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Shedinja isn't a bad Pokemon, it's an amazing Pokemon. But it's also a bad Pokemon

I think that Night Shade should still hit Normal Types. It just feels cooler that way and when your Gastly or whatever finally learns it for better damage it just doesn't work on a large portion of Pokémon you find in those points of the games.

I would try to spin a witty comment, but Gengar is currently spinblocking my thoughts.

It’s wild that there still isn’t a Rock/Ghost type. Imagine like a sarcophagus or a tombstone Pokémon with that typing. Would be pretty cool.

I’m so glad he mentioned gen 4 froslass, such a cool Pokémon needs to be unbanned

My favourite wack use of Mega Banette was to skill swap with Xurkitree in doubles and then use nuclear Nature Power with priority. Tail Glow on turn 1, Skill Swap either turn 1 or 2 depending on the situation(tree gets priority either way). Banette then usually gets out into a Tapu to set terrain for STAB, but it can still do big priority damage with Sucker Punch and Shadow Sneak to double up on nuclear-powered priority with its attack stat, and fill in the support gaps with stuff like Taunt, WoW or Helping Hand. Fun thing about that is that you get effectively Moxie Mega Banette with the Beast Boost on it, so if you find the right Sucker to Punch, it'll run away just as much as Xurkitree. Also, Gholdengo is immune to both Rapid Spin and newly introduced Mortal Spin.

<3 sableye

Gru dawn is my daughters fav

Gen 8 Aegislash was one of the only times they actually outright just nerfed a Pokemon's base stats in between generations iirc

Aegislash's nerfs seemed to meaningfully compound on each other. It lost effectively 40 BST and king's shield only being a -1 to attack gave physical attackers much better odds of actually harming Aegislash. If you look at the current viability rankings for SS, Dragapult, Weavile, and Heatran are rated the best Pokemon in the tier, that's pretty bad for Aegislash. Knock Off is just everywhere now. Urshifu Rapid-Strike goes past King's Shield. Its most preferred moveset in Gen 8 was actually forgoing King's Shield in favor of choice band or choice specs since it got Close Combat and Steel Beam. I still think its Toxic defensive set is the best though and probably underrated. It can still be basically checkmate in the right position, and Aegislash with a good predictive player is so much better than it is on average. In my opinion, Gen 8 is a deceptively powerful and centralized metagame. In some ways Gen 7 felt more powerful since there were Megas and Z moves and the whole Pokedex, but the pool that does exist in Gen 8 fits into a weird space where the most balanced, "safe" Pokemon do everything better than the alternatives. The current Gen is less centralized just because there are so many broken mons that no team can cover everything which means off-meta picks work more often in a matchup fish. At least it did prior to Crown Tundra DLC, I haven't played OU much since then.

Jimothy Cool Thank You

i will always say, the gen 6 mega sableye ban was unjustified and should be retested now that its best enabler, dugtrio, was banned

The fact you’re one of the surprisingly few CZcamsrs who pronounces Altaria correctly is enough to earn my like!

I am supremely offended by your Meganium disrespect mr. Cool, I shall send word to the Horse Council to devalue horsepower as a political ploy to worsen your horse position

magcargo made me sad, you may have my sub

I love my physically defensive Skeledirge. I go for Torch Song, Alluring Voice, and Scorching Sands plus Slack Off. Dealing with Gouging Fire hasn’t been problematic but other Skeledirge has been a nuisance to me.

The issue wasn't wanting the complex ban, the issue was that the Tiering Policy council wouldn't allow the complex ban. The previous ban was you couldn't use cloak if the pokemon had another ability...which applied a ban to exactly cloak on exactly Mamoswine. The hope was just complexing cloak+warning would be okayed as a leglss complex alternative, this was not okayed. Froslass' place in the meta was also nearly non-existent, the prior 3 spls, as well are Jirachee Invitational had seen a total of 6 froslass appearances, in hundreds of games. It's unfortunate how it played out, but froslass was hardly the loss many make it out to be.

the deadpan "lore consistency" comments are hilarious

hisui typh? or maybe i was blind

Wow, a British pokemon pairing with a French pokemon. There is the potential for the pokemon EU council to rival the horse council

Where is my boi spiritomb?

