Exeggutor's Slip from the Big 4 | RBY Bytes
863In this video, I talk about the Big 4 Era of Gen 1 OU. This was a period where Exeggutor was considered mandatory on competitive teams. However, players often think this era lasted over a decade, when it was actually a very short time.
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This video was built off a planned movie script from 2 years ago where I would have gone over all of Exeggutor's history. However, it was quite poor and needlessly bloated. This video compresses much of its contents.
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Translation of Exeggutor’s first appearance from Pokemon Battle Historia by Gingingt;
In the program of 64 Mario Stadium, the Gokinjozu team [tln: gokinjo means neighborhood in japanese, but the text writes it in hiragana, ごきんじょー, rather than in kanji, ご近所. Also, the word for neighborhood isn't spelled with a -zu at the end and doesnt have an elongated o sound at the end] used Electrode, while the Assari Shioaji [tln: lit. "lightly salted"] team used Exeggutor for the first time. Electrode was going against Jolteon when suddenly it used Explosion with the fastest speed among all Pokemon. Exeggutor attracted attention as a bulky new Psychic type.
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