I Simulated 1,950,480 Battles To Find The Strongest Pokémon Team 

There's no 76. This list is officially invalidated.

Oof Steven:( He is hard Also 16:04 is hell

Bro, did you actually mispronounce Peony’s name? It’s not ‘pee-ohn-nee’, it’s Pee-uh-nee’.

Bro, did you actually mispronounce Peony’s name? It’s not ‘pee-ohn-nee’, it’s Pee-uh-nee’.

Can I get this code?

Yeah, let's be honest for a second: Gen IX is a fantastic story, but an awful game

I completely disagree. I enjoyed going after the harder ones first and having something to work hard to overcome. If I'm overpowered compared to the weaker leaders, I can use a new team or steamroll them like I would have done in the older games.

⁠​⁠@@旭球Gen IX is hardly different gameplay wise from any other Pokemon game. Do you think all those are awful too?

@@旭球it’s my favorite game of all time, but if you think it’s bad, I’d like to hear why

A lot of things that take time and effort would have made S/V a lot more fun.

I see the Flutter Mane and the Roaring Moon and go "Yea that makes sense, carry on."

Fluttermane could sweep through 80% of teams and the few it can’t it only puts moonblast shaped holes through it that makes it food for Roaring Moon

Insane then that Bugsy did so well against them, considering Flutter Mane is 4x resistant to bug.

@@DoctorFalchion Scizor Bullet Punch can probably OHKO Flutter Mane

​@@DoctorFalchiontechnican bullet punch go brrrr

And totally has nothing to do with Sada having Fluttermane who is literally one of the very few pokemon to be banned from ubers.

@@ForestX77and a retro-salamence to clean up any Pokémon that get past it. Not too mention those Pokémon probably have moon blast shaped holes in them.

"Oh self-called 'unmatched' AI Sada, I present to you new data. I call it, 'Mega Rayquaza With Z-Move: Celebration'." "Does... Not... Compute... Cannot process power levels... ERROR! ERROR!"

Hmmmm a fellow jolteon fan i see

@@falsnamae3511 she still has flutter mane who looks at Mega Ray and just scowls and throws a second Moonblast.

Also the ai is so bad at timing and using them, their existence on non human teams is genuinely a debuff

That just goes to show how crazy the power creep is in gen 8/9, the fact that the Pokemon don't even need setup.

​@bigfudge2031 Its also as the other comment said, the AI is HORRID at set up to the point that at times it hurts them more than it helps. If the teams with set-up mons had like two extra brain cells we'd probably see them higher

Yeah and there’s legitimately nobody who will set up electric terrain for quark drive But there’s plenty of teams that will set up sun for protosynthais

Another thing: Flutter Mane is cracked lmaoooooo

That's also why Bugsy specifically did so well against Sada. I mean, Scizor alone deals with Brute Bonnet, Roaring Moon, Scream Tail and, most importantly, Flutter Mane, while also not taking any particularly high amount of damage from Slither Wing or Sandy Shocks.

Chalk that up to them being steel or electric. It's not like they can make the future robot pokemon _not_ those types.

@@J.Blazer None of the "future robot" pokemon are Steel, and only 2 are Electric.

Personally, Kieran's team was the only team I actually did well against. The "Elite Four" all brought me down to one Mon left, meanwhile I swept Kieran without even taking damage...

​@@qqqqquesadillapoor guy...

Keirian's team is at best trash and would do significantly worse then it did here in equal skill piloted matches. 2 of the Elite 4 are actually ok weather teams lacking proper setup. Conversely i threw a properly trained Technician/Dice Cincino at Kirian which KO'd 5 of his 6 pokemon nto even leaving time for Tinkaton to start dropping +6 Gigaton Hammers

the same for me. well.. amarys was also a wash, but kieran didnt do anything sadly. pretty sure i only saw him do one move, the dragonite using hurricane, and i thought "oh damn rain into stab sudo legendary hurricane", but he really dissappointed@@qqqqquesadilla

I think Kieran was relatively easy to most because he was not a specialist. You need to account to alot of extra factors and Pokemon when you do not have clear strengths and weaknesses. Hence why some of the other BB league memberes absolutely washed certain players since alot of them just bring a counter to your counter if you overcommit on it, while washing any Pokemon weak to theirs.

