BAD Legendary Pokemon... 

Legendaries will have the most menacing designs but have the stat distribution of a gen 2 Pokémon

hearing “only 100 special attack” and “130 special attack just isn’t enough to do much damage” really tells you how damn bad power creep is getting

Ah yes, the four Tapu’s Tapu Koko Tapu Lele Tapu Fini And Rillaboom Not forgetting the four treasures of ruin either Chien-Pao Ting-Lu Chi-Yu And Incineroar

I know that Wo-chien bit hurt, Moxie. It's okay man, the pain gets better with time.

I understand that I don't know anything about Smogon singles but being able to drop to a tier that's functionally just "Stinky" is objectively hilarious.

We can’t even call out articuno anymore, it completely smashed the allegations last week

Imagine watching a pokemon match, the trainer brings out Azelf, the legendary lake guardian, who, when combined with it's other 2 counterparts can create chains that can reign in the gods of space and time, and they just explode.

7:09 And for clarification, because this is a common misconception, Slow Start halves the total and not the base stat. So, instead of hitting slightly harder than Tinkaton, your physical offense is now outclassed by Dedenne for the first five turns.

Imagine having a niche that's just exploding

It's funny seeing people who grew up with gen 1 finding out that articuno is useless

Idk how else to explain it, but the script for this video feels like a Rube Goldberg machine😂 very smooth transitions between topics

I loved when Tapu Bulu said: “It’s Buluing time” and Bulu’ed all over OU

Personally I think solgaleo lunala and necrozma should retroactively do a koraidon & miraidon and just call them “legendary ultra beasts” and say ultra beasts are just a unique group of Pokémon

Only way I see bulu competing with rillaboom is if they give it spirit break (Doesnt miss and adds stab support by nerfing opponent) and sucker punch (strong priority, isnt stab but its decent) Also you have no idea how sad I was that type null being one of my favorite designs ever, perfect eviolite stats didnt get recovery or a decent movepool. Not even body press iron defense in swsh. At least with silvally they could always give it the legend plate treatment

I’m not gonna lie the “Give that boi body press” joke was hilarious. Poor sweet Regice.

You know a pokemon is bad when one of its only reliable sources of damage is being a kamikaze 🗿

That articuno slander didn't age that well:D

I specifically really like Azelf not only because I think it representing willpower is pretty neat but because it just goes out and explodes. Now, exploding isn't original. Pokemon like Forretress do so in smogon but the funny part to me is that Azelf is part of a Legendary trio tasked with keeping deities at bay when the time comes....and its purpose is going boom.

10:58 Guess who just won a regionals...

I think it would be interesting to see a video on why certain Pokémon fell off. Like with Regieleki, it got the insane ability to terastalize to stop its issue with having almost no moves that weren’t electric type yet it still is a niche pick in part by nerfing its ability by .20x

I had a funny strategy with Guzzlord where I had trickroom, stockpile, shuckle guard split, and passed contrary with swallow to give Guzzlord the maximum defense possible. Then my trickroom user had charm to raise it's attack since I gave it contrary. The biggest taunt bait team in history, but it was during an event where everyone had all legendary teams. It was a silly team and I loved it.

I wish sillvally at least had base 105 across the board. type:null should get current sillvally's stats plus recover. Such cool designs, such cool lore such mid stats

POV: you come back to this video after articuno wins a regional 😅

When I attended both the Brisbane and Melbourne regionals this season, I ended up bringing an Uxie too the side event at both events. Instead of forcing it to be Cresselia lite, I made it a setup sweeper with the goal of dealing solid damage while taking nothing in return, since you can use Mystical Power to eventually get the damage output. In Reg E, I used Wolfes Snorlax/Kommo-o team as a base but swapped the trick room component for Uxie. Clefairy ended up being a crazy good partner as it let Uxie stay healthy and farm boosts, and when Uxie had a bad MU, Kommo-o gets a free win. In Reg F however I used Calm Mind Uxie and Comfey, which made Uxie much harder to kill and it was easier to keep it healthy for its sweep. In MUs, it couldnt do anything, I found DDance Gouging Fire to complement Uxies weaknesses. Ended up getting 12th at Brisbanes Side Event and 3rd at Melbournes with the guy. So I gotta say, if Cress wasnt busted, this guy has sauce

Kinda hope that when we get to Gen 10, a lot of these Pokemon will get the love they deserve with new movesets, abilities and/or stat adjustments to make them viable

Grass Glide Rillaboom was the most unbalanced part of gen 8, like the base power nerf was sooooooo long overdue.

