The Best Monotype Run for Each Game | Part 1 

I'd love to see a follow up for the WORST mono type for each gen, too. Those might make more interesting (?) challenge runs

Monotype make me feels like I'm actually becoming a Gym Leader or an Elite 4 myself, love these run

-Says he isn't wondering Platinum -puts Gallade as one of the options even though it'd unavailable in Diamond and Pearl until postgame -Refuses to elaborate

I did a poison type run in Pokémon Red recently. And I wanted to share some advice. 1. Get a Haunter/Gengar and teach it Thunderbolt. It will help with Lorelei's water types. 2. Put Nidoking and Nidoqueen on your team. They are strong and can learn strenght and surf. 3. Get a Tentacruel and teach it Blizzard/Ice Beam, to deal with any dragon types. 4. Teach Venusaur both Leech seed and Toxic (trust me). Poison is my favorite type and I'm currently doing a mono poison run in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond. It's going really well so far.

This is a niche request, but I always loved playing the games by challenging the gym leaders with their own type - but this is only possible for certain games, and in others its extremely limiting. If you ever wanna make a video for me specifically as a funny treat, an assessment of each core game for their compatibility with this type of challenge would be super interesting. But then again, I've loved all your content so whatever you do next will be great anyway!

I really enjoyed your video! One minor nitpick, though, is that some of the Gen 4 Pokemon that you mentioned (specifically Gallade, Gliscor and Mamoswine) couldn't be obtained until the postgame in Diamond and Pearl (through pokeradar, dual slot mode and swarm, respectively), taking away some of your options. However, it likely shouldn't have too big an effect on the final conclusions you came to for the games.

When I played BDSP steel run, Scizor was surprisingly my ace. Spamming double team and swords dance, he swept Cynthia's entire team without getting hit.

Galapagos tortoises are about 5’ tall at the top of their shell and weigh 500 lbs. Torterra is only 7’3” because of the tree, and I feel like the turtle part isn’t that much bigger then a Galapagos Tortoises is

This guys' videos are at such high visual standards, it's like you're watching some big content creator but you go and look and he's below 5k, it's insane. Glad to be apart of what will surely become big channel from the beginning

Pokémon didn’t used to be harder you just used to be a child

Thanks for this, as someone who has done quite a few monotype runs on twitch, bringing any attention to it is great. And I will admit I have not entirely stuck to the rule of having one type before the gym as in some cases i have had to bring in a mon of the type to use off the start/until i get a second member. An alternative name for it could the gym leader run (excluding the gym leaders that have used mons outside their type specialty).

0:58 I love grass. A handful of weaknesses a handful of resistances and a handful of types that strong against a very balanced type. And has very high quality Pokemon designs. Of course the best one is definitely Bulbasaur.

I did a fighting type run in S/V. Quaxly, Annihalape, Gallade, Lucario, Pawmot, and Hawlucha. Truly loved that team. I also used a fire tauros for some gyms.

my boy macargojoe trying his best to prove this list wrong and making sure you can fail with anything, fucking love the dude

For Gen 2, you can also use Phanpu before the first gym! You’re able to go to route 43 (or 34? I can never remember) straight from the first route, and it’s a really bulky powerhouse even before it gets to Donphan!

I did a Ground Monotype of Platinum and you actually can get a really good Ground type for Gardenia's Gym. Enter Wormadam Sandy Cloak. It gets Bug Bite for all those pesky Grass Types and Confusion for the Roserade. Also, if you do play a Gen 4 Monotype, my recommendation is to plan where you put your TMs. You don't want to make the mistake of putting your only Earthquake TM on a Pokemon that can learn the move.

You inspired me to do both a mono-Normal run in SS and a mono-Poison run in LG. Both a lot of fun. I never realized how broken SubSeed is until now. Venusaur basically took out the E4 on its own with Leech Seed/Sub/Protect/Strength. Hoping to see more of these!

You’re so informative and entertaining, I’m glad I found your channel

I am so glad you said ground for Gen 2. As someone whose Gold cartridge was super glitched, running with Gligar straight from the beginning really helped make the game easier.

i never played past gen 2 but fun watch. can't wait for part 2

Loved this, can't wait for part 2!

