Why Wugtrio Is NOT Actually Useless 

Basically, its niche is that it can faint super fast lol

@@foofootoo So from the creators of Arash from FGO (uses his Ultimate move, then dies) we got Wugtrio from pokemon (Very fast to use memento and then dies)

So wugtrio's actual use is by being useless

supreme over lord as well

@@muffincopnoicingforme8220 being used by not being used.

That is a super fun fact!

Wiglett is actually just Water+Diglett, and now we have to contend with the fact that Wugtrio isn't just Water+Dugtrio but an actually good name.

@@PoisonFlower765wigglett is also like... "wiggle." Like a worm.

I thought it was just the equivalent of Wario to Mario lol

@@Takapon218 listen it was midnight when I wrote that give me a break

so you only take 300% damage from any electric move instead of 400%!

Solid Rock is a fantastic defensive ability that reduces super effective damage... But that is completely worthless when you take so much damage you can't even take a neutral hit...

Maybe a signature ability that works like ice face except you can rebuild it in sand and rain + makes you inmune to sand

Wugtrio feels like a candidate for an equivalent to Ice Scales. The damage reduction in it would be meaningful (especially given that Wugtrio takes super-effective damage from special attacks) but as Wugtrio has effectively no defenses it would still suck. That’s how they deal with abilities, right?

@@Xigzagamer I'm not saying it would be a *useful* Ability, just that it would've made sense in-universe as an alternative one. I honestly wish they would've completely changed Wugtrio's stat spread to be defensive and based around it being able to hide in its rock rather than just making it a worse Water-Type copy of Dugtrio. It would've fit a lot more considering it's based on a Garden Eel.

😁

Toedscool and Toedscruel were added very late in development, Mycelium Might is the last ability in index order internally and their internal names refer to Magikarp and Gyarados rather than Tentacool and Tentcruel (implying they replaced a convergent Magikarp at some point).

I respectfully disagree with you on Toedscruel and the idea that they struggled to place it in a role that fit with Tentacruel's stats. I think it was a neat idea to give it a limitation, as there's an important trade-off there with that ability that you're ignoring. With Mycelium Might Toedscruel can effectively Spore Gholdengo, pokemon with Vital Spirit (popular on Annihilapes), pokemon with Overcoat (Enamorus-T), and a few others less relevant abilities. It can Taunt or use Hazards on pokemon with Magic Bounce (Espeon and Hatterene). It's never going to miss a Spore on a Snow Cloak or Sand Veil cheese team (Mycelium Might ignores the evasion boosts, technicailly it can Toxic evasion cheese reliably as well but I think any poison type is better at that). And finally while less Relevant/useful, it can Screech or Scary Face Contrary, Clear Body, and Corviknight. It's a really interesting Doubles pokemon. And last but not least it's speed tier and Sp Atk let it hit back offensively BEFORE many opposing threats (i.e. Banded Rapid Strikes-U). Toedscruel can tank a hit, Spore, force a switch, and then choose to attack before the switch-in moves, instead of spreading any other status utility. Cheers! I love this poke lol.

​@rawkhawk414 I know this is an old comment, but whilst this is useful, I really wish they just gave it mold breaker. Mycelium Might is literally just mold breaker but worse. I do say this as someone who loves this pokémon though.

This sums up the Pokémon perfectly tbh

i was thinking about using a boosting coalossal strategy but unaware dondozos and skeledirges made me think otherwise, i just use a bulky giga drain tera grass volcarona now lol

Wide Guard Garganacl was a concern, though that would have been a strong prediction on the opponent's part

The sand veil ability on a water type I guess is its other niche!

So it either supports the gimmicks of Palossand and Coalossal or it’s the evasion Pokémon, like Froslass on Candice’s team. My god, those are horrible roles.

Yeah good suggestion!

I get that Arena Trap is a sand based ability and doesn't make too much sense for a rock-dwelling eel thing, but it's such a good ability and Wugtrio desperately needs something as strong

@@foofootoo they should’ve given it water type magnet pull or something.

@@bakes1324 Wagnet Pull

@@bakes1324 Undertow

@@travis7638that’s a good name.

Yeah it's a rough one. Dugtrio has Arena Trap and STAB Earthquake which is reliable and good base power. For Wugtrio to be good, Triple Dive needs to be move powerful and it needs other powerful coverage moves too

Wugtrio feels like what Weavile also is; a fast sweeper who will never be able to sweep.

I'm good thanks 😁

lol spidops and wugtrio being bad together

Man, Spidops had such cool potential. I wish they'd start giving more bug Pokemon Scyther or Heracross level stats. Just give Spidops more HP and defenses with like 50 or 100 more BST and it'd have a cool niche. Lokix is also so cool and got similar treatment, but at least not quite as bad. This gen had such cool bugs but really needed to make them that bit stronger

@@Chronoflation the problem is that Spidops evolves at level 14, so giving it more stats would make it unbalanced in the story.

