The Worst Gen 5 Pokémon 

The biggest blow of all to Patrat is that it would’ve been useful early game…..if Lillipup didn’t exist in the exact same route, because Stoutland, even freaking Herdier, being a better Watchog in every way. Early game Tackle to level 15 Take Down, Crunch at level 24, Intimidate being one of the best abilities in the game, being able to use Eviolite to make it even tankier than Watchog can dream of, evolve levels being roughly like Venusaur and Meganium, and stats that are very respectable even at late game. Stoutland is basically like an unofficial normal type starter.

I think the call to make the Patrat line extinct might actually be heeded, since the last time you could get one was in X and Y, and it's not looking like the Indigo Disk is going to change that, making the line two of the very few Pokemon that you can't have on any of the mainline entries on Switch.

Who would've thought that freaking Watchog would've been your savior?

Honestly if we’re talking about in-game black and white I gotta give my vote to Deino. It can’t evolve until level 52, and then again at 64, meaning you’re taking a baby into the elite four. And it’s available in victory road so you don’t even get to use it vs other babies earlygame. Hydreigon is awesome when you can use it but the main game’s been over for ages before you get a chance.

the funniest thing about heatmor is that its bad sure, but if you look at its stats its clearly 100% devoted to smiting durant SPECIFICALLY, this guy gave up on everything else in life just to have his favorite snack more often

Your Watchog had so much plot armor. Definitely the main character.

Honestly man, I would love to see you go back and do every "worst Pokemon of gen x" this way. Completing the game with a subpar team helps show your rhetoric.

Krookodile: Lowers your Attack with Intimidate Also Krookodile: Uses Foul Play

Loved the video! Gen 5 is my absolute favourite with White being my first Pokémon game as a kid, and I have a particular soft spot for its many single stage Pokémon!! I'm also a fan of doing challenging playthroughs so, while frustrating at times, the low stats of many of these Pokémon don't bother me so much. It just forced me to use interesting strategies and made me really emotionally attached! I think most of Unova's single stage Pokémon suffer most through their availability. Since I had both Black and White as a kid I would borrow my sister's DS to trade over eggs at the start of the game (or use the conveniently early day care!), allowing me to use Pokémon like Heatmor and Alomomola effectively as starters, where they have a chance to really shine through the early and midgame!! One of my favourite playthroughs I did a while back consisted of a team of Durant (as a pseudo-starter), Musharna, Throh, Maractus, Emolga, Basculin and Cryogonal. It was definitely tough but I managed to beat the game with level caps and no items in battle. As I said before, it was so fun to find unique strategies that allowed this team to succeed, and made me love all of them by the end. I also once did a solo run with just a single Stunfisk (including beating post game Cynthia at lvl100 with no items in battle), which is one of my most memorable and fun playthroughs to this day!!

As a kid, I unironically used Alomomola in my final team. She just called out to me as my water team member.

For Alomamola's last move slot, you'd want to run Scald alongside Toxic, Wish and Protect. Being able to inflict two types of damaging negative status is incredible in multiplayer, especially if you like running stall. That gargantuan HP, great mono Water typing will make the pink sunfish into an excellent defensive pivot against anything that isn't a Grass or Electric type given defensive investment. It's even doing well in Gen 9 singles.

its too simplifying to just say Serperior has bad offense. It's offensive stats are low because it's fantasy is of a grass snake that whittles opponents down with moves like wrap and leech seed while being hard to take down due to high defense and mega drain (and again leech seed). The games would be pretty boring if every pokemons fantasy/playstyle was "me hit with big stick". Think of a boa constrictor slowly choking out its opponent rather than say a grizzly bear ripping out your throat. Both get the job done but by different means. Variety is the spice of life

When you mentioned Maractus the first thing I thought of the only time I've ever thought about that Pokemon was because it was the first shiny I've ran into ever despite playing since Gen 3, in SWSH. And then you mentioned you guaranteed no one has seen it. I believe I am the only person who's seen a shiny Maractus before this video

I had a Watchog on my very first playthrough of Pokemon Black, and it even carried me through Shauntal and Caitlin in the E4, so asking for Watchog to go extinct is actually offensive to me 😭

Its crazy how competitively and over the generations literally all of these pokemon have gotten buffed. Except watchog.

Thank you for fighting the Elite 4 with these pokemon for our entertainment. Makes me want to try doing a run similar to this myself, but with slightly different pokemon! The Doggo pic at the end was also amazing.

