Crobat should have been mentioned too. Not only is it a fairy killer but it’s also very fast, has decent bulk, can learn a ton of moves, and it’s has tons of great match up thanks to its Poison/Flying typing.
I usually plan my teams in advance and I didn't plan to have crobat (not that I don't like it, I do. I just use it way too much) but I was in a cave and was like aw a zubat. I could use a crobat for later.... then I just slapped it on my team because in my head I knew the pokemon I wanted came way later anyway. Long story short I had crobat before gardenia and it was another "oops! My crobat carried my playthrough!" Moment
Well being a fairy killer isn’t as important in these games, since the only notable ones you’ll encounter throughout the game are Clefable,Azumaril, Gardevoir and Togekiss but other than that i agree, crobat is great and the fact that you can get zubat really early just makes it even better
I found a zubat in the grand underground with zen headbutt and then bred my crobat with my wing attack staravia to mop the floor with malene’s entire team as a golbat and after I beat lucario it evolved for me
levitate doesnt really make that much of a difference besides pivoting, since gengar is a speedy attacker, I guess it can still pivot with his fighting and normal inmunity.
@@babel_UV Having yet another immunity is always a good thing. Not to mention with Earthquake/Earth Power and other moves like that which are common in competitive being useless on Gengar who can punish back wit hmoves like Icy Wind or Giga Drain on ground types was always useful. Not to mention when its partnered with an Earthquake spamming beast like Garchomp or Krookodile.
@@babel_UV losing an ability that prevents you from taking damage from a super-effective attack will *ALWAYS* be a big deal. that's why I only used Chinchou/Lanturn if it had Volt Absorb
I remember back in the original games as a kid thinking I was getting a gengar and prepping my team in my head looking through my tms for it etc to get a Haunter with an everstone legit broke my heart. Hated that b**** ever since
So I played brilliant diamond for the first time ever on the switch this past week and I’ve heard how strong gengar is and I randomly came across that NPC and I traded him and was excited just for him to brag as soon as the trade was done and tell me he didn’t evolve cause he’s holding a stupid stone.
I had Alakazam before even going into Eterna Forest! My Chimchar had Taunt so I was able to hunt for Abra without it fleeing via Teleport. The 3rd one I caught had Timid nature with Synchronize ability! I was going to use Mew on my team, but with a nature and ability like that (Yes, I know Mew has the same ability too) I couldn't pass it up!
This was my Elite four Pokémon Drapion (swords dance) Altaria (cotton guard) Mismagius (nasty plot) Ambipom (technician +metronome + nasty plot and baton pass ) Empoleon Togekiss (nasty plot) All I did was set up sweepers and just one shot the elite 4. My favorite to use was definitely ambipom throughout the game. Got him from a tree. Technician and metronome (item) is really strong with just double hit (Stab). I also like baton passing with nasty plot to altaria then using cotton guard. Became a tank with heavy damage
Houndoom feels like it should have Intimidate too. It makes sense that it doesn’t, since it would make it a full Arcanine ripoff, but what’s more menacing than a demon dog?
I got 3 shiny stone in 30 minutes because of Pachirisu Pick up Ability. Just catch 5 Pachirisu and Using Vs. Seeker to battle with trainer again and again. You will increase your money and have high chance to get Shiny stone.
Azumarill can get a hidden move called "Sap Sipper" which not only makes it immune to grass type moves, one of it's few major weaknesses, but also boosts it's attack stat whenever someone tries to use a grass move against it.
That isn't enough to justify having it over huge power, it literally doubles your attack, u don't need to get yourself hit by a grass type move for the boost.
You can get the shiny stone as early as Valley Windworks. Just catch a couple pickup Pachirisus, get them to level 10 and grind some battles with low level wild pokemon and wait. It literally took me longer to get 5 pickup Pachirisus than it took for them to find 2 shiny stones.
Ok so Ive been trying to do this, I have 3 pickup pachirisus, and they rarely pick up anything. Where were you picking up shiny stones? Ive been trying the underground
@@michaelmurphy6278 The where doesn't matter. They have a chance to pickup an item after a battle. You need to get them to level 10 because that's when the shiny stone enters the pickup table. I just grinded some low level pokemon outside floaroma, route 205 I think. Really any area is good with low level pokemon your main mon at the front of the party can one-shot. I suggest an area with lvl 2-5 bidoofs so that the pachirisus don't gain too much exp per battle. Between lvl 20-21 the chance to pickup a shiny stone decreases to 3% instead of the previous 4 (will bounce back to 4 after lvl 30). Just grind battles, faint the wild pokemon, check whether or not the pachirisus picked up something, then rinse and repeat. If they picked something up after a battle, then take it away from them as they can't pickup another item as long as they are holding one. Maybe i got really lucky, but it took me about 20-30 minutes tops to get two shiny stones. Took way longer to get the 5 pickup pachirisus. Hope this helps, good luck.
@@DonJay00001 I have been using ones in their 20s, and I havent even been battling just running away from encounters. I thought it was steps and not battles. Thanks for the clarification!
@@michaelmurphy6278 Glad to hear that :) the shiny stone will come soon too :) and I get the confusion, the last time I used a pokemon with pickup was back in gen 3 and back then it did work outside of battle, but not anymore unfortunately.
Some of these lists are made rather lazily. More often than not, Snorlax, Alakazam and Gengar are just thrown in to take three spots. There are so many better options that are native to Sinnoh rather than the same three Kanto Pokémon thrown into every single “Best [Something]” list.
@@4lvin_and_c0. Gastrodon 100% would be there, and Staraptor will too. The other one is most likely gonna be Gyarados. These three. If you don't want Gyarados because it's also native to Kanto, then maybe Mamoswine? Maybe Lucario? Lucario is too late-game though... Gallade is a good option, though it is overshadowed by Gardevoir. Crobat is a good option. Maybe Honchcrow? Your choice. But Alakazam, Gengar, and Snorlax are better pokemon in general.
Snorlax is always deserving to be in the top ten. Just because YOU don't use it doesn't mean it isn't amazing. Snorlax is probably the most essential piece of a perfect team.
@@lankylemon8555 Id say unova region would have the best region for bug types not so much galar just because thats when the type was really introduced to be an offensive threat
I think Gastrodon deserves more credence. Shellos/Gastrodon hard counters so many fights it's not fair. The defensive typing alone is huge, but consider that you can get it very early on, it only learns its best moves thanks to the attacks removed in Gen VIII (meaning that by level ~35-40 it knows Ancient Power, Muddy Water, Earth Power, and you can give it the TM for Ice Beam), and it gets Recover. It's only super effective weakness is Grass, and there's very few key fights with Grass types (just one gym, your rival's Torterra or Roserade, Candice's Abomasnow, and Cynthia's Roserade). Azumarill is a powerhouse but Gastro is way more useful and consistent that, say, Drapion as a tank. Not to bash Drapion, but Poison/Dark STAB covers far less than Water/Ground STAB.
