FSG reference, my man

LOOOOL

@@beeorsomething2230 Nah, it's a reference to a Smogon player. The FSG would be "It's like running a choice band and a Choice scarf on the same set" or something like that.

@@N12015 The "Choice Band and Choice Scarf" actually came from ANOTHER comment referencing Genesect's Download + Scarf Set. Oh and Genesect has STAB U-Turn for more comedic factor.

bro this sounds like some shit blunder would say, agency agency

Let's give a 170 base attack Pokémon a built in Howl! Im sure it'll go well!

@@sheillasyahputri472 but giving a refrigerate pokemon extreme speed is too much

@@sheillasyahputri472 zacian crown is uber with great typing but zacian has quagsire as his natural wall but galar dama is no natural wall worthy of him.

@@jettlucashayes8508 sorry we're talking about bh?

@@jettlucashayes8508 What Pokémon got both Refrigerate and Extreme Speed?

it'd be cool if they made a regional variant of slaking line that was choice locked instead of getting truant.

And then no one would use Galarian Daramanitan ever again unless Slaking does not get a pivot move.

​@@iantaakalla8180 I was suggesting a downside only ability, not that it functionally gets gorilla tactics. galarian darm effectively has at least 180 base attack plus more, already easily outclassing slaking's 160 in terms of raw power.

@@KLIXORthe but it has paper thin defense with being choice locked whereas slaking has high defense also

@@Tojikuna if you slapped on it a choice scarf it outspeed a good amount of pokemon while still have dizzying power. So why would you care about that anymore ?

It's far from being a better ability ._. It's way worse. Sheer force is a ×2 with no drawback while Gorilla tactics is a ×1.5 with the drawback of not being able to change move. Yes, if you put a choice band on top of Gorilla tactics then the ×1.5 becomes a ×2.25 but if you put a choice band on top of Sheer Force the ×2 becomes a ×3 so it's still strictly better. What makes Damaritan G busted is Gorilla tactics on top of his base 140 in attack that is already crazy high.

@@nijimazero Sheer force is not 2x. It's 1.3x. Gorilla tactics is much stronger and also keeps additional effects like icicle crash flinching.

@@nijimazero Sheer force only works with certain moves. Gorilla tactics works with all moves.

@@nijimazero what crack u smoking

@@nijimazero yo, I want some of that sheer force you're smoking

Wow that is nice

Wow that is ice

It was a very chilling experience for your friends

Alolan Ninetales? Based. 2nd favorite Ice Type behind Glaceon. Frosmoth probably takes 3rd.

@@mintymango3717 mamoswine reins supreme

And trade Pkm get much more exp than your own pkm, so It would be also always on level or over it. It happened to me with a Honedge

@@lyg483 technically they do, but it was an egg trade, so it didn't get the EXP boost when it hatched. Though it did get the EXP boost from the camp

Now I can only imagine Leon wanting darmanitan banned from the main story

@@TNTmasta07 I gave mine the elemental punches (Fire and Ice) with Super Power and U-Turn, turns out those moves turn Leon into mush

@@TNTmasta07 lmao

Oh, yeah. And dynamax.

Balance, in this case, is just an excuse people give when they can’t give you 600 Pokémon that further power creep everywhere except Ubers.

Uhh actually it was balance reasons. I think what happened is the overly strong things they introduced were decided on after they concluded on doing dexit. Like. Do you really think Arceus would make the meta more balanced? It's certainly not balanced NOW but if all 894 species were present it would be worse

@@SnoFitzroy The actual reason for dexit is to force people to pay the monthly fee of pokehome to host their old pokemons in the cloud

@@SnoFitzroy considering arceus has medicre offensive but great defensive capabilities yes it would, but honestly they just couldn't finish the game, that's all.

Needless to say, you're nothing to him but just another target.

Dare I ask how?

@@sagacious03 it was a niche check that could switch in on certain ice stab if I remember correctly. More of a meme pick bit still usable.

@@finnshelton3815 yeah, g darm is faster without scarf and learns eq, flareon is barely enough

Yeah, Flareon was used to counter Clefable in early SwSh, not Darm-G

Belly drum access is irrelevant to guerilla tactics

@@p0oka261 Not in Ubers it ain't

@@Chimera-man-man how so

This made me lol so hard because it could actually be true XD

@@dorkmork7349 I think they're trying to talk about Zen Mode Galar darm, since belly drumming to half health does all the things they mentioned with that ability.

