The Most Used Team for Every Pokémon Game 

I love how this community unanimously agreed that they used that gen 4 team atleast once in their life

Love how he didn't elaborate on the sinnoh team because we all knew what it would be

The fact that I went through Sinnoh COMPLETELY blind, not knowing any of the pkm that was going to be in the game, I ended up with that exact 7. Plus Bibarel to use the HMs

Everybody's gen 4 teams being so similar makes a lot of sense once you look at DP's encounter pool.

Bro didn’t even have to say anything for sinnoh cuz it was that obvious💀

love how sinnohs team is so solid and basically handed to you early game that literally everyones team ends up identical (though if my egg togekiss ends up with serene grace, i always replace staravior with it).

This video made me realize Ive made some really weird choices with my pokemon teams compared to everyone else 😂

My gen 4 team was apparently an anomaly. I had Infernape, Staraptor, pretty common. But I also had a Gastrodon, Lopunny, Hippowdon, and eventually Electivire

Sinnoh's most popular team definitely the most accurate one. So much data and analysis went into the sinnoh team, I'm amazed

Honestly a little surprised that Hawlucha wasn’t mentioned for USUM since you can get a traded one before the first trail that stays relevant throughout the whole game since it was the increased experience and amazing stats and typing

In Gen 1 all my friends had a Kadabra/Alakazam on their team, it's found pretty early in the game, and it doesn't take long for it to evolve and start dominating every battle (Plus it was a strong pokémon in the anime, so people liked it a lot... Same goes for Gengar, but this one is more of a late game pick)

Correction: Nidoran only started learning Double Kick early in Yellow. In the original games Double Kick was the last move it learned in the 50's. Nidoking is popular due to its versatility with TMs and HMs making him able to fit almost any role not filled by other team members.

The sad part about Sinnoh and why EVERYONE has that team is because their is a huge lack of diverse options in the early game and only really begins to give options after Gardenia and by that time, generally Shinx, Starly, and Buizel have tons of levels and have hit their first evolution. Lucario is put on teams cause coverage, good typing, and the fact it's kinda the poster child of Gen 4. Chomp cause Psuedo and the one that broke the Gold Standard back in Comp those days.

I lowkey loved how the gen 4 team was the “meme” team. I laughed so hard.

Not having an Eeveelution in Gen 1 is wild to me. I remember always using one.

Out of all of these, my Violet team was the most different I had Skeledirge, Clodsire, Pawmot, Olive tree, Hero Dolphin, Gardevoir 😂 The coverage is crazy. STAB fire, ghost, poison, ground, fighting, electric, grass, water, psychic, and fairy. Looks cool, derpy, cute, all at the same time. Feels realistic 😂

Love how nothing is said about Sinnoh, just the pokemon flashed trough knowing well that this has to be the most popular team ever

Literally every single DP team. Loved the no explanation part. Completely missed it the first time and was like "Where did it go?"

I find it funny that in all the games my teams were so differently then the popular pics as I love seeing the different views of people on what they enjoy in their favorite pokemon team

You would be surprised at how Popular Vaporeon is in Kanto, because did you know that... Vaporeon has an amazing move pool and solid stats that let it be a part of almost any team, never disappointing?

Funny enough, when I originally played Alola, I *wanted* a salazzle, but I either forgot or didn't know how it evolved. I ended up just taking the first male salandit I caught into the E4, and the little guy basically won me the game by surviving attacks with friendship. I miss him.

That gen 4 team is pretty spot on lol. Staraptor and Luxray were probably on every team out there!

10/10 video. I’m glad you mention how early availability really influenced the most common types. It’s one of my favorite design choices of Sword/sheild- the game really opens up the amount of options early in the game. This is especially helpful for those wanting to do monotype runs.

During my first time playing Sword and Shield, I actually went ahead and use an obstagoon on my team. Definitely its most memorable moment was my battle with Piers, where I sent it out against his obstagoon, and we spent like six or seven turns trying to use counter at the same time and failing.

One thing to note: Mareep wasn't available in Crystal for some reason, so I guess Jolteon would fill the spot there.

