The 10 best old Pokémon in Scarlet and Violet 

I'm surprised that Murkrow didn't make the list as the most reliable prio tailwind with other great support options

I can't wait to see Torkoal do work with a photosynthesis trick room set

I love how terastilization has added so much unique strategic dynamics to this gen & how it helps pokemon with x4 weaknesses become more viable

Another major positive for torkoal: Drought makes it a phenomenal support for paradox mons with Protosynthesis, like Roaring Moon or Flutter Mane

Tera Ghost allows dragapult to have a reliable physical ghost move thanks to Tera blast. So it can utilize terastalization pretty well Edit: Wow, honestly I didn't expect this much conversation on this. Thank you all so much for the input love you all

As someone who’s getting in to competitive battling this gen, I can’t wait to see meta will change and evolve throughout the coming years.

Best Tera for Arcanine I’ve found useful so far is Tera Grass. The immunity to Spore and Rage Powder, as well as resisting incoming Earthquakes and Jet Punches helps it out defensively. I don’t think I’d opt to run any Offensive sets with it as I’ve had way more success with it on a support set.

Sylveon at least needs to get a honorable mention. While not as versatile as the other mons on the list. It is one of the best fairy type attacker in the early meta. With all the dragons running around and having a good spread damage move with hyper voice, it's one of the solid mons to round out a team. This might not be the case anymore when paradox pokemon gets introduced to ranked.

All of these Pokémon are rly good at its debut game, but coming to scarlet and violet makes it even more cracked

I’m surprised Dragonite and especially Murkrow weren’t mentioned. Murkrow is extremely popular right now for tailwind, and Dragonite with Tera normal extremespeed is quite strong

Wolfey getting hit by the fact that Dynamax isn't returning made me realize I haven't really thought about that either. It's been such a fundamental part of competitive for the past few years that it's going to be weird to have to rework all of our strategies without it.

This video did not went well for Tyranitar 🤣

I was really expecting Murkrow on here since it's currently one of the most used mon in the SV meta right now.

Hey Wolfie. I would love a video on how to construct a competitive pokemon team. Like, how many support pokemons do I need? How many offensive ones? Should I cover both SP and physical attack moves? Do I need any tank pokemons? What specific support moves should I have on all teams? Etc.

This video is so damn entertaining. Music choices are varied and fun, comedic timing is great, and the information is concise and clear. Congrats to the whole team. This is peak content.

Hey Wolfe! Didn’t know where else to comment this but saw your short on the gym you opened. Since you said you were doing that I’ve been so excited for you! To see that finally come to fruition genuinely brought tears to my eyes. I’ve been playing these games since I was 5 and am now almost 25 and to see that was so cool, seriously a little kid’s dream come true. Thankful for having you in the community and hope you can do it again maybe on the west coast!

I just want to say, thanks Wolfe, you got me into Competitive last gen and I might be going to a tournament next year! (Depending on restrictions) so thanks

1:22 Gamefreak employee: How could we make the terastalized form look like a Dark type? Wolfe: Hat. Gamefreak employee: Yes, every form wears some kind of hat, could you be more specific? Wolfe: Black hat.

the semi-scriptedness of the recent videos has made them a ton of fun to watch, along with already being interesting sources of information. props to the people doing the editing especially, for keeping the pace lively without being distracting

Your content has been phenomenal recently! I actually subscribed to you a few months back because I'd watch casually but hadn't played anything since gen 3 so was never super invested. But you did one of the percentage of viewers subscribed and it was something absurd like 1-2%. I legit felt bad and subscribed. And now It's so great watching that number rise!

Wolfey killing it with the content. Pokémon content has been trending constantly. Can't wait to watch you hit 1 Mil. I watch almost all the videos definitely keeps me distracted thru some dark times so thank you.

Man I love the editing style of Wolfey's videos

Low-key one of the biggest challenges of watching the new Wolfey videos is being able to identify the various video games the background music tracks/SFX come from. Great video as always!

you’re really making the most of this wolfe! i wish you great personal and competitive success this generation.

parting shot grimmcineroar is just so good. I use it on a dondozo team, using screens to effectively give dozo +3 in each defense, AND reducing the opponents attacks to -1. its amazing

Legitimate request for a video. You should go over some of the most nerfed mons from previous generations, like how Rillaboom lost some coverage and the Scald thing and Weavile losing Knock Off Edit: I literally was just thinkinf about using Tera Poison Hydreigon for a team just yesterday omg, I manifested this. This is one of the first times I knew something with such confidence on your channel when u were describing it lol.

The editing on this video is incredible. The among us jokes for amoongus were just hilarious- the intro music, the sound you used when you showed a tera animation and the funny cuts about its resistances / realizing you were right. Great video.

