Well baked body is a good ability, it’s literally an immunity. Saying the science doesn’t back it up is a ridiculous statement when referencing this game 😂

"Fire type immunity bad, boost attack good" This is what I've gathered from this. Put aside the fact that you now have a Pokemon that can safely switch into a Fire Blast or an Overheat, but because the science doesn't add up, it's a bad ability

Surprised that Good as Gold and Purifying Salt didn't make the list. Good as Gold makes the Pokemon immune to all status moves, and Purifying Salt makes them immune to all status conditions AND gives a resistance to Ghost attacks

Well baked body is actually really useful, especially since dachsbun gets body press, so switching into an incoming fire move not only deals no damage, but also raises your defense, so your body press gets stronger. Tera fighting and it’s a pretty nice matchup. Wind power also activates with tailwind if i’m not mistaken, so kilowattrel can volt switch or tbolt pretty strongly after that, but i do recognize it’s really niche

My Dachsbun with Well-Baked Body saved my skin during my raid of Team Star's Fire base. To be honest, going into the raid I forgot it even had the ability, it was only until the battle with Mela's Starmobile started that I realized _she literally couldn't touch me._ All she could do was use Swift which barely did any damage and use Screech until she couldn't make my defense any lower while I spammed Bite over and over to whittle her down to zero. I guess being so used to going in ovens DOES have its perks!

Wandering Spirit isnt a copy of Mummy, Mummy just replaces the opponent's ability with Mummy, while Wandering Spirit exchanges the abilities of both pokemon, essentially being a Skill Swap

Well baked body: provides a fire immunity which is great for switch-ins. Given to a fairy type so that apparently makes it bad. Thermal Exchange: Does not change effectiveness of fire attacks (edit: but prevents burns), grants attack boost. Is on a Dragon/Ice type with sub-par def and sp. def, so it's apparently good. Both of these abilities are good, immunity is superior to no immunity.

I’ll send the well baked dog against a fire type when it’s immune to fire…and it doesn’t matter if most fire moves are special; I’m immune…

It is really cool that earth eater turns Orthworm’s weakness into a benefit. I was very caught off guard with my only super effective move for the titan healing it instead.

I think Purifying Salt is probably the best. Since it completely blocks statuses but also gives a resistance to ghost type moves. It's a double whammy and is one of the main reasons I loved having Garganacl on my team.

2:25 If any immunity is helpful, then well-baked body isn’t bad. It’s a viable switch in on fire attackers, especially physical mons. Edit: Plus it gets access to body press and can just invest heavily into special defence or run assault vest.

Well-Baked Body actually makes Dachsbun the perfect counter to Koraidon, because it usually uses Fire moves for coverage. Because of that ability Dachsbun is pretty good in Ubers. I think in general, any ability that gives an immunity is pretty useful

As some one who used a well baked Fidough and really enjoyed it, I have to disagree with well baked being on the worst side. Fidough losing a weakness and getting that immunity to fire types is helpful and Fidough actually gets quite a few non-fairy moves so hitting back with a non-fairy move isn’t hard. Plus the game mechanics is they will test the fire move on Fidough because of the weakness (and not knowing what the ability is until after it is activated) so you can actually block a lot of fire type moves thanks to this Good Dog.

Gonna defend Well Baked Body. While niche, it can be useful in doubles or switching into. Especially since Daschbun gets Baton Pass.

4:18 Sucker Punch, a Dark-type move that Farigiraf is weak to, is blocked by Armor Tail. It made the Ghost Gym much easier.

Just wait until the Charizard event goes live, you'll be changing your tune about Well Baked Body. Immunity to Dragon AND Fire type moves thanks to type and ability, Dachsbun will be the ultimate counter to this 7* behemoth. Situational, yes... But it just so happens that the exact situation it will benefit us in is about to drop.

The protean ability I belive was changed so it didn't interfere with the terastilisation mechanic.

