Why Pseudo-Legendary Pokemon aren't ACTUALLY Good Anymore

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@clothieredward5248 2 ай бұрын

Personally, I'd love to see GameFreak make more non-Dragon type pseudolegendaries. The fact that so many pseudos have the Dragon type is really holding them back in an age where Fairy types dominate the meta.

@demi-femme4821 2 ай бұрын

I want them to nerf Fairy please fOR THE LOVE OF ARCEUS NERF FAIRY

@libertygarden8161 2 ай бұрын

No, just nerf moonblast to 90BP and reverse the bug type and fairy type interaction They can also introduce a bug/dragon pseudo but pseudo always being dragon is a tradition and homage to dragons being powerful and respected Should not taint with that Shou

@mastanvx 2 ай бұрын

@@libertygarden8161 Metagross would like a word

@ExcalibeonSwordofEeveelutions 2 ай бұрын

@@libertygarden8161 *Tyranitar would like a word.*

@octopusoup 2 ай бұрын

Dragon-type isn't the "king" of types anymore and hasn't been for a while now ever since Fairy was introduced. I do think they understand this to some extent with some Dragons being less powerful like Drampa and Cyclizar. They're not placed on a pedestal and are considerably common place. Legendaries and Pseudo-Legendaries definitely need more diversity in terms of typing. Dragon-typing could use a break from the spotlight, or as they'd done during Gen 3 include 2 Pseudo-Legendaries. My personal pick for the new "king" typing (apart from Fairy) is Steel due to the numerous resistances it carries.

@federalismooimperio3161 2 ай бұрын

Short answer: getting nerfed, power creeped and non-pseudo legendaries getting increasingly more minmaxed stats

@goGothitaLOL 2 ай бұрын

and let’s not forget the Fairies making the Dragons look bad (and in Metagross’ case, losing the Ghost and Dark neutralities in Gen 6 making it weak to them, as well as Explosion’s nerf in Gen 5)

@alexc2265 2 ай бұрын

And the minmaxed stats are a form of power creep

@DrJones0801 2 ай бұрын

I hate the trend of pokemon with very minmaxed stats. It seems like in the last few generations new pokemon have been added with competitive in mind before anything else.

@tabam 2 ай бұрын

@@goGothitaLOLdragon type isn't bad actually. It's balanced

@WingedFish66 2 ай бұрын

@@DrJones0801They have to be. Game Freak wants people to buy the DLC, and what would help with that? Lock the latest broken mons behind that paywall. Notice how a lot of the top usage VGC mons the past couple years have been from the DLCs of SWSH and SV

@gregorymirabella1423 2 ай бұрын

who knew that making a type that counters almost every pseudo would make them struggle in competitive?

@patrickripleyiii134 2 ай бұрын

Fairy was a mistake

@gregorymirabella1423 2 ай бұрын

@@patrickripleyiii134 dragons were getting ridiculous, let's be honest.

@patrickripleyiii134 2 ай бұрын

@@gregorymirabella1423 oh I'm fine with dragons being nerfed, but fairy is WORSE than dragon, absolutely the best type, they overcorrected, fairy now needs a nerf

@bingbong4186 2 ай бұрын

Dark should’ve been strong to/resistant against fairy

@luisfilipe2747 2 ай бұрын

@@gregorymirabella1423well yeah, but they could've boosted ice types, nerfed dragons a little bit, but instead, they created a type that makes dragon types almost inviable to play

@zyanide194 2 ай бұрын

You know you're old when Ray has to explain what Hidden Power is to the younger audience

@Hispaniccaseoh 2 ай бұрын

I feel like the only kid who knows what hidden power is

@sergeynazaro1768 2 ай бұрын

AYYYYYE finnaly something an oldie like me can say I know!!! Sometimes the competitive jargon jumps way over me and the Pokémon but Gen 2 WAS LIFFFFE. Gen 1 was lit too. Gen 3 was an amazing jump forward as well. Rambling bye

@TheDeathmail 2 ай бұрын

To be fair, a lot of casuals didn't know hidden power either or just forgot....