At the very least it isn't surprising that she gets some wins against a team that consists of some dragons.

It's surprising that _he_ finds that surprising

Cynthea's best team also cant be played properly by AI like Leon's can, and wasnt designed by at the time competitive players like Alder's team was. Turo and Sada just straight up brutalize everyone else with stats and competitive monsters. Sada's team just has better natural balance though with the gimmick restrictions the professors had.

@@F14thunderhawk I mean it's quite telling that Leon actually still lost to Cynthia despite of her team getting nerfed like crazy if you equalize lvls in addition to random AIs not being able to follow it's actual strategy properly, Leon having an on paper good team was always the only thing that didn't suck about him after all.

Alder: M0th

@@gunchar06 'only thing that didnt suck about him' one of the only champions that does something during the story lol...nonsense hate because he's from sword and shield

@@ArceTheTroll How on earth is him off-screen doing what actually the players should do so that they don't need to put any effort in a good thing(even Lance was already better than that), Leon sucks cause he is pretty much written like a random Mary Sue OC in low lvl fanfiction and cause he is just the embodiement of lazy game design.

yeah I don't get why bro included some rival fights like Nemona and Cheren but not others like Wally, Barry, or Hugh

​@@Ray-wz8sgNemona is a champion that starts her journey again for shts and giggles. Cheren is a rival turned gym leader from BW to B2W2

​@@jg78538 True, but that doesn't cover characters like Hop, Hau, and Kukui. The latter two are the final bosses of the main story, but canonically they are just the first challengers against you, the newly crowned Champion. And then of course, what is Volo doing here? There was no League at all in that game.

Even if it was only characters who are gym leaders/E4 or equivalent/Champion I feel like Wally should still be in here, not allowing rivals and such is a really lame restriction

In short, everyone featured here outside of Sada/Turo and the Frontier Brains, were fought directly as _PART_ of the League Challenge. Whether that be as a gym leader, an elite four member, fighting for the Champion title, or fought in Galar's Tournament. Rivals fought along the way while _getting_ to the League, but not actually fought as _part_ of the League, didn't make the cut for the list. At least, that looks to be the qualifier to me. With that in mind, I'm not actually sure what Sada and Turo are doing here; they at least admitted that they simply decided to throw in the Frontier Brains on a whim.

alder is retired champion so it kinda makes sense for his peak to be better than cynthia cause of quiver dance but that said since he retired he dint participate in the masters 8 in the anime hence we got iris instead.

@@scarletrose8766 yeah. Makes me wish we saw hints of Alder in his prime.

@@TheReaperofHades yeah even in games he's already almost retired like man got wiped by N since his old team were I think dead already and loosing to N he wanted to retired but I guess he kept his title for 2 more years till iris beats him which was the time frame between BW and BW2

World Tournament Alder is pretty legit. I think people tend to underestimate him because his champ team is underwhelming and he can't stop jobbing in-universe but even just looking at his first mon, a specially oriented Pseudo Legendary with Quiver Dance and 3 flavours of Psychic is scary shit.

At 51-49 it was a complete tossup; run the simulation again and there's basically a 50% chance Cynthia and Alder are swapped.

He's also a double battle gym leader, so taking that weather focus and trying to apply it in singles without modifications unsurprisingly makes his performance lacking.

