The Horse Council is ignoring the fact that Smeargle can also learn the move Transform, meaning that it can in fact transform into a proper horse like Magcargo or Snorlax.

Poison types day 1 - :( Poison types post toxic spikes :| Poison types post dream world :) Poison types post fairy type >:)

I would like to add another buff of the Poison type, which is Toxic being made 100% accurate when used by a Poison type starting in gen VI. Also a bit of a sidenote Nidoking and Venusaur don't use Sludge Bomb in Gen II because they do not learn it yet for some reason.

Smeargle's beret gives away the fact that he is actually a French Pokemon trying to infiltrate the Horse Council on behalf of Linoone and the rest of the French Legionaires.

Poison used to hit bug super effectively too in gen 1, but bug was so bad back then that everyone forgets that.

This all started with horsea getting in. I even said at the time that this would cause a slippery slope and next thing you know Ditto and smeargal would want to be in the horse council too. Our values and traditions have really gone downhill.

I'm just here to say my Iron Mugulis arrived safely

Weezing Wednesday and Muk Monday thank you for your support.

Been going through an awful bit of depression but I saw this notification and my day got so much brighter. Thanks for all you do, Jimothy.

The video just came out for my lunchtime, this is incredible folks.

Poison’s my favorite Type, both biologically clever and insanely punk. We had to wait nearly 20 years to have an offensive presence but it was worth the wait, thank you Fairy :)

Muk came in and said "not on my mondays" to the fairy types

I’ve always thought that poison should be super effective on water because of pollution and whatnot. I think from a design perspective it would also help balance out bulky water types a bit.

This has become my comfort channel, despite the fact that I'm not as interested in competitive Pokemon as i used to be. Something about dear Jimothy's voice, humour and phraseology scratches my brain in just the right way

The Horse Council saga is the best thing I've ever seen. I literally tune in for updates on Horse drama. It's insane, folks.

Water Poison is such a great defensive typing. The 3 weaknesses are Electric, Ground, Psychic which all have immunities such as Lando who is immune to two of them

I love Poison types. Venusaur, Gengar, Nidoqueen, Nidoking, Crobat, Swalot are all some of my favorite pokemon

So, something that you got incorrect in the video is about Victreebel and Venusaur's roles in RBY. Victreebel almost never runs swords dance anymore due to its main moves being Wrap, Sleep Powder, and Razor Leaf. If your 4th moveslot is Swords Dance, none of those moves benefit from a +2 attack boost (I guess you can get slightly more damage with Wrap). Overall, Swords Dance is kind of a wasted move on Victreebel. On the other hand, Venusaur can use its superior bulk + Sleep Powder to set up a Swords Dance. Venusaur uses Sleep Powder, Swords Dance, Razor Leaf, and Hyperbeam. Razor Leaf can actually force Snorlax into a rest loop, which gives Venusaur a chance to set up Swords Dance. They actually have very disctinct roles in the current metagame.

smeargle is a known criminal and has leveraged his infamous sketchy attitude to get exactly what he desires. magcargo is a hardworking honest lava snail who simply happens to share traits with his horse brethren. i think you know where to draw the line, jimothius coolant.

My favorite poison type is probably Nidoking. The visual design is classic and I love that they gave him Sheer Force to really make use of his vast offensive movepool to hit really hard on various sides of the typing spectrum.

Do not mess with an artist and his ambition to shape his creativity into reality. 🎨 The High Horse Council will be wise to remember this. 🐴

Poison might just be the most improved pokémon type in the series.

VICTREEBEL IS BACK TO OU?? WHAT??? THAT'S HUGE!!!!

Smeargle is about to cast a Dark Void in the near future.

I love getting my Jimothy uploads in the evening

came out of a depressive slump to see jimothy cool cover the history of my favourite typing. very sludgetacular

Immediate like for being the first KZfaqr I've ever heard pronounce "Nihilego" correctly

Jim, what are your thoughts on the controversial addition of staryu into the galactic group holding such pokemon as minior, solrock, lunatone, and cosmoem?

Jimothy has blessed us today with another great upload

Poison is my favorite type, but Gen 1 is my favorite meta. Life is cruel.

