This is why APPLETUN was BANNED! 

The forbidden fruit 🍎

The way Applin just r o l l s is absolutely amazing

I love Appletun so much! He's so derpy and adorable and generous. He's just the perfect friend shape and he's so fun to use! Sadly I own Sword so I can't get one myself ;w;. I really want to shiny hunt this but I'll gave to wait for the event that gives me a single Sweet Apple so I can get it finally.

Wait, it has Thick Fat ?! I was considering adding it to a Trick Room team, well now I'm sold

In OU I prefer to run iron defense, body press, recover, Apple acid. Appletun can set up on a lot of OU physical attackers actually, so this phys def oriented set really works.

Great insight! I love Appletun but when it lifts its ears/eyes up, it’s so creepy looking!

I didn't realise Appletuns eyes were on his "ears"

Fapple deserves more love.

Damn this Fruit is straight god fruit

Appletun: Banned for being too versatile Landorus-T: *Sweating nervously*

Ah yes, banned from the second lowest tier, truly a monster.

Just use Ice Beam “Thick Fat” O h

I love appletun and it's ripen ability, definitely one of the coolest abilities they added this generation by far. Ripen has a ton of hidden potential like it actually doubles the effects on pretty much every berry including the rowap berry which doubles the damage the berry deals to the opponent. Rowap deals 1/8 the opponents max hp if they hit you with a special attack which is pretty meh, but thanks to ripen that damage is doubled to 1/4 of their max hp and appletun gets recycle. Ripen will unironically make rowap berry have a niche on appletun as a budget special rocky helmet once its released which is just so cool to me.

“Under the Radar” People have ignored my baby boy???? HEATHENS!

I love Appleton and the granny smith shiny is genius, I just wish the apples had different gmax forms

I love this kind of content where someone explains why pokemon are banned. And i know that there is the smogon article, but this way he shows visual example while also putting the pokemon in the contest of the tier it was banned, and most importantly is much MUCH more engaging than reading a 200 characters article(that could still be read if you are interested)

Added Appletun on my NU team recently 'cause I needed special defence and the typing. And I've fallen in love with this thing. Fantastic wall and looks like Soldier from TF2 had a baby with a pie.

"Appleton was banned..." Me: What? How? "From PU" ME: Oh. But why? "It's to versatile" Me: No? Wtf?

This pokemon is not weak by any means. I mean, I got it in a semi-stall team in showdown, and this champ was able to tank hits from really powerful pokemons on the special side, and with aple acid was able to put the enemy in so much pressure, and this was in an OU format, even though I had the leech seed recover one. This pokemon really impressed me, and I kinda understand that this pokemon would be too powerful in lower tiers

See when I saw banned I thought you meant from OU for second

When you haven't played pokemon in months but now you might want to play again uwu

I love Appletun, it’s become one of my favourite Pokemon

Love playing with appletun in OU with corsola and tyrantitar as a defensive core, sadly the core lacks hazard removal and is very weak to toxic spikes

I'll be completely honest, at least they just say banned instead of "moved to Borderline". Which...was effectively a ban ("It's not good enough for the tier above, but too good for this tier.")

And now is outclassed by Drampa in NU (Pls RU players, make Drampa rise to that tier so Appletun can shine)

8:24 I never realised how much I would like Applin until now.

I still don't get the banned pokemon stuff. Why make the pokemon to play with them if you are going to ban them in general. People need to come up with strategies to beat it.

7:10 “Earthquakes” *shows seismitoad* Excadrill: “Am I a joke to you?”

