10 Pokemon with Useless Abilities 

Pokémon logic: Gives Regigigas “Slow Start”, Makes Mega Rayquaza

You're missing my favorite one: Metagross' hidden ability is Light Metal, which cuts its weight in half. You might think this is good to decrease damage taken from Low Kick or Grass Knot, which deal more damage the heavier the target, however, Metagross is so heavy that it takes max damage from these moves even with Light Metal

If slow start halved regigigas' attack and speed for 3 turns instead of 5, it might be somewhat useable in lower tiers

Notable thing about the Rotom's is that in Gen 4, they didn't change types. So Fan-Rotom was still an Electric/Ghost type. It's probably why it maintained Levitate.

Durant gets Truant because it's a "true ant." You're welcome.

Regigigas, Slaking, “we ain’t never gonna get our spotlight....” Galarian Wheezing: “I’m about to start this mans whole career”

There's also Stunfisk with Limber. Since electric types can no longer get paralyzed, Stunfisk is kinda in the same boat as Rotom-Fan, so much so, that Pokémon Showdown random battles where you get a Stunfisk (non-Galarian), will always hold a Cheri berry. You know, so that you REALLY won't get paralyzed. xD

Some other effects should apply to the useless abilities, making them no longer or sort of no longer useless. For Defeatist, it should give the pokemon doubled attack stat in its first half of HP. For Illuminate, it should multiply light based move damage. For slow start, make it only apply to the first three turns in battle. These are just my thoughts.

Fan rotom, a flying type, has levitate. Flying types are immune to ground attacks. Levitate negates ground attacks. This pairing is like washing your car in the rain.

high five to people who use Slaking with Skill Swap

I feel so bad for regigigas specifically in legends arceus, since abilities arent in the game. Yet they still gave regigigas slow start still.

Honestly slow start is a really cool ability in concept, I just wish it worked differently. Something like this: Regi starts off the battle with -2 or -3 speed and atk (not affected by neutralizing gas) but then just like speed boost it gives you a +1 in speed and attack every turn. Completely underwhelming in the early turns and would still have counters but if you can survive with it for a few turns running mind games you could get a really hard hitter. That's what they were trying to do with attacks like fury cutter and rollout but regi could actually pull them off and punish stall teams

Galarian Weezing out here blessing all of these sad bois.

Let's not forget the worst of all abilities: Ash's *Once achieving slight success, this Trainer will not win the Pokemon League for plot reasons.* Edit: Well this did not age well

10:30 It makes it very nice for shiny hunting, and since Frillish is fairly easy to get, you can avoid a shiny with an explosion move from killing itself. Other than that, yeah, but it is not useless in all situations.

If I recall correctly, Slow Start used to be three turns, which was much more manageable. Also, Durant having Truant makes sense as it is saying that "This ant is the one out of many that is lazy" which actually happens

1:41 Here's why Durant has Truant: Pretty much all (worker) ants live very short lives (queen ants can live for decades while workers only live for only weeks or months depending on the species) because they are overworked. As a result, they constantly have to take power naps that last only minutes long while they work. Most likely, this is why Durant has Truant, cause it is referencing a worker ant's horrible sleep schedule that leaves them weak and sleep-deprived.

"Damp does nothing on Jellicent" Shiny hunters: "Hold our Shiny Charm."

Some changes I would make to two of the last three abilities that I am surprised they haven't made; Run Away - Now let's you switch out for free. Regardless of Arena Trap, Shadow Tag, Wrapping moves, etc. This would make it ACTUALLY usable in battles. Illuminate - Now acts like Intimidate but with Accuracy. This will be annoying and likely not used competitively but I think that would be so fun! Also, I feel it should be like Flash without having to use Flash. I suppose.

The thing about slow start is, that it actually could've been good. Instead of hindering Regigigas for five turns, it could've instead boosted all of its stats at the end of each turn, making it so that it slowly gets more powerful throughout the battle as it wakes up. That would have been awesome.

Galarian Weezing: Hi Slaki- Slaking: *So you have chosen, death*

It would be even funnier if Delibird's Hidden Ability was Early Bird.

I would wonder if at one point Slow Start was supposed to then double your attack when the counter was up. I can't imagine a situation where anyone would think a normal type with middle of the road legendary stats and a weak move pool would be usable with such an awful ability.

what they should of did with the slow start ability was have it so regigigas would regain about 20% of the attack and speed stat that has been halved per turn until on the 5th turn where both of it's stats are the way they should be.