@MrPokefanatic97 2 ай бұрын

No one will ever know how much of a flex* it was when I hatched a timid 4iv(perfect) electrike with hidden power ice for mega menetric *ON THE FIRST EGG*… no mints or bottle caps back then

@nigby6237 2 ай бұрын

Bro I’m 21

@cryochick9044 2 ай бұрын

Psychic _exists_ Gamefreak "thats too strong we need to nerf it" Fairy exists_ Gamefreak "lets make you everything psychic was and more"

@danka1167 2 ай бұрын

psychic at its peak and even gen 2 arguably was much better than fairy type. in gen 6 especially since clefable was pretty much the only good fairy type (this is for OU idk about vgc). Psychic had actually good mons to utilise a much better typing, until the tapus you were stuck to clefable and azumarill?

@heyitsnyixie_1559 2 ай бұрын

@@danka1167 wait hold on, I will NOT let you discredit Azumarill. Three words: Huge Power, Waterfall.

@mrbilter83 2 ай бұрын

@@danka1167 wasn't Mawile banned from ORAS OU? Gardevoir was also a dominant fairy and Klefki has been amazing support since forever

@kelleren4840 2 ай бұрын

God I hate fairy type so much.

@Hugo-yz1vb 2 ай бұрын

@@danka1167 *XERNEAS HAS ENTERED THE CHAT*

@arininquotes8396 2 ай бұрын

"Landorus mistake forme" is funnier than it has any right to be

@jacksonpaulson9924 2 ай бұрын

I think something else to add with why Metagross fell off in usage is after Gen 5 is they nerfed steel types as a whole by not making them resist dark and ghost type moves anymore. Giving Metagross 2 new weaknesses.

@SomeAsian 2 ай бұрын

It's telling that Metagross is UU in Gen 9 because Tera drops its horrible part Psychic type.

@j-antgaming 2 ай бұрын

It also couldn't use explosion as effextively after it got nerfed in gen 6.

@jenji333 2 ай бұрын

It got nerfed in gen 5@@j-antgaming

@Smart1529 2 ай бұрын

I've been saying they should've chosen one of the two to hit Steel types. IMO Steel should still resist Dark and Ghost can hit Steel for neutral. Ghost is now really good, arguably one of the best in the game but still has it flaws of being unable to hit Normal types, that's where Dark can come in. Ghost and Dark are too identical in offense.

@staringcorgi6475 2 ай бұрын

Mega made up for this by making it faster and hit harder even more so in gen 7 in where the stats will already apply if you pressed the mega button when doing a move before the cutscene

@zapo5284 2 ай бұрын

I love referring to Hidden Power as "Boomer Tera Blast".

@player-ty2sy 2 ай бұрын

I hate that you right, and in turn, I hate you

@sergeynazaro1768 2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@robertlupa8273 2 ай бұрын

A bit wordy, but _very_ accurate. :D

@unripetheberrby6283 2 ай бұрын

Noo 😭

@memenazi7078 2 ай бұрын

Sad but true

@sykora9526 2 ай бұрын

I think the main thing that happened with pseudolegendaries is that their stats aren't as optimized as the new Pokemon. A lot of the Pseudos have a lot of points in both of their attacking stats allowing them to be mixed attackers or choose between being fully physical or special, heck even Garchomp has run Fire Blast at times for coverage. They also often have middling speed stats, that either have been powercrept enough to be considered slow, or aren't fully slow enough to take advantage of trick room. The new paradox pokemon are the most obvious example of this optimization creep. Their base stat totals aren't as high as the pseudos, but they're much more optimized. Flutter Mane has 135 in special attack and speed, and the rest of its stats are mostly irrelevant, allowing it to hyper specialize into being a fast special attacker. Iron Hands and Great tusk have like, 0 special attack and speed stats and dumped everything else into attack and bulk, allowing them to be incredibly optimized bulky physical attackers. Power creep is definitely a thing, but optimization creep is the real killer here.

@brotbrotsen1100 2 ай бұрын

I almost think they have to go back to the drawing board for sooooo many pokemon. There is a lot of stuff that just isn't useful at all.

@XenithShadow 2 ай бұрын

Well yeah bst is not super useful info. Generally the total stat's with only the better of thr two offensive stat's countered will give a slightly more accurate power ranking than bst. Specialists outclass generalists.

@Ornithopter470 Ай бұрын

Any pre-gen 4 pseudo needs a completely different stat spread.

@christopherballero866 2 ай бұрын

Power creep really hurt the pseudos as did terrains and other changes. Also a quad weakness to ice & going against Calyrex really hurt. Fairies hurt dragons a lot too as did steel types losing their resistance to dark & ghost types

@thomasbergadano1331 2 ай бұрын

Power creep hurt the entire game to be super honest.

