Patterrz Reacts to "Who is the BEST NPC Competitively?" 

LOL I loved watching your reaction! It makes me happy that you found out who Mysterial and Codel were from this video!

Bro that explosion only trainer is the most diabolical I have ever seen Game Freak be. That guy really said “my main goal is to blow up.”

I'm surprised you didn't know how good Snorlax was in gen 2. In the words of Big Yellow: "There IS a strategy that involves not using Snorlax in gen 2. It's called losing."

Mysterial is that kid that goes: Oh that's cool I want that on my team And "accidentally" picks out the most broken pokemon

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32:45 In other words, Genius Sonority saw the (lack of) difficulty in fighting DP Champion Cynthia, made a mysterious NPC that *actually poses* an Avengers-level threat, and Platinum Cynthia stepped up her game just to still get outclassed because this rando used synergistic Ubers instead of simple powerhouses like Tobias.

Codel really just shows up, explodes and says nothing

Mysterial made Poketopia exclusively to make his own rules so he could run that team. You show up, you're in his world now, you dont get to complain. You agreed to this when you stepped foot on the island

Halving defense is a big part of why explosion/self-destruct are beyond busted in gen 3 doubles, but there's another element: You see, in gen 4 onwards, all multi-target moves, when able to hit multiple targets, get hit with a 25% damage reduction. This reduction applies even if the move fails to hit more than one target (say, you used earthquake, your ally pokemon is immune, and one of the opposing pokemon using protect; even though EQ only hit one mon for damage, it still gets the damage reduction because it tried to hit more than one). This reduction also applies to gen 3... but only to multi target moves that can only hit the opposing pokemon; moves like blizzard, icy wind, or muddy water. Spread moves capable of hitting your own pokemon, such as earthquake, or say... self-destruct and explosion? They hit for full damage. On every pokemon. But the actual nasty part of Codel isn't just his diabolical team strategy. It's the fact that he's trainer 6 in an 8 trainer gauntlet. For reference, the fight after him is a sun team with Groudon. The team after that is a rain team with kyogre. Trainer 3 in that gauntlet has a Rayquaza. Over the course of said gauntlet you encounter every one of the legendary beasts. Oh, and some of the pokemon there have optimized hidden powers for coverage/stab. There is absolutely a dragon dance hidden power flying Gyarados in that gauntlet. Counter teaming Codel is easy. Counter teaming while also being able to deal with the 7 other cracked trainers in that gauntlet is a bit of a different story. Oh, and that set of trainers isn't even the final challenge; beat the aforementioned rain team, and you still have all of Orre Colosseum to beat. Challenges like Colosseum Battle Mode or XDs Orre Colosseum would be amazing in the current gen, both with how much the battle system has evolved and how easy it is to get competitive level mons; the biggest challenge of attempting fights like infin and inity isn't getting to them, it's the fact that getting competitive level pokemon is such a gigantic slog in gen 3 (even if you know how to rng manipulate), and is borderline impossible using just Colosseum. And also, y'know, game is 20 years old.

Getting through all the Master Battle sets in Battle Revolution was an absolute nightmare for me. The fact that I completed the main game in like a day or 2, but then completing all of the Master Battle Sets took me around 10 years to complete, is absolutely insane to me. You better believe I popped off once I beat Mysterial in the end

4:06 "Did he get fired from Team Rocket after he lost too much to a children" Guess we're forgetting now that Giovanni disbanded Team Rocket late into the plot of Gen 1

Snorlax is the best Mon in gen 2 because it’s the best sleep/talk user (with return and earthquake coverage allowing it to beat everything but skarm) and its belly drum sets allowing it to sweep teams too

The Pokemon Colosseum/XD:GoD/BattleRev's Devs (Genius Sonority) really started out knowing nothing about Pokemon, then proceeded to make *Several* of the most Giga-Chad Teams in the entire franchise...💀

Snorlax is peak male performance.

Same. As a casual, non competitive player, megas are THE best gimmick. Cannot wait for megas to come back

8:43 I completely hated how, at first, gen 6 said that Mega Evolution is the bond of friendship between trainer and Pokemon made manifest... Only for gen 7 to come along and say "Nuh-uh! Mega Evolution is actually incredibly painful to the pokemon, and if you like using it, you're a bad person!"

Megas hurting the Pokémon was a Gen 7 retcon and I will forever hate Game Freak for that.

scarf spout kyogre was a terror in gen 4 and basically ran uncontested except for blissey or water absorb mons

5:56 you’re right. If that were the case, it would be more like “I scream, you scream, we all scream because of the ice cream Pokémon.”

