Pokemon Abilities Ranked For Nuzlocking (Part 1) 

effect spore feels like its like 2 tiers higher when the opponent has it compared to when u have it 😅

I think your “I don’t do intros” intro, is your actual intro and it totally suits you

“Wake up babe, new PC video”

42:18 "It's not bad." "It's not good." "It's not devoid of good though." "I think it's bad." What a roller coaster

Imagine being locked to a Color Change mon while the foe starts using Outrage

Even if a pokemon is shit, if it has intimidate, it's fine

Imagine how much cooler every single starter would be, if they were enveloped in water/fire/leaves during Torrent/Blaze/Overgrow The showcasing visuals would probably scare the opponent but also make it more predictable potentially on the other hand. Nice idea

So for the blaze, torrent, etc type abilities, I always felt that they should do something like what the anime does. When infernape enters blaze, his flames grow exponentially, so game freak could just make a slightly different sprite

Please, never tell us again the right % of people who follow you. It gets funnier everytime you make up a number. Also, great video, as usual.

My favorite ability is Algorithm Boost, which lets a video be more visible just by commenting

The Anticipation for PC rating Intimidate Unnerves me

His chat is still as awful as ever, they’re like drones, they just copy each other.

10:18 As One - Signature Ability of both Calyrex forms, the one from the DLC. This abilities has two abilities at once. Unnerve for Calyrex, and either Chilling Neigh (Moxie) Glastrier or Grim Neigh (SpA Moxie) Spectrier 24:48 Curious Medicine - Sig Ability of G. Slowking. Whenever you enter the field, your ally's stats changes will be reset

I clicked on this video just to listen to him rant about how god tier intimidate is

One important factor in the ability is the game in which the ability is used. I don't mean gen 4 Sturdy vs Gen 5 Sturdy. I mean the romhacks. Because as shown in many streams, NPCs LOVE to switch out in challenging ROM hacks, especially Radical Red and Blaze Black, so abilities like Arena Trap, Shadow Tag and Magnet Pull are broken as fuck

Man jumped to 200k so fast, I know he hates us here at youtube but man am I happy for him!

“Chilling neigh, that’s not a real Pokémon”😂🤣

Intimidate is one of my favourites abbilities since I only won my Platinum Nuzlocke because of it. My Luxray intimated Flintʼs Infernape and sadly died, but after that I was able to switch in Torterra which survived an attack and killed it. It wouldn't have survived without Intimidate.

The difference between Furr Coat and Fluffy is that Furr coat doubles your defense while Fluffy makes you take less damage from contact moves (alongside taking more damage from fire moves) In case it's not clear, doubling your defense makes you takes less damage from physical attacks, including earthquake/close combat etc But taking less damage from CONTACT moves for example make you take less damage from Petal Dance / Draining kiss and Close Combat but Earthquake will deal full damage (Petal dance and Draining kiss are Special moves)

You got me at the “some bulls*it statistics that I just made up”

guts is so incredible for cheesing. I used a guts heracross for my hgss playthrough and it just annihilated everything.

Another reason Flare Boost is incredible is because when your burned you cant be paralyzed or poisoned and therefore it’s essentially just taking low Damage everyturn in return for 50% Special Damage and Para/Poison immunity.

Cloud Nine Golduck is epic on a sun team, especially in gen 4 when weather is permanent. Being able to switch in water type and not have the sun negatively effect it is great.

I honestly agree with your statement on Blaze, Overgrow, Torrent and Swarm. There should be an indicator that shows you when your in that damage because the only time I have effectively used it was in Pokémon mystery dungeon

Bulletproof seems way better than you seem to think. Many of the moves it invalidates are super common amongst dangerous opponents (Gym Leaders, E4, Champion), and having free switch-ins in those fights is huge. It seems better than berserk tbh.

Regarding Bulletproof, some of the moves you mentioned are (or maybe were, I'm not that versed in Pokemon knowledge) quite commonly used as coverage/stab moves. So it sounds like Bulletproof could be a legitly decent ability to have. Although some of the choices completely surprised me.

