The WORST Competitive Pokémon to Catch (It's Ursaluna...) 

7:11 You said the odds for none of the guaranteed 31 IVs to land on HP or Attack is a 1 in 3 roll, so 33.3% chance. But isn't the calc (4/6) × (3/5) × (2/4) = 0.20 and therefore a 20% chance?

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@@mtnNFTs ty!

make a vid on the enamorous 0spd

@@nnik345 0 speed enamourus farmers playing through 32 playthroughs of PLA and still not getting one are still crying

yeah idk why they don't yet!

well i mean pokemon didnt start out as a competirive game it is mostly a singe player game up until now you are not forced to play online or with others in order to progress that was their main thought - to collect the pokemon and play in a way you see fit and even thoigh they have all of these formats and eyemark laid on competitive, it is still not the biggest aspect of the game itself i know how i grinded thousands of hours in oras for my perfect pokemon and it was a lot of fun to also play in small tournaments and such but i grew out of that i like watching it but if i ever play pokemon, it is older games with a customized playthrough via cheats so i see why they havent improved it as much (yet)

I feel like they just need more accessibility items to counteract the randomness, like the 0IV rusty bottle cap that people have been asking for since bottle caps were introduced. If everything could be optimized with nothing more than a few clicks, it begs the question, why is there randomness in the first place? Why not make things like Legends Arceus where stats are uniform across every instance of the species at every grit level, with the nature being the only influential factor?

Yeah, just give us a "salon" or somesuch for ivs/nature to make it lore friendly

@@Enigmatic_Soldier Well, for a casual single player gameplay, most pokemon are playable (only pokemon like Wobbuffet aren't viable) no matter their stat. But they began making official competion, and all the randomness of pokémon is making it hard. One thing the could do to improve is keeping the mint, and rework the cap : gold cap +1 IV in a stat you choose, rusty cap -1 IV

You got me there-- Since there is no correlation between IVs and PLA Stats, Enam would be RIDICULOUS.

It's a legendary so it's banned from the regulation H

Dodged a bullet right there

@@imablisyWait I thought there was? I thought an EL of 3 on a stat means perfect IVs and an EL of 0 can range from 0-20?

@@browserjunior4707 0-20 is not really enough correlation when you're trying to get a 0 lol

Yeah it's so lame. I can't believe it doesn't skip more. I only did it cuz I had stream to help me out :)

@@imablisyI wish I had your patience as part of me regrets not going for the double 0, but since I couldn’t get the Violet exclusive paradox Pokémon without catching it I just settled on the one I got.

you should have max speed ursaluna thoughh… (also 0 attack doesn’t matter that much). But yeah i agree about all of this mess this is why i gen (calyrex-shadow’s attack iv MATTERS SO MUCH because it determines whether or not it’ll survive a foul play)

just another example of Gamefreaks incompetence/laziness don't be surprised when it isn't fixed in the next new pokemon game; cus it probably won't

@@nascour5991 it’s not that they aren’t aware… it’s that they (and the pokemon company as a whole) is so iffy about “making pokemon feel real”. That’s why they’re verrry slowly finding ways to incorporate competitive concepts into the game (like hyper training, or the iv judge)

feels a bit overcomplicated. To be honest I think they should stick with one bottlecap but when you use it it simply gives you a slider.

I agree but I don't think Gamefreak wants to introduce a way to intentionally make your Pokemon weaker in the case that players who don't know any better do it accidentally.

​@@briarsystem4316imablisy mentioned @ 5:30 that having a 0 Atk IV prevents your pokémon from doing too much damage to itself from Confusion or Foul Play.

​@@matthewfoley7872during a regular playthrough, though. By like a six-year-old or something

@@emilydegroot6436 You already have to get a Pokemon to level 100 to hyper train them, and by that point the exact stats don't matter apart from competitive play anyway. My first level 100 Mewtwo when I was 8 was definitely suboptimal, but it's not like I cared at all ... Also, it'd all be reversible, AND you have to go to a specific post-game NPC to do it. And as anyone who followed Twitch Plays Pokemon can tell you, there are much easier ways to ruin a prize Pokemon without having to know what you're doing. Just hit the "Release" button.

He was creating such a huge water difference between the two sides of the trail lol

Pokemon players discovering the actual inspiration for Pokemon:

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i came here to say the same thing!! i love pokemon and taking walks in nature, and therefore love this style of video. regularly checking if a certain creature is in a spot i have seen it in before is something i often do!