@agamerjourney9146 2 ай бұрын

@@thomasbergadano1331 power creep didn’t ruin the game.

@gregorymirabella1423 2 ай бұрын

@@agamerjourney9146 nah, it's pretty rough right now.

@Hilight277 2 ай бұрын

@@agamerjourney9146calyrex shadow is a bad precedent because you have to get the base game and then the expansion which might become more common

@Kamisenbonn 2 ай бұрын

Fairy type was a bad idea, what we needed was not another type but Balancing of the existing types

@RocketPropelledMexican 2 ай бұрын

Another thing with TTar sand is that most sand rush users would really like to spam EQ, but Rillaboom absolutely shuts down EQ spam. There's a reason why we haven't seen disquake since gen 8. We'll probably need something like a flying psychic surge pokemon in order to get EQ spam back with rillaboom present.

@YoshiPasta 2 ай бұрын

So tera flying Tapu Lele

@fezthedracky8468 2 ай бұрын

@@YoshiPasta fuck it, Tera Flying Indeedee with Tera Blast

@gregorymirabella1423 2 ай бұрын

a flying type that summons terrain? you sure about that?

@groundcontrol0597 2 ай бұрын

We're starting to replace psuedo-legemdaries with kinda-legendaries (ultrabeasts and paradox Pokémon)

@Tragedyval 2 ай бұрын

paradox mons are 570 base stats but their ability makes it more than 600.

@azunkor422 Ай бұрын

@@Tragedyvaltheir stats on the also were precise to their strength for example Flutter Mane's SPE and SPA are extremely high while it's attack is almost nothing. Many ultra beats also have these stats

@JakobMargetts 2 ай бұрын

One reason why dragapult isn't currently considered on par with fast ghost types like flutter mane and calyrex-shadow rider is because it doesn't have a good physical ghost move to make use of. Phantom force is a cool move in theory, but in practice it's easy to play around because you can guess who is being targeted and switch in a mon that resists it. It's also not worth using power herb for a 90 BP move. Some people have found success using tera ghost tera blast, but it's a bit of a tera hog then

@akshayreddy4071 2 ай бұрын

And because the above 2 absolutely annihilate dragapult. There's also opportunity cost, why use a dragapult even if it gets a better physical move when I could hit from some of the craziest special attaxk stats in the game with insane moves like Astral barrage or the possibility of incredible fairy stab from mane

@gregorymirabella1423 2 ай бұрын

power herb is at least okay in singles. after a phantom force you can use acrobatics for a reasonably strong attack that takes advantage of your fighting immunity. and in doubles phantom force is pretty good as far as charge moves go. you can move first to dodge an attack, they don't know what slot you're targeting, and they can't stop it with protect. still not a great move but compared to something like solar beam it's not bad.

@lemonadogirl4082 2 ай бұрын

"Landorus Mistake Form" Finally, someone who can actually rival my undying hatred for that fucking tiger genie.

@ktvx.94 2 ай бұрын

This is basically down to minmaxing and abilities boosting stats/ damage beyond what the BST would suggest.

@goGothitaLOL 2 ай бұрын

and Fsiry making Dragon look bad I would say the same with Dark and Fighting if it weren’t for the likes of Urshifu, Iron Hands, Koraidon, Roaring Moon, Chien-Pao, and Ting-Lu And also Raging Bolt is built different

@corbangonzalez4935 2 ай бұрын

Either new pokemon need to chill tf out, or game freak needs to give basically every single pokemon from gens 1-6 some buffs. Except the legendaries, they don’t need buffs.

@giorosiles2220 2 ай бұрын

True things are crazy in gen 9

@SpiegelmanSzn 2 ай бұрын

I agree with you. We need older Pokémon to be buffed. Nothing too crazy but small buffs here and there that make sense, like Pidgeot getting a bit more in attack or Sneasel getting a bit more in speed.

@jh9794 2 ай бұрын

It's not like gf have changed stats between generations or anything. Honestly this really is the only way GF will be able to rebalanced power creep. But they'll probably mess it up so I'm not sure I want to see them try.

@GanicoGSx 2 ай бұрын

@@jh9794 Ah, along with expanding older Pokemon's move pools?