Your point on Blaze etc not being visually clear is really good cuz they managed to do it for the animé in gen 4 with Ash’s Infernape. Surely there should be a visual indicator in the games by now as well

I think the real PC intro was the friends we made along the way.

We need a Critlocke run, where every move has either 100% or 0% chance of criting, both of which adds different strats and threats.

Jan's comment about Hustle was really good. That's the kind of theory I like this channel for. The 50% damage boost v.s. 20% miss trade-off isn't so simple when you're not getting 50% value if say you were going to do 80% damage originally (only 25% in that case), and you're getting no value if you were going to do 50-65%.

I'd love to see a Jan's nuzlocking tips and tricks video or beginners guide.

Drizzle honestly deserves to be even higher because in addition to water moves boost, fire debuffs, and speed boost it also lets you get a thunder that will bypass accuracy check and makes moves like Moonlight heal extra HP

I feel like at least for the mainline games, hidden abilities should all be in "too uncommon" for the most part. Since you can't breed for them and you can't chain for them or whatever other mechanic is usually used to get hidden abilities in games, it feels like you will rarely run into them. Sometimes you can get them, but you have to plan way ahead of time how you're going to go about doing it and it feels like you're just "gaming" the nuzlocke. Probably different for romhacks that either let you change abilities or random encounters have chances for hidden abilities, but at least for the mainline games you are almost never going to see them.

Holy crap I got here when this chnnel had 20k subs and that really wasn't that ong ago, dang dude you're growing fast

8:06 For cases like this, I feel like it'd be best to make separate lists for different types of Nuzlockes. For example, Anticipation is ass in a vanilla Locke where you have every enemy's movepool memorized, but as you said, its great in a blind/rando Locke, because of its info-granting abilities. 18:33 If an ability is good enough that it warrants it being banned across several gens worth of comp scenes, I think "pretty good" is the understatement of the year. Besides, most mons that have Chlorophyll have Sunny Day, which means they back themselves up with a boosted stat & a 1-turn 120 power move in Solar Beam. 47:24 I actually really like what you did with the !ability command, basically saying "Hey, only mods can use this, but if you want to use this for yourself, here's where you can find it." Makes it so that viewers can use it, but trolls can't flood chat with it.

Been watching you since 10k and It's insane to see how quickly your channel is growing. Keep up the amazing work and congratulations on the 200k, PC :)

Another niche thing about drizzle is it lowers the healing on moonlight and morning sun

Huge thing for Dry Skin; the AI doesn't adapt to it, at least in Gen 4, and will continue using water type attacks while a Dry Skin pokemon is in.

These videos have definitely been increasing in quality, I almost can't go back to watch the old ones anymore because it is so night and day lol

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Dancer is pretty sick ngl especially with doubles or goin against a dragon dance/swords dance user

Imagine if Arena Trap (and things like it, such as Block) prevented Dynamax and Gigantamax, seeing as activating those (stupid and poorly balanced) gimmicks require the trainer to withdraw their Pokemon back into their ball.

That’s some awesome advices for abilities over here especially in a game where u can swap abilities in between can be really effective like radical red. Ty for the tips PC!

This may be something you already considered, but I wanted to point out for the cute charm ability that AS FAR AS I KNOW, the genders of a gym leaders and rivals pokemon are always consistent. Usually they're male, so if you get a female pokemon with cute charm, I think the utility of it is a lot more than people may think. I would consider it to be a lesser static.

"It's ya boi" GUZMA?? anyway, I guess I'm quite early

Suer interesting video! I never really knew what some of these abilities do and this is sick to see them ranked.

happy 200k man! congrats! love the content

I will say, I feel like Dancer should be in low A tier to high B tier. Some of the more popular harder romhacks that get nuzlocked where you have access to Oricorio have a lot of battles where mons try to set up on you. You can abuse this with Sensu (Ghost/Flying Oricorio) because the AI will always try to set up on it in every game that has access to Oricorio, which allows you to get a lot of value out of its Dancer ability.