Codel isn't a construction worker. He's a demolitian XD

8:43 That detail only came about when they were trying to downplay mega evolution.

Super Trainer Codel radiates gigachad energy

I hope more people react to this vid, definitely one of my favorite from the False Swipe team Hope you react to more of False Swipe's videos!

Back during generation 6 there were some people that had their own league, along with their own gym leaders and i always loved the idea. One of them was a RU-vidr with a Lucario pfp and they all had competitive teams. It seemed really fun and i wish i took part.

As a Battle Revolution player, I was wondering where Mysterial was. I knew he had to be on this list but I don’t think he’d be all the way at the top! That’s crazy! Also Pat, I have, I have gotten this far.

As a Tennessee resident I can confirm we all look like Codel.

Okay so in reality the most competitively viable characters are Pokemon’s Unibomber, Two Elderly twins named after a business Eon Musk would buy, Crasher Wake, and a cheating all ubers using Magician? I think I’ll stick to simping for Cynthia for now…

4:07 does he know the story in gen 1? he disbanded team rocket?

I remember that dang explosion + protect guy from Colosseum, he was so traumatic...

33:14 Bad memories started flooding in as soon as I saw this guy. To this day, I still can't believe I managed to beat him :0

i also struggled alot on draytons team cause when it was either levitate earthquake or when archaludon used electro shot it was over

I do want to point out in the all level 50 npc battling each other video AI Turo did beat out Sada at facing the entire list.... but in the Sada vs Turo fights specifically she won 76 of their 100 matches.

Damn, not matter the team he has, Red destroys trainers

Infin? No, that's Jedi Master Ki-Adi-Mundi.

i can't even be surprised that no one remembers bdsp ou

*clicks explosion** *Wins**

Codel: I don't need to win, you just need to lose.

0:09 bottom left corner

Man seems to have forgotten than Hippowdon has sand stream, lol.

Codel’s team is basically a “fuck you” team

I remember watching this video while doing laundry. Pog

It would have to be Cynthia as her team has good typing balance, great offensive threats, and good defensive pokemon. The main flaw with her team is that she has a Gastrodon when she already has Milotic as her main water type, but Platinum does fix this by giving her a Togekiss. Edit: Lol, I forgot Mysterial exists.

Honestly, I hope they put VGC players as NPCs. Imagine going thru something like a battle tower and Wolfey walks out with a perish trap team 😮‍💨

Just opened the vid I’m guessing Wally from the Oras battle Maison Edit: I was close😅

11:01 no it doesnt? this is gen two?

6:00 they all scream because of ice cream

My guess is we will see pokemon colosseum on here more than once

22:57 - You get The Coolest Exclusive Ribbon on the 6 Pokemon that you beat the challenge with, which in Gen 8 and further games gives the equipable Title "Go --- The 100x Victorious!" Said Ribbon/Title cannot be gained anywhere else and is the "farthest way" you can trade a Pokemon from oldest to newest games legitimately. (Gen 1 and 2 don't count due to 3ds ports skipping several Gens)

I think another interesting exercise would be ranking competitive viability based only on the regional Pokedexes of where they mainly appear.

GG to get mentiont on History of Pokémon RU-vid ✌️

3:20 pretty sure she actually has one in the BW anime

Mind you GSC Snorlax has a 50% win rate because it's used in EVERY single team in OU and Ubers.

Still hate that about mega evolution. Because in the first ever instance of it was shown that it was a completely positive effect. The pokemon enjoyed being mega'd... but because Game freak wanted to get rid of it they tried manipulating us into disliking it.

Sleep clause isnt actually a thing anymore in current gen OU. Sleep moves are banned as a whole but theoretically you can sleep an entire team with moves such as relic dance or effect spore

A super cool idea would be to play a pokemon game and have your friends be the gym leaders u can set a level cap and they can use any move that Pokemon can learn at that point of the game they can pick a team of 6 from Pokemon available at that point in the game lol 😂 idk just throwing out an interesting idea

Elementary School Kid during Pokemon's Heyday: "A Team of Three Starters and Three legendaries has got to be the most broken thing ever." Suzuki Yusuke: **laughs in team without either**

8:05 current sleep clause banned sleep inducing moves such as yawn,sing,sleep powder ect... Edit:I forgot gen 7 was being viewed Idk abt that gens sleep clause

25:17 my brother played the game before me and the only fight he struggled on was this one, so I meticulously strategized using an insane Tera Ice Excadrill

Pog

Wasn’t the sun/moon mega entrees specifically tailored to them of people off megas to create hype for their other gimmicks

Y'know what else canonically hurts pokemon? A thunderbolt to the dome.

