The reason Mantine has 140 Sp.Def is because it and Skarmory were created to be counterparts and Gold/Silver version exclusives, they share the same stat spread just that skarmory has more attack and def while mantine has more Sp.Atk and Sp.Def ( but in gen 7 Gamefreak buffed Mantine which meant they were no longer really countrparts stats wise )

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="49">0:49</a> I can actually answer this! Mantine and Skarmory have the same stats but their def and spc def stats are switched! Why those two pokemon share the same stat spread? Literally no clue!

Hear me out, Glalie is flat across the board because it is an all-rounder! Sorry, I'll see myself out.

Vikavolt's Speed stat is a crime against humanity

Vikavolt known for its zipping around the forest has 47 speed. it really should be much higher but we also really should not equate speed stat to physical speed. the 112 speed on Purugly makes sense if it is more its reaction speed and not how physically quick it can run.

I'm pretty sure Electrode only exists because they wanted to give Voltorb an evolution, though flipping it up-side down isn't the most creative way to go about that.

Barraskewda is a MEDIOCRE fish? You don’t want to know the power of 252+ Atk Choice Band Tera Water Liquidation in Rain

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="545">9:05</a> calling barraskewda mediocre is craaaazy

The hp/defense thing makes me wonder why pokemon seem to be designed with base stat totals in mind, when defense and hp scale manipulatively with each other, or the lesser attack stat being almost entirely irrelevant.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="404">6:44</a> Oh, I'm sorry, TWO worms, in a candy apple

Because Gen 1 wasn’t initially planned to have PvP battles, Electrode’s whole thing was to be a troll. You encounter it? Prepare to get exploded on. Just like how Onix only really exists as a boss Pokemon for Brock. If you use either of them, you’ll see how useless they are outside of their intended roles.

VAULTIN' VELUZA! VELUZA ONLY HAS A BASE SPEED OF 70?! Wow. Just, wow. VAULTIN' VELUZA THAT SUCKS!

Mantine has 140 SpDef because it was the Special counterpart to Skarmory. (Note was because Mantine got stat changes over the years that no longer reflect this)

A lot of Pokémon of these base stats are outdated. They deserve a stat buff.

Idk, I sometimes finding myself struggling against Electrodes in casual playthroughs. So I feel like it’s doing something right. Have a Pokémon that mimics an item, make it difficult to escape that Pokemon, have it explode in your face. Boom. You’ve got a classic mimic enemy with a Pokemon spin, and it serves that role almost well. Increasing its attack would definitely help.

Don’t know what releasing at midnight does algorithmically. Anyhow, obvious disappointing stat spread is Ledian the tokusatsu hero with 4 arms to punch with, and has Iron Fist as a hidden ability, has an inexplicably high special defense and it’s lowest stat is Attack. Why do you have 4 arms and 35 attack but 110 special defense when you’re basically Kamen Rider.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="130">2:10</a> don't fuckle with shuckle 😭♥

It feels incredible having that well made of a video with bearly any mistakes HOWEVER, what in the world were you thinking calling barraskewda a useless pokemon ?! (Btw I'm so upset with froslass having no more room for it in OU just because deoxys speed exists]

Veluza DOES break the mold! Just look at its ability. It’s still bad tho

hypno,sneasal,magcargo,delcatty,alteria,seviper,keckleon,lopunny,carnivine,luminion-pre gen 5 of Pokémon that stats are just kind of weird spreads or not as good as they should be. there’s a ton of other pre-physical special split Pokémon that have basically even attacking stats that could definitely be reworked something like seviper as an example. Past five there’s a lot less bad cookies.

I think Honchkrow's stats are pretty disappointing. It gets SLOWER by evolving and can't even take a hit. Yeah, it is heavier than Murkrow, but that doesn't mean anything, geese and eagles for example are heavy birds yet are among the fastest. It should've at least been given 101 speed or kept Murkrow's 91 speed, the BST wouldn't even be that high compared to other cross gen evolutions, and it is really frail anyway, so taking it out wouldn't be an issue. Or if it HAS to be slower, at least make it bulkier, not as defensive as a wet napkin. And before someone says that the speed stat isn't top speed but rather reaction speed, Honchkrow is still a bird, and whoever has interacted with birds in real life knows how fast they react to stuff.

