Why this Stupid Cat is the Best Pokemon Ever

If you haven't played a Pokémon game in a while and someone asks you what you think is the

best

Pokémon of all time, you'd probably say something like Mewtwo if you've played a decent amount of Pokémon over the last two decades. You could say something like Groudon or Kyogre, if you consider yourself more than a casual fan you'd probably answer something like Mega Rayquaza or Zan, but if you've played a lot of Pokémon you'll know the answer is obvious because it's not. Really even Up For Debate the

best

pokemon

of all time is incinerate some of you may be confused incinerate alola starter ultimate smash bros character what haunts my nightmares yes what makes incinerate be the best Pokémon of all time is not immediately obvious.

It doesn't have stats that make Mewtwo seem flighty, it doesn't have any

stupid

signature abilities, it doesn't have a move that made me vomit the first time I saw it, and it doesn't have any completely broken tools that make it innovative. Could it be stronger than the all-time great Pokémon like Kyogre or Mega Rayquaza or Scream Tail? Hey, that's a really good list. I bet who

ever

did it is super handsome, well, to understand what makes Incinerate so strong, we have to get our hands completely dirty. Image Today I'm going to need a little research. I want to talk about why Incinerate is the best Pokémon

ever

created.

To do

this

, we must start at the beginning, not at the beginning of Pokémon, but at the beginning of our Generation 7 nightmare with the release of Pokémon. sun and moon, but in cino the introduction to the world of competitive Pokémon was lackluster, in fact, even though the first year of sun and moon used a set of legal Pokémon rules that was very limited, allowing for a lot of creativity in Pokémon selection, Incinerate usage was below 1% Now I know what you're thinking: how could a Pokémon that performed so poorly in its debut season possibly be the best Pokémon of all time?

Wouldn't it be nice if that had been true? The thing is, when Incinerate was first released, it was missing something very important, but we'll get to that in a moment. In the first year of Sun and Moon there was basically no reason to use Incinerate because there was a better Fire-type Pokémon, Arcanine. What made Arcanine so good was largely its access to the ability intimidate one of the best competitive abilities of all time the combination of intimidation and good stats with fire a great defensive type would allow Arcanine to become the number one Pokémon one more used at that time, but in

this

blissful period it's okay, the sun and the moon were not.

It's not exactly Blissful with zov's Pokémon koing through protection, but this relatively Blissful period wouldn't last long, the cat couldn't be contained in a cage, and in early 2018, Pokémon made the biggest mistake of the entire franchise. , greater even than putting this tree to the sword. and the shield they gave to incinerate intimidate this may not seem like a big deal, it's not that incinerate gained a mega evolution or a new form, he just gained access to an ability that isn't even that rare, you can probably think of a couple quite a few. infamous intimidate users at the moment, but unfortunately, while it doesn't sound too imposing, this change would forever alter the course of competitive Pokémon, as I said, intimidate is possibly the best ability in the game, there are a couple of reasons why, first in Pokémon, almost all damaging moves.

They are either physical attacks or special attacks, and usually the balance between them is about 50/50. Intimidate reduces both opponents' physical attack each time the user enters the field after a single intimidation. A Pokémon's physical attack stat is 2/3 of its initial one. The value after a second intimidation is reduced to 50% and these stat drops remain until you switch your Pokémon, making them extremely annoying, so I went from a Pokémon that basically had no ability to a Pokémon with one of the best skills in the entire game and upon doing so, all the latent tools in the incin or kit suddenly activated. incin incin is so

stupid

.

I bet six incin could beat any team, maybe maybe five inar. I should redo that Lion intimidate video it's extremely strong but not strong enough. letting any bullying Pokémon give me nightmares bullying is about other Pokémon no one wants to use like mascarin M granbull okay I might have tried some of these at one time or another but normal people wouldn't be interested in using them. What I'm trying to say is that there are fewer intimidating Pokémon that have been used than intimidating Pokémon that haven't, so what makes some of these Pokémon better than others and what makes incinerate the best of all.

When it comes to Intimidate, the ability becomes much more valuable the more often you can activate it during a battle for a Pokémon like Mighten, its base stats are not high enough to allow it to come in repeatedly without taking large amounts of damage, even with intimidation to help a Pokémon like masquerain. is a bit tankier but has a lot more weaknesses meaning it's still a risk to switch Gyarados, on the other hand it has good defenses and only two weaknesses and Arcanine is even tankier so at least part of its answer has to do with how easy it is to change.