@yonkodude 2 ай бұрын

@@jh9794they have… many times look at zacian crowned, aegislash, dodrio, dugtrio and probably a few others i missed. They certainly give stat buffs and nerfs every now and then. Tho the nerfs is when they make mistakes like zacian crowned where it had its BST and ability nerfed

@rooislangwtf 2 ай бұрын

It's funny that Pelipper is probably going to have higher usage than most pseudos in the restricted format

@DPedro3 2 ай бұрын

I love how Dragonite's move in gen 9 was to ditch the dragon type and become a normal type pokémon

@Trussme96 2 ай бұрын

Garchomp needs Dragon Dance and Metagross needs Shift Gear or Shell Smash to keep up in a meta where half the competition are super effective against them offensively or resistant to them defensively.

@Bblackout1 2 ай бұрын

Ray actually kidnapped Wolfeys editor 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Lynk 2 ай бұрын

This guy knows a bunch about pokémon! He should try competitive.

@mewtwoinchernobyl 2 ай бұрын

Um he is the only 3-time world champion

@shadycactus7896 2 ай бұрын

@@mewtwoinchernobylwoooosh

@noahthecrazy1632 Ай бұрын

@@mewtwoinchernobylwoooosh

@garchompelago 2 ай бұрын

Garchomp will always be my favorite Pokemon since its debut.

@zenverak 2 ай бұрын

Same!

@samrahman2973 2 ай бұрын

Mainly because 90% of them can literally be obliterated by a non stab 4x super effective move. Now it’s terra blast you have to second guess every move

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@fractalisomega9517 2 ай бұрын

One of the biggest issues is severe lack of type variation with only TWO not being dragon The other issue is Gamefreak adding weird stuff to bypass the restricted mon rules…. Paradox and Ultra beast Pokemon have basically legendary stats or at least better optimized that many Pseudolegends

@enn1924 2 ай бұрын

And they also have op exclusive habilities or moves

@Rarest26 2 ай бұрын

And also the fact dragon is just not good enough anymore.

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@fractalisomega9517 2 ай бұрын

@@Rarest26 Dragons are often lorewise endgame monsters, but you think the creatives at Gamefreak could make a Pokemon like Baxcalibur or Garchomp without needing to make it a pseudo legendary… Many have their BST padded with extra stats they don’t use at all, Meanwhile stuff like Roaring Moon and Kartana have just as much impact or more but lower BSTs

@goGothitaLOL 2 ай бұрын

⁠@@fractalisomega9517Pseudos are normally (or used to be) built like “Jack-of-all-traits” At best “a swiss Army knife” and at worst “a master of none” The others are just minmaxing at it’s finest

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@fractalisomega9517 2 ай бұрын

@@goGothitaLOL Starters are better for the "Jack of all trades" role with Pseudos supposed to be rivals of the legendaries that are so good you only get 1 per game For the longest time they were the best mons around outside of legends themselves, but it wasn't until Gen 6 that this really changed and the addition of Fairy type really brought to light how awful a design idea it was to make all but 2 Dragon type... add in the absolutely botched execution of Goodra and they took a huge hit to viability (I love goodra, but no recovery, setup, or anything unique hurts it competitively) Stealth rocks hurt the flying type ones like Dragonite and Salamence, Speed creep and Explosion nerf hurt Metagross, Weather changes hurt Tyranitar, Fairy hurt everything Dragon Kommo-o was nice but didn't do anything different, just making another Fairy weak Pseudo Add in the Ultra Beasts and now Paradox pokemon which basically acted as "alternate" legendaries with a far more diverse type selection with better laid out stats and it's not hard to see why your typical Pseudo with it's STILL Dragon type is getting the short end of the stick

@ngopeytonvgc 2 ай бұрын

Power Creep be like: Dragonite needs Chien-Pao to be good Tyranitar needs a partner like Lycanroc or Excadrill to be Good There are better intimidate users than Salamence (Incineroar Exists) Metagross suffers from power creep Garchomp suffers from Flutter Mane and is outclassed by Ursaluna-Bloodmoon Hydreigon suffers from Flutter Mane Goodra sucks and Goodra-Hisui has fallen in usage after Regulation D Kommo-o really suffers from Flutter Mane without Tera Dragapult is outclasses by Dragonite being paired with Chien-Pao Baxcalibur has gotten buffs with Scale Shot and Loaded Dice but there are many restricted legends that were dragons like Koraidon and Miraidon I bet this comment wont have that much likes and wont be pinned

@ghoul890studios3 2 ай бұрын

Yap central 😭 🙏 ain’t nobody reading ts

@frostfinal8876 2 ай бұрын

Bet

@searkahn3055 2 ай бұрын

The subtle fossil fighters sound effects are appreciated.

