Top 10 EARLY SWORD & SHIELD POKEMON to Catch! 

If I'm going to be able to catch any of them, I first need to catch a Nintendo switch!

Corviknight: ... Skarmory: Aight imma head out

I got Shield, and had a lvl 28 Arcanine when I got to the first gym. I used the move tutor to teach it Flamethrower, Extremespeed and Crunch. I did things in that grass gym that go against the Geneva Convention.

You’ll find a skwovett Me: huh ? YA DONT WANT THAT me: ahh

Can someone time stamp when he mentions Magikarp? Can’t seem to find it....

Zigzagoon: **exists** Hoenn fans: **feral hissing**

Growlithe is also good to catch. Once you evolve it to arcenine he’s a beast. My arcenine (Lv. 72) can tank a hydropump from a lv. 78 Pokemon. For me a hydropump barely takes half his Hp. Arcenine can also learn really good moves, and with varied types as well. It can learn psychic, dark, fairy, dragon, fightin moves and so on.. I recommend getting a growlithe

Corviknight is a beast he can literally withstand mostly any attack even dynamax attacks

Sizzlipede wasn't on this list and I feel attacked.

Corviknight gets announced Skarmory: 1v1

Him: it’ll take a little grinding to level this up... Me: takes my level 5s to the star galarian tournament, wins about 3-4 rounds, and Pokémon is now level 30+

Lol this comes into my recommended when I beat the game last night

For people who have Grookey, and Gen 1 veterans, Vulpix is definitely clutch!

I would highly recomend Growlithe i caught him in the beginning of the game and I cleared the game with him in my team

You actually can catch a static corvisquire on route 3 in the exact place where you get the escape ropes from sonia

Eevee can also be found relatively easily before the 1st gym and you can use the grass stone if you want Leafeon... if you don't have Grookey or Nuzleaf. Just be prepared to sit through a lot of Galarian Meowth's Yamper and Electrike appearing though which have a higher spawn rate.

4:32 did he just said 'hidden leaf stone' naruto vibes lol😂

Honestly even as a Rookidee, Hone Claws and Power Trip are a force to be reckoned with

I have a ninetales called Farah and she was basically my MVP. She’s beautiful. But my main MVP is my Boltund, Baskette, who CARRIED my team when we were down.

Started playing yesterday, caught a Trapinch in a den in the beginning and now today is a Flygon. Love training dragon types early in the games

The best: Ninetales, can never forget my gen 1 roots The worst: Zigzagoon

Rookidee is one of the best to catch he’s already essential for people using sobble but evolves into a badass

Best Pokemon: Corviknight The Worst: Vulpix Scorbunny just exists, but if I didn't choose them, the worst would be Zigzagoon

I finished my play through without any one of these Pokémon lol

I guess he forgot you can get an Eevee and evolve it into a Jolteon

Me: about to go to bed The smith plays: hehe Have a great day everyone

Seedot is a sword exclusive, I substituted it with oddish and got vileplume the same way you get shiftry. And while it isn't a dark type, it can learn fairy, bug, grass and poison type moves to help counter alot of pesky rival pokemon. Give it leftovers to hold, giga drain, pollen puff (to heal your allies in double battles, especially against raihan) Moonblast and toxic and you've got an awesome griefing/healer tank.

Not to mention, Obstagoon can learn Ice Beam. Which is pretty neat. Also it’s a Vulpix for Sword whereas Growlithe is the must have for Shield because they swap places. Lastly, this is the first Pokémon game where I actually have a 9 Pokémon team rotation that may grow to 10. I currently have Rillaboom, Ostagoon, Ninetales, Gyrados, Togetic, Corviknight, Raichu, Noibat, and Espeon....all before my fourth badge. This game is awesome

Just a reminder: Seedot (and its evolutions) is Sword exclusive. Shield owners get Lotad instead.

I agree with every Pokemon on the list except Vanilite

Me: *Playing sword* *encounters blipbug* My first thought: *_WHAT THE LIVING HELL IS THAT?!_*

As someone who started playing in gen 3 training any form of zigzagoon was weird for me but obstagoon was well worth it

I’ve got to say I think rokkidee is the best one given his insane resistance thing he’s just awesome

I’m about to hard meme to enter because the best wasn’t on the list Best: Wooloo Worst: anything that isn’t wooloo

As someone who picked Grookey, I must say, catching Chewtle and Vulpix early on was VERY helpful

Best: Vanillite. I still have it on my team. Ice types are super useful in this game, and I think it's really cute. Worst: Seedot. I had it on my team for a bit, but as my roster grew it was one of the first to get... Cut.