Great video, but… I’m not sure why… I feel ill… (checks foot, sees toxic spike sticking out of it) oh no… (faints)

I have a lot of nostalgia for poison types, the Bulbasaur line being my favorite.

Gen 5 toxicroak confirmed french

Preposterous to propose that poison types were prosperous in previous periods

Oh shit didn’t realize victreebel was back in OU in gen 1, thought people weren’t really feeling it anymore

Oh I’ve been awaiting this one! The poison type, I think, has a very interesting history in pokemon. It went from being simply a detriment to being a below-par defensive type that happens to be a counter to the best type in the game. Excited to sit down with lunch and watch this one!

So glad these videos have continued. Although now I have a big backlog of Jimothy content to watch, which is not a bad thing 😊

Some people have questioned what impact this ruling by the Horse Tribunal will have on Magcargo and its place on the Horse Council. Those people neglect to consider the differentiating factors between the two cases. You see, Smeargle learns High Horsepower through artificial means by using the move Sketch, whereas Magcargo learns the move naturally with the aid of a Technical Machine. Any calls to revoke Magcargo's rights based on this ruling would be premature.

Toxic always gave me so much anxiety playing gen 1 as a child.

I love your intros so much and the various arcs they have gone through

Another little thing that was unfortunate about Poison in Gen1 was that Toxic didn't work properly back then. It had the same effect as we know it, but if you switched out, it got down graded to regular Poison. So even the basic value of switching into Toxic barely comes up back then, since Toxic wasn't a good move at the time

i think asking someone what they think about poison as a type is a good litmus test for whether or not they know what they're talking about at all also, shoutouts to dragalge. love that guy in lower tiers

Poison type has come a long way It went from possibly the most detrimental type in Pokemon history to being a rather competent type. Though, I do wonder why they chose to make steel completely immune to poison.

Would the Horse Council allow Mew in since Mew has the DNA of all pokemon????

It’s actually technically divergent evolution, but that’s neither here nor there. Alolan muk is awesome no matter what

I thoroughly enjoy these analysis videos

hello jimothy just pointing out that toxic poison doesnt actually double in damage every turn it just increases linearly. this is very important to me because me and 3 other people i was flatting with a couple of years ago all thought it doubled and all had our worldviews shattered after learning this wasnt the case all at the same time one day

The drama from the horse council is better than days of our lives

Smeargle will be able to help Magcargo rally more supporters to defeat the Old Money backed Horsea

Thank you for covering my favorite type!

Poison might just be the most improved pokemon type in the series

The shortest one so far

What an informative video! Thank you again Mr. Cool for the consistent content. Truly you are ushering a new light into the Pokemon world. However once again I must come to you on behalf of the F.E.A our leader Raichu's suffering has been ignored for too long. Please help up and spread the word of his suffered injustices for the sake of all forgotten evolutions, thank you.

Outstanding analysis

Weezing can wall cloyster in Gen 1

Weezing was the very first Pokémon I ever saw when I was a child. A cool fellow

No way Muk Monday on a Thursday. I'm so happy about this information

I particularly love Reverend's description of Weezing in Gen 1: "I think it's pretty underrated. You can switch into Tauros, and...Explode. It's like if Golem was...even worse...and that's pretty good👍"

I think that focusing on Magcargo's inclusion in the horse council made us overlook the position of the serpentine trio of Onix, Orthworm and Zygarde in it. Snails, biologically speaking, do have a foot, so Magcargo is 1/4 of its way towards a horse, while these three are completely limbless and therefore don't resemble a horse in any way.

Venusaur is one of my favorite leads. I tend to run Growth when it’s not usually worth it, but getting that early sleep and being able to stick around to tank fighting moves and block Leech Seed is pretty nice

36:00 muk be lifting up that middle finger for those that try to knock off its item

Smeargle will have to call his fellow horses Entei, Suicune and Raikou to help him

Poison and ghost are my favourite types. Thanks for this video.

horse power thing has grown in such lore now its like series im awaiting to see in every video

I was a poison lover from day ONE and I want credit for being incredibly big brained and correct at all times

Jimothy: And Amoongus, ranked in RU in Gen 5- Me: Are people stupid? Jimothy:-because sleep is banned in Gen 5. Me: Ah, yes they are.

