Pokemon Evolutions That Changed The Game 

Happy New Year!!! Who is your favorite cross gen evolution?

Farigiraf was a huge evolution up for VGC. Trick room setter that blocks priority. Made it to the world championship finals in its first year. Went from being a mascot at a defunct Toys R Us to a worlds runner up.

Archaludon impressed me tbh. Like, I never imagined, that they will seriously give an evolution to a mon with a BST of 535. Having Archaludon means, that mons of the same BST range, like Lapras could also get an evo.

Primeape's evolution in Annihilape was one of the coolest surprises we got to in SV. It's design is awesome, its move Rage Fist is so broken and fun to play with and just overall a much welcomed upgrade for the Mankey line. Also find it cool how its Evo was sorta teased with one of Primeape's SM Pokedex Entries

Sinnoh was truly a blessing for cross gen evos

Hearing a poison type being referred to as having a good offensive type is surreal. But yeah poison fighting is only resisted by poison and ghost, and hits a lot of types for super effective including fairy or steel types. Usually I think of poison as a defensive type.

Armor Tail Farigraf has been seeing a ton of use during Scarlet and Viilet, probably more then it's line has seen for years. Bisharp was only ever praised for it's unique typing back in the day, and not much else, but it's evolution it's Kingambit has shot it up the ranks into top 3, that's incredible in my eyes

I remember playing firered a long time ago with primeape as my mvp. It was adamant nature, was extrememly fast and hit crazy hard (cross chop went crazy). When I found out that primeape got a new evolution and became a GHOST FIGHTING TYPE (a type we only saw with marshadow), I was ecstatic! Annihilape is and will probably for a long time stay as my favorite cross gen evolution of all time

HUGE fan of Scizor. Scyther was cool, Scizor is cooler. Don't care how good it is in a battle.

Thumbnail game continues to be on point🫡

I never got into competitive, but when GS first came out, seeing so many evolutions for the first gen pokemon blew my 10 year old mind

My theory for sneasler going extinct is that it was hunted by hisuian braviary and over time to survive it gained a type perfect to fight braviary off

Porygon has cool cross-gen evolutions.

I liked the video, but if you’re going to talk about stats as often as you do, it would be helpful to show the before and after like you did with Dusclops/Dusknoir at the end.

Kingdra is an over the top improvement to Seadra, in stats and ability. I'm sure that people would have noticed it much more if it wouldn't have happened in such an early generation. Just imagine if Kingdra had been added in Gen 4 of 5: an untiered Pokémon suddenly gets +100 base stats, dragon type and Swift Swim and becomes a top rain abuser

A really good video! a strong start to the new year and new upload schedule! But I do have to say some of the sound effects seem a tad too loud they can overpower your voice at times, however I also gotta give props for them not being too obnoxious and constant, they're not being used every 3 seconds they're used when needed and that's good.

counter point in favor of dusknoir it gets character development in mystery dungeon explores of sky

Murkrow wasn't that bulky with eviolite. In fact it was two shot by almost any relevant move anyway so it ran focus sash just as consistently.

Imagine Shuckle getting an evolution. Being able to use eviolite would be hilarious and infuriating, if not just down right broken

Dusknoir and steelix Thanks for the videos man I love your work

Dusknoir was only created because, let's be honest, imagine Dusclops as the leader of one of the antagonistic teams that tried to stop the protags from changing history in the Mystery Dungeons games. It would be a lot more silly if it was Dusclops than the intimidating Dusknoir XD

Dusknoir: Switch it to any attack (It's super bulky) Click poltergeist or will o wisp). Heal with pain split. Repeat

What about a computer duck that got 2 meta relevant cross generation evolutions

8:57 Playing Breath of the Wild while listening to this, had the Blood Moon hit on there when I got to this part of the video. Love it when things like that happen

Why do you pronounce Togetic differently from Togepi and Togekiss? They're all supposed to sound the same.

Im still sure that the reason onix has that terrible of an attack stat is so the first gym would make you feel cooler. If it was just a geodude or a graveler then sure. But a giant rock snake that you havent seen at that point before? That makes anyone feel like they have the weaker team. So overcoming it somehow would feel great right? And if thats the case, it worked on me at least.