10:15 well that didn't age well lol

It’s kinda fun to try to make some of these work… except regice. That thing is just an abomination.

I really missed these videos

I’d love to see a memory buff on Sylvalley.

I loved the way he cleanly transitioned between each mon

In your previous video on this topic, you brought up that Zamazenta is an amazing support Pokemon, but ends up bad because restricted slots are for the Pokemon you support, not the Pokemon that support. If you were allowed to use any six Pokemon you wanted, do you think Zamazenta would start to see a lot of usage for its supportive capabilities? I think it would -- this format would be very similar to Smogon Doubles Ubers, where Zamazenta is one of the most used Pokemon, and for good reason I hope a format like SwSh series 13 happens again where Zamazenta can shine (I'm not sure how much it was used during series 13, but I believe a large part of why it wasn't used that much is because of Zacian beating it and no Body Press. But now that Zacian has been nerfed, Calyrex-Shadow, which Zamazenta beats, is (probably) the strongest Pokemon)

One thing I'd do to buff Ice Types would be giving them a couple more resistances. Maybe have them resist Water but be weak to Scald, similar to how Waters resist Ice but are weak to Freeze Dry. And also have them resist maybe Grass and/or Flying. Not the best buff, but it's something.

InSANE transitions in this video man! Huge fan of the super edited content

I like to think that Legendary is a broad term that contains the likes of Mythicals and Ultra Beasts

Ummmmm actuallyyyy ultra beasts are technically legendaries also what is a restricted Pokémon

Silvaly got me my mustard shirt from the dojo by swords dancing and plate swapping between the challenges lol. I love that guy

For some reason the thumbnail made me really emotional, good job artist I feel like i might cry why is this making me so emotional😢😢😢

14:56 is a banger line

ive found great success with uxie. spaming mystical powers after using amnesia with leftovers (if against sp atk), then tera fairy draining kiss when i need to, regaining a ton of health from the sp atk boosts from mystical power. 4th move either being thunderbolt for good type coverage (especially because steel resists psychic and fairy), or ally switch for even better defense. usually go t bolt because it already has amazing natural bulk- 130 of each defense and special defense is insane pair it with a fake out, thunder wave, parting shot grimsnarl and an intimidater to reduce the damage received so to it can stay healthy and continue to give itself sp atk boosts. its base sp atk (75) is very low for a legend, but after 3-4 boosts even draining kisses will start to one shot

"articuno is one of the worst legendaries of all time" Articuno in the Utrecht regional:

0:12 Seeing "wake up ethan" really sent my system into shock lmao

The thing that annoys me about Silvally the most is the fact they made all its stats 95 instead of just making it 100 across the board like a bunch of other Legendaries. Hoping and praying for my boy Silvally to get more buffs.

I have actually been having a lot of success in reg F with Fezandipiti and Archaludon. Tail slap with loaded dice activates stamina boost up to 3.5-4x. Light screen patches Archaludon's low Sp. Def. And then I run tailwind and icy wind for speed control. Icy wind poisons a lot of the time.

Don’t know I’m busy spoiling my self

I find it really insane how the Paradox Pokemon feel much more like legendaries than the actual legendaries.

