I agree. I wish Emergency Exit was in any way different than Wimp Out. Like, if it acted like a baton pass, that would be amazing, maybe too good. But just... it does basically nothing but bad things as is
The more unique the RU-vidr the fewer the subs they get...look at the number 1 poketuber..its a pokemon card channel..ive not touched a pokemon card since 5th grade..
@@tedpowles7819 Noivern also isn't really that powerful, either; especially when compared to other dragon types. It's fast, sure, but that's it's only really great stat, so I've always personally felt it falls a little bit short.
I don't really think Crobat is the strongest Pokémon from Johto, I'd rather give that role to Scizor. SD Technician Bullet Punch gets rid of everything. But other than that great video, surely interesting topic
@@nhlvan togekiss is the only one I'd actually agree with. It's amazing overall, air slash is amazing, it's got amazing support moves, and it's got decent stats. It's one of the most used first turn mons in doubles. The others.... Ehh not that good at all
I’d love to see who the strongest and weakest of each type, minus legendaries of course but including pseudos since they’re mostly all dragons so let that fight happen.
@@PrismaAce I mean, Noivern is a dragon type, which is generally considered to be a strong type for any Pokemon to be, but I never felt it was one of the better ones. It's not terrible by any means, but it's definitely lacking when compared to Greninja or Aegislash, as you said
Yeah, that was maybe the most clear misstep on this list. He explicitly named Gyarados and Snorlax, which have both been stronger than arcanine for decades. Gens 5, and 8, 4, and maybe 3 were strong picks. But 1, 2, and 6 were pretty rough choices. I don’t know if he forgot scizor, greninja, or aegislash exist.
@@johnkoerner8125 he has an overreliance on base stats and what seems to be anime cannon(?) He needs to study up more on smogon and competitive battling and past metas, thats where you can really evaluate accurately
In my opinion this is what should have been the best from each generation. Gen 1: Alakazam. Arcanine is pretty good but it doesn't get enough coverage. Alakazam has really good coverage as well as really good speed and special attack and if you give it a life orb it doesn't take damage from it because of magic guard. Gen 2: Scizor. I'm surprised you didn't even bring up scizor at all when talking about gen 2. It has a stab, technician boosted bullet punch which is capable of dominating opposing teams if used correctly. Crobat is... Meh. I mean it can do pretty good damage, but it's attack stat isn't high enough for it to be capable of easily sweeping teams (which is it's primary purpose). Gen 3: Blaziken. Need I say more? *S P E E E D B O O S T.* Milotic is good, But... Baziken is broken. Gen 4: I agree with you that Togekiss is the best. So I'm not going to write a whole essay on it. Gen 5: Excadrill. Volcarona is probably second, but Excadrill is undoubtedly first (in my opinion). With sand stream support it is easily capable of sweeping teams with its incredible 130 base attack. Even if you're not running sand rush its still pretty good, but your going to be running sand rush. Gen 6: Greninja. This is another case like blaziken where it's ability (in this case protean) makes it incredibly good. I really don't think I need to explain myself with this pick. Gen 7: I'm surprised you even considered Golisopod for the list. It's ability is just horrible. I think the best option here is incineroar. It gets access to intimidate which is an incredble abilty. It also gets parting shot and fake out so it can take advantage of this incredible ability. It also gets decent offensive coverage as well, but your mostly going to use it as an intimidate pivot. Gen 8: *T H E V I S H*
I prefer yours better. Most of the Pokemon you listed fared better in competitive battle than his list. For the newer meta, I think Arcanine is a better one than Alakazam. For Gen 5, either Volcarona or Excadrill is good, but Excadrill had better days in competitive days. For Gen 7, Incineroar is like Arcanine (Intimidate user), but with a Dark typing for additional coverage. Definitely better than Golisopod. Statistic of Incineroar usage at competitive play disagree that Golisopod is better, lol
@That One Guy In The Comment Section to be honest I completely forgot that serperior existed. I would still say excadrill is better tho because of serperior terrible, horrible, no good, very bad movepool. It gets grass coverage, it gets dragon pulse, and that's basically it. Although I guess you only really need leaf storm to sweep but serperior also has a bad typing (both offensively and defensively) while excadrills typing is one of the best offensively. Also you can't underestimate the power of sand rush.