I think battle armor should be S, it makes everything so much easier not having to play around with crits

I love these tierlist type videos. Especially coming from the best nuzlocker on the tube

Something to note about Cloud Nine Golduck is that its a mon with Water and Ice moves that can fit in a sun team, which, since most games require Surf, is something you'll probably want to look at in any rom hack where you can get a drought mon.

chats a genius. When chlorophyll was brought up someone said "good on sunteams"

Drizzle: What tiers? I am the tier

Definitely not first . Still commenting to help and annoy jan

Congrats on 200k my man. One of my favorite Pokemon content creators.

Loved the video. I'm also trying out hardcore nuzlockes because of your content and I'm really enjoying the experience. Please also rate held items when you get the chance! Keep up the great work!

“Chilling Neigh: That’s not a real Pokémon”

Castform's Weather ball + forecast makes sure that the 50 power weather ball is always 100 power, and always STAB, I think the combo makes it decent for rain teams, being able to consistently fire off 150power water moves and 120 power thunders with 100% and unmissable thunders are great. And 70 stats all around isn't terrible. I'd recommend anyone to try out castform if you're able to get a single drizzle- or drought mon on your team, it's pretty funny to use as a pivot, remember that you can run say a Rain dance, thunder, solarbeam, weather ball castform even on a sun team, so whenever someone is firing a water-type move you give them the rain boost, but you yourself turns into a water-mon and still has the ability to fire back a thunder. Castform is a great weatherpivot whenever you have drought or drizzle, because you can always just tempo back the weather for your team, and the AI almost never plays around you turning your type from fire to water and back.

Congrats on 200k!!! The best pokemon nuzlocker in the world deserves this

I am terrible at nuzlockes, I tried to do a ultra moon nuzelocke, it took me 3 tries, and all three times my starter died, on the 3rd attempt, I won, and my team was as follows. Furfrou Ribombee Scrafty(moxie) Eevee (moral support) I was going to evolve him into an espeon, but I was so confident I was going to lose that I didn't see the point of grinding for 3 hours to catch her up. But I shouldn't have decided so soon, the elite four was a breeze, ribombee for fighting and some help on ghost as well. Scrafty for rock and a little help on ghost as well for dark type And furfrou, the most unexpected member of the team, was insane, and fur coat saved him multiple times, he had crunch, play rough, headbutt, and return. He helped me power through the elite four, and I will never forget that, furfrou went from being one of those pokemon I forget about, to being in top 5 favorites. And if it weren't for fur coat, I wouldn't have won. So I cried when he didn't put fur coat at S+ tier.

Congrats on 200k subscribers! Keep up the amazing content man!

Finally some good content in my RU-vid Feed

Harvest is 100% in Sunlight too. Resto-Berry with Sunny Day stalls basically forever.

Man, where's Part 2? :( I love this so far.

Cloud Nine Golduck is a lot better when you take into account that you can negate your own weather disadvantace. For example you can have golduck on your sun team now because it's water type attacks will not be reduced in power and they won't take damage on sand/hail teams Even better on blind/randomized game if you didn't account for a trainer having a fire or solar beam mon on their team and able to counter it without taking down your own weather. It can also be REALLY good for overworld weather encounters since ever if you use a weather move it'll revert back once it's over, the wandering legendaries in swsh dlc for example can be stuck on a hail/sand route making encountering them easier and of course the red fight in hgss

"chilling neigh, nah that's not a real pokemon"

Love your videos, congrats on 200k subs man!!!

an addition to chlorophyll： in sun growth which like every chlorophyll user can learn gives you swords dance and nasty plot basically

I’ve been going through a rough time lately, but your videos and streams have been really entertaining and help expand my knowledge of a game series I used to love, thank you.

