Going with the garden eel idea we could make a new ability for wugtrio called gardener which could give it the sap sipper ability plus grass stab or the ability to ignore grass as a type when attacking, dealing neutral damage to all grass types.

1:20 *base 100 after Gen 7 since you showed its Gen 7 stats

How about giving them a version of Arena Trap that also traps flying and ghost types?

Fast glass cannons can work in Singles, but they need a lot of things to go their way. In the good old days, Arena Trap let Dugtrio force things to go its way, but Arena Trap is banned in Singles now and VGC seems to be tailor-made to fuck over frail Pokémon as much as possible.

Give eevee itself tidy up, and then give Flareon Fur coat (gives it a defense of Bastiodon's) and Bitter Blade. This makes it stand out as a bulky fire attacker that can also replenish itself reliably, rather than making it an umpteenth fire sweeper.

I would give an ability called king of the jungle that prevents enemy priority directed at the mon and raises its highest atk stat

I’ve found another lickilicky fan in the wild today is a great day

Some people don’t like Alolan Dugtrio but I like it way more than the original. Love the silly hair!

I like the idea of a much bulkier Alolan Dugtrio! Personally I think I would lean into the bulk and give it some good defensive/support moves (some healing, status, hazards, maybe a switch move), but Huge Power definitely keeps in the theme of the -trios being defined by their abilities. Nice video!

That opening was fire 🔥

Hehehe, that intro was really cool! Really like ur work man 😄

The sonic underground opening has me cackling

Not the side eye into "yeah.....twins...."

Maybe dugtrio not wugtrio so nova doesn’t get too excited

they just need to do a non backwards compatible game next. reset the pokes and movepools. Like they did from gen 2 to 3. The movepools are out of hand.

I have 2 ideas for a flareon buff: The one thing thats gonna be same for both incarnations tho, are the overhaul to the stats and movepool stats: hp:65 attack:130 defense:60 sp.atk:95 sp.def:66 speed:110 new moves:wild charge, play rough new abilities: reckless: to not only utilize the its new move and old stab better but also further emphasisimg on its glass canon nature with fast speed and addition boost to its already good damage output with the cost being dying quickly contrary: Just to make superpower be a bit less appaling as a coverage option but also giving flareon a much needed setup move in a way, focusing more on snowballimg than raw damage output unlike its contemporary, furthermore contrary is such an under utilized ability and is oddly balanced for not only the main move for contrary not being stab but also flareon general frailty being a hinderance for it to get enough turns to spiral out of control.

Well what is pokemon supposed to do? Never make good pokemon again? Power creep is something that just HAS to happen if the franchise is to continue and we all just have to be okay with it.

thanks for the video

I think they should work on buffing old Pokémon instead.

Actually I decided to make my own VGC format with a handful of friends! It’s called the AKKUP format. Basically limiting the pool of usable Pokémon and banning all forms of legendaries or “special” Pokémon. Power creep has just gotten very high, so I’m not as into it.

I think the game just needs a rebalancing tbh. Gen 1 and especially Gen 2 mons need help in the stat department, as its clear the design intentions of the past are different from today's. Todays mons are all midmaxxed or designed with specific intention. Meanwhile older mon stat spreads are all over the place. I mean look at the history of the ice type. It only took like 9 generations for them to get them right. I used to think mega's where the way. But their a generational tool, and centralize the problem. My favourite mon is houndoom. Why run a Mega houndoom, when I can run MegaZard, set up the sun and not care. This runs even worst when some megas just win the game. In short, stat rebalancing for older mons would be best. Especially those before the special/physical split. And add more abilities/ special moves. We have alot of abilities, some are just upgraded versions of others. Look at what sheer force did for Nidoking, or Neutralizing gas did for weezing. This is extreme in gen 2 mons case where I genuinely think Tyranitars long stay is by accident. Lots of these mons need another evolution, more BST, a regional or a better ability. Give houndoom better stats, and a special ability and move is what I'm saying.

while the dex cuts did suck (Indigo Disk was my savior thanks to finally giving Deoxys a worthwhile game to be in) i think in general they're a good start to the balancing factor: imagine how this meta would be if VGC had to deal with Xerneas, or Tapu Koko as an unrestricted ETerrain setter allowing for something like CalyIce + Iron Hands Trick Room ultimately, without the existence of tiers like Smogon has, i think probably the best way to balance cartridge competitive is banlists like SwSh Series 6, which banned some of the most used Pokémon a lá Pokémon GO and allowed for more underutilized Pokémon to show niches

