Fixing Gen 5's Worst Pokemon 

Maractus doesn't have a sand-related ability, despite living the desert. So it's constantly ravaged by sandstorms.

"Mom how bad did power creep get" "someone gave maractus quiver dance as a buff in a video and called it a subtle moveset change"

Someone pointed out to me that Druddigon looks like a dragon drawn by a small child (large blocks of bright primary colors, body parts that are simplistic yet weirdly shaped) and honestly, I find it kind of charming when I think of it that way.

Give Beheeyem Instruct. Ally attacks. Beheyem MiB memory flashes them. “Bro you forgot to attack” Ally attacks again.

Stunfisk should stay a special attacker, it's just way more fitting for its concept, and we already have a physical Stunfisk in the Galarian form. Also levitate is extremely unfitting because Stunfisk is supposed to be a trap in the ground for the regular and Galarian forms

The fact that Maractus didn't get an Paldean form with an evolution in Gen. 9 was an huge miss opportunity.

Giving Heatmor DefiANT when Durant gets TruANT actually works extremely well since GF already used a pun for it’s rival’s ability

Fun Fact: Heatmor got the signature more Fire Lash in Gen 7...despite not being natively available in any Gen 7 games Heatmor is also probably mot known for being one of the moe desirable NPC mons in Gen 8 Raid Battles

Maractus has consistently stayed in my top 5 since introduction. I don't know why, I've hardly ever used one or anything but there's something about the design that is just so appealing and charming that I can't help but fall in love with it

I actually really like the idea of giving Beheeyem a 4x bug weakness. It reminds me of War of the Worlds and how the aliens ultimately succumbed to microscopic organisms. Fits pretty well with Beheeyem's theme.

3:01 maractus should have been the physical version of liligant since they’re both grass dancers. Imagine if it got dragon dance and needle arm

bro gave maractus quiver dance and stored power but said the broken part about giving it simple would have been accupressure? LMAO

This whole video was worth it for the "Defiant" joke. Well done.

Stunfisk's French name is "Limonde", which might be the mashup of "limon" (silt) and "limande" (limanda), but is pronounced as "l'immonde" which means along the lines of "the filthy" or "the squalid" (or more generally "the ugly") 😅

Instead of shadow tag i think it would be cool if beheeyem got a new hability that sumons gravity on the field for 5 turns like the terrain ones, it would be really cool pair this with hypnosis. I also think that claydol should have the same hability

Awesome vid man, although maybe rather than Levitate you oculd give Stunfisk Storm Drain. It does live in the swamp and learn more than a few water type moves

I’m rather surprised Beeheeyem doesn’t learn Cosmic Power naturally

Beeheeyem is far from being forgotten personally. Young me kept imagining a psychic private eye in a crime drama alongside detective Gumshoos against a Honchcrow mob.

I use Maractus every single gen 5 playthrough. It's my favorite Pokemon and I have no explanation as to why

It SUCKS how Heatmor is found so late into the game as it’s my favorite fire type….i literally had to breed one just to use it during a playthrough….

I'd honestly give Druddigon the dual typing of Dragon/Rock, as it's literally the Cave Dragon Pokémon.

I actually find druddigon to be pretty underrated design wise. I with it had an evolution or even a mega, cause he has a lot of potential when you also look at its stats and abilities

I feel like Druddigon has the unfortunate circumstance of being a run of the mill Dragon type. With most being impressive legendaries and pseudo-legendaries, the more average dragons like Druddigon and Altaria never have a chance to stand out. It’s unfortunate because Druddigon is promising, just not by comparison. Great vid Woop :)

2:28 hydro pump!? Wtf she lives in the dry desert. She dosent have the water to spare . Her thirst causes her ability: water absorb

8:33 Psychic/Dark unfortunately has less resistances than either mono Psychic or mono Dark. It has a grand total of... 0 resistances and 1 immunity, to Psychic... Which mono Psychic already resists lol.

