My Pokémon Legends Arceus Tier List 

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I love how Volo teaches the player the backstrike technique then literally tries to stab the player in the back with Giratina lol.

Ok, I'mma blow everyone's mind: hisuian forms are designed to be the opposite of the original forms Samurott goes from a Samurai, very loyal, respectful and honorable, will not attack a foe in a disrespectful or disadvantageous way, to a "ronin", a traitor that used its "sword" for the evil and was dispatched, its signature move leaves the opponent in a disadvantageous position Decidueye went from a long-ranged camper to a physichal fighter, more similar to Japan's archers that could use a sword Typhlosion went from a ruthless, eruptive and constantly angry fighter to a chill medium that wants to accompany the dead souls in their way to the other world Voltorb's happy instead of angry Electrode's angry instead of happy (they still kill themselves) and they both are more natural, being plant types whereas the original versions lived in factories. Also, the hole in their head has a purpose: it fires seeds into the air to replant zones. They are bombs OF LIFE INSTEAD OF DEATH. Original sneasels are social and attack in group using surprise attacks, that's why you have the dark type there, however, the new hisuian sneasel is more lonely and will fight honorably, giving it the complete opposite fighting type, makes sense it has a new evolution based on that. Hell, even skin colour and moment to evolve are the exact opposite! Lilligant is more delicate and used to humans nowadays, but its hisuian form is made to fight, more ready to the outer world, like the two lilies they're based off EVEN growlithe and Arcanine are based on different dog-lion japanese stone statues (yes there is more than one type), being the kantonian forms based off of the koma inu (literally lion dog) while the new/old forms are based off of the STATUES of the shiisa, not the animals themselves (they also look a bit more like tigers to me than lions but I don't think that's intentional) Sliggoo and Goodra, pretty easy, they're happy and slugs, they were sad and snails Braviary, not a lot to say, but it goes from physichal to special, and from phisically seeing things happening now thanks to its good eyesight to "seeing" in a more spiritual way, maybe even predict the future to some extent. Basculin white line (is it even a regional form?) is more chill. That's pretty much it, basculin's boring Quilfish (not sure if spelled like that) is actually based on a whole different animal: a sea urchin. It's more sedentary, based in poison more than just quills and, people hate it because it's poisonus while the original version is poisonus, but not hated (bit farfetch'd, I know) Zorua and Zoroark... Now these ones are interesting. Before getting into simbolism, its only weakness is its original typing, so there's some contrast there. They both received hatred from humans, can create illutions and hate humans, how can they be opposites? Well, the Hisuian ones DIED and their hate grew and grew because of not being in contact with humans and not knowing their good side like the dark-types did, and that hatred became, slowly, them. They just wanted to annihilate the enemy so much they would ignore their own pain, while the other ones just joked around and were a tsundere type of mad

As a kid, when I picked Typhlosion, I felt bonded to him. We were both loud, obnoxious, fiery, and he truly felt like the perfect Pokémon for me. As a 22 year old, working 50 hours a week, paying bills, trying to get through life, Hisuian Typhlosion is meant for me. He looks tired, and fed up, but does his best anyway. Typhlosion will always be my partner. No matter how tired he looks

Theory: When Laventon brought over the starters they were forced to adapt to Hisui in order to survive, leading to their new formes. But they still had DNA or genes from their formes of their native region, leading to their shiny forme representing their native forme. Because it must be rare to find a starter pokemon in the hisui region with its native forme, as is finding a shiny.

I used to be SO obsessed with Ingo and Emmet back in gen 5. Actually seeing Ingo in game blew my mind, I had so many emotions. It's sad enough that he doesn't remember his twin brother, but can you imagine how Emmet must be feeling about how Ingo must have just vanished one day? Breaks my heart. Top tier character. But Adaman is my favourite character by far. In Mikey's words... Forgive me for simping but he is SO FINE.

the love for ingo is so deserved, he was so interesting and cool. he felt like one of the only characters you can connect with deeply. he’s definitely one of my favorite pokémon characters of all time

Wow, such character development! Grunty Boi has gone from a real annoyance to Mikey, to seemingly friends. Hope to see their friendship grow and prosper.

