Every Region's CANONICAL Strongest Pokemon 

disclaimer: I'm not a mathematician Also, yes, Machamp is another Pokemon capable of moving mountains (presumably very slowly) but more than likely Blastoise just out right washes the mountain away lol

Another potential contender for Gen 3 is Metang, who can apparently slice through thick metal sheets "as if they were silk" using its claws. It can also fly at 60 miles per hour, and apparently its body "won't be scratched" if it collides with a jet. Honestly, I think that makes it even more powerful than several of the Pokémon on this list, assuming that the Pokédex is talking about a head on collision at Metang's max speed. All of this is while Metang is not fully evolved, mind you. Imagine how durable this thing would be with an Eviolite.

Basic on the Pokédex, Lanturn emits light from the dark seas which is visible from the surface of the water for ships at night, which would take 10^35 times more energy than the mass energy observable universe

I argue Tyranitar should be on the list for gen 2, considering it can also destroy mountains. And according to it's entry in Crystal it can do that with only one hand.

The fact that Magcargo is hotter than the Sun doesn't mean that life on Earth would stop. Mass is a determinant factor. Someone a couple of hundred meters from a Magcargo wouldn't even notice its presence.

Suprised Tyranitar isn't on this list, multiple dex entries talk about how it can destroy mountains and change the landscape so much that maps have to be redrawn, basically the same power as gmax copperajah.

I think for gen 5 you could have included volcarona, the pokemon litteraly replaced the light of the sun when an eruption happened that hide it

I think I'm going to have to give it to Gardevoir on this one. Not only can it generate a black hole, but it can also stop itself from being sucked in, which honestly seems like the more impressive feat to me (though I too am not a mathematician or scientist).

The most tame Pokedex entry on this list was about a steel kaiju being a gardener. This franchise is weird man.

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One more thing in Raichu's favor though is its Legends Arceus entry where it is retconned from a meer elephant to a full on Copperaja Raichu one-shots with electricity

Chesnaughts other Pokedex entry states that it actually has enough force to flip a 50 ton tank, which , according to math, is about 444822.16 newton's of force. Nearly the amount an airplane engine exterts to fly.

I like how in the champions league podcast yesterday JPR talks about the old thumbnail format from a couple of years ago where you have one super popular Pokémon and then a super random one and then the next day puts out a video with that exact format

The best part about Friday’s is coming home for my lunch break to see a new JPR video drop. Friday lunch is best lunch

Just so you know Magcargo's feat isn't really that impressive nor would it cause the destruction of all life like people say it does constantly. We have literally created fusion reactions 5 times greater than the surface of the sun in a lab.

To be honest, I think we could argue that any ghost type Pokémon capable of absorbing the life energy of people and Pokémon might be stronger than all the Pokémons on your list that are not Magcargo or Gardevoir. And when you see that a little candle is deliberately doing it on children, you know that living in the Pokémon world is a REALLY bad idea.

While not overpowered or anything, Houndoom leaving a burn that never heals just sounds dreadful

People often reference macargos insane temperature as deadly but they fail to realize just how good an insulator air is (the surface of the sun is also the coolest part of the sun by several orders of magnitude). Basically if you were standing like 10 meters away from macargo you wouldn't even feel the heat coming off of him.

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your argument for kingler > machamp is a little weird so cloyster's shell can tank a bomb, and kingler can break it and machamp can throw thousands of punches in seconds, +Gmax his punches are comparable to a bomb going off idk, could cloyster's shell really stand up to thousands of bombs going off every second?

Thank you for using both standard and metric. A HUGE pet peeve of mine is when content creators only use one or the other, making you pause the video constantly to do conversions. It's really not that hard to just put both on screen or say both so you cover all viewers.

Just clarifying it here because everyone seems to think that the black holes Gardevoir makes is so dangerous. 1. At the size of it, let's assume the size of a baseball, it would have a weaker gravitational pull than even the Moon's, making it pretty much useless. 2. For reference, even if the sun hypothetically becomes a black hole right this moment, it still won't have enough gravitational pull to kill us all off. What will kill us in this hypothetical situation is the lack of sunlight. 3. A black hole that little would likely collapse due to the gravitational pull of the earth and sun ripping through it. It's easy to misunderstand the danger of Gardevoir's small black holes because of how black holes are usually portrayed in popular media.

