Fixing Kalos' Gym Leaders 

👋Hey everyone, thanks for checking out my video! ☀I just wanted to clarify that the difficulty we're aiming for here is a hypothetical "hard mode", something Pokemon lacks but is a feature I would love to see in the mainline games in the future. 💬Feel free to comment your own team ideas for the Gym Leaders, there's no one right way to do this, so be as creative as you like!

The Kalos gyms were so strange overall. This gen definitely needs a revamp the most

It feels like when they were making X and Y, they looked at the first few gens, and were like, "Oh wait, we're marketing this towards young children" and then proceeded to make all the gyms a cakewalk

Not the Flying + Levitate + Air Balloon Rotom 😭

I always found it weird how Korrina has such a huge focus on Lucario yet she doesn’t use hers in her gym battle.

Now there are Abilities & movesets with Attacks other than normal type WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY

You didn't set aside time to brag about it in the video (humble of you) but I like that Wulfric's choice of teammates is not just mechanically good but relevant to the region setting, story, and his personal tastes as a trainer: -Lapras (gift Lapras given after Korrina's gym, so must be common/traditional in Kalos) -Weavile (blue and red like Wulfric's theming) -Mamoswine (ride pokemon used to traverse deep snow in his area) -Avalugg & Mega Abomasnow (the ice dungeon in the previous town filled w/ them and featuring the latter) All this to say, your attention to detail didn't go unnoticed. Great vid!

Since they need to use Work Up in order to use Last Resort, that 327.6 base power move is boosted even further!

I loved X and Y, but it was cartoonishly easy, love the idea of Pokemon games requiring at least a little skill 😂

7:55 Nah, I hate this. Grant has a nice theme of having both fossils be his only team members at the same level. Which is probably one of the first we have seen in the whole franchise. I would definitely keep it that way, just buff them up. It would be also funny to see this be a double battle (we never get those early on for Gym Leaders). With the theme they picked for the Gym, I think it would also be justifiable to give one of them Air Balloon or maybe even both of them.

for grant, i think itd be more in line to give him an anorith instead of dwebble, as theyre basically the same pokemon thanks to similar stats and learnsets, but anorith is a fossil so it goes along with the other two im not sure if you can get anorith in XY tho

Watching the XY Anime then looking at the games, the Gyms leaders are really quite powerful in the Anime, Ice Beam on Surskit, and Draco Meteor on Tyrunt is insane.

Personally i think we should replace ledyba with a kakuna because out of all the bug megas i think mega beedril fits the best for vioalla so for the rematch she has a mega beedrill

I hate to see incomplete movesets so I recommend giving surskit mudslap and Vivillon gust or draining kiss.

Something I feel later gens fail to do is have TMs that are *unique* to their generation, and are incorporated into the gym leader's team. I think Hoenn did that the best - the only repeat TM is Thunderbolt, which you could easily replace it with Shock Wave. If there are no new or worthwhile moves of the gym's respective type introduced in said generation, maybe reconsider if that type should be used for a gym.

I'm sure it wasn't GameFreak's intention to imply it, but Clemont having Grass Knot on his Heliolisk immediately made me think "Dang, Ramos is so easy that even Clemont went to get a Plant Badge."

Dunno if this gets addressed, but only 3 trainers ever mega evolve within the main story. First is Korrina with the dual mega Lucarios, then Lysandre in the final battle with his Gyarados, and Diantha with her Gardevior. Thats my only real complaint about this gen, despite so much hype over megas, theres not many at all

It's such a breath of fresh air to see the Kalos leaders be powerful! Your sets were really well-done & creative, and amazing editing & humor as always :)

This generation needed a third version badly. Pokémon Z should have been the final one in my opinion. Zygarde would have had a much better treatment.

Tbf when Unova did E4 only 4 they were actually a challenge. Bisharp and Kroookodile, Jellecent and Chandelure, Meinshou and Conkelder as well as Sygilith and the wierd jelly cell (cant remember its name) all built a really great offense/defense with all the rest filling something. Heck evej Grimsly's Liepard was some form of a threat for a route 2 dark type

Kalos was my first Pokémon game. I recently replayed it and Jesus, it was a struggle to make it difficult. I had to play with level caps, no exp share, no battle items, no mega evolutions and no friendship buffs. But I still beat the whole game without losing once. The changes you made would absolutely help fix that. I will always love the games for their art style, music, locations and Pokémon. But their difficulty is unacceptable.

