Best Team for Pokemon Heartgold and Soulsilver: Meganium Edition 

Hey use Drill Peck for Fearow once you get it. I also usually say to use Drill Peck anyway. I made an oopsie on that 1 😇 Happy Late Thanksgiving 😁

i swear youtube are getting too comfortable with these double unskip able ads

In my opinion, earthquake is a must on meganium - it helps it deal with poison, fire and steel poekmon. luckily you can get the TM in victory road

I honestly wish Johto was balanced better for grass types. Maybe reduce the number of poison types and add some water and rock types.

Honestly, I wish grass had a bigger place in Jhoto. Pretty sad.

Hell, I'm not mad at you for the Rhydon and Magmar additions to the team. When the Gen 4 games came out, I was all about using Pokemon that Paul had in the anime. Since I didn't have a buddy near me with a system or games to trade with, I used middle stage Pokemon that did pretty well! Threw a Focus Blast and Psychic on Magmar and it did GREAT!

Apologize to meganium >:(

i just started a play through with Chikorita two nights ago, perfect timing!

I like the addition of the entire team's picture together at the end. It was a nice touch!

Girafarig is one of my sister’s favorite Pokémon. In fact, Girafarig not being in SWSH is one of the main reasons why she skipped out on getting one of those games.

Mystic: use fearow instead of pidgeot Dodrio: why nobody use me? Crobat: hold my difficult development Skarmory: hold my "nobody use me"

Voltorb flip hardest thing in the whole game Emulators: I’m about to ruin this mans whole career

Nice of you to get this out, at last. A few things: I'll just go with a wild Spearow rather than stealing one. For Magmer and Rhydon's evolutions, I do have 2 DS's, so I'll be able to get them when the time comes. I had no idea you could get Girafarig early before Morty, so that's nice. Really looking forward to your next vid here. Hope it's something as good as this one!

Meganium was my first starter when I played SoulSilver as a kid

Fun team Mystic! I’m actually planning to use Meganium and Girafarig (and Golem, which works similarly to Rhydon only earlier) in my next SS playthrough. We’ll see how that goes

Meganium, Fearow, Espeon, Ampharos, Mamoswine and Tentacruel is my planned team for HeartGold. I haven’t played Johto before, but I do want to soon.

Meganium is actually the best johto starter to face clair's kingdra. it tanks its hydro pump and even dragon pulse like a boss, and an overgrow boosted petal dance hits like a truck. I had one in my last playthrough with petal dance, earthquake, iron tail and giga drain and honestly? it didnt fall from any other of my members (donphan, magmar, lanturn, pidgeot and nidoking). plus it has an amazing design

Your Meganium is bad because you’re using it wrong. You’re trying to use it as an offensive attacker and it’s a defensive stall/wall. Body slam - good power and chance for paralysis Toxic - wear down your opponent with increasing damage Synthesis - heal up and continue to let toxic wreak havoc Petal dance - your strong stab move. If you wanted to go even more defensive you can swap body slam for reflect/light screen and swap petal dance for giga drain for even more recovery. Meganiums job is not to hit hard it’s to wear down and wall big threats so your other team members can come in and sweep.

As much as many people would like to defend it, Meganium is largely classified as the worst starter for a reason.

I used Meganium on my heart gold and I ran with Meganium, Golem, Togekiss, Arcanine, Jolteon, and Lapras this was one of my best teams that got me through Heart Gold

I'm just here trying to figure out how he decides when to shake his little avatar while speaking.

Meganium is one of my favorite starters as far as design go. Its beautiful in my opinion. Its a freaking long neck dinosaur with a flower on its neck, how cool is that

Great vids bro keep grinding

I too like the Chikorita line design and concept wise as well. But I do remember playing through HGSS but struggling to use it but that was like maybe 3-4 years ago when I didn't have access or know how to build a proper team to use in an in game playthrough. So I see Mystic's best teams as a "godsend" if you will towards helping me beat the main series games.

