What Went Wrong with the Loyal Three?

I belive they are so bad just to explain how ogerpon killed all 3 of then even with type disadvantage in the story

The loyal 3 is what happens when game freak actually tries to balance a pokemon around its ability. The designers of chien-pao and chi-yu could learn something from them.

It feels like the loyal 3 basically got the regi/lake trio treatment

"the kid who thinks hes the smartest one" fits Munkidori so well

One thing that Okidogi has going for it over Annihilape is that they’re a big green funny dawg and I think that’s cool.

I have no idea why Fezandipiti can't learn Draining Kiss. It would be great on a Calm Mind set, would allow it to become a truly bulky stall mon alongside Roost and the ability to poison with Toxic Chain. Draining Kiss is even accessible via TM, and yet Fez still can't learn it. While we're at it, let's swap its base Attack and Special Attack.

The real reason is they are all missing 20 stats from the 570 mark of "legendary with good abilities". just imagine Fez with 140 spdef or something

why did they get rid of venom drench when they introduced these pokemon? its never really been a viable move but it could have had some fun uses with these guys

To me personally they dont look like the regular Legendary style. Most legendaries have either an imposing, serious or mysterious look to them. These look more akin to what you would see Team Rocket using etc, or maybe a bit like an evolution to something youd catch early to midgame. Im still very split on whether i like the designs yet

These guys literally broke my heart

i think that the actual meta is to harsh to the loyal three to get the spotlight but in the right conditions can be really good, maybe in future metagames

A dumb gimmick I like to mess around with on Okidogi is Toxic Chain and Poison Fang for 65% chance to poison on a damaging move.

What went wrong is that all of them get walled by Goldhengo of all pokemon.

Great video. You should do one on how to improve the loyal three next

I think that The Loyal Three can still be called that after the myth has been corrected. They're not loyal to Mossui, they're loyal to Dokutaro for granting their wishes and lending them it's power to make them more than what they were. That or they're loyal to it against their will. If you look carefully during the cutscene where they show the bottom half of Dokutaro, when it says the masks attracted more than just innocent curiosity, you'll notice that Dokutaro quickly appears first, apart from the other three. It probably heard stories about the infamous masks, then lent it's power to the loyal three, and tricked them into stealing the masks with the intentions of betraying them afterwards and leaving them for dead. Maybe the poison power tainted them and made them greedy, covetous, power-hungry (like Dokutaro) and easy to manipulate (like a puppet or a "zombie") and Dokutaro used them to do it's dirty work. Maybe the same will happen to Kieran.

I think the reason why these guys suck is because LORE! Basically there a group of misfits who get legendary status and just use it to bully others and make themselves look good. There not the loyal three there the goof troop a bunch of cartoony villains pretending to be legendaries. I love them definitely my favorite legendary trio

I was surprised- w an ability like Toxic Chain, youd think thered be more distribution of multi- hitting moves, such as Arm Thrust, between the 3. Fezandipiti is the only one that learns multi-strike moves w it's better option, Tail Slap, and that's not even a great option. Double Kick and Dual Wingbeat are your 2nd options. Toxic Chain would've worked better w multi-hitting moves.

I said this before, they need signature moves, things that compliment the toxic chains ability. All of them have the same first effect: chances of toxic chains activating becomes 50%. After that it has an effect for when the target is already toxic. For monkidori its a psychic type move that reduces the targets special defense by 2 stages then deals damage. For okidogi its a fighting type move that hits for damage then if the target is already toxic it increases the users physical attack and both his defenses by 1 stage each. For fezindipiti, it deals damage then if the opponent is female has a chance to infatuate and the infatuation is more likely to stop attacks, if the target is male, it has a high chance (50%) to raise fezendipities stats all by one stage each.

I will still fully support Okidogi. HE'S GOT THE DAWG IN HIM

Some pokemon are built to be strong, others are built to please the fans. And i cant speak for everyone but i like them.