Why Everyone Hates the New #1 Pokemon

Urshifu. Breaks too many rules of the game

The thing about Dire Claw is that it would still be decent to click in most situations with no secondary effect beyond poisoning. It's just reliable poison STAB. I think it does less than poison jab, but not so much that it's just a gimmick move like Fissure. The rng aspect just feels like insult to injury.

Like I was for banning Sneasler from whatever tier it landed in just because of how stupid Dire Claw was, but it's a case where even if Smogon banned the move and not the mon, it would still be banworthy.

They really need to nerf Unseen Fist. Maybe half the damage dealt though Protect and/or add some sort of condition to trigger the effect. I dunno, but Urshifu is clearly the most problematic from a game health standpoint.

One good thing coming from this is that Incineroar dropped below Amoonguss for a rare moment. But you would think this would make Gholdengo more common, due to full immunity to Sneasler's most problematic moves.

I think Sneasler is way worse, since with Urshifu you know what you're getting. Is he strong? Absolutely, he's completely broken. But losing to an Urshifu, you're losing to something consistent and you know what you're up against. Losing to Sneasler off dire claw procs is incredibly infuriating and feels way worse as it just introduces way too much RNG

With Restricted Legendaries (Calyrex) not allowed in VGC most of the time, Urshifu is without a doubt the biggest problem because it was introduced as the P2W button. If you did not buy the base game and the corresponding DLC, you are at a clear disadvantage against those who did, by no fault of your own. As long as it remains behind the DLC paywall, it will continue to disrupt the game even before a match has been played.

I don't really keep track anymore I've became extremely jaded because I want the series to not majorly power creep as it advances but that's the only outcome that will happen. I also really don't like when they make groups of pokemon that are much more insanely more powerful to make the meta game smaller. They will never tone things down because if they tone down the most current release then previous generations will outshine them and that hurts their sales numbers so they'd never do that. Personally I prefer games with a roster of things where there is a lot of variety but you'll never see that in Pokemon because you get mons so outrageously powerful that they get the designated role on the teams. Things will continue to get faster and have more power and bst numbers will continue to go up. I mean look at what miraidon can do because it gets an insane amount of abitlies and traits that syngerize with each other before a pokemon like that would have never been designed but now they're in an arms race with themselves. They had to make something more impressive than Zacian Crowned was back in Sword and Shield. It's also pretty annoying that they put so much effort into trying to tune down status by making it less domineering through directly nerfing it or indirectly through items and then they pull a 180 to make super busted status moves. They make things that they know are in zero way balanced. "A move that has 50% to poison is not good, lets also give it the chance to inflict sleep and paralysis too because those are good statuses while also keeping at a 50% rate. What could go wrong?" - Gamefreak probably

People just hate all the mustelid mons

Mega toxicroak so strong

Every time I see sneasler…. Maushold popbomb, outta here. And I attack first

Flutter mane should just get truant

As someone who’s favorite Pokémon is Sneasel, I see no problem with his development, and in fact I welcome it.

That's not a Pokemon, that's an adult woman who's going to bully you.

Slay girl
Don't listen to the haters they just jealous

Espeon is a great counter for Sneasler..I've been saying for a long time that Espeon is viable in OU. A 130 sp atk and 110 speed force user isn't nothing

I just got a shiny one levelled up. Take this video down NOW. I need to have my fun with it

Both the pokemon balancing team AND the players are a joke, what a garbage competitive game

Fix the autistic lisp and ur content is actually watchable

RNG cheese is definitely worse

Stop hating on my girl

A literal grown human woman is meta now.

I used Sneasler to knock out countless Flutter Manes. Been a staple of every regulation I’ve gotten to masterball. Mirror Herb unburden sneasler paired with swagger Grimmsnarl for at least 2 regulations and Electric Seed Sneasler with Miraidon during reg H.

VGC players really out here as if Galarian Slowking doesn't exist. Glowking would function well in VGC with Chilly Reception. Snow is a shitty weather anyway, and is best used for shutting down all other weather teams.

Urshifu: ❌
UrSHEfo: ✅

I've been using sneasler since release. How did yall not know about this murder creature

I love how after competitors got banned for hacking their pokemons we're seeing less obvious hacked pokemons, no more 100% optimal shiny pokemon lmao, now they're just 100% optimal perfect pokemon instead 🤣

Dire claw, thats the video

I just don't like it's design unlike the rest of it's family

Urshifu is definitely worse to deal with. Completely invalidating protect is a lot more difficult to play around than the random hax of dire claw.

Sneasler is never going to be as bad as Urshifu to play against.

In my opinion Urshifu is worse for the game, but it could be also easier to fix the problem. Imagine for example a sort of damage mitigation when connecting with protect.
While Sneasler is just badly designed rng that's too strong on the random outcome. Or at least I can't think of a way of fixing it without the strong risk of making it unusable.

Dude can you please figure out how to say Urshifu properly? Your pronunciation on that one hurts

Sneasler has won a Tournement in Regulation C with grassy seed, so i think it was Just underrated.

Great work on improving your speech btw. Watched an old vid and came to this one and its night and day.

Maybe one day game freak will understand how stupid the sleep status is and rework it to be more fair and interactive.
I guess they changed hail into snow which came a bit out of nowhere so one can dream.
All status should have a similar level of effectiveness it's silly how some can win you the game on the spot and others sometimes do nothing for you.

I've only recently started pokemon duels but oh my god is it exciting to watch what rng dire claw gets.

50% is wild

It's 80 BP wtf, I thought it was 60 because I played PLA

I love how all the best Pokémon in the new regulation have really good designs

Swagger using partner & unburden mirror herb went crazy

I personally dislike kingambit more. I feel like this meta has been defined by “does your team have a chance against kingambit and rillaboom?”

NL Voice "The Sneasler!"

Wow \ Kingambit is top 2 in both OU and VGC?

This BITCH! B-I-T-C-H! Laaughs at mee, I didn't knew pokémon could laugh at people!

Wait, why is Magmar on so many teams?

Chansey: Oops I used skill swap and gave Sneasler the ability Serene Grace; I hope nothing goes wrong!

Always loved Sneasel and its evolutions. Liked Sneasel's design more though, so I'm glad they went that way with Sneasler.

I played Crystal way back and didn't know that Weavile wasn't a thing in gen 2 so I trained the thing to level 70 trying to get it to evolve. Had it holding the razor fang and everything to no avail.

I love Sneasler, legit. I think the Pokemon looks cool and I really like Dire claw's unique triple threat status thing. Super cool, very glad it's strong.

urshifu 100% because no matter what it will always break protect and that’s just stupid. double battles are basically held together by that one move, and it just invalidates it 😭😭😭