Amazing content as always Wolfe, so excited for the 1,000,000 party ❤️

Hisuian Arcanine will also be available when pokemon home access is up. it gets rock/fire type and the ability rock head so you can use moves such as head smash flare blitz wild charge

I think torkoal will be even more insane when they allow paradox pokemon, unless they also allow the box legends at the same time. Imagine staring down a tera-fire torkoal with roaring moon as its partner.

15:56 as someone that just started playing MGS for the first time, this made me happy to hear😂

I genuinely love your videos! They're easy to understand, expertly (world champion difference, maybe? ;D ) put together, and they always keep me guessing. Im trying to get into competitive this year, and its all thanks to you and your videos. Thank you! on that note, i wasnt expecting Arcanine. Im excited to see how it shapes up!

You put some much effort into this videos, they are super entertaining. Question: have you ever played the tcg?

So glad to see Hydreigon getting a mention. That tera Poison with levitate is just so damn good. Personally been running a Critdreigon to bypass all screens.

Another thing about Torkoal is that it setting up drought can also activate Protosynthesis for some of your really strong Paldean forms

love the editing on this one, funny and informative video!

This video is really interesting to highlight how difficult it is to protect a meta ahead of time. If we reworked this list based on what we've seen so far on the ladder/in tournaments then it would look pretty different already!

As a fan of rotom, I look forward to GF adding more types for it. I think the concept of electrical appliance Pokémon can be expanded to many other things, eg centrifuge (poison), blender (dark), vibratory rammer (ground), bug zappers (bug) etc. Rotom phones can themselves be of the psychic type since the internet and it’s many wonders are exceptionally mesmerising.

I loved this structure of content. I would love to see some vids about more general topics of competitive pokemon - regarding tiers, individual pokemon, various generations meta, or tutorials.

Good list. Your editor is cracked btw. Easily the best put together scarlet/violet videos on YT. I'm someone who likes finding niche strats, but even niche Pokémon would likely require 1 or 2 of the meta Pokémon to help make it work. Definitely coming back to this video in the future.

Something that was overlooked with torkoal is that it supports the scarlet paradox pokemon with drought. I'm assuming that koraidon is going to be banned so having a drought setter like torkoal is going to help as a substitute.

Tera typing is probably the best gimmick Pokemon has ever come up with, and I'm so happy to see how it's shaking up the meta. Looking forward to that all tera-form guide you said you're making Wolfey!

I was really struggling to round out my team but thanks to this video I've got way more confidence in the pokes I wanted to build a team with.

Finally subbed after watching you for years 😂. Keep up the content!

Seeing a Pokemon's move pool and making it the basis of it's strength reminds me so much of the spell list of casters in DnD lol.

Quick note on Dragapult, Tera Ghost gives you an alternative option for a physical STAB ghost move.

I love the embedded bloopers. They're delightful :)

I'd love to see a video on say, "Top ten weakest pokemon that came back" or "ten pokemon to not terrastalize". The last one would be exceptionally helpful since I want to start competitive for the first time. As always, great video!

You should do a video on what would happen if mega-evolution, z moves, gigantimax and terrastallization all appeared in one game (and what would happen to the meta)

Unironically, I'd give Abomasnow a nod, defensive tera is pretty damn incredible for it considering it's current typing is ... Well Grass / Ice and the snow changes have been really fun to play around with so far to the point that Snow now feels usable. And it's the only mon with Snow Warning (for now I guess)

nice video your content is amazing wolfey :D

I love the little cursor that pops up for the bst part. Sounds just like a final fantasy select cursor too

This was the first time I've used Torkoal since Emerald and I loved my Sheldon the whole way through. Very good, I see why everyone likes it now. Ash was too early.

Tera Fairy is also good for Garchomp it being super effective against Fairy’s weakness and makes its dragon typing an immunity. Tera Blast can be used on it as well

I loved the additional editing of the small bloopers lol

Loving these videos- as someone who's straying more from the TCG to VGC they are so so helpful! Thanks for all tour hard work Wolfe!

Can you do the Best Pokemon for Terastalization? For example, Gengar using Tera Fighting to hit Dark Normal and Steel, or Tyranitar being Tera Ghost to avoid fighting moves

Murkrow: Am I a joke to you?

The editing in on these videos are really on point

Not gonna lie, I was thinking about doing my Violet playthrough as an Ice only run, and this video made me remember that Rotom can be an Electric/Ice Type. 🌠🌈 The more you know 🌈🌠

It brings me joy to see my boy Arcanine getting so much love

Blessed with another Wolfey upload

Wolfe putting out great high quality content 4x A WEEK for our sake, we love you Wolfe keep it up! (Btw. bonus Wolfe is also great)

I heard some abilities get buffed/nerfed. I keen to see your analyze on them especially for competitive play.

To the editor of the video, thank you for using the Octopath Traveler OST "Decisive Battle". That is a phenomenal track and you have exquisite taste in music good sire.