I loved playing with Mismagius. It was my first time playin with this Pokémon and it carried my team. Had it with Shadow Ball, Psychic, Dazzling Gleam, and Thunderbolt.
is it actually good in BDSP? I remember using Mismagius in my Heart Gold playthrough and it kept getting KO’d with one hit in most battles. I kept it for the remaining of my journey hoping it’d get better at some point but it turned out to be sort of wasted slot in my team as I beat elite four. Idk, maybe I evolved it too fast or something but it was really bad
Won’t lie, Houndoom was very underwhelming to use, as it was too frail to take any hits, and due to its shallow movepool, didn’t really get the KO’s it needed to get. There are SO many rock and water type trainers everywhere it’s crazy. Thankfully Magmortar was much easier to use and had insane coverage options, well worth spending time to find (or trade if ya have diamond like myself). I’m just confused as to why ya used “easy to find” as a strength regarding Houndoom, yet failed to mention Togepi is STUPID hard to find (as in my friend spent 5 hours to find ONE underground lmao).
Houndooms Beat up actually mopped mostly everything up to Sunyshore and if anything used swords dance or dragon dance then foul play did serious damage.
I love you videos. I was introduced to the Pokemon community when I was 9 years old, with Pokemon XY. And your videos were always present. They enriched so much the experience of playing the games, and I have tried out at least one of your best teams for each Pokemon game ever since. Thank you for enriching this community so much! You keep it alive and thriving :)
Drifloon is well worth considering as it comes at level 22 with shadow ball right after valley windworks. It also has at least 3 max IVs for some reason, despite not being a gift or fossil. It takes out Gardenia and Maylene with no issues and evolves fairly early at level 28. Unburden can also be quite fun to take advantage of.
My fearsome 5 is: Alakazam, Electivire, Golem, Crobat & Empoleon. Still haven’t decided on a 6th mon. I made it to the start of victory road with these 5 and still have a spot open for a late season pick up
@@MouthPeaceCorbett I thought about fire coverage and now I’m at the elite 4 and I questioned what fire covered that I didn’t already have in my squad, grass bug ice and steel can all be handled by electivire with brick break, golem, and my crobat I bred with wing attack and zen headbutt
You might have already heard it already but FW pacharisu with the pickup ability it will pick up evolution stones, same thing with munchlax. Just got to have the pickup ability. I had a team of five Pachirisu pickup ability and one bibarell and got all stones within an hr
@@razorgash6953 I think I just might! Fortunately, I checked and the one and only Pichirisu I have has the pick up ability. Honestly, as cool as my Luxio, now Luxray, is, it's kind of lost its cuteness factor from when it was Shinx. Pichirisu has that in spades, and I love the image of tiny little cute pokémon kicking the butts of bigger, more intimidating ones - like my Jiruchi versus Machoke. Zen headbutt for the win!
A pokemon that I totally recommend is Ambipom, if u catch an aipom in the underground it can have fake out and run away ability, but when it evolves that ability becomes technician. Now imagine a Stab, technician boosted fake out, that is a 90 base power fake out, alongside with a stab technician double hit, that is 157,5 base power move because it hits 2 times. I used one and it defeated Cynthia's garchomp with a fake out and a double hit
Had an Azumarill in the back of my party since the 4th gym, wasn't planning on keeping it at first but it really surprised me with how good it was when the time came, glad to see it high on this list
The only issue with houndoom is that when I caught mine it didn't have any fire moves because of its level, so I needed to wait for it to get fire fang at level 30
Have you thought about doing a Top 10 buffed Pokémon list? Any Pokémon that were weak or mediocre in the original Gen 4, but are stronger now due to better moves, new abilities, or even Typing changes. Kricketune comes to mind because of how horribly awful it was in the original. Now, it’s cry isn’t the saving grace of this Pokémon because there’s more to like about it now than before.
@@HockeyFan102 Strong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favorites
I love my team rn. I’m about to head to over to victory road and I’m excited. I got Torterra, Crobat, Froslass, Rapidash, Lucario, and Mew (I have never had Mew before and knew I wanted a psychic type so I had too. Especially since you get it so early)
Hands down a Misgagius with Mystical Fire, Thunderbolt, Psychic and Shadow ball is the absolute BEST thing to have on your team. That pure ghost typing is incredible coupled with its ability to tank plenty of hits and dish them out. It single handedly can sweep a third of the game in the first slot of your party. I should know owo 👌
I agree, I use it in my playthrough, it’s my best pokemon for most of the gym rematches and some E4. And the rest of my team is Togekiss, Roserade, Drapion, Infernape, and Luxray, most of those are on this list too but Gastrodon was absolutely amazing because of Earth Power alone, and then add Recover, Scald, and the easily obtainable Ice Beam, and its good bulk, it’s just too good for me not to use.
A Pokemon that I have a lot more respect for after playing Brilliant Diamond is Toxicroak. I didn't know it was as strong as it is until I used one. ( It didn't make my final team however, I replaced it with a Gallade after finding a Dawn Stone in the Grand Underground)
Gyarados is better than your entire top 4. Free to train because of group/catch XP change. And you get waterfall at level 21. Once you get dragon dance, everything that isn't Electric is toast
Pleased rate my Sinnoh team on how unique it is on a scale of 0-5: - Verne the Torterra - Alex the Luxray - Count the Crobat - Crash the Floatzel - Hellbent the Houndoom - Rampage the Rampardos
Ummm I'd say 2/5.... It's been a while since I played diamond Pearl but the coverage looks lacking and luxray is almost always used.... That been said use what you like
I had torterra, mismagius, rapidash, milotic, luxray, and areodactyl. Mismagius was a great special attacker with coverage and perish song for any pesky last pokes. Rapidash is highly underrated imo and carried me quite a lot. Flame charge and smart strike was such a big help early on.
I wound up tossing a Clefable onto my team a while back, I wanted to run a fairy type but I also wanted access to an ice move so I back tracked a bit to catch myself a Clefa & it evolved into Clefairy quite quickly because I spent hours running around with it on my team in the Grand Underground trying to dig up a moon stone, I found like three sun stones but no moon stone & my friend told me that he found a moon stone so I traded with him, gave him a sun stone & he gave me a moon stone. He put in on a Munchlax with pickup which was great because I utilized that to get myself a shiny stone earlier than I would have, I have a Roserade on my team, I was actually planning on using Carnivine as my grass type but I found a shiny Budew in Eterna Forest so I decided to slap that into my team instead. All the running around I did in the Grand Underground did wonders for friendship, I evolved my Budew really quickly as well, even tried to do an honor battle with my Roselia against Gardenia's Roserade, bad idea but hey, I wanted my Roselia to believe it was strong. My Roserade can wipe the floor with Gardenia's now but it's not fair if I tried, it is now level 50. I have 7 badges.