Im only at the grass gym but i appricate the details youre putting in with offering in lore reasons for gogoat only knowing 3 moves, or the leader's garden being full of Floettes. Its very sweet! You got yourself a new subscriber

These alternate version of gym leader's team is truly spectacular. Aside from Rotom fan who should have had a ghost gem. I hope you do the Elite Four and Champion next.

Fling + Poison Barb is such a fun gimmick, there's so much attention put into Fling mechanics I'm surprised no trainers in-game make use of them

This was really good, though I would’ve changed a couple of megas: Ramos: Venasaur Clemont: Manectric Valerie: Mawile Olympia: Alakazam Wulfric: Abomasnow I would add Ramos having a mega since you should have one by this point, and I’d change Clemont’s to Manectric because I think the elite 4 should have megas too: Malva: Houndoom Wikstrom: Scizor Siebold: Blastoise Drasna: Ampharos (would be unique for a dragon specialist, and a showing of some megas changing type)

You’ve done an incredible job with this video!! Giving the gym leaders mega starting from the fifth one is smart and I can see the game story changes so you get the mega Lucario after you have 4 badges

It was pretty fun! You stated that you made the teams for a Hard mode run so all of this seems cool.

I always appreciate these attempts to improve the challenge of gyms while _also_ smoothing out the progression curve. I've never been fond of Drayano's approach of giving every gym leader a full team, as it feels very artificial, so this is nice to see.

I really want to see you do this series without the region restriction. I think it would be so much cooler to see old gym leaders with modern options. 😄

I enjoyed this video. In addition to fixing Kalos' Elite Four & Champion, I hope that you go over the gym rematches at the Battle Maison/Chateau(I forget which it was) found on an early route. In the post-game, if you've increased your rank at this place enough, you could rematch gym leaders and even the Champion. It would be a good opportunity to design post-game teams for the 8 gym leaders consisting of 6 team members, one of which being a Mega Evolution.

These are some of the kind of videos i enjoy watching the most

Ledyba Level 11 I can understand Reflect and Light Screen learned 3 levels early for TM slots, but Psybeam… that’s an Egg Move that’s a bit too powerful for the first Gym. Keep Comet Punch for that Multihit attack.

The way I'd fix these battles are: Viola Kakuna - LV 9 - Harden, Poison sting, String shot, Infestation Surskit - LV 9 - Bubble, Quick Attack, Infestation Vivillon - LV 12 - Sleep powder, Gust, Light Screen, Infestation Grant Tyrunt - LV 24 - Bite, Stealth Rocks, Rock Tomb, Stomp Amaura - LV 24 - Powder Snow, Rock Tomb, Thunder Wave, Take Down Aerodactyl - LV 26 - Thunder Fang, Fire Fang, Ice Fang, Rock Tomb Korrina Hawlucha - LV 29 - Power Up Punch, Aerial Ace, Flying Press, X Scissor Pangoro - LV 29 - Payback, Power Up Punch, Rock Tomb, Slash (I know this is an early evo but tough) Lucario - LV 32 - Extreme speed, Power Up Punch, Bone Rush, Metal Claw (able to mega evolve) Ramos Gogoat - LV 35 - Bulldoze, Aerial Ace, Razor Leaf, Bulk Up Trevenant - LV 35 - Horn Leech, Confuse Ray, Will-o-Wisp, Forest's Curse Venusaur - LV 37 - Giga Drain, Toxic, Leech Seed, Venoshock (able to mega evolve) Clemont Heliolisk - LV 39 - Parabolic charge, Thunder Wave, Rain Dance, U-Turn Rotom-Wash - LV 39 - Hydro Pump, Thunder Wave, Shadow Ball, Thunder Magnezone - LV 39 - Flash Canon, Tri Attack, Thunderbolt, Charge Beam (wearing assault vest) Manectric - LV 42 - Thunder Bolt, Flame thrower, Hidden Power (Ice), Crunch (able to mega evolve) Valarie Carbink - LV 44 - Stealth Rocks, Reflect, Light Screen, Gyro Ball (Light Clay) Azumarill - LV 44 - Belly Drum, Aqua Jet, Play Rough, Ice Punch (Sitrus Berry) Sylveon - LV 44 - Calm Mind, Moonblast, Psyshock, Swift (Leftovers) Mawile - LV 46 - Iron Head, Play Rough, Sucker Punch, Power Up Punch (able to mega evolve) Olympia Sigilyph - LV 47 - Cosmic Power, Stored Power, Roost, Tailwind (Flame orb with Magic Guard ability) Gallade - LV 47 - Power Up Punch, Leaf Blade, Psycho Cut, Night Slash (scope lens) Delphox - LV 47 - Mystic Fire, Psychic, Shadow Ball, Energy Ball (choice scarf) Slowbro - LV 49 - Surf, Psychic, Slack off, Ice Beam (able to mega evolve) Wulfric Abomasnow LV 55 - Wood Hammer, Ice Shard, Bulldoze, Outrage (able to mega evolve) (also lead) Beartic - LV 53 - Aqua jet, super power, icicle crash, slash (choice scarf) Mamoswine - LV 53 - Knock Off, Earthquake, Ice Shard, Stealth rocks (Focus Slash) Weavile - LV 53 - Ice punch, Night Slash, Aerial Ace, Slash (life orb) Lapras - LV 55 - Hydro Pump, Thunder, Psychic, Ice Beam