In the Intimidate user, that's mainly a combination of the Pokémon's base stats and its type, the better your Pokémon is defensively, the more frequently you can activate Intimidate during a battle. Remember how Arcanine was the number one most used Pokémon in Sun and Moon's first competitive format for the most part. Because of their access to Intimidate, why don't we compare the stats of Arcanine and Incinerate? When it comes to mass incineration, it is strictly better with five more HP, 10 more defenses, and 10 more special defenses. Incinerate has a significant advantage over Arcanine, in fact, incinerate.

It also has a higher attack stat. The only relevant stat that Arcanine has an advantage in is its highest speed stat, but Incin War's lower speed stat is actually more useful here, although I'm getting ahead of myself, let's take a step back and think about what we make. What we're looking at here Incinerate has strictly better stats than the number one most used Pokémon in the format, better than number one and has the exact same ability that allowed Arcanine to take the spotlight and start to see why this could be a problem, okay, but let's calm down.

There is a key difference between Arcanine and Incinerate, their type is not the same, while Arcanine is a pure Fire type Pokémon. Incin is both fire and dark. Surely having this extra guy hurts more than it helps. Compared to Arcanine, both Arcanine and Incinerate are weak to ground and rock water attacks, but Incinerate is also weak to fighting moves being a dark type, however, it has several benefits in exchange for this additional weakness, first incinerate gains resistances to darkness and ghost with the ghost being. an especially difficult type to resist this puts the total resistances and immunities of incinerate at seven a stupidly high number for a non-steel type Pokémon the second incinerate gains immunity to psychic attacks immunities are incredibly valuable in competitive Pokémon as they are one of the only ways to completely negate the damage and this was especially valuable in Sun and Moon because the powerful psychic type Pokémon that ran around tapu Lele set the psychic ground with their ability and could output huge amounts of damage and the Pokémon Company then he unleashed the Ultra necros that had access. to the light Z move feature that burns my eyes, a move with a whopping 200 base power, being immune to these ridiculously strong attacks is just another absurd achievement on your resume, being part dark type has other benefits and more Notably, Dark-type Pokémon are immune. to attacks affected by the ability joker joker is another of the best abilities in the game and some of the most famous Pokémon in history make use of this powerful ability that prioritizes non-damaging moves because the ability is very good when entering the sun and the moon. was nerfed to no longer work on Dark-type Pokémon as a small aside because it's so cool in the 2017 World Championship Finals that one player used this mechanical change to completely block an opponent's Z-Move.

Whimsicott was using the power of nature move, a move that is classified as a non-damaging move because it transforms into a different move depending on where the player is and what effects are present on the battlefield. The reason why Whimsicott used this movement is because it was combined with tapini and tapu Coco with transforming power of nature. in moonblast if the Misty terrain was up and Thunderbolt if the electric terrain was up and both Z moves could be accessed by holding the Z Crystal normalium because the power of nature is a normal move and until it transforms in other words Whimsicott could use electric and fairy Z moves.

Using the power of nature in the third game of the world championship finals, Whimsicott was looking at Garchomp and saw an opportunity to receive a KO. switching to tapini and launching Z for a surprise knockout, but the opponent predicted this and switched Garchomp to mandibuzz, a Pokémon also weak to fairy, but because power of nature is a non-damaging move, it is affected by the joker and it becomes a priority move which is great unless your opponent is a dark type like mandibuzz because in that case you will completely waste your Z move once per battle and you won't do any damage anyway as you can see, Being immune to dark type moves can make or break a battle but there is a downside to being a dark type incinerate gains another weakness to fight and of course having more weaknesses is a bad thing but not all weaknesses are created out of hand.

