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“Zapdos, Magneton, I do this for you… and yes, even you, Celebi.”

In an alternate universe: "How GOOD was killing yourself actually?"

"GENGAR IS DEAD! FINALLY I CAN KILL MYSELF!" -Metagross probably

"Kaboom?" "Yes, Gengar. Kaboom."

The weird thing about pre-nerf Explosion/Self-Destruct is that the games themselves never tells you about the defense halving mechanic. Now obviously, the mechanic exists because moves are coded in 8-bit, thus base power of move cannot be above 255, but I always find it strange that this mechanic is completely hidden from the player. I never knew about the defense halving mechanic until I got into competitive Pokémon 7 years ago.

The funny thing about Swampert getting Damp in Gen 5 is it was one gen too late. Imagine it being able to stop Explosion in Gen 4.

Explosion was the funniest move when you switch in your ghost type on prediction against the opponent's explosion. Just felt satisfying

If Game Freak thinks it's okay to have moves that can scale up to over 200 BP with no negative effects on the user (like Rage Fist and Last Respects) then they should bring back SD/Explosion halving the target's defense

*Fun fact:* Self-Destruct and Explosion originally halved Defense because it was intended to be double its actual power, but a move's base power couldn't be higher than 255.

Shoutout to that one guy (forgot his name) from Pokemon Colosseum with that full Explosion team

Surprised you didn't talk about how team preview would be a huge buff for explosion. In older generations, whenever you used explosion early you always risked the possibility of needing that pokemon for an enemy that hasn't been revealed yet. With team preview, this dynamic goes away making explosion less risky as it's much easier to tell if you'll need a pokemon later in the game

Houdini is called that because the person who first used it always led a Metagross nicknamed Houdini. It was also used as Skarmory bait.

snorlax doesn't physically explode, he engages in self-destructive behavior

SD & Explosion really are those two moves that just about give you a heart attack 9 out of every 10 times you see the other Pokémon use them. It becomes 10 out 10 if you’re doing a Nuzlocke.

"Gengar, no!" "Gengar, YEEEEEEESSS!"

GameFreak: Boom is too good we have to nerf it!!! Also GameFreak: ***makes rage fist and last respects****

I feel like explosion should be rebuffed along with hyper beam. Power creep has made their original forms less overkill and its a good risk/reward play

Alolan Golem with pre nerf Explosion

Farewell Clefable, Exeggutor and yes even you, Tarous… *Gengar used Explosion* *Gengar fainted*

Can't believe that he was so broken that they nerfed codel (the explosion guy in colosseum)

Using Explosion and self-destruct are equivalent to to Android 16's Explosion and Vegeta's Final Atonement

No mention of Mega Galie or Aloan Golem with their Refrigerate/Galvanize Explosion, Mega Glalie already ran Explosion as a move. So an un-nerfed (gen 6) Refrigerate Explosion would be even more of a nuke than it already is.

The thumbnail goes insanely hard with that Majin Vegeta and Buu reference, props to the artist

When you think about it they were pretty crazy moves in the first few gens. A 400/500 bp nuke with a 100% to flinch, given that it lands, and gives you momentum.

We can only imagine the horrors of Z-Explosion!

0:11 Funny boom man go brrrrrr

In the VGC ladder of SV I saw often various people testing with tera normal Explosion shenanigans. One that I remember fondly from Regulation D was Choice Band Tera Normal Self-Destruct Overqwil as part of a rain team, because even outside this powerful (and fast) boom with rain it was also a decent threat. For an additional mean bonus the team also had Chien-Pao, that could easily Protect or use Tera Ghost (instead of tera on Overqwil) and stay safe while giving a smaller version of the pre-nerf boom thanks to Sword of Ruin.

That thumbnail is literally a Majin Vegeta remix

I personally treat self-destruct and explosion in playthrough's as a sort of "last resort", like if you know the mon who have out who knows one of those moves is going down soon, you might as well go for a kamikaze for some big damage

a cool addition could be type boom moves with additional effects, less power, but also do something interesting (preferably not obvious). - cloud seed - steel move that sets the rain condition. - vacum zone - electric move to set up winds. - fairy dust - fairy move, the next pokemon to enter the field get healed. - rock frack - water move to set up sand.