"hmmm i wonder what this hitmonchan could possibly do. support maybe?" _one turn later_ "oh."

One i think is that if you are neutral to ice types CB Darmantian's icicle crash basiclly counts as super effective on you

@havier bardem three reasons: 1. Opponents don't switch out because they know they outspeed and one shot with icicle crash. They know that my mon in return doesn't KO with MP unless it runs this exact set. 2. I honestly wanted something for Ferrothorn. I had fire punch and rapid spin (although close combat is still stronger, I just preferred not to get any stat drops after hitting it). It was my only hazard remover so it did something outside beating Galarm 3. Lmao Hitmonchan in OU

Lead zen darm that is 😁

It's also important to note showdown dynamax gave you choice item boosts while in dynamax at the time, meaning you could also be banded and get both boosts

Uh... No? Dmax was banned around the 16th of December while DarmG was banned odn the 29th of December.

@@HowlingOneify the bans happened close enough together where most people were familiar with darm within the dynamax meta game.

@@HowlingOneify Wow! They gave Darm 13 days!? That’s such a long time to let a meta develop!

@@Dragonstorm1234 this is not true, your were effectively itemless during dynamax with a choiced item

When you really think about it Gorilla Tactics is a worse version of Pure/Huge Power and even Hustle if you don't get unlucky. Nothing that has these abilities is even close to being overwhelming in OU so there's no reason to ban these abilities and as such no reason to ban Gorilla Tactics. Darmanitan-G might not be too strong without Gorilla Tactics and I'd be lying if I said that I'm not curious about how Zen Mode would perform but the argument for banning Gorilla Tactics isn't there.

Then why not just ban specifically the Darm + GT combo 🤨

It seemed to work just fine when (Speed Boost + Blaziken) were banned to ubers. You don't have to blanket ban an ability.

I guess, but banning a pokemon + ability combo has been fairly standard for some time, it's not exactly a complex ban and would let people get to see what fire ice zen mode would be like

@@Matt_Silverwolf to complex and its just easier ot ban the pokemon itself since what if zen mode is broken then u have to go back again to prevent it... and people can make shit up as to why a pokemon can be ou. Such as deoxys-a should be ou if you remove psycho boost and superpower from it or cinderace can be ou if it cannot use heavy-duty boots, etc etc

Sad Zacian noises

Never expect any semblance of balance with Pokémon.

Idk I think people dont realize that having one single mon over centralize and become neccessary to run offensive teams is Unhealthy to both stall and Offensive teams they just see one archetype and assume favoritism

RT about uturn bro, that move is so ridiculous Definitely pushed darm over the edge - there are so many mons where you can give them u-turn and change them from unviable to ridiculous threats

GDarm's actual true counter is Alomomola, but not only is it the only one, it also doesn't exist lol

Editors note: If pronounced "Oh koh" it lines up with the song.

Galar-Darm is coming to town

He can U-Turn, when he needs to And stretch his arms out to do a move Inflated stats just like a baboon This crazy yeti just digs this tune! Huh!

Meh

Well, I wouldn't say "werent so good" as much as I would say "if they didn't exist". As long as there's an alternate set that is meta viable, sub salac drum zen mode would be a viable alternate set preying on the usual counterplay.

If they did keep zen mode darm while banning Gorrila Tactics, zen mode darm will easily be expected, and it won't have the opportunity to set up as much, not to mention after the dynamax ban hazards have been more popular making it more harder for galarian darm to set up and let alone having to deal with dragapults speed tier since dragapult is always in top 10 usage. So no, it won't be too OP

Zen Darm was infinite broken when dynamax was allowed. Force a switch, BDrum on the switch to activate Zen Mode and then sweep.

@@warcriminalyes to be fair dynamax just isnt competitive friendly its fun the game to fight gyms but very dumb in pvp

Zen Mode would make for an interesting suspect, its definitely not as braindead broken as Tactics and if Darm runs Salac 2 Attacks it doesnt have the power to force switches and get a sub and it also has moveslot issues as you usually want to run BD, Sub, icicle and EQ. It could also just run scarf or banded and spam Flare Blitz or take rocks damage two times to activate Zen Mode which doesnt seem too bad. Dont think it would be broken and it gives me some Blaziken vibes but who knows.

