How GREAT was Articuno ACTUALLY - History of Articuno in Competitive Pokemon
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- Articuno is once again today’s Pokemon for our History Video! Tune in with False Swipe Gaming for this history of Articuno’s competitive career! Happy Holidays! #pokemon #pokemonscarletandviolet #pokemonshowdown
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0:00 - Intro
1:04 - RBY/Gen 1
9:17 - GSC/Gen 2
12:55 - ADV/Gen 3
15:13 - DPP/Gen 4
16:49 - BW/Gen 5
17:51 - XY/Gen 6
19:30 - SM/Gen 7
22:16 - SS/Gen 8
24:38 - SV/Gen 9
26:48 - VGC
28:34 - Outro
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Fun Fact: in gen 5, Articuno is classed as ZUBL alongside such metagame giants: Trubbish, Whirlipede, Omanyte and Regigigas
Absolutely losing it at Regigias managing to barely scrape out of Untiered.
Must've been an honor to be the Ace Pokemon of the second Gym Leader of your generational game and being tiered alongside two Legendaries.
I can understand Whirlipede has Speed Boost, Omanyte has Shell Smash and Swift Swim and Regigigas has 670 BST, but how could a Trubbish be banned from ANYTHING?
@@iss2075probably because of toxic spikes, if i had to guess
@@NoahMonroe_ Too good for Untiered, to terrible to be tiered. I can't imagine a worse purgatory
Articuno is one of Sugimori's greatest designs. So simple, so elegant, so good
especially the galar form
@@MaxAverisgalar is wack
@@A.Froster Galarian is just Articuno becoming Tuxedo Mask.
@@autobotstarscream765more like "I need to speak with ur manager, now!" face hahaha
@@autobotstarscream765galarian is space chuck
I caught that stream of Kantonian Articuno being used in gen 9 VGC and this video didn't give enough credit to what a truly evil pokemon that thing was. It wasn't just the evasion boost that made it infuriating. Between the support from Aurora Veil, the new defence boost ice types get from snow, and Articuno's already incredible special defence, combined with roost, meant it survived forever. The true cherry on top was that it used all those extra turns to spam Blizzard, which with its spread move and perfect accuracy in snow, meant it had an alarming tendency to freeze at least one opponent per game.
The player who used it said in the interview after his win that this was probably his last VGC event ever and just wanted to use his old favourite pokemon. Truly living up to that infamous Karen quote.
I'll still probably play again at some point, but not the full grind of the circuit, which means I probably won't make Worlds again. Playing almost every weekend can be tough at times. But if that's my final chapter, I'm more than content to end it like that.
Articuno still has what you wrote above going for it, but I wonder if it can handle Regulation F. I guess time will tell.
@@Pd0nZ I really want to use it on a snow team myself. Any chance you feel like chatting and sharing stat spreads and such?
You can use your favorites to win AS LONG AS YOU BUILD YOUR TEAM AROUND A SINGLE POKEMON
and not just, build a monotype with no regard, ev training and thinking that Swords Dance is just a fun animation because it deals no damage
on something like a regional Event is way harder, but strategies like this actually can take many players off guard and win
because, lets be honest you dont really do calcs for EVERY pokemon, you mainly make the important ones, and something like Honchkrow... to live a Icycle Crash From Chieng-Pao and K.O. Back With Dual Wing Beat (Hello Moxie Boosted)
or MY Cosplay Pikachu Icycle Crash (Yeah, that's on my ORAS team)
Imagine if we had Articuno had 125 Special Attack instead of Special Defense, it would have made it a better mon
Would give Zapdos a little more competition for best of the trio
In classic gamefreak style, they made the Mon with horrendous defensive typing "bulky".
@@vaporterraZapdos would still be much better. Ice/Flying is just such a bad type
Holy crap, it's EGR
Shame that Ice-type contributes further to our Antarctic pal's disdain for Rock damage.
BREAKING: Kantonian Articuno won the Utrecht Pokémon Regional Championships 2024 (March 2-3, 2024)
Quarter finals had an Articuno mirror match between Emir Abdulovski [NL] and Nikhil Reddy [NL] with Nikhil Reddy proceeding to take the title in the end.
Even more shocking was that the person Nikhil beat in the finals had a clean 16-0-0 record in the tournament (Aurélien Soula [FR])
crazy thing to wake up to honestly, we back in red and blue baby
I remember that Articuno is the first legendary I caught. I enjoyed the strength puzzles and surfing to it's little place in the Seafoam Cave.
