Why Garganacl is DOMINATING Competitive Pokemon in Gen 9.
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The Paldea region is full of powerful new offensive behemoths, but one of the best Pokemon in the game has turned out to be Donkey Kong shoved inside of a Pyramid.
Garganacl is an invincible Salt Creature that simply cannot be defeated. Many are wondering where to get Garganacl in Pokemon Scarlet & Violet. Well, once you find out this information, let me know because I need to get my hands on one of these.
Garganacl has been engaging in fraudulent activity with Gholdengo. They are on the run.
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bad video, you are just being salty about gargana..... oh wait
Finally, a rock type that actually works in a defense role
Specially because he's not rock GROUND🗿
It did nees that many tools
only took 550 bst busted sig good ability recovery and tera 😎👌
It’s broken
And it’s rarely a rock type. It’s more commonly a water or fairy type
This is in my opinion the best golem-like Pokemon ever made. It doesnt require trading, it becoming a golem makes sense instead of being like Rolycoly wich completely gets rid of its whole minecart theme, and its actually good in battle with its own unique style.
rolycoly's evolutions go from coal lump to coal cart to coal furnace and makes total sense tho
@@BaalFridge It goes from 2 mine carts to a golem for no reason. Really ruined its potential design-wise.
@@MayHugger rolycoly is the coal that’s been mined,Carkol is the Minecraft delivering the coal, and coalossal is the furnace the uses the coal.
@@rocketdino3206
But why is Rolycoly a wheel then? That seems like a really important theme to just drop. This explanation has always been flimsy, it doesn't address the complaints at all.
@@Day-eb9po Rolycoly is likely based off of the earliest steam engine developed by the Greeks which was small ball that spun quickly
I love garganacl almost as much as I love ferrothorn.
Defensive pokemon that aren't passive but rather proactive in their defense make me incredibly happy.
I particularly enjoy body press garg.
same. i like brick break for how clinically it shuts down grimmsnarl
Defensive pokemon are far more fun than stall, and actually fun to fight against too
@@JustButton brick break shutting down grimsnarl? Dont think so
@@gusthavo15yearsand98 It shuts it down because it prevents light screen and reflect
@@gusthavo15yearsand98grimmsnarls screens get broken, it cant paralyze garg, and if it parting shots out then the switch takes a salt cure. its a free switch and no screens
FYI, for those people who might wonder why Salt Cure has double the effect on Steel and Water types, it's because 1) Salt draws away moisture; and 2) Salt causes metal to corrode faster.
I love it when the games do little science bits like this.
Garganacl to Toxapex: Look at me. I am the one who stalls now.
A thing about Garganacl is that it can learn Block which trap your opponent until u swap if I’m remember correctly and pair it up salt cure… yeah this made of salt for a reason
I believe you can u turn out of it
Yes
@@sephikong8323 that was actually I start running U turn more on my Pokémon after having to face that nightmare of a set up… let me tell you it not fun
that’s fucking hilarious. imagine switching to your garg answer, it blocks you, and then terastalizes into a type that walls you and sets up +6 defense
@@SuperEljafru hell
This Donkey Kong pyramid deserves all the love and glory it can get.
Rock type being so bashed on to the point that they finally have an excellent Pokémon representing them.
Now I cant unsee Donkey Kong on Garganacl sprite ...
I honestly thought it was actually a gorilla head or something like that. I had to stare at it with the mindset that the triangle under its eyes is its chest and not a mouth for a long time.
Donkey Kong trapped in a Pyramid
Free him.
@@jimothycool If we free him, every single base stat is going to attack and speed, nothing but pure power
I don't know about regret. Can't help but feel like whoever made Garganacl is looking at its performance and going
"I made a viable defensive mono rock type. My life is complete."
True, but a big difference between begin Viable, and problematic. RIght now what options to you really have against it. Honestly it seems like they made goldengo, then where like...Fuck..we made a steel type thats powerful, can boost it power EVEN more with Terra still, and immune to status we need something that just flat out counters it, and the thing is if your made to counter one of the nuttiest pokemon ever created..well you are one of the nuttiest pokemon ever created.
@Choas_Lord_512 I mean normal..Not even psudeo legendary/or restrited..Yeah it is kind of one of the nuttiest pokemon every created.