@TheMasterBlaze 2 ай бұрын

The sound bits and him calling Baxcalibur "The Vivosaur" as it's title flair made me smile from ear to ear too.

@intellectualblackking162 2 ай бұрын

I think another thing that holds back most psuedos are sweepers and physical ones at that which incin and landerous eat up (except for my good boys dragonite, hydreigon, and dragapult.) dragapult also has more versatility than most psuedos with its great move pool which is another thing that holds most psuedos back as well. Great video as always!

@hamdepaf6686 2 ай бұрын

I think a big factor here is off a different kind of powercreep. It's not that they suddenly have bad stats, but "just" having a lot of stats becomes a lot less justifiable when there are more and more high base stat mons running around. If power and big stats is all you can provide to a team, than you will be dropped the second someone else has the better stats for the job. That pared with dragon types suffering from Fairy types and Ice actually being usable for once with strong STAB ice attackers running around it becomes also harder to ignore their weaknesses. A big reason why supportive mon's tend to stick around much longer in the metagame is because they provide a much more specialized role that is much harder to be outclassed in.

@ttarzzxz3711 2 ай бұрын

THE FOSSIL FIGHTERS YOU FOUND A NORMAL ROCK INSTEAD OF A FOSSIL JINGLE WHEN TALKING ABOUT SALAMENCE'S SPECIAL ATTACK BRINGS SO MANY MEMORIES

@_Gorc5647 2 ай бұрын

I rewinded for that too 😂

@aceplaysstuff2621 2 ай бұрын

He even called Baxcalibur a vivosaur too

@dragonhunterg6137 2 ай бұрын

When he's talking about Baxcalibur and Tera at 17:30, he also uses the Fossil Fighters status sound for it

@samohanka 2 ай бұрын

This is the first ever video I've seen on this channel, I'm dumbfounded that I'm finding Fossil Fighters community here

@_Gorc5647 2 ай бұрын

@@samohanka 😂

@jeffreyabercrombie8136 2 ай бұрын

Great expose on how power/stats isn’t everything. The role a pokemon plays in how it fits a team is much more important to the overall success. And some other options just have a better overall toolbox to do that

@supermariomaker1734 2 ай бұрын

Can’t argue with that that’s fair.

@RBGolbat 2 ай бұрын

Yo Archaludon call out! Love that stapler remover.

@Doomzdeh 2 ай бұрын

Would’ve made sense to have Fairy and Dark Counter Each Other. It adds another weakness to Fairy and makes it more balanced as a result. Dragon Types with Crunch and Night Slash could now compete. Fairy also should not have resisted Bug. Doesn’t really make sense, and I feel like Bug was bad enough as it was.

@insanefool5265 Ай бұрын

No, dark type is too good wallbreaker even now. Without fairy it will resist only fighting and he itself. I like the idea of buffing bug type however

@phonepup06 2 ай бұрын

Note: all the various 1st finished listed for Komo-o are paired with the fairy killing and parish trapping mega gengar

@TheMasterBlaze 2 ай бұрын

The sheer number of Fossil Fighters references in the video has made me VERY happy. I absolutely ADORE Fossil Fighters!

@henrycalde1991 2 ай бұрын

Tyranitar will always be my favorite since gen 2

@Winterfang 2 ай бұрын

The problem with Pseudo Legends is that after Metagross they decided everyone had to be a Dragon for some reason. The Paradox show the value in very strong Pokemon of any type.

@Tragedyval 2 ай бұрын

i noticed that on gen 9 all the regular pokemon has some insane abilities. Gholdengou for example is immune to status effect, that is nuts considering that gholdengou is only a regular mon.

@Harambemojo 2 ай бұрын

Ok, Landorus Mistake form is really funny I’ve never heard that one before

@ultratog1028 2 ай бұрын

Abilities are super important and most pseudos either have poorly distributed stats, or poor abilities and rarely have neither.

