@@emperorcubone The same reason they make different versions at all. Same reason trade evolutions exist. To make players interact with each other if they want to get everything out of a game. Players interacting with other players leads to healthy community growth. Healthy community growth leads to a bigger fanbase. A bigger fanbase means more sales. If the games could be 100% completed without other players, I don't think pokemon would've even made it outside of japan.
One of the reasons I love Alola is the options it has for ALL the types even starting out providing early game choices for even "rarer" types such as Ice, Ghost, and even Dragon even before getting off the first island.
A word of caution regarding doing an Electric monotype run in Unova... whilst it's true that Emolga will render Clay's Ground Type attacks completely useless, I believe at least two of his Pokemon are also packing Rock type moves, which will definitely complicate matters. Immunity doesn't really count for much when you've got a squashed squirrel. That being said, if you have White 2, Elekid can learn Low Kick, a fighting move that will definitely help against Krokorok and Excadrill. Just don't lead with it, as Krokorok starts by immediately lowering your attack with intimidate.
Unrelated fact: Sometimes i do gameplays of Pokemon Infinite Fusions (but never posted them) where i try to beat the league without catching any Pokemon and when, WHEN i do this challenge in classic mode the one 'mon who is strong against Lt. Surge is... Quagsire
I've been playing through X and Y with Monotypes since January. For Electric, despite having Mega Ampharos and a Pikachu I bred to have Volt Tackle holding a Light Ball, the MVP was Emolga by being a Nuzzle, Encore, and Volt Switch spamming nuisance with a Ground immunity. The rest of the team was Lanturn, Heliolisk, and Rotom who can be any appliance he wants (and he's named after Technus from Danny Phantom).
Actually, in Gold and Silver, evolving Eevee into Jolteon and/or Pikachu into Raichu isn't viable for a playthrough because one cannot obtain a Thunder Stone until reaching Bill's Cottage in Kanto, and even then you can only get ONE per playthrough. In Crystal though, one can get Thunder Stones from one of the NPC trainers you can exchange phone numbers with.
Hey, another video idea haha..... Might be a bit epic, and largely pointless as it maybe doesn't need wholesale changes but have you ever considered re-writing the the type chart and altering the matchups? Obviously quite a few make sense (Fire strong against Grass, Water strong against Fire, Electric strong against Water etc....) so they would likely remain but I think I could be interesting to almost start again and see how different it looks if you were to re-do all the type matchups and then consider what the "best" type is (whatever best means to you). Just a thought. Thanks for the consistent content :)
@@emperorcubone Yeah that's true, a lot of them make sense so likely wouldn't change. I'd make Poison super effective against Water as one change. As I said before, I like your type videos so trying to think of some Type videos you haven't tackled yet. Thanks for replying, hope you're good.
I feel like including what could be hatched in another game and traded in with each area is a consideration. As if I have access to trading and another game I can and do prep before a new play trough with specially made eggs - focusing in egg moves typically but also for access to species unavailable to catch until later. This effects how I do new and challenge runs! Fun video thanks. Honestly I think scarlet and violet are best for electric only (especially with trading/eggs from another game or Pokémon home as options not JUST what you literally catch in an in game play through) I really love wattrel and kilawattrel and belibolt is strong. Even more with the DLC!
Well trading over options basically makes the whole idea pointless because then Kanto would be perfectly fine, getting to use Electabuzz and Zapdos from the very beginning!
@@emperorcubone no I mean level appropriate! Such as catching a mareep in silver to trade into crystal. I mean hatching a LV 1-5 and trading it into a new play trough. Giving more reasonable options not op or overleveled. Maybe breeding an egg move or a few good IVs but it’s traded in at LV 1-5. I’m sure I’m not the only person consistently doing this for playthroughts! Each game and region still has limits for this. Emerald is Helen DEX only BUT you have all options available right from the start in Ruby or Sapphire! It really effects things! Not overleveled OP certainly not legendary (typically) just babies!
Mono Electric in Platinum was rough, but with Bite and lots of patience, you can get through the first gym easy enough. Pachirisu gets Hyper Fang which definitely helps it with its damage output. Specific to Platinum, you can get Rotom after you beat Gardenia, which is another rough gym…if it weren’t for the fact that with only two Pokémon on your team, you actually outlevel her team by around 4-5 levels. Aside from that, Byron’s Steelix, Candace’s Mamoswine, Bertha’s Gliscor, and Cynthia’s Garchomp are the only actual threats in the game. Grass Knot can only do so much after all.