We need someone to make a rom hack with all of these teams! Great video, thanks Rory!

You're getting a lot better at this! I can't watch it now, but I'll comment more on it later.

22:52 had me cracking up, amazing stuff as always ❤

Amazing video such good improvements to the team👍🏾

Awesome Videos and Awesome Changes Dude!!

fixes the elite team of kalos and Diantha

I love the ideas that you had for these guys. Can’t wait for the Elite Four with their brand new teams. Though, I’m thinking that Ramos could’ve had a Mega Venusaur on his team considering how he comes right after Mega Evolution master, Korrina. I’m thinking Grass Knot, Sludge Bomb, Earthquake and Petal Blizzard for it.

I was replaying Pokémon X recently and OMG THE BATTLES WERE SO EASY! I loved what you did with every gym leader, specially with Ramos Big Gourgeist and Clemont’s Rotom Fan holding an air balloon (that was genius, goes so perfectly with his character xD) Giving items to the gym’s Pokémon and letting them Mega evolve at gym 5 was so well thought too, good job at these changes I wish they were real, it would be such a fun challenge! (and PLEASE do a fixing the elite 4 of kalos video!) :)

Everyone really decided to predict gen 6 games 2024 huh😂

A lot of really great changes, I think you did an amazing job! I do agree the Kalos Leaders are strange, if that leak from many years ago is true, Kalos had an entirely different theme and was very much rushed when Game Freak didn't like the idea and wanted it changed. IMO the evidence is there and it makes sense why these games feel so...unfinished.

Nuzlocking X and Y makes them so much more rewarding. The first, second, fourth and seventh gyms are real challenges when you have limited resources, no exp share and a level cap, and restricting megas makes Team Flare legitimately scary. Def could do with a revamp overall though

Can't wait to watch this later!

this was some professional gourmet shit man you deserve way more subs gonna watch the johto video next

yayyy you're BACK!!

It’s truly perplexing how pokemon mc’highest grossing franchise on earth refuses to figure out to use the primary game system they haven’t touched in years

Great changes to the temas, this generation desperately needed them and you did it justice. Also how do you edit those team infos like in 5:21 for Viola? Is there a website to make them?

i wouldve replaced Mega Alakazam with MEga Medicham, since Alakazam is already Sabrina's Ace, Medicham would do a great role in dealing heavy damage and providing coverage. Id replace Gallade with a Bulky Reuniclus. Heres the movesets if ya want em: Medicham @ Medichamite Ability: Pure Power - Fake Out - High Jump Kick - Ice Punch - Zen Headbutt Disease Reuniclus @ Rocky Helmet Ability: Overcoat - Recover - Calm Mind - Acid Armor - Psyshock

Floette's a brilliant pick for Ramos! The Eviolite would make its effective base stats 79.5 for defence and 156 for special defence - great estimation. Grass type needs a buff imo :( Weird echo on "a lot with Grass types'" in the Gogoat section btw. That "top 3 most forgettable gym leaders" skit cracked me up, amazing. Yo nice Mega Ampharos animations! Valerie's cool, but no Whimsicott is a bit sad. It would decrease the Gen 6 representation, however, so it makes sense to not use it - surprised about the overlap with Ramos on Florges though. I was wondering - will the Assault Vest really help Avalugg? Turns out, maybe? It raises its base SpDef from 46 (below Ditto's 48) to 76 (same as Lanturn and Prinplup, just below Meloetta-Pirouette's 77 and Luxray's 79 and above Skeledirge's 75... which is also Servine's, Plusle's, Swablu's, Gengar's and Entei's). Maybe Froslass could work for giving Wulfric a counter for Fighting-types?

