How GOOD was Volcanion ACTUALLY? - History of Volcanion in Competitive Pokemon

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@joekewl7539 Год назад

It's absolutely crazy to me how they created a pokemon with one of, if not THE most uniquely contradictory typing of all time, featuring an incredibly robust and unique defensive profile and an offensive profile only specialized dragon types could hope to stave off, AND gave it an amped version of Scald (a move which was maybe the most meta defining water type attack) and I just.. never saw anyone use it.

@IgnitedQuils Год назад

Well Normal/Ghost exists as a very contradictory type and Hisuian Zoroark exists. But still, Volcanion is a very good Pokémon with the Fire/Water typing

@35.tucongtan64 Год назад

It is one of the best Wallbreaker in Gen 8 OU after the ban of kyurem

@joekewl7539 Год назад

@@IgnitedQuils yeah but that's THIS Gen Volcanion was several ago

@danielmaynard239 Год назад

Well, it's a fricking mythical, and not everyone has those

@SaltyTreecko Год назад

@@danielmaynard239 doesn't matter in competitive

@WingedFish66 Год назад

THIS mon should've been the one to get a Water move that gets boosted in harsh sunlight, seriously

@enoyna1001 Год назад

True

@walaceandrade4046 Год назад

Would be cool if they gave it to him in the next update.

@samwill7259 Год назад

One of the best pokemon to have for like. A town, or a city. It'd be basically free power, or at least REALLY good hot springs for tourists.

@iNCoMpeTeNtplAyS Год назад

By that metric, having a squad of pidgeys pushing air or a squad of squirtles shooting water at a turbine would work the same for production of electricity.

@christianp.7675 Год назад

Indeed. In fact, it's well-believed that the locked power plant door in Kalos is where Volcanion was supposed to be encountered, but it and the other Kalos legendaries were scrapped due to a lack of development time.

@Skeloperch Год назад

You could also accomplish that by snagging the nearest fish Pokemon, having them use Hydro Pump, and then having your local Fire Type use Flamethrower. Volcanion does it all in one, but Volcanion is also way bigger than Simisear and Simipour combined, and probably consumes 3 - 4x the amount of food. Plus, it's a lot harder to put down a Volcanion slave rebellion when it gets tired of being the town's energy source. Those defensive stats mean you have to have some serious firepower to put down the uprising.

@deltalord6969 Год назад

I really want a zygarde video now. One of my personal favorite legendaries that deserved its own featured game but never got one.

@MSTGamingTV Год назад

I hope Kalos remake is the Pokemon Z we have been waiting for.

@mandalorianhunter1 Год назад

I hope they take time on it and hopefully it gets put into gen 9 by the time the video comes out

@gillfreddie4100 Год назад

I think zygarde already got its special featured treatment by taking a major role in the anime

@mandalorianhunter1 Год назад

@@gillfreddie4100 the problem with that is that happened to most Legendaries and mythicals. The anime always highlights those mons and ends up giving more back story and lore

@IgnitedQuils Год назад

Zygarde will have an interesting history considering its Gen 7-8 history and one of the best attacking moves in history.

@TheZilla0707 Год назад

Looking back on it, gen six released a lot of really unique defensive mons. Volcanion, Chesnaught, Dragalge, Diancie, Mega Venusaur, Delphox; all of these mons have really unique(and really cool imo) defensive profiles!

@indiradevi8136 Год назад

Mega venusaur not venusaur.

@e-duh3529 Год назад

Venu was mostly used as a bulky attacker, Delphox is a sweeper and Volcanion is most definitely not defensive

@lucapon3287 Год назад

Avalugg too, but it failed because ice type and 44spdef

@TheZilla0707 Год назад

@@e-duh3529 Volcanion has a lot of great defensive traits + stronger scald, Delphox has had many defensively-based niches over the years with wish + protect(mostly to check its offensive counterparts), and Grass + Thick Fat makes my brain very happy

@TheZilla0707 Год назад

@@lucapon3287 The coffee table couldn’t hold its own in competitive 😔

@jalapenobug Год назад

It’s also worth mentioning that hail in Gen 8 was another major reason as to why Volcanion rose to OU, as it was an excellent partner for Arctozolt.

