Gigantamax Pokémon BATTLE ROYALE Explained! 💥 Gnoggin X  

Hey! hope you watched this first: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bvaLHbLTWuI.html It 's always WAY cool to work with @TerminalMontage and you should watch everything he and his team do. :)

Not gonna lie, "What killed the dinosaurs? THE ICE AGE" Before dropping a planets worth of ice on someone was amazing. Well done

Like all the others, this was REALLY fun to work on! :D

I love that Hatterene just sits there having a panic attack and then just unleashes divine punishment on everything around her. I've loved Hatterene and have kept her on my team since I caught my first Hatenna early on in sword. Honestly, if it weren't for the fact that she moves slower than dirt, they would be terrifying.

the "You Fool!" line is what I would yell when I used Urshifu against Dynamax Lapras, so I'm pretty pleased that others feel the same

to be fair, saying "what killed the dinosaurs? the ice age" is much cooler (pun intended) than saying they got crushed by a giant space rock, got carbon monoxide poisoning or starved

I find it so funny and sad that Garbodor realized that it had nobody who loves it and committed not live via Gengar. We need justice for our stinky boy :(

I honestly thought there were hidden references behind Tyranitar, Dragonite, and Golurk not getting Gigantamaxes besides just "They should've gotten one" and I thought it was a reference to the unaired Pokemon episode with a Giant Dragonite (Aka Dragonite not getting an official Gigantamax), a reference to the gen 8 Pokemon anime where Goh catches a very large special Golurk (But it's still not big enough to be Gigantamax) and the Tyranitar was either just a simple reference to Godzilla or a reference to the large Black Tyranitar in the manga which was super powerful (And probably also a reference to Godzilla anyway) or I could be wrong and they're all just Pokemon that didn't get Gigantamax forms even though they would be cool

I dont know if anybody mentioned it already but as you know Alcremie evolves when holding a certain item and spinning in place thats why it came out of a curve Ball. I just found that little detail neat

3:55 “She is cake. Snorlax NEEDS to try to eat her out… of existence” That was pretty dang fun

Imagine this entire match happening in 3 turns before Dynamax runs out

For those wondering, in the official battles also called VGC, the best Gigantamax Pokémon right now are Coalossal and Venusaur with Charizard, Rillaboom and Blastoise following close. Both Urshifu are very good too, they just tend not to Gigantamax that often. Many people tend to agree that, as the metagame develops into double restricted Pokémon allowed (you can use 2 of the hardest hitting Legendaries per team), Venusaur is probably the all-around best Gigantamax Pokémon there is.

Something that wasn't mentioned, but could actually be significant with sandaconda is that it gets sand veil. Sand veil increases its evasion in a sandstorm, and given the proper item, and setting up with minimize, it becomes unhittable.

Melmetal’s defeat really felt like “ maybe if we make it a reference nobody’ll notice it was too easy”

"Snorlax needs to try to eat her out... Of existence." Nice save.

5:53 “Cream melts, and cakes burn, and Venasaur is on fire.”

18:08 I think Lapras dont die because it have water asorb (Heal 1/4 HP when hitted by a water type move) and urshifu use surging strike (A water type move) so Lapras heal instead of die.

Snorlax trying to eat out alcremie is not something i expected to hear today

Honestly, good for Lapras, getting the respect they deserve. An unproblematic fav is ever there was one.

I want to see the 3% situation where snorlax wins by doing nothing

5:27 "Most of his gigantamax energy go to his ball"

This is actually an incredibly close approximation of what the darkest day could have been like if the doggos and their heroes didn't intervene in the canon story of sword and shield.

What makes urshifu a legendary Pokémon isn’t is inherent status, it’s the fact it made itself a legend through rigorous training and adopting 1 of the 2 styles single strike or rapid strike

I love the difference between Singles, Doubles and All v. All. In singles Lapras and Urshifu-R aren't the best by a good margin compared to other options, but in a format with more pokemon they have the ability to synergize with others and drastically get better.

"Snorlax tries to eat her out" ... "of existence"

Fun fuct: all the screens move in doubles reduce damage by 33%, the damage gets cut in half only in single battles, but it's still very useful

You always do such great writing for these. Seeing the first one on TerminalMontage was the thing that got me into your channel in the first place. I sure love to see the crazy lore/Pokedex analyses

In smogon competitive singles, Urshifu (S) is actually stronger, being in the Uber tier while Urshifu (R) is in OU Also, the ability bypasses protect. The move only bypasses stat changes (which aurora veil counts as, so it doesn't really matter)

6:54 Not only that, they were also impenetrable to cannons. These were used when wooden boats were the most common warship.

I liked the Matrix joke at the end and Snorlax´s "Nom" when eating Alcremie, but the funniest to me was the Mr. Freeze line :D

This was a LEGENDARY collab

8:57 "It has an entire drum set made out of trees that it uses to control giant tree roots underground with music, which it does here to restrain *Coalossal* " Ah, yes. My favorite water/rock type Coalossal.