3:00 Any good strategies to catching Houndoom quickly with regular Poke Balls in the Underground? I'm currently in Eterna City and every Houndoom I run into uses Roar to end the battle.
I caught mine right before the third gym. Since it doesn’t learn a fire move till level 30, I thought I’d just wait. If you don’t want to do that, you can use mean eyes, and employ some status inflictions.
Save before encountering it. If it uses roar, reload. It won't use it everytime. It is RNG based. I reloaded three times before I successfully caught. But it took me 4 Houndoom to figure that strategy out. 🤔
Clefable is likely my favorite part of Brilliant Diamond (along side Honchkrow). Of course, Kricketune is no slouch, either. And, now that I know how to make use of Houndoom and find an option in the Huge Power/Rollout Azumarill, my Shining Pearl Torterra team will be unbeatable. That said, might you be interested in doing any Shiny Hunting streams? I'm up to 600 encounters for Dialga.
@@Hyper219 As of Wednesday, I'm on 1250. From now on, I'm doing my Shiny hunts either post-game or on different files so that I can enjoy the whole game (I really wanted to battle Cynthia with my boss Clefable before now).
Honestly i’ll rather wait til the 6th gym to get a gible than to go through the pain of getting cleffa and a moon stone. And that comes from someone who has a Milotic on his team.
You should make a team list using only gen 4 pokemon I'm actually surprised more people don't do this I always play the games using only their new Pokemon or the ones that were new when their gen came out specifically I think it's a really fun way to play
I was gonna run gallade instead of gardevoir but I didnt find a dawn stone in time. Still worked out tho bc I used calm mind/dazzling gleam to setup as a sweeper
He had okay love for the game. Early access to flamethrower to compensate and underground egg moves and sucker punch help make him viable to take up faster low defense enemies.
Dude my gyarados Saved my ass against Cynthia. Thanks to its dragon dance I used early on in the battle before facing her Garchomp, which I flattened with icefang. Was wise to have Gyarados 😅
You got your calender mixed up. December 5th falls on a Sunday...... So do you mean Saturday December 4th or Sunday December 5th. Outside of that awesome video as always.
I spent like 2 days in the underground mining for stones and a day looking trying to steal a moonstone from cleffa then just settled on togekiss. It never even occurred to just use azumarill to avoid days of a headache lol
Great video! I remember my dad raising a Clefable in Blue version. It's Body Slam used to mess my Mewtwo up. Keep in mind I was all attack attack attack lol. No Recover/Barrier/Amnesia.
Fairy type has been my favourite ever since its release, and I must admit Gardevoir, Azumaril and Clefable are some super fun ones to use. altho I stuck to "1 pokemon of each type" in my original Diamond game, this time with the remakes I'm just gonna play pokemon I like, regardless of typing. it'll make the games more challenging, too!
I played through this entire game and my team was pretty good it was Infernape Magnezone Garchomp Froslass Honchkrow Octilery All of them were really good
Cleffable is so versatile. She can moonblast spiritomb(who had no weakness in the originals), grass knot for west sea gastrodon, psychic for Roserade. Heck, she practically can cover for a lot of Cynthia. Finally, I used Cleffable to destroy Cynthia’s Garchomp. It took me a while to farm that moon stone from the underground but Def worth it🌘Cleffable be slay ✨
14:35 I got my Gabite to evolve into Garchomp just before I challenged the 7th Gym, of course I did grind a bunch to get it (and Lucario) to be the same level as the rest of my team (and I might be a bit over leveled) but it is possible if you really want to use it (like I did)
I ran torterra, gardevoir, floatzel, staraptor, togekiss, and luxray. Almost beat cynthia first try, but I got a quick claw to give gardevoir priority for setting up calm mind and that did it. Torterra was easily my MVP tho, it took out half of Cynthia's team for me
I honestly just wanted Houndoom because I love dog Pokemon and normally do playthroughs with an Arcanine. I haven't used a Houndoom since Platinum so I thought why not for the nostalgia trip? And wow, did I make a great pick. Houndoom WRECKS in this game.
@@TheCosmicFailure in the Grand Underground you can find Houndoom! They're a rare spawn in certain places but I've found them to be somewhat common for a rare spawn.
@@TheCosmicFailure I think it's available as soon as you get the Explorer Kit. So technically you could get one before your second badge if you wanted. I think I got mine after I beat Gardenia though.
I almost always use the infernape/staraptor/floatzel/luxray/lucario/garchomp team, but wanted to switch it up this time and not use any of those. I used Torterra Gardevoir Gastrodon Toxicroak Gligar (wish razor fang wasn't post-game :/) Froslass Not necessarily the best but been enjoying it!!
I don't know why Staraptor isn't on the list but I am not the expert here. Maybe because togekiss is overall better Staraptor because of Fairy type or something.
I beat BD with Infernape, Staraptor, Luxray, Drapion, Floatzel, and Abomasnow. Although Cynthia nearly kicked my ass to a point I had no choice but to revive and heal until she finally stopped using full restore and recover on her Milotic. Then it took a couple ice beams, revives and hyper potions to beat her Garchomp with Abomasnow
@@lokekennee8850 that's true, but I didn't have any other choice and didn't anticipate her Milotic to be that much of a pain with it's high defenses, and the recover move.. especially considering that I had 2 pokemon with type advantage against it
@@treveoneley3610 I’ve used Gardevoir and Gallade far more times than I care to count, followed closely by Drapion, hence now Gengar, which turned out to be just as awesome. Sinnoh got some good mons.
@@lokekennee8850 yeah I actually never use any of these Pokémon in a play through besides Infernape (my first ever Pokémon) when I do a second run I’ll try gallade I always like it mega
Wish there was more detail to some of the attacks, like for example Leaf Attacks doesn't show leafs like some earlier games. It only shows a green slash
Stopped in to see who I should run… talked about it being hard to get a moonstone which I got on my first underground pull. Welp clefable, welcome to the team
I'm playing Pokemon Platinum on my old DS and I am determined to use a Roserade on my team (save for against Candice unless I'm positive I can out speed her), especially against the elite 4 since she can handle most of Bertha's team, especially her Whiscash. My question is, since she'll probably learn petal dance before I find a shiny stone, which move should I delete? I want to keep poison spikes since that could help in the long run, and I think giga drain is vital since it will save my potions so which would you, a Roserade fan, delete? Growth, which increases its already sizeable special attack, or stun spore, which slows down the opponent and potentially gives you a extra turn to attack? Not to mention it's usefulness in catching wild pokemon without the potential for killing them like poison or burns. I would appreciate any advice you can give. I've also decided to go with Gastrodon over gyarados since, as a ground type, it can help against Aaron's drapion. Since the fairy type didn't exist in Gen 4, spiritomb doesn't have any real weakness - any suggestions on dealing with Cynthia's?
Drapion with scope lens and sniper for ability is OP. Once it reaches max happiness cross poison and night slash will have a 100% crit chance as long as it’s carrying scope lens.
