Golduck is today’s Pokemon for our competitive history series! Join False Swipe Gaming in this brief overview of Golduck in competitive Pokemon!
Looks like we missed some big VGC placements!
Big apologies to the ones we missed and thank you so much to those who pointed it out!
2015:
Nicholas Ong 2nd Place at Singapore Regionals with C9 Golduck
You can watch his Top matches here:
2017
Presten Clark aka SnoozeVGC won the Salt Lake City Regionals with double duck
Jarek Makarachuk took Top 8:
Finals Match:
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Timestamps
0:00 – Intro
0:42 – RBY/Gen 1
2:57 – GSC/Gen 2
4:17 – ADV/Gen 3
6:06 – DPP/Gen 4
8:04 – BW/Gen 5
9:25 – XY/Gen 6
10:53 – SM/Gen 7
12:00 – Gen 7 VGC
17:43 – Outro
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Ryan Gonzales
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Notice I said POPULAR formats, meaning a format where there is a significant amount of people who compete in it for tournaments and so on and so forth.
For the record, I do not care what rules or formats people play their battles by nor am I saying these formats are the only formats that should be played. The way you play Pokemon is between you and your opponent. I just like examining popular tournament formats.
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Looks like we missed some big VGC placements!
Big apologies to the ones we missed and thank you so much to those who pointed it out!
2015:
Nicholas Ong 2nd Place at Singapore Regionals with C9 Golduck
You can watch his Top matches here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glAtMwDnk5s&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BVLf_WYTeY&feature=youtu.be
2017
Presten Clark aka SnoozeVGC won the Salt Lake City Regionals with double duck
Jarek Makarachuk took Top 8:
https://www.pokemon.com/us/play-pokemon/salt-lake-city-regionals-2017/vg-masters/
Finals Match:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMdLQ7MXDxE&feature=emb_title
14:02 14:50 16:00 That is not how you pronounce Melbourne.
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i kinda like golducks gen1 sprite, i think the only way you would encounter one ingame would be by using the missigno glitch, which means that it usually was level 100+ which makes it a little more threatening than it actually was xD
How good is sylveon actually
I would love to see a Hisuian Golduck
When I first saw golduck I thought it was water psychic
Golduck: untiered
Pelipper, it’s gift, and VGC without N Dex: come, this is no place to die.
Ludicolo and Kingdra appearing: Well, this IS a place to die…
DUCK! That’s not a duck it’s a-PELICAN! – From Finding Nemo
is it me or is golduck just a good counter for primal groudon
Golduck is so disappointing for me cuz it’s so slow
Edit: ITS EVEN SLOWER THAN GROUDON LIKE WDYMMMMMMMM
13:14 I seem to remember Dan "Zog" Nolan as the one who popularized the term "Double Ducks." I don't remember if he was the one who created the term, but definitely popularized it in my mind.
I wish it was water fairy type
Lol i thought golduck was water/psychic bro XD
The second duck in “double ducks” is porygon 2, right?
This one pokemon I would like to see get a mega evolution if that mechanic returns
…ducks 🤣
Didn’t Golduck have a really cool niche in Gen 6 VGC? Since it could one shot Primal Groudon.
1k comment? Pls give golduck focus miss too.
1000
I'd say the best way to buff the Psyduck line is to give it a 3rd stage evolution, buff all of it's stats, especially special attack and speed
Missed opportunity to call the VGC team The Mighty Ducks instead
You only can get Amnesia if you catch all 151 in r/b/y. That is a lot of work.
I bet golduck is pure water because slowbro and starmie already existed in gen 1
Honestly its best buff was looking better gen 4 onwards (in the footage used).
In gen 2, it faces competition from tentacruel, vaporeon, qwilfish, suicune, and even Kingdra overshadows golduck in uu
Give Golduck 105 base special attack and 95 base speed and it would be better tbh
"It was a hit or miss Pokemon that missed more often than it hit"
Ah, Focus Blast the Pokemon
You asked for gold buffs? Well then here ya go. HP:100 Atk:82 Def:78 Sp Atk:98 Sp Def:105 Spd:85. What do y'all think?
Can you do Lickitung?
come to california
we got: Pelicans
I have a Mexican pog that came as a prize in some Mexican chips that labels Psyduck as a psycho type
What game is this
kyogre dies to parasect
groudon dies to golduck
somebody: golduck sucks
me: just because you're correct doesn't mean you're right
i remember using choice scarf cloud nine golduck to one shot primal groudon, that was fun
Expecting the video to start with unfortunately but FSG talks about Golduck’s great niece in gen 1 OU
Give it mega ray's ability
Just found out your channel, it's very cool man. I know it's a bit late, but I would like to specify that my Golduck had cloud nine in order to have a really strong match up against double duck and Lilli-Koal. It was great even against other things like Alolan Ninetails, which couldn't set aurora veil.
My favorite move set for golduck is
focus punch ,psychic, substitute, calm mind
For a while I thought Psyduck's beak in its Gen 1 sprite was a giant hole in its body instead, and I thought it was a giant doughnut-shaped creature
I used Golduck in ubers and defeated Dialga 1v1 😅
Is it just me, or do I remember (or at least thought) Psyduck and Golduck being water and psychic type, but for some reason is just water actually?
Golduck serves absolutely no purpose in any tier, except for Ubers, as it and Rayquaza are the only Pokémon who can OHKO Primal Groudon with a water move while Desolate Land is active
The more time goes by and the more I rewatch this video, the more I wish Golduck's stats were better, or at least that a pokemon with great stats existed in Gen 5 that had Cloud 9.