Steel Type Pokémon: Then vs Now 

the best defense is a good defense

Bug: Started bad but is now decent Dragon: Barely there but is still pretty decent Steel: I LOOOOOOOOOOOVE DEFENCE

Two great quotes, “The best defense and s a good defense” and “If it’s not 100% accurate it’s 50% accurate”

Flash Cannon: *exists* Hydreigon users looking for a way to destroy those pathetic Fairy types: _I can milk you._

Steel type Pokémon: “has low defenses” Everyone else: something’s wrong, I can feel it

“Speaking of Megas, the Steel type ones were nasty!” **Ad comes on.** “If you vape Nicotine, you could be inhaling toxic metals such as nickel and lead that can damage your lungs.”

Update for generation 9! The new steel type Pokemon of gen 9 are: Tinkaton Revavroom Orthworm Iron Treads Gholdengo With an average base stat total of: 511 The new moves are: Gigaton Hammer, 160 BP physical type move, exclusive to tinkaton, it prevents the user from using it twice in a row Make It Rain, 120 BP special type move exclusive to gholdengo, it lowers special attack by one stage Spinout, 100 BP physical type move, exclusive to Revavroom, it lowers speed by two stages The main competitive threats are: gholdengo, using make it rain + nasty plot Orthworm, using earth eater and the new move shed tail (exclusive to Orthworm and Cyclizar)

Thumbnail: Steel Types then- Micheal Steel Types now- tall stretchy metal man

"The best defense,is a good defense."-MandJtv 2018

Trainer: Steelix what kind of defense is this?!? Steelix: I AM THE DEFENSE!!! Edit: Wow, didn't think that this would blow up. Noice.

Gen 6 steel types: "we lost our dark and ghost resist, great now we cant cant wall everything." Bisharp: "why are you saying "we" I still resist those thanks to my dark type."

To be fair, Steven was a collector of Stones and Fossils. so him having those other 3 kinda made sense in a story perspective.

Mikey: "He doesn't really do anything, but he still exists" My life in a nutshell.

Steel type before: *underrated* Steel type after fairy: *"bOw beFore me Tinkerbell"*

I love the fact that this man just said "Two legendaries, a pseudo-legendary and Aggron." First of all, R.I.P. Mawile Second of all, as someone who's secpmd favorite Pokémon is Aggron, that had me rolling.

I think it's fine that Steven has 3 steel types, because his other options are a legendary, a mythical, and..Mawile.

I find it funny that Dragon, Fairy and Steel are the three strongest types. If they tweaked Steel's resistance to Dragon we could have another type triangle. But what I'm getting at is Dragon Types refer to Mythical Beasts, Fairy Types refer to Magical Beasts and Steel Types refer to Humans and their weapons. A perfect trio really for the Galar region.

Rock: There is nothing stronger than a Rock! Steel: I'm about to end this man whole career

"The best Defense is a good Defense." *Excadrill looks up from newspaper*

I never knew Micheal was a steel type-

Steel then: Wall. Steel Now: still a wall, but a bit better.

Can’t wait for a Then vs Now of the ghost and dark types.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the generation where Steel lost its resistances to Dark and Ghost, and the introduction of a busted Steel/Ghost type that same generation was not at all a coincidence. Imagine the horrors of an Aegislash with only two weaknesses.

Steel types in gen 1:"Strange, it is empty"

Petition for Michael to make an “Ice Types: Then and Now” for Christmas. Edit: WTF Y DO U GUYS LIKE ME THIS IS NEW Edit 2: I completely forgot to mention something: HAIL YEAH BABYYYYYYYYY Edit 3: he didn't do it :/

Just something to note: Stakataka now gets body press, which is crazy good with trick room

Anyone remember how insane Hyper Fang was?

"Tauros & Persian, no one uses those anymore" me: *saw Tauros got banned multiple times in "How RAGING was Tauros ACTUALLY" yesterday*

Steel: Exists What we thought got nerfed: Psychic types What actually got nerfed: *sad tauros and persian noises*

rewatching this out of boredom, and i find iron tail being an “egregious failure” hilarious when i just played a match in which i hit 6 out of 6 magma storms, 4 out of 4 will-o-wisps, 2 out of 2 hydro pumps, and the one draco meteor i used

Steel beam actually sees use on suicide Exacdrill leads so that Excadrill sets up rocks and is brought down to its sash, then uses steel beam to take itself out so the enemy can’t defog or rapid spin that turn

Mikey: Iron tail is so bad, it’s only 75% accurate Ash’s pikachu: Allow me to introduce myself

Gen 8 Steel types: *A giant time dragon, an elephant, an ant, and a Viking cat* Gen 1 Steel types: M A G N E T

I like how half of the video is him just going on a rant how the Steel typing has 12 resistances

How much defense do you want Stakataka: *Y E S*

"They went a bit far with nerfing normal types" Too bad they didnt nerf Whitney.

Thumbnail Steel Type Pokemon Then Vs Now Then: Michael Now: Gmax Melmetal

Remember kids this is a lesson and saying that you must NEVER forget. If it is not 100% accurate then it is only 50% accurate- Micheal Groth

You should do the psychic type, since it went in the opposite direction of the types you’ve done so far. It went from completely OP to decent

Psychic Type: Then vs Now. That has to be a thing soon, surely.

“As of its 50% accurate” Me: oh oh he said it he said it

i like how the Jirachi is killing the FEESH

"Steel was important Because​ it one only type to counter the best type in game Fairy" Poison : Am I a Joke to you?

Steel when introduced: Hit me. Hit me. *You cannot.* Steel now: Still can’t hit me.

