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0:00 – Intro
1:05 – BW/Gen 5
5:04 – VGC 2011
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7:39 – XY/Gen 6
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12:53 – SM/Gen 7
14:47 – SS/Gen 8
19:40 – VGC 2021
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It’s a shame that Runerigus wasn’t able to do much in Gen 8. If this was a few generations ago, I’m sure it would have made for a great lower-tier Pokémon, but such is the nature of power creep
HELL YEAH I love these two ghosty bois! When I was starting to take competitive more seriously recently, I made my first doubles team themed around ancient Pokemon. I decided to make Runerigus the core of my team as a stall-y trick room setter and had an absolute blast pairing them with offensive mons like Perrserker and Stonjourner, and extra support with Spiritomb and storm drain Cradily. Couple these fun competitive romps with its awesome design inspirations, and they've easily become one of my favorite Pokemon lines.
How GREAT was Heatran ACTUALLY?!
Cofagrigus has a soft spot for me because of the Egyptian motif. Need more Egyptian themed pokemon.
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how good was mienshao actually?
I love how you have to nickname it or else you can’t use it online cause it has the f slur in its name
Conkeldurr! Pleeeaase!!!
I remember using mummy to remove slow start or truant from regigigas and slaking.
Huhuhu! Welcome to GLORIOUS GOLD!
Gen 7 NU: Ha, we're not scared of any overglorified coffins. We got a cat named Incineroar. What could Cofagrigus do now?
Cofagrigus: Okay then. returns with a vengeance
Gen 7 NU: I TAKE IT BACK! I TAKE IT BACK! PLEASE GOD I TAKE IT BACK!!!!!
I used to do trick room weakness policy runerigus and somehow managed to 6-0 somebody
Wolfe Glick my GOAT
Yamask always was one of my favorites pokemons
I love Cofagrigus. One of my favourite Pokemon of all time and my fave Pokemon from gen 5. The design was stunning and creepy, and the cry was ear pleasing. Wish it got a decent healing move though. If it had that it would have been soooo good in Gen 5.
Cofagrigus showing off that world champ difference
Allow me to present my own cofagrigrus sets, as cofagrigrus is one of my favorite unova, ghost, and defensive Pokemon in one package
Note, all of these are gen 8, as it gave cofagrigrus one of its greatest moves:
Will o wisp
Hex
Body press
Pain split
The thing about pain split I've learned, is, the lower your hp STAT, the more effective pain split is at draining HP and healing your own HP
So, neglect any investment into hp and dump it into defense and special attack
Focus on hitting physical attackers, burn them, use pain split to lower their health if necessary, then hit hard with either a stab 130 base damage hex, or with the most perfect coverage move possible, coming off of it's stellar 427 defense stat
No need for boosts, as, pain split can act as an attack itself, with hex and body press being easy clean up, with will o wisp to help facilitate all of it by boosting your survivability and damage over time
An offensive wall if you will
Will o wisp
Iron defense
Body press
Pain split
This is more catered to it's defensive qualities, clearly, by making it one of the hardest physical walls in the game to break, with it's unique access to ability nulification, plus, any physical dark types, with an iron defense, becomes pure food thanks to body press
Have fun and enjoy, should cofagrigrus get some way to heal and heal status simultaneously, it'll join my team permanently over sandaconda
how broken would a pokemon whose ability is to regain 1/16 of it's health every turn it stays off the field?
with how many common vgc names show up in these videos like wolf i wonder if a more vgc focused video could work. talking about how meta changed or specific players 🤔
One thing about Runerigus is that unlike Mummy, which makes the Pokemon that hits you get that ability, Wandering Spirit trades it for your foe's ability. This can be used in order to troll your opponent with Regigigas or Archeops, for example. And it would had been awesome to pair with Slaking, if Pursuit (and Slaking itself) hadn't been cut from Gen 8
Let’s hear it for a Gengar remake! It is October!
The gen 6 story is heartwealming
how good was rotom actually!
I found Cofagrigus design silly at 1st but it was one of those rare Gen V mons that got a excellent design transition into 3D. Cofagrigus will always be that low tier ghost type that can immediately turn the tables on hyper offense and balance teams not prepared for it.
It stinks that Runerigus was so bad in execution much like Dusknoir. They're both lore is rich, and their designs are incredible. Golurk and Decidueye are far better as a physical attacking ghost types while Cofagrigus, Jellicent, Pallosand, and Dusclops were far superior defensive ghost types. Runerigus could only be fixed through a typing change. I was hoping it was going to be a dark/ghost type before release but maybe it can find use through terastalizing if it is in Scarlet/Violet.
What Runerigus and Cofagrigus need are reflect type, and recover. These moves would allow them to bypass their established weaknesses while also providing much needed longevity throughout the match to cripple as many physical attackers as possible.
My favorite guy 🙂
I wonder, next week, will we finally learn about the competitive history of another Ghost type? One with an HP stat so high, it's only matched by Giratina. How GOOD (or bad) was Drifblim ACTUALLY?
I have been waiting for this forever! I will bask in its glory
Huge oppurtunity missed, to say at the beginning "the Patreons have spooken" 🙁
i often run a max attack max hp AV set on runerigus, it can switch into almost any move in the game, take another hit and do some insane damage
Ah! My favorite ghost-type 💜
I'm hoping Gourgeist is the Halloween special this year. It's a pumpkin, which makes it fit a lot better.