@SuperEljafru Год назад

the fact that it was ever not ou in gen 8 is also just an incredible mystery of its own

@butteredsalmonella Год назад

Fire is a ridiculously underrated defensive typing hampered by Rocks and Earthquake. Heatran is a no-brainer 5-quad-resistant mon but is infamous for being quad weak to Ground and Volcanion here has 3 quad resistances too.

@TheMirksta Год назад

Fire has some nice uses especially when paired with other types but Stealth Rocks are extremely common and Ground is frequently distributed / used coverage so it's a little rough

@yungmuney5903 Год назад

Fire type would be such a strong type if stealth rocks weren't a thing and Grounds and Waters weren't so strong.

@IgnitedQuils Год назад

It’s the second largest resisted type, resisting six. I do agree that it’s underrated and I heard a few say it’s terrible defensively which I disagree with for those reasons.

@PerfectAzrael Год назад

@@IgnitedQuils Remove Stealth Rock entirely and people probably would stop calling fire a bad defensive typing. Fire doesn't work all that well as a defensive typing with Stealth Rock all over the place unless the pokemon is very defensive/built to last.

@soleo2783 5 месяцев назад

@@IgnitedQuils It's not terrible but it's not good. It gives you a weakness to 2 of the best types in the game and stealth rocks.

@eamk887 Год назад

We need a Water/Fire pokemon that isn't a legendary, I want to use that combo so badly.

@luawidi Год назад

Yeah , in the gold and silver beta demo there was this non legendary fire water type seal that shot meteors , if only😢

@buffalot35t1cles3 Год назад

@@luawidiI love the sprite, balancing a lil meteorite on its nose

@pikakip3792 Год назад

@@luawidi oh hey there’s a cool showdown mod that adds that Mon, along with attempting to bring back other cut beta mons

@buffalot35t1cles3 Год назад

@@luawidia meteorite seal mythic or legendary would be amazing having a seal swimming around the cracks of the seabed near the lava

@zacherytaylor Год назад

Like Primarina?

@dillonjj3 Год назад

As someone who has casually followed competitive, this and a few other videos have me really thinking about Hidden Power. Never understood it playing the single player games, but it keeps showing up as coverage until it just got removed from the game. Would love a hidden power vid

@skyshoesmith6098 Год назад

Golden rule in pokemon, at least in singles - coverage is everything! Many HP users in the past have had very poor coverage, and relied on HP to have a serviceable attacking profile. There is also the fact that HP can be carried to counter a very specific problem pokemon, of course. I think HP ice is the usual pick for that, since ice is such a good attacking type.

@redwings13400 Год назад

Hidden power basically lets pokemon attack something that it has no way to otherwise do damage to. If both of your STAB moves are resisted by a pokemon, you can get a hidden power that's super effective against it, basically letting you threaten it when you otherwise couldn't. For example, electric types often used hidden power ice because that allowed them to deal massive damage to ground and dragon types that would otherwise shrug them off. A lot of grass type pokemon used hidden power fire to hit steel types, especially when their secondary typing was something like poison or bug. Hidden power grass is a pretty popular one just because of the sheer amount of pokemon that otherwise can't do anything to defensive walls like Gastrodon, Swampert, or Quagsire (the ground/water type is seriously so annoying to deal with otherwise). Basically, hidden power is good for allowing you to hit a pokemon super effectively that you otherwise couldn't deal meaningful damage to, or a way to hit specific threats with x4 damage that you otherwise match up poorly against. Pokemon with a ton of coverage already don't need it, because its a pretty weak move outside of these circumstances, but its basically a lifesaver for pokemon without good coverage or with massive holes in its offensive ability.