Oh wow! These Pokémon are not usually in any of my parties at all starting a game or even in the mid way point or to the elite! Wow! Thanks for this video. I just subbed. I bought the shinning pearl last night. Lol 😆 just started. Still love it already 😁
I know this may not be a popular opinion, but I genuinely think BDSP are my favourite or best remakes so far. Definitely not my favourite pokemon game (black and white). But it is still very good. I also love how they brought back ball capsules, and they stuck mostly to the original games without any major change and this is coming from someone who didn't play the og games. This is just my opinion tho so hopefully I don't get attacked for it lol
What should i choose beetwen the fire starter or water starter, in pearl. i have played with Turtwig. if i got it right it is not a lot of water and fire types
Most people would say go with the fire type but I think you should just use your favourite. If you can't choose then the one that would probaly be recommend the most is the fire type
I was reading online you can’t get shiny underground… but I could be wrong.. also do I need to beat the elite four to unlock the evolution stones underground???
Managed to read my calendar wrong lol. Best Team will be live Saturday the *4th* --- NOT the 5th! Just wanted to clear that up for everyone!
thats the same day as the fortnite event
my birthday
I'll be there! Can't wait to see Best Team!
yes Gardevoir!!! i use it in every game and it’s always my ace!
Trash
Crobat should have been mentioned too. Not only is it a fairy killer but it’s also very fast, has decent bulk, can learn a ton of moves, and it’s has tons of great match up thanks to its Poison/Flying typing.
I usually plan my teams in advance and I didn't plan to have crobat (not that I don't like it, I do. I just use it way too much) but I was in a cave and was like aw a zubat. I could use a crobat for later.... then I just slapped it on my team because in my head I knew the pokemon I wanted came way later anyway. Long story short I had crobat before gardenia and it was another "oops! My crobat carried my playthrough!" Moment
Well being a fairy killer isn’t as important in these games, since the only notable ones you’ll encounter throughout the game are Clefable,Azumaril, Gardevoir and Togekiss but other than that i agree, crobat is great and the fact that you can get zubat really early just makes it even better
Plus, with access to Mean look, it could be useful against roaming legendaries
I found a zubat in the grand underground with zen headbutt and then bred my crobat with my wing attack staravia to mop the floor with malene’s entire team as a golbat and after I beat lucario it evolved for me
Definitely better than cleffable
Sad that Gengar fell from grace just a bit due to losing Levitate...
levitate doesnt really make that much of a difference besides pivoting, since gengar is a speedy attacker, I guess it can still pivot with his fighting and normal inmunity.
@@babel_UV It kinda does, Earthquake is common move in competitive play and Gengar did not only lose levitate, but is also weak to ground.
@@babel_UV a ground immunity becoming a ground weakness absolutely does matter.
@@babel_UV Having yet another immunity is always a good thing. Not to mention with Earthquake/Earth Power and other moves like that which are common in competitive being useless on Gengar who can punish back wit hmoves like Icy Wind or Giga Drain on ground types was always useful. Not to mention when its partnered with an Earthquake spamming beast like Garchomp or Krookodile.
@@babel_UV losing an ability that prevents you from taking damage from a super-effective attack will *ALWAYS* be a big deal. that's why I only used Chinchou/Lanturn if it had Volt Absorb
Gengar is so strong that you get scammed by an NPC in the game where you can get a Haunter holding an everstone.
F mindy
I remember back in the original games as a kid thinking I was getting a gengar and prepping my team in my head looking through my tms for it etc to get a Haunter with an everstone legit broke my heart. Hated that b**** ever since
That bitch got me today
@@mittensthehousecat4114 that’s actually fucked 😭😭
So I played brilliant diamond for the first time ever on the switch this past week and I’ve heard how strong gengar is and I randomly came across that NPC and I traded him and was excited just for him to brag as soon as the trade was done and tell me he didn’t evolve cause he’s holding a stupid stone.
You can basically sweep the whole game with getting a Shix at the beginning.
BIG facts, rolls everything
Not true and I'd like to see you try, then tell me how it went
Well you can do the same with a torchic in gen 3 so.... 😅
@@LeoBoobi I loved it 😂 blaziken was a beast
I coincidentally starting playing this game for the first time last night. Caught a shix and have been killing mofos so this comment hits home lol
I had Alakazam before even going into Eterna Forest! My Chimchar had Taunt so I was able to hunt for Abra without it fleeing via Teleport. The 3rd one I caught had Timid nature with Synchronize ability! I was going to use Mew on my team, but with a nature and ability like that (Yes, I know Mew has the same ability too) I couldn't pass it up!
When does chimchar learn taunt
@@michaelwright1295 At level 9.
@@Acs2004 nice 👌 thanks for that
That’s so funny because I did the same to catch abra. Same combo and then I ran through gardenia. Also got myself a geodude too. I love my golem
Wish I thought of that when I tried my psychic nuzlocke, had to do and eventually fail without a kadabra.
This was my Elite four Pokémon
Drapion (swords dance)
Altaria (cotton guard)
Mismagius (nasty plot)
Ambipom (technician +metronome + nasty plot and baton pass )
Empoleon
Togekiss (nasty plot)
All I did was set up sweepers and just one shot the elite 4. My favorite to use was definitely ambipom throughout the game. Got him from a tree. Technician and metronome (item) is really strong with just double hit (Stab). I also like baton passing with nasty plot to altaria then using cotton guard. Became a tank with heavy damage
I'm sure Mystic is disappointed like the rest of us that all eeveelutions are postgame. So sad we don't get those options!
Didn’t stop me from making a post game team with Glaceon and Milotic
I don’t recommend the latter one
Wait no glaceon til postgame ???
@@juanj9616 no but grinding is so easy you might as well try it
I know, I wanted a Glaceon. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!
@@UmbraStarWolf why don't you recommend milotic
Pretty happy my favorite pokemon made it on the list.
Tbh, I kinda wished Drapion got Intimidate as a hidden ability
I agree it does look intimidating
Me when quilfish has intimidate but Drapion doesn’t
Houndoom feels like it should have Intimidate too. It makes sense that it doesn’t, since it would make it a full Arcanine ripoff, but what’s more menacing than a demon dog?
true, but a drapion running sniper with cross poison and night slash holding a razor claw or a scope lens is really good
@@owenscorning7772 that’s exactly what I use, it’s excellent, and the auto-friendship crit bonus makes it even more reliable
I got 3 shiny stone in 30 minutes because of Pachirisu Pick up Ability. Just catch 5 Pachirisu and Using Vs. Seeker to battle with trainer again and again.
You will increase your money and have high chance to get Shiny stone.