Lmao the Sinnoh team is so accurate😂 Personally I always chose Turtwig and opted for Shellos instead of buizel, but this selection really is iconic😂

For Unova,: Galvantula, Volcarona and Bisharp really got super popular so surprised by the picks for that one!

I also use Linoone a lot in ORAS because of Pickup. It’s my favorite Ability because it’s so handy for play throughs. Love it so much.

I’m baffled that Latias/Latios didn’t replace Flygon on the ORAS team, given that you get it for free in the story, AND its Mega Stone.

For me Gastrodon was always a very underrated pick for Sinnoh, you get both a very useful water type and a very useful ground type at the same time (one that you don't need that much investment to evolve no less), and you get many useful moves. And you get pretty much as early as Buizel. Gastrodon is also notable for being very useful against the elite four.

For Scarlet, I decided to have all three starters on my team. The other three were Gardevoir, Lucario and Gyarados (which I later swapped out for Tinkaton; my favorite Pokemon of the generation)

Came for Kanto and was not disappointed. Though I always chose Bulbasaur I can confirm that Nidoking, Pidgeot, Lapras we’re 3 of my final 6 every single playthrough. Covered all my important HMs. Arcanine and Zapdos filled my final typings. My all time favorite team. Classic mons.

I always play the games twice, second time I purposefully pick Pokemon I wouldn't normally or haven't played before. It's made me appreciate a lot of Pokemon I would have otherwise ignored! Some of the picks for most popular here were actually in my second team and not first so it's interesting to see how we all choose differently.

This is so great. Would LOVE a "least used" team based on the same polls!

Glad to see my boy Raichu represented. Also that sinnoh team was spot on.

I really enjoy the RU-vid community so much and how some show others so much love

For Sinnoh, it was almost the same, except my Electric type was Magnezone and my Water type was Gastrodon. I did play Platinum.

I actually thought Blaziken was the most popular starter of gen 3. They continued with fire/ fighting starters long afterwards and also gave it a mega evolution later on.

I used completely different teams from what was most popular in most cases, but I was very surprised by the meowscarada/ceruledge version of the paldea team being literally the exact six pokemon I used on my first playthrough of violet

I actually did run both Skeledirge and Ceruledge on my team in Violet, along with Annihilape. I even had planned on having the Ghost dog for 4 Ghosts on my team, but I ended up growing attached to Mabosstiff before I found a Greavard.

An explanation on Baxcalibur: I was playing Scarlet and Violet with a friend and we found the raid den for its first form after our second gym. It was a water Tera type and we both had it on our teams longer than most of our other team members.

I thought people would’ve gone for that flying Togekiss in Hisui. It was a pretty powerful early game catch. I guess many missed it. That Togekiss carried me all the way to the Volo battle. The movepool, stats and even bulk were pretty amazing for in-game stuff.

Since I started playing PokeMMO, I love these kind of videos! It gives me ideas for what Pokemon I can catch in one region and then use it in another region's storyline. Using Unova Pokemon in Kanto is new and fun to me.

Pretty odd that you skipped Crystal considering Mareep is not obtainable in that version. Not to mention Suicune would probably take Lugia's place on the team too in that game. Also wished you went into HGSS too, since the remakes have the advantage of having the Gen 4 Johto evolutions (i.e. Togekiss) and Larvitar and Houndour finally being available in Johto via the Safari Zone.

I know manetric was gonna be the most used electric type of Hoenn, but my electric type of ORAS was actually cosplay Pikachu Yep, that is right. That gift Pokémon is what I decided to fight Steven with My ORAS team in general was a big fever dream. It was swampert, shiftree, shedinja, Pikachu-cosplay, latios and primal groudon. It was my first Pokémon game in a while so I kinda went off the walls lmao

I'm surprised the Magnemite line wasn't mentioned in B2W2 cause its a steel type available before the poison gym so basically Roxie couldn't touch you, I assumed many people picked it up because of this

I'd love to see a playthrough of you using these teams :) could be interesting

11:19 I mean it can seem shocking until you consider Seismitoad gets rain dance with the swift swim ability. A water type that can switch in on electric moves and has the defenses to back up surviving a turn to set up rain dance makes it a decent choice for a mixed attacker with the spread moves of EQ and Surf. Even gets Drain Punch for restoring. Just keep it away from grass and you’re good.

