The BIGGEST Buffs to Pokémon Moves 

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Drain Punch also got a PP buff in Gen 5, going from 5-8 PP to 10-16 PP

Idea for a vid: Overshadowed moves and abilities. Highlighting moves and abilities that over time have been powercrept or forgotten about as new moves and abilities and items are introduced. For example, Clear Body has been overshadowed by Clear Amulet, Liquidation overshadowed Waterfall, and Return overshadowed Body Slam

A few more cool buffs: - Moves like Tri Attack, Rock Slide, and Waterfall didn't gain secondary effects until Gen 2 - Substitute got massively buffed in Pokemon Stadium onward. In RBY, it didn't protect you from things like Thunder Wave. Now that's obviously not the case - Before either Gen 4 or Gen 5, all priority attacks were +1 priority only. Now in the modern day, attacks like Extreme Speed and Fake Out go before other priority moves like Quick Attack and Shadow Sneak - Leaf Blade got a nice BP buff from 70 to 90 in Gen 4 - Gunk Shot used to be a clone of Focus Blast, until they buffed its accuracy from 70 to 80 in either Gen 5 or Gen 6 - Rock Tomb in earlier gens was 50 BP, 80% accurate, but come Gen 6, they added 10 to both values - Mystical Fire's BP in Gen 6 was only 65. Gen 7 onward sees it at 75, very appreciated by everything that gained the move in Sword and Shield - One of the biggest buffs in recent memory, Latios and Latias had their signature Luster Purge and Mist Ball buffed from 70 to a whopping 95 BP in Gen 9, stronger than Psychic itself. Latios especially appreciates its Psychic STAB getting a bit stronger - Roar and Whirlwind used to do absolutely nothing in Trainer Battles. Come Gen 2, both moves gain the ability to phase out the Pokemon of opposing trainers - Spikes got a massive buff in Gen 3, being the first time you could stack 3 layers instead of 1 - Power Gem used to be a pitiful 70 BP. 80 BP is much more reasonable

I wanna give props to Rapid Spin. It went from essentially a utility-only move to a Normal-Type version of Flame Charge.

I wanna point out that Multihit moves also really benefitted pokemon with the technician ability, turning them into at least 75 base power moves that could break Subs and ignore focus Sash or endure

A ton of moves got buffed going from gen 2 to gen 3 with the introduction of double battles by making them hit both opponents. For example, Icy Wind - introduced in gen 2 - went from nearly worthless to one of the best supporting moves in doubles. Similarly, some moves got buffed in gen 5 by being given long range in triple battles, but that wasn't as big of a deal, especially since no one played triple battles

If I was given the opportunity to bring back moves that were deleted in gen 8, this is how I would buff/change them -multi-strike moves (Barrage, Bone Club, etc) get a power increase and if the move’s accuracy is lower than 90% then set it to 90% accuracy -buff power of some moves (Dizzy Punch = 80, Magnet Bomb = 70, Needle Arm = 80) -buff accuracy of some moves (Egg Bomb = 95, Mirror Shot = 95, Mud Bomb = 95, Rolling Kick = 100) -remove secondary effect (Flame Burst = remove splash damage, Ominous Wind = remove stat buff chance, Silver Wind = remove stat buff chance) -Rock Climb, increase accuracy to 95 and change typing to rock type As for the other moves, some are removed due to having unique battle mechanics (I.E. Magnitude), the move is a less powerful version or an exact copies of other still existing moves (I.E. Bubble), or the move is fine but GameFreak chose to remove it anyway (I.E. Pursuit)

