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That last line killed. "Sometimes you're born privileged, sometimes you're born a grass type." 🤣

I've always felt like rock being super effective against ice was bs, considering what ice does to rocks in the real world.

"sometimes you're born privileged and sometimes you're born a grass type" really got me lol

The allegories for the Regis and the ruinous quartet were amazing

I mean, the good thing with Sivally is that in a pre-Tera type era, it was a good way to throw off your opponent from not knowing what type, or what stats are trained, in the mon. Since most pokemon have a standard build for them, Sivally throws that off.

About Articuno, I would say Gen 2 is where it got shafted because it lost its special attack stat when special defense was added. Gen 3 and onward added to the the downward spiral. Gamefreak loves to try and make defensive ice types for some reason.

What Pokémon are Good in Casual Pokémon but are terrible in Competitive Pokémon

7:30 Man, I love how when a Dynamaxed Pokémon is the size such species should've always been.

Regice was a sweet bbygirl during my recent emerald playthrough when i took on the elite 4. So many of their pokemon are special attackers, whom regice had no problem bodying.

4:28 what irritated me is Regigigas is a LEGENDARY Pokemon. It's SUPPOSED to be powerful. Why does it have the Slow Start Ability?

Regice in Gen VII had an awesome gimmick. Psychium Z -Gravity -Blizzard -Focus Blast -Thunder (Or Zap Cannon if you're feeling brave) Under Gravity, Blizzard, Thunder, and Focus Blast all have perfect accuracy. Z-Gravity in particular boost's Regice's Special Attack. Clear Body is particularly good in this case as you can avoid having to switch to clear stat drops from your singular boost. Though Ice Body paired well with Alolan Ninetails and Aurora Veil (turning RIce into an immortal tank for five turns). A good opening play would be; Turn One: Ninetails (A), Aurora Veil Regice, Z-Gravity Turn Two: Ninetails (A), Protect Regice, whatever move is super-effective on whatever's targeting Ninetails. Turn Three: Ninetails (A), Helping Hand (if Regi uses Blizzard), Fake Tears (if Regi single targets) Regice, focus on any threat, spread otherwise.

Regice was actually good in the 200 metagame (gen 3 before Fire Red/Leaf Green came out) as the premier (and only) special wall. Sadly it fell off after Fr/Lg with Blissey outclassing it and then gen 4 killed it with stealth rock. Also I remember most people played with the full 386 pokedex online even before FR/LG came out, so 200 was a niche metagame even back then so yeah I guess it was never really that good.

You leave Entei alone

I mean, a little harsh on regirock. Really good defenses in sand, actually a good move pool for a regi, with drain punch being huge

I loved the Wo chien analogy

regidrago has been doing very well this generation, it even topped a regional event. Regieleki isnt used often if even at all in vgc nowadays. Regidrago, while it can be used as a late game sweeper can be an insanely good nuke with tornadus. And it also has earth power and tera steel to deal with common fairy types like flutter mane. And glastrier is also FAR from the worst legendary in gen 8. It saw play even without calyrex on its back.

"Bar so low I don't think Joltik can walk under it". Brilliant.

Damn all these years I thought it was “Mespirit” and am just now learning it’s “Mesprit”

I've found Entei to be useful in Gen 6 Battle Maison, but then again, I was using Mega Salamence. Pretty much anything that can take care of its few counters would be great with that on the team. As for Regice, it was critical in my Emerald playthrough. Tate & Liza were an impenetrable brick wall (to this day, they remain the only gym leaders I've ever lost against). Grinding in Emerald is torture, so in desperation, I traded over my Regice from my Sapphire, and it not only turned Tate & Liza into a cakewalk with its ridiculous special defense and Icy Wind bringing that Xatu's speed down to something manageable, but it was also pretty great in the rest of the playthrough and even saw success in the Battle Frontier.

