So it’s the best strat ever.

@@WildChargeressentially

It's the Pokemon version of Git Gud and it's very effective. Like Shedinja

@@WildCharger More like a gatekeeper strategy.

Definitely a noob check strategy, if you didn’t bring priority/multi hit moves on your team before that, you will forever bring it on your team after playing against this strat Source: Got swept by a level 1 Aron and Cottonee in Gen 5

And priority

Obviously it's another weakness but I wouldn't say that, I think perma weather leaving and the abundance of hazards are the main reasons it doesn't really work

Loaded dice means multi-strike moves are actually viable now too, like Baxcalibur's icicle spear, breloom's bullet seed, cloyster doesn't even need loaded dice but still counts, etc. So multi-strike moves are more common and FEAR is harder to pull off because of it. Urshifu-Rapid invalidated the strategy alone, now it's even worse for them.

@@BlueAizu_ And _ability_ negating abilities!

​@@OmolonFluidDynamicsEnjoyer Breloom's Bullet Seed was viable since Gen 5 thanks to Technician, but now it's downright silly.

It's because everyone uses the other acronym for it due to not wanting to be demonatized by KZfaq for using a curse word in their video. Other people don't use it due to not liking swearing, which lead to the other version becoming the more popular and widely recognized name for this strategy

What are you….8 years old?

only 8yo minds like swearing

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That's why alola actually has rattatas because they deter ultra beasts.

I used a Zoroark lol. Ultra Necrozma’s AI isn’t able to handle it.

I mean it is a little! Aron just has a little HP to begin with so lol

Makes sense, he's just a little guy

Well yeah 12

12 is a little HP, so they are not wrong

I'd like but it's at 666 lol

Ground immunity gives it some extra potential to come in on a choiced ground move too

Taillow is pretty funny because it also gets U-Turn. Like, instead of going for the FEAR you just U-Turn out. Pretty funny when your opponent has a Skarmory and you have a Magnezone

A hell naw Terra is even here

Bro turned his taillow into a fearow

Dude My first online game in gen 5 was against 5 scrappy tailow and a smeargle passing leech seeds

just like prankster copycat roar riolu

Fear or a gimmic team of all the same Pokémon line. You gotta try/lose to one of them at least once. Otherwise, have you really played the game?

Wasn't the moveset for that lvl 5 Rattata comprised of Super Fang, Toxic and Substitute? But otherwise yes I believe you are correct!

"The Rattata That Roared". #18, if I remember correctly.

Can a level 5 really prevail over a level 100?

@@ShadowOfCicero its #17 but otherwise this is correct

Those Battle CDs were full of niche scenarios like that. I believe there was also one where you needed to beat a Medicham by forcing it to miss High Jump Kick with Protect and another where you had to find a way to deal with Explosion and Selfdestruct a lot, can't recall much about that one but I think it also involved using Protect.

Pretty much A more niche one is Scarf Excadrill

@@internetguy7319 People still switch Rotom into Scarf Excadrill to this day though because it's easy to forget what breaking the mold refers to lol. Also includes them thinking the opponent is foolish and leaving the Rotom in.

nah that would be toxic stall

Man, I feel old if gen 1 tactics isn't part of the oldest trick in the book.

Hahah nah FEAR can die from any indirect damage

Does it beat stealth rock?

@@alexbeauchamp8627 yup, since endure doesn't require you to be at full hp. But I also had other ways to handle it, such as magic guard Solosis or fake out Togedemaru, who only takes 1 damage from stealth rock and heals it with fake out + shell bell. Rapid spin Pineco is also vital to try and deny the hazards

What about hail/ sandstorm or even poison?

Awesome!

​@@Potato_tomato47 you beat it for free with stealth rock up. Any attacking move beats it with entry hazards

Hell, I'd say it's a good metric between good competitive players to accurately judge their team's general ability. If your carefully crafted anti-meta team can't deal with the rat, you overspecced.

@@lithoselsteinii6892aka if you don’t have rocks you overspecced

@@energeticgorilla Well, you also need a way to get the FEAR to hit the rocks, right? So either scaring it out or phasing.

@@lithoselsteinii6892 when they switch in? you never lead w fear. tons of teams run wisp rn regardless.

Still waiting on dark void to return to form after the nerf to smeargle.

Came here to post this, actually. FEARgle doesn't get enough respect

The first ever World Championships was won by a Smeargle team, that might have been the same set as well.

@@CyberKnightProbably dark void is not allowed to be good

Smeargle no longer able to learn nerf was a straight up malicious intent from Gamefreak after so many angry cries from competitive players.

Yea but it got Scrappy in Gen 5, and the sand strat with Aron seemed way better. In gens 4, killing a legendary with a Rattata looked funnier than with a Taillow

Yoo black archeops

@@Squirtle_Squad_Supremacy This is what people seem to forget these days: Rattata was the poster child for Garbagemons, Pokemon you box early in your playthrough because you have something better. Sure, it could become capable of more, and we know that now with more time for that to enter public view, but at the time, no Pokémon was quite as clear of an example of “crutch character”: the early Bugs were made deliberately weak, and so was Magikarp, but Rattata’s excuse was that it was “just a rat”, and it wasn’t even failed due to movepool, just to being low stats and kind of boring to a lot of people So for one of the most underwhelming, underpowered, _unremarkable_ Pokémon of all time to be at the new lowest level possible of ONE, and yet somehow beat a box legendary? It was the very embodiment of David vs Goliath. The Unloved one quickly gained a new reputation in the popular community, one of a scrappy defiance to insurmountable odds

whats the deal with Petilil?

