How a Bad Legendary Pokemon Won a Tournament 

First also big fan wolfe pls heart the comment

Couple of times you have interchanged the spDef stat to Def stat . so the boost is 100 to 150 not 125 to 187.5

​@@blahbah9254the def stat he shows is not the base stat, it's the defense at lvl 50 31IVs 0EVs

Oh thanks. I didnt know that @@obiwancannoli1920

Hey I'm your old subscriber and I want to tell you my birthday is in March 22 ❤

to be fair, the moveset is quite versatile, just not in terms of typing

Low IQ: Haha, funny blizzard to brrr. Medium IQ: I should optimize my moveset to take advantage of its longevity, utilizing roost and bright power with a strong defensive Tera like water to let it stay on field and optimize its evasion. High IQ: Haha, funny blizzard go brrr.

Weak aura: I am in peace with my coverage and utility STRONG AURA: 4 STAB ICE MOVES BABIIIIIII!!

One of the reasons Wolfe won one of his most recent tournaments in the final match was him electing not to overthink and just click the strong move with the strong Pokémon. And it worked

Curve bell meme

Does that mean there is now way make the blizzard miss in snow except for flinching

@kINg_Of_yOuTuBe__ Yes, the only way to stop it, is to make sure it never goes off in the first place

Minimize mfs: 💀

Does Detect cause it to miss or it bypasses that as well?

​@@vallar57 it wont hit through protection moves, no. anything after the protection is a binary "nope" - its not simply reducing the attackers accuracy to 0% for that turn. Just as blizzard in this case has a binary "yes", rather than being set to 100%. So yeah, detect works as normal, since it has priority over blizzard still edit : It used to have a small chance - i dont think that was intentional though. it was patched a few gens ago

Also made me remember I'm an old bastard

That quote was so incredible that it froze me, it was really chilly....

Articuno was my first legend I caught when I played Fire Red as a kid. Exploring seafoam islands and finding it was so cool, it’s nice to see it finally able to do something in VGC.

Such a corny line, I love it

Articuno was really good in gen 1...

"I'll throw a straight right jab at him, but I'll stop short just before I hit his face. I'll throw a straight right jab at him, but I'll stop short just before I hit his face. I'll throw a straight right jab at him, but I'll stop short just before I hit his face. I'll throw a straight right jab at him, but I'll stop short just before I hit his face. I'll throw a straight right jab at him, but I'll stop short just before I hit his face. I'll throw a straight right jab at him, but I'll stop short just before I hit his face. I'll throw a straight right jab at him, but I'll stop short just before I hit his face. I'll throw a straight right jab at him, but I'll stop short just before I hit his face. I'll throw a straight right jab at him, but I'll stop short just before I hit his face. I'll throw a straight right jab at him, but I'll stop short just before I hit his face. I'll throw a straight right jab at him, but I'll stop short just before I hit his face. I'll throw a straight right jab at him, but I'll stop short just before I hit his face."

Yeah I watched it after and was still hyped lol "CMON ARTY YOU CAN BEAT THE MONSTER"

It should also be added, Day 2 was absolutely nuts. So many weird Pokémon, strange team comps, crits, misses, and the day even started with 2 sheer colds. Everything about the stream was hype, and the Articuno was the cherry on top.

@@Endershock1678I absolutely agree, after all the tornshifu tournaments and then people once again settling into meta teams, watching this regional was an absolute treat, I can't remember the last time i was this hyped watching a regional since recent times.

When they're one trick ponies, but that one trick pony is all it needs to dominate and get good results. In short, it just really works.

It's definitely weird but nothing is straight up immune to Ice type so that's less of an issue than some other types.

Sheer Cold is only technically an Ice move, it's typing really means nothing. Also, Freeze Dry is somewhat unique in that it changes the SE range of the type, getting around Ice's weakness to Water. You could say it's a different "type" than normal Ice (a "coverage" move essentially). The only "doubling up" is Blizzard and Ice Beam, which isn't uncommon. You often see Pixelated Hyper Voice and Moonbeam or Surf and Muddy Water on the same moveset.