Likewise, some types are strictly better than others - you'd almost always rather be weak to bother than fairy, for example - and while fighting-type moves are always present in competitive Pokémon, they're rarely among the most common and There's another reason why incinerating the fighting weakness isn't that important, almost every relevant fighting type Pokémon is a physical attacker. This is partly due to how their stats are distributed and partly because physical fighting type moves are far superior to special fighting type moves and the reason why these physical fighting type moves are so important is because they are intimidating. while performing a super effective attack. you are taking double damage if that attack is physical and has been reduced by intimidation, effectively you are only taking 33% more damage, a much more manageable multiplier and this doesn't just apply to the weakness of fighting the incin, It's true in the case of rock. and ground type moves as well, while there are more ground and rock type special moves to fight, the vast majority of the time we see these types in competitive Pokémon, they are physical attackers, so using SAR for super effective damage and significant is much more. difficult than it seems at first glance, the complicated thing is that fire and dark are such a good type combination, even without taking into account intimidate, when I ranked every type combination in the game, I put it 13th out of over 150, the fact that intimidate just so happens to have incredibly good synergy is just a fun little bonus today's video is sponsored by honai impact 3D is a sci-fi adventure game developed by hoyse the game now has a system 3D combat and supports free jumping, which really improves the game Players can now fight monsters and defeat bosses in the air, which I mean, who doesn't love a little aerial combat?

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To Honai Impact, third party for sponsoring this video, of course, being able to come in and intimidate your opponent without taking too much damage isn't the only thing that makes a Pokémon good, they need power.contribute to the battle after entering. so they're not just dead weight the easiest way to contribute to a battle is to deal damage its not rocket science but incinerate is a support

pokemon

so you'd think dealing damage wouldn't be its strong suit and if you thought that you'd be right, since it rarely seems like it's doing Zan's impression, it won't be the Pokémon that wipes out your opponent's team, however, most support Pokémon really struggle to deal damage often because the Pokémon that are bulkier tend to have worse offensive stats. like Cresselia Amongus Whimsicott and Dei Porygon 2 and more, at best, they can gradually take down their opponents, contributing a bit of damage over time if you ignore them for too long.

However, it is built differently with a higher attack stat than Arcanine, it is not a Pokémon you can afford to ignore and with its fire type move, flare attacks, huge base power, incinerate, it is capable of Killing a lot of fragile Pokémon in two hits, even without super effective damage and that's not to mention that Flare Blitz also has a chance to burn, isn't that fun. and if you can even believe it, flare Blitz is the least problematic of incineroar's moves, incinerate also gets a dark type signature move called Dark darkus Lariat because yeah, why not give it a signature move?

Darkus Lariat was used occasionally as it ignores defense boosts, but it was not normally included with Or's chosen dark-type move, that honor goes to removing this base 65 power move that not only removes the element from any Pokémon it hit it, it also becomes 50% stronger if the target holds an item after the damage increase imitation is comparable in power to strong moves like Stone Edge, except instead of knowing it is missing 20% ​​of the time , removes the element of whatever it hits, means imitation even in situations where incinerate doesn't immediately threaten a huge amount of damage, they can still be a complete annoyance if you think you can ignore it, but imitation isn't the move either Incin's most problematic or now we can talk about one of the best support movements. of all time the fake the fake is a move with enough priority that it goes before almost all standard moves and if it hits a target it causes them to flinch from being unable to act during the turn, the catch is that the fake only works on The first turn after a Pokémon switches into feign is so strong because it allows players to control the pace of the battle with feint.

You can use your partner to attack a Pokémon it can't protect or buy yourself a turn to save a Pokémon. Pokémon that was under a lot of pressure, you can use it to temporarily invalidate a threat and allow one of your other Pokémon to prepare and you can even use the fake threat to scare your opponent and protect yourself, allowing you to switch for free. You'll never mind having a Fake on your team as it offers such high value and is useful in virtually every matchup, not to mention that Fake is a way for Incinerate to not be bothered by its lower speed stat as it It has such a high priority. but what's really interesting is that faking has such a good synergy with intimidate, as both intimidate and faking trigger each time it triggers or triggers, as long as you can disable incinerate safely you'll be able to access both faking and intimidating multiple times per battle, it sure would be fun if Incinerate had some sort of specialized idk tool to allow it to be changed more easily, wouldn't that be cool?

It's finally time to talk about the stupidest move they gave him. incinerate, you spin, this bug type move deals a bit of damage and then allows the user to switch even with all the other stuff the Pokémon company gave to incinerate, it still could have been manageable if they hadn't just given it a 180 degrees, it's not that you U-turn is an absurd damaging tool, it's weaker than Incin Ro's other moves and Bug isn't exactly a good guy. What makes U-turn so broken is the ability to switch after hitting something that does a bit of damage and shuts down.