Yep, I'll confirm pretty much what you said lol. Very happy with what I was able to pull off, but it took Articuno 9 generations to get to that point. I'd maybe question Entei and Regidrago from a VGC view, but mixed with Singles, it makes sense. Good video.

I used Raikou in a play through of soulsilver, cause I got super lucky with an ultra ball on it before the 6th gym. But I can honestly say you’re better off using Ampharos, Jolteon, or Raichu. Obviously it’s a strong pokemon, but it doesn’t learn any powerful electric moves until you’re already mostly done with Kanto.

Whipping up more blizzards than a Dairy Queen employee is lowkey a fire bar🔥

fun fact: registeel was also decent in VGC during SwSh with the iron defense + body press set. pretty sure it performed well in the online Players Cups during 2021.

‘Pokémon that are only good in 1 competitive format’ would be a cool video topic

Type Null with evolite is pretty tanky. I have a sword stance Type Null and it works pretty well as a tank that can hit fairly hard

Even in Pokémon Crystal Speedruns They changed the route from using Entei to using Raikou

JPR: "Generation 6 only had 3 legendaries" Hoopa, Diancie, Volcanion: Exist JPR: "...I didn't see that."

I will never understand the obsession GameFreak has with making bulky Ice types. *IT NEVER WORKS. NEVER.* The only reason Lapras had any success was because of its Water primary typing.

