23:44 so all those years ago "I wish heracross was my dad, that guy's cool as fuck" Finally came back. I figured it was just drunken rambling at the time, but no. It was not
@@nategwright absolutely. Take out nostalgia pandering and XY are mid at best (ORAS is better but remakes shouldn't be better). Legends-zaza Cannot afford to be less than amazing
@@HazeEmry I just realized that Gen 9 is the first gen since 5 to introduce more than 100 new Pokémon, which is kind of disappointing. Quantity is not necessarily everything and Gen 7/8 did hit a lot more home runs in the Pokémon designs than Gen 6, but having so few new mons does kinda hurt when you have a type specialist that has to fall back on basically all older Pokémon to have a team. When you factor out regional forms, Alola had basically no Dark types, and so you have Nanu who has a team with no truly new Pokémon. At least Gen 8 finally started to (barely) break the Kanto pander trend and started giving us regional forms for newer Pokémon and bringing back crossgen evolutions (still not a fan of a Gen 8 Champion having Gen 1 starter as his ace tho).
@@nategwright oh god yeah Nanu... I was so disappointed in him and the lack of dark types in general in Alola since I "specialise" in Dark, Bug, and Ice (horrendous favourites I know). Love him as a character tho. That said, Bug has been getting better through the years. THAT said, it sucks that Golisopod isn't in gen 9... While I do agree that quality > quantity, I'd say the quantity is important in gen 9 simply because there are 3 routes before you enter Area Zero and you can go through each route with an entirely different team. I wouldn't have tried out one of my now faves Arboliva if it weren't for the 3 routes for example. I usually make a team and stick with it . About Leon... Let's not talk about him. He doesn't deserve the breath coming out of my mouth
Seeing someone else appreciate dragonair made me so happy. It's literally my favorite pokemon of all time. Honestly, the amount of mid stage appreciation from alpha impressed me. So many just default to either the base form or the fully evolved form (myself mostly included, with dragonair really being my only exception), but I really respect him for actually considering them
Grovyle is loved by many for obvious reasons too. I always thought Grovyle was grass/dark and reverted back to grass with Sceptile since it learns Pursuit via level up. Thought it was some neat lore until I found out
I have a random love for Fraxure. It's not my favorite or anything, but it's such a solid middle stage that at times I even like it more than Haxorus. It's also got a stellar shiny. Honorable mention to Hakamo-o.
Of the two primal forms, I give it to Groudon. I'm a bigger fan of Kyogre, but the groudon form actually incorporated more omega symbols, the lava flowing on him is dope, and the overall design works better
Watching this I’ve only just realised that x and y introduced mega evolution and didn’t give it to any of the Pokémon from the new region, not even the starters.
Gen 9 really did cook. Meowscarada really vying for my number 1 spot that is currently typhlosion. Also both starter lines I consider to have the best middle evos.
Glad to see more love for Meloetta I love Meloetta and glad people also like Meloetta Meloetta is adorable and loves to sing and dance as much as I do Meloetta is underrated af Nice list Jacob!
This is like the best pokemon video I've seen in months. The ability to remember each one's name is amazing. Sucks that gen 9 just gave up on creative names
It's refreshing to see a big TH-camr that covers pokémon content that doesn't immediately dismiss the anthropomorphic/ humanoid pokémon designs to meet the societal status quo. Based taste Alpha, you keep being you!
I love stuff like this. Its so cool seeing people love pokemon that I've never really cared about. It's great that everyone can find a pokemon to love and each one has its fans. Like I really disliked most of the gen 9 pokemon but I love seeing that other people l9ve them. Sableye is the best guy though. Especially mega form. Ninetails, Perserker, and Piplup are also in the running. These are facts that can't be debated.
For me, basically any Pokemon that is cute, looks at least remotely like a cat, and/or is Psychic, Ghost (not Goth btw, just that I like the sheer diversity of designs), Water, or Grass. Also, Jaiden's commentary at around the 3:00 minute mark made this more valuable
Gen 2-5, shinies were mostly color shifting. A few, like legendaries and fan favorites (Charizard) were manually given colors, but this is why so many become the same ugly green, or you cam barely tell its shiny apart. Thats why giant woman had a shiny, lol
When I did this a couple of weeks back I was so so stumped by "favorite type" that I ended up creating huge excel spreadsheet where I ranked every single Pokémon on a scale of 0 to 10 and it would calculate my favorite types based on various metrics I came up with. xD Favorite type depends on the metric (Water, Ghost or Dragon), but my least favorite is definitely fairy.