I remember i used my masterball on it as a kid because it was a legendary
@@Opasidity understandable. I swear I used mine on a ratata
Yeah it was my first legendary too and I still have a soft spot for it even though I prefer Zapdos.
Hmmm I never really thought about it. Articuno was probably most of our (people who were young during RBY) first legendary.
Zapdos and Mewtwo were out of the way. Articuno and Moltres were there in your face.
I remember playing the moemon rom hack for fire red and loving articuno's design. Although all the designs for that rom hack are god tier
If articuno had its special attack and defense swapped in the later gens it would be a really good offensive ice type for the lower tiers
I kinda doubt that tbh bc of the lack of speed while having that bad typing
Unfortunately, it would be too similar to Zapdos if that were to be the case
@@RubicXK There would still be differences: Zapdos would be faster.
@@RubicXKAre you implying zapdos would be In a lower tier?
@@nousername191 and Articuno would still have Blizzard.
The Zapdos remake is near I can feel it
I already got paralyzed by its presence.
Get ready for more than an hour of coverage then!
@@skeetermania3202im ready
Checking into this after witnessing the specs SheerCold Articuno in a Reg. F special event is wild
Moltres's chance of inflicting a burn in gen 1 is a double-edged sword. While it's good against the likes of Tauros, it's actually incredibly bad against the likes of Chansey, Alakazam and especially Starmie, who can all recover the burn damage, do not care about the attack reduction, and become permanently immune against worse statuses like freeze and sleep.
Oh, and attacks that can inflict burn will also thaw out a frozen opponent. Imagine essentially resurrecting a frozen (basically dead) Snorlax or Rhydon.
Nobody would switch Tauros or Lax into Moltres. Burning Chansey is not as bad as you think. You can just spam Fire Spin afterwards and put it to down to Hyper Beam range
Thank you. Being stuck at home with a fever in christmas without the mental capacity to even play videogames really sucks, but this helps very much
Stay strong brother 🌲 hope you are having a blessed christmas
@@user-hp8db9zc7z thanks man. Even though we're both sick af, at least me and my father are keeping company to each other
Crazy coming back to this after the latest regionals lmao
Funnily enough, the Articuno stall in Gen 7 UU had its roots in Gen 6 UU. There was a few months where there was a commonly used dual-bird pressure stall of Articuno (roost defog haze freeze dry) and Moltres (roost defog will-o-wisp hurricane) due to how they matched up against all the tier's rock setters--either Moltres or Articuno could 1v1 every rock setter, so you could keep the field clear. It was common to also run a spinner, in addition to both birds having defog. Very interesting style of play, abusing pressure as much as possible. Some variants also brought Suicune, to have triple pressure.
Woo Articuno. Also crazy how it went from the worst Legendary bird to a good Legendary Bird.
A good bird in the lower tiers where it's fighting Pokemon like Crocalor and Clefairy yes haha. It's a bit funny that FSG these days does genuinely try to uplift Pokemon that have solid places in lower tiers, even putting GREAT in their video titles (though that might just be the "remake video" indicator) and not just dunking on them for not being OU viable. But a little bit of that creeped into this Articuno video with the part about Galarian Articuno being used in Gen 9 OU, until people realized it was "actually still bad" lol. They do followup by saying it was good in NU, but yeah it was a slight pulling the curtains back moment haha. Regular Articuno is still pretty bad even with the buff to Ice types, and Galarian is better but not by too much.
Articuno’s design is divine, yet it’s typing leaves a lot to be desired 😭
Articuno is a laughing stock when it comes to stealth rocks 🪨
What i would give to have Articuno and Zapdos' derpy design switched...
@@bryanc1772laughs in heavy duty boots
Well what type would you give Articuno, if you were so smart?
Remaking this video was a good choice cause Articuno is just such a great pokemon by design and competitively
Overal this video was absolutely amazing.
I wouldn’t say it’s a good design. They made a bulky ice type…. That’s the most terrible design choice to exist.