Catching ralts at the beginning of the game is a GG

I use Cloyster as my water typing. He is such a sweeper with his Shell smash and icicle spear combo.

For kicks I shoved my Grookey into a box and didn't look back having Wooloo with an Everstone as my partner Pokemon. Because it's cute. Also I wanted to see about trying a normal type. Pretty well rounded in defense. Also literally round. Lol. The rest of my team includes Sneasel, Toxtricity, Growlithe, Gyrados, and Ribombee. I recently cleared the third gym with my team around level 30. With minimal effort just by diligently trying to fill out my Pokedex it has been easy to stay 5+ levels above the gym Pokemon, making super effective moves 1-2 hit KOs for the most part. Though I literally scoured the entire wild area for two whole days the first time I got there to catch every Pokemon I could. It was a rough time but worked out.

Glaceon is absolutely great. I got it before the first gym by getting an Ice Stone from the Digging Duo and then catching an Eevee in Route 4. I taught it Hail and gave it an Icy Rock, and it basically carried me through the last gym by spamming Ice-Type moves and replacing the sandstorm with hail.

Personally I think grubbin is a good option. Vikavolt has destructive special attack and is available before the first gym with crunch x-scissor and thunderbolt

best: rookiedee worst: electrike just because yamper is cuter

10. Rookidie 9. Flipbug 8. Seedot 7. Pancham 6. Galarian Zigzagoon 5. Rolycoly 4. Electrike 3. Vanilite 2. Chewtie 1. Vulpix

I would pick Yamper over electrike because it evolves at 25 into boltund and boltund covers so many types. It can learn all of the elemental fang moves, dig, play rough, and crunch. Even though it doesn't have the highest overall stats it is an insane physical sweeper.

This vid helped me out so much and I’m Going to get all these Pokémon when I hopefully get the game for Christmas

Ended up with a team consisting of: Intelleon, Coalossal, Boltund, Mamoswine, Grimmsnarl, and Dragapult I would say Rolycoly is definitely one of the best early game pokemon.

I think Vulpix is a pretty good initial pokemon to have especially if you chose a water type starter, they level up pretty easy too. I despise having a Chewtle on my team, and would much rather wait until I've completed a bit of the game to be able to catch a Drednaw without the hassle of having a Chewtle.

Early on caught a tyrogue (now Hitmonchan), who beats nearly every story fight solo with expert belt equipped and drain- thunder- ice- and firepunch. Super effective attacks against nearly every enemy with additional damage output thanks to the expert belt. Whenever I lose patience with the a.i. enemies, I swap over to my Hitmonchan and start steamrolling.

Best: Rookidee Worst: How can we have a worst ? They still pokémon

Best: Seedot Worst: Electrike The worse goodboy is on the list

Instead of ninetales, you can catch a growlithe before the first gym and evolve it into arcanine the same way.

I used Pumpkaboo from almost the very start :D and it's the first pokemon to reach level 100. I just find using it with Leech Seed the best way to catch pokemon for the Pokedex and it was one of the Pokemons I never switched out from my team.

I have a problem on a personal level with anybody who chooses Manectric over a Boltund.

Best: Coalossal Worst: Orbeetle But tbh their all pretty decent

You can pick up an Eevee or Pikachu at the train station to Monostoke, but you must have a save file on your switch of Let's Go Eevee or Pikachu.

Wait, seedot is rare? I found an abundance of them very early.

I hope everyone has a great thanksgiving 🦃🍁

ROOKIEDEE easily the best flying type we have seen in a long time

Snorunt was my first catch in the wild area and i evloved it into froslass very early on too. One of my favs.

Note: You can catch corviknight In the wild area

Best pokemon: Rookiedee Worst pokemon: blipbug (honestly should be a pokemon in the first place)

I caught oddish early and spent time evolving to Vileplume. Such a beast now

i love catching and using gen 1 pokémon. it’s the childhood in me. i prefer them so much more.

5:20 you also need a dark type in your party to evolve it.

