Obscure Pokémon Mechanics YOU DON'T KNOW
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We look over some of the RAREST/MOST OBSCURE Mechanics in Pokémon. Did you know any of these? Do you know some super rare mechanics? Leave a comment on which you did/didn't know and share any rare mechanics you know of!
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0:00 Intro
0:13 Flying Press
1:39 Telekinesis
2:41 Dragon Darts
3:57 Helping Hand
4:52 Horde Encounters
6:37 Beak Blast
7:33 Torment
8:01 Mold Breaker/Phasing - Hry
There is another way a normal type move can be super effective, normalize freeze-dry is super effective on water types
Damn, yeah that makes sense too. Didn’t think of that one!
Also inverse battles
Fun fact, if you target Dragapult's partner in a double battle with Dragon Darts and that mon happens to be immune to the move, the Dragapult will then ATTACK ITSELF TWICE because of the smart targeting
Smert
I used a weakness policy Dragapult with this set paired with a WP Haxorus. By targetting haxorus with dragon darts both get +2 boost to their offensive stats
@@anjugupta8367 cool story. Except for the part where you can't have duplicate items on the same team.
@@clegge7
Depends on the format and the game
Dum targeting
It kind of makes sense for Dragon Darts to have that level of intelligence, since the projectiles in question are living creatures. Midair, the Dreepy can just tell themselves "Nope, that won't work. I'll go this way instead."
Their sacrifice going into a fairy type would be like Chiaotzu blowing up on Nappa
@@MattBudYT I apologize, but I do not understand the reference.
@@mettatonex7221 all good. Early Dragon Ball Z. Sometimes I just expect people to get references😂
@@MattBudYT I am one of the ten people on this planet that has not watched a single episode.
@@mettatonex7221 dude same
Another quirk regarding flying press is the behavior when it's used into tera shell Terapagos. Because the game code literally changes Terapagos' type to take the attack that breaks tera shell (the reason why all 3 hits from surging strikes are not very effective) and the fact that no one type resists both flying and fighting, the move is actually 4x resisted by Terapagos instead of the usual 2x resist for moves that break tera shell.
Hawlucha is crying himself to sleep at this
Ah yes, the fighting type move that's quarter effective on a normal type.
I didnt know until very recently that Gust's power is doubled if the opponent is in a semi invulnerable turn of moves like Fly, Bounce and Sky Attack
In X and Y, there’s a type of horde of four zangooses (zangeese?) and one seviper. Zangeese and Seviper attack each other.
That’s how I lost my first shiny Seviper since the zangeese knocked out the Seviper before I could knock all four of them out. (you need to knock out 4/5 pokemons in a horde to be able to throw pokeballs).
Sometimes our fate’s are decided in the cruelest of ways
This mechanic exists in SOS battles in Sun and Moon as well. The Pokedex mentions that Mareanie are natural predators to Corsola, which informs not only the fact that the only way to find a Mareanie is by starting an SOS chain with a wild Corsola, but the fact that the Mareanie will actively target the Corsola before it will target you.
Canonically speaking, the plural form of any Pokemon species is the same as the singular form. So it'd be a horde of four Zangoose that killed your shiny Seviper.
Another quirk with dragon darts is that the move animation changes if a pokemon other than Dragapult uses it (the Dreepys are replaced with beams of energy). Though I wonder if the animation changes if a Draclock uses it.
defense curl boost the power of roll out moves, gravity boosts the damage of grav apple, and moves like stomp and heat crash( namely weight based moves that punish light pokémon) hit pokémon that minimize harder. those are the ones i’m aware of
Aren't there moves that bypass accuracy/evasion checks specifically against minimized pokemon too?
2nd one is absolutely newton reference.😂
@@thebumpercar1344 body press and the other moves i mentioned that do more damage to minimize opponent’s do.
@@travisowens8905 : So I checked Bulbapedia, the full list as of Ge9 is Body Slam, Stomp, Dragon Rush, Heat Crash, and Flying Press. What a weird groouping of moves.
