Pro Nuzlocker Ranks Every Pokemon Type 

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Rank all 151 of your Emerald Kaizo runs

I love how Rock Type are basically the “Why have this when you could have Ground” Type of Pokémon.

Jan: Dragon and steel types are the best Dialga and Duraludon: Reality can be whatever I want

Things that are sturdy: 1) Steel-types 2) Sawk, Golem, etc. 3) Displate 4) Jan's patience for finishing the EK run

When I was a kid I used to think that Ice types were the strongest, "they are strong against everyone! What am I supposed to do?" Yeah with a team of Torterra, Staraptor and Garchomp, Ice could be a problem.

Rock is basically Poor Man’s Steel, both try to be defensive walls, but rock gets the resist for fire but gains 3 other weaknesses and loses like 5 resistances.

"Electric types have 1 weakeness" Electross line - Laughs while levitating

I think the best way to describe the psychic type would be to say it’s broken in gen 1, and afterwards it’s an average defensive and offensive typing with lots of good Pokémon.

"best nuzlocker in the world" hits different now that EK is conquered

Ice should really resist Flying, Ground, and Water. And maybe give Rock another resistance or two. As for Poison and Bug, I think you could get away with making Poison strong against Water and Bug strong against Fairy I am also one for completely changing how freeze works, to make it both more reliable and fair. Instead of immobilization, make it a Sp. Atk burn clone, and I guess giving it a name like "frostbite" would be more fitting. Then you could get away with having a dedicated ability and move to inflict frostbite, pretty much entirely limited to Ice-types

Jan looking into the camera makes me feel a way ngl

"Ice-types worst in the game" *cries in Walrein*

Ice should have a resistance to Water and Grass.

I think Gamefreak made Ice types underpowered on purpose because back in Gen 1 they were the only counter to Dragons. Dragon-types are sort of the "boss" type in the game, which you can easily miss if you're playing first time until you face Lance. Ice types can mostly be found in an optional cave in the game, too. Basically, Gamefreak rewards you for exploring.

Ice just needs like a couple resists and it would be so much more useful, like if it resisted fairy(just like fire does) and water or grass, that would be pretty sick.

My entire life was cleared up when Jan said "in gen 6 when it lost the Ghost/Dark resistance" because I always wondered why sometimes Ghost IS supereffective against Metagross but other times it isn't I just never knew that

Jan really said “all the other streamers are doing tier lists, should I bring them back again? Yeah, fuck it. I can milk something”

Ice types have wonderful designs. I love Glaceon and Alolan Ninetales. 💓 I wish they would resist more and I like your idea of only ice types being able to learn ice moves.

6:48 makes all of us folks on the daily channel have flashbacks to pilot.

When he said “you what else is also made of metal and very sturdy?” I legit thought it was gonna be ridge wallet.

My prediction before watching based on what I've seen from PC's other content: fire- Super rare, always useful. Water- Everywhere, usually bulky Grass- bad offensively, too many weaknesses Electric- Good offensively, usually very fast Ice- Strong offensively but usually very frail and available only late game Bug- Bad all around except early game, very few exceptions (e.g. Heracross) Poison- Good support, bad offensively Rock- Usually defensive but too many weaknesses and slow Steel- Very defensive, tons of resistances Ground- Nice all-arounder, slightly bulky Fighting- strong offensively, suffers from lack of good moves end game up until gen 4 Flying- Good utilitiy, the abundance of normal/flying types screws them over Normal- Versatile af movepool, only one weakness, underrated Psychic- Strong offensively with fair amount of bulk except for the glass cannons Ghost- Too niche in most playthroughs, there's jus not that many of them Dark- See fighting types above Fairy- Decent offense, usually very bulky and supportive Dragon- see ghost type above, also a good amount of them are pseudo-legendaries/actual legendaries and thus banned

Fighting type is like a less shit ice. It is a massive threat to so many types, but unlike ice they are usually bulky and not full of resistance holes. The big caveat being the commoness of flying and the scary burst of psychic and fairy.

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I totally agree with all of these. Looking at it, it’s just too bad that Grass doesn’t hold up as well as Fire and Water. I’m glad you hold a similar respect for the Water type. There’s a great variety of tanks and sweepers and a lot of them actually can have a large move pool, and a lot of them can learn Ice Beam and a ground-type move, which can counter their main weaknesses. In competitive, my water guys are usually my best fighters, especially Greninja (sweeper) and Swampert (tank).

We NEED an ice balance patch

Ground type: B tier Ice type: D tier Me and my Mamoswine: ;_;

I think you should change your intro to “I’m DEFINITELY* the best nuzlocker in the world”

Best types in the game in my opinion. Fairy, Steel, Dragon.

I never think about it consciously as "Steel is good", but every damn time I see a Bronzong or Steelix or something, I'm always like "Well what the shit do I have that can deal with this"

That sponsor read transition could not have been done better.

