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@fabiaaquino2207

9 ай бұрын

How dare you not choose tinkaton,it will shred Iron mugulis to pieces just by looking at them😤

@DoctorSpacebar

9 ай бұрын

Know what'd be hilarious? Dark-type Aerilate on something with Rapid Spin.

Calyrex Ice Rider canonically has a body temperature of -300 degrees celsius, leaving it about half as cool as krookodile, whose unmatchable swag leaves it the clear winner

@dm9910

9 ай бұрын

that's 27 degrees colder than absolute zero

@ethanwallis5678

9 ай бұрын

Further proving the coolness of krookodile 😎

@borismuller86

9 ай бұрын

More like COOLCODILE

@becausesakamoto5938

9 ай бұрын

Scarf moxie Krookodile is so fun to use

@azeria1

9 ай бұрын

Considering the non rider horse is publ or pu it really is alot less cooler then kroolodile

1. I don't play gen 1 OU 2. Tyranitar. Such an interesting blend of scary offense, a great defensive profile, and huge potential utility. 3. Tyranitar. Such an interesting blend of scary offense, a great defensive profile, and huge potential utility. 4. Tyranitar. Such an interesting blend of scary offense, a great defensive profile, and huge potential utility. 5. Tyranitar. Such an interesting blend of scary offense, a great defensive profile, and huge potential utility. 6. Tyranitar. Such an interesting blend of scary offense, a great defensive profile, and huge potential utility. 7. Tyranitar. Such an interesting blend of scary offense, a great defensive profile, and huge potential utility. 8. Tyranitar. Such an interesting blend of scary offense, a great defensive profile, and huge potential utility. 9. I don't play gen 9 OU

@notmikka9945

9 ай бұрын

I agree. Tyranitar is insane.

@michaelballack3051

9 ай бұрын

I agree with this comment. However I would like to add the following about Tyranitar: Such an interesting blend of scary offense, a great defensive profile and huge potential utility.

@mariusvfl1848

9 ай бұрын

Ttar the OG

@MatterMadeMoot

9 ай бұрын

Superbly based

@wayward41

9 ай бұрын

@@michaelballack3051 I agree. Tyranitar is insane

It seems that even Jimothy himself is not immune to Old Money’s stab boosted shadowy influence

@fen_u9401

9 ай бұрын

thats a baller signature move name

@SilverScarletSpider

2 ай бұрын

Capitalism has boosted the power of Old Money and hit super effectively against the working class!

“A Pokémon like Volcarona can just win in a single turn” That’s kind of been the Volcarona motto for the past 13 years, huh

@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8

9 ай бұрын

At least it needed its counters dead in previous games

@mr.sandman7339

9 ай бұрын

​@@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8 And before boots, you had to actually think about what hazard control to use and when to let it hit the field

@maxmustermann5590

9 ай бұрын

It was fairly balanced in gen 7 imo. Either heatran or pex could just sit on it, best ground coverage was hidden Power and the team needed alot of hazard removal. Gen 5 had the problem that it could pick and choose it's counters with gems. And then boots made it really Problematic in gen 8 onwards.

As an ice type Articuno is indeed very cool

@Pudcup

9 ай бұрын

It's so cool, it froze me to death.

@marcoasturias8520

9 ай бұрын

You have a very cool name... Or rather, hot... Tho there's glacial agnaktor...

the coolest pokemon is of course iron mugulis and jimothy cool, jim obviously has cool in his name, so he’s certified cool

@Pudcup

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, but Jimothy radical could be considered cooler than jimothy cool.

@picks6500

9 ай бұрын

speaking of which, would a pokeball be able to capture humans?

@wentoneisendon6502

9 ай бұрын

I like long neck

@handoverthestromboli6715

9 ай бұрын

why am i questioning which pokemon between Iron Mugulis or Iron Jugulis is actually real? this is unsane

@agentblackbird9435

9 ай бұрын

@@handoverthestromboli6715This is probably a bit of a 🤓moment but Jugulis is the Latin word for throat. So yeah, its name is literally Iron Throat

To this day, I think Gen 6 Talonflame is one of the coolest pokemon ever. Extremely unique ability, but very mid stats. Surprisingly versatile and threatening either by being a very scary win con in the back or bulky set up sweeper that comes in multiple times, especially when sableye was in the tier. And you can only play this version of Talonflame in one gen! I know it's fallen off a bit at top level play, but what a cool mon.