@graylyhen9490 Год назад

Hidden Power is terrible for a few reasons. It provides coverage to Mons who wouldn't have it without it which bypasses the idea of movepools, only helps special attackers in gens 4-7, and in gens 2-3 it copes for the horrendously specially biased moves in the game (physical movepools are atrocious) Special attackers already have it good enough considering there's no special Intimidate, Rocky Helmet/Rough Skin, burn, and contact abilities. They can boohoo all day about Chansey and Blissey but they still get Focus Blast and sometimes Trick to at least chunk her or to cripple her. Most physical attackers are lucky if they get Fire Punch to not hurt Skarmory It also invalidates the Ice type almost entirely because why bother with a weak type that desperately needs a buff when you can instead just carry HP Ice on your Mons? Ice Beam as coverage on Water Mons is fine thematically and I don't think it hurts Ice types nearly as much as HP Ice does. Zapdos shouldn't be the #1 Dragon answer because it can click HP Ice and bypass part of the game's design

@waternotwater5562 Год назад

BKC has a video on it + he writes the scripts for this channel

@AshenDust_ Год назад

@@skyshoesmith6098 unless you’re Spectrier

@acc3209 Год назад

As The Aura Guardian said once: "Volcanion is pretty cool... maybe for the typing."

@SonBlackHeart22 Год назад

And not so cool since is the only mon that can use Scald now...

@ubermaster1 Год назад

@@SonBlackHeart22 which will forever make no sense cause it already has “Scald, but stronger” Game Freak forever making weird decisions

@tentativaX Год назад

I don't remember that video...can I have its title, please?

@mattwalker5689 Год назад

@@ubermaster1Exactly. They should have reduced scald’s distribution and limited it to some of the weaker water mons to help them find some use rather than just made it a useless move.

@skyshoesmith6098 Год назад

@@ubermaster1 5% extra accuracy on scald

@meta1429 Год назад

Fire/Water is honestly one of the most unique types I’ve seen, weak to only Rock/Ground/Electric which it can counter thanks to part Water and access to Earth Power, pretty good amount of resistances and adapt to both Sun and Rain teams, and now the only Pokémon with access to Scald. Guess that’s what happens when Toxapex abuses the move.

@gabrielclamens3151 Год назад

I hope Volcanion shows up in gen 9, that way he can dea with Walking wade !

@meta1429 Год назад

@@gabrielclamens3151 Volcanion is confirmed to appear in Gen 9’s Pokemon Home compatibility… whenever that comes out after they unannounced it’s announcement 2 days ago.

@J242D Год назад

@@gabrielclamens3151tera fairy volcanion to wall it would go crazy

@javihernandez2755 Год назад

SR weakness means it has to either hold HDB, giving up speed or power, or have very limited switch-in opportunities. Also its low speed tier that puts it below Tusk can be a huge drawback, specially with so many OU threats around hitting it for neutral or SE damage (Gho, Pult, Moon...) x4 resistances to Fire and Ice are interesting tho

@andrevanderlinden8722 Год назад

@@J242D id say terra ground would be great considering relieleki will be back as well, being a counter to walking wake in a way too. Water absorb stops it from getting hit by water moves anyway and ice and grass moves arent as common

@mandalorianhunter1 Год назад

One of the most interesting mythicals, I like it's Design and typing

@rios5944 Год назад

As a masculine guy, I am 100% confident in saying that Diancie is my favorite mythical.

@Moakmeister Год назад

Unfortunately, its shiny is horrendous.

@mandalorianhunter1 Год назад

@@Moakmeister I saw it, it's Thanos

@ctoooc Год назад

His typing is what makes people care about him for the most part ngl

@mandalorianhunter1 Год назад

@@rios5944 I like Mew, Celebi, Jirachi and Shaymin

@TheHatShallDie Год назад

A very underrated set for Volcanion back in the day was choice band. I used it to great success because everybody automatically assumed it would be specs or scarf and then I slammed their Chansey/Celesteela with a flare blitz. Seeing all those “WTF”s and “???”s after was fantastic.

@AshenDust_ Год назад

Specs still beats Celesteela though, that isn’t exclusive to band. All it does it beat Chansey, and other than that it’s just worse. Maybe use it in a draft league or something if you know the opponent has Chansey, but any other situation and it’s bad.

@obiwancannoli1920 Год назад

@@AshenDust_ it's the surprise factor that matters

@AshenDust_ Год назад

@@obiwancannoli1920 but what advantage is the surprise if it plays exactly the same, just worse and can beat Chansey?

@TheHatShallDie Год назад

@@AshenDust_ that was two specific examples, you can replace them with any special walls and it’s the same thing. Besides that, Celesteela can switch in against two of the most common coverage moves, Earth Power and Sludge Wave, for completely free, and doesn’t take anywhere close to half damage from Steam Eruption if it’s got max sp. def. EVs, which almost all do, and can then protect for leftovers + leech seed enough to stall. It’s even worse if it has substitute. Flare Blitz is a stone-cold OHKO and Liquidation is always a 2HKO with rocks.

