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No mention to the Kyurem Forms? Yeah, neither is all that good right now, but Black Kyurem has always struggled while White Kyurem has seen play in singles at the very least. They've always kinda struck me as the most unbalanced duo of the lot.

The Speed stat is not "moving speed", but combat speed...probably more like reflexes. That's why it's only used to determine which Pokemon can attack first. If it were what we typically consider "speed" to be (e.g., movement), it'd probably also influence evasion or something similar.

Did I miss Kyogre and Groudon?

Bruh I thought this was about comp viability

ghost dark is mid because of its lack of resistances. 3 immunities is nice and most ghost duals with an immunity arent amazing

What's God to a shiny electro-fish? ^^ (or indeed to any Pokémon with a higher stat than Arceus) Have you ever attempted to kill an ant in real life? Every time I do, those little buggers could almost outrun Usain Bolt the way they try to outrun my flyswatter. So, Durant's base 109 Speed, which conveniently lets it outrun many Pokémon of the sole type it's (4×) weak to, makes sense. If you haven't already, you should look at various "Pokémon Stats Make No Sense" videos by various CZcamsrs, as well as spinoffs focusing on height, weight, breeding groups, and move distributions. This franchise is a gold mine. You think it's just Scarlet and Violet that are glitched and broken? These games were definitely made by some people who may have eaten Pecharunt's purple mochi (mochi!). xD

Will and Lucian are lucky without Tera because Porygon, Porygon2, and PorygonZ are all Electric/Psychic types.

8:00 it's a glacier

1:15 no it didn’t change. A regional variant and especially a regional evolution do not count. Those aren’t attention, they are insults.

Despite how often I played the game already - I actually forgot that Postwick was it's own town. I thought that it was part of the other town with the train station and these two houses were just a bit separate.

Pokemon stats through the generation lead us to believe that pokemon that larger and more rotund tend to have more HP (thinking not just Chansey and Snorlax, but also things like Hariyama, Slaking, Slowbro, Slowking, etc.), which made it come as a complete shock to me to find that Dusknoir, the retroactively added evolution to the uncontested bulkiest ghost at the time, only has 45 HP. Of course, it makes sense that ghosts on average wouldn't be that healthy, but it's kind of the Duskull line's entire schtick: tanking hits while whittling down opponents with tricky status effects.

bro is so butthurt in this video

Soft core digital mon , got it

Geodude, Zubat. If gamefreak decides to have a Pokémon extinction, these two will have no tears shed for them.

11:21 *GO TEAM SKY!!!*

Cute as heck dude!

Special Defense isn't something you can really judge just from just looking at a Pokémon's design. Meanwhile, Speed is more about reaction time than pure running speed.

Where's the Magikarp line from the thumbnail?

This is why you don't try to equate the base stats to the lore; The base stats are made for gameplay, balancing competitive & the main campaign. The lore is made to be the lore. Though even still, some base stats are questionable. Also, "height" is a mistranslation - What "height" measures varies by species & body typeDunsparce is serpentine, & so its "height" is body length. See the official illustrations from the Gen 1 Japan only Pokedex book, which Bulbapedia shows on the "Height" page.

Don’t listen to any comments that say something along the line of “this stat represents this, which is why they make sense.” Unless they’re siting a source, they might as well be writing fanfiction. You’re right! Pokémon stats DON’T make sense, and they never have. I like the video!

I picture Leafeon's high defense like a monk in DnD. They have a high armor class because they are dodging attacks, not because they're tanking them. So I picture Leafeon just kind of moving when up close to a physical attack and taking less of a hit.

I feel like dialga and palkia should’ve became serpentine to match origin giratina as well

According to fan interpretations, the stats don't all mean what one might think, like Speed referring to reaction time instead of running a race, who starts off the block fastest in the first second and a half, not who gets to the finish line fastest a minute later, as it's used to determine action order within a turn and doesn't (outside of Legends: Arceus) let anyone lap a competitor by acting twice in a row (which is more based on move Style, not base Speed) no matter how far apart the Speed stats are. Maybe someone can outpace a "faster" foe long-distance, but it's zero-to-sixty and not the speedometer's max that's reflected on the stats page, they're just bad at explaining that.

It would be cool if the player can be offered the chance to become a gym leader after proving themselves by winning the league. Imagine being able to build your own custom gym, recruit other NPCs to work for you in your gym as obstacles to would be challengers, make your own puzzles to fit the theme of your gym, design your badge, take on challengers, etc.

Glaceer from glacier

Pokémon Go gave us another reason to hate Zubat since it has to be one of the biggest pains in the @$$ to catch. Its movements are quick, erratic, and the targeting circle is really narrow. I know that we do not have to attempt to catch them, but if you want a Crobat or have a quest that involves, say, catching flying types and there are only Zubats spawning, you easily waste a lot of Pokéballs.

I would tie Volkner and Clair. They were both beasts

11:16 I’ll say Cresselia’s NEW signature move, lunar blessing is pretty good as it’s like life dew but also curse the status conditions of you and your ally, so that’s neat, meanwhile they nerfed dark void into oblivion because of Smeargle and it gets outclassed by hypnosis

It blows my mind that Deoxys has less HP than Farfetch’d

Scizor's Pokedex entries are pretty unsettling to think about, to be honest. Everyone talks about how Mega Evolution causes Scizor to begin to melt after some time, because its body gets too hot. Nobody ever mentions that this is just what Scizor's life in general has always been like, and it uses its wings not to fly, but to cool itself down, because it would melt otherwise. Mega Evolution just speeds up the process and could arguably been considered mercy.