I know that you don't play competitively but Well Baked Body allows that early route dog to be one of the best counters to Koraidon in the entire game

Now I'm not sure if it's any good for competitive play, but Seed Sower works really well with my Arboliva in my casual playthrough. It helps with the strategy of always healing back its hp (it has Leech Seed and Mega Drain, which I will replace with Giga Drain once I get the chance) and the Grassy field also turns Terrain Pulse into a 100 damage Grass type move.

the wind power one also works with tailwind, which can kinda be good for a really hard thunderbolt/volt switch.

Ok so, this is coming from competitive player and will not take into account how great abilities are in main game (they are so easy almost anything works tbh) but purely from pvp angle and I disagree with a lot on this list. First of all, Well baked body is not bad ability by any stretch of imagination. Having imunity is always good and saying "Oh its not good since fire resist fairy" is not really that relevant since first of all it has ways to deal with them (Stomping tantrum and body press, especially if it gets +2 defense) and second, its like saying "oh, water absorb is bad on mantine and flash fire is bad on Typhlosion since they both resist thsoe types". That doesnt matter since taking no damage is better than taking low damage plus you get benefit from that, and on top of that Well baked body makes you imune to will o wisp which is also nice. Slight nitpick on Protean, while its cetanly worse its not really all that bad it jsut pushes gren (or meowscarada) into choiced set, which is a nerf but not that big one. Wind rider while nice in theory falls short in practice as it mostly beneftis from being imune to hurricane which while nice is just too situational to be good, sure you can set tailwind but Brambleghast is jsut not worth runing just for that, especially with other mons that can setup way easier and are stronger. Now this maybe has potential for next gen if any better mon gets it, for now it is just meh at best. Armor Tail is similar, while not bad at all it's just slightly better quenly majesty or dazzling, it's fine but situational, it blocks first impresion and sucker punch which makes it better but it's nothing that special. It is better in VGC to block opposing fakeouts, but thats about it. Opportunist I would argue is straight up bad ability, sure it works vs AI and new players but experienced player will have that in mind and not mindlessly boost, what doesn't help taht pokemon which learns this ability also has speed boost, which is one of the best abilities in entire game and has abismal attacking stat meaning even if it copies pokemon that used swords dance it cannot use anything with it, and if that was not enough best setup pokemon right now are boosting with protosynthesis which cannot be copied anyway. In short its way way too situational and depends too much on your opponent actually providing you stats to copy. If you want to copy boosts just use Ditto instead. Also I am shocked you did not mention Good as Gold which is one of the best abilities ever released which makes goldhengo able to block all hazard removal, being imune to any status and even thigns like leech seed. Or puryfing salt which makes Gargabacl imunte to status, which is big for it since it wants to stack Iron defense and being unable to be toxiced is huge for that, on top of granting it free ghost resist Anyway, this is just my competitive view on those, but Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and this is jsut my personal take on them and respect your list.

I wish you showed a picture of the Pokémon that had these new abilities. It really would have let me put context as to why some of them do what they do or why they are named something

Well baked body could also, in theory, be put onto a clay themed pokemon. You bake clay afterall. Claydol can currently only have levitate so it could have it. And a ground type would make better use of it than a fairy type.

I personally like Sharpness, it works well with the movepools of the Pokemon that get it and powers up some pretty good but middling moves. Also I can’t say anything against Commander, I just love that little fish and its doubles gimmick.

Well Baked Body- use it with a Tera Type that is weak to it like Grass, Bug, Ice, and Steel Seed Sower- While yes it does heal the target hear me out. Using Giga Drain, Leech Seed, Your choice of either Hyper Voice or Substitiute, and Dazzling Gleam/Earth Power while using Leftovers. Arboliva becomes a tanky Special Defender, I used one the whole way through my playthrough and it worked wonders. And you get resistance to Ground moves.

Cud chew allows you to eat a berry twice without using a move, so using a sitrus berry on farigiraf which has a high hp is pretty usefull. Good as gold makes gholdengo immune to status moves of other pokemon, so less chance of getting status conditions and lowering stats. Purifying salt has immunity to status conditions and halves damage of ghost type attacks. Sharpness increase power of slicing moves, gallade learns psycho cut and sacred sword.

