How GOOD was Regirock ACTUALLY? - History of Regirock in Competitive Pokemon (Gens 3-7)

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

FULL RESEARCH SOURCES HERE

0:00 - Intro
0:48 - ADV/Gen 3
3:39 - DPP/Gen 4
6:59 - BW/Gen 5
8:43 - XY/Gen 6
9:57 - SM/Gen 7
10:46 - VGC Gen 7
11:35 - Outro

The Official False Swipe Gaming Twitter:

Directed by Kellen

Written By
Kevin aka BKC

Edited By
Anthony Bruno aka Slime

VFX Intro By
Ryan Gonzales

Sound Designed by
Ryan Gonzales

Game Capture Artist:
Lemon

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.

Songs Used (List of ALL Songs used for this series. Some may or may not make it into the video):

My Twitter:

Resources and Historical References

Smogon University:

Maikiri

Aaron Cybertron Zheng:

Pokeaim

Pokemon Battle Historia:

Nintendo Cup 2000 Team Construction:

Nintendo Cup 2000 Tier List:

Pokemon Japanese Battle Wiki:

Sprites From:

[DoodleWill]

Giratina: Ah yes, the time we all have been waiting fo-
Regirock : *OMPH OMPH OMPH OMPH OMPH OMPH*

[MegaFriendlyCreeper]

Anyone remember Regirock's dope ass robot cry in the Lucario movie?

[scorpioncox]

Competitive Regirock in a nutshell:

Terry Crews: *Explosion!*

[sskeyzee]

*Remember, whether you love him or hate him you can always hear him say:*

U N U N U N U N

[rmmqdyn]

Who cares how competitive he was

All that matters is

Ünh ünh ünh

[ThePageofRage]

Kellan, I have something important to tell you about Regirock!

OMP OMP OMP OMP OMP OMP OMP OMP

[patternwhisperer]

Ah I remember how around the time I encountered the puzzles we just happened to have some sort of blind people awareness day at elementary school where they taught us brail for a bit and gave us one of those sheets with the alphabet on it. I don't I've ever been more excited in my life when I noticed that it was the key to the puzzle I was trying to solve

[Lauren_C]

I really wish Game Freak includes a lot more obscure puzzles and areas to hide legendaries. Just exploring and figuring out the mysteries was a lot of fun.

[JonSolomonJNSLMN]

"From ersatz to bonafide" might be the best "I might have pulled these words and expressions from a thesaurus when writing the script" moments yet.

Love the videos every week, they kick off my Sundays right.

[Mudkip]

Actually I didn't know what braille was when I was little, however when I was in the scouts we had a handbook that contained all sorts of languages and codes. I recognized the writing as seen in the game once and I was so surprised when I managed to decipher it.

[tyronrezx]

It's time for the boi slow start Regigigas

[gideonion]

Luvdisc? It was the water pokemon that has shaped the meta revolved around had AMAZING stats with every stat over 100 and was always in ubers

[blitzmane]

When Regirock said ÜN ÜN ÜN, I felt that

[PunnyFuzz]

I always used Regirock in sandstorm with an assault vest with max special defense investment. This with its naturally high defense plus Drain Punch made it a fun wall to use...

Until Z-Moves showed up...

[aminadabbrulle]

