Personally, I always found that the hardest decisions for me in any give playthrough is trying to decide what nickname to give to all of my team members
I know that feeling I pulled some obscure shot to theme them My ceruledge is called spada because i looked up names of demonic swords and my corviknighf is named after a female knight (obviously I wouldn’t have if it was male) The worst part of when you forget to check the gender of your team member before choicing a nickname and don’t realise until you’ve finished it
I know. On my Alpha Sapphire Account, I remember taking 30 seconds to pick Mudkip as my starter. It then took me 30 minutes to choose a nickname (I decided to name him Gullyrum)
Some Pokémon are very easy for me to give nicknames to. For example, I named my Gholdengo Glorious in reference to Cofagrigus’ Glorious Gold shop in Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon, and my Appletun is named Apple Pen. 😂😂 But yeah, some Pokémon can be tricky to find names for.
I always name them after characters from my favourite games F.e. V, panam, jackie, judy etc for Cyberpunk Or alexios, kassandra, neema, Deimos etc for ac odyssey And if i dont have anything new anymore i just cycle the games and use other character from these games
I play since Gen 1 and only used my Masterball, after I multiplied them with Missigno. xD And used them on every Mon, I was missing in the dex. But on normal playthroughs with only one MB I never used it.
How did beldum survive the recoil of 20 take downs. Yeah honestly if I don't use the master ball on the roaming legendaries it's on these recoil or exploding pokemon
About the evil team question, the answer is obviously skull. Do you know how relaxed Guzma is? The other evil teams are organized crime organizations. Team Skull is much more like a family. Guzma is chill as hell, and he’d probably let you use whatever Pokémon you like, while not asking too much from you. edit: typed this before 5:48 lol
also was unique from the usual braindead "end the world" type villain, btw I used braindead cuz who in their right mind would want to flood or cause eruptions around the same place they live in
I've never played past gen 5, so I can't really give an opinion on Team Skull, but Team Aqua seemed relatively chill to me. More of a chaotic neutral vibe than outright evil. And I wouldn't mind dressing like a vaguely-punk pirate
It would be funny if the only requirement to join team skull is that you must have at least one bug type on your team that you actively use, so you can use a bugginium-z/ z moves.
Strong agree on going in blind! The experience of seeing a brand new pokemon and being like, "Whoa what is this?! What type is it??" is so fun, especially when it suddenly evolves and you have no idea what to expect. It also makes the games harder since you don't know what you'll be facing. Highly recommend everyone give it a try at least once.
I did this with gen 5 as a kid. It was very fun, but for some reason I didn't figure out that Venipede evolved into Whirlipede, so I spent a while trying to catch a wild whirlipede lmao
I never had a fair comparison between playing blind and non-blind. I do feel like playing blind the first time would make the second play through a lot more fun. The first time is seeing new cool pokemon and figuring things out along the way. The second is planning everything out and having a goal while playing through.
I KNOOOOW, it's so hard! At least scarlet and violet completely removed gender locks on outfits and hairstyles, so now it at least boils down to the one singular detail of pronouns now
I’m so glad Home gives you the 3 starters for any given game you connect it to bc the Legend Arceus starters are all amazing and I didn’t want to have to give up using Decidueye and Samurott to use Typhlosion so getting all three of them for connecting to home was a godsend and let me rotate out which ones I used and still have a diverse team since I love having 10-15 play through mons I can rotate through using at any given time
The hardest decision for me will always be picking my fossil! I love the fossil pokémon, and picking Cradily vs Armaldo has always been an especially excruciating decision bc they are both so cool
I'm surprised he didn't say that, the questions he said we're pretty easy since I'm a casual player but the fossils really stump me because there I like the option they give
Currently preparing myself to shiny hunt the Pokémon from the Sail Fossil. The shiny form looks so pretty, and upon obtain the shiny on my newest Playthrough of Y, I will be letting everyone know about it. I’ll be putting it into Pokémon Bank (since the Playthrough I’m already doing is a Starter only Playthrough) so, when I finish the game, and play X, I will be using the shiny in all of its glory, upon being able to get the other fossil, and reviving said fossil. I’ll be nicknaming it “Pretty Aura”, and I’ll be calculating its IV’s like I’m doing with my Starter Playthrough. Currently from that Playthrough, the only known IV’s in all 6 stats, for a single Pokémon is the starter that started the entire Playthrough, my Female Fenniken I named Fire Fox, and when she turned level 20, (after evolving into Braxien at level 16), her IV’s are, in order from HP 27, ATK 9, DEF 14, Sp. ATK 19, Sp. DEF 22 and Speed 12 and she has 510 EV’s in total, with her highest 3 EV’s is 108 in HP and Sp. ATK and 104 in Speed. I can’t wait to be doing this in all of its glory when I finally get a shiny Aurorus. Hopefully, it’s a female (I may or may not got off topic, if I did, I am sorry) Edit: After researching, I have came up with a decision to get a an Aurorus that knows Discharge, which means I’m gonna be needing to do some breeding. This means, instead of doing it by grabbing a fossil, I’ll be needing to catch a Mareep, which means I’ll be needing to level it up a ton, until Level 32, have it evolve, so it’s not that awkward, and then, shiny hunt. I’ll probably make my life easier by having X be a save file so I can do the Masuda Method. It’ll still take an excruciating amount of time, but it’ll be 100% worth it when I get myself the lovely Shiny with Discharge
@@leargamma4912 omg I wish it wasn’t so bad bc I love bug rock!!! It’s srsly such an awesome typing with amazing designs, Crustle is adorable and boss af at the same time
Starters are definitely hard to choose and I find it difficult at times but sometimes I just go with the starter that’s probably not used much or the one that’s popular
In the first six gens I picked Water or Grass starters, specifically Squirtle, Turtwig, Totodile, Snivy, Froakie and Treecko. When Sun and Moon were announced I realized I had never picked the Fire starter before, so I chose Litten and decided I should pick the Fire starter for the next two Gens to make things even. Scorbunny was a very easy pick for Sword and Shield, and I picked Fuecoco for Scarlet and Violet after some consideration. I’m looking forward to the next generation, then I’ll be free to pick whichever one.
