@@legendarystormmartialartsg3573 I also had a very weird dream last night about Hawlucha evolving into a Legendary Pokemon. It was Psychic/Fighting type for some reason
@@legendarystormmartialartsg3573I mean dragons are generally thought of to be super powerful so it’s not surprising at all that most of them are dragons
I think Goodra just needed the water typeing , little extra love and I bet you that would have made a difference . Maybe 10 less base attack for 10 more special to really get crazy but at least have that second typing
i think that hisuian goodra is the optimal typing that it should’ve been, starting off. it’s fine that it’s slow, because its whole design is that it’s bulky compared to other Psuedo’s. Being steel adds a great defense typing and helpful with STAB against Fairy.
It's sad to see both Garchomp and Metagross low in this list. But I'm happy that Baxcalibur is that high since it honestly grew on me after a couple months of SV.
Actually the two strongest pseudo legendary are Garchomp and Salamence. Metagame history is there to be seen. I don't know on which bases these rankings are made.
I've been playing since red/blue/yellow and I have always been able to depend on Dragonite. I know there's better options out there but, I'll always pick my mon.
I went through most of Shield without knowing Dragapult existed, then caught a Drakloak in a raid after the eighth gym. One trip to Serebii later and it was an instant add to my then incomplete team, as I had been unable to decide on a permanent sixth member. I named her Stormfly because I couldn’t think of any undead dragons to name her after instead, and the amount of weight she pulled in the Champion Cup and on was enough to endear me to the line, even if I was dumb enough to ignore Dragon Darts. She even won me my battle with Leon, using Phantom Force to stall out his Charizard’s Gigantamax. I haven’t used Dreepy since because it comes so late in Galar and I just haven’t yet in Paldea, but I absolutely will one of these days.
Honestly when Legends Arceus came out, I wanted to see a past regional variant of Dragapult that is Dragon/Water Type since the Dreepy Dex entries always mention how when it was alive it chilled in deep ancient seas and even how its old behaviors and habits come back as vestiges. As for the next Pseudo Legendary, I have a few ideas of what I would want and what I could see GameFreak doing. I can see them making a Dragon/Psychic Pseudo because they both used to be the OP types of back in the day so they might pay homage to it since it is the 10th Generation. I could also see them doing something crazy like Dragon/Fairy since it's a typing that feels special in a way like it is chaotic and feels like they shouldn't go together like Fire/Ice and Ghost/Normal. Another thing they might do to sort of troll is give us a Dragon/Normal Pseudo and the reason I can see this is so that they can give an excuse to give them a move of every type, so like a jack of all trades Pseudo Legendary if that makes sense. The last one is what I would want and that would be like a pick your path Pseudo Legendary, to be more specific be able to pick between Fire, Water, and Grass types. So, it would be the same Pokémon, but you just choose to evolve it a certain way to have the type you want. Maybe through the evolution stones, and I don't wanna hear any "bUt ThEn iT wOuLdN't Be A pSeuDO-" like I know, I'm just saying it as an example. In the same idea I could see them making Dragon/Electric using the Thunder Stone, but it could also work as its own separate idea since Electric is a special typing, being that it is the type of Pokémon's mascot and all. Other than that, I guess they could appease fans and give us Bug/Dragon, but I wouldn't want the Pseudo Legendary to have that type personally. And of course, they could throw a curve ball and just not have a Dragon Type Pseudo again, but yea those are my thoughts. Anyone else have ideas they'd like to share; I mostly just mentioned types and not any concepts so perhaps you can give a concept to one of the ideas for the types I gave.
i like your ideas, i just wish pseudo’s weren’t always dragon types. give me a fire dark or poison pseudo please if you ever played the Inclement Emerald ROM hack, the author made Vikavolt an extremely fast special attacking Pseudo. i used it heavily in that rom hack and it was actually nutty, because it was pretty frail but it’s stat build was purposely a glass cannon, and being an electric type really helped. it was essentially a slightly slower more accessible Regieleki.
@@ramonperez5365 I know what you mean, my personal pick for a non dragon pseudo legendary would be Dark/Ghost. They’re my two favorite typings but also that used to be known as the “no weakness” typing so it just feels odd we never got a rather powerful Dark/Ghost type. We got Sableye and Spiritomb, we could stand to get something with better stats.
As someone whose second favorite Pokemon is the walking supercomputer that has psychic powers, it was painful, but not unexpected to see Metagross as low as it was. It was a ridiculously good threat in gen 6/7 ubers when mega, but sadly hasn't been amazing since. Won't stop me from using him as a skill check online when Indigo Disk releases though.
Metagross with mega was a force to be recognized, not only it was fast and hit like a truck but it had lots of coverage, Steel/Ground/Rock moves are extremely good offensively
10 years and we haven't had a Fairy-Type Pseudo yet. 💀😭 It'd be a perfect excuse to give us a Dragon/Fairy-Type that's not permanently locked in Generation 6 forever on Mega Altaria.