You could make Psychic Type Pokémon: Then vs Now

"There is nothing, and I mean nothing stronger than rock" aeiou

Steel types: get buffed like hell in gen 6. Arceus, Giratina, Palkia, and Dialga looking down from heaven: "well boys we did it bad steel types are no more."

I had a Drilbur back in White Version that was poisoned and was very close to evolving. I kept it alive and managed to evolve it while poisoned just to see what would happen. To this day, I still have a photo on my computer of my poisoned Excadrill. One of my proudest and silliest memories of Pokemon.

“Two legends, one sudo legend, and an agron” That ones going in the quote book

12:08 When you realize he made a steel pun

"...was clefable" *Shows picture of Clefairy*

Game freak: How many resistences do you want Steel type: *Yes*

Steel type pokemon then vs now Then: Michael Now: Urshifu

Michael in every then and now video: this type saw more changes than you probably think

Thanks for covering my favorite type metagross forever!

“If it’s not 100% accurate it’s 50% accurate.” *My cinderace with pyro ball holding wide lens* Well, it’s 100% accurate.

“Once again I cut a worthless object”

8:20 i honestly see Steven as more of an Earth specialist rather than just as a Steel specialist

Michael: Talks about the mythical and very powerful Jirachi RU-vid: T O O T H P A S T E

"Its offense wasnt that strong" *mega metagross has entered chat*

Nobody: The RU-vid auto generated captions: greetings boogie fans

Thank you so much for all videos you made. You are one of my absolutely best youtubers ever. :) Jsi borec. Mám moc rád tvoji tvorbu.

thx for doing this, considering steel is my favorite type

Steel resists Garchomp Garchomp: laughs silently in the corner with Earthquake and 102 speed

Still Michael : Greetings PokeFans Captions : Eating soggy pants

never heard of or saw Celesteela until now! Thanks!

Steel types: you're up against the wall, AND I'M THE WALL

the three "top tier types" Fairy: Magic (Special moves) Dragon: Physical attacks Steel: Defense just thought that was cool

If you think about it, Michael is a steel type because of his defense of Castform.

Who else is addicted to watching this video over and over again?

If we get this again, I would love to see "Flying Types: Then vs. Now" because the Flying Type was never a solo type until Gen V, and that was only one species; it was never a primary type until Gen VI, but only on one evolutionary family; and we didn't see either of those again until Rookidee and Corviknight.

Pokémon has evolved so much over the years, it’s crazy!

I'd honestly love to see a Ghost Type Then vs Now. Considering the only attack to do ghost type damage was Lick in gen 1 and there was only one fully evolved Ghost type. I think it would be pretty interesting

'You can't stop Garchomp' Ice types: Am I a joke to you?

Thank you so much for teaching me type advantages and weaknesses without you I would not know pokemon types

Michael: Celesteela and Kartana had the largest impact of the competitive scene as a whole Laughs in Magearna and its unpredictability

*looks at thumbnail* *reads title* "i never knew michael was a steel type!"

Gen Four was the first time I used steel type Pokemon and I even did a run-through as a steel type specialist. My, how far this type has come from its humble beginnings

Weren't Swordward and Shieldbert steel type specialists too? I can't remember that well.

Steel Type: The best defense is a good defense. Alolan Dugtrio: A FOOLISH MISCALCULATION!

"If it's not 100% accurate it's 50% accurate"

The thumbnail implies he used to be a steel type

I remember a point in time where scizor was such a highly sought after Pokémon, I’ve heard stories of people trading they scythers to evolve it only to not get it back because of how many people wanted it 💀

YES! Please make more of these! They’re so interesting! :D

While he was talking about nerfing the psychic type, a nerf gun advertisement came on.

Fun Fact: Mega Aggron is the only Mega Evolution to lose a type upon Mega Evolving. Aggron is normally Rock/Steel, but upon Mega Evolution, it becomes a pure Steel type. Losing its Rock typing.

We need more of these videosss

I love how Micheal on the "Then" part of the tumbnail is just shrugging because there's no Steel types to show.

Mikey: fairy gave steel a new resistance Metagross

This is probably my favorite series on the channel

Pokemon: I have low defence Steel types: I don't have such weakness

Game freak: How much do you want your defense? Steel: *YES*

"Iron Tail being 75% accurate..." *Me:* _"MEANS IT'S 25% ACCURATE!"_

Fun Sidefact. I didn't know Magnemite and Magneton were Steel Type Pokémon until Generation 6. I played the first 3 Generations the most, but I was rather young back then and I didn't know the type chart. I knew there were the original types from Gen 1 and I knew they added Steel and Dark Type Pokémon to the Game with Gen 2. But I didn't know they retroactively changed Magnemite and Magneton. Because non of the originial 150 was made into a Dark Type either. So I used to refer to Jasmine as an Electric Type Gym Leader who just for the lulz added a Steelix that was supposed to be massively overleveled. Because back then Pokémon was unfair. After all they allways had me beat in Type Advantage at some point in the game. Also I was pretty flabberghasted (funny word here btw :D) when I first saw Flamethrower doing massive damage against Magneton in X. Not to mention I felt really dumb arguing with my friends over the fact that Magnemite is just an Electric Type. 😂😂😂 Which I know now hasn't been the fact for quite a few years.....

Mawhile was the ace of my sword and shield team basically sweeping everything in the league and was very helpful against Leon and is now my favorite Pokémon

Steel type : the best defense is a good defence Kartana : A FOOOLISH MISCALCULATION!!!!!

Pokémon types recommendation: dark Please do the dark typing

Fire type then vs now

4:16 was it just me that smiled when he smiled? Found it kinda funny in a cute way😂

This is one of my favorite series that you do!