If there’s 1 pokémon in recent memory that needs a buff more than anything, it is Grapploct Mons like Centiskorch and Pawmot can at least do something in the lowest tiers. Grapploct is so bad that it’s outclassed by not only Throh but also NFE fighting-types like Gurdurr and Combusken. Here’s what Grapploct needs: -STAB Technician boosted Storm Throw (lots of damage btw) -STAB Mach Punch -Bullet Punch -Aqua Jet -Flip Turn -Knock Off -Toxic -Poison Jab -Bulldoze -Either access to Recover or Regenerator -maybe a slightly higher HP or Sp. Def stat -and most importantly, the /Water typing it deserves

Power Creep is for sure out of hand when a fanmade legendary pokemon, like Primal Cascoon, that has 5 INSANE abilities all built in a single attack with no drawbacks, and people tell you "it might make UU with some support" 😅

I’ve played the games until gen7, and I have to say that Gen3 onwards made me hate the battle system. Gen2 strikes the perfect balance for me, held items are important, but there are no absurd abilities. EVs and Natures aren’t a thing to worry about. And it overall feels like my strategy matters more than actually just having optimized Pokémon. GSC are the only games I come back to periodically, despite them not having the physical/special split.

Radical Red mitigated this by giving weaker pokemon unique/legendary abilities and moves at certain levels as well as stat adjustments like Surging strikes & Jet Punch on Poliwrath, Floatzel Wicked Blow on Drapion Strength sap on Parasect, Vileplume Photon Geiser on Solrock

pokemon is fun because of the user-defined tiers, stuff like RU and PU and the like let every pokemon shine and I think the existing system is completely fine. a high majority of players don't really ever get into doubles at all so these problems really don't matter as much.

Gargnacl has purifying salt AND salt cure… it’s bulky and has recovery.

When pokemon like garchomp is considered low teir you know shots gotten out of hand

Pyroar needs a special version of Moxie to be good. Perhaps something like Inner Fire.

Here's my ideas for buffs to Flareon, Jolteon, and Glaceon: Flareon: -Guts is replaced with Oxidate, which turns Normal-type moves into Fire-type moves and boosts their power by 20%. This means Flareon now has powerful STAB priority in Quick Attack, which alleviates its problem with being too slow and frail to run Flare Blitz. Also, it makes sense, as Ice got Refrigerate and Electric got Galvanize. Plus, being a Fire-type means Flareon can't be burned, and thus can't take advantage of Guts as easily as any other Pokémon with it. Jolteon: -Quick Feet is replaced with Lightning Rod, which lets it boost its Sp. Atk, giving it a niche in VGC, and is a more thematically appropriate and better ability for Jolteon. It can also switch in on Electric-type moves, protecting Electric-weak teammates and outspeeding and striking back with its base 130 Speed and Shadow Ball. Glaceon: -Ice Body is replaced with Slush Rush, which alleviates its terrible Speed, and is more useful for a Pokémon with poor bulk and the Ice type than Ice Body's passive regeneration. Glaceon does have a high Sp. Atk and access to Freeze-Dry and Shadow Ball, so that should help it hit Ice resists for neutral at least most of the time. Honestly, the Ice type itself doesn't need a buff, it's a glass cannon type, which is most effective on fast heavy-hitters, but is often given to slow, bulky mons.

Honestly, I love power creep. It's inevitable, as without it, there'd be no reason to use newcomers over old favorites. However, it needs to be done in a way that doesn't invalidate old favorites. With the fangame I'm designing, I'm giving buffs to certain existing mons that are underwhelming, such as better base stats, new moves and abilities, new Mega Evolutions, and even new evolutions and regional variants.

From what ive seen, im not sure if Slaking without truant would be broken now.

I don’t really care how powerful they make new pokemon as long as a wide variety of pokemon are useable. The “big 6” teams of gen 6 is way worse than anything today even with less total power creep

If i had a shot whenever i see Great Tusk, Ogerpon, Urshifu, Flutter mane, Iron Valiant and Kingambit in single battles, i could have enough shots to murder a whole ass city

Y did you choose lickilicki as your avatar?

I don't understand why Game Freak made a new status condition in PLA(frost bite) and didn't add it to S/V with pokemon like Flutter Mane with a base 135 SpA?

