Ranking EVERY Pokemon Ability in Gen 3.

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Pokemon Competitive Singles in Gen 3 is where Abilities were first introduced. As requested by famous patron Brian, I'll be ranking all the abilities in Gen 3 in the context of Competitive Singles.
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@jimothycool 10 ай бұрын

I'm hosting a $3000+ Gen 3 OU Tournament. Check out the commentary here: www.youtube.com/@jimothygaming/videos

@mikeshockinggentspence8714 10 ай бұрын

Metagross facing a minor inconvenience (a bulky water) and immediately killing himself is real asf

@PorkpieJohnny 10 ай бұрын

until it faces a major inconvenience (water type with damp)

@nicklagoni7306 10 ай бұрын

@@PorkpieJohnnybulky water type who looked at the back of their student ID

@andreaseverin1346 6 ай бұрын

I relate to Metagross

@chess_fella 10 ай бұрын

It’s strange that you put oblivious and own tempo into the not relevant tier. Lickitung gets both of these abilities and is a top tier mon.

@ktbmk 10 ай бұрын

Lickitung is so good it didnt need an ability

@pribnow6225 10 ай бұрын

Mr Jimothy doesn't want others to steal his secret Balance Lickitung Tropius strats

@feelsokayman5656 10 ай бұрын

Slowbro is lowey an S tier mon

@RichardBlaziken 10 ай бұрын

Magma Armor prevents Freeze, not crits. Genuinely a nice feature for a Pokemon like Camerupt who takes neutral from Ice.

@jimothycool 10 ай бұрын

My mistake. That's pretty good actually

@alimirza4608 10 ай бұрын

Would have been S tier in gen 1

@deeznoots6241 10 ай бұрын

Makes it a good switch in to Ice/electric Superachi, immune to the electric move and you don’t risk a 20% freeze chance from ice punch, plus it doesn’t risk ice beam freezes from Blissey’s that love spamming ice beam for that 10% chance.

@petro5747 10 ай бұрын

A few romhacks have changed magma armor to prevent crits. It’s pretty relevant for Nuzlockers. They love their battle armor. Idk if Jim was watching some Nuzlocke channels some day and got his wires crossed there. Freeze immunity much better for competitive. Actually good for blissey stuff

@funkymachine 10 ай бұрын

@@deeznoots6241I wouldn't be shocked if bolt beam superrachi does 50%+

@grunkleg.3110 10 ай бұрын

Lightning Rod in Gen 3 is actually useless. All it does is draw in Electric-type attacks in a Double Battle and that's it. No Sp. Atk raise, no Electric immunity, those only became a thing in Gen 5 (same with Storm Drain)

@dragonhunter2001 10 ай бұрын

Its a big surprise in the FRLG battle tower lol.

@beam5655 10 ай бұрын

Its useful in doubles because ground types get it.

@shardtheduraludon 6 ай бұрын

@@beam5655yeah that’s the thing, this video was ranking these abilities’ viability in Singles

@cgyh68748 2 ай бұрын

Didnt know

@k.b.5079 Ай бұрын

Hmm that’s interesting. I guess I only thought about it from how I see it in Mystery Dungeon, if yall ever played with that series. It’s crazy how abilities can change to fit in different games, mechanic wise

@hangry5318 10 ай бұрын

I honestly did not realize there were this many abilities in the gen 3 games. Also being the debut generation for abilities makes it seem even more impressive. This is insane.

@centurionpanocculus 10 ай бұрын

Interestingly there’s a lot of redundancy like shell armor vs battle armor, but yes it is amusing how much they cooked up

@ktbmk 10 ай бұрын

@@centurionpanocculus those are mainly for lore reason, which ability's name suits the said pokemon more

@Farrise 10 ай бұрын

@@ktbmkhow on earth does that make sense? You can put battle armor on any pokemon with shell armor and it would make perfect sense lore wise.