@EnbyOccultist 2 ай бұрын

It's not that their stats are poorly distributed, it's that modern Pokemon have completely minmaxed stats which pushes the powercreep exponentially

@BloodruneEnt. 2 ай бұрын

Fairy type being an outright counter to Dragons, Steel types losing their resistance to Dark and Ghosts, more non-psuedo pokemon gaining more utility through updated movelists and abilities. All while pseudo legendaries have mostly been stagnant with no real growths to keep up with the changes to the ever growing meta.

@x0habiib0x 2 ай бұрын

Omg your editor is so funny and I love the presentation. Found a new PokéTuber to follow! Weeee

@BiggerK 2 ай бұрын

Dude's the VGC goat lol

@ONLY_RR7 2 ай бұрын

@@BiggerKfr, calling Ray Rizzo a PokeTuber feels disrespectful and I don’t know why

@gregkareem9824 2 ай бұрын

@@ONLY_RR7cope

@lolmao7614 2 ай бұрын

6:18 Little Z jumpscare

@FlarpTart 2 ай бұрын

When I’m planning my team, I’ll use a Landorus-T 🗣️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

@Jannik9772 2 ай бұрын

Damn im ill and this video makes me happy. Thanks ray

@cecilrhodes2153 2 ай бұрын

5:48 HEY I KNOW A FOSSIL FIGHTERS SOUND EFFECT WHEN I HEAR IT

@Henkita2 2 ай бұрын

"many scarfed pokemon struggle to outspeed dragapult" a 56 base speed pokemon after 1 shell smash:

@cgallicl6770 2 ай бұрын

My dude your description of Baxcalibur being a Vivosaur made me nostalgic for Fossil fighters! XD Didn't think anyone else remembered that game.

@pokezach494_ 2 ай бұрын

I had to represent peak 🫡

@Jay_Games4409 2 ай бұрын

Look at my name, of course I know

@TheUnique69able 2 ай бұрын

Dragonite desperately needs a physical stab flying attack with 100bp

@johnmihelis1699 2 ай бұрын

It's ironic how Dragonite has such a massively extencive move pool and yet still not a good Flying type attack

@aleger620 Ай бұрын

Gyarados enter the chat ( and not start saying is not dragon pkm.. it’s practically one too 🙄)

@TheUnique69able Ай бұрын

@@aleger620 i agree, dragonite aerodactyl, gyarados, salamence and others also need good physical stab attacks

@capitainemmhenri1299 2 ай бұрын

Losing Pursuit also really hurts Ttar

@rizachan8892 2 ай бұрын

Honestly, this isn't just about pseudo-legendaries; even legendary Pokémon are getting powercrept. Look at Mewtwo and Kyurem, for example. Baxcalibur is basically a better version of Kyurem-Black since it doesn't fear burns and can take hits better. Mewtwo is now outclassed by Calyrex Shadow Rider, which is faster and has a better movepool. Other legendaries like Zapdos and Landorus-Therian are also struggling against newer Pokémon like Regieleki and Urshifu. The game is changing, and older legendaries are having a tough time staying relevant.

@_.the.gremlin._ 2 ай бұрын

5:47 The sound effect used was when you dig up a normal rock in Fossil Fighters 1. I'd know sounds from that game anywhere

@AceTrainerLiam 2 ай бұрын

Love these looks back. VGC history is really interesting! I love Dragapult, but it falls into the usual category of “might need to be my Focus Sash Mon” and then I have to sit and figure out if my previous Sash mon brings more to the team. :/

@dragonhunterg6137 2 ай бұрын

6:00 Ray Rizzo knows Fossil Fighters, peak gets peak

@Jay_Games4409 2 ай бұрын

I was kind of paying attention... And then I heard the Fossil Fighters normal rock SFX, I instantly locked in on this.

@thegrahamreaper6851 2 ай бұрын

me when pokemon: i sleep me when fossil fighters positive status sfx and normal rock sfx: 🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿

@kerkieburgers 2 ай бұрын

I like the face of wolf there while saying the quote. LOL 11:50

@eliashabash7591 2 ай бұрын

Newer mons are getting artificial stat increases Thats the main reason why So 600 bst doesn’t look as appealing You have a lot of pokemon that have attack damage buffs for using certain moves, and thats how they are used And you have these ancient pokemon with 30% boost to a single stat, so their BST is deceiving

@TheLivingOdyssey 2 ай бұрын

5:48 that fossil fighters sound effect caught me so off guard

@AlexsGoogleAccount 2 ай бұрын

I didn't realize until now that Archaludon was a staple remover. I'd never seen it from the back.