Alomamola is a good example of a Pokemon good in competitive but sucks in-game, in competitive it is one of the best walls to use in the Smogon lower tiers with Regen + Wish healing massive amounts of HP to Mola and the team, and in Gen 9 it is even OU ranked, maybe make a video of good competitive Pokemon that arent good in-game, that would an interesting watch.

One thing to note about Whimsicott and Lilligant is that while they're version exclusive in the wild, you can trade their base form for each others, effectivelly making them not be version exclusives. But yeah, they do not belong on that list, especially not Lilligant. Also Emolga on that list is mega cap. It's way better than the massive dissapoitment that is Zebstrika that it ends up outdamaging very quickly because acrobatics is better than Zebstrika's entire level up moveset.

1:52 plus Whimsicott actually has quite a name in the competitive scene thanks to the ability Prankster plus it's clearly support focused set

1:54 actually, I’m using mandibuzz in black 2 rn, and she’s been really helpful for my team. She enables my other mons, like seismitoad and darmanitan, and can deal with most lead Pokémon either with tailwind + u-turn, or using snarl to shut down the special attackers that can harm my slow and bulky mons like conkeldurr and cofagrigus. Weak armor even helps against the really fast mons that might try to prevent tailwind and u-turn

The fact Watchog knocked out Hydreigon makes Watchog even more worthy of extinction

I literally bred a Heatmor (with N’s Zoarark so it would have faint attack and night slash) so that I could use it during a playthrough as it’s my favorite fire type Pokémon.

I remember looking at Ducklett when playing Black for the first time and thinking… what

I can think of 2 gen five pokemon that weren't mentioned being Stunfisk and Garbodor. Stunfisk lacks a good ground type move for its more prominent offensive stat, and by the time you get to it you'll have had access electric types that are either just as good or better than it and Eelektross just does its job of being a bulky electric type better. Garbodor has decent stats, but it doesn't get any physical poison type moves until level 54 and basically only has normal type moves for its better offensive stat.

Serperior’s high speed stat kind of hurts it. It’s attack isn’t high enough to capitalise and those points could be better allocated to its defences or HP if that is the direction you want to take it.

I feel like you can explicitly break down the ranking within the team over who is truly the worst of all, which I think safely goes to Watchog. - Serperior and Alomamola are the MVPs, as they have the best defense and sustain that allows them to wear down a lot of the foes in E4 with Leech Seed and Toxic respectively. Of the two, I'd probably say Alomamola is better but its close. - Maractus got waaay more mileage out of Sucker Punch than was expected as it ended up cleaning up a bunch of foes (if only it got Zekrom too rip). It also having an actual set of offensive stats probably also helped against Shauntal and Ghetsis. - Emolga has some fun tricks and STAB Acrobatics with a good speed stat does help, but that stuff seems to only take it so far. It was probably one of your most consistent damage dealers though for the gauntlet. - Heatmor was initially what I thought was the worst, but really thinking on it made me realize that while the number of things it could actually fight was very few and it did end up letting you down in the end, breaking down those Steel-types was actually super important for the team, especially if you could get Flamethrower on it before N (since Zekrom is 52 and Heatmor learns it at 51 I would consider it fair game for level caps). It really is just a matter of being at the wrong part of the game, which is unfortunately the only part of the game one can get Heatmor. - Watchog...kinda really just got lucky or won as a matter of circumstance, because it literally just got atomized every other time, and I seriously doubt how effective it could be using its utility. It's just a very...blahh mon and I think this shows it even with its few very lucky wins. Even still, seeing which shatmons end up surprising me is one of my favorite things about playing mons nowadays. Was utterly flabbergasted at how good Klawf was in SV, and I am very excited to my Uncommon Mark Maractus in a newish SwSh playthrough.

Its funny how Serperior in game playthrough vs competitive changes from trash to amazing thanks to high level hidden ability. Access to a late game move with HA is everything

I fully agree that my beloved Serperior sucks compared to the other two starters, and isn't all that good generally. But Leech Seed gives it some utility in the mid-game, and when it finally gets Coil and Leaf Blade, it can definitely start pulling it's weight. But yeah... we shouldn't have to wait that long 😭 Otherwise I agree with everything said. Emolga and Alomolola are especially tragic, because Emolga just falls once again into the useless Pikaclone trend, and competitive shows us how effective Alomolola CAN be in the right situation. Poor Maractus manages to be worse *and* less cool than Cacturne, and Heatmor needs to get in the bin where it belongs. But I'm glad we can all agree on #MakeWatchogExtinct. Getting to see the actual run at the end was a really nice addition! Definitely gave a good idea of just how crappy these Pokémon are in-game.