I think its interesting that trade evolutions are not very common. Especially in the early generations where trading was not available for everyone. Graveler is often very good early-game, but I was always disappointed as a kid because I could never get Golem. In Gen V, one of my biggest factors was that so many pokemon take forever to evolve. I didn't want to be five gyms in with a tynamo. Its kind of the opposite of Nidoking and Nidoqueen, which you can fully evolve before the third badge.

11:20 What's shocking about Seismitoad? It's a very easy water to get after the second gym and the Water/Ground typing and it's stats make it a balanced offensive and defensive Pokemon. I had one when I played BW the first time.

Oh wow, this was really interesting to watch! I don't think I've used the majority of the pokemon in this video, but i might try some of them out now!

Note on LGPE: The Gift pokemon (3 starters, Magikarp, Hitmonbros, Lapras, Aerodactyl, etc.) all have very high IVs usually in ideal distributions (yes, even the scamagikarp). Anyone that notices this is inclined to use gift pokemon in their team. Similarly, AVs made base stats less important, so you could find yourself with very powerful version of otherwise weak pokemon, if you train them enough. This being the case, I think those pokemon would have been used more often than others.

Lilligant was so good, espescially if you played Black/Black 2 and got it through NPC trade so it had the increases exp. That Petal Dance/Own Tempo combo was devastating. Also in Black 2, you can catch a level 30 Volcarona in the desert temple, that was also good.

One thing to note, I believe Heracross was also available in the bug catching competition in HGSS. This would help explain the popularity in him being on many teams as catching a Heracross would award the most points

I love how accurate red's HeartGold and SoulSilver team was to the most common kanto teams

Recently played through Paldea twice (I cared enough about the slight differences) My favourites from the two teams I had below: 1. Meowscarada (Sig. Move is great) 2. Raichu (Life Orbed, my favourite Pokémon so I use it when possible) / Pawmot (Awesome Electric/Fighting) 3. Gyarados (Self Explanatory) 4. Ceruledge/Armarouge (depends on the game but I liked them both) 5. Clodsire (Bulky Poison/Ground and also cool) 6. Box Legendary (Used for the DLCs) / Garchomp (You can get Gible Early)

In Pokémon Scarlet I didn’t have a traditional team, instead I tried a rotation of a whopping 12 Pokémon. So you could say I had two teams at once, lol. The members were Skeledirge, Clodsire, Gardevoir, Tinkaton, Pawmot, Lokix, Palafin, Honchkrow, Gholdengo, Baxcalibur, Flapple and Farigiraf. Normally I try to avoid too many repeating types on my teams, but there were so many Pokémon I wanted to try out that I had to make exceptions, especially with Gholdengo.

Scarlet was the first time I've ever used two pokemon with the same typing in my in game team, Skeledirge and Ceruledge were both just too cool for me to skip out on them

1. When I surveyed over a hundred teams for RSE, my results were the same as your RS team, except I included Salamence over Flygon to avoid the type overlap between Flygon and Swampert. My results showed Salamence to be more common than Altaria or Flygon, though it was also in a community that replayed these games a lot more than the average player. 2. If the starter isn't Swampert, the team is (Blaziken, Manectric, Gardevoir, Aggron, Flygon, Gyarados) or (Sceptile, Manectric, Gardevoir, Aggron, Flygon, Gyarados). Gardevoir was the most used Pokemon overall. 3. In B2W2, Arcanine's placement before the Bug gym makes it an obvious pick. It's already a fan favorite but coverage options for most players at that point are limited. In my first playthrough of Black 2, I only picked up a Growlithe after getting stuck on Burgh. 4. The average Red/Blue team does not necessitate the average Fire Red/Leaf Green team, nor is Yellow necessarily representative for Let's Go, nor Gold/Silver representative of Crystal, HeartGold, or SoulSilver, nor Ruby/Sapphire of ORAS. In each of these games, there were A LOT of changes in Pokemon spawns. 5. Assuming Lugia is on the Johto team is only valid for Silver/SoulSilver. Otherwise it is postgame exclusive.