@obiwancannoli1920 Год назад

@@AshenDust_ it's good against special walls (Clodsire, Chansey,...). Unprepared defensive teams can get completely swept by cb volcanion

@luirromenjivar1390 Год назад

The Ban of Kyurem (Regular Kyurem) also was a huge factor on Volcanion becoming OU viable in Gen 8.

@mauroperez2848 Год назад

Volcanion is low-key one of my favorite mythicals. It's design is cool and it's the only pokemon to have the fire/water type combo. It's interesting how Volcanion is the only one of the Kalos mythicals to not have a form change and still be viable. Diancie has its mega form and Hoopa has its unbound form.

@fabribe1683 Год назад

The only remaining recipient of scald. You will be missed, amazing move

@Pacmanfan-po9rn Год назад

That move was way too good

@NovaContext Год назад

That move was so unhealthy for the metagames it was in, glad it’s gone

@Squirtle_Squad_Supremacy Год назад

I'm glad that move got limited smh, Actually allows Phys attackers to switch in on bulky waters

@SonBlackHeart22 Год назад

@@Squirtle_Squad_Supremacy Idk they could of nerfed is damage and burned chance instead of limiting it to one pokemon now. 😮‍💨

@gio9255 Год назад

scald was a OP move. chilling water was a bad replacement though. Maybe burn along with its damage nerf should have gotten a status nerf much like paralysis to remain in competitive.

@Chucky_Martinez Год назад

Volcanion is so underrated honestly, a Fire Water Type is hard to come by, I think they are still the only Fire Water Type even with Gen 9's release. Plus they even had their own movie with Magearna

@ItsJustKaya Год назад

There was a beta starter with fire/starter. That said and include one extra fact. GF said before the realese of Gen9 they will be using more fanmade ideas poltegheist as in example was one of them (ages old thread from some fossilold forum presented this pokemon) And its not a hiddenfact that some old ideas just return. Pokemon 1 to 3 was always limited in source and money do whatever we get in future there is a chance those mons are either fan ideas or old idea that got never got to see daylight

@Raidraptor_-_Ultimate_Falcon Год назад

@@ItsJustKaya Kaya, I beg you to PLEASE make this not look like my grandpa typed this out.

@beibkk0 Год назад

@@Raidraptor_-_Ultimate_Falcon bro poor due he's probably writing on a computer. they don't have autocorrect (if they are on a phone they most definitely don't have it on) and their grammar isn't even bad

@corpgiroro333 Год назад

@@beibkk0 The issue is the awful spacing.

@Raidraptor_-_Ultimate_Falcon Год назад

@@beibkk0 It’s the spacing that is the issue.

@harryscary8848 Год назад

Who knew a water/fire type could make such a Steamy Impression on OU 🥵

@DefinitelyNotEmma Год назад

I remember cloning Volcanion a ton in 2014, as well as Diancie. Good memories

@enoyna1001 Год назад

Do you have some clones left for trade?

@DefinitelyNotEmma Год назад

@@enoyna1001 Nope, not anymore. I have a single Volcanion on my UltraSun

@megadudetp Год назад

I fell in love with Volcanion’s design since day 1

@Glory2Snowstar Год назад

I always forget that this thing exists, it just makes me want a Fire/Water deepsea worm honestly. Typings don’t feel “used” to me until a non-Mythical gets it.

@Squirtle_Squad_Supremacy Год назад

Like Annihilape for example

@MrGalego95 Год назад

I couldn't agree more with that last statement

@ricardoludwig4787 Год назад

I'm really sad its stuck being a mythical, it'd be really cool to see what it could do in vgc, although with the current powercreep gis role would probably be on the smaller side

@skeetermania3202 Год назад

Not even in the VGC mythical format at the end of Gen 8.

