A TFC328 Commentary: 7.8 Too Much Face Value
136Inspired by MangaKamen's similar commentary on a similar video by the same guy, but with the intention on doing something akin to this and having all the research done before his video was uploaded, I present to you a video I made to not only respectfully criticize Eryizo and ZeldaWars' points on the topic of Hoenn's best starters with a few jokes here and there, but to also get my video editing motivation back for my future video projects. I hope you enjoy this video, which will hopefully result in a much more active production schedule than before. If you didn't, then eh, can't please everyone.
Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyz8LiKDR6s
MangaKamen's Commentary on the Johto Starters Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-ZVJLHbnTM
Follow-up addressing a possible counter-argument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srn2SY9mtTE
And before you ask, I haven't played too much of Pokemon Go. I did catch a few com mons around my house, but I haven't gone out with it and I won't play it often anyways due to the mandatory GPS possibly eating up the phone bill. Although now I caught a Kingler and Pidgeot from in my home. Also, curse the small amount of Pokeballs obtained from Pokestops.
Lastly, so it won't get buried in the comments, the results for the Delta Episode:
Swamperts with Ice Beam would wreck both of Zinnia's Teams(Provided you didn't just use Mega Rayquaza in the rematch).
Sceptile can do the same with Dragon Claw/Dual Chop, but it had to worry about Dragon Pulse/Claw in the first match if it Megas(Plus Altaria and Salamence have Fire moves). Not using Mega Rayquaza, it has to worry about Ice Beam(Especially as a Mega), Air Slash, and everything from the previous match.
Blaziken would have the advantage on Tyrantrum and that's it. It has to worry about Earthquake and Moonblast in the first match, and Muddy Water and Air Slash in the second match, again if you decide to shelf Mega Rayquaza.
The Magma and Aqua segments in the video apply in Delta as well.
For Wallace, Swampert still has only one concern: Energy Ball on Ludicolo, but all resistances on his original Emerald Team apply.
Blaziken has to worry about Earthquake on both Wailord and Whiscash, Dazzling Gleam on Tentacruel, and every one of them has a good water move(Water Spout, Brine, Scald, Hydro Pump, Muddy Water, Waterfall). It does get Aerial Ace for Ludicolo, Rock Tomb for Gyarados, and Earthquake for Tentacruel. It also gets Solar Beam, but even setting up Sunny Day would leave it open to the aforementioned problems.
Sceptile has to worry about Blizzard on Wailord and Milotic, Sludge Wave on Tentacruel(Which also has Dazzling Gleam if Sceptile Megas), Ice Beam on Ludicolo, and Ice Fang on Gyarados, but it has the moves I mentioned to cover the problem spots and its Grass moves for the rest.
Rayquaza's an easy catch so which Pokemon to use really doesn't matter and with how much stuff is between Rayuqaza's catch and encountering Deoxys with no chance to save in between, you're better off using the Master Ball on it or knocking it out for the Post-Delta Episode encounter on the Sky Pillar, which isn't hard to do given its paper-thin defenses.