My favorite thing about the perfect Ratatta is that in one of the games, I think HG/SS, they explicitly made it have all 0 IVs. Literally the worst it could be lol

They couldn't cover him in this kids tournament as obviously he would have a 100 - 0 score with everyone

Some say it’s even in the top percentage of Rattata

*His

It's probably a testament to the power of scizor with swords dance + technician bullet punch

Oh and not just any mewtwo both mega mewtwos (depending on which game)

He's a mafia boss of course he won't play fair amd will use all his assets to to win

And a physical Mewtwo lol

@@bigdoggo5827 that's because it's the Mega Mewtwo X version

I wonder which Leon team would perform the best shame he only ran the rillaboom team. I feel like which starter he had could've altered the rankings like how hop with zacian did 15 places better than hop with zamezenta

@@Evan-ch3jc I think he did simulated the other starters but Rilaboom team was the best. Also I think he mentioned that he accidentally included both Hop teams

I find it hilarious how cracked Cynthia is just in general. I believe she consistently in all the videos like this ranked top ten-fifteen it’s honestly really impressive for a gen 4 trainer considering the insane power creep.

@@joshuafrazier3904 I also think it's worth mentioning that the existence of fairies has really thrown a wrench at Cynthia. Before then, her Spiritomb had zero weaknesses.

so Amarys is the strongest Elite Four.

Probably doesn’t know it can’t miss in rain

It’s also possible he just decided not to point out STAB moves because it’s assumed a mon would have them.

This is Pokemon World Tournament Alder, look at those optimal items, I assume you're thinking of postgame league alder?

I think the same to but considering there was a one battle difference in there win loss ratio and Cynthia outperformed him against Leon I think it’s safe to say she’s essentially tied with him probably. Honestly same with the entirety of ranks 5-3 they probably all are like only a couple battle off from each other score wise.

PWT Alder is nasty

He had a conk, darm and volc. These 3 are deffo going to 1 shot a lot of pokemon and have the bulk to eat hits. If volc sets up it sweeps

Worth noting: Alder beat Cynthia 51/49. That's shockingly close to being a draw. Meanwhile, Leon beat Alder by a decent margin and Cynthia beat Leon by over 20 wins. (Probably because Leon has no answer to Milotic)

To bad we can't use romhack Inclement Emerald's Watson. That team is ridiculously cracked with the Sticky Web Galvantula lead.

Blue appears in PWT as a champion of Kanto

@@emeraldbeedrill Champions are in the PWT, just not E4 members.

​@@BeyondTrash-xe1vsyeah, I think that is my only gripe with the PWT, the lack of E4 presence.

Probably since I think Wallace only appears in the Champion tournament and not the gym leader tournament. Blue makes it weird though since he appears in the Champion tournament despite being beaten and officially becoming Viridian City gym leader

Elite 4 Will deserved I really like his design he is really cool

If they even get to the flutter mane after sceam tail one shots everyone

​@@TheSoupguy1Roaring Moon too.

It’s not Volo’s fault that Milotic isn’t in Hisui

Volo earned those Giratina

yeah i felt the same… throwing all these results at us but like, by what metric? how did the battles go? what AI was used? etc etc. it’s cool but without context this stuff is ultimately meaningless. glad to see i wasn’t the only one who felt as such.

Would have been nice to at least note why upsets happened, like common x4 weaknesses, immunities, or well-rounded teams.

I think you can check both the results and code used in the description of the video

@@JseanPrimewhere is the battle data stored?

Same, when he just got a passing mention I literally did a double take and rewound to make sure I wasn't hearing things

It's nice that he was mentioned, but i'm disappointed that he got his worse team. Normally one would expect the rematch team to be stronger, but in his case it's the other way around as you literally steal his full team of *7*. Sure, don't count shadow lugia, fine. But his three birds, which will hit you with always very effective moves (as basically no one else uses shadow pokemon), which can status you, plus some support from his other 3 shadow pokemon... I really think his standing could have been higher with that team, even if they are in the story at a slightly lower level (as they are level locked through being shadow pokemon)

​@@primedialgaI think the Shadow teams exclusion is due to their regular moves, if you exclude the obviously broken 'Shadow Type', their purified moveset aren't exactly to right home about.