10:00 I expect Ice types next gen to be super-effective against Fairy types.

Steel: So, basically I’m very strong

I think if ice types were resistant to the types it’s super effective against. They would be high tier.

I’m definitely biased because it’s my favorite type and I love gen 5, but ghost types I think are a little higher due to their secondary types. Chandelure is a great example of a very good fire type late-game that is practically a gauranteed encounter, and it has a ridiculous special attack stat. There are a few Pokémon like this, like jellicent, drifblim, aegislash, etc. Lots of ghosts have good secondary types that make them very, very good with their two immunities.

I'm starting to think the "bad at intros" thing has to be a bit, because that Displate segway was pretty good.

I'd toss Fairy type into the S tier with their immunity to Dragon types and super effective hits against them. They have very few weaknesses (poison, steel). What makes the typing so good is that Fairies are generally super good utility-wise and are quite bulky (Slurpuff/Diancie/Magearna/Carbink). I personally don't enjoy most of them, but they're undeniably as good as Dragon/Steel types.

I actually disagree with Psychic's placement. It's too low. It's weaknesses are all super rare if you're playing games gens 1-3. Prior to gen 4, your only real way of dealing decent super effective damage to psychic types was via Shadow Ball, Crunch, Signal Beam and Megahorn, the latter two of which are very rare. I will say psychic gets less effective as the generations go on because there's more answers to it via better dark/bug type moves and Pokemon as well as reusable TMs. I'd say Psychic's are quite the force to be reckoned with all the way through until gen 5 which is the generation that counters to Psychic types actually become somewhat common. Even in gen 4, most good Psychic counters are locked to Platinum and even then they're few and far between and often rare on the routes they exist in. So yeah, if we're purely judging it by in game nuzlocking benefits, id say psychic reigns pretty supreme throughout half of the series and that's not to be taken lightly imo.

I wouldn't consider ground as having a lot of weaknesses. The ones that have a lot of weaknesses are because of their rock typing. Otherwise they're weak to ice, grass and water. 3 weaknesses is pretty average, and it's a great offensive type

I think Ice moves are good, the typing is bad though. It’s good for coverage

Ash Ketchum knew the meta. He focused on Dragon, Electric, Fire, Water, and Ghost for the most part, and stuck with two gym leaders that specialized in Water, Steel, and Rock (lol)

I would argue water being s-tier, possibility better then dragon but worse then steel. The fact that you are pretty much always gonna have a a few waters to choose from makes team building a lot easier, and consistently having hm surf I think puts it over the edge along with everything you said about it. dragon are unlikely to even obtain through out a run unless ur playing a rom or randomizer, and are often dependent on tms available how diverse their move set is, also they usually evolve late and level caps sometimes screw them over such as hydreigon which doesn't really appear with a level cap. Dragon is still op in a vacuum but i think its prob bottom of s-tier

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ground and fighting i thought would be A tier and fairy should be S, poison maybe C cuz it is good with fairies. Everything else is good.

Electric and fire being in the same tier and being so comparable to each other is hilarious to me because those are my two favourite typings

Lets be honest real talk Bramble Blast on of the beat songs ever orchestrated S tier song

"bug types aren't completely bad" *Proceeds to put it on C tier*

I'd love to see a tier list of each 2-type combination

Nice TL ! I would rather go with : S : STEEL / FAIRY / WATER (one is a giant wall and the 2nd & 3rd are very good in both sides) A : ELECTRIC / DRAGON / FIRE / GROUND (Dragon is saved from B tier by stats of the mons, the 3 others are good) B : GHOST / FIGHTING / DARK / FLYING / POISON (blanced types with some holes here and there) C : GRASS / NORMAL / BUG (Bug is actually not in the bottom 3 in my view, but those are kinda frails) D : PSYCHIC / ROCK / ICE (Psychic is a disaster nowadays except for stats thanks to legendaries, and Rock and Ice, we all know the problems...)

Ground feels a bit underrated. Electric Immunity, EQ stab, EdgeQuake coverage, SE against 5 types, weak to 3 types and 2 of them are trash tier types. If it can fit I always try to put a ground on my team. I'd argue they're S or atleast A.