I've used Girafarig in 1 of my GS playthroughs. I've only played Gold, Silver and Crystal on the 3ds virtual console

Girafarig was really good through my Heartgold play through it put in some work :)

Great videos man keep up that good work

I would actually teach girafarig stomp via level up. its a STAB, has a chance to flinch and 80 base physical attack isnt that far off from its 90 base special attack

Glad i'm going to play heart gold again this time my team will be completely different from my Playthrough team i did

i love the Team Mystic, i understand you want Fearow but i think for me Noctowl would be good it learns some Phychic and Flying moves it does really well with most important battles

It's honestly a bumber that Gamefreak doesn't make Grass Starters more useful in most regions. They should be given more love.

I used the level 1 Togepi vs morty and it worked since immunity and sucker punch doesn't proc on Metronome, I thought I was going to lose in the last 1v1 part when that's what it came to but boy did I make a fool out of him

When you said Meganium was going to be the “supporting cast” I thought you were going to bring up its support moves, like Poison Powder, Reflect, and Light Screen. But these best teams are mainly about who can do good super effective damage to major bosses. Speaking of, I hadn’t thought of using Girafarig to cheese Morty before. Gotta remember that one! If you choose Chikorita, it’s probably a good idea to trade for an Onix to make early game fights with flying and bug types much easier. Best teams vids don’t include trade evolutions buuut you could evolve that Onix into Steelix and use it through the whole game if you wanted. Metal Coats are held by wild Magnemite or bought from the Pokéathlon Dome on certain days.

1.Meganium Petal Dance : Level 32 Strength/body slam : HM/Level 46 Swords dance : TM Iron tail : beat Jasmine 2.Fearow Fly : HM Aerial ace : Level 17 Return : TM U-turn : beat Bugsy 3.Girafarig Psychic : level 18 Shadow ball : beat morty Charge beam : TM Thunder : TM 4.Rhydon Earthquake : Level 49 Stone Edge : Level 45 Shadow Claw : TM Mega Horn : Level 57 5.Lapras Surf : HM Perish Song : Level 27 Ice Beam : Level 32 Thunder : TM 6.Magmar Flamethrower : Level 41 Confuse Ray : Level 25 Faint Attack : already have Rock Climb : HM

I like using these as small stepping stones for my nuzlockes. Of course, things don't always go according to plan when you don't get the right encounter or you lose a mon in battle. But that's the fun!

Wow, seeing Clair near Karen really perks me up like a Mocachino, since I love them both.

Merci beaucoup d'avoir fait cela. Chikorita est mon starter Johto préféré, et cette équipe a fait des merveilles pour moi. Merci encore, mon pote. (Thanks so much for doing this Chikorita is my favorite johto starter, and this team worked wonders for me. Thanks again, Mate)

The safari zone can actually be opened to the player before beating Chuck or Jasmine. I just brought the medicine to Jasmine without battling Chuck and then the Safari zone opened so I could catch Mr. Mime early. It does require some surfing back and forth though

When I saw the move set for Meganium I was ready to replace strength with return, but then you said body slam and now I’m thinking that’s a better option thanks to its chance to paralyse the opponent. How would this move set work for a Meganium: Light Screen Reflect Poison Powder (later Toxic) Synthesis/Giga Drain Boost up its already decent defensive stats while the opponent is poisoned over time and you switch to a heavy hitting member of your team that is protected by the dual screen set up?

Meganium is my precious baby and I'm so happy it's getting it's love now. Been working to find a good team for a Meganium run for a while now. so this vid is perfect! *IDGAF if it's useless! We shall make Meganium work damn it!* 👌 Edit: Meganium AND Giraffarig?! This is my fave team by far!

I actually used magmar until i got into Kanto then I caught my favorite *gen2* fire Pokémon Houndoom!