A bandpass filter might help against the weird audio artifacts.

Aegislash got nerfed: the stats were dropped from 150 to 140 and king shield drop drop from -2 to -1. Other then that powercreep is always a thing and dragapult was the main ghost type of the format.

Last Respects can also achieve 350 or more base power with the power of Revival Blessing. It caps out at an immense 5050 power if you can find a way to consistently revive your Pokemon.

holy smokes had no idea good as gold was that insane as an ability. I'm sure being invulnerable to status moves like burn or paralysis or whatever would be one thing, but all that other stuff? phew

Wasn't Jimothy Cool supposed to put a stop to Iron Mugulis for good once he hit 70K subscribers on CZcams? Is our faithful protagonist being bought off? or has this development been halted due to more, dare I say, pressing threats?

Jimothy Cool is risking being haunted by spooky Ghosts in order to provide this video to all of us. This is insane.

I will never sub, just so jim has to continue his story lines.

More on Aegislash. They genuinely went outta their way to nerf it. They took away 20 BST AND nerfed King’s Shield and all that was enough to drop it to BL

Every ghost has its type

Hi, Jimothy Cool. My favourite ghost-type Pokemon is Chandelure. Thanks for asking!

46:08 Aegislash had been nerfed in gen 8, with the nerf of King's Shield lowering attack only by 1 stage if I remember correctly, and losing 10 base stats in its defenses (and technically its offenses too), so it hits a lot less harder, and gets hit harder too Weavile being so good in gen 8 and Dragapult's existence were the last nails in the coffin

Banette fans unite! Shuppet was my first shiny pokemon, so i loved my shiny mega banette

I just read on PokeLeaks that Horsea tried to disable high horsepower for all fire types, in order to deny Magcargo a place on the horse council. Hearing this, ponyta has now declared open support to magcargo and started a vote of distrust on horsea to ban it from the horse counsil, since it does not even have a high horsepower itself

thanks for the vid

What a spooky type

they pretty much nerfed aegislash by 40 points lol it lost 10 points in special defense and defense which means it lost 10 in those offenses too

HELL YEA I HATE SLEEP

Nothing quite like waking up to a new hour-long deep dive upload from Jim. This is insane.

From what I recall, part of what happened to Aegislash in Gen 8 is it got hit with some nerfs. Its 150 defenses were reduced to 140 and King's Shield was nerfed to lower attack by 1 stage instead of 2. Additionally, it didn't help that Dragapult was everywhere. I'm a bit rusty with Gen 8 OU as well but I do remember the nerfs.

I love the way Jim uses the word Gaming

Ghost is weird. If I just look at the avaiable Ghost Types who are competetive viable in the different OU Metas, its actually just Gengar and Friend. By just diversity, Ghost is in the bottom Six of all Types. But it has very valuable Attributes, what made them very viable, and popular, so its hard to call them bad.

in gen iv mismagius was an important option for all the folks who couldn't evolve their haunters

Alright. Alright, fine. Im invested in the mudcargo alliance. You got me.

gholdengo

Poison type might have been helpful for gengar in later gens, but i can only imagine how good it would be, in gen 1 if it was pure ghost.

a fun video i’m waiting for some pokituber to make is the competitive relationship between Gengar and Clefable.

I want whatever Game Freak was smoking when they decided to remove Pursuit

Excellent video as always Mr Cool. Truly thank you for the information. Please take up the fight and inform the people of the forgotten evolution Raichu. This injustice can not stand. Thank you and may the hourse consule keep the peace.

Can't wait for the Gen3 section to take up 80% of the run time That's why we love you Jimothy