Oh my god, this is the PERFECT video format in my opinion. I loved you breaking down the thought process of the sample battle as opposed to the live commentary. I feel like I understand Medicham much better now. Great work!
@@PatrickArcato Nope, just trying to be positive and encouraging for once in my commenting life ☺. I know Jimothy has been experimenting to figure out what people like best, so I figured I'd throw my hat in.
It may be an upsetting truth, but Spoink should see what he has the potential to become. Perhaps with this knowledge he can prevent what was to come...
One pokémon I wish had better offensive stats was Electabuzz. Pretty good 105 speed, STAB Thunderbolt for Skarmory and non-Swampert bulky waters, access to both Ice Punch and HP Grass for Swampert and the Dragons, and Cross Chop for Ttar and Blissey, it would make it for an amazing mixed attacker if it just had a bit more offensive capability. It's not like it would be broken or anything with Dugtrio around.
@@warcriminalyes Electivire also has an additional problem: it’s actually slower than Electabuzz and loses out the 100 benchmark. 105 was an amazing speed tier back in Gen 3, and back then the power creep for offensive stats wasn’t insane like it is today, so just a bit of improvement to Buzz’s offensive stats would go a long way in making it a more credible threat.
@primosdofelipesmith.2242 in gen 3 most likely, but gen 4 with the special split, it was just underwhelming once people understood how nothing it did. It just didn't fix the issue of anything sadly.
outrunning celebi and jirachi with static ability, a decent support movepool like thief, toxic, light screen, thunderwave+ firepunch coverage and the hp of your choice is absolutely great too. defensively, the mono electric type is utterly amazing on top. Just a bit more horsepower and it could be soooo good.
@@sketchydude8431 Medicham gets Zen Headbutt which is just psychic type iron head. Also, 252 Atk Life Orb Pure Power Medicham Zen Headbutt vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Great Tusk: 330-390 (88.9 - 105.1%) -- 31.3% chance to OHKO
@zdelrod829 Talking about in gen 3 All moves are physical or special depending on the type, not the move. So in psychics case, all psychic type attacks are special. It wouldn't be until the next generation where Medicham could use the physical attack Psycho cut.
I've always thought highly of this pokémon, but recently it seems that the general community believes medicham is one of a select few UUBL ranked pokémon that deserved to rise up to OU.
Thank you Jim, i’ve been running a lead Choice Band Medicham for weeks now and people need to know. There’s little it gets walled or has to switch out by, it’s a smaller more reliable slaking imo
I used this thing on my Ruby playthrough team, and it was insane. Substitute + Bulk Up was crazy for sweeping Sidney, Phoebe and Glacia. I then used it in Unbound. Its mega form combined with learning drain punch by level up made it a potent threat in sweeping many midgame boss battles.
Tiny detail, but at 6:50 it might've been more clear to say "Medicham becomes more threatening" rather than stronger. I could imagine someone, somehow, thinking that Medicham magically gained more Attack there.
Medicham is one of my favorite pokemon. I used to run a Salac set when I played Gen 3 back in the day. I think Medi is one of those Pokemon which really shows all the parts of Gen 3 that make it such a diverse and interesting Metagame, odd ability with even odder stats but clearly shows potential when people who dont understand it fully would think it has none. It has alot of depth to it and shows the addition of abilities and the positives and negatives of the EV and Nature systems to make diverse sets and teams.
Words can't express how much I love using medicham in any teir it's legal in due two being able to McFucking destroy any defensive mon ever, especially in Gen 9 ND OU as it is easily able to murder stall as most stall teams in the metagame run mon weak to it's Stab, for example, blissy, ferrothorn, toxapex, Chansey and gliscor with ice punch all just DIE because of of Pure Power. Against offense fake out and bullet punch allow for Mega medacham to revenge kill threats like iron val, mega lopunny and low health tusk and ogerpon. Mega medicham's ability to crush stall and annoy the hell out of offense is brilliant and allows it to be useful in many matchups in just one set, but this isn't the only set it can run as medicham's expansive movepool allows it to specialise in certain matchups that it might struggle with, such as running taunt + thunder punch to beat dondozo and corvinknight, or running sub to avoid status from mon like rotom. Due to gholdengo's somewhat recent ban from National Dex OU Mega medicham has been able to more reliable as one of it's biggest roadblocks have been removed and really most meta shifts and bans have helped Medicham, for example, dragapult was one of the biggest threats to Medicham on offense but it got banned a while back, sneasler which with a defender boost from grassy seed or electric seed could live fake out and kill Medicham with dire claw or with psychic terrain not dealing with priority to begin with, Even gambit a mon with no business switching in and threatening Medicham still can because sucker punch does a ton and Medicham was glad to not have another priority mon that can revenge kill it. I could keep going on about how much I love Medicham in ND OU but it seriously is one of the mon which just feel so fun to play with, I might edit this later but I might as will make a report on Smogon forums about Mega Medicham. (And after all that still BL)
Medicham is also my favorite gen 3 Pokémon and my 3rd favorite Pokémon overall save for Horsea and Weavile. I remember getting one in Ruby that I still have on my SoulSilver cartridge. High school random GTS battles were so fun and it won me many matches.