You forgot gen 4.... diamant & Perl

Alright, but now, what if he went through the forms and picked out the weirdest teams for each gen? Would be interesting to see what odd teams some people made.

I'm shocked that annihilape was not on Scarlet and violet team. Its a absolute beast and peak design

Typically with later games I would plan out my teams rather than go in blind, but every so often I find myself with some “surprise” Pokémon on my team that end up becoming some of my favorites. Those include Jigglypuff in Kanto, Electrode in Johto, Rapidash and Abomnasnow in Sinnoh, and my precious Orbeetle in Gen 8.

Cloyster is my sleeper gen 1 pick. Surf, Ice beam, toxic, and clamp was a great set. Clamp, like wrap and firespin, was very op back in the day.

I went into Shining Pearl telling myself I wasn't going to use any of those for how overused they are and yet I still ended up with a Luxray and Roserade.

you made me look up my hall of fames for every game and it mad me tear up seeing the dates and all the memories flashing before my eye. Pokemon have been with me for 23 years

i used to watch this guy in 2020 and now ive found him again lets gooo time to binge watch him as i play the og pokemon games

Lucian and Cynthia together were so hard, I had to restart the game and develop a team specifically to counter them. I did end up with Infernape, Roserade, and Luxray on my team, but I used Gastrodon, Honchcrow, and Bronzong for the rest of the team. This was the team I confronted Cyrus with, but after catching Dialga, I switched him with Bronzong for the Elite Four. Water/ground became my favorite typing thanks to Gastrodon, and Honchcrow made short work of the commonly seen Medichams.

Very interesting video to watch and compare with my own in game teams. 1. I was shocked to see that Torchic resulted in the least popular gen 3 starter, pretty sure growing up it was #1 for most people. 2. I'm also surprised Sigilyph didn't make it onto any Unova team. 3. That Sun/Moon team is exactly my team except I had Toxapex instead of Vikavolt. 4. Somehow I've never used that gen 4 team before

The funniest thing about Dreepy is that I'm sure most people got it through Wonder Trade and then never went to catch a wild one for themselves ever again.

My first ever Pokémon team by the time I got to the Elite 4 was in Leaf Green and it was: Blastoise: Lvl 80’s (I battled EVERY single trainer with just him 😂) Articuno: lvl 50 Zapdos: lvl 50 Moltres: lvl 50 and two Machokes caught in Victory Road because i thought they’d be good enough 😭 (I was 10 years old btw)

Glad I use more obscure picks. It was unintentional but my paldean team was 5/6 ghost types, including skellidireg, ceruledge and gholdengo.

I'm honestly surprised how Gyarados is skipped in every generation beginning from 3rd! I always get Gyarados and Dragon Dance sweep the entire game with him, simply love this way of playing the game :D

Im surprised no one mentioned latios and latias since you get one for free and immediately get its mega stone. I used it on my team a lot, and it gave me the win in some tough challenges

That Kanto & Johto team ❤ I see you mentioned that shiny Beldum in ORAS. There was also a speed boost Torchic distribution that was so overpowered it got banned from the competitive scene 😂. Great video, I can’t argue with the choices. Most of us players thinking we were clever edgelords when we were younger, only to know everyone picked the same!

I'm a sucker for colorful 3-Stage teams in Pokemon games, so a lot of these picks really made me happy. Especially the Kalos team, because I recently played through Y where I specificly tried to make and use my own "Kalos" team. My champion team ended up consisting of Chesnaught, Lucario, Aegislash, Goodra, Clawitzer (I traded from X), and Yveltal. And before anyone roasts me for choosing Chespin over Froakie as a starter, I ONLY did so Sarena would have Fenniken. If I chose Froakie, then Sarena gets Chespin, and they just don't go together at all.

I got my copy of Violet fairly recently so I was able to hear what were the more common picks. So I went out of my way to make a team as different as possible. I eventually settled with: Brambleghast, Scovillain, Revavroom, Cetitan, Ting-Lu and Drednaw

I definitely had a Skeledirge and an Armarouge on my team. I think you underestimated the amount of people that likely had both the fire starter and Charcadet evo.

