Creative Strategies in Competitive Pokémon (Gens 1 - 6)

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  @corruleumblue3317 · 3 years ago

  I think my favourite thing about this is that, while other gens are unusual usage of intended game behaviour, the gen1 strats are just "exploit the gen1 jank".

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• HO

  @hodanisbased4980 · 3 years ago

  My favorite joke in this video is the Mr. Mine named "18+ Minors DNI" being level 15

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• LE

  @Leet-iz2fz · 4 years ago

  Meanwhile in VGC we have IRL mindgames with the guy who brought a Mega Charizard X plushie and put it on the game table to make his opponents think he would run X, when he was actually running Y.

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  @LadyBernkastel92 · 3 years ago

  downside: You might get OHKOd and you&apos;re generally worse<br>Upside: You have put her in a little birthday hat and gave her a birthday card<br>I see this as an absolute win

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  @NimbusAlamaa · 4 years ago

  My favorite creative strat was back in Gen 6 Ubers, somebody got to the top of the showdown ladder with a trick room team running Solrock, a pokemon in PU. The combination of its typing + levitate let it check useful threats like Ho-oh and Primal Groudon, it acted as a stealth rocks setter, and could even explode on threats. Was a super silly, actually useful choice

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  @frankwest5388 · 4 years ago

  Many dont seem to realize, that in any competitive game, when considering a strategy, a player will always have to ask themselves “Why am I not using something else? Which advantage does this bring me, over the alternatives“<br><br>Sure you could go play OU with a team of Magikarp and Onix, but that isn‘t really creative. That is just doing things worse, for the sake of feeling special.<br><br>But a real creative strategy is all about looking at something generally overlooked and realizing its unique strengths and how they could be useful in the wider games context.

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  @limon16025 · 4 years ago

  I don&apos;t remember every detail too well, but in gen 7 PU people used to run level 99 Aromatisse to outspeed regular ones in trick room, since it was the slowest pokemon in the tier (besides Ferroseed). Needless to say, it&apos;s now PUBL.

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  @Fizzicles · 4 years ago

  This thumbnail is pure art. Just truly in awe at the layers.

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  @aidenzorn8322 · 3 years ago

  Glad that you can use Ariados to absorb the toxic spikes which the opponent’s Ariados set up. Important developments in the Ariados mirror

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  @burbotime · 4 years ago

  Never understood the sentiment that putting limitations automatically &quot;destroys&quot; creativity, because usually those limitations breeds some of the wildest, most inventive strategies that I&apos;ve seen.

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  @RemiAutor · 4 years ago

  A note on the thing you said at the start of the video: When you don&apos;t ban one thing that is broken, you are defact banning everything that it stomps into the dirt, until the only allowed strategies are the broken thing and the broken thing&apos;s counters. Banning broken things actually enables MORE creativity, not less.

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  @Tarkduckleduck · 4 years ago

  I&apos;d like to say that Ariados can actually beat Darkrai in the funkiest way possible. You know, Ariados has two abilities, one of them being swarm. As you said, if the oponent is stupid and uses dark void on ariados, you can kill the darkrai using bug bite just twice, but a good player will obviously not do that<br><br>That&apos;s where swarm comes in<br><br>Just putting 128 EVs into HP makes Ariados survive any non choice specs Dark pulse from full health no matter the situation, making the adition of the insect plate a 100% to beat Darkrai, (having a 87.5% chance to K.O Darkrai from full health with a focus sash, swarm boosted bug bite with 252+ attack). Specially because as deoxys speed never runs psychic, Ariados isn&apos;t threatened by it either<br><br>Of course, this is a niche inside a niche, but I honestly think it can be very good... though, of course, being very good in the context of Ariados. It is not meta or anything but the upsides can be worth

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