@@EnriqueLaberintico then it should've gotten another evolution :(

@@TheWanderingNight yup.

That's very cool! I haven't seen much use of revavroom so I like that option

@@iantaakalla8180 The mentality that any pokemon "sucks" because it doesn't just OHKO is very sad. There's more ways to being supportive, that just using follow me & friend guard.. *edit* talking in general. Not directly towards you.

Sorry for even talking. Mud Shot is a speed lowering thing. That means it works as speed control. Sorry for even commenting.

Accelgor is a much better support Pokémon... We will be able to use Greninja soon to do a similar thing

Yeah the Kilowattrel photo bomb was fun 😁

All great suggestions

Interesting idea, though even with that boost it would have been super frail still

Giving him 20hp would be so useless compared to attack lol

I think for a tournament I'd have the PP Ups, it's just the number of teams I make mean it's not possible for all of them to have max PP

@@foofootoo yeah the majority of legit teams have some small flaws. Unless you are prepping for a tournament, but even then getting something like a zero IV in attack for a special attacker that can’t breed is difficult. I only use my PP ups on moves that are naturally low in PP.

For sure, as soon as greninja is legal, wugtrio's only niche disappears lol

but water shuriken is special, so the boosts from palossand's ability doesn't reduce water shuriken's damages... which could kill palossand.

Ooh sandstorm tera rock is an interesting idea for the special defense. I agree that trick room is not necessary - the point is for Palossand to tank lots of hits so it doesn't matter if you're going first or last

Yeah it's a challenge

I love shiny Palo but unfortunately did not have the time to find one for this video 😔 when home comes out, the original siltadel will be back in action!

No way! 😂 You are braver than me!

@@foofootoo pallosand crushed the future ground-weak forms.

Unfortunately you can't activate your own contrary like that

I don't think so but it should!

I still find it weird when Tyranitar terastallizes then gets hit by sand!

That would be amazing lol

It's just 3 dugtrio in a group

new dugtrio named DogGang which is just 4 digletts with puppy ears

5 duggies

Dugduo, 2 digletts Dugquartet, 4 digletts Dugswarm, 5 digletts Dugteam, 6 digletts Dughydra, 7 digletts

😁

He already has weakness policy on Armarouge

Turn one tera is not uncommon and as Pumpkin said I can save the weakness policy for Armarouge 😁

Ahh that makes perfect sense. I'm so used to FF armorouge that I alway proc the weak armor/policy for them lol.

Resources are kinda rough though with the number of teams I make, so stretching to PP up all my mons isn't something I usually bother with. I know it's easier to do now but I have to grind a lot to get frequent teams and it's an area that I'm happy to sacrifice for these fun gimmick strats. You know if I went to a tournament everything would be maxed out

@@foofootoo For sure, something I do to passively increase the number of items I get is use a Pick Up Team that are at level 91 or above to get just about every rare item to sell while getting money. Especially considering where you can do this while searching for shinies or the vast number of items laying about. The one thing I do like about how they lowered the PP of HP restoring moves is to limit stall tactics and make moves like Morning Sun, Moonlight, or Synthesis more valuable since in a sun team their HP restores better. With the exception of Wish, though that one is a two turn move. Curious. What would a Lucario skill swapped with Mega Launcher look like?

Oh true!

Yeah I agree

That's a cool observation!

It's a shame if they don't since VGC is their own format!

Hey!

Level up move

This, this could actually work for it. Sticky web, x-scissor, sucker punch, maybe give it fell stinger & keep a few ground moves for coverage. Bugtrio could be neat

@@gregorysroka727 holy shoot my joke turned out to not be a joke?

Most important part of the game tbh

Greninja is not legal in VGC yet though

Hi kracc bacc!

Oops! lol I changed out protect

I'm using weakness policy on Armarouge and can't have it on 2 Pokémon. Also, Absorb Bulb on Palossand means I can terastallize to a steel type and still get the absorb bulb boost - weakness policy wouldn't activate because water is no longer super effective

@@foofootoo Ohh, I didn't realize Armarouge had WP.

No 😔

Oh nooo!!

That sounds way too ominous

Almost all the Isle of Armor tutor moves are (as of yet) unavailable in SV. E.g. Armarouge is the only mon that gets Expanding Force for now.

That's a neat idea, but I think water absorb kinda absorbs the whole move just once - only abilities that actually get hit by the move will have it activate multiple times

Would Storm Drain only activate once? If so, an offensive Gastrodon may be possible.

The plan is that +2 armor cannon Armarouge one hit KOs even Eviolite Murkrow so it goes down on the first turn as it sets up tailwind and does not get a chance to haze. Mudsdale has no recovery, so it does more damage with body press but faints much more frequently, whereas Palossand can win on its own against an entire team once it has defense boosts

No unfortunately not

Pokémon scarlet and violet

These gimmicks are all it has.