Pro Nuzlocker Ranks Every Scarlet/Violet Pokemon 

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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 😎😎😎

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 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

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

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.

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

How is Spidops a bad design? It’s clearly based on a special agent, which explains its behavior and name pretty well, and is also based on spools of yarn and a spinning wheel with its abdomen and silk-spinning limbs that look almost wooden in appearance. It’s actually quite a clever design, in my opinion. Spidops is overhated enough as it is, please no more Spidops slander

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

I love when he does tier lists too

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

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.

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

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.

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".

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

15:05 what the heck

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

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

no ceruledge or armarouge?

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

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

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

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

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!

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 had an aneurysm when he pronounced goldengo lmao

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.

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.

It brings me joy seeing discount Zapdos being A tier

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

Man the disrespect for espathra, but yeah there really isn't a fight that justifies what it does when attackers are so strong in this game

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

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

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.

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

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

Pausing at 0:00 to do something else and coming back: Is this man on drugs?

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

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.

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

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

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

you can see in real time his opinion of scovillain improving as he goes from its bad exclusive move and middling stats to its capability as a sun abuser

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

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

Fuecoco supremacy.

I think orthworm should be in a teir since it learns she’d tail too and it’s very bulky so it can take a hit to switch and can heal when switched in

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.

Me still remembering that Torch Song is literally just Fiery Dance

This is a great year to be a ghost type stan

I will say, houndstone is a fantastic “what if” pokemon. If theres a really strong fight coming up, and the pokemon you have are clearly at a disadvantage and have very little chance of winning, but you have a frw mostly useless pokemon sitting in the box, its a serious “save my ass” strategy. Like lets be honest, if he was available in all the older games, infamous rival fival would be an absolute cakewalk, not the tense moment it is. He would make so many seriously scary fights trivial, if youre willing to make the sacrifices needed to potentially save the entire run!

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

DEAR GOD THE SPONSORSHIP TRANSITIONS ARE EVOLVING

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

Jacob would be proud of that ad takeaway

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!

8:27 He said sun-boosted solarbeam guys!

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

As a guy in my 30’s that hasn’t played since gen 3 and only recently started watching this content, i thought he was joking about the dugtrio looking Pokémon at the start. I can’t believe it’s real lol

Did i miss ceruledge and armouruge?

13:58 “Actually shed tail is not a signature move since orthworm learns it too”. 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓 But in all seriousness, this vid was very fun to watch!

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

Gehodengol? Yes my favorite pokemon lmao. This is the best pokemon pronunciation ever

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.

8:28 I remember when Jan textually said: "Wtf is a Sun Boosted Solar Beam you inbr*** f***" And thats ironic atleast

Everey

I've never heard a better reasoning for a mon being B tier than "Picking Quaxly stops you from picking any of the other starters"

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

"best starter ever made" swampert: Are you sure about that?

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

Several news outlets got the name of Dudunsparce wrong, I was fooled too for a while. It is not dun-dun, but du-dun.

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

Almost every pokemon this gen is insanely minmaxed, rarely having 70 or more on a useless stat is insane. But not only every 500 BST (for example) is stronger on average than all the 500 BST from previous gens, the average BST is massively increasing. I randomly counted the number of FULLY evolved pokemon below 470 BST in this gen and its 5. Compared to gen 3 which has a whopping 35 pokemons with less than 470. The powercreep is honestly getting to the levels of the Trading card game. Kind of disgusting tbh.

That Samba Dance Duck destroyed my team 😭

bro spent so much time with Alpharad he even started using Persona songs in his videos

The pronunciation bait for Gimmighoul and Gholdengo was too funny to not to give you the engagement, so here ya go lol

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

6:10 I’m sorry but I cannot forgive you for that sponsor transition

Glimmora does... way more than just hazard setting ? It has a really great movepool, and great offensive stats to threaten a good portion of the game.

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.

2 uploads in 1 day? Damn he really trying to get as much december revenue as he can

The sun boosted solar beam reference was good I liked that

New Pokemon Rankings (Left to right) (Worst to Best) F tier: Wugtrio C tier: Spidops, Rabsca, Espathra, Veluza, Grafaiai, Squawkabilly, Tatsugiri, Houndstone, Bombirdier, Maushold B tier: Klawf, Bellibolt, Dachsbun, Glimmora, Quaquaval, Oinkologne, Toedscruel, Farigiraf, Brambleghast, Revavroom, Dudunsparce, Mabosstiff A tier: Lokix, Arboliva, Scovillain, Pawmot, Clodsire, Kilowattrel, Dondozo, Paldean Tauros, Meowscarada, Cetitan, Baxcalibur, Nacli Evolution Line, Flamigo, Orthworm, Kingambit, Tinkaton S tier: Cyclizar, Gholdengo, Annihilape, Palafin, Skeledirge ???: Armarogue, Ceruledge, Paradox Pokemon

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

“Just like I’ll be keeping an eye out for my fierce bush!” WHAT

as a bug type connoiseur, lokix is one of the best things to ever happen to me. this thing is BUSTED, especially for a bug.