Ranking EVERY Pokemon Type (Gen 3) 

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6:19 “water tends to be solid” I think it’s a liquid actually Jim 👍

Jim, you clearly forgot that electrode can also outspeed dugtrio. Then electrode can use taunt to make dugtrio really mad before it dies to earthquake

Birds in gen 3: Yay I don't have to step on spikes! Birds after gen 3: Ow stop stupid sharp rocks.

I guess we'll never know Jimothy's opinions on the Fairy type in Generation 3 OU

me when three little moles tell me I can't leave but I'm a bird

I think dragon and ghost should be much lower because they're very scary to me

The way the G from flying completes the G for ghost but not exactly the same scale has taken all of my attention this video

Best thing about gen 3 is no stealth rock.

You've failed to consider that OU threats Swalot and Muk are of the poison typing, Jim

Poison type should have been like a rpg rogue type but for some reason gamefreak decided to give double team, toxic and protect to basically every pokemon out there.

When your type's viability is determined by Dugtrio.

Poison really should have been Water's physical weakness. It makes so much sense, too, and it completely rewrites every meta with such a simple change. Now Sludge Bomb is a terrifying move and Waters switch out in the face of it. So many poison types would have viable, genuine uses with this one change.

Me when im a bird

You say that Ice type is your spiciest take, but Electric seems even spicier! Fun list. I agree that Fairy should be lowest. After all, it's so bad that there's not a single Fairy type that's useable in Gen 3 OU!

It seems drifblim came a little late to the party

Another day, another reminder of the pain of being a Poison enjoyer who mainly plays the first four generations.

I like when the g in flying and g in ghost were cut off but came together to support one another. What a wholesome moment.

Tier list was fine except the Electric placement was wrong ❌ Electric types offensively are so strong and great to use in the ADV OU metagame. Zapdos , Jolteon and Raikou are all amazing Mons, with their STAB Thunderbolt posing a serious threat and allowing for momentum to be generated through Baton Pass for the former 2. Keeping Mons like Suicune Skarmory Starmie Gyarados and Charizard in check is invaluable and made possible through the Electric typing. The electric typing also comes in useful defensively against Metagross, Skarmory's Drill Peck and of course opposing electric attacks

Imagining a flying Muk scares me

Thank you for this video Jimothy.

I was so curious about what types are good in the gen 3 ou metagame, until this video, now i know everything!!!!

This is literally a top 3 most wanted Jim vid for me

This is education folks

Jim, this vid was cool

this was a fun video. it would be super cool to see an Ability tier list!

Jim fading in and out of existence while explaining types. This is insane

Excellent video as always! Jim, I've been wasting much free time crafting adv ou pokemon (with multiple EV spreads/hidden powers) to do battles on colloseum/XD on the GameCube. There is just one hitch to my battles: there is team preview and you pick your lead after seeing the opponents team. My wet dream is for you to make a video about this format (similar to your orre colloseum video) but about picking counter leads in gen 3 and/or the devaluing of trappers if you see them upon team preview!

Gen 3 is my favourite gen and poison is my favourite type

Interesting how the best types in Gen 3 OU (SS, S and A tier) are mostly so good for their defensive properties, rather than their offense. I think this is a core component of Gen 3 having such an interesting and dynamic metagame, where the priority is placed more on survivability and switch-in counter play. As opposed to later generations, where the meta is instead, much more focused on boosts and sweepers who can 1-shot most Pokemon they come across. This defensive focus is definitely one of the biggest reasons I find myself drawn to Gen 3's metagame the most.

