I’m surprised that Metagross didn’t make the cut for the top 5. But I guess that’s what happens when Steel types got nerfed in Gen 6 and onwards by losing their resistance to Dark and Ghost, which Psychic types are conveniently weak to. Still, I’m glad that the metal supercomputer is still a cut above most Psychic types. Great list.
Metagross should definitely be moved up even though from gen 6 it got 2 more weaknesses it is still really good and it also got a mega and resists and is super effective against fairy’s which is really good and almost balances it out
Well it definitely dropped a lot in viability since gen 5, struggling to make an impact even in UU. The steel type nerf definitly played a role in its demise but it's just got power creeped in general. It's very slow for an offensive mon, it's special bulk can be a little lacklustre and his attack isn't as scary as it used to be. It's just too "general" without being great at anything specific, and since it doesn't have a good ability to set it appart other steel type and it's compelling wasted spe attack makes its stat seem much better than they are, it's generally outclassed by more specialised steel types.
I love Gothitelle. It’s so mystic. Whenever it appeared in the Anime it was badass. Whether it was as wild Pokémon like in: „The Lost World of Gothitelle“, where it bends space to relieve its memories. Or When it appeared alongside Caitlin where it had an impressive battle against Garchomp. Even alongside Anthea it was quite powerful
I’m happy to see Gardevoir so high on the list but I’m kind bummed out that Orbeetle isn’t mentioned. It’s really underrated since it’s a good bulky Pokémon with great supporting moves and a really cool design. I mean who doesn’t want to use a mecha bug that transforms into a UFO.
I agree with most of them, but honestly I think you have Gardevoir and Hatterene flipped. Gardevoir seems like it needs Choice Scarf more and more if not Focus Sash, while Hatterene can run Weakness Policy, Life Orb, Sitrus Berry and a few more nish pick items. But everything else is ok and/or fair.
No indeedee-f ?With access to psychic surge and expanding force it literally is the most hard hitting psychic pokemon even with no buffs , has stab hyper voice, it also walls prankster and priority mons, has access to follow me walls ghost moves like astral barrage. It’s awesome in doubles and singles. Imo this mon is scarier than alakazam.
I see this list is still a bit skewed toward fan favourites, because there is no way Gardevoir and Metagross made the list where Reuniclus didn't. It has always been viable in OU, even considered problematic in gen 5 (where Gardevoir and Metagross are non existent) and even nowadays it is in the same tier as both, while having niches in higher tiers. It's a fantastic slow set up with two amazing abilities and really good stats.
I really don't know why Medicham made the list but Gallade didn't, even with Medicham's Pure Power Gallade has higher Attack. Gallade also has access to Swords Dance, which Medicham doesn't. Excluding Megas, Gallade is just a much better version of Medicham
Absolutely true. Plus gallade has access to wide and quick guard which are a great moves in competitive. And you can breed a quick quard medicham, gallade learns it by level up which is way easier.
@@danielcusco6405 Medicham has base 60atk. With Pure Power it goes to 120atk. Gallade has base 125atk. Gallade also has overall higher BST and a better stat spread.
@@susear5939 u are in fact wrong. Max attack Medicham has 480 attack. Max attack Gallade, for instance, has 383 attack. This a massive difference.Altough 125>120, because pure power doubles your attack stat, your EV's in attack and nature bonus also get doubled which leads to this 97 points difeerence
I hope alakazam ends up getting a new form in gen 9 where we get Electric/Psychic Alakazam and he finally gets thunderbolt in his moveset and it finally gets justice making shockwave a thing of the past
Seriously need to know what criteria were used to determine the list. Gallade was excluded. Metagross out of top 5. Malamar had no mention. Indeedee is competitive staple as a non-legendary terrain setter with the all powerful Expanding Force. Also immune to ghost.
Can’t agree more! Follow me, helping help, trick room (male) and many more. With its ability it blocks priority moves and makes expanding force a double targeting move with increased power. And it’s indeed immune to ghosts type attacks. It can live a behemoth blade from zacian if you train it for. Let me say that again. It can live a behemoth blade from zacian! Plus holding a psychic seed it gets a +1 special defense so it’s even getting harder to knock out. Indeed it underrated!