@JonahBidgoodEnders-sm8vl Год назад

If you could, I think a video covering the tapus would be pretty cool. You could see the difference in how competitively viable each one was

@pikazilla6405 10 месяцев назад

I find if so funny that my best use for volcanion was that one tier where you could swap one stat for another on a pokemon and i swapped volcanions attack and speed, it’s actually hilarious how scary volcanion is when it’s blitzing enemies with 110 base speed when it’s traditionally such a slow attacker (also got use out of regieleki with sp atk and speed swapped, way slower but it absolutely nuked anything not immune to electric it was terrifying)

@tktyga77 Год назад

Always a welcome addition, especially considering a look into its Gen 6 mythical ilk that may come soon, & could make a nice mascot for a hot spring place

@Mixedplayers Год назад

One of my top 10 pokemon designs. They had no reason to make it so cool but they did it anyway. At least he does better than most pokemon

@EvilApple567 Год назад

I'm surprised bulky AV wasn't used more/showcased (at least before boots), seems like a pretty threatening all around tank with max hp + sp atk. This thing also dominated the TCG when it was released, and it was during a pretty cool era where dual types actually existed sporadically so it got to showcase its signature typing and hit more things for weakness (although it honestly didn't even need to with its ability).

@maxlimit9129 Год назад

Volcanion always seemed to grow on people over time

@roku144 Год назад

I think the removal of Scald really helped show off it’s uniqueness

@gaidencastro9706 Год назад

Thanks to the recent videos, I've been trained to realize when a Pokemon is good by looking at its speed and typing.

@TrainerGoldAlt Год назад

If a stat is over 100, its pretty good, if a stat is over 120, its insanely good and if a stat is under 50, its really bad, unless its speed or either attack or special attack

@starsimvidz Год назад

With scald now Volcanions exclusive, it will be interesting to see how well it does when it returns (obviously it will use steam eruption, but it will be more of a unique niche now)

@SonBlackHeart22 Год назад

Yeah but poor scald now is stuck on one mon that rarely if ever is gonna use the move in competitive.

@starsimvidz Год назад

@@SonBlackHeart22 having a move w/ wide distribution, fantastic offensive typing, and a 30 percent chance to shut down any physical attacker was dumb af anyway. i will never mourn its loss. and you can say that about any move practically... its like saying poor water pulse, or poor shock wave.

@numbers4092 Год назад

@@starsimvidz pursuit was the biggest move loss still anyways

@antoniogilromero1981 Год назад

@@SonBlackHeart22 I can´t really see steam eruption as scald though, scald provided chip-damage and burn as a way to slow down or potentially neutralizing physical threats that you can´t kill directly. Steam eruption´s burn is not really that noticeable as a "physical shield" due to it´s higher BP and guaranteed stab, meaning anything that doesn´t resist it won´t have many chances to attack anyway

@1_KingDom Год назад

Simipour: am i nonexustent to you😭😂

@togakhan1274 Год назад

Volcanion is the kind of Pokemon that has a nice design, has a incredibly cool typing and a powerful signature move, got it's own movie to boot, and is a sleeper threat in OU. Yet somehow people forget it exists. Something about him does not make people remember him.

@iBenjamin1000 Год назад

It’s a mythical, you get it as a promotional thing and then it rots in the box. If you can even make it to the event

@bandalodyugitube Год назад

Fun fact: the tcg set that introduced Volcanion, XY Steam Siege, had it's first day of legal play on the same day as day 1 of world's. This is the first time this happened, and it became a standard in the tcg going forward. Volcanion was a main stay in the tcg diring this meta, too

@t0xictm201 Год назад

From the Director that brought you “La La Landorus”, and “Fury Ferrothorn”; and the Producers that brought you “How GREAT was Excadrill and Skysrmory” Falseswipe gaming brings you a two hour movie premiere of “Heatran Inferno / How GREAT was Heatran ACTUALLY?!” *I wait*

@torterra1826 11 месяцев назад

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@theidpboi6205 Год назад

now this'll be interesting! Will the lukewarm pokemon live up to it's name, be hotter than we expected or freeze when given a shot at the competitive scene? Can't wait to find out...

@vespacito3950 Год назад

Well, let's just say that it didn't just spit hot fire...but it also extinguished into a fine mist when it graced the competive scenes of Kalos all the way to Galar...and soon it will do so once more come it's inclusion to Paldea.

@Linkiiiiin Год назад

Imagine if it's attack and speed stats were swapped

@snapclub8751 Год назад

Now that would be ban worthy.