I have a theory about slow start: The other Pokémon in your team get jealous of regigigas so they break his legs to cripple him and it takes five turns for him to recover

Actually, back in Diamond and Pearl, Rotom forms were ALL Electric/Ghost, so Rotom Fans ability had use

I think illuminate has a simple "fix". Keep what it already does (because some people can find a use for it) but also add the effect of lowering the opponents accuracy. It makes perfect sense to me; illuminate implies a bright light, and a bright light in my face while trying to aim would definitely make me worse lol. I have a burning passion against slow start in particular though, it singlehandedly turned a really cool legendary into the laughing stock of battles.

One thing you forgot to mention is that, when Rotom's Forms were first introduced (in Platinum version) they didn't gain new types, they all stayed Ghost Electric type. The type change came about in gen 5 likely to give STAB to their new moves they just gained, and to farther the point that a physical object is being possessed.

To be fair, Rotom didn’t change type when it was introduced. It remained an electric/ghost type.

Imagine regigigas, slaking and galarian weezing being in a team against a shedinja and two other Pokémon that require their abilities to work well

Ah yes, flying type with levitate, good to put an air balloon on it Edit: and magnet rise

I always thought that the abilities that boost atk were meant to actually help a Pokémon with poor atk in the first place. Like Ledian for example Iron Fist can be beneficial when combined with Life Orb. The only draw back is you have to heal Ledian every few turns. There's also Metronome. Boosting attack power at the cost of repeating an attack isn't such a big deal unless an enemy uses Torment on Ledian

Best set EVER for competitive battling: Flying type With Levitate Holding an Air balloon Edit: With the move magnet rise

I remember how much fun i had with slaking in triple battles. 2 words... 1. accelgor. 2. gastro acid!

For ledian, litleo and cherrim: sleeper stats. Opponents expect your phy attack to not be good until you start setting up. Obviously having to set up is still a pain

Ok, Stoutland has some good sets. Intimidate and Assualt Vest and you got a tank

I think regigigas has slow start cause it's been asleep for oh so long, causing it to need to "wake up" or adapt to the battle That's just what I think, so if makes sense to me

Game: *Slaking is loafing around* Game: *Regigigas can’t get going* Galarian Weezing: am i a joke to you?

Micheal: greetings pokefans Subtitles: gouri dings prevents

Actually, because abilities were removed from PLA, Fan Rotom is only rotom form that keeps its immunity to ground in that game. So it's not ENTIRELY useless anymore

Galarian Weezing: I’m about to start this man’s whole career

“It would be foolish to run physical attacks on a Pyroar due to this stat difference” Pimpnite: *Hold my salt shaker*

Fun fact: Fan Rotom's Levitate ability used to not be useless! In Diamond and Pearl the only way to change Rotom's form was through an event item called the Secret Key and in those games when you changed Rotom's form it didn't actually change Rotom's typing, staying Electric/Ghost.

You forgot about rhyperior, it has the ability lightning rod which gives it electric immunity, BUT ITS ALREADY A GROUND TYPE

originally, the rotom forms didn't change type, which would give a tad bit of sense for why fan still had levitate

So a Lazy Sloth (Slaking) a NON LEGENDARY is stronger than A Legendary Titan God (Regigigas)

9:00 that makes it harder to hit it with ground type move, since you now need to pop the air balloon, use skill swap or trace on it and then use magic powder or give it protean from greninja, and then you can hit it with ground type move.

Defeatist would be more understandable if the attack stats were dropped to 75% instead of 50% Would still be terrible, but more of a fair nerf

Well, being fair, all of Rotom's forms were Electric/Ghost in Gen 4, so Levitate was beneficial. It changes in Generation 5.

“Levitate serves no purpose on Rotom Fan” Mold Breaker Pokemon with Earthquake: Allow us to introduce ourselves

2 things: I think it would’ve been cool if they swapped the attacking stats of male and female pyroar, would make moxie usefull and would be a cool thing for the male to be physical and the female to be special. And secondly, you forgot Stunfisk, it is a ground/electric type with limber…. 🤦🏼‍♂️

I feel like Slow Start would be decently balanced if it only took 1 or 2 turns to get going instead of 5

"dippin dots of doom" this is it. this is the best thing ever uttered.

Fan: so what’s your hidden ability Delibird: vital spirit- Fan: but that’s one of your normal abilities Delibird: yes, but with a different name

Probably the reason Durant has truant is maybe a pun on " True ant"

Thank you for mentioning Entrainment, I was very irritated to see Durants truant making this list. Maybe a horrible ability. But that strategy itself proves the ability isn’t useless

I would love if they revamped Run Away to allow you to escape trapping moves and abilities.