Wait a minute !! Forreal you can get more then one shiny stone !! Can you please explain more 😁. 💚
@@RickyVicky29 th-cam.com/video/9qN-fB6XX90/w-d-xo.html
I follow this instruction for game money and end up having 3 shiny stones
Thanks for the tip
Absolutely thrilled to see gardevoir so high, running dazzling gleam and a quick claw got me so many wins
Gard has pretty good Speed, and with Speed EVs you get throughout the game, you don't need the Quick Claw on it
Azumarill can get a hidden move called "Sap Sipper" which not only makes it immune to grass type moves, one of it's few major weaknesses, but also boosts it's attack stat whenever someone tries to use a grass move against it.
You can't get HAs in game - at least not until the Battle Tower, in which you need 200 BP
That isn't enough to justify having it over huge power, it literally doubles your attack, u don't need to get yourself hit by a grass type move for the boost.
You can get the shiny stone as early as Valley Windworks. Just catch a couple pickup Pachirisus, get them to level 10 and grind some battles with low level wild pokemon and wait. It literally took me longer to get 5 pickup Pachirisus than it took for them to find 2 shiny stones.
Ok so Ive been trying to do this, I have 3 pickup pachirisus, and they rarely pick up anything. Where were you picking up shiny stones? Ive been trying the underground
@@michaelmurphy6278 The where doesn't matter. They have a chance to pickup an item after a battle. You need to get them to level 10 because that's when the shiny stone enters the pickup table. I just grinded some low level pokemon outside floaroma, route 205 I think. Really any area is good with low level pokemon your main mon at the front of the party can one-shot. I suggest an area with lvl 2-5 bidoofs so that the pachirisus don't gain too much exp per battle. Between lvl 20-21 the chance to pickup a shiny stone decreases to 3% instead of the previous 4 (will bounce back to 4 after lvl 30). Just grind battles, faint the wild pokemon, check whether or not the pachirisus picked up something, then rinse and repeat. If they picked something up after a battle, then take it away from them as they can't pickup another item as long as they are holding one. Maybe i got really lucky, but it took me about 20-30 minutes tops to get two shiny stones. Took way longer to get the 5 pickup pachirisus. Hope this helps, good luck.
@@DonJay00001 I have been using ones in their 20s, and I havent even been battling just running away from encounters. I thought it was steps and not battles. Thanks for the clarification!
@@DonJay00001 Already picked up a Dusk stone and a Destiny Knot. SMDH lol
@@michaelmurphy6278 Glad to hear that :) the shiny stone will come soon too :) and I get the confusion, the last time I used a pokemon with pickup was back in gen 3 and back then it did work outside of battle, but not anymore unfortunately.
Some of these lists are made rather lazily. More often than not, Snorlax, Alakazam and Gengar are just thrown in to take three spots. There are so many better options that are native to Sinnoh rather than the same three Kanto Pokémon thrown into every single “Best [Something]” list.
Which ones?
Do you have any recommendations to fill in the those three spots then? Owo
@@4lvin_and_c0. Gastrodon 100% would be there, and Staraptor will too. The other one is most likely gonna be Gyarados. These three. If you don't want Gyarados because it's also native to Kanto, then maybe Mamoswine? Maybe Lucario? Lucario is too late-game though... Gallade is a good option, though it is overshadowed by Gardevoir. Crobat is a good option. Maybe Honchcrow? Your choice. But Alakazam, Gengar, and Snorlax are better pokemon in general.
Snorlax is always deserving to be in the top ten. Just because YOU don't use it doesn't mean it isn't amazing. Snorlax is probably the most essential piece of a perfect team.
A great idea for a TH-cam series would be “what region has the best Pokémon of the _____ type?”
I’d watch this.
JPRPokeTrainer98 made a similar 2 part video. Best type in every region in case you want to watch the same topic
Imagine platinum: Best region for fire types
Would be Galar for quite a few I think, power creep
@@lankylemon8555 Id say unova region would have the best region for bug types not so much galar just because thats when the type was really introduced to be an offensive threat
I think Gastrodon deserves more credence. Shellos/Gastrodon hard counters so many fights it's not fair. The defensive typing alone is huge, but consider that you can get it very early on, it only learns its best moves thanks to the attacks removed in Gen VIII (meaning that by level ~35-40 it knows Ancient Power, Muddy Water, Earth Power, and you can give it the TM for Ice Beam), and it gets Recover. It's only super effective weakness is Grass, and there's very few key fights with Grass types (just one gym, your rival's Torterra or Roserade, Candice's Abomasnow, and Cynthia's Roserade). Azumarill is a powerhouse but Gastro is way more useful and consistent that, say, Drapion as a tank. Not to bash Drapion, but Poison/Dark STAB covers far less than Water/Ground STAB.
I loved playing with Mismagius. It was my first time playin with this Pokémon and it carried my team. Had it with Shadow Ball, Psychic, Dazzling Gleam, and Thunderbolt.
is it actually good in BDSP? I remember using Mismagius in my Heart Gold playthrough and it kept getting KO’d with one hit in most battles. I kept it for the remaining of my journey hoping it’d get better at some point but it turned out to be sort of wasted slot in my team as I beat elite four. Idk, maybe I evolved it too fast or something but it was really bad
Won’t lie, Houndoom was very underwhelming to use, as it was too frail to take any hits, and due to its shallow movepool, didn’t really get the KO’s it needed to get. There are SO many rock and water type trainers everywhere it’s crazy. Thankfully Magmortar was much easier to use and had insane coverage options, well worth spending time to find (or trade if ya have diamond like myself).
I’m just confused as to why ya used “easy to find” as a strength regarding Houndoom, yet failed to mention Togepi is STUPID hard to find (as in my friend spent 5 hours to find ONE underground lmao).
Took me 5 minutes to find Togepi in the fountainspring cave
@@somilteabo1223 Yeah, idk what he’s about, took no time at all to find in the GU
@@somilteabo1223 same haha
Houndooms Beat up actually mopped mostly everything up to Sunyshore and if anything used swords dance or dragon dance then foul play did serious damage.
Nasty plot + Dark Pulse or Flamethrower made my play through with Houndoom top tier
I love you videos. I was introduced to the Pokemon community when I was 9 years old, with Pokemon XY. And your videos were always present. They enriched so much the experience of playing the games, and I have tried out at least one of your best teams for each Pokemon game ever since. Thank you for enriching this community so much! You keep it alive and thriving :)
Noob go play og red and blue where it's black and white. Throwback 92 boys
@@brandonball5971 ???
Drifloon is well worth considering as it comes at level 22 with shadow ball right after valley windworks. It also has at least 3 max IVs for some reason, despite not being a gift or fossil. It takes out Gardenia and Maylene with no issues and evolves fairly early at level 28. Unburden can also be quite fun to take advantage of.
