The BEST Singles Pokémon That SUCK in Doubles 

Or incinaroar :0

You read my mind

Incineroar is like Starscream, always play dirty to get the win.

Well i wouldn't say it's scraping at the gates of NU, we haven't gotten NU rankings in a while and SV NU is just gen 4 ou

In fact incineroar was at 9% usage in june, higher than fellow fire starter infernape, who just got buffed in teal mask

Yeah Primarina is the best Alola Starter in singles (she’s UU in Gen 7 & 8 and OU in Gen 9 - no Tapu Fini lol)

Incineroar will be in that video!

i havent seen the video yet, gliscor is good? i play vgc lmao

Battery is crazy

@leaf_plant_thing2 gliscor is f*cking immortal, and entry hazards are insane in singles (gliscor just got spikes)

@@galaxystudios370after watching the video i get why its good, but i have never seen one or even considered one to be on my teams lmao, it just doesnt put any pressure onto the opponents like clefairy, flutter mane, urshifu (either form), or just about any other pokemon that is popular in vgc

​@@leaf_plant_thing2You're right about the pressure thing being important in VGC. Gliscor isn't an immediate threat because Toxic Orb + Poison Heal requires ramp up to go online, which means stalling, and we know stall is not good in VGC. Even Swords Dance doesn't provide enough pressure since it can easily be double targetted with only a serviceable level of defenses, nor will it really do much with only a +2 on its attack. Its only serviceable moves are Tailwind, Rock Slide, and Knock Off. You can maybe make an argument for U-turn, but the reason good U-turn users are good is because they both get a good reset on something in their kit (Incineroar's Fake Out and Intimidate, Rillaboom's Grassy Surge, Choice-locked Urshifu) or they're bulky enough to tank a hit or two on switch-in while applying immediate pressure (again, Incineroar and Rillaboom or non-AV Urshifu on a predicted physical attack), which Gliscor lacks.

Clefairy:

​@@CigmacicaClefairy enables your cores, which is not passivity. It's supporting that greatly boosts your offenses as it can provide survivability through Friend Guard, Follow Me, Life Dew, and Heal Pulse, boosts attack power through Helping Hand, and providing positional advantage using Thunder Wave, Sing, Sweet Kiss, Charm, Encore, Gravity, and Healing Wish. Don't confuse these moves for stalling as the playstyle only ever thrived in one format from what I can remember, and that was when the Pokemon allowed in the format couldn't attain the necessary firepower to beat a fully setup Celesteela even in some 1v2 situation.

​@@Cigmacicastalling and supporting are not the same.

@@RevoltineDefine passivity.

That's exactly my thought

Oops, my bad. I was thinking of U-Turn

Damn we need water type Pokemon with technician

​@@LucidMoonight New starter idea dropped

@@shiruotakuno28 i will make a new romhack if I knew how to

@@LucidMoonight its not that hard, if you got 3.45 bucks lying around. I can help you with that In case youre being fr

I mean in both formats it disappeared because of Chien-Pao

@@andormak8402It’s still OU in singles, and it wasn’t good in gen 8 doubles. Chien was just the nail in the coffin.

its biggest issue was speed creep, before it was reliably one of the fastest mons and could threaten big damage after fake out, now it can get outsped and dispatched of easily, incineroar getting intimidate mid gen 7 was the final nail in the coffin

@@chargestone96 Speed creep has never been (and will not be for a long time) an issue. It’s just the fact that incineroar does everything better and they share a type.

@@duvox23 it isnt an issue for most mons but it was for specifically weavile as it being a fast attacker that outsped and threatened big damage on the meta threats was a big part of its strength, the meta threats largely outspeeding it due stuff getting faster did very much make its role not worth it

And basically every other stall mon except gastrodon

@@o-poppoo5117 that's why Cynthia owns a Gastrodon

​@@o-poppoo5117 Dondozo and ting lu too. Obv there's the whole commander thing with dozo, but I think it's done pretty well without tatsugiri occasionally

Kartana also has a good physical defense too, so it can afford to stay up for a few physical hits.

Light that burns the sky was named after me

Malicious moonsault was named after me

Based and redpilled

@@pantsumonster no I’m swag and sillypilled

its had its time albeit sparse, these all have always been totally not worth it while magnezone is workable at the very least if you really want to

Now that’s an idea

Landorus incarnate was banned because it was completely overpowered. Nasty plot + sheer force life orb is disgusting, 2HKOs blissey and forces Every team to run specific pokemon like weavile or slapping tera ice on a scarfer except landorus-I can also terastallize and beat you anyways and by the time you can beat landorus-I half your team is dead.

@@axlr8deathpls294 It was OP in every gen it's been in It's the most busted wall breaker you could ask for In every gen it's been, it's banned from OU

People lowkey overrated Landorus T altho its partially a post gen clarity. Landorus T was never as dominant as people think in gen 5(its great but not like top 1) and in gen 6 Landorus currently falls to the point its not even top 30. Gliscor is consistently a top rate Pokemon in every gen its in even on gens where Lando T is better. SM and SS Lando is the only gen where it started as top 2 and stays

True, however, crowned is Ubers but perfectly legal if hero form is in VGC, and because of the higher defense, crowned is a better body press spammer (at least in a vacuum)

it's crazy the power creep this gen

Snorlax being a bannable threat during gen 7 in smog doubles, reflected with it getting a worlds win iirc and being a meta threat in vgc when it long past its time in singles was the main one

Most of them are probably support Pokémon like incineroar or amoongus because at the end of the day, a heavy hitter is a heavy hitter

​@@doginpillows20Amoonguss is pretty good in singles tbh. It used to be able to use spore before it's ban. Regenerator is very powerful, it can reset stat changes with clear smog and it also absorbs toxic spikes.

@nicolasromani3523 Yeah, I realized that after commenting that regenerator is just silly in singles, though I still think most of them would be more support focused mons

Indeedee-Female and Farigiraf are both ZU but used a lot in VGC

Already working on it!

You got it

i love snom

i love snom too

I think he is talking about party healing. Not self healing

self healing is rarely worth it if you cant be bulky enough in a 1v2 endgame like p2, skarmory can effectively be ignored by the opponent while they kill the rest of the team

@@208christianCould’ve clarified this more.

Zamazenta won regionals and we all know how bulky that is. Ting-lu was a menace in reg C due to being so bulky that it could spam fissure and get KOs as part of a reliable strategy, incineroar and rillaboom are just insanely good bulky slow mons. Terapagos and calyrex-Ice, two of the top bulkiest mons in the game have both won reg G tournaments. Heck, wo-chien placed in like top 8 or top 16 recently in a tournament so it's not that bulky mons are not good in vgc

@@archanasoni9666Zamazenta is a sweeper disguised as a tank, my mate.

@@blueskyalchemist623 op didn't say anything about tank being a strict tank yk

@@archanasoni9666 well, OP mentions “only tanks”, aka strict tanks. The video also demonstrates strict tanks.

@@archanasoni9666 yes they are bulkies who do shit but a fuckin blissey just sits there offense is most times way better than just sticking around wich is better in singles

That’s why he said “outside of body press”

@@funnycat9962 ah. Didn't notice. Must've misheard

Doubles is how the game is balanced as it is the main competitive format. The game wouldn’t be balanced if there wasn’t a competitive scene as it is a single player game. It should be balanced around doubles as it is the main format the game is played in official tournaments. I would like singles balances but Smogon self-balances with bans and tiers

No it shouldn’t lol Single player does not need any balancing your facing NPCs afterall