That moment when your favorite Pokemon makes the list :(

I'll try my hand at throwing out balance ideas for these guys: *Articuno* The most obvious and straight forward answer is to just take 30 points from its Attack and slap it onto its Sp. Atk. It looks the most gracile of the Legendary Birds and also has the smallest beak and the showiest feather patterns, all of which point to it definitely not relying on its physical stature to win battles. This change charges its mediocre 95 base Sp. Atk back up to its cranked Gen 1 era 125 Sp. Atk. Obviously not the most broken Legendary offense stat by far, but having some strong Ice Beams and Blizzards being thrown off of it in tandem with its not absolutely terrible base 85 Speed allows it to now put in some good offensive pressure and wrangle some niches out of higher competitive tiers. Alternatively, replacing Snow Cloak (yuck) with Snow Warning fits the theme of Articuno being the herald of winter while providing it with a much needed proactive and heavy duty ability. And come Gen 9, it even gives it a much appreciated Defense buff. This HA doesn't fit the theme of the other Legendary Birds' HAs, but to be fair, neither did Snow Cloak. It's this, or a 30% chance to freeze on contact. *Entei* Thankfully, none of the Legendary Beasts are _too_ underwhelming in terms of competitive. That means a stat change isn't really needed for Entei. I would previously say that an ability change is in order, but the buff to Inner Focus actually helps Entei out a lot, and I would say even makes a lot of thematic sense. A hulking, 7 feet tall, 500 lb beast no longer being affected by Intimidate just works. So what can even be changed about- Give 'em Bulk Up. And Earthquake. But mostly Bulk Up. Its special attacking buddies get Calm Mind, so it only makes sense for, might I remind you a 7 feet tall, 500 lb beast, to get its physical counterpart. These changes are mainly geared towards 6v6 Singles, by the way. *The Regis* Regirock, Regice, and Registeel could all be pushed up at least three tiers just by giving them Recover. Regice specifically could also use some special Flying type moves to align with wind, like Air Slash or even Hurricane. All just to give it Defog and thus the niche of hazard control. If its two brethren could be hazard setters, then why not give it at least the opposite role? As for Regigigas... that mon has went from being virtually devoid of public mention to "Please Rebalance this Mon"'s top hitter as of the recent years, so everything that needs to be said has pretty much been said. Change how Slow Start works, give it Slack Off, make Crush Grip a 200 bp super move against a full HP opponent, all that jazz. *Mesprit* Ah Mesprit. How the non-mighty have been nearly completely overshadowed by Gardevoir since their inception. If you're the middle ground between the moderately slow base 95 Speed Uxie and the Gen 4 speed-demon with base 115 Speed Azelf... _then why did Game Freak make you even slower than the slow mon and give you 80 base Speed?_ Azelf and Uxie have base 75 HP. So give Mesprit that as well. Then take five points from Mesprit's Attack, Defense, Sp. Atk, and Sp. Def and put them into its Speed instead. Base 100s across the board. But wait; add the extra 5 points we took from its HP and distribute it equally. Base _101s_ across the board (except for HP). Slightly less defensive than Mew, but very slightly more offensive. Weaker than the current Mesprit defensively and packs slightly less of a punch, but _it naturally outspeeds base 100s now._ Is that enough to make it high tier? Hell no. But at least it has a niche above Gardevoir now. And this is where I wish Mystical Power was better than it currently is. Recovery would also be pretty nice... Did you know the Lake Trio are supposed to be around Multiversal in power? *The base 90 offenses Swords of Justice* A fix I would offer is to... just introduce a Body Press-like mechanic a few gens early. Make it so that Sacred Sword goes off of your highest stat rather than just being Attack based. An Adamant, 252 Attack EV'd Virizion's Attack is about equal to its neutral Sp. Def with... 48 EVs invested. It's a _huge_ difference. And back in Gen 5, this would only affect the Swords of Justice. And with them being a quartet based off of having different specialized stats... it just makes sense. This would fix up the main weaknesses of Cobalion and Virizion lacking offensive oomph, and Terrakion would still be god incarnate due to its amazing coverage moves (called Stone Edge and Close Combat) anyways. Secret Sword might not exist, but that's fine imo since I imagine this version of Sacred Sword would still always go off of the target's Defense (like Secret Sword does). Additionally, I also imagine it still going off of the user's Attack boosts no matter what, so Swords Dance Keldeo might actually be a set in this what-if. *_10%!_** Zygarde* No way am I buffing any other (non-Mythical) Legendary in the region. And to buff this guy, I'm boosting its bst by a _very small_ amount. I don't know how Game Freak's math was mathing, but the difference between Zygarde 100%'s bst and Zygarde 50%'s bst isn't equal to the difference between 50%'s bst and 10%'s bst. And since the bst is so close to fulfilling that pattern, I'm going for it. Add a grand total of _6_ to its base Speed, to push it up to 121. This is actually a pretty good buff, as there are a lot of goblins gatekeeping the 115 - 120 Speed tier, like Iron Valiant, Cinderace, and Sneasler. I'm also making the executive decision to make Core Enforcer a physical move. It being special makes no sense other than for being consistent with the move's... animation. Go tell whoever designed the move to look at Sacred Fire. All of Zygarde's forms have more Attack than Sp. Atk, and every Zygarde form would love a nice 100 bp, no drawback Dragon move to spam after setting up some DDs. *Silvally* What's with Game Freak being scared of giving _Legendary Pokemon_ reliable recovery moves? Give it Recover or Slack Off, and its defensive niches are suddenly 10x more solid. It also should have had base 100 stats across the board, but that's been gone since the Multi-Attack buff came and went. Speaking of which, I wish the memory items actually boosted the power of certain types. Yeah, Multi-Attack got buffed to mimic that, but _what if we wanted to run a special attacking Silvally, Game Freak?_ Additionally, Silvally's stats are perfect for setup sweeping, but it doesn't even learn Nasty Plot. Or any Sp. Atk boosting move, for that matter, outside of _Work Up._ At this point, just give it base 105 in every other stat and base 45 Sp. Atk if Game Freak doesn't want it being a special attacker so bad. At least then it would have a focused stat spread. *Oh wow, another Regi!* Regidraco... I'm not even going to mention it. Look at what I gave the other regis. Apart from that, it also needs better coverage. The elemental fangs are... something, I guess. Like, at least give it Thunderbolt, Ice Beam, and Flamethrower. "But it's Dragon-type, why would it learn-" There are more than a handful of Dragon types learning Ice Beam. Regidraco, who could already learn Ice Fang, also learning Ice Beam won't break the Pokemon multiverse. It could also use a better physical Dragon type STAB, but that also applies to most other Dragon type mons. "Wo-chien* You already know what I'm going to say. Why can't this _Grass type snail_ learn Recover or at least Synthesis? I know its main playstyle is already degenerate enough, but my brother in Christ, ya'll made _Chi-Yu_ in the same quartet. Trust me when I say this slow, passive, Grass type, "I'm much better at Second Impressions" looking ahh would probably not snap the metagame in two by being just a bit better at its only job. Some other options are stuff like giving it Sleep Powder, but there's only so much degen you can put on a single mon. Since it learns Body Press, Iron Defense would have been a cool tech choice on it, being a snail and all.