I’ll tell you who WILL be bad in the future, Terapagos. When Terastallisation gets removed, and Terapagos loses access to its Stellar Form, it’s gonna be one of the most mid legendary Pokémon out there

14:53 hear me out, Guzzlord on trickroom with heavy slam, heat crash, dragon rush, and crunch, I was a menace with this team on showdown, he had a check for every Tapu and technically out sped them all, and using the least viable ultra beast and using it to KO a Tapu caused mental damage to my opponents. Guzzlord my beloved.

That thumbnail is so good, the yellow and pink being SpongeBob and Patrick and the green for squidward 😂

13:22 That snail *needs* to Win a Local Championship 🐌🥇

Shout outs to Silvally being the only non-starter pokemon to learn a pledge move (and only Grass Pledge for some reason). I remember a guy topped a regional in gen 8 with a Water/Grass Pledge offense using Inteleon for Water Pledge Edit: found a recording of the team in question: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yhM5Y2gD6qg.htmlsi=JPp3fgSU3veW1Ah8

lol talked shit on articuno and then it popped off

You could honestly make the case for putting Solgaleo on this list: its base Attack of 137 is great, it has respectable bulk, is immune to Intimidate thanks to Full Metal Body and has a very colorful movepool including recovery in Morning Sun and utility in Helping Hand and Trick Room. The problem is that it is wholly outclassesd by Dusk Mane Necrozma. Incredible bulk further bolstered by Prism Armor reducing supper effective damage, is far stronger sitting at base 157 Attack and can boost with Dragon Dance.

Articuno must have heard this, because its part in the video really poorly aged. Only a 2nd place? Heck, he won just a few weeks after a big tournament xD

during the snail section i thought i was hearing stuff when meteor heard was in the bg, man im too adicted to sonic adventure 2

Babe wake up big edited vid dropped

Never thought I’d hear Misty Terrain described as “Quirky”, but after that I just imagined Misty Terrain is just, Misty’s Bedroom, and the only effect it has on battle is how loud it is.

raikous purpose is imo to be a weatherball user. thats cool too cause you can have the savest rock move or a strong fire/water/ice move. but to be fair idk where it can use that potential well.

I remember Azelf having Gen 4 viability in practice, but I can't recall any results sadly. Otherwise, yea, pretty much the video. Even Articuno. Though I still love it very much. ❄️

While not vgc, but instead draft, Silvally is very strong if Arceus is banned (and it is in most.) Infinite typings you can choose based off the opponents roster+your team. I'm currently running one in a draft league, and my Fire Silvally straight up got 4 kills in one game (Multi Attack, Tera Blast with Tera Grass, Swords Dance, Dragon Claw)

Then there are the legendaries that are too powerful. Edit: The steamed ham memes are everywhere!!

The lake trio has some sort of niche in gen 4 battle tower, with Uxie and mespirit being strong trick leads and azelf being a strong special attacker that can out speed with explosion and focus sash

Guzzlord would be much better if it got a Head Smash-like move that would let it take advantage of its gargantuan HP to soak up recoil.

We actually really need the tapus cause they could stop urshifu which is a issue currently as the best counter is flutter mane which is a Pokémon that has some big weakness

when he said to double check the subscribe, i thought "nah, I'm in the good side here". I was not. :') I am sorry, uncle Moxie, now it's done :')

I feel like an appropriate buff for Okidogi is to make it so that Guard Dog not only gives Okidogi a buff when intimidated but it also prevents it’s partner from being intimidated

I remember using Raikou on my series 10 Palkia team. It had an AV with thunderbolt, snarl, scald and something else. I think it lived Lando-I’s earth power.

Its so interesting to see the differences between singles and double. Seeing Torn T being here is crazy considering how it is in singles

Bro the transitions between mons are crazzzzzy

I just subscribed. Also this is the first time I've watched one of your videos.

Gotta say, the transitions onto each pokemon was flawless, bringing up the next one as a comparison

Mythical were different at one point but you can get alot of them in game now. Its more that they got assimilated by legendaries.