@jimothycool

9 ай бұрын

True that's a good one. I also enjoyed Fletchling in Little Cup.

@Bolt892

9 ай бұрын

So true, they massacred my boy, what tier is he in nowadays, PU?

@Laukaus11

9 ай бұрын

​@@Bolt892 UU, actually.

@AverageHandle_

9 ай бұрын

@@Bolt892NU last gen, UU due to talon being one of few mons to keep its viable moves like roost and Defog notably giving it a niche in UU

@jamesn0va

9 ай бұрын

Priority roost was amazing. Healing first and loosing a type and suddenly taking neutral damage got me so many forfeits.

This is incredible, jims discovery of the new Medicam pokemon, will surely be a threat to the dark forces of Iron Mugulus

@blargghkip

9 ай бұрын

Gru-don

I think Protean Greninja in Gen 6 was insanely cool with how it would run Spikes for an on-demand Electric immunity while making progress. No other type-changing shenanigans have even come close to how awesome that was.

As am American, its nice having a good sleep schedule because i get to start my day with a Jimothy Cool video! I would say this is insane, but if anything its probably more absurd

@becausesakamoto5938

9 ай бұрын

I always watch Jimothy Cool's new video each morning while I get ready to go to work

@glitchedoom

9 ай бұрын

It's great to wake up and immediately be informed on the current vague threats affecting the metagame and/or non-subscribers.

The reason they removed Lovely Kiss from Nidoking is it was just too terrifying to imagine getting kissed by that thing.

@thatguy00271

9 ай бұрын

What if Nidoking kissed you 😳😳😳😳

@brunop.8745

9 ай бұрын

I would go to sleep, apparently

I think my favorite Gholdengo gimmick is pecha berry trick. Use trick to give gliscor your pecha berry and cure its poison to turn off poison heal.

@marcoasturias8520

9 ай бұрын

That's the most cruel thing I've ever heard

@epicdude8742

9 ай бұрын

@@marcoasturias8520 let's not act like Gliscor didn't deserve it.

At this point jimothys videos are a part of my daily routine

I love how all of the 3 kanto birds in gen 1 can be a late game cleaner with different counters/checks.

If I can overlook Jrose pronouncing "Lorelei" as "Laura Lee" then I can do the same for Medic Cam

I will be incredibly shocked if Homer isn't on the list. He's such an outstandingly cool bloke.

Articuno makes you realise how surprisingly good ice type is in gen 1. No stealth rocks, steel type and fire attacks are very rare due to thawing freeze, you get stab ice beam and blizzard two of the best moves as well as a resistance to them, so essentially the only relevant weakness being rock is also neutered by the fact the the only good rock slide mons are weak the your stab ice attacks and they have low special so they take a lot of damage from it, not to mention it's ice type is even stronger offensively than it already is in other gens by it being neutral to fire

@a.v.y8331

9 ай бұрын

steel type is indeed rare due to it not existing in gen1. rock type was also quite rare because they usually had low special and would get onehit by alakazam's psychic or starmie's water moves that they were quad weak to, and often were only played to explode on someone. In other words, Articuno had almost no counters in gen 1 except electrode, jolteon, and zapdos.

@jimtsap04

9 ай бұрын

@@a.v.y8331 I said(or at least meant) steel type and stealth rock didn't exist and fire attacks were rare, not that steel types were rare

@a.v.y8331

9 ай бұрын

@@jimtsap04 OH myb I had a touch of misreading there although the sentence reads a little ambiguously hahaha sorry bout that

@frogwhisperer4268

9 ай бұрын

Ice is carried by op blizzard and insanely op freeze. They did have the good sense to design all Ice mons as dual types tho.

@BelugaTheHutt

9 ай бұрын

I feel as if Ice as a type remains balanced around the idea of what Blizzard used to be in the Japanese Red and Green versions, back when it had 120bp, 90% accuracy, and a 30% chance to freeze. It was effectively like a OHKO move, but if the OHKO failed, then it was still a 120bp move. Being immune to the OHKO part and turning the 120bp into 60bp gave Ice types a genuinely worthwhile defensive niche in that early, primordial metagame. Jynx in particular benefitted from it, since Psychic was not just a strong type, but also a very strong move, with a 30% chance to drop both special attack and special defense, given that they were one unified special stat. Resisting arguably the two most influential moves of the original games of the series was a big deal for Jynx, and it got used a lot in those early Red and Green tournaments which used to get televised in Japan back in '97 or so.