@@acekun6493 It wouldn't run salac at all. Galar Zen Mode gets 135 base speed instead of 55 like normal zen mode. It would just be belly drum + 3 attacks or maybe sub, flare blitz and eq. There aren't many pokemon it's able to set up on and get away with tho, so I feel like a banded set would be the most popular and get the most mileage. With the metagame now I feel like if they brought back only zen mode darm, that it would fall to UU. With all the fat water types in UU it could even drop to rubl. It's bulk is non existent, even pivots and passive mons will do major damage

Weavile is the only proper Ice type they have made that is competitive wherever it goes but never broken. The rest suck or are blatantly overpowered in the meta they landed in.

@@iantaakalla8180 Mamoswine?

@@iantaakalla8180 Mamoswine's not happy right now.

Exactly. And Weavile is an accident specifically because Weavile is based on the Kamaitachi, a youkai meant to represent chilling wind. Had that not been it’s basis, the Sneasel line would most certainly have fallen by now. Froslass is useless in a world where Heavy Duty Boots exist and now is slightly-more-guaranteed Glalie, while Mamoswine is just edged out of being useful because of speed creep. There are no good Ice types at all, just Pokémon with the Ice type that have a meta with lower power levels and speed levels.

cuz no fairies

In short.. Garchomp after an SD OHKO’d everything not named Skarmory. And most skarms got trapped by Mag or Chomp could just 2hko with fire move. Some Chomps could even brute force through Skarm with outrage spam + rocks. It also never died in 1 hit with a yache berry. Mence kind of the same issue, but moreso that it’s mixed set had no counters instead of a setup set.

Nothing compares to Zacian despite the fact that both their abilities do give a 1.5x boost.

In reality I think he is really good in VGC if you use him right

@@antoinepolnareff8970 Yeah no shit Anything’s good “if you use it right”

@@antoinepolnareff8970 he isnt for one main reason: Dynamax disables Gorilla Tactics, and without Dynamax it's far too frail on a bad typing in a metagame that has a ton of Rock Slides and similar moves. Same problem as Dracovish essentially: can't abuse Dynamax, and without it it doesn't offer enough to justify using in a bulker and slower metagame where Fake Out , redirection and Protect exist and are everywhere.

@@worldiefeard8396 Use Zen mode instead and life orb. That isn't bad in any way posible.

@@antoinepolnareff8970 How would you ever activate zen mode You die to any attack nothing getting to you half

Stat drop it went from 150 defenses to 140 which effectively dropped it's BST by 40

The generational power creep of the meta also managed to adapt to Aegislash, similar to what happened to Blaziken

they also nerfed king shield

megas are not in gen 8 bro

@@user-et6kz5sh8f ik bro but I'm talking all over the national dex. Like you wouldn't find something as ridiculously bulky in gen 8 as mega slowbro or mega aggron.

Complex bans or whatever. Since G-Tatics wasn't an HA or something like that.

Because A, Smogon likes to avoid Complex Bans, and B, Gorilla Tactics is specifically broken on G-Darm, but wouldn't be broken on something like Primape. If Gorilla Tactics, itself, was banned from OU, that would automatically ban Gorilla Tactics from all lower tiers, so if another pokemon later got the ability it would have to be suspect tested back into OU, and then back into the lower tiers. It's much easier to just say "okay, Zen Mode has less than a 10% usage on this pokemon, so there would be no real loss just banning the pokemon as a whole instead of making a complex ban."

To put simply, they haven't banned the ability because there is not enough of a sample size to show that the ability itself is uncompetitive, and how much of it is tied to the fact that they gave such an ability to a mon with 140 base attack and a good speed tier for scarf. Smogon typically does not like complex bans for various reasons (a combination of rule complexity and not wanting to set precedents that would result in such). Every once in a while they do it begrudgingly, but only if they REALLY need to bring a pokemon back because the meta got fucked, hi gen 5 Excadrill

It's not a complex ban though, it's only a complex ban if something else has the ability. Surely it would make more sense to ban G-tactics in the gen 8 OU metagame since we know that *Gen 8* will never have a second Gorilla Tactics Pokemon? When a new gen comes around, non-legendary Ubers are often unbanned at first anyway, so they can look at it again in Gen 9 and ban the 'mon as a whole in Gen 9 if there are other 'mons with the ability.