The intro of this video had me dying!! Keep up the good work good sir

So I guess blastoise is low key the most powerful..cause his mega and his gmax forms on top of what he can do normally? He’s a demon!

I'm sorry but if you're saying that Gigalith destroying a mountain is more powerful than Volcarona REPLACING THE GODDAMN SUN then I don't wanna know what logic you're using

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Man that intro song gets me pumped every time. Love this channel.

Lockstin actually debunks the Magcargo dex since the heat need to be the equal of mass and with Magcargo size it's not that dangerous or exaggerated it makes out to be Gardevoir creating a small black hole would be no issue since like again, the mass and size of the black hole is small

It doesn't change your results, but for grimmsnarl that math is a bit different. Surface area(size) actually affects the volume and weight exponentially so the 100x size would actually mean 1000x the weight instead of 100x the weight. Copperajah still wins by a landslide. But just an interesting note.

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The problem is he does not differentiate between strongest and most dangerous. Beware is the best example it’s the most dangerous but not the strongest. It’s the difference between a mad man with a knife and a saint with a gun. The one who can do more damage is not the one who likely will do more damage.

pokedex:cloyester shell is unbreakeble ash kingler:casually break cloyester shell

I'm surprised volcarona didn't get a look in gen 5, I don't know exactly how powerful one would need to be to substitute for the sun, but given how devastating volcanic winters can be, that's gotta be a bit of a feat, right?

While not exactly strength-wise, Tyranitar deserves at least a mention. According to the Dex, Tyranitar cannot be harmed.

Haha! What's funny about this is the fact that it's been memed on that Poke'Dex entries were being filled out by Children being sent out on their Pokémon journeys haha! ..and the Professors were just being lazy and going .. 'Eh whatever, Good enough!' LOL! 😂

9:27- They are feeding them Magcargos, since Magcargo is the snail pokemon and they eat snails in France...

First video where I’ve seen the thumbnail and gone: Huh, that sounds pretty interesting!

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mancargo is apparently wrong because that's its body temp not the temp it gives off

Electivire's Ultra Moon dex entry: "A single Electivire can provide enough electricity for all the buildings in a big city for a year." Big jump from 20,000 volts

Question: What was the footage used at the end of Gigalith's section from? Thanks in advance. That aside it's a good thing pokemon don't decide to use the full extent of their powers for world domination, although given the evil Malamar trio are out there some exceptions apply.

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but isn't Grimmsnarl's body (or at least a good chunk of it) made up of entirely hair? It's been shown like that in the anime so I think it won't weigh as much when G-Maxed

So I looked up the horsepower of the pumps for water jets and they range from 30-150hp just for posterity. Obviously a larger nozzle would require more power, but we would have to know what size nozzles blastiose has to calculate it.

Ahh that time of day where I get off work on a Friday sit on the toilet and watch a jpr video 😁

4400 Newtons is Roughly 200 lbs btw, so 4000 Newtons is not that much compared to some of the others.

I love using things aside from BST to measure power of a Pokémon!

Gardevoir: I can make a small black hole Lanturn: that’s cute watch me destroy the known universe

I'd like to argue that psychic types are actually the most powerful, just in general. Think about it, why destroy mountains yourself, when you can mind control others to do that for you?

Magneton's entry in Yellow: Generates strange radio signals. It raises the temperature by 3.6F degrees within 3,300 feet (or 2C within 1km). This is a subtle one that isn't as obvious of a show of strength as some of the other dex entries, but it would take *at least* tens of megawatts of constant power output to affect the air temperature like that, and it's kind of implied that's without even trying or performing an attack, just a side effect of existing.

Lanturn can shine light from the bottom of the ocean to the surface. Considering how well water dissipates light, that's enough power to boil them.

To further add to how strong Bewear is, in the anime it also fought against Guzzlord and even managed to throw it and knock it down with a punch and that saying something.

Okay the Magcargo might be hotter than the surface of the sun but not hotter than the sun in general. The sun apparently ranges between 27 million degrees Fahrenheit at its core and 10,000°F at the surface. 10,000°F or even 18,000°F isn't THAT hot. To put that into perspective the average Bic lighter reaches about 3,600°F

Machamp can "punch its foes over the horizon," "move mountains with one arm," "punch 1000 times in 1 second," "unleashes megaton level punches," "can send a train flying with a punch"

The generation 3 pokedex entry for tyranitar says “it can bring down a whole mountain to make its nest” so it’s on par with gmax copperaja in base form. And in gen 5 it says something about it going on rampages so destructive entire maps must be redrawn.