I'm sorry Jim but as a Dracovish fan you will be deported to the Old Money Correction Facility™

You should do a video about the best and worst showdown sprite animations, that video where you go on a tirade about the incineroar animation is top tier Jim content

Back when I still played Pokemon Showdown, one of my favorite Pokemon to use was Alolan Muk, specifically a Curse, Payback, Gunk Shot and Recycle set. Slap a Figy Berry on that sucker, which healed 50% HP back in Gen 7, and give it the ability Gluttony and you've got a pretty reliable bulky sweeper.

I am absolutely FLOORED by your choice for gen 9. An insane choice, one I would never expect from Jimothy Cool based on channel content or profile picture.

I really liked using Regieleki is Gen 8 OU. There's just something about the cat-and-mouse dynamic with whichever ground type the opponent would have that was very fun for me, though even if the opponent didn't have one it still wouldn't take over the game immediately

I dunno how much you play other Little Cups, but LC highlights could be a cool video, especially given your penchant for highlighting what would now be considered niche metagames. Gen 6 LC was what got me into Competitive Pokemon overall.

This is insane.

Gen 3 having abilities and natures but not phys special split is what makes it so unique, Medicham is also affected by this cause it has one useless stab. I agree with your take on gen 4. Gen 5 is my fav and i really like Ferrothorn but Mamo is very cool indeed and has its success

I do too, accept Old Money as our overlord, he did nothing wrong and only helps the speakers of truths™

This channel became my favorite pokemon content in no time even though last time i played was during gen7 lmao

This is sane. And in fact, very cool

Thank you Jimothy. You have in fact been playing for over a decade. That is insane and by proxy...this is insane

I've been playing competitive Pokémon singles for over a decade, folks.

Thinking about it, medichams intended pronunciation could rhyme with and have the same cadence as “medium” given its psychic typing Mee di cham

Gen 9 has so many balance problems and emotions are running so high but I don't think I've ever been more invested in an OU gen. I'm really hoping in the long term a balanced solution can be found because I think all the new Pokémon are simply epic

@globalistgamer6418

9 ай бұрын

I think Gen 9 by itself is unsavable. The main hope I would have is that in future gens GF just considers paradox as the new power level, and heavily buffs old gen mons in BST, etc to come into line with that, getting enough coverage in types and stat spread so that a broad number of counters to things like Flutter Mane and Iron Bundle naturally arise. However, I'm skeptical that they would actually do this instead of just powercreeping Gen 10 even more while continuing to hardly ever intentionally buff older mons in meaingful ways.

I can’t believe Jim had been paid by Old Money to say that closing paragraph.

Brian Hands

(This is insane)

early gens: i think this pokemon is really well-balanced and has an interesting effect for making progress on the metagame. gens 8 and 9: this pokemon is really funny.

Thank you for supporting my guy, gholdengo. Funny legend. I personally never play hazard stacking, but gholdengo is usually on my team anyway, I love his choice scarf set with | Make it Rain | Shadow Ball | Focus Blast | Trick |

One of my all time favorites was protean lead greninja (i know how original but) that sets spikes and toxic spikes, with dark pulse and scald... Max speed max hp. I played the prediction game and played with the resist/imunities each type had.

@Munby1

9 ай бұрын

Scarf protean was awesome for sniping mega Swamperts

My favorites: Gen 1: Zapdos: a unique threat that punishes people who are lazy with their team building and dont value their rock Gen 2: Zapdos: absolute menace who's only kinda kept in check by the universality of Snorelax but deosnt feel broken somehow Gen 3: Zapdos: just a joy to play, incredibly customizable and often changes roles drastically even within the same team depending on howbthe match goes, might just be my favorite of all time Gen 4: Zapdos: roost is in and its an absolute menace to society with that, heat wave and actual offensive boosting items it can use, but stealth rock really keep it in check Gen 5: Zapdos underrated threat that i can see becoming much more common if the ban thundurus crowd gets their way Gen 6: Zapdos : beautiful bit of stability, a check to most mega meta that makes it scared to click ice pumch and isnt a total blob so can still do things other than clicking roost Gen 7: Zapdos: i love having a check to kartana and excadrill that is also one of the best deffogers, while also having the utility of spreading para and actually resisting steel unlike tornadus Gen 8: Zapdos i hate you rillabloom ushifu and melmetal get para'd get para'd get para'd Gen 9: Zapdos: i can actually breathe vs tusk and ogerpon and kingambit???????? Im still not safe but i end up putting it in every tean

19:27 "I dont know what they were thinking" Game Freak is the Joker of game developers, they just DO things.