@@Milesprowerthegamer But it's much easier to just ban the mon and then look at it later. Zen Mode G-Darm had less than a 5% total usage compared to Gorilla Tactics, so it's safe to say that almost no one used its Zen Mode form. This way instead of having to test G-Darm AND any other mon that might have the ability, they can just test G-Darm and be done with it.

band zen mode's only situation where it has more power than banded gtactics is when you get the fire stab on fire blitz

It’s funny that the only reason Galarian Darmanitan is used is because of a perfect alignment that will get broken come Scarlet/Violet.

I mean that journey can be described in one move: Freeze Dry.

bro is asking for a full on FSG video

@@noishhater9138 i'm waiting for fsg to pull one up but getting a small video on kyurem being banned to ubers is enough for me

Freeze Dry and a Set Up move and Icicle Crash and Heavy Duty Boots. Then it has the power when needed but can also stall anything.

Freeze Dry let it have way too many sets with way too few actual answers, basically. Between subroost being able to hit most mons with freeze dry+earth power and flipping the matchup on special walls like bliss, 3 attacks roost hitting hard with good coverage, ddance sets, while not considered the best, still being nevertheless game-ruining if you're not prepared, and specs still hitting like a truck, it had way too many sets with way too different counterplay between each other. Getting freeze dry and actual physical ice stab broadened its plausible kit options too much.

Yes it is, but it's one time only. Avalugg already walls it decently but even if it can avoid the 2hko by flare blitz, darm could just switch into a special attacker while you recover and next time you can no longer wall it, and you practically need heavy duty boots on top anyways. Rotom-Heat and Rotom-Wash were pretty much the best walls against it, heat even more because of its U-Turn resistance. And Corsola-Galar. Darm-G was practically the reason Corsola-Galar was OU, that thing was the best answer to it.

That is very extreme.

Vish can at least be walled by an Ability (Water Absorb), but nothing is immune to Ice or U-Turn.

G-Darm. Vish had it's fair share of checks at least. G-darm just killed everything in sight :/

Terrains: Mega Metagross was good at using all the terrains (Misty made it unstatusable; psychic gave immunity to priority; electric made thunder punch do more so Skarmory isn't a counter; grassy made Earthquake users ineffective). Also Toxapex made the main Mega Metagross check in gen 6 (Slowbro/Slowking) obsolete but Toxapex couldn't check Mega Metagross. Turn 1 Speed difference in gen 6 (base) instead of gen 7 (Mega) made Gen 6 Mega Metagross more manageable back then as well.

Main reason is that in gen 7 megas got their mega form speed on the turn that they evolve. So you have something that can 2HKO the entire meta, is really bulky and is rarely one shot, and has the same speed as Lati twins. In gen 6 they had their base form speed on the first turn. This is why almost every single mega had to waste a move slot for protect.

that's a x4 super effective hit - if the tyranitar had no bulk investment and you had a neutral defense nature, that actually has a shot at ko'ing ttar, regardless of whether the mis-implementation you supposed happened.

And Zen Mode is still never the ability you want to run because even a redistribution of stats like that pales to Gorilla Tactics. Galarian Darmanitan is really overpowered.

I love how there is no good reason for Zen Mode to exist on either Darmanitan since while Galarian Darmanitan’s Zen Mode makes its stuff worth using, its Gorilla Tactics is basically worse Zacian’s Intrepid Sword and normal Darmanitan’s Zen Mode is useless save strange mixed jank.

Stealth Rock is weaker than ever thanks to hdb.

@Nicolai Stuhlmüller Yeah, because it was even more broken before that. Heck, Defog at some point used to only remove the opponent‘s hazards, so before Gen 6 that wasn’t an option to clear your side either. Heavy Duty Boots is another baby step in the right direction. It’s bs that certain Pokémon types (especially the underpowered Ice and Bug) become instantly unviable just because SR lacks counterplay options, especially now that it’s possible for certain Pokémon such as the Frosmoth line to faint from full health due to nothing but entry hazards. I hope in Gen 9, they introduce something that doesn’t just remove or ignore Stealth Rocks, but actively punishes setting them up if you’re not careful. Closest thing we have right now is Magic Bounce which is given to so few Pokémon you can see it coming a mile away. As long as Stealth Rocks can be learned by everyone and their grandma and there is no downside to setting them up, they will keep determining which Pokémon are viable based on nothing but how weak they are to Rock.

