Pro Nuzlocker Ranks Every Scarlet/Violet Pokemon 

You seem way more comfortable to talk in front of a camera than a year or two ago, and your content gets better thanks to it. I somehow feel proud of you lol

Armarouge & Ceruledge: Dad, can we be featured in Pochal’s new tier list video? Dad: Sorry boys, but people need to have their balls shaved first.

Jan mispronouncing a solid third of mons while keeping a straight face is actually impressive

15:04 I love when he says *jeeholdenjo* Truly an inspiring moment 😔

For everybody commenting, "You forgot Armarouge and Ceruledge!" You should remember that Jan is the best nuzlocker in the world. He was simply covering them while doing the manscaped ad as he is able to multitask and talk about a different kind of cannon using bitter blade on his ball hair

Am I tripping or did he miss Ceruledge? Swords Dance + Flame Charge, counters gyms 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, Poppy, half of Geeta's team, and basically walls half of Star Boss, not even hard to get the Sinistea fragments because of auto battles

13:13 Also, Tinkaton gets Swords Dance, meaning you can set up for a +2 Gigaton Hammer while it’s on cooldown.

13:58 Quick Correction: Shed Tail isnt Cyclizars signature move.Orthworm also learns it on Lv.52

I think the best way to describe Maushold's utility is that it's good for competitive, not story

Annihilape is literally a Pokemon which can be put in the perfect category. 1. Awesome design 2. Awesome Lore 3. Awesome in battle 4. Awesome name Everything about Annihilape is awesome 😎😎😎

Timestamps for all mons/tiers :) S Tier: Skeledirge 17:05, Palafin 16:23, Anihilape 15:33, Gholdengo 15:04, Cyclizar 13:38 A Tier: Tinkaton 13:02, Kingambit 12:48, Orthworm 12:31, Flamigo 11:58, Garganacl 11:30, Baxcalibur 10:59, Cetitan 10:57, Meowscarada 10:19, Paldean Tauros 10:02, Dondozo 9:45, Kilowattrel 9:10, Clodsire 8:55, Pawmot 8:36, Scovillian 8:12, Arboliva 7:57, Lokix 7:40 B Tier: Mabostiff 7:25, Dudunsparce 7:17, Revavroom 7:00, Brambleghast 5:57, Farigiraf 5:48, Toedscruel 5:36, Oinkologne 5:21, Quaquaval 5:05, Glimmora 4:43, Dachsbun 4:27, Bellibolt 4:17, Klawf 3:55 C Tier: Maushold 3:23, Bombirdier 3:10, Houndstone 2:48, Tatsugiri 2:31, Squawkabilly 2:14, Grafaiai 2:06, Veluza 1:55, Espathra 1:52, Rabsca 1:50, Spidops 0:58 F Tier: Wugtrio 0:29

pokémon youtube scene is amazing at the moment, pokémon tier list from challenges from a hardcore nuzlocke perspective, one from wolfey from a competitive standpoint etc etc. endless content from every perspective and all the videos are so in-depth and well made, great stuff!

i got a fidough in the tutorial of my scarlet nuzlocke. i couldn’t believe that it got play rough at level 16-carrying the run for sure edit: YOU FORGOT ARMAROUGE/CERULEDGE

fun thing that makes Skeledirge even more broken: Torch Song can activate Throat Spray - an item you can buy in Mesagoza’s Delibird Gifts - basically turning the move into Flamethrower + Nasty Plot the first turn it’s used. and because they changed the way single-use items work this gen, you never have to worry about buying more after using one up either! I swept through basically every late game battle with this combination, lol, it’s so busted

For Gholdengo I found it neat to give it a Covert Cloak. You're not only unaffected by any status moves, you're now also unaffected by secondary effects from moves - so no more unlucky freezes, burns, flinching, confusion, etc.

6:13 that has to be the best sponsor transition I’ve ever seen

I hope you'll expand this list to cover the whole Paldean dex, since although we're familiar with the other Pokemon, knowing how you rate their specific value in Scarlet/Violet would be neat.

I love when he does tier lists

I love when he does tier lists too

Skeledirge being the best designed starter and being the best all rounder is so based.