Rock is an interesting one. It has such polarised match ups, it either dominates or disintegrates. Defensively its a complete liability, but its incredible offensively. Often considered the strongest offensive type. Very true that most of them are bad. Game freak just seems to like making rock types that are terrible. They give them un-useable speed and special defense in particular, so most of them can be easily outsped and one hit. Often with secondary types like ground and steel that compound their weaknesses. Because their type match up makes them glass cannons, I think speed tier is the big difference between a harmless rock type and a devastating one. When they get decent stats, in particular speed, it shows how uniquely dangerous rock types can be. Aerodactyl with its high speed and flying type. Tyranitar has only middling speed but dragon dance and an actual special defense stat. Rocks become incredibly dangerous when gamefreak actually thinks about their stats beyond "Its a rock so its slow and weak to water". To that point, many of the lower tier rocks that are un-useable on typical teams are devastating on paralysis spam teams. Rhydon in particular in a menace when it gets to move first. I would rate rock a bit higher, behind grass at the bottom of A tier. Not too far off your own placement. I like the placement of grass in particular. Its another one with very polarised type match ups. It has many clear defensive weaknesses, and yet has great defensive utility. Id personally put psychic in the c tier. I was undecided about the best type, but you convinced me about flying. Built in heavy duty boots is just cracked. Immunity to earthquake and arena trap. Zapdos, moltres, Aerodactyl are all examples of how being a strong electric, fire or rock type means being a flying type. Give a steel type flying type and you have the best wall in the game. Interesting video topic. Ive been thinking about this one myself for a while. I agree with the vast majority of your choices here. I thought it would be fun to share some differences of opinion. Bless you Jim. May all your Mondays be Magcargo Mondays

I got really confused by flying at #1 until i seen it was gen 3

I have a few things I disagree on here. I think Rock should absolutely be A tier, defensively being immune to sandstorm as well as resist fire normal and flying is really good, offensively rock is one of the strongest types in the game, there's a reason Tyranitar, Aerodactyl and friends are paired together as much as they are, overall these traits put it on the same level as dragon and fighting for me even if the weaknesses are a little rough. Electric is also absolutely not that bad, being the definitive type to kill water types is a huge deal, and the good electric types have their way around their weaknesses, they're definitely on the same level as Psychic for me. Lastly, I think Grass and Dark are fundamentaly great types and u ranked them well, the problem is they're basically entirely carried by a single mon in the tier, which I think limits their value, I would put them a tier below for that reason. Great tier list tho, I enjoy your gen 3 OU content a lot

I agree with most of these, but small adjustments like Water over Steel, Dark below Dragon and Fighting, Rock on top of B and Fire in bottom B. Jim is obviously a better player than myself but well I have can my opinions too

Poison typing is my favourite, but i do not like how bad it is before fairy type introduction

This tier list for half the types turned into, how weak are you to Arena trap Dugtrio. That's how good it is lol.

all of these long jimothy uploads recently have been spoiling us, we are eating excellently

Gutted there was no information on the fairy type. I waited all video for it too

We often think about types in the offensive and defensive sense. I think it's important to think about the types as coverage moves also, like Ice Beam on Swampert for example.

Birds after gen 3: “Is this loss?”

i feel great like a flying type switching in to 3 layers of spikes when i watch Jimmy I love u

I largely agree, but I would swap the positions of Bug and Psychic. Most Psychic Pokémon gain nothing from their Psychic type aside from weaknesses, Psychic STAB is risky and hits little for reliable super effective damage. You will rarely ever see Psychic-type Hidden Power. Bug, though? Just imagine how much better certain Pokémon would be with the Bug type added, complete with Bug STAB. Dugtrio with Bug STAB and a Ground resistance would be bonkers, and if you took Metagross and swapped its Psychic type for the Bug typing, its nightmarish power would only grow as it becomes even stronger against Tyranitar, Celebi, Jirachi, Swampert, and Suicune. A double weakness to Fire is more than worth the elimination of a Ground weakness.

I feel like people always forget that electric resists steel, not that Jolteon or Zapdos are checks to metagross, but still surprised it wasn’t mentioned.

I’m surprised Regirock didn’t get a mention when discussing Rock type

6:19 me when someone asks me what happens to water when you put it in the freezer

what are the best pokemon types in generation 3?

As much as Dug is not really overpowered in ADV, it is still interesting how much his presence warps the overall viability of types weak to ground.

Kinda interesting from being i the lowest of lows, the poison type's role and viability has changed a lot, and is probably the best that it has ever been in gen 9. Toxic's 100% hit chance, fairy/fighting resistance, access to tera, hits fairy and grass for supereffective damage. Nowadays it's surely at least A ranked if not botton of S. At least while iron valiant and other fairy types are running around the tier.