I personally think in this 6v6 SV format is like this 1.) Baxcalibur 2.) Dragonite 3.) Dragapult 4.) Kommo-o 5.) Garchomp 6.) Salamence 7.) H - Goodra 8.) Hydreigon 9.) Tyranitar 10.) Metgaross 11.) Goodra
Baxcalibur is awesome I used it on my main Scarlet team and its got an awesome design and typing by far the best Pseudo Legendary we have had it years and my favourite of all Pseudo Legendaries
Not gonna lie, I wish dragalge was instead the pseudo, I mean typing wise already is so good, Poison Dragon, and a little bit more buff and changes in move pool and it would've been alot better than goodra
I haven't played the newer gens, I'm an old school pokemon player, but Salamance will always be the poster for Dragons and Tyrannitar will always be the King of the PokeMonsters
I think Dragonite might be the only pseudo legendary that I have actually used and raised it to level 100 and that was only recently. The others were sort of on my post game teams
I ran an Assault Vest Goodra which is basically immortal against special attacks because of it;s natural high spd. Basically, any special attacking fairy type will lose to Goodra running Sludge Wave. Also ran the Gooey ability which slows down the speed of mons who hit it with physical attacks. Goodra has both respectable HP and Special attack with great coverage and decent speed. Not so sure about it being at the bottom of this list... I've even beat Garchomp with it 1 v 1 (ones that don't run Outrage) at times.
Personally I'd swap Baxcalibur and Dragapult, mainly because I feel like Pult's movepool is actually a bit lacking. Running a physical set is hard, because all you really have available is dragon darts and u-turn, then sucker punch which is almost useless because you already outspeed everything. And then Pult's special attack, while good, isn't amazing. What it lacks in offensive power, it more than makes up for in utility though. Baxcalibur on the other hand has all the tools it needs to succeed with using it's attack stat. Good boosting moves, an amazing ability that makes it immune to burn, some of the best offensive stab around, surprisingly good coverage for it's weaknesses, and priority if you ever even end up needing it. Theres a reason that Baxcalibur, as far as I can remember, is the only pseudo banned to ubers, and is still performing amazingly, which is a testament to how great it really is due to the massive powercreep of gen 9, with the Bikes, chi-yu, chien-pao, paradoxes, origin creations, urshifu, annhiilape, and the 2 typed Arceus all running around. Just my perspective though, in the end it all depends on what role you need filled in your team
Running Scald and Toxic on the same guy is redundant. Also given that Salamance is a Dragonite with a better stat distribution, better abilities, and far more move options, it makes absolutely no sense for Dragonite to be higher on this list. Also you need to drop the T-Tar prejudice, it was almost amazing but never was as good as this channel makes him out to be, seeing as the most common types offensively always crushed it; he was never at the level that Garchomp, Salamence and Metagross were at. I always forget every time I come back to this channel to catch up that the videos are top tier, but always act off too much bias and ideallic theory that doesn't consider that you can't have all of these things at once and/or history shows it not to be true.
I will never not use Garchomp. I consider it my signature due to my experiences with it in the battle tree. Not to mention when I go up against friends they already know I’m winning.
Dnite is definitely inflated by Tera Normal. Its performance is likely to tank in the next gen without it. I also just wish they'd give Ttar Nasty Plot already, but I reckon it could be getting its crown back when part two of the DLC comes out anyway
I've been saying this for a while: Hydreigon in Gen 5 was amazing. Unfortunate Speed, and a weird Attack/Special Attack split when almost all of its good attacks are Special, but still amazing stats... and before Gen 6, it had 4 pretty standard weaknesses to 6 resistances and 2 immunities. Gen 6 introduced Fairy typing which screws both of Hydreigon's types, both in attack and defense.
Kalosian goodra and hisuian goodra are both tied in cutest dragon as well as cutest pseudo legendary since while hisuian goodra has the better type for competitive battles kalosian goodra has the better shiny and not only would I hug back with all four limbs if either form gave me one of their slimy hugs the only thing that would top it would be both forms kalosian on one side hisuian on the other giving me a double slimy hugs squeezed between their slimy bodies
Funny that Goodra has no mega form when they introduced Mega evo and Fairy typing on the same gen where it was first introduced. It would've been better if they at least gave it a dual typing (Fairy/Dragon or Poison/Dragon) so it could stand out even without Mega.
What’s the windwaker song in the background? Edit: dude you’re awesome for having EVERY song you used in the description, most people don’t do that for just low volume background music! Along with the great, non biased, stat revealing and generation specific information, video, earned a fat subscribe
Man dragonite was my favorite pseudolegendary and I never thought it would change until dragonpulte which is now my favorite. I accidentally got him early in the game he premiered and just kept him because he looked cool. Boy was I naive and he became my sweeper and go to mon since
As a Dragon Trainer, it makes me so sad that the loveable derps that are Goodra and Hydreigon are so low on the list. However, Dragon-types are how I END a run. Whenever I start a new game I am a Ghost-Trainer, so I am so happy that my loveable, derpy "I love my baby missiles" Dragapault made the top spot.
A little disappointed that Hisuian Goodra was not included, either as its own entry or as an addendum to Goodra itself. I’m sure that one would have ranked pretty high.
Kommo-o can literally run Belly Drum along with Drain Punch with Iron Head or Iron Tail to help with Fairy Types. P.S It could run Iron Defence ,Body Press ,Belly Drum and Drain Punch for a guaranteed sweep.
