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

Arceus is today’s Pokemon for our competitive history series! Join False Swipe Gaming as we cover every RELEVANT form of Arceus!

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0:00 - Intro
1:26 - DPP/Gen 4 Ubers
9:01 - BW/Gen 5 Ubers
18:57 - XY/Gen 6 Ubers
26:04 - SM/Gen 7 Ubers
30:34 - Outro

Directed & Narrated by Kellen

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

[writinggoose]

My favorite competitive pokemon moment will always be that screenshot where a player named their Arceus-Flying "Arceus-Steel" and their opponent using Earthquake on it to no effect

Not even trickery is beyond Arceus' domain.

[MayHugger]

"Arceus-fighting was particularly excellent because it was one of the best answers to Extreme Killer Arceus"
Arceus: Ah, that explains it, only I could do this much damage to myself.

[Pine.appl.e]

Power creep is just Arceus wanting more of a challenge

[DarkPurpleDude]

Came out swinging as the strongest Pokemon in the game, created several Pokemon that were arguably stronger than it, just for shits and giggles, and still always had a form to keep said stronger Pokemon in check. Textbook mad lad.

[greninjamastergabe]

I remember Arceus in Pokémon Conquest. Its ability is Omnipotent.

Omnipotent: Recovers HP every turn and negates all disadvantages and immunities.

[jacksonxu]

I just realized that judgement is base 100 power so that when a plate is held it changes the judgement type and boosts it’s power by 20% to make it an effective base 120 attack to match its 120 base stats 🤯

[GoInGcRz]

Silvally: "Who are you?"

Arceus: "The reason you exist"

[superspider]

Considering that it's literally the god of the pokemon world, i'm not surprised that Arceus was so busted despite all the things done in the later gens

[alexdehatter]

Mega Rayquaza: “I’m the reason the Anything Goes tier exists!”

Arceus: “You merely adopted the Anything Goes tier.”

[thepaintingbanjo]

Arceus in 2008 - the next Mew, a mythical pokemon that Nintendo/GF pretended to never exist in their marketing and hardly gave it away in events.
Arceus in 2021 - anyway here, have six of them ready to battle online.

[IgnitedQuils]

Remember, the reason why Arceus’ event never occurred in DPP was due to the method of getting it being “difficult”.

[midnightmoonlit]

“I am the god of Pokémon! Kneel before my balanced stats!”

-Arceus Probably

[Resener]

Merry Christmas, False Swipe! Hope you all have a good one.

[jkliao]

29:13 Necrozma unleashes its full-force Z-Move! It doesn't affect Arceus... That's when you know you need to put yourself in the right position.

[graphitetailgrace]

Something to consider: If Power Creep goes on as it is now, there may be a day where Arceus dropped out of Ubers and can now be used in the same tier as Quagsire.

[missplayer]

I find that surreal that a Pokemon got banned to Anything Goes in an older generation even before the tier was created.
I thought the tier was just a gen 6-onward thing (and even then, only for Mega Rayquaza).

[thatman]

Remember when humans attempted to create their own Arceus with Silvally? Probably not their best creation.

[PapaTaurean]

I knew Arceus had some great stats, but given his reliance on his plates, I figured he would have been crippled but I guess not.
Fun fact, if Arceus was every type, like in the lore, he'd still be weak to Rock-type moves.

[MrSolomonGaming]

Gen 5's coverage is spot-on. Gen 5 was an extremely defense-oriented, war of attrition Meta-game throughout the tiers. Passive damage from spikes/rocks, Poison, Leech Seeds, Burns and Sandstorms. But yeah, when you have THOSE base stats and a move-pool only rivaled by Mew and Smeargle, sprinkling in the ability to become essentially any needed Mono-type. Arceus pushed passed his new difficulty and showed just how versatile throwing literal God in the mix was.

[alcatrazia]

Pokemon Legends: Arceus: Hmm... seems like God's not strong enough yet. Let's give it a plate that CHANGES TYPES DEPENDING ON WHAT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE AGAINST THE OPPONENT.