At first, I didnt like the face cam commentary because I dont think its appropriate to make a pokemon video without the pokemon, but then after watching older vids where you show replays while commenting, I realized that the replays are actually distracting me from what your trying to say and now Im a fan of the face cam.
I think the simple nice thing about ADV is that the offensive threats don't just break through half the meta, the defensive threats can't just switch in mindlessly and the tanks can't just 3 for 1.
I just sucked when your counter to something gets hax and you cant break the wall. I brought bronzong into iron head jirachi and got 17 flinches and couldnt get off an earthquake. Thats not bad team biulding. I cant being 2 pokemon to counter everything
This was the team in sample teams that made me say "Okay, maybe I *will* play ADV" instead of just "Wow, ADV seems like a really cool metagame" and this video has made it sooo much easier to understand why it exists. I'm on my second full watchthrough of hopefully many. Thank you for the lesson.
I remember when I was a kid I came to the same conclusion about double standards and the elitism around it, except with pokemon designs. "I dont have a problem if you dont like the new pokemon designs, but you can't say that they are worse than the old ones, they are of the same quality" Which feels similar to "Its fine to not like overcentralizing metagames, but you can't also say that the gen 3 centralization is okay"
You go for RNG bullshit when you're behind. Having a Jynx that can go for RNG to turn a game around, as part of a balanced breakfast (overall good team), is just good strategy. Why woulnd't you want that option? And conversely if you are forgoing that option, why woulnd't you "overprepare" for it?
the black and white combined with dogs barking was giving a cinnamic vibe. literally have no clue what you're talking about fr but it was good vid. i played UU. another comment also seems to see the cinema in this upload. put this is theatres titled as "Take 1," absolutely fucking arthouse.
I suppose qwilfish would be a better spikes setter than cloyster on such a meta...maybe? Like, it punishes u-turn by resisting and having poison point, but good luck switching into jirachi, celebi or zapdos, also trapped by dug, but doesn't that apply to all flame body and static mons? Other than electrode Ig, which can trade with dug by booming
Why are most of the comments today so wonky (I dont play tournaments so I might be getting some stuff wrong) Rachi Ice punch freeze is bizzarely annoying. Also a lot of teams kind of have to rely on para or not getting screwed over by their own dug to deal with Rachi(even ttar has to not get frozen twice). Special offense seems like it would be about on par without dug, offensive rachi/bi/raikou/offensive suicune etc are notoriously dug weak. But I doubt anyone would want the huge shift in everything at large a dug ban would bring about since the tier is good enough as is. If blissey did not get wish and aromatherapy I would be perfectly fine with it, but right now those two things make it very annoying. Idk about skarm, I guess the very fact that mag is necessary for running many of the physical threats(many of which already sorely lacking in defensive utility) makes such teams feel like they have to check too many boxes.
The guy is an ass, but I do think his point is fair. There's a lot of RNG that Pokemon games would just be better off without. Critical hits are an awful mechanic that aren't satisfying to win with, and can sabotage attempts to actually catch wild pokemon in singleplayer. Flinching is just weird from a balance perspective, because having your entire turn skipped can honestly be far worse than just taking more damage, and most moves that can inflict flinch don't even have any real downsides like low accuracy, recoil, or stat reductions.
The thing is without these things the game will become Solved, any game with a metagame becomes stagnant because they'll only be a few viable strategies once you remove those variables. Sure there'll still be mindgames and discoveries but less of them. Maybe you can argue that a solved meta can be fun though.
