The best part of having garchomp in platinum is that you can bring it to one of the shard move tutors and it can learn Iron head. takes advantage of it's great attack stat and was THE coverage move against Ice types and now fairies.
@@blacksheep7741 Garchomp has the attack stat to body most Pokémon of those types. Good coverage comes a long way. I’m not sure what you’re trying to get from stating the obvious
1:41 One of my original disappointments regarding Tyranitar was that Karen never used it, despite being dark-specialist. Instead a Gengar and Vileplume made up parts of her team.
@@stephenveerasammy3074 If memory serves she also skipped Sneasel which ofc is not as strong but yet a dark type for a team that felt pretending there weren’t more dark types.
Honestly, Tyranitar's more suitable for Lance. Because of how hard it was to create Dragon type teams in Generations 1 and 2, Lance had to rely on several Pokemon that RESEMBLE Dragons instead of the type itself. Toss out 2 of his Dragonite and replace them with Tyranitar and Kingdra and he's set. Karen was doing fine without Tyranitar. Gengar and Vileplume suit her philosophy of choosing Pokemon that she just likes, regardless of whether they're her signature type. Plus, their inclusion on her team have gotten even better with time due to their ability to obliterate Fairy types.
@@tomnorton4277 Good points I can agree with! Even though Kingdra might been more suitable for Lances upgraded team (HG/SS) since Kingdra is the dragon gym leaders signature Pokémon.
Getting a Larvitar on silver is what I think contributed to Tyranitar being my favourite mon, PERIOD. It was like Metagross in that you could only get it in the post game, except it was at the very end of postgame and it is the only pseudo that no NPC in its base game had. Out of all the pseudos, Ttar was the one that made me feel the most like the "very best like no-one ever was" as a kid, and I'll never forget that.
I wasted 2 to 3 hours in SV to first get a Mankey and Magikarp to evolve and just move around beating the bug gym and a titan and then I went to get gible, larvitar and a deino from the cave in the west area after that I went to capture a riolu. Also I captured a ditto from near that port city. Then I basically bred them one by one which took more time. Also I only remembered riolu after I was done with breeding every other pokemon on my team. I forgot riolu was a baby pokemon and wasted some time trying to breed him with ditto. When I remembered it took some time to evolve and breed Lucario. And now I am playing with my team from the start and already reached lvl 20+ for all Pokemons.
I love all pseudo legendary, but in metagross case. What makes it special is that you’ll need to earn it and train it to be strong. Its special. Its not like bagon where everyone can catch one. Just look it in another way. Lots of love everyone ❤️
Garchomp is my favourite Pseudo Legendary Pokemon. It's a great member of my Ultimate Team, even though it was hard to get any battle experience for him on Showdown due to my team having a combination of all of the gimmicks in the franchise.
Tyranitar has been my ace ever since the gen 2 days. And it still is in the Scarlet playthrough and the very first Larvitar I saw in Scarlet happened to be a shiny as well,and relatively early in the game which I had after I believe 2 badges
Bro the first larvitar you found was shiny?!? I’ve still to this day never ran into a shiny apart from the lake of rage gyarados, and I’ve played through and replayed most of the Pokémon
@@Luke-wm5zkyea the very first Larvitar I came across was a shiny one to my shock, I thought it was a normal colored one until I could swear I saw stars come out of it as I encountered it. When I caught it I saw that it had the little stars on the bottom of the profile which meant it was a shiny. Not long after I came across and caught a shiny Rotom during a mass outbreak and a shiny(green) Grimer while I was looking for, ironically a Rotom. Edit: you’ll come across a shiny when you least expect it as cliche as it sounds
@@Luke-wm5zk Dawg I've been playing since Gen 1 with literal tens of thousands of hours over all the generations and had a whole 4 shinies to my name (INCLUDING gyarados) before SV. In SV alone, I've filled a box with shinies. In fact, the first wild pokemon I found in the game was a shiny Lechonk. Gen 9 goes crazy with shinies.
@@Luke-wm5zkthat's horrible luck bro. I've found at minimum 20 in my life time of playing. And besides replaying crystal and emerald versions I don't really replay the games
You actually can get larvitar through the safari zone in HG and SS before the elite four, which I did on my latest playthrough. Real nightmare of a process just catching it but goddamn did it feel like I was cheating using that overpowered tyranitar for the rest of the game.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the Tera Dark Frigidbax that can be found on the mountain and has the Egg move Icicle Sphere which makes it absolutely destroy nearly anything if it has that held item that increases the amount of times consecutive moves can strike
@@blacksheep7741 Metagross isn't nowhere in Paldea, the point of the video is how well the Psuedo legendaries do within their own game of origin, and their no Metagross trainers anywhere within Paldea to stop it
Man didn’t even know abilities didn’t exist in gen 2 or that hyper beam would’ve still did more than dragon claw for Dragonite in gen 1, so I’d find it hard to believe that he would’ve known about that Frigibax.