In SwSh "stone" evolution Pokemon have access to their pre-evolution's movesets right away from the move Relearner in the Pokecenter. No need to delay any of those evolutions until the late mid game anymore.
@@lovelyluna773 dawg greninja is BROKEN lmao, it doesn’t need electric type coverage when stab hydro pump/grass knot/gunk shot/ice beam just mauls through almost everything
Bruh, gotta keep it 100 but this list is trash. Crobat, Golisopod, Noivern should be no where near this list. And regardless of typing, Volcarona would obliterate Milotic and Crobat. Hurricane also wreaks Golisopod so that one is at worst a toss up. Who mans is this?
It really wouldn't have fared much better. With all the Fire and Water going around it would struggle, and it's only fast in sand which it would have take a turn to set up in this scenario. So it would probably go down before getting to make use of it thanks to it's low defenses
I do think this isn't a great way to decide who is really the weakest of the strongest, after all it's not that Volcarona is actually weaker than the others, it just has a type disadvantage. That said, there is no reasonable way to measure all of these pokemon against every single possibility so this is the best way. I personally think Dracovish, it is far too reliant on Fishious Rend and out speeding it's opponent.
i think you should messure their movesets and stats and uses against eachothers, not the typing... obviously if you do it like how you did iif a pokemon had bad type matchup with the other mons it will lose, even tho volcarona, or any other unova pokemon for tat matter could easily win...
I did though; like I said Milotic would have a hard time with Noivern... Unless it had Ice Beam. I factored that in with the damage calculator, I tried giving them the best moves possible for each opponent.
@@emperorcubone tbh since i mostly see milotic with ice beam it is kinda given but i think you should value them with abilitiees but not battle against another, also i love your vids!
@@Waiter1986 Definitely Goodra, just by comparison. It's an obligate Special wall staring down 7 physical attackers and Hydreigon, second slowest (second only to Tyranitar, who learns Dragon Dance anyway). If Dragapult aims for anyone besides Metagross or Dragonite they're out, Garchomp is a second elimination round, Salamence, Tyranitar, and Metagross can Mega-Evolve (Garchomp wouldn't choose to), Dragonite is basically all but unkillable, and even Kommo-o has its signature Z-move. Goodra is a check to Hydreigon, and that's about it.
3:21 no i can't arcanine is god awful in competitive meanwhile alakazam is a great OU special sweeper chansey has been the stall king since gen 1 and clefable is literally the best pokemon in OU
Yeah, that's a good point. Arcanine is a questionable choice at best; but this is kind of par for the course for most fire types due to their type not being very good defensively. Because of this, the ones that are best tend to be hard hitting; and having said that, I can't say that with other choices like Crobat, Noivern, or Arcanine being nominated that there is any way that Volcarona should be the one picked as the "weakest" of these choices.
to show him up on all other gens gen 2, blissey has toxic/seismic toss; scizors better in competitve gen 3, there isn't much gen 3 in OU, but pelliper still exists, though i could get not giving it the title do to drizzle being essentially for support gen 4, yeah, fair, but its weird to present it as some great attacker because it's ONLY a flinch/para haxxer gen 5, pretty much correct gen 6, thats just objectively wrong, greninja was the literal second best in gen 7 OU, and aegishlash was banned to ubers gen 7, toxapex is an ou stall staple, meanwhile, goliosopod is in RU gen 8, galarian darmanitan was banned to ubers first, choice band the ability is lowkey better than a single strong move
@@emperorcubone since my original comment was about gen i'll stick to that for now, both chansey and clefable are stall, not glass cannons, and clefable in particular can sweep/stall out almost anything with it's varied move pool and magic guard
Fun concept! I think the final decision ended up being too determined by the typings within the group of 8 though. I understand you have to pick the winner somehow, but I'm not convinced that Volcarona is the weakest overall of those 8. Its matchups against the other 7 pokemon is not the same thing as its overall strength.
