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* BlessedWithSuck: It tends to be treated this way when a Pokémon is powerful enough to become so overwhelming in it's original tier that it has to be banned from it, only for it to prove incapable of competing in any tier above it, resulting in it not being used at all. Though in a few cases where this happened to Pokémon that were otherwise complete non-entities in competitive battling, it's seen as a bright side that the Pokémon at least managed to accomplish ''something'' noteworthy this way.
** Whenever Game Freak ''tries'' to create a DifficultButAwesome Pokémon, they tend to go overboard on the "difficult" part, and end up rendering the final result useless, as shown in the Slaking and Regigigas episodes, both of which frame their subject Pokémon as {{Joke Character}}s.
* FromBadToWorse: A frequent theme in videos covering Pokémon that are less privy to PopularityPower is that when they start dropping in usability, they tend to drop fast and not recover, as Game Freak will rarely bother to make any effort to improve such Pokémon, causing them to fall behind new and more powerful Pokémon are created, and as luckier mons get stat boosts, new abilities, and new moves to help them keep up. These Pokémon will often go from falling to low tiers, becoming less and less useful even in these tiers, before finally becoming "untiered", the point where players no longer bother trying to find a viable use for them in competitive play.
* JokeCharacter: Some obvious examples have been the subject of episodes before, which has been showcased in a number of different ways:
** Some Pokémon like Delibird and Luvdisc have had their episodes be holiday-themed, discussing the Pokémon in relation to that holiday rather than making entire videos that can simply be summed up as "It's useless and always has been".
** Ledian got a full-on joke episode detailing a fictional reign of terror as an unstoppable beast on the battlefield whose overwhelming power would only eventually be put to a stop by Dunsparce, before it's pointed out that Ledian's actual battle performance is as far from that as it's possible to be.
** As more such Pokémon would get their own episodes, the more simple yet effective method of changing the usual series tagline to "How BAD was [name of Pokémon] actually?" has come to be used.
** Some Pokémon like Delibird and Luvdisc have had their episodes be holiday-themed, discussing the Pokémon in relation to that holiday rather than making entire videos that can simply be summed up as "It's useless and always has been".
** Ledian got a full-on joke episode detailing a fictional reign of terror as an unstoppable beast on the battlefield whose overwhelming power would only eventually be put to a stop by Dunsparce, before it's pointed out that Ledian's actual battle performance is as far from that as it's possible to be.
** As more such Pokémon would get their own episodes, the more simple yet effective method of changing the usual series tagline to "How BAD was [name of Pokémon] actually?" has come to be used.
** Durant is basically a worse Scizor, meaning that, while it's in no way bad, it has no way of getting much of any usage in any environment that has Scizor in it.
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* ShownTheirWork: All the videos are clearly researched, and the sources for said research can always be found in the description.
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* ShownTheirWork: All the videos are clearly researched, and the sources for said research can always be found in the description. For sections involving official tournaments, they've at times reached out directly to the players to gain additional information on how they [[MinMaxing minmaxed]] the Pokémon, why they did so in that way, and the exact role that Pokémon was intended to play in battle.
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* TheRemake: False Swipe Gaming has done six remakes of Pokémon videos including Dragonite, Scizor, Skarmory, Tauros, Chansey and it's evolution Blissey, and Charizard. These were done due to the channel's increased production value compared to their earlier videos. For example, in the case of Chansey/Blissey, their original video was barely 10 minutes long compared to their remake clocking in at a ''whopping 67 minutes.''
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* TheRemake: False Swipe Gaming has done six remakes of Pokémon videos including Dragonite, Scizor, Skarmory, Tauros, Chansey and it's evolution Blissey, and Charizard. These were done due to the channel's increased production value compared to their earlier videos. For example, in the case of Chansey/Blissey, their original video was barely 10 minutes long compared to their remake clocking in at a ''whopping 67 minutes.'''' In Charizard's case it's even more extreme, going from a 6-minute video to almost as long as the Chansey/Blissey video.
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* WorldsStrongestMan: Snorlax is the absolute best Pokémon in Gen 2 OU, and in proportional terms, it's the most dominant OU Pokémon in a generation ever. Every single video covering Gen 2 will ''always'' mention this, with some outright referring to the Pokémon as "Tier King Snorlax."