Complete FSG evaluation so far:
1. Charizard - pretty decent
2. Venusaur - consistently good
3. Unown - I don't know, who cares
4. Blastoise - very, very mediocre
5. Dragonite - incredible
6. Starmie - great
7. Snorlax - edge early on, but later dropped off
8. Gengar - phenomenal
9. Alakazam - great start, but later pushed down
10. Gyarados - pretty good
11. Chansey/Blissey - one of the best Pokemon
12. Machamp - decent
13. Arcanine - wasn't a bad Pokemon, wasn't a top threat
14. Lapras - not that good
15. Articuno - even more not that good
16. Zapdos - pretty damn good
17. Moltres - better than I expected
18. Tauros - it were rough two decades for him
19. Aerodactyl - decent
20. Nidoking - pretty good
21. Scizor - great
22. Tyranitar - was and is amazing
23. Rhydon/Rhyperior - decent, at least for a bit
24. Shuckle - bad, until maybe gen six
25. Heracross - honestly, it was pretty good
26. Smeargle – pretty good
27. Skarmory - amazing, in singles
28. Golbat/Crobat - OK
29. Slowbro - pretty good
30. Wigglytuff - outclassed
31. Porygon/Porygon2 - Porygon sucked, but Porygon2 was pretty good
32. Porygon-Z - OK
33. Seadra/Kingdra - hard to say, OK, I guess? Seadra just kinda sucked, really
34. Onix/Steelix - Onix was outclassed, Steelix started out well, but never really got anything
35. Azumarill - certainly wasn't a Pokegod, but once it got its combination, it was terryfying
36. Magneton/Magnezone - pretty good, especially after evolving
37. Sneasel/Weavile - Sneasel was pretty bad, but Weavile was pretty good
38. Poliwrath - not great
39. Espeon - hard to say, potentially one of the strongest non-uber Pokemon
40. Umbreon - pretty decent
41. Ampharos - wasn't that good
42. Cloyster - pretty damn good
43. Houndoom - a little underwhelming
44. Togetic/Togekiss - Togetic f**king sucked, but Togekiss was pretty damn good
45. Pikachu - pretty bad
46. Raichu - pretty bad
47. Breloom - pretty amazing, to be honest
48. Garchomp - in a word, amazing
49. Gardevoir - up and down
50. Gligar/Gliscor - Gligar wasn't great, but Gliscor was awesome
51. Feraligatr - it depends, kinda well, not great, but certainly not atrocious
52. Typhlosion - not great
53. Quagsire - man, I don't f**king know
54. Meganium - sucks
55. Dunsparce - sucked
56. Donphan - pretty dang average
57. Jolteon - for most of its life, really good
58. Vaporeon - pretty good
59. Flareon - sucked and still sucks
60. Metagross - incredible
61. Salamence - amazing
62. Swampert - good
63. Blaziken - probably best starter of all time... for now
64. Wobbuffet - hard to say
65. Sceptile - pretty below average
66. Clefable - dramatically shifting its whole life, nowadays strong placement
67. Tentacruel - OK, for a while
68. Jumpluff - honestly not very good, but better than you might expect
69. Exeggutor - steepest decline of all covered Pokemon
70. Mewtwo - you're kidding, right?
71. Mew - really good
72. Lucario - really strong
73. Kangaskhan - OK
74. Flygon - never face of the tier, but always important and defining
75. Milotic - proud representative of its kind
76. Dugtrio - once it gain Arena Trap, it become the force
77. Suicune - as good as it is regal
78. Raikou - pretty good
79. Entei - not that good
80. Marowak - had a bone or two to pick
81. Ninetales - not very good at all
82. Gallade – pretty decent
83. Tangela/Tangrowth – among the most forgettable Pokemon, but once it evolved, it become the damn important pick
84. Electabuzz/Electivire – for the most part, quite bad
85. Magmar/Magmortar – not good, like, ever
86. Misdreavus/Mismagius - OK
87. Pidgeot – bland, until mega made it viable
88. Persian – sucked after first generation
89. Roselia/Roserade – pre-evo wasn't great, Roserade was
90. Weezing – always decent, at least in the lower tiers
91. Ledian – one of the worst Pokemon of all time
92. Muk – pretty alright
93. Delibird – one of the worst competitive Pokemon in history
94. Piloswine/Mamoswine – Piloswine was underrated, but since it evolved, it become the wrecking ball
95. Froslass – definition of a specialised Pokemon
96. Beedrill – until it got mega, one of the worst Pokemon, but after, one of the most important in UU
97. Celebi – great, great Pokemon
98. Aggron – pretty much on the below average side
99. Lugia – every bit as good and some as in other media
100. Infernape – overall, pretty good
101. Sandslash – went from being decent to despondent
102. Empoleon – pretty great
103. Ho-Oh – pretty good
104. Mawile – for its first three generations, seriously awful, but then become one of the biggest threats around
105. Torterra – wasn't fantastic
106. Golem – not all Pokemon can be amazing, and it is a prime example
107. Shedinja – honestly pretty terrible
108. Rayquaza – only superlatives describe how powerful it was
109. Ditto – may not be the best in the older games
110. Scyther – in the grand scheme of things, awful
111. Staraptor – one of the best non-OU Pokemon of all time
112. Lopunny – quite decent
113. Ludicolo – wherever best aplicable has made its trainers jubilant
114. Slowking – wasn’t a superstar, but was a solid overall Pokemon, and it deserves some pants
115. Nidoqueen – her reign has been fruitful
116. Pinsir – functioning quality, then launched into successful territory
117. Murkrow/Honchkrow – the Sopranos of Pokemon weren’t great, but they had their place
118. Claydol – victim of power creep
119. Groudon – amazing and then some
120. Kyogre – every bit as amazing as its legendary status would suggest and then some
121. Jynx – fantastic
122. Volcarona – one of the most powerful Pokemon around
123. Rapidash – not very good
124. Forretress – one of the most successful singles Pokemon of all time
125. Sableye – unique case, for the most part done well
126. Hydreigon – pretty phenomenal run
127. Dialga – very good
128. Palkia – went from utterly dominant to having its viability slashed
129. Jirachi – always ranged from good to great
130. Regirock – good, in the lower tiers

[stevenmattrell]

“One of the three legendary golems.”
(Golem appears)
“No. Not that Golem.”

[Red-MagicOrchestra]

I judge a pokemon's viability like this, if it's good in a tier in whatever gen, it's good in that gen. If it fails to be usable in every tier in this gen, it's bad in that gen. This means that despite being low tier, regirock actually has had a great competitive history at least to me.

[nintendokings]

Rest
Curse
Sleep Talk
Rock Slide
(Leftovers, Max SpDef & HP)


can be pretty devastating to an unprepared team

[DoodleWill]

Also Rock Polish + Weakness Policy Regirock is really fun.

[Bruh-Moment]

Imagine if Regirock had Sandstream because of the Rock Typing it's special defense would increase by 50% they could do the same thing for Regirock with Snow Warning. I guess for Registeel you could do Filter since it wouldn't make a weather effect but it would give make fire, ground, and fighting types only do 1.5x damage instead of 2x