For the best johto pokemon i would say scizor It is a very high atk and decent bulk It only has 1 weakness and it has 8 resistance It can set up swords dance without dying as it has good recovery It also has bullet punch with is boosted by technician to atk faster foes
@@emperorcubone base stats arent that important. There are pokemon with high basestats that are way, way worse than some with lower base stats. In this case scizor is just so good.
kinda surprised that Protean Greninja, and Libero Cinderace weren't addressed, Aegislash I do think could have been on the list since if we consider items like with dracovish then leftovers on Aegislash makes for a rude pairing against it with king's shield lowering the attack stat
I do believe Aegislash is amazing! However it can also be predictable. If you can take a King's Shield turn to set up boosts instead of dropping your attack the tides could turn...
I kinda have a soft spot for Volcarona since gen 6. One time I wanted to do a playthrough with the challenge that I'll only keep my starter but for the rest of the team I send my first few caught Pokemon into wonder trade and then keep whatever I get back as my team members from start to finish. One of the Pokemon I got was a Larvesta. Couldn't use that much in battle since it was pretty weak but eventually it evolved and Volcarona became a very beloved team member.
Um, I don't really agree with the fact that you have pokemon such as arcanine as the best pokemon for kanto as other pokemon that might have lower basestats are actualy way stronger, for example clefable is better in every way. But great job even if I don't agree with the picks I did find the video fun and thats like the most important part
The Togepi line is my favourite line of Pokemon, with all three stages in first spot of favourite Pokemon. On my Heartgold, I have 6/7 Togekiss with different moves and I think not a single one has a move the others have. Maybe a few have Air Slash, but I taught them Flamethrower, Water Pulse, Psychic, Shock Wave, Magical Leaf, Aura Sphere, Hyper Beam, Extrasensory, Nasty Plot and I can't really remember the others haha. Truly an amazing Pokemon!
This is misleading. You compared them against each other, rather than just being the worst of them all. I'd say crobat is the weakest, rather than volcarona.
Well it is how I did it last time as well, so I wanted consistency. But it seems fair to me; if you were to train the strongest Pokemon of you region, you'd probably at some point want to fight one of the others (and Crobat could totally beat Volcarona in that realm.)
Crobat could probably oneshot Volcarona thanks to it's high speed and access to Brave Bird. Volcarona is an extremely frail Pokemon having only 65 defense.
You can agree or disagree with certain choices (though I personally think they were solid and made sense), but one thing is certain - your content is creative and unique. keep up the good work!
I think Wishiwashi has the best prohibitive ability because it appears to be more of a buff than a nerf since technically its base form is the weak little fish so the ability feels a lot cooler
I don’t understand how you could call yourself a Pokémon channel and make a video about the strongest non-legendary status Pokémon and not even mention aegislash who was so strong it got banned from OU
I just started watching your videos and wow this one was really amazing. Loved how you went Region by Region in great detail. It was nice re-living memories and now Galar is a far-off pre-covid memory so it REALLY feels like a lot of time has happened between now and 2019. Fantastic job in this one
I think a lot of this list had to do with stats rather than which are literally the most top tier in the region. I mean he showed the stats for all of them before the different movepool and the resistances.