Another positive: It color when shiny is blue. It fits on blue offence. I made an offensive team with blue and yellow pokemon including shiny Medicham. I reached 1574 at the ladder. This puts me at the 166th place at the leaderboard. When I passed a sub to my Medicham, my last opponent swapped to his Celebi, taking 60% damage from the focus punch and going down in two hits.
Medicham is such an epic pokemon. Its mega form was one of my favorite pokemon to use back in gen 7. The extra speed and attack were massive and you could beat so much with it.
Medicham is my favorite gen 3 pokemon (outside of little cuppers). I only have brief experience with competitive, but it's been so satisfying getting the focus punch predict right. I usually use lum as I can eat a t-wave or spore and score a knockout.
Imagine if Pure Power doubled Special Attack instead of physical Attack and Medicham had both Huge Power and Pure Power as options meaning it could be either a demon on the physical side or the special side depending on the ability
Something I've heard before that'd be interesting is that Pure Power should be converted into Doubling Sp.Atk, given to some mons thar need it, and Medicham gets both Huge Power and Pure Power!
People who wish for this have very poor appreciation of Pokemon's strategic design. Pokemon battles are interesting because the counterplay for physical attackers and special attackers do not overlap. Physical attackers are dealt with intimidate and burns, while special attackers are dealt with snarl and assault vest. If there is a special intimidate or a status that lowers SpA instead, the battles will feel a lot more same-y and boring. (side note, this is also why almost all priority attacks are physical, because the intimidate switch in counterplay is possible). Asymmetry creates the difference and the difference is what makes it interesting.
@@flutter-mane Well just because the battle system works well asymmetrically doesn't necessarily mean *absolutely everything* has to be asymmetrical, people want a special Huge Power equivalent not to mirror Hugh Power but as a genuine buff to a known list of pokemon~ Gigalith, Probopass, and a few others have a lot of Special moves they'd like to take advantage of and have dex entry/lore reasons that'd have such an ability make sense on them! Medicham would also appreciate the set variety of having both versions of the ability and it'd makes sense for it to have both!
@@ExcalibeonSwordofEeveelutions You have to keep in mind that special attackers are inherently stronger than physical attackers, because it's more difficult to debuff them. That's why we have seen Pokemon giving buffs to special attackers via sheer force or adaptability rather than an outright huge power (lower multiplier). Also, "making sense" is what leads to broken stuff, a lot of casuals wanted moves like rising voltage and expanding force on the Tapus because it "made sense" but Pokemon very smartly didn't give them those synergies. Having missed opportunities and redundant stats is part of how they balance the game (they are not always successful but we can see the intention behind it).
@@flutter-mane Perhaps a weaker version within a 1.5-1.75 ranged stat boost to Sp.Atk? The attacks are asymmetrically balanced with physical having more spammable strong attacks and great utility in weaker attacks all with more counterplay making physical attacking more dynamic, while special attacks have stronger mid power attacks (85-95 vs 75-85) and usually more coverage all with less but still common counterplay making special attacking more consistent. But Huge Power/Pure Power is just such big niche to otherwise weak mons that it's basically unfair for there not being a special equivalent, worst of all there is even an item equivalent of such a big stat boost in the Cubone line's Thich Club!
@@flutter-mane Plus you say making sense leads to broken mons but come on, look at the potential mons I've mentioned. Gigalith and Probopass? How bad could they be with a Sp.Atk doubling ability, especially with the power creep that is your namesake?
Gen 3 is one of those gens where even BL pokemon can sometimes be pretty good, even in the tier they're dubbed "not a staple in." Example: Hariyama is UUBL, but on terms of usage in D rank its actually ranked above some OU pokemon.
I’ve never heard the words “kindhearted” “innocent” and “spoink” used in the same sentence before lmao take my sub, because that young swine must be protected
I suppose the number of mind games Medicham allows for is perfect given its half Psychic typing, even if it apparently doesn’t use it directly most of the time.
I remember using medicham in my first Pokémon xy play through with max attack and life orb and he just one shots everything even if you’re resisted it doesn’t matter also I couldn’t mega evolve it
It'd centralize the metagame on finding ins for aero to howl and just hoping it won speed ties. So if it got dd and there wasn't even the speedtie counterplay it would be ubers without question
@@rileydurfee4403 i was thinking of stuff like suicune and pert but even those just get worn down by hp flying and EQ over time, yes DD Aero would absolutely be banned
@spiciestbirb Yeah, doing some calcs a plus one max atk aero has a 30% 2hko against swampert after spikes. Granted, you're not guaranteed to have 3 layers up, but that being one of the "checks" would be nuts
Blissey Skarmory Suicune Are some of the CHEAPEST mons in Gen 3... So I trick them with a Choice Band.... But seeing this I might have another strat to rid myself of those Walls....