Dude, early game Cute Charm is incredibly dangerous when you have to face it, looking at you Whitney. At that point you probably don't really have many special attacks so hitting one of those pokemon with attacks from, say, your starter who will be male most of the time would force you to switch out, and hope that you have a pokemon of the same gender.

The fact you’re now at 200K subscribers is amazing. Great job.

Been watching your videos to learn some stuff before doing my first hardcore nuzlocke. Just wanting to thank you for some good advice and showing me stuff i would overlook otherwise between casual play and a nuzlocke (like items being op)

I always just put return on the Download Porygons

"This ability is too uncommon" *"Disguise is amazing, 'S tier"*

If you ever watch the Nuzlocke I am working on right now, you are going to hate how much I relied on Kecleon's Color Change to counter Type Advantages. Crowning moment for my Kecleon was when he took down a Mewtwo that nearly wiped me out.

Very glad you explained the abilities!

i've seen a lot of smart plays with a very resiliant pokemon, with Lagging tail and analytic to get an OHKO, so i'd honestly put that at low s

I agree with the rating system, imagine huge power on Slacking Now imagine it on Azumarill

Also, on guts, Toxic Boost is basically the same, ATK+ when Poisoned only, but it just so happens the pokemon with this ability, Is a normal type with high Phsyical ATK, that learns Facade, Facade Zangoose is a god tier threat

Love the videos since I found this channel but don’t go on twitch due to my sh** wifi, keep it up :)

*Any poké experts in the comments plz help.* Just started getting into Pokémon and wanna play the game in order. For each generation there was always the better enhanced version with more Pokémon for example gen 1: yellow, gen 2: crystal, gen 3: emerald, gen 4: platinum. Well I finished playing yellow, crystal, emerald, and platinum and now I’m on the gen 5 games. Gen5 doesn’t have that 3rd better version though. Which one is the best one to start with for your first gen 5 game? Black, white, black2 or white2?

When randomizing in gen 3, i always love it when my favorite pkmn have battle/shell armor or white smoke/clear body, and when Zangoose gets pure/huge power, i'm double happy XD I don't always randomize wild pkmn, and caterpie with pure/huge power is funny, but gotta watch out. Beast Boost good on Shuckle, eh? :P CB/WS do negate accuracy drops, too. Compoundeyes is great on pkmn with 75 accuracy moves :P I love randomizer, as it gives a lot moreto figure out, even with abilities and TMs(buffed a bit to have more decent/good TMs) alone it's fun to me :)

Fine after having your videos in my algorithm for so long ill subscribe. JEEZ

200K POG CONGRATS PC!

Please do a Nuzlock run of Pokemon Unbound on Insane difficulty. Might be your hardest challenge yet, but also potentially quite fun and entertaining.

Haha you almost had the intro this time around! Lol. You definitely have the charisma to become a "RU-vid heartthrob" if you keep at it!

Really cool video idea and helpful for people who are new to nuzlockes!

Congrats on 200k! Here is your algorithm boost

By the time the next video comes out, each individual Ability will probably have its own tier level.

When you realize all the tapu’s terrain abilities where given to other mons

Oh this is gonna be quite usefull for me, I know about the common abilities but some niche ones I'm not familiar with

This was the first stream I actually Watched!

200k 🥺my boi's gotten big so fast

I came here just to hear about Intimidate since every time he reviews Gyarados he just nonstop compliments it for having intimidate.

YOOOOOOOOOOO 200K SUBS DUDE CONGRATS

Moxie sweeping is my favourite thing to do in pokemon

Emergency Exit is my least favorite ability after trying to use golisapod for shield. You pretty much get 2 1st impression which is nice but you almost never get more than 2 hits per fight with it unless you also play switch instead of set.

Are you gonna continue the ranking nuzlocke tiers of gen 6 plus pokemon?

Ball Fetch may be D in usefulness, but it's S in my heart. It's absolutely adorable. Yamper is literally playing fetch with you.

Not gonna lie, I had no idea what you just said until you gave the example with Huge Power. Great video as always!