Yeah whatever. Volcarona is consistently one of the best OU Pokemon whereas none of the others besides Dracovish make the cut. So whatever you say; Volcarona is better than all of them besides Dracovish.
one word: Excadrill, it's banned from ou in gen 5(only the sand rush one, but the other ones are also one of the most used mons), I love volcarona, it's really cool, but stealth rock kills it. Starting at 50% health means it HAS to use boots, which then removes potential for life orb or choice scarf/specs
Im sorry but this list is HORRIBLE! In my opinion Gen 1 : Gyarados , probably the best Pokemon for nuzlocke and also viable in competitive. Gen 2 : scizor , i don't need to explain why , skarmory is close second for how good of a utility mon it is Gen 3: either Blaziken or swampert, Blaziken is better in competitive while swampert is better in playthrough (sorry sceptile but you are the best) Gen4: although togekiss is good , i think gliscor and weavile are just better Gen 5 : just like togekiss , volcarona is good but excadrill is monster in both competitive and playthrough Gen 6: Aegislash. No questions asked Gen7:in my opinion , bewear is really strong (at least more than golisopod) Gen8:fish
Gen 1: MY FAV MON OF ALL TIME, ALAKAZAM THE POWAHHOUSE Gen 2: Scizor Gen 3: Blaziken Gen 4: Togekiss, I love that line Gen 5: Excadrill (probably spelt it wrong) Gen 6: Aegislash. Greninja runner-up tho Gen 7: Incineroar with *intimidate* Gen 8: Dracovish my boi: With all of this in mind, I think the owner of the title should be Alakazam. If these were gen 2 rules then Alakazam would win, but it learned the elemental punches which were special at the time. Aegislash and Incineroar would dominate over it and the strongest of these would probably be Dracovish
i’m gonna try be as constructive as possible, but strictly speaking from a singles competitve perspective (since this video takes a lot of ideas from that point of view), there is massive amounts of C A P in this video - the amount of value you put into coverage is really strange, especially considering that there’s more to a pokémon’s coverage than just the move itself. sure, noivern might have access to iron tail, but its base 70 attack means that it can barely kill anyone good with its physical moves. not to mention, iron tail is already an unreliable move due to its relative terrible accuracy. - a lot of these picks are questionable at best, if we’re going off of the competitive scene. especially the crobat & noivern picks, when pokémon like sizor & greninja have historically been much better on a competitive level in both singles and doubles. - there’s also a weird emphasis on a pokémon’s offensive capabilities in this video, which i find to be odd because pokémon like milotic and crobat have historically been more balanced/defensive pokémon on a competitive level. and if we were to further consider defensive pokémon in this video, pokémon like clefable and toxapex have been far more dominating than arcanine and golisopod, respectively. - the pick i overall have the biggest gripes with is arcanine, though. i get that it’s had a solid career in doubles, but there’s little to no mention of its potential in double battles in this video. in singles, this pokémon has had very little relevance for several generations. this is mainly due to it not being able to boost its relatively OK attacking stat as an offensive pokémon, and with it not being able to provide much team utility as a defensive pokémon. - in comparison, a pokémon like clefable can set up rocks, pass wishes to heal health, and even break walls with a calm mind setup. furthermore, its ability magic guard makes it incapable of receiving passive damage, making it much more difficult to wear down in tandem with its access to recovery moves (wish, soft boiled, moonlight, etc). - on the other hand, speaking on the side of offense, there are plenty of options for the strongest pokémon. gyarados has some very powerful capabilities on the offensive side, as dragon dance works wonders in tandem with moves like waterfall and earthquake. nasty plot is a setup move that both gengar and alakazam take full advantage of, as it takes their already good special attack stats to higher levels. so yeah, sorry for the long essay, but unfortunately i feel like this video misses the mark quite a bit edit: volcarona might lose matchups against the other “strongest pokémon”, but in the grand scheme of things, volcarona is far better in the competitive scene compared to most of these guys. dracovish is the only one who is a more competitively viable pokémon.
I strongly agree with you, I'd say there wasn't enough research done for this video. My personal picks would be: Gengar Scizor Blaziken/Swampert Togekiss/Gliscor Excadrill/Ferrothorn Greninja Toxapex Dracovish/Galarian Darmanitan
Wow im early.... btw I just wanted to say that u are my favourite poketuber because we have many common pokemon we like , like Empoleon , Mamoswine, Roserade, etc.