18:20 Fun fact, since Goomy doesn't have a Hisuian form, its shiny is exactly the same. Which means if you were to evolve your shiny Goomy, you're quite literally nerfing its colors back to normal and giving it a bronze/poop shell 23:48 I personally call those 3 Bootleg Team Rocket, because that's the feel they gave me. Lacking the talking cat. And Wobbuffet. That's why they're bootleg.

I always thought that carnivine needed a new form or evolution. Yeah, it’s already from sinnoh, but I always thought it could be explained as “it evolved into the carnivine we know today” or something. Plus, carnivine has ALWAYS been thrown to the wayside and really needs something new.

This was one of the most calm and fun talk between mike and grunty boi ever lol

Theory: the hisuian starter's shinies are the same as the regular starter's because shininess is a recessive gene. This means that in the future, when these hisuian forms no longer exist it's that in the newer regions the recessive gene of the shiny was more favored and thus adapted. It's like how five fingers is actually a recessive gene but majority of the population has five fingers

I chose oshawott when I started legends arceus and my female hisuian samurott is 100% my ride or die pokemon, she has gotten me out of so many tough spots with just how good ceaseless edge is(I named her onna btw if anyone is curious) so far she's the only pokemon I've nicknamed besides the alpha infernape I got decently early(via alpha chimchar) and I named him Bruce lee

I think Volo is S tear simply for the fact that they made Cynthia’s ancestor a power hungry tyrant- plus his battle was the best in the series and it was really fun watching him go full on anime villain out of nowhere.

Seeing Ingo in game was awesome. Did not expect to see such and underrated character get brought into the limelight

I was actually enamored by Origin Dialga when I first saw it - it gives off a sort of creepy, otherworldly vibe like some kind of eldritch abomination and I freaking love it. Palkia, on the other hand... yeah. It's very near and dear to my heart so it was such a crushing letdown.

The Growlithe arc honestly expanded my love for Growlithe and Arcanine. Palina and Iscan are my favorite wardens.

I love hisuian typhlosion. And I do have to respectfully disagree on the C teir. You don't have to agree with me but I think it should have been at least a B

What of the best Grunty Boi bits ever. I love how friendly they have become and the thought of them hanging out out side of the ads is perfection

I kinda hate how everyone calls shiny snails poo. It’s transforming an iron shell to a copper one, that’s so cool

I like how Michael went from being genuinely annoyed by Grunty Boi, always wanting him to leave- to now actually accepting his presence He went from “ugh why are you here”😑 to “what’s going on today?”🤔

If someone had showed me Hisuian/Origin Palkia before Legends Arceus, I would have thought it was some meme lmao.

I really like Ursaluna's shiny. I got one shortly after the first credit roll and I disagree on it not being different. It is very noticeably different from regular ursaluna and I was very happy they didn't go with the green that Ursaring has.

I think they are planning to complete Scyther's evolution themed with the Rock-Paper-Scissor. Rock(Kleavor), Scissor (Scizor), so I'm expecting a paper-themed evo in the future. Maybe it's a coincidence but it's awesome.

I don't know if this has been said yet or not, but I LOVE Hisuian Typhlosion. Not only was it my first official starter ever, but I love this design and the added ghost typing. What I love about this design was how much it reminded me of an amazing overlooked character from My Hero Academia, Hitoshi Shinso. I loved everything with this Typhlosion and had an absolute blast using one on my team!

Avalugg's "shovels" are based off of snowplows I believe, that have blades like that used to push snow to the side.

I like how Ingo had one of the best AI in the game because he is from a future where he grew up with battles.