Monotype runs are my favorite way to play! Id love to see an accompanying "worst/hardest monotypes per game" too

I think you should include third versions and remakes in the follow up video, but only if the best type differs from the original game y'know?

monotype is currently probably the most popular type of nuzlocke that people are doing on youtube. how many pokemon and where do you get them, especially if you need to get one critter through a couple of gyms. how to beat trainers that you're weak to. in some games you need to distribute tms or figure out which of them have their own stab moves. but you don't have to do it as a nuzlocke. I think monotypes can be fun to see what kind of pokemon are available and especially if they give you critters you'd never consider. it's a team building exercise. I tried a mono bug team in oras and there were lots of critters and lots of good moves to use.

This is the first video of yours I stumble upon! You got a new subscriber! Love the content and I love dogs!

A TON of work must have gone into this video, so major props. My favourite types are Dark, Water, and Normal, nothing else comes close to those three, and that's pretty much been consistent since I started the series with Gen 3. I would *probably* agree with you that Fighting is superior to Ground in Diamond and Pearl, but having a Hippowdon with Ice Fang to deal with Cynthia's Garchomp is making Ground look really nice rn. But she does also have Gastrodon, Milotic, and Roserade. so yeah maybe fighting lmao.

Did a mono-Steel run in Platinum recently. Because I don't have anyone to do multiplayer with, Scizor was a no-go, and as such went through the first 2/3 of the game with only half a team. Gave me some greater appreciation for Steelix, and also had some fun with physical Empoleon.

This was a very specific video I've been wanting to see. I've been interested in doing monotype hardcore nuzlockes and was curious what types to try out. Imo great type to solo gen 4 is flying as you get a ton of secondary type variety (platinum) staraptor, Gyarados, driftblim, gliscor, pelliper, togekiss, crobat, honchcrow, Scyther, vespiqueen, altaria, yanmega, mantine, tropius. There's so much variety there . otherwise I agree with your choices ❤

I personally love monotype runs. I'm not a huge challenge run person, but this seems like a nice way to add a little challenge, forcing me to use pokemon I normally wouldn't consider, while still getting the thrill of team building, which is the best part of pokemon for me.

Heh, i did a ground monotype run in Platinum a while ago and had exactly the team mentioned in the video - Torterra, Gastrodon, Garchomp, Gliscor, Hippowdon, Mamoswine. Super fun, and its one of my favourite types!

Id argue that the Normal type would be the best for gen one. Like you would struggle at first, but after the first few gyms you could steam roll the rest of the game, especially if you could get you hands on Snorlax, Tauros, Chansey, or Persian (in blue version). The sheer power of some of these normal types completely out weighs the fact most of them don't have a secondary type.

I've been doing monotype runs for years, it's a lot of fun because they force you to use species you otherwise wouldn't to fill coverage gaps in your team. Of course, I only started recording them recently, but that's another story entirely.

amazing video, might make my current gen 1 game mono type, have only got bulbasaur so far

Love your videos the “this guy stinks” part was really funny 😆 fairy is my favorite type so maybe Primarina will get a shoutout in your part 2 🙌

Use the rule of cool. In Scarlet, it's possible to have a team of exclusively new dual-typed Fighting-types.

The 7'03" for Torterra is its length not height, Pokemon that are longer than they are tall measure by length, its why Ekans is 6'07" and Furret is 5'11"

leaving a comment to boost the algorithm! my favorite type is normal, especially the earlier gen pink ones. we just dont get many pinkies anymore since fairy type was added

im a ghost type specialist to the core, and for a very long time did exclusively monotype runs because of how much i liked them. i gotta say, its an interesting challenge when youre presented with crazy amounts of dark types from the antagonist teams. dark/normal zigzagoon in sword and shield caused a ton of problems.

I love monotype runs. That’s the only way I replay the games, it’s just so much fun. And it makes me feel like gym leader haha

A Grass Monotype of Ruby was quite possibly the hardest time I've ever had in Pokemon. If Steven's Metagross got the Attack buff from Meteor Mash, he just won.