@@thebumpercar1344 basically if the move describes stepping on or jumping on top of the target with its body it will work, i think heavy slam works too
For the 3 Helping Hands, pretty sure it'd be on Pokémon using it, and then 2 Oranguru's on the opposing side using Instruct on that Pokémon to use Helping Hand 2 more times.
I wonder if that could factor into making the strongest move possible in Pokémon?
@@MattBudYT of course this has to be done on maxed out Basculegion's signature move
My favourite mechanics involves non-type related immunities. An example is Ogerpon Hearthflame being able to use helping hand on Gholdengo who is normally immune to status moves, but that’s just mold breaker.
My favourite actually involves terrain. I’m unsure if this is possible with other terrains, but in Pokémon, you can always target your teammate assuming there’s no redirection. This includes on terrain, as priority moves will actually ignore psychic terrain if you’re targeting your teammate, which is why helping hand isn’t blocked, but it works with attacking moves too.
Another interaction involves redirecting abilities. If the Pokémon can bypass the abilities, such as mold breaker, it will still be redirected, but won’t provide immunity or any of the additional effects
Did you know that using Thief on a mon with Life Orb (and I think Choice Band too) will apply the damage buff to the attack before it actually steals the item?
Did you know that in wonder room, the mave that swaps all pokemon's def/sp. Def stats, sword of ruin & beads of ruin swap which stat they lower? So SoR lowers sp.def & BoR lowers def
Here’s a fun fact I learned.
Anyone remember the move Nature Power? It would change depending on the environment. For example, if you’re battling inside a building, Nature Power would become Body Slam
Well, there’s a unique interaction Nature Power has specifically in Oras. If you use Nature Power during the Deoxys battle in space, it will become Draco Meteor. This is the only place in any game this interaction happens
I looked it up to see if this had any special implications for the Distortion World, but I was disappointed to learn it does the same thing as if they were inside a building and just pulls Tri Attack.
However, I did learn that if used in Ultra Space, it becomes Psyshock. Also, apparently if you use this move on a bridge in Sword and Shield, it becomes Air Slash. Which weirdly does not apply to other games with bridges like Black and White.
Honestly, a topic like this might be worth its own video.
Wait this is really cool...
Scald and scorching sands should be water fire and ground fire respectively
Scald type chart would go crazy
If that happened, would showdown register water absorb and flash fire if you had both abilities, or one of them first?
Not asking about protean/libero coz it's going to be the water or ground
Personally I don’t like dual type moves
@@airam1721 For the purposes of those abilities, it'd probably only work with the main type like Hawlucha's does with fighting only being taken into consideration for items and such.
@@aberrantreptile oh
the Klutz ability makes it so you cant use held items, but it also means fling will always fail, however trick, and switcheroo will not fail
Didn’t know that about fling actually! Thanks for the info
3:38 radiohead jumpscare
Another weird thing about dragon darts is if the opponent used follow me and get ko after the first hit, the second hit will not happen
Some Obscure Mechanic is the move Bide goes through Substitute
Does it really? I bet you could get a surprise KO on a sub setup mon like that with a sturdy mon like Steelix
Ability interaction I know of is a No Guard Pokemon can hit an opponent using Dig, Fly, Bounce, or Dive with any move, but the opponent can hit you if you use any of those moves as well. I know this because I used a Machamp on my team in the 2010 VGC National Championships Last Chance Qualifier, (the only Pokemon tournament I ever took part in.), & I gave it Dig before realizing the mistake I made while doing test battles in Pokemon Battle Revolution. Still have Dig on it despite that though.
I remember my Clefable using Shadow Force with Metronome in the Battle Tower and getting hit by a Machamp's Cross Chop. My 7 year old mind couldn't process what was happening
Disclaimer: this is a glitch in Pokémon showdown i personally discovered, i dont play/have gen 9 to test.
My personal favorite is if you have protosynthesis active, and you switch in a cloud 9 user, the boost goes away. But if you kill that same mon during the sun being active(yet nullified) then the Proto does NOT reactivate.