The saddest part of heatmor is that his signature move is made in gen 6 but he doesn’t get it until gen 7 when he’s actually in the dex

I feel like Emolga was supposed to benefit from Volt Switch as a "Hit and Run" type character, but with those stats it kinda fails the "Hit" part

24:59 I haven’t heard that song in so long, thanks for the nostalgia hit

Hey now! I care about Alomomola! Actually, when I first placed B/W I found that some of my favorites were: Serperior, Maractus, Heatmor, Alomomola, Jellicent, and Vanilluxe. If I had to choose my least favorites however, I would definitely pick Pidove's evolutions (but not pidove itself), and Vullaby

I’m finishing my current Black play through and I’m about to rematch the Elite 4. I wanted to use Pokemon I mostly didn’t use on my first play when it first came out. My memory of it is hazy because it’s been so long but I’m positive the only two on my previous team reused on this team were Serperior and Stoutland. My new members were Simipour, Musharna, Zebstrika and Scolipede. I’ve really enjoyed getting to revisit Unova, my team mostly held up but the most disappointing members were Musharna and Zebstrika. I just expected them to be better but they did their parts and helped where needed, my team really was carried by the other 4 but mostly carried by believe it or not Serperior and Simipour. The fight I had the most trouble with was Ghetsis, I believe it took like 3 or 4 attempts because he was higher leveled by a decent amount and my team genuinely isn’t that good but it made the run really fun. I played it with a mostly Nuzlocke ruleset despite it just being a regular play through. All in all I still have this game as my favorite 2D Pokemon game and I gained some new appreciation for it being older; my first play through was when I was 11 and I’m 23 now. I enjoyed the leveling system and how it encourages you to explore more areas with trainers waiting to battle you, it definitely made grinding levels easier and I felt it was pretty balanced. I know people don’t like how linear it is but I think it’s fine considering it hit all its story beats. The postgame is interesting in the sense that you can tackle it how you’d like; I personally visited each area and continued the linear path to grind levels. Then I got all the sages and caught Kyurem, I was even fortunate enough to encounter a shiny Piloswine on my way out of Giant Chasm. The only things I want to do before moving on are: *Beat The League *Beat Cynthia *Get my whole team to level 100

They make Beartic look like a good pick for Unova, and using Beartic in Unova is unbearable.

I hate emolga, especially in Pokemon Go when I hatch 10k eggs and I see the rat fly out.

Personaly, I used 3 of these pokemon: Emolga, Serperior and Alomomola, all at level 48 or 49, I didn't find it difficult because you can have access to some TMs like Thunderbolt, Waterfall and Rain Dance, I used them with Sigilyph, Reshiram/Chandelure and Archeops. It wasn't very difficult because i knew where most TMs are and how to use them. I used Serperior with Leech Seed, Coil, Leaf Blade and Aerial Ace with Rocky Helmet, Emolga with Thunderbolt, Encore, Acrobatics and Volt Switch (if I knew that an ice type move or strong physical attack, I would have switch into Alomomola) and Alomomola with Rain Dance, Aqua jet, Wake up Slap and Waterfall with its ability Hydratation. So if you know how to get the best from them, it will be easier for you. (I also finished pokemon white with some of the worst pokemons Delibird, Smeargle/Zekrom, Furret, Emolga, Chatot and Luvdisc at level 47 or 50 for Emolga. It was really hard.)

I admit, I ended up really liking Heatmor after I did a harmonia run of pokemon white (challenge run where you release all pokemon except your starter after each gym battle and can only take on the next gym with pokemon caught in between the two. i believe it's called a harmonia run after N because of how he always challenges you in BW with a team made up of pokemon local to the area you're fighting him in? There's some other rules like only being able to attack a wild pokemon if you attempt to run away first and fail, requirement to immediately heal your pokemon after any battle where they get below 3/4 hp, can't challenge trainers to battles (but they can challenge you). It's...interesting.) Anyways, taking on the elite four, N, and Ghetsis using a team of only pokemon caught on Route 10 and in Victory Road, Heatmor ended up doing a lot of heavy lifting and I gained a new appreciation for it.