Rookidee is op that typing of his last stage is so good love you my man

I can’t wait to play this but I have to wait till Christmas 😭

A little tip for people who want to use shiftry its a sword exclusively so in shield u get ludicolo which is a water grass type

I would reccomend a roserade. You cant evolve roselia into roserade until route 8, but its poison typing is good for the first gym and its grass typing is good for the second gym. If you chose sobble, i definitely reccomend it. It can also learn shadow ball, which is good against the ghost gym if your playing shield, and dazzling gleam which will help with the dark, fighting (if your playing sword), and dragon gyms. Its grass typing will also help with the rock gym if your playing sword. Overall, it can beat team yells dark types with dazzling gleam, the grass gym with any poison type move, the water gym with any grass type move, the fighting gym with dazzling gleam, the ghost gym with shadow ball, the fairy type gym with its poison type moves (which i forgot to mention), the rock gym with its grass type moves, the dark type gym with dazzling gleam, and the dragon type gym with dazzling gleam. 6 gyms in shield, and 7 gyms in sword.

I think out of all of these options, Corviknight has the most potential to be the best, competitively. It's probably my top pick, considering everything is optimized to perfection.

In my opinion: The best is good ol’ Ninetails. The worst is electrike

I had a Seedot on my team and he was so amazing Shiftry was so amazing. He was faster then me Blazakin.

Huh, this was a good review and really taught me a lot about the base stats. Doing a great job.

Best: Zigzagoon Worst: electrike

Here’s what I think. Best: Rolycoly Worst: Electrike I haven’t gotten Sword or Shield yet so I hope I win, but I probably won’t. 🙃

Thanks for the tips but imo I think Joltik is a better option for electric in the beginning since he’s also bug. Helps with first and second gym easy. 😁

Thank you I’m just starting out on Pokémon and this helps me so much ❤️❤️✨

Best : Dreadnought Worst : Seedot I might be a bit biased

I spent 16 of the past 24 hours playing sword...

After completing my own playthrough I would have to say that Nikit and Yamper are some very good pokemon to catch. Theivul lasted me nearly the whole playthrough and Boltund stayed with my team throughout.

My rookidee started to evolve in sync with you introducing him 😮

Patrick:giveaway time bois 9yr olds who are too impatient for Christmas: *insert seagull finding nemo meme here*

5:29 *Me Walking with my 140 Atk and Sp. Atk base stat Attack stance Aegislash* *You dare oppose me, mortal*

For ice, I would actually recommend sneasel. Its speed and attack and typing make it so powerful.

Great list. I kind of want to stay away from the Kanto Pokémon for my first play through but I found a Growlithe pretty early as well.

Best Pokèmon: Shifty Worst Pokèmon: Eletrike

I can't remember if growlithe was an exclusive but you can have an arcanine at the same time too...

Best - I’m really diggin the 9Tails Worst- I can’t stand the the ice cream cone. Great video. Thanks for the video. Looking forward to lots more!

Excellent tips. Thank you for making a post focusing on starting out.

This is my opinion - Best: Rookidee Worst: Electrike

Definitely didn't know about Seedot was that early.

This is a weird recommendation but Arrokuda is a very good glass cannon. It evolves to a barraskewda at lvl 26 and by far one of my favorite gen 8 water types. A very high speed and attack but low others make this fish an amazing sweeper in the story. It gets: Throat chop, aqua jet, liquidation, ice fang, drill run and CLOSE COMBAT! And if you find a Swift swim Arrokuda, HOO BOY you'll outspeed everything once you have rain up.

for time saving, the list of good Pokémon to catch early on consists of: Rookidee Blipbug Seedot Pancham Galarian Zigzagoon Rolycoly Electrike Vanillite Chewtle Vulpix these are two I would also recommend: Growlithe Eevee

“U freakin nerds” at the end had me 😂

If you in the Wild already, I recommend getting magicarp and then evolving him to gyrados, he’s S Tier for fighting and can learn so many moves! But my fav on the list is dreadnaw, and the worst in my opinion is rookidee

Watching this in 2024! The amount of nostalgia is insane

We just not gonna talk about the ninjask you can catch in the wild area literally in the beginning of the game? One of the best bug types to have. It’s ability allows it to gain speed every turn AND it can learn dig. One of the best bug Pokemon ever made by gamefreak. The BEST reason to catch ninjask is to breed it and get a nincada egg and evolve it into shedinja. Shedinja is immune to every move that isn’t super effective and is a ghost and bug type, making it one of the hardest Pokémon to counter. Good video otherwise, but seriously missed opportunity to talk about ninjask.

Wooooh sword and shield! I’m getting it for Christmas

Best: Applin Worst: Applin is the best... who cares who the worst

Anyone else confused at rolycoly's 2nd evolution cokomotive?

Just wanted to compare our lists and damn good job mate! I loved every pick and you got me thinking about a new shield play through with a new team! Cheers!