I actually recently did a mono-water run of Crystal recently and it was a ton of fun. Got to use a lot of great pokemon like my beloved Feraligatr, as well as awesome dual types like Quagsire, Lantern, and Kingdra. Doesnt hurt that you also get to have a legendary on your team with this strat.

I love montype runs combined with some other challenges like you can slightly alter nuzlocke rules to get a pretty enjoyable challenging playthrough.

It sounds like normal type run is a solid choice for monotype runs in any Pokémon game.

I’m actually looking into trying this. The only type I’ve done monotype runs with are dragons. Love dragons lol

If you could get a pidove before the first gym, a flying type run would be a lot of fun

I think it would be great if you make an overview of each monotype of each game, where you goes into the choices available and some of it challenge. You can also split it into parts for each gen where each part introduce a couple type, sorted into simple, complex, or outright impossible (Water/Rock/Fire for gen 4 for example).

i feel like water type is always at least second because you can just catch a gyarados in every game pretty early.

Just finished an Dark Type run on Black 2, going to do Dark Type on White soon. Interesting seeing this video pop up, lol. Now waiting for part 2 now, let see how it changed later down the line, hmm?

I'm surprised Grass wasn't the runner-up in Hoenn when you can get pokemon such as Sceptile, Cradily, Ludicolo, Shiftry, Breloom, etc, and if you're playing sapphire you gave a decent advantage. Also you mentioned you don't include 3rd versions but in DP you can't get Ralts during the main game.

There's actually a problem with black and white games , after the first badge (striaton city) you can't move on to the next town without atleast two pokemon so if we go monotype we just end up being stuck doesn't matter if it's fighting or dark ( normal is the only one that works.

I always did these types of challenges as playthroughs after beating the game with a normal run. To make the games more challenging however. I started doing single type, single evolution pokemon. Zoroark. Mienshao. Lycanroc. Lurantis. That kinda deal. It is a great challenge imo

I adore monotype runs! Honestly my favorite type of Pokémon challenge. As for favorite type, definitely water. Probably followed up by grass. I’m actually doing a ghost monotype in Scarlet right now. Added a few extra rules to keep it interesting though!

I once tried a Dark monotipe in Saphire and it was hilarious. All the Pokémon you can use are physical attackers (in a game where Dark moves are special) and even worse, there are shared dual types: 2 monodark, 2 water-dark and 2 grass-dark

I've done a few monolockes (mono runs with permadeath and level caps, basically), I used poison for FireRed (can confirm this works really well, Weezing MVP!) and flying for HeartGold, and also did Normal and Bug lockes in Violet.

I have done a grass and a bug monorun for all regions: FR/LG, HG/SS, Emerald, Platinum, Black, and white, black & white 2, X/Y , ORAS and USUM, and all of them were fun. I definitely recommend giving it a try. Kanto is the toughest. but the top 3 grass types for monoruns are Tangrowth, Cradily and ferrothorn probably

I really enjoyed this video so please don't think my nitpicking is saying the opposite, it was great! Two small issues I noticed in this video though. In Diamond and Pearl you can't get Ralts before beating the game since it requires the PokeRadar which you get after the Nat Dex. I still think Fighting is the strongest there regardless though so it's no big deal. Also, In Black and White there's a small patch of sand where you can catch Sandlie before fighting Burgh. That'd make a pretty big difference in my opinion since Sandile is neutral to the bug moves he's using instead of weak to them. Also it learns Rock Tomb(found in the Desert Resort) so getting a few extra levels on it before Eliza would be a biiig bonus. Still probably not the best type, but I think you seriously short changed them with that bit of knowledge missing.

I did a mono normal run on Crystal and it was one of my best monotype runs I've had! Gonna do one for gen 3 soon

When I was little I started doing mono Water runs because I loved the Water types so much and now that’s all I can do because I constantly forget the weaknesses and resistances of the other types, so looks like I’m sticking with Water forever

I once did a Grass-Monotype-Run in Black/White which was quite a challenge but it was a ton of fun!

Coincidentally I did a mono-normal run of Crystal around the time this video originally came out. It went pretty spectacularly, and as far as the "no advantages" part goes, gens 1-3 were more about brute forcing and coverage moves than actual good type matchups anyways.