I’ve been waiting for this since feraligatr and I was very early

3:24 Mystic: “seriously, just look, there’s little to nothing good in this pool” Earthquake in that movepool: “Am I a joke to you” (assuming Earthquake isn’t gonna be used by something else)

Finally some love for the cutest starter in my honest opinion even though I love fire types as starters

I had a team of meganium, dodrio, arcanine, kingler, espeon and ampharos and it was actually really good and fun to use. I gave meganium giga drain, leech seed, body slam and light screen/petal dance

You love Megainum and I think you saved the best for last for you Mystic. Sorry for the crappy move pool for her.

The last time I ran through Heartgold with Meganium, I went to the trouble of getting Swords Dance (from the Game Corner) because Meganium can learn it this generation. Yes, Razor Leaf isn't that strong, but with a Swords Dance it and its other physical moves work pretty well. Edit: Ah, I sort of spoke too soon.

Awesome video bro

One thing I like to do with meganium runs is catch a female geodude making it arguably one of the best pokemon for the first 4 gyms and then run light screen and body slam on meganium so I can fill the rest with whoever I want

Chikorita is always my go-to starter in these games. If i remember correctly, I went with Meganium, Ampharos, Lapras, Togetic (Togekiss), Arcanine, and Ho-oh with the First Pokemon League Challenge Then I changed Ho-oh to Dragonite in the post games.

FANTASTIC VIDEO!!

My team for Heart Gold is Meganium, Noctowl, Ampharos, Heracross, Donphan, and Kingdra. I will say that a fire type would balance that team out better…but I like my crew.

This is actually a cool team. the team is full of pokemon people don't usually use which i think is cool because these poke deserve a chance

Choose meganium it can take down the extremely strong Pokemon wooper

FINALLY MYSTIC IS BACK

I love Meganium because of Ash's Bayleef. Great job with the team! 👍👏

Thank you so much

You should do videos on if you can beat a Pokémon game using your rivals set up. Go through all gens and all starters! That would be interesting to watch

Mystic I love your team

I see why you’d use magmar as a fire type, since there aren’t many anyways in these games, but I am currently using Slugma/Macargo. Flame body has been an excellent ability to be able to exploit, especially since it halved the damage of Chuck’s poliwrath, and gets to evolve by level up. The way to get slugma is really stupid, but there’s a website you can go to that generates all the Primo codes by entering your trainer ID. Slugma has proven a useful fire type against Silver’s Bayleef/Meganium, and access to rock type moves by level up offers good flying type coverage, good coverage for certain ice types, and is a defensive tank to boot. Also, Heracross is still a good option who can learn Shadow Claw not only to exploit against Morty and Will in particular, but is an easy way to farm Exp off of them

When he said "it's not the best psychic type" I half expected a Wobbuffet

I completely forgot about Meganuim's existence.

I played Heartgold and ran with - Meganium, Crobat, Heracross, Arcanine, Umbreon, and Lapras... it posed a few challenges, but made the game really fun and interesting. Had a great time running with this roster!

I would much rather play voltorb flip for a while than use a 70 accuracy move. The only way I use thunder is if there's rain involved.

The balance of meganium's moovset in this game is the same as the balance of fire types in diamond and pearl

I’m using girafarig in my Pokémon Silver playthrough. In 20 years I’ve never used a girafarig. His name is Notlob and I love him.

Cool team I like it! Very interesting

I decided to switch things up and chose Chikorita as my starter for my newest playthrough of SS… and yeah its entire evolution line is not great

From my personal experience is either use Noctowl as a flyer or none. You don't really need a Flyer as you can just grab it from the pc if you need it. Noctowl is at least useful againty morty. Ghost Attacks won't affect it and it can't fall asleep due to it's ability. It also learns Psychic Attacks to hit them effektiv or use Foresight and normal attacks afterwards. Rhydons place can be filled with Geodude. Just grab a female one and you're good on the first two gyms. Or use the a password generator and grab the slugma egg in Violet City. It learns Rock Throw at level 11 and wipes the floor with the first two gym leaders. In theory Slugma should perform great in johto. If you get a female chikorita the two of them can beat the first three gyms and Noctowl the fourth. You basiclly just need a water and a psychic pokemon and you're fine