@@AndyStarzs1 design aka appearance not the stats though
@@winter9242 "and competitively"
I know you're a pokemon fan bu you'll need to learn how to read eventually man
@@pokeoh1831 dude the reply only mention design and even repeated it. Before correcting others maybe you should also learn how to read :)
@@winter9242 Please use context clues! It is common sense that design can also mean mechanics designs in gaming! The comment that is made is very specifically clearly talking about game design! It may be using a different word but any competent individual would be able to read between the lines and see that they are talking about the competitive side of things!!! It is silly to say
"This is cool, both design wise and competitive"
"I dunno... the way it was designed (a bulky ice type) is pretty bad"
"They didn't talk about competitive dumbass"
"They did you illiterate"
"Um but checkmate they said design and not competitive so I'm right"
Please realise you did not actually counter my point! The specific wording used does not detract that their statement is valid!!! Please educate yourself immediately!!!!!!! Reading is an important life skil!!!!!!!!!
I expect the Zapdos remake to be 1-hour long, based on this one's length.
The fact that he said that there's a 90 percent chance you will be enveloped in a blizzard signifying blizzard's 90 accuracy in gen 1 is genius
It was the chance of dying in one if it enveloped you, but yes. It is a pretty nice detail.
@@unaffectedbycardeffects9152 yeah you're right
Buff both forms by replacing Freeze with Frostbite from Legends Arceus. Also implement the mechanic that boosts frostbite chance when in snow, and buff the frostbite chance on Freezing Glare to 30%, making it a slightly stronger frostbite variant of Scald (which seems fair for a legendary's signature move). That way both forms gain a lot of defensive utility as well as offensive.
personally I thing the easiest buff you can give is the ability snow warning, especially now that snow increases special defense and gives it 100% blizzards.
It raises physical Defense but yeah
My favorite memory of this Pokémon involves this cool rug that some of the main characters in Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs have in their house. As it turns out, this rug has some plot relevance to it in that it eventually leads to Articuno’s location in the region being discovered.
The resurgence of Articuno continues with an amazing VGC Tournament win to start March 2024. ❄️🦅
Articuno had one of my favorite mid Johto episodes! Merry Christmas FSG!
Still hoping someone one day subs johto journeys
I remember Articuno. The first legendary pokemon i captured outside of using master balls.
I very recently started playing Showdown for the first time and my current VGC team features Articuno on my Snow Team!! Perfect timing!!!
Kanto's ice bird sadly had the misfortune of getting pelted by lumps of coal from Gen 4 onwards.
That gen 1 sprite for articuno is gorgeous
Omg another gen 1 and legendary remake, I wasn't expecting this so soon. Amazing
Been watching for about 2 months now I really like the way these videos are set up, keep up the good work!
Six years have I waited
merry christmas false swipe team, thank you for what you do :D
Atricuno just got released in PokeMMO and now I know the sets to watch out for
Odd that this came out just after a Scott’s Thoughts video featuring all the birds.
Also, anyone notice this is the first video to cover all 9 generations?
Galarian Articuno dropping from OU to NU in Gen 9 just shows how much the meta tosses and turns constantly
Finally one of my favorite legendary pokemon, Articuno
I just love his desing i wish it had some better stats
And the Galarian form is pretty solid too but the same problem unfortunately
Thanks Mr. False Swipe the remake I wanted for this Christmas 🎄🎁😊
did anyone else notice the double freeze dry on the screen at 20:16
Zapdos was my fav of the birds as a kid but Articuno might've taken that spot as time has gone on. Design is 🥶
I don't always watch, but I love the comfort food of this channel's consistency
19:40 I noticed that roost is listed twice
Merry Christmas False Swipe. My favorite legendary bird of the original trio, thank you for this video.
Been my all time fav Pokemon ever since Blue version waaaay back in the day! So stoked to see this on Christmas Day!
This just makes me want the Zapdos redo so bad. This was a great Christmas video
Probably one of the hotspots of next year (April or July)?
@@skeetermania3202Imagine if he does Moltres in the Spring, and Zapdos in the Summer since they're associated with those seasons.
I remember when I played pokemon Yellow, my best team had an articuno, it was one of my 3 strongest pokemon in my team alongside Mewtwo and Gengar.
Our fav stealth rocks victem let's gooooo!
Give my boy no guard blizzard and sheercold
That gen 1 explanation was crazy
Merry Christmas everyone!