Even encountered a wild Bibarel's den there.

yeah, Enam-T is definitely worse than this haha.

Dear lord lol

While that is objectively true, Enamorus T is mercifully mediocre. Bloodmoon is not so kind.

@@nsbathome that's not really true, enamorus-t is insanely bulky, has an excellent speed stat of 46, is a fairy type with moonblast dazzling gleam and the perfect coverage in earth power, it has a spore and rage powder immunity with overcoat, and it has 135 base special attack. it might not have been meta in reg f or g, but the reason it wasn't even tried was just that nobody was willing to grind for it

​@@aldrichunfaithful3589that and flutter mane was there and did the same thing but outside of trick room

really bottlecaps just need to let you make them any arbitrary value.

Don't you get disqualified from tournaments if they found out that you gen'd? I swear I've heard a couple of stories about that.

@@PokeMasrerJ Yes, you can.

Scrub

Rusty bottlecap and a bronze bottlecap that increases 1 stat by 1 IV at a time.

@@LagrimaArdiente that’d be nice haha. Or maybe the first FOUR stage non mega?!

I agree to a degree but at that point I'd think they'd make you use bottle caps strictly per IV and 192 bottle caps if you wanted to get a perfect IV Pokemon sounds absolutely awful

@@NickYes-oz5mh no I mean 1 bottle cap to set an IV to whatever level you want

@@outrageouslamp4539 No I get you on that but I'd doubt they'd do that, especially with how many convenient mechanics they've thrown out throughout the years

@NickYes-oz5mh idk I think they could at least do one that floors a stat 0 IVs. Making any pokemon competitive is easier now in the past 2 gens than ever before

Yeah speed is the one that matters the most because of enemy Bloodmoons, the odds that you actually lose to a foul play because of that 1 extra atk iv is equal to you getting the BW2 Worlds Will O whisp miss streak

@@-pinky. yeah it’s very cool

Sssssh don't give them ideas they will more likely remove foulplay and trick room rather than fix their game like they did with poursuit/hidden power/return

Didn’t they add bottle caps whe hidden power was still a thing?

@@JellifiShugoYes, Bottle Caps were introduced in Sun and Moon, and those were the last games to feature Hidden Power. (I should know because I spent an ungodly number of resets trying to get HP Fire on Tapu Lele. 😫)

@exotericidymnic3530 Actually, Hidden Power was still available when they first introduced Bottle Caps, which was in Sun and Moon. Hidden Power was only removed beginning with Sword and Shield along with the other moves that got axed in Dexit. Because of this, I feel more inclined to believe that it wasn’t the ability to inflate a Pokémon’s IVs that led to HP being dropped. Rather, my theory is that this may have to do with the Fairy type now being a big deal. I know Fairy type was already established by Sun and Moon, but Hidden Power was still not changed to include the Fairy type as a possible option. And if they were to change HP to include Fairy type, they would have to change the formula that determines a Pokémon’s HP. Doing this would basically cause every transferred Pokémon’s HP to be completely different than what it originally was (the odds of the Pokémon’s HP staying the same would be astronomically low that this is all but guaranteed.) Understanding the formula for Hidden Power is already quite a headache for those who don’t understand enough about programming or mathematics. But altering HP to include Fairy type AND creating a system that maintains a transferred Pokémon’s HP? I’m not a programmer, but I suspect that, at least for the latter, this is easier said than done. And if it is the case that trying to create a formula that maintains a preexisting HP upon transfer to Pokémon Home is indeed a huge pain, then it would make a little bit of sense why HP was dropped. But even if they hadn’t gotten rid of Hidden Power and just chose to not change it, why should the Fairy type forever be excluded as a possible option for that move? Not only does this seem incredibly arbitrary, but it could have genuinely been a decent option against Dark, Dragon and Fighting type Pokémon for those who otherwise cannot learn any good moves against them. Why deny them this possibility yet maintain all the other possible types for HP? But as I said before, I’m not a programmer, so I have no idea what this would entail for the games. If you, reading this, are a gaming programmer, do you have any idea if there is a less complicated way to implement both support for Fairy type HP and maintaining the HP of transferred Pokémon? If you can think of something, mind sharing your thoughts?