Hardest decision when it comes to starters for me is gen 4’s lineup, I love all three, but it also gets especially hard to choose between piplup and chimchar Fire types are rarer in sinnoh but penguin
YES, wow, I'm doing a replay of all the regions, still in Johto but I've been stressing about this exact issue since I started. Water Pokemon are everywhere and theres almost no fire types in those games, but, on the other hand, PENGUIN!
Scarlet and Violet was the first Pokémon games I played where I didn't spoil myself on the pokedex before hand It was such a fun experience making my team as I go and seeing new Pokémon for the first time out in the field.
Same! Although I still unfortunately got spoiled on TH-cam 😔 I'm still salty about it. I really wanted to go in completely blind but of course there has to be spoilers everywhere
My hardest decision of all is knowing what game to own 😭 But overall this video was so amazing and funny as always, just glad to see another upload from you :)
I felt personally attacked when you asked why i chose team skull. Alola is my favourite region. I like team skulls music, dance moves and causing people trouble sounds fun. Also having and entire abandoned mansion for ourselves sounds awesome
Also their leader is just a troubled guy, not an idiotic ecoterrorist or a genocidal maniac. Easy pick. Team Yell would be a good pick too because of Piers, but Team Yell has the lamest villainous team grunt music, but one of the best villainous team leader themes, IMO.
The last time I had 2 pokemon of the same typing was Legends Arceus, with Ursaluna and Husian Zoroark but fortunately they don't share any same weaknesses
Honestly, in this whole list, the hardest decision for me is easily which version to get. Because it ALWAYS happens where I'll love one box art legendary over the other, but the other version has the exclusives I want. Luckily, that problem is not NEARLY as big a deal as it used to be thanks to the ease of online interactions. Starters sometimes give me a big problem, but usually it's because there's a stage in its evolution line that I don't like that much or something.
When I played gen 1 my starter actually did wind up being an hm slave. Blastoise can learn surf and strength and nobody told me that most hms suck. My naivete made me think that just because the moves were mandatory for progression they were probably good, and I never saw the stats of the moves either so onto my starter they went. I also had gyarados who outshined Blastoise so Blastoise kinda wound up only coming out for emergencies. My first pokemon playthrough was a mess.
Incidentally, Surf and Strength are two of the best HM moves to use for combat in Gen 1. An 80-power 100%-accuracy Normal-type move hits almost everything pretty hard. And Surf adds an invincibility-turn, as well as having 95 base-power on top of STAB and using Special. Those said, almost everyone's first playthrough of their first Pokemon game was a mess. That is part of the fun! lol
I would say another super hard decision is if you end up in a double battle/horde battle with two or more different shiny Pokemon. Which one do you take out, knowing that one probably has better IVs than the other?
Honestly if I was stuck to just one starter type. Easy pick water as mudkip is there. Same with being able to fill out my team with grass so easily. I mean every grass starter can be replaced early game by something almost as good Fire types it's a bit more tricky especially pearl and diamond but you can find a suitable replacement by planning it out but the later games give easier options like talonflame and such so that becomes easier with time. Water types yeah every game has great water types but I can make due with ice and water moves on my starter I just like the water types overall the most
Easy access to surf makes it even better. Practically speaking the water type gets a big advantage, there are a few regions where the fire type is just much better though. Typhlosion in johto, infernape in sinnoh, emboar in unova and Delphox in kalos are much better and make a good case to pick the fire type selection
I usually wait for the evolutions of the starters to be revealed before deciding on which one I’m going with. If I’m going to use my starter throughout the whole game, it has to look at least tolerable to me.
In terms of both Water and Grass type Pokémon, since both are super effective against Rock and Ground types, I end up picking either one or the other, which can be rough because both are starter types. And there are some Pokémon I want to use that are Water and Grass type Pokémon (mainly Water types because of how many there are), yet I end up having to either delay them, or ditch a starter.
In Gens 7, 8, and 9, there are always two starter Pokémon that end up becoming either Ghost or Dark type upon evolving which is annoying if there’s a Ghost or Dark type Pokémon I already want to use, and also because both types are super effective against the same things. So, I either have to have a Ghost and Dark type Pokémon on the same team, delay the Pokémon I want to use, or ditch a starter.
very true, aura guardian. most of these are so hard for me. but i have solutions for some of them that i am satisfied with. so it's a bit easier to make a decision.