The newer Pokemon are min maxed better than most older gen mons for sure. That said alot of them still have interesting niche play. I loved reg f because it was actually really diverse and allowed for alot of creativity. Even in reg g it feels more diverse than previous restricted formats. I think the game is fairly balanced to more fun play for the amount of Pokemon we currently have access to. They over did it with flutter mane though

Calling this power "creep" is like calling the Kool-aid man smashing through a wall stealthy.

4:50 "Pokemon limiting the 'dex . . . had artificially forced power creep to be reduced" In VGC, the first year (or close to it; the regulation set system introduces some wrinkles) of a new gen allows ONLY Pokemon in the regional Pokedex, regardless of when transfer becomes an option. Unofficial competitive is forced to adapt now, sure, but by and large the dex cut brings nothing new or good to the table, even to this day. My pet peeve notwithstanding, nice video! In spite of what I just said, I think there *is* kind of a failsafe for powercreep in the fact that not all Pokemon will be available in ever game- stuff like the Ultra Beasts and Paradox Pokemon, due to how many of them there are and how tied they are to a central concept (wormholes, a time machine), are fairly unwieldy to keep shoehorning in every couple games and thus might 'rotate out' one year and never return. With that in mind, I think a step in the right direction will be to sacrifice the paradox mons in the future, like you said (as much as losing Walking Wake will pain me), and start walking back either how many effects an ability can have (e.g. Hadron Engine having two, Mind's Eye having THREE) and/or how minmaxed/polarized stats can be. You'll notice stuff like Flutter Mane manages to push absurd stat values without actually creeping the expected BST by way of just dumping the others really hard. I want to see suboptimal stat allocations again, like 80 base special attack on a mon which is clearly only going to use physical moves. These 'wasted' points keep a Pokemon's other base stats from being absurd, which puts the burden of minmaxing entirely on player choice- or gives the player leeway to slap a special attack on their starter pokemon ahead of challenging the next gym, purely for fun.

My opinion might be a bit unpopular but I thinks they should restrict the amount of pokemon allowed in each game there too much , if they only allowed a selected slice of all pokemon it will easier to control but the problem with this approach is that your favourite might get cut and to that a huge bummer

Wigglytuff: -Increase its Sp. Atk…….again (85 > 90/95) -Increase Sp. Def (50 > 70/75 if not 85/90; its BST is so low at 435 and that’s after the Sp. Atk buff in gen 6) -Replace Frisk with Fur Coat (this alone makes a huge difference to its physical buff in conjunction with its trademark 140 HP; the ability is a defensive version of Huge Power after all) -STABs Boomburst and Moonblast

I think they should take 1 step behind to take 2 steps foward. Stop cramming Gmax-Tera-Z-Evolution every new game, forcing the meta to orbit around them and actually improve the weaker mons and nerf the op ones. But usually gamefreak takes q step behind and 9 steps behind

Music is way too loud. i can barely hear you sometimes

I think the best way for them to fix the power creep problem is to just divide the gens because otherwise pokemon needs to do some really big hard nerfs to a lot of pokemon.

Gamefreak: Doesn't give powerful Pokémon like Dragapult and Dragonite reliable STAB moves Also Gamefreak: releases broken as hell Pokémon such as Mega Rayquaza and Calyrex Shadow Rider. Eeyup, no double standards here.

Yugioh did this. Was a HUGE player for years, then they added synchro and this and that and that and fking this and that. I said no more for me.

Pokemon badly needs a reset. Rebalance everything. Insane abilities should mean less than average stats. I know that in general game design needs to be a lot more careful with nerfing than buffing but I think it is badly needed here. Bring older pokemon up to the new average base stat totals, nerf all the weirdly broken stuff as stupid as strong jaw dracovish and beyond, rework some abilities like good as gold, and then I think we’d be getting somewhere. Doesn’t need to all be perfectly balanced, the game was never designed for that, but a misdreavus with spikes shouldn’t be outcompeting giratina. And since I’m changing things anyway, give ice a status condition they can apply to cut special attack, and all those bulky ice types like abomasnow and avalugg a move that gets rid of ice weaknesses as long as hail is up, maybe, idk. Would need testing and rebalancing, something gamefreak apparently stopped doing a while ago.

Nice video!

I think that abilities are a far bigger issue than stats/distributions. For example, the two box arts getting arbitrary power boosts on their already busted abilities, or Moushold getting technician. And moves are huge as well, but I'm not discussing all that atm. At least terapagos is kinda reasonable.