Top 3 Winners & Losers of Pokemon Home - Pokemon Scarlet & Violet

Whenever there's a new generation, there are buffs and there are nerfs...and DLC! Let's see who are the winners and losers of Home!

#pokemon #pokemonscarletandviolet #pokemonshowdown

PATREON!

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:51 - Loser 3.
3:32 - Winner 3.
5:54 - Loser 2.
7:52 - Winner 2.
9:51 - Loser 1.
12:01 - Winner 1.
13:54 - Outro

Directed by Kellen

Written By
Kevin aka BKC

Edited By
Connor Nguyen aka CDK

VFX Intro By
Ryan Gonzales

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Game Capture Artist:
DarkMusician

[SpyroThunder]

Shoutout to Regice for being the second best ice type Regi

[chuyrenteria]

That moment when Drago has its ability untouched while Eleki has its nerfed, yet they still felt the need to cripple Zamas ability just because its sibling was busting up ubers twice

[roberteospeedwagon]

You forgot something important with H. Samurott: Sharpness, which boosts the power of cutting moves including its Ceaseless Edge, Sacred Sword, and Razor Shell by 1.5x.

[sliced]

Not mentioning Hisuian Samurott’s Sharpness with it being a massive reason behind its strength (increasing cutting move power by 1.5x) as well was interesting

[sharon-hmpp]

Weavile: “Brother, help me”
Sneasler: *Proceeds to cause chaos and rip up the tier*

[JanusHoW]

As someone who began with Gen 1, the idea of a Poison/Fighting type being meta is almost mind-blowing. Yet here Sneaseler is.

[bluebaron]

"How many Pokémon should lose Defog in Scarlet and Violet?"
"Yes"

[deftfkaubgup]

Even though Heatran lost toxic, I still think the addition of it is more glue that holds the game together as it puts a lot of offensive mons like gambit, iron moth, and hatterene in check.

[ExpandDong]

Zamazenta got a huge win, oddly enough by dropping a tier.

[chino_]

mew Losing Knock Off, Toxic, Defog, Cosmic Power, Explosion, and Teleport is most disappointing since it takes away potentially valuable options for it to use. Knock Off and Defog in particular are especially disappointing for it to lose.
Its typing is extremely disadvantageous in a meta infested by threats like Kingambit, Samurott-H, Basculegion, and Hoopa-Unbound. This undermines its otherwise decent defenses and makes it deceptively easy to K0

[Blackacre]

I don’t think Zamazenta is a loser, it’s viable in a tier now. It escaped the uncanny valley!!

[bluebaron]

The saddest loss for me wasn't a big one, but Lando losing Explosion was just sad for me to see. I loved forcing the opponent to switch out, only for their Pelliper to be blown to smithereens.

[coldrogue]

It just shows how powerful coverage can be when a pokemon considered to be a pretty bad ou noobtrap the gen before, turns into the monster that was gen 9 regieleki just from having access to terastallizing

[ShangoJr]

Ursaluna's absurdity in OU puts a smile on my face

[fiz]

As a long time Oshawott fan, I’m so incredibly happy that Samurott is now viable in OU.

[CoralReaper]

I'd argue that Zamazenta is the second biggest winner in all of Scarlet and Violet. The nerfs to his ability and stats were more of a light slap on the wrist. He gained stone edge, he became able to terastallize, he dropped down from Ubers, so he effectively came down to OU where he's better there than he ever was in ubers. Finally, he got new moves, but most importantly...He got *B O D Y P R E S S*

[BFMandCProductions]

Also worth mentioning that H-Samurott gets Sharpness as an ability, boosting Ceaseless Edge, Aqua Cutter, Razor Shell, X-Scissor, and Sacred Sword. It's so good

[nharviala]

That's really sad that Zamazenta had to GAIN Body Press, rather than already having it in its home generation, or Shield Bash using defense to calculate damage... you know, either option that makes MUCH more sense?

[glacierwolf]

Ursaluna deserves special mention by making Trick Room, a Doubles staple of speed control, popular in Singles formats.

[edwardy]

Volcarona after 13 years of OU service finally ascended to Ubers for being too strong with tera