When you started talking about shiny hisuian sneazle I thought "I wish I hadn't evolved it" well so did you

I really got caught off guard by volo's betrayal arc, but as soon as that happened i was like "he's gonna use giratina, he was talking about giratina, that was not for nothing. He's gonna have giratina" and he didn't have it on his main team which lead to the coolest, most badass moment in all of pokemon

My favourite is Hisuian Zorark The misspelling was intentional, AMELIA

I feel like hisuian samurott is going for a “corrupted samurai” idea, which is cool, except it’s not that much different. The proof of this is that hisuian samurott will fight dirty and do whatever it takes to win, unlike regular samurott, who fights fairly, according to the Legends Arceus website. Perhaps this change in behavior (and thus typing) was caused by the harsh and unforgiving nature of horde battles in this game

So one of the pokedex entries on the sneasel line (I think its Johotonian Sneasel) says something about how its disposition is influenced by changed in the earth and air. My guess is modern Sneasel and by extension weavile are supposed to be the result of anthropogenic climate change and pollution. Smaller and meaner to better survive.

"I'm not gonna talk about battle viability" 20 seconds later: Fire/Rock type is HORRIBLE

I just love how Gunty Boi went from "I am here to steal your earbuds!" to "Hey Mikey I just found out about this cool co-op game, let's play it after trivia!"

I personally liked the colors of the shiny Goodra line. Changing it from Iron to copper is pretty clever imo

Volo being Cynthias ancestor and evil is amazing. :)

My boy Typhlosion :C I love him so much, seeing him that low saddens me when he's the best thing to come out of this game Opinions are opinions and we each have our own tastes. But if anyone else wants to know, we love and support Hisuian Typhlosion in this household!

Shiny Samurott is literally one of the best, it's sooo sick

MandJTV: Change the shiny, make it different from the old one. Also MandJTV: Keep it the same as the old one! Everyone:

One detail that I love about Ursaluna is that on its forehead there's a moon and the mud on it looks like clouds. Also oddly hints that you have to evolve it during a full moon which is probably why they did that

At first i felt the same way as mikey, i didnt care for most of the hisuian forms because they didnt feel different enough. But after thinking about it a lot and going into the design inspirations they actually make a lot of sense. The hisuian forms are showing a more true “evolution” rather than traditional pokemon evolution that is more like a metamorphosis. All of the hisuian forms of old pokemon are showing us how those pokemon lived back before the sinnoh of gen 4. Goodra are sad scared snails, but after they migrated away from the harsh hisui they didnt need their shells and are now happy slugs. Voltorb and electrode are grass because of wooden pokeballs, but as technology advanced so did they. Sneasels used to be solitary creatures and relied on their poison and fighting skills. They evolved into sneaslers who are great climbers to traverse the mountains, but instead of migrating or dying off, they changed with the land. It’s possible their prey became immune or at least resistant to their poison, or the harsh landscape made them need to band together to surivive, forcing them to rely more on sneaky tactics rather than poison and honorable fighting. It’s not that sneasel needed a form or new evolution because of gameplay, its more that the games needed sneasel to have a form for worldbuilding. I could go through most of them off the top of my head but I wont so this doesnt get so ridiculously longer than it already is.

The development of Mikey and grunty’s relationship is amazing narratively

I absolutely love hisuian goodra. I love its whole shy personality and how it literally comes out of its shell with modern goodra.

What would have made more sense (To me) is give Sneasel, the Snorunt treatment. Make it evolve with the Razor Claw during the day, but it MUST be Female to evolve it ditch the Hisuian Sneasel and just give this to the regular Sneasel available in the wild, but give Sneaseler the Ice/Poison-type instead.

Hi Mikey, I had gotten my Legends Arkoos merch yesterday and wanted to inform everyone that it is definitely as comfortable as you said it was and very stylish

fun fact : dialga has the thing on its neck because it’s main move is roar of time and palkias is special rend Palika uses its Hands to use its move and dialga uses its larynx aka its voice bos in its neck so arceus took away palkias hands and gave dialga a neck collar

My problem with Hisuian Decidueye is that I know it’s supposed to look like a Japanese warrior of some sort, but to me I just see a scare crow.