These list are so much more interesting without the legendaries. I always ended up skipping them in the other videos because legendaries are just too obviously good which makes them boring imo
Yeah I’m not really a fan of Legendaries and mythical they’re too overhyped I only collect them in game to fill up my dex completely but I never use them for battles or in game..
Yall actually sleeping on Sigilyph 😔 Cosmic Power, Roost, Light Screen with Psycho Shift is disgusting and can wipe a team clean if you're not prepared.
I personally feel Espeon is better, but it's your list, so I will respect your opinion. I personally see Metagross as a good Pokemon, even without the Mega Evolution so I see it being better than below the Top 5. That's just me though.
Hello Mystic, I love your channel and content and mostly agree with it, but I have to disagree with Metagross position. It's not my favorite mon but you got to consider the fact that it's a pseudolegendary mon with 1 of the best types in the game: steel and a great ability in clear body or though claws if we talk mega evolution, and especially great coverage. It won 2 internationals in competitive and it has enough bulk to not get OHKOed from super effective moves like most on this list. That's just my opinion, in the end it's your list. Good luck and keep up the great work!
it certainely has a great typing but it didn't even made it to the UU tier those abose are slightly better except gothitelle maybe but she has shadow tag so never mind
I waited all video to see Alakazam because I knew it will be at number 1. It has excellent Speed and Special attack stats, a broken ability in Magic guard, and great coverage moves. I also think you should have put Reuniclus in the list.
I'm really surprised that wobbuffet didn't make it onto this list *at all* and not because he's my second favorite Pokemon but because of how powerful it is considering with a focus sash it has a 50/50 percent chance of taking down a *legendary* or a really strong Pokemon
Wobbuffet wouldnt make the list because getting it set up is very high risk. While it can take down a legendary, its honestly a waste of a slot, and gets demolished by status and landmines. Its very easy to play around as well.
I think that the top 10 Psychic Pokemon are 10, Medicham 9, Hatterene 8, Starmie 7, Brongzong 6, Metagross 5, Gothitelle 4, Slowbro 3, Gardevoir 2, Galarian Slowking 1, Alakazam and can you do either poison or Ghost next.
Starmie isn't even a Psychic because it's afraid of 👻. - Dual Types : LUGIA, Mega Metagross, Bronzong, Mega Slowbro, Mega Medicham, Mega Gardevoir, Mega Gallade, Mr. Mime, Hatterene, Galarian Rapidash, Galarian Mr. Mime. - Pure Type : Mega Alakazam, Mew.
An honorable mention could be Jynx! She's so fast and her Sp. Atk is very high! I'm sure that if she had received an evolution back in gen 4 she would be definitely on top 5 today! Also... Where is Delphox????
@@kevinmiranda1341 Is 95 speed for a regular Pokémon slow af? 🤷🏻 Gothitelle has 65 Both Slowbro and Galarian slowking have 30 Gardevoir and Medicham have 80 Metagross 70 Bronzong 33 Haterenne 29 And you're telling me Jynx is slow? I can get why you don't like it as a Pokémon but it's one of the fastest non legendary psychic types and can make much damage with 115 sp. atk!
@@franz009franz Speed is sometimes irrelevant if it does not back up with many other higher stats. Like Beheeyem that has both very high sp atk and sp def.
For those people who asking "Why Gallade is not on a list?". Well, unfortunately, that's because Gallade sucks. Its PU in Gen 8 and there's a lot reasons why. And yeah, Gallade were always just a worse Medicham competitively wise. No offense on Gallade fans, but that's just a sad truth. And I actually glad that Gothitelle is on a list, even on a fifth spot. She were always overlooked competitively wise, especially for those who have poor knowledge about Competitive Pokémon.
Even with pure power gallade base attack is higher. It got amazing special defense. It also got access to the elemental punches. Plus swords dance and wide guard. Two moves which are really good in competitive. You can choose to run a bulky gallade with quick en wide quard and feint and close combat or you can use a beat up strategy and can get a quick +4 in attack.
