An Introduction to RBY OU | RBY Bytes

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Among the oldest Smogon tiers and the progenitor of what would become a competitive phenomenon, many have tried and failed to get into Gen 1. It's a bit of an esoteric tier, so hopefully, my own eccentrism can help demystify it for the newbies! Hop in as we explore Pokemon's most interesting metagame!
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SOURCES (and resources)
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... - a lot of stuff from here holy
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www.smogon.com/forums/threads...
www.smogon.com/dex/rb/pokemon/
www.smogon.com/rb/articles/rb...
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  • @PlaguevonKarma
    @PlaguevonKarma Жыл бұрын

    *points at screen* MINOR EDITING MISTAKE!!! Jynx has 35 Base Defence. Not 135. If only it did, maybe it'd be a good Pokemon! Join discord.gg/karmacord if you want to keep up with my idiocy!

  • @shadowtitanx3962

    @shadowtitanx3962

    Жыл бұрын

    Physical wall Jynx will make Rhydon jealous.

  • @Michael_Dominic

    @Michael_Dominic

    Жыл бұрын

    you take that back, jynx is UBER

  • @justkita3890

    @justkita3890

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah I saw that and had a mental crisis for a few seconds. "Wait, Jynx is a wall? Why is nobody using this monster?"

  • @ToyosatomimiNoMikoTaoism

    @ToyosatomimiNoMikoTaoism

    Жыл бұрын

    The Jynx fan in me cries, for knowing her Green incarnation would seek revenge with Blizzard.

  • @newrallyxeviousgamer

    @newrallyxeviousgamer

    9 ай бұрын

    Jynx is basically diet Alakazam to me which is good enough.

  • @HumanReverend
    @HumanReverend Жыл бұрын

    "Slowbro's greatest enemy is god itself." The entire foundation of rby was created to ensure slowbro was just Pretty Good because anything better than that would be catastrophic

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    May as well have been. Everything goes against it - if you fixed every bug, it would be the best Pokemon in the game. Easily.

  • @johnsears6077

    @johnsears6077

    8 ай бұрын

    Make another effort vid, bum

  • @crunter6523
    @crunter6523 Жыл бұрын

    Obviously the reason Mew is Uber is because it needs to be THIS TALL to be in OU

  • @tylerd1297

    @tylerd1297

    Жыл бұрын

    Always wanted to play Mewbers (mew legal in Gen 1 ou)

  • @et34t34fdf

    @et34t34fdf

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tylerd1297 Really? How are you going to prevent it from just sweeping your team late to mid-game with swords dance? Clearly its too broken for OU play.

  • @tylerd1297

    @tylerd1297

    Жыл бұрын

    @@et34t34fdf I said I wanted to play the format not that it should be in ou lol

  • @janehrahan5116

    @janehrahan5116

    9 ай бұрын

    Porgyon.

  • @palestjade
    @palestjade Жыл бұрын

    rby ou is definitely a tier. i will never forget when i gen 1 missed on the same turn that my opponent 1/256 healed

  • @Gold_Gamer_100

    @Gold_Gamer_100

    Жыл бұрын

    This happened to me with a Gengar explosion once...

  • @cadeyoung4406

    @cadeyoung4406

    Ай бұрын

    I 256 missed an exeggutor explosion the same game I missed 7 sings in a row

  • @luckasneo2089

    @luckasneo2089

    14 күн бұрын

    I once had a game where me and my opponent both 1/256 missed on the same turn

  • @BigYellowSilly
    @BigYellowSilly Жыл бұрын

    This was a really awesome watch and very well done, I've a feeling I'll be directing people to this a lot lmao

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    I made it with the express intent of redirecting people - I see people say silly things about OU a lot...

  • @Rubberbandman1991
    @Rubberbandman1991 Жыл бұрын

    To give perspective on how old the community is: When I first played RBY OU I was in 7th grade on Pokemon Netbattle, which was pre-slam era and hipmonlee was still fairly active and known as the old guard. That was 18 years ago, and I'm 31 now.

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    It's crazy, like, 18 years ago, and that guy is still active in the community. If I ever end up doing videos on individual figures, I'd have to cover Hipmonlee first. It's kind of impossible not to.