8:50 Hawaii is super laid back, to the point it's a bit of a meme. Not a single Pokemon introduced that generation, including regional forms, learns Quick Attack for the same reason.
Actually, there were no abilities in Gen 2, they were introduced in Gen 3. So Tyranitar didn't have Sand Stream and Red's team wasn't hit by it as you said. I even remember people using Tyranitar with a moveset which included Sandstorm in competitive battles back in the days.
8:30 thats not what soundproof does. It means that pokemon with soundproof are immune to the move. Not that Kommo'o with soundproof don't get the defense drop
Ironically...my two favorites are Metagross and Tyranitar. That's also probably because I was in that sweet-spot agegroup when Silver/Gold/Crystal and Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald came out. I mostly played the original Pokemon games in preschool and very early Elementary school back in like 1999-2001 or so and then had Crystal version and Ruby and those two games just utterly sucked me in. But they also look so cool!!!! And IDK, personally at least, I've always found them to be really great in my teams and be able to dish out damage AND take a beating.
You know Metagross is good when one of the only two complain he could came up was the fact that you get it at Lvl 1 in RSE. I mean damn bro, I vividly remembered that you can catch a wild one in DPPt and it was like Lvl 50+. Still freaking hard to catch even with ultra ball spams though. Plus I also remembered you could trade one with Steven in HGSS with Forretress.
You can get Dreepy pretty reliably from the dragon den by the log nex to the Roselia static spawn. Usually it only takes a couple of tries. I almost always have dreepy before entering Motostoke
Something to mention about Dragonite is that it can releastically be caught before Erika and Giovanni 1 by getting one in the prize exchange center. Also I think counting remakes of the base regions would’ve been fair, it defintely would’ve shot Metagross up to like 2 since cause of the Shiny Beldam you get at level 10 before the first gym.
Tyranitar is probably my favorite Pokémon overall. Awesome kaiju design on par with charizard or rayquaza. Incredibly strong with great stab moves. But in terms of OP, Garchomp is the goat.
I'm sorry bad take. Hisuian goodra is amazing but in comparison to all other pseudo's the original version just has nothing to offer. Which is probably why they felt like they had to fix it.
Goodra isn't underrated. It is statistically the worst pseudo-legendary in the game. Can you use it? Sure. But it can't do anything that any other pseudo could do but better.
It has been a minute, but I also seem to recall in ORAS it being even longer to get Beldum I remember beating the Elite 4, going to Steven's house and it not being there, beating the Delta Episode and it still not being there, and finally showing up after beating the Elite 4 again I love Metagross but it seems like they made you go through extra hoops to get it
I think it was like that cuz at that time Beldum was a gift, the shiny beldum event and you could have it when you started a game so they probably thought that was enough
Dragapult, dragonite and tyranitar are my favorites. Dragapult is always in my party, love its signature move, dragon darts, shooting the poor pair of dreepy away like they were missiles 😂
The Beldum you get from Steven’s house is level 5, not 1. I’m switch training it to a Metagross right now, as I’m watching this lol. My dex will be completed once I get it to level 45
In XD gale of darkness you can get access to larvitar fairly early (just before the factory area) and its pretty reliable when you use a ground team along with flygon and aggron.
Thank you for respecting Goodra as much as you did. A lot of players think it's a piece of crap but I remember wrecking almost everyone in and out of game using that pokemon although I got it through BS methods like trading early in the game.
Placed low for being a pure dragon type is disrespecting it tbh, praising salamence for having a spatk stat that is decent so it can use both but not mentioning the same for Goodra's Attack stat. Not to mention it has an immunity to grass that actually powers it up on the physical side when hit by grass type moves. How it got ranked below Kommo-o is beyond me. With so many Ultra Beasts etc running around Alola I don't blame people for even forgetting Kommo-o is a thing.
@@blackout6411 I got to admit that I have some bias as I really only like it (and it being in my top 5 of all pokemon) and Dragapult among all the pseudo's
You can encounter Garchomp in diamond and pearl without strength. Just spin in place when you enter Wayward Cave since you are able to get encounters that way.
frigibax can be caught earlier at dalizapa pasage right outside the pokemon center without the swim ability. Just head from zapapico and head up till u see a giant hole with a pokemon center down below and just jump down. There is a tunnel where it can be caught
It's weird that you ignored re-makes, as they're also the Pokemon's home regions just spruced up a bit. In Metagross' case it doesn't matter since it's still postgame unless you played them at launch and got the event one. Tyranitar is only slightly better because you get get Larviatar in the safari zone; but good luck having a Tyranitar before Kanto. Dragonite is way better in gen 3 kanto because even with them not being physical attacks yet, it actually gets dragon moves on top of all the other great things about it. Also Salamence just seems way too high if we're going by playthrough viability. You can only have one for victory road and the elite 4, which no matter how good intimidate is doesn't seem worth it considering the last 3rd of the e4 just decimates the thing unless you can kill all of Drake's team in 1-hit before he does it in return to you; and by this point in Hoenn you've had access to other good dragons not usually available in the previous 2 gens. Baxcalibur is completely reasonable that thing is ridiculous and you can mess with the game physics to get a Frigibax before having ANY GYM BADGES, I know because I've done it!
