Not sure if Truant belongs on this list in any capacity. Back in 3rd gen it definitely was an absolutely necessary nerf to Slaking, not sure how the standings are in the updated meta. (Edit: You addressed that.) Never understood Slow Start on Regigigas though. Like, that thing is not just a Legendary, but a trio leader! It is allowed to and even should be overpowered! A great option, IMO, would be replacing (or HAing) it with a new ability called Armor Up - every turn, Regigigas' Speed would fall in exchange for a Defense buff. This may still seem like a nerf, as speed is quite significant and Regigigas has no business being able to use Trick Room, but keep in mind that it absolutely should be able to learn Gyro Ball (alongside at least one Rock, Ice, Electric and Dragon type attack each if it doesn't already). So Regigigas would progress into being able to tank hits better and better while hitting back with Gyro Ball progressively harder, and it wouldn't be too OP because Special sweepers would still be a major threat.

Yeah, Slaking definitely is a mon lost to power creep. When we have mons that hit harder than it naturally with positive abilities instead of negative (like Kartana) why would you risk using Slaking? I’m gonna cover Regi on a follow up video I have some good ideas to buff Slow Start. I appreciate the comments, Hidden Ability is something I never thought of on that mon too.

Corrosion should be just a poison type scrappy against steel types along with being able to poison them

AGREED. Keep it pretty exclusive though I feel. Salazzle is a good mon for it since it already threatens steels so it wouldn’t be super busted

Alternative changes: Truant becomes active once every 3 turns instead of every other Turn (Turn, Turn, Truant, repeat) Defeatist: Pokemon Speed, Attack, and Special Attack get Halved at 25% HP rather than 50%…

That would be fine too, would definitely help it counter protect spam. Defeatist at 1/4 or 1/3 like in radical red would be better too. Archeops could run a pinch berry for healing more effectively

Truant in the mystery dungeon series has a unique effect. If you hit a pokemon with a contact move then you can get put to sleep I personally think it would be neat if maybe youre forced to loaf around during truant but you recover 1/6th of your hp or something

Slaking is interesting. Power creep made his power even less worth the trade off as time went on. What if Truant now gave every attacking move Gigaton Hammer's drawback where he can't use an attacking move twice in a row? Granted that might allow him to become too strong, since he does get good setup moves to work with and can play around protect now.

I like the suggestion for truant. Personally I would balance defeatist by having it act as a +1 to every stat before you reach half hp, then when it gives you -2 it ends up being a net -1 in every stat. This would still make the pokemon usable. I don't even think Archeops is good enough to have that much of a nerf but maybe if they lowered the base stats for attacking slightly and increased defensive stats by that amount, it could prevent this kind of change from being overpowered like guerilla tactics.

With Truant, have the mon fall asleep after using their move and through next turn. Then they wake up on the following turn and attack and repeat. The intermittent sleep status could protect them from other status conditions while still keeping the idea intact EDIT: This also allows them to use Snore and Sleep Talk, kinda keep with your "lazy move" idea

The other option can be the Pokémon with truant gets a dmg cut protection on the slacking turn so it takes less dmg.

3:07 To be fair, 2 of those (Burn and Paralysis) are a major problem in competitive, to the point where people use Toxic Orbs (which are usually a major HP loss) just to prevent them. Edit (3:27): Wait, it doesn't already do that??? What were they thinking???

That’s why it is so worthless as an ability😭😭😭 I honestly never seen it prock in a serious battle

@@MattBudYT True. I honestly think it's more of an oversight on Game Freak's part than anything else. There's precedent for it being done better, after all. If I were to guess, Leaf Guard is older and kept that way for some sort of historic reasons. For a moment I was thinking if Leaf Guard might be viable as a Skill Swap/Entrain tactic in a sun team to disrupt Resters, but that would at the same time keep the enemy safe from other status hazards. It's in a weird niche where it's not good enough to use yourself, but not bad enough to viably force upon your enemy.