"Meowth ruins the economy with its signature move" Even in the explanation video I can start bursting laugh

Charizard gets a lot of love from the creators and large amount of players But man Pikachu is so much worse. To the point where even though it is not the final evolution it's gets a special Z move and a Gigantamax but Raichu is forgotten

3:54 Dear Arceus, thank goodness you added the “of existence.” Things were about to get demonetized.

Funny thing is if Single Strike Urshifu wasn't so defensively vulnerable to those fairy moves, it probably could have won against Gmax Lapras as its signature move isn't resisted by Nessie there.

I love how Alcreamie's examination is very suggestive lol She's got that cake, Snorlax is into her and wants to "eat her out...of existence" lol Not sure if it was intentional, but I love it ^^

The only complaint I have about this video is he calls him "Dr.Freeze" instead of "Mr.Freeze." other than that, hella good video

To be honest, before the ball of ice exploded, I was expecting to get a DBZ-esque thing with Urshifu holding the ball of ice back and Lapras needing to detonate it manually. I'll still believe that's what happened, just unseen.

Copperajah: needs to gigantamax to level up mountains Meanwhile normal ordinary Tyranitar: *Levels mountains with ease*

These battle royale videos are so fun, i hope next gen pokémon also has a gimmick so we can get more of them.

One of my favourite things to do with G-max Lapras is pair it with a Leipard. Have the G-max Lapras use perish song as max guard and Liepard use copycat. Liepard will perish song everything but the lapras.

3:50 'Of course when he sees Alchremy, who is cake, Snorlax needs to try to eat her out of existence.....' Remove the rest of that sentence and I think I've seen that one before

5:43 "and also *roasts* whoever it hits" 💀💀

19:38 Yeah that is basically Gigantamax Lapras' whole gimmick, being a massive massive tank

So I'm wondering, why didn't setting Venusaur on fire explode the whole city in the world's largest powder explosion?

I always underestimate how much data goes into these animations, and am do in awe of the hard work you guys put into the writing, this was another great addition to the series

10:24 I always thought that gmax replenish was it shaking its belly to get a berry off of its tree

15:50 When free bird kicks in

“Snorlax needs to eat her out” “Most of the Gigantamax energy goes into its ball” -Lockstin 2022

On the Urshifu-R vs Ursifu-S discussion, I don't know about other metagames, but in singles Ursifu-S is vastly superior. Water/Fighting is better defensively, but has many top tier pokémon of different types it must watch out for, namely bulky water and grass types (Toxapex, Tangrowth just to name one of each). This also means it has no option in running coverage against both, since for example Thunder punch hits water types but is resisted by grass types. However, Urshifu-S is basically only resisted by fairy types, and it has both Poison jab and Iron head to deal with them. This means that while both Urshifus are tasked on wallbreaking and pivoting around, Urshifu-S is much harder to deal with defensively and thus much more efficient at its job. Thus, why Urshifu-R is currently OU while Urshifu-S is Uber. Of course, this is just for singles metagames and you have other reasons to choose Rapid over Single. Just wanted to comment on this since you said that most agree on fighting/water being vastly superior than fighting/dark in the urshifu context, when that is not the case in some of the biggest (unofficial) formats aka smogon singles.

Omg, I forgot that! I was like "Wait. I TF2? The Heavy had a line like that?" And now that you said it, I remembered the 90s Batman movies and was like "OH YEAH! I'm DUMB!" lol

6:55 Now THAT was *definitely* on purpose! lol

3:55 "Snorlax needs to try to eat her out...of existence" Nice pause there lmao

I love that whole dinosaur ice age thing, it and that whole video was so entertaining and fun to watch, and to tol it all of theres the jokes, gags, references, its just all around a really great video. 👍

Love both the vids! Really good job! But if I remember right, Lapras’ veil is only 30% instead of 50. Just a bit of info!

I was kind of expecting the pollen to combust into a massive fireball because of charizard.

You should've had a pokemon explode from eating alcremie's missiles. In the anime she feeds pikachu one of her missiles and little ash pikachu 'gigantimaxes' into chonkachu, but its just because hes fat from the missiles, he didn't actually gigantimax. Its actually really horrifying xD.

I like how this analysis not only goes over the explanation of these events occurring, but also historical/pokémon facts and references

Coalossal:it is good day to be giant man! Dreadgnaw:not anymore

Uh, shouldn't that giant cloud of pollen create a massive dust explosion when exposed to flame (ie a giant flaming ball being kicked directly into its epicenter)?

I think you forgot to explain how Lapras was able to do that last attack on Urshifu and freeze half the planet.

Hatterene: guys please stop fighting Other 'mon: *keeps fighting * Hatterene: *This world shall know pain*

garbodor: "bro you didn't have to do me dirty like that, i don't wanna live no more"

I think it was a missed opportunity to have Cinderace's flame ball cause a powder explosion when it hit Venusaur's pollen cloud, like a giant grain silo.