  • @wolfetteplays8894

    @wolfetteplays8894

    Жыл бұрын

    That was in 2005. That’s nowhere near as old as it got. There were still people doing tournaments way before Crystal even came out

  • @LongfellowLP

    @LongfellowLP

    7 ай бұрын

    I never played in a tournament (well, I signed up for one and then ADHDed and missed my deadline to play haha) but I would play random matches on Porygon's Big Show around 2000. Back then there was the understanding that using Mewtwo + Mew was a different game than not using them, but the matchmaking service didn't differentiate (and for that matter had no legality checks at all-my sister would lead with Spore Tauros lol) so you'd be trying to play what we'd now call OU and then suddenly a Mewtwo would appear. The good ol' wild west. It was fun though and I think even experienced players don't know just how much they have to unlearn to properly put themselves in the mindset of late-90s and early-2000s online Pokémon

  • @raishrby

    @raishrby

    Ай бұрын

    Yeah been there across Netbattle, Pokemon Online, and Showdown until the Body Slam changes. The community is so strong I'm still I touch with a few of them and even visited in person when traveling to their countries!

  • @krosshair450
    @krosshair450 Жыл бұрын

    3:17 Seeing RBY Snorlax land a crit feels illegal LOL Overall, this is a damn good vid, I tried my hand at RBY OU a while ago and got my shit kicked in, but had a lot of fun

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    Lax crits feel like the fabric of reality crumbling around your Pokemon Especially when it's Self-Destruct...

  • @noishfanboy1141

    @noishfanboy1141

    Жыл бұрын

    oh youd be surprised how often it happens because you can never tell with rby

  • @Day-eb9po
    @Day-eb9po Жыл бұрын

    I just looked up Hipmonlee's profile page, and got jumpscared by "Early RBY had Mewtwo legal, so, basically without species clause the game is unplayable." I want to see guides for that metagame...

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    3 Chanseys, 3 Mewtwos, and you're probably set. Or just 6 Mewtwo.

  • @tomasbranco8199
    @tomasbranco8199 Жыл бұрын

    It's so funny how Jolteon using REST of all things can beat Zapdos

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    Zapdos loses to the weirdest things! Very weird Pokemon. But also...very scary.

  • @GynxShinx
    @GynxShinx Жыл бұрын

    Tauros is your Queen. Don't blunder your Queen!

  • @Maxderdachs
    @Maxderdachs Жыл бұрын

    I got into RBY OU last year thanks to Karma and Big Yellow and it feels great to see a dedicated video about it now.

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    It was on my bucket list for when my channel pulls in more viewers - have to make sure it reaches more people than my other videos!

  • @glitchedoom
    @glitchedoom7 ай бұрын

    "Slowbro's greatest enemy is God itself" is a hell of a sentence.

  • @EdwardoFE
    @EdwardoFE Жыл бұрын

    game's all about making your tree explode at the best possible time.

  • @ElBlocko
    @ElBlocko Жыл бұрын

    Kind of funny to think about the current Big Three as, back in the 2K10 days, Tauros and Chansey were ubiquitous, but Snorlax was not. Exeggutor was used more frequently than him, I remember. Did this change because of the 2014 revelation that Body Slam couldn't paralyze normal types, the same thing that sent Golem spiraling down the viability chart?

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    Most likely! Reflect Snorlax not being possible to paralyse with Body Slam changed a toooon for it. It's the best way to stave off paraslams. I do remember WaterWizard arguing Egg was #1 at one point during 2k10 and that made me go "whoaaa". It was near-mandatory for a verrrrry long time.

  • @dannylopez5976
    @dannylopez5976 Жыл бұрын

    Slowbro is almost entirely kept in check by the high Crit rates of Thunderbolt users. The crit rates are high enough that it Slowbro will often taken irreversible damage.

  • @moyai5317
    @moyai5317 Жыл бұрын

    I love how despite not having many pokemons theres even some low tiers that have some niches there that can be valuable rby ou is such a diverse metagame

  • @wolfetteplays8894

    @wolfetteplays8894

    Жыл бұрын

    Not as diverse as Gen 8 ZU or Gen 6 Pure Hackmons. As far as general Pokémon power though, it ain’t too bad. It’s better than Gen 4, that’s for sure

  • @MishKoz
    @MishKoz Жыл бұрын

    This video will finally be the catalyst for me taking the plunge into trying competitive RBY. Thank you for your continued work in producing videos like this, they're great.