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* WorldsStrongestMan: Snorlax is the absolute best Pokémon in Gen 2 OU, and in proportional terms, it's the most dominant OU Pokémon in a generation ever. Every single video covering Gen 2 will ''always'' mention this, with some outright referring to the Pokémon as "Tier King Snorlax."" Multiple other tiers and generations also occasionally use the "Tier King" moniker. For instance, Gen 4 NU will say "Tier King Charizard", for instance.
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** Also, whenever a Pokémon gets shafted in the competitive scene, he'll usually open a segment with "Unfortunately". Later episodes roll with this, and it later turns into a RunningGag for Kellen to try to avoid using the word "Unfortunately".
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* HalloweenEpisode: False Swipe Gaming has done two of these where they analyze the viability of spooky looking Ghost-type Pokémon on the actual date. Specifically, they analyzed Misdreavus and it's evolution Mismagius in 2018 and Haunter in 2020.
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* HalloweenEpisode: False Swipe Gaming has done two three of these where they analyze the viability of spooky looking Ghost-type Pokémon on the actual date. Specifically, they analyzed Misdreavus and it's evolution Mismagius in 2018 and 2018, Haunter in 2020.2020, and Gastly in 2021.
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** The Deoxys video mentions that its Normal form was always overshadowed by its Attack form, so the Normal form saw extremely little usage.
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* WorldsStrongestMan: Snorlax is the absolute best Pokémon in Gen 2 OU, and in proportional terms it's, the most dominant OU Pokémon in a generation ever. Every single video covering Gen 2 will ''always'' mention this, with some outright referring to the Pokémon as "Tier King Snorlax."
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* WorldsStrongestMan: Snorlax is the absolute best Pokémon in Gen 2 OU, and in proportional terms it's, terms, it's the most dominant OU Pokémon in a generation ever. Every single video covering Gen 2 will ''always'' mention this, with some outright referring to the Pokémon as "Tier King Snorlax."
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Reshiram boasts the unresisted STAB combo of Dragon/Fire,[[note]]until the Fairy-type was introduced in Gen 6[[/note]] and can 2-hit KO just about anything in Gen 5. However, it's inability to switch in safely, vulnerability to entry hazards, and low speed rendered impractical to use. And when Kyurem-White was released and did everything Reshiram did but better, Reshiram was rendered unviable.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Reshiram boasts the unresisted STAB combo of Dragon/Fire,[[note]]until the Fairy-type was introduced in Gen 6[[/note]] and can 2-hit KO just about anything in Gen 5. However, it's its inability to switch in safely, vulnerability to entry hazards, and low speed rendered impractical to use. And when Kyurem-White was released and did everything Reshiram did but better, Reshiram was rendered unviable.
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* WorldsStrongestMan: Snorlax is the absolute best Pokémon in Gen 2 OU and in proportional terms it's, the most dominant OU Pokémon in a generation ever. Every single video covering Gen 2 will ''always'' mention this, with some outright referring to the Pokémon as "Tier King Snorlax."
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* WorldsStrongestMan: Snorlax is the absolute best Pokémon in Gen 2 OU OU, and in proportional terms it's, the most dominant OU Pokémon in a generation ever. Every single video covering Gen 2 will ''always'' mention this, with some outright referring to the Pokémon as "Tier King Snorlax."
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* WorldsStrongestMan: Snorlax is the absolute best Pokémon in Gen 2 OU and in proportional terms it's the most dominant OU Pokémon in a generation ever, and every single video covering Gen 2 will ''always'' mention this.
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* WorldsStrongestMan: Snorlax is the absolute best Pokémon in Gen 2 OU and in proportional terms it's it's, the most dominant OU Pokémon in a generation ever, and every ever. Every single video covering Gen 2 will ''always'' mention this.this, with some outright referring to the Pokémon as "Tier King Snorlax."
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* WorldsStrongestMan: Snorlax is the absolute best Pokémon Gen 2, and every single video covering Gen 2 will ''always'' mention this.
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* WorldsStrongestMan: Snorlax is the absolute best Pokémon in Gen 2, 2 OU and in proportional terms it's the most dominant OU Pokémon in a generation ever, and every single video covering Gen 2 will ''always'' mention this.
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* UselessUsefulSpell: Heavily [[DownplayedTrope downplayed with sleep-inducing status moves. They were nerfed in Gen 2 due to the prominence of Rest Talk, enabling Pokémon to counter the sleep status easily, as well as changes to the sleep mechanics no longer dedicating an entire turn to waking up, but spreading sleep is still incredibly useful due to the random (and thus unreliable) nature of Rest Talk.