@Manivilization 10 ай бұрын

Battle armour is called Kabuto Armour in Japan and that way I believe it makes lots of sense who does and does not have it compared to shell armour.@@Farrise

@Farrise 10 ай бұрын

Arguing for the sake of argument 🤣 It's a japanese double meaning sure, that doesn't mean they can't make a more generic name for all the pokemon that have an ability that prevents crits 🤣 @@Manivilization

@jasperwoodard2845 10 ай бұрын

The Droot ability is really critical for Groodon.

@matthek22ify 10 ай бұрын

lets go Gordon

@honjon666 10 ай бұрын

Trust the Gorton's fisherman

@shimogane2474 10 ай бұрын

rough skin in UU makes Sharpedo the best offensive check to endure reversal/flail sweepers, in combination with endure by yourself, you can finish off these threats without dying by yourself and if the enemy reads that play they need a non contact move to continue the sweep, which hitmonlee and sycther surely will not have in their moveset. extremely funny it gets when sharpedo uses their own +SpA/Spe berry because they can morph themselves into a endure sweeper too.

@Missiletainn 10 ай бұрын

Magma Armor doesn't make you immune to crits, it makes you immune to freeze.

@honjon666 10 ай бұрын

Swarm has to be my favorite ability here. Yes, Heracross is insane and one of my favorites, but I think it's funny how starter types get these pinch abilities and for reasons bug gets it, but no other type. Gen 3 always felt like the most quirky gen to me, and I mean that lovingly lol

@eenpersoon2881 10 ай бұрын

Ey buddy, just wanted to tell you that you're doing a terrific job cranking out all these videos day after day! You're fun to listen to and to see the first gen I ever played get so popular again has to be your doing. I salute you mr. Cool! Ps this is insane.

@ThatGuyThai 10 ай бұрын

Imagine if Inner Focus allowed not flinching during Focus Punch.

@Lmjacks 10 ай бұрын

it’s interesting to see so many staple abilities from later generations that are bad or mediocre by virtue of just having no good users in gen 3-speed boost, rough skin, static, and flame body all come to mind. nice informative video jimothy, very cool

@isuckatgaming1873 10 ай бұрын

Effect spore has the potential to be detrimental, as it could trigger poison on a turn where you go for spore, making it a wasted turn and leaving a far weaker status on the opponent, which in the worst case could trigger guts on a pokemon you would've otherwise neutralized.

@TheWizardMus 10 ай бұрын

But also that means it's a pokemon who'd outspeed Breloom, which means Breloom probably shouldn't stay in cuz it's pretty frail. Absolutely a concern for Parascect

@isuckatgaming1873 10 ай бұрын

@@TheWizardMus while that is true, there are scenarios where breloom could've survived and gotten off a spore, but was stopped by effect spore. For example, the opponent has just killed your swampert with a jolly choice band aerodactyl using double edge. Knowing that it's locked into double edge, you switch in your breloom, as breloom survives 1 double edge without hazards, and has a 25 percent chance to survive with 1 layer of spikes. Hopping to cripple the opponents cleaner with spore, you click it, as the aero goes for double edge - and unfortunately, it triggers poison. Now, your spore goes to waste, and you can no longer paralyze it to slow it down either. Obviously, this situation is specific and rare, and there's also the chance that effect spore triggers paralysis or sleep instead. However, I only know it's a possibility because I've seen it happen.

@TheWizardMus 10 ай бұрын

@@isuckatgaming1873 honestly valid, the only situation I could think of off the top of my head is Dugtrio using aerial ace in which case the 10% of a status would be pretty good

@M4x_P0w3r 10 ай бұрын

@@TheWizardMusCan confirm that exact scenario happened to me recently. Couldn't even KO it Aerial Ace. Then again, it put me to sleep on a turn where it was planning to use Spore, so it wasn't very effective.