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm glad you like them! Thank you so much :3

  • @redkun5
    @redkun5 Жыл бұрын

    YES, QUEEN! YEEEEEEEEEEES!

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    👑

  • @thefaz3744
    @thefaz3744 Жыл бұрын

    The mental image of Snorlax Body Slamming is horrifying

  • @cuntesstwintails
    @cuntesstwintails Жыл бұрын

    RBY OU... scary..... If I ever get into it tho I'll def use a lot of the information from this video as a reference. Really good video all around!

  • @ovbrook3057
    @ovbrook3057 Жыл бұрын

    I've been getting into RBY lately :) won my first ever room tour a couple days ago which was fun, you and big yellow kind of gave me a new appreciation for the tier lol

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm glad! I hope the stuff I went over here helps you!

  • @xtimes3952
    @xtimes39525 ай бұрын

    This ain't an RBY Byte, this an RBY Munch!

  • @rasmusdegn9690
    @rasmusdegn9690 Жыл бұрын

    An idea for the future: How about a video about some of the community history that you mentioned there wasn't time for at 27:40? It would be a very nice companion to this intro and while i'm sure most of it has been told throughout the various RBY Bytes videos i can see a good use for having it all in one place. Regardless, this was a great video. P.S: E

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    I've considered doing individual history videos on important figures in RBY history but it's also a bit difficult. I'd want to do the following: - Seek them out - Interview the player - Chronologically go over their tournament wins and stuff they used Things like that. But it's also concerning about feeding into biases, ego, or inadvertently platforming someone harmful. If you're interested in Wintermute, though, the TobyBro video I did would sum that one up.

  • @TheBottomTier
    @TheBottomTier2 ай бұрын

    THE SLAMMER ACKNOWLEDGED COULD NOT BE MORE BASED IF YOU TRIED

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    2 ай бұрын

    Absolutely mate, only the best!

  • @eve4918
    @eve4918 Жыл бұрын

    wanna say ive been watching a bunch of your videos on rby ou and i finally gave it a try on pokemon showdown and had a bunch of fun

  • @Michael_Dominic
    @Michael_Dominic Жыл бұрын

    very informative and enjoyable as usually. i havent been playing much lately but its always fun to listen to your videos :D

  • @thegamecorner8770
    @thegamecorner8770 Жыл бұрын

    Gen 1 Random Battles is way better than RBY OU. Nearly every mon is useful, and you really get to experience everything that RBY had to offer.

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    I think they're too different to compare. They reward entirely different skillsets and play nothing like each other.

  • @Taterz.

    @Taterz.

    Жыл бұрын

    Random is my favorite. I've never had a stale "by the books" experience like sometimes with OU. The constant need to adapt and utilize unorthodox mons and sets is great

  • @glitchedoom

    @glitchedoom

    7 ай бұрын

    I started my competitive RBY journey playing Gen 1 randoms and still enjoy it (there really is nothing else like getting wrecked by Farfetch'd on occasion), but I found that I enjoyed the consistency of OU more.

  • @apricot8301
    @apricot8301 Жыл бұрын

    YES YES YES! Thank you :D

  • @pineapple8375
    @pineapple8375 Жыл бұрын

    Glad to see you're back and feeling better! :D

  • @Ryfster1
    @Ryfster1 Жыл бұрын

    Maybe after multiple years of watching rby content it's time to start playing it

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    Always!

  • @ultimaterecoil1136
    @ultimaterecoil11365 ай бұрын

    Honestly the biggest takeaway Is don’t get mad when something unlucky happens. Just take a step back and ask yourself what does this change about the current situation and if I’m now at a disadvantage what are my outs. I’ve won games with 2 mons and the opponent having most their team and one of their mons was a gengar and I was needing to rely on Persian to clean up after losing mons to crits and whatnot. You can salvage some very bleak game states if you just keep calm. You aren’t the only one who can get unlucky. The game states at rby can change rapidly from hopeless to suddenly advantaged but you need to play to your outs. If you give up when you lose tauros to a crit from their tauros with minimal damage on it you won’t get that crit with your starmie that could save you. Likewise don’t get cocky just cuz you have a Mon lead that can just change very quickly

  • @Clonekiller66
    @Clonekiller66 Жыл бұрын

    this video was INSANELY good

  • @imaginaryboy2000
    @imaginaryboy2000 Жыл бұрын

    Gen 1's so weird because some things, like Tauros and Exeggutor, abused the construction of the games with all of its design choices (and also bugs) to become godly in their respective uses, but then there are the pokemon that were made well from the start even apart from the generation, leading to threats like Zapdos and Starmie that have ALWAYS been relevant because they're just so cool and good. It makes you almost feel bad, because the pokemon that fell off after a few generations had such a good showing to start and the fans of Exeggutor are basically starving so why should Starmie fans get to eat?

