Roasting my Viewers' Competitive Pokemon Hot Takes

0:00 Intro
0:14 Hot Takes
26:22 Outro

Credits to Nintendo for the music and original designs of the Pokemon present in the video.

[pinkacross]

Thank you to all the brave viewers who submitted their takes! If you didn't get your take reviewed in this video, there will be another one! :]

[demi-femme]

"Sleep isn't OP, you can just run dry talk" has the same energy as "Double Team isn't OP, you can just run Aerial Ace."

[rambo]

"You underestimate the stall discord" is probably the most villanous and threatening line you could ever drop.
As a stall player, I love it.

[sloowbroo]

the second take made me spit out my drink wtf

[mtube]

Low ladder is more frustrating, not harder. You play worse when the shenanigans start getting to you. It pigeonholes you into a mentality where you are constantly trying to defend greedy plays, and then lose to normal plays.

[dimastha]

0:15 OU 1-2 restricted format
1:45 Banning Blissey, Clodsire and Dondozo
4:48 Palafin isn't broken in OU
6:02 Unban Annihilape
8:15 Kingambit should be in UU
9:53 Gen 8 has been the best in a while
11:02 Way too many metagames
12:24 Team builder shouldn't show tiers
14:32 Sleep isn't OP
17:08 Keldeo is good on Gen 9
18:04 If you don't participate in tournaments, you aren't making progress
20:34 Sleep Clause was a mistake
22:51 Zamasenta is fine in OU
24:30 Low Latter is harder than High Latter

[yusuf_ali]

finally, i now know my opinion on all of these hot takes

[Duckular]

10:03 nah you did not have to expose my prototype Venomoth team like that 😭

[hodstrat]

the "sleep is fine just run dry talk" argument was so funny I might consider this take coming from a troll lmao. Ppl gotta understand the concept of unhealthy and centralizing pokemons/move(sets) more, which are the common arguments that lead to a ban in the first place

[Phychologik]

keldeo needs some love. It's movepool actually looks like it's straight out of gen 1. At least give it ice beam so it's not forced to use icy wind like jeez. I wish they gave him something in gen 9 so he can try to keep up with the power creep.

[MishKoz]

14:32 this gives off the same energy as people who go "why does smogon ban evasion moves? Have they never heard of aerial ace???"

[gunnermartineau]

Clicking Scorching Sands not once, but TWICE into a balloon pokemon, and STILL managing to win is wild. 14:07

[StarfieldDisarray]

Was Revival Blessing Annihilape real? I always figured it was just a random novelty gimmick people would tire of after a week or two but the Ape got banned before that happened.

[tedbrouwer]

I personally could not disagree more with the "run dry talk and sleep is not broken" take. Now, maybe you could make an argument for sleep not beiing broken or good and I definetly do not think that every team would be completely unviable if they prepared for sleep with lum berry or an insomnia pokemon or anything alike, but the reason why I hate the argument is because this person claimed that sleep talk is a solution. HAS THIS PERSON EVER USED SLEEP TALK!? It almost never rolls the right move. I have used sleep talk on some rest sets and the amount of times that it just calls for rest is just as high as it is for picking the move you want. No hate to the person who had this opinion, I just wanted to share mine

[duvox]

That tournament take really stuck with me. Ladder is a really tough and inconsistent place to play. I play gen 8 ou so it’s a little easier for me to build, and the sample size is exponentially smaller, but those low ladder games are almost entirely matchup fishing, leading me to believe that is a common experience for that commenter. I play those teams and either win 6-0 or lose 6-0. It happens. As soon as you get to high ladder you really see that difference. I went from playing a semistall team with a wp hawlucha and getting swept to playing a top 100 player and winning. It’s just as inconsistent as tournaments unless you play gen 9, and gen 9 is chaos either way, so I do see where that person was coming from, or at least part of their take.

[Phoenix-xhcd]

Imagine Kingambit in UU 💀just imagine for 1 second and your head will explode

[patricksimmons]

I got a hot take for ya, we should ban booster energy (mainly I just wanna see what happens but I can make a bad faith argument that it's over centralizing or something)

[VictoriaWorldConquerer]

I can't believe I missed this chance to submit Latios being as good as Dragapult. I'll just have to pay more attention next time.

[jzplr]

24:31

I think there is a modicum of truth to this take, although like 80% of it is bogus. Low ladder players run nonsensical teams with nonsensical techs, and running a balanced/bulkier team which is comfortable playing the long game gives many turns for their nonsensical tech to hit. However, terribly built teams are also particularly vulnerable to getting annihilated by hyper offense wincons like Gouging Fire and Roaring Moon.

I spam bulky offense and balance myself because it is my favorite team style, but any time I am below the 1650s or so I spam hyper offense to farm Elo. It is better to just cut through the garbage as fast as possible than to run a slower team that gives breathing room for their Tera Ice Breloom to hit.

[masterrdf]

No disrespect but for the first take, all you really did was criticize the fact that it’d be a new format. You didn’t actually talk about what the mode could look like or why it wouldn’t be competitively healthy. I’m not saying I would agree or disagree but I just think it would’ve been more fair for you to actually talk about the take itself and not just acknowledge that it’d be another new format cause then that logic can be said about any new format proposal.