The ranking for poison surprised me a bit. I think some poison types can be useful such as Tentacool/Zubat/Koffing. Toxic spikes is good for setup against some battles, Koffing's physical defense can be good in niche situations, Crobat can outspeed a lot of mons in most games and (correct me if I'm wrong) I think it can learn U-turn so you can slap someone and just immediately switch to your main sweeper. Not as good as grass types in utility but they still have their uses imo

Love to see you posting this type of videos Jan :D

finally ive been waiting for this tier list for a long time

Poison is really underrated; it has a good amount of resistances, is a good Fairy counter, and I think its weaknesses are fairly easy to counter (odds are you have a Water or Grass type on hand and Psychics tend to be weak defensively. Bite is super common). It's also great to have something immune to getting Poisoned, barring Corrosion ofc. I argue that it should go in B. I think Water is low S tier. It has useful resists, only 2 weaknesses, and is very good offensively. Ironically, a solid type. Unless gens 1 and 2 are really skewing it, I don't think Psychic is that great anymore. Dark is a super common move type; it seems like everything has Bite or Crunch. I think both Dark and Psychic are B tier, but at this point, Dark is better. If it weren't for Fairy, Dark would be in low A probably. I find Flying to be a fairly boring and underwhelming type, but I agree with your placement. Gyarados, Salamence (if you can get it), Dragonite, Sigilyph, and Talonflame add some color and power to the type. If it weren't for these mons and similar, this would be low C. I pretty much agree with your other placements. Poor Ice; I honestly WANT it to be a good type. It was one of my favorites when I was a kid. It's just so, SO bad now. I think it should resist Water; having them resist each other would be cool. It should resist Dragon, too. 3 resistances is pretty respectable imo. All of its weaknesses make sense, so I don't think they should eliminate any of them. They always make it a late-game type, too, and it's just not good.

I'm really glad the thumbnail censored what was F tier while also letting me know bug is A tier, just like in the video.

Bro that song is top notch well i used to jam this out. Wow man. It brings me back. Great video. Youre the poke vid goat

Been waiting for this video for a while

"If you have an Ice type on your team, you're doing like a very specific strat." Well, in my recent Sword Nuzlocke, I got a female Snorunt and evolved it into Froslass around the first gym, so it was a beast throughout the early and mid-game. I did eventually mess up and let it die on the last route, but circling back to the quote I started this comment with, I did indeed use it for one or two specific strats. Hail and Snow Cloak, plus Bright Powder, were a big save in Raihan's gym. The evasion didn't trigger every time I needed it to, but it definitely helped me get through the fight unscathed. Froslass is probably one of the better Ice types to use, and imo, early accessible stone evolutions are also a huge boost in usage, kind of like how Butterfree and Beedrill are useful in that way.

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I was shocked that Grass types were higher on the list. They’re my fav type cause what you explained, the sleep powders, leech seed, growth, gigs drain. Good move set and happy to hear it wasn’t D tier

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I will go on all day about how much I love grass types, specifically because of my first game. White 2. I picked Snivy and sweeped pretty much everything except Ghetsis with just the Serperior.

i feel like in later gens fairy+ground just becomes a very solid combo because fairy is only weak to steel and poison, and while there are exceptions, ground types are usually solid counters to those

That ad break transition was beautiful.

i actually watched this ad cuz the transition was so fucking smooth, cheers mate, Grüße aus Stuttgart

People Jan roasts in his intros -himself -biggest RU-vidrs -his own RU-vid audience -RU-vid itself

Here is how I understand this list. S: whatever the Pokémon is, having this type will always improve it and you almost never don’t want it. A: very solid and reliable. Not an auto include in every situation but definitely something to look out for during a play through. B: doesn’t really exceed most of the times, but it has key strengths that you can and should be aware of, even if there are weaknesses as well. C: generally a crippling downside on its own, but they have niche strengths, where they excel to the point, where you must keep them in mind. D: the worst part of any Pokémon that has it. Whichever Pokémon has this type, will become so much worse, solely for it. Also poison and normal should switch places. Whatever normal hits neutral, poison would as well and it’s a great secondary typing.

That transition to the ad was so clean lol

This is very accurate, however, I think that fairy types are very buff because of defensive tanks like clefable who can learn moves like dig for steel types as well as other Pokémon being able to learn psychic moves for poison types. I did a full fairy type Pokémon nuzlocke in Sword and it went really well.

Congratulations on completing emerald kaizo nuzlocke. Also I think wolfey vgc completed the nuzlocke as well so congratulations to him.

Jan: Poison in C tier Me: Cries in Crobat

i like how the finished result is also pretty accurate for competitive battling too

I love that thumbnail. "Oh yeah, turqouise I wonder what type that could be" XD

The fairy types I usually play have pretty low defensive stats but pretty good hp. Their attack is meh but if you level them up quite a lot you get a good Pokémon that can survive a few turns (with attack and such) but that only applies to my experience

I agree that nuzlocking with an ice type can be challenging, but outside of that, some of my favorite team members ever have been ice type. Sneazel in Gen 2, Lapras in FireRed, and I recently used an Avalugg to beat the champion in Shield.

Bug is so underrated as an defensive typing... What most people forget is that they are resistent to ground and fighting. With fighting and ground beeing fairly common moves this makes them really good. also in later gens there are SO many strong bug types so I would place them at B.