5:16 Well, technically twin needle can poison steel types in gen3

I hope fairy is high on the tier list, fairy type pokemon are my favourite

Having Fire and Electric low on the list just validates having Flying at the top since the best Fire and Electric types are completely redeemed due to their Flying tyoe.

I think you’re underrating Rock a little bit. Offensively it’s just so good. Hitting skarm neutrally and having nothing immune to it makes it so much more spammable than other physical types. Also resisting normal, flying, and fire gives it some decent defensive utility. Not to mention immunity to sandstorm

Watching this video has got me thinking. What would gen3 look like without dugtrio arena trap? The enhanced viability of fire, electric, rock etc would shift things a lot. Would make a cool video idea.

Before Fairy came out, Poison only existed to make Grass Starters mad, and they never really gave grass types a solution for Poison until Ferrothorn came out. I wish Poison Heal made recieving poison attacks heal you as well as the status healing. Storm Drain used to not nullify water damage so I dont see why they cant fix this too

would you change fire's spot if you were to regard pure fires like arcanine/typhlosion/entei

How are you doing, Jim?

Gen 3 electric is kinda like fighting in gen 1, where you assume it MUST be good because it counters the best type in the game, but in reality, everything else is bad for it.

I would personally put ORMA type above SYCHI type, but we can all agree that RAGO type is A tier

*Floating cat from Azumanga Daioh*: I wish I were .... a bird

I think this is a good list if you value the defensive properties of the type heavily over their offenses, which does have some merit. However some positions still feel a bit questionable in this (normal feels too high, electric a bit low)

You know I never thought about the fact that some types are only weak to either physical or special types before the physical/special split. That's interesting.

Pretty sure flying being overpowered is why we got Stealth Rock, in an attempt to try to balance the type chart a bit. That sure worked out well.

We will never know how he rates fairy types in Gen 3

What are the best Pokémon types in Generation 3?

I think Psychic is one of the worst types in gen 3. It's almost as bad as poison. The only real advantages are hitting Gengar and resisting Focus Punch. The type offers little else offensively, and its a pure detriment defensively. You did change my mind on Electric. Electric type is bad. It's true.

What are the best Pokémon types in Gen 3?

It’s still so amusing to me how the one generation without stealth rocks but does have other more modernized mechanics (abilities, natures, etc) puts Charizard in OU

This is insane

What are the best Pokèmon types in gen 3?

Type combo tier list?

My favourite type is bug, but bug didn’t really get good until gen 5. I played monotype bug teams in ou before monotype was a format 😅😅

I'm curious where Fairy type would rank in this gen if it was a special-based type like the rest of the eeveelutions + dragon. This is assuming the gen 1-3 mons that were given fairy typing are still given it too; clefable, granbull, gardevour etc.

Interestingly, if there were a version of this for gen3 random, I would put poison type in S or S+ because of how valuable toxic immunes are in that metagame. Change the environment a bit, and unexpected types can thrive.

I may be late to this but which generation of Pokemon do you think that the Water Type was weakest in?

Ghost is probably the best overall type in Pokemon. Only defensive resists are bug and poison, which aren't staple types in team building typically, but offensively the only thing that resists it is Dark. Ghost in modern gens is pretty close to Normal in gen 1.

flying type's only real flaw in gen 3 OU is low availability of good stabs

Ah yes, "how weak are you to Dugtrio?", the tier list!

So... stealth rocks was specificly created to nerf flying type right? I've never been into competitive battles, I'm only exploring now so it's all new to me😅

Winona approves of this list.

jim what typing would old money be?

but jimothy you forgot the fairy type!! whats the fairy types viability in gen 3? i never see anyone talking about it and i dont know why

Hypothetical gen 3 Fairy type would have been interesting on the tier as a bonus, even if it was just your best guess.

bird up!

Do 3 different videos of tierlists. One for typing as an attack, another for typing as a solo primary Pokemon Type and the 3rd for typing as a SECONDARY type.