Huh… I had the impulse a few weeks ago to try a monotype run in Galar. For some reason I wanted to do Bug, because it felt like it would be a proper challenge. Honestly, aside from a few early hiccups (Nessa was unusually hard for my early team), it’s been pretty fun. I now realize it was probably your earlier videos in this series that planted the idea, most likely. Right now, the final team is looking to be Orbeetle, Heracross, Ribombee, Scolipede, Volcarona (already had Isle of Armor/Crown Tundra DLC, so why not), and Vikavolt, with Frosmoth, Drapion and Flygon as alternates (the latter two are in the Bug egg group, and look the part, so I made a concession for them. And Flygon has been a favorite since Emerald). Was hoping to add a Scizor to that lineup, but Weather Spawns have been very fickle.
"An interesting challenge is to use only one type" (paraphrased) *Me, so addicted to grass types that I went on a multi-hour quest for Tropius before doing anything else in S/V* "There's more than one type?"
Honestly, one fun thing I am thinking of doing is doing a Mono-Dragon Egg group run of Kalos. Essentially, run off of Lance's criteria of Dragon Pokemon.
I have only done two monotype runs, the first was rock types in heartgold and man was that a difficult challenge. Beating the elite four and lance with onix, graveler, corsola, sudowoodo, shuckle and a rhydon was rough.... The red fight went a lot smoother with tyranitar, golem, rhydon, kabutops, sudowoodo and aerodactyl. The second run i did was water types in sapphire just because i wanted an easy monotype run.
I love Blitzle because the first one I encountered was shiny, and somehow I'd managed to go through Gen 2, 3 and 4 without ever encountering a shiny until that point (besides Lake of Rage Gyarados)
I did do an electric type only run in firered a few years ago I cannot remember alot of it outside of patiently waiting until i beat koga just so I could complete my team and get my 1 team member that wasn't pure electric. I will also mention that you can get a voltorb in the route right before rock tunnel (route 10) in every kanto game except Yellow for some reason. So at least you don't just have a Pikachu from the start to Celadon city.
Yeah, since Voltorb wasn't a constant I figured I'd just throw it in with all the other "Power Plant" crowd since it's close enough anyway... (Plus it's not like Voltorb is gonna help much IN the Rock Tunnel anyway.)
@@emperorcubone would had been better if voltorb was earlier though like north of either cerulean or vermilion to have another electric type option in the early game as going to cerulean meant that if you didn't get Pikachu back in viridian forest you wouldn't be able to for a while. Or if they made voltorb/electrode electric/steel as they are sentient pokeballs.
Ive only ever done 1 mono type run.. Emerald with only Water Types.. but it's been probably 10 years since I've done that one. Maybe it's time for another mono Type run 🤔
I’m trying to monotype nuzlocke each gen. Gen 8 is the only generation where electric isn’t represented so for me the answer to this question is Gen 8. Gen 9 is rock, all types are represented but rock is only the crab titan and there’s a school teacher with rock so rock is best, Gen 3 is grass , Gen 2 is ground , and realistically Gen 1 is flying , with normal and bug also available but getting past brock sucks for normal , and bug doesn’t get a full team. I’ve yet to sift through 4,5,6 or 7
I feel with regions without a Pokemon available for a given type before the first gym, it would make sense that a person actually attempting this would try to get an egg traded to them with a Pokemon of an appropriate power level. I know this video is assuming no trades at all, but that is something worth saying still.
Well it depends because not all side games are the same; I mean Mystery Dungeon has a totally different structure to a mainline game, or Pokken. So I'm not sure how to begin judging those...
In which region could you create the most solid team for the rest of the playthrough before the first gym e.g. in Hoenn you can get ralts, wingull etc whereas in B2W2 you can get a riolu?