@@Magma-Idiot-2001 The reason they're excluded (and the way I know this is because I've tried running these simulations before) is because Shadow Pokemon are treated as wild Pokemon for the player to snag, meaning they're fully randomized (including what Ability they have). Even aside from the limitation of not being able to simulate Shadow-type moves, there's no real way to put them into the game faithfully.

@@technetium_et_al true, makes sense. What confuses me is the lack of the other trainers from Orre, they have competitive teams of their own.

This is so clearly bias , I haven't watched the video and I'm quiet sure iris won't do good. She's one of the easier champs and is a mono champ at that

Well tho no 1st, she is gooood

@@hellojimbi5822she’s not a mono type champion at all what are you talking about.

@@andrewdevlin8756 obviously I said that with a grain of salt, half of her team is dragon type and the other half is weak to steel I believe. She very much has way more type overlap than probably any other champion or is very close. Her team also sucks pokemon wise.

@@hellojimbi5822she got ninth place. Actually kind of expected. She really has a more or less balanced team with 6 very strong Pokémon and items. Ninth place is fine for her.

Plot twist: he's actually a ditto

Yes lol

Looks like a typo 😭 cuz the AI will never click the move anyway

I would genuinely love to see how Kalos would rank if they were given actual rematch teams with 5-6 pokemon

Those are actually not proper rematches but battle chateau guests. The NPCs there only use a maximum of 2 Pokemon, it's a side thing basically.

The Chateau just has it's own rules man. There's no proper Kalos postgame teams. If the gen 6 leaders got world tournament style teams, they'd be much higher

Given that everyone was being normalised to level 50 anyway, it would probably have been fairer on the Kalos Elite 4 to give them their four-mon Elite 4 teams over their three-mon Battle Chateau teams, even if the former teams have lower levels. I mean it wouldn't have helped them out *that* much, but it would be something.

Dude is banned for obvious reasons.

The moment some of the Gamecube folks were mentioned I thought he'd be at or near the top, maybe behind the AI profs. Losing to Opal and Cilan even makes sense because his best team does have some overlapping Fairy and Grass weaknesses.

@@kelly_times tbh he used greevil’s pretty bad rematch team instead of his legendary filled first fight. Evice is a lot better but has more doubles centric moves which makes it harder for him. They did a lot better than I expected tbh.

Fellow Geeta fan spotted 👀 Glad our classy businesswoman ranked so high

Same with Bianca

I think most of the hatred is honestly not his fault as a concept, because there’s so much you can do with him in that sense, but by god. The timing and the train wreck of game design that was SWSH, if I was less obsessed with character concepts and story, I’d dislike him too. First of all, his partner is Charizard. Immediately that’d make a lot of people groan, bc Charizard’s oversaturation and special attention from the company is mind boggling. And then… they revealed the dex cut. ONLY Charizard got to stay, and people were pissed. That aside they also shot themselves repeatedly in the foot with the game design, and how they basically use Leon as an excuse to prevent you from doing ANYTHING exciting. Logically? It makes sense he’d go and do crisis stuff, and that’s part of why he’s fascinating as a concept (starting as a ten year old, unbeatable champion, he’s basically a player character grown up) BUT FROM A GAME DESIGN STANDPOINT IT’S AWFUL. They don’t commit hard enough to his character to make up for it, either, so you’re in this awkward middle no one liked. It’s so incredibly funny he raw dogged this tournament tho I still don’t fully believe it 😂 “No items?” They asked and he really said “nah I’d win”. I think it’s pretty indicative of how bad power creep’s gotten that the paradox mons are uncontested winners though… There’s also the small detail that he looks like a ten year old allowed to dress himself (mans hasn’t been allowed to change his aesthetic for like over a decade 💀) and he’s got a mullet, there’s some people who have a primal anger reaction to that alone 😂

He was the champion, wdym?

@@charnalk5572 I honestly think he became champ just for fun. His passion is traveling around to get rare stones, he never gushes about training or the beauty of battle like other champs.