If that was confusing, Switch drampa in on Walking Wake with proto active and immediately get draco meteored. The boost wont come back
So, I always find this interaction really entertaining. The ability Klutz is generally regarded as Useless, it prevents items from taking effect when held by the Pokémon. There's a lot of fun things you can do with this ability though. And this one is my favorite.
1. Assualt Vest, You can have a pokemon with Klutz carry an assault vest, then use either Trick or Sitcheroo to give it to a pokemon on the opposing team who has a lot of status moves. In gen 6, this would actually result in the move they use fizzling out if you used Switcheroo before the opposing pokemon used a Non-Damaging move, if they only have Status moves, they will be forced to struggle. In 7 and 8, it doesn't. BUT there's ANOTHER use for klutz.
2. Encore, if you trick or switcheroo an Assault vest on a pokemon who used a Status/non-damaging move in Gen 7 or 8, then use encore, the pokemon will be forced to struggle.
3. Entrainment, give Klutz to an opposing pokemon who's ability is extremely useful to them.
There are a few pokemon who have Klutz, of them only 2 have a speed stat above 100, and only 1 learns Switcheroo, the other learns Trick, which trick doesn't work on Dark-Types. Lopunny, for all the meme's, is the only pokemon with Klutz that learns all 3 of these moves, has a speed stat above 100 AND decent enough bulk to use it.
Something I discovered a while back is that sheer force works with the power increase of life orb but nullifies it's HP sap for moves with multi effects! It's become my main way to use druddigon, since it's one of my favorite dragon types. (A lot of my favorite Pokemon are really only based on their design)
Fun fact: in the gen 3 games, you can use cut in the over-world to actually cut down the tall grass around you. If your Pokemon has hyper cutter, the radius of cut grass is increased
1: In older generations, Beat Up would reveal the names of the party members, making Nicknames part of the meta
2: If Life Dew is used on a Pokemon with Water Absorb, then Life Dew will trigger the ability and heal the Water Absorb Pokemon, which is what the move would have done anyway. In fact, they even use the same healing proportions
I Don't think it's that obscure (and also is more of a bug than a mechanic) but you can't evolve magnemite into magnezone in HgSs because there aren't any special magnet fields
Nah it's intended
Leafeon and Glaceon are also unavailable due to a lack of mossy and ice rocks
Sudowoodo in Trevanent hordes makes sense since Sudowoodo's whole thing is pretending to be a tree.
BRO, PLEASE KEEP THESE COMING 🙏🏾 As a VGC player, this was incredibly helpful. The only two that I didn't already know / stuck out to me were the fact that dragon darts will redirect into the other target if it anticipates a miss, and that the burn affect from beak blast will work through sleep and what not. Another cool fact about beak blast is that the heating up effect out prioritizes fake out! I learned that the hard way in one of my matches 😅 Great content, the perfect mixture of educational and funny! 🍿
If I recall correctly, terra prevents protean from activating, but doesn’t reverse protean if you use terra after protean activates.
If a mon with a move like Gigaton hammer gets encored before they're able to use the selected move when they just used hammer, they will use gigaton hammer that turn. However, they will be unable to select it the following turn.
Clicking a pivoting attack like uturn or volt switch into a mon holding an eject button has a wierd interaction. The mon with the eject button will switch out like normal, but the mon that used the pivoting move won't switch out.
If I recall correctly, there’s a funny interaction between a Pokémon with Sheer Force and a Pokémon with Wimp Out/ Emergency Exit. If a Pokémon with sheer force hits a Pokémon with E Exit and it drops below 50%, the switching out does not occur. I can be misremembering, but I swear I once hit a Golisopod with a Nidoqueen with sheer force, thinking I was safe because it would drop below 50%, but it stayed in, and KOed my Nidoqueen with a water move
I can see that mold breaker phasing actually being useful...