I hated how grass couldn’t shine very well in johto. Meganium is in my top 10 favorite Pokémon of all time so I wanted to use it. But I like that it’s more defensive. The thing never dies. 😂😂 I think for the league I’m going to use meganium, mamoswine for the dragons and Kogas poison types, heracross and ampharos for will, Lugia, and lapras for the surf/waterfall and more ice type coverage for lance.

My team is Dragonite Feraligator (might get swapped for lapras soon) Ampharos Espeon Belossom (might get swapped out soon) Hitmonchan (also might get swapped) I just got to kanto

Day 39: Top ten strongest pokemon according to the pokedex

@mysticumbreon you forgot Lapras can do good against Erika's entire team, if the player is feeling bold and risky. Due to Lapras knowing Ice Beam going up against Erika grass type pokemon.

I agree with you I love Meganium as well

I've played the johto games many times i own at least six copies of the games both the originals and the remakes and I've picked Meganium many times and i never struggle with, it body slam is a beast of a move and it paralyzes everything i also always teach it earthquake and it's very useful honestly it's not hard at all.

For my move set with my baby meganium I'd use the move set: Sunny Day Solar Beam Body Slam Seed Bomb, Razor Leaf, Giga Drain

My team is Feraligatr, Ampharos, Crobat, Heracross and Donphan. For my last team member I was thinking of getting a dark type that can beat ice and I came up with two choices, Houndoom and Tyranitar. Who do you think I should use? (Btw I am not in post game)

I’m curious to see how a Bayleef and Kenya would be able to get past the 3rd gym.

The mystery egg Togepi I got had Extrasensory and evolved a few trainers be for Morty, so I wrecked their shit with it.

*Meganium is my favorite grass starter of all time so I’m loving this video off title alone*

Giraffig is an underdog. Magmar too is in the same category. Very strong done right.

my team for HG was meganium, ampharos, vapoureon, magmar, mamoswine and forretress.

It honestly surprises me Chikorita's considered "hard-mode" for G/S/C. I almost exclusively ever picked it every time I played those games and I never really had any trouble. Hell, I beat Claire's Kingdra with it. I'm glad this video shows that an "objectively" bad Pokemon can still be viable so long as you've got a team that covers it's weaknesses and helps it. I always found Typhlosion boring and frankly I absolutely despise fire types. While I do love Feraligatr, water types are way too plentiful and water starters are generally outclassed by more common mons. Exceptions being the Mudkip line, Greninja, and the Poplio line.

Idea, Maybe best teams for popular Rom hacks such as Light Platinum, Blazed Glazed, the Kaizo games, Gaia? Just a suggestion.

My personal team for HGSS, of which ive managed to complete the games multiple times. The first level is the one around the level i fought the eliter four for the first time and the second level is when i fought Red at mt. Silver. Meganium (lv 55 / 75) - Petal Dance / Strength (Rock Climb) / Poison Powder / Synthesis Noctowl (lv 50 / 65) - Uproar (Hyper Beam) / Hypnosis / Extrasensory / Air Slash Heracross (Same as Noctowl) - Close Combat / Megahorn / Horn Attack (Strength) / Aerial Ace Lanturn (Same as Noctowl) - Confuse Ray / Surf / Discharge / Signal Beam Mamoswine (Same as Noctowl) - Ice Shard / Earthquake / Rock Smash / Take Down Post game: Houndoom (lv 65) - Flamethrower / Sludge Bomb / Crunch / Dark Pulse Id be very honest that i was really really shocked that meganium tanked 2 fire blasts from red's charizard with more than 20% health to spare even after hail damage, despite being a good 5-ish levels lower. This helped my battle a lot when poison powder was wearing charizard down and i managed to slowly recover my team with revives and full restores. Sending out volt absorb lanturn against pikachu also rocked cause you can land a 50% damage surf on pikachu. Hits once if pikachu uses thunberbolt on first turn and hits twice if pikachu uses quick attack then thunderbolt. 🤣