Nice usage of music from Live A Live (specifically Playing with Psychos and Kiss of Jealousy). I love that game so much (both the SNES game and the Switch HD-2D Remake), so it’s nice to hear other people using music from that game. Also, nice to hear about all the Pokémon, but it would probably be better to make a video on the pokemon that are Home-Transfer only, like Greninja for example or Zacian, both of which got heavily nerfed this gen.

4k subs in the last couple days?? good stuff bro absolutely loving the content especially as a new comer to vgc

Incredible editing. Props as hell to the editors.

Another day of saying, get to #1 or Master Ball Rank using Pooper Wooper

The Live a Live soundtrack at 4:45 got me super excited. Good taste! 👍

Beats Cybertron one time and goes from "World champ" to "Absolutely the best, no questions" lmao. Love it 🤣

The difference of the world champion is strong in this one

I'll assume this is recorded quite a while ago as well, but I think there's a few corrections I would personally make. (Take it with a grain of salt) - Hydreigon and Garchomp are definitely higher on the list. Hydreigon has very good versatility in terms of offensive power (strongest Draco Meteor in the game), good support moves (Tailwind), and good Tera types, while Garchomp is just incredibly strong. - Arcanine I thought would be one of the best, but everything that it wants to Intimidate is basically holding a Clear Amulet, which really hinders its viability. - Gyarados is also hindered by Clear Amulet, but to an lesser extent. Still feels underwhelming though, it doesn't have enough power to back it up (Waterfall and Bounce is not the STAB moves you really wish for as an attacker, making it very reliant on Tera for damage output) - Indeedee-F is kinda just OP, especially with the Trick Room stuff. The grind you are on is insane though! A video every two days is crazy. Keep up the great work!

LOVING the music choices for this video

You forgot that torkoal is even better because of the ancient paradox pokemon abilities. Being able to set up sun to activate those abilities of those very strong pokemon, plus having a very threatening presence of it's own makes it that much better.

unfortunately i was able to determine which pokemon you placed at number 1 since you clearly mispronounced its name, the description fits arcaneenay though, is that what you meant?

Breloom, my home boi, has also been a very prominent player this meta, even making some of the more niche items into powerful sub busting tools like the loaded dice with bullet seed combo. Plus a rock tomb with the terra as a speed control tool can be really nice to bait switches to potentially drop in a free spore as well, he may not be very fast but he can with some help out speed lots of key players.

Wolfey’s editing just keeps getting better

I think wolfey could open also a general channel on youtube. It s so funny and good at editing and telling stories

Funny that now, given all the Abilities (and a Hold Item) that block Intimidate, plus the meta being initially defined by Dondozo + Tatsugiri, Arcanine is actually going down in usage compared to the others listed here

Tyranitar turning into 1 Hour Intro Wolfe is the greatest thing I've seen

I did not expect to hear Octopath Traveler music being played in a Pokémon video, but I’m loving it.

No wonder why pokemon games don't have 5moves

this aged sooooooo badly

You’ve probs already planned this but a vid on how to prepare Pokémon for competitive battling (breeding/ivs and choosing ev splits) would be really useful

Hey I like this video a lot! A lot funnier and we get more Wolfey personality

I'm surprised Dragonite wasn't on there. Tera Normal to get rid of its weakness combined with its Marvel Scale means you can usually get enough Dragon Dances off to make it scary. It also makes Extremespeed a STAB. Plus with Shed Tail being a thing it's possible to get a Dragonite behind a sub that gets the Marvel Scale boost, meaning it's super safe to go for DD set-up.

Grimmsnarl is one of my favorites in the game. He has so many options for almost every situation. His shiny is awesome too. I like running Parting shot, Fake Out, Spirit Break, and the fourth slot can be whatever or exchanged with the other moves depending. ( Light screen, reflect, Taunt, T-wave, Sucker punch, Scary Face etc)..Really great Pokemon.

Tbh, as much as I wanna talk about the tera typing, I love that the editor added music from Live A Live. We love good music choices out here

the "don't" caught me off guard :D Well played

As an added note to Chomp, it also gets Liquidation now, so more coverage if needed

Sliding down here to shout out the LIVE A LIVE music during Garchomp's section. Excellent choice!

The music choices in this video are so good 👍

Wolfey is in his bag rn. I love this type of content.

As somebody who hasn’t played Gen 8 and came back to playing competitive in Gen 9 ( primarily a singles player ) I’ve been in love with Grimsnarl so far

Dubwolf pumping out quality content like its the thing to do

Im so glad i watched this video before my battle this mornin i was able to work around the amoongus i just battled thanks champ

You are a content machine Wolfe hope you reach 1M soon

Wolfey rocks, always great content! Love the confidence of him introducing himself as greatest Pokémon player of all time, but when was the last VGC tournament he won?

Mad respect for having fire emblem and octopath traveler music wolfey!!