If you use Body Press with a Ice pokemon in the snow, it’s not boosted as you will think
One of my favorite hidden interactions is Defiant/Competitive and Parting Shot. For some reason, Parting Shot's stat drops(attack and special attack) count as separate drops, which means Defiant/Competitive activate twice, leaving the pokemon with +3 attack/special attack.
That’s a cool one! It’s because they are separate stats being lowered. So screech would only count as one defiant boost even though it’s 2 stages. Venom Drench would give you 3 defiant/competitve boosts.
Of course, when being "smart" fails, Dragon Darts is a worse spread move (though on par with a hit-all).
So I knew about flying press being dual type but I legit didn’t know that it could activate different resist berries depending on the situation. Wack to see a Chilan berry make a super effective normal move be weakened lol
You can technically have 5 moves on a Pokemon cause in one of antlerboylives videos he used rollout then leveled up and learned a new move got rid of rollout but still used it so in game you can technically have 5 moves but only with things like rollout and ice ball
Wow, great list!
I consider myself very knowledgeable, but I only knew the torment mechanics.
I have a lesser known fact for you:
In gen3, counter works on all hidden powers, even the special ones.
I discovered all the quirks of Dragon Darts while battling my friend and my cousin in gen 8 and was pleasantly surprised. I fell even more in love with Dragapult then. I laughed so hard. I was like “this move is broken… I love it” it makes so much sense… cuz the dragon darts, the dreepy alive so they can redirect when ever they want
Forest's Curse and Trick or Treat add an additional type to the target mon.
So, if you take a steel fairy mon (so Mawile/Klefki/Magearna/ZacianC/Tinka*) and cast ToT on them, you get a mon that:
takes 2× damage from fire/ghost/ground
takes neutral damage from dark/electric/steel/water
takes 1/2 from fairy/flying/grass/ice/psychic/rock
takes 1/8(!) from bug
is immune to normal/fighting/poison/dragon
Since there are three weaknesses, this isn't super useful, but it sure is very interesting imo
I actually caught a Zangoose from a Serviper horde encounter. It was a lot of luck since I had to hope it survived but eventually I did. Probably one of the most satisfying things I have done
I remember learning about how stomp does more damage to minimized foes and always hits. I thought that was the weirdest thing, and this guy busts out how you can't use telekinesis on exactly 5 pokemon.
Dude why did they make Beak Blast so highly overturned in terms of tech, and then throw it onto the most forgettable bird mon of all time
Not the most wild fact, but some people don’t know this. When burned, physical crits are also reduced in power. It’s interesting because even if I’m minus 6 attack, a crit will ignore that but won’t ignore burns
That is because burn doesn't lower your physical attack but instead halves the power of physical moves. So moves like body press still do half their damage even though it doesn't use your attack stat.
5:35 i think sudowoodo is probably in these trevenant hordes is because sudowoodo pretends to be a tree and well... trevenant is a tree
3 helping hand umbreon + pixilate hyper beam sylveon were a popular strategy used for the charizard raid in sv iirc
so unsure if that "not working in tera raid" was a change after the fact or if ppl just wasted 2 moves back then
Oricorio.
1. When Terastelizing, Revelation Dance, its signature move, will change its type to the Tera-type
2. When Taunted, it can't copy status moves such as Quiver Dance.
Overall Dancer's Bulbapedia page is wild. So much has gone into the mechanics of this useless Pokemon as if it could've ever been broken.
One very nieche mechanic is that huge power and pure power boost foul play and body press since they are labeled as fisical attacks and they dont have double foul play dmg against the user, also huge power is slightly weaker when giving it to another mon its a 1.5 instead of 2 dmg
The Magic Guard interaction with Mold Breaker phazing was only corrected on Pokémon Showdown a few years ago; before that the Magic Guard user used to take damage. I hadn't actually realised that this had changed!
Oh that’s cool it was acknowledged. Must be hard for all these uncommon situations to be accounted for, tested, and implemented for showdown devs.
So in emerald with the torment confusion thing, does that mean that torment prevents you from hitting yourself twice in a row?