Veluza may not be good competitively but Sharpness with a full move set of night slash, psycho cut, slash and aqua cutter have served me well as my party leader (haven’t done any DLC yet lol) Plus it’s shiny gets green which is my favorite color so that bumps it even higher for me If there is gonna be a single Veluza fan in the world, it’s gonna be me

Honestly, one I’m very iffy about is Mega Pidgeot. Goes from a physical attacker to suddenly a special attacker. Sure, No Guard Hurricanes hurt a lot but from a design standpoint, I don’t really get it.

I had no idea Bastiodon had that low of an HP stat, that’s crazy! 😭 Fun video!! Pokemon I wish had better stats, honestly? Kricketune. I know it’s an early bug guy, and I don’t need it to be usable in competative or even Good at all. I just wanna use the funny fella in a casual playthrough. Everytime I try it just can’t keep up, it’s stats are just way too low all around. :(

I need to talk about how surprised I was when I noticed that Scolipede has less attack and bulk and overall BST than LEAVANY, the mantis pokemon that is super thin and is described as caring with other pokemon while Scolipede is shown as brutal and ferocious

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="419">6:59</a> so you're saying that it's physical defense should be 10 points lower than Seadra?

Glalie has no role?!? You've never heard of the Durant/Glalie/all-rounder team in the Sun and Moon battle tree single battle endless format??? Truant scarf jolly Durant entrainments turn 1, swap to moody Glailie turn 2, protect turn 3, substitute turn 4, stall until moody maxes all stats, and sweep. Sure every battle takes 45 minutes, but you want that 100 win streak right?

Electrode should get a Speed version of Body Press. That is all.

Kingdra is one of my all time favorites. This is my proposed redistributed stat spread. Bulky, hits hard with special, and out speeds most everything when in swift swim. HP: 100 Attack: 55 Defense: 95 Sp. Atk: 125 Sp. Def: 95 Speed: 70

Thank you for speaking out against the injustice the did to Veluza

This may sound extreme, but give Bastiodon an ability that acts as a passive wide guard. Makes him immune to earthquake and gives him a defensive roll in doubles. He's a living shield, so it does fit with his design

I would make electrode a glass canon with spacial attack so the move electro ball which dose more damage the faster the Pokémon, hit even harder and maybe change explosion into a spacial attack because you don't get punch by a bomb exploding .

The Royal nikoking stats need to be increased for all he is a king

Late night ShepskyDad upload is a vibe ☕️

Yup, most that have low HP have more than Shuckle's. Like many defensive ones have stats at or close to 50, like Dusknoir and Spiritomb, as though that's about the absolute minimum something defensive should have. Heck, even _Dugtrio_ has more than that (and I was never exactly aware of that until this video).

I'm the one who keeps putting the rocks in Glalie (I am forcibly removed from the snowball fight)

me running physical kingdra:

Most of the good Eletric types have more Physical attacks than Special attack.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="545">9:05</a> in defense of barraskewda it's actially a grat Pokémon in rain with life orb obviusly in rain teams or monotypes with rain, but yeah the another mons... Well wishcash have the same positon like porygon in the anime, it's something i Guess...

I’m waiting for mega electrode where it just turns into a great ball. Also I love you in the funny pokemon quizzes on DeliciousJames 😂

Veluza's lack of speed was so infuriating to me. It seemed so interesting and turned into a severely mediocre pokemon

Personally, I would like Electrode to have its special attack and attack swapped. This will make Electrode's Explosions a threat.

Electrode should also have Galvanize as an ability so it adds STAB to Explosion.

Glad to see my ball of electric fun getting some support. Boosting its physical attack a lot makes sense with its rolling aesthetic: Rollout and Gyro Ball (even though it doesn't jive with its speed). But its explosiveness adds to it as well. A little bump to its Sp. Attack would help its Electro Ball as well.

Purugly speed makes sense. It's a cat and cats got insane reflexes

Rampardos would greatly enjoy having its speed and hp stats swapped, so it has 58 base hp and 97 speed. That would actually make it incredibly dangerous, but I think its new extreme frailty would keep it from being broken, especially given its weakness to mach punch and aqua jet. Bastiodon could probably move 20 points from defense in to hp, which would help make metal burst a better option on it. Bastiodon is still probably screwed regardless of what we do to base stats though... x4 weaknesses to fighting and ground on a physical wall is just so devastating. I'd be happy with moving 20 physical attack to special attack for Froslass, giving it 100 special attack. It looks like a mage. Glalie, meanwhile, could take 20 special attack and put it in to its physical attack, give it +20 to both defenses, and make it ice/rock? Fix to electrode is clearly to give it +20 speed. I'm sure that would solve its issues.

