At first I thought this was going to day "How great were Heavy-Duty Boots actually?" and realized a series on the items would work for older ones like "How Amazing was Choice Scarf actually?"
Band and Specs are such huge items for fast, sort of powerful Pokemon. Think Aerodactyl, Dragapult, Iron Bundle. Turns decent revenge killers into outright sweepers.
I’ve seen people say Fire is a bad defensive type but when you pair it with Steel, you have the most 4x resistances in the game due to sharing common resistances, plus getting a neutrality to Stealth Rock, immunity to Toxic and sandstorm. Not to mention Fire being the second most resistant type after Steel with 6. This alongside Flash Fire, flexibility, power and bulk make Heatran one of the best OU Pokémon of all time.
@@SchnookieCI agree too. Plus not counting Ice (we all know that type is the worst defensively), there are other types that have 3+ more weaknesses like Grass, Dark, Bug, Dragon, etc.
Fire despite having loads of defenses is a bad defensive type. Resisting fairy is amazing, but the rest are either not super useful or already have better types that resist. It’s also weak to stealth rock, ground and water. The two most common, best offensive types and stealth rock which is on ever team
The fact that it took until Generation 7 to find a Pokémon that’s, not even better than, but can just compete with Heatran as a Fire Type really says something. It’s definitely up there with Lando-T as one of the most versatile and just one of the most well-known faces of competitive Pokémon.
He was introduced a gen before lando-T and now 2 gens after heatran met his match, lando met his match in great tusk. Except they only met their match in one of competitive pokemon’s modes. Incin is only dominant in doubles and great tusk is only dominant in singles and they aren’t even full replacements.
I specifically know Heatran as “Mr. Mud” because the volcano they resided in was the best place in Legends: Arceus to farm the mud ball item, which was a huge help for completing the dex.
@@feIIas you run up to whatever mon you want to catch, throw a 90 mph fastball in their face, and then speed around behind them and chuck the PokeBall equivalent of a 10 pound weight straight into the small of their back while they are still reeling. This method has a 100% chance to succeed in catching most pokemon outside of endgame areas.
@@resurrekt7114 Wait, did it have enough power to one shot Heatran? Because if not, that was very gutsy and playing to Karen's philosophy, which is legendary.
One of the greatest OU Pokemon of all time, no matter the generation Heatran will always be an important part in the metagame, as well as the fact that is an example of how great a defensive type can be even if it's 4X weak to Ground.
A Fire/Steel type with Flash Fire resists and is immune to a lot of types. It has the most quad resists at five: grass, ice, bug, steel, and fairy type attacks.
Heatran literally laughs in the face of more than half of the types in the game. Steel + Fire is such a cool combo it makes you feel like you are playing with more than 6 mons it takes so many hits well.
Fun fact, Heatran is the only pokemon created before gen 5 that it have never dropped to UU without being uber (Garchomp is probably gonna drop soon). Truly a beast of a pokemon. Update after the tier shift: Garchomp BARELY survive the tier shift, it is still OU for now. Soo at least for now Heatran Is not alone.
Darn most Dragon Types have been getting screw over in most recent Generations There aren’t that many Dragon types like there used to be back in the old days in current OU metagame
@@reggilad_9043 nope, in gen 7 I remember It in UU for some times, It was One of those pokémons that went up and down in the tier list (like breelom and amonguss)
In the near future we can prolly see it in UU with the immense powercreep and nerfs. I am still salty about the blissey and chansey duo nerf. 😢 Gen 9 really paving a new wave of metagame threats with all those min-maxed stats
TormentTran is one of the best move sets that has ever been made. Just one of a hundred really solid sets for Heatran but there was something extra satisfying about shutting down Garchomp with Torment.
I have a very soft spot in my heart for Heatran because of the Eruption event from Guardian Signs. The game means more to me than you could imagine, and it’s heartwarming that this game that’s changed my life had an event move exclusive to it like that. The twist? We didn’t have Internet back then so I never actually got one. Yes, I know about the whole Wiimmfi thing, but that doesn’t directly impact my nostalgia in any way. TLDR; bring back Eruption Heatran for a future game so we can actually use the da** thing.
Fire/Steel is such a good typing Gamefreak proceeded to never give another Pokemon it for the sake of balance. Even though you could get some really cool concepts for it
It’s not really that broken of a typing though . It’s pretty average offensively but just above average defensively I love to see another Fire/Steel Pokémon family Why can’t one of the fire starters be like that? No more Fire/Fighting Chickens or Ghost Fire Alligators
I would also like to see another mon join the fire/steel family. We need more diet ledgend/mythics with typings that are rare and valuable but no longer unique. Timkaton, duraludon, tutornator, Dracovish, dracozolt, and dragapult gaining those unique and useful types after the fact and Dragalge, Kingrda and mahwile showcasing their usefulness’s at a lower power level and without being broken before their respective type-sharing ledgends were made was pretty nice. These other mons allowing us to use these typings at all outside of uber restrictions was something I was waiting for.