There's also the ability Damp later on to prevent Explosion or SD completely

Blissey: “You look tasty! I make you chocolate!” Gengar: “You are a fool- I’m going to crush you, and throw you into the wind!” “…I do this for you, Agility Empoleon…”

I still don't know why Snorlax can learn how to explode.

I wish they never nerfed it. Explosion did and still does have a lot of counterplay.

I just realized that the thumbnail for this video is a parody of Vegeta self-destructing against Majin Buu but Gengar against Blissey lol

I feel that some attacks now are so stupidly strong (think Rage Fist or Fishious Rend) that the cost of losing a pokemon for not that much more power wouldn't necessarily be worth it. Obviously that depends on distribution, but in a vacuumm...

The blissey in the thumbnail has two tongues. W H Y ?!

I'm surprised you didn't really talk about boom teams. They may have been a gimmick, but my childhood self watching in horror as the opponent blew up each of their Pokemon would have appreciated it

Imagine a timeline with Tera-Electric Galavanize Alolan Golem with pre-nerf Explosion. I don’t care if it’s not that efficient, just imagine that

12:11 Kellen saying "hell" jumpscared me

I think these moves should be buffed back a bit, but not necessarily power-wise. -Both use user's higher attacking stat -Buff Explosion's power to 300, power creep is steadily approaching 200 power with much less self-destructive moves -Make Self-Destruct a single-target move that bypasses screens, etc., partially bypasses Protect (like Z/Max moves), and flinches the opponent (replicating early gen behaviour), to differentiate it from Explosion with extra utility. The lore explaination would be that Explosion is just you exploding right there and then, while SD makes you get up close and then KAPOW.

We also have to consider Mega Glalie and Alolan Golem Not only do their explosions gain STAB, becoming Ice and Electric respectively, but also get a boost from the ability, so Mega Glalie would have a 650 BP Explosion in Gen 6, while just being 600 BP in Gen 7 and beyond, and this alone would make Mega Glalie and Alolan Golem more viable because of the sheer power their explosions have.

Last hurrah for Explosion to me was on Mega Glalie in OR/AS. The sheer power of it was fun to play with, opening holes in the opponents' team and potentially gaining a lot of value if Glalie was already weakened and snagged a full health opponent, helping this was refrigerate not only bumping up the power and potentially super effectively hit things with it, but also just removing the chance of ghost types switching in! Probably not as powerful as the old double-power booms of times past, but still very nice that protect or ice resistant physical walls only being able to slightly slow it. It was unfortunate that Alomomola was in the same tier as Glalie when I used it, but leaving it at ~60% while giving a switch-in to another mon at least put some pressure on the opposing team to recover from this worst case scenario for Glalie's boom.

No one talking about that sick Majin Vegeta reference in the thumb nail?!

YOU REFERENCED SCYKOH! What a legend!

in pokemon xd gale of darkness electrode was actually a great pokemon for the orre collosseum (the brutally hard post game tournament which was basically the closest you can get to single player competitive, that thing required you to plan ahead and do EV training). electrode was great thanks to its speed and access to explosion. it made a good combo with dusklops and forretress. I had to use it with forretress in order to beat eldess despite the fact that he had pokemon that could handle explosions. dusclops wasn't just immune to the explosion, it could even boost its power with the pseudo-stab known as helping hand.

We have a move that can scale up to 300 BP with no secondary effect in Last Respects. I think we can bring back Explosion and SD’s Defense halving secondary effect with it’s original RBY BP. Maybe we could even do something similar for Misty Explosion, except with Special Defense.

Kaboom? Yes Ricco Kaboom. *Explosion*

Blissey looking like Majin Buu in the thumbnail. 😂

Video starts 2:41

I love rocking a team I called "4 Boom" in Gen III, which was just four mons with Explosion/Self Destruct, with CM Suicune as a win-con and Magneton to trap steels.