@TraumaCenter13 Год назад

Yeah, just like the last video, it goes to show you how important speed is.

@pn7857 Год назад

Tbh, I'd even take a swap in special defense and attack. Or that and HP.

@ultimapower6950 Год назад

I have a better idea we should nerf the speed stat In general so that’s it’s less important

@Grintock Год назад

@@ultimapower6950How would we nerf speed though, how would you lessen the effect of moving first? Lowering all damage dealing moves and increasing all HP and defenses? Moving first matters less if you'll survive 5-10 hits anyway.

@sollowe Год назад

To the editor: At 9:15, during the Gen 7 segment, you have the OU and UU set cards swapped during the entire segment. This also applies to the start of the Gen 8 segment.

@bajanyaoikaizer6902 Год назад

I'm surprised they don't just make Volcanion and Heatran readily available rival version exclusives.

@_Rhatsody Год назад

Yay Sunday uploads again

@thel-iteralone4592 Год назад

Water/Fire is cool by virtue of having two of the starter types, like with Water/Grass. I'm not sure if we have a Fire/Grass type Pokemon as of Gen 9, but it would be cool if there was one.

@bluesandman7566 Год назад

We have a Grass/Fire in Scovillain

@foodmr2022 7 месяцев назад

@@bluesandman7566true

@FoxFighter-HellBringer Год назад

I used to play with Quick Claw Volcanion and that thing was a menace. It would constantly move first and annihilate anything in it's way. I love that thing.❤

@JCBro-yg8vd Год назад

Such a unique Pokémon in terms of typing. Surprised to see it do well despite its rarity in competitive play.

@vrrealo724 Год назад

I think giving scald exclusively to just this mon was such a weird decision, when it already has a more powerful version. I think some dragons like kingdra, dragalge, and walking wake should still have access to it.

@rajmudsvil7311 Год назад

It would be cool to see a video about how team preview changed competitive

@gastrodonenjoyer999 Год назад

Great video for really underrated Pokémon, also I have to ask when will the mascot of the channel Eigslash get the 45 minutes video it deserves?

@Xalvadore505 Год назад

It'll come to Gen 9 when Home connectivity happens, and it'll be really good in OU. It will have the only water moves that can burn (still Steam Eruption and it's now the only mon with Scald though no-one will use that because of the former), and that quad-steel resistance will make it feast on Gholdengo. And Heavy Duty Boots still exist, and it will do to Kingambit what it did to Bisharp before. Other common mons it will do well against include Iron Valiant, Corv again, Iron Moth, and Volcerona, easily switching into their attacks and one of its stab will hurt them all a lot.

@aerocuda. 4 месяца назад

i love this pokemon so so much, its been my favourite since i first saw it, the typing is so cool, i love the design and the shiny

@zacswicord4496 Год назад

really hope they do an event for him again.

@nolongeraperson Год назад

I always liked running Assault Vest or Expert Belt especially in doubles. It always caught people offguard who thought it would either die or have it not be an OHKO.

@Newhubb Год назад

Volcanion was allowed in VGC for a little in Gen 8 when they legalized mythicals. I didn't pay much attention during that ruleset, so i am curious how much play it saw then with all the other mythicals and restricted legendaries allowed at that time.

@xy394 Год назад

It was a Magearna spamfest

@psychicjellyfish9466 Год назад

I used to not like Volcanion’s design, but as I got older it just clicked for me. This mon seems to have a running theme of slowly boiling beneath people’s view, before exploding and making a big splash once people actually recognize what they’re looking at. On an unrelated note, it’d be cool to see a video like this for Diancie, who is one of my favorite Pokémon!

@USSFFRU Год назад

IT'S MIDNIGHT IN THE PHILIPPINES BUT IT WILL BE WORTH IT TO WATCH THIS BEFORE SLEEPING

@SemiHypercube Год назад

Shame it's not available in gen 9 yet, since it's the last Pokemon with Scald (I think)

@SonBlackHeart22 Год назад

It is the only one now that can use Scald

@baldrian22 Год назад

yea its the only mon with acces to the move now. but it wont use scald even if it return to gen 9 because steam eruption is a stronger move.