@@benjaminhoeckel7590 "Even with pure power gallade base attack is higher." Same nature, with no investment(but perfect IVs): Medicham: 156*2(Pure Power)= 312 Gallade: 286 Nope, not even that close. Now with investment(252 attack EVs, Perfect IVs, and an attack boosting nature....) Medicham: 240*2=480. Pure Power causes the total stat to be the equivalent of 169 Base Atk. Even Mega-Gallade doesn't hit as hard as regular Medicham. Gallade: 383 Mega Gallade: 471 And for funsies, here's Mega-Medicham: 646 Medicham absolutely blows gallade out of the water in term of pure striking power.
Well you’re not wrong. Never knew it worked that way. But still I believe gallade is the better choice. It has a higher base stat total. It only has lower defense that medicham. And it got so much more coverage. And with medicham you’re always have to rely on pure power. With gallade you can use it as a support Pokémon. At least I did it and I surprised a lot of trainers in competitive. And don’t get me wrong it get some good coverage but most of the time it’s just Zen headbutt High jumpkick Elemental punch Protect
1:00 I wanted Espeon on the list instead of medicham. 10:08 Gardevoir, gothitelle and hatterene does have similarities. I think the honorable mentions are Espeon, Malamar which it's ability contrary can make reverse the changing stat effects and Sigilyph
Another great revamped Top 10 Strongest Type video Mystic. I was wondering why you've haven't uploaded videos last week, But the wait was worth it, The next remastered Top 10 Strongest Type should be the Poison type.
1. Metagross (dynamax+weakness policy🤯) 2. Alakazam(magic guard+life orb) 3. Gardevoir(your choice) 4. Indeedee(psychic surge+psychic seed=💪🏼) 5. Gallade (bulky or justified+ beat up user) 6. Hatterene(Gmax smite is annoying) 7. Galarian slowking(regenerator+fairy check) 8. Meowstic(male w/ prankster) 9. Bronzong(good typing+ good defenses) 10. Malamar (contrary+superpower) I really don’t understand why indeedee wasn’t on the list. It is one of if not the best support Pokémon at the moment. With its hidden ability every time it switches in a psychic terrain appears. Combine this with a psychic seed and it gives it a +1 in it already good special defense. It has access to some amazing support moves like follow me and helping hand. The male version also gets trick room. It also has access to expanding force which now because of its ability is a double targeting move with increased power. You can train it to survive a behemoth blade from zacian! A Pokémon with base 170 attack and it gets a +1 when it enters the battlefield. So that’s some bulk indeede has. And why medicham when gallade is right there?! Even with pure power gallade base attack is higher. It got amazing special defense. It also got access to the elemental punches. Plus swords dance and wide guard. Two moves which are really good in competitive. You can choose to run a bulky gallade with quick en wide quard and feint and close combat or you can use a beat up strategy and can get a quick +4 in attack.
I'm extremely surprised to not see Reuniclus on the list, since it has always been better than both gardevoir and bronzong in every format it's been. It serves as a fantastic slow sweeper thanks to it's great spe attack and bulk and access to both calm mind and magik guard. It has always been viable in OU, generally almost having enough usage for the tier and is overall a great pokemon that should have definitely made the list. Sigiliph, espeon and Xatu could have also been contenders for the 10th place but overall the rest of the list is accurate.
My boy at number 1, just like it should be. Alakazam has been my favorite Kanto mon since I was a kid, remains that to this day. Also my 5th favorite Pokemon overall.
Gothitelle is a weird one. Either you include Shadow Tag, in which case it is easily the strongest mon on the list in singles, or you disallow Shadow Tag, in which case it shouldn't be on the list at all. Shadow Tag isn't banned in doubles, and Gothitelle is pretty alright there thanks to that- in 2022 VGC Series 12, it was the third most used Psychic type(behind Indeedee-F, which was a top 15 mon, and Tapu Lele) Reuniclus should've been a given for the list as well. Gardevoir honestly shouldn't be on the list either, without the Mega it can't compete with any mons on the list (except Shadow Tag-less Gothitelle), and the Mega was completely outclassed in it's own niche in singles last time it was legal to the point that it was useless(Tapu Lele straight up did the same job, but better and without taking up a Mega slot). In doubles, it was somewhat better, but Mega-Metagross, Mega Slowbro and Tapu Lele were all better Psychic types(and Gothitelle had similar usage to Mega-Gardevoir).