What's a great move set for a timid Tyranitar in generation 3 that appears to have good stats in special defense? and EV spread would really appreciate the help for competitive play .
i use to run goodra in competitive with sludge wave or bomb (dont remember) dragon pulse thunderbold and flamethrower i believe keeping its stats kinda mid defense wise expect high hp and it did the job well
Great video as always but just my two cents here, you said to make it fair so you didn't include the Mega and Z-Moves which is great but then you include the current gen gimmick the Terastalization which some of these Pokémon benefits more than the others which is what the Mega and Z-Crystal also do. If you're including the current gen gimmick, why not include the previous gen gimmick also to show the true weakest to strongest pseudo legendary? Or exclude the Terastalization gimmick as well and just go with the base only?
It was too much to deny Shadow Claw to Dragapult; i cam understand Poltergeist, the same reason they didn't give that move to Aegislash, or Heavy Slam to Metagross, Dragon Dance to Garchomp, Moonblast to Togekiss, to prevent it being OP, but this is ridiculous.
I have a Tyranitar in Shield who I mainly use as a defensive pokemon and support. He sets up a sandstorm for my Zyguarde and mainly will just be a nuisance because of how many hits he can take maybe up to 3 dazzling gleams.
damn. 8th gen Galar dex i ran a sap sipper goodra that was actually decent ! with dmax i can cover my bad defense with max steelspike and i would constantly raise my physical attack with max knuckle and Petal Blizzard from Cherrim with the ability boost as well. weak defensive stats but after one turn became very very strong !! my current 9th gen idea is to repeat this combo in a TR with contrary Lurantis and Hisuian Goodra . goodra will be able to curse in the TR an will have sap sipper while lurantis does superpower/petal blizzard
Just saying hydregion should be way more interesting and powerful then it actually is it’s a hydra that can use each of its heads can be used to enhance its ranged power has the single greatest special attack stats of the pseudo legendarys by far yet some how has less special coverage then god damn tyranitar the 4th weakest special attacker of the pseudos with only metagross garchomp and boxcaliber ( in that order) being weaker then it plus tyranitar isn’t a dragon which one of its shticks is being able to harness the elemental energy of many types yet for some reason hydregion can’t learn ice beam something that dragonnite and salamence can do are you telling me that the varietible hydra can’t do that why not give it energy ball and aura sphere With the slight smidge of rage fueled darkness after all aura sphere was commonly used by togekiss and lucario and the both of them have an aura of purity around them so by sheer contempt fueled power hydregion should be able to make an aura of its own if slightly corrupted right it is more eh hateful compared to even other pseudo legendarys
I don't get why the Eeveelution lines are referred to as dogs. Their designs take way more from cats and rabbits than dogs. Espeon is a literal bakeneko.
Must admit i have personally had nothing but problems with my (several) dragonite's, and if komo-o doesnt have its gimmick (terra or z-crystal) then I dont think its really better than metagross or hydeigon. if mega's were still a thing i know metagross would be above komo-o. speaking from my experiences i can say that Garchomp, Metagross and Salamence are always consistant and worthy choices, whereas *most* of the other pseudo's have to fill a particular role ie. sandstream. i havent played much with dragapult or baxcalibur so forgive my knowledge there
Goodra would be at least good enough if a physical assault vest gets released. Defense x1.5 but user can't use status moves or weakening certain types of moves
Baxcalibur for me... It's number 1, I can't justify Dragapult beating it. With proper set up, Baxcalibur destroyed 90% of the OU Meta it was up against, and unless you brought wickedly strong stall, Bax was going to bowl you over. If boosted, there was only 1 Pokémon that could outspeed a Jolly DD boosted Bax, and that was Funnily enough, Scarf Dragapult. However, putting scarf on Pult could still fail, if Bax got in on a Tailwind set up, and get a total of 900 speed with Tailwind and DD. Bax needs only one Icicle Spear to decimate Pult, Tera types aside. Bax is still thriving in Ubers today, and has made other Dragon types TERRIFIED to swap in, or even see usage. And, let's not forget, Baxcalibur was the sole reason it dropped Garchomp to UU. When Bax got banned, Chomp came back. It's going to be a very long time before we ever see a reign of Terror over OU like Baxcalibur. It was the new and improved Gen 4 Garchomp that, with the proper boosts, cracked the Meta wide open. I can respect Pult having a HUGE niche and be very good, even with ghost type to spin-block, but Bax just had more game impact.
Dragapult could have been better if they just made it a glass canon. Take 5 from each defense stat and hp. Give 10 to attack and 5 to special attack and start sweeping with them d dance sets and will o+hex
I know this isn't the focus of the video, but I'm getting so sick of every Pseudo being Dragon. I get it, Dragon's are strong and fierce, but surely at 9 Gens in we have enough strong Dragons. Do another Tyranitar/Metagross. Change up the dang formula.
Hey Mystic, I enjoyed your video. I do have one question for you and anyone who wants to answer: If you could design your own pseudo-legendary, what would it be in terms of type and what would its stats be?