I recently got into an ADV draft and got a medicham, thanks for affirming my already deep beliefs that Medicham is fantastic. Another Jimothy W.

Really agree with Mega-Pinsir. My favorite Gen 6 pokemon to use in competitive, even very early in the metagame after the games first came out. Quick Attack was busted, access to Return, Thrash, Earthquake, Close Combat, Stone Edge and Swords Dance. I remember tearing up the in-game 3-v-3 wonder battle with Boomburst Exploud + Mega Pinsir + Shiny Scarf Ditto. Probably some of the best times I ever had in competitive. But I really wish PokeBank had never happened, pre-PokeBank format was so good.

Gholdengo is a prime example of the American Dream. A self-made man we truly all aspire to be

1. Zapdos 2. Zapdos 3. Zapdos 4. Zapdos 5. Thundurus Therian 6. Zapdos 7. Zapdos 8. Zapdos 9. Zapdos

Mega Pinsir is also my favorite from gen 6! It could absolutely destroy an entire team if you got a swords dance up, often one shotting your opponent's pokemon with quick attack. Even if you couldn't get a swords dance up feasibly, sometimes I'd bring it in against a low HP pokemon and I'd try to gauge how much damage a non-mega quick attack would do. As long as my opponent's pokemon fainted in that situation, the non-mega pinsir would get a +1 attack boost from Moxie! So I could then mega evolve the next turn with a +1 boost off the bat.

Iron Chugulis is the coolest Pokémon ever conceived

I will always remember this quote: "I like the psychological warfare it instills in your opponents" - Jimothy Cool 2023; talking about medicham

Jimothy when talking about old gens: "This pokemon is cool because of its effect on the metagame, the interesting plays it can make, the fact that it's good against this and that team structure, etc. etc. Jimothy when talking about new gens: "This pokemon is cool because funny."

To think that shiny sploink didnt make the list... jumothy so biased just because of iron fellows role in the gen 9 shit storm

Alternative list: the ice types in competitive pokemom

As a new gen 3 ou enjoyer, I’ve been loving my Jolteon leads with HP grass to disrespect turn 1 swampert switch ins. And having roar on your lead in low ELOs ruins would be turn 1 boosters like ninjask or DD users. Also a huge fan of double switching to skarm and then immediately dug to emotionally damage people trying to mag trap skarm. Just low ELO things. Jimothy Cool made me realize how much I had been sleeping on gen 3, which is insane. But it also proves just how cool Jimothy Cool really is.

You should do a stream with that favorite pokemon of every type of every Gen Jimothy

This is insane. The Jimothy Coolest Pokémon in every Gen

Idk how you can sit in your kair and claim as a kild that you thought it was medikam. Theres just no kance.

It wasn't in any Smogon format, but back when I was begrudgingly putting up with Sword and Shield and paying for Switch Online I did 3v3 Batle Spot matches with Kartana, Cinderace and Shuckle. I loved using Shuckle because it could set webs and rocks for Kartana to swoop in and obliterate some kid's hacked legendaries, slicing through many a dynamaxed Pokemon with help from Shuckle and Swords Dance. Cinderace mainly served to tidy up in case things got hairy. It wasn't great in ranked matches though so i never got past the Great Ball tier.

What a Cool Pokemon

This is a great video. I haven’t watched it yet.

13:38 Gen 6 little cup was so much fun

Gholdengo is my favorite in gen 9 too, I recently did a monotype 6v6 tournament and I got steel type. I used bulky nasty plot + recover Gholdengo which is surprisingly bulky, I would eat sucker punches and then continue setting up and recovering and no one could do anything about it

Not talking about how insane make it rain is when talking about Mr. Ghold is how you know he's in the pocket of Gimmi Ghold industries

Gen 1 persian lives rent free in my head. Slash is the most chad way of KOing reflect lax I've ever seen

Now this is content!

Good video

Thank you Jimothy Cool, for making a objective list about the coolest pokemon of all time

I never realised, but Gen 8 was when I said, "I can't take this shit, VGC makes so much more sense"

I played a lot of Pokemon yellow, and for the longest time I thought that Articuno's pronounced wattle was his beak, so he had this big goofy beak and weird grin. I still have to remind myself that he has a small, normal beak whenever I see the yellow sprite.