Happy too se altaria being mentioned in the gen 3 games i catched on in oras for my team even tho it was underlevelt When it catched it quickly became on of my best mons As for the populair pokemons in gen 5 black and white 2 i at least used everyone of them once in a playthrough expect samurot

Agree on these teams based on community popularity/rankings. I think at most for any given team were 4 members I used, usually just 2 or 3 of those chosen though opting for personal favorites that still give type coverage over which had best stat lines/popularity.

For SV, another thing that makes the tie between starters make sense is that Fuecoco is the most popular first stage starter and Meowscarada is the most popular third stage starter

A little surprised Flamigo wasn’t mentioned for Paldea. That guy was great for my in-game run, it solos a bunch of the goals. It’s a little simpler on the design side and people probably weren’t interested in seeing what it had to offer, if I had to guess.

My favourite part about Gen 8 was how diverse my team was, i just picked my favourite pokemon so some of them ended up pretty weak which gave me a MASSIVE challenge against Leon Inteleon Corviknight Toxtricity Appletun Coalossal Sandaconda Probably still my favourite ever team in a pokemon game ngl

And now im gonna go replay all the pokemon games and use the teams that were shown in this video.

My Unova teams were 100% different. That’s the only region I had differences with from yours. At the same time, this team was the one I had the most trouble with. It seems like as you get older, your teams diverge more and more from the trends, kind of surprising to not see Azumarill anywhere but I only picked up on it recently.

I’d love a follow up video of your favorite or more interesting team submissions

My teams were pretty different from the most used, except the Meowscarada alternative team at the end. That was my exact lineup at the E4 with the exception of the minecraft block dude, I had Baxcallibur instead.

Never have I related to a pokemon video less than this. At best it got 2 pokemon right in a team.

Ever time I play a pokemon game I always get what I like to call a fire,water,electric trio since combined those types cover alot of common in game mons. Then I usually get a ground type to follow it up an have a flying type in earlier games for fly or just as more coverage later on or a normal type for all around coverage. Finally I tend to round the team off with a physic type or a pseudo legendary.

0:23 Can't stop laughing at how accurate this is! 🤣

Funnily enough, apart from a few overlaps my teams usually look nothing like the ones given there. As a kid I stayed away from Moonstone evolutions, for example, since they no longer learned attacks (keeping TMs for "forever" since they were one-time only). Thus I never experienced the full power Nidoking. Like, in X and Y I went with Fennekin and Bulbasaur, added an (Azu-)Marril, a Salamence, the free Lucario and... either Magnezone or Rotom, I forgot. Then again the idea of the team was to have 12 different types among all Pokemon.

I'm just at the beginning of the video, but I'm REALLY surprised Kadabra/Alakazam isn't one of the 6 mons... that was an absolute powerhouse, fast leveling + evolving and you get an Abra after Mt. Moon

Honestly, that makes sense.. every RU-vidr I saw picked Fuecoco like it was a hive mind, and most notably they all also had Violet. So I did the opposite. I picked Scarlet, and I picked up the Grass Cat that they all feared would look ugly when it stood up. I do not regret my choice, and I'd make it again.

Breloom (under the right circumstances via waiting until after level 40 to evolve shroomish) can learn both spore and false swipe, making it a “catching slave” hence its popularity.

seeing breloom was a lovely surprise!! it's my favorite Pokémon and it often goes overlooked

I apparently play these games differently than most people do. Most of these teams share no more than two Pokemon with my playthroughs, though some do get up to three matches. Although I do use many of the honorable mentions.

For Baxcalibur, you can actually find it's first stage pretty early on if you are lucky with the Tera Raid Dens (I had gotten one just after getting my first badge, the bug badge, from a nearby Raid Den)

The gen 9 team you described was almost my exact Violet team but only slightly different, Meowscarada was my starter, Ceruledge was my Fire type and I replace Clodsire for Palafin. But other than that yea all popular choices no doubt.

Ampharos was amazing for me in Johto. Learning fire punch along with its electric moves it was pretty versatile and strong. Leveled it to 100

I threw strategy out the window in Gen 9 and went with swag instead. My team was Skeledirge, Ceruledge, Annihilape, Pawmo, Baxcalibur, and the last spot changed a lot, I had Tinkiton, Gengar,and Cititan, rotating in and out a lot.