In Black and White, you can actually get an Emolga at Route 7 by trading it with a Boldore.

I thought Ghetsis was throwing @ the end there. Nothing like a max revive to bring urself back from the brink lol. Good vid & shout-out 2 Watchhog for clutching up in big spots 👏🏾💯

My first run through Gen 5 had me dragging a watchog through the E4 Love the addition of battles at the end!

In my opinion, Gen. 5 introduced the most solid mons out of any gen. They make almost any one of them so balanced without being too overpowered or too weak and most of them are pretty good or even amazing in battle. Yeah. There are few stickers; like Maractus, Stunfisk & Watchog. But even some mediocre mons are not quite as awful as compared to most of the Gen. 2 or Gen. 3 mons has where they are unbelievably worthless. But at the same time, there isn't an mon that felt nearly as broken like the ones in Gen. 8 & 9 where there so O.P., it never goes down and removes any challenge. Also I'm an Serperior fan as well. It's my favorite starter Pokemon as well. But I do agree started in Black & White, it was pretty mediocre. Not as bad as Meganium was in Gen. 2. But it's close. Black 2 & White 2 kinda makes it better. But not by much. Thankfully it gotten so much better in Gen. 6 and onwards thanks to Contrary and other tools it needed.

XD Loved the part where Heatmor attacks Bisharp and it lives on 1 HP and even GHETSIS himself steps in like "ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?" That just looked perfect! Like even the AI was like "That was BS..." XD Somehow the trainers coming in mixed with your commentary just matched perfectly. Like Marshal looks like he's swearing on screen cause his stone edge missed. XD

Whats the name of the song at 24:59? I havent heard that in years

On my first ever playthrough of Black and White I used both Watchog and Serperior, it was a rough playthrough mostly with Clay. In fact Watchog somehow had amazing IVs and Nature and managed to outperform Snivy for much of the game. Eventually it fell off as I stumbled on better pokemon and Cobalion, but it was the little champ that could... I also had more wipes in a playthrough than any other playthrough including Platinum but who's counting?

if you make a video on the worst gen 6 pokemon you should consider mega evolutions as gen 6 pokemon since it has so little new ones

Watchog is good for shiny hunting. Illuminate with super fang/hypnosis is really useful.

You mention Emolga. I for sure think, that of the Pikaclones, it is at least a usable Pikaclone. Its speed is good, and I think its typing helps it a lot. The biggest issue is just it doesn't hit quite hard enough. But I think it has a good role as a pivot on a team. Light Screen and Thunder Wave, switch out with Volt Switch, and an attacking move, can be a Pokemon to set up the field for your team to sweep whether your teammate needs to tank special hits or to slow down the opponent. Ranking the Pikachu/Pikaclone roles. Azumarill (w/Fairy type and Huge power) Pawmi/Pawmot Azumarill (w/o fairy, has Huge Power) Pikachu/Raichu Togedemaru (Steel type + Flinch hax) Emolga Azumarill (Pre abilities) Pachirisu (World Champ, and at least it is one I keep for pickup/team mascot) Dedene Plusle Minum

The fact that he actually won using the "6 worst gen 5 Pokemon" just shows us that it doesn't actually care, remember kids, Pokemon isn't a hard game, so use any pokemon you like!

can you use TM in this run? cause some moves could've beeen optimized

Massive cojones to face N & Ghetsis with those six, but for me Simisage, Simisear, Sawk, Throh & Musharna are worse. Not fond of Black & White's early game because of these Pokémon, used Emboar & Roggenrola to get past Lenora instead of Sawk & Throh. It made getting access to Krookodile & Lilligant after the 2nd gym all the more sweeter. Serperior - Poor Smugleaf, Ash's Snivy is great in the anime but Lilligant is a better Grass type set-up sweeper. Still way better than Simisage. Watchog - "Unfortunate" doesn't begin to describe Watchog's role in Gen 5, as the Lillipup line outclasses it as an early game Normal type. Not the worst early-game mon though, as it's better than the mons mentioned above. Maractus - Poor cactus is outclassed by Crustle, Sigilyph, Darmanitan and Krookodile, all of whom are available in the Desert Resort. Still take her over Simisage, though. Alomomola - Scald disqualifies it from any worst list, with 30% burn improving its prospects as a tank. Scald is also why Simipour is better than its siblings. Emolga - Irritating opponent with Static, no item Acrobatics and Volt Switch, definitely better than the early-game mons above. Outclassed by Galvantula, who is also way less annoying. Heatmor - Fire Lash is neat, but Chandelure & Darmanitan are way better. Still better than Simisear, though.

what did you say of Alomomother?