Bro Crosbat is strong af. Ecspecially saying he has like toxic bite or whatever it’s called, it has 50 base power along with a 50% chance to badly poison
Being based off fuu dogs, ferocious guardian spirits; I could totally see Arcanine being fire / dragon type. Not only is it the “legendary” Pokemon, it would mean that Kanto dragon types would no longer be restricted to the Dragonite line. This would make it slightly easier to fight Lorelei and Lance, and would even give Lance another Pokemon to add to his own party. It would fit Lance perfectly if it had Own Tempo to sidestep Outrage’s drawback - seeing as Lance cheeses players by spamming full restores, and using under-levelled Dragonites. Maybe even Blane could use one too, to make his gym stronger.
(11:40) Noivern is one of my favorites, actually. I caught my Noivern as a Noibat during my Pokémon Sword playthrough, and I flew that thing through hell and back.
Not really sure how you came up with your picks but guess I'll pile on too since everyone else is doing it. 1) Alakazam (or Gengar) 2) Blissey (or Scizor) 3) Blaziken 4) Weavile 5) Excadrill (or Ferrothorn) 6) Aegislash (NOT protean Greninja, though it's close) 7) Toxapex 8) Smackabish The weakest is gen 1 by a country mile. If not for Toxapex it'd be whatever the Gen 7 pick was, since the only Gen 7 pokemon as good as others on this list are weaker legendaries like the Tapus and Ultra Beasts (again, aside from Toxapex).
Despite skipping over a few dependants like Milotic not having the attack power to take out Volcarona before that first QD which is a game ender in most cases, if they're wild or captured, or even Volcarona burning with Flame Body, I think generally agree with this for the most part.
I know this is an old comment, on a old video but I had to answer that! Goodra is the weakest pseudo. All pseudos were in the OU tier in some point of their careers but Goodra was never viable there, his stat distribuitions are bad and he has no great gimmick like TTar's sand stream or Dragonite's Multiscale to stand out or even a good boosting move. Ok. He has no 4x weakness but he's so unimpressive for a defensive pokemon, that IDK why would you pick him for a serious fight...he would get demolished in this battle royale At least his Hisuian variant is good, hope he makes it into the main games!
Gen 1 should be Gyrados. It's in the OU tier for many generations for a reason. Dragon dance makes it a scary sweeper. Arcanine just seems like Entei's younger brother and Entei is not used much.
I've been waiting on a video for the best Pokemon (stats or personal preference) of each body type from one of the many Poketubers. Honestly, you're probably the best 'mon for the job.
Not putting blissey on the list is a mistake. Toxic protect softboiled substitute with leftovers makes blissey extremely powerful against everything except poison and steel, or serene grace with flamethrower thunderbolt ice beam soft oiled and kings rock
I mentioned physical moves on Noivern for their utility; Super Fang always does half of their HP, Iron Tail was the stronger of the Steel moves it can learn (all of which were physical, so it's either that or no defense against Fairy types) and U-Turn, which people use all the time on even worse Pokemon just for the free switch-out. It was quite intentional...
Emperor Cubone i understand super fang now, i thought hyper fang was the 50% hp move but i must have been mistaken, i was thinking of the video as more of just a general brawl of the pokemon, not thinking about it in a competitive battle so that’s why i was confused about u-turn. fair enough on iron tail too, i’d personally rather only use moves that use their best attacking stat and have another five pokemon on my team who can deal with each other’s weaknesses, but in this setting i understand that now
Yesssss my favorite made the cut. Crobat is Brobat. When I was little I wanted to try a new team and wasn't that familiar with Friendship evolutions. Caught a Zubat early on and ended up reaching its final stage at Lvl 26.
when BW first came out and I got that lone lvl 70 volcarona I just assumed it was a legendary and in my headcanon it always will be. I mean, the thing subs the frickin sun.