Even in a walkthrough i use meganium as a staller bc thats whats its best at XD

I have 2 3ds systems and I played soul silver on both. On one i completed only one badge and on the other I've finished johto. I traded gengar and alakazam for the trade evolution. I was able to actually trade totodile to the game that had typhlosion. I'm yet to see anyone use multiple starters. I'm actually able to use totodile. Levelling him up now to feraligatr. Planning to play heart gold with all three starters. Try it out guys. Sounds like fun NGL

I like this video because I picked Chikorita when I first played

Heartgold was my first pokemon game, and I chose Chikorita as my starter. So in a way, Meganium is a special pokemon to me personally.

Meganium is one of the best Pokémon for its design. Really fits the Pokémon design ideals

A slight mistake I noticed is you said you need strength to get past the sudowoodo. You don’t. You only need the squirt bottle from the flower shop after you beat sa-I mean Whitney.

BEST TEAMS FOR POKEMON COLOSSEUM AND XD GALE OF DARKNESS!!!!!

tbh i'd change meganium's moveset. 1. meganium - strength (hm) - razorleaf (given that you give meganium miracle seed, this move will have aprox. 99 bp with stab and miracle sedd boost. A bonus to this is its high crit ratio) - lvl 6 as a chikorita - earthquake (coverage against poison and fire types) - victory road - irontail (coverage against ice types) - jasmine special mentions: - poison powder (used for whitney) - synthesis (heal agaisnt whitney) - reflect (against physicak attackers, learned at lvl17 as a chikorita and lvl18 as a bayleef) tip1: u can leave synthesis and poison powder while you haven't gotten both earthquake and iron tail. tip2: use a combination of poison powder and synthesis to beat whitney 2. Fearow - fly (hm and really good move) - drill Peck (best flying type move imo) - lvl 37(spearow), lvl47(fearow) - return (stab + high damage with max friendship) - goldenrod dpt store. - u-turn/steel wing (u-turn is for psychic types and steel wing is against ice and rock types, u can choose what ever u want imo) - bugsy(u-turn), steel wing(route 28). note: steel wing is in route 28 so its kinda alr late when u get it. special mentions: - pursuit (against morty and pesky psychic types)- lvl 13 - aerial ace/ peck (your moves before you get fly and drill peck) - lvl 1(peck), lvl 17(aerial ace) tip1: commit ✨ t h e f t✨ and steal that spearow. tip2: once you receive fly, u can replace aerial ace while waiting for drill peck. tip3: before u can get drillpeck, have the movesets; fly, assurance, return, u-turn.

When I used Meganium I used Togekiss, Sudowoodo, Persian, Magmar and Dewgong probably not great but I did fine

I beat silver version on gbc my first time with chikorita very challenging but so worth it

Very will if you give this moveset to alakazam: Psychic,reflect,focus blast,recover It got me through the whole game

Thank you for doing these videos :) What if I can get rhyperior and magmortar???? (turned off impossible trade evos in roms) video ideas: Pokemon RB Squirtle & Charmander Edition Pokemon RSE Torchic & Treecko Edition Pokémon DP Piplup & Turtwig Edition Pokémon B2W2 Remastered Edition Pokémon XY Remastered Edition Pokémon Sun and Moon Remastered Edition Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon Remastered Edition

Mr Stake managed to survive a fire type attack, so I'd say meganium has a good enough shot

My newest team: Feraligatr (my favorite johto starter) Heracross Magmortar Kingdra Mamoswine Alakazam

I love Meganium because of the design and how cute Chikorita is