Rating Every Pokémon Team I Used in 2021 

3 shinies in one playthrough is just crazy, sorry to say you might have used up all your shiny luck for the next 3 years with that one LOL

I still can’t believe Michael encountered 3 shinies during his toughest playthrough to date with full odds

mandjtv with a beard is such a godsend, he’s like an alolan one but also shiny, plus it suits him a lot

Another point for the Grunty Boi team is that Grunty Boi was the first to discover that Drowzee is a Pokemon. (if you get it you get it)

"Sorry Grunty Boi" "It's fine you're just an idiot" Man I died laughing

I really feel like Michael and Grunty Boi's relation has really grown since August 2020 (still can't believe GB has only been around for a little over a year and a quarter ago feels like ages). Michael has gone from shock, to anger to exhaustion with this guy but has now come to consider him a friend and even let him on a video without a sponsor. It really felt like a progressing story with these two and I can't wait to see what different sponsor antics occur in 2022.

I laughed so much when Grunty boy said "its fine your just a idiot"

“It’s fine, You’re just an idiot.” That had me laughing for a solid 5 minutes straight.

I feel like a lot people overlook Cradily. It is a surprisingly good Pokemon and Rock/Grass is something not to sneeze at

that beard is looking fire, Michael. happy new year/holidays!

14:30 proves that Mikey and Grunty boi are different people

I like how both the gym leader playthroughs were in Gen 6 and both the Team Sky Playthroughs were in Gen 3. I expect this will change this year but its still fun

"Its fine your just an idiot" This is one of the only 10 - 20 times i've legitimately laughed so hard on one of his jokes

I actually enjoyed the bug catcher playthrough quite a lot, so I'm sad to see you were so stressed/disappointed in it. Their weaknesses made the whole thing more like a challenge, which made it more interesting as I also thought it would be Volcarona carrying the whole thing.

Ngl, every time grunty boy is on screen I can't help but smile ear to ear. He's such a lovable character

“Never struggled once!” “oh god” Had me dead

My favorite teams are the 'role playing' ones, most of which you ranked 10/10. Nice! Hope to see some more next year. Team Sky can always keep traveling and expanding.

My favorite team was definitely the “Can you beat Pokemon Platinum?” team. The video itself was just thoroughly entertaining, and the team was really fun as well. Also Gruntyboi is a joy to see lol

This one such a fun video to watch Michael! I have seen all the playthroughs beside the 2 randomized ones. Hearing all of these, makes me reflect on how fun this year was. My favorite was the alolan playthrough

This was an amazing year. We love you, Mikey!

I really liked the ultra moon no catching team *a lot* even though it was quite limiting compared to a normal play through.

The part of Grunty Boy rating his team is nice. We need more of him doing stuff like this. I am disappointed with Unova tho, cause its my 2nd favorite team (after hoenn cause emerald is my 1st pokemon game)

He almost predicted iron hands with the name of his blaziken from the start of the video by naming it iron fists

16:14 Michael: It’s hard to disagree with him Grunty Boi: *Pulls out AK-47* That’s right

Mikey: "GREETINGS POKÉFANS! Michael here..." Me: "Ah yes, that intro never gets old even if it's almost 2022."

I loved the Bug Catcher team. Despite all of your complaints and struggles with it, I enjoyed seeing one of my favorite pokemon types shine in a while.

I wonder if "Expand the Sky" means just getting rid of outer space so there is just a buncha floating islands and a giant sea underneath.

The shield randomiser is already his 4th most viewed video. Let’s get it to number 1.

Team sky grunts can technically use any Pokémon as long as it has levitate or they have a balloon as a held item. I think.

I'd love to see more Grunty Boi playthoughs in other games next year. Make it like a series. Let the grunt conquer all of the regions to become the ultimate Rocket Master!

You should totally do this video for following years again. It's cool to recap the year of playthroughs and rank what you had.

RIP Azrael. Absol is so cool and is by far my favorite Pokémon, but I cannot ignore its lack of battle prowess due to it lack of speed or bulk, as well as not having a secondary typing for extra STAB or to help in a monotype run. Mega Absol is at least pretty fast, but it still doesn't really hit hard enough to justify its lack of bulk.

I still remember Mikey’s wartortle evolving into blastoise being the most unbelievable thing in the video

I think changing Team Sky's goal from "expanding the sky" to "reaching for the sky (being the best and most skilled pokemon gang)" could make Team Sky not just grow in size in the real world, but become actual pokemon canon. Long Live Team Sky!!!

I actually really liked the Bug team, cuz at the end you came out on top and did eventually win. It was cool to see and to be reminded how many cool bugs got introduced in Unova.

