I love how for April fools day smogon did the MS paint drawings for the Pokemon and terapagos’s first form was just a text box that said “why would I draw this?”
I’ve only started getting into it later last year, so the first time I saw Iron Valiant become sideways star man with the word SUS underneath, I thought I did something terribly wrong
I love how Pelipper stays relevant. It has mid stats surrounded by power creep and barely even looks like a pokemon, but it keeps placing among the top tiers. I love it Edit: That Pelipper looks like a normal animal is part of the comedy. The other top tiers look so obviously like game characters that a normal animal amongst them is funny to me. It wasn't really a dig at pelipper's looks
I love that during the small amount of time that Terapagos was legal in singles Lokix spiked in usage because it could tinted lens first impression for neutral then follow up with a fighting move
I'm just upset that it wasn't Mewtwo, or Arceus, but rather THIS dopey ass looking thing is the first Pokemon to have ever canonically broken out of a Master Ball
@@dawk7 That is true, Game Freak did play around this and not break what the Master Ball was intended to do, but its still a big deal that a pokemon is, by its own power, able to break the bound to its Poke Ball once its caught. This is due to Cyrus' research that suggests Poke Balls intentionally and consistently weaken the pokemons power to be able to be used safely and not endanger everyones lives. So to see a force so powerful to be endangering after the power reduction is like... woah. Cyrus also implies that most if not all major Legendary Pokemon have this kind of power, (they had to use the Red Chain so the Gen 4 legends power wouldnt be weak) its just that this is the first time having it hit so close to home.
the tortoise on it's way to nearly obliterate a child in the area zero underdepths (there's no one anywhere close so the crime would likely remain undetected)
Shoutout to a really weird mechanic you missed: You know how when you use Tera Stellar, the first move of each type gets a damage boost? Stellar Form Terapagos doesn't have the "first move of each type" part - it ALWAYS gets the boost.
Terapagos having absurd coverage makes sense designwise, but why the heck does it not learn any Ghost moves??? Shouldn’t Terapagos at least know one move of every type? It even gets Bug Buzz but no Shadow Ball ☠️
I know Tera Starstorm is more focused on the Tera Stellar effect, but remind that without tera, Terapagos has fucking STAB on that shit, so it hits hard even before Terastalizing
When a mon can run hyper beam in its last slot it's either because it already does it's job so well that you may as well slap it on there for the nuclear option or it's so bad you have no other choice
It'll never cease to amaze me how funny is the combination of a girl with probably ADHD talking about their hyperfocus hobbie with the visual shitpost to make the perfect sandwich: pineapple pizza. Just to name a few of my favorites: -This one -Iron Valiant my beloved -Powder -Ultra Beasts -Clodsire of course -And Ogerpon my silly :3
@@PatrickArcato I'm not the one to talk about this, but yep, she is. Voice training can be a bitch. And sorry if I sound a little aggressive with this, but if you were confused with the voice, that's fine. But if you were to be transphobic, I'd advice you to leave this channel. For everyone's mental health.
Stellar Form will be gone by next gen. GF clearly has no interest in carrying over forms that are dependent on a gimmick like Ultra Necrozma. Sure it'll still be good but losing Stellar Form will be a big hit for it.
Eh I’m not sure, the DLC established that the tera phenomenon is now also in Kitikami (Japan) and Unova, so is spreading over the Poke-World. It sets it up so that future games in regions other than Paldea could also incorporate Tera.
Its funny because its going to suck in gen 10 just like when Necrozma lost its dragon form, except terapagos will have *slightly* better usage because it has super-cracked multiscale
Teraless terapagos is gonna be really interesting, but also he has great stats and a really cracked and spammable move so maybe he's gonna be a dialga origin type thing where he's not even good enough for RUbers while being slightly too good in OU. We'll see how much powercreep gen 10 has I guess. And if he's even in gen 10 at all
@@ElectricWindGirlFriendI mean zacian at least has the benefit of being zacian, terapagos basically lives and dies for his guimmick otherwise he's basically just a mon with slightly above average stats, one really good move, and a bunch of utility that'll get him banned from OU even if he doesn't do nothing in Ubers and VGC (unless they turn him into an unrestricted then he might pop off) I can see terapagos being good if he's in gen 10 before the inevitable gen 10 dlc comes but once that dlc comes out he's probably washed
You forgot to mention the extemely important fact that, because of Normal form's lower HP, the first time Terapagos enters the battle it takes a whopping 1% less from Stealth Rock This thing really is way too powerful
I think terapagos is quite different from tusk (which is falling off a bit imo). It is REALLY important as a toxic spreader, and bulk on both sides makes it useful in many more situations than tusk, which is all physical. Absolutely a great spinner and metagame threat though
i feel like, one tera goes into the abyss in gen 10 (if they let the turtle past dexit), terastal terapagos will probably be quite a solid OU mon, as from what i remember, it was the stellar form that pushed it over the edge
mfw the broken anti meta mon is broken the thing that made me laugh was how at its announcement everyone considered it "mid" and "not good" because it requires a tera to function lol
A tad bit unrelated but I wanna applaude your correct pronounciation of "Terapagos" - it seems a lot of people don't realize the name is "Terrastellized Galapagos," as in the island where Darwin first observed adaptations in Finches, leading to him developing his Theory of Evolution - I'd think more Pokémon fans (see also: Game Where A Core Mechanic Is Literally Called Evolution) would know this lmao. Anyway, this thing is gonna be so fun to use in Go Battle League, can't wait for Gen 9 in GO,. it's gonna shake up the meta so much
What is especially funny about Terapagos to me is that it and only it gets to keep the permanent tera boost, but it will never run any coverage in VGC for that to really matter, it just has a stupidly spammable signature move
Its a bit limited by the fact that it feels like if you're gonna blow your tera, it's gonna be on this guy otherwise why bring him in the first place kind of deal. Granted in VGC it's fine since hey each team has 1 legendary anyways and I feel like using your tera on your team captain is gonna be the choice 95% of the time anyways. For singles though he just feels like he has a bit too much commitment you need to make and build around him. Still good but it does hurt a bit when you have a big beacon on you from round 1 saying what exactly you're gonna tera, so the opponent isn't quite worried about other mons tera suddenly screwing em off of a kill or something.