"I made a viable defensive mono rock type" in the generation where it can and will immediately tera into any other type. Garg would not be good without tera
@@doomknightsepulchureIt’d definitely be good, but not as good as it is with Tera. Its stats, movepool, and ability really saves it.
@@doomknightsepulchure I would be viable but not be as annoying as it is now
Garganacl is probably the best PURE rock type ever. It won the regional of San Diego with a poison tera and wide guard, who covers earthquake and e-force, who are the most used ground and psychic moves.
Remind me, what’s e-force? Sorry if dumb question
@@scientificallyaccuratespino Expanding Force? I think that’s what it’s called
@@Argnos2293 Thank you, I was desperately going through the moves in my brain and the best I could come up with was phantom force
Loved this Rock type the minute I saw em. They did a Defensive Rock type with justice
And tera Ghost isn't even bad because you gain a neutrality to ghost, an immunity to Fighting
And losing many weaknesses
The problem with that tera is that it has 1 weaknesses, but is dark that is everywhere today
@@alejandro_rodriguez_99 I especially like how the best type this gen (in my opinion) is dark. Shout-out to Murkrow, Chi-Yu and Hydreigon.
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@ChaosLord5129 says the guy speaking like a nerd "UMMMM YOURE ACKTSCHUALLY REALLY WRONG AS DARK IS REALLY REALLY GIMMICKY. EASY SWEEP 🤓"
Water and steel were so op for so long that people aren't used to seeing it countered.
Never thought I’d see the day where a defensive rock type would be viable 😭
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I like the idea of a Ghost tera type Garganacl, since because of purifying salt, it takes neutral damage from ghost moves if it terastalizes, thus making it's only weakness Dark, a type you probably don't want to send out against Garganacl because of it's insane Body Press damage.
I prefer fairy garg because being weak to dark is a very unfortunate thing to be when Chien-Pao is running amok in the tier. I would much rather switch something into gholdengo's make it rain (easier to outspeed gholdengo and you can take advantage of the -1 spatk) than switch into anything Pao throws out.
You know you’re great when you also outclass Tyranitar as a bulky rock type stealth rocker
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How fitting that the salt based pokemon makes so much salt for its existence.
I used it in my first playthru & I absolutely loved it. I caught a impish nature with the special ability & the ghost tera type. I was skeptical at first cuz I hated its rock tank generational predecessors. But the salt cure move, stat distribution & the ability really made it so OP during my time in Gen 9. Wud absolutely totally recommend over Glimmora tbh
Garganacle is literally why I have a Iron Valiant and a Gholdengo on my team, cuz with those 2 most Garganacyle go down to 1 shot by Gholdengo and 2-3 max by Iron Valiant and it makes my life way easier
I use Specs Valiant a lot, it's strong in general but also the big Tera Fairy STAB is one of the only things that nukes Garganacl and most of it's possible Tera Types
@@jimothycool yah I use specs on my Gholdengo just cuz that way I know it’s a kill and even if he Teras he’s still taking massive damage I put myself into a disadvantage with speed battles just to make sure that Donkey Kong over there can’t torture me lol
Garganacl, aka, the Pokémon capable of K.Oing every single Titan
one of the few universally loved gen 9 mons, at least design wise, and a necessary presence in the meta to contain the insane threats Paldea indroduced, 10/10 good job DK inside a pyramid
are you a member of Garganacl's pyramid scheme?
@@jimothycool who isn't?
loved?
Originally I thought this was a Heatran, Ferrothorn, Tyranitar, Hippowdon, etc, kind of pokemon. Garganacyl is just joining the OU pantheon of amazing residual damage and hard-to-kill nature. All these mons are really solid but also have their weaknesses, be it a quad weakness or typing that makes it easy to capitalize off of, etc. However, after actually dealing with garganacyl and using it myself for a while, I realised this thing is much, MUCH stronger than any of the previous residual damage monsters we've dealt with in the past. Not only is it one of the only mons that can dish out this much residual damage to EVERYTHING IN THE GAME, while also having recovery (recovery on a mon like this is as important as it is rare), but it has no quad weaknesses, and it's the only mon that can make you lose upwards of 1/4th just for switching in and attacking regardless of what youre stats or typing are. You lose 1/2 if you're a steel or water type, and it does all of this WITHOUT using hazards, which is unheard of! The only way you only lose 1/8th of your health after getting hit by salt cure on the switch is if you double switch, but then you just sent out your counter for no reason. Even ignoring the fact that it can completely remove all its weaknesses with terra AND the fact it's immune to status, this thing is absurdly good. It's ability and the current Terra metagame makes me argue it's even banworthy good.