Awesome video idea! I’ll answer some of these questions on how I personally play. :) - Starter. I chose my favorite, but if I do a Nuzlocke, I chose the best one suited for the region. - I tried to avoid leaks best I could for Violet. I had zero idea on what the starters evolved into. - How I chose a game usually goes with the box legendary. - I’m on Blue game side. Johto & Alola games are my only red side choices out of those. - I’ll give my starter strong HM moves such as Surf or Fly..but use another Pokemon for moves like cut…like Bibarel haha! - Shiny Pokemon - the Gen 9 sandwich method is incredibly good. I got all Violet shiny paradox within a few searches each.
It's a hard decision to dedicate to a single starte type line. Fire types are probably the least common types of the three to come across in the wild, good Grass types other than starters are always hard to come by, and Water type starters are usually just good or better options than other wayter types.
I like how you asked what we would pick if we could only buy the red versions or blue versions, because that's literally how I pick every new game. I always pick the blue versions. From gen 3-8, I broke it for Scarlet.
When I'm planning a team for a playthrough I'm trying to pick the mons I don't usually use. I'm waiting for my White 2 game in the mail and I plan on using Braviary and Conkeldurr.
On the favorite pokemon picker website, I couldn't even pick my very favorite. It was Absol for a while, but now it's more of a tie between Absol and Dragonite.
Scarlet and Violet are so easy to grind that I've used a super effective team against each boss fight. So the repeating type was a good thing for me. It also allowed me to use Pokemon I skipped to match the level of the opponent.
1:50 most relatable thing on this list. while playing Pokémon platinum I used crobat roserade and tentacruel. I wanted to use gastrodon as water type instead, but then it will clash with my garchomp which I was definitely not getting rid of.
if i can choose a pokemon in real life i woukd go with shinx. its a big cat pet with electricity. and for the masterball i always save it for hunting shiny legendaries.
YO AURA GAURDIAN I seen you in TrueGreen7's recent video you did a fantastic job and it was so cool to see what you look like. You're a rad human and I think you're awesome you rock
If I had to pick one Pokémon for real life? I'm probably going with Arcanine. I love dogs and have a service dog in real life, so that be a cool huge fluffy service dog to have. Its large enough to ride and runs fast which is great cause I can't drive due to disabilities. Its very loyal and powerful so I feel safe with it and Im always cold so a large fluffy fire type is great to have around.
7:56 - We also had that issue in the Johto games. And given that, I imagine, most people would have used either Totodile or the Shiny Gyarados, are you going to use three of its move slots for Surf, Whirlpool and Waterfall?
I used my Master Ball on Groudon in my Omega Ruby playthrough. I didn't want to, but it just refused to co-operate with me. It rested when I got its health low enough, always woke up once I got its health back down again, resisted EVERY single attempt at an Ultra Ball and then sometimes just randomly fainted. In the end, I got so frustrated I just threw my Master Ball at it. And then I nicknamed it "Mr Cuddles" just to spite it. XD
I know the hm question itself is good, but the example of "Are you teaching your blastoise surf" is like...of course I am, surf is arguably the best hm 😂
5:48 good question, I have a few answers: -poison and bug types are adorable, they’re some of my favorite types just behind rock and grass. -team skull has the best drip imo. -nice to not have some big over the top ideology, just general tomfoolery and deliberate mishap-causing. -catchy as hell battle music. -Salandit is precious.
0:07 Only had a hard time choosing in Galar Region. I usually choose the two-legged ones so for this region, I had three choices unlike the other regions where usually I only have two choices because usually, one is four-legged.
@@willofd1540 I don’t like Venusaur, I think the body proportions are weird and it’s too purposely ugly to be a starter, don’t get me wrong Bulbasaur and Ivysaur are great just I’m no Venusaur fan. I also don’t like the Chimchar line I feel like it’s bot as a cute of a first stage and defo prefer Piplup and Turtwig-My favourite starter- Monferno doesn’t really equip the blue/orange colour combo as for example shiny emboar and there is definitely better middle stage starters not the worst but not the best. This is personal preference but I don’t find Infernape appealing either it just seems out of place idk why just I don’t really like it. Finally I hate the Snivy line the most, I don’t like starters that barely change between first stage and middle stage and that is a perfect example shown by snivy into servine, also I despise the line’s overly smug look and looks generally like a bully that isn’t good at bullying if you know what I mean. This is all my opinion and personal preference please don’t shout at me.
Hardest decision for me was whether I evolved my Pokemon, I generally prefer cute mons so I would try to make them work but their stats would be too low so I would relent and evolve them
about the hms. i am that guy who does what gamefreak wants, and evenly splits hms and field moves onto all of my team. that's what i picked my team around on my first playthrough, which was heartgold, and it was definitely a game that i could have field moves. i had whirlpool and rock smash on my weavile, sweet scent and cut on carnivine. i can see the appeal of hm slaves, but i'm too lazy to go to the box whenever i need to actually move around the world.
honestly a hard decision for me is choosing what moves i want my pokemon to know, like if i want them to keep a certain move or forget it for a new one. For instance, say my pokemon has a move that has 80 base power and is 100% accurate, but then they get the chance to learn a new move that is slightly weaker at 75 base power and only 95% accurate, but has a 30% chance to make the opponent flinch or leave them paralyzed, do i keep the stronger move or do i take the chance with the 30% flinch/paralysis. And the choice gets even harder when the moves are different types, oh don't even get me started on different type moves right now...