Fun fact: Poison type Pokemon are poisonous.

favorite poison type? i don't have time to answer silly questions when i'm doing the mochi dance.

Favorite poison type? Garbodor for life!

I like Using Wheezing, I just think of it as a Floating Demon Head Warlock Pet from World of Warcraft. 10/10 Still use in Gen 9 even just for fun

Poison Type is no one’s favorite, but then when your going through your favorite Pokémon you realize your a Poison specialist.

I will always love my purple people.

No mention of Salazzle, Skuntank or Drapion :(

poison was always my favorite type we been playing the long con

channel lore aside, i use venusaur quite often on the rby ladder and even in some games between friends, and it's actually not the worst thing you could use. it has a better opportunity to use swords dance due to having more bull than victreebel and restlooping reflectlax while surviving one (1) psychic from alakazam. you really wanna get rid of mons like gengar and zapdos first before letting it cleave through opposing teams, so bring support like starmie to help it out.

Hello Jimothy. Toxic does not double in damage every turn. The formula is n/16th of a Pokémon’s health each turn, where n is how many turns the poison has gone off.

We need Onix in the council with his high horsepower 🐎🪨🐍

Every time i run into a poison in random battles, I always know it's going to be messy if I don't have ground moves (because let's be honest, at this point, psychic is almost an afterthought) I know I'm in for a hard time. Now if GF only gave Gengar levitate again....(Even as a HA)

It's Tentacruel Thurasday my friends

A friend and I did a draft league where we won the season, dubbing the team “The Horses in the Back” our main horse was Mudsdale and Houndoom. We are extremely invested how the Horse Council handles this smergle debate because it will dictate how our future is handeled. With transform it can look like a horse, and if it looks like a horse, it might indeed be a horse.

One thing I'm curious about is why do so many pokemon prefer Thunder to Tbolt in gen 2.

12:39 that's a flower jimothy

It's too bad we don't have a poison type that starts with 'F.' Otherwise we could have a poison-week to celebrate with Muk Monday.

Have you tried the sleeptalk+whirlwind set on crobat in gen 3? Of course niche, but can work really nicely on a spikes team, and you need to have crobat put to sleep.

Pure ghost gengar would be insane for gen 1

I have to give a shoutout to Alolan Muk released in Gen 7

Hello jimntothy what is your least favorite species of rodent ?

Overall I'd say that nowadays the Poison as a type is in a pretty okay spot. If anything were to change, I'd just want them to make the ability Corrosion make the Pokemon with it able to not only inflict poison status on Steel types, but damage them with moves too and also increase the distribution on it.

1:55 Victreebell promoted to OU? Huh? When did this happen? Victreebell was an OU pokemon for years, until like 2 years ago when everyone realized it sucked. Last I checked it had sunk to NU, and was still bad even in that tier. Why are people using it again???

Happy Muk Monday!

Ah yes Sneaseboom Fun archetype Clean up with Body Press Great Tusk

I believe it would be "divergent". A convergent form would imply that two pokemon species had evolved into the same species.

What Types would make some sort of sense, to receive 2x damage from poison? Water?

Favorit Poison Typ Pokemon for me are Roserade and Crobat. (Gengar and Nidoking close behind) But it feels like there are less and less new ones. Where are my early game poison types in the new gens?

I believe @bluebaron6811 has used Weezing in Gen 1 before at the OU level, so I'll paraphrase - it gets Fire Blast to burn Tauros and Snorlax, as well as Sludge to hit physically frail Alakazams and Chansey on the switch. But really, the best thing to do with Weezing is switch it in on a Hyper Beam and explode.

Jimothy, do you know about PS China, the chinese version of smogon? The RMTs from there are pretty wild, doubly so if machine translated lmao

Wait, I thought RBY Victreebel was actually failing to find traction in lower tiers since being demoted from OU a few years ago, and was perhaps destined for PU or the like? If it's really coming back to OU, that journey would make for an interesting video.

37:00 *loud incorrect buzzer*

It is Muk Monday folks.

Wait, no Dragalge cited, my fav pokémon 😢