Now I'm not saying this has no counterplay, running covert cloak isn't bad, it's phenomenal on setup sweepers as it prevents you from getting an unlucky para from a thunderbolt or burn from a flamethrower, or spdef drop from shadow ball, so it has its uses outside of countering garganacyl. Most substitute pokemon can set up on it as long as it doesn't get too many iron defenses, and it's really scared of getting a choice item tricked onto it, and 2 of the best pokemon in the game right now, rotom-wash and gholdengo, typically run a trick set. Hell, even stalling it out of its 8 recovery pp isn't impossible.
Still, even with all of this to counter it, it's a monster of a pokemon. Plus, all the counters I just mentioned aren't even that reliable! If you trick the wrong mon as it switches, you just lost your only shot at doing that. Substitute sweepers aren't that reliable with 3 good unaware mons just running around. Stalling only works on teams bulky enough to do it, and running covert cloak instead of another item might make you more vulnerable to 100 other things! You take more damage for not running boots, you have less recovery cause no leftovers, you can't run AV, you can't run a choice item, etc. Also knockoff exists, which the most popular mon in the metage runs almost all the time (great tusk.)
TL;DR, garganacyl is probably one of, if not the best residual damage mon we've ever seen, and given its counterplay isn't as reliable as it could be, It might prove to be overbearing.
so true, all of it
Tera, I think, does make it overpowered.
I never noticed that Garganacl looks like it has DK's head in a pyramid and now I can't unsee it. 🤔🤔
I will never unsee the Donkey Kong. Curse you, Jimothy Cool
I will never unsee DK's face in Garganacl now. Also Garganacl is very strong under Sandstorm.
I feel like Garganacl is going to be in trouble the moment that someone discovers a pokemon who is neither water nor steel type, but can fire off a steel move strong enough to bruise Garganacl.
No non Steel type runs steel type moves, Steel is a bad offensive type. Rock has 3 other weaknesses ya know.
@@i_like_chomp6382 But steel is the only common weakness between the rock type form and Tera Fairy. Anything else would force a guessing game.
@@Reginald_Ritmo running a steel move wastes a crucial moveslot on said pokemon and could make it much worse against any non gargnacl pokemon
@@Reginald_Ritmo So? Garg has like 5 viable Terras depending on the team. Something like Ghost is just as common.
@@i_like_chomp6382 The Fairy type was basically created to nerf Dragon overall, buff Fire defensively, and to buff Steel and Poison offensively.
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The moment it learned Salt Cure and I realized how it worked it began to go from "Cute early route Pokémon I would level for the novelty." to my ace who's physical bulk just narrowly pushed through the final boss of the main game without items. Love my boy Scrubquotes.
My only issue is they aren't named "Naclossus".
Damn that’s a way cooler name than what I came up with. “Naclith” (pronounced like Nackel-lith)
@@Argnos2293 It's still way more punny and clever than what we got.
I think Garganacl is a fantastic example of the difference in design philosophy between the older and newer Gens.
Old Gens typically made the difference between Pokémon be largely reliant on abilities, movesets and stats, most of which were shared. Signature moves and abilities were uncommon and relegated to legendaries or otherwise special Pokémon.
Now? Garganacl gets both a signature ability and a signature attack, Maushold gets two signature moves, even Spidops gets a signature move. Would anybody even give a crap about Maushold without Tidy Up and Population Bomb, or would it be just another decent Normal type with some niche uses for Technician?
Look at Gen 5. Think about how many Pokémon in Gen 5 are practically interchangeable with Gen 1-4 Pokémon, and don’t have much to make them stand out. Is the Gigalith line really seen as much other than a discount Golem line? How many Pokémon are there that are just strictly worse than others because they share typings with vastly superior Pokémon and have nothing else to help them stand out?
Somewhere along the way they started giving out way more unique moves, making way more unique and game-changing abilities. Stuff like Intimidate and Unaware used to be the high benchmarks for abilities, and while they’re still great, now we’ve got absolutely insane shit like Good as Gold. Signature moves are no longer relegated to special Mons like Lugia, basic bitch starter route bugs are getting them. Mewtwo doesn’t get a signature ability or move, but Spidops does.
mewtwo has psystrike
@@sheeplol2161 Oh wow, I totally missed that somehow. Though I guess the point still stands, as it only got that in Gen 5, but still, thanks for the correction!