Great video! But I only play with grass team. I also battle online with just grass. 😬

I would love to do some monotype runs in the future, just haven't gotten around to it yet. Ground is my favorite type, but I've had ideas for monotype runs with plenty of different types (I actually have a list): Ground - Platinum, BW, XY, ORAS Psychic - XY Ice - XY, SwSh Steel - DPPt, BDSP Electric - SV Water - Any of them

I did a black dark monotype challenge. You are only stuck with purloin for the first two gyms as you can get scraggy and sandile before Burgh. The biggest challenges were Lenora and Skyla because I played with level caps.

Personally, the only monotype run I've ever done was a Bug run of Black 2 and it was an absolute blast. Gen 5 adds so many amazing Bug types to the game. My final team ended up being Scolipede, Leavany, Crustle, Escavalier, Volcarona and Galvantula and most of those Pokémon are still to this day some of my all-time favorites.

I'm honestly a bit baffled that Flying wasn't mentioned in this video, since it's arguably the most versatile type ever made. Besides Gen V, there's no single Gen where the Flying type would not be recommended, mostly because of the existence of Gyarados and Pelipper as amazing, early games Water/Flying options that carry you through most of the Rock or Steel roadblocks. Even when those are not available before the first gym, access to extremely early evolution bugs like Beautifly and Butterfree helps (for the most part) against Brock, Roxanne and Roark. Electric types are by far the biggest hurdle, but access to some Ground or Dragon/Flying types and/or access to Earthquake TM can mitigate that. Otherwise, just brute force through them with Gyarados. Seriously, that Pokémon is a demon! How hard can it be to do it? 😆 So yeah, that concludes my TED Talk in favor of the usage of Flying Type ❤️ 🕊️

ShepskyDad: Best Gen 1 monotype is Poison Me: *_*Loses Red Version Poisonlocke to a Rattata before second gym*_*

I've now done several monotype runs, pretty much my only rule is only one per particular game. For example I've done alpha sapphire, but can still do both sapphire and omega ruby but not another alpha sapphire These are the ones I've done: Bug in Sword, Fighting in Scarlet, Grass in Alpha Sapphire, Water in Arceus, Fairy in Sun, Psychic in Crystal, Poison in Leaf green, Normal in Let's Go Eevee, Fire in Y. So halfway done with the types

Flying type was dope for 1st gen too, Pidgeot, Charizard, aerodactyl, Garados, Dragonite, Golbat, Dodrio, Fearow, Scyther

My bug type run of Leaf Green. Oh boy, needed a level 100 Beedrill to beat the elite four.

I love doing monotype runs! I played through Sword with Bug and Scarlet with Rock

You should definitely do the remakes and third games too, id definitely watch

The only challenge I've ever done myself is a bug-only run in Sword. And that was a ton of fun. I may do something similar again at some point

Nothing makes my brain do the goody good chemicals more than punching my way to victory.

A couple years ago I played my first mono type run, a Ground run with Platinum. I decided that type because I noticed that I basically never used it in any game, save for the occasional starter mon And omg I used the exact same team you described for Diamond and Pearl 😂 I mean, they’re the best so it makes sense, but I still found it funny to see the same ones mentioned

Not only do you get Mudkip(swampert) as a starter, the very next water type you can catch is Pelliper. You START your team with it's coverage in place.

If it weren’t for Monotype runs, I’d have never learned how good certain Pokémon are

I've done a poison type mono of diamond, it was incredibly good and I'm sad it wasn't mentioned here; Roserade, Crobat, Haunter/Gengar, Tentacruel, Drapion, Skuntank, Toxicroak, and Dustox too I guess. Very powerful mons with incredibly good stab coverage, as well as two only weak to ground moves.

I have yet to do a monotype run in most games but for gen 1 specifically I had a blast with Normal. Sure, Brock is kinda bad but otherwise the fact special is a single stat in gen 1, on top of the insane type coverage certain normal type mons have, made the team unstoppable. Catching chansey, tauros and kangaskhan was awful though.

My favorite type overall is Ghost, which was weirdly hard in White. My favorite mono type I’ve done was bug in Y, as I was destroying my friend’s water type run he was doing at the same time.