The only good thing the Patrat line has ever done to me is tanking Lenora's retaliate with detect in my nuzlocke of BW. This one niche is the only reason I bothered to level him up, that way I wouldn't lose any team members

What a great timing! A few days ago I was thinking how there hasn't been a video of this series in a while. 3:52 At least you get Leech Seed! That's pretty good even if you were to faint on the same turn. 7:09 👍 I've used a Maractus on my first playthrough of Black and... yeah, it's definitely a very "mid" Pokemon. It wasn't even that good for Ghetsis's Seismitoad - which is 4x weak to Grass - because it knows Sludge Wave. Sorry buddy, I like you, but I'd rather have Bisharp for my postgame adventures. 11:23 My Sigilyph dodged all of them lol Man, I feel _so_ bad for Heatmor. I really wish it was better, but it has so much going against it. It's stuck being in the same area as the clearly-better Durant, which is usually late and even if it isn't, it's still just too mediocre to use. It's just worse Magmar (and Magmar was "meh" enough to get an evolution). It doesn't even have a good moveset at the level you get it at, so it's not even good for "no new moves" challenge runs. :/ 17:10 I was about to drink, I almost spit it out because of you xD 24:09 "You don't get to be[at] the champion of the Pokemon League without knowing how to spam Full Restores!" :P 28:02 I don't know if Ghetsis is surprised by the turn of events or by the fact that he's getting beated by a team of horrible Pokemon. :D

Your description of Emolga made me believe that you really didn’t think it was bad haha. From my playthrough, I used Emolga and it was 100% better than the rest of the choices. Galvantula’s bug typing was terrible, Zebstrika was a phys attacker whose stab was Wild Charge (recoil), and Elektross was incredibly slow.

Rufflet deserves a mention I guess. It is insane even in scarlet. You get starly earlier, staraptor is 25 levels earlier than braviary and rufflet gains exp VERY slowly. Staraptor gets close combat at get go and is more speedy than braviary as well

Using Whimsicott during my BW play through was AWESOME. Charm, stun spore, and leech seed spam plus Prankster made trainers like Drayden/Iris a breeze.

I want to like Emolga. I honestly think it’s the most interesting Pikachu clone being based on a flying squirrel and being part flying. Why couldn’t it evolve into a flying Raichu?

I think Emolga deserves at least some credit for at least giving people running mono-electric teams at least something that absorbs ground moves, or for mono-flying teams to have an electric move absorber (at least if you’re not playing online, on a simulator, or if you’re beyond a point where Zapdos is now available in any given game) At least if you’re in a game without gen 9 mons. Kilowattrel completely outclasses it. Feel free to ask yourself whether or not you consider “it’s good if you’re using self imposed restrictions” to count as a compliment or just damning something by faint praise.

I have a major vote against serperiors placement on the list and for liepard, now I play with set mode on, capped levels and no items no matter playing casually or nuzlocking which definitely changes the game versus at least using switch mode, but I've had so much trouble getting anything really done with samurott or emboar thanks to them being slow and frail, and having somewhat middling power moveset wise, and with water and especially fighting having abundant competition type wise as well, serperior managing to take the hits to get a good leech seed off or get a coil setup just has usually worked better at least versus the other starters, other grasses are better still but eh. Liepard has my vote though because of how little it actually does, supposed to be an early game Pokémon but watchog actually does what it should, purrloin and leipard suffer so much from how low power most dark moves are and having nothing really of note besides maybe fake out as a turn skipper. Greatest of all it learns nasty plot as an ok boost for its equivalent spatk to physatk (hone claws boosts too slowly for how frail and weak it is) but it can't get any special stab because dark pulse was removed as a tm and snarl is inaccessible legitimately, no foul play in gen 5 for swagplay shenanigans or swords dance or anything to help its 88 base attack night slash to do anything before it faints, actually my vote for the worst pokemon in all of bw (besides the inaccessible hydreigon, mandibuzz and braviary in level caps)

I am serperior's strongest soldier. it doesn't have a lot of variety but leech seed + coil + leaf blade + return makes for lots of easy sweeps. leech seed makes your defensive stats worth more and setting up coils is easy vs almost anything physical. once you have some boosts you're naturally outspeeding nearly everything and sweeping with +6 leaf blade.

it's worth mentioning that there is an in-game trade to obtain emolga in all four versions of B/W, which removes the annoyance of actually encountering one and gives you an emolga with boosted EXP gains and guaranteed excellent IVs. That one can be useful, if only because it will outlevel most other mons.