Goth is actually really good, it depends on the format. You could realistically say that Goth is so good with its synergy with its ability that it got it banned and unviable. Tbf, smogon and a lot of showdown rules are quite bs and annoying to deal with it so it shines WAYY more in doubles (depending on the format). On the singles side, I could agree that Reuniclus is better as it actually has viable abilities that aren’t banned lmfao. It’s a really hard choice to distinguish nevertheless.
But if He Said He Didn’t Add Legendaries in This List, He Must Added The ULTRA BEASTS in Future Top 10 Strongest Pokémon Types (Without Legendaries) Cause ULTRA BEASTS Aren’t Legendaries.
Yeah I’m pretty sure which 2 pokemons are going to dominate (yeah considering gardevoir is basically the best non-legendary fairy and alakazam is basically a pure psychic alternative)
My top 10 Psychic non Legendary are 1. Mega Metagross 2. Mega Alakazam 3. Mega Gardevoir 4. Mega Slowbro 5. Mega Gallade 6. Mega Medicham 7. Espeon 8. Delphox 9. Starmie 10. Gothietelle
Indeed. Gallade was excluded. Metagross out of top 5. Malamar had no mention. Indeedee is competitive staple as a non-legendary terrain setter with the all powerful Expanding Force. Also immune to ghost.
@@kamentrainerhorn2073 No problem, the feeling is mutual! I’ve just gotten into the series so I’ve only seen four so far (Build, Zero One, Kuuga, and Fourze). Think Build is currently my favorite so far (Still watching) but I love Kamen Rider Vulcan. Fuwa is such a badass! If you don’t mind, what’s yours?
@@nintendolife25 I like all four of those shows, although my favorite show keeps changing. I’m still going through Kuuga. As far as my favorite Rider overall, I’d have to say Kamen Rider Chaser from Drive. Vulcan is definitely up there, though, easily the best Rider on the show alongside Zero-One, himself.
@@kamentrainerhorn2073 I know that feeling. I’m really liking Build so far. He might be my new favorite but time will tell once I finish the show. Kamen Rider Drive sounds interesting. What’s the plot about? Would you recommend it?
If you have played competitive or seen the top tier list of pokemon, this list doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. I enjoyed the video, but apart from the time when Alakazam just spammed expanding force, it didn't find much use after Regieleki appeared. Apart from that, Metagross with weakness policy never left the competitive, nor did Indeedee female, although it was replaced some time by Tapu Lele, but it still found its niche.
If you never play with legendaries this entire series is alot easier..but.. people tend to go after what is already op. Also...where is reuniclus? It's basically the psychic equivalent of clefable..even has magic guard...it easily gets more play time than hatterene. Mostly because it's higher move pool.
Gardevoir at number 3 and alakazam at number one feels a bit weird to me. Gardevoir has always felt underwhelming when I use it and whist alakazam is strong and fast it has no bulk at all and will be killed by priority. I feel like indeedee f should have been included as it is one of the best Pokemon in vgc right now due to its bulk and psychic terrain which ignores priority and enables Pokemon like calyrex shadow to do massive damage with expanding force. It also gets follow me which is really important as moves get redirected towards her.
Gardevoir shouldn't be that high on the list after losing its mega, it has almost no play on competitive vgc which this tier is based off ? Whereas indeedee and hatterene dominated an entire early meta game and even seen play after isle of armor. Hatterene is a much more used pokemon competitively than gardevoir so I think they should be swapped. Also indeedee and espeon should have been mentions as medicham shouldn't even be on this list. Also Reuiniclus is slept on.
I was with you till you placed slowbro and gardevoir and alakazam above Metagross, metagross could bop all three of those. Also where’s my osmosis baby Reuniclus?? :(
ruiniculus outclasses pretty much 60% of this list competitively magic guard is amazing and has a great bulk and movepool and hits like a truck but agree about the list as for gothitelle it is the shadow tag ability which makes it OP in singles
Interesting that both different versions of Slowpoke's evolutions end up on this list, and considering 1 of them he didn't count on with Kantoian Slowbro mega-evolution is very fascinating. Although I would say apart from Gardevior and Hatterene, Mr Mime(either versions) is not on this list which I would understand. Next you should either do Ghost or Steel, perferbaly Ghost.