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO, thanks for always giving us top tier quality content Mikey

Honestly, I'm happy Samurott's change wasn't too drastic. I like the original design, and I love how H-Samurott's more of an unfair, not honorable fighter which is a complete opposite of its Unovan form

Michael: "Basculin has a bad shiny." I actually feel insulted, since that was one of the first shinies I ever caught. It was in Pokemon Black. One of my greatest memories of that game.

I agree with some of the others that these exchanges between Mikey and Grunty Boi just keep getting better. Today we also had the friends mix-up which was an interesting callback, and did anyone else notice they apparently do trivia together now too?

What bothers me about sneasel is that you still find it in the snowy areas of the game even though its type changes to poison/fighting. What they should've done is switch croagunk and sneasels locations so that you find sneasel in the marsh areas and give croagunk a type change to dark/ice and make it be found in the snowy areas and give it a new evo like they did with sneasler.

Hisuian Typhlosian looks so sleazy. It looks like he would scam you from a van in a Walmart parking lot.

Hissui Zora and Zorroark are my favorite new mons! They also have a great typing!

Mikey: I'm not going to judge pokemon based off of competitive viability. Also Mikey:I don't like Arcanine, it's a fire rock type so it's really weak.

Your respect for decidueye pleases me

I feel like I might be the only person who loves Ursaluna. I was worried when I first saw it's model but seeing it animate and exist in the world has just made me love it so much. Also it would look amazing in the anime!

I honestly love Sneasler's shiny form. Probably the next thing I'll hunt for.

Every time Kamado showed up during your playthrough, I expected at least one Daniel Day-Lewis reference. He looks just like DDL in Gangs of New York :D

The moment he put decidueye in S their I just said YES MIKEY YES! Cause decidueye has always been my favourite starter since sun/moon and the hisuian form just put it on top!

Overqwil is my weakness in this game! It looks so stupid I can only love it 😂 Also Cyllene made me uneasy the whole game. She might be nice, but the whole resemblance to Cyrus just never made me able to trust her.

Michael: Dancing fighters would’ve been cool to see Ludicolo: am I a joke to you?

I feel like hsiun avalugg being ice ground would have been much better for it

Honestly, I absolutely love the sleepy pokemon. Female basculegion and hisuian typhlosion my beloved

I was a little disappointed that Goodra didn't retain the original shiny colors, but Hisuian Goodra is one of my favorite new regional variants

Ooh, I love this series! Basic Ideas for future remakes and Pokémon Legend games for different regions: Kanto-based Pokémon Legends: Work with Professor Fuji as he studies Mew and attempts to create Mewtwo. You will need to assist him in researching Mew, and at the end, when he creates Mewtwo, Mewtwo would escape, and the player would have to find Mewtwo, battle him, and then capture him. Hoenn remake: Being able to own vacant spots in Mauville hills to decorate like Secret Bases, and being able to sleep in them, newly improved version of the tech displayed at the bottom of the DS screen in previous games Hoenn-based Pokémon Legends: Based in the time all of the Draconids were alive, witness the early events of Primal Kyogre and Primal Groudon fighting. Try to summon Rayquaza to end their battle. Alola remake: An option to expand Festival Plaza is available, more side-quests can be done for the Aether Foundation Alola-based Pokémon Legends: Totem Pokémon can roam around freely in the overworld, the Aether Foundation is a much smaller organization that is much-less advanced, lots of farms and farmers are around Kalos-based Pokémon Legends: I have a lot of ideas for this one. An old, rustic Lumiose Tower with no electricity, Gogoat Riding is one of the main ways of transportation, Talonflame can deliver letters and packages to the player, it could still be AZ’s war, still some lore around Parfum Palace, Anistar Sundial could also have some part in the story, the Power-Plant could be a factory instead, possibly a boss battle against some characters like AZ and Yveltal, Wikstrom could have some ancestors if it is AZ’s war, there could be ninja clan that all use Greninja and Frogadier. Possible regional variants for Kalos: Greninja: Greninja would be a Water/Fighting-type, a more skilled fighter that has mastered the martial arts, training alongside ninjas, as well Delphox: Delphox could be a Fire/Dark-type. Before they were Psychic-type Pokémon, as they are now, they used to solely focus on Dark magic Furfrou: Furfrou in Ancient Kalos could be less tamed, more wild. They could either be more like a horse, or more like a wildcat Machamp/Hawlucha: Either or both Machamp and Hawkucha could be Fighting/Grass, since they are the kinga of the forest

