Recent Developments in RBY's Lower Tiers
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Published 2024-03-26
This video ended up being wayyyy bigger than expected, so much so that I was originally planning to cover OU too and ended up having to scrap it due to scope creep, but OU will absolutely be getting it's own video in the future!
Massive thanks to Shellnuts, Sabelette, Gastlies, and Gangsta Spongbob for helping with research for this video, and Sceptross for a lot of really fantastic insight into OU that unfortunately didn't make it into this vid, but I will be sure to mention in the future!
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00:00 Introduction
05:05 UU (Underused)
15:18 NU (Neverused)
24:52 PU
29:28 ZU (Zeroused)
41:18 Closing Thoughts
43:17 ???
Music Used:
In Spite of One's Age (Arranged) - The King of Fighters '98
Briefing - Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge
Theme of Sakura – Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold
Theme of Birdie – Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold
Industrial Complex Theme - Kamen Rider Climax Heroes
Backlight Babe (Theme of I-No) - Guilty Gear Korean
Leave Alone (Theme of Dudley) - Street Fighter III : 2nd Impact
Tutto Finisce a Tarallucci e Vino - Penny's Big Breakaway
An Unforgettable, Distant Day's Promise - Project X Zone 2
Pursuit ~ Lying Coldly - Ace Attorney Investigations
It’s Gotta Be You – Mother 4 OST
Sources:
www.smogon.com/forums/threads/spl-xiv-rby-teams-re…
www.smogon.com/forums/threads/spl-xv-rby-teams-rep…
www.smogon.com/forums/threads/rbypl-iv-replays-and…
www.smogon.com/forums/threads/rby-uu-hub.3647713/
www.smogon.com/forums/threads/rby-uu-hub.3647713/p…
www.smogon.com/forums/threads/rby-uu-sleep-re-susp…
www.smogon.com/forums/threads/rby-nu-hub.3679758/
www.smogon.com/forums/threads/arcanine-and-fearow-…
www.smogon.com/forums/threads/arbok-in-rby-zu.3739…
www.smogon.com/forums/threads/rby-7u-hub.3706804/p…
All Comments (21)
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I thought I could handle any possible developments in the metagame but the words "rest Tauros" immediately ruptured my colon and liquefied my innards
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Smogon RBY lower tiers have Gangsta SpongeBob. The N64 Zelda speedrunning community has Pope Squidward. Now we just need, like, a Layman Patrick out there to complete the trinity.
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Victrebel's fall to the lower tiers feels like those "Famous people that got destroyed by their addictions" videos
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I will always love how one of the most knowledgeable people in the lower tiers of RBY is called Gangster SpongeBob, like “thank you for enlightening me on the niche uses of Magneton gangsters SpongeBob”
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If people are curious in 10U a new meta shift is lead ditto instead of lead weedle
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Gangster Spongebob is so powerful he bans things just by speaking them. What a guy.
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Big Yellow drinking game: Take a sip every time he uses the word "niche". It's like having a Toxic Orb as your hold item!
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God those little edits to the Pokemon sprites are such eye candy.
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Big Yellow and Reverend are in the opposite spectrum of "showing excitement towards something they love" and I love them so much for that
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And as Gangsta Sponge bob once proclaimed, Confuse Ray is now an offense punishable by 5 1/256 glitches in a row.
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That squarespace fake out was incredible, really had me going
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The nicknames are some of my favorite parts of these videos, shoutouts to "Tricurious" the Dodrio
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RBY POSTING this is a huge day for gamers everywhere
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that tangela gif of the guy looking at the fridge and finding 2 viable moves fckin killed me, that's peak niche meme I love it
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damn, they're right, I don't want to create a digital storefront
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Big Yellow is so cool I wish colors were real.
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So now Ninetales is officially the highest-tiered fire type in RBY
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UPDATE: as of now, Arbok is banned from RBY ZU, for pretty much all the reasons big yellow said
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"because gangster spongebob said so " made me giggle. thank you gangster spongebob
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There is something about hearing a heartfelt thanks to “gangsta spongebob” accompanied by that image that makes me laugh every time 😂