@@Prankmeister1990 ye, anyways, i think theyre trying to make every mon special
With Specifcally Gigalith it does have something much different than Golem, that being that it sets Sand with Sand Stream as an ability it got in I believe Gen 7.
Well, when everyone can be super, no one will be ... I'm not against signature moves and abilities, as long as they make sens to be something unic an exclusive to a Pokémon without being overly specific. Like if a Pokémon's concept basically needs a new way of attacking to work, sure. But giving out signature moves for giving out signature moves for no particular reason just make the move list very long for no reason, and it make it seem like Game Freak have no good idea of what to do and how to balance with what they already have. I would much rather have new moves that multiple Pokémon, old and new receives, that can be used in a variety of way. Plus most of the signature moves aren't particularly interesting, often time it is just two moves combined or a stronger regular move, it doesn't occupy interesting design space.
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The best answer to Garganacl is, surprisingly, Garganacl
I hate that i cannot unsee the donkey kong head between a pyramid
Free Donkey Kong from his prison!!
I used him with rock helmet that one item that does damage whence gets hit. And it’s really funny sometimes it does more dmg to the attacking Pokémon than the attacks it performed
GarNaCl is weirdly enough not that frustrating, when compared to other defensive mons.
Probably due to its more proactive nature.
You aren’t switching it in to a resist, put up a status effect and then just keep healing forever it like Toxapex
And it doesn’t have 8 resits like Ferro.
It is pretty venerable and doesn’t have a way to passively heal, meaning it has opportunity cost.
If anything, the mob it reminds me the most of us Hippodown
Garganacl had been as much if not more frustrating to deal with than other defensive pokemon. It getting access to a dot move with no immunities is crazy and it uas reliable recovery so you cant just wear it down easily. Tera makes this thing almost unkillable if you dont have a specs iron valiant and a gholdengo.
@@drakolithe6493 @Drakolithe somebody doesnt know what a covert cloak is, or a rotom wash, or a great tusk, or a belly drum or banded azumarill or a specs pelliper i could keep going honestly oh, we got ting lu with ruination and whirl wind to ruin iron defense sets, before you bring up salt cure for the water types banded azu kills garg before that becomes important so it forces garg to switch, and defensive rotom wash has been running covert cloak lately. Oh and don't forget about roost quaquaval which thanks to roost doesnt need the covert cloak, oh dont forget kingambit who if it isnt body press just wins and if it is body press you force it to tera thanks to tera flying stab iron heads. Or tera ghost to become immune to body press. Its not annoying like pex who could switch in and out, had good recovery, widdled down tanks, burned any physical attacker around, and punished you for swapping with knock off. Its not as bad as ferrothorn who again with knock off punished you for swapping, had decent recovery with leech seed, good damage with gyro ball, 8 resistances, substitute, has good hazards. While yes garg has a hazard set, due to the fact that it doesnt get knock off it cant punish you for swapping into body press corviknight or great tusk which in return threaten stealth rock protect garg out. Mons like ghold or rotom wash who run covert cloak also force the stealth rock set to swap. All the other counters listed before force the stealth rock set to swap. Yeah garg is dominant, yes it can be annoying, yes it is hard to deal with at times, but compared to pex and thorn who both often were used on the same team? Id rather fight garg anyday.
@@hooparainbowbraceypkmonand7862 saying that you can just put on a covert cloak to deal with salt cure isint a good argument because that means the mon is going to be worse outside of the garg matchup. All the pokemon you mentioned lose to both tera fairy, water, and ghost meaning that they are not reliable checks to it, not to mention that all of those mans are going to be switching into a salt cure. Pex is debatable but it was infinitely easier to deal with ferrothorn due to the fact that leech seed is its only recovery which means it can get worn down easily over the course of a game, not to mention that it died to pretty much any fire attack. Salt cures dot effect can easily force switches which gives you many opportunities to set up.
@@hooparainbowbraceypkmonand7862 rotom wash takes a shit ton from salt cure and cloak is such a situational item that being forced to run it order to not get clapped by this thing is lame.
@@Substantial-hf1rm i mean trick scarf makes garg useless so thats still not the only option
i'm just shocked that they made a rock type that's actually good that isn't tyranitar.
