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

Bisharp is today’s Pokemon for our competitive history series! Join False Swipe Gaming in this brief overview of Bisharp in competitive Pokemon!

Thank you to everyone who was waiting for this video! I greatly appreciate your patience!

PATREON!

FULL RESEARCH SOURCES HERE (VGC Placements not in the video also listed here! Bisharp has A LOT of placements):

0:00 - Intro
0:35 - BW/Gen 5
2:38 - Gen 5 VGC

7:40 - XY/Gen 6
14:07 Gen 6 VGC

23:01 - SM/Gen 7
24:54 - VGC Gen 7
28:28 - SS/Gen 8
31:04 - Gen 8 VGC
33:37 - Outro

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Directed by Kellen

Written By
Kevin aka BKC

Edited By
Connor Nguyen aka CDK

VFX Intro By
Ryan Gonzales

Sound Designed by
Ryan Gonzales

Game Capture Artist:
DarkMusician

DISCLAIMERS ON FORMATS COVERED:
Notice I said POPULAR formats, meaning a format where there is a significant amount of people who compete in it for tournaments and so on and so forth.

For the record, I do not care what rules or formats people play their battles by nor am I saying these formats are the only formats that should be played. The way you play Pokemon is between you and your opponent. I just like examining popular tournament formats.

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

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Resources and Historical References

Smogon University:

Maikiri

Aaron Cybertron Zheng:

Pokeaim

Pokemon Battle Historia:

Nintendo Cup 2000 Team Construction:

Nintendo Cup 2000 Tier List:

Pokemon Japanese Battle Wiki:

Sprites From:

[CaptainJLinebeck]

Bisharp got a buff with a new evolution. Unfortunately said evolution has the terrible weakness of only being able to move one square at a time

[novameowww]

You forgot to address Bisharp's most prominent weakness, only being able to move diagonally

[chrisf.]

I love how almost every mon fears Lando-T but then FSG is like: "Lando-T is Bisharp's favorite victim"

[chaosbreaker]

Intimidaters: haha lower Attack stats! You can't hurt me!
Defiant: *UNFORTUNATELY*

[vencedr]

Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture
(Defog) (Swords Dance)
Bisharp: They're the same picture

[GIR]

Dark/Steel is such a hardcore typing. Fitting for the edgelord mascot of hyper offense.

[snapclub]

Wow, I never realized how many Bisharp placements there were in VGC until now.

[danielrabinovitz]

Update for future viewers:
After all the gen 8 DLC dropped Slowking, Slowbro, and Slowking Galar all became OU and their regenerator-teleport shenanigans ruled the tier for a while. Eventually Bisharp became OU by usage as a counter and pushed Slowking into UU. Bisharp is currently comfortable at about 8% usage in OU doing its normal Bisharp things. It hard counters the two most used mons in the tier (Lando-T and Dragapult) and can sweep teams easily with a little bit of U-turn and hazard support.

[jwanie]

About time we saw a good Pokémon. The fact that Bisharp’s video is over 30 minutes long and Fearow’s is under 10 really shows the difference in viability

[vtrus]

Status move that lowers stats: Exists

Bisharp: What kind of Swords dance is this?

[smackjack]

You know, for a Pokémon with a not so high stat total, Bisharp is a complete and utter beast!

[jayanths]

*Pokémon with stat lowering abilities/moves exist*

Bisharp: "So, you have chosen death"

[Gamesmarts]

I just realized.

Bisharp is Dark/Steel

*because it’s figuratively and literally edgy.*

[vvaportarts]

Bisharp now has access to eviolite I REPEAT BISHARP NOW HAS ACCESS TO EVIOLITE

[easilyeasy]

Remember when a 13 minute video was considered "long" for this channel, how far fsg has come

[GeneralSecura]

Welp, better get ready for Eviolite Bisharp.

[tedscheett]

Finally, a FSG episode that doesn't start with the word, "Unfortunately". Good job, Bisharp.

[alphascorpion]

GF: Steel type is nerfed
Bisharp: Oh, Good

[yuumiyuki]

What if Pawniard, being a pawn, had branched evolutions so it can become other chess pieces just like how pawns can turn into other officials when they reach the end of the board.

[AwakeningShadows]

Lando-T: Has Intimidate
Bisharp: Thanks for the boost bro!