This Pokemon was Bad, Got Worse, Won a Tournament 

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Meanwhile it has very low usage in singles. Singles players are just built different.

I guess it was bc Calyrex was still an extremedly broken pokemon, and Incineroar can counter it

@@axr1798 Way easier answer: Incineroar wasn't limited, Zacian was.

Zacian is a restricted legendary that hates Trick Room, so I'm not surprised it wasn't as easy to fit on a team as Incineroar.

And zacian did a hero to zero

He’s not the hero we deserve, but the hero we needed

The rising of the shield hero

@@indominusrex2859 Zacian flew too close to the sun with those silly wings it has.

Facts

Shout out to Alfonso

I has faith in the underdog

And Zamazenta even came to Alfaonso's home country in generation 9

I also have faith in the under dog

Dicks out 4 Alfonso

OH YEAH i forgot about that line that just makes it seem much more relevant

OMG HES ACTUALLY THE GOAT confirmed

Idk what that is or where it's from but I guess it's a really good pun Edit: looked it up, awesome song and fits so well!

The opening line is literally. "I used to rule the world," Which I think is great. Really just knew it all in that one statement.

i used to ruleeee the world

Absolutely based pfp

@@keqingsimp2174 Thank you 🖤

a classic underdog story

It's Zamazenta Zuesday. Every Zama has its Zenta, folks...

​@@sora4440this is insane

This had me on the floor 😂

Time stamp?

He's assuming our joke, and I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing

@@soulduelist2673 around 16 mins

7/13/2024 16:02

likely would have increased it's pickrate, but due to Zacian's then dominant power it wouldn't be that high. IMO Behemoth Bash should have also used the user's defenese for damage calcs

​@@rory8182 Maybe in the first formats where Dynamax is legal but when it gets banned Zama would probably be better since it can now pivot safely due to its bulk to another Pokemon or stick on the field just like SV

So they are waifu?

​@@jcdejesus2296No....no...NOOOOOO

I mean it depends since the Pokédex is kinda not sure wether it’s a girl or boy.

@@jcdejesus2296 most of us are not in alabama so no

Hold on now, what?!

nah he appears even earlier at 1:02 or 62 seconds

​@@jreggrae👍

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Yeah someone beat you to that comment you may as well delete this failure

​@@wyclef4351 ?

Not Bastiodon though

Nothing can save a Rock/Steel combo. There's a reason Mega Aggron dropped the Rock typing.

love putting it on my Torkoal lol

​@@gengarzilla1685yeah, Stone Edge says otherwise. Aggron is still awesome.

@FortooSP guy, that's what other mons are for. I thought we were past this.

Existing apparently

Yeah my boi Obstagoon was a homie in my singles draft league, I get this is for doubles but why the hate for my rocker buddy :(

For being ass

For being bad

It is still v viable, the hype of the Michael Zhang team being broken just wore off a bit and now it is in a little bit of a meta dip

Zamazenta: My death was, greatly, exaggerated.

it took 10 minutes for wolfe to reach the point of the video...

Zamazenta jesus

​@@sampletext9426 its almost like it needed to be set up so we could understand why zamazenta's new tools were important

Honestly, I would have expected both. def scaling Behemoth Bash and Body Press in Sword and Shield.

That and king’s shield for the absolute most fitting candidate for the move. If only for thematic purposes.

I thought of the same thing but there is a problem with that. Both moves Behemoth Blade and Behemoth Bash are basically Iron Head that changes to these signature moves after both get their crowned form. Iron head is a physical attack but then suddenly becoming a defense scaling move might get confusing maybe that's why. I might be wrong as well.

​@@teno777i cant imagine how broken it will be if zamazenta has body press, defense scaling behemoth bash and kings shield, having protect is nice, but having protect that can lower attack of a mon that make contact( specially with zamazenta's defense), now that would be something

@@jadeyumol4811 Zacian basically already had that, except for literally every single move it wanted to use. It really only loses out on King’s Shield but that doesn’t really matter if the opponent is outspend and OHKO’d anyways

Zamazenta would probably be better than zacian in sword and shield if they gave it body press. Zama with body press feels like playing a zacian that is somehow harder to make leave the field.

@@raysay1818 honestly not really. Zama didn't really match well into the meta, even with Body Press it'd have still been walled hard by Calyrex and Wide Guard, and in Dynamax meta Max Ground attacks were very common due to the defense boost they provide (on top of having a neutrality to Max Airstream). It would have been way less bad surely, but still people would have much rather ran Zacian or Caly-S or Kyogre instead.

​@@raysay1818 nah

@@worldiefeard8396 these are all very fair points. Though I do still feel that Zamazenta with body press, while maybe not better than zacian exactly, it would still be up there. Like Zama got nerfed. it hit harder and was bulkier in sw/sh. it wasn't the biggest nerf but like the treasures of ruin got nerfed 5-10 points and it mattered enough to stop chi-yu from being ENTIRELY busted. so idk Zamazenta with 5 more points in both defenses 10 more in attack with +1 defense on *every* switch in with stab body press and boosted behemoth bash could be pretty threating and could change the meta accordingly. It's hard to say with these things because it's full on alternate universe speculation but it's crazy to think Zama was potentially always this close to the spot light it just needed the one tool it should of had from the start. Body press seems perfectly built for Zamazenta and then for some reason they didn't give it to the poor dog.

