Kyurem is today’s Pokemon for our competitive history series! Join False Swipe Gaming in this overview of Kyurem in competitive Pokemon!
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0:00 – Intro
1:11 – BW/Gen 5
8:28 – XY/Gen 6
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22:06 – Outro
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It's interesting how this series views being banned to Ubers but sucking in it as a good thing. I'd rather stay in OU and be played a lot in that.
Base 120 Sp Atk to base 130.
Not sure if that’s “much” stronger…
Neat
Kyurem is one of the few mons with a better 3d model than 2d sprite.
It really went through every tier and then got banned to Ubers 😂, this thing was in ru once
Kyurem is basically just nostalgia, since it's literally nothing based on lore…..(I'm probably completely wrong here, but I saw so many nihilistic 4 chan posts about it I assumed it was a Poke Joke…..a Jokemon?????…..*disappointment noises*
It dropped to ru!
me knowing full well the atrocities i committed with it on ladder
yeah… sure lasted a while didn't it.
I've been waiting for this one! Gen 5 UU and OU was the hay day of my smogon competitive play. I remember when Kyurem was put into UU and it went under the radar for about a week until people realized that it had been moved down a tier, and I was spamming it as soon as the updated tiers went live. I was so upset about Kyurem in UU that I just spammed that exact choice specs set until it got banned to OU. If anyone was playing UU showdown ladder during this time, you surely remember the boogeyman that was Kyurem. Choice specs blizzard+ stealth rocks one shots most of the tier (something like 90% or more) with a neutral hit. It was straight up dumb, probably one of the most mis-tiered pokemon ever.
Kyurem's deformed ice wing always made me feel uneasy playing Gen 5 for the first time. So props to GameFreak for successfully presenting it as a discarded husk of a pokemon.
Think about this for a moment:
Kyurem is the only Legendary (and maybe only pokemon) that is allowed to play in almost every tier and still remain a relevant face in pretty much all of them.
"Why be the best Mon and be banned to the point of seeing no play, when you can be good enough and be used everywhere"
Kyurem 2010…
Hit Kyurem with the double-fusion and finally give us the Original Dragon, Gamefreak
Ive always liked Kyurems sprite, I liked how he moved back and forth like he's losing balance. Impressed he went from RU to Ubers lol, I've always thought Kyurem was one of the random pokemon
it's very cool to see something i witnessed in real time be explained in so much detail. i remember reading on r/stunfisk about the rise of hail and ice types and the eventual banning of kyurem
How good was Bronzong ACTUALLY?
Still waiting for full form kyurem
With tera in gen 9 it would be a monster
Lol I totally didn’t expect this incomplete base ice dragon to be this goated.
Kyurems journey in gen 8 is really interesting cause most other Pokémon who were outclassed in previous gens would end up benefitting from the dex cut only to then fall more and more as the crown tundra and isle of armour get introduced. Kyurem did benefit from the dex cut but although it initially did fall after dlc came out it rose even greater than before and actually surpasses it's performance of the previous generations due to people realising it's talents. Nice.
You know, as far as ice types goes, dragon is one of the better dual types it can get(ice/ground is another good one), ice will never be good defensively, but this one is at least managable.
It took 3 gens for every Kyurem form to get into Ubers. A wholesome family reunion.
I love Kyurem so much. I picked it up because I wanted something with freeze dry in Gen 8 and I haven’t looked back. Kyurem absolutely shreds rain teams and that is beyond useful in the past 2 gens of National Dex. Plus with Terra it doesn’t even need to run specs to utterly shatter teams. Love this guy so much
Funny thing is Kyurem was not ever shiny locked in bw and bw2
as the the ice started to melt, it got teh dragon dance and ice spears options then roost + freeze dryy. lets go favorite ice dragon UU to Uber. unpredictable but got there
I really like Kyurem's og design, how he looks skinned
I rey hope that the Original dragon becomes an official Pokémon it gould be an amazing addition to a leyends Unova gane.
This video is perfect timing since i caught my shiny kyurem today
FINALLY
lmao imagine being a terrifying, man eating space dragon and being outclassed by a large, hairy pig