Earth eater seems good in doubles. Your garchomp uses earthquake and dose a large amount of damage to enemies while healing its earth eating ally

Another issue with Mycelium Might is that it doesn't cancel out the effect of abilities, just ignores them. Pokemon with insomnia and vital spirit will just wake up instantly the next turn because of their ability preventing sleep making that a wasted turn.

While not broken, Sharpness is an infinity better Ability for Gallade than Steadfast and Justified, since it doesn't have to rely on getting hit to activate. Run this thing with Sacred Sword and Psycho Cut for STAB, Night Slash and Aqua Cutter for coverage, and your choice in Choice Scarf for speed, Life Orb for even more damage, or Assault Vest for extra special bulk, and you got a pretty unique threat on your team.

Game Freak really saw the “better nerf Greninja” meme from Smash 4 and said “hold my beer.”

I think u underestimate the usefulness of immunities in competitive Pokémon. One rly important aspect of competitive is switching ur Pokémon around to take the least damage possible from incoming hits. For example, let’s say we start the battle and my Pokémon is 4x weak to ground, and the opponent sent out a ground type Pokémon. Well, this isn’t a problem if we have a flying type Pokémon on our team bcuz we can just switch to that instead and not take any damage. Fire is a very strong and common offensive type right now, and there aren’t any types naturally immune to it. Well-baked body is a pretty decent ability imo bcuz it gives Dachsbun the ability to consistently shut down fire type attackers and increase the number of hits it can sponge up in the process.

Seed Sower allows you to set up grassy terrain multiple times in one turn, on top of spam 150 base power stab terrain pulse. Gonna have to disagree on that one.

“Tell me you don’t play vgc without telling me you play vgc”

Seed sower is pretty great since it give arboliva a boost to all of its grass type attacks when it gets hit and its also a grass type which will always benefit from grassy terrain.

I don't think that greninja's nerfs are that bad. mewoscarada also has protean and she is a pretty poweful pokemon. as for battle bond...okay maybe that one isn't that good ,but who knows, maybe they will give it some move that will make up for it, greninja hasn't been released yet so we should be a bit patient. I think that the reason why they nerfed libero and protean was because greninja got banned in gen 6 and cindergrace got banned in gen 8.

I think the nerfs to Geninja are the most bizarre. Like, those two abilities are hidden abilities so it's unlikely to have them anyway. And you can't get Greninja in this game normally, you have to transfer. So why would anyone want to transfer their Greninja with a special ability to a game that's going to nerf it?

I love that Farigiraf gets immunity to priority moves, the amount of trainers that have tried to use Sucker Punch or First Impression (that would both normally be super effective) on my Farigiraf and just completely fail is hilarious

Opportunist is so funny to have in Falinks raids, they always end up using No Retreat and basically give your Espathra a guaranteed free omniboost

To be honest, when I saw the signature move of my Meowscarada (Yes, I went with the Weed Cat) I was really surprised how strong it is. And then, the same happened with Tinkaton. So... I am anticipating a Top 6 Best and Worst NEW moves video soon! And Thank you, for your work! Keep up!

Fun fact, the pokemon with the number 1 best and the number 5 worst abilities work well together, orthworm is only weak to fighting and fire, two types that dachsbun either resists normally or is immune to due to the ability

Opportunist is my favourite - makes Espathra very fun to use

5:25 I'm curious about your source on this? Nothing I've read about the change to Battle Bond mentioned the stat boosts having any kind of turn limit. That is they should last until Greninja faints or is switched out. As for Mycelium Might, it's presumably an effort to balance giving Spore to a pokemon with 100 Base Speed and overall better stats than other pokemon that learn Spore.

Protean is still good even after the nerf you can use choice scarf/band/specs for an offensive set or you can still use the same sets as before and Meowscarada, Cinderace, and Greninja all have U-turn so they can use stab u-turn and negate the nerf by switching out anyways and it’ll still activate next time you switch in

I really can't agree with Seed Sower. My Arboliva was able to effortlessly stall plenty of teams and protect my Skeledirge from earthquake with Seed Sower. With leech seed, giga drain, leftovers and grassy terrain I had a lot of fights where Arboliva ended up being full health by the end

Razor WInd and Ominous Wind would probably be included if they were implemented into the game.

