How GOOD was Latios ACTUALLY? – History of Latios in Competitive Pokemon



Latios is today’s Pokemon for our competitive history series! Join False Swipe Gaming in this overview of Latios in competitive Pokemon! #pokemon #pokemonscarletandviolet #pokemonshowdown

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Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
1:15 – ADV/Gen 3
3:49 – DPP/Gen 4
7:15 – BW/Gen 5
19:27 – XY/Gen 6
26:19 – SM/Gen 7
28:24 – SS/Gen 8
31:26 – Outro

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Resources and Historical References

History of Rule Variants: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Rule_variants#Nintendo_Cup_.2799

Smogon University:
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Maikiri
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Aaron Cybertron Zheng:
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Pokeaim
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Pokemon Battle Historia:
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Nintendo Cup 2000 Team Construction:
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Nintendo Cup 2000 Tier List:
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Pokemon Japanese Battle Wiki:
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41 thoughts on “How GOOD was Latios ACTUALLY? – History of Latios in Competitive Pokemon”

  1. Seeing Tobias not only had Darkrai but also Latios made me wonder what the rest of his team looked like. There's no way he has two legendary Pokemon, then something like a Bidoof, Starly, Shinx, and Kricketot. I assume he's packing heat for the rest of his team too!

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  2. I think it speaks for OU's historical lack of foresight when the higher-ups were HUNGERING to add Latios onto their tier as early as Gen 4, even when it was bloody obvious it was way too strong.

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  3. Got to love the Outro part while giving a shoutout to Joey in the agency of his favorite mon for sure!
    But I didn’t expect it to have this amount of success going for it since only catching it post game and such.

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  4. Unpopular oppinion: Latios was the main reason for the introduction of the fairy type. No other Pokémon in OU has had a move so spammable as Latios's Draco Meteor in Gen 5. It was the ultimate: "Press the purple button to kill something."

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  5. I'm going to say the same thing I said in the Latias video: any "competitive" gen 3 Latios is invalid due to the games having a glitch where all its IVs are always set to 0 except for HP which is 10.
    Another reason why I can't stand Smogon.

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