I hate the Pokémon but gen 2 best Pokémon is by far, scizor it’s ridiculously powerful and takes barely any work to get going. Also gen 1 my least favourite Pokémon of all time is way too powerful now as a fairy: clefable. It’s ridiculously bulky but it gets stored power and calm mind which with just a couple boosts makes it impossible to kill AND impossible to wall. Especially since it’s fairy type prevent dark types from switch in. I agree about gen 3 and 4 though since milotic is amazing (and my favourite water type) and togekiss I can’t stand but it is definitely the best. Gen 5 I think that excadrill is the definite winner, I adore volcarona however excadrill is just a bit more dangerous and does a lot more horrible damage potential with barely any set up needed whereas every volcarona is going to use quiver dance which can be taken advantage of with taunt or encore to quickly shut it down. I love volcarona but I think excadrill is just more competitive. Gen 6 I think aegislash is a much better choice: noivern is ok but it’s actually very VERY WEAK like it has to run high power risk moves to do a strong amount of damage whereas aegislash can just smash things easily and with dynamax it has a lot more bulk now which it’s shield form had but it’s sword form lacked. I like noivern but aegislash is absolutely a monster. Gen 7 without any tapus has to be mimikyu, the problems with golisopod is it’s slower speed it’s horrible ability which forces a switch out even if you don’t want it and can ruin set up sweeps. Mimikyu though has an amazing typing hitting most types neutrally has an ability that gives it a free substitute and with sword dance it can quickly set up for huge sweeps. It also gets trick room though for very surprising diversity as well as plenty of great status moves. It can quickly get out of hand with mimikyu and is more reliable. Again I love golisopod but mimikyu is better. And yes, dracovish is ridiculous and is the reason I try having will o wisp or my fluffy dubwool to brick wall it
Arcanine, Volcarona, Milotic, and Noivern are VERY sus picks. I also don't quite get your reasoning for defeatist hindering Archeops. An Archeops can sweep teams without taking ANY damage, so defeatist is most certainly *not* as bad as Slow Start. Personally: Arcanine is (generally) worse than Gengar, but especially if considering mega and gigantamax. A case can be made for either Archeops or Volcarona Milotic is (potentially) worse than Flygon Noivern... No. Just no. Aegislash is in ubers for a reason. This is the only decision where I can 100% say that it's not a matter of opinion.
Golisopod high stats... But what drags it down, is its ability, Wimp ou-I mean, Emergency Exit. Still useless. Fight off against an enemy with type advantage... or train to get all the exp... Woops!! Runs away! Emergency Exit means it Wimps out, giving it an "exit, stage right!"
Are you adding Special Defense and Special Attack in Gen 1? Because it seems like you did for Arcanine and that wouldn’t correct. Might be part of the reason why you overrated Arcanine... Because you did.
03:23 Actually, I'd prefer you to shoot all the alternatives. Tauros and Snorlax have been dominating the competitive game, so It's surprising that you've chosen Arcanine.
What about shadow force, giratina's signature, and phantom force, a weaker one for other ghost types Basically, both got the word "Force" and take 2 turns, both are ghost types, and both makes the user hide somewhere.
golisopod would be an isopod. for a two resons i can think of. First isopod is in the name. what are isopods, here you go - are an order of marine invertebrates (animals without backbones) that belong to the greater crustacean group of animals, which includes crabs and shrimp. second is the shape, if you just type isopod into google or whatever it will most likely bring up a picture of what looks to be a large rolly polly (one of the big factors that makes me want to pick something else that isnt marine biology, but then i see new information on sharks). what does golisopod look like a humanoid rolly polly. edit if you dont believe me on what they look like, just look up bathynomus giganteus. it is litterally called "giant isopod"
Gen 4 spiritomb wasnt even considered? No super effective damage till the fairy type was introduced 2 generations later and balanced physical and special allowing for great versatility.
you put milotic over swampert ? swampert is still a god in competitive play til this day like its still in OU whereas milotic is in the RU...swampert is undoubtedly the one who should've been chosen...its coverage moves and its movepool is insane...