24:24 Well ill be damned, his starter choices are nearly identical to mine!! 😮❤ The only differences are Typhlosion and Infernape(even tho i don't really vibe with any gen 4 starter)
Doing this list myself just made me realize how bad and overrated gen 6 is, got carried hard by some all-time mons like Greninja, and by megas, and thats it, genuinely struggled to pick pokemon for the gen 6 categories
link to make your own: cajunavenger.github.io/
Thank you alpharad
Thank you for the link, many creators forget
I want to do it but it won't fullscreen nicely?
@@pionirskizec1004 You gotta zoom in a lot
Thank you alpharad
"chat behave" immediately into "here we got throat goat" is crazy
Alpharad defending his Braixen pick like he didn't also pick every other humanoid pokemon that appeared instantly, he's never beating the allegations
Bro nearly every semi feminine pokemon that exist is Alpharad's favourite. This is basically his smash or pass tier list.
He's also doing so many mental gymnastics to pretend that Meowscarada isn't feminine looking.
the fact that he didnt put steenee or tsareena for gen7 grass is honestly surprising
@@KingJH0510 I get Tsareena but leave Steenee out of this, she's too precious for this
He will NEVER beat the allegations
I'm literally Shinx!
omg
:O
YOOO its Shinx!
I'm literally Rayquaza!
True😮
It's crazy how much more justice the sprite art does for the modern mons
Honestly, they never should have gone beyond the 3D of black and white. Probably get better games out of it just because it'd be easier to develop.
Facts, even Pokémon designs I hate look 100x better when in sprite form. Its simply how Pokémon should look
I know it won't happen, but I would be so happy if Gen 10 went back to pixel art sprites
23:44 so all those years ago "I wish heracross was my dad, that guy's cool as fuck"
Finally came back. I figured it was just drunken rambling at the time, but no. It was not
Drunk smash, I remember
24:35 "I really like the androgynous masquerade vibe" Balan really was the blueprint, huh?
Uh... ever heard of NiGHTS into Dreams!?!?
finally, something that illustrated just how hard gen 9 cooked with its mons.
Ngl, gen 9 knocked it WAY out of the park with the new stuff but the old stuff we loved not coming back really took away from it.
and something that lays bare how mid the Kalos dex was
@@nategwright absolutely. Take out nostalgia pandering and XY are mid at best (ORAS is better but remakes shouldn't be better). Legends-zaza Cannot afford to be less than amazing
@@HazeEmry I just realized that Gen 9 is the first gen since 5 to introduce more than 100 new Pokémon, which is kind of disappointing. Quantity is not necessarily everything and Gen 7/8 did hit a lot more home runs in the Pokémon designs than Gen 6, but having so few new mons does kinda hurt when you have a type specialist that has to fall back on basically all older Pokémon to have a team.
When you factor out regional forms, Alola had basically no Dark types, and so you have Nanu who has a team with no truly new Pokémon. At least Gen 8 finally started to (barely) break the Kanto pander trend and started giving us regional forms for newer Pokémon and bringing back crossgen evolutions (still not a fan of a Gen 8 Champion having Gen 1 starter as his ace tho).
@@nategwright oh god yeah Nanu... I was so disappointed in him and the lack of dark types in general in Alola since I "specialise" in Dark, Bug, and Ice (horrendous favourites I know). Love him as a character tho. That said, Bug has been getting better through the years. THAT said, it sucks that Golisopod isn't in gen 9... While I do agree that quality > quantity, I'd say the quantity is important in gen 9 simply because there are 3 routes before you enter Area Zero and you can go through each route with an entirely different team. I wouldn't have tried out one of my now faves Arboliva if it weren't for the 3 routes for example. I usually make a team and stick with it . About Leon... Let's not talk about him. He doesn't deserve the breath coming out of my mouth
Seeing someone else appreciate dragonair made me so happy. It's literally my favorite pokemon of all time. Honestly, the amount of mid stage appreciation from alpha impressed me. So many just default to either the base form or the fully evolved form (myself mostly included, with dragonair really being my only exception), but I really respect him for actually considering them
I love dragonair, too. Also Wartortle
Grovyle is loved by many for obvious reasons too. I always thought Grovyle was grass/dark and reverted back to grass with Sceptile since it learns Pursuit via level up. Thought it was some neat lore until I found out
I have a random love for Fraxure. It's not my favorite or anything, but it's such a solid middle stage that at times I even like it more than Haxorus. It's also got a stellar shiny. Honorable mention to Hakamo-o.
Of the two primal forms, I give it to Groudon. I'm a bigger fan of Kyogre, but the groudon form actually incorporated more omega symbols, the lava flowing on him is dope, and the overall design works better
hard agree
“My three favourite starters right there” 10:58
My 2nd favourite pokemon, my second favourite smash character, and literally me :D
I see flygon, therefore no hate shall curse this land
You’re not getting a mega lil bro, lame ass overrated ass pokemon. garchomp owns u
No hydreigon tho, therefore my hate shall flow
Watching this I’ve only just realised that x and y introduced mega evolution and didn’t give it to any of the Pokémon from the new region, not even the starters.