@@MysticUmbreonwhat if you could design your ideal mon of each category? Starter, pseudo, fossil, baby, trade-item, stone evo, regional bird/bug/mammal, etc
I think Metagross is this low because when it was designed, Steel type was still walling Ghost and Dark, which in Gen 6 brought Metagross from 2 weaknesses (very good) to 4 weakness (rather bad for a bulky mon) If you ranked only Dragonite/Tyranitar/Metagross/Salamence/Garchomp/Hydreigon up to Gen 5 Metagross would be in the top3
1. Salamence/Metagross 2. Garchomp/Hydreigon 3. Tyranitar (Based on VGC World Championship Finals wins) The pros prove their worth at the world stage. I don't care about the opinions of TH-camrs who just have their biased opinions. I see facts and results. 😊😅
in all honesty, Hisuian Goodra is probably better than Metagross. I prefer Metagross as a mon, but the Dragon-Steel typing is an amazing typing both for offense and defense, couple that with it's stupidly efficient stat spread and access to moves of like 12 types, and Curse. This mon can be such a menace to society and is really hard to break sometimes if it had a healing move that isn't Rest it'd be even more of a threat. also Hydra to me is better than Mence cuz both have 4x weaknesses and ways to deal with them. Tera for Hydra is a godsend. Its just so versatile with it. Ground, Dark, Dragon, Fire, Steel, Water and Poison are all valid tera types for it. It's also an excellent Choice Scarf mon in a lot of situations. its speed is lacking but it is more of a menace than Mence most of the time.
My heart wants to scream at you, tell you Garchomp is best. Hell, look at its pre-evo. Gible deserves it, just for that face. But in my mind… I know it’s Dragapult…
For now, probably not. It didn't seem like a lot people were too interested based on the time and effort I put into the series. If not enough people are enjoying it, I'd rather put my time and effort into something I am going to enjoy doing as well as my audience.
We desperately need more pseudo Legendary Pokémon that aren’t Dragon type
We do, I'm baffled that Game Freak thought it was okay to continue this trend
@@legendarystormmartialartsg3573 I also had a very weird dream last night about Hawlucha evolving into a Legendary Pokemon. It was Psychic/Fighting type for some reason
@@legendarystormmartialartsg3573I mean dragons are generally thought of to be super powerful so it’s not surprising at all that most of them are dragons
What would be the type combo you'd want for it
@@thornelson1411 Fire/Fairy
I think Goodra just needed the water typeing , little extra love and I bet you that would have made a difference . Maybe 10 less base attack for 10 more special to really get crazy but at least have that second typing
I would’ve given Goodra Water/Poison
power whip goodra wants to keep its attack stat
Goodra would be amazing if it had a reliable recovery move. That’s it. It can already do everything else
i think that hisuian goodra is the optimal typing that it should’ve been, starting off. it’s fine that it’s slow, because its whole design is that it’s bulky compared to other Psuedo’s. Being steel adds a great defense typing and helpful with STAB against Fairy.
@@ramonperez5365 Steel/Dragon is one of the best type combinations ever in Pokemon
Baxcalibur grew on me so much. Currently my second favorite Pseudo behind Tyranitar
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My Baxcalibur, Icebox, was clutch in the last battle
@@BJGvideosicebox, I get that reference!
@@brandonhiatt2546 Reference? I just named him after an icebox. You know, an old refrigerator.
TTar enjoyer, good man.
Personally, I think Salamence should have been higher ranked, but I'd somewhat agree with the rest
After the Indigo Disk is released would be a great time to update the Top 10 Strongest and Weakest series (post Gen 9)
It's sad to see both Garchomp and Metagross low in this list. But I'm happy that Baxcalibur is that high since it honestly grew on me after a couple months of SV.
Actually the two strongest pseudo legendary are Garchomp and Salamence. Metagame history is there to be seen.
I don't know on which bases these rankings are made.
@@hornetscaleMetogross:now im done
@@hornetscalestrongest rn lol
@@ahkwaheart Yes, there are a lot of Mega Salamence and Dragapult played right now.
@@hornetscale not counting megas.
I've been playing since red/blue/yellow and I have always been able to depend on Dragonite.
I know there's better options out there but, I'll always pick my mon.
I went through most of Shield without knowing Dragapult existed, then caught a Drakloak in a raid after the eighth gym. One trip to Serebii later and it was an instant add to my then incomplete team, as I had been unable to decide on a permanent sixth member. I named her Stormfly because I couldn’t think of any undead dragons to name her after instead, and the amount of weight she pulled in the Champion Cup and on was enough to endear me to the line, even if I was dumb enough to ignore Dragon Darts. She even won me my battle with Leon, using Phantom Force to stall out his Charizard’s Gigantamax.
I haven’t used Dreepy since because it comes so late in Galar and I just haven’t yet in Paldea, but I absolutely will one of these days.
