How Zekrom Went From AWFUL To BROKEN 

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It's because they gave him Zekrom Kick

Yeah Zekrom struggled from gen 6-7 because Xerneas, the primals and more. Glad he made a resurgence in gen 8 and when he comes back for gen 9, I hope he has something to combine his power with Miraidon to be a Dragon/Electric great team.

Now zekrom while worse than miradon in every way, is still a very respectable legendary

For a trio focused heavily on being _dragons_ and originally being parts of a single _Original Dragon,_ the Tao trio don't really make use of their Dragon types that much nowadays. Draco Meteor and Outrage used to be very good in their debut gens, but nowadays Outrage is completely unusable with the existance of Fairy-types and even Draco Meteor is starting to slowly feel the effects of move power creep. In the case of Reshiram, it would rather spam Blue Flare than drop a Draco and get its offensive presence immediately halved. And Kyurem only ever runs Draco Meteor reluctantly because all of its signature moves got screwed over. So once a game covering Unova again gets released, I hope the Tao trio receive a new signature move akin to the Lake trio (but the move has to be, you know, not terrible). This time being a 130 bp, 85% accurate Dragon-type move. And if they want to go full over the top with it, it could have a Shell Side Arm-like effect where it becomes physical _and_ is a contact move (an important downside compared to moves like Photon Geyser or Tera Blast, plus is more in tune with Zekrom always full body tackling into stuff) if that would deal more damage. And for anyone crying that "the Tao trio would get 3+ signature moves each, then!" I'd like to point out that 1. Reshiram and Zekrom's current signature moves are pretty much an evolution of each other - Fusion Bolt is upgraded into Bolt Strike and Fusion Flare is upgraded into Blue Flare once the respective legendary becomes Level 88 - and 2. Alolan Marowak has three signature moves as well; almost 4 since Bone Rush is learned by only two other mons and used to be its third signature move. I'm pretty sure the cover legendaries of Gen 5 can be cut some slack over a regional variant of a regular Pokemon.

Idk how it would fare in Gen 9. It could either be solid or completely unusable, I don't think there is much in between. Miraidon is definitely a better mon but at the same time a team up of the two could be insane in theory. Those teams that run both Koraidon and Miraidon could exchange Koraidon from Zekrom and they would have a pretty good wallbreaking combo on both sides. Stacking weaknesses is a downside tho and Koraidon is still faster so Idk how viable this strat could be. All I know is that a +1 DDance + Life Orb + Electric Terrain Bolt Strike can melt any non Ground types (besides Zamazenta I think, gotta check calcs on that one). Shame Ground types are already everywhere in Ubers to try to check Miraidon tho.

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I find it funny how looking at the stats zekrom feels like a slightly better bax

what access to dragon dance does to a mofo

it is very curious how the mixed variant of zekrom success in gen5 seen decently, is almost eclipsed in later gens less, gen 8 straightforward, zekrom has been a pokemon that like its counterpart, if it had a higher speed, it could have been a completely physical pokemon and could pivot with volt swicht, but the fact that it was stuck as a 2 gen as a mediocre or very bad pokemon (so much so that even reshiram in SM was slightly better), changing for SWSH for good and maybe it can manage in gen9 with a tera fairy to make fun of the faster dragons that would integrate it in one hit, although to tell the truth I like how this pokemon evolved in singles (VGC is another story, something more sad. .) but here if he did things moderately well, so much that gave me many successes in ladder when he was still, definitely a pokemon of solid box legend.

I always thought they should've buffed Turboblaze and Teravolt to give a 50% power boost to Fire and Electric moves respectively, be able to bypass Full Metal Body, Shadow Shield and Prism Armor and remove Ice Burn and Freeze Shock's charge turns when Kyurem has 33% HP or less. The Kyurem fusions having three STAB types from their abilities would be super cool.

I also want to note that in a pokemon unrestricted Usum tournament in Europe where I ended top 5, everyone was surprised that I used Zekrom, and apart from the fusion bolt-fusion flare combo between Zekrom and Kyuerm White, I used him as a direct counter to Primal Kyogre. One hit and it was Kyogreover. Something that people asked me was "But Kyogre has ice beam how were you so confident" and I guess everyone forgot that in gen 7 the primal bois usually had negative nature in speed +0 IVs to try to secure the rain (or the sunlight) and I considered it one of the most fun torunaments I've participated in

What's also great is that even though miraidon has the same typing, it shouldn't be abled to outclassed zekrom when it returns due to both playing very different rolls, zekroms a mixed leaning on physical wallbreaker that relies on setup while miraidon is mostly a terain setting special sweeper, if anything running them together would be potentially good

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I never knew this dude struggled. I always run this dude on my teams 😂

As a big Zekrom fan, I'm happy it's finally strong. Now I can say that Miraidon being stronger than Zekrom is not Zekrom's fault, it's just Miraidon being absoluty broken (and AG in national dex by the way). And come on, isn't is beautiful in BW sprite?

I dont get why gamefreak uaed to make cover legendaries so slow Like cmon an electric dragon has 90 speed? Make it make sense lmao It didnt have Dragon Dance until gen 8 and worse than that, doesnt learn earthquake

Why Reshiram Is A Poorly Designed Legendary Pokemon: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BRfcYf0f2_w.html How Kyurem went from AWFUL To BROKEN: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KlQo0c0TeDI.htmlsi=1TbHmnpT_msfwR3N

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I have zekrom, i gave it a assulet vast in gen 9 and gave it 252 evs in hp & sp.defense.

Thanks for the vid, have been wondering this for quite a while! If I may ask, what is your favorite box-art legendary?

They need to make bolt strike and blue flare, 100% accurate

Hi man, I like your videos, your voice seems familiar to me, do you happen to have another channel about another turn based strategy game?

Magnet rise dragon dance is decent , you can setup in front of Groudon / Defensive Necrozma DM

this is what dd does to a mf

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Zekrom is the only good physical electric type

I wouldn't say that Zekrom was garbage, it was very good in gen 5 and good in XY, and even during ORAS and USUM it was regarded as a theoretically sound Pokemon (unlike Reshiram), it's problem was just that it fared poorly against the top tiers of Ubers. In XY that was manageable as the only terrible MU it had against a new mon was with Xerneas, and it could switch chunk it with Bolt Strike or use Volt Switch predicting it, the real issue was when Mega Salamence and especially Primal Groudon came into the fray, Salamence was literally Zekrom but better and it could always revenge kill it unless it was a Scarf Outrage, meamwhile PG legitimately stopped everything Zekrom could try dead cold, the only thing Zekrom could try against it was a Life Orb Draco Meteor, but if it were a SpD PG then it just bounced off of it. Zekrom would have been solid in Gen 8 even without the buffs it received solely because the meta was much much kinder to it, the addition of DD was just icing on the cake

Miraidon ended this mans career

is he good in scarlet and violet?

Bruv my strongest pokemon in scarlet and violet is a zekrom and it has op stats💀

Poor reshram

He got Zekrom Kick