Durant with truant ability is a reference to lazy ants Some researches point out that some ants in the colony just wandering around and do nothing So to me Durant with truant as hidden ability makes perfect sense

I like how in PLA they actually give Bloom Form different stats, giving it 90 atk and 117 SpD

The reason Durrant has truant has its ability is because it’s the dreamworld ability in gen five Dreamworld abilities are abilities a Pokémon would typically wish to have. Durrant simply wants to take a rest every once in a while

As i always say, Run Away should have the effect in battle that the user can switch whatever happens (in other words, Run Away Pokemon would be immune to trapping like Ghost types does)which actually would be pretty decent instead of being completely useless. Also Illuminate should boosts Electric type attacks cause well it uses light.

"Illuminate is useless" Rom Hacks that require grinding: Hold my overleveled trainer battles

Fun fact:the reason why rotom fan has levitate is because in platinum rotom fan was still the same type as a normal rotom so it could still be hit by ground and was given levitate and they never changed it

They should make illuminate be like “lit up dark caves and in battle lowers the opponent’s accuracy” to make it useful.

"it's a flabebe! IT'S A FLABEBE!" That cracked me up.

Togekiss with hustle? Lowers accuracy to boost physical attack when it is mostly a special attacker

I love how you change to side to side really interesting And the rest of your video

Actually, Vital Spirit is slightly different than Insomnia because Vital Spirit greatly increases your chances of finding the highest possible level of Pokémon in the wild. Also Rotom-Fan's ability was only useless after gen 4. In gen 4, Rotom's typing did not change when inhabiting different appliances. It was always an electric/ghost type, no matter what. Cherrim with Solarblade is also incredible and is slightly stronger than Solarbeam. Plus it doesn't hinder special attack at all, so Flower Gift can easily be used with moves like Weather Ball and Giga Drain.

“If you’re using Ledian Properly” You mean not at all?

“It only comes into play in double battles.” Triple battles: “Am I a joke to you?”

One reason why damp jellicent is usable is that it can prevent the enemy from using explosion to pivot.

Slaking is still fun to use in playthroughs tbh. It’s pretty fun to have a Pokémon with the stats of a box art legendary at level 36. It can only attack every other turn, but will usually ohko in the first turn anyways. And in gen 3, you can give it hyper beam and the recharge turn is just the loafing turn anyways and hyper beam was a physical attack. So it’s pretty great in gen 3 especially

Michael: Says nobody is perfect Also Michael: Forgets a space in between "golem" and "can"

man, if only iron fist was in gen 3, right before the physical/special split, ledian could have done something maybe

Nice video, I didn't know about Delibird's Vital Spirit/Insomnia. I think you forgot Stunfisk: It has Limber as its second Ability, this one is a good ability that prevents the paralysis, but it's totally useless for it because the Electric type Pokémon are immune to paralysis since the Gen VI. The worst part: They never replaced Limber with another ability.

Here's how I'd have improved some of these flaws: - Give Delibird Snow Cloak as its hidden ability instead of Insomnia - Have Minus boost Special Defense instead of Special Attack, then have Plus and Minus only work with each other instead of themselves - Make Honey have an in-battle effect and Honey Gather work in battle - Make Run Away so that alongside its previous capabilities, the user cannot be trapped by Mean Look, Block, etc. - Give Illuminate the same effect as a Bright Powder in battle

"Flabébé has a higher attack (than Ledian). And IT'S A FLABÉBÉ." Favouite part right there. Edit: time stamp of 12:00. xxx

11:15 “EVERYTHING IS GARBAGE!” Reset stamp: Am I a joke to you?

I did an archen/archeops only run in black2 - it's an extremely fun and challenging pokemon to use considering defeatist, but it sometimes took me hours to beat colress' electric types. Still one of my favorite mons though

Dippin dots of doom that was amazing and made me laugh lol

These Pokémon: *exist* Galarian Weezing: *also exists* These Pokémon: *less terrible*

Galarian weezing:Awaken my masters! Slaking,archeops,regigigas:*pillar men theme starts playing*

Idea to improve iluminate: 1: lower the enemies accuracy by 10 - 20% 2: if in a cave / dark place (with encounters) improve team accuracy by 30%

I'm glad Michael agrees with my feelings on Archeops, I've gone through so many useless arguments where people claim that Archeops would be really broken without defeatist... Those people just happen to have ZERO proof, they exaggerate how powerful its stats are AND it's just horrendous how uneducated those comments are. Archeops wouldn't get anywhere close to ubers without defeatist, those arguments are extremely bothersome and they have no thought process whatsoever.

The reason why delibird has Insomnia and vital spirit us because on Christmas eve kids have trouble sleeping because they're exited and want to see santa and delibird is based off Santa

"Dip'n'Dots of Doom" *dies laughing*

a hyper specific counter point to the damp argument on Jellicent, foresight and I think ouder sleuth are both moves that allow normal and fighting type moves to hit ghost type pokemon. now, that isn't to say that it works very well because the damage is not very effective, but it still can be done.