Kinda surprised that Sharpness is not on here. A 50% buff on a group of really good move is crazy. Kleavor and H-Samurott will be able to actually do solid damage with their signature moves and Gallade legitimately gets the buff on its entire move set, including STAB Psycho Cut and Sacred Sword.

I actually really liked seed sower personally. The pokemon that has it is quite slow, and grass type so it was very common for mine to take the hit, set up grassy terrain for relatively free, and then fire back with a terrain boosted energy ball or giga drain to get health back

Something I learned about wind power, it's a really good move to use tailwind and electro ball. Not only are you boosting it from speed alone, you are doubling it too. It's not a great ability, but definitely can hurt or kill. Definitely if you use a focus sash. Fear me you rock types!

I had to box my looked forward to Smolive evo because of that ability. It kept healing the Pokémon I was trying to capture!

Libero also got the Protean treatment by the way. Kecleon is not in Scarlet and Violet so we don't have anything to go for with Color Change ability. But I feel like if it does return with the Terastal gimmick, it will be treated the same as Protean and Libero.

Well Baked is going to be crucial against the Dragon-Tera Charizard this weekend. You're forgetting the added dimensionality of Tera types because pokemon might have access to super effective moves for a type that doesn't factor into their defense.

Wind Power activates when tailwind starts. With the dynamic speed changes in battles now, the double speed and the increased attack power could be deadly. Although it is still quite niche.

Well Baked Body works pretty well when you have something on your side that can trigger it, like in doubles I’ve been running a Pokémon with Lava plume alongside Dachsbun, so you are guaranteed the defense boost, then you can hit hard with body press

I disagree with you regarding the well baked ability since ​Dachsbun gets body press by TM and it already has a good defense stat so the ability is really good for it

0:46 Okay, that was quite the throwback for me. Captain Planet was a part of my childhood

I know I'm late here, but the Mellow Mushroom reference in the pic is hilarious, especially given how few people will actually pick up on the mascot being from a limited pizza chain

Can you link/list the music you use in your videos?

I think well baked body is pretty solid. Being able to get a free switch alone on an incoming fire attack is HUGE. Not to mention it boosts the defense stat on a Pokémon that gets body press. You could use your logic to say that Flash Fire is also a bad ability, because you'd likely be boosting your fire moves against an enemy fire type.

Personally, I think Mycelium Might is the ideal way to do the whole "bad ability to balance an otherwise OP 'mon" thing. Because unlike Truant, Slow Start, or Defeatist, MM actually does provide Toedscruel with some benefits, being able to use Spore on Pokémon with Insomnia or Overcoat. Even so, it doesn't become an automatic win condition by using its high speed stat to instantly Spore because MM prevents it from doing specifically that.

Wind power is actually really good. In doubles I set up tailwind and this triggers wind power and gives you charge for you next electric move. Note that I can go protect afterwards if I want and than do a tbolt afterwards for double damage. I typically one shot virtually everything for neutral damage with wind power kilowattrel

Emperor Cubone: "An immunity, no matter how niche, is always helpful" Also Emperor Cubone: "#5 worst: well baked body"

An important note with mycelium might it only allows you to hit the Pokémon with a status move. So for example if something has insomnia it will wake up at the end of the turn anyway. I learned that the hard way because I used toedscruel

Ngl, well baked body came in handy when I was battling Mela (was pleasantly surprised because my Fido had recently evolved), but that will probably be the only time

Can thermal exchange be paired with the flame orb to force the activation?

I wonder if the protean nerf is there to balance adding terastalisation on top. I don't know how those two actually interact though because I hadn't thought about it until now.

a great gen 9 abilitiy is the "good as gold" thanks to this ability gholdengo becomes the ultimate hazard defender since it is immune to rapid spin mortal spin AND defog. the only way for the opponent to remove your hazards is by using maushold's signature move tidy up.