Appletun is my favorite gen 8 pokemon. Reminds me of my grandma's home made apple pie

"Too versatile for PU" Pyukumu: 😓😓

“in the OU tier it can be a good physically defensive wall because it resists fishous rend“ -Dracovish laughs in UBER

another great thing is when sw/sh first came out this thing was a great corsola check with leech seed and apple acid it could out stall corsola

Does anyone else consider Smogon’s monopoly on usable mon’s incredibly irksome? I mean why would you ban a mon that could do so much with while you’re lucky to get more than 2 movepools from any of their mons?

i think i might have caused this ripen kee berry amnesia recover apple acid dragon pluse I was rarely stopped

Foo when I finish my ranked team would you want the code? Its a hyper offensive with bulk team

I wish appletun got better moves. Flapple is demonstrably better and I hate it

I have a fun Appletun story. Not competitively relevant though. I had just evolved Appletun and went int Hammerlocke’s cafe for the daily battle over a sweet only to realize I was a bit under leveled with my team. Alcremie and Slurpuff are shaking off everything I do and they sweep 3 team members! I have one really low health Pokemon and a really underleveled Appletun left. So I send out Appletun and use Apple Acid in a desperate move and it does far more than expected. Then when they chip it down with dazzling gleam it’s sitrus berry kicks in and almost fully heals it! So I use recycle and rinsed and repeated Apple Acid and Recycle to keep going long after my other Pokémon went down! In the end Appletun took down both Alcremie and Slurpuff on its own!

I have three different Appletun with different move sets. I really love these dragon apples

one of my favourite gen 8 mons

I used to hate it's design in the beginning because it is based on food But I have to say that it is one of my favorite new pokemon to use competitively And it is kinda cute when I take a moment to look at it 😅

I've been running a defensive Appletun. Max def and HP, Bold, with Dragon Pulse, Apple Acid, recover, and recycle. I use Thick Fat and an aguav berry just in case. It's been fantastic. The cherry on top? It is named Granny Smith and is shiny.

Ran a curse Appletun with gyroball in Nu, it actually does lots of work

Hey Foo, speaking of Fishious Rend, how do you feel about the Dracovish suspect test? I support it since Dracoviah is too overcentralizing in the teambuilder. And people are already experimenting with Arctovish, including me. And Arctovish is just what Dracovish should've been, a nore balanced fish if you will. I use a set of max attack, enough speed so it hits 191 so it can outspeed walls that want to be faster than Conkeldurr, and the rest in special attack with Fishious Rend, Icicle Crash, Freeze Dry, and Substitute. Water Absorb and a Naughty Nature ensure and Heavy-Duty-Boots or Leftovers make it great for wallbreaking! And it counter Dracovish 1v1

Really sucks that there isn't anyway to get sweet apple in Sword. I wanna shiny hunt him so badly.

I haven't played Sword or Shield I thought his eyes were behind the apple. Flappy eyes are cursed

I find it funny that smogon is basically it’s own entity since the game and the company completely ignore their attempts at validity XD as an ex smogonite I feel like the need to really learn what is and what isn’t broken.

ah, yes; the walking apple gets banned for being too powerful

Hearing that this thing got banned from any teir is kinda depressing

Yknow I’m slightly disappointed appletun’s eyes aren’t ears

I got Master Rank in doubles battle tower two months in a roll using an appletun with weakness policy in trick room.

I have mine with leftovers, max Sp Def and max HP with Apple Acid, Body Press, Iron Defense, and Recover - it really does well in most situations

Appletun is my favorite pokemon!!!

The thing gets Recycle and also has double effectiveness berries. Pluck seems to be a hard counter for it, but it seems pretty decent otherwise?

SHUCKLE WENT FROM PU TO OU! YOU GOTTA EXPLAIN THIS!!!

Appletun is epic.

I used a Apple Acid, leech seed, recover, protect weakness policy set on the last IC and it was a monster once you eliminated the fairy on the opposing team. Would def take out the WP and add in leftovers or sitrus berry :) once you put leech seed on two pokemon theres no need to even attack lol

*Vietnam flashbacks to Shared Power*

Appletun is far and away my favorite of the new Pokémon from Sword & Shield. I haven’t played the game in a while, and I still haven’t gotten into competitive battling, but I’d love to be able to make Appletun work on my team.

Me: sees this video Other me: hold my Apple juice

Prolly one of the best setup mons introduced this gen. It's really annoying to deal with.