@ultimaterecoil1136 Год назад

@@baldrian22 people have rarely used both scald and steam eruption on the same set. The main reason being concerns about running out of pp because of corvid’s pressure vs stall you still want a water stab. It’s not exactly a common thing to run but it is a consideration especially considering the 4th moveslot on volcanion doesn’t necessarily have many other things you’d rather run especially on vest sets.

@1_KingDom Год назад

*Simipour has entered the chat* 🥹. But seriously no good mons learn it now, cause those are the only 2 mons by level up unless they add it as egg moves for some mons for mirror herb passing

@baseballs1742 Год назад

It's in the files so can be transferred in after Home launches WHENEVER THAT IS.

@tomsgamecorner1376 Год назад

Loved using this guy for fun on a Rain Dance team I had in Showdown 😊

@cuttululu Год назад

being honest, the only thing that makes you care and remember about volcanion is its unique typing, not lore, shiny, or other things, just its typing

@treygreypaws3689 Год назад

Bro Series 13 in swsh was so fun cause they finally allowed us to use mythicals. I used Volcanion on a sun and rain team, so damn fun only time i can ever use it lol

@clairebit Год назад

The amount of hours I have heard that background music must be astounding

@moonjelly5 Год назад

Okay, this was one if the last mons I was expecting this week.

@lgjgamer1396 Год назад

Yaayy!!! Please do Cresselia soon!!

@rooislangwtf Год назад

That was one smooth sponsored transition

@snapclub8751 Год назад

I always knew a video about Volcanion would be steamy. 😎

@ocarinasrule Год назад

Volcanion is one of those mons that grew on me from an interesting type gimmick to an all round star. Another thing that helped it's rise in gen 8 to ou was the banning of kyurem imo, suddenly there was a niche for bulky offensive special attacker with coverage, and volcanion fitted the hole left by kyurem on balance/bulky offence perfectly.

@Giratina575 Год назад

Love these videos. So insightful and knowledgeable. On another note. What is that music that plays at about 8:47

@darkerm76 Год назад

I don't know why but this Pokémon is awesome both design and type wise. 💯

@gregburden416 Год назад

I think there is an editing error. The UU Moveset and Items for Gen 7 appear when your talking about it’s OU presences, and vice-versa. Aside from that amazing video as always. Edit: got further into the vid and the same thing happened again for Gen 8.

@larsweise7866 Год назад

Couldn't they put those 110 attack in another Stat? Looking at you HP and SpD🙈

@EinDose Год назад

Volcanion's definitely in that category of Pokemon where its usability is COMPLETELY meta-dependant. It's good enough to hang in OU, when it's needed, but not quite good enough to make it there on its own accord.

@DemiIsNotHere Год назад

Hey, when legendaries come back it would enjoy walking wake signature move, it would make it function on sun teams pretty well.

@gabrielchee8470 Год назад

Besides giving it walking wakes move,I think it should also learn smokescreen and in terms of other gen 9 moves+pla moves, maybe raging flame.

@Nintendofan1389 Год назад

Question why did no one use assault vest from the looks of it the most used moveset of gen 6 didn't use any status moves so it could of been really bulky on both sides

@enoyna1001 Год назад

Not "no one", but apparently it wasn't popular enough. I'd say its biggest weakness is Earthquake.

@Nintendofan1389 Год назад

@@enoyna1001 I mean no duh

@mystora7159 Год назад

would love to see Kommo-o sometime (maybe if it comes back in the dlc or in the next gen). It's z move is absolutely broken and i wonder how much worse it got from the removal of those.

@chrisdubose9573 Год назад

What if they give him swift swim? The ability to switch in on those normally nuclear hydro pumps and etc is pretty awesome. But, that last video about the importance of speed could see him become a BEAST in VGC with swift swim/rain pokemon like politoed

@BronzeMantis Год назад

Honestly I keep forgetting this pokemon exists. Feels like he was just dropped into the game like an afterthought. Although that's a good way to summarize GF's treatment of gen 6...

@IgnitedQuils Год назад

Also with how Game Freak treats mythicals starting from XY.