Obviously, DP Sinnoh. You have Luxray, Pachirisu, and Raichu. But you also have the breakout electric type stars, Octillery and Ambipom! So good you don’t need more than 5 except for your flyer. And the best flyer in DP Sinnoh is obviously the best flying type in the game, Chatot. Platinum gives you terrible options like Rotom, Electavire, and Magnezone. You don’t need any of them tho when you got the best electric types in all the Sinnoh games. They didn’t even give Volkner an Ambipom in Platinum. Can you even call that an electric gym?
I personally don’t understand why the Pokemon egg looks the exact same for all species in the games. Now, there are variations in the anime, but the characters are still stupid about guessing what Pokemon will hatch
That is funny when the egg have a clear Aipom hand on it or something and they just can't figure it out. But the short answer is it would take a lot work to change the egg animations for hundreds of Pokemon back in the day, and I'm sure they wouldn't want to now that it's over 1,000.
Pokémon Reborn, Rejuvination, and Desolation have unique ehg sprites for every Pokémon thag can hatch form an egg, and unique shiny eggs sprites as well
You know you can play Most of Legends Arceus as a Pacifist, right? You only need to fight in the Forced Battles, otherwise you can catch, avoid, and dodge/throw your way through the game >.> That's how I did it
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I will never understand the decision to remove Marepp from Crystal
Right? Why not have all the new Pokemon in your "definitive" version?
@@zacthesoda2416 I can get some Gen 1 Pokemon being exclusive but the 3rd version of a generation should have all the new Gen Pokemon.
It's why it's literally unplayable for me
@@emperorcubone The same reason they make different versions at all. Same reason trade evolutions exist. To make players interact with each other if they want to get everything out of a game. Players interacting with other players leads to healthy community growth. Healthy community growth leads to a bigger fanbase. A bigger fanbase means more sales. If the games could be 100% completed without other players, I don't think pokemon would've even made it outside of japan.
They were smoking crack
One of the reasons I love Alola is the options it has for ALL the types even starting out providing early game choices for even "rarer" types such as Ice, Ghost, and even Dragon even before getting off the first island.
A word of caution regarding doing an Electric monotype run in Unova... whilst it's true that Emolga will render Clay's Ground Type attacks completely useless, I believe at least two of his Pokemon are also packing Rock type moves, which will definitely complicate matters. Immunity doesn't really count for much when you've got a squashed squirrel.
That being said, if you have White 2, Elekid can learn Low Kick, a fighting move that will definitely help against Krokorok and Excadrill. Just don't lead with it, as Krokorok starts by immediately lowering your attack with intimidate.
Indeed, there are of course drawbacks which is why it's only in the middle of the pack...
Someone: *Wants to make an electric-type only team*
Brock and Giovanni: "You have no power here!"
Right? Not to mention Diglett's Cave.
Unrelated fact: Sometimes i do gameplays of Pokemon Infinite Fusions (but never posted them) where i try to beat the league without catching any Pokemon and when, WHEN i do this challenge in classic mode the one 'mon who is strong against Lt. Surge is... Quagsire
Man, I've been doing mono-types for EVERY type, in EVERY game, for years
so mr ground trainer wants us to use a mono electric team. interesting XD
I've been playing through X and Y with Monotypes since January. For Electric, despite having Mega Ampharos and a Pikachu I bred to have Volt Tackle holding a Light Ball, the MVP was Emolga by being a Nuzzle, Encore, and Volt Switch spamming nuisance with a Ground immunity. The rest of the team was Lanturn, Heliolisk, and Rotom who can be any appliance he wants (and he's named after Technus from Danny Phantom).
Technus!? Master of all thing mechanical?
Emolga is really handy to have around in Sky Battles for basically that very reason. Using those tactics, very little can touch it.
Actually, in Gold and Silver, evolving Eevee into Jolteon and/or Pikachu into Raichu isn't viable for a playthrough because one cannot obtain a Thunder Stone until reaching Bill's Cottage in Kanto, and even then you can only get ONE per playthrough. In Crystal though, one can get Thunder Stones from one of the NPC trainers you can exchange phone numbers with.
The later games will always have an advantage in this since they will have all the previous pokemon to choose from
If this becomes a series, I can’t wait for Ghost type 😍
Emperor Cubone these are very cool video never stop making them 👍👍👍
Hey, another video idea haha.....
