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I remember reaching the highest rating of my life on battle spot VGC18 with a Chansey team... ppl probably hated on me af 😅

15:37 I’m proud arcanine is still viable❤

I wonder wich one would be a competitive team with only 1 gen pkm

Talking about stats, its good to point how hp base stat contributes about 40% more to your bulk than the defense stat(2 hp stats are 40% better than 1 in each defense usually), the math would be more complicated there but it means iron hands has a insane effective stat total because of that aswell

I was in the queue next to this guy in the morning of the tournament. He was super nice and friendly, even with me being a hyperactive 12 year old at the time who kept jumping into the conversations he was having with his friends. When he told me that morning that his team was based on Gary Oak’s, I never could have predicted he’d end up winning the tournament. Goes to show how sometimes all it takes to win is to understand and play the game well!

Imagine falling off due to a Pokémon that you have a type disadvantage against. That’s embarrassing.

Bro got hit with the “I don’t wanna play with you anymore”

Ability called downgrade that lowers special attack or defense.

I traded my best friend a Metagross for his red Gyarados many years ago.

anyone elses hart skip a beat at the creeper sound effect?

Just wish they would put Starmie back in the game, let alone buff it to its old OU glory days.

I had a shiny venomoth in gen 2 and it was HORRIBLE 😂😂

The fuck? I was not expecting that. What is it with some people and the urge to destroy hotel rooms? And it always involves feces. People are super weird, man. Especially coming from a competition which has a player base that is generally very pro worker, liberal, etc.. why would you do something like that to the people who have to clean those rooms? Very hypocritical.

I hate that they made them weak on purpose so you "move on to the new generation of pokemon". You can't even lore it in.

Seeing as we have Arcanine-Hisuian, I believe Kanto Arcanine deserves a stats change, in my opinion Kanto Arcanine Type: Fire / Electric Ability: Intimidate HP: 90 Attack: 60 Defence: 90 Sp Atk: 120 Sp Def: 90 Speed: 110 - Thunderbolt - Heat Wave - Will-O-Wisp - Volt Switch Hisuia Arcanine Type: Fire / Rock Ability: Intimidate HP: 90 Attack: 120 Defence: 90 Sp Atk: 60 Sp Def: 90 Speed: 110 - Extreme Speed - Flare Blitz - Rock Smash - Wild Charge / Close Combat

Weezing has survived post gen 1 power creep by having an ability that makes battles more like gen 1 😅

Trigger warning? Lol

Your quick 2 second trigger warning at 11:20 is unacceptable...so many watchers could have had a seizure there without enough reasonable time to react

Out of all the paradox pokemon. Only Iron Hands and Brute Bonnet are my go to. Also Iron Bundle scares me kind of.

Wow....the legendary Ray Rizzo. Pokemon Champion 3 years in a row.🫡

GURREN LAGANN REFERENCE 🌀

4:14 🤨

That explanation for power creap at the beginning seriously just irked tf out of me lol

Obviously you'd probably need to do more to make it viable but I think with how it's lore is, Hypno should absolutely get Follow Me As for other buffs, maybe give it a 10 point stat buff to its HP and Oblivious so it can be a redirector that can't be taunted

Isn’t it awesome how our childhood favorites can still dominate in battle against the new Pokémon? I love blending my team with these sorts of hidden surprises

Shoutout to Clefable being dumb in singles lol

Tbh tera is the better than mega

As much as i love my OGs i'm just glad a handful are still relevant as is it is impossible to realy balance a game with so many options. Same issue with trading card games.

Yes

It's a shame they haven't given Muk access to Neutralizing Gas. While I know it has been a nice exclusive, the original Muk card from the Fossil set has the Pokémon Power (Abilities), Toxic Gas. This made all other Powers turn off, just like Neutralizing. I think it would be fitting for Muk's Sticky Hold and A. Muk's Gluttony to be replaced with Neutralizing Gas.

Chansey has been my favorite since Gen 1

Even if you just need a tank to help round out your team, taking Venusaur isn't a bad option. It can be slow enough to use under trick room or using your opponents sun setter to your advantage. A bulky Venusaur, with Black Sludge, a Sun Boost while carrying Sludge Bomb, Sleep Power, Leech Seed and Synthesis can still be a major threat or switch in on some powerful moves to eat them up.

Crazy that people even watch cheaters like wolfe when content like this exists

Hey, I made it in a Ray Russo video! Pretty cool!

mewtwo isn't in pokemon anymore that's sandwichtwo

Do alolan and new versions really count as gen 1s tho?

How Mew hasn't been turned into a Psychic Normal type is beyond me. It would give it 2x from Bug/Dark bug isn't common enough for it to be a problem. 1x to everything except for 0.5x from Psychic And 0x from Ghost Meanwhile Gurafarig, Farigiraf, Oranguru indeedee, and most interestingly MEOLETA have that typing. Mew is the original base Pokemon of all Pokemon it should be NORMAL. It's the most normal Pokemon genetically speaking. Not that it really matters since they don't want to add it to competitive Pokemon The ability to synchronize is really weird. I think it would be really cool if synchronize would actually change the spread of the base stats based on the opponent or a team Pokemon. Any ability for it to change base stats, or something similar to Arceus Element plates would be dope. Like an Attack plate making it focus its attack stats over defense etc. The ability to learn any TM would allow it to easily have a strong move against Dark. This would make Mew pretty busted, but it's friggin Mew! It should be busted.

Just out of curiosity, does intimidate always activate before booster energy? Or is it just because Iron Hands is so slow that it activates second?

Weezing was great to use with Zoroark for me in Gen 5.

Are you ever gonna re enter the competitive scene seriously a rematch between you and wolf would be the biggest battle in vgc history

Having the move cards change color for typing would be a cool addition to add Ray!

16:17 unseen mistake caught me off guard.

The Rizzler Strikes Back

Hey Ray! I just wanna say I'm thankful for your informative videos. I've been playing pokemon for a very long time but I've never got into vgc until recently. It truly is a different side of this franchise and I've been really happy to learn it. Thank you :)

I actually see it picking up to be honest, with max spdef investment and clear amulet its high hp means you tank anything you need to on the special side and avoid intimidate, you benefit on the side with electric terrain in case your opponent has miriadon out and its good into terapagos as that will increase in usage

11:04 I never expected seeing an economics concept in a discussion of Mega Pokemon.

I know it's funny coming from a guy with Dragonite in his name but I don't think Dragonite has ever been "irrelevant" It's either had some busted tech (terra, Z-Fly, Extremespeed introduction, Multiscale introduction, heavy duty boots/weakness policy uses) Or just been "Good" Maybe it's less relevant in vgc potentially but I think it's always been kinda threatening there as well