A lot of these just don't land for me, especially Leafeon. It really highlights that you're not examining the base stats according to the way they're designed.

In regards to speed, my theory is that a Speed stat for a Pokémon it's its quickness in reacting to command given by its trainer, or, in case of wild Pokémon, their quickness of thinking which move to use. If that was the case, Trick Room would be the twisted dimension enhancing a slow Pokémon reaction time or viceversa for a quick-thinking Pokémon

Before I watch the vid, here are some predictions as to what could be on the list: * Dragapult - fast strong pseudo legendary that still sees a tonne of use today. * Baraskewda: Tied for the fastest water type and is insanely fast under rain. * Dracovish - May not count because being amalgamated by careless scientists could mean it was touched canonically, but it still kills everything by just clicking Ficious Rend. * indeedee - psychic terraine plus expanding force. * Koalossil - not useful in the typical way, but it has 2 abilities that both help with hatching eggs faster. I used one for all my breeding needs that gen so I gotta put respect on its name.

I would like to say, I knew about Cryogonal's special defense! I used one in my White team. And the reason is that it's partially based on a mirror.

Still not as weird as Omastar having more firepower than Houndoom. Yes, a monstrous Hell hound somehow has lower Special Attack than some ammonite.

I feel like the classic example is that Trapinch has the same Attack stat as Flygon, its fully evolved from.

Pokemon is incredibly weird for us to think about because its ecosystem functions so differently than ours does. Basically… for pokemon to work, not just gameplay wise but also anime wise, we have to make the assumption that a trained butterfly is capable of easily beating up an untrained elephant. Pokemon exists in this really bizarre asymetrical balance where every species regardless of weight and size, is capable of defending themselves from any other species. Bees, dolphins, jellyfish, sloths, gods, and godzilla all exist, they all fight one another, and they are all capable of beating each other up. When you make that assumption in gameplay terms, the stat spreads start to make a little more sense. In real life, if a person has a base stat total of 400, a butterfly probably has a bst of like… 1. In pokemon, things are a wholeeee lot closer to even.

THATS my BOY 💪🏻

The thing to remember with stats is that they reflect the Pokemon's battle capabilities in an arena, not just their maximum physical capabilities. Pidgeot can fly at mach 2 speeds, but it can't reach those speeds in the confines of an arena, so it doesn't have a ridiculously high speed stat.

Here's a stat fact that's funny to think about Flareon has 130 physical attack Meaning it has attack higher then Terrakion the sword of Justice, Pinsir a human size bug with massive pincers, Gyarados the pokemon said to wipe out entire villages and Tyrantrum a flippin Tyrannosaurus

Hopefully you do the Bug type after Water, since Bug type runs are usually pretty interesting due to the mixed quality of Bug types.

They clearly design stats from a balance and gameplay perspective rather than a lore one so I don’t understand why people get so shocked by stats.

Lanturn @ arceus: what is a god to a non believer

I think 'Movement Speed'/'Walk Speed'/'Run Speed' refers to Evasion, while 'Attack Speed' refers to Speed. When you're walking with your Pokemon in Sword/ Shield and Scarlet/Violet, many of those Pokemon have fast movement speeds, despite their speed stat being low.

9:03 I can understand Weezing having a high defense. Kind of looks like a couple balloons stuck together. Try punching a balloon & see how long it takes to pop.

why do noivern and crobat have almost identical stat spreads, i think noivern has 7 less speed and 7 more special attack (and maybe attack stats are swapped)

trapinch has 100 attack. that is more than a large amount of pokemon, including poliwrath which can turn boulders to dust while trapinch can crack them. cracking boulders means more attack than obliterating them

Sir, you have apparently never lived in the desert where the much feared giant tumbleweed is a very real thing 😅

Pretty cool video, but it really does seem as if you've forgotten which types are and aren't special types. Ghost and poison were both originally physical types. Granted toxtricity's main movepool is pretty specially oriented, so your point still stands it probably ought to have particularly high special attack, but ledian is from gen 2, so when it was made, its special defence wouldn't have done anything to protect it from ghost attacks. My only guess for some pokémon having higher defences than steel types or higher special attack stats than certain electric types is that maybe the developers factored in that type resistances and STAB would make them functionally tougher/stronger anyway? I think weezing does look pretty tough, and while it is a bit odd for it to presumably be tougher than duraludon, the flat defence stat being higher still doesn't always mean weezing can take a punch better, as duraludon also has resistances to soften the blow while weezing doesn't. That still doesn't explain leafeon being a tougher grass type than chesnaught though. Or noivern's special attack still making it worse at using boomburst than plenty other pokémon due to it not having STAB to make up for it.

This can easily be a miniseries with how bonkers some cases get. Like why is a toucan as strong as a snow leopard with sword teeth and, almost as strong as a T-Rex and stronger than a wrestler tiger? And why are all of these weaker than a fluffy fire fox? Or why is a yellow dog (Boltund specifically, though I guess Jolteon could be mentioned) faster than a Space horse? And how are three moles just as strong as a dual wielding samurai? Way too much to leave it at one entry.