@MapleLunii 2 ай бұрын

4:45 why is Wolfe staring into my soul

@lemonlima5890 8 күн бұрын

😂

@StevenDaniels81 2 ай бұрын

I'm glad you put my boi Archaludon in this video. I've been calling it the honorary pseudo much like i call the elemental monkeys honorary starters.

@AyoIsThatMvdnvght 2 ай бұрын

5:48 FOSSIL FIGHTERS SOUND EFFECT, BASED

@fabiogiacometti380 2 ай бұрын

I see a new Ray video - I click

@dustrose8101 2 ай бұрын

Hell yeah!

@PCG06 2 ай бұрын

Same here!

@eeeezmoney 4 күн бұрын

I had to double-take hearing all of these Fossil Fighters sound effects throughout the video, one hell of a nostalgia trip to hear those from a Pokemon-focused channel

@MahouSkeye 2 ай бұрын

Fossil fighters sfx detected, subscription added

@NieRNornNA 2 ай бұрын

One day, not now, Fairies would get nerfed to the gutter and Dragon types would rise again.

@dylanberte1982 2 ай бұрын

the subtle fossil fighters references make me happy

@chayoto 2 ай бұрын

I still hate it that they removed the chip damage from the ice weather condition.

@enn1924 2 ай бұрын

I wish they gave old pseudo legendaries a new exclusive move similar to how they started doing since sw/sh Imagine if garchomp had a dragon move that gets boosted in sand

@lamphuc2820 2 ай бұрын

I just dreamt about this last night, thank you ray 👍

@samohanka 2 ай бұрын

7:22 Am I tripping or is that a miss sound effect from Fossil Fighters? 16:56 17:28 NO WAY.

@amphibiansriseup596 2 ай бұрын

The problem with power creep is that these days, its not enough to be good, you have to be broken. Many of the pseudo legendaries had great stats and typings, but they aren’t comparable to now when we have.. A base 130 Atk Water type with an unblockable STAB move that hits three times and crits. A minmaxed Ghost/Fairy type. Four legendaries with already high stats + an ability that makes their offenses/defenses stupid. A dream stan with a bunch of support moves and an item that boosts their atk power, one of those masks boosting their atk even further with Tera. Either GameFreak needs to tone these monsters down, or revert the power level back to a reasonable level which I doubt will happen.

@erajinwoo 2 ай бұрын

Loved the fossil fighters champion fossil pick sound when you pick a rock used to show salamance using his Sp. Atk stats compared to it Atk stat

@erajinwoo 2 ай бұрын

This happened starting at 5:47 to 5:49

@erajinwoo 2 ай бұрын

Might of also been in the first fossil fighters as well, but i remember it from fossil fighter champions

@thegrahamreaper6851 2 ай бұрын

I love the use of Fossil Fighters sound effects

@eiilos98 2 ай бұрын

Tyranitar and Metagross were kneecapped, both have been continuously nerfed since gen 6.

@Gabriel-rj9gn 2 ай бұрын

FOSSIL FIGHTERS REFERENCED

@doorbox788 2 ай бұрын

Baxcalibur is my favorite vivosaur! Cool reference in sure like 3 people got 😂

@pokezach494_ 2 ай бұрын

I couldn’t think of anything better 💀

@tallyho836 2 ай бұрын

5:47 shoutout to the fossil fighters normal rock sound effect. I see you editor :)

@tallyho836 2 ай бұрын

Actually there are various fossil fighters sound effects scattered throughout the vid this is incredibly based

@pokezach494_ 2 ай бұрын

I do it for people like you 🫡

@tallyho836 2 ай бұрын

@@pokezach494_ thank you for your service o7

@dommeto5277 2 ай бұрын

11:07 ah yes, if there was only an arcanine who had the ability intimidate. I am so sad we don't have that. It would be an amazing pokemon!

@kingrane5746 2 ай бұрын

You titled Baxcalibur a Vivosaur? I didn’t know Ray was chill like that, Fossil fighters content when

@wishythefishy 2 ай бұрын

Thumbnails always popping off Ray.