I like how Grunty Boi and Michael are getting better and better friends lol

I already have the volo backstab spoiler but avoided probably everything else. But something i realized is volo teaches you the backstrike method then backstabs you. It took me so long to realize

My opinion on Decidueye is COMPLETELY opposite. It was one of the starters I wanted to choose, until I saw the evolution. 😅 And I just beat Kleavor! It's very slow going with both full time job and child, but I'm really enjoying it so far!

One thing I really liked about some of the regional variants in this game is how their kits/movesets played into their signature attack. Triple arrows for example paired extremely well with other moves that Decidueye got such as Leaf Blade, Shadow Claw, and Psycho Cut due to its effects which increases crit rate of the next attack and decreases defense of the opponent. In addition, moves like roost on it with the Agile style options really helped make it feel like this archer who balanced retreating with honing in for a KO just like an owl does in real life. Another good example of this is Goodra. It's Steel and Dragon typing along with it's Shelter move which increased it's defensive stats and obscured it allowed for the pokemon to feel like a defensive behemoth that curled into it's shell when attacked, which made it harder to hit as a result. Other random thoughts: My favorite area both storywise and aesthetically was The Coronet Highlands. Just the story with Ingo alone made me love it, but the ruins and all of the various events that occured there made it the most memorable and impactful for me. As for characters, my favorites were Cyllene, Volo, Ingo, Adaman, and Beni. I think people give Beni a lot of flack when his motivations actually make a lot of sense in the context of his story. I loved his twist design, and his not so obvious connection to wally. In addition, his story of the village burning down contextualizes his lingering distrust in you and his loyalty to Kamado quite well. People who don't read his text like to call him a villain when he's honestly more of a secret bodyguard who was just doing his job. It's important to note that it's not completely his intention to battle you, but rather an order from Kamado himself. He even tells the player that despite his personal resentment, he doesn't hate them which is an important distinction too. He's like Oleana to me, but duty bound rather than ambitious. Similarly, I find him a lot more interesting than his boss Kamado, which mirrors my feelings about Oleana and Rose respectively. Volo, well you know why, but he's probably one of the best written plot twists in Pokemon. Ingo has so much crazy stuff in his backstory that I honestly think he's my favorite character. He's just got so much personality and inner turmoil that gets addressed that I really like for future entries. his story leaves the most loose endings which I think could be picked up by later entries quite well. Cyllene is interesting because she's a bit of a contrast to Cyrus. She is pointed at as a potential villain by design, but proves she's a loyal ally to the player by her actions which fits in the theming of the things you go through as a player. Very good stuff. Adaman just feels like a voice of reason throughout the experience, and honestly has a very mature aura to him.

Mikey: Mai has no interesting character traits Pokemon: Ok... Here's a whole "DLC" type update based on her.

Yup. I already loved Decidueye, and when I saw it’s Hisuian Form, I loved it immediately, and it became my favorite Pokémon of all time.

