The Best Hacked Pokemon in EVERY Game.

I think anyone upset about balancing and bans needs to try playing these formats to see how one sided things become and how nearly impossible it is to cover all the relevant strategies

Jimothy, could you make a video about PP in competitive Pokemon? Is it a necessary mechanic? Is it ever relevant in the faster paced VGC format? Why did Pokemon go with this over the typical mana or MP that other games use? What does PP even stand for? I’d be very interested to hear what you have to say about PP.

Technically in gen 1 there is one more form of counterplay to electrode which is banking on a gen 1 miss

Fire Fang ignores Wonder Guard because of a coding error

If I remember correctly, its id is one point higher than shadow force's, giratina's signature move which was supposed to ignore abilities

They mixed up the ID numbers

Is there no sleep clause in Gen I? Why not just switch after Electrode sleeps your first mon?

I see I've been given a milotic for the outro! It's funny cuz I've been working with more defensive teams as of late. Thank you!

Jimothy taking up the mantle of mispronouncing everything after Wolfe dropped it 👑 king shit ♡

I'm impressed eternatus doesn't use corrosion and toxic, so it can even oouaon other eternatus and it's more reliable than 1 hit ko moves

iirc with eternamax's stat overflowing you have to get the stat to exactly 655 (which is 240 EVs and plus nature i think)?, and it still technically takes damage, however it will only be 2 damage before applying any other modifiers like STAB or type effectiveness so it's still basically immune. every stat except HP can overflow but there's no real reason to overflow anything but defense.

If this was Balanced Hackmons, it'd be hard to say who's the best Pokemon of any given generation unless your default answer is imposter Chansey. In the current gen, gen 9, a lot things are banned or "unavailable." I'm wishing for Shedinja to be unbanned because there's so many counter options now, Salt Cure being an example. For the FYI Shed was banned because you would have to have a counter for every Shedinja Sturdy set, because you can have boots, sash, covert cloak, lum berry and goggles (which is pointless bc of sleep/spore being banned), but tbh they do the same thing every game, its pretty predictable and its easier to set up indirect damage, ability ignore moves or brings back Mold Breaker meta.

Also, context, Shedinja was banned before gen 9, it might have been banned in gen 7 tbh.

I did not know that mega’s are actually in ScVi’s code, were they planning PL:ZA from the start?

There it is, lad. Eternatus E-Max, the being blessed with invulnerability to all threats, physical or magical.

Finally I may have some useful knowledge here.

As I understand it, the 0 DEF bug works almost exactly as Jimothy described but with 1 key difference. When the damage calculation is ran with 0 DEF it actually produces a value of 2 damage before modifiers every time (from Gen V onward anyway.) This is mostly because the formula includes a three tiered division, which (simplifying it down to the relevant parts only for this example) includes (Attack/Defence)/50 and when Defence is 0, the total sum tends toward infinity, which the game spits out as a 0, then a flat +2 is added onto the sum, which results in the consistent 2 damage (before modifiers)

People say it's "taking no damage" because it's a negligible amount but it's not actually 0, that's also why Jimothy wouldn't have been able to recreate it the way he originally expected.

chansey is the best pokemon ever with only 1 hacked move "transform"

Why is no one talking about slaking. It got its ability removed and became one of the strongest in its gen. Just shows how op he would if it didn't got truant as an ability lolololol.

I played a lot of gen 8 PH so let me add a few things. Eternamax can only be immune to damage on the physical or special side. Not both. That was a way to get around it as well. A common pick was shell smash calyrex shadow with moongeist beam and psystrike. And then normally a fairy move. You just sus out which eternamax was immune to which side (usually they’d bring one of each) and then click the physical or special move.

Additionally, Regieleki was huge in gen 8. And comatose was really common. Typical set was choice scarf with comatose, sleep talk, whirlwind, and roar. Set up hazards and then phase spam until they have 1 mon left. Magic bounce was a big counter and also helped vs toxic spamming eternamaxs.

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Heeheeheeha’s PFP on showdown is funny, got the pikmin and the stage hazard bug from distant planet. Pretty funny.

small correction with gens 1 and 2, in these generations you can bring a pokemon pre-statused which would be allowed in a true PH game and be a sleep counterplay, especially for gen 1 otherwise lacking any. issue with showdown is this is not implemented. its not clear who's #1 in this kind of meta or even theorized whatsoever

gen 7 pure hackmons is great. until u remember trapping exists. it not even necessarily broken its just not fun. entrainment into a shadow tag mon and like oh i get max stats for free

Ok even Wolfe wouldn’t pronounce Groudon like crouton

I was really hoping for Sturdy Shedinja to show up, but I guess it's just worse than most Wonder Guard pokemon, huh?

Now I understand why giritina wanted to be god

Very good video - straight to the point, gives not only the best pokemon in each gen but some very helpful and interesting context and detail about the metagame too. Plus an entertaining subscriber message. Jolly good show

I briefly topped the gen 4 hackmons ladder back in the day, and I used to rep a level 1 wonder guard Sableye with Endeavor, Dragon Rage and Gastro Acid. Good fun.

I believe the reason Gen 6 is so popular for Pure Hackmons is also in part due to EVs. In every other generation, EVs can be hacked to be 252 in everything, but you only get your normal 510 in Gen 6 Pure Hackmons so an opportunity cost exists to “balance” things

I love how poetic this video is, it starts with the fastest electric type in the game and it ends with the fastest electric type in the game

gen 1 hackmons sounds so braindead

Im sad that neutralizing gas wasnt mentioned cause pure hackmons also became a game of neutralizing gas, and the abilities that ignore it

Gen 3 not being able to hack abilities makes me think about creating restricted hackmon formats.
Only abilities, only move, only stat redistributions(is not available?). Only modify one thing at a time until you get back to the existing hackmon format, then go again.

I like how in a mode where there are no rules and it's utter chaos everywhere is when Giratina is at its strongest

The funny thing is that with arbitrary code execution in gen 2 hackmons is actually possible in the gen 1 and gen 2 games without modification or hacking. The game is so broken you can use ACE to write any move on any pokemon and also obtain any amount of any item to use in battle. You can also modify DVs and stat exp for perfect pokemon with any hidden power you want.

Mega Audino mentioned!!

what is stopping people from changing abilities in gen 3

I like to run a Shedinja with Sturdy with these moves: Endeavor, Quick Attack, Shadow Claw, & Shell Smash. I also have that Shedinja with a teammate with SafeGuard.

I think it's beautiful that the best hacked pokemon looped back from the first to the ninth generation to be an electric type pokemon that is round shaped. Fast balls wins

Eternamax Eternatus has to have 200 evs and the plus nature I believe so that it hits EXACTLY 655 and does the overflow correctly

"Grudon"

I don’t know why I had to point this out, but when you said “what is the-“ at the beginning, you sounded just like Mordecai from Regular Show

Supreme Overlord with Last Respects. Tell me that doesn’t sound strong.