You forgot to balance Unseen Fist and buff Iron Fist Unseen Fist needs to deal less damage when the opponent uses Protect (similar to that of against Z-Moves and Max moves), whiling Iron Fiat needs to deal as much more damage as 1.3x like Tough Claws and Sheer Force if not 1.5x like Strong Jaw, Mega Launcher, Sharpness, Adaptability, Technician, and Tinted Lens Iron Fist really looks tame and weak compared to the other damage-boosting abilities. The only problem is Conkeldurr (the strongest one) would go even crazier in VGC trick room teams and Melmetal (the 2nd strongest one, even if slightly) would be even more absurd with a stronger Iron Fist than it already is.

This was just part 1. I plan to cover more abilities in another video! These take a lot of time to edit and collect clips so 4-5 abilities per video is likely what I’m going to do. For Iron Fist I do agree, but yeah, it would boost Melmetals Double Iron Bash and coverage punch moves even further. Most other mons would be fine I think Conk wouldn’t be busted though. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment I appreciate it

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Here is how i would fix Slaking/Truant: 1. Truant is now only active when above 50% HP. Once below, i think it would be quite angered, so Truant would stop. 2. Speed is halfed when above 50% HP, but at the same time it has a boost for both defenses. Once below 50%, Speed is at 100% as well as the Defense buffs being gone. 3. Slaking can use "lazy" moves during Truant turns. I think the Speed being halfed while its above 50% HP should atleast balance out the other buffs it gets. It would be a cool gimmik to play with.

Truant should buff Slaking's Defense while loafing around (like in that clip you showed where Hawlucha, a Fighting Type, did nothing to it)

Not a bad idea. Maybe takes half damage from loafing around turns?

Slow start needs to be reduced to 3 turns overall, keep the progress even if it switches. Truant needs to only proc if you use an attacking move, that way slaking could play around protect and be viable. Those are the blatant bad abilities of course, they need to be buffed a bit.

I was thinking that slow start turns shouldn’t reset on switch out. Would be a cool strategy to switch your regigigas in and it count as a burnt turn. Then you get an actual good mon after.

@@MattBudYT Good late game sweeper in UUbers most likely. It would probably be banned out of OU if they made its ability less restrictive.

Maybe give parental bond to more Pokémon or a ability that works just like it however the catch is each attack be it a status move a attacking move or anything that ends up being used twice also costs twice the pp with stat boosting moves like power up punch only boosting the stat on the 1st hit not the second. And if faced with a foe with the abilty pressure 4 pp would be used instead of 2 almost like being affected by spite giving a semi underwhelming ability such as pressure a strong counter to a potentialy overwhelming ability that could then be allowed to be given to more Pokémon due to the shear number of Pokémon with pressure out there that are good.

2nd hit not having the secondary effect of the move would be a good balance change for Mega Kang. Probably enough to make it an OU mon.

@@MattBudYT I was thinking more along ways to make it balanced enough that more Pokémon could receive the ability or something that is machanicly identical as it’s a amazing ability but locked to megas which we may never see again in a mainline game is just wasted potential for the future

@@BluMNBafnGaming realistically which Pokémon do you see getting that ability? Off the top of my head the only ones I can think of is Dragapult since it has its dreepys on it.

@@MattBudYT I was actually thinking new Pokémon in later generations with somewhat lower base stats. As a way of giving them some kinda special quality ti help them stand out. Just like tinkaton got a amazing move but mediocre attack but still had swords dance. A amazing ability could do the same thing also were the ability let’s special moves hit twice be kinda cool. So like I said machanicly same ability but possibly using a different name to make it able to be given to more Pokémon.

But a regional form of kahhaskan could be a good start or even changing inner focus into the new parental bond ability also works for kanghaskahn.

Regigas’ slow start is a crime against humanity. At the very least let the turns count even after switching out, but a better change could be two turns of only speed halved

I’m theorizing some changes for Slow Start when I make part 2. I like these ideas a lot!