Dragapult is my all time favorite mon. Even as a gen wunner
Same here bro 🫡
Honestly when Legends Arceus came out, I wanted to see a past regional variant of Dragapult that is Dragon/Water Type since the Dreepy Dex entries always mention how when it was alive it chilled in deep ancient seas and even how its old behaviors and habits come back as vestiges. As for the next Pseudo Legendary, I have a few ideas of what I would want and what I could see GameFreak doing. I can see them making a Dragon/Psychic Pseudo because they both used to be the OP types of back in the day so they might pay homage to it since it is the 10th Generation. I could also see them doing something crazy like Dragon/Fairy since it's a typing that feels special in a way like it is chaotic and feels like they shouldn't go together like Fire/Ice and Ghost/Normal. Another thing they might do to sort of troll is give us a Dragon/Normal Pseudo and the reason I can see this is so that they can give an excuse to give them a move of every type, so like a jack of all trades Pseudo Legendary if that makes sense. The last one is what I would want and that would be like a pick your path Pseudo Legendary, to be more specific be able to pick between Fire, Water, and Grass types. So, it would be the same Pokémon, but you just choose to evolve it a certain way to have the type you want. Maybe through the evolution stones, and I don't wanna hear any "bUt ThEn iT wOuLdN't Be A pSeuDO-" like I know, I'm just saying it as an example. In the same idea I could see them making Dragon/Electric using the Thunder Stone, but it could also work as its own separate idea since Electric is a special typing, being that it is the type of Pokémon's mascot and all. Other than that, I guess they could appease fans and give us Bug/Dragon, but I wouldn't want the Pseudo Legendary to have that type personally. And of course, they could throw a curve ball and just not have a Dragon Type Pseudo again, but yea those are my thoughts. Anyone else have ideas they'd like to share; I mostly just mentioned types and not any concepts so perhaps you can give a concept to one of the ideas for the types I gave.
PLA only takes place about 150 years ago though so it's not gonna be super duper ancient
@@BJGvideos I didn’t mean it would be in Legends Arceus, but rather if we got another game like it that’s what I would’ve wanted to see.
i like your ideas, i just wish pseudo’s weren’t always dragon types. give me a fire dark or poison pseudo please
if you ever played the Inclement Emerald ROM hack, the author made Vikavolt an extremely fast special attacking Pseudo. i used it heavily in that rom hack and it was actually nutty, because it was pretty frail but it’s stat build was purposely a glass cannon, and being an electric type really helped. it was essentially a slightly slower more accessible Regieleki.
@@ramonperez5365 I know what you mean, my personal pick for a non dragon pseudo legendary would be Dark/Ghost. They’re my two favorite typings but also that used to be known as the “no weakness” typing so it just feels odd we never got a rather powerful Dark/Ghost type. We got Sableye and Spiritomb, we could stand to get something with better stats.
As someone whose second favorite Pokemon is the walking supercomputer that has psychic powers, it was painful, but not unexpected to see Metagross as low as it was. It was a ridiculously good threat in gen 6/7 ubers when mega, but sadly hasn't been amazing since. Won't stop me from using him as a skill check online when Indigo Disk releases though.
my favorite pokemon is metagross and i think he's still pretty good
Well he's good in vgc
@@ghostofmoredishesmorebitch1507 ok
Metagross with mega was a force to be recognized, not only it was fast and hit like a truck but it had lots of coverage, Steel/Ground/Rock moves are extremely good offensively
Metagross being second to last gave me a reality check about how much time has passed, how old we're all getting, and how much I miss my childhood
10 years and we haven't had a Fairy-Type Pseudo yet. 💀😭 It'd be a perfect excuse to give us a Dragon/Fairy-Type that's not permanently locked in Generation 6 forever on Mega Altaria.
I miss altaria & mawile
I personally think in this 6v6 SV format is like this
1.) Baxcalibur
2.) Dragonite
3.) Dragapult
4.) Kommo-o
5.) Garchomp
6.) Salamence
7.) H - Goodra
8.) Hydreigon
9.) Tyranitar
10.) Metgaross
11.) Goodra
Literally perfect ranking 👏🏽
Baxcalibur is awesome I used it on my main Scarlet team and its got an awesome design and typing by far the best Pseudo Legendary we have had it years and my favourite of all Pseudo Legendaries
But It was recently banned, It was really necessary? Probably, i noticed It has a lot to be very good.
Assault vest Tyranytar can even hold a focus blast which is incredible
Not gonna lie, I wish dragalge was instead the pseudo, I mean typing wise already is so good, Poison Dragon, and a little bit more buff and changes in move pool and it would've been alot better than goodra
I haven't played the newer gens, I'm an old school pokemon player, but Salamance will always be the poster for Dragons and Tyrannitar will always be the King of the PokeMonsters
I think Dragonite might be the only pseudo legendary that I have actually used and raised it to level 100 and that was only recently. The others were sort of on my post game teams
I raised in moon metagross to lv. 100
@@Vahria-2_Rivaha-4_ I love metagross, who definitely has one of if not the best shiny colour out of the pseudo legendaries
Salamence having hydro pump is the equivalent of spitting on the opponent
Don’t forget that dragapault is one of the best Pokemon designs. Period.
Yeetus the feetus
I have to disagree here
@@MythicAce218 designs are always subjective so it’s understandable that you don’t like it
@@yaya6195 well ofc. I was just saying I disagree is all
I ran an Assault Vest Goodra which is basically immortal against special attacks because of it;s natural high spd. Basically, any special attacking fairy type will lose to Goodra running Sludge Wave. Also ran the Gooey ability which slows down the speed of mons who hit it with physical attacks. Goodra has both respectable HP and Special attack with great coverage and decent speed. Not so sure about it being at the bottom of this list... I've even beat Garchomp with it 1 v 1 (ones that don't run Outrage) at times.
Quit coping. There are plenty of spdef mons who do it's job MUCH better.
It deserves it's rank.