My favorite mon...became a part of my team instantly when I found it in seafoam back in pokemon yellow. Really wish it kept some of its power and that ice could be buffed in general
Is so unfortunately sad or hilarious (if you're cruel) that ArticUNO is the least viable of the trio
Moltres is surprisingly solid and can work on mid thiers and Fire is amazing for offense
And Zapdos is a monster on Rain and a VGC staple because has the best typing of them on Electric/Flying
Merry Christmas False Swipe!
Gotta love how the bird that was given the defensive stat spread has the worst defensive type.
Most ice types are defensively oriented, unfortunately. Only Weavile and Froslass are actually correctly designed as the glass cannon archetype that ice typing is meant to be 🤦🏽♂️. Which is a damn shame because I love Avalugg, Walrein and Abomasnow 😭
Worst defensive typing? Two words. Iron Defense. Even the nastiest Stone Edge wont be enough to crack a really tough Ice Type.
Merry Christmas to you too FSG!
I immediately thought of Patrick Donegan when I saw this video lol. Glad to see him featured here!
Its one of the things that I can never work out about the Gen 1 designs... Articuno looks timelessly classic, but its just a blue pigeon. But its the best blue pigeon.
Hope y’all’s Christmas is going well no matter where you are
Merry Christmas
imagine when G-Articuno gets Esper Wing? it'll be my new favorite G-bird pokemon
Speaking of which, Braviary is so long overdue.
Great Christmas present.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays FSG!
Merry Christmas to everyone watching!
I was not expecting to see articuno and great in the same title.
Tbf pretty sure you can only expect it when discussing masters ex
he uses that term for remakes, doesnt really mean its good
@@alimirza4608meganium
Meganium did get remake and its not great@@alimirza4608
My boy won a regional not long after this was released I think
How to buff Articuno: *Snow Warning*
Crank it's bulk to even higher levels, boost Blizzard's accuracy and power, and its even thematically appropriate. Instant rocket back into OU.
Merry Christmas to you too those at FSG and to all watching !
I remember using it in the battle frontier of gen 3 with the combo mind reader-sheer cold and won many battles with it
My favorite of the legendary birds. Still remember pulling a neat full art card of it, made for a nice afternoon.
I do remember how mesmerized I was as a kid when I caught it in Red. I also remember it being good that gen. Glad to see I wasn't merely misrembering! The love persisted, and that's why we eventually got the Worlds set years later.
Definitely some things I didn't know about it since I focused on VGC (like being a Defogger), but they make sense. It had a better time in Singles than I thought.
For years, I wanted it to get Snow Warning. It made sense with some of the Dex entries it had in the past. Go figure, it's Snow Cloak that ended up working for me in the end. Would still be nice as a 3rd ability though.
Thanks for coming back to update the Articuno video. It was a good watch. ❄
You really went cold turkey... sorry, I mean you went with Articuno.
Simple fix for Atricuno would be to take some base stats from attack and put them into speed and special attack. Then its somewhat fast somewhat strong and tanky but is balanced out by its bad typing. And give it heat wave too. I dont care if heat wave doesnt make sense for Ice type. It also doesn't make sense pidgey can learn heat wave so just let artiucno have it
Lol and now this will need ANOTHER remake
I'm looking forward to the future Christmas where you remake Delibird Christmas story.
MERRY CHRISTMAS FSG
Sick to see Jamie Boyt mentioned, he is one of my GOATs. His videos do so much for the VGC community!
Great vid.
Maybe one on Seismitoad? Flygon? Togekiss?
Merry Christmas Fsg.
Articuno was my favorite in gen 1 and 2, but then I realized that I was in love with ice type's attacking coverage.
Still love that big blue bird tho.
A Christmas miracle: a remake video for my favorite pokemon. The only untiered legendary this side of Regigigas!
Way back in 2000, I actually used Articuno as part of my team in a Pokemon Stadium official tournament. Because I figured out the basics of EVs before seemingly everyone else, mine was trained ridiculously high in HP and speed from killing Route 1 foes to go from 50 to 52. That Articuno got me to the finals match, and it ended up all coming down to my Boreas versus the other guy's Dugtrio. Everyone could tell that if it missed, it was getting destroyed, and if it hit, I might actually live Rock Slide anyway. It crit and I lost, but that wasn't the fault of best bird.
Another year of Christmas, yet another ice bird to cover!
A most joyous christmas day thank you FSG for this gift, how about sylveon for the new year hmmm
Funny thing is that it's stat distribution is what helped it get usage in VGC 2023, which between that and Jamie's recent placement I imagine prompted this remake. With Snow Cloak, it's natural Sp. Def, and it's Def boost in snow Articuno can take most any attack when it hits and spams blizzard which isn't super powerful but is spread and threatens freezes.