@@Grilled_Cheeses Yea, it would be really easy to just add an npc in the post-game (or item) that will change your pokemon's HP type, they already did something of similar complexity by adding bottlecaps to separate IVs from the personality value. There would only be 4 reasons to remove HP: 1 to improve the competitive metagame since HP is incredibly unbalanced, however this definitely is not the reason why, since GF has proven they are not willing to make these sorts of "balance patches" unless the element is very problematic (such as parental bond or intimidate), and because they added an even more unbalanced version of hidden power (terastalization and tera blast) in gen 9. 2 because they wanted to reduce the difficulty of teambuilding with the minimal effort possible, and removing HP was the easiest answer to the HP question. 3 because HP "is the signature move of Unown" who was removed from the game. 4 because they pulled random moves out of a hat to delete.

More comprehensive method: 20 ways to select 3 IVs from 6 (6C3 = 20). 10 of those have Attack as one of the boosted IVs (5C2 = 10) Out of the ones without Attack as one of the boosted IVs, 6 have Speed as one of the boosted IVs (4C2 = 6) So 16 out of 20 have at least one of Attack and Speed boosted to 31. 4 in 20 = 1 in 5 chance that neither are boosted.

I feel like they should just give you the choice of either, as not having to use 6 bottle caps when you want all perfect ivs is pretty convenient.

wait really? I thought it was a switch issue.

@@imablisy no im fire emblem tree houses If you hold +,-,L and R the game reset tô the title scream

​@@imablisyit is a switch issue because it's the first console mainline pokemon is on that doesn't have a built in soft reset combo. Fire emblem allows you to soft reset because the devs programmed a soft reset in the switch games. the pokemon devs didn't

​@@joliterothe 3ds also doesn't have a built in soft reset, nintendo just had a rule for devs that if your game had a soft reset it had to use l+r+start to activate it.

they no longer do? older Pokemon games do. that and various older games like Megaman ZX Advent

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21 hours was insane tho

I hope you're feeling better, I'm really glad you enjoyed them

Also, bursaluna can also be ran pretty effectively in tailwind

Glad you enjoyed it!

Too complicated? Rom hacks have already done it. They can just add it in as an update

there's not really any proof that exact feature was a thing but the idea has surely come up internally at game freak so idk why they didn't do it yet

Thank you for saying this - I got to 7:10, paused the video, thought "that doesn't seem right, but now I have to know exactly what it should be and why." I started by considering the fact each stat is essentially drawing straws when the guaranteed 31 IVs are being rolled. Either Attack or Speed would start by pulling one of the 3 not necessarily 31 straws from a pool of 6 total, and the next one of those two would have to draw one of the 2 remaining not [necessarily] 31 straws from a pool of 5 total. After that, any other stat could draw anything - it wouldn't matter (so we can say either Attack and Speed will draw theirs first). Thus, the actual answer would be (3/6)×(2/5), that being 1/5 (not 1/3). Slightly fewer factors than your method, but the same answer. To double-check myself, I proceeded to count in my head exactly how many 6 bit binary numbers would have more than three bits of either state, found that figure to be 44, and then it was easy to see that any of the 4 stats which aren't either Attack or Speed could be un-guaranteed and it'd be a valid and desired configuration. Thus again, 4/20 odds i.e., 1/5. [Edit]

Yeah? Like how you had to buy a GameCube and a separated game with unique cables to hunt for Lugia back in Gen 3?

Jak and Daxter TPL is my fav game, but Jak 2 is a close second

Hacked Pokémon notify the tools that the Pokemon tournament uses, so wouldnt work for competitions

@@TheBlueArmageddonMany players have been proven to have hacked/impossible mons at tournaments after the fact. Even extremely highly rated players

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Glad you think so!

@@imablisy put it this way, I thought I knew about IV’s Ev’s and base stats and I managed to learn something 🤝

michigan is literally just only parks. I am not kidding when I say there are 4 lakeside parks within a 5 minute drive of my place lol

@@imablisy Good! I ride my bike through a park by my house everyday on my lunch break, so I wasn't sure if you had something similar where you're at haha

@@kazinwho I literally JUST set up my bike today so I can start riding early in the morning.

Yea

Nice work!

not only some, but most. somebody in the comments calculated a rough 1 in 1250 chance, or 50 hours on average. since every roll is independent you can get 2 hours like in your case and somebody else could hunt for 200 hours. uff

Haha thanks

I've shiny hunted the entire National Dex btw

Yeah this hunt realistically wasn’t very long but it’s so monotonous. I can’t imagine what it’d be like without the turbo

@@imablisy Yeah, turbo is a lifesaver for that hunt.

I just cut it all off yesterday lol

yep

thanks!