The correct answer is giant Mareep since the ps5 is honestly still lacking in any games I care about. Honestly since the ps2 there have been less good ps games. They stopped doing fun weird things and now it's mostly just big budget crap I could get off steam if I really wanted it. Meanwhile giant Mareep is not only friend shaped and soft, but also one of the best lil sheep pokemon around (giant Falaaffy when)
I only use my master ball If I feel it's absolutely necessary. Maybe a shiny is struggling itself to death and doesn't have many turns left, or maybe it's an annoying roamer that I don't want to spend an hour finding and catching.
As for the Pokémon Go question that’s an easy “no I would still be Team Instinct”. Electric is my favorite type so that’s why I chose Team Instinct when I started playing Pokémon Go.
the hardest starters to choose for me were Gen3, Gen4 and Gen7 starters, I believe these 3 are the most appreciated trios of starters among the fanbase
Personally, I always found that the hardest decisions for me in any give playthrough is trying to decide what nickname to give to all of my team members
I know that feeling
I pulled some obscure shot to theme them
My ceruledge is called spada because i looked up names of demonic swords and my corviknighf is named after a female knight (obviously I wouldn’t have if it was male)
The worst part of when you forget to check the gender of your team member before choicing a nickname and don’t realise until you’ve finished it
Easy for me. I never give nicknames
I know. On my Alpha Sapphire Account, I remember taking 30 seconds to pick Mudkip as my starter. It then took me 30 minutes to choose a nickname (I decided to name him Gullyrum)
Some Pokémon are very easy for me to give nicknames to. For example, I named my Gholdengo Glorious in reference to Cofagrigus’ Glorious Gold shop in Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon, and my Appletun is named Apple Pen. 😂😂
But yeah, some Pokémon can be tricky to find names for.
I always name them after characters from my favourite games
F.e. V, panam, jackie, judy etc for Cyberpunk
Or alexios, kassandra, neema, Deimos etc for ac odyssey
And if i dont have anything new anymore i just cycle the games and use other character from these games
I have played all pokemon games till Gen-7 and never once did I ever use my Masterball in any of those games saving it for later😂
I play since Gen 1 and only used my Masterball, after I multiplied them with Missigno. xD And used them on every Mon, I was missing in the dex. But on normal playthroughs with only one MB I never used it.
Play 8 and 9
Please play 8 and 9 they are very fun and wholesome experiences
U were a fan once u can earn it again
Come back to us
@@ChicagoMel23 this
I remember using my first master ball on a magmar...
I had to use my masterball on a shiny beldum that started struggling itself to death. So glad I saved it
Good use of a masterball
How did beldum survive the recoil of 20 take downs.
Yeah honestly if I don't use the master ball on the roaming legendaries it's on these recoil or exploding pokemon
@@sobblegaming350 In gen 8 Beldum only knows tackle. Not take down
why does it have a Legendary catch rate?
@@sobblegaming350 he most likely used a ghost type that is immune to take down
Imagine picking piplup or turtwig in DP thinking you'll catch a fire type later only to learn there aren't many of them to find before post game 🤔
Yeah, only Ponyta.
Bidoof is *fire*, it replaces all needs for another Fire type
and ponyta sucks
That was me in BDSP, luckily Pokémon Home exists
monke squad on top
About the evil team question, the answer is obviously skull.
Do you know how relaxed Guzma is? The other evil teams are organized crime organizations. Team Skull is much more like a family. Guzma is chill as hell, and he’d probably let you use whatever Pokémon you like, while not asking too much from you.
edit: typed this before 5:48 lol
also was unique from the usual braindead "end the world" type villain, btw I used braindead cuz who in their right mind would want to flood or cause eruptions around the same place they live in
I've never played past gen 5, so I can't really give an opinion on Team Skull, but Team Aqua seemed relatively chill to me. More of a chaotic neutral vibe than outright evil. And I wouldn't mind dressing like a vaguely-punk pirate
It would be funny if the only requirement to join team skull is that you must have at least one bug type on your team that you actively use, so you can use a bugginium-z/ z moves.
Their outfits are awesome too
Organized organizations
Strong agree on going in blind! The experience of seeing a brand new pokemon and being like, "Whoa what is this?! What type is it??" is so fun, especially when it suddenly evolves and you have no idea what to expect. It also makes the games harder since you don't know what you'll be facing.
Highly recommend everyone give it a try at least once.
sometimes it's not worth it, like who would ever figure out how to evolve their Galarian Yamask without looking it up
@@theamazingspooderman2697 agree with you. If I had known about the paradox Pokemon ahead of time, I would've picked Scarlet instead of Violet.