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* UselessUsefulSpell: Heavily [[DownplayedTrope downplayed downplayed]] with sleep-inducing status moves. They were nerfed in Gen 2 due to the prominence of Rest Talk, enabling Pokémon to counter the sleep status easily, as well as changes to the sleep mechanics no longer dedicating an entire turn to waking up, but spreading sleep is still incredibly useful due to the random (and thus unreliable) nature of Rest Talk.
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* UselessUsefulSpell: Sleep-inducing status moves are useless in Gen 2 due to the prominence of Rest Talk, enabling Pokémon to counter the sleep status easily.
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* UselessUsefulSpell: Sleep-inducing Heavily [[DownplayedTrope downplayed with sleep-inducing status moves are useless moves. They were nerfed in Gen 2 due to the prominence of Rest Talk, enabling Pokémon to counter the sleep status easily.easily, as well as changes to the sleep mechanics no longer dedicating an entire turn to waking up, but spreading sleep is still incredibly useful due to the random (and thus unreliable) nature of Rest Talk.
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** The Charizard video--the very first one produced--was the only video to outright skip ''Pokémon'' generations.
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Welcome to the remake club, Charizard.
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* TheRemake: False Swipe Gaming has done five remakes of Pokémon videos including Dragonite, Scizor, Skarmory, Tauros, and Chansey and it's evolution Blissey. These were done due to the channel's increased production value compared to their earlier videos. For example, in the case of Chansey/Blissey, their original video was barely 10 minutes long compared to their remake clocking in at a ''whopping 67 minutes.''
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* TheRemake: False Swipe Gaming has done five six remakes of Pokémon videos including Dragonite, Scizor, Skarmory, Tauros, and Chansey and it's evolution Blissey.Blissey, and Charizard. These were done due to the channel's increased production value compared to their earlier videos. For example, in the case of Chansey/Blissey, their original video was barely 10 minutes long compared to their remake clocking in at a ''whopping 67 minutes.''
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* DifficultButAwesome: The video on Linoone mentions that performing a Belly Drum sweep with Linoone was usually extremely difficult to pull off, but worth the effort if successfully pulled off.
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* DifficultButAwesome: The video on Linoone mentions that performing a Belly Drum sweep with Linoone was usually extremely difficult to pull off, but worth the effort if successfully pulled off.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: In the video covering Mr. Mime and Mr. Rime, Kellen says that Mr. Mime was banned from OU in Gen 3 [[note]]Due to only having the ability Soundproof, which blocks the move Roar, meaning it was able to get off a successful Baton Pass chain consistently. Later gens gave it Filter as an alternate ability, meaning it was allowed to be used in OU, provided it didn't have Baton Pass.[[/note]] and says that it's not some delayed April Fools' prank. He even says you can look it up yourself if you don't believe him.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: In the video covering Mr. Mime and Mr. Rime, Kellen says that Mr. Mime was banned from OU in Gen 3 [[note]]Due 3[[note]]Due to only having the ability Soundproof, which blocks the move Roar, meaning it was able to get off a successful Baton Pass chain consistently. Later gens gave it Filter as an alternate ability, meaning it was allowed to be used in OU, provided it didn't have Baton Pass.[[/note]] and says that it's not some delayed April Fools' prank. He even says you can look it up yourself if you don't believe him.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: In the video covering Mr. Mime and Mr. Rime, Kellen says that Mr. Mime was banned to Ubers in Gen 3, and says that it's not some delayed April Fools' prank. He even says you can look it up yourself if you don't believe him.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: In the video covering Mr. Mime and Mr. Rime, Kellen says that Mr. Mime was banned to Ubers from OU in Gen 3, 3 [[note]]Due to only having the ability Soundproof, which blocks the move Roar, meaning it was able to get off a successful Baton Pass chain consistently. Later gens gave it Filter as an alternate ability, meaning it was allowed to be used in OU, provided it didn't have Baton Pass.[[/note]] and says that it's not some delayed April Fools' prank. He even says you can look it up yourself if you don't believe him.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: In the video covering Mr. Mime and Mr. Rime, Kellen says that Mr. Mime was banned to Ubers in Gen 3, and says that it's not some delayed April Fools' prank. He even says you can look it up yourself if you don't believe him.
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also, i like calling him kellen.
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* ValentinesDayEpisode: Similarly to Delibird, we learnt how Luvdisc spent Valentine's Day 2020 pondering its (and everyone else around it) love-life throughout the generations.