Why on earth does Terapagos have a base form with actual stats that it gets sent out in? It would be like Miraidon being sent out in its low power mode and then transforming, or Ogerpon being sent out with no mask then putting one on.
tera shell makes you resist whatever move hits you regardless of type when at full health. multi-scale makes you take half damage at full health, but type matchups still affect the damage. ex: at full health, tera shell terapagos will resist a hit from close combat; but if it had multi-scale, it would take normal damage from close combat instead of 2x damage. tera shell is better for pure defense, but multi-scale works better if you want to use a weakness policy
I'm hosting a bo3 vgc reg g draft league and was able to draft Terapagos, its week 4 and its gotten 22 kills, definitely banning it next season. Thought it would be fine to keep but since Koraidon and Zamazenta are not wide spread its becoming too hard to with.
@@clumpofblankets165 yeah, I didn’t say it doesn’t get the stellar boost, just that it loses STAB, which is really unintuitive considering the only other move that works that way is stellar tera blast, and for some reason the boost is permanent instead of single use only on terapagos. It’s not as relevant in singles but the fact that it loses STAB and becomes a spread move means that it goes from a 120 bp normal move with STAB that’s 180 bp to a 102 effective bp move counting the stellar boost, significantly less than a comparable 120 bp spread move that gets STAB like astral barrage or glacial lance which end up with an effective neural power of 135 bp. It’s worth pointing out the damage trade off.
@@olafmikoaj3121 that’s not how stellar Tera works. You don’t become stellar type; you retain your original type, normal in the case of terapagos, your defensive profile stays exactly the same and you gain a Tera damage boost overlayed on top of that type. I’ll quote bulbapedia “When a Pokémon Terastallizes into the Stellar type, it gains an attack boost for every move type, but only once per type; 2× for the Pokémon's original types and 1.2× (4915/4096) for every other type, including Stellar. After a move is used, no other moves of that same type will receive this boost from being Terastallized. In Tera Raid Battles, all moves will be boosted in this manner without limit. In its Stellar Form, Terapagos similarly retains this boost at all times.” Notice the part where is says including stellar? Starstorm’s type changes but terapagos’ doesn’t, so a single target neutral star storm drops in base power from 180 counting the normal type 1.5x STAB multiplier to 144, because it’s now only getting the stellar boost. This mechanic is extremely weird.
@@ElectricWindGirlFriend major W, no self promo, but I put Miraidon as Gen 9s strongest legendary Pokémon in my recent vid and I’m glad I got a co-sign from you
@@MrTheHawk But you asked for "best" legendary, not the strongest. And best can be defined in a couple of ways, not just from pure strength or its competitive viability. Regardless, as an owner of Violet, my answer is still Miraidon.
Could you use its more defensive ability when unterastalized and then tera to take advantage of field control, or is the defense boost better overall from the get go
no it's useless, terapagos when it is in its tera form has basically double its HP, it's not gonna change much at all 'less you face a fighting type tho if you plan to use a non damaging move and you know you are gonna be targeted only once then it still is technically better not to tera, but it doesn't change much at all and it is far from a "free boost"
I feel like Terapagos would be fine in smogon singles if they just banned the Stellar form in a similar vein to how they banned Mega Pokemon all the way back. Why they banned the entire Pokemon is beyond my comprehension, but eh
It’s not good everywhere but especially in VGC it’s really fucked up. Terapagos has some big issues, but the tiers where it’s good it tends to be REALLY good