No mention of Aftermath Drifblim? and i had such a great joke too "Hooray to the Mesosphere!" "Finally we can die"

Hell yeah to the Apollo justice music at the beginning

I remember how as a wee lad I used to struggle against the Team Rocket Grunt that goes Boom in the Gym Leader Castle in Stadium 2.

Majin Vegeta reference. Nice👌🏾

A video on all the different terms you hear in Competitive Pokemon would be cool - like checks, balance, counters, etc.

Gen 2 Explosion specifically honestly might be one of the strongest, meta-warping moves in Pokémon history. Special offense was at an all-time low in Gen 2 thanks to the Special stat split and a near complete lack of special boosting options (only Sp. Atk boosting move is Growth, and no useful held items existed yet) among other things. Thanks to “Boom”, special attackers can afford to have any sense of utility at all in such a bulky generation dominated by RestTalk and powerful special walls. But without “Boom Offense”, the game would become even more physically biased than it already was.

Bro galvanized explosion (or self destruct. IDK which one alola golem gets) would prolly be one of the strongest electric type moves ever if there was no boom nerf. Especially in electric terrain.

That Apollo Justice soundtrack though.

Electrode: Gengar no! Gengar: GENGAR *YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS*

One of my favorite things to do in gen 7 was Z Explosion lead Azelf. Stealth Rock, Z Explosion (sacrifice 50 BP to still live after), Normal Explosion sets hazards and does huge chunks

I used to play a gen4OU boom team with regirock, metagross, azelf, heatran, and gyarados + lucario to have the remains. It was super fun forcing a 2v2 on players getting caught by surprise.

It would be pretty cool if SD and Explosion were guaranteed crits, so that they'd break through Defence boosted mons and get just that little boost. And then maybe a held item that boosts the damage of crits, so that a dedicated Exploder could regain the former glory of the Half-Defence feature (1.5 crit x 1.333 crit item = 2x total).

I see you with that Apollo Justice music, FSG!!! Great choice 😎

I love the reoccurring theme of Dragon Ball references in these thumbnails, keep it up!

"I'm going to blow you into so many pieces you won't be able to regenerate!" "Goodbye Swampert, Skarmory… And yes, even you Tyranitar" "Gengar no!" "GEENGARRR YEEEEEEEEEESS!"

You know what I wish would return? having it so there's no 'recharge' period if you K O with Hyperbeam.

Man I loved Boom in the earlier gens, and after Jim Cool brought back the Gen 3 Renaissance it really reminded me how much it added to so much dimension to a lot of different mons play. It kind of changed the nature of how you even had to use a defensive poke. I can just imagine how much gen 8 could have been improved by Boom returning to it's old glory.

My annoyance with azelf back in the day is exactly why I made it a habit to run double ghosts in singles for some time. Spiritomb was especially nice for me considering it didn't add any weakness to my team and had nice ways to support.

Theorizing about how certain dropped mechanics would work in later gens is a great idea, the expanded topics in general have been fun to watch

I used to think Gen 4 adding a, "But there was no target..." message after a Pokémon faints early was kind of pointless, but I didn't even consider (or at least forgot about) the surviving Pokémon still being able to use a move to heal or power itself up!

I had a Showdown match on random doubles and one of my members consisted of a Foretress, I was at a disadvantage due to a Shiftry annoying my team, I tapped explosion and wiped both of the Opposing pokemon and cleaned up with my last Pokemon

Halving defense is intentional in Gen I as Stadium would display their base power as twice the amount. But as they re-adjusted their powers in Gen 2, they seem to forgot to remove the halving of defense in boom moves until Gen 5.

In Pokémon sv I’ve been using shell smash minior with explosion paired with Alolan ninetails polosand and wugtrio. I lead with ninetails and minior shell smash and Aurora viel turn 1. Turn 2 I switch Alolan ninetails out for polosand and click explosion on the minior so polosands ghost typing prevents it being hurt while I do huge damage to the oponet then I get a free pivot into wugtrio. Turn 3 I tripple dive into the polosand triggering weakness policy and water compaction 3 times granting polosand a +6 defence and +2 attack and special attack and during the same turn I can use shore up or amnesia healing polosand or giving it a +2 special defense ontop of the other stat boosts.