I feel like one of the reasons Psychic types used to be so good is that, aside from their own type, they were almost always blessed with some of the best type coverage in the game. Most psychic types used to have access to either the elemental punches, or at least 2 out of the Thunderbolt, Flamerthrower, Ice Beam TM trio, as well as some combination of Shadow Ball, Focus Blast, Dark Pulse, Energy Ball or Magical Leaf and Dazzling Gleam, so even if their Stab didnt get the job done, theyd get something else that would. Now, to use Espathra as an example, because I do like it, it gets barely any of those, and despite its cool ability and solid Spatk, something like half its learnset are physical moves and its signature move is built specifically to be better when you dont OHKO your opponent, meaning the frail bird will have to take at least some hits for it to be worthwhile.

I didn't do nuzlockes, but I did fight the gyms and e4 10-15 levels under almost the whole time. The Nacli line is easily my favourite now - the fact that it was 10 levels under and it was my ace pokemon for the WATER gym is insane. Love Salt Cure

Always love is when Jan uploads a new vid! Keep up the great work

Man I’m so jazzed for you dude, I remember watching your stuff when you were like sub 100k, now you’re encroaching on 1 mil, you deserve it G.

Another thing that makes tinkaton so OP imo is when it has the own tempo ability, it already resists dragon and poison but then also can't be confused or intimidated. I laugh so hard when someone tries to use swagger on my tinkaton XD

no ceruledge or armarouge?

Love the concept! Would have liked to see this kind of content for prior generations though.

Great to see lowkicks in A tier after what happend in the 2 player nuzlocke with alpha!

Your videos saved my run! I Remember when watching some of your reacts on RT that if two moves do a large amount of damage one my pokemon the foe will randomly choose one of those move. I was fighting Geeta, the rest of my team was dead except for my Quaquaval, Her avalug only had strong two moves against my Quaquaval, body press, and Avalanche. Knowing that the rest of her team could beat me (I was WAY under leveled) I had to set up on Avalug with bulk up. in the end I beat the nuzlocke! thanks Pokemon Challenges!

When I got The Chonk in my first playthrough, I only kept it on my team because it was cute. A few gyms later, it was basically "when in trouble, use Oinkologne".

You make the ad intros hilarious every time haha.. normally I skip ahead to the video but I always watch yours because your so effortless entertaining

I like this format for this "Ranking every Pokemon" way more than your older Tier List vids. Don't get me wrong, both versions are great, but I really like the faster pace and editing style, that still gives us the information to every pokemon we need + better visualization to what each Pokemon can do. If you ever remake your older "Ranking Every Pokemon" vids for some reason, I would love to see it in this style. Great video!

Glad to see some Meowscarada love! I absolutely agree that it’s an amazing Pokémon, I love having fast starters and flower trick is a broken move. Plus it’s basically a grass/dark Delphox design wise and I love it

On a random note, I did take the time to see how early you could get Gholdego for a mono ghost run. Before Iono if you have an easy way to cheese the level 50 chests and grind hard. And yes. That’s before the cap as well.

I'm new to this channel, and duddeee that ad transition was smooth af

Great vid. It would be useful to have an image of the final tier list.

Bellibolt was an absolute MVP in my playthrough. He's bulky, and you can transfer egg moves without breeding, meaning you can use egg moves in a nuzlocke if you've caught a pokemon that learns the move you want to transfer. I transferred soak and parabolic charge onto my bellibolt. Those two moves in combination with leftovers and Electromorphosis made it hit hard and recover its hp to full almost every turn.

I love that all three starters are competitively viable. I don't think that's ever really happened before in Pokemon and a great way to shake things up. Skeledirge can death roll teams EASY thanks to Unware and Torch Song.

That was the funniest ad I have ever seen. Pubic hair joke out of nowhere. 10/10

6:13 I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING 😂 Great transition Jan

Love Tinkaton and dundunsparce. In my casual run those two and skeledirge where my go to team to tackle anything. Sent Dundunsparce out and let it setup with agility and a coil if its bulk allows it to go further. Then Baton pass to either of the previous two depending on the matchup. Just swept everything. I still had Toxapex to stall, gardevoir with choice specs and Tauros with choice scarf but those three rarely had to come into play.