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Ice should go into S tier just cause of the existence of snom

Water is one of the types you should definitely ALWAYS have on your Nuzlocke teams. Pre-gen 7 because of Surf, but also because Water is just really good, many of them have high special attack and special defense or HP, and because they are so plentiful in number, Waterlockes are probably the easiest and most broken monotype challenges to run, although naturally it depends on what you can find to counter Electric and Grass Gyms, depending on which game you're playing (Gardenia is pretty rough on early game Water types, even with Gyarados on the team because of Grass Knot). Flying is always good to have on your team, pre-gen 7 because of Fly, mostly, but if paired with another type (which is always the case except for Tornadus, Rookidee and Corvisquire), such as Poison, it gets much better defensively, and sometimes offensively, depends on the second type, of course. Electric or Grass (or both) are also often essential to your team to counter Water, and Grass is the only good thing against Water/Ground types, but Electric is pretty good for Water and Flying types, of course. If you have a Water type with Ice moves though, you might be able to keep Grass on the team and leave Electric out, unless they are dual types. Those are the types I feel are essential to your team. Other types are optional, I feel, and you can build your team around with those types. On my SoulSilver League team, my very second (first full attempt at a) Nuzlocke, I used Meganium, Ampharos, Crobat, Golem, Slowbro and Umbreon (though could have used Ninetales instead of the latter), and they did pretty well. I lost my Ampharos though, to Karen's Houndoom, from a 4x Sp. Atk boosted Flamethrower, which hit through confusion and 5x accuracy drop. First and so far only death. (I am on the ship to Kanto now but have been busy with other Nuzlockes since then) I have started 11 Nuzlockes so far, in Black, SoulSilver, Alpha Sapphire, Sun, Shield, Platinum (Waterlocke), Y, Platinum (regular), Pearl, White, and Ultra Moon. I have only completed 1 Nuzlocke, being the Platinum Waterlocke, and that was WITH one team wipe (at Gardenia), and beaten the first SoulSilver League, but I don't count that one as finished yet since I still need to beat Red. I am close to beating Alpha Sapphire, with a team consisting of Blaziken, Walrein, Manectric, Cradily, Ninjask and Sableye (my Gardevoir died to a Victory Road Trainer who had a Darmanitan:/ and I had nothing better to replace her with than Sableye), being ready for the Elite Four. In all the other Lockes, I'm either early game or mid game. The only other time I wiped was in Black, my first Nuzlocke, to Clay, and even when I tried a second time, I still lost 1 Pokémon, my Moxie Krokorok. (the only two times I've team wiped in Nuzlockes, I've soft reset to the last save point, but from now on I've decided to just use a new team from my PC until I have no live Pokémon left) And then in White, I just recently lost my Intimidate Krokorok to a random Trainer's Archen. And before that, I lost my OWN Archen to a random Trainer's Dwebble. And I had already lost a Patrat in both Black AND White, in Black also lost a Pidove, Purrloin and Simisage. Gen 5 is my worst generation lol

That transition was so well set up that I feel like a fool

"Ice types dont have that strong pokemon" I think this one has never seen a galarian darmanitan before

Honestly fairy type aren't OP in playthrough. Dragon is a late game type and poison types are abundant. Other than that, they are average.

“Fast Offensive Grass Types” Things that come to mind for me are Sceptile and Roserade. I used a Roserade in my Shield Nuzlocke, which was my first Nuzlocke, and he carried me to victory when no one else would.

"The sponsor of the video" is the new ad placement

I love ice types, but i already know they'll be shit

As soon as I heard “hollow knight” my head turned at the speed of sound XD

BASED outro Jan, keep it coming

Ayyyeee that donkey king country music in the background be a jam tho

I think Ground is A tier. Immunity to Electric. Useful super effective against Electric (only weakness), fire and Steel. Plus rock and poison for 5 types their super effective against. Can also usually learn rock type moves to get around flying types.

I'd be surprised if he put water below a tier considering half the time in emerald kaizo later game his team was basically mono water

That was really helpful thank you!

love the mystery dungeon music!

This never hurt so bad. I know ice is a awful typing but it's my favorite typing next to poison.

Intro not too bad

PChal [10:21]: "It's the worst type in the game. If you have an Ice Type on your team, you're doing like a very specific strat." Glaceon: "I only exist in Nuzlocke Runs to fight Cynthia's Garchomp. Other than that... idk, what else."

Boy i apreciate all this pmd2 OSTs U are a man of culture

Just started the video, I could bet all my money saying that awful type is Ice

Excuse me? You finished the kaizo lock! You better remove the "probably" out of that intro.

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Rock and Ice type always make me think the same thing, it’s better to carry a move of their type on a Pokémon with a better typing, than to be their type and get stab on those moves at the cost of being defensively bad. Water types and Ground types carrying ice and rock moves respectively