I like how you timed the “let’s find out WHY” and appletun was like ? 😂

Foofootoo, I tried that Arctovish team. It's a decent team, but needs some fixes. My dream for Dem Arctovish is to be pulled out from PU. If you can, I would love to see a Arctovish video.

I cannot fathom why Smogon put Appletun was put so low in the first place, I always thought it was good, that’s one of the reasons I don’t play Smogon. They ban very one-dimensional Pokémon to compete with legendaries but then let something like Appletun wreck havoc on the weaker Pokémon.

Appletun ripen with gmax snorlax would be a funny set if you could make it work

Let's see it has had too many back injuries

First comment and view.. finally

I originally thought Appletun would be a OU staple but then Dragapult, Kyurem and Clefable took control of the tier. Appletun is underrated and I hope it continues to climb the tier ladder.

Best Boi Appletun

Applin and appletun were my first gen 8 shinies. Always gonna love them.

Why not just brave bird it?

Aww my favorite mon is banned.

Yeah that typing/ability advantage I think is the overall most dangerous thing to him. Just spitballing without looking at the chart he's basically resistant to the most common move types (grass, fire, water, ground, electric), and that in itself is huge and his biggest check is reduced to a regular check.

Appleton banned? ROFLMFAO! No, it wasn’t. You should state banned from Smogon, otherwise you make it look like it’s banned from official tournaments.

You can do ripen and leftovers

I feel like Dipplin is gonna be an awesome support mon with its Supersweet Syrup and Syrup Bomb.

i use ripen and an aguav berry, with apple acid, recycle, amnesia, and dragon pulse, and the ripen berry effect is op using recycle in doubles

Aren't apples more alkaline?

Which is better Appletun or Flapple I live for Appletun, also the "floppy ears" are his eyes- ◉_◉

LOL!! This ain't quite what I was looking for. I wanted to see the scoop on Darren Appleton being banned from WPA events. 😄

Yes. They were banned from PU. You know, the rank right before, Un-tier? THE LOWEST RANK IN THE GAME?

A sap sipper Azumarill could be Appleton’s worst nightmare. But luckily everyone always runs pure power with Azumarill.

I love appletun more than flapple

oh my competitive friends like to make of my appletun but soon they shall all see what nature is yours that you're using in the footage by the way?

Why does smogon feel like that person who gets salty at everything, is actually good but no one likes. Oh the new feature can setup on turn one, how scar- BANNED

Can someone try to give me a Trick Room set for Appletun? My Appletun is pretty garbage as it doesn't have Thick Fat

Why couldn't they just move Appletun in a higher tier? Not like OUs or ubers but like a tier above PU?

What does a ban from Smogon imply exactly? It shouldn’t affect the official competitive tournaments

Just wait for a Pokemon with Contrary being hit by Apple Acid after being switched in. The tears are going to be rollin' in soon!

So appletun is basically dragon type slurpuff

The worst thing for a Pokémon is to be banned into a borderline tier because that Pokémon will be trash everywhere else. And Appletun is one of them.

PUBL Is a joke now 16 pokemons are in It and most of them Is silvally

Everytime a pokemon is banned from PU, I'm always like, "Good job X, you show 'em"

Thats crazy because he still weak against flying, bug, poison, dragon and Fairy so he has a lot of counter potentials out there.

PU: *exists* Appletun: So you have chosen... death

Appletun is truly an amazing mon, with thick fat you can invest in defensive EVs and give it weakness policy and fire and ice moves wont do much and give you an offensive boost. Its a really fun mon to use.

I absolutely despise that the eyes are eyes and not freaking ears like they freaking should be omfg

Appletun is great, almost as heckin good as MY BOI FLAPPLE

Banned from PU tier is not "BANNED!". Over-exaggerate much?

I dont like how many pokemon get banned by smogon. They banned diglet once which is hilarious.

This is why I dont play smogon, they add on restrictions for no reason or because people complaining.