This is my new favorite video lol, I've watched it multiple times 😂

Wish they used your teams u put together it would put so much more challenge in the game… Love the videos keep it up

On the topic of Ramos (Or hell, even Grant) and further... don't anyone tell me that Pokemon XY weren't "baby's first pokemon". You've got Pokemon with open move slots, Pokemon almost 10 levels lower than you, they give you a free mega Lucario AND kanto starter How could they go from Hard Mode in BW2 to this... preschool level difficulty? Also giving Avalugg an Assault Vest doesn't seem like it works till you damage calc it. It has a base 46 Sp. Def, so 1.5 is 69 (haha nice), and with it, assuming the IVs are 22 across the board and say you give it full special defense investment, it then can take 3 moonblasts from your Florges (Math done with a Modest Nature, 0 IVs, and 252 SpA EVs since I don't have exact numbers). You cooked there

Solid improvements there! I would give Wulfric’s Mega Abomasnow Blizzard instead of Ice Beam

I think katrina should symbolise a power spike in the game, especially considering the extremely good reward in mega lucario. Id have given her a 4th Pokémon focused on coverage. Maybe even have given her lucario but replaced the mega stone with the item that boosts steel type moves to power up the already decent STAB bullet punch.

For viola I actually think Joltik would be a better fit. It suits her gym better and would be much more useful against flechling that we all know is gonna be used by most players. For Grant I think dwebble is a nice addition but I would also add a Binacle to his team. His team is terribly weak to steel types which is a problem with most kalos gym leaders making onedge one of the most reliable Pokémon in the game.

Great job for amazing change to kalos gyms

You have 2 leaders using Floette and Floreges. Don’t think in any gen we had multiple leaders using same Pokémon, only that gym leader doing so (aka Morty) or elite 4 members using repeats (aka Bruno)

I feel like ledyba just gives chespin more time to build up rollout and sweep everything else. I'd've given her a masquerain so intimidate could help with both its, and vivillons physical weakness.

Great video!

Also the people in x and y most severely impacted by not having megas were wulfric and the elite four especially since the anime literally gave them megas and aside from drasna who in the anime got mega altaria when it would’ve been fitting if she got mega ampharos so that it would’ve made all the megas they gave to wulfric and the elite four were megas that existed in x and y with the exception of drasna’s altaria

Glad you clarified it's a hypothetical hard mode, because I def thought through this "that wouldn't be great for the normal game" especially regarding giving the first gym leader Light Screen and Reflect. As well as introducing the berries that null supereffective moves with the first gym leader, it just wouldn't be the right time for it for a player who's still adjusting to the game. (Also, you wouldn't be able to get any yourself, so it would probably feel awfully cheap for the first gym leader rather than natural.) I also think the steel null berry for Amarua on the second gym leader would just come off as punishing the player for knowing the type chart for less intuitive types well enough to try. I think at least the first 2, probably 3 but to a lesser degree for the 3rd, gym leaders, at least in the regular game, should be about rewarding players for understanding the basics rather than being genuinely difficult. Like how Brock - and many other rock-type early leaders - is actually terrible, but he makes sure you know your matchups. Obviously this is all analysis assuming this is the regular game, which you stated wasn't your intent. On the other hand, when it comes to the phrasing of "fixing" it definitely reads to me as "improving for the regular game" rather than "creating a hard mode." I think you might also enjoy thinking about what a gym's role should be for its place in the game if you took into account typical game progression. Later gyms could still do silly and punishing things, but I think it might be fun to for you to consider what you're trying to teach the player with the earlier gyms rather than just maxing damage/survivability for the mons themselves.

your teams for them sound way more fun! so i dont think you're overdoing it at all c:

It’s about time you made a new video!