I recommend doing a video where you fix the rest of the abilities that have no competitive uses

Definitely a part 2 in the works down the road

Do Pokémon that need to be fixed next. They gave them new significant moves (Torterra, Empoleon, Floatzel, Scizor, Kommo-o, Drednaw, Beartic, Ceruledge, and some others), new abilities post gen 5 (Scolipede, Torkoal, Pelipper, Gigalith, Gallade, Empoleon, Shiftry), and even increased stats (Clefable, Pelipper, Scolipede, Krookodile, Beartic, Mantine, Masquerain). Anything but added/changed typings and stat spread overhauls from scratch are on the table under GameFreak’s book. Pokémon that need to be fixed: -Meganium: Replace Leaf Guard (as is) with Flower Veil or Triage, also give it Calm Mind, Earth Power, Dazzling Gleam, Draining Kiss, Wish, and Pollen Puff -Sceptile: either give it a actual special movepool or just swap it’s Atk/Sp. Atk stats -Flygon: Increase it’s Sp. Atk (80 > 100), give it Sand Rush and Tinted Lens, maybe give it Quiver Dance too -Electivire and Magmortar: Give them Iron Fist and Mega Launcher respectively or give them both Sheer Force; also expand their movepools a bit like Volt Tackle, Close Combat, Drain Punch, Bulk Up, and Knock Off for the former, Aura Sphere, Dark Pulse, Dragon Pulse, and Earth Power for the latter -Scrafty: give it STABS Sucker Punch and Mach Punch, as well as Gunk Shot and increase either it’s HP (65 > 75) or Atk (90 > 100) -Golurk: Increase it’s HP, Def, and Sp. Def all by 10 points each (89/80/80 > 99/90/90), also give it Headlong Rush for a bonus

That idea is definitely on the bucket list. Lots of those mons mentioned definitely need some love. I’m gonna cover something similar in my next big project of a video

@@MattBudYT Just remember that anything *except* added/changes typings (sorry Golduck and Grapploct) and stat spread overhauls (sorry Flareon and Luxray) are on the table in GameFreak’s eyes. Yes, they just did their first stat swap ever (that isn’t a mega) but it’s only a small tiny 5 points each and it’s less because it needed the 5 extra points in Sp. Def and more because of Sharpness damage output being 1.5x on mostly 70 BP moves alongside 135 Atk (instead of the 130 Atk it has now)

Scrappy also got modified to block Intimidate too

Yeah forgot to include that. They really did a good job to make intimidate counterplay after its long dominance

To be fair Slaking is still absolutely broken in non competetive Ruby Saphire and Emerald, great for Nuzlocke runs

Yeah there definitely is a difference for competitive and in game modes. Slaking’s power can nab KOs easier than most mons. Just need to give it some worth in competitive tiers too. Mon is way too cool to be rotting in PU

@@MattBudYT Honestly, I think in Gen3 Slaking is pretty broken even in competitive. It's just that with newer gens, the possibilities and the meta evolved to a point where the nerf from Truant has become much more severe.

Healer needs to be fixed. Mega Audino loses Regenerator for it, despite Healer being almost worthless in double battles and COMPLETELY worthless in single battles. Turn Healer into being Hydration without weather. Mega Audino with Rest that wakes up at the end of the first turn would be a real threat instead of the lower tier Mega it is now.

Healer is terrible agreed. Mega Audino would actually be solid if it kept regen. I think adding a self heal in some way would definitely make it worth while. Regen would be optimal on that mon though

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Hustle needs a tweak as it tends to make moves worse

I’m actually pretty fine with it as it is high risk/high reward. And I think every mon who gets it has access to another decent ability

Maybe truant could heal every other turn idk

I think truant is based on me how did they knew im definitely throwing my switch now THOSE GF RATS

😂 sounds like you need a buff, bro

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It sucks to have to use that mon in order to make mons like Slaking viable in a format😭 I am mostly trying to help it in singles though

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