@@leeto64 similar strat, don't remember as it's been 10+ years, leech seed, focus sash, absorb, substitute, and it just drains you slowly every turn, while ending up being unlikable

You might be thinking of cottonee we since it has prankster

@@obi-wankenobean594 I think both did the same strategy. Cottonee is just better at it.

I mean petilil is pretty scary in smash lol

It was less than a month after it came out in *Japan!*

Rotation battle?

​@@danielotano8677yep

Oh wow, I forgot that was a thing.

Rotation Battles were fun. I miss them.

Rotation battles had crazy potential. I used to sweep with Shuckle in this format. Simply use power trick with Shuckle, rotate to trick room setter, then rotate back to Shuckle and commence the slaughter

Nah, the densest is Cosmoem, who fits in your hand yet has a hilariously massive weight of a damn ton. Sleepy baby star is going to be hard to top.

Alot of gym guys can pick up 230lbs but it aint gonna be easy lmao especially with Aron being so small and awkward to hold

I love its adorable waddle when it gets hit by a move in Battle Revolution

1. Aron is adorable 2. Aggron is dope as hell looking 3. Hehe heh 69 likes lets goooooooo

@@ExeloMinish ah, right. Planetoid orb dethroned adorable steel dino.

Man, 30 Cents used to be small amounts for me back then. 10€ made me feel rich.

tbf if i had to guess a lot of those "TOXIC SALTY LEGENDARY SPAMMER GETS DESTROYED BY LITTLE CUP TEAM(WITH FACTS AND LOGIC)" videos are either staged or done on the lowest of the lowest rungs of the showdown ladder

There's an official video showing off FEAR? What's the title?

Whimsicott is a sick support Pokemon. Prankster Tailwind alone is unique enough for it to preform a very unique role for the team

Iirc correctly outside Heartholm he says "I've discovered the ultimate strategy, never get hit and always hit your attacks"

I discovered this strat by accident on my first playthrough of Pearl back in 2011 I felt like I had destroyed the game

Level 2 clefable you mean? Clefairy wasn't available at lv1

@@shawnli4746 Yeah probably lol. 5th gen was a while ago.

Funny enough I actually used a Ratata named Ratatouille when I used the FEAR strat back in the day, even if the Aron strat was deemed better

The epiphany of team checks: 1) counters Landorus in any way 2) Balanced typings 3) Has guaranteed anti-FEAR

@Austrian American Atheist that is the requirement, either you have Landorus or something that counters him.

@Austrian American Atheist it’s the meta, so there’s nothing you can do unfortunately

@Austrian American Atheist yeah… or at least banned or something

*gholdengo is typing*

@@matthewcass3773 "Hahaha why use Rapid Spin? We have Defog now haha get rekt entry hazards!" *Gholdengo stares motherfuckingly*

perish trap is still a viable strategy used somewhat commonly in vgc today

If your team is completely without ghost, ground, rock, and steel types, has no priority, nothing with leftovers, and no multi hit moves, you probably didn’t build a good team in the first place. You had to actively avoid making counters for FEAR to lose to it or, more likely, be dumb enough to lose your counter to it before it came in, in which case it wasn’t FEAR you lost to, it was yourself.

​@@Natibe_ You may be in some respect correct but I also think by the tone I'm getting that perhaps you should go outside.

I don't think you needed to account for FEAR when team building, it's just something that you end up countering by virtue of making a halfway viable team. Fake Out, leftovers, any multi hit move, changing the weather, status, etc all shut it down and were just an ordinary part of team building instead of something to be consciously aware of

@@AdaptiveReasoning I mean your original statement is just flat out wrong though. Not one of my teams was built with FEAR in mind and yet on the very rare occasions I run into it I beat it easily. Additionally, in serious play you don’t see it at all so even if you somehow had no way to beat it you would be fine. Natibe isn’t “in some aspect” correct, they’re completely correct and you’re trying to invalidate it with the “touch grass” argument as if it makes you right.

No. I was correct. They are also correct. You did have to think about FEAR when building a team, especially if you were new, it was possible to accidentally put the wrong six pokemon together and not realize it until you ran into the baby rock lizard, (especially in lower tiers). If you knew what you were doing (by nature of "getting good") you would probably have your bases covered. They are right in that respect. They (and y'all) just have a tone problem and need some perspective. What I said isn't that big a deal. We're in the KZfaq comments, we're strangers, this is about a video game and a meta that I did dabble in at the time it was current. And I do remember when I would put stuff together that I did think about it a wee bit. That is all. Go in peace, be at peace, this isn't something you get snippy about. Everything y'all said you could have said more politely and I wouldn't have said anything.

and it never was an real competitive strategy xd

false swipe is much better for that purpose

You were burning a focus sash to catch wild pokemon? I could see sturdy strats but why not just false swipe?

@@dengar96 in scarlet and violet you don't lose your focus sash after the battle

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At most of them yes! However there is another! SEAFT: Scrappy, Endovor, Focus Sash, Quick Attack, Tallow

@@frazzianimations9027 it's called SAFE

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