I look forward to this list at end of this year. The teams he's used so far this year have been wild and the list should be super interesting

7:03 I still think that Team Sky's mission could be to expand the sky by restoring the Ozone layer (via hostile take-over of mega corporations worldwide in order to replace all of their energy sources with solar/wind energy)

He must be using something, because hé has a perfect beard

11:15 Mikey said this 'Despite that this team kicked a lot of butt in In this run and it was fun’

mikey i loved the ultra moon play through on your plays channel sm😭😭😭

My favourite team this year must be my only bug type shield play through. The team hade, Crustlu, Aracuinid, Durant, Galvantula, Cantiscorche and golisapod. It was an incredible team that worked amazingly and I had no major issues for the howl play through (I apologizes for the horrible misspelling of the Pokémon names).

I always love it when Grunty Boi shows up. The energy is so infectious. If Grunty Boi was the PR recruiter for Team Rocket, I would join in a heartbeat.

I have watched all the walkthroughs and the summary videos associated with each one and each time I got a great bit of laughter and enjoyment out of all of them

15:50 its been like year or two but still I loved when Grunty Boy tell on his playthrough "Its level eleven"

I liked the Dark Gym Leader Team because it inspired me to do a Pokemon X Psychic Type Monotype Challenge with Delphox, Malamar, Gardevoir, Reuniclus, Meowstic, and Starmie.

Go Team Sky! You should do a playthrough as Team Pixiedust. It'd be hilarious. Especially given knowing you, you'd most likely do it in character and I find that incredibly amusing.

Have you ever thought on making a play trough as the leader of team pixie? 11:02 this didn’t age well

I’m playing through ultra moon as team sky right now. It’s a fun challenge to use flying types!

Mikey: “Don’t say it!” Me: “Candice di-“ Mikey: “So you have chosen death!”

“Sorry, Grunty Boy.” “It’s fine. You’re just an idiot.” 😂😂😂😂😂

Could you please make a video like this every year? I really enjoy the video. It is always fun to look back at our Pokemon team.

Grass gym leader was definitely my favorite. Mainly because it reminded me of the time I did the exact same play-through. Very good Pokémon to use.

I love how Michael glosses over the fact that he cheated in the Dark type run by gamesharking an Absolite into his game. Normally, you can't get that till postgame.

Beyond the Escavalier sounds like an awesome look at Escavalier’s life.

I really like longer videos so I think your ultra moon mini series is great :)

I simply KNEW the Emerald Team Sky video would be the best one! GO, TEAM SKY! 🦅

I'd love to see more Grunty Boi Plays too! His Team Rocket playthrough was so fun to watch!

“Each team can be made unique, thanks to the seemingly limitless Pokémon to choose from.” Competitive Players:

I was just watching sun and moon on Netflix and finished it so I came to RU-vid and when I watch your videos they somehow make me feel better

Very interesting concept, really enjoyed it

The Platinum team was really creative imo. I also had a shiny Golem in my first Brilliant Diamond playthrough. I found 3 shinies, one with the Underground boost, two with the 4096 odds. Two shiny Graveler and one Machoke while grinding at Victory Road. I used the first Graveler and replaced my Rhyhorn with it. I traded the second one I found to the guy who helped me evolve the first Graveler without scamming me as a thank you

I actually quite like the long form content - so multiple videos for 1 playthrough and then one summary one on the main channel. Maybe even skip the summary - as long as it stays somewhere between 3 to 5 videos, I quite like it.

0:29 the only time I have had a extremely Similar team has been, 1. Lets go where I only use Eevee, Kanto starter, and Arcanine (My favorite rideMon), which was Very similar to my original go though of Letsgo, when speeding though my 4th go though of it for a pure Shiny hunting file. And 2. When I actively recreated my Original HeartGold team in my new copy after my original cartridge was destroyed.

What a great video to sum up the year!!!

Awesome beard bro also you ended up with a really great team for a non-catching team in the ultra moon team.

I think I only did 5 playthroughs this year: Shield, Emerald, Fire Red Friendlocke, Leaf Green and Brilliant Diamond. Emerald was probably my least favourite of these, which is odd seeing as I used Swampert, Hariyama, Flygon, Armaldo, Cacturne and Banette, some pretty cool Pokémon. Maybe the Physical/Special attacks being based on type killed it for me, I don’t know. Might replay Alpha Sapphire with this team in the future. My Shield playthrough is probably 4th. I used Cinderace, Appletun, Mr Rime, Polteageist, G-Slowking and Rapid Strike Urshifu. Aside from Cinderace, I really enjoyed using these guys (especially since Polteageist and Slowking were shiny), but the team was pretty unbalanced. Especially Urshifu, I had to take it off my team at times to give myself any form of challenge. My Brilliant Diamond playthrough sits at around the middle. Infernape was great overall, but I wished I had leaned into the mixed attacker approach more. Lumineon wasn’t great, but it was super fun when I switched it into a water move so Storm Drain would activate. Honchkrow hits hard, but usually gets oneshot before it can do anything. Froslass is a really good special attacker and was pretty useful for the run. My Shiny Rampardos hit like a truck but struggled to take a hit, and despite not using Shiny Dialga a lot, it did great when I used it, unsurprisingly. However, I will probably never shiny hunt in a first playthrough ever again. Leaf Green is the runner up. I decided to switch my starter out for Victreebel, who was good but barely got any poison moves. Ninetales could flamethrower and not much else, but I really like Ninetales so its cool. Starmie was probably the MVP since it had wide coverage and hit a lot of things hard. Kangaskhan was decent I guess. I happened to get a Marowak with a Thick Club so he hit everything super hard, but was slow and weak to special attacks. Finally, Dragonite was pretty strong. Lastly, my Fire Red Friendlocke wins for how fun the league ended up being. The team was very unbalanced, having a Vileplume and a Tangela on the same team, but the rest was great. Graveler took hits like a champ (and I would have used Explosion on Lance’s Dragonite if it didn’t get oneshot by Arbok), Arcanine was just consistantly good for the whole run, Jolteon could hit hard and fast, but somehow, Butterfree ended up being the MVP, thanks to Sleep Powder/Compound Eyes. Everyone was in the voice chat when we beat the league and it was great, even if only Jolteon and Butterfree survived.

