The Most HATED Mechanic In Pokemon (And Why Nobody Uses It)

Did you know, 90% of Bright Powder users quit before they hit it big?

Pokémon players don’t care about evasion until the time to evade taxes comes

Competitive 🤝 Casual Players Players Evasion Sucks

Minimize and sword dance standoff gets the sweat rolling real fast

I feel like the comedic potential of "Isn't it groundbreaking" while selecting Earthquake was missed by people and I cannot stand by this

"Stronger moves in Pokemon will have slightly lower accuracy to offset their inherent power..." Astral Barrage, Glacial Lance, Wicked Blow, Surging Strikes, Ivy Cudgel: laughing emojis in the group chat

Evasion sucks for players but is mainly only overpowered and toxic when npc use it. Like a battle tower npc doesn’t care about winning 100 times. They just need to win once. So they can run stupid troll teams and moves to fuck you over. Sure the evasion move is generally bad but if it can force a loss for the player, it’s done its job for the npc.

9:34 if i remember correctly body slam also ignores minimize

1:15 he says “I know, isn’t this groundbreaking?” As he clicks EARTHQUAKE GROUNDBREAKING

People rely on evasion when they switch into Focus Blast.

You also forgot one downside to evasion strategies: Everyone you battle against will absolutely hate you

Hehe getting devious with this one y’all better have swift

Zap Cannon would be soo annoying without accuracy

Regardless of your opinions on Evasion in Pokemon, we can all agree that this video never misses

I love that when you try to mess around with evasion in a playthrough, the computer will never miss but if the computer messes around with evasion you will miss everything.

Also Bloodmoon can beat Moody Muk since it ignores Evasion with Mind's Eye and certain moves can never miss especially actually good moves when certain conditions are met like Bleakwind storm in rain

As someone who tends to run gimmick strategies, other things that could go wrong -toxic, curse, or other move which like perish song puts you on a timer -haze, shuts down or at least resets set up -fake out preventing set up -trick room is a pain if you’re strategy revolves around setting things up before your opponent can damage you enough -knock off counters heal stalling and bright power -follow me counters moves like skill swap or guard split -if you dedicate too many moveslots to set up, you might end up in a situation where your remaining attacking moves don’t affect or are resisted by one of the opponents Pokemon (let’s say aside from set up moves, you’re muk has poison jab and brick break but you’re opponent has gholdengo so you just can’t hit it) -your opponent uses the turns you didn’t attack to set up their own unbeatable strategy There’s more but hopefully you see the point, there’s a lot of obscure moves and mechanics which hard counter others and it’s impossible to account for all of them so a lot of the time it’s best to just make a well rounded team which can deal with what you can or what’s relevant rather than trying to make a theoretically invincible strat given enough setup (that being said, it does feel amazing the one time said strat DOES work against someone who doesn’t see it coming)

keep yapping brother we love to see it

The moody alolan muk looking on in horror as my Tera normal life orb 252+ modest bloodmoon ursaluna use blood moon on it (it kills 100% of all germs)

There's a sniper trained on anyone who thinks about commenting something about 'just use always hit/hits minimized moves like aerial ace or stomp'