How does Torment interact with moves that cause you to use other moves such as copycat or metronome? Is the move you last used counted as the move you selected or the random move that is used after it? If it counts as the move used as a result of the move, are you able to spam metronomes or copycats under torment? If you have that move that was selected by copycat or metronome in your move set and try to use it on the turn after it was selected by copycat or metronome, will torment block it?
I will have to test this out! Would be interesting to see.
Using the move Ingrain will nullify any moves that cause the pokemon to be switched out (ie. Dragon Tail, Whirlwind, Roar, etc). It's an interesting way to check that last video segment feature
Yeah it’s a cool mechanic. Many newer players might not know this, but people who are familiar with earlier gen baton pass teams definitely know about this.
Was the way to get past phasing since it could be baton passed still.
Magic guard blocking spikes during mold breaker roar while levitate doesn't block it doesn't make any sense
One other thing about dragon darts, in doubles, moves tha tonly hit opponent's (Dazzling gleam, Hyper voice) have theirbpower cut by 25%. But since each dragon dsrt is an individual hit, there's no drop
A lot of people dont know that if youre terastalized theres a minimum bp for moves so if you tera grass and use bullet seed the damage is amazing, and give loaded dice. I recommend highlighting bullet seed specifically because its 100% accurate
The minimum BP doesnt affect multihit or priority moves
@@mr.potato that's so lame! I knew about minimum BP increase because I use an AV mamo with tera grass trailblaze, thick fat of course
I remember Nemona's Pawmot doing way more damage than it should with Nuzzle. Crazy how the game won't mention the sneak boost at all
The move Ingrain grounds opponents meaning they can be hit by ground types or affected by terrain. I know this cause I was playing a metronome battle and lost a Tera flying dragonite to my own pulled earthquake.
Any mons that learn Aerial ace in Gen 7 can use the Z-Move Supersonic Skystrike and you can watch them fly. Even diglett.
theres a rare interaction between water pledge and fire pledge that will cause a rainbow to appear and if im correct it doubles the chnaces of things happening. seen this combined with serence grace and the boosts were crazy
the pledges themselves are famously an unrecognised and underutilized mechanic
@@venti_al Ya, all three of the pledge aftermaths could be really good if a team was based around it. Rainbow doubles the chances of secondary effects, Swamp QUATERS the opponents speed, and Sea of Fire makes the opponents lose 1/8th of there max Hp every turn. While the effects only last for 4 turns (idk if terrain extender works with them) when used at the same time they both do 150 dmg!!! With 2 of fire, water, and grass you get really good coverage. When I learned about them I was SHOCKED that I've never seen anyone use them. Kinda makes we want to make a team based around them.
Woahh that would make serene grace (assuming it stacks) air slash 100% flinch!
@@sparkypikachu7776 Serene Grace is cumulative with the rainbow produced by using Fire Pledge and Water Pledge on the same turn (causing secondary effect probabilities to be multiplied by 4 if both modifiers are present), except that moves with a chance to flinch will only have that chance doubled once.
@@venti_al aww man welp so much for my 100% flinch togekiss tripple battle strat..uhh 40% ancient power anyone?
Thanks for featuring my comment about Beak Blast!
Thanks for watching and commenting. I appreciate you
Inverse battles lead to normal type moves being Super Effective against Rock, Steel, and Ghost
Inverse.
@@GeorgeDCowley fiiiixed. Thanks.
I am very surprised not a single RBY mechanic got mentioned.
So many videos about gen 1 mechanics out there that I figured they've already been covered a bunch or most fans already know of them.
Encountered a shiny Zangoose in a Seviper hoard, needles to day I didn't catch sonic.
You can get three Helping Hands in a Dynamax Adventure
Flying Press is such a cool move, but is hindered a lot by being not only an 80 bp weaksauce attack, but also being _95%_ accurate for no reason. It was boosted to 100 bp in Gen 7? Still kind of trash.