@@iBenjamin1000 I find it interesting when they give a previously legend or mythical exclusive type combo to a regular Pokemon (excluding forms like Mega Ampharos). One of those deep sea tube worms would be an easy choice for Water/Fire. Actually, there's a lot of freaky deep sea creatures ripe for Pokemon material
Another one hour movie featuring Heatran by FSG! Heatran is such a great Pokémon that adopt all new mechanics in different generations and stay in OU as a threat for years
1:14 In hindsight, Heatran being weak to the most common attacks in the meta, seems more like "giving him an easy kryptonite weakness / achilles' heel to target", otherwise, its defenses would be almost impossible to deal with
Well given it doesn't not lost rost and it still has hurricane and tera ice with great bolt beam covuged not as stuiped as elecy but given zapdos has great offers and defance compared to thunderous
@@lloydbagby8355that dosent stop it from being a great ou pokemon, also from what I've seen most people prefer water terra on zapdose over ice sense it takes his already great power on rain teams to another level, also its like objectively better then its galar form and that should be worth something
@@lloydbagby8355 yeah but of all the Gen 1 Pokémon, Zapdos aged the best outside of Mewtwo. So I can’t wait for that movie length re-do. It is one of my favorite Pokémon of all-time and one of the greatest of all-time.
Kinda surprised that Heatran is the only Fire/Steel type so far. You’d think they would give it another shot considering the potential for the possible Pokémon you could make from it.
I didn't realize quite how much variation Heatran has before I watched this video. Its crazy how every time it runs in to something that beats it, the mon just seems to adapt its moveset and end up insane regardless. Each individual Heatran has counters, but Heatran seems to have the ability to counter everything and fit on to any team style. Its also completely unique among pokemon in what it does, as its the only steel type in the game that can also completely shut down enemy fire types, and it just has an amazing mix of offense and defense. It doesn't feel as broken as other mon because it doesn't have the setup potential or speed to just singlehandedly sweep entire teams by itself, but its so consistent game in and game out that it can just always seem to pull its weight in a team and give you a distinct advantage for using it.
Although Tera exists , for the most part the likes of Dragonite and any of the Water/Flying or Dragon/Flying family will counter it as Will Hydreigon and Latios assuming they are sort of good still Losing Hidden power kinda sucks for it now
0:36 "It is uniquely a Pokémon." YESSS, nailed it! So many debates about what animals Pokémon like Eevee, Nidoran, Slowpoke, Suicune, Heatran etc. are. But they're just Pokémon. They're fictional creatures meant to be unique. Not every Pokémon is supposed to represent one particular real life animal!
A great treat but I thought y'all would have waited until a few months later before releasing this. Two heavy hitter videos this year is insane and yet Lando was before he was released in SV and this is barely after Heatran's release.
Heatran is a perfect example of Pokémon that would be so much easier to handle if it wasn't randomly given Toxic and/or Stealth Rock. Personally I like to think Heatran was foreshadowing Beezlebufo. Also anyone else notice how Kellen refered to Kyogre as "Giratina" wit the word "Uxie" coming off its Water Spout in the last two Gen 4 sections?
Disappointing that you didn't mention how unique and centralizing specifically Eruption Heatran was in 2013 VGC. Eruption + Fire Gem was overbearing enough for Wolfey to dub Heatran one of the top 10 most toxic Pokemon of all time back in a 2020 video. It eviscerated everything, and gem mechanics made it even worse to deal with because a gem wouldn't be consumed unless it successfully damaged another Pokemon, meaning an eruption into protect(s) or opposing Flash Fire wouldn't consume the item. Both Aaron and Ryosuke's 2013 teams were Eruption, and the nature lock to Quiet made it play more or less completely differently from non-Eruption Heatrans. Ryosuke's was min speed while Arash's non-Eruption Tran was 252 timid.
Fun Fact: Steelix can somewhat use torment too. Deffintly not as good as Hetran but with substitute and its immense defense stat. It forces a lot of switches too. It pretty niche its basically to just scout teams in gen 4. But it works even in OU. Set up a sub on something that doesn't threaten it and then Torment so they cant hit it super effectivly and then boom when you find a good target
Finally we get to see the incredible work done by Kellen Cruise in his latest blockbuster, Mission Impossible: Heat Reckoning! Good thing this doesn't need two parts
Funny how Sinnoh had one of the best legendaries in terms of consistency at being good and one with consistency at being the worst. Thanks Game Freak, Regigas really needed to be the only pokemon with an ability in legends.