I can see these pokemon get stat boosts or new moves and abilities when this game gets a remake. It's pretty much a good chance to do a fresh start with pokemon players again where everyone starts from point one again for modern players

I believe giving Heatmor the ability Defiant makes more sense when you remember that Durant has Truant as a hidden ability, so they can defy the true ant

Honestly, I think being psychic dark would be really bad for beeheyem since it’d fold like a house of cards to a single u-turn, which is suuuper common. 4x weakness to bug already holds back Hoopa unbound, which is a way stronger Pokémon so I feel like it’d make beeheyem even worse unfortunately 😵‍💫

I watch your videos for the background/music selection it’s very calming and soothing with your voice, thank you ❤

For stunfisk I’d probably not give it levitate as it hides in the ground, I feel like Orthworms ability, earth eater would be more fitting

I feel like Heatmor could lean even more into being a slow, imposing force vs Durants. Alongside increasing its bst (Durants rely on numbers to beat Heatmor, so them having the exact same bst doesn't really make sense), its Speed can even be lowered to less middling values. A stat spread like 95 HP, 118 Attack, 81 Defense, 105 Special Attack, 81 Special Defense, and 45 Speed (525 bst) could boost its defenses even more while also making its physical Attack be more of a focus, coinciding with its eventual signature move being physical (and also because its physical movepool is a bit better, with boosting moves like Curse/Hone Claws). It would also see more usage on the occasional Trick Room teams. Another thing I noticed is that Heatmor, being an anteater, has large digging claws and access to moves like Slash and Night Slash. Though giving it Sharpness probably wouldn't be likely, since Game Freak most likely just wants to put more focus on its tongue instead of its claws.

Not sure if you play Pokemon Go, but it's funny that is changes my perception of Stunfisk as it's very good in PVP there, especially the Galarian one.

Giving heatmore defiant is hilarious😂!!

Wait people hate Druddigon's design? I always thought it was a nice balance of tough and cute.

The fact this video is the shortest one in the series is a proof that gen 5 Pokémon games are pretty well made

Let me say that i aprreciare your videos a lot and since i like editing games, some of my ideas were in line with yours lol For my part i most use the trivia and origins of the pokemon For heatmor i gave it speed boost because it has a car muffler incorporrated into its design, gave it the steel typing as well and flash fire for its second ability, stat wise i increased its spa and its speed as well as its bulk a little bit.

I would have given maractus round as secondary type, the added immunity to sandstorms makes sense with desert region its found in. It doesn't learn a lot of ground moves sure, but that could very well be tweaked alongside the other moves you gave it.

Honestly I never understood when people hated the “run out of ideas bad designs” one of my favorites to this day is Vanillish. I remember in Moon my favorite that was basically my starter replacement was a shiny Vanillite. Cute lil guy

Honestly, though i agree with you in your changes to Maractus, i would really just refer any buffs to Maractus to the Radical Red Hackrom. There's many Pokemon who got buffed there, but Maractus slips under the radar even though it EATS. My Maractus pretty much carried me through battles she had NO BUSINESS being in. If you're curious, they added Grassy Surge as a possible ability and gave it Sappy Seed (i think it was the name of the attack) dealing damage and activating Leech Seed at the same time. They buffed it's defense and attack, but left it's Sp. Atk the same, so it could go either way for damage. It was a pretty decent Tank/Stall, which for any Grass types not named Amoonguss/Ferrothorn/Bulbasaur is a quite high bar to achieve. This didn't make Maractus Broken, but viable, which i think it's best for it, and really i'm now really fond of Maractus because of RR.

druddigon just needed dragon dance and roost to be effective. let druddigon be the grounded mono dragon hybrid between salamence and garchomp.

One idea I had in mind for buffing Heatmor is because it’s design and behavior of eating Durant, I can see it being a Fire/Steel type like Heatran. Sure, it would make it weak to Fighting types and even weaker to Ground, but it would give Heatran resistances to Normal, Flying, Psychic, Dragon, Steel, Fairy and an immunity to Poison. And for Steel type moves it could learn via level up, I can see Heatran capable of learning Bullet Punch since he has a few punching moves, Metal Claw for obvious reasons, Iron Defense to make it bulkier, and because of it’s tail is like a muffler while his head looks like its made out of metal, Heatmor’s late Steel moves that it could learn could be Iron Tail & Iron Head. What do you think? And also, what are your thoughts on Serperior, Samurott and the three elemental monkeys?

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Give Druddigon Dragon Rush so it has a STAB option that's boosted by Sheer Force

I find it funny how Heatmor’s victims (Durant) basically outclass Heatmor in every single way (other than Heatmor’s type advantage). I feel like that is sort of a funny twist of irony.

I love Maractus’s design. Just a happy little cactus.

Pokemon has been doing better with giving each their own identity, but it is impossible with Pokemon’s format. In a turn based RPG there really aren’t that many playstyles (absolutely not 800+) so most are just going to double up. And stats are extremely important 1 extra speed stat means you will always outspeed, so many different unique stat spreads just make a pokemon bad or a bad version of another. Also moves are a pretty big problem, they try to limit giving every pokemon every move so they feel unique but it often feels clunky or makes pokemon with good moves that much better. A special attacking water type without scald (before gen 9 where it got taken off of everyone) felt like a straight downgrade rather than unique. To make pokemon actually all feel unique they have to break from the turn based style combat in some way (more stuff like trick room but a bit more extreme)

Those Stunfisk buffs would be way better suited for the Galarian form.

