How Stealth Rock Changed Pokemon Forever.

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Pokemon Competitive Singles was changed forever after the release of the move "Stealth Rock" in the Generation 4 games. No single move has had as significant of an impact on the way the entire game is played than Stealth Rock did. Let's explore why that was.

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[sonder]

Gen 3: You need a rock resist
Gen 4-5: You need all rock resists
Gen 6-7: You need an industrial fan to blow away all these pebbles
Gen 8-9: You need timbs

[benjulesrun]

rapid spinners are really out here like "I can't clear these hazards, there's a ghost"

[dorcgod]

These sneaky pebbles really rocked the foundation of competitive singles, folks. This is insane.

[MenwithHill]

Stealth rock is a terrible name because you see them go up and they have an extremely noticeable impact. I prefer my name for the move : Baneful Boulders

[helloyoutube]

I like how angry Jimothy sounds when he mentions the damage Pokémon take from Stealth Rock. He really has a lot of passion against this move

[Mijzelffan]

I have an inkling the horse council has financial connections to Old Money, this should be investigated.

[CantusTropus]

The funniest thing is that Stealth Rock is just the TM for the first gym, like they clearly had no intention of making such a powerful move.

[TheSheepling]

"This feels like icing on a cake that already had two layers of icing on it to begin with. The cake is good enough but this life ruining extra layer of icing has shattered many Pokémon that were once usable." I love you Jim.

[BiffTheBanana]

I really hope Meganium and Horsea are able to reunite. It would be saddening if Horsea did not remember their childhood friend.

[SchandDreo]

Oh, you’re a fire/flying type? You’re half dead because you stepped on rocks.

[ddp]

jimothy before bed is always a lovely end to the day. thank you jim

[floofzykitty]

The main problem with Stealth Rock's design is that it scales too harshly (exponentially!!!) for Rock weak pokemon. Every tier up from the base 12% should only increase by 6%, not double the previous tiers damage.

[IWestrada]

Removing the x4 stealth rock weakness would be a great start to dialing it back. Even x2 damage is egregious.

[Scurrying_Snail]

I think stealth rock’s availability should be reduced much like knock off and scald recently

[ZomeHamrmonia]

I can't belive meganium left the council just to reunite with his friend😢

[xfdzfd]

Roark upon seeing how much the TM he gave out changed Pokémon forever: WHAT HAVE I DONE?!

[aldrichunfaithful]

i'll always believe that stealth rock was the greatest mistake in pokemon history. gen 3 hazards were perfect already and if they wanted t-spikes or webs fine, but gen 4 rocks did way too much damage to everything and made half the type chart unviable, then as a result of that gen 5 made a bunch of op magic guard users, gen 6 had to add a super free hazard removal option, then gen 8 added boots which completely ruined everything and focused the entire tier on defog corv, knock off and boots, then gen 9 gave us gholdengo which (regardless of how op or bad ghold is) fundamentally ruined the main counterplay and forced us into boots-centric teambuilding. at this point hazards are so overwhelming that counterplay is mandatory, and the only consistent form is boots which then ruins the entire point of hazards by allowing everything to ignore them, but not even that is consistent thanks to knock being so overpowered. so if you run balance without hazard stack + knock off you'll get outstalled and if you don't run mono boots you'll get worn down, and as a result the entire tier consists of either broken hyper offense, broken hazard stacking, broken boots stall or some cursed combination of all 3

[SussyBaka-nxge]

stealth rocks should just have been spikes that stack in the air instead of the ground as opposed to dealing rock-type damage

[jykatyk]

That fucking Butterfree wearing shoes sent me a laughed out loud in the middle of the break room

[MaahirMomtaz]

Then 4 generations later we got the answer to hazards