The History & Evolution of Bulky Grass-Types

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[BKCplaysPokemon]

Praise the eternal Rocky Helmet Tangrowth, destroyer of broken Mega Metagross, Worry Seeder of SD Gliscor...cinema

[boop]

i miss ferrothorn so much every time i play gen 9 and that little shit ogerpon wellspring comes out i close my eyes and think of my beautiful thorny friend

[MenwithHill]

So proud of Bulky Grasses overcoming the immense priviledge of water types to establish themselves in their own right

[TheHero]

The thing about Shaymin Sky in DPP OU was "Yes, this is frail. It's weak to a lot of common types and is weak to Stealth Rock.

But the thing about Shaymin is that it can be deceptively hard to kill. It wasn't "bulky" but it had a lot of longevity. You know how sometimes Pokemon spam Protect and Substitute to rack up HP? Well, imagine that but it's on a Pokemon where the Protect gets replaced by Air Slash, doing damage, while effectively protecting yourself. With Serene Grace, 60% of the time you were failing to do anything to Shaymin as it spammed Substitute and Leech Seed to high heaven.

Oh, what about using grass types to block leech seed. Well, no grass type in DPP can be both immune to Leech Seed and resist Air Slash. None. There was no Pokemon that could do this. Even in Generation V this doesn't change. What you wanna use Ferrothorn? Good luck stalling out Shaymin Sky with Ferrothorn. See how well that goes. The only Pokemon that actually qualifies as immune to Leech Seed and resisting the combination of Air Slash and Seed Flare, is Gholdengo in Generation 9! And even in this ridiculous scenario, Shaymin Sky has Earth Power anyway.

So yeah, may not be bulky, it is certainly unkillable at times.

[ReegalP]

I enjoy competitive pokemon as a hobby that if I had a different childhood (not been introduced to League of Legends by my cousin at age 8) I would engage with intimately but instead I consume what I do second hand through content like yours. My favourite archetype of pokemon has always been bulky grass and I'm travelling 7 hours by transit home to see family today. So, almost unironically "YIPPEE"d when I opened my youtube homepage to this.

[mogaku]

I can't believe bkc had to be rebooted on camera

[bananaspice]

Kartana having more physical bulk than some rock types is funny to me

[Crabcake]

Biblically accurate BKC there at the end... was he speaking the language of the gods?

[lionheartz]

I don't really play mons Im more of just. A lurker who enjoys the sometimes incoherent tangents of a madman movie director but the most I've played was USUM ou in 2019 and man THERE AINT NO WALL like AV tangrowth. If no one else got me, growth got me.

[Gear]

Cool but we want to know more about DPP tiering drama though

[typhlosion]

Hearing BKC mention AV on Serperior brings me back. Everyone always told me immediately after ORAS came out that AV Serp was awful, but I consistently put in work with it. Leaf Storm, Giga Drain for recovery and a second stab, HP Fire for steels, and Dragon Pulse for the Latis. Only big issue is Heatran

[toastprobably]

Kartana is a bulky Grass, right? It has almost as much physical bulk as Ferrothorn.
Special bulk isn't real.

[acc]

Celebi is one of my fav mons. Did they really had to make uturn a bug type move?😢

[hibbs]

Bulky grass is my favorite ^.^ watching this with my cradily plush

[qweschuning]

Rule of thumb: never skip the bathroom breaks 😤👌

[duelme]

On a serious note, how do you not go to the restroom every/every other hour at work if you're this hydrated?

[kokirikid]

Jim inspired you. I love this era of content

[telacrap]

There will be no Ferrothorn to save you this time

[midend]

History of bulky grass types (sans meganium)

[leoambard]

Make a video of the history of substitute if you haven’t already