@FlamingZombie567 2 ай бұрын

The Fossil Fighters sound effects were great

@AzureCrook Ай бұрын

Garchomp + Cynthia's song made my arm hairs stand taller than a man on 3 hits of viagra

@Steamuch 2 ай бұрын

I still won't consider Archaludon a legitimate Pseudo-Legendary due to it being solely achieved via Duraludon's widely accessible Metal Alloy as soon as level 1. In other words, a freebie 600 BST.

@farx_4488 2 ай бұрын

The fact that Ray Rizzo knows who little z just for a song about Landorus t is just poetic

@BlastHeart96 2 ай бұрын

At this point I think we are overdue for either a Mega or a Regional Variant form for Dragonite.

@hush5572 Ай бұрын

Keep the videos coming ray these are quality videos you are on the rise with content like this!

@Seetiyan 2 ай бұрын

I truly love dragon types and think they're cool. But still it must be said - NO MORE DRAGON PSEUDO-LEGENDARIES. There have been enough.

@pokezach494_ 2 ай бұрын

I think it’s kinda crazy that for the first time since Gen 3 we got two again for Scarlet and Violet… and yet they still are BOTH Dragons

@adamcunningham9947 2 ай бұрын

I want a griffin pseudo legendary

@kyallon1213 2 ай бұрын

I also feel like the transition from yearly formats to the new series/regulations that last a couple months hurt because most of the pseudos did best in regional dex formats which don’t last as long anymore, so they get less time in the spotlight

@PorkShark 2 ай бұрын

Not classifying UBs and Paradox mons as pseudo-legendaries when they're 99% the vibe is criminal

@PorkShark 2 ай бұрын

For a fan-made term not including them is hella dumb, especially when it's super clear that the UBs/Paradox mons are Game Freak's attempts at creating & testing competitively viable mons

@vinit3748 2 ай бұрын

Just a bit of a typo when you are talking about salamence's mega form and you are referring to its speed and damage stats the speed is fine but the special attack should be 120 and the attack should be 145. Not a huge deal just pointing it out

@pokezach494_ 2 ай бұрын

Oh shoot you’re right 🤦🏼‍♂️ That’s my bad

@HeavyTF2real Ай бұрын

5:49 Fossil Fighters sound effect

@bartolomeorizzo 2 ай бұрын

I think it isn't that absurd. When legendaries are locked pseudolegendaries take their place, when legendaries or semilegendaries get unlocked in the formats pseudolegendaries see their place taken. Supporter pokemon instead remain there, because many legendary pokemon are not supporters and if they are, given the restricted slots, often one prefers to just ditch them

@tos4724 2 ай бұрын

we all love the croissalamence

@tylerwebb2495 2 ай бұрын

Well, pseudo-legendary is a fan description. I’d argue we could expand the description to add paradox and ultra beasts. BST means little when the stats aren’t optimized

@adamcunningham9947 2 ай бұрын

Except every pseudo legendary actually needs a BST of 600 and a three staged evolutionary line, it may be fan made but GameFreak still acknowledges this

@tylerwebb2495 2 ай бұрын

@@adamcunningham9947 it doesn’t “need to be” anything when it’s a fan designation, whether or not game freak acknowledges it. By default because we as the fans set the definition we can also change that same definition. Because we don’t need game freak to acknowledge anything when we’re defining arbitrary terms for groups of Pokemon

@ShinySwalot 2 ай бұрын

That image at 7:39 goes so hard

@jazzercise300 2 ай бұрын

Only new dragon psuedo id like to see would be a bulky fairy/dragon. Fighting or dark/fairy would be ideal tho tbh. Side note, id love to see a 1st stage for archaludon. Pure steel, looks vaguley like a house

@kai_491 2 ай бұрын

As a Zoomer who has played pokemon since Platinum. I was called old and young in the span of seconds

@artemiscy1194 2 ай бұрын

Squidward: Ah, it sure is nice to fight against Pokemon teams with my Garchomp. SpongeBob: *Sends out Lando T* HI SQUIDWARD

@easyyen 2 ай бұрын

Fossil fighters sound board used???? 5:49

@ItsDaNewGuy 2 ай бұрын

I love how Ultra Necrozma was so overpowered that they had to remove it immediately afterward, but if we look at pokemon now, Ultra Necrozma would probably be pretty balanced.

@hellojimbi5822 2 ай бұрын

To my knowledge many of the ultra beasts fall very short in competitive. There's a good few that shine but eh