What gets me about gardevoir is that when she's protecting her trainer. She has access to one incredibly powerful DARK type move

Machamp can literally punch a man over the hoziron which is allitle over 3 miles and pick up a mountain with 1 hand. On top of all of that the belt is a canonical limiter on his strength so he did all of this NOT BEING AT HIS FULL POWER so it is by far one if not the physically strongest of all non-legendary pokemon

Magcargo is beaten out in gen II by Lanturn, whose dex entry states its light can be seen from the ocean's surface when it's deep underwater. The energy required for this to be possible would be MASSIVE, much, much higher than Magcargo's measly 18k f.

How do you take into account stuff like the ability to change the weather? A hurricane has a lot of energy

Really big missed oppurtunity not to make the "mini black hole" Gardevoir can make into a signature move.

"I'm not Matt Pat" *proceeds to use Dynamax Pikachu to calculate the jumping power of a Dynamax Grimsnarl.

Bruxish may have the strongest bite force of any pokemon since its dex entry states that its jaw is easily capable of breaking a shellder shell. The shelder line's shell are harder than diamond.

"So gigalith have achieved more than we humans ever hope to achieve in a blast" the atom bomb" let me introduce myself"

Ice Hammer was in fact a signature move lmao. Great video though!

copperaja: *has to Gmax to destroy mountain* Gigalith: look what they need to mimic a fraction of my power

7:11 yo Skarmory just died bruh 💀

im more impressed not at marcargo's existence in the real world would kill us, but how the humans in the pokemon world are literally just built different LOL

Pokemon worlds tallest buildings are like over the skies

Thank you for being one that understands large volt number doesn't mean a lot if it doesn't have an amp rating (and a time rating can help for sustained power) like 100,000 volts at .000001 amps wouldn't have enough wattage to power a lightbulb

Seeing as Horsepower is just torque x RPM, we could say Kingler's pincer has a crushing force of 10,000N⋅m. Take a 1 meter long ruler, hold it on one end with your hand. Now put 1,000kg on the other end, your hand is experiencing 10,000N⋅m of torque. The Pokédex for Gingantamax Kingler is pretty brutal; "The left pincer of Gigantamax Kingler can destroy anything it hits. The bubbles it releases are strongly alkaline. Should any opponent be struck by the bubbles, their bodies will quickly melt away." @JPRPokeTrainer98

Magcargo isn’t as dangerous as you think. It’s BODY temperature is high sure, but it isn’t it’s surface temperature.

Horsepower is a perfectly usable unit of measurement to assign to Kingler’s claws-it tells you the power output of the muscle contractions, and metabolic and mechanical power output are of great interest to biomechanics. It’s not as directly helpful for “plug and play” determination of how hard Kingler can pinch but it’s fundamentally more useful in broader application, since things like force and pressure are going to rely on the specific interaction of whatever it’s using those claws on, or even individual variation of claw shapes between specimens (power output would also reasonably vary within a range). It’s not “made up” it’s just not a direct measurement of force of force or pressure. You’d need to do analysis of Kingler’s claw with that figure in mind if you wanted to know, and as far as that *kind* of analysis go it’s probably pretty simple because it looks like a simple lever. You need mass estimates of the two halves of the claw, average distance from point of rotation that force is applied by muscle fibers to discern mechanical advantage of the muscle fibers, and if you really wanted to get gritty you’d simulate the closing action of the claw and assume that either the average or peak power output with respect to the force-velocity relationship is 10,000 horsepower. Then you could probably use this information to determine the force the claws can put out at the highest (unmoving squeeze, technically zero power output) as well as the impact potential of the slamming claw (its going to be shutting **unbelievably** fast, so there’s going to be a heavy impact with high force and pressure). Pressure can be ascertained with an assessment of the contact area of the claw’s edges with the object being pinched and the length down the claw the pinching is happening. Most materials will probably be sheared or warped by these stresses, and there is no one-size fits all figure for the pressure put out by the claw-in this sense horsepower is infinitely more valuable since it’s more objectively telling you how powerful the claw is rather than an unknown example. If you actually have engineer friends they should be able to help you work this out if they’re willing, but you have to phrase the question in terms of systems and give them something to actually work with, not slap it next to Blastoise and go “which number is bigger”, because that IS a nonsensical comparison. That all being said I can probably save you some time here-under the given pressure assumptions, Blastoise’s water cannons are going to consume *unbelievably* more energy in short periods of time, since even if Kingler’s power output is higher it can only generate that power for a fraction of a second-the claws can’t close more when they’re already closed and the high power output itself means that closing will happen very very fast, with the energy of a given snap almost certainly never breaking tens of kilojoules under those figures at the absolute most. An example garnet abrasive water jet cutter (they typically don’t *just* use water) at 50,000psi might consume in excess of 26 kilowatts (joules per second) at a rate of under a gallon per minute. Energy isn’t everything but when you scale up from a 0.014-inch diameter nozzle… The only concern with that conclusion is that there shouldn’t be enough room in Blastoise’s body to actually store enough water for any kind of even vaguely sustained fire, but it and every other water Pokémon seems to access to vaguely infinite sources of water like how every fire Pokémon never seems to run out of fuel, so, whatever. That all having been said I would caution against the assumption that Blastoise’s cannons do have the same kind of pressure as a water jet cutter in the first place, since the mechanics of punching through steel plate don’t need to be the same, especially when the diameter of an impactor is more substantial in comparison to the width and you don’t actually need a clean cut…