For me I came up with a idea for Pokemon Z when I was in early highschool Viola Level 12 Surskit Level 12 Butterfree Level 14 Vivilion(Ice if you picked Chespin Electric it you picked Froakie Ground if you picked Fenekin) I made Vivilion type based off it's mant forms you can get like tundra or sandy to make it worth collecting rather than the thrid Butterfree clone. Since this is the 1st gym it's moves will be weak ones like mud slap Powder Snow Thundershock. Surskit is a counter to fite and can get off an infestation or set up rain dance to weaken fire type attacks. Butterfree slows your team down with stuff like Stun Spore or Poison powder I'm not a monster you won't have to deal with Sleep Powder on 1st gym on a tanky yet non ace Pokemon TM infestation Grant Level 19 Onix Level 20 Auora Level 20 Traynt(oran berry) Onix is meant to set up stealth rock and sandstorm it has sturdy so it can do either. Aurora has refigate and can hit hard. Since you challenge Grant a lot earlier the only counters you'll get are Steel pokemon and Chespin evolution so he gets fire fang on Trynt. TM Rock Tomb 3rd Gym Clemont Level 25 Emolga Level 25 Lanturn Level 27 Heliosk(sitrus berry) I introduce Clemont earlier to deal with level gap you just return to the city because you find from the other scientists who were imprisoned that tech Team Flare is using is made by Clenont. You later find out Team Flare has Bonnie held hostage in return Clemont has to make tech for them. TM Volt Switch Korrina Level 29 Mineffo Level 29 Machoke Level 31 Hawlucha Level 32 Pangro(Sitrus berry) You won't encounter much fairy pokemon yet but you do get a lot of physics and flying. Mineffo in this game goes for flinching and will switch with U turn if it thinks it can outspeed if you bring a physic type to Pangro or Machoke if you bring a flying type. Pangro has bullet punch Halwacha and Machoke have rock tomb. TM: Powerup Punch 5th Gym Flying I decided to replace Ramos type since I want to do something different and Kalos introduces a lot of potential for flying pokemon. Level 34 Talionflame Level 34 Jumpulff Level 35 Skarymory(Sitrus Berry) Level 37 Mega Pidegot A diverse flying type team that covers so many weaknesses. Talionflame is a beast and switches out with U tur before attacking again when your weakned and can set up tailwind for the others. Jumpluff hits hard with acrobatics and can stall with leech seed Giga Drain and Sleep powder. Skarymory deals with Rock and Ice and has mud slap for electric. TM: Aerial Ace 6th Gym Fairy Level 40 Mr Mime(Light Clay) Level 40 Azuramil Level 41 Sylevon(Sitrus berry) Level 43 Mega Mawile Mr Mime sets up Light Screen and reflect and is answer to poison pokemon. Normal Mawile is beast with swords dance imagine what a Mega would do it's a great way to deal with Posion and Steel. Mawile has Liquidation for Fire and Ground Pokemon that's a last resort she usually switch in to Azuramil(with Huge Power) which has Dig as well for Poison and Electric. Slveon is Umbreon but a physical attacker fairy it can stall with Toxic Recover and Dig TM is Play rough 7th Gym Olympia Level 44 Malmar(Muscle Band) Level 44 Slighyph Level 45 Slowking(Sitrus Berry) Level 47 Mega Alakazam Malmar with Contray ability and has Superpower. If it sees a bug type it'll swap into Slighpyh. Slowking has Flamethrower for Bug and Grass. Alakazam has Shadow Ball and Dazzling Gleam for Dark and Ghost Pokemon. Slighyph has Focus Blast for Rock Ice steel and Dark. Also besides Malmar all are special attackers with Calm mind. 8th Gym Wulfric Level 54 Mega Abomosnow Level 51 Frosslas(Lax esscence) Level 51 Lapars Level 52 Avvaulg(Sitrus berry) Level 50 Gilalie(Muscle Band) I was thinking about having him send out Mega Abomasnow first to catch player off guard and prevent set up as it's just too strong while it's snow warning can boost other pokemon like Frosslas with snow cloak and lax iscsnce which boosts eviasness and it has destiny bond. Lapars great counter to fire steel and rock it's just meant to use sing or thunder wave and weaken your team. Avvaulg is a tank with Earthquake and Rock Slide to deal with all Fire types and rock and Steel types. Gilalie is just there Wulfric will send it out to use stealth rock or Explosion or a shield for one of his more stronger Pokemon Anyway that's challenge mode. For easy mode I can do another

When I saw the Fan Rotom in the thumbnail, I knew you were gonna go total meme with it.