My fearsome 5 is: Alakazam, Electivire, Golem, Crobat & Empoleon. Still haven’t decided on a 6th mon. I made it to the start of victory road with these 5 and still have a spot open for a late season pick up
Garchomp
@@MouthPeaceCorbett evolved my gible to completion but don’t wanna use another Pokémon I’ve used 1000 times
@@MrMarcus2190 u should add a fire type or drapion if none of ur mons are running fire type coverage
@@MouthPeaceCorbett I thought about fire coverage and now I’m at the elite 4 and I questioned what fire covered that I didn’t already have in my squad, grass bug ice and steel can all be handled by electivire with brick break, golem, and my crobat I bred with wing attack and zen headbutt
@@MrMarcus2190 I wish I had a fairy or psychic to run. None of team can learn dazzling gleam.
You might have already heard it already but FW pacharisu with the pickup ability it will pick up evolution stones, same thing with munchlax. Just got to have the pickup ability. I had a team of five Pachirisu pickup ability and one bibarell and got all stones within an hr
Wait ... what? I'm going to have to look into that! I've got my Luxio on my team right now, but I just might have to swap it out now!
@@seamarie3111 do it :)
@@razorgash6953 I think I just might! Fortunately, I checked and the one and only Pichirisu I have has the pick up ability. Honestly, as cool as my Luxio, now Luxray, is, it's kind of lost its cuteness factor from when it was Shinx. Pichirisu has that in spades, and I love the image of tiny little cute pokémon kicking the butts of bigger, more intimidating ones - like my Jiruchi versus Machoke. Zen headbutt for the win!
I love that you can get Drapion so much more earlier
A pokemon that I totally recommend is Ambipom, if u catch an aipom in the underground it can have fake out and run away ability, but when it evolves that ability becomes technician. Now imagine a Stab, technician boosted fake out, that is a 90 base power fake out, alongside with a stab technician double hit, that is 157,5 base power move because it hits 2 times. I used one and it defeated Cynthia's garchomp with a fake out and a double hit
Had an Azumarill in the back of my party since the 4th gym, wasn't planning on keeping it at first but it really surprised me with how good it was when the time came, glad to see it high on this list
I actually used an Alakazam on my team and the move set that I used for it was psychic, Shadow Ball, dazzling gleam, and grass knot
The only issue with houndoom is that when I caught mine it didn't have any fire moves because of its level, so I needed to wait for it to get fire fang at level 30
Yeah, me too. It was so annoying
You can buy flamethrower and the superstore
@@smartlibra2965 Yeah but that's halfway through the game, after the grass gym where you want a fire type move
Have you thought about doing a Top 10 buffed Pokémon list?
Any Pokémon that were weak or mediocre in the original Gen 4, but are stronger now due to better moves, new abilities, or even Typing changes.
Kricketune comes to mind because of how horribly awful it was in the original. Now, it’s cry isn’t the saving grace of this Pokémon because there’s more to like about it now than before.
That Pokémon will always be trash and annoying. Terrible choice
@@HockeyFan102 but it’s better than in Gen 4.
@@HockeyFan102 Strong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favorites
Clefable, Azumarill, Hippowdon (mostly very bulky pokemon tend to improve over generations)
@@facelessprofessor6827 amen!
I love my team rn. I’m about to head to over to victory road and I’m excited. I got Torterra, Crobat, Froslass, Rapidash, Lucario, and Mew (I have never had Mew before and knew I wanted a psychic type so I had too. Especially since you get it so early)
Yeeeeees, I’m using my favorite Drapion through my play though! So happy to see him on this list!!!
10. Drapion
09. Houndoom
08. Togekiss
07. Roserade
06. Snorlax
05. Gengar
04. Alakazam
03. Azumarill
02. Gardervoir
01. Clefable
Thank you good sir 🙂
Gengar is still one of my favorite all-time Pokémon
Hands down a Misgagius with Mystical Fire, Thunderbolt, Psychic and Shadow ball is the absolute BEST thing to have on your team.
That pure ghost typing is incredible coupled with its ability to tank plenty of hits and dish them out. It single handedly can sweep a third of the game in the first slot of your party. I should know owo 👌
Yea Im loooking for misdreavus but I can’t find her :///
Lucario is better
Really think gastrodon should have been included on this list.
Nah it's cool to me. Gastro felt underwhelming this game
X4 to grass destroys it
I rly liked it movepool and ability storm drain thou
I agree, I use it in my playthrough, it’s my best pokemon for most of the gym rematches and some E4. And the rest of my team is Togekiss, Roserade, Drapion, Infernape, and Luxray, most of those are on this list too but Gastrodon was absolutely amazing because of Earth Power alone, and then add Recover, Scald, and the easily obtainable Ice Beam, and its good bulk, it’s just too good for me not to use.
@@elijah7744s I have to agree with ya, I feel like the only real downside gastrodon is that it is slow but its all good ^.^
A Pokemon that I have a lot more respect for after playing Brilliant Diamond is Toxicroak. I didn't know it was as strong as it is until I used one. ( It didn't make my final team however, I replaced it with a Gallade after finding a Dawn Stone in the Grand Underground)
Gyarados is better than your entire top 4. Free to train because of group/catch XP change. And you get waterfall at level 21. Once you get dragon dance, everything that isn't Electric is toast
Hell yea
Pleased rate my Sinnoh team on how unique it is on a scale of 0-5:
- Verne the Torterra
- Alex the Luxray
- Count the Crobat
- Crash the Floatzel
- Hellbent the Houndoom
- Rampage the Rampardos
Ummm I'd say 2/5....
It's been a while since I played diamond Pearl but the coverage looks lacking and luxray is almost always used....
That been said use what you like
2.5
4/5, pretty unique nicknames
Nicknames? 3.5 out of 5.
Pokémon composition? 4/5
3/5 1 point for nick names
Rempardos isn't good
You dont need to go to wayward to get gible you can go underground right after byron and get it in the mid 40s
Same got him at 6 badge and was useful and powerful. Got to garchomp fast in about a 10 mins or so.
Togekiss: *it's free real estate*
Me after watching the vid: *nani?*
I had torterra, mismagius, rapidash, milotic, luxray, and areodactyl. Mismagius was a great special attacker with coverage and perish song for any pesky last pokes. Rapidash is highly underrated imo and carried me quite a lot. Flame charge and smart strike was such a big help early on.
Where did u get mismagius?
@@raulcantera6372 exclusive to pearl I believe instead of murkrow. Usually spawns in eterna forest.
I wound up tossing a Clefable onto my team a while back, I wanted to run a fairy type but I also wanted access to an ice move so I back tracked a bit to catch myself a Clefa & it evolved into Clefairy quite quickly because I spent hours running around with it on my team in the Grand Underground trying to dig up a moon stone, I found like three sun stones but no moon stone & my friend told me that he found a moon stone so I traded with him, gave him a sun stone & he gave me a moon stone. He put in on a Munchlax with pickup which was great because I utilized that to get myself a shiny stone earlier than I would have, I have a Roserade on my team, I was actually planning on using Carnivine as my grass type but I found a shiny Budew in Eterna Forest so I decided to slap that into my team instead. All the running around I did in the Grand Underground did wonders for friendship, I evolved my Budew really quickly as well, even tried to do an honor battle with my Roselia against Gardenia's Roserade, bad idea but hey, I wanted my Roselia to believe it was strong. My Roserade can wipe the floor with Gardenia's now but it's not fair if I tried, it is now level 50. I have 7 badges.