18:42 Same i started to go back into Gen3 and Gen6

When you say cheese, stringer, to me, it sounds like you’re saying G Stringer

I loved using banded Victini in the sun, was so fun 😄 Gen7 was so chaotic but I actually enjoyed it because there was a vast amount of variety in team building but I have to disagree with gholdengo cuz IMO its the main pokemon that players tend to build with it in mind, it limits the team building.

One of the things I like about Jimothy is that he doesn't care if he miss pronounces a Pokemons name and equally doesn't mind when people throw a tantrum for him misspronounces a pokemons name. I kid you not how much Eye rolling it is when someone in the comments goes "Hum ItS AcTuaLly MedIcham??🤓", pokemon don't exist therefore we can say their names whatever and however we want.

@shevankaseneviratne1724

9 ай бұрын

This is insane

Suprised at the gen 9 pick but it is kind of like a mascot for you at this point

This is insanely cool.

Is lovely kiss the only move to go from being a signature move, to being fairly widespread for one gen, and then back to a signature move?

the best part of dracovish is the dracovish with the teeth edited on

I started playing Pokemon when gen 6 was current gen and, to this day, Mega Altaria is my favorite Pokemon (not just to use competitively). Still don't know why we haven't gotten another Dragon/Fairy Pokemon. It's fun how perception of M-Alti has changed over time. It went from being considered broken to ending the generation in UUBL and is now considered one of the biggest threats in OU again, specifically on stall and screens HO. It's just such a good mega, either being a reliable heal bell user on stall or a bulky DD sweeper on screens HO. Spmming Pixelate returns and hyper voices never gets old. It's just such a unique threat. I'd highly recommend using it whenever you decide to gen 6 OU.

Dare I say it, this is insane

Gholdengo is goofy in singles and doubles and I love love him.

Gen 6 was definitely my favourite gen never even played the games just showdown but was super fun.

Isn't Medicam the future paradox form of Chansey who became a famous health and beauty vlogger?

For my picks: RBY - Gengar GSC - Marowak ADV - Charizard DPP - Flygon BW - Reuniclus XY - Serperior SM - Mega Mawile SS - Weavile SV - Gholdengo

My favorite pokemon in my favorite format, gen 6 amoungus. I run a set toxic, spore, giga drain and foul play. Can sometimes turn my amoungus to a win condition.

I think Arctozolt under Hail is some of the most fun you can have in Gen 8 OU. Just give it max SpAtk and Speed and spam Blizzard and Bolt Beak the waters. Kinda sucks that you have to run Life Orb or it won't do enough damage because with Boots you could prob use its ok bulk for switching in

@tarunyadav3567

9 ай бұрын

Lo is bad. Boots is the only set

@keksauce

9 ай бұрын

@@tarunyadav3567 Nah LO definitely works. Why use it if it can't do damage?

@tarunyadav3567

9 ай бұрын

you die faster than you can do damage. Ice Electric is unresistable and both blizzard and bolt beak are high bp. you don't really lack for power@@keksauce

@keksauce

9 ай бұрын

@@tarunyadav3567 bro have you ever played with Arctozolt? In my experience you want that 30% boost. Tbf I usually have CB Boom so that helps get that extra hit off

Even if really underpowered Noivern will still be the coolest dragon of em all, even among legendaries and pseudos

Dracovish was such a fun pokemon for me too xD. I saw alot of people running scarf at the start, noone ran anything else But i, in the first day or 2 of gen8, ran banded vish, cause thats honestly unexpected at that time. But i thought of vish of more a "switch in killer" cause switching into it also counts as moving last, so it also doubles fisheous rend power xD. But yeh, it was so broken i loved it, i started really playing ubers bcoz of it, used more of a web team tho for that

gholdengo bootstrap fallacy LMAO

i also didn't like gen 8 at the time but i started to enjoy it mostly because of arctozolt hail

I agree, Gholdengo is awesome. The only reason it's even a problem is, as you said, the lack of hazard removers with decent matchups against it, and that's not Gholdengo's fault. That's the result of Game Freak not giving you any of those options in gen 9, and maybe they should?

My first love was Gen 6 Staraptor, they gave it reckless. Crazy overkill damage output with Choice Band, or more practical Scarf. I always name mine Redshirt, because the recoil was hilariously high.

Personally, Nidoking/Arcanine, Houndoom, Swampert, Garchomp,Volcarona/Braviary, Tyrantrum, Incineroar, Urshifu-Rapid, Lokix

@danka1167

9 ай бұрын

Extremely valid list + mr craw must be included

@leekyb3837

9 ай бұрын

@@danka1167 craw is definitely up there

You're sleeping on Hoopa Regular and Mandibuzz. Thankyou.