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    I was hoping Alolan Exeggutor could do something but all it did was shift the same issues to a different area. Very depressing...

  • @imaginaryboy2000

    @imaginaryboy2000

    Жыл бұрын

    @@PlaguevonKarma My favorite thing I ever did with it was Z-Sunny Day Chlorophyll Exeggutor. It wasn't very good, but it turned it from a low-tier with basically no niche to a low-tier Solarbeam sweeper that would almost always move first, which was all I needed it to do. Such a cool mon despite all its flaws.

  • @ChibiRuah
    @ChibiRuah8 ай бұрын

    I find rhydon to be interesting one as so many blizzard and special attacks feel like it make it hell but I feel (with the little I know) rhydon seems to remove a lot of headaches that would be there if you had to worry about zapdos (though I’m sure there are more clever ways around it). Also having a strong physical attack does make it very spooky. I kind of like it for that reason as it feels like it can cover a weakness in team building while gives utility like swapping in on a hyper beam.

  • @NiGHTSnoob
    @NiGHTSnoob Жыл бұрын

    I like using Rhydon and Zapdos on the same team sometimes which either leaves me without Snorlax or without Starmie and with Eggy as my only sleeper. I do this because I'm an idiot. It actually works sometimes because RBY is just so chaotic. Doing this actually does force you to figure out how versatile Rhydon actually is, basically nothing can set up on the rock, but his Achilles special lets him down a lot. I find slightly more success actually going without Snorlax and using Starmie, Chansey, and Zapdos as a triple thunder wave threat to give Rhydon the go ahead to switch in on a physical move and rip a giant hole through the team, though I might just be coping and simply enjoy those matches more. I do not recommend forgoing Snorlax or Starmie. It is a struggle. They are at the top of the tier list for a reason.

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    It's really really hard to justify this team comp. I tried it in the past, but the problem is there's zero synergy between Zapdos and Rhydon bar paralysis. I think you could probably squeeze Exeggutor on but then you're extremely lacking in Recover users, it gets really hairy. It wants to slowly paralyse everything, but in doing so, it loses to opposing Rhydon teams (just beats Zapdos and Rhydon comes down to a speed tie), and doesn't have a grind game. I wish it worked, I really do...

  • @NiGHTSnoob

    @NiGHTSnoob

    Жыл бұрын

    @@PlaguevonKarma Yeah, like I said I am A) An idiot, and B) Usually cut Snorlax which is a terrible idea and you should never ever do. The only reason the team functions at all is because Rhydon and Zapdos both have absolutely nuclear attacking stats. If they didn't it would be completely dead in the water instead of mostly terrible.

  • @dinar4331
    @dinar4331 Жыл бұрын

    31 min "byte", classic

  • @shignificent
    @shignificent Жыл бұрын

    Love your content, thank you for what you give to the community!

  • @shignificent

    @shignificent

    Жыл бұрын

    Well-produced, humorous and as informative as ever

  • @deppresio
    @deppresio Жыл бұрын

    Yo the pokemon snap music goes hard

  • @SilverBulletBill21
    @SilverBulletBill21 Жыл бұрын

    This is a really great introductory video. I will have to play some gen 1 games soon!

  • @phellowshipstar8756
    @phellowshipstar87562 ай бұрын

    2:50 ☝️🤓 UHM ACTUALLY Golduck Hydro Pump can OHKO Snorlax without a critical hit at +6 special!!! This is a very relevant fact that will definitely come up regularly in RBY OU games.

  • @kllkj089h
    @kllkj089h Жыл бұрын

    This is an excellent video, I love this tier, I hope others will see this and learn to like as much as I do, thank you very much :)

  • @zeenoh5811
    @zeenoh5811 Жыл бұрын

    ooooh i would really like to see a video on the more niche options as a follow-up great video btw 👍

  • @jemmabean
    @jemmabean Жыл бұрын

    Yaaay Pokémon content from queen PvK! ❤

  • @GigaSiphon03
    @GigaSiphon03 Жыл бұрын

    rby ou is so cool

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    Master of the Guard?