It doesn't sound very exciting at first glance - after all, all Pokémon can change - but there is a key distinction here. The U-Turn allows you to switch after attacking. Typically, switching is one of the riskiest things you can do in a Pokémon battle. If you sacrifice your ability to deal damage during the turn and bring in a Pokémon that is completely vulnerable and unable to attack or protect, a bad switch can lose you the game if you let a key Pokémon take too much damage, the trade-off is that switching allows you to save a Pokémon currently in danger and take out a Pokémon with a better overall matchup.

I'd say it's a very well-balanced mechanic, but Incinerate breaks it completely thanks to its low speed stat. Incinerate can move after your opponent has already moved. attacked during the turn and with U-turn is able to bring in one of your other Pokémon after your opponent has already attacked, this completely mitigates the drawback of switching to one of your Pokémon and allows Incinerate to disconnect, resetting both intimidation and falsification. This inclusion in its move pool leads to a move from one of the best support Pokémon of all time to the best, everything in its kit synergizes very well and has no obvious weaknesses. incinerate was so good once it became intimidating it literally killed.

One of the best Pokémon of all time, Landeras Theion, like in Cur, Landeras has access to Intimidate and U-Turns, but unlike Incinerate, it is best used as an offensive Pokémon because Landeras finds it much more difficult to use the U-Turn as a defensive tool by instead using it as an offensive move to damage Grass and Psychic-type Pokémon that can otherwise give you trouble since Incinerate started working. The use of landeras has plummeted and landeras has never won a world championship, while incinerate has been legal, so now that you know what makes incinerate so strong, let's go back to 2018 when intimidate incinerate was first introduced.

At this point, players had not yet realized how good Incinerate was and partly because Landeras was a heavy user of Z-Move while Incinerate was mediocre with the Mechanic at that year's World Championship Incinerate. was second in use after landeras, however, despite being present on fewer teams than landeras, incinerate took up all the spots in the top four, while landeras was only present on two of those teams, of course, in the great performance from Ro this year. It would be ridiculous compared to the total dominance they would show in 2019. The following year's format was the final Sun & Moon format and featured a different ruleset than 2018.

The ruleset is known as the restricted format, which means While players can use two super powerful Pokémon on their teams now, you might expect it to fare worse in a restricted format. After all, Pokémon like Groudon and Kyogre can deal damage much easier to incinerate, with Kyogre being one of the only Pokémon that can knock him out in one. hits, but here's the thing: the stronger the Pokémon, the more valuable it is to intimidate, the more valuable it is to fake it, and the more valuable it is to be able to trade in one of your super powerful Pokémon for free.

Incinerate very quickly became king at the 2019 World Championships. Incinerate was present on over 83% of teams, the highest usage of any Pokémon in the history of the game by far. In 2018, Landeras T was used in 61% of teams as the most used Pokémon in the tournament to compare, this type of usage indicates that Incinerate was not only good, it wasn't even great, it was almost mandatory on all teams at the top level, its ability to doing so many different things at once combined with various tools against the super strong restricted Pokémon meant that you needed to have a very good reason to leave it off your team A reason that only a handful of players found oh yeah, we haven't even talked about how the Dark typing this year was a total game.

Cher gave it a great matchup against the new restricted Pokémon Lunala. Soo and Ultra Necros One thing that makes incin so difficult to handle is the fact that it is a support Pokémon when an offensive Pokémon dominates tournaments, players can invest in more niche Pokémon that have a good matchup against it, like bronzong to slow down. down xerus, the idea is that as long as your Pokémon is decent enough, if your opponent brings the threatening offensive Pokémon into battle, they will need to deal with your counterattack and if they leave it behind, then they will have given up much of their offense and a of their most threatening tools, it's not that there isn't counterplay to incinerating Pokémon like the competitive and challenging miotics that saw play in some formats, but the problem was that no one trusted incinerating for Dam's image, they could afford to leave it behind whether the opponent overprepared for it or kept it off the field until the threats were neutralized.