Scizor and Steelix my beloveds 🔥

JPR is looking great! Lovely to see you back on RU-vid and can't wait to see your videos for 2024. As for my fav cross gen evolutions I would say Espeon, Togekiss and Gallade.

I actually despise the eviolite item. As someone who loves Dusknoir, I hate that its second evolution has been overshadowed by eviolite Duskclops.

Scisor, Kingambit, Crobat, and Gliscor are some of my absolute favorites. They really did good with these

Happy New Year! First time I was here 8 minutes into the release of the video!

The way he said togetic, I know people can pronounce things different but that caught me off guard

I love your videos bro! Very high quality!

That snorlax jumpscare floored me 😭

Scyther is another Pokemon that is arguably more useful with the use of eviolite. His speed is high enough that it can out-speed a lot of other Pokemon, meaning if you get a Sword Dance off, combined with its Technician ability, moves like Bug Bite or Aerial Ace can do a ton of damage. It can also learn Trailblaze to counter ground and rock types, while also boosting its speed. Going the other way, Scizor was a great evolution that offers a ton of resistances and good coverage overall. Much like Scyther, get a Sword Dance off and it becomes a serious threat.

Dunsparce with the eviolite becomes viable With bloodmoon they said how about we create an ursaluna which is special And annihilape has a very good type

"Gen 2 matches last longer than The Lord of the Rings: Directors Cut" Yeah, 15 years ago.

Numel: man! I love the ability simple! *Camerupt stares with a burning jealousy across the room*

The giraffe was an insane evolution a pokemon that can stop priority and set up trick room is insane especially to a mon that didn't see much use

Kingambit, Annihlape, Sneasler, Ursaluna, Scizor and Crobat are probably my favorites. Crobat is probably the coolest since all those other mons evolve from well liked mons whereas everyone kinda hated Golbat. Also love that eviolite Dusclops is a thing because when I was playing gen 3 as a kid it was one of my favorites. Dusknoir is kinda dumb but im glad it exists just so Dusclops has a niche. Dudunsparce was a missed opportunity tho. Coulda been a dope normal/dragon serpent thing and stayed kinda goofy looking too. Instead they just made it goofy looking and kept it virtually unchanged.

Hydrapple quickly became very awesome.

Great video. Aside I hear that Gormott theme from Torna in the background

Togepi and its line are my favourite Pokemon. I had almost a dozen Togekiss in my Heartgold game and each had a different moves it. It was just too cool. Gallade has to be my second favourite crozz-gen evolution. It also has an amazing move pool and the design is just so clean.

Blood moon is so awesome.

Why are the sound effects louder than your actual voiceover in recent videos? It’s very jarring

Would love a part 2 of this!!!

justice for dudunsparce!

I think it's implied that the blood moon Ursaluna that you find in the dlc is the same Ursaluna that Calaba used to have and that the player uses as an item finder/ride pokemon in legends arceus.

Just noticed the Gordon sheets, the Larson shirt, and the Chase quarter panel against the wall. Hendrick Motorsports fan?? Let’s GO!

Merry new year

My favorite Cross Generation Evolution is a tie between Farigiraf, Annihilape, and kingambit

That thumbnail is amazing.

Sneasler went extinct because they're loners. Weavile, using its solid teamwork, managed to hunt all the prey, which meant Sneasler died from starvation.

Magneton with eviolite is quite good.

I don't play competitive pokemon at all, but I find these videos great entertainment and quite educational too. Thing is I'd be so sad to have to use dusclops over Dusknoir simply since I love Dusknoir's design and it does just fine for story and pve in general. So even if I learn that well Dusknoir kinda sucks, I don't need to be sad that I can't use it since it's pvp not pve. Fun video, keep up the great work!

Thanks

To-GET-ic is a Wolfey-tier mispronunciation.

Cool seeing moxie boosted here!

I believe Sneasler went extinct for the same reason Tigers are currently endangered. They were a solitary species. They most likely couldn't outcompete the more social Weavile when it comes to hunting. Pack hunting is very efficient compared to other hunting methods in the past after all.