So glad someone finally got to ranking everey Scarlet/Violet Pokemon

I don't really think Grafaiai has a bad typing, normal just neutralizes the fighting type meaning it adds no new actual weaknesses, gives you stab on normal moves, ghost immunity, and keeps just the two weaknesses poison has

10:22 this is a really useful breakdown of the Pokémon, but I am curious here, are all three of them equally strong? Because there’s pure fighting, water fighting, and fire fighting I guess I’ll just have to continue watching and see, thank you for this!

The fact that Skwakabilly (Or however the fuck you spell its name) is in D Tier while having intimidate as an ability is telling of everything else about this pokemon

caught a tarountula in a steel tera raid, before the first gym. very happy

The Manscaped tie-in made me laugh on public transport. Jan really has stepped up his ad game oh my god 😂

That was the best lead in to a manscaped ad I've ever seen. Got a good laugh out of me

Spidops is aesthetically perfect, you anti-arachnid philistine! That being said, I wish it had better stats.

Toedscruel having negative priority spore can actually be pretty good since it guarantees a sleep turn for the opponent next turn, letting you switch in for free.

One of your best ad transitions. Fierce Bush got me!

Great video, this will help my endeavors. I've been working on making rulesets for nuzlockes taking into account how different switch games have been compared to older titles from 3DS and before. Obvious exception being BDSP. It's been a fun ride and my main goal is to get rid of the blindfolding in a way that feels balanced but the only way to find out will be by trying it out. Although if anyone plays them and is doing face cam then by all means do blindfold, it's funny that way and I love when it's done. Already done the Ruleset for regular and hardcore runs of Let's go and BDSP since those are the only ones I've played this way. For sword and shield there is the random encounters in grass patches for each area of the wild area. And for Scarlet and Violet... I've got nothing. Is blindfolding really the only way? Alternatively sword and shield play well with monotype runs with hardcore rules but I decide the type at random and begin catching once I reach the wild area. And allow repeats only if they hace 2 different evolutions like say Ice monotype you get 2 Snorunts 1 male and 1 female. Cause that's all you get unless you venture to the crown thundra and do a low level raid, this while avoiding wild encounters that could end your run since you can't use Pokedolls to escape. High risk high reward seems fair and it's also luck based if you get an ice type raid. If anyone has rulesets to balance out the open ended nature of Scarlet and Violet that doesn't involve blindfolding plz let me know. I'm going to try it out after the dlc comes out to have a full ruleset with them in mind.

15:05 what the heck

PC: Skeledirge is the best starter in Pokémon history Typhlosion, Swampert, Infernape, and Greninja: *Amateurs*

11:02 “What killed the dinosaurs? THE ICE AGE!” Makes me very happy to have been an Ice type believer for so long.

Scovillian sweep with "Sun boosted solarbeams" loved the callback mate, lol, keep up ur great content :)

I had an aneurysm when he pronounced goldengo lmao

Jan saying that Annihilape is still not the most broken ghost type, making me expect Ceruledge 😀

The segue into the ad was awesome LOL

Salt cure can easily cheese/ solo, orthworm, iron treads in violet, and dongiri, so u can quickly get movement abilies

It brings me joy seeing discount Zapdos being A tier

I love that you also love the design of Dudunsparce and Flamigo. They're getting way too much hate.

7:20 Finally someone acknowledges Dudunsparce's design! Thanks Jan, "amazing shitpost" is perfect description, it just trolls all the people who take pokemon designs too seriously.

I feel like the thing that makes maushold good is just the fact that it's available pretty early on on the route to the elite four, not overleveled, and fairly solid, despite not having consistent access to technician since it's a hidden ability, it's still a consistently useable enough encounter that it serves a purpose as reliable backup.

Ceruledge is my new favorite Pokémon, so I say he’s S tier, even if Jan ignored him 😢

You can technically get Great Tusk or Iron Treads before the postgame after defeating it in a Titan Battle

Yesss! Another tier list!

You can say what you want about PChal, but his ad transitions are some of the best I've seen

Espathra in nuzlocked: Please help me, i'm too weak Espathra in singles: POWAH!!! UNLIMITED (STORED) POWAAAAAH!!!