  • @GigaSiphon03

    @GigaSiphon03

    Жыл бұрын

    @@PlaguevonKarma The one, the only, the terrible. Back in the day I liked defensive teams~

  • @SmileOmega1
    @SmileOmega1 Жыл бұрын

    These videos have been the big push for me to actually try to get into Comp and RBY, and this video was amazing as explaining how the sets work in-depth, which you don't usually see that often for RBY, presumably because everyone just sort of knows them. Thank you so much for making this.

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    Awesome! Glad I could help ❤️ There are some knowledgeable people in the Discord servers I linked in the description if you ever need more help!

  • @SmileOmega1

    @SmileOmega1

    Жыл бұрын

    @@PlaguevonKarma Oh I'm already there. Actually. I'm under HealingMind there. Rby folk have been very accommodating.

  • @eternalnos2179
    @eternalnos2179 Жыл бұрын

    Best intros on the pokemon community. Cheers dude!

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    More of a sis, but thank you~! This one took a while to think up LOL

  • @deppresio

    @deppresio

    Жыл бұрын

    @@PlaguevonKarma This one was briiiiiliant

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    @deppresio Thank you, thank you! I was really unconfident about this one actually. Even had people view it beforehand to make sure.

  • @deppresio

    @deppresio

    Жыл бұрын

    @@PlaguevonKarma I've never seen the original clip before either, but it hit different since I've worked in a call center before lol. So true

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    It's an old CBBC show called The Slammer, it was really funny back in the day. Bit of an extra pun there!

  • @SoraDonaldGoofy99
    @SoraDonaldGoofy99 Жыл бұрын

    I admit that I do love Charizard, but everything in Gen 1 OU heavily goes against it being anywhere near good, and there's no reason to use it. As a Charizard fan, I would never think of it. Ever since I heard it from Big Yellow, it had me going, 'Why?' I mean, as a kid I would have done it, but... no. Not now.

  • @HylianWindRider
    @HylianWindRider Жыл бұрын

    I find myself using a lot of rby OU staples when playing pokemon stadium in game (rentals only)

  • @wolfetteplays8894

    @wolfetteplays8894

    Жыл бұрын

    Same… though I don’t use Chaney cause no softboiled 🤮

  • @jasonberezowski2869
    @jasonberezowski2869 Жыл бұрын

    I still love playing gen 1 ou. Its optimized but that doesnt mean there isn't a ton of fun to be had. The strategy is somewhat simple but its really satisfying.

  • @Mage_Nichlas_
    @Mage_Nichlas_ Жыл бұрын

    I thought that having a Gen 1 Battle Factory option on Showdown, even if it was solely an OU Battle Factory, it might help Gen 1 newcomer knowledge grow but I feel like not many people would play it. Plus, Gen 1 Random Battles are very fun. Nowhere else will you clutch Freezing a Mewtwo with your 10% HP +2 Poliwag's Blizzard.

  • @Szafirprince
    @Szafirprince Жыл бұрын

    Great video :) I have suggestion for subject to cover. I would love to see you doing in-detail video about Pokemon Perfect tiering system and comparing it to Smogon's(history, differences in rules,tiering system etc.).

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    It's definitely in the cards - my friends Enigami, Frrf, and HSOWA played when they were being made, so they could probably help a bit. I think it would end up being a multi-part series covering the metagames individually, along with an overview of how tiering worked. It's not quite at the top of my list due to how daunting that is, though. My idea document is quite long!

  • @DemICE666
    @DemICE666 Жыл бұрын

    that snorlax in the thumbnail... its fangs should be on the lower lip 🤣

  • @zam_likes_cats
    @zam_likes_cats Жыл бұрын

    Sick vid!

  • @mandalorianhunter1
    @mandalorianhunter1 Жыл бұрын

    When Karma posts, you always know it's good I'm playing Eevee right now and even though it's not real gen 1, I still try to play like it. I think about your videos when playing Eevee. Keep the content up

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    Let's Go Eevee? The Let's Go games are super fun! Always fun making a broken Arbok or something silly.