Its time has finally come! One of my favorite Legendaries, which I captured in all my saves in Platinum, Black 2 and White 2! It's so amazing that the documentary lasted exactly 1 hour xD What's more, it was released not even 2 months ago in the current generation, and has already achieved expressive results in VGC, and remains one of the kings of OU, even without Toxic and Eruption!! All Hail Lord Heatran 😍🧡💯🐪🌋🔥!!!
Heatran is one of those pokemon that many people i meet seem to dislike or just find underwhelming while i on the other hand have adored it sense day one, its really nice to see that its been pretty consistently preforming good. Ya love to see it.
As much as I love marathon vid of like these with a truly exceptional pokemon, It is pretty sad that this is going up just a few weeks before hetrarn has a really good shot at winning worlds. That would be a perfect end to a video like this.
one of my favorite mons to use of all time. for some reason, mine is always called "rita" and female =D. Have a lot of fun using it on gen8, it could be defensive and annoying with toxic, taunt and rocks or just surprise anyone with a scarf eruption set
Another amazing short film False Swipe. Heatran is the greatest fire type of all type. It has incredibly utility, powerful offense, amazing dual typing, and defensive merits that allow it to synergize with a variety of team structures. It truly has it all. It will never be bad and is almost always guaranteed to benefit from the new mechanics and changes each gen. Even in the ground type heavy meta game featuring Great Tusk, Iron Treads, Landodorus-T, and Ting-Lu, it still thrives. Heatran is often the glue that can hold teams together and sets the standard for teambuilding. I don't ever see that changing in the foreseeable future.
ok I said it before but I never get tired of hearing what are clearly BKC words coming out of Kellen's mouth, this intro was a perfect example and i looooved it
My second favorite pokemon ever! Not even because of comptitive, but I just love it. It always makes me so happy that it's been incredible in completitive.
I want some game developer to add this as some new ability, release it to the public, and watch the shitshow unravel as a new titan emerges from the magma.
I’m actually surprised that Heatran’s movie is only slightly over an hour long, considering it’s right up there with Ferrothorn and Landorus in ubiquity.
(gen 8) I think you missed to mention the importance of Rillaboom's popularity on heatran's viability. Like, most of the winning teams you shown used that core. On gen 7 that wasn't possible (on VGC) due to Bulu's lower viability and popularity Amazing film I enjoyed every minute 😍
i love how binding band heatran catches stall teams off guard. toxapex wondering why its taking rocky helmet damage from magma storm is quite the experience
Eight (soon to be nine when Gliscor gets his passport) Ground Types in SV OU and Heatran just puts on Tera Grass and continues to thrive, what will it take for this thing to be bad.
Here's how to remember how to spell Relicanth: R for Relicanth. E for Everybody loves Relicanth. L for Look! It's Relicanth! I for I love Relicanth. C for Can't get enough Relicanth. A for A great Pokemon, Relicanth! N for Nobody dislikes Relicanth. T for Thanks GameFreak, for Relicanth! And H for How Good Was Relicanth Actually?
To be fair, depending on the metagame ofc, Grass *is* a good defensive typing. Water and Ground are 2 of the most common offensive typings, with water's amazing neutral coverage (as well as Rain more or less always being a viable archetype) and Earthquake being on every other phisical attacker. Grass does, indeed, resist these, while also resisting Grass itself and Electric. Resistance to Grass is moderately important any time Rillaboom and/or Kartana exist, as well as the newcomer Hisuian Lilligant. Weakness to Ice is unfortunate, but this generation doesn't have that many Ice types around (and as far as smogon goes, most of the good ones got nuked to Ubers), and there is a distinct lack of strong flying stabs currently, expecially due to Tornadus-Therian taking a massive hit due to the moveset losses.
Heatran should be a version exclusive to Volcanion Sinnoh didn't give players much fire types to work with during game play, but it more than made up for it in the post game with this guy/girl.
I'd like to see a video about the Gen 4 meta during diamond pearl and platinum and then the change that occured when heartgold and soul silver came out
I haven't checked but I'm sure the writer of the channel (bkc, his channel is linked in the description I think) has probably covered that in a video already
I’d not realized just how incredible Heatran’s defensive typing is until this video. Until gen 6, there were only 2 types that hit it for neutral damage, Electric and Rock, it has 5 quad resists in Fairy, Grass, Bug, Ice, and Steel. Plus, due to flash fire, it has 2 immunities to Poison and Fire.