I got a maractus on my first run through like 10 years ago and I still remember it. It was so good. I really liked using it.

The wait is over!

watchog goated goddam (great video btw, really enjoyed it)

Can't wait for gen 6 also everyone I know doesn't like simisear but it actually pulled pretty through with my nuzlocke in x

Interesting that alomomola is apparently pretty useful in some of the lower tiers of PvP battling. By the sounds of it, it can basically be used like a mini water chansey. One of the best utilities it has is healing other party members with wish, as its incredible HP stat maximizes the healing that can be done on the recipient. I guess that's much less useful in one-player, where you're allowed to heal your pokémon directly, but once the bag option disappears when you face another human being, it apparently becomes invaluable (at least so long as you and your opponent have agreed you won't be busting out the strongest available pokémon, I guess).

My first playthrough of this generation was with Snivy, and Coil was an invaluable move for me!

I appreciated Gen 5 greatly for being the only gen I played (I didn't play anything past X/Y) with a decent Dragon type available in the main story (the Axew) line. As for Serperior, I started with Snivy and I discovered quite quickly that Snivy is shite and its evolutions don't really get any better, and eventually I dropped him off my party entirely. I know by the end I had Victini, Krookodile, Excadrill, Haxorus, Braviary, and Archeops, I think for the post game I benched Archeops too by trading in a Charizard via a three-way trade from FireRed to Diamond to White, because I will never not have a Charizard if I possibly can. (on that note, Y turned me off the series by being an absolutely trivially easy and effort-free game even by Pokemon standards, but it did have one highlight, which was Mega Charizard Y nuking water types with Solar Beam multiple turns in a row. It was borderline unfair, it was unfair, but it was hilarious when I was doing it.

Its funny you would say Emolga is bad, back in the day my friend absolutely destroyed me with their Emolga, apparently it was the perfect counter to my team 😢

It took me five of your videos to realize you turned your dog into a Pokémon lol

Snivy got burned in here way harsher than flamethrower

When I used Emolga was fun to use bc it learned volt switch via level up and always went first (I know it doesn’t really matter bc you get the TM around the same time but it’s still cool)

How does this man have only 23 k subs? This guy taught me so much about competitive in less than a day!

Gen 5 is my least favorite gen. Yeah, good competitive pokemon and yeah, cooler story but a lot of these pokemon feel like bootleg kanto and hoenn pokemon, and ugly designs. Also, that barrier of b/w of only using Unova pokemon until you get national dex(fixed in b2/w2). Don't forget the frustrating shape of Alomomola, making players think this was an evolution from luvdisc

I actually used both a watchog and an emolga on my first playthrough of pokemon Black. I love emolga, but I knew it was frail so I taught watchog retaliate to use it as a revenge killer, lol.

I need a medusa inspired alternate serperior form for the new legends game. Grass/ghost with swapped defense/attack stats and a signature move called petrify or something. And keep the french theme somehow

Serperior was just so disappointing. Its so cool, and has an amazing hidden ability. But since you cant get its hidden ability in its debut game, its just horrible, with a even worse moveset. None of the starters in 5th gen are necessarily "good," but emboar has a decent typing and stat spread, and Samurott had a great movepool, and a decent stat spread for a mixed attacker (and looks so cool, and got an amazing region variant).