@chadcracraft9209 10 ай бұрын

Has happened to me before

@brianroberts6957 10 ай бұрын

Gen 3 OU has an interesting balance of things that trap and eliminate one another, but without it becoming a rock-paper-scissors meta. Probably, due to the lower overall power level, not resulting in an unfavorable matchup or early play being a guaranteed loss.

@Dracon350 7 ай бұрын

definitely helps that half the Pokemon in the tier don't have a BST of 550+ lmao.

@GoldStorm07 10 ай бұрын

Early Bird cuts the sleep turns from Rest down to 1, which is handy for something like Kangaskhan. Most everything else that gets the ability is too frail to make use of the quick Rest.

@dragonhunter2001 10 ай бұрын

Yes! It’s actually so solid on Kang.

@Eroil 10 ай бұрын

I think you can argue that Drought and Drizzle go in banworthy if you're looking it from an OU perspective, as if a non uber had them it would change the entire metagame and warp it around those weathers (especially rain). Similarly shadow tag isn't banned in ubers but is in OU

@kadabraguy9846 10 ай бұрын

I think the point is that he's only considering these abilities in the context of which Pokémon actually get them and not theorizing how they would affect Pokémon who don't. Drizzle and Drought would for sure warp ADV OU if they were available, but they're only available in Ubers where they're healthy

@Eroil 10 ай бұрын

@@kadabraguy9846 true!

@kadabraguy9846 10 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure Gen 3 Lightningrod is useless outside of doubles, it doesn't provide an immunity to Electric attacks it just redirects them away from your partner

@Eroil 10 ай бұрын

Always enjoy tier list videos, was a fun to listen to

@BlaqueT 10 ай бұрын

Really enjoy and appreciate you somehow managing to pump out a daily video for us viewers! I hope you don't feel too obligated to do so. I admire your passion for the gen 3 meta, and your videos exploring all the other gen metas. Keep it up!

@mariusvfl1848 10 ай бұрын

Thank you. This is insane.

@kirkfogg8366 10 ай бұрын

29 years old and i decided to hop back into these games, gotta say the information you give out is invaluable, especially since the last game i played was emerald.

@scottfitzgerald5944 10 ай бұрын

An interesting thought about Gengar's levitate, its so useful for Gengar that I would rather have a levitate Gengar over a theoretical wonderguard Gengar. So many mons pack earthquake and with Gengar's lackluster defense, ground immunity is crucial. Also, without levitate, dug could trap and check Gengar.

@TheMightyNaryar 10 ай бұрын

I've run Butterfree for the hell of it on the ladder today. It is pretty fun to use and Compound Eyes is pretty great on it. Pretty good at spreading status, you can expect him to sleep something and maybe paralyze another pokémon, and probably solid at confusing people/doing shenanigans (Skill Swap, Thief, Swagger, etc.) Just... don't expect to live more than two rounds.

@LRXC1 10 ай бұрын

No way you mentioned Kecleon in Gen3 1v1 LOL

@CobraSmokehouse 10 ай бұрын

The amount of random youtubers I stumble across using Maplestory BGM makes my heart smile 🧡

@BackwardsHat 10 ай бұрын

Camerupt fans burning up right now after legendary Gen 3 gamer Jimothy Cool reveals he does not know the actual effect of Magma Armor

@zapper1801 5 ай бұрын

So fun to hear how different people pronounce pokemon names. "Medi-Cam" and "Groodon" stuck out to me for example

@anthonydixon4429 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for this video. Now I can watch this while not studying for my exam coming up next week!

@pookiegaming75 10 ай бұрын

I think the fact that you didnt select speed boost as amon defying ability is insane

@iamepic13 10 ай бұрын

The way the tierlist was structured meant that it not only had to be a mon defying ability, it had to be very impactful. It would be cool if there was a way to separate each tier by mons that can't survive without their ability though

@misters6749 10 ай бұрын

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="467">7:47</a> - <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="487">8:07</a>: glad to hear Medicham get praise. I don’t hear that enough nowadays, don’t think I heard it enough back in the day either.