Windpower works with tailwind. You use tailwind and then next turn you go first with a boosted attack

I am going to hard defend Wind Power here. Considering the Pokémon it is being used on, Kilowattral, it is a v e r y good ability, especially in doubles with a peculiar tumbleweed. Considering both of their abilities can be activated with tailwind, not only will you get your speed raised, not only will you be giving your friendly weed that attack boost, NOT ONLY will your next electric attack be boosted, but a stab speed-boosted charged electroball off of an already fast bird can do h u g e damage. I have been using this doubles set along with other mons and it has been great, hope y’all find this as enjoyable as I have

I don't mind wind power. I use it on my kilowattle with tailwind and either electro ball or volt switch. It got me set up in many of my late game battles

I think im with everyone else when it comes to well baked body, it complements Dachsbun's strength's (mainly it's high defence) by letting it raise it's defence by 2 stages while also letting it be immune to fire, which is always nice. Being immune to a type of which most of it's moves are "special in nature" is also good for it since it's main strengths is it's physical defence. It also gets body press which suits it and it's ability well, together letting it hit hard and take hits on the physical side well. Dachsbun isnt necessarilly meant to be a hard hitting sweeping menace but instead more of a tanky pokemon, BUT it can become a hard hitter if it gets a boost to it's defences by soaking up a fire type move that one of it's allies would have taken, letting it use a powerful body press.

I think they made mycellium might so that toesdcruels speed wouldn’t let it abuse spore in competitive like it was with smeargle

With Protean being nerfed was Libero also nerfed ?

Honestly purifying salt is a phenomenal ability. I used a garganacl Mt entire first run of violet and it came in handy multiple times

I think Razor Wind and Ominous Wind I’m not included in the effect of the ability because they’re not in the game at all

Surprised you didn't mention Gholdango or Garganacl's abilities. Immunity to status and a random ghost resistance are so nice

With how early in the lifespan this game is at this point, this video kinda feels like a day 1 smash fighter review. It would have made more sense to wait about 3 or 6 months once we've seen the full potential of all abilities. That's just how I see it

I haven’t finished scarlet yet but the fact that paldean wooper gets water absorb is pretty great as a troll imo 😂

Summoning grassy terrain isn’t the worst considering it boosts your grass moves. In fact i say it could be decent in competitive when you can switch into a resisted attack

Feels like the Worst category were only on here because something needed to be. Baked Body is an objectively good ability, especially on a mon with Body Press. ‘Fairy doesn’t do good against Fire types’ yeah, now it’s immune to a type that would normally beat it, how’s that a bad thing? Plus Seed Sower has like, a minor drawback of healing the opponent, but healing yourself while also getting to unleash Terrain Pulse and boosted Grass moves more than makes up for it. And Protean isn’t even a new Ability, just an updated one that, sure, got nerfed, but the nerf doesn’t make it a bad ability, just a more balanced one

No, you want a #1 crap ability? Overcoat on Revavroom. Overcoat makes it so you’re not hurt by weather. Except they changed hail to snow which doesn’t hurt you anymore, and sandstorm wouldn’t hurt it anyway because it’s a steel type.

On my arboliva ( nickname oliv-card, the vegan vampire 👍😀👍) his grassy terrain help by giving his move a 1.3 + 1.5 stab boost. With leech seed and giga drain. Isn't heat exchange a worsen flash fire. Wind rider kind force me to use that tumberweed Pokemon for being so good

I don't know how Good as Gold didn't make this list.

One of Revavroom’s abilities is pretty bad tbh (though it’s not new) Overcoat gives it immunity to sandstorms… …on a steel type… It also gives immunity to spores and powders, but poison powder isn’t fixed by this since it’s a poison type… half of overcoat is made useless by it’s typing

Glad Greninja got nerfed It was heck a lot of overpowered and overrated

I love how a lot of the arguments for why certain abilities suck is due to the Pokémon’s typing in game. It’s not like there’s a way to change it to possibly even bait out these moves

I'm surprised Good As Gold didn't get a mention.