The fact that Regieleki makes for a better Ice Type than Regice does.

Wow, not even Dragon Energy could escape the butchering of signature move animations in gen 9.

My Mesprit actually made my Tera Raids team and I’m very happy. I’ve had it since Pokémon pearl so that’s very awesome.

Articuno had a niche, albeit fairly small, but a niche in gens 2&3

4:21 registeel has had usage

I am no VGC expert but here’s how I interpret Wo-Chein Grass Dark isn’t the best type and we have other ones. If you want an attacking Grass Dark- Meowscarada If you want a support Grass Dark- Brute Bonnet You might not want to use your terastal on it, and if you don’t. Flutter Mane, Zacian, When Xernes comes back, it’s hard to be weak to fairies right now. Am I right?

Perfectly balanced as all things should be

Regice should resist fire attacks because its Pokedex entry literally says heat can’t harm it.

Well maybe Entai will get lucky and their Paradox version, which I'm assuming they are getting because Suicoon and Raikou got ones, will be really good. Also, it's sad to hear that about the Regis, Ruby was my first game and I thought they were cool. Heck, Registeel was mostly responsible for me beating Steven, mainly because I was a stupid kid back then who thought the Elite 4 and Champion would be like the tournament Ash entered in the anime, so I would be allowed to heal between battles so I didn't stock up on Revies so when I finally got to Steven I only had three Pokemon left, my highest leveled Pokemon being my Secptile, Groudon, and Swellow were all out, leaving me with just my LV 44 Registeel, LV 43 Wailord, and LV 40 Hairyuama. Wailord only took down one of Steven's Pokemon before going down, as did Hairyuama but Hairyuama did more damage before going by using Whirl Wind to force out some of Ssteven's Pokemon and me also constantly healing it so I could max out my attack with Bulk Ups to hit hard. So it was basically all down to Registeel to beat four Pokemon and it did it, by me constantly healing it and maxing out my defense with Iron Defense, so I did cheese the win, but Registeel will still always have a place in my heart for helping me beat Steven.

Fun Fact: Articuno was ubers in BDSP at one point due to its only legal ability, snow cloak, being banned. This means normal articuno has the highest tiers position out of all of the kanto birds and the galar counterparts.

Nobody is going to talk about the glitch in the middle of the video

Flareon: Who are you? Arcanine: I'm you, but better. Entei: **clears throat**

Are you saying Phione is better than Mesprit?

Just weird when poke-tubers give cringe pronunciations to pokemon names, when there's plenty of material that give the correct pronunciations. More especially when they use footage from the anime/movies that actually... Pronounce the pokemon's name.

at least registeel has shown *some* use in singles over the years -is literally one of the only answers to kyogre in gen 3 and 4 in ubers and became remarkably better after body press' introduction, giving it an offensive presence for the first time ever -was also one of the most important pokemon in UU until gen 6 (where it then dominated RU), basically forcing answers to it to be considered, even if it wasnt always guaranteed to be there just a wee bit of success

Regirock is a surprisingly phenomenal Pokémon in the lower tiers in singles mainly due to it’s high bulk and it being the 2nd best defensive typing of the original regis Also, with Virizion, there has been so much powercreep even in it’s original generation that a 90 attack stat isn’t really cutting it anymore. Most of the best Pokémon around hit much harder

9:12 "RKS System: we have Arceus at home" 😭😂😂

"lol slow start" That cracked me up. I really hate my sense of humor sometimes.