  • @mandalorianhunter1

    @mandalorianhunter1

    Жыл бұрын

    @@PlaguevonKarma yep, I'm trying to play through Eevee, Sword, Diamond and Arceus to build up my home Dex for when home comes to gen 9

  • @mandalorianhunter1

    @mandalorianhunter1

    Жыл бұрын

    @@PlaguevonKarma how do you make a broken Arbok?

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    Tons of candies, slap on quakeslide, you're good to go!

  • @Zeppeli0
    @Zeppeli0 Жыл бұрын

    I literally won my first RBY match today after this video, i have played sometimes before and always lose. But...i lost my Tauros by accident mid game...sorry Ms.Karma... (i beat their Tauros with paralysis, recover and psychic from Alakazam, also snorlax blow up on Zapdos, that helped a lot)

  • @a_person5668
    @a_person56685 ай бұрын

    I started playing after watching this video, it’s very fun! I’ve been doing better than I expected (even if I’m not great), and I appreciate the advice given here (Also my god what the hell do I do to Lapras I literally lose every time the opponent has one)

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    5 ай бұрын

    Paralysed Chansey stonewalls Lapras, if that helps at all. You can wear it down very easily.

  • @shimogane2474
    @shimogane2474 Жыл бұрын

    Pls what, KINESIS?!?

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    Stop using Kinesis Zam!!!!

  • @NinjaLobsterStudios
    @NinjaLobsterStudios4 ай бұрын

    I am very new to OU and have been using the Big 3 + Little 3 team exclusively. I like the simplicity of t1 twave but I often end up paralyzing a chansey switch and then i have a very hard time making progress. I've experimented with Blizzard and switching in my Chansey/Lax, but is it worth it to switch into Eggy against a twave lead? It seems like a riskier play against a Starmie due to Blizzard but against a lot of others situations ive encountered i feel like the risk would be minimal in exchange for putting something to sleep right away. Eggy is probably the mon i end up making the least use out of because sleep gets blocked and/or I dont see a good chance to blow up :/

  • @connorgross3410
    @connorgross3410 Жыл бұрын

    This team low key works really well without having an A-rank psychic Jynx -Lovely Kiss -Psychic -Blizzard -Seismic Toss Rhydon -Earthquake -Rock Slide -Body Slam -Substitute Zapdos -Thunderbolt -Thunder Wave -Agility -Drill Peck Chansey -Ice Beam -Thunder Wave -Counter -Softboiled Snorlax -Body Slam -Earthquake -Reflect -Rest Tauros -Body Slam -Blizzard -Hyper Beam -Earthquake Laddered to like 1900 with it before losing progress cause I was messing around with Kingler lmao

  • @tomasbranco8199
    @tomasbranco8199 Жыл бұрын

    Wait did electrode raise to NU?

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    It stayed in NU when PU was made. www.smogon.com/dex/rb/pokemon/electrode/

  • @commandermynas
    @commandermynas Жыл бұрын

    E (with reverb)

  • @discordmodder8846
    @discordmodder8846 Жыл бұрын

    Insta like and comment. Can't watch now but I know this shit gonna be good

  • @snacktimeforme7086
    @snacktimeforme7086 Жыл бұрын

    What is the music that starts at 12:26?

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    Beach theme from Pokemon Snap!

  • @JM-tj5qm
    @JM-tj5qmАй бұрын

    where is the clip from the intro from?

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Ай бұрын

    The Slammer, a classic British show!

  • @monopolyrubix1875
    @monopolyrubix1875 Жыл бұрын

    Noob here, fun video

  • @jdj1222
    @jdj122210 ай бұрын

    People use Poliwrath over Slowbro for a few reasons. Poliwrath can set up amnesia with less para support because of hypnosis and his higher speed, and he can run submission to win when they inevitably bring in Chansey. Submission has a good shot of 3 hitting chansey thru reflect, and 2 hits guaranteed, 1 hit with crit. The downside is, well the obvious. Weak to Psychic, and reliant on Hypnosis and Submission is less than ideal. RBY very commonly does this tho, the OU staples do something well, and then the UU pokes do almost the same thing slightly worse, but with a unique niche. In terms of Amnesia users (besides Mewtwo) Slowbro is the all around best, but only hits on the special side and tends to loose straight up against chansey if not fully set up. Snorlax can mixed attack, but is also slow. Poliwrath is faster, can also mixed attack, and can actually take advantage of hypnosis and submission, being the single best user of submission in the game, even though its considered a trash move. Golduck is also mostly special attacking, but because hes the fastest he can run amnesia with Rest, Blizzard and Surf, or sub in Hyper Beam to catch walls off guard. The best part about RBY OU is knowing where the UU mons are useful.