The shield randomizer is probably my favourite video ever from you. If I haven’t seen it 10 times I haven’t watched it once.

i think ur Grass run thru Alpha Sapphire and the Bug run of Unova were awesome to watch! i also cant believe you actually got not one, not two, but THREE full odds shiny in ur Platinum run! talk about great luck!

My favorite team that I used this year is my Ultra Sun team: Decidueye, Alolan Ninetales, Lycanroc, Lurantis, Vikavolt, Araquanid

5:44 dont worry, I lost to roark in brilliant diamond with 5 pokemon on my team XD. I switched out my monferno to train my machop, but... I totally forgot my attack boosts with power-up punch were gone from switching out, and I fought against cranidos 0_0 (my team was monferno, bidoof, starly, shinx and machop)

I can't wait to see Team Sky conquer more regions!

You're very good at naming Pokemon, a lot of cool puns and references

Ive loved your content for years, this year included! Thank you for all the AMAZING content AND merch this year! Keep up the amazing work ❤️

"Sorry Grunty Boi" "It's fine, you're just an idiot" I'm dead 🤣

Just ordered my team sky shirt! So excited! Team sky is my fav content on RU-vid, please make more!

17:49 mikey! Your grunty boy is showing

Never realised how many play throughs michael has done this year

This really was a great year for MandJ content. Every play through was a banger. Just love watching any of the playthroughs. They’re all so good and unique.

For Pokémon Emerald, I had the same team that Michael had but with a Swellow, Manectric, and Machamp added to complete and make a full team of six. I played Emerald using an emulator, so, I kinda coded Machoke's evolution because I never got to use a Machamp in a Generation III playthrough.

Absolutely love the beard man! It really suits ya!

The best thing we got this year is Michael's beard.

Hi Mikey. I discovered you this year and have loved every minute. I have a question regarding Team Sky; do levitating pokemon, for instance flygon in hoenn, make the cut for being pokemon of the sky? Just curious, but I'd understand if they don't since they technically aren't flying as much as they're hovering

Havent watched one of ur vids since last year and the beard throws me off so hard😭🙏

"Sorry Grunty Boi" "It's fine. You're just an idiot." I died.

i absolutely love everything from your channel i've seen so far *which i've been binge looking at since i love pokemon and found you recently!* You are very entertaining and pretty cool Mikey i also want to ask, will there ever be a Plush For Grunty Boi?

Can I suggest a play through where you can only use level up moves, remove the oldest move when learning a new one. I got this idea by looking at the level up move set of umbreon in different gens. It's not good.

Love all your videos buddy

Ironically, I recently did a Bug run of Black 2 using the exact same team that you used. I actually had a really fun time and each pokemon got the spotlight at somepoint. I ended up going through each gym and the E4 and champion with no trouble. That was with me monitoring my leveling as well

Pretty incredible how far you have gotten in just one year cant belive the sun and moon no catching was a year ago wish you luck for 2022

The Shield randomizer is one of my favorites. It still makes me laugh.

Thanks to this video I know what Mandjtv vid to watch next

Congratulations on 1.69 subs nice

This year I used a Roserade entirely because you showed their potential. I ended up feeling dirty, and only let her fight last, because she murdered everything. Didn't matter what type it was, she murdered it. Blood soaked little rose.

Keep up your hard work bro. You're highly apprrciated by me and many others. 👍

I got the Pokemon sword expansion pass this year & used separate teams for both campaigns. For the isle of armour; Grizzly cub (rapid strike urshifu) Decibal (Noivern) Bro (Kanto slowbro) Frogandthe (Drapion) Sticky (Goodra) And Symbiotic (Gmax venusaur) And for the crown tundra: Riléy (decidueye) Bro (from isle of armour) Shade (obstagoon) Sticky (also from isle of armour) Highness (nidoqueen) And Juggernaut (Aggron)

The that some of my fave pokemon got compliments from this vid (blastoise and cradily) is really nice.

This was a great way to end the year! Cant wait to see what Michael has in store for us for 2022

Lookin fresh with the beard mikey🔥

Loving the beard dude keep it up

MandJTV: Gyarados doesn't fly Gyarados: *is literally floating*