I LOVE the fire type generally, it's one of my favorites, and I LOVE playing mono fire, even before I knew about "challenge runs". Arcanine, Ninetales, Flareon, Rapidash, Typhlosion, quilava!!! I actually love the design of quilava even more than typhlosion. Charizard of course. Houndoom, Entei, Ho-oh, Emboar, Talonflame, Inceroar, Centiskorch, omg Alolan Marowak, Skeledirge, Victini, Chandelure, Volcarona, Salazzle. Chi-Yu. I have no idea how I would choose which 6, If I could access all of them. D/P/P were like "You love fire pokemon? HAHAHHAHAHAHA TOO BAD SUCKS TO BE YOU"

Played a dark type monotype run in black and white and had the most fun that ive had in a while playing a pokemon game

You forgot the if you choose to do mono water in sapphire you can use the box legendary. That sets preeminent rain. Yeah. I also think water is a strong honorable mention for gen 4.

Fighting is probably easier for gen 4 but I did a ground monorun is platinum which was super fun and challenging in the best way. Especially getting gibble early game. The ice gym and Cynthia are fun to work through and you get to use really fun mons

Monotype Nuzlockes are great to watch

My favorite type is a toss up between grass and rock. They’ve both got a really great roster of Pokémon, and have a lot of potential for fakemon creation.

actually for black and white the water fire and grass type all have 2 options before the first gym, the starters and the monkeys

Was hesitant to sub. But that bit before Gen 4 solidified it. Good bit lol

RBY Normal type is also excellent. You have to do some smart plays for Brock, but have 5 team members before Misty, two of which can be fully evolved. Depending on ruleset, the Safari Zone has some excellent upgrades for you, and at minimum you get the powerhouse of Snorlax. Plus STAB Hyper Beam in Gen 1 makes quick work of most teams, and the great coverage of many Normal types means that Rock or Fighting aren’t really threats to you.

Also, the best game to do any monotype run, in my opinion, (or, at least, up to the 3ds, since I don't have a switch) is pokemon X, since you can get a pokemon of every type before the second gym

If I had to guess, Fighting is the best in SV. Flamigo is or at least was used in speed runs. You get it in the first area pretty much. You get options such as Pawmot for electric immunity, Medicham/Gallade for psychics, Lucario should be enough for fairies. Oh and Quaquaval with Aqua Step, if you can get your hands on ability patch for Moxie. There’s also Annihilape with strong setup and near unresisted stabs, Breloom, Great Tusk in scarlet, Hariyama/Heracross for status absorption. Even the worst fightings being Falinks, Toxicroak, Crabominable and Tauros (depending on if you feel like getting the other forms), there’s not really a single bad fighting option. The biggest hurdle will be Revavroom fairy and poison I would think, but you could probably have something bulk up and kill it.

it should be mentioned that grass does somewhat better in sapphire over ruby, but not by much to knock water from the number 1 spot, in ruby, water is a no brainer, in sapphire, an argument could be made for grass.

in gens where eggs are available I like to breed up a batch of mono type to trade over as soon as trading is available. First time was B/W2 with a starting trio of jellicent's line, golurk's line, and chandelure's line.

Man, the ghost-types were done dirty in gen1 and the remake games (at least the gen3 remakes). I mean, Ghastly, Haunter, and Gengar have effectively the same learnsets (a few moves changed here and there, but mostly the same), they're supposed to be the main foil to the psychic type, but aren't due to a programming error or something, and what's more, they're not even pure ghost-types, instead being a mix of ghost and poison!

I’d love to see vids for the remakes and third versions.

I just did a Normal monotype run for Omega Ruby. The first gym is annoying but if you can get a whismur going with 3-4 stacks of echoed voice everything just melts :)

is there a good place to find what type pokemon are available in each game other than looking through the whole regional dex for certain types?

Can you do "best game for each monotype" as well?

Minnor mistake at 14:18 you can get both Sandile and Scraggy before the 3rd gym in th lowest part of the dessert.

In gen 2, you also get access to phanphy before the first gym as well for ground. Super rare but doable

RSE is my fav gen to do a normal type run, lots of fun options early on