@@DollyDalmatian77yeah so personally some leaks are fine but the worst part is either the entire pokemons are leaked to me or none of them are
I did this with gen 5 as a kid. It was very fun, but for some reason I didn't figure out that Venipede evolved into Whirlipede, so I spent a while trying to catch a wild whirlipede lmao
I never had a fair comparison between playing blind and non-blind. I do feel like playing blind the first time would make the second play through a lot more fun. The first time is seeing new cool pokemon and figuring things out along the way. The second is planning everything out and having a goal while playing through.
"Are you a male, or a female?"
- Hardest decision
😂
Depends on the game and what team I want.
And when you feels choosing wrong choices but can't undo it
th-cam.com/video/_Vwc6OijDeI/w-d-xo.html
Just pick the character design you like more. It doesn't matter at all if it matches your sex.
I KNOOOOW, it's so hard! At least scarlet and violet completely removed gender locks on outfits and hairstyles, so now it at least boils down to the one singular detail of pronouns now
I’m so glad Home gives you the 3 starters for any given game you connect it to bc the Legend Arceus starters are all amazing and I didn’t want to have to give up using Decidueye and Samurott to use Typhlosion so getting all three of them for connecting to home was a godsend and let me rotate out which ones I used and still have a diverse team since I love having 10-15 play through mons I can rotate through using at any given time
I mean you get the other two starters postgame regardless, it's there as part of the actual goal of completing the Dex that LA has
@kittensolder8818 i wish i knew that before i kept struggling to complete my dex lmfao
The hardest decision for me will always be picking my fossil! I love the fossil pokémon, and picking Cradily vs Armaldo has always been an especially excruciating decision bc they are both so cool
I'm surprised he didn't say that, the questions he said we're pretty easy since I'm a casual player but the fossils really stump me because there I like the option they give
Currently preparing myself to shiny hunt the Pokémon from the Sail Fossil. The shiny form looks so pretty, and upon obtain the shiny on my newest Playthrough of Y, I will be letting everyone know about it. I’ll be putting it into Pokémon Bank (since the Playthrough I’m already doing is a Starter only Playthrough) so, when I finish the game, and play X, I will be using the shiny in all of its glory, upon being able to get the other fossil, and reviving said fossil. I’ll be nicknaming it “Pretty Aura”, and I’ll be calculating its IV’s like I’m doing with my Starter Playthrough. Currently from that Playthrough, the only known IV’s in all 6 stats, for a single Pokémon is the starter that started the entire Playthrough, my Female Fenniken I named Fire Fox, and when she turned level 20, (after evolving into Braxien at level 16), her IV’s are, in order from HP 27, ATK 9, DEF 14, Sp. ATK 19, Sp. DEF 22 and Speed 12 and she has 510 EV’s in total, with her highest 3 EV’s is 108 in HP and Sp. ATK and 104 in Speed. I can’t wait to be doing this in all of its glory when I finally get a shiny Aurorus. Hopefully, it’s a female
(I may or may not got off topic, if I did, I am sorry)
Edit: After researching, I have came up with a decision to get a an Aurorus that knows Discharge, which means I’m gonna be needing to do some breeding. This means, instead of doing it by grabbing a fossil, I’ll be needing to catch a Mareep, which means I’ll be needing to level it up a ton, until Level 32, have it evolve, so it’s not that awkward, and then, shiny hunt. I’ll probably make my life easier by having X be a save file so I can do the Masuda Method. It’ll still take an excruciating amount of time, but it’ll be 100% worth it when I get myself the lovely Shiny with Discharge
Armaldo is bug rock type.
Obviously it is superior
@@leargamma4912 omg I wish it wasn’t so bad bc I love bug rock!!! It’s srsly such an awesome typing with amazing designs, Crustle is adorable and boss af at the same time
Starters are definitely hard to choose and I find it difficult at times but sometimes I just go with the starter that’s probably not used much or the one that’s popular
In the first six gens I picked Water or Grass starters, specifically Squirtle, Turtwig, Totodile, Snivy, Froakie and Treecko. When Sun and Moon were announced I realized I had never picked the Fire starter before, so I chose Litten and decided I should pick the Fire starter for the next two Gens to make things even. Scorbunny was a very easy pick for Sword and Shield, and I picked Fuecoco for Scarlet and Violet after some consideration. I’m looking forward to the next generation, then I’ll be free to pick whichever one.
@@GatorOne-in7hk Ok
i used to watch this channel a lot in 2016/17. it's lovely how similar in style these still are
Prior to Gen 7, I’d save my Master Ball for the roaming legendaries. Good to have more options to use it now though
Hardest decision when it comes to starters for me is gen 4’s lineup, I love all three, but it also gets especially hard to choose between piplup and chimchar
Fire types are rarer in sinnoh but penguin
100% agreed. It's the one generation where I wish I could get all three starters, in the style of Pokemon Yellow.
YES, wow, I'm doing a replay of all the regions, still in Johto but I've been stressing about this exact issue since I started. Water Pokemon are everywhere and theres almost no fire types in those games, but, on the other hand, PENGUIN!
Chimchar obviously
Scarlet and Violet was the first Pokémon games I played where I didn't spoil myself on the pokedex before hand
It was such a fun experience making my team as I go and seeing new Pokémon for the first time out in the field.