USA: oil prices arent that high Oil prices:*air balloon fan rotom*

You: true-aunt The actual pronunciation: tru-ant. They literally only gave it to Durant to make a pun and you ruined it

There's a fable about a lazy grasshopper and a hard-working ant, and how their lives get different because of their work ethics; some variations of the story just have two ants, and I think that's where the idea came from for Durant.

I would joke about your outro being a Jedi mind trick but it did push me to complete the galar dex including dlc

12:45 Fun Fact: Sunflora has a higher base physical Attack stat than Pyroar. Pyroar: 68 Sunflora: 75

As much as you say that Flower Gift is poopy, I want to believe that there is some crazy Competitive trainer that managed to reach a top cut or win a regional using a super combo of Groudon and Cherrium (Groudon can summon sun and benefits the most from gaining more Attack and Special Defense).

So this was released on my birthday 2 years ago and then the literal day later, I subbed to this channel!

Flower gift, I love that ability I had a Kartana with Flower Gift in an ultra moon randomized nuzlocke, along with a drought Gyarados & Kartana swept pretty much everything

Plus/Minus also let you benefit from Magnetic Flux and Gear Up in doubles (+1 to both defenses and +1 to both attacks respectively). Being able to Cosmic Power and/or Work Up both Pokemon on your side of the field on top of the Plus/Minus synergy can get real crazy, especially with Role Play and Entrainment opening up your partner options tremendously (I've seen somebody run a doubles strat with Mega Charizard Y getting Plus from a Plusle, and then throwing around Plus boosted, sun-boosted, Helping Hand boosted STAB Heat Wave, an effective 500 base power attack that hits both opponents, after only a single turn of setup). Being primarily useful in the doubles format =/= useless. Using Damp to prevent Explosion can be useful over immunity-ing the hit and letting them faint, because if you trap something that you otherwise wall completely, they can't Explosion out of desperation just to get out of the unwinnable matchup and prevent you from setting up a sweep. They get to just sit there and watch you pile on whatever ridiculous setups you want. Same if you trap something that wants to set up for its team (hazards, screens, trick room, etc.) and blow up to get off the field. It's like the move Grudge: it's worse than Destiny Bond on paper, until you find an extremely specific setup that can buy you truckloads of momentum to totally clean somebody out. Like if you have a Rock/Ground opponent and you can Grudge away its Rock option, it stops being a threat to Flying types and could become setup fodder, and that free time could give you enough room to click the "gg" button. Very specific =/= useless. And Moxie Pyroar is covering up a weakness, not doubling down on a strength like other Moxie users. Like how Rotom Heat is using Levitate to cover up a double weakness, while Carnivine is using Levitate to cover up a resistance. See, if you pick something off with Pyroar, even if the KO comes from a special attack, then both of its attacks are roughly even, and it becomes much harder to just plop a Blissey in front of it and laugh in Pyroar's face, something that non-Moxie Pyroar is much, MUCH more vulnerable to. Especially when you have Moxie and Wild Charge to threaten Water types that would otherwise wall you completely. And if you can score a second knockout, Pyroar hits HARDER on the physical side than it does on the special side. Flower Gift is good on Cherrim for basically all of these reasons. It boosts physical attack because THAT ONE is the one that Cherrim needs boosted, so it's not totally helpless against special walls, AND juicing up your partner in doubles shouldn't be totally counted out, especially if Cherrim has Helping Hand. Flower Gift + Helping Hand hits harder than Pure Power, and that's not counting the boost to fire moves from the sun, AND Flower Gift is also basically a free Light Screen. It's very specific, but can be absurdly powerful in that specific context. Sorry for the giant wall of text; I'm a bit of a Pokemon scientist, so these are the things that jump out at me. Most of the rest of the video is reasonably on point. Even with Swords Dance, Iron Fist Ledian is a joke. Slow Start takes entirely too long to get going when Regigigas ALSO loses access to Rest and Protect, so it can't stall for time AND needs to switch out to Heal Bell away Toxic because it CAN'T get its act together otherwise (with Protect and Rest, it would probably be "okay". Not "great", just "okay"). Levitate on Fan Rotom is just there for consistency, so it ends up being redundant. And Illuminate having NO effect in PvP is just stupid.

2:53 "it's my favourite fossil pokemon" Lord helix wants to know your location

Please make a video with Top 10 Useless Move. Love your vids Michael.

Plus and Minus ability rework idea; Plus raises both allies’ attack and special attack by 25% when paired with a Pokémon with plus or minus, Minus raises both allies’ defense and special defense by 25% when paired with a Pokémon with plus or minus. Both abilities stack, so it can be mixed and matched for high attack, high defense, or mild both.

tbh archeops doesnt care about its ability, since it gets oneshot anyway. - It was part of the metagame in b/w-times, cause acrobatics with air gem.