Parasect, Shiinotic and wigglytuff If you thought they weren't done dirty enough already, just take a look at their abismelly low base stats i thought it was just the same base stats from their other counterparts, but no, other shroom mons like amoongus and breloom, and clefairy which is supposely the direct counterpart to wigglytuff have much higher stats so i really don't get why they made these quite late mons so bad at first and never bothered to fix them. i'm really praying they buff wigglytuff one day not just due to nostalgia for the best mistery dungeon game, but also because till this day it's the only normal/fairy (not counting azurill and mega audino for obvious reasons)

I think Electrode is so mediocre because it's a relic from Gen 1's crit mechanic where it's based on the Pokemon's speed. Gamefreak probably had a gimmick strategy in mind for Electrode, having a (relatively) high to deal insane damage but doing low damage if it fails

Shuckle evolution with 230 hp and a 720 base stat total.

To be fair Glalie got it's buff in form of a mega evo and I like the idea of it being a wall breaker. The only thing it needs is that refrigerate boosts its moves.

The thing I don't like about regional forms is that, they get the exact same stat distributions when they could experiment by rearranging their current stats to better suit their roles 😔

I liked the video. Please do another one

Vikavolt's speed is so disapointing. You see a some what fast electric bug type and it has 43 speed like come on dude

There's something strange about how pokemon manages mixed attackers. In a game where youre incentivized to min max, either attack or special attack becomes irrelavant. They really put a spotlight on this with Ursaluna, which just gets to move its stats entirely to be a mixed attacker.

Gen 1 and 2 mons and some gen 3 suffer from what I like to call "early gen stat spread" where they put points wherever because they used to be able to max all stats, so spreads were balanced with that in mind, and then the pattern continued into gen 3 because they didn't need to ask whether or not a mon having no good stats and a type its stats can't even use offensively before

Base stats arent always important. Shedinjia has like 3 total

Glalie's Mega kinda fixed it imo, and it was really nice having an Explosion that nothing was immune to. Just a shame Megas aren't a thing anymore.

I ate a chansey today, and its egg, tasted alright, egg 16/20, the Pokémon, 11/20.

Velusa is my least favorite Pokemon. I won't even spell it's name right I hate it so much.

With Glalie unironically being one of my favourite Pokemon it HURTS how bad its stat spread is, the Mega certainly helps although that comes with the issue of when it's gone they probably won't buff base Glalie so it's stuck being mediocre. At least if it's in Legends Z-A the Mega will be there so it'll get one game to be solid again.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="570">9:30</a> Honestly, Electrode is not that bad. Specifically with H-Electrode, going with max speed and special attack with a choice specs can do some good damage. Tack on a Tera fairy or ice, and with energy ball, thunderbolt, Tera blast, and volt switch it can do a lot for your team.

You said pokemon don't need to "break the mold" when talking abour Veluza. A pokemon with MOLD BREAKER. As it is right now, you're better off running Veluza as a bulky pokemon so it can actually live to Fillet Away and then start attacking.

Shields have had it rough! Zamazenta is constantly one-shoted as well

Surprised no Aslowla mons got mentioned. Wishiwashi and Vikavolt come to mind.

Now I need Purugly competitive videos. Theres got to be a way to make it usable.

Talonflame, you're telling me, this hawk of a pokemon, has 81 attack, and it's special attack is almost even at 74. This thing feels like it should be stronger physically, especially now that gale wings is nerfed

Kingra, just like Dragonite, should have been a pseudo legendary (600 BST) It means it should have 60 more BST to distribute. And seriously I'd just give it 10 base points to every stat. But if i were allowed to make it more fancy and not so "equal" i would instead give 15 points to attack and sp.attack and 30 to speed. People could think it doesn't need more speed because of swift swim doubling it anyway, but there are too many swift swim users with base 85 speed. Setting Kingra apart to make it faster then most swift swim users (having the same speed as Floatzel and only Barraskewda being faster swift swimmer) would be great, plus it could better utilize its other ability: Sniper, while not being slower then a charizard, so that it could use Focus Energy before being hit and then actually benefit from it on 2nd turn instead of being KO'ed before it could move. And i don't think it should be any tankier. Plus i also like that it can be both physical and special. Base 110 is respectable for attacking power, while 95 is slightly lacking. So there you go, the Kingrdra stats i wish we had: HP: 75 Attack: 110 Defense: 95 Sp.Attack: 110 Sp.Defense: 95 Speed: 115

Electrode's Hisuian variant does get chloroblast, which is meant to make up for not hitting hard.