All these years I've heard I should play the spin off games, who knew this whole time people say that has just been the way they cope with the trauma of fighting these teams that were clearly created by satan

You see, the npcs in Pokemon games don't have a lot of moves and aren't trying to be insanely competitive because the games are designed for 12 year olds...

...I fought Mysterial in singles and it was hell. Lasted 4 hours because while my Latios (Lato), Metagross and my Tyranitar did really, REALLY well, it still ended up coming down to a struggle match between my Togekiss (Tamo) and his Double Team spamming Giratina in the endless Sandstorm hell my Tyranitar summoned up, which I only won because I managed to get +2 with Ancient Power omniboosts (even luckier than it sounds given my Tamo had Hustle rather than Serene Grace) and timed my Wish heals well. (Looking at the mon list here I'm guessing I only fought his first 'variant' or that was his platinum specific team? Not sure. But I REALLY remember than fight and I never ever want to play another battle like that ever again even if it cemented my love and respect for the Togekiss line forever XD)

Yeah, GSC Snorlax was the best Pokemon in Gen 2 period. This is a small excerpt from Snorlax's GSC Ubers summary. "Snorlax's sole presence warps the entire metagame around it". GSC Snorlax is basically god, it would probably be in GSC AG if GSC went by more modern tiering standards. It's has near 100% usage for a reason.

can patterz please react to pokedads 256 trainer pokemon ai tournament? he pit 256 unique trainers against each other with thier canon teams using the same ai to find the strongest trainers when you put all of them on equal footing at the same level

I had trouble with Drayton as well when i beat him i was thinking how tough are the others gonna be and he was the hardest fight and i picked to fight him first

Without watching this (or the original) and assuming that the only constant is gonna be Pokemon but the trainers are allowed to change moves and abilities, then almost definitely gotta be either Hau or Kukui with Incineroar.

It took me forever to defeat the dragon type bb e4 guy but I defeated the other three first try

Godel is downright devious

my greatest achievement as a kid was beating infin and inity with no knowledge of IVs or EVs at the time.

12:11 Wait, it's the Zigzagoon shinny too?

when we getting patterrz reacting to shiny reactions

Was Detect not in Gen 3 to dodge the mad bombers?

I remember specifically making a counter sun team do beat Mysterial in Battle Revolution (as well as some scumbag movesets)

I am a simple man and just happy Blue is on the list

Honestly, if it was me, I'd take the hwole 'mega evolution hurts the pokemon using it' thing and just make it 'keystones help stabilize mega evolution so it doesn't hurt the pokemon'. Go along with how Pokemon using Mega Evolution in Super Mystery Dungeon went berserk due to using looplets instead of Keystones and proper mega evolving items.

as a fellow filthy casual I agree im excited for more megas and megas to just come back in general. x)

I still get weirded out when people talk about Kieran... Playing through the DLC was pretty strange. 😂

I played the indigo league 4 times now. On every pleythrough with different teams Drayton was the easiest. No slouch but fairy is easily the hardest for me every run. Sure one time i was using mono fairy but usually i dont even run fairy on the team. The girls were stronger battlers constistantly

COLOSSEUM REPRESENTED WOO YEAH BABY WOO YEAH I did the MT. Battle grind too, the Ho-oh was worth it. It sits in my Pokemon HOME box nowadays, though transferring it up was a pain in the ass

4:08 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I had 0 problems with Kieran lol

Love your content 😊😊

22:21 RAZAQUAZ???? WHAT?????

I didn’t have a problem with drayton only because I was playing through the academy with an ice/snow shiny team.

Codel's team is funny af

Wonder when he's going to react to FSG's broken Pokemon list.

you keep pay attention to the move even thou he tell you to ignore the move.

You should do a then we fight with mysterio’s team against someone who can choose any ou squad

Would love if you reacted to Keegan J's "Rigged" Pokemon Rom. It's a wild ride and makes you reconsider your Luck in a game.

Crasher wake with drizzle just means 100 percent accurate thunder. So not sure he'd bea threat, lol

I mean rain dance and water types or hail and ice types kind of destroys Giovanni, lol Cynthia is more of a huge threat, lol

Anyone know where he got that hoodie? I want one

Who would have known the best NPC trainers barely have any videos on them because even those who have Pokémon Colosseum don’t really know who these guys are.

You should watch FSG’s video on the most powerful Pokemon of all time

I was one of the people who faced Mysterial.

5:50 you could say that..iscream.

I really hope you'll react to false swipe gaming's theorem videos they're really good.

How is the champion having three moves even possible?