I need an offensive version of eviolite

The way he said togetic hurt me

I wonder how many times Lopunny triggered puberty ☠️

Might want to speak a bit slower so you can fix mistakes like the oddish part, aside from that loved the video, incredibly informative.

Hey JPR, are you going to Charlotte regional again this year 👀

Anyone else utterly detest the existence of the eviolite? Makes me wish that Dusknoir was better statistically because between it & Dusclops I've always like Dusknoir's design more.

Hi John happy new year 👋

Happy year old who is your favorite POG pika poo poo

There's a few examples of pokemon being better unevolved. Porygon2 and Chansey obviously function because of eviolite. And Sneasel has a niche over Weavile since it's immune to fake out and intimidate, so it has it's niche as well, especially with icy wind, fake out and knock off.

Electiver and magmortore crying

You want me to pick just one .. i don't even dislike that Bruxish ... But Steel type is my overall favorite type so i guess all those are probably my "favorite"

You stopped the whole video for that? @7:33 😂 I been subscribed to this channel since the 2010’s lol imagine how we feel hearing you asking ppl to sub

(12:30) Don't forget to apologize to the B-Button League!

The Virgin Ursaluna vs The Chad Eviolite Ursaring

favorite cross gen evolution is mamoswine (probably a very generic pic but it works)

first person who looks as good as their voice sounds

8:41 AKA they turned it into Freddy Fazbear.

Weavile is definitely the best cross gen evolution to me.

Still wanna see a Shuckle evolution someday

Can't get enough of Annihilape. Super Saiyan dead Primeape is an absolute raid slayer. Who needs super effective damage when you're hitting for hundreds of damage each attack?

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I’m sorry, I’m a day late.

pretty sure all evolutions changed the game

Politoed. Shaped all of Gen 5

Mag and elec

This video is starting to make me think that JPR thinks the only reason a pokemon is created is specifically for competitive uses.

Still waiting on a skarmory evolution imagine Steel/Fairy

eviolite should be nerfed. should only work on pokemon that can evolve and dont have any base stat above 100

Why does ONIX not have Intimidate?

poison fighting isnt a great offense typing

Wow, I got here fast. Uh, yeah.

Wow dude, has anyone ever told ou that you'd look just like Jason Statham if you shaved your head!?

so thats why ash never evolved 95% of his mons, they had eviolites?

If we want to say the most buff mon over time, pikablue was TERRIBLE In gen 2

Magnezone

The way you said togetic is offensive

I think you might be looking at things from the wrong perspective woth gen 2 Most of gen 2's pokemon weren't necessarily made with Viability in mind. They meant those games to be the end of the series and just wanted some new cool ideas for pokemon. They were more meant for world building and to just be some neat ideas they wanted to put out rather than have anything be super competitively viable. Pretty aure that's also why the level scaling in the base game is kinda low. It was meant to be a fairly chill experience just seeing the other side of the world at the time

So I have a theory pertaining to why Sneasler went extinct and why we instead have Weavile instead. It all has to do with typing, natural predators, and its behaviour. Sneasler is known to be a solitary pokemon, who prefers to live alone. While dangerous with its Fighting/Poison typing it leaves itself vulnerable to a major predator, Hisuian Braviary. As a Psychic/Flying type, H-Braviary could hard counter Sneaslers typing and with its ability to use its psychic abilities to immobilize their opponents Sneasler has literally no chance against it. When the black hole that dumped the player character in the Hisui region, we also know that J-Sneasel and Weavile also came to be. Weavile, being a Dark/Ice type, can provide resistance to H-Braviary's tactics and with their behaviour known to work together in packs it can have an easier time taking down H-Braviary. Sneasler would likely learn from their future counterparts and start adapting themselves in the same way, slowly changing their types and tactics to reflect their future selves, even recognizing to use their razor claw to evolve in the night as opposed to during the day. While Sneasler has a better typing in comparison to Weavile, Weavile's typing and behaviour makes it more suitable to resist their predators and thrive which is why we see Weavile in the current age of Pokemon instead.

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Dudunsparce is one of the most disappointing cross gen evolution luckily he can still get a second cross gen evolution hope that game freak does something unique with it maybe just like Archaludon give it pseudo legendary stast

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