@jaydee5312 10 ай бұрын

Maddy Cam

@GoldGuard 10 ай бұрын

This tier list Illuminated my day

@centurionpanocculus 10 ай бұрын

This tier list was a lot to Water Absorb

@CroissantsSlay 10 ай бұрын

like the ability ?

@JoZ0Z 10 ай бұрын

I think it would make more sense to compare the abilities in a vacuum. Otherwise we are kind of comparing pokemon as much as abilities.

@peelsbanana1626 10 ай бұрын

i don't even play competitive pokemon anymore but you have quite the chill voice to listen to

@Awesome54356 10 ай бұрын

Love all the maplestory bgm, and the video was super interesting and informative too!

@jeffdavey5843 10 ай бұрын

Literally googled this two days ago, and here you are posting a video about it. Love all the content, I think it would be cool to see a held item or attacking/status move tier list

@cryptooooooooo 10 ай бұрын

held items - S-Leftovers, Choice Band A- Lum, Salac B- Petaya, Liechi, Magnet C- Starf i think that's literally everything really. you can throw brightpowder in D.

@0verloud350 10 ай бұрын

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="100">1:40</a> POLIWRATH MENTIONED 🫡🥹🗿

@Matt-qk8yf 10 ай бұрын

Pokémon fraudster “Jimothy cool” has been caught misidentifying the function of magma armor, an ability for one of his supposed favorite Pokémon “camerupt”. you just can’t trust anyone these days.

@TheScrootch 14 күн бұрын

This is insane.

@SLUDGEWORLD. 10 ай бұрын

Woah, 45 minutes of jimothy cool analysis. This bodes well for my morning 💜

@dastardlydwarf6909 10 ай бұрын

Water absorb is a tier when you run into suicune

@AzoiatheCobra 10 ай бұрын

Truant is so bad that it turns to be good. Entrainment truant Durant can shut anything off

@centurionpanocculus 10 ай бұрын

For a turn lol, forces both people to switch

@centurionpanocculus 10 ай бұрын

Don’t get me wrong I spammed entrainment Durant in gen 5 but it is impossible to use consistently, it’s literally just to force a switch

@noysam3570 10 ай бұрын

Only if durant existed in gen 3...

@AzoiatheCobra 10 ай бұрын

@@centurionpanocculus and sometimes thats enough to get your main pokemon in for free, or something to set up

@Blanktester685 10 ай бұрын

@@noysam3570 it does if you look hard enough

@boop53 10 ай бұрын

when i started learning about adv i was like “wtf why doesnt skarm run sturdy” but then i realised that sturdy does not work like a focus sash in gen 3 could you imagine if sturdy worked like it did in current gen in adv? skarm could always get a free spike, even against something like moltres or zapdos lol

@dakoriolf 10 ай бұрын

I can’t believe you didn’t mention meganium when discussing overgrow smh

@cristianotesta3027 10 ай бұрын

How's sound proof more banworthy than shadowtag?

@honjon666 10 ай бұрын

Mr. Mime is an international criminal

@SirToastyToes 10 ай бұрын

All because of Baton Pass's interaction with Roar

@funkymachine 10 ай бұрын

both are, its more a issue of soundproof blocking roar which enables goofy chains. people say exploud should be unbanned but no one really cares cuz its exploud

@stupidpros 10 ай бұрын

@@funkymachine what if I do a little bit of whirlwinding

@funkymachine 10 ай бұрын

@@stupidpros forcing skarm to use whirlwind is stupid and nothing else in ou gets whirlwind

@endy7630 10 ай бұрын

The way you say Groudon makes me want to eat a bob-omb

@sharpfang3660 10 ай бұрын

i've had synchronize backfire on me multiple times while trying to toxic something with umbreon, so it CAN be harmful to you