Yay I will sub you said the funny shuckle qoute.

I have a guilty pleasure with Bastio, Metal sound, rest, sleeptalk and sand tomb has gottten a couple trainers to ff outta rage

Honestly Electrode did sometimes see use as a super fast Screens lead, since the 150 Speed meant unless you were using Prankster it was one of the fastest Screens Setter there was...until Regilekei stole that one niche from it by just having 200 Speed.

I recall a romhack that took 30 speed from Electrode and gave it to Special Attack and made a new ability for it that increased its speed 1 stage every time. it wasnt a game breaker but it certainly helped.

Theivul. Why is it a special attacker that learns nearly no special attack naturally? Like, it only learns Snarl naturally but it's base sp attack is 87, compared to it's regular attack at 58, it's not like it even learns that many status moves to take advantage of it's high sp Def, it gets Hone Claws, Tail Whip, Nasty Plot and Parting Shot. So like you could set up Nasty plots but you're a dark type mon with a wimpy defense stat. Honestly, I think Theivul would be a pretty decent mon if you just swap it's attack and Special Attack.

SCEPTILE!! here's why, It has decent stats but its movepool doesnt take advantage of its high special attack. There's no coverage to use its special attack while it gets a variety of attack moves. but its attack stat is subpar. It suffered from the physical-special split where grass was a special type in gen 3 but now in gen 4 damage was considered physical-special based on the moves rather than the types. I'm pretty sure there are other pokemon suffering from this 'syndrome'

I'd love to use that Veluza speed buff

Wait ur telling me a 7ft (not sure if its widespan) 500lb mantine with 140 sp defense doesn't make sense????

the Speed stat is SO misunderstood!! it's not about how fast they run/move, necessarily, but rather how quickly they can *attack*. I'm not just making it up; the evidence is clearly seen with any Pokemon who shoot missiles (Mega Sceptile, Dragapault) or are springy (Ambipom, Purrugly).

Vikavolt being 3 points slower than its grub form, as a fully grown flying bettle. Just why?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="481">8:01</a> i think it uses its signature move Fillet Away before it bumps into you at mach speed. since that move boosts its speed iirc

IMO make electrode a physical attacker and give it access to body slam and the ability galvanize. That'll make those explosions a threat.

“No shuckle” first Pokémon he talks about is shuckle “so that was a fuckin lie”

Made my day right after it started

The only thing I dislike about Electrode other than it's stats is it's move pool, it doesn't get bounce/any viable flying type move despite it's dex entry saying that sometimes it can get sent flying from a small gust of wind

As someone who's a Jack of all trades in life, it can work, but the problem is that you need to good at everything, not just decent. That's why the mythicals work when they have 100 in everything, and Glalie and Silvally don't work because they have 80 and 95 in everything.

not the best day to be an electrode enjoyer

The baraskewda disrespect will not be tolerated, its faster than most legendaries and has a pretty good attack stat for a glass canon, also its immune to follow me bullshit, really wish it had taunt tho so it would a good indeedee armoruge counter