To be fair each ice tote move does something different freeze dry is also basically coverage

​@@astridparungao4971 The concept of one trick pony does not even make sense in VGC since a team literally has to work well as a whole to succeed. All the moves being ice type is not one trick, it's just one common trait. Each of the moves has a different function, there just wasn't a reason to add moves of a different type. It's more coincidence than it being a "trick". And this is slightly unrelated but in some games "one trick" is a derogatory term for what is essentially a specialist or an expert, like in a MOBA or a game like Overwatch. It's copium, another bad excuse for losing and not acknowledging your opponent is just better ("they're not better than me, they're just a one trick". "I can play 3 characters at a mediocre level so that makes me better than someone who can play one at a high/decent level".)

Agreed meta forget weather exist this season

The glasses are also funny

A funny bird with 4 ice moves wearing glasses

That sound effect when Articuno put on the choice specs was hilarious

A bird with all damaging moves of just one type

Dude's been playing Pokémon for years and still gets salty about this stuff. Smh.

​@@erickmiranda6717the king of liking his own comments?

@@controlcon i'm gonna like your comment so it looks like you did the same

@@controlconYes... 'Cause they're really important for me...

​@@skkadoot9533professional hater

They buffed multi attack to 120 base power in gen 8. That's probably it but it's something

Woah it's that guy from Fry Em Up's comments!

@@BlazingJ972 That was really it. I know it’s supposed to be an inferior Arceus, but they didn’t need to make it awful in pretty much every way!

@@HoverMelon2000 Really??

Fixing Silvally’s ability to learn all of the Pledge moves instead of just Grass Pledge would be a neat upgrade

Maractus would’ve swept. This is absolutely outrageous

😂😂😂😂😂

Really?

Cold blooded killers

Its was pretty cool

nice

Straight to jail

They're not keeping it. They will come out with something new so you buy the next game. Also, the design choices for Teras are the worst I've seen in years. Like Fire Teras getting a chandelier in their heads and Fighting Teras getting just a fist...

@@erickmiranda6717 Well Pokemon is primarily designed for children, and they might think the goofy hats are funny or cool. Also, the did keep megas when they introduced Z-moves so it's not impossible. Terra just can't be the primary gimmick focus.

@@erickmiranda6717 I can want something, even if it's unlikely to happen. Like the other reply says they kept megas around for the z-moves portion so it's not impossible. I also wonder how ogerpon will work without terra (they could just drop it though tbf) The head ornament thing is just you being nitpicky. I care more about the gameplay effects than the hats being works of art, plus you never know if they might improve it if they actually kept it around since it would be worth investing more time into it if it'll be around more than just 1 generation.

@@lilithkitsune7152 So? I can answer the same way you did. I can be nitpicky for a game that has nothing going for it. New mons look like ass and the game is boring to play with no soul put into it. I guess the competitive side gets benefited from the gimmick but they're definetely gonna drop it. They could keep it, but the new gimmick is always gonna negate it or else it wouldn't be a new generation. Learn to get different opinions than yours. specially on the internet. You sound too flakey. Also, GF doesn't care about waht YOU want.

@@numberhunter62Leaving Teras in will mean nothing with the new gimmick. And the "Tera hats" are just mediocre design, there's no way around it. It's not the only case within Gen 9 and you know it.

Tyranitar got less usage in Gen 9 though.

Yes, but that would require Wolfe to be able to acknowledge the existence of the first three generations.

I mean, Gen 1 was a lawless wasteland that barely held together. Plus, that version of Articuno was still poor, if somewhat stronger in Special, but the insane Blizzard of Gen 1 is doing most of the heavy lifting there. 90% accurate with 30% to freeze, back when freeze was ENTIRELY a death sentence because there was no practical way to thaw? That's not the bird being good, that's the move. Don't confuse/combine the two to mean the same thing. Not to mention that version of Blizzard only exists in JP versions of Gen 1, so the rest of the world never saw that. But yeah, take a single, brief, very specific instance, and you're technically correct that Articuno wasn't ALWAYS terrible. The best kind of correct. You really showed us.

WE DONE WITH THE 90s

True that. "Never" means "not even once", and Articuno used to be amazing in Gen 1, before the Special split into SAtk and SDef, and Blizzard's debuff

Bro if it werent for Hail here or Tera it wouldnt be shit. Blizzard on Articuno's meaty 125 special is what got it. Thats combining a tool with its own quality. Articuno is also generally good/decent in Gen 1 OU to this day so idk what he did wrong lol ​@andrewjones1395

Comedy

Not so related but... In contrast, I just watched Wolfey again after a long long while and just realized that I was actually subscribed (⁠･⁠o⁠･⁠;⁠) To add context, I rarely subscribe to a channel unless their content is consistently something I like or I just wanna support em so the list isn't too big and I can navigate better lol

​@@onebear6504cool story bro

A classic

Good times. Good times...