It would've been cool to see the gmax moves at least a bit more. Well, it was cool to see that even like that they still were able to show gmax meowth and gmax urshifu signature moves. Also rillaboom fuses with its drum set when it uses gigantamax. Some interesting details about the gmax moves is that gmax eevee can make everyone from the opposite sex fell in love and gmax pikachu can paralyze even ground types with gmax volt crash. I know that they technically don´t take into consideration movesets for these battles and focus on pokedex entries but the effect of some of the gmax moves should've been portrayed for the battle royale because it´s a big part of what makes them special. Even if they did show some of them.

“Garboter has no loved ones” was the Most depressing line I have ever heard. Someone give that man a hug… wait…

I don't know why, but corvaknights Gigantimax form is actually one of my favorites. Pokemon with tiny buddies are my favorites, and those drone feathers are cool as heck

I very much appreciate the Golurk appearance and desperately wanted it to get a Gigantamax form too

I loved the Godzilla vs Kong references for Rillaboom, Drednaw and Duralodon. Outstanding content as always!

Hey man, dynamax is allowed in some official formats (some seasons the dynamax was even not allowed) but yeah, Lapras at some point was one of the most common gigantamax used

3:56 has that load bearing "of existence"

15:00 "Well, she's been slowly having a meltdown!" Me too Hatterene, me too. Oh, also, Lockstin calls Drednaw Coalossal.

"No, don't shoot the gorilla" 9:34 Too soon 😭

“What killled the dinosaurs, the ice age! That’s a quote from Dr. Freeze” this kills me inside

You just gotta love how many thought was put into the making of these. I have watched it like 8 times and still could not get everything.

The bit on Gmax Urshifu vs Lapras gets a detail wrong- Unseen Fist doesn't ignore the damage reduction from Aurora Veil, it juts hits through Protect (and Max Guard).

“Snorlax need to try to eat her out”-gnoggin 3:34

3:54 "Snorlax needs to try to eat her out" lmao that funny

"which is why snorlax tries to eat her out........of existance" this quote here.

That Snorlax comment was the heaviest double take I’ve ever done to a video

Hey lockstin in the smogon meta game single strike was vastly superior to rapid due to it having the ability to hit almost anything with it's fighting or dark stab (both of which are good offensive typings) to the point that it got banned from over used unlike rapid strike. Just kinda throwing that out there

Cinderace be like “My fireball is gone!”… Stares at water until crushed by Snorelax. 😆

10:12 it goes down mothra style. Sound slime mothra in every film she’s been in except 1992

LOL! I didn't know Drednaw's neck extension came from the Anime! Just like I didn't know Golurk can turn into a CANNON. I wish the games could have the time to flesh these things out in their animations! Great video! =D

So one point you actually get very wrong is the Urshifu breakdown. Despite the 4x weakness to fairy, Ursifu -S is the most powerful and most used between the two. If you go to Pikalytics Dark type Urshifu is used the second most behind Incineroar and has the highest win rate out of every Pokemon in 2021. Dark type are more useful in regards to not being able to be targeted by prankster moves which is huge because a lot of popular doubles mons like tornados, whimsicott, and grimsnarl cannot touch you with status moves. Also the immunities and weaknesses for both are actually irrelevant as both has such poor special that even resistance doesn't help much. And both being weak to max airstream is the general concern anyways. In single battle Single Strike Urishfu is just straight up banned in Smogon. Wicked blow deals more damage then surging strike and the only thing that resists single strikes dark/fighting combo is fairy. It was so overwhelming in singles that it was sent to play with legendary Pokemon lol. When the two where first introduced, everyone initially thought that rapid strike was better because we only looked at the 4x weakness to fairy but we ignored everything else lol.

"Snorlax needs to try to eat her out... of existence." I don't like how that was worded one bit. Great video.

I loved both the animation and How it was explained! I wonder if they will do another collab on a Regional form battle royale after Pokemon Arceus is released.

When I saw Durludon and Dreadnaw lock arms I immediately thought: "LET THEM FIGHT"

I loved how Machamp had Ultraman sounds effects. So cool, Ultraman is really underrated and hopefully more people will support them in the light✨✨ BIG ULTRAMAN FAN BY THE WAY

12:47 serves as a good Pikmin reference as well!!

4:31 “today we are playing bullet hell!”

I always love seeing this series get updated and it makes the gimmick that Game Freak puts in actually worthwhile if we have these to look forward to!

Out of all of the little details, my favorite was when Drednaw took down Blastoise like a dreadnought, personally.

lol i love hatterene going absolutely mental and destroying almost half the gygantamax population... then getting absolutely wrecked by machamp. :D

18:30 currently in 2022 with the restricted meta, The Top tier Gigantamax is Charizard due to its Synergy with groudon as well as being able to destroy Zacian

But the real question, in an all out war between the enemy factions? I think team plasma or maybe team magma just based off how bullshit camrupt has been.

I support new regional gimmicks only so we get more of these vids

"Snorlax needs to try to eat her out... of existence." That pause had me for a split second.

To me, the Lapras and Charizard face-off was a reference to Gameciel and Dogoran, the 2 kaijus from Yu-Gi-Oh that appear in interrupted kaiju slumber, meaning they are supposed to fight one another. It HAS to be a reference