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Biggest Pokémon buffs: -Stat buffs (Masquerain 20+ Sp. Atk and Spe each, Swellow 25+ Sp. Atk, Clefable and Pelipper 10+ Sp. Atk to go along with their other buffs, Beartic 20+ Atk to go along with Slush Rush) -Move additions (too many to list so just go over the most important ones, Shell Smash Blastoise/Drednaw/Torterra, Roost Empoleon, Knock Off+Scald Goodra, Triple Axel Weavile, Hurricane Zapdos, Poltergiest on physical ghost mons, Aqua Jet Crawdaunt, Aqua Jet&Belly Drum Azumarill via some mechanic changes, Wave Crash Floatzel, Grassy Glide Rillaboom, Close Combat+Clangorous Soul(blaze)+Aura Sphere Kommo-o, Dual Wingbeat Dragonite when it has it, Weather Ball+Earth Power Venusaur, Earth Power Abomasnow, Meteor Mash Lucario, Mystical Fire+Aura Sphere Gardevoir) -Certain Gen 5/Dreamworld HAs (Sheer Force Nidos and Feraligatr, Speed Boost Blaziken and Sharpedo, Technician Breloom, Poison Heal Gliscor, Adaptability Crawdaunt, Unaware Quagsire, Multiscale Dragonite, Moxie Gyarados and Salamence, Rough Skin Garchomp, Regenerator Slowtwins and Tangrowth, Magic Guard Alakazam, Thick Fat Mamoswine) -Certain new or replaced abilities (Magic Guard+HA Unaware Clefable, Technician Scizor accompanied with STAB Bullet Punch, Speed Boost Scolipede, Pelipper/Torkoal/Gigalith/Vanilluxe, Sharpness Gallade, Competitive Empoleon, Wind Rider Shiftry) -Ability buffs (Sand Stream technically, Snow Warning also technically, Storm Drain and Lightning Rod, Weak Armor), but that last one can be for another video if you want

Another great vid man! Always seem to learn something new from your videos keep it up!

Keep making these videos bro. You are a good poketuber and growing rapidly

First video that i've seem from your channel and I enjoyed a lot! Congratz, looking foward to the next ones

Hex is SUPER popular in VGC, so I wouldn't call it niche. Outrage, too, but way less popular. Still, a great move all the same! Like I said, you deserve way more views and subs!

Nice editing 👍🏻

Great one! I really like the giga drain one, as it was kinda sad having to use a 60 bp move even in a playthrough (the damage was so pitiful the pp drained really fast). now its quite useful

Glad rapid spin got the recognition, thought it was going to be forgotten. Played gen 7 randos and was wondering wheres my speed boost?

I like that Water Shuriken got changed from a Physical move to a Special one. Makes a lot more since for Greninja and Accelgor.

cool video mans

Fake out and espeed got more priority, that’s a good one

knock off and defog are definitely the top ones to me

I liked fly on mega aerodactyl. With tough claws and its huge attack not too many things can actually comfortably switch into it

great vid

Multi-hit moves got indirectly buffed in Gen 9 with the introduction of the Loaded Dice held item, which guarantees that the move will hit at least 4 times. (Making Technician Cinccinno a somewhat viable option over Skill Link)

Fell stinger, its a niche buff but back then when mega beedrill was a thing I used it a lot

I remember learning the hard way about the leech life buff when a wild buzzwole attacked me with it one shotted my pokemon & proceeded to terrorize me

I didn’t know about some of these

Doom desire is my favorite, going from 90 power to 140 power, makes me really happy as jirachi is my favorite pokémon

The funny thing about Jump Kick & High Jump Kick is that in gen 1, they had a crash damage of 1 HP. What was even the point of it? Were they serious?

They need a poison type pivot move that has a chance to poison so salazzle can abuse it

There are a lot of buffs that i think should be done since much time, or better moves to introduce, many gens and still nothing.

IIRC Mega Drain was buffed a lot in Let’s Go Pikachu/Eevee to 75 base power cuz Giga Drain wasn’t in the game. But what if they kept that Mega Drain buff and made Giga Drain even stronger? Like 100 base power or something. That could be interesting Also Charging moves like Sky Attack and Solar Beam were buffed to 200 base power in Lets Go Pikachu/Eevee and I find that funny lel

maybe knock off is way to usefull, so it need a nerf to 40bp and double when remove a item

Idk about rapid spin I feel like the most BROKEN buff is deflee teleport and Knock Off

Wait, did defog only clear hazards from the opponent?

Knock Off moves buff actually is kinda... hard for me. Like it was a neat support option, now it's just unbearable

Low Kick also got a buff in gen 2 by being changed to Fighting type. It was completely useless in gen 1, even early game Edit: Disregard me, I was thinking of Karate Chop

Nice video. I'm making this comment for the algorithm boost

Judgement is actually only 100 base power so multi attack is significantly stronger.

Rock Smash also got better

music too loud, makes it sound like you're shouting to speak over it in a club or something. Lower the music volume :)

U forgot teleport...

The ONLY good rock move at 100% accuracy is Power Gem. The physical attackers are crying rn😂

Video idea: 20 minute rant on why GameFreak can't make a 100% accurate rock move that isn't garbage.

You missed “Dark Void”.

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I fucking hate knock off tbh