I would really like Aurorus to exist soon because it really can take advantage of setting Snow to be an offensive threat now
Articuno carried me thru the end of my firered playthru. Love that bird
My favourite way to use Galarian articuno is the iron ball set woth expandong force and trick room in a psyspam team. It's really fun to use
Merry Christmas everyone. 🎁🎄
"With the best shiny ever"
YES ! ! !
I was never interested in shinys. But when I saw this one... I thought "ok, for this one, I could reset during hours to get it..." (I was so glad when I learnt I could get it just by participating in an online competition, haha)
I saw that Shiny Simipour in the Gen 6 segment.
My favorite gen 1 pokemon
Articuno's Yellow sprite looks so nice. It made me love the Pokemon immediately. I also had a fun ice team in mono-type ADV. Since this was so long ago, OHKO clause wasn't a thing and Mind Reader/Sheer Cold is a great way to finish off an attempted last Pokemon sweep. It's such a shame gamefreak decided to give it 125 base special defense. 90/100/95 would still be quite reasonable bulk and Ice STAB off 125 sp atk is good in any generation. They could have at least given it Snow Warning instead of the useless Snow Cloak as a hidden ability. With the new snow weather condition, it would be quite the tank.
Snow Cloak is useless? Huh, when i had to face Candice, i didn't get that impression. Quite the opposite really.
two and a half decade? God, I'm old :(
Merry Christmas!!
I'm not surprised some players saw fit to include Kantonian Articuno on Doubles Snow teams, as the new Snow mechanics would buff it's already impressive Defense and allow it to function as a pesky mixed wall, especially if you got an Aurora Veil up. You could run supporting moves like Icy Wind for speed control, Helping Hand to buff ally damage and some combination of Protect/Roost/Blizzard/Tera Blast in the final move spots.
Dragalge, magcargo, drifblim or rotom and all of his forms! 💪💪💪
The fact that people called for Articuno to be banned to ubers is hilarious. To think that Articuno could have been banned while Kingambit was running around.
Articuno having the same time on his video as the Latis is surprising ngl
"Rocked pretty hard by hurricane". Heh.
If only stealth rocks weren’t a thing
And it seems this video should've also used the word "GOOD" rather than "GREAT".
I still don't get why entry hazards benefit from weakness/resistance. Stealth Rocks would be balanced and so many Pokemon would be relevant if they just did set damage to everything.
@@Loner098 He uses "great" for remakes now
look at the typhlosion and feraligatr video for example, they both arent great pokemon but since it was a remake he put great inside the title
But sometimes, if a pokemon is truly GREAT he uses that term in their first video, like heatran
@@alimirza4608 I always thought the term "GREAT" was used for Pokemon that are relatively consistent in at least OU and fall victim to ban hammers if they drop one tier later.
@@Loner098 Same, just a few weeks ago after i saw typhlosion being labelled as "great" i was extremely confused.
But then soon i realized that NOW he uses the term great for remakes
But once again in rare occasions he uses the term "Great" for pokemon that are actually consistently good.
The most recent one being aegislash, which wasnt a remake, but since aegislash is an excellent pokemon, he bestowed the title of great upon it
Thank you False Swipe Gaming for good videos, Merry Christmas
Love the newly-updated Articuno video. 👍🏻
**Game Freak simply has to recognize that they screwed the Ice Type from the game’s inception.**
Give Ice Types immunity to Ice, with resistances to Flying, Water, Bug & Dragon.
Also, make Fire and Ice neutral to each other & you will see Articuno easily overcome its original poor-defensive stats.
If the goal is to make Articuno a wall for many teams, increasing its speed by 15 points would also allow it set up its defensive plays before Rock or Steel threats can surface early in games.
We really just need to buff the ice type's defensive matchups. There are lore justifications for it resisting Dragon, Electric, Flying, Fairy, and Water. Giving it any of those resistances would give ice types more switch in opportunities, giving them more chances to hit the field. Rock weakness would obviously still be an issue, of course, but this should even things out a bit.
Merry Christmas everyone
i think Ice Body needs an errata to grant a chance to Freeze on contact and granted to articuno over snow cloak, or give it snow warning and let it learn Aurora Veil