How GOOD was Audino ACTUALLY? - History of Audino in Competitive Pokemon

Audino is today’s Pokemon for our competitive history series! Join False Swipe Gaming in this overview of Audino in competitive Pokemon!

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0:00 - Intro
0:51 - BW/Gen 5
4:30 - XY/Gen 6
12:19 - SM/Gen 7
15:44 - SS/Gen 8
17:43 - Outro

Directed by Kellen

Written By
Kevin aka BKC

Edited By
Connor Nguyen aka CDK

VFX Intro By
Ryan Gonzales

Sound Designed by
Ryan Gonzales

Game Capture Artist:
DarkMusician

DISCLAIMERS ON FORMATS COVERED:
Notice I said POPULAR formats, meaning a format where there is a significant amount of people who compete in it for tournaments and so on and so forth.

For the record, I do not care what rules or formats people play their battles by nor am I saying these formats are the only formats that should be played. The way you play Pokemon is between you and your opponent. I just like examining popular tournament formats.

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[nicholaskling]

Audino: designed with multiple layers of inspirations of medicine and healing

Chansey: “Can I offer you an egg in this trying time?”

[docwashere]

6:25
Seeing Audino gently point and proceed to delete Abomasnow just looks hilarious.

[anonymousmonkey]

So Mega audino is basically when a support had enough of everyone's bullshit and decided to go in guns a blaze, and then went back to doing their job.

[sliced]

14:30, building a team AROUND the one shiny you just so happened to get is hilarious

[Smashfan]

This was my first random shiny, as a “Chansey clone” it does well enough in lower tiers. Regen is always good even if you don’t find it in playthroughs that way

[darklightning]

6:45 I love that Audino uses Fire Blast by pushing the flame.

[yuiotj]

I miss Mega Audino, it’s such a cute design. I do wish it were just a regular evolution.

[MrJohnReviews]

Finally, an Unovan Pokémon that has done it's PP training and mastered the experience of 4000 years of Unova Martial Arts, pretty realistic

[Zenithal]

Audino only got a Mega as an apology for all the times its brethren were used as sacrificial lambs for EXP.

[Discordual]

I think healer as a whole needs a buff. At the moment it’s a doubles specific ability which is quite poor in doubles. I think it should be guaranteed removal of a status condition from an ally at the end of the turn, like how hydration works (in rain).

In singles, its stats and typing are what let it down. Either a defensive stat boost, a significant attack boost, or the fairy typing would help it massively.

[sethhowell]

Ah yes, the Pokémon everyone used to grind on when doing a nuzlocke

[WeldonSirloin]

Audino's mega evolution is extremely adorable.

[DaneeBound]

TCG factoid: Mega Audino EX was a BEAST in the TCG.
Look up the VOD for the 2016 TCG World Championship Masters Division finals, if you wanna see Audino’s TCG adventures for yourself.

[krazydudeguy]

Imagine if Mega Audino had regenerator. It would be insane!

[SemiHypercube]

The existence of Mega Audino makes me really wonder what would happen if they weren't cowards and made Mega Blissey

[jayanths]

I just realized how brutal the Black and White games were to Audino. Even the NPCs advice the player to find and beat up Audino because it gives a lot of experience. Poor Audino just wanted to help but everyone kept picking on the thing.

[mouser]

Signature move idea for Audino :

Audio Therapy - Normal - Status move

The user emits relaxing sounds to heal all allies on the field by 25% of their max HP and raise their Attack and Special Attack by one stage.

[J.R.Unbound]

This is Hornet's favourite Pokemon considering how often she says it in her fight. Now if only they made a Pokemon called "Shaw".

[inanimategaming]

Still loved how someone hatched a shiny and decided "you know what? I'm building a team around it" and managed to find success.

[togakhan]

One very very niche thing to note is that Assault Vest Audino saw extremely limited play in OU to check Spectier, Kyurem before being banned in Gen 8 by very few players.