Wild Jigglypuff can also hold Moon Stone. I caught 42 in the Trophy Garden (got 2 shinies) and 2 of them were holding a Moon Stone.
PUT MAGNEZONE ON THIS LIST!!!!! Such an Amazing Pokemon.
3:00 Any good strategies to catching Houndoom quickly with regular Poke Balls in the Underground? I'm currently in Eterna City and every Houndoom I run into uses Roar to end the battle.
Putting him to sleep is a good Idea.
Taunt or masterball🤣🤣🤣
I caught mine right before the third gym. Since it doesn’t learn a fire move till level 30, I thought I’d just wait. If you don’t want to do that, you can use mean eyes, and employ some status inflictions.
Idk why but when they used roar for me it said “but it failed” a lot
I got lucky and got one with fire spin before gardenia too
Save before encountering it. If it uses roar, reload. It won't use it everytime. It is RNG based. I reloaded three times before I successfully caught. But it took me 4 Houndoom to figure that strategy out. 🤔
Clefable is likely my favorite part of Brilliant Diamond (along side Honchkrow). Of course, Kricketune is no slouch, either. And, now that I know how to make use of Houndoom and find an option in the Huge Power/Rollout Azumarill, my Shining Pearl Torterra team will be unbeatable.
That said, might you be interested in doing any Shiny Hunting streams? I'm up to 600 encounters for Dialga.
I got up to 1400 resets on Dialga. Got pretty high one night, was completely on autopilot and soft reset my shiny away 🥲
@@Hyper219
As of Wednesday, I'm on 1250. From now on, I'm doing my Shiny hunts either post-game or on different files so that I can enjoy the whole game (I really wanted to battle Cynthia with my boss Clefable before now).
*Kricketune
*No slouch
Pick one
I got my shiny turtwig on only 15 resets but shiny Palkia has yet to be seen 😞
In my opinion Azumarill and Joelteon are best choice especially jolteon speed is high and azumarill typings
Honestly i’ll rather wait til the 6th gym to get a gible than to go through the pain of getting cleffa and a moon stone. And that comes from someone who has a Milotic on his team.
You should make a team list using only gen 4 pokemon I'm actually surprised more people don't do this I always play the games using only their new Pokemon or the ones that were new when their gen came out specifically I think it's a really fun way to play
I do the same
Gallade was so strong as well. It has so many good matchups especially against team Galactic. Psychic/fighting is such a good typing in this game
Damn I couldn't find ralts in the gu, but I wanted one on my team so bad.
I was gonna run gallade instead of gardevoir but I didnt find a dawn stone in time. Still worked out tho bc I used calm mind/dazzling gleam to setup as a sweeper
@@MouthPeaceCorbett Same... I already wanted one in eterna city but couldn't get it. But then I found one afterwards.
@@lukehahm9147 Yeah I did the Pachirisu-Pickup-Tactic
Snorlax is amazing. In my playthrough, Snorlax crushed Lucien’s entire team.
I chose drapion as my false swiper, happy to hear that was a good decision
My pachirisu with pickup ability grabbed me a shiny stone at level 26 💞 highly recommend
Houndoom is my favorite mon of all time so I'm VERY happy it made the list! 🥰🥰🥰
He had okay love for the game. Early access to flamethrower to compensate and underground egg moves and sucker punch help make him viable to take up faster low defense enemies.
Dude my gyarados Saved my ass against Cynthia. Thanks to its dragon dance I used early on in the battle before facing her Garchomp, which I flattened with icefang. Was wise to have Gyarados 😅
You got your calender mixed up. December 5th falls on a Sunday...... So do you mean Saturday December 4th or Sunday December 5th. Outside of that awesome video as always.
Funny I’m here on Monday December 5th 2022
Fun fact: swimming is just flying in water and flying is just swimming in the air
I spent like 2 days in the underground mining for stones and a day looking trying to steal a moonstone from cleffa then just settled on togekiss. It never even occurred to just use azumarill to avoid days of a headache lol
Great video! I remember my dad raising a Clefable in Blue version. It's Body Slam used to mess my Mewtwo up. Keep in mind I was all attack attack attack lol. No Recover/Barrier/Amnesia.
Drapion was incredibly good in my play through especially post game
What is the type chart website that you used in the video? at 5:03
One reviewer complained about the music… I LOVE the updated music, because it’s still reminiscent of the original.
Fairy type has been my favourite ever since its release, and I must admit Gardevoir, Azumaril and Clefable are some super fun ones to use. altho I stuck to "1 pokemon of each type" in my original Diamond game, this time with the remakes I'm just gonna play pokemon I like, regardless of typing. it'll make the games more challenging, too!
“I love this fat boy”
Mystic, 2021
I played through this entire game and my team was pretty good it was
Infernape
Magnezone
Garchomp
Froslass
Honchkrow
Octilery
All of them were really good
Nice team
Weavile uses 3 Swords dances and sweeps Cynthia while using hardcore nuzlocke rules. Mine had a plus speed nature
What are hardcore nuzlocke rules ?
@@deoxyshd681 Normal Nuzlocke rules plus no items in battle, no overleveling the next gym leaders or elite 4’s ace, and playing on set mode.
OMG!!!! HE MENTIONED DRAPION!!!! YES!!!!!! LOVE YOU MYSTIC!!
I think Lucario should be in a top 10 don't you? Such a high spcl atk base stat for a fighting type is awesome
Mismagius deserves a shoutout. So much coverage. Been sweeping gyms with mine.
Lol I am glad you said the warning at the beginning because I was like haven't I watched this already?! haha
Cleffable is so versatile. She can moonblast spiritomb(who had no weakness in the originals), grass knot for west sea gastrodon, psychic for Roserade. Heck, she practically can cover for a lot of Cynthia. Finally, I used Cleffable to destroy Cynthia’s Garchomp. It took me a while to farm that moon stone from the underground but Def worth it🌘Cleffable be slay ✨
I just did a run purposely using mons I’ve never used before and Magnezone doesn’t get talked about enough. Dude hits like a freight train
He’s really good indeed, I use him too.
14:35 I got my Gabite to evolve into Garchomp just before I challenged the 7th Gym, of course I did grind a bunch to get it (and Lucario) to be the same level as the rest of my team (and I might be a bit over leveled) but it is possible if you really want to use it (like I did)
I am rocking the late game team… Togekiss, Drapion, Milotic, Mamoswine, Lucario, and Gallade. Let me know what you think.