Sylveon is my favorite mon, so this video made my day😂
LOL😂
My 2nd favorite Eeveelution actually lol.
@@MysticUmbreon Love your stuff! Thanks for chiming in!
Personally I'd swap Baxcalibur and Dragapult, mainly because I feel like Pult's movepool is actually a bit lacking. Running a physical set is hard, because all you really have available is dragon darts and u-turn, then sucker punch which is almost useless because you already outspeed everything. And then Pult's special attack, while good, isn't amazing. What it lacks in offensive power, it more than makes up for in utility though. Baxcalibur on the other hand has all the tools it needs to succeed with using it's attack stat. Good boosting moves, an amazing ability that makes it immune to burn, some of the best offensive stab around, surprisingly good coverage for it's weaknesses, and priority if you ever even end up needing it. Theres a reason that Baxcalibur, as far as I can remember, is the only pseudo banned to ubers, and is still performing amazingly, which is a testament to how great it really is due to the massive powercreep of gen 9, with the Bikes, chi-yu, chien-pao, paradoxes, origin creations, urshifu, annhiilape, and the 2 typed Arceus all running around. Just my perspective though, in the end it all depends on what role you need filled in your team
Running Scald and Toxic on the same guy is redundant. Also given that Salamance is a Dragonite with a better stat distribution, better abilities, and far more move options, it makes absolutely no sense for Dragonite to be higher on this list. Also you need to drop the T-Tar prejudice, it was almost amazing but never was as good as this channel makes him out to be, seeing as the most common types offensively always crushed it; he was never at the level that Garchomp, Salamence and Metagross were at. I always forget every time I come back to this channel to catch up that the videos are top tier, but always act off too much bias and ideallic theory that doesn't consider that you can't have all of these things at once and/or history shows it not to be true.
I will never not use Garchomp. I consider it my signature due to my experiences with it in the battle tree. Not to mention when I go up against friends they already know I’m winning.
Been using Goodra for the hisuian typhlosion Tera raid… have farmed it 15x times now and still haven’t fainted once
I'd love to see a pseudo legendary fire type
I wish in gen 10 we will get a dragon/fairy pseudo
Arcanine?
@@lorencefletcher2877Not a pseudo.
@@videos43334dhdjj774hna we need a bug legendary and non dragon pseudo
Hydreigon is one of the first WTF pokemon I ever saw. And never had a 5th gen team I didn't use it on.
I love that its design is based on a freaking tank lol. I always think of XYZ Dragon Cannon from early Yugioh when I see it lol!
@@MysticUmbreon EXACTLY
Dnite is definitely inflated by Tera Normal. Its performance is likely to tank in the next gen without it. I also just wish they'd give Ttar Nasty Plot already, but I reckon it could be getting its crown back when part two of the DLC comes out anyway
Or you know...the dark type punch since he gets every other punch to give him priority since they stripped pursuit for no reason
I love when he explains this video this is MY FAVORITE TH-camR
I freaking love pseudo legendaries
Baxcalibur wrecks omg! Absolutely love using it!!
I've been saying this for a while: Hydreigon in Gen 5 was amazing. Unfortunate Speed, and a weird Attack/Special Attack split when almost all of its good attacks are Special, but still amazing stats... and before Gen 6, it had 4 pretty standard weaknesses to 6 resistances and 2 immunities. Gen 6 introduced Fairy typing which screws both of Hydreigon's types, both in attack and defense.
Kalosian goodra and hisuian goodra are both tied in cutest dragon as well as cutest pseudo legendary since while hisuian goodra has the better type for competitive battles kalosian goodra has the better shiny and not only would I hug back with all four limbs if either form gave me one of their slimy hugs the only thing that would top it would be both forms kalosian on one side hisuian on the other giving me a double slimy hugs squeezed between their slimy bodies
Rememberinh the time Salamence was the second powerful treath that could erase all life as we know in the planet Earth, behind Mega Rayquaza
Funny that Goodra has no mega form when they introduced Mega evo and Fairy typing on the same gen where it was first introduced. It would've been better if they at least gave it a dual typing (Fairy/Dragon or Poison/Dragon) so it could stand out even without Mega.
I am still sad Haxorus isn't part of the club 😭 I always find myself using him over Garchomp
What’s the windwaker song in the background?
Edit: dude you’re awesome for having EVERY song you used in the description, most people don’t do that for just low volume background music! Along with the great, non biased, stat revealing and generation specific information, video, earned a fat subscribe
we support sylveon on her journey of gender exploration
No we don't ❤
Man dragonite was my favorite pseudolegendary and I never thought it would change until dragonpulte which is now my favorite. I accidentally got him early in the game he premiered and just kept him because he looked cool. Boy was I naive and he became my sweeper and go to mon since
Like how you played Cynthia's theme when talking about garchomp.
This might make a good short: so you think Sabrina will still be the strongest Kanto leader in a potential remake that includes Annihilape?
As a Dragon Trainer, it makes me so sad that the loveable derps that are Goodra and Hydreigon are so low on the list. However, Dragon-types are how I END a run. Whenever I start a new game I am a Ghost-Trainer, so I am so happy that my loveable, derpy "I love my baby missiles" Dragapault made the top spot.