@@rainpooper7088 then why was Volcarona OU in Gen5 and Gen7? Especially in Gen5 where Defog didn't even work as a hazard removal? "rocks alone decide viability" is absolutely not true. We had Talonflame, Mega Pinsir and Mega Charizard Y in OU, Volcarona, Weavile, so many more mons weak to rocks. Meanwhile Gen8 has made some mons like Zapdos plain up disgusting just because of hdb. Imagine Zapdos having the advantages of hdb with an item on top. That would be pretty strong. The thing is, rocks already is a punishment for excessive switching, because it makes switching risky. Remember how in Gen 6 stall became broken simply because they got a good magic bounce user that takes care of hazards so stall can freely switch as much as they want? Rocks are a major balancing factor in the game and don't affect viability as much as you think. And a lot of unviable rocks weak mons would also be unviable if rocks were removed. Moltres is pretty much the only exception to that. And in what would do rocks lack counterplay options. You can always remove them before going into your hazard weak mon.

I mean it's an undeniable truth that Stealth Rock was inherently imbalanced before Gen 8 due to the sheer number of Pokémon that could learn the move Vs the amount of mons that could learn hazard removal (not even counting how good those individual mons are). It wasn't until HDB was released that the anti-hazard faction finally got a more universally accessible method than Stealth Rock, finally tipping the balance

@@breloommaster12 It became broken in Gen 7 It's even worse in Gen 8 even with Boots

It doesn’t really have to scout because virtually every Galarian Darmanitan runs Gorilla Tactics.

how is that related to stall

@@user-hb7bo4mr2i its not just a statement

Cuz Smogon tends to ban an entire Pokémon instead of just an ability

I don't think having a mon with 135 speed and 170 attack,even if it has to be in half health in OU is a good idea

@@moneykenny119 In the case of stuff like Speed Boost Blaziken, yeah, cause they'ed rather say you can't use Blaziken than you can't use Speed Boost on Blaziken. But Darm-G is the only pokemon with Gorilla Tactics so just banning Gorilla Tactics wouldn't affect anything else.

complicated ban?

@@RikiazGaming but that doesnt make any sense to do. Darm is op bc of its op ability. Should you just ban geomancy and keep xern? Or ban fleur cannon and keep mag? Ban wicked blow and keep urshifu? Like half the mons in urbers have a signature move or ability. Should they ban every signature move and reintroduce them all to ou and see what isn't op anymore? If you ban specific parts of a bunch of different pokemon at that point you are playing CAP, not gen8 ou

Darmanitan is usually UU or RU because it has really high wallbreaking power with Sheer Force and Flare Blitz, but it takes huge recoil from FB and extra damage from Stealth Rocks. Water types in higher tiers wall it completely, so it's not too good in OU

Regular darm is viable on OU sun teams only..anywhere else and OU is out of the question. As for a zenmode suspect, absolutely not. They ban all of a Pokemon unless a specific element is proven to be broken or unhealthy and thus causing the actual problem. gTactics does not fill this criteria.

@@HowlingOneify Gorilla Tactics isn't the problem? But isn't it what lets Darmanitan effectively run a Choice Band AND a Second Choice Item? Ergo, it's the core issue?

@@sagacious03 technically, but the issue is Darm is simply too strong. Strong typing, stats, movepool that all allow it to take advantage of GTactics. And GTactics comes with the caveat of locking into a move. Normally this is fine but darm is simply too strong to be bothered by this restriction. You could also ban a choice item on darm or ban it from running a stab move to balance it out.

@@HowlingOneify You say "that all allow it to take advantage of GTactics"; That implies GTactics is STILL a part of the issue. But if it was only allowed Zen Mode, it taking advantage of GTactics wouldn't be a problem.

He already did that, and basically its only ability is an evasion ability.

Gengar was deliberately nerfed with a worse ability. I'd be surprised if it suddenly got buffed back up.

Generation 8 is a failure in every single way possible and no one will talk about those games again save the occasional Legends: Arceus talk and that assumes there is no better Legends game to come out. Then again, preparing a Pokémon for competitive this easily may be Galar’s feature because the story is explicitly about an official tournament, so who knows? The Pokémon games will be messed even further, and we’re just here to witness in which ways they’ll fuck up.