Garganacl...
GargaNaCl
...that's a great name for a salt pokemon, holy shit
Fun fact garganacl has a some interesting naming shenanigans, first form Nacli (for those who haven't looked at a periodic table in a while) is NaCL which is sodium chloride (table salt), the second evolution is NaCLstack kinda self explanatory after the first one lol, and garganacl can be written as Garga NaCL, garga is an Indian sage healer, which given the pokedex entry for garganacl is extremely cleaver.
I can't unsee the Donkey Kong pyramid 🤣
Def was mousehold, but is in OU I use Azumarill and garg mostly
Also the last time I seriously played, it was before chi Yu was banned
I fucking love Garganacl, such a funky design and has a badass signature move and ability
Damn you Jimothy, now I cannot unsee the Donkey Kong head
It sure is the first thing that immediately stands out about it
Love the pokemons name
Too. Garga’NACL’ with salts chemical name being sodium chloride hence NACL. Fairplay gamefreak
I used garganacl on my playthrough team largely by happenstance - I spent a lot of the game swapping out a bunch of different gen 9 pokemon, seeing what they evolved into and trying them out. I really didn't have much intent to use nacli long-term, I thought the little mushroom was gonna be too similar to other rovk mons like geodude and roggenrola that were never really my style. but it ended up being so consistently good and _fun_ to use that i kept him around for the entire way through. it ended up with a similar salt cure/recover/protect w lefties set as you'd see in competitive, and even as someone who disliked using stall in singleplayer where it was often faster and more fun to just overpower, I couldn't get enough of this guy. I'm so glad he's just as good in vs, ive been having a blast with him there as well. love live that funky little minecraft beast
Virgin Bastiodon vs Chad Garganacl
I rarely love a pokemon for its competitiveness, but I really love this pile of salt
You had me at Donkey Kongs head.
This man is banana-pilled 🍌
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The duality of Singles OU
- Having such a good wall to stand against Ghost spam, because Blissey is now pretty much irrelevant
OR
- Having a frustratingly nearly unkillable wall that can also become a wincon.
Every other DAY there is a new Pokémon dominating
There's more Domination than ever. We live in Scary times.
That was a violation you played stickerbrush symphany in the background.
my favorite garg answer is swapping in quick claw ditto, pressing salt cure, then pressing recover 5 times before switching out
i love tera water garg, becuase now you resist both water and steel, so you can make them even saltier. watch out for leaves
i feel like this pokémon is a troll from the devs, they made an OP defensive rock type based on salt knowing full well how salty we'd get about it.
If you use tera ghost your only weakness is to dark type attacks.
I'm so happy this guy is good. When i saw this final evo i was thrilled. I figured it being a rock type meant it would suck, but i was hoping salt cure would carve a niche for it
The covert cloak tech is pretty similar to toxapex running shed shell in gen 8 specifically to prevent getting ruined by heatran
I can't unsee the DK inside a pyramid. Thanks, I hate it.
He must be seen. Free him from his Prison!!
Best wall breaker there is: gets banned to ubers*
Best wall:
Garganacl is what golem and every regional rock type wished what they could’ve been
I love Garganacl, it’s awesome to have a defensive rock type with awesome utility instead of your standard sky high defense no spdef and highish attack stat that you see on most ‘defensive’ rock types
I really like the way he sounds pissed off
This pile of salt make every competitive team carry a covert cloak user.This is just crazy.
Ive been doing tera ghost Garganacl with curse. Boost with curse, tera then spam body press, salt cure and recover. And now that youre a ghost you can curse your oppenent now and then heal back up. Salt cure and curse damage is heavy. Once all their special threats are gone its an auto win usually
Even in doubles this guy owns. Even in the current meta with 2 insane water types running around he can make it work.
I love it
I remember seeing it back in prerelease leaks and was talking about how good it was going to be only to be met with a bunch of people who were like "yeah, but rock type" not believing it would even be close to OU
It really makes me happy my initial assumption about it was right
They should've listened.
Ferrothorn has some new defensive competition if he ever comes back
Just caught a shiny one and found out how good it is and I found a new favorite pokemon
Because of Narganacl, I created the best Showdown username of all time; GargleMyNacls 🤣
GargleMySodiumChlorides?