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    10 ай бұрын

    You missed out Poliwrath's most important part: It gets Hydro Pump, Slowbro doesn't. Poliwrath does not need to commit to setup as much because of this, it's the biggest niche it has.

  • @jdj1222

    @jdj1222

    10 ай бұрын

    @PlaguevonKarma Also true, I just didn't feature it as unique to Poliwrath because Golduck also gets it

  • @grandpoobah6542
    @grandpoobah6542 Жыл бұрын

    Honk! Pokemon is a thing that does exist.

  • @olympusgolemoflight7198
    @olympusgolemoflight7198 Жыл бұрын

    3:01 Amnesia, self-destruct, or both?

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    You run both. Most of the time, when running AmneLax, the aim is to deal as much damage as possible. It's why I slash'd it with Rest: Some Amnesia sets can play the long game like Slowbro if the opposing Snorlax is accounted for.

  • @olympusgolemoflight7198

    @olympusgolemoflight7198

    Жыл бұрын

    @@PlaguevonKarma I meant the Boris Johnson joke. My bad.

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    Haaaah, flew right over my head! Good one.

  • @vasxus
    @vasxus6 ай бұрын

    very informative, but the soviet union collapsed in 1991 and you don't have to constantly look around for cameras now

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    6 ай бұрын

    but it's FUN

  • @AlbertoFPomar
    @AlbertoFPomar10 ай бұрын

    Can you make Stadium and Stadium 2 OU metagame?

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    10 ай бұрын

    You mean introductions? Stadium, I could, but the metagame is extremely underdeveloped and anything I make is likely to become outdated. Stadium 2 is just GSC OU but with Agility ignoring the paralysis speed drop. There's nothing to talk about.

  • @tysondennis1016
    @tysondennis10169 ай бұрын

    I run a Tauros that runs Hyper Beam, Body Slam, Earthquake, and Thunderbolt. That stops Tauros from getting catch-22’d by Gengar/Cloyster combos.

  • @egon3705

    @egon3705

    9 ай бұрын

    hope you like exeggutor

  • @tysondennis1016

    @tysondennis1016

    9 ай бұрын

    @@egon3705 Yeah, and I also have to look out for Rhydon

  • @El_cuckman

    @El_cuckman

    6 ай бұрын

    Good luck with rhydon. Seriously, that 2hko with blizzard is just so good, and cloyster is usually worn-out in the progress of the game anyway.

  • @tysondennis1016

    @tysondennis1016

    24 күн бұрын

    @@El_cuckmanI got Articuno, who OHKOs Rhydon with Ice Beam.

  • @paz8723
    @paz8723 Жыл бұрын

    Its fun to watch videos on but actually playing the game is like trying to eat a stale cracker that cuts you if you angle it wrong

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    I just think it's neat!

  • @zaaya7719
    @zaaya77196 ай бұрын

    META SHEEP!! *META SHEEEEEP!!!*

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    6 ай бұрын

    ...baa?

  • @zaaya7719

    @zaaya7719

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@PlaguevonKarmaI was quoting Pinsir in case that was not clear, but indeed Baaa 🐑

  • @crunter6523
    @crunter6523 Жыл бұрын

    Based based based

  • @eleviathan7488
    @eleviathan7488 Жыл бұрын

    The heck was that first clip?

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    A silly clip from The Slammer!

  • @eleviathan7488

    @eleviathan7488

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@Plague von Karma which episode, if you remember

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    Ermmmm, I think it was 27..?

  • @elladunham9232
    @elladunham9232 Жыл бұрын

    1:20 hold on, fixing bugs?!?!?! I thought the whole entire point of RBY was to be as buggy as possible?!?!

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    No, no, simulation bugs. Pokemon Showdown has a lot of problems simulating RBY glitches.