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You forgot a few regarding the starters. Servine should have been half dragon, Pignite being half Ground instead of YET ANOTHER fighting Pokémon, and Oshawott be half Fighting.

I started use maractus on a showdown team where i put the worst pokemon with lowest base total stats and low popularity. I use it has a spe atk with sunny day and solar beam + weather ball

Ironic that you posted this since im shiny hunting an Elgyem for my gen 8 badge quest. Is it a bad psychic type? Yea, but also one of my favs from gen 5, if not my fav overall

Heatmor has the incentive to use it that it is cool and awesome and is my precious little guy :D

Drudiggon should get a Regional form Rock and dragon type

I think its important to remeber the reason there are so many pokemon is because not everyones gonna like a design persay but I will admit some of the find locations/Movesets really make it hard for some of these to be "viable" instead of the design itself being the problem. I say this because maractus and heatmor are hella cool imo lmao

Heatmor move fire whip or something is very good. Definitely should be passed around for more pokemon to use. Some of these pokemon definitely needed either. Prevo so the stats could be buffed or an evo like later gens are giving to make them fresh again. Hopefully a remake of black and white comes out to give them another round

12:42 "boo me for that one" Durant having truant makes that ability choice's pun GENIUS

Love Beheeyem's design. The trenchcoat alien used to be my favourite back in the Gen 5 days. I really hope they give it more attention. A new form, evo, whatever-the-heck.

I feel the same about Heatmor as you do with Beheeyem. I think Heatmor's design is really cool, and I wish it was a better Pokémon. Loved the Defiant joke. 😆

I think adding the Ground type would help Heatmor at least a little bit.

I always thought Maractus should have rough skin as a secondary or hidden ability. Touching cacti hurts bro.

Honestly Beeheyem is sorta underrated. Slow, and only moderately bulky? Yeah. But analytic on its 125 special attack makes it hit harder than even Reuniclus, so it has the most firepower of the psychic types.

The intro is exactly the reason why I love Unova and it's is my favorite generation. And it's always so surprising to me that many people dont seem to like gen 5. Why!?

Quiver dance + Stored Power?! My man is cooking that is almost too strong

in pokémon sword, i had a box full of synchronize beyheem

I honestly love Druddigon's niche. Almost all Dragons are impressive or intimidating in some way or another... and then there's Druddigon, a completely skippable pure Dragon-type non-pseudo legendary, just kind of existing in the low echelons of influence. For some reason I just think it's cool that Pokemon had finally decided to just make a Dragon that kind of isn't important, complete with the mono-typing. AND it's in the same generation with Haxorus, which completely dwarfs it in all regards, so you know Druddigon is getting kicked to the wayside by players. It's like Gamefreak just wanted to have some fun when making it, and that's neat. For the record I actually used Druddigon in my White 2 playthrough, carried over after being Egged in the White 1. You really feel how slow and average it is when using it, even if it can hit semi-hard.

Maractus, Druddigon, Heatmor, Beeheyem, and Stunfisk all deserve evolutions.

As a defensive mom moldbreaker is invaluable for druddigon. Roar bypassing soundproof, stealth rock bypassing magic bounce, etc.

A thing I got myself thinking: all of the Pokémon shown could be fixed with an evolution.

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It's funny cause I remember in my first playthrough of pokemon white, I used druddigon and heatmor on my team. Druddigon hit pretty hard and while heatmor didn't do that much in the playthrough since appearing late in the game, it did help against Alder's team which is pretty bug focused.

I would give Beeheyem and some other space related Pokémon (not clefable) a new move: Tractor Beam and Gravity Bomb Both are Power 75, Acc 95 Tractor beam will induce Psychokinesis on the target on hit, Gravity Bomb does Gravity on the entire field.

I actually really like just how much special coverage Sunfisk gets and the Electric/Ground typing has some really nice offensive merits if they gave it an evolution with some real speed. The Dunsparce comparison is pretty apt in that way, as it also desperately wants more speed after the Paralysis nerf. Gen 5 has a lot of stinkers. Swanna is way worse than Druddigon only getting Ice Beam as coverage and generally having an incredibly shallow movepool. At least Druddigon gets Glare, which does make it very useful in lower tier for paralysis spreading.