1. I do love this channel (can't believe it's been over a year since finding this channel, it has gone too fast for its own channel) 2. I honestly would consider the regional bird/the Unfezant lineto be amongst the worst to use (specifically in the early game). Solely down to the fact that in BW the amount of waiting needed to get any good physical moves is alot to say the least. As the fly hm is not possible until the fifth gym. And return isn't obtainable until the 4th gym. Before that, pidove/tranquil has just quick attack to use their higher attack stat. Seeing as Aerial Ace isn't until mistralton city, pluck is in the battle subway (something most players are not going to do for a playthrough) and the only coverage move unfezant gets outside of steel wing with breeding from specifically a skarmory is u turn which is all the way on route 13. As someone who used one temporarily for my Pokemon White Flying Type Only Run vods series a while ago. It got outclassed by Swoobat. Zebstrika is a consideration as its a physical electric type with the best move being wild charge at level 47. But it does at least get some coverage with flame charge early on as a blitzle. But that's about it (outside of return). And my final submission for worst gen 5 mons is seismitoad simply because it is in the same boat as Unfezant. Learns alot of special moves when it is a physical attacker. Yes 95 attack and 85 attack are better than Serperior's 75 for both. But I tried using one in Black 2 and before waterfall or level 44 with drain punch it was a hindrance. 3. Do Gamefreak just hate Heatmor or something because even in Black/White 2 Heatmor was only obtainable after beating the game in Twist Mountain. I mean come on, you make a cool looking fire anteater with a great shiny and you're gonna make the metal ant that it eats better and more obtainable. Like why? 4. Why wasn't Alomomola Luvdisc's evolution. I know everyone says that but it's right there, they could had done that and instead left luvdisc to continue being useless.

Glad you are open about Unfezent

There are many gen 5 Pokemon I dislike but I don't dislike any of them more than I loathe Jynx.

Imagine trying to nuzlock with this team.

Emolga could be pretty useful as only being weak against ice and rock, if a good chunk of the pokemon introduced in gen 5 weren't rock type also i completely forgot that maractus was gen 5 at all

I once had the 'pleasure' of finding a Maractus in the desert in a Nuzlocke of White. The run didn't feel the same after that.

I agree, Serperior has an awesome design, but it's really underpowered compared to the other starters, and the funny thing is that, in my Black&White 1 save file i have Samurott, and in my Black&White 2 save file i have Emboar, it's like i already knew Snivy was gonna be a bad choice! i say this because i was a small child back then, i didn't know anything about competitive pokemon, so it's surprising to see that i didn't choose Snivy since i always trought its design was cool and i didn't know it was this weak when i played Black&White 1 and 2 for the first time.

What is the music in the watchog section?

Maractus is one of my favorite pokemon from Unova, so much so that I do own its shiny. It was my first hunt in S&S and all.

The only thing I remember about Watchog is going from finding Lenora's a bit intimidating early on due to Retaliate to being annoyed that Team Plasma kept sending them out to get one-shot in the later portions of the game. Also, annoyingly accurate Hypnosis spam.

only commenting to say that a few years ago on my first play through of Unova, the FIRST maractus i ever encountered was a shiny

You beat the game on the shoulders of mid pokemon. You are both skilled and lucky.

Best one yet!! Love that you went in with all those weak pokemon... you should go back and do it for the other games...😅😅😅

Encore emolga with acrobatics carried my monotype electric run

Serperior has been in my team since the first time I played Black. It was actually the main reason I managed to beat Ghetsis. It's fast, and actually hits pretty hard.

My most stressful shiny found was in this generation a shiny Luminion in a sandstorm i was looking for new pokemon in the water when it appeared in white 2 i named it Sandstorm it's my only gen 5 caught shiny too

Alomola is tailor-made for triple battles. Heal Pulse/Water Pulse/Wish makes it very versatile in that format. It's been incredible in my randomized triple-battle nuzlocke.

Marshal's final line makes me laugh "There is no single strongest Pokemon or combination" "But there sure is a weakest, what the fuck are you using"

Only grass types ill take are dual types like Grass/Ground. Ground takes care of Grasses weakness to fire and poison having Earthquake, but i know they can learn rock type moves like stone edge countering flying, and its 4x weakness in ice etc. Steel type moves are possible as well

Playing Black with Serperior almost made it more memorable for me? I remember struggling SO hard with Skyla especially.

Pretty good run, only thing i'd change is that Emolga who does have good tm and general moves, a nice typing and good speed is certainly better than Scolipede who's poison typing only gives it weakness', abilities are unimpressive, moves are horrible with pretty unimpressive stats outside of speed which only iron defence baton pass can really make use of

0:11 It was also the last gen before the garbage fire they call fairy type and type resistance changes.

I miss my shiny Watchog that i got as a Patrat at the dreamyard in pokemon Black... it sucked... mostly because it had iluminate as his ability. But a shiny is a shiny, right?