Same! Although I still unfortunately got spoiled on TH-cam 😔 I'm still salty about it. I really wanted to go in completely blind but of course there has to be spoilers everywhere
My hardest decision of all is knowing what game to own 😭
But overall this video was so amazing and funny as always, just glad to see another upload from you :)
I felt personally attacked when you asked why i chose team skull. Alola is my favourite region. I like team skulls music, dance moves and causing people trouble sounds fun. Also having and entire abandoned mansion for ourselves sounds awesome
Also their leader is just a troubled guy, not an idiotic ecoterrorist or a genocidal maniac. Easy pick.
Team Yell would be a good pick too because of Piers, but Team Yell has the lamest villainous team grunt music, but one of the best villainous team leader themes, IMO.
Kinda cringe ngl
The last time I had 2 pokemon of the same typing was Legends Arceus, with Ursaluna and Husian Zoroark but fortunately they don't share any same weaknesses
I had those two and Wyrdeer. Love all three.
The hardest decision for me is to go for a strong team or one that I like
Honestly, in this whole list, the hardest decision for me is easily which version to get. Because it ALWAYS happens where I'll love one box art legendary over the other, but the other version has the exclusives I want. Luckily, that problem is not NEARLY as big a deal as it used to be thanks to the ease of online interactions. Starters sometimes give me a big problem, but usually it's because there's a stage in its evolution line that I don't like that much or something.
When I played gen 1 my starter actually did wind up being an hm slave. Blastoise can learn surf and strength and nobody told me that most hms suck. My naivete made me think that just because the moves were mandatory for progression they were probably good, and I never saw the stats of the moves either so onto my starter they went. I also had gyarados who outshined Blastoise so Blastoise kinda wound up only coming out for emergencies. My first pokemon playthrough was a mess.
Incidentally, Surf and Strength are two of the best HM moves to use for combat in Gen 1. An 80-power 100%-accuracy Normal-type move hits almost everything pretty hard. And Surf adds an invincibility-turn, as well as having 95 base-power on top of STAB and using Special.
Those said, almost everyone's first playthrough of their first Pokemon game was a mess. That is part of the fun! lol
When I first play the game, picking a starter is usually difficult for me! I love your videos!
I usually use my masterball on the box art legendary, it just seemed natural.
I would say another super hard decision is if you end up in a double battle/horde battle with two or more different shiny Pokemon. Which one do you take out, knowing that one probably has better IVs than the other?
Honestly if I was stuck to just one starter type. Easy pick water as mudkip is there.
Same with being able to fill out my team with grass so easily. I mean every grass starter can be replaced early game by something almost as good
Fire types it's a bit more tricky especially pearl and diamond but you can find a suitable replacement by planning it out but the later games give easier options like talonflame and such so that becomes easier with time.
Water types yeah every game has great water types but I can make due with ice and water moves on my starter I just like the water types overall the most
Easy access to surf makes it even better. Practically speaking the water type gets a big advantage, there are a few regions where the fire type is just much better though. Typhlosion in johto, infernape in sinnoh, emboar in unova and Delphox in kalos are much better and make a good case to pick the fire type selection
The grass starters have lost light in gen 6 but in gen 7 and 9 i started to like the grass started more
Funny way to spell Fire type.
*Most regions @@JStamato
Always go with the team you like the best, its just more fun that way.
Team flare
I usually wait for the evolutions of the starters to be revealed before deciding on which one I’m going with. If I’m going to use my starter throughout the whole game, it has to look at least tolerable to me.
In terms of both Water and Grass type Pokémon, since both are super effective against Rock and Ground types, I end up picking either one or the other, which can be rough because both are starter types. And there are some Pokémon I want to use that are Water and Grass type Pokémon (mainly Water types because of how many there are), yet I end up having to either delay them, or ditch a starter.
In Gens 7, 8, and 9, there are always two starter Pokémon that end up becoming either Ghost or Dark type upon evolving which is annoying if there’s a Ghost or Dark type Pokémon I already want to use, and also because both types are super effective against the same things. So, I either have to have a Ghost and Dark type Pokémon on the same team, delay the Pokémon I want to use, or ditch a starter.
At least Sword/Shield only had single typed starters!
very true, aura guardian. most of these are so hard for me. but i have solutions for some of them that i am satisfied with. so it's a bit easier to make a decision.
Awesome video idea! I’ll answer some of these questions on how I personally play. :)
- Starter. I chose my favorite, but if I do a Nuzlocke, I chose the best one suited for the region.
- I tried to avoid leaks best I could for Violet. I had zero idea on what the starters evolved into.
- How I chose a game usually goes with the box legendary.
- I’m on Blue game side. Johto & Alola games are my only red side choices out of those.
- I’ll give my starter strong HM moves such as Surf or Fly..but use another Pokemon for moves like cut…like Bibarel haha!
- Shiny Pokemon - the Gen 9 sandwich method is incredibly good. I got all Violet shiny paradox within a few searches each.
Bro got me when he said why is it team skull.
3:42 you monster, stay away from my favorite pokemon, Combusken.