Not to mention, Silvally’s movepool is so bad and barebones It’s 3 incomplete movepools in one. Swords Dance but little to no offensives stronger than 80BP, Elemental Beams but no Nasty Plot nor Calm Mind, and basically little to no utility aside Parting Shot not to mention no reliable recovery whatsoever and missing out on key coverage types like Ground, Fighting, Water, and Fairy

I think a lot of Entei’s popularity comes from the design and the third movie.

The regis may not win the battle, but they've won my heart ❤

Super Mystery Dungeon is the only game where Regigigas is actually good. The Nullify Looplet removes it's awful Slow Start. Regigigas is only viable in spin-off.

Articuno was the coolest bird, no pun intended, but....

Regice had the niche of being a very good wall in Gen 3.

The Regis are like the Cleveland Browns of competitive Pokémon.

In Pokémon Go, my Entei is my go-to Fire-type.

"My man is built like a slightly thick Glailie." 😂

Articuno on GBA looks like Ridley from Metroid Fusion...

Mark my words Entie is going to be a beast in gen 9 with proto synthesis and a new dragon typing. If it keeps mystical fire it will be near unstoppable in Sun.

Regieleki truly salvaged the entire Regi family

I get that Wo-Chien isn’t as broken as the other three but having used it pretty extensively I honestly think people bash it a little more than it deserves

6:50 cobalion has actually been pretty decent in singles so I’d say virizion is the worst

Ngl they should've just made regice a speedy special attacker with high special defense, basically a walmart brand ice type alakazam even that would've works better than how it turned out. Like it's the only one in the trio that hovers and flies especially if the movie was anything to go off of.

Rather then max its special attack, I maxed out Articunos hp and speed stats and gave it Mind Reader and Sheer Cold, Articuno actually did really well for me (never did online competitive)

6:03 the issue with Verizion is he never gets good cell tower reception.

I thought I would be Virizion 2: Electric Boogaloo for scarlet/violet

Fun fact, Gen 1 Articuno's Blizzard is THE strongest unboosted special move in RBY. Honestly shocked you didn't pick Moltres, given how bad fire was back then.

A testament to how good Regieleki is and how meh Regidrago is, is that in Gen 9 Regieleki’s ability Transistor got nerfed from boosting its electric moves by 1.5x to 1.3x, while Regidrago’s dragon version of Transistor, Dragon’s Maw, didn’t get nerfed in Gen 9. Yet they couldn’t do the same for Zamazenta after Zacian got it’s BST nerfed in gen 9

Came over to say, Entei is my BOY and it will never matter to me if his moves absolutely suck. X) I hope they rerelease the special moved Johto Dogs like from HGSS

Damn it I always love the worst competitive Pokémon most. The original Regis and the Beasts from Gen 2 are my favorites. Good thing I don't do competitive only filling Pokedex, shiny hunting and enjoying the main story. In playthroughs they're still good

LOL going ham on Wo-Chien in the end XD

It’s 2024 and articuno just won a huge tournament

Articuno, Regirock and Regice are all quite useful in gen 3 OU. Articuno is a spikes immune heal bell user, Regirock has a niche in some team structures since it's bulkier than Tyranitar and can explode, and Regice is a calm mind boltbeamer.

Fun fact: i used entei on my pokemon colloseum team and it was less useful than a fricking umbreon without baton pass... On the other hand, I tried getting medals for defeating champion with only monotypes and a fricking vanilluxe was better than rotom-ice

Entei got a huge buff in gen 8 with the changes to Inner Focus. It's a great check to Xerneas in VGC (Roar ignores protect) and its movepool is passable in doubles. It gets ignored still but it's more viable than it's ever been.

Silvally was used for his choice band explosion, pretty sure he was the strongest explosion user in vgc 17. Aaaaand thats about all it did.