I can't unsee Donkey Kong
I would just like to add that with terastallizing into a fairy, flying, poison, or bug type, Gar is the ONLY pokemon currently in the game that resists both of Annaliape's stabs, cause it's ghost resistance come from its ability instead of its typing. Doesn't matter that much now that Ape is banned, but it is still an extraordinary trait to have.
Probably the best rock type in my opinion. It's weaknesess are covered very well by its movepool. Probably a rock type I would use in a competitive team.
I think there will be a bit more counterplay to this beast after Pokemon home. Calm Mind Clefable in particular will render Garganacl total setup bait, with Magic Guard to render Salt Cure useless and a nice resistance to Body Press.
True, Covert Cloak will be more worth running too with Ceaseless Edge / Stone Axe and other returning Strong secondary effect moves too
@@jimothycool Aren't we getting Scald back too? That's a pretty big secondary effect it's worthwhile stopping.
@@alexpotts6520 I've heard that only Volcanion gets Scald now actually
clefable isnt in the game's code, we will need to until until DLC comes out to maybe see clefable come back
Curse nacl is a beast, ghost Tera also denys any baton team, along with the fact to deny trick room out speeds
I love Garganacl. I started using it when Gen 9 came out because "haha Minceratf Pomekon goes broom", and I was surprised about how actually great it is
let me out the pyramid I beg you
Curse up Atk and Def. Tera ghost and curse offensively as a hail Mary 5th move. Salt cure/ body press to take advantage of curse boosts and recover for sustainability. Sounds like good times.
I ADORE this thing. Absolutely a top 10 favourite straight up.
because salt cure and his ridiculous bulk, we stan garganacl out here
Basically, Garganacl is like a heatran with recovery. Btw, it is also busted in doubles, making series 1 one of the slowest of all time alongside dondozo.
Now I can't unsee Donkey Kong's head
I used a Garganacl on my Gen 9 team, but it had Sturdy instead of Purifying Salt, which turned out to come in handy a lot, especially when fighting an over leveled Iron Treads.
Would you talk about Greninja coming back? Yesterday they announced his return in S/V thanks to the 7 stars raid...
Could you maybe also talk about Charizard and Cinderace too?
I know that there's a high chance they will be mediocre, but your content is very nice, so why not?
Have you highlighted arboliva. Strength sap + fairy tera and leech seed is a fun defensive mon
In Doubles I like to lead with a Tera Steel Garganacl and a Glimmora. Garganacl has sturdy so if a Gholdengo uses Focus Blast it will live, and then hit it with Salt Cure pressuring a swap out. Then Glimmora sets up toxic spikes and stealth rock to punish said swap out. It is also holding a sash. Then I swap out to Clodsire and Dondozo and have Dondozo use Surf while Clodsire hides behind a substitute heals from Surf and Leftovers, and uses earthquake. Team works really well.
well mr griffen you have our full support of some wacky nambla
The shiny of the first form, looks like a butter stick on a Mario mushroom.
Purifying salt is gonna go crazy on AAA, (Almost any ability). Imagine this on Dondozo.
A huge part of it being so good is that it gets recover, unlike most other Golem like rock types
health recovery to me is the most broken thing u can do in pokemon, game freak nerfed health recovery moves usage. but it has done nothing. stall mons are the best just off that alone
I think its notable how good this mon is. I was playing ranked double the other day and was up 3 mons to one. Their Garg was the last one standing on their team and I barely won with an acid spray/armor giga drain muk.
My favorite way to play him is a fighting terra type with iron defense body press for maximum damage with no need for attack investment just defensive bulk
This is why I love running Covert Cloak Gholdengo just for garg. Best counter
My Violet team was gonna end up in garganacl leaving the team for another gen 9 mon but this dude got me through so much trouble, he tanked so many hits and obviously salt cured thousands of foes!
I named mine, “Saltos”
While I like defensive pokemon on my team, Garganacl is one of those stall pokemon that have pissed me off so many times that I refuse to use it out of sheer spite.
Stay mad
I love this Pokémon in my 1st Violet play through.
My son said that it was a rock golem from minecraft and I've used it ever since 🔥
I'm glad that I'm not the only one that saw DKs head in there. Was it intentional that it was a Mario Mushroom, a Minecraft mob, and then a DK head? Because it's kind of shown that it's just a huge chin and not it's jaw, but it looks too much like monke to be a coincidence.
Clefable can’t come in this game fast enough