I really do hope they buff these Pokemon. I have a huge soft spot for all the Gen 5 mons. And with Heatmor being my favorite fire type, I can only hope they consider giving it a buff whether just with stats, an evolution (if possible), or even a mega evolution (though I do think it would still need a buff in its base form if it does get one)

I think heatmor is a really cool design and it would 100% be my playthrough fire type (even with no buffs) if it wasn’t found on fucking victory road

I always wanted them to make a Dragon Fruit inspired Maractus evolution, as dragon fruit comes from cactuses. I would want it to be a Grass/Fairy as dragon fruit is kind of sweet.

God I love the way you make your videos ❤ Keep this up brother plz

I gotta say, I really don't agree with Stunfisk getting Crunch - unless you consider the Regional Variant only, but, even then, Vise Grip (which really should be the basic Steel-type move) would be better - and Levitate, as I think the thing was only shown "flying" in the anime and nowhere else, certainly not in the games; we'd live in a world where stuff like Venomoth would be hit by Ground-type moves but not Stunfisk, lol. I think giving it an ability like Damp or Dry Skin, to tie in with its mud, Ground-type-related part of its design would be better.

If Durant can have truant seemingly only for the pun, then I think that heatmor having defiant for the same reason actually makes total sense

Thank you for showing druddigon some love! I always love the off the beaten trail dragons like Kingdra, Altaria, Dragalge and Druddigon! (I hardly played gen 6 so noivern kinda fell off the wagon for me and leafy sea dragons are too cool!) Also, it's based on Gargoyles, its meant to be a little ugly.

Calling Telepathy and Gluttony usesless abilities is plain wrong. I understand they might not be a better option for a single playthrough, but for competitive, Telepathy ignores partner’s EQ, and Gluttony makes you eat pinch berries faster, which could be amazing if you take like 70% and then get another chance to live

i don't care if this is the best video in the world. i am commenting frame 1 maractus and stunfisk being on there is a CRIME even if they are somewhat forgettable i feel like they're much more notable than the others

I think its funny that 4/5 of these pokemon are some of my favories from gen 5. Its just missing Alomamola. But while i like Beheeyem i prefer Reuniclus more

Maractus is my #1 favourite Pokemon of all time. I could not never forget my dancing spike of happiness. Thanks for trying to give it a nice upgrade, I think you got a good idea there on the moveset improvements!

I love druddigons design. one of my favourite pokemon. Maractus is awesome aswell, but designwise outclassed by Cacturne. Which is also worse than it should be.

10:44 Hi fint. Really, I think I mostly remember Heatmor now for something unrelated to the game anyways.

I always thought Heatmor was related to Heatran in a way Like Phione Manaphy or Carbink Diancie

Pokémon is no different to real life. Not everything is amazing, some things are mundane and that’s cool too. Like these guys ☀️

I’d love to see a more Modern Fix for Older Gen Pokemon video. Like there is no reason why Aerodactyl shouldn’t get Head Smash and Brave Bird…

Giving beheeyem dark type would make it much worse. It would now have 0 resistances meaning it could barely ever switch in and since its slow and not very bulky this is even worse. Cool ideas though

12:42 "Oh, _Brother_ , this guy _STINKS!_ "

I think Stunfisk shoukd recieve Dry Skin. It's an aquatic Pókemon weak to Water type moves

3 minutes in - maractus didn't get any mention of a sound based attack - maracas! Come on!

8:30 *Uturn has entered the chat*

Maractus has a small niche as a FEAR pokemon, since it gets endeavor and sucker punch. But I'm not sure why else you would use it, which is unfortunate since I do like its design.

Gen 5 is a strange generation. It definitely has some duds design wise and battle viability wise. However at the very same time has some of the best Pokemon that have remained some of my absolute favorites. Krookadile, Volcarona, Reuniclus, Braviary. These are all some of my personal favorites and they all came from this gen. Oh and let's not forget, even the early route bug turns into a monster. Scolipede has to be one of, if not the best early game bug Pokemon in the series. But then you have really unfortunate duds like Zebstrika. Like it isn't that bad I guess. It has a pretty cool if not a little bland design, but it's stats leave A LOT to be desired. Gen 5 really swings back and forth pretty hard from having some of the best Pokemon to having many very forgettable mons.

12:44 That joke is awful, i love it

Maractus is one of my favs what? I thought it was generally well known

You ain't talking shit bout Drudiggon

Uhh. . .disagree with Stunfisk having Levitate all bc the one in the anime flapped it's flippers. I'd slap Water Absorb! Also Beheeyem should be Psychic/Steel NOT Psychic/Dark, which the Gothitelle line should had been in the first place.

i think maractus’ visual design is just as good as cacturne’s