@@Schlaym He weirdly enough was the second most involved champion in battles and the general activities in the region. Doesn't strike me like he doesn't care about Pokemon battle, but looks like he just doesn't like being a champion (he does consider giving up the position to Wallace in ORAS to have more freedom).

As mentioned by the others he obviously had to care to become champ, buuut he cares more about archeology no doubt.

Of course not. He is crazy about stones.

But then if you add 2 Giratinas to Volo, im pretty sure he would be breathing down their necks to claim number 1.

@@lewycraft Miraidon Electro Drift go brrr

​@@ChampionAzuretf would resisted Electro Drift do to not one but two Giratina? Sure its Ele Terrain & Hadron Engine boosted but a resisted hit is still halved

cythea wipes her ass with Leon, its just her team isnt designed for strict rotation play like Alder's and it never was which makes it significantly worse here.

Well that Cynthia has straight up defeated Leon in this definitely fits to the game lore, but Alder makes no sense in either lore.

@@F14thunderhawkyeah they basically had a 3 way tie where Alder beat Cynthia, Cynthia beat Leon, and Leon beat Alder.

A lot of Pokétubers mispronounce names on purpose to get comments.

See also "The Cyan" becoming "Say Seein"

I mean, it's technically a DLC boss fight so it was never going to be in the base game because love me some money

​@@charnalk5572 Katy's DLC team was included. Or am I misunderstanding?

@@lilyofthevalley430 Nah, I was saying that Geeta's post game team was technically never part of the base game. It's not really post game content, it's DLC content, meaning that it was probably never considered before the fanbase's feedback.

@@charnalk5572 en realidad despues de comprar el dlc el equipo del postgame cambia y si pertenece la historia especialmente el disco indigo

Also didn't include most of the rivals, as only Champion & Gym Leader rivals were included for some reason Also no evil team leaders aside from Giovanni (and Penny if that counts) Very odd exclusions for sure

@@DeltaZard123Yeah, I was waiting to see where the Rainbow Rocket leaders would end up, but it never happened.

The Battle Chateau seems poorly designed. It seems or is supposed to be a place to grind for EXP or money. Because of that, why could the Gym Leaders be in the Battle Mason (I think that's what it's called)?

Yeah I don't know why he put those teams into the simulation instead of their real teams.

supplant means overthrow, not simply replace

You mean the worst

@@simonepriolono need to hate on it for clapping your favorite gen by a long shot

@@abrahamdominguez8827 obviously it took you two months to answer, you couldn't find a singe redeeming quality about the game to defend them. Pathetic

@@simonepriolo sorry I’m not on RU-vid 24/7 like you but there’s plenty of amazing things this game has going for it and really the only bad things are more nitpicks and not actual things wrong with the game or it’s gameplay

@@abrahamdominguez8827 you're either blind or delusional

✝️ leaving this here.

Dynamax wasn't available in this💀💀💀💀💀

Kind of Crazy. If he had items, he would massively gap the other champions. Unironically, just like how much stronger he is than the other champions canonically.

@@Tina-oq1hy we haven't even gotten to hidden abilities and moveset tweaking yet, Rillaboom and Dragapult would become a problem with a competitive moveset like cynthia and alder have got.

@@Tina-oq1hy Leon canonically isn't stronger than any other named Regional Champion in the actual games lore(all that Monarch nonsense is just an anime only invention while he didn't even participate in the World Tourney of the games, and even in the anime he is tied with Cynthia in stats and somehow lost to a just technically Champion like Ash), and with an actually competitive AI(/competitive players) let alone without unequalized lvls he wouldn't even make it into the Top 10 for Champion versions alone to be frank.

@@gunchar06 In the games, there isn't anything to go off of to compare the champions directly. However, in Sword and Shield Gamefreak tells us Raihan could easily be a champion in another region. So at the very least, Leon is probably at the upper tier. In the anime, there isn't any question, Leon is easily the strongest champion (outside of Ash) both by anime canon statements and feats. It took Ash all his gimmicks and Pikachu friendship to beat Leon, meanwhile he beat Cynthia with only Mega Evolution.