A little disappointed that Hisuian Goodra was not included, either as its own entry or as an addendum to Goodra itself. I’m sure that one would have ranked pretty high.
I mean it was lol, 1:44
@@areallyshiftyguyW. O. W. Have no idea how I missed it lol
We definitely need more none Dragon type Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon in the future games.
If you sort them by how well they match up against Sylveon, then you can place Metagross at #1.
It really hurt seeing Metagross ending up so low
I kinda disagree
Please do the Gym Leaders, Elite Four, and Champions ranking redos next!
Kommo-o can literally run Belly Drum along with Drain Punch with Iron Head or Iron Tail to help with Fairy Types.
P.S It could run Iron Defence ,Body Press ,Belly Drum and Drain Punch for a guaranteed sweep.
Sap Sipper Goodra next to a H-Lilligant or Meowscarada using Petal Blizzard, gives some great pressure on the enemy team. It's a tank.
You did my goodra dirty. My poor happy slime dragon
What's a great move set for a timid Tyranitar in generation 3 that appears to have good stats in special defense? and EV spread would really appreciate the help for competitive play
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Depends if you want him as a pursuit, DD sweeper, or utility tar
We need pseudos from every type
Being ranked low among kings/queens, hey you're still royalty!
i agree that Kalos Goodra is the weakest. Pure Dragon just doesn't cut it amongst the others.
Using my dragapult to dragon dance sweep most of the league in sword was awesome
i use to run goodra in competitive with sludge wave or bomb (dont remember) dragon pulse thunderbold and flamethrower i believe keeping its stats kinda mid defense wise expect high hp and it did the job well
Great video as always but just my two cents here, you said to make it fair so you didn't include the Mega and Z-Moves which is great but then you include the current gen gimmick the Terastalization which some of these Pokémon benefits more than the others which is what the Mega and Z-Crystal also do. If you're including the current gen gimmick, why not include the previous gen gimmick also to show the true weakest to strongest pseudo legendary? Or exclude the Terastalization gimmick as well and just go with the base only?
Keep up the awesome work and videos
It was too much to deny Shadow Claw to Dragapult; i cam understand Poltergeist, the same reason they didn't give that move to Aegislash, or Heavy Slam to Metagross, Dragon Dance to Garchomp, Moonblast to Togekiss, to prevent it being OP, but this is ridiculous.
I think Fairy needs to be nerfed tbh
Can’t wait for best team with no restrictions after the indigo disk comes out!
I have a Tyranitar in Shield who I mainly use as a defensive pokemon and support. He sets up a sandstorm for my Zyguarde and mainly will just be a nuisance because of how many hits he can take maybe up to 3 dazzling gleams.
damn. 8th gen Galar dex i ran a sap sipper goodra that was actually decent ! with dmax i can cover my bad defense with max steelspike and i would constantly raise my physical attack with max knuckle and Petal Blizzard from Cherrim with the ability boost as well.
weak defensive stats but after one turn became very very strong !!
my current 9th gen idea is to repeat this combo in a TR with contrary Lurantis and Hisuian Goodra .
goodra will be able to curse in the TR an will have sap sipper while lurantis does superpower/petal blizzard
Every time I see Goodra talked about competitively it makes me sad
I’d love a water or fairy type pseudo next
Just saying hydregion should be way more interesting and powerful then it actually is it’s a hydra that can use each of its heads can be used to enhance its ranged power has the single greatest special attack stats of the pseudo legendarys by far yet some how has less special coverage then god damn tyranitar the 4th weakest special attacker of the pseudos with only metagross garchomp and boxcaliber ( in that order) being weaker then it plus tyranitar isn’t a dragon which one of its shticks is being able to harness the elemental energy of many types yet for some reason hydregion can’t learn ice beam something that dragonnite and salamence can do are you telling me that the varietible hydra can’t do that why not give it energy ball and aura sphere With the slight smidge of rage fueled darkness after all aura sphere was commonly used by togekiss and lucario and the both of them have an aura of purity around them so by sheer contempt fueled power hydregion should be able to make an aura of its own if slightly corrupted right it is more eh hateful compared to even other pseudo legendarys
I don't get why the Eeveelution lines are referred to as dogs. Their designs take way more from cats and rabbits than dogs.
Espeon is a literal bakeneko.
Must admit i have personally had nothing but problems with my (several) dragonite's, and if komo-o doesnt have its gimmick (terra or z-crystal) then I dont think its really better than metagross or hydeigon. if mega's were still a thing i know metagross would be above komo-o. speaking from my experiences i can say that Garchomp, Metagross and Salamence are always consistant and worthy choices, whereas *most* of the other pseudo's have to fill a particular role ie. sandstream. i havent played much with dragapult or baxcalibur so forgive my knowledge there
dragapult and baxcalibur are good generalists as well. raw speed/power respectively.
Bax is kinda broken with losded dice scale shot icicle spear but snowveil is what truly pushed it over the edge
My opinion from weakest to strongest (11 goodra) (10 hisuian goodra) (9 kommo-o) (8 dragonite) (7 hydreigon) (6 tyranitar) (5 garchomp) (4 baxcalibur) (3 metagross) (2 salamence) (1 dragapult)
I’m not sure who’s my favorite pseudo legendary. It’s gotta be either Dragonite or Tyranitar.
I personally don't like Dragonite design.