I love your changes! Kalos was really too pathetic making the difficulty literally for children who have zero experience for pokemon. Which is honestly unfair when i could say the earlier games were harder for us newer players and it was still doable and fun. I still think that the later gym leaders should have a higher level increase. Taking into account how pokemon amie makes leveling even faster with a high affection boost, and the exp share's new rework, and considerate of wild battle exp on top of trainer battles. Do you prefer elite fours having a set order you battle them? Or have choice who you challenge in order? Personally, i like that SV went back to Elite Fours having a set order and each trainer gets progressively stronger

Sylveon casually having god’s tablet that enables it to change type

I think my biggest nitpick is how Ledyba knows 4 moves while Surskit and Vivillon only get 3. That's not really buffing them. Imo. I think giving Surskit Rain Dance could be good since it'll actually get some use out of Swift Swim. Otherwise it's just a useless Ability that does nothing. 😭 I'd personally change it to Rain Dance, Mud Shot, Bug Bite, and Bubble for Surskit while changing its nature to Timid. So it can get the speed boost from it + Swift Swim when Rain Dance is used. Mud Shot and Bug Bite would be effective counters towards at least two of the Starters (Chespin and Fennekin) with the added effects of Mud Shot lowering your speed as hers is increased and Bug Bite eating the berry your Pokémon is possibly holding. For Vivillon I'd change its moves to Poison Powder, Energy Ball, Flash, and Infestation. Energy Ball for coverage against Froakie and Flash to lower accuracy while being a reference to Viola being a photographer. Its Ability would still be Compound Eyes while also having a Timid nature for the speed increase.

I feel like Clemont should have a Manectric rather than Ampharos as his Mega considering Ampharos would be Drasna’s Ace.

Just saying: Water Sport and Mud Sport effects wear off if the Pokémon switches or faints, so they are useless except in doubles.

I think it'd be more likely that someone tries to use a fighting move against Grant, so a Chople Berry would've made more sense here in my opinion for the Amaura

It would be interesting to see you fix the diamond and pearl gym leaders while staying within the original sinnoh dex

I actually struggled against the Surskit 😅 and yes I did choose Fenniken.

29:50 this alone guaranteed a like, don't know how many times I rewinded to hear this bit again 😂 The Bruno slander gained a sub, boy I didn't know his team was *that* baf

Honestly i think Grant having four pokemon would've been okay. He is just the second gym leader, but he is an extremely late second gym leader.

"There isn't a way for the player to deal with Stealth Rocks from Grant's Dwebble." People who picked Squirtle: haha rapid spin go whoooooooooosh

Love to see amphy 💪

*Long comment warning* Yay I appeared in the comment stash! ❤ I strongly anticipated this video, and it sure delivered! Anyways, here are some observations: 1) A quick note about the player character's age (because of your joke about Viola): while their age is never explicitly stated, the Looker postgame plotline implies they're an adult. Emma notes that Mimi the Espurr doesn't trust adults, and sure enough, Mimi runs away from the player character and only warms up to them later. Note that Emma herself is 16 (as stated by a document you can read near the end of her plotline), so I doubt this could be brushed off as Mimi seeing teenagers as 'adults'. 2) I know you wanted to show that Korrina had good Pokémon and simply needed better moves, but part of me wishes she had used Lucario in her Gym fight. Especially since it would lessen her vulnerability to fairies that went more or less unaccounted for in the video (not that there are that many yet at that point). 3) Yes, exactly! You fight like four Mega Evolutions in the whole game (and one is practically a cutscene while another is postgame, so more like two). It's so underused. Giving it to leaders after you unlock it yourself is such an obvious call. I was gonna say that there should have been one for Ramos as well, but then I realized the only options would have been Abomasnow (who's already taken by Wulfric due to being the only ice option) and Venusaur (who, being a starter, would be awkward-- not that it hasn't been done before, see Gardenia's Turtwig, but still). 4) "I would tell you who the others are, but I forgot about them!" loooooool ❤ 5) I love how you removed Valerie's only competent Pokémon but still managed to make her what would be possibly the scariest leader. 6) Olympia is imo _the_ most forgettable leader in the whole series. The only reason I even remember her is that she's super nice in sending you right back to the entrance. The fact she comes right before the _absolute slog_ that is the Team Flare endgame doesn't help either. Is she by chance one of the "I forgot" leaders that topped Ramos in your book? Oh wait, you probably can't remember if she is, lol. 7) When you pointed out how good Wulfric's ace was, I almost pictured him cracking a certain pun about Avalugg. Let's just say it's a distant cousin to the iconic pun about Slugma. ❤ Anyways, outstanding work on this one for sure!