Gen 5

I'm honestly not even convinced that regular Darm would be broken with this ability; its STAB have greater drawbacks + bulkier/more survivable resists than GDarm's STAB, making it kinda similar to the DarkShifu/WaterShifu situation

So basically, you have the middling Galarian Darmanitan that doesn’t hurt itself but has the worst defensive type vs the Darmanitan that has lots of power but hurts itself and has a slightly better defensive type? That actually is not a bad trade-off, and would be very nice to see.

Arena Trap and Shadow Tag are uncompetitive abilities that are detrimental to a skill based competitive environment by removing player agency and interaction. They didn't ban gTactics because it isn't a broken or uncompetitive ability in any way.

But isn’t G-Darmanitan the only Pokemon that can have the ability? If other Pokemon can have the ability then I would agree that banning it isn’t the answer. But considering the only Pokemon that can have the ability is considered too strong with that ability, and has an alternative to make it more balanced, I do wonder why Zen Mode G-Darmanitan isn’t allowed. I could see it getting out of hand if they start taking that approach though. Like what if they just have Fishious Rend banned and not Dragovish?

@@gravity8120 they don't ban elements of a pokemon singularly UNLESS said ability is problematic by being broken or uncompetitive. It isn't darm broken by gtactica. It is gtactics broken by darm.

That’s a better way of looking at it, actually. I guess we did also have Greninja banned for Protean in the past, even though Torrent Greninja was perfectly manageable.

@@HowlingOneify that's not really true though. For example look at when gen6 PU had a problem with two mons that coincidentally both used damage inflicting moves with a 100% confusion chance: Machoke and Chatot, the former with No Guard + Dynamicpunch, the latter with Chatter. In the former case the combination of No Guard + Dynamicpunch was also available to Golurk, which was still pretty mediocre even with it while Chatter was exclusive to Chatot, so what happened was that both Machoke got banned (since neither No Guard nor Dynamicpunch were problematic on any other mon than Machoke) and Chatter got banned (because it was problematic on 100% of the mons that got it). The gen7 Dugtrio case is another example on broken on one mon vs. broken on every mon that gets it. At first Dugtrio was suspected, so what happened was players switched to using Diglett in their teams and actually achieving similar success, so instead of Dugtrio the ability got banned. Same for Shadow Tag, the Trickscarf-shenanigans that made Gothitelle disgusting to deal with are just as possible with Gothorita, so the ability got banned and not the mon. Power Construct - broken on both Zygarde 50% and Zygarde 10% so it got banned. Thousand Arrows - only broken on Zygarde 50% and fine on Zygarde 10% so it stayed. Dragon Dance - broken on Kyurem-Black, fine on everything else, so Kyurem-Black was banned. Baton Pass - broken on multiple setters including Scolipede, Mew and Gliscor so it got banned. But honestly, Darmanitan-G Zen is disgustingly powerful with 165 attack and 135 speed and a ridiculously good dual stab, so it makes sense to ban the full mon.

Because if that stayed people could just ban Pokémon they hate for no reason or even more extreme, Pokémon with a move and ability and an item. Like Cloyster with a Kings Rock and Skill Link and Rock Smash and Icicle Spear. This setup allowed for Cloyster to flinch any opponent with 41% chance, which is absurdly high and far better than even 30% that Togekiss or Jirachi deal with. This was such a problem in OU that Kings Rock is now banned from any place lower than OU since it was clear that the flinch chance that was absurd. If it was specifically Cloyster with Skill Link and Kings Rock and Icicle Spear/Rock Blast that was deemed broken, then things like Dragon Darts Dragapult would show up, or Triple Axel/Beat Up Weavile, or Dual Chop Haxorus, or in lower-powered metas Cinccino could try for this very combo albeit to less effect and Triple Spin Hitmonchan may also start popping up. The point is that a complex ban is not allowed because it is too specific to solve the issue that led to the problem and because then a meta would be shaped by whatever was thought to be fair when the “fun of Pokémon is to let all the Pokémon shine and do their best wherever they may land in competitive”. Furthermore, all we know is that Gorilla Tactics on Galarian Darmanitan in Galar is broken. We don’t know if Gorilla Tactics on other Pokémon would be broken. And it probably would not be given that the ability assumes a powerful wallbreaker or instant sweeper - a Pokémon with defensive stats and weak moves would not benefit from this at all. That being said? Gorilla Tactics, by its very name, will be given to monkeys and apes only who would fit the wallbreaking or sweeping archetypes. But whether Gorilla Tactics is always broken is going to be noted.