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* ValentinesDayEpisode: Similarly to Delibird, we learnt Kellen goes over how Luvdisc spent Valentine's Day 2020 pondering its (and everyone else around it) love-life throughout the generations.
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I like this article, but I feel like there could be more tropes talking about FSG itself, otherwise a lot of these tropes could go onto Smogon's tv tropes page
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''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDGbmCxt2CEZAsDh1CiWXsQ/feed False Swipe Gaming]]'' is a Website/YouTube channel that analyzes video game characters and how well they performed in competitive play. All the videos discuss a character's performance in ''multiple'' games, not just one. The channel primarily focuses on ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', but some ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' videos have also been produced. The channel uploads at least one video every Sunday.
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''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDGbmCxt2CEZAsDh1CiWXsQ/feed False Swipe Gaming]]'' is a Website/YouTube channel that analyzes video game characters and how well they performed in competitive play. All Narrated by the creator Kellen, the videos discuss a character's performance in ''multiple'' games, not just one. The channel primarily focuses on ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', but some ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' videos have also been produced. The channel uploads at least one video every Sunday.
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* ChristmasEpisode: Delibird took the spotlight for 2018's season greetings, where Kellen goes over its Christmas journey of learning to love thy neighbors (because otherwise the video would be nothing but talking about how bad Delibird was, and how it got worse and worse).
* {{Corpsing}}: The usually educational and seriousnarrator Kellen can barely contain a laugh when he asks, "How good was Regigigas Actually?", due to the Colossal Pokémon's detrimental Slow Start ability.
* {{Corpsing}}: The usually educational and serious
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** Before going over a Pokémon's history in competitive play, the narrator will ask, "How good was [name of the the Pokémon] actually?"
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**{{Catchphrase}}: Before going over a Pokémon's history in competitive play, the narrator will ask, "How good was [name of the the Pokémon] actually?"
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* TheRemake: False Swipe Gaming has done five remakes of Pokémon videos including Dragonite, Scizor, Skarmory, Tauros, and Chansey and it's evolution Blissey. These were done due to the channel's increased production value compared to their earlier videos. For example, in the case of Chansey/Blissey, their original video was barely 10 minutes long compared to their remake clocking in at a ''whopping 67 minutes.''
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* HalloweenEpisode: False Swipe Gaming has done two of these where they analyze the viability of spooky looking Ghost-type Pokémon on the actual date. Specifically, they analyzed Misdreavus and it's evolution Mismagius in 2018 and Haunter in 2020.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Reshiram boasts the unresisted STAB combo of Dragon/Fire,[[note]]until the Fairy-type was introduced in Gen 6[[/note]] and can 2-hit KO just about anything in Gen 5. However, it's inability to switch in safely, vulnerability to entry hazards, and low speed rendered impractical to use. And when Kyuruem-White was released and did everything Reshiram did but better, Reshiram was rendered unviable.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Reshiram boasts the unresisted STAB combo of Dragon/Fire,[[note]]until the Fairy-type was introduced in Gen 6[[/note]] and can 2-hit KO just about anything in Gen 5. However, it's inability to switch in safely, vulnerability to entry hazards, and low speed rendered impractical to use. And when Kyuruem-White Kyurem-White was released and did everything Reshiram did but better, Reshiram was rendered unviable.unviable.
* Catchphrase:
** Before going over a Pokémon's history in competitive play, the narrator will ask, "How good was [name of the the Pokémon] actually?"
* Corpsing: The usually educational and serious narrator can barely contain a laugh when he asks, "How good was Regigigas Actually?", due to the Colossal Pokémon's detrimental Slow Start ability.
* Catchphrase:
** Before going over a Pokémon's history in competitive play, the narrator will ask, "How good was [name of the the Pokémon] actually?"
* Corpsing: The usually educational and serious narrator can barely contain a laugh when he asks, "How good was Regigigas Actually?", due to the Colossal Pokémon's detrimental Slow Start ability.
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* UselessUsefulSpell: Sleep-inducing status moves are useless in Gen 2 to the prominence of Rest Talk, enabling Pokémon to counter the sleep status easily.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Reshiram boasts the unresisted STAB combo of Dragon/Fire,[[note]]until the Fairy-type was introduce in Gen 6[[/note]] and can 2-hit KO just about anything in Gen 5. However, it's inability to switch in safely, vulnerability to entry hazards, and low speed rendered impractical to use. And when Kyuruem-White was released and did everything Reshiram did but better, Reshiram was rendered unviable.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Reshiram boasts the unresisted STAB combo of Dragon/Fire,[[note]]until the Fairy-type was introduce introduced in Gen 6[[/note]] and can 2-hit KO just about anything in Gen 5. However, it's inability to switch in safely, vulnerability to entry hazards, and low speed rendered impractical to use. And when Kyuruem-White was released and did everything Reshiram did but better, Reshiram was rendered unviable.