I love this tier list series !!! Looking forward for gen 9 tier list since im rlly excited for the future of pokemon now

I think that if they make a lot of changes with regional forms people will complain more. Also I think Origin Palkia looks great

I love how Mikey and Grunty Boi went from enemies, to neutral, to now playing trivia together. Yeah, Iscan is a weird guy, I laughed when I saw that his lord was a ghost and how he freaked out. Also, I’ve not read or heard of anyone who doesn’t think that Baggins suck-I’ve actually seen several petitions to have those prices dropped

I’m just gonna say Hisuian Zorua and Zoroark are perfection.

About the shiny goomy line- One of my first shinies, in-game it’s actually a very pleasing shade of gold. It was probably the lighting that made it look like that shade in images but in lighting it is amazing (Just my opinion, just trying to explain the difference with the game’s lighting)

Personally, I was surprised as I love the new Samurott (it beat 4 out of the 6 frenzied) but hate the Decidueye (Ohkoed almost every battle and only helped against liligant before being 2 shotted)

The character development of these two genuinely becoming friends is fantastic.

I have a theory that the shiny colouration of the starters are what led to them being their normal forms in the respective regions. The shiny starters could have bred to a point where the normal (hisui) starters were becoming extinct. That's why in different regions, they have different forms.

Personally I really like the new Palkia, mainly because I like centaurs

I used an Ursaluna in Legends Arceus, and it was so good that it was the best Pokémon on my team.

I was a big fan of how the shinies of the Arceus starters were the colour schemes of the original starter and it's interesting to me that you feel so differently!

1:44 agreed. I just couldn’t dodge past it jumping onto you without getting caught on the little places were the lava touched. I eventually said screw it and then used the continue to get rid of its final 2 health bars.

I love that they put Ingo in the game. Like, why him of all people? They could literally pick anyone from modern day Sinnoh but they chose an NPC that's so underrated, you can beat the game where he came from without even meeting him once. It's like meeting Anabel in SM/USUM. A part of was kinda hoping that this might be hinting at Unova getting the PLA treatment or at least a DLC in the future since Ingo is from Unova..

I hate how most people don't like Hisuian Typhlosion. Although I'm a bit bias because I like the color Purple and Ghost/Fire is my favorite type combo

I thought it was funny that, because of the glowing effect, the Electrode boss was just a glowing yellow orb unless you looked at it head on

Palkia is actually a good design imo if they just gave it fricking hands but no,they had to make it disabled

Mikey:I will not be talking about battle viability Mikey 15 seconds later: arcanine is bad because of rock fire

I love it when Michael posts a new video because they are always entertaining and funny, please keep up the good work!

The shinies of the new form starters are supposed to be bassed of their old form colours, just like the galarian legendary birds

"I'm not gonna talk about battle viability" immediately complains about two of the pokemons types

My first and so-far only Shiny in the game is my Drifloon/Drifblim that I cleverly nicknamed “Shiny.” I love it so much lol

I called the twist with Volo from the start I was like this guy is gonna be a villain, through the whole game I was so focussed on him being the villain that when Komado did his whole thing I was like oh I guess Volo was never gonna be a villain and then the post game hit and I was just like damn that was some really good writing.

To be honest, I really liked the Hisuian samurott, It deserves a A tier in my list at least.

I was waiting for this 🔥🔥 Legends Arkoos Tier list let's goo 🔥 thanks for the upload!

Lilligant has to be my favorite. It looks very pretty, communicates its intention well, and reminds me of an elegant style of fighting I've seen in other media. With Arcanine, I like its design/silhouette, but I don't like its color combination. Maybe if it wasn't such a dull black it would look better cause it looks sick when glowing during your fight with it.

The thing about the sneasel and why it got a hisui form, it is meant to represent selective breeding where in this case, the more aggressive sneasel is bred combat overtime sneasels are no longer evolving into sneasler instead they are evolving itno weaviles

6:39 OH MY GOD! That's the same thing that I thought of when I first seen Palkia's origin form too

I’ve been waiting patiently for another Tier List! Also Mikey, do you intend to add on to the Pokemon Type Then VS Now videos with the Legends Pokemon released?