@funkymachine 10 ай бұрын

what? if umbreon toxic a mon without synch it just gets toxiced, umbreon is fine

@sharpfang3660 10 ай бұрын

what i meant by this was, for example trying to toxic a zapdos and they thunder wave the umbreon, umbreon's synchronize procs and paralyses the zapdos, thus making toxic not work

@haslittle8078 10 ай бұрын

Jim: "Don't use this pokemon. It's bad, it doesn't do anything, the use case is so specific that you might as well use something else that does that thing even better while also doing other things. It isn't even a pokemon." ADV Revival Players: *"BET"*

@ricardoludwig4787 2 ай бұрын

Rough skin is actualy a big deal in the lower tiers since Endure or sub + salac + flail/reversal sweepers are far more relevant without sandstorm to aautomatically KO 90% of them, so havin an ability that KOs 1hp pokemon for making contact is already a pretty interesting tradoff, but sharpedo sometimes combines it with endure to also survive the hit, giving it very useful defensive utility for defensive teams (that cant always be replicated with priority, since that will get foiled by substitute)

@linkthepringlesman3951 10 ай бұрын

Lightningrod doesn’t provide an electric immunity or special attack boost until Gen 5

@Dracon350 7 ай бұрын

more importantly, regarding Inner Focus, the majority of the relevant Pokemon who get it are also just naturally fast and will be outrunning most opponents, meaning getting flinched isn't something they worry about often, if ever.

@BlackRaven6695 10 ай бұрын

Will always love and respect Keen Eye for fighting back against the Ninjask Nation 🙏

@funkymachine 10 ай бұрын

ninjask ban when?

@meetRS268 10 ай бұрын

do you think youd ever do a video where a hypothetical change was made? like what would happen if tyranitar was banned from gen 3 ou? snorlax ban? the rise in none leftovers items? etc

@MrSlizzard 10 ай бұрын

Great vid. Respect the choices and now I gotta try a P2 team

@Goombachi 8 ай бұрын

In Gen 3, Lightning Rod's actually completely useless outside of Doubles (and maybe sometimes detrimental in Doubles?) because it doesn't provide an immunity, it just redirects Electric attacks to the target. Not that it would've mattered anyway, but still.

@frankchen4229 2 ай бұрын

i remember the FRLG battle tower has a duo of lightningrod rhydon and gyarados; im guesing gen 3 lightningrod is most used by rhydon or even marowak

@gravethestampede3454 10 ай бұрын

the fact that Damp prevents explosion from doing anything rather than just negating damage makes sense. You can't ignite a dampened fuse of course.

@JamNCam 10 ай бұрын

Trace is peak gaming, there’s no other Pokemon/ability that allows the same level of versatility and on the fly playmaking AND it’s on the goat porygon2

@liamaldrich2476 10 ай бұрын

"Doctor Nefario! Our plan is to set up the sun!" - Grudon

@feelsokayman5656 10 ай бұрын

jimmy dropping Gen 3 knowledge bombs

@goldwalker5652 10 ай бұрын

Love how the power level in gen 3 is just low enough that weak Pokémon with strong abilities like golduck and butterfree can carve out small niches for themselves on teams that benefit from those traits.

@MrCheeze 10 ай бұрын

As someone who doesn't know anything, the biggest surprise to me is that Pressure, the placeholder ability for legendaries without any unique ability, is not only useful but in the top tiers.

@ShiningJudgment666 10 ай бұрын

It's pretty difficult to KO something without PP on the move meant to take something out.

@sleepi866 10 ай бұрын

come on man, you forgot remoraid gets hustle! that surely puts it in the amazing tier

@yvendous 3 ай бұрын

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2159">35:59</a> homie am I hearing the forest music from Maple Story??

