats lol

@@silver_was_found i aimed for something like that, i hope they update old mons like this to fight power creep

So that raises a question. What new tools would you be willing to give Kingdra?

@@aztumtheknightofwumbo7060 at best nasty plot, with those stats and abilities it doessnt need anything else

That's the main lesson of Pokemon. Every Pokemon has some use. It just depends on the user v

@@natsusatsujinki8342 except Ledian

Never forget that one girl in Sinnoh with the Haunter. (: Truly one of the most heinous moves of all time.

truly one of the tiers of all time

Gen 1 would be wild. One Steel type, assuming it's retroactively applied to Magneton, and no good Poison moves. Clefable would effectively have no weaknesses.

@@JJNWSGHOST0299 I know Mr Mime would be loving life in gen two if it had fairy back then. Beats dark with fairy STAB, beats poison with psychic STAB, the steel types are all slow and can be handled with Fire Punch, and the ghost types aren't particularly threatening outside of like destiny bond or something XD

Mr.Mime would literally be one of the best mons in RBY just because it got a pinky type. Fairy type really is a huge buff on any mon that gets it.​@@ES-dp6tw

Me too dude :c

I'm not too sure, I don't think it learns High Horsepower. 🤔

@@Seeker_of_Truth_and_Beauty The Council will decide het fate.