What's your moveset and nature on gallade I'm not liking him that much
My final team was, Torterra, Crobat, Azumarill, Gardevior, Magmortar and Lucario. All around level 60 and I beat the Elite 4 and Cynthia no problem
I ran torterra, gardevoir, floatzel, staraptor, togekiss, and luxray. Almost beat cynthia first try, but I got a quick claw to give gardevoir priority for setting up calm mind and that did it. Torterra was easily my MVP tho, it took out half of Cynthia's team for me
@@lukehahm9147 I found Torterra to be the best on my team too! Easily able to beat most of what she had
Out of this list, I’m already running Houndoom & Alakazam 🙌🏼
Tip for shiny and dawn stone. Catch a pachirisu with pickup ability. Youll get one soon enough
Azumarill so underrated. I had Azu in almost all my competetive teams since release of fairy type.
Don't sleep on hipowden that pokemon is a beast especially if ya want a ground type instead of grinding out a gible to get garchomp
I honestly just wanted Houndoom because I love dog Pokemon and normally do playthroughs with an Arcanine. I haven't used a Houndoom since Platinum so I thought why not for the nostalgia trip? And wow, did I make a great pick. Houndoom WRECKS in this game.
Where do you get Houndour?
@@TheCosmicFailure in the Grand Underground you can find Houndoom! They're a rare spawn in certain places but I've found them to be somewhat common for a rare spawn.
@@slackerofhell Do you have to have a certain number of badges?
@@TheCosmicFailure I think it's available as soon as you get the Explorer Kit. So technically you could get one before your second badge if you wanted. I think I got mine after I beat Gardenia though.
Anybody that's played pokemon go knows what a menace Azumaril is
I almost always use the infernape/staraptor/floatzel/luxray/lucario/garchomp team, but wanted to switch it up this time and not use any of those. I used
Torterra
Gardevoir
Gastrodon
Toxicroak
Gligar (wish razor fang wasn't post-game :/)
Froslass
Not necessarily the best but been enjoying it!!
I don't know why Staraptor isn't on the list but I am not the expert here. Maybe because togekiss is overall better Staraptor because of Fairy type or something.
I just cheese double team with staraptor. It’s hilarious
I beat BD with Infernape, Staraptor, Luxray, Drapion, Floatzel, and Abomasnow. Although Cynthia nearly kicked my ass to a point I had no choice but to revive and heal until she finally stopped using full restore and recover on her Milotic. Then it took a couple ice beams, revives and hyper potions to beat her Garchomp with Abomasnow
The moment you need to use healing items means your team did not actually beat her.
@@lokekennee8850 that's true, but I didn't have any other choice and didn't anticipate her Milotic to be that much of a pain with it's high defenses, and the recover move.. especially considering that I had 2 pokemon with type advantage against it
@@connergillott6154 Ye the flame orb is a problem.
The first thing I said when I saw drapion was 'It has arms for ears' I can't get past that.
I'm digging the grand underground, 2/3 of my team is from there:
Mamosine
Gallade
Houndoom
Altaria
Rosearade
Empoleon
This is actually one of if not my favorite team I’ve seen someone use! Nice job!
That’s a good team
I’m using empoleon as well. The penguin ‘mon looks so regal. I love it.
I never thought I’d use Roserade in my roster for the main story, but like in BDSP it’s OP af once you level it up.
Adding the Fairy type really helped roserade. You get dazzling gleam from a store very early. Its crazy.
That is fancy and all best team is still
Monke
Garchomp
Togekiss
Magnezone
Gengar
Gyarados
Crazy enough this is my team I just use snolax and Gardevoir
@@treveoneley3610 I’ve used Gardevoir and Gallade far more times than I care to count, followed closely by Drapion, hence now Gengar, which turned out to be just as awesome. Sinnoh got some good mons.
@@lokekennee8850 yeah I actually never use any of these Pokémon in a play through besides Infernape (my first ever Pokémon) when I do a second run I’ll try gallade I always like it mega
@@treveoneley3610 It’s sad that they discontinued megas.
Wish there was more detail to some of the attacks, like for example Leaf Attacks doesn't show leafs like some earlier games. It only shows a green slash
Alakazam (or gengar) is not easy if you don't have friends, two consoles or a friend who have nintendo switch.
Stopped in to see who I should run… talked about it being hard to get a moonstone which I got on my first underground pull. Welp clefable, welcome to the team
When I played Platinum, Gastrodon and even Drifblim were MVPs on my team. So if I ever get this game(hopefully on sale later)they'll be on my team.
Drifblim is absolutely busted in these games thanks to being able to learn Strength Sap via move relearner
I'm playing Pokemon Platinum on my old DS and I am determined to use a Roserade on my team (save for against Candice unless I'm positive I can out speed her), especially against the elite 4 since she can handle most of Bertha's team, especially her Whiscash. My question is, since she'll probably learn petal dance before I find a shiny stone, which move should I delete? I want to keep poison spikes since that could help in the long run, and I think giga drain is vital since it will save my potions so which would you, a Roserade fan, delete? Growth, which increases its already sizeable special attack, or stun spore, which slows down the opponent and potentially gives you a extra turn to attack? Not to mention it's usefulness in catching wild pokemon without the potential for killing them like poison or burns. I would appreciate any advice you can give. I've also decided to go with Gastrodon over gyarados since, as a ground type, it can help against Aaron's drapion. Since the fairy type didn't exist in Gen 4, spiritomb doesn't have any real weakness - any suggestions on dealing with Cynthia's?
Drapion with scope lens and sniper for ability is OP. Once it reaches max happiness cross poison and night slash will have a 100% crit chance as long as it’s carrying scope lens.
what other moves did you run on drapion?
@@Sh3fy Ice fang and rock slide, but since moves with increased crit chances will crit 100% I basically only clicked cross poison and night slash
Oh wow! These Pokémon are not usually in any of my parties at all starting a game or even in the mid way point or to the elite! Wow! Thanks for this video. I just subbed. I bought the shinning pearl last night. Lol 😆 just started. Still love it already 😁
Infernape is the best among starters. He can learn a diverse attack typing. 🥰
I taught my infernape grass knot because I didn’t have a grass type 🤣
I know this may not be a popular opinion, but I genuinely think BDSP are my favourite or best remakes so far. Definitely not my favourite pokemon game (black and white). But it is still very good. I also love how they brought back ball capsules, and they stuck mostly to the original games without any major change and this is coming from someone who didn't play the og games. This is just my opinion tho so hopefully I don't get attacked for it lol
What should i choose beetwen the fire starter or water starter, in pearl. i have played with Turtwig. if i got it right it is not a lot of water and fire types
Most people would say go with the fire type but I think you should just use your favourite. If you can't choose then the one that would probaly be recommend the most is the fire type
I was reading online you can’t get shiny underground… but I could be wrong.. also do I need to beat the elite four to unlock the evolution stones underground???
I don't think that you can find a shiny stone in the Grand Underground by mining. Every site I looked don't say that you can find it there.
I used Gardevoir and Azumarill in Alpha Sapphire, and they absolutely dominate the game (with Blaziken and Roserade as well)