At least pokemon masters made articuno broken including a move with a 100% freeze chance

Type Null with eviolite is hella underrated

type null i feel like is okay, only bc it has an albeit predictable and counterable, decently strong eviolite set that's pretty hard to get past in singles if your ghost types or knock off users are all gone.

"Don't use them" I will use them.

I would say Moltres is worse than Articuno. Edit: Bro really said Regidrago is worse than Zamazenta

FARTACONO IS BAD DONT USE HIM HE IS A BIRD USE FIRE BIRD OR ZA TODES

Regice gets boltbeam and its myriad weakness make it a great weakness policy user. Regigigas may not be good, but its really fun to use. If it had a better ability, it'd be a lot more boring and it'd make a lot of other cool normal mons redundant.

JPR Friday and Labor Day weekend? The best a Pokémon fan can get

Articuno was good in gen one because ice was good back then. Post gsc it is the worst though, and zapdos has always been the best one

Surprised I didn't see Phione anywhere...

Kalos only having 3 legends 😢

Regice did have a niche in gen 3 OU at one point as an explosion lure for Blissey on special offense teams, and tho being a bit of a gimmick did give it a genuine place in OU for at least one generation while regi rock had nothing of the sort since even being uubl in gen 3 like it’s regi brothers it just can’t compete at all with other rock types

I could not disagree more with your assessment of Wo-Chien, in the times I've fought against it, it's given me so much grief with its Tablets of Ruin ability that cuts everyone's physical attack, and its use of Giga Drain/Leftovers/Leech Seed to replenish HP throughout the battle, being the first to arrive on the battlefield and the last to leave. It also can tera into a defensive type to remove its 4x weakness to bug. Wo-Chien is ultimately such a headache to remove and I'd argue it's even better in battle than Chien-Pao. I don't know if the paradox forms count as legendaries, but if they do, then I'd argue Iron Thorns is the worst in Gen 9. Bad defensive typing, underwhelming move pool, very difficult to figure out how to use in battle, in the few times I've fought against it it never really caused me any problems.

Cmon JPR there aren't two I's in Regice, say it like you know you should.

Because of regice in the thumbnail i read region as regi-on 💀

2:43 it also got a buff with the events by gaining crush claw in gen 5. Which by the way gamefreak i want him to have back!

"uses them out of spite"

Interesting how the mons in the thumbnail have arguably the most interesting (best) method of encounter in the history of Pokémon. Its cool that "best" in Pokémon can refer from anything from stats to design to lore and beyond

8:49 Focus Sash says otherwise

Articuno is so beautiful. It’s a bummer that it’s nearly useless in singles. Always been my favorite Gen 1 legend.

Some of my thoughts: I feel like Entei was used considerably more than Raikou was in Gen 8, I mean Sacred Fire and Extreme Speed were great moves for it. That being said Raikou will forever be my favourite Gen 2 Pokémon. I can imagine the Gen 3 Regi's would be much more viable if given their respective signature move and ability like their younger counterparts. I could imagine Rock having a rock-type version of Body Press. I mean it has a crazy 200 base defence. Virizion was pretty interesting in VGC in Gen 8. It was nasty with Beat Up support and smacked both Groudon and Kyogre. With an Assault Vest after maxing it took hardly anything from Ice Beam Kyogre. Finally my thoughts on Wo-Chien is that it's underrated. Honestly I don't think it's that bad, especially if you're using it for raids. I mean as a leech it's more or less immortal.

Thank you so much for all videos you made. You are one of my absolutely best youtubers ever. :) Jsi borec. Mám moc rád tvoji tvorbu.

Entei is viable in Gen 2 OU, since mons like Skarmory and Exeggutor are all over the place and Entei can hit them hard with Sunny Day/Fire Blast while keeping up the pressure with Rest Talk. Honestly, Moltes is usually better at this, but its bulk and lack of 4× Rock weakness can be better for some teams.