>>57249955I watched this video the whole way through.
I think he originally felt like he was onto something, but then soon realized legitimate, uncontestable examples were few and far between, but that he wanted a longer video, so he resorted to inappropriate lampshaded padding.
"Super Weak Thing Becomes Super Strong Thing" doesn't hold water when the thing doesn't become objectively all that strong. The premise is that Gyarados is demi-broken or outright broken, so something which isn't the best option post-evolution of an extremely tedious grind would theoretically betray the terms he's lain out.
Then you have the fact that the above is entirely a separate video from the concept of the title. Gyarados forming an archetype and Gyarados outclassing other options are two different subjects, here mashed into one video, not particularly elegantly in my opinion. The end result being a diluted product where I don't feel like there was ever a "point" or actual conclusion.
I walked away from this not being convinced there were many legitimate examples of this "archetype", and also nonplussed because as someone who hasn't played a mainline game in over a decade *and* has never used a Gyarados myself in any of those playthroughs, I never felt compelled to use it in the first place, and the concept is alien to me considering I follow the policy of "native mons only" pretty much every time.
