Pokémon Platinum Nuzlocke Tier List - Ranking and Reviewing ALL Pokémon! 

Great list here are my opinions: Infernape I know is easily S tier for being a fast fire fighting type which is unique to infernape and is an irreplaceable stab combination Kircketune F: whenever I used on a trashlocke even then it was god awful there are better counters for gardenia & more common than kricketune (wurmple line, golbat, stravia) Crobat is S despite its mediocre offenses is without question or contest the best pivot in the game (pivot is a pokemon that can switch in to alot of resisted attacks taking and u turn/switch out to gain tempo which can be used througjout the game even in the e4. Steelix to me is an easy A tier as youi can get him before the second gym by thiefing metal coat from wild bronzor. in the hands of an experienced nuzlocker, steelixs typing is amazing. rampardos to me is C it is just too slow & power isnt everything hense the rampardos theorem. all other rock types outclass it and yes even graveler outclasses it Bastiodon is looow C it does no damage offensively and its typing is really bad for a tank its meant to be. Vespiquen is D because you will hardly ever get it & even if you do its really not great at all. being a tanky bug flying type which is like one of the worse type combinations is horrible Honchkrow, Mismagius, Skuntank & Purugly arent available in platinum whic is stupid imo Blissey 50% of the time is unstoppable with serene grace charge beam Spiritomb nowdays is near impossible to get unless using emulator but at the point in the game you get it, its really good but falls off later Snorlax....has anyone actually gotten his legitimately in a nuzlocke in D/P/P yes great pokemon but you'll NEVER get it..if you did, buy a lottery ticket! Drapion is fantasitic its just soooo hard to get Weavile is irreplacebale a fast hard hitting ice type with the covitted dark type typing for lucian an easy S tier it is a must have for any e4 team. all it needs is night slash, ice punch then a choice between brick break, taunt & swords dance Gliscor can literally do it all and do it all well...be a fast sweeper? sure! defensive pivot? why not! support & disruptor? absolutely! combine with a sandstorm team to be creative? FUN!!! Gliscor is the most fun pokemon to use...prove me wrong Jolteon is so good I never choose any of the other eeveeltiuons in platinum its just that good! It deals with sooo much of cyrus distortions team just make sure its already switched in when that gyarados comes out with EQ. A baton pass set on togekiss if you delay togetic for baton pass is very strong in the e4....obviously baton pass sets are op. you can make togekiss offensive, defensive, baton pass & disruptor with the best move in the game....encore So glad you put my boy houndoom at S its amazing! Rhyperior is the pokemon to use stealth rock on for cyrus distortion. bring a sandstorm team for him for. Rhyperior is great for e4 too porygon z is busted with adaptability....giga giga giga busted with nastly plot you can literally bring it to every single fight in the game and it will knock out pokemon left & right with speed evs/choice specs

I would add munchlax! >:(

justice for kricketune, it is the underdog but i defeated lucian with it in platinum

Where does dragonite enter?

Awesome tip!

You’ll also need an emulator so the steelix doesn’t need to be traded

​@@Alastordadeer Or a second ds ;)

I mean to be fair consistently baiting Earthquake can actually be a good thing since it gives you a free switch into a flying type, which is specially good if you have a Staraptor since it's just a free intimidate too. Also not very consistent but you can like blizzard the torterra to death

XD

That's right, it was Cross Poison I was thinking about, got confused there

That's a good point, being the only pickup user in the game should count as a positive.

@@grumpygengar22 Aipom has it too but considering how uncommon it is, Pachirisu might as well be the only user of it available in a nuzlocke

I honestly wouldn't argue with you there. Just the fact that it's guaranteed also makes it kind of a big deal

I think it's hard to take availability into account properly, because if you caught something it doesn't matter how available it is since it's available to you already, you just want to know how good it is.

I think the way I look at it is, taking Electabuzz for example, Electabuzz is solid for Route 223 and the League, but it's useless against the rest of the game because you don't have it. So I tend to take some points off for that, but not too much because I do agree that it doesn't paint the entire picture

Seeing Rotom next to Flareon is a big surprise to me, Rotom's immunities and synergy with choice specs make it so much better than Flareon, whose low speed, unreliable defense, and low bp attacks make it close to useless lategame, with no real 'peak' to speak of. Altaria is hard to get the most use out of, but dragon offers some great resistances and theres a lot of ways you can build its moveset (special nuke with Draco Meteor and Fire Coverage, Bulky Dragon Dancer with Roost, Full on attacker, Supportive pivot with roost and u-turn) Yanmega's TERRIBLE learnset got let off the hook too easily, off the top of my head the poor sod doesnt get any reliable stab till like 47. It can get Silver Wind by the time you catch it but ...its Silver Wind.

@@tijnvannelmen5832 Hard agree on Yanmega. I've never used it personally, but just looking at its moveset makes me want to cry.

@@tijnvannelmen5832 Hey Flareon has 95 Special which means that it can use flamethrower at least semi-reliably. The rest of its moves suck tho and relying on Strength and Dig isn't exactly what you should build a game plan around.

RIP, hopefully you find it!

Same here. I wrote a few corrections and personal thoughts, but then I turned off my PC and went to take a bath, forgetting I was in the middle of writing (and didn't want to post a half-complete comment). 😵

*Platinum has an exceptional dex.

I can see that, I don't have enough experience with it to have a strong opinion on it. I'll definitely have to grab it for a future run and try to utilize it in more places to get a good feeling of what it can really do

I think I just need to use it in a full playthrough to get a better idea

Great takes! I think I could change my mind on Wormadam Trash specifically if I tried to use it throughout an entire playthrough.

That would be nuts! Haha really cool idea

Yeah I just realized it after I finished the video haha. Same thing with sand and hail too and their respective weather setters

You can use the Universal Randomizer program to make trade evolutions possible in your ROM file. It basically updates the way those pokemon evolve. In the case of Alakazam, Kadabra will evolve at level 37.

Good points! Rampardos in particular was one of the tougher ones for me to rank, and you could very well be right about it

@@grumpygengar22yeah they are both bad-sometimes you have to be realistic to a Pokémon even if they have good qualities.

That's a good comparison

You have to use the Universal Pokemon Randomizer program to create your ROM. You can search for how to install and use it on RU-vid. But basically, there is a checkbox in the randomizer program that says something along the lines of "change impossible evos" or something like that (sorry I'm not at my desk at the moment to confirm the exact verbiage). You would just check that box and generate the new ROM file from the program and BOOM, trade evolutions are now possible without actually trading. As for how the trade evolutions actually evolve, I think there might be a list somewhere online that lists them all out. But you can usually make a pretty good guess. For example, you can evolve Magmar into Magmortar by giving it the Magmarizer and leveling it up once (instead of trading it). As for the Kanto trade evolutions (like Gengar and Alakazam for example), they simply evolve at level 37. I hope this helps!

@@grumpygengar22 wow thank you very much! Didn't expect such elaborated response :)

Thank you for that clarification! That makes so much more sense now

If you over level

S tier

@@grumpygengar22 but that's a meme rank probably :(

Love reading these as always!