  • @elladunham9232

    @elladunham9232

    Жыл бұрын

    @@PlaguevonKarma huh ironic, the bug is that we can’t recreate the bug then? Cause if so that’s hilarious

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@elladunham9232 a chunk of bugs are quirks of z80 Assembly and the way the battle system works. Showdown uses inheritance with TypeScript to simulate battles, and because of how it operates in that department, some bugs are very difficult to replicate. For example, some desyncs revolve around merely hovering over moves before selecting one, which...Showdown can't simulate. It's kind of insane.

  • @toastprobably9774
    @toastprobably97749 ай бұрын

    "Slowbro's greatest enemy is God itself." Ironic, considering that Funbro is technically stronger than God in later gens seeing as it's banned from the ban list of the ban list

  • @El_cuckman

    @El_cuckman

    6 ай бұрын

    He finally managed to do it, he surpassed god! A finally some resolution after all the cucked sweeps from… anything… in rby…

  • @MazterP28
    @MazterP28 Жыл бұрын

    E

  • @ACrouchingTaiga
    @ACrouchingTaiga Жыл бұрын

    e

  • @ihaveaname2060
    @ihaveaname20602 ай бұрын

    why do u still respond to comment on this vid after 11months??

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    2 ай бұрын

    Cus I like talking to people! :3

  • @ihaveaname2060

    @ihaveaname2060

    2 ай бұрын

    @@PlaguevonKarma oh cool

  • @oldamar9994
    @oldamar9994 Жыл бұрын

    E :3

  • @stellartoast4587
    @stellartoast45877 ай бұрын

    Is anyone able to explain why it's standard for Starmie and Tauros to use Blizzard instead of Ice beam and why Chansey uses Ice beam instead of Blizzard. Why not just have everyone running the same move ice move?

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    7 ай бұрын

    Tauros and Starmie use Blizzard because they're often a bit more offensive in nature. Starmie can be used defensively game-to-game, but it's not usually enough to warrant using Ice Beam. It does happen if you want to freeze something, but that's why you have Chansey. Chansey continually swaps into attacks throughout the game and uses Ice Beam to freeze other Chansey. Depleting all its PP, you have a ~82% chance to succeed here. In general, Chansey often *does* run out of PP, because it has to keep swapping in and out, and sometimes chipping opposing Pokemon into Tauros range. We don't have uniformity because there's legitimate practical reason to choose otherwise.

  • @stellartoast4587

    @stellartoast4587

    7 ай бұрын

    Tysm, this makes sense

  • @terraSpark902
    @terraSpark902 Жыл бұрын

    NC97 better

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    Perhaps...

  • @matthaisstupidus
    @matthaisstupidus Жыл бұрын

    Half an hour PVK video?! This isn't even an RBY Byte, this a gigabyte at this point!!!

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    We serve 1,024 KB here, sir! No more, no less!

  • @marcodipietro813

    @marcodipietro813

    Жыл бұрын

    an RBY crit SE Crunch

  • @azman1114
    @azman1114 Жыл бұрын

    E

  • @VenomothManne
    @VenomothManne Жыл бұрын

    e

  • @bows1rjr292

    @bows1rjr292

    Жыл бұрын

    Cringe

  • @VenomothManne

    @VenomothManne

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bows1rjr292 Go home, Your E is no longer welcome

  • @omega_ra1der511
    @omega_ra1der511 Жыл бұрын

    E

  • @depressedfish
    @depressedfish Жыл бұрын

    E

  • @octavianhughes4493
    @octavianhughes4493 Жыл бұрын

    E

  • @crunter6523
    @crunter6523 Жыл бұрын

    E

  • @HSOWA
    @HSOWA Жыл бұрын

    E

  • @wizmudkip
    @wizmudkip Жыл бұрын

    E

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    Is that a TRUCY?!?!?!?! Very based. Nice seeing you here! :3

  • @wizmudkip

    @wizmudkip

    Жыл бұрын

    @@PlaguevonKarma I feel stupid for asking but is the von Karma also a reference? lol Also I've been here just usually a lurker!

  • @PlaguevonKarma

    @PlaguevonKarma

    Жыл бұрын

    @@wizmudkip so my name was originally Plague from Karma, but when I played Ace Attorney many years ago, I swapped from for von, which kept the same meaning. Would love to talk with ya sometime lol

  • @shawesomegaming7672
    @shawesomegaming7672 Жыл бұрын

    E

  • @frrf3252
    @frrf3252 Жыл бұрын

    E

  • @bows1rjr292
    @bows1rjr292 Жыл бұрын

    E

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