What
It's a hard decision to dedicate to a single starte type line. Fire types are probably the least common types of the three to come across in the wild, good Grass types other than starters are always hard to come by, and Water type starters are usually just good or better options than other wayter types.
I would just go for fire tbh
I like how you asked what we would pick if we could only buy the red versions or blue versions, because that's literally how I pick every new game. I always pick the blue versions. From gen 3-8, I broke it for Scarlet.
The hardest decision: what of Aura’s videos should we watch
I used one of the Master Balls in Violet on a shiny Minior because I didn’t feel like resetting repeatedly because it explodes.
When I'm planning a team for a playthrough I'm trying to pick the mons I don't usually use. I'm waiting for my White 2 game in the mail and I plan on using Braviary and Conkeldurr.
This is exactly why I despise leaks. It shows that not only humanity being too impatient, but they are also too nosy as well.
Ceruledge and skeledirge was a problem for me… until i realized It’s a game designed for kids, you can flex 6 pokemon same type and have No problem.
On the favorite pokemon picker website, I couldn't even pick my very favorite. It was Absol for a while, but now it's more of a tie between Absol and Dragonite.
For that site my favorite is froslass and i still picked froslass easily
I think he made this video as a covert way of asking if he should buy the mareep.
Thank you so much for all videos you made. You are one of my absolutely best youtubers ever. :)
Jsi borec. Mám moc rád tvoji tvorbu.
i cant believe that you put the giant mareep vs ps5 in this video. it is so obvious that the big fluffball sheep pokemon plush is the answer
"Which evil team would you join?"
*goes to comment section to say team skull*
"And why is it team skull?"
I got got
Scarlet and Violet are so easy to grind that I've used a super effective team against each boss fight. So the repeating type was a good thing for me. It also allowed me to use Pokemon I skipped to match the level of the opponent.
1:50 most relatable thing on this list. while playing Pokémon platinum I used crobat roserade and tentacruel. I wanted to use gastrodon as water type instead, but then it will clash with my garchomp which I was definitely not getting rid of.
1:00 not me owning just White and Black 2💀
0:38 I always choose the water type starter, sometimes don't hate a single one of them and it's the best option for surf in the older games.
7:49 - I actually did teach it Cut. Along with Strength. And Fissure.
It knew Flamethrower, at least!
if i can choose a pokemon in real life i woukd go with shinx. its a big cat pet with electricity. and for the masterball i always save it for hunting shiny legendaries.
AuraGuardian posts are highlights of my day.
YO AURA GAURDIAN I seen you in TrueGreen7's recent video you did a fantastic job and it was so cool to see what you look like. You're a rad human and I think you're awesome you rock
If I had to pick one Pokémon for real life? I'm probably going with Arcanine. I love dogs and have a service dog in real life, so that be a cool huge fluffy service dog to have. Its large enough to ride and runs fast which is great cause I can't drive due to disabilities. Its very loyal and powerful so I feel safe with it and Im always cold so a large fluffy fire type is great to have around.
I'm very guilty of never using the Master Ball--though I did use it this gen for a shiny Roaring Moon that was struggling to death
I'm glad I'm not the only person that coordinates their pokeballs to their team
The hardest decision is me finally accepting that megas aren't coming back
Don't you feel stupid now?
AQUA, WITHOUT A SECOND THOUGHT
The hardest choices require the strongest wills - A ded purple guy
I knew I was going to have at least 4 grass types on my scarlet team so I just gave in and did all grass team. Honestly it kind of kicked ass
1. Easy choice grass, almost 90% of my favourite staters are grass
2.I master balled a chansey
5:41 Dang, when you put them side by side, Ghetsis looks awesome. He got the drip.
7:56 - We also had that issue in the Johto games. And given that, I imagine, most people would have used either Totodile or the Shiny Gyarados, are you going to use three of its move slots for Surf, Whirlpool and Waterfall?
I used lanturn
3:08 i always save the master ball for shinies that could pop out of nowhere and also have the possibility to flee/knock itself out
I used my Master Ball on Groudon in my Omega Ruby playthrough. I didn't want to, but it just refused to co-operate with me. It rested when I got its health low enough, always woke up once I got its health back down again, resisted EVERY single attempt at an Ultra Ball and then sometimes just randomly fainted. In the end, I got so frustrated I just threw my Master Ball at it.
And then I nicknamed it "Mr Cuddles" just to spite it. XD
I know the hm question itself is good, but the example of "Are you teaching your blastoise surf" is like...of course I am, surf is arguably the best hm 😂
I always kept the master ball for the roaming legendaries.
i actually like to look at all pokemon before playing a new game so i dont miss a rare pokemon that i might like to be on my team
6:32 I’m picking blue, I love Koraidon and palkia, but I love zekrom, xerneas, dialga, kyogre, and Lunala more!
Great vids dude always entertaining
watching this made my anxiety problem even worse
I was legit thinking 'I'd probs join Team Skull', then when he said 'Why is it team Skull' I was like, "Did he read my mind!?"
5:47 AWWW COME ON MAN!!
Why did you have to call me out like that? 😂
5:48 good question, I have a few answers:
-poison and bug types are adorable, they’re some of my favorite types just behind rock and grass.
