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PokéMonday Night Combat

PokéMonday Night Combat - PokéMONday Night Combat!

Giant Bomb's resident Pokémon Professor shows us what's super effective in some good old battling!

Resident Pokémon professor Jan Ochoa shows us the ins and outs of competitive Pokémon battling!

Jan. 14 2019

Cast: Jan

Posted by: Jan

289 Comments

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Loved this, thanks Jan! I'm playing Pokemon but still get confused with what beats what. Find myself thinking things like: "Well... earth grounds lightning so lightning Pokemon must be ineffective against ground types" then watching lightening trash my Geodude. If anyone knows a simple powers diagram please do link me.

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This was great to watch, hope we get more of this!

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Best new gb feature? Definitely showed me how casual a pokemon trainer I am but I still love the game.

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I enjoyed this, but I agree with others that an occasionally guest commentator might be cool as well.

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this was great!

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more plz

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Very cool Jan! Enjoyed the show.

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This was fun to watch.

What a strange choice by the developers to include Stealth Rocks but no way to remove them.

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That was dope lol from beginning to end!

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Just wanted to chime in with everyone else and say this was a great stream. Jan is my favorite type of person; someone who is very earnest in their interests. It lets him talk with confidence and excitement (even when he is in unsure situations) and it's wildly infectious. I'd love to see more of this, especially when the new Switch game comes out. Ben and Jeff on color commentary would be amazing as well.

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Just got done watching this and despite not caring about Pokemon at all I thought it was pretty riveting.

Please do more of these, also just one request Jan if you can: Please, crush your opponents... crush all of them.

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eSports!

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Man, this was great! Thanks Jan!

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As someone who loves Pokémon and competitive gaming, I hate competitive Pokémon; that being said, I do love seeing someone who knows their shit. Jan being super knowledgeable about the meta made this a treat, and I'd love to see it again!

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GREAT second match!

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We definitely need more of this. Also the bean bags must be mandatory.

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This has been my favorite video in awhile, keep it coming Jan!

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I love this and I love Jan, more please!

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More Jan and more PokeMONday Night Combat!

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Fully on board for more PokeMONday Night Combat! Lifelong pokemon fan but I never got into battling but I like to watch them!

Also would love a nuzlocke playthrough cause they are always fun and more JAN content. Make it happen!

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More of this, Ive never actually seen decent pokemon play and this is awesome. Ive played a bunch of the games but only ever single player and you never really need to engage too much with the higher levels of play due to the low difficulty

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This was great fun! Loved Jan's intimate knowledge of the series and teaching people like me who only play pokemon extremely casually what the other side is like. Well done Jan for carrying a whole video solo - seems like it would be intimidating but you were flawless!

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This was great! More please!

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Awesome, loved it! Hope you do more Jan!

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Im a bit late, but more please!

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I would love to see more MONday Night Combat, that was quite enjoyable. Jan knows far more about Pokemon than I ever have.

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Would love to see more MONday night combat!

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Really cool.

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Putting a MMM in the comments for More pokeMonday night coMbat cause MMM that was good

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Really dope would be down to watch more Jan PokeMONday Night Combat!

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I'm a little late because PAX but please do more of this series Jan it was really great! The big beedrill energy runback had me freaking out (in a good way ofc) on an airplane.

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I have no interest in Pokemon whatsoever, but this was pretty neat. Thanks, Jan.

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This was a lot of fun. Jan, you've got a great way of talking through all of your moves so that I have some idea of whats going on. Good stuff. :)

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These streams where Jan's alone should be called "Jan, Solo"

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I want more of this content.

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I didn't know all hazard removal was removed in these games. That's just. . .wow. How in the world does the decision get made to allow Stealth Rock, one of the most divisive moves around, without providing a means of countering it?

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i played pokemon religiously in my youth & adolescence but never touched competitive battles so this is fascinating to me. even my roommate who admittedly hates pokemon watched & seemed interested throughout, even comparing it to watching serious poker games. that second battle had me on the edge of my seat! keep it up, can't wait to see some crazy lineups from both sides.