Personally I think poison should be super effective on water, it’s a thematic way to reference water pollution and would reduce the power of water as a defensive typing

in short: don't be weak to ground and you're mostly good

flying type is weak to rock, electric (magnet says hello to skarm), there are some pokemon with levitate and immunity to spikes and arena trap. Not sure about flying type ranking

Bird Type is truly the most valuable type in Bird gen

Gengar would be so much better as a levitating pure Ghost. It seems like it should have been changed to Ghost/Dark in Gen 2, thematically. Going from the Ghost/Poison Gas Pokemon (Haunter) to the Ghost/Dark Shadow Pokemon (Gengar) would have been a very cool way to integrate the new type with an old favorite.

A bit surprised that Rock ends up in B tier even though you essentially have to have a Rock-resistance on your team - that alone should indicate how dominant Rock is as an offensive type (defensively it indeed is rather mediocre). I guess it's a bit tedious to differentiate between the usefulness of the type and the Pokémon of this type, though.

I think something you neglect is how powerful electric STAB is. I would argue that makes up for the defensive shortcomings. Electric types are fast and threaten much of the meta game with powerful electric stab and para.

Watching this, it almost feels like ground should be higher than it is here, because a ton of viability of other types is basically determined by their matchup against ground. Flying is at the top mostly because of immunity to spikes and eq. Offensively, it really struggles from a lack of good flying type moves, and relies a lot on a good movepool, secondary typing, and good stats to make up for these offensive shortcomings. Defensively, flying types also really hate their weakness to rock slide. One thing flying does do better than any other type, though, is to make otherwise bad types good, and that's because it's... immune to ground. In OU, you have aerodactyl, charizard, moltres, skarmory, and zapdos that use its flying typing to change an earthquake weakness in to an earthquake immunity, which is what flying really shines at doing! Ghost has a unique niche of blocking rapid spin and being immune to explosion, which is utterly ridiculous. This makes ghost typing ridiculously valuable to have on a team. However, it's also prone to being pursuit trapped and STAB shadow ball isn't that great, especially for special attackers. The benefits of ghost typing probably are pretty insane in a vacuum, but since all of them have such low stats aside from gengar, every ghost type in the actual game has glaring and exploitable weaknesses. So... Ghost is really useful for being spin and explosion blockers, but that's basically its one main trick. Offensively its probably below average, and defensively it gets switch ins on normal/fighting moves, but isn't going to wall a whole lot of common pokemon. Ground though, is incredible offensively and defensively. Fire, electric, poison, and rock all struggle largely because of their weakness to earthquake. EQ is also the primary thing that prevents metagross and other steel types from being blatantly overpowered. Defensively, the weakness to water does hurt a lot, but the resistance to rock is incredible, and an immunity to electric is one of the only things holding electric types back in this game (the other being blissey). Offensively, ground is probably the best type in the game, and defensively, it's still up there near the top. Ground types are also immune to sandstorm chip damage, which is insane in this meta. I guess one argument against this is that earthquake is valuable even on non ground type pokemon, so types should be valued for their defense more than for their offense. Another argument could be that the metagame is so centralized around earthquake primarily because of dugtrio, not because the ground typing itself is so good. Still, it's pretty clear that the meta warps around the ground type more than it does around flying or ghost types, so I feel like the ground type has a pretty good argument for being the best type in the game.

my hottake is that Water isnt actually a good type in Gen 3. their defensive ability is less good than usually bc sand immunity is just so important. on most good water types their water type is their biggest liability. their biggest asset is usually that Surf + ice Beam has few resistance outside of Blissey.

I would rank ghost above flying 100%. Also ice and normal above psychic. Before the special-physical split, ice is an amazing special wall, just as normal type. Except that it is also strong offensively. Psychic have nothing going for it except it resists fighting. It just happens to have strong mons. Otherwise I agree with your list. Dark is an underrated type absolutely.

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The comment on Muk makes me wonder if Alolan Muk would have been good in gen 3.

yo isnt rock type weak to steel and fighting too?

I think the electric type is actually insane and it has a lack of good Pokemon to abuse it. It's immune to paralysis, it's only weakness is ground, and it hits almost everything for neutral except for ground, grass, and dragon types. Zapdos comes the closest

i think electric is your spiciest take, yes they are weak to ground/dugtrio but at the same time, they keep a lot of the stronger types in check

Swalot is a known counter to top ou threat Metagross