Pokémon Abilities That Were BUFFED

Are we getting Abilities that were nerfed?

Syncronize needs to bypass immunity too. Most of the time whatever hit you with the status is immune to the status. Like getting Toxic-ed by a Muk.

I mean, sturdy has to be the winner for "biggest impact on comp post-buff" right? I can't think of an ability that affected the meta game the way sturdy did

Strange that Run Away still does nothing rather than the obvious effect of negating trapping effects.

worth mentioning, effect spore did get slightly nerfed in gen 6 with grass types getting the immunity to spore and powder moves and abilities

I wish Gamfreak buffs Iron Fist in the future This ability gets outclassed by touch claws

Easily one of the best Pokémon channels on YouTube. Funny, to the point, and educational! I'm glad you included the "minor buffs" because they were very interesting! These videos help me out tremendously as a VGC player. Looking forward to the next upload! 🥳

I stand by the belief that Illuminate should have had a different effect from Keen Eye. The idea I had was that it acts as a defense-lowering version of Intimidate, with the thematic explanation that when your Illuminate Pokemon pops out of their Pokeball, it's basically like a flashbang. The opposing Pokemon reels back, covering their eyes, thus leaving them open to a Physical attack. I dunno which abilities would be immune to this, but presumably stuff like Keen Eye, Sniper, Oblivious, Tinted Lens, etc. Probably moves that either have to do with a Pokemon's eyesight, or in the case of Oblivious, simply not even registering that they've been flashed.

The inner focus buff is surprisingly useful. Most Dragonite's can run it to be immune to turn 1 fake out and intimidates, making it a real option over multiscale

Speaking of Buff… my guess is that MattBud is SWOLE! 💪🏼

I wish I could use Mega Lopunny with the buffed Scrappy Ability.

Guys. Matt kinda reminds me of THE DON! He does Pokémon and Kirby content. You two sound SO ALIKE!

life orb fake out sucker punch delcatty is the best way to use normalize. it's what some fake out builds attempt to achieve which is fake out free damage+a strong priority attack preferably stab. you have 40 damage priority moves or you can use extreme speed/sucker punch on top of it. delcatty is the only pokemon that can get stab boost on both fake out and sucker punch but its stats are too weak to make use of it and its blocked by atleast rock and ghost types

Wooper should get every punch move.

6:01 lol the edits in your videos always crack me tf up, poor skitty 😂

10:55 naw that was wild 😂

for Illuminate instead of it getting the buff of preventing your accuracy from being lowered maybe it lowering your opponent's accuracy upon switch in similar to how intimidate works, it would basically be flash in ability form

Rough Skin being buffed in Gen 4 instead of Gen 5 is funny to me when the only Pokémon with Rough Skin at that point were Carvanah and Sharpedo since the Garchomp line didn't get their hidden abilities yet. I know Sharpedo gets some use out of Rough Skin, especially in Gen 3 with stopping 1HP mons in Gen 3 UU, but in hindsight it really isn't defensive enough to make great use of the buff alone lol.

Magma Armor Getting a Thick Fat style kinda effect with Water and Ice attacks. Afterall, Magma does way better against water than Fire does

I love how you use the sound effects lol always makes me chuckle. Why did you hit the Lil Wayne yeahhh on Weak Armor at 6:14 lmaoo