3:34 that made me snort, I can imagine their face when you asked that question

Forgot Tyranita's dex. It doesn't win but it could've gotten a mention

I loved your reaction to the gen 6 Pokemon 😂😂😂

Lanturn being able to illuminate the surface of the sea from 3 miles deep beats everything on this list.

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Horsepower is a unit of measurement. While normally used for engines, it measures 550 foot-pounds per second for 1 horsepower. As such, Kingler's 10 thousand horsepower would be the equivalent of 5.5 million foot pounds of force. While it's only over the surface that it can grab, Kingler can crush anything.

i love how the video devolved into comparing pokedexes

4:43 just because something is hot doesn’t mean that it’ll radiate that much heat. Comparing a superheated lava snail to the sun is like comparing a 3000 degree cutting torch to a 1600 degree bonfire

i did the conversions for Blastoise and Kingler based on known data and Kingler is stronger when converted to kilograms of force, so yeah, for Gen 1 Kingler is the strongest

You can most definitely turn horsepower into something comparable to the power of a water jet. All you need to do is convert that unit into joule’s, if you just simply take the wattage of the crusher (1 horsepower is roughly 740w off the top of my head) times the amount of seconds it is capable of holding that force. Of course we don’t have an exact unit for it but you can go head and give some assumptions. I’d say that he should be able to hold that pressure for a singe second, that means 7400000 joules. You can convert any feat of strength, velocity, or heat into joules, a true measurement of energy.

Moral of the story, don’t trust facts written by 10 year olds.

Let's take a moment to remember that Machamps amd Tyranitars are also apparently able to demolish mountains. Additionally, Kingdras are said to cause vicous whirlpools BY MERELY YAWNING. Imagine if one screamed on purpose.

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Lightning is also than da surface of da sun. You gassin Magcargo bro

Love the ‘yes you have been played’

if i recall lavitar supposedly eats mountains or something, so much for snorlax being the biggest glutton

"Congrats you been played" well damn you got me

The thought of a 105ft grimmsnarl getting 40 seconds of air time is simultaneously terrifying and hilarious.

I hope we get an evolution to clauwitzer (spelt wrong I’m sorry) I love the Pokémon, and want it to become the first multigenerational pseudo legendary, and become only the second water steel type.

I use to operate a water jet back when I was about 19 working in a fabrication shop

I thought gen 2 would be tyranitar cus one of its entries says it levels mountains so that would put it on gigaliths and gmax copperajahs level

Hey does anyone remember the blue hair guy who would sing to you in one of the Pokémon games? When he would sing, the music in game would change to a strange lullaby. Anyone ever come across that in the games?

The kingler in the thumbnail sold the whole video for me.

Imagine having a Pokemon battle and some dude sends out a Blastoise and it literally blows a hole through your pokemon and kills it

larvitar eats entire mountains when tyranitar goes on a rampage maps need to be redrawn afterwards these are a bit hard to quantify but tyranitar is pretty deadly

What about volcarona who acted as the sun

Isn’t Machamp strong enough to push mountains with only two hands? Also, since it learns Seismic Toss naturally, can’t it yeet every known Pokémon into orbit?

Gigalith outclassing nuclear explosions with that 60 base special attack, hot damn

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