@markT4561 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video Jim this is fun to watch! But I kinda wish you ranked the abilities without considering what Pokémon have the ability and just ranked the ability by itself but I guess that’s not the idea of this tier list

@scoutbane1651 10 ай бұрын

Same here, should just be ranking the abilities in a vacuum. What if only caterpie got huge power would it be a bad ability all of a sudden? It would just suck that it's only avaliable on that mon, the ability itself would still be amazing

@Royyy13 10 ай бұрын

Was going to say the same thing

@honjon666 10 ай бұрын

@@scoutbane1651nature abhors a vacuum

@kadegrenade7527 9 ай бұрын

Nice video jimbo

@Begeru 3 ай бұрын

Why was this in alphabetical order excerpt for Color Change and Compound eyes just randomly at the end

@acksOldPeople 10 ай бұрын

What did the Heracross say when it got hit by a Flamethrower? 's warm in here

@philliporsit 10 ай бұрын

Could you please do this on current gen. As a new player I have no clue what anything does and it would be nice to know the meta. Not to do better but to understand what is going on. I'm so lost and haven't found anything to help brand new players. I played during gen 3 but was younger and either I can't remember what things are or I just don't know what is happening and you get DQd on time if you look up too much during the fight. I just need to know, what I need to know.

@dannyorrmedia 10 ай бұрын

Lightning rod is 100% useless in Gen 3 singles. In later generations it gives you electric immunity and a SpAtk boost on hit, but in Gen 3 literally the only thing it does is redirect attacks in doubles. Rhydon and Marowak are already immune, and Manectric just takes resisted damage from electric attacks as usual.

@Conklestothemax 10 ай бұрын

Hyper cutter is mon defining as it is what lets Gligar have any literally any usage in OU (please ignore that it is because without hyper cutter Gligar would only have a banned ability.)

@fadeleaf845 10 ай бұрын

Hustle is also on Corsola and the Togepi line. The former just isn't a great Pokémon in general and the latter with Togetic is much more suitable as a defensive Pokémon using Serene Grace Body Slam.

@ultimatewinfestation7194 10 ай бұрын

Funny enough, the best use for Serene Grace Togetic is to you used Ancient Power, hope you get a boost, and then Baton Pass. It’s a cheesy gimmick but that’s all that Togetic can really do

@ThatGuyThai 10 ай бұрын

Nah its all about that Hustle Aerial Ace and Swift, Focus Punch and Fire Blast lol

@jasperwoodard2845 10 ай бұрын

I am noticing that this ability tier list looks very similar to the pokemon ranking of the best pokemon with the ability.

@elilehn1193 8 ай бұрын

Hyper cutter is relevant. Intimidate is so common.

@windwaker0rules 4 ай бұрын

If this ability [Huge Power] is Skill Swapped, copied with Role Play or Traced, the effect is halved, boosting the Attack stat only by a 1.5x multiplier and not doubling.* Huge power therefore is objectively the better ability out of Huge power vs Pure Power.

@mvrowi 7 ай бұрын

just use umbreon as a wish passer wall with pursuit on a team that has another heal bell wall. its unbreakable no matter if physical or special and just continues giving value while also destroying gengars.

@heart3460 10 ай бұрын

My fave is Rock Head, Aerodactyl is my boy and in gen 3 it helps him be a top threat with a fun idea

@et34t34fdf 10 ай бұрын

A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.

@wowwt 10 ай бұрын

Butterfree is the best Pokemon in gen 3. Hope to see a video soon.

@Lumix_Corrupt 10 ай бұрын

Huge power in the same tier as keen eye is crazy

@boop53 10 ай бұрын

my favourite ability would have to be guts. I love Heracross and Hariyama, they’re some of my fave pokemon outside of comp and in adv ou

@BiggestSniff 10 ай бұрын

sick idea! gen 4 ou tier list?

@KahilaTheArtSlime 10 ай бұрын

Probably not the video for it but I feel Exeggutor should be a slow bulky offense that can boom, recover and maybe stun spore?

@Lexi_TG 10 ай бұрын

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="925">15:25</a> I think you confused magma armor with shell armor and battle armor, magma armor prevents freeze while the other two prevent crits.