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* UselessUsefulSpell: Sleep-inducing status moves are useless in Gen 2 to the prominence of Rest Talk, enabling Pokŕmon to counter the sleep status easily.
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''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDGbmCxt2CEZAsDh1CiWXsQ/feed False Swipe Gaming]]'' is a Website/YouTube channel that analyzes video game characters and how well they performed in competitive play. All the videos discuss a character's performance in ''multiple'' games, not just one. The channel primarily focuses on ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', but some ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' videos have also been produced. The channel uploads at least one video every Sunday.
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!!''False Swipe Gaming'' provides examples of:
* AwesomeButImpractical: Reshiram boasts the unresisted STAB combo of Dragon/Fire,[[note]]until the Fairy-type was introduce in Gen 6[[/note]] and can 2-hit KO just about anything in Gen 5. However, it's inability to switch in safely, vulnerability to entry hazards, and low speed rendered impractical to use. And when Kyuruem-White was released and did everything Reshiram did but better, Reshiram was rendered unviable.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** The Charizard video--the very first one produced--was the only video to outright skip ''Pokémon'' generations.
** Earlier videos that covered ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' analyzed the Nintendo Cup format. Later videos no longer mention Nintendo Cup.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Some Pokémon didn't see play in higher tiers because others fulfilled the same role, but better.
** Dragonite wasn't used in Gen 3 OU because Salamence had the exact same typing, was faster, and had higher offensive stats, making Salamence the better option.
** Thundurus completely outclassed Zapdos offensively in Gen 5 because the former had higher Special Attack, Speed, and Nasty Plot to boost its Special Attack even further, resulting in Zapdos dropping to the UU tier for the first and only time.
* ShownTheirWork: All the videos are clearly researched, and the sources for said research can always be found in the description.
* TakesOneToKillOne: {{Downplayed}} with Snorlax in Gen 2. While anyone can technically defeat Snorlax, the only way to knock out Snorlax in one hit without a CriticalHit is for another Snorlax to use Self-Destruct.
* UselessUsefulSpell: Sleep-inducing status moves are useless in Gen 2 to the prominence of Rest Talk, enabling Pokŕmon to counter the sleep status easily.
* WorldsStrongestMan: Snorlax is the absolute best Pokémon Gen 2, and every single video covering Gen 2 will ''always'' mention this.
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!!''False Swipe Gaming'' provides examples of:
* AwesomeButImpractical: Reshiram boasts the unresisted STAB combo of Dragon/Fire,[[note]]until the Fairy-type was introduce in Gen 6[[/note]] and can 2-hit KO just about anything in Gen 5. However, it's inability to switch in safely, vulnerability to entry hazards, and low speed rendered impractical to use. And when Kyuruem-White was released and did everything Reshiram did but better, Reshiram was rendered unviable.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** The Charizard video--the very first one produced--was the only video to outright skip ''Pokémon'' generations.
** Earlier videos that covered ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' analyzed the Nintendo Cup format. Later videos no longer mention Nintendo Cup.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Some Pokémon didn't see play in higher tiers because others fulfilled the same role, but better.
** Dragonite wasn't used in Gen 3 OU because Salamence had the exact same typing, was faster, and had higher offensive stats, making Salamence the better option.
** Thundurus completely outclassed Zapdos offensively in Gen 5 because the former had higher Special Attack, Speed, and Nasty Plot to boost its Special Attack even further, resulting in Zapdos dropping to the UU tier for the first and only time.
* ShownTheirWork: All the videos are clearly researched, and the sources for said research can always be found in the description.
* TakesOneToKillOne: {{Downplayed}} with Snorlax in Gen 2. While anyone can technically defeat Snorlax, the only way to knock out Snorlax in one hit without a CriticalHit is for another Snorlax to use Self-Destruct.
* UselessUsefulSpell: Sleep-inducing status moves are useless in Gen 2 to the prominence of Rest Talk, enabling Pokŕmon to counter the sleep status easily.
* WorldsStrongestMan: Snorlax is the absolute best Pokémon Gen 2, and every single video covering Gen 2 will ''always'' mention this.
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