Brutallt roasting the lake trio sent me into hysterics! LMFAO

3:36 best part frfr

I think Regice may actually have a really useful niche in snow teams or just in general. It's bulk ain't bad at all, and yep, it's typing holds him back, but then again, Tera. Also, 100 spA isn't that bad either, it's workable as a long term poke, specially in VGC. I don't see lt having any success in Singles tho. Maybe in the lower tiers

Time to start another controversy. Type: Null and Silvally aren’t legendary. They’re categorized just as “Special Pokémon” in the Alola dex

I just thought now that someone sctually had to figure out the freaking braille puzzle without help at some point. And if i didnt like the 4 rewards that much when i got it in the easy way, just imagine that person. 😂

How to counter wicked blow/surging strikes: covert cloak + fairy/dragon Tera. Or just a fairy/dragon type. Covert cloak is here since that stops secondary effects. So the crits don’t happen. As for regigigas + weezing, this also applies to slaking (I think?).

Articuno was used today on regionals in Utrecht

considering the 135 sp.a + speed combo flutter mane technically is a miraidon if you squint !

I like that a couple of these mons best options is to just exploding 😂

Honestly, that ice horse deserve to be bad after what it did in Gen 8.

Meteor Herd playing in the background is so blessed

I found Azelf to be useful on my Esparta w/ Speed Boost skill swap Regigias team, as I could use U-Turn as Esparta after skill swapping, then switching to Azelf. Azelf, with a normal gem and using protect on Regigias, Azelf could nuke any opponent that wasn't rock, ghost, or steel.

Yo keep the descriptions of moves on screen longer please, i keep having to run that back cause im on like windows 95 for my brain

i consider ultra beasts and paradoxes (which might not be correct) to be "sub-legendaries" because they're presented as legendary in their game stories, and they have the stats to hold up

double checked my subscription, and i was subcribed!!!!!

Uxie may be useless in VGC but it was a Mon I used A LOT in Gen-7 OU and UU! Annoyingly bulky Mon with a Ground immunity and an even more annoying move-pool with Stealth Rock, T-Wave, Screens, Yawn, Toxic, U-Turn, Foul Play, Heal Bell, Memento It's definitely was REALLY passive but it could do some stuff other Mons couldn't

Would love to see who you think would be good in an upcoming restricted format of Gen 9.

It's funny, cause Raikou, Azelf, and Tornadus T are all solid in singles. Tornadus T is still the weakest cause of how good Landorous and Thundurus are historically, but it's still good. Raikou is a solid special attacker, and Azelf is the 2nd best suicide lead in the format after Deoxys.

As someone whos favourite pokemon out of their respective groups are raikou, bulu, and wo chien, this is truly a tragedy :(

The Silvally part hurt, cus on gen 8 I basically used it in every team to some success. He is a funny guy

My favourite legendary are the legendary angels (idk if it is called that)(Uxie mesprit & azelf) and my favourite tapu is master bulu In the loyal 3 fezantdipidi is my fav

Im sick of trying Tied of crying Yeah im smiling But inside im * anime guzzlord cry *

I subscribe bro because I love pokemon so much also I love your review and analysis

Fun fact: Guzzlord is a 5 star raid in Pokémon GO, which usually is Pokémon that's strong enough that you absolutely need 3-5 people to bring it down. Most players can solo Guzzlord, or do 80%+ damage alone. If you're going to rely on HP for bulk, you have to go the Blissey route and max it out and give it a typing that's not going to be obliterated by a sneeze from a fairy.

Articuno is like one of the best pokemon in japanese Red & Green but it also had an actual Special Attack and Blizzard was completely busted in that game (especially in a 3v3 format)

Silvally (and I guess Type: Null by proxy) is what you get when you look at Arceus, and decide: what if I take away _everything_ that makes this thing viable. Recovery? Gone. Priority moves? Gone. Calm Mind? Gone. Freaking Earthquake? Hope you don't want to run a physical set (even though Multi-Attack is physical and it _at least_ has Swords Dance - take that, Solgaleo!).

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I think that the lake trio were used in gen 4 as rain setters. Specially uxie and azelf (if I'm not mistaken)