@armorbearer9702 10 ай бұрын

It is such a shame. A good deal of the abilities in the OK tier would have been higher ranked if they were on different Pokémon.

@PrideWaves 10 ай бұрын

This tier list is ranking the ability in gen 3 with context of the pokemon that uses them. If you were to detach speedboost from ninjask the ability is not a "solid" ability, its a ban worthy one, as evident to what happened to blaziken once it got the ability.

@ShiningJudgment666 10 ай бұрын

Sharpedo got it in that same generation. The thing is, it's attached to a Pokemon with the attacking stats, the movepool that includes Swords Dance and just good enough bulk which you could invest in in OU. Sharpedo's difference is frailty that even bulk investment can't really fix and lack of Swords Dance.

@PrideWaves 10 ай бұрын

sharpedo does not get speedboost until gen 5@@ShiningJudgment666

@frankchen4229 2 ай бұрын

@@ShiningJudgment666 what? speed boost is a dream world ability for sharpedo

@rizachan8892 10 ай бұрын

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="760">12:40</a> shhhhh, don't let game freak hear you Wait a second... Also Sharpedo's rough skin is pretty useful in UU because of all the endure salac reversal spam, it's pretty "common" there

@risitas4917 10 ай бұрын

Music name at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1020">17:00</a> ?

@jacoballen7394 9 ай бұрын

Sharpedo can endure down to 1 hp to kill salac Berry sweepers and activate its own Berry.

@ixchel3330 5 ай бұрын

Sandstorm

@Rickest_Wojt 10 ай бұрын

The return of legendary Groodon 🎉

@99attftw1 10 ай бұрын

This is elaborate.

@Swndl3 10 ай бұрын

I think one slept on thing for snorlax is running thick fat instead of immunity because everyone expects you to run immunity.

@jazzercise300 10 ай бұрын

See I always run heal bell/aroma support w snorlax so toxic on curselax a) isn't relevant because it's a good last mon b) as a stand in for a special wall on bulky, offense teams next to regice and maybeeee hariyama. Magneton becomes mandatory, usually HP grass mag but you're gonna blow up on swampert with something most likely on those kinda builds anyways so slotting in 3 moves on mag to fill in gaps doesn't have much of an opportunity cost, it's there to beat skarmory and let curselax set up on special attackers. The trick is letting their suicune, superachi, jolteon, etc etc maybe kingdra? live then switching snorlax end game, you get one turn ahead you just curse while they position and bada bing bada boom you win. Status w jirachi sucks but idk you can play around it with curselax.

@jazzercise300 10 ай бұрын

Tldr: I prefer thick fat over immunity

@frankchen4229 2 ай бұрын

but snorlax often runs rest anyway.

@sagetmaster4 10 ай бұрын

That was insane.

@LuisEdGm 5 ай бұрын

I always thought it is a waste that pokemons can only have 1 ability, I think it would be a lot more interesting if they could have 2 or 3 each

@frankchen4229 2 ай бұрын

modern day miraidon and koraidon essentially have 2 abilities each same with both calyrex formes

@misters6749 10 ай бұрын

I’m hoping for Marvel Scale being in Amazing at least. Can’t imagine Milotic without it.

@alejandro_rodriguez_99 10 ай бұрын

Well competitive is also ahood ability for Milotic

@armorelarmadura7807 10 ай бұрын

Surprised you didn't mention Fake Out with Inner Focus, is it really that uncommon in Gen 3?

@Blanktester685 10 ай бұрын

ive never seen anyone use fake out in gen 3 like ever lol.

@funkymachine 10 ай бұрын

it has a niche on lead cb medicham. thats it

@frankchen4229 2 ай бұрын

@@echogaia1708 wasn't e-speed also just +1 in gen 3?

@ProfessorCLion 10 ай бұрын

It's strange that you ranked them with the pokemon that get them in mind. You're not really judging the abilities themselves but rather how useful they are to individual pokemon