This is the same energy of a 2013ish TH-cam of gaming channels doing top 20 pokemon. Makes me feel good :)
I’m so glad that the Galarian birds are getting some respect here, those guys are awesome. I especially love the pose they gave Galarian Articuno.
3:18 this puts a smile on my face
4:38 BRELOOM FOR THE WIN BABY WOOOOOOOOOOO
Or 4:36 rather
Wooooooo baby! That's what I'm talking about!
He picked quillava in gen 2, we know that the curse will continue to be on Jacob for awhile
Gen 3 dragons are so stacked. So many bangers
My favorite Gen 3 dragon is Metagross
@@braxinIV what
Im so happy you included oddish! He’s my favourite Pokémon ever!
Personally, my favorite Pokémon is Armaldo!! :)
Can’t lie the music for the gen 7 part took me back man
Shiny monica is wild, wonder how many soft resets it would take for that encounter 🤔
I’m surprised it was the only pokestar studios character included since all of the fightable ones have typings too
@@colour_fall14 she's not
@@colour_fall14 Other "fightable" PokéStar Studios encounters are also in this Ultimate Picker.
The Jaiden Jump scare, I looked away for a moment and then heard her laugh 😂
Gen 9 really did cook. Meowscarada really vying for my number 1 spot that is currently typhlosion. Also both starter lines I consider to have the best middle evos.
"You know what, I'm gonna pick some bulk"
Proceeds to pick the most fragile glass cannon 💀
11:50 Yessssss Aegislash supremacy :D
The number of times his mouse hovered over Mega Lopunny... Im weak
Man, I love a good ranking sesh.
It makes me so happy that you’re a Smeargle fan! Smeargle is my favorite Pokémon!
this is like when alpharad ranks his favorite pokemon
I love how Sylveon has such a special place in pokemon.
Glad to see more love for Meloetta
I love Meloetta and glad people also like Meloetta
Meloetta is adorable and loves to sing and dance as much as I do
Meloetta is underrated af
Nice list Jacob!
I think you're the youtuber who most closely aligns with my pokemon preferences so far. Out of the ones that I've seen do this.
I like how his and Jaidens vocal mannerisms are merging
This is like the best pokemon video I've seen in months. The ability to remember each one's name is amazing. Sucks that gen 9 just gave up on creative names
Looking forward to the Pokéball Tier List!
Alpha talking about Gen 9's designs is so true. PKMN Company really made some great designs with the most recent version
3:45 Not picking purple kecleon is treated like theft!
Love the remix of the Pokemon sleep music!
14:38 "I think Incineroar is the weakest final starter"
Wolfe Glick: *standing ovation *
Swablu and Altaria are my goats, I love the cloud birds, but Whimsicott is definitely 3
ayy, while the aren't my favs, it's good to see people appreciate them.
Let's go Meloetta, that's my favourite mon of all time! Nice to see some more appreciation for it.
It's refreshing to see a big TH-camr that covers pokémon content that doesn't immediately dismiss the anthropomorphic/ humanoid pokémon designs to meet the societal status quo. Based taste Alpha, you keep being you!
Based
6:05 For me, Happiny, my favorite pokémon of all time 😍
Man, Gen 3 is so hard to choose your favourites in. It did not miss when it came to design.
Honestly good picks! I appreciate the love for Absol and Porygon-Z, those two are probably my favourite mons overall.
This is literally a Dewott moment
Best second stage starter
I love stuff like this. Its so cool seeing people love pokemon that I've never really cared about. It's great that everyone can find a pokemon to love and each one has its fans. Like I really disliked most of the gen 9 pokemon but I love seeing that other people l9ve them.
Sableye is the best guy though. Especially mega form. Ninetails, Perserker, and Piplup are also in the running. These are facts that can't be debated.
Extremely based takes on the Alola starters, you love to see it
OMFG THIS IS SUCH A GREAT LIST FORMAT, I LOVE LISTS
For me, basically any Pokemon that is cute, looks at least remotely like a cat, and/or is Psychic, Ghost (not Goth btw, just that I like the sheer diversity of designs), Water, or Grass.
Also, Jaiden's commentary at around the 3:00 minute mark made this more valuable
Gen 2-5, shinies were mostly color shifting. A few, like legendaries and fan favorites (Charizard) were manually given colors, but this is why so many become the same ugly green, or you cam barely tell its shiny apart. Thats why giant woman had a shiny, lol
I'm glad Torterra was acknowledged. This is the sustenance I'll need for the next couple of years.