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Errr… no, it still wouldn’t have.

It would have been slightly better but not really that much of a difference.

Did articuno just have a higher stat total than the others? On Pokémon db it just says "in gen1 acticuno had a special stat of 125" and I can't find anything else about the change (on the first handful of results of Google which is all I cared to check) I also think it would have been broken if it kept mind reader. Online forums disagree but I think mind reader sheer cold is busted, especially on a tanky Pokémon.

@@teno777 Yes it would.

@@jblen Articuno had the lowest bst at 485. Zapdos was 490 and Moltres was 495. In gen 2 they were all increased to 580.

Wolfe mentioned it in another video. I'm just happy to see the bird having the success its having! ❄

Mr. Busta himself

Articuno is also notably quite strong in the earliest competitive Pokemon format ever: Space World Poke Cup (1997). Articuno's Blizzard is the strongest unboosted Special attack in all of Gen I, tied only by Zapdos's Thunder, but unlike Thunder, Blizzard had 90% Accuracy and since it was JP Red/Green, it also had a 30% chance to freeze. Plague Von Karma has an excellent video about it (When Pokemon was a Televised Esport), highly recommend checking it out if you've any interest.

I mean, it might provide some results but still relies in luck, most serious players would rather have something consistent

Was looking for this comment 😂

CALLED IT A FEW SECONDS BEFORE IT HAPPENED, the sheer cold. Let’s see if he talks about lock on.

Lock on... You can just switch out- basically a single target perish song that forces the user to waste two turns while the target can just bring in incineroar

I don’t get this take. Reg F has an insane amount of diversity, with well over 70 or even more Pokémon reaching top cut of regionals since the beginning of the Regulation. Even to the point where players in Beastcoast or other creators like Moxie is saying this format is too decentralized. This tournament is a great showcase of this. In the top 8, we had 22 different Pokémon, and just outside the top 8, we had Pokémon like Roaring Moon, Okidogi, Iron Boulder, Annahliape, Whimsicott, Goodra, and Volcarona in the top 16 alone. Even teams with 3 or so similar Pokémon often played very different archetypes.

Have you been living under a rock

It has all the freaking right brotherman

That thumbnail is so cringe is not even funny.

Gen 1 it's amazing gen 2 it's mid gen 3 it's bad Gen 3 introduced many amazing pokemon and gen 2 introduced strong pokemon that become better in gen 3

You're missing more pieces of the puzzle to Articuno's Gen 1 viability - Freeze is an insta-kill and Special was one stat. All the Legendary Birds had 125 Special stat, including Articuno, meaning they could all hit equally as hard. Steel wasn't in the game yet and Fire didn't resist Ice yet either, meaning the only Ice resists were Water and Ice. Fighting an Articuno in Gen 1 was especially scary since the only Rock types with any viability were also part Ground meaning they ate massive ish from Blizzard. There was no way to thaw from Freeze other than getting hit by a Fire type attack meaning your frozen Pokemon were as good as gone. All these combined to make Articuno an absolute menace in the meta, and basically every strong trait I mentioned was eradicated by Gen 2's balance changes.

Not to mention that, in the original japanese Red and Green (but not international Red and Blue), Blizzard has an insane 30% freeze chance, which makes Articuno even better. Although surprisingly, it still ends up being the worst legendary bird, and the second-worst ice type (beating only Dewgong).

Articuno gets Haze, Freeze Dry (although to be fair, Regice gets thunderbolt for water types) and benefits from tailwind (a move it can learn btw.). And then there is also that sheer cold nonsense. Plus, it is still plenty bulky on the special side. I guess it is just easier to fit into a team. (as regice not only needs snow but ALSO needs trick room). Oh, and Regice also doesn't have snow cloak.

Base 90 speed is really relevant against a lot of mons, while mid compared to flutter mane ogerpon urshifu etc it's still faster than a LOT of the metagame, flying typing let's u wall landorus I, rillaboom, weakens close combat from urshifu and iron hands so if your likely to burn tera on Articuno anyway having the option of being ice flying rather than pure ice is extremely useful not to mention regice does not have the ability to dodge 80% of 100 base accuracy moves making articunos bulk and expected favourable variance far exeed that of regice (12% chip heal every turn vs 80% chance to dodge a tera fire Ivy cudgel ohko is WAY worse of an ability)