"Bad" Pokemon That Work Competitively.
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Published 2024-05-11
Metagames form around these Powerful Pokemon, and sometimes this leads to seemingly "Bad" Pokemon rising up to fill gaps and punish these threats in specific ways.
Here are 3 examples of "Bad" Pokemon that have their uses in Competitive player. These examples are from Gens 3, 4 and 5 OU.
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All Comments (21)
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I interviewed Pokemon Legend BKC about some of the flaws of Smogon's tiering and Tournament structures, Drama surrounding Gen 5's metagame, and how various great Movies have impacted our lives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhRCWW7alPo
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Butterfree has 2 tournament wins in gen 3 💀
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My favorite Banette gaming moment was when my opponent accidentally tricked a choice band onto it, turning it into a surprisingly decent sweeper.
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My favorite “bad” Pokémon is Quagsire. He is unaware of the opponent’s strategies.
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A few years later Gen 11 "Bad" Pokemon: Latios, Volcarona, Landorus-Therian...
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It is very well known that the tiering system is very flawed. For example, Magcargo, One of the most powerful pokémon in every OU format, has never once been ranked officially OU.
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I will never get tired of Butterfree's 98% accurate sleep powder, either in competitive or in game, it rocks. My fav pokemon being awesome (and dying to a mere pebble, yes)
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Iron Mugulis is horsing around
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Bronzong getting access to Rain Dance is one of those seemingly insignificant details made for the sake of lore and flavor that I always loved and tried to make work in games/fangames, I never played Gen 4 competitively but I always appreciated how this became a viable thing
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Despite everything, I still like swords dance in Gen 1 OU. Kingler has so many massive flaws but it's still really scary given the right circumstances and I just like crabs.
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I think my favourite bad Pokémon that found a place was Ariados in Gen IV Ubers. An insane thing to say out loud but good for it.
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Qwilfish also has a niche in Gen 7 and Gen 8 National Dex as a secondary swift swimmer with Z-Explosion. I ran it on a rather competitive Pixelmon server and it won a few tournaments.
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This is insane. I decided this week to try my hand at Gen 3 OU and picked Banette to be on my team for all of the reasons you listed, except I have Knock-off instead of Taunt. I’m surprised that didn’t come up, given Knock-off’s utility and limited distribution. I was kinda proud of myself for finding a viable UU mon on my OU team. You must have taught me well, Master Jim.
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Mewtwo scared of Qwilfish, never thought I’d see the day😔
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I'll never forget the Chatot I used to sweep 3 legendaries on gen 8 AG on showdown. Yes it was bottom of the ladder. I just spammed chatter and boomburst while the dude kept hitting himself
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My favorite banned mon is eaily Gen 9 Relicanth. The addition of scale shot and wave crash just made it unstoppable. The amount of Chi Yu I've seen deleted from existence via a Relicanth head smash is simply innumerable
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I still find it hilarious how for the first year of gen 8 VGC, Butterfree was a staple because it could redirect and had a 91% accurate Sleep move
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Jimothy not mention gen 3 OU in a video challenge: impossible
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I've tried for years to make haunter and base rotom work, and base rotom works in gen 5 OU of all places. It's like a cruel joke.
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I love Pachirisu so much I used it on several of my Pearl playthroughs, so I was quite pleased when I heard about its tournament win that it seemed rocked the whole community.