Scarlet and Violet had much worse of an over level problem than Sword and Shield. For both, I had additional part members that could be swapped and I fought all the trainers I could find and caught all the new Pokemon I could. I never “struggled” with the Galar gyms, but in Paldea, I beat Tulip 3rd or 4th with no issues

cant wait to see how you fix the elite four and champion.

Omg the viola part is sending me lmao

33:32 also work up is required to be used for last resort so multiply that by 1.5

Hope fixing Kalos E4 is next :)

Another thing that you could do is limit the player’s number of pokemon to what the gym leader has so it gets a bit more challenging.

Loved the teams especially giving Megas to the leaders. I always wanted that Corina used the Mega Lucario in the gym battle, also Mega Venusaur can be the new ace for Ramos. Thinking that you as the player can have megas after the third gym

Like the use of supereffective damage reducing berries similar to how BDSP & BBL Elite4 have them.

Dunno if you reslized it after edtiing, but Wulfric's Cryogonal having flash Cannon was for rock type coverage.

I would give Tyrunt dragon tail. It would pair nicely with stealth rock and made the gym annoying and challenging

I've found every pokemon title to be easy once I was more familiar with how they work but now they're all a breeze if you play them the intended way, not an excuse for poor design choices of later titles but I suppose that would require them to stop throwing out ideas every generation and refining them, which is part of what I adore about this series, not necessarily trying to make gyms harder but at least more interesting, can definitely still bulldoze right through them when you know how to play but it'll at least be a little more engaging, sucker for learning about mechanics too so held items and abilities that synergize well has always been a treat :)

If i were to give megas to the gym leaders I'd go with Viola- Pinsir (it's literally the only bug mega) Grant- Aerodactyl (a fossil like his ace, Tyrunt) Korrina- Lucario (it's literally right there) Ramos- Venusaur (it's the only grass mega available) Clemont- Manectric (it suits his vibes) Valorie- Mawhile (it's got doll vibes which suits her, also trips up the type advantage against her) Olympia- Alakazam (The wise sage is perfect for her) Wolfric- Abomasnow (bc he had one in the anime)

Two things they should bring back that were introduced in X & Y -- 🔁 Inverse Battles, those flipped Super Effectiveness of all the types around and forces the player to re-think their strategy! That was so cool! 🔰 Moves that are two types at the same time! They toyed with it in X & Y, then just... threw it away in Gen 7? Are you kidding me?

Seeing as Hawlucha is already an Ace Pokémon for Korrina, I’d replace it with a Talonflame. With it being a fire type can help put a stop to steel type Pokémon that can threaten Gardevoir. In addition, having it know Tailwind can be a blessing for others on Diantha’s team to attack first, like Gardevoir or Goodra.

My only 2 complaints would be lack of new Gen 6 Pokémon for some of the gyms (although I know some types didn’t really give you a lot of new Pokémon to use), and the same evolution line being used in 2 gyms in a row. Maybe a Trevenant or even Pangoro (as a gardening assistant) instead of Floette for Ramos. Other than that, great video!

In regards to Viola's Vivillon 4:20 I think you must also remember that in Gen VI, Grass-types are made immune to spore/powder moves. Chespin would be immune to Stun Spore and can still KO Vivillon with Rollout. This might be mean for Chespin players, but maybe give Vivillon Gust so they have a risk if they want to use Rollout

How about instead of Dwebble, you instead give him an ace Aerodactyl ? That way Grant would have all 3 avaible fossil pokemon in X and Y

18:10 When you asked who's worse, Erika or Ramos, I didn't even have to think. Erika's team slaughters Ramos's. All her Pokemon are fully evolved (minus tangela, which couldn't yet), have proper movesets (Razor Leaf crits, Jesus), and fit into the leveling curve nicely (You're either perfectly leveled to battle her, or storm the Rocket Hideout first for some grinding if you're underleveled). IMO Erika is easily the strongest Grass-type Gym Leader in the franchise, and she's my personal favorite Gym Leader to battle in Gen 1.

I have no idea what ur saying battle wise but i like it

Rotom-Fan Transcends the Ground-type immunity!