Bro really pronounced Zweilous Zwee-loos and Hydreigon Hidraygon…😢 Edit: If you’re confused, their names come from German, D-ein-o Zwei-lous Hy-drei-gon Which are 1, 2, 3. And it make sense because of their heads.
Not sure if this was stated, but you can get larvitar in hgss at around the 6th johto gym due to the safari zone at and at higher levels than mount silver.
When I was playing thru SV I found a dreepy rlly early near a river and caught it immediately at level 23. I didn’t realize how late it evolved into drakloak and how useless it was until I got it to level 40 😭
Baxcaliber is one of my favorite pseudos because A) it’s design is awesome, and B) he looks like Godzilla and I have fond memories of watching the older Godzilla movies
Dragonite in gen 1 was kinda op tho. Wrap attack was immobilizing the enemy fully xD and hyper beam had no rest turn if it defeated the enemy, so you could potentially spam it iirc
2:39 that is a mistake , even tho weather was introduced in gen 2 ( wich i've just discovered ) abilities were not until gen 3 so t-tar could'nt have sand stream
Baxcaliber is the most accessible pseudo… it was my second Pokémon after praying while chucking a shit ton of pokeballs. I got after beating the first titan by BLJ’ing.
For tyranitsr in the remakes you can get larvitar via safari zone at a not too late point so you can use it for the play through I’ve used tyranitar 3x on my gen 2 remakes run
Garchomp can deal supper effectective damage to every other Pokémon in the list. Dragon type attacks for the dragon and ground type attacks for Tyranator and Metagross.
Always loved the Dragon/Dinosaur style of the pseudos so I replay the new gens way more often since i can transfer a team at low lvl to them and beat the game with the team I want.
I remember when meteor mash was only exclusive to him now every other steel in fighting pokemon can learn bullet punch a meteor mash still ma fave metagross
Baxculiber is really good especially for tera raid battles it has helped me a lot i use it with swords dance avalanche and outrage and it is usually a beast
What you said in the video about the metagross line and especially the fact you couldn't find one in the wild it's exactly why he wasn't considered a pseudo back then, and to some extent i still think the gen 3 pseudo is salamence let's face it every other gen has only one pseudo, metagross it's more similar to the gen 1 eevee it's a gift pokemon
Don't mean to that person, but I should mention that Tyranitar doesn't have access to Sand Stream in the original Gold, Silver, and Crystal since abilities aren't introduced until Gen 3. Also I think you forgot Haxorus. Good video regardless.
You're absolutely right I had a scatterbrain moment and forgot abilities still weren't a thing in those games. But I suppose him not have that ability further solidifies his spot at number 10 haha
@2:38 It seems like you were jumping back and forth between GSC & Heart Gold/Soul Silver. There was no Sand Stream in Generation 2 nor were there abilities (Intimidate Gyrados was not a thing in GSC). The physical/special split hadn't happened yet and all Dark type moves were Special in the first 3 generations, meaning Tyranitar wasn't using Crunch on the physical side if being used against Red. Sand Storm also didn't boost the Special Defense of Rock, Steel and Ground Types in Generation 2. Everything you said only applies to Heart Gold and Soul Silver.
I could be mistaken but I believe I was able to get larvitar early when going to the end area of the last route where it's near the home town in Crystal at night.
Oh, I'm excited to watch this one! *literally the first one that shows up is my favorite pseudo legendary of all time* ight Imma head out Edit: Just kidding, it sadly makes total sense lol Really interesting video idea, btw
Dude literally yapped about Tyranitar’s ability while ranking psuedo legendaries based on their debut generation and didn’t see a problem with that. Definitely a watch Mojo type list
See Tyranitar would be my number one, I always had an extremely good setup with him, but I can’t remember what it was but it could beat a best setup lvl 50 Garchomp. He was really powerful but I wish I could remember what I had done to make him that powerful.
I started Pokemon with X and Y and loved* goodra before i even knew what a Psuedo legend was. Ive always been sad he didnt have poison or water as a secondary typing but hisuian goodra’s steel type is a great remedy