If it were 100% accurate and had 120 bp, then it would be a really cool signature move whose mechanics could be more widely known. But next to the likes of HJK and eventually CC, it's just the "do less damage to neutral targets, Steel-types, Rock-types, and get quad resisted by Zapdos" option instead of the potential 2 in 1 deal, "kill Darkrai, Rillaboom, Ting-Lu, and Zamazenta in one click" move that it's meant to be.
Regarding the interaction between Phasing moves and Mold Breaker, you said that White Smoke and Clear Body Pokemon will still have their stats reduced when being phased into Sticky Web. Do you know if this is also true for Full Metal Body, which is like Clear Body but specifically is immune to Mold Breaker-like abilities?
Full Metal Body will block the speed drop in this situation. I tested it to make sure but didn't include it in the final video.
@@MattBudYT Neat, thanks!
The order in witch Pokemon wake up from uproar depends on the host of the battle
So if everyone else is sleeping would the host’s other mon wake up first?
@@MattBudYT I forget exactly how it happens, but if I remember correctly it’s host first then speed tiers afterwards
Pokémon berries, my beloved.
Try using skill swap to give dragapult unseen fist and see if it targets protect mons/ mons whose protect is broken by feint, or see what happens if you attack a friendly Mon in doubles, both if its immune and can actually get hit
Dragon darta isn't a contact move so unseen gist won't work
I thought of another one, mold breaker into wonder guard
@@shaunpathrosepaul6804 right, I didn’t think about it
Whenever I watch a video about “things you don’t know about Pokémon”
It either things I already know
Or questionable statements
(The weirdest one was “Karen is a quote of the development team”)
Let’s see if you can surprise me
Let me know if you learned something new or if you were familiar with all these
@@MattBudYT you got time with the Helping Hand boost confusion damange I knew about Molbreaker because my Bulky Haxorus triggered the effect in Battle Tree
I assumed it was not levitating because it absorbed the toxic spikes and it killed my Haxorus
However I was fooled because my Landorus was locked in Earth power and Weezing exploded on his face and I was l endgamed by Staraptor
And that’s why I could never catch a seviper in X
bro is reading wikipedia for a video. peak youtube vacuous content
It's Bulbapedia, pretty much a specialized wiki for Pokémon information/facts/mechanics etc.
You should check it out sometime it's a great website
@@MattBudYT not even on serebiii Q_Q. tbh i woulda deleted this but you're quick on the draw. now i must sit in the petty hateful bed of my making
@@johannesgutenburg9837 funnily enough I responded to this while uploading the next video (dropping in the morning).
It’s all good. I do prefer the layout, wealth of information, and ease of bulbapedia. I use a lot of resources from there to help create my videos.
Never really liked using serbei too much. Not the easiest to navigate and I feel like they don’t have the best layout for the research I do.
Idk why but you're very quiet MattBud. Cool video, love the weird prankster interactions with dragon darts, but change the way you're recording your voice.
One of the first times I’m hearing I’m quiet. May I ask what device you’re listening on? And if I’m too quiet, or just in relation to the music/sounds?
@@MattBudYT idk man maybe I had the headphone settings on real low or I am going deaf, but I just thought it was kind of quiet. If it’s the first time maybe it’s a me issue. Fr nice video tho.
For me your volume is good
Voice volume is fine
boop :3
Child yeeter
😂😂
Prediction: bro is going to put beak blast during sleep in here
I had to get a viewer suggestion in here somewhere😅
Not the biggest fan of the title personally, add a might in there
Obscure Pokémon Facts YOU MIGHT DON'T KNOW
We live in a world where creators are forced to choose between clickbait and less successful videos.
They have been proved to work.
Give have to the creators of good videos...
It's better that they play the game than be penalized for not doing it
@@andy4an yeah unfortunately that is how it goes.
If the title isn’t as clickable it will negatively impact the video and the creator in the process.
I still strive to deliver on all my titles/thumbnails to the best of my ability and never straight up lie for clicks. That’s scummy.
Good that a decent chunk of the viewers are aware of this