Additionally, these Pokémon that match Incinerate well tended to have a harder time when not boosted by it, making them a burden at times, ultimately all the time. the power was in the hands of the incinerate player, but after the dominance of incinerate in the 2019 World Championship, there was finally a ray of hope after 2 years of being defeated by incinerate, players could see salvation, sword and shield. Pokémon doesn't get balance patches unlike the games. like team fighting tactics getting a balance patch every 2 weeks or an emergency patch when something is really out of place thanks Mort dog Pokémon in Best gets balance changes every 3 years when a new generation comes out this was the light At the end of The Tunnel surely the Pokémon Company would see how incredibly broken the core was and how Nerf we were somehow finally able to find peace.

They improved it. They gave it one of the biggest buffs any Pokémon has ever received in the entire history of the game. Remember. As we talked about how strong the U-turn was, the good news is that it's practically obsolete now. The bad news is that that's because they gave Incinerate an upgraded version called Parting Shot. This movement is like the change of direction in that it changes. the user exits after connecting, however unlike the U-turn which does a bit of damage, the parting shot reduces both the attack and special attack of anything it hits, that's correct, incinerate can now double physical attackers and weaken special attackers, the only class of Pokémon. couldn't be weakened before, thanks to Pikachu, there was an attempt to balance incineration, certain ancient abilities were reworked to be immune to intimidate and feint didn't work in Pokémon Dynamax because they couldn't retreat, but Pokémon that had these reworked abilities did. .

It's pretty mediocre across the board, and the ability to weaken a Dynamax Pokémon's offenses with Intimidate and Parting Shot more than made up for the inability to back away. We can't say much about the in-center performance during the first two years of Pokémon Sword and Shield as we should. Due to the pandemic, the main in-person events were cancelled, what we can say is that of the four online events that the Pokémon company held to replace the in-person events called The Players cup 1 to 4 incinerate One of the four, each one is okay, to be fair, one of them was It's my fault so, yes, it's bad, but in 2022 in-person tournaments returned again with another restricted format and in C or one of each major in the US. , every major in Europe, except one where he finished second in every major in Australia, almost all of them.

A single major in the rest of the world, the three international level tournaments and the world championships. Incinerate was used on 74% of all teams at the 2022 world championships, finishing on seven of the top eight teams in the tournament, although it is technically a lower usage than the 2019 world championships in my opinion. Even more Pokémon were viable in 2022 that hadn't been in 2019, so the fact that Ainar is still such a must-have on almost every team despite the larger field is an impressive feat that brings us closer. to scarlet and violet and in 2023 incinerate was not in the game during the first year of competition, but recently incin was added back to the game with the indigo disc DLC, which meant a chance for Pokémon to correct its mistake after two generations and 5 years. of complete incinerator domination they're probably going to use Nerf this time, they polished it again are you kidding me?

Okay, so this benefit is smaller, but it's still a big problem. Incin was given a helping hand with a move that comes before all other moves andpowers. increasing your partner's attack by 50%, this is an amazing move and is extremely valuable on a support Pokémon like incinerate, however this time they added more counterplay, which actually managed to slow, not stop, incinerate. First, two new items were added, Cloak Cloak and Transparent Amulet's Cloak Cloak stops the side effects of moves, causing it to feign and not flinch, while Transparent Amulet prevents a Pokémon's stats from being lowered by Intimidation. or parting shot.

These elements are huge, as is the fact that the internal Focus Pokémon are stronger now than they were during Sword and Shield. Partly due to their synergy with Chenow and the buff they receive from Talization, in addition to items, several new Pokémon with anti-incineration abilities were added. Dundoo is unaware, making it immune to Intimidate, and King Gambit and Annihilate are Pokémon with challenging power. increases if any stat is removed, not to mention that Terra Ghost is a great defensive tool on fast and fragile Pokémon to get around them in a pinch, so when incinerate was finally added to the game, top competitive players were surprised.

I found it really manageable, they started calling it midcore. YouTubers were making videos saying that it had been washed and that it had fallen off and to some extent I get it, we were used to a level of incineration mastery that was unmatched by any other Pokémon and with the new counterplay available it finally felt right only one good Pokémon in the first tournament after incinerate was added to the game its performance was disappointing only two top eight finishes was this was incinerate finally returned to Earth if the king had been knocked down from his throne save yourself from this one, the Incinerator Flare Blitz will do enough damage to the U to give it one last life and with that attack, the Glick Wolf becomes your Charlotte Regional Champion, the king is back, ladies and gentlemen, no.