When I did this a couple of weeks back I was so so stumped by "favorite type" that I ended up creating huge excel spreadsheet where I ranked every single Pokémon on a scale of 0 to 10 and it would calculate my favorite types based on various metrics I came up with. xD
Favorite type depends on the metric (Water, Ghost or Dragon), but my least favorite is definitely fairy.
I understand that no one liked Pokestar Studios, but the costumes and gimmicks (giant lady) where fun
I love how there's 3 clear categories here: "Huge monster", "Cool design", and "Little Guy".
Tbf like 80% of pokemon fit into those 3 categories
Over the years Rowlett has earned a special spot in my heart for sure Gen 7 was awesome. I was a senior in highschool when those games came out 💀
I can’t wait for the “only those guys” nuzlocke!
can't wait for wolfe to get to rank 1 on ladder with only alpha's favourite pokemon
24:24 Well ill be damned, his starter choices are nearly identical to mine!! 😮❤
The only differences are Typhlosion and Infernape(even tho i don't really vibe with any gen 4 starter)
Baxcalibur is the greatest Pokémon of all time charizard is also cool
I've never seen opnions so great as Alpharad opnions on Gen 5 pokemons
My top 6 team (which coincidentally doesn't have any overlapping types):
Misdreavus
Gliscor
Breloom
Sylveon
Greninja (shiny)
Magneton
My Other top 50 Pokémon (ranked):
Whimsicott
Paras
Lurantis
Cyndaquil
Hisuian Zoroark
Darkrai
Frosslass
Fluttermane
Floatzel
Hisuian Typhlosion
Ceruledge
Golisopod
Armaldo
Bulbasaur
Gardevoir
Mawile
Mimikyu
Primarina
Vaporeon
Giratina
Piplup
Oshawott
Gligar
Noivern
Alolan Raichu
Lapras
Scolipede
Scizor
Garchomp
Meowscarada
Plusle/Minun
Rayquaza
Pachirisu
Zoroark
Shedinja
Ninjask
Spinda
Alolan Vulpix/Ninetales
Crawdaunt
Seviper
Xerneas
Dragonair
Luv when aplafred posts
What are the odds that’s my favorite Spinda pattern too. So rare to see that nowadays 😅😅😅
2:08 and that ladies and gentlemen, is why I’m subbed
Doing this list myself just made me realize how bad and overrated gen 6 is, got carried hard by some all-time mons like Greninja, and by megas, and thats it, genuinely struggled to pick pokemon for the gen 6 categories
14:47 primarina mentiond rahhhhh 🤑🤑
Someone should do a run with only Alpharad's favourite pokemons
Gen 5 has the BEST grass type of all pokemon, so much bangers
Maractus
Leavanny
Whimsicott
Serperior
Liligant
omggg there is not much that i disagree with here great taste 🥳
This is a great list
I was just watching (some of) the 2 hour pokemon ranking video earlier today! :o
Trapinch is the fucking GOAT. All my homies love trapinch. I don't know how true that is. I just love how cute it is.
This man gets me about 90% of the time I agreed with his ranking
I love the whimsicott appreciation :)
From now on shiny giant lady legs is my favourite pokemon of all time
He’s NOT beating the allegations
Alpharad has good taste
16:01 thank u mr fish
“I’m just a huge fan of Ultra Beasts all around” BAAAAAASED
Nice Poison list too, Crobat is always the correct choice
SKORUPI
5:30 Ah, yes. The ultimate Palkia-slayer.
If you don’t consider Lapras, then we should have a discussion about everything. Ttyl! ^_^
WHIMSICOTT WILL BE LEADING THE REVOLUTION TO DETHRONE THE EDGY KING SOON, AND THEN WE’LL ALL BE SORRY!
Give me freedom!
Give me fire!
Give me Iron Valiant or we retire!
WOOO YEAH AGGRON GOT ON THE LIST
Oh yeah... never evolved my little shiny snot bear after your stream lol
SMEARGLE!!!!!!!! SMEARGLE FANS FINALLY GETTING THE W!!!!!!
My fav pokemon is magicarp and the fact that not even gyrados was even MENTIONED i am slightly upset but i repect it
I popped off when Alpha chose Quilava xD
Spheal is the best. Change my mind
I knew Alpha was my goat when he chose Dewott
Oh so close. The correct answer for favorite Gen 1 ghost type is actually Haunter
Glad to see klefki representation
let's go Primarina!
haven't finished this, hope he picked eelektross and cacturne
I love how he said like 15 pokemon are top 10 to him
I can never do these, so many options I have multiple favourites and I can never chose