I thought for sure you'd mention Alolan Golem in gen 7 with the Galvanize ability.

I loved when was I able to predict and put up a protect. 😊

full powered explosion would be a legitimate meta in VGC and would 100% add another layer of meta-antimeta strategies. you'd also get tinted lens and scrappy explosion setups, there'd be some pokemon who'd actually run damp as an ability, and instead of just tera normal ekiller sets you'd also see tera normal boom sets, especially in vgc. not to mention, way more mons would run sash/sturdy just to live the boom and get off one turn of whatever they'd want to do. ghost types as explosion blanks would be also much more common, but what would be REALLY interesting would be aerilate/pixilate booms as well

Honestly a cute buff four (misty) explosion and self destruct could be clearing all field conditions. It’d be nice utility though would mean it’s less useful on leads

Explosion, the move that goes boom mostly on chansey & blissey in this video

I feel like one idea you overlooked would be Galvanize Alolan Golem with Explosion. Halving defense, different pool of resists and different immunity, but also being SE vs Water and Flying, if A Golem had the full power Explosion had before it may have been a genuine menace.

Man, full boom teams are just so much fun. Surprised there wasn't any mention of Mega Glalie or Alolan Golem. With their type changing abilities they could make for some very potent cornerstones for full explosion teams. Another Pokemon that I could see jumping up a ton from old Explosion is Silvally. A support Pokemon that can be any type is a huge boon for teambuilding and Parting Shot is great for keeping up momentum. Not sure if this would keep me in the game after the King's Rock ban, but even if you can't overcome Ghosts with Explosion alone, you can find Dark types like Alolan Muk to do the job as well

That thumbnail really referenced majin vegeta’s explosion on majin buu scene

Before I learned about this sneaky mechanic, I always wondered how the hell a base 30 physical attack Voltorb kept one-shotting fully evolved Rock and Steel types with Explosion in Werster's Pokemon Stadium 2 speedruns.

Would to see a similar video with gen one hyper beam

Boom has the interesting effect of being about the only way to win a 4v4 doubles match in 1 turn. In gen iii, switches happen immediately. So if you explode and faint both opponents, then explode again and faint the second two opponents before the end of the first turn.

ace attorney music in a false swipe video is such a MASSIVE vibe holy

On a side note, I like how you sometimes use damage calcs and put them side by side to prove your point.

One of my favourite (?) vgc games was when my opponent led Silvally and another pokemon I forget what. I had no idea what they were planning. Turns out it was helping hand normal gem explosion lead. It caught me totally off guard. Unexpected moves can be a huge edge in competitive pokemon......the problem is that when I said I had no idea what they were planning I decided to double protect turn 1 to get an idea what was happening...and now I was up 4-2. Fun game though

Would anyone be familiar with the song at 12:43? I checked the list of songs in the description, but (at least, at the time I write this), I don't think any of the listed songs are what I'm hearing here?

I will always remember Stadium, the rental Haunter came in clutch with Explosion

I still love using aerialate Landorous in AAA with explosion - I really hope we get explosion back on multiple pokemon

See the ghost die: Finally, I can sudoku!

Love The vegita reference in The thumnail

Compared to Last Respects, Rage Fist, Blood Moon, etc (pre-nerf) Explosion seems quite fair now... :P

Love the majin vegeta reference in the thumbnail

Dang, not even going to mention the monstrous damage of galvanize Alolan Golem

I think it would be neat if they gave the Voltorb line a new ability that basically turned their Booms into the pre-Gen5 version. Blowing up is their whole identity, so it would be cool to both let them do it better than everyone else and also just experience old Boom again, even if its attached to Electrode

Dragalge, magcargo, drifblim or rotom and all of his forms! 💪💪💪

Petition to game freak to when we use explosion the game say: WHATAFU BOOOOOOOOM