Have the ability Opportunist and then use swagger/flatter so you get the 2 stage attack bump without the confusion

So if a Pokemon you are fighting burrows under ground and you switch to Orthworm you could get health when it finishes Dig?

I think the well baked body is pretty good I was thinking of the skill swap moves that could work like scizor or something that’s actually weak to fire maybe they should’ve gave that pokemon a fire weakness

Wind Power is exclusive to a flying/electric type special attacker. An easy way to make it at least a little better would be to have it activate with the pokemon's own wind-based attacks. The way it is now it's just a worse version of electromorphosis with one niche in tail wind.

One of my favorites is Eartheater

Well lingering aroma is quite nice to put on an enemy by using a physical move. Then switch in Slaking who has truant , hit that same enemy who now has lingering aroma with a physical move. Now you have a slaking without truant that you can easily do without it having to be a double battle or a bunch of set up. It is like a short cut.

Let's not forget that the pokrmon with toxic debris can learn spikes and stealth rock as well.

It is funny seeing well baked body being a worst when it was used to sweep two 7 star raid pokemon

* boosting attack stat by 5-10 wind moves * “good!” * boosting defense by every fire move * “bad!” * boosting attack while still getting hit by fire moves * “good!” * full immunity by fire moves while also raising defense by two stages * “bad!”

I think baked body raising defense is because bread gets harder when it toasts, and then more so when it burns

Just gonna put this out there, but burned bread can actually be great at not burning any more. Its like the ablative shielding on a space shuttle, as it burns it becomes more resistant to heat. Science is fun

The charizard raid proves well baked buns is good lmao

I’ve watched your videos for a while. I’ve always liked your unique approach to stuff - I remember early on you were like “I do top 6 lists because Pokémon parties have 6 Pokémon why all these people be doing top 5 and top 10” lol. But so many of your lists like this seem to be.... poor? I can’t remember any previous ones off the top of my head, but just going off this one; - the way you word it sounds like Protean only works once per battle, when it’s once per switch in. It’s certainly nowhere near as good as it was previously, but it’s still pretty clutch. - seed sower, no it’s not “at best a draw”, if you have levitate or part flying type, you’re not affected by terrain, so you’re not always helping your opponent by its activation. Plus the Pokémon that gets it is pretty tanky defence with (78 HP, 109 Sp. and 90 Def.), has a respectable Sp. Attack stat (125) AND access to strength sap? It’s not OP by any means, but it’s definitely not a bottom 3 ability - well baked body. People have mentioned this already - body press. - lingering Armor is the “worst” with part of its reasoning being it’s a rip off of Mummy and Wandering Spirit, but Armor Tail is fifth “best” even tho it’s basically a rip off of Dazzling and Queenly Majesty? I don’t see the logic here. Plus seeing how abilities can basically make or break a Pokémon, I don’t see how having an ability that can actually remove that ability can be considered the worst? Baxcallibur with its 145 attack and thermal exchange ability to prevent burns? Yeah, you make physical contact with that pig and you’re now opening yourself up to getting burned and halving that attack stat... and that’s just ONE example. The irony here is, the ability you listed as the “worst” literally has the ability to nullify every single ability you put as the “best” - not sure if you’re avoiding spoilers (which you might be since you only showed Pokémon that were officially revealed, but you’ve done a lost explaining the name origins of every Gen 9 Pokémon? So idk?.), but including the Pokémon who have the ability would certainly help I know this is your list and your opinion, but this isn’t the first list I’ve seen of yours that contradict s itself. There are so many other abilities that I’d say are worth of being on this list; good as gold and purifying salt are worth of being top 6, much more than earth eater IMO. Anyway, enjoy my constructive algorithm boosting comment ✌🏼 God bless take care mr. Cubone

I feel like a lot of people are disagreeing with the Well Baked Body placement and you seem to be taking it personally or nitpicking those comments? Idk a lot of your replies just seem rude to me