@@worldiefeard8396 Why would those stop Zamazenta from attacking when body press is singular so wide guard won't block it, max ground boosts special defense while Zama is faster than most of its users and being neutral to airstream isn't bad?

We NEED a special attack version of Intimidate RIGHT NOW

Its not changes. Its called A/B thumbnail test that all creators can do in RU-vid studio

I can still see the first one.

Derp zamazenta where art thou

puppy-zenta the best (that third one)

Derpy zenta is my fav

Even better woah! 🦸‍♂️🛡️🐕‍🦺

that is one heavy shield!

​@@onebear6504now let's petition to have Iron Defense make the user heavier

@@TaLeng2023 Yes! Weight is an underused stat, not just moves, there are even abilities like heavy metal and light metal or items like heavy ball all about the weight stat! With stuff like fist moves or sound or wind etc getting attention, time for weight too!

@@onebear6504 since we already have Heavy Ball and Float Stone, I think we just need more moves that deal with weight and maybe moves that increase or lower it.

Tru same here

Dude same I've always loved zamazenta (To me it felt more pokemon as the shield felt more worked into the design instead if just handing it an item like zacian???) It's awful seeing how much love zacian got while my shield doggo got scraps.

@@IronRalts the underdog wins!

I mean it’s not that I don’t want use zazamenta I just can’t get him I wish i chose shield smh

I always was more of a Zamazenta fan just because like you said, the sheild just works into its design better imo, so seeing it get some time in the spotlight competitively makes me very happy :)

This might be a new pb

@@KrazyKyle-ij9vb Slowrun%

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Mentioned by name at 4:22

Why?

@@WeeWeenskiin the Dex entries and lore it is explained that zacian is female, in a similar sense to lunala also lore wise being female

Pokedex entry. But it's still only speculated and not confirmed

@@WeeWeenski Shield's Pokedex entry for Zacian flat out says they’re either rivals, or Zacian is the older sister

big sis solos

Does the snail decrease body press dmg?

@thomasgerstenmayer4100 most likely, based on how Sword of Ruin interacts with Body Press

​@@thomasgerstenmayer4100 the snail gonna be cooking with this some day

yeah burns don’t halve attacking stats, they halve the power of physical moves.

The code holding these games together is hanging on by a thread.

one of my favorite songs by far, glad someone else got it!

OOOOH, of course! And this is one of my favourite songs, as well 🤦‍♂️

@@notZabamiyeah, nobody is gonna get the reference to the grammy-winning #1 song from one of the biggest bands in the world. you're special!

@@supitskyle7832 lol

Nice more than one person

Nobody is here for Zacian

@@ChiIIi...Bot

​@@ChiIIi...I'm here for both

Zamazenta's development to stardom really shows that base stats aren't always everything that determines whether a Pokemon is good or bad; it's also what tools a Pokemon has and how effectively it can use them.

Zacian being Sonic and Zamazenta being Tails also work

The year of Zamazenta is upon us!

and this is ssbu.

based comment

Huh, I even checked the Japanese entry just to make sure. Every shield entry for Hero of Many Battles Zacian refers to Zacian as Zamazenta’s older sister.

I wouldn't be surprised if Wolfey doesn't really care about Pokémon lore 😅

emphasis on "some *SAY* " dex entries are not canon, just rumors

@@butlershurk7227No, Zacian is referred to as a brother in the French entry.

@@teno777 my bad, I should’ve said that the english, japanese, and chinese entries say so. However, I did check the other languages on bulbapedia, and every language uses older sister except the Romance languages which do use a feminine noun (however they are gendered languages, so that point is moot) and some word with a similar root to fraternity. Since it’s just the Romance languages that do this, I think it’s a cultural thing to get across the specific nuance, but I don’t speak French, Spanish, or Italian, so I have no clue.

I was wondering

“One minute I held my nuts”

I used to rule the world

@@Woodiegamin643-we7ss oh is it a coldplay reference? I was slow on that

Exactly! There's so many dogs with swords, it's basically an archetype, but a dog wearing a shield is new and awesome

It's my favorite gen 8 Mon! I really like how big it actually is in crowned form! It has big broad shoulders for the shield akin to a brave tank in the front lines being a hero, a noble knight, and a bro that protects everyone else plus a really cool design all over! Everything comes together so so well!

Definitely would watch that lmao

Took too long 😭😭😭

@@miniiore I'm just doing it for record keeping at this point, I regret starting this and ruining the comments a little bit but I can't stop until there's a video without incineroar

@@cyphate it doesn't ruin it! Hail Incineroar!