@jitomaynez Год назад

It's absolutely crazy how Volcanion was featured this week, and the volcano in my homeland erupted today xD

@Matpit18 Год назад

Volcanion is such a cool and unique Pokémon. I can’t wait to see how the only recipient of Scald will fair in Gen 9 when Pokémon Home releases in “Early 2023”

@YourBoyNobody530 Год назад

I would give it calm mind for various reasons least of which being that it can hit hard enough to grab KOs after a plus one even uninvested.

@FiniteMan1933 Год назад

How did Volcanion get a video before the GOAT Heatran

@riteliliaren9734 Год назад

Because Heatran needs a whole movie like Lando.

@enoyna1001 Год назад

@@riteliliaren9734It will be longer than the entirety of the MCU.

@FierceMask Год назад

Ah i’m surprised there wasn’t any info when Volcanion was allowed near the end of the sw/sg rank series. Would be interesting to see how it handled the vgc rule set

@travisowens8905 Год назад

volcarona’s and volcanion name are so similar i heard slip up at 8:30 that even the editor missed

@cosmetics72 Год назад

fire and water was such a cool typing when it released though it was a mythical(?) it was so cool espically the shiny form..

@Lord_Nexus14 Год назад

Bro I love Volcanion dude, definitely my favorite mythical no question.

@dropinota Год назад

Love your videos FSG How good was Magearna actually?

@deepeshvasnani1100 Год назад

Good example of the deoxys-speed theorem. Imagine 120 base speed on this monster

@fulgenzio89 7 месяцев назад

I would love to see a trio of starters becoming Grass/Water Fire/Grass and Water/Fire

@DJTileTurnip Год назад

15:22 can we talk about this Golisopod pronounciation

@ultimaterecoil1136 Год назад

It’s probably best to forget it exist

@darkness74185 Год назад

8:36 Volcarona -> Volcanion probably mislead while reading the script by the Volcarona that also happens to be on screen

@protocetid Год назад

Could you make a video on extremely low tiers like ZU, DNU and 7U?

@mintx1720 Год назад

I want to use this thing in VGC.

@Zeldrake Год назад

It's super cool to see a Pokemon have a niche and usage that isn't just "Hahahah huge attack stat go brrrrr"

@joshnoritake3167 Год назад

This was a cool pokemon with a lot of unique characteristics and drawbacks, really well designed competitively. I’m impressed Pokémon created an offensive water stab Pokémon that didn’t just blow through the meta. Now walking wake on the other hand…what if volcanion lost all its ground and electric weaknesses and was the fastest thing alive?

@mastemathedank4043 Год назад

Tera Fairy Skeledirge can be a decent check to Walking Wake, but yeah I can agree that WW is just a little too overtuned. Hopefully some more stats come out against it

@mr.lantern1111 Год назад

I would love either Diancie or Aigislash next.

@devinclark6212 Год назад

I would swap it's HP and Attack and swap its Sp.Def and speed, mostly fixing its speed problem, and cementing it as a physically bulky special attacker that's kinda weak to special attacks. Not sure if that would permanently make it OU but would solve a lot of its weaknesses while making sure it still has one.

@anuragkat66 10 месяцев назад

Hey Kallen, love the Videos, a lsight mistake you calledo out Volcanion as Volcorona

@squiddler7731 Год назад

I actually completely forgot that volcanion already had a stronger version of scald. They really did just remove that move from the game lol

@PokePhan Год назад

Assault Vest is fun to mess around with too

@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606 Год назад

Picture this: Volcanion, Scovillain, and Lombre in a Triple Battle. ALL of them know BOTH versions of the elemental fusion moves that they can learn, as well as the Hidden Power of the only type that isn't them. Their 4th move is a team-wide buff.

@TheRealAquaz Год назад

I actually loved Bulky AV Vulcanion always in Gen6 OR/AS. Thing could Switch into almost everything and either take a hit and Kill next turn or wall the enemy completly

@sonofhades57 Год назад

I adored this Pokemon, but I never really saw as much hype as it deserved.

@GentlemanBones Год назад

Had a thought for a video: Bottom 10 Legendary Pokemon. A lot of casual players are against using legendaries in any capacity, certainly when two players fight each other, but not all legendaries are created equal. It would be interesting to see a thoughtful list of the ten (ish?) legendary Pokemon with the worst showings in competitive history. Regice, Articuno, Type:Null, Takin' the Bus Calyrex--