It’s possible it’s just nostalgia.
As someone that ran physical goodra, dont run curse
Goodra would be at least good enough if a physical assault vest gets released.
Defense x1.5 but user can't use status moves or weakening certain types of moves
Metagross still in my top fav mons doe, despite you doing him dirty (fairly) here.
Pretty good ranking.
I have 6 of these: Tyranitar, Metagross, Garchomp, Hydreigon, Kommo-o, and Dragapult.
We desperately need more pseudo legendary pokemon
Yeah you're tripping with Metagross he has always been a beast I'd put him over Kommo-o, Baxcalibur and Hydriegon
Great video
ttar with +2 ddance, rockslide and equake one shots everything in this list
How do boots go on all these Pokemon? Especially the ones with no feet
LOL that is an excellent question!
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Counterpoint: Throat Chop
Baxcalibur for me... It's number 1, I can't justify Dragapult beating it. With proper set up, Baxcalibur destroyed 90% of the OU Meta it was up against, and unless you brought wickedly strong stall, Bax was going to bowl you over. If boosted, there was only 1 Pokémon that could outspeed a Jolly DD boosted Bax, and that was Funnily enough, Scarf Dragapult. However, putting scarf on Pult could still fail, if Bax got in on a Tailwind set up, and get a total of 900 speed with Tailwind and DD. Bax needs only one Icicle Spear to decimate Pult, Tera types aside. Bax is still thriving in Ubers today, and has made other Dragon types TERRIFIED to swap in, or even see usage.
And, let's not forget, Baxcalibur was the sole reason it dropped Garchomp to UU. When Bax got banned, Chomp came back.
It's going to be a very long time before we ever see a reign of Terror over OU like Baxcalibur. It was the new and improved Gen 4 Garchomp that, with the proper boosts, cracked the Meta wide open. I can respect Pult having a HUGE niche and be very good, even with ghost type to spin-block, but Bax just had more game impact.
Dragapult could have been better if they just made it a glass canon. Take 5 from each defense stat and hp. Give 10 to attack and 5 to special attack and start sweeping with them d dance sets and will o+hex
I know this isn't the focus of the video, but I'm getting so sick of every Pseudo being Dragon. I get it, Dragon's are strong and fierce, but surely at 9 Gens in we have enough strong Dragons. Do another Tyranitar/Metagross. Change up the dang formula.
I want a clever fairy pseudo honestly or maybe one of the weaker typings like poison
Dragonite will always be my #1
Hey Mystic, I enjoyed your video.
I do have one question for you and anyone who wants to answer:
If you could design your own pseudo-legendary, what would it be in terms of type and what would its stats be?
Because you mentioned that, I want to do a video about that in the future!
@@MysticUmbreonwhat if you could design your ideal mon of each category?
Starter, pseudo, fossil, baby, trade-item, stone evo, regional bird/bug/mammal, etc
@@gameinsane4718 I've seen other creators do this, and I would love to do something like this!
Hey Mystic, I appreciate your comment.
I also have to ask about Eeveeloutions for the types that haven't benn covered.@@MysticUmbreon
I think Metagross is this low because when it was designed, Steel type was still walling Ghost and Dark, which in Gen 6 brought Metagross from 2 weaknesses (very good) to 4 weakness (rather bad for a bulky mon)
If you ranked only Dragonite/Tyranitar/Metagross/Salamence/Garchomp/Hydreigon up to Gen 5 Metagross would be in the top3
I prefer ttar over garchomp only because I grew up with gen 1+2 but that with flygon is amazing
I still don't get why goodra isn't part poison type
You’re good in my book long as goodra’s last
1. Salamence/Metagross
2. Garchomp/Hydreigon
3. Tyranitar
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The pros prove their worth at the world stage. I don't care about the opinions of TH-camrs who just have their biased opinions.
I see facts and results. 😊😅
Biased opinions can give you different perspectives.
Dragapult appreciation
in all honesty, Hisuian Goodra is probably better than Metagross. I prefer Metagross as a mon, but the Dragon-Steel typing is an amazing typing both for offense and defense, couple that with it's stupidly efficient stat spread and access to moves of like 12 types, and Curse. This mon can be such a menace to society and is really hard to break sometimes if it had a healing move that isn't Rest it'd be even more of a threat.
also Hydra to me is better than Mence cuz both have 4x weaknesses and ways to deal with them. Tera for Hydra is a godsend. Its just so versatile with it. Ground, Dark, Dragon, Fire, Steel, Water and Poison are all valid tera types for it. It's also an excellent Choice Scarf mon in a lot of situations. its speed is lacking but it is more of a menace than Mence most of the time.
My heart wants to scream at you, tell you Garchomp is best. Hell, look at its pre-evo. Gible deserves it, just for that face. But in my mind… I know it’s Dragapult…
Did you stopped with the mono type teams for each game ? Will it ever come back?
For now, probably not. It didn't seem like a lot people were too interested based on the time and effort I put into the series. If not enough people are enjoying it, I'd rather put my time and effort into something I am going to enjoy doing as well as my audience.
I think metagross will rise again in this metagame
Yeah Dragapult is the best. The base speed is insane though and it can outspeed every pseudo legendary dragons
I love goodra, not for its viability, just cause their so cute