-team skull has the best drip imo.
-nice to not have some big over the top ideology, just general tomfoolery and deliberate mishap-causing.
-catchy as hell battle music.
-Salandit is precious.
Team Skull has zero drip. Team Flare has the best drip.
0:07 Only had a hard time choosing in Galar Region. I usually choose the two-legged ones so for this region, I had three choices unlike the other regions where usually I only have two choices because usually, one is four-legged.
I don’t know how but all the Pokémon games I’ve gone in blind other than knowing what the starters look like from the trailer obviously
I’m so glad for scarlet and violet that I didn’t look at any leaks, brought me back to playing soul silver my first ever Pokémon game
I spoil myself in the starters as well. I’m very petty, if I think the final evolution is ugly I’m not picking it.
Name some ugly & good ones.
@@willofd1540 I don’t like Venusaur, I think the body proportions are weird and it’s too purposely ugly to be a starter, don’t get me wrong Bulbasaur and Ivysaur are great just I’m no Venusaur fan.
I also don’t like the Chimchar line I feel like it’s bot as a cute of a first stage and defo prefer Piplup and Turtwig-My favourite starter- Monferno doesn’t really equip the blue/orange colour combo as for example shiny emboar and there is definitely better middle stage starters not the worst but not the best. This is personal preference but I don’t find Infernape appealing either it just seems out of place idk why just I don’t really like it.
Finally I hate the Snivy line the most, I don’t like starters that barely change between first stage and middle stage and that is a perfect example shown by snivy into servine, also I despise the line’s overly smug look and looks generally like a bully that isn’t good at bullying if you know what I mean.
This is all my opinion and personal preference please don’t shout at me.
@@finlayjessop3150no way u prefer Prinplup over the entire Chimchar line, Prinplup is ugly
5:47 "and why is it team skull?" yep, read my mind perfectly
Max revives as well for me.
‘What if its an emergency’
*emergency happens*
‘WHAT IF THERES A BIGGER EMERGENCY’
Bro really described exactly my situation at 4:55 💀
I went into Sword/Shield blind and wasn’t nearly as hyped as I was going into Legends Arceus and Scarlet/Violet completely spoiled on both.
0:42 Me, who's favourite 'mon is Grotle, as well as being a Contrary Leaf Storm Serperior enjoyer: *I see this as an absolute win*
The evil team of TEAM SKY🗣🦅🦆🦢🦩🦜
5:27 The obvious answer to this is TEAM SKYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!
Same
i used to watch you in 2016-2017, its crazy to me your voice hasnt changed almost at all
Hardest decision for me was whether I evolved my Pokemon, I generally prefer cute mons so I would try to make them work but their stats would be too low so I would relent and evolve them
1:06. Now that is SO relatable!!!
My violet team struggled with ice!!! Vivillon, Meowscarada, Dragonite✨️, Corviknight✨️, Baxcalibur...
I’d pay heaps of money for a massive spheal plush.
The dream.
Almost forgot, I will use Surf and Fly, but every other HM is used for a temporary HM hoard.
Choosing a gen 4 starter is the hardest decision for me because they are all so great and evenly matched
about the hms. i am that guy who does what gamefreak wants, and evenly splits hms and field moves onto all of my team. that's what i picked my team around on my first playthrough, which was heartgold, and it was definitely a game that i could have field moves. i had whirlpool and rock smash on my weavile, sweet scent and cut on carnivine. i can see the appeal of hm slaves, but i'm too lazy to go to the box whenever i need to actually move around the world.
Hey Mr. AuraGuardian! I was wondering if you have ever done a Nuzlocke? If so, how did it go for you?
Since Pokemon Y I always look how the starters will look once fully evolved, but go in blind with everything else. Delphox just traumatized me...
I always used Master ball for roaming legendaries or mythicals .
honestly a hard decision for me is choosing what moves i want my pokemon to know, like if i want them to keep a certain move or forget it for a new one. For instance, say my pokemon has a move that has 80 base power and is 100% accurate, but then they get the chance to learn a new move that is slightly weaker at 75 base power and only 95% accurate, but has a 30% chance to make the opponent flinch or leave them paralyzed, do i keep the stronger move or do i take the chance with the 30% flinch/paralysis. And the choice gets even harder when the moves are different types, oh don't even get me started on different type moves right now...
The correct answer is giant Mareep since the ps5 is honestly still lacking in any games I care about. Honestly since the ps2 there have been less good ps games. They stopped doing fun weird things and now it's mostly just big budget crap I could get off steam if I really wanted it.
Meanwhile giant Mareep is not only friend shaped and soft, but also one of the best lil sheep pokemon around (giant Falaaffy when)
I only use my master ball If I feel it's absolutely necessary. Maybe a shiny is struggling itself to death and doesn't have many turns left, or maybe it's an annoying roamer that I don't want to spend an hour finding and catching.
As for the Pokémon Go question that’s an easy “no I would still be Team Instinct”. Electric is my favorite type so that’s why I chose Team Instinct when I started playing Pokémon Go.
the hardest starters to choose for me were Gen3, Gen4 and Gen7 starters, I believe these 3 are the most appreciated trios of starters among the fanbase