@jimothycool

9 ай бұрын

You're right.

Steel Beam Gholdengo goes so hard. It's awesome

Kinda irrelevent but I've been having so much fun in gen 9 uu. It feels like an ou metagame which much less balancing problems.

Yeah, i like Gholdengo, this funny mon. You can run so much different set on it, it's enjoyable ! It can be scarf, specs, leftovers, balloon, covert cloak (this one rare tho). It can use recover, nasty, plot, trick, thunder wave, nobody use it but it has the screens. It has ok coverage, with thunderbolt, psychic and psyshock, focus blast to surprise and destroy kingambit (it need to land tho) and dazzling gleam. It has a decent signature move. It has good enough devensive stats, not that great speed stats, but really good special attack. If it wasn't for Good as gold it's a balance mon. Then again if good as gold didn't block defog it would be another story. Now there is Cinderace that destroy gholdengo, can clean it's side from hazard and can even cripple great tusk. One time i run a trick + toxic orb on it (before Gliscor). There is so much unbalanced and/or more annoying pokemon right now. I hate dondozo, kingambit (strangely there is a lot of different set viable on it, but if you don't have the good pokémon on the field or didn't use the good move it can reverse sweep), gliscor (depends on the set, i used a more offensive set with agility and sword dance tera water crab hammer and eartquake and it's funny, but the more stall like set with toxic protect are obnoxious), iron moth (too good coverage + tera and if it is a set with substitute a pokemon defensive pokemon won't probably won the 1v1, like kingambit), walking wake in sun team (there empoleon now, but i still hate it), roaring moon with booster energy + dragon dance, a bit of dragonite now (this one only because of tera really). The other pokémon i don't really have too much of a problem with. Great tusk is everywhere but there is a bunch of counters, iron valiant exist but is really frail, same with sneasler, Garganacl covert cloak is your friend. Notice that depending of the set, gholdengo can easily beat these 4 pokémons. There is other pokémon that i like this gen. Like the 3 starters that are all viable and are not broken (shout out to skeledirge to survive UBERS), Ogerpon, glimmora, Ceruledge, clodsire. Older mons that glowup this generation. Empoleon, ribombee (even without sticky web don't sleep on it), zapdos, rillaboom (even if it was nerf), Alomomola strangely (not in stall team tho). Even if i still like tera, if you remove it most of the annoying that i hate would be far less annoying and some pokémon could come back from Ubers. The meta probably will shift a bit too.

Mamoswine better make the list at least 5 times

How do you get past calm mind spam teams in gen 3? None of my teams can answer a squad of 4 CM threats

I like Gen 6 a whole lot. To me, its a gen where things simultaneously feel stronger and weaker - no permanent weather really makes some pokemon more manageable Also the introduction of Assault Vest was great and was some form of counterplay to specially offensive pokemon which wasnt just Blissey lol Also will-o-wisp’s increased accuracy, the decrease in the power of moves like Draco Meteor, Thunderbolt, Ice Beam, steel no longer resisting Ghost and Dark, and the fairy type in general is just amazing gen 6 to me feels like a reset or a cut back to gen 4 and gen 5, which had a lot of power creep. The main thing i dislike about this gen is Knock Off. Move is broken as hell, and it deserves to be 20 base power Megas are interesting cos theres a tradeoff between the all around stat inxreases of a mega stone or the raw power or speed of a choice item or life orb. Unlike gems or z crystals or teras, the opponent’s mega pokemon is a lot more predictable. If you see a lopunny in team preview than you know who’s mega evolving lol Defog was also buffed in this gen to clear opponent’s hazards and screens (albeit its distribution is not as big as it was in gen 7) and i like how megas dont get their speed boost on the turns rhe mega evolve, but after. Makes stuff like Mega Metagross more manageable

Gholdengo wouldn't be so bad if there were more hazard removal options than a status move and a normal type move.

My question for the Medicham pronunciation.... how did you pronounce Hitmonchan lol? If the same, then sure but -chan to -cham is a jump if different ways lol

I was on the Banded Victini train too in gen 7. It felt so satisfying seeing stall players quit after losing one Pokemon to V-Create. The annoying thing was your next opponent would have a rain team with Mega-Swampert and Ash-Greninja 💤💤💤