This is a great year to be a ghost type stan

"G-hol-dengo" I nearly pissed myself. Danke dafür👌

You used my favourite songs from my favourite games in the background. Idk why but I liked this video so much more because of this

Honestly, i don't see a reason to pick another starter than Fuecoco for a nuzlocke. Once it becomes a Skeledirge, scarfed torch song sweeps so many battles

Fuecoco supremacy.

Ceruledge goes hard in these games ghost/fire type gets flash fire for immunity to fire moves, makes for a easy pivot sword dance for set up, bitter blade for big damage and healing, and flame charge for speed can also get it fairly early also looks sick so 10/10 right there

I have a headcanon with Anihilape that it got so angry it powered up to a point where the very fabric of spacetime creaks and groans in response, which is why you hear that cracking sound with every attack.

Nothing really shows off how important context is for ranking pokemon like the disparity between competitive strats and nuzlocke strats

For me quaquavel is good mon, aqua step and moxie are a deadly combo being able to raise you speed and attack in one go is pretty good For palafin is good but to obtain you need a friend or another person so i don't know if in nuzlocke it should count

I noticed the Hollow knight Music in the background Loved it,one of my favorite games

He fr on the grind today. 2 videos in 18 hours timespan. Damn, bro.

I'm suprised he didn't bring up Cyclizar's ability, Regenerator. When you use Shed Tail and switch out, Cyclizar heals itself for most of the hp it lost setting up the substitute. So it pretty easy and viable to set up more than one substitute in a fight in a hardcore nuzlocke

I agree with everything aside from Maushold, yes it doesn’t get pop bomb till really late in the game, but it still essentially gets dragon dance in tidy up and can have access to strong normal moves like facade, and once you get pop bomb you can sweeps large portion of battles, I’d personally put it in B tier, but I do understand the reasoning, very based aside.

I've never seen a better transition into a sponsor than the one in this video

The sun boosted solar beam reference was good I liked that

Did i miss ceruledge and armouruge?

Meowscarada deserved to be higher due it speed stats and it move flower trick because it crits every time you used it. You forgot amorledge and curledge. Cueludge is actually very helpful due to its bitter blade. My creuledge is one of my best pokemon due to its fire and ghost types and my teretizacan is water

Fantastic choice of music

in the first 20 seconds i agree sadly, since i love wugtrio, good video!!!

Everey

Honestly apart from the pawmi line, all the gen 9 pokemon are a hit

Alright, I gotta give you credit for that ad transition. That caught me way off guard lol

I think its worth mentioning that orthworm gets shed tail and is bulkier and slower than cyclizar, the main downside is that it gets it pretty late at level 52

I must be losing my mind. I love Spidops! I think they look cool AF used one on my team the whole game. Why so much hate? I really don't get it

Jan I completely agree with the full list including the part where the Megaman twins were left out, lol.

Merry Christmas, Rudolf

15:07 so there is a way to cheese his evolution . Catch the chest form (they do respawn) Save game Time jump 2 days (real world) (it's probability is unknown) If it's there battle it collect coins,save game and go back to present time and do it again. If the chest form is not there save the game anyway and go back to present time and just repeat the process. For me I got lucky with respawns because I already discovered 10 towers.

Pokemon Challenges after getting sponsored by Manscaped for the 534,567,902nd time:

Nothing dudunsparce does well? It’s a paraflinch monster with serene grace. Dragon Rush plus STAB body slam, with added benefit of access to coil and roost (if playing itemless). It’s even a decent bulky baton passer to physical attackers or Stored Power users due to coil. Two coils puts you at +6, making stored power a base 140 power psychic (usually also stab) move that also comes with a good defense boost for survivability on the switch. And by extension, it being a thing makes the same build on dunsparce pretty viable for an eviolite build if you’re using it below the evolution level.

Damn I was so excited to see what he thought of Ceruledge and armarogue I understand why they wouldn’t appear, since charcadet has a VERy low chance to spawn in the overworld, technically making it impossible to catch in a run, but in my normal Violet run, Ceruledge carried my whole team

Jacob would be proud of that ad takeaway