For pokemon that have dissapointing stat distribution i'd like to call an Inteleon. Yes it's not ment to be tanky, but neither was Cinderace, yet Cinderace have better stat distribution so it at the very least it could take some neutral hits. Yes Inteleon got that 1 base speed adventage so that it could KO Cinderace but there's a reason why Rillaboom and Cinderace were very common back in sword and shield vgc days and Inteleon... not so much. Protean was very powerful back then, making Cinderace .... well, an ace! And Grassy Surge is amazing even to this day, due to Grassy Glide existance (A priority move that is NOT stopped when the terrain changes to Psychic Terrain, it just loses the priority but still goes off!). Both of these pokemon could just enter the field and do their thing. As for the Inteleon? It has Sniper ability... An ability that if you don't want to rely on luck, you'd need to set up for it to be useful first - with Focus Energy and Scope Lens or Razor Claw equipped (so can't even have a Focus Sash). This really overcomplicated things for inteleon. And base 80 power for Snipe Shot didn't help. Imagine if instead of having higher crit ratio this move would always crit just like Flower Trick of Meowscarada - yes Meowscarada was done right! Inteleon suffers from being in the game 1 gen too early when Game Freak was afraid to make it good. Sure it would be propably just a 1 trick pony but at least it could hit hard turn 1, in similar way Scarfed Urshifu can just click 1 button and win. And with the effect of ignoring the redirections (i.e. Rage Powder, Follow Me and Storm Drain) this could set Inteleon apart and make it a viable option to prevent Trick Room from going up when paired alongside redirectors! So really all they need to do is change Snipe Shot to always crit. But it still makes Inteleon stat distribution bad. They really wanted to make it use Fell Stinger for some reason, so they put a lot of investment into physical Attack. 85 attack is wasted and nobody uses that when you have 125 base power already in sp.attack AND you'd need Focus Energy set up first to utilize Sniper ability. Like... i don't know what they were trying to cook with this one, but they messed it up badly. Cinderace only waste 65 points in it's unusable sp.attack BUT i'd argue that it should have more because of Protean and moves like Mud Shot that it has access to for coverage and type change (it never really uses it because of that low sp.attack). But i digress. They should make Inteleon have less Attack and put them elsewhere. A simple change of transfering 20 Attack into HP would suffice imo, but i wish Inteleon was at the very least faster then Meowscarada (Yes Meowscarada can use Scarf U-turn set effectively anyway or a Sucker Punch but Scarf is not optimal for Inteleon, not without changes to Snipe Shot).

Bastiodon's modified stats are solid, but I think the 168 Defense and the 120 Sp.Def should be swapped. When you're 4x weak to two of the most common physical types aka ground and fighting then it's a lose-lose situation even if you have 200 Phy.Def because the HP will never catch on. Instead with a 168 Sp.Def Bastiodon could focus more on surviving its weakness to water and standing strong against fire. Don't think it'd be too broken in the current metagame.

Mawile, after gen 6, has fantastic typing, but Jack diddly crap for stats. It should’ve gotten an evolution instead of a mega evolution.

Feraligatr should have a higher stack stat than Cinderace and Swampert.

Inteleon missed that water gun on Gumshoos the other day IF YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW

> wants to turn electrode into a glass cannon Hey so theres this rom hack called vintage white (It's a rom hack of white that uses only gen 1-3 pokemon and their evos, but most mons are reworked in some way to make a very diverse pokedex. Electrode's changes were.... extreme to say the least, and made it the best pokemon in the entire game. It got: - secondary steel typing - lightningrod as a second ability - stats changed to 60 HP, 130 in both attacks, 50 in both defenses and 140 speed - access to tons of new coverage moves like flash cannon, bug buzz and energy ball - zap cannon got reworked into a 100% acc 140 bp move with recoil Couldnt help but remember this when you mentioned making electrode a glass cannon)

I need Veluza to just not exist. It's the worst

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="545">9:05</a> Barraskewda's awesome, and is a demon on Rain teams

this might not work how im thinking but i would love to see a similar video concept to this but with abilities or even type combos!!

I love how some pokemon, especially ones you meet mid game, get so lost in development that their flaw remains painfully obvious years later. Not every pokemon has to be a landorus, but like shieldon, you would think that natural selection would eventually come for these oversights. You know how many physical moves they give that mixed attacking Kingdra by level? Its just wave crash, at level 72, and only in this newest gen. One of my favorites is seeing hidden ability meditite. If evolving at level 37 wasnt bad enough, you can set this effectively gimmick pokemon up without its sole redeeming factor

I liked the dog

My main gripe is the Haterene line, like why mixed attacks? Shouldn't it be more physical attack then funnel the special attack into speed It comes off as designed because someone wanted their own take on Gardevoir

You should have mentioned the worst of the subpar spreads,the Slow Frail Mixed Attacker.

hmm actually 🤓👆mantine was supposed to be an special mirror to skarmory, which is physically oriented