Might be a bit epic, and largely pointless as it maybe doesn't need wholesale changes but have you ever considered re-writing the the type chart and altering the matchups? Obviously quite a few make sense (Fire strong against Grass, Water strong against Fire, Electric strong against Water etc....) so they would likely remain but I think I could be interesting to almost start again and see how different it looks if you were to re-do all the type matchups and then consider what the "best" type is (whatever best means to you). Just a thought.
Thanks for the consistent content :)
I did *Think about doing it before, but decided it would only be worth it if I were trying to add new types into the mix...
@@emperorcubone Yeah that's true, a lot of them make sense so likely wouldn't change. I'd make Poison super effective against Water as one change. As I said before, I like your type videos so trying to think of some Type videos you haven't tackled yet.
Thanks for replying, hope you're good.
I feel like including what could be hatched in another game and traded in with each area is a consideration. As if I have access to trading and another game I can and do prep before a new play trough with specially made eggs - focusing in egg moves typically but also for access to species unavailable to catch until later. This effects how I do new and challenge runs!
Fun video thanks.
Honestly I think scarlet and violet are best for electric only (especially with trading/eggs from another game or Pokémon home as options not JUST what you literally catch in an in game play through)
I really love wattrel and kilawattrel and belibolt is strong. Even more with the DLC!
Well trading over options basically makes the whole idea pointless because then Kanto would be perfectly fine, getting to use Electabuzz and Zapdos from the very beginning!
@@emperorcubone no I mean level appropriate! Such as catching a mareep in silver to trade into crystal.
I mean hatching a LV 1-5 and trading it into a new play trough. Giving more reasonable options not op or overleveled. Maybe breeding an egg move or a few good IVs but it’s traded in at LV 1-5. I’m sure I’m not the only person consistently doing this for playthroughts! Each game and region still has limits for this. Emerald is Helen DEX only BUT you have all options available right from the start in Ruby or Sapphire! It really effects things!
Not overleveled OP certainly not legendary (typically) just babies!
Mono Electric in Platinum was rough, but with Bite and lots of patience, you can get through the first gym easy enough. Pachirisu gets Hyper Fang which definitely helps it with its damage output. Specific to Platinum, you can get Rotom after you beat Gardenia, which is another rough gym…if it weren’t for the fact that with only two Pokémon on your team, you actually outlevel her team by around 4-5 levels. Aside from that, Byron’s Steelix, Candace’s Mamoswine, Bertha’s Gliscor, and Cynthia’s Garchomp are the only actual threats in the game. Grass Knot can only do so much after all.
Mamoswine? You mean Piloswine?
@@nomnom2407 ah you’re right, my bad lol
Huh…
I had the impulse a few weeks ago to try a monotype run in Galar. For some reason I wanted to do Bug, because it felt like it would be a proper challenge. Honestly, aside from a few early hiccups (Nessa was unusually hard for my early team), it’s been pretty fun. I now realize it was probably your earlier videos in this series that planted the idea, most likely.
Right now, the final team is looking to be Orbeetle, Heracross, Ribombee, Scolipede, Volcarona (already had Isle of Armor/Crown Tundra DLC, so why not), and Vikavolt, with Frosmoth, Drapion and Flygon as alternates (the latter two are in the Bug egg group, and look the part, so I made a concession for them. And Flygon has been a favorite since Emerald). Was hoping to add a Scizor to that lineup, but Weather Spawns have been very fickle.
That's funny! And I haven't even gotten to Bug yet, but that's a great team!
I actually did an electric run of pokemon Shield and it was fun! I used I think one or two non-electrics for the DLC tho (Kubfu)
"An interesting challenge is to use only one type" (paraphrased)
*Me, so addicted to grass types that I went on a multi-hour quest for Tropius before doing anything else in S/V* "There's more than one type?"
Occasionally! I did the same, but for the new Frigibax; I got super sidetracked...
Honestly, one fun thing I am thinking of doing is doing a Mono-Dragon Egg group run of Kalos. Essentially, run off of Lance's criteria of Dragon Pokemon.
I did an electric only playthrough for Galar that said some did come from the Isle of Armour.
Ground next? 👉👈 X
I hope in whatever game is the best can get hippopotas quickly enough, is one of my fave mons X
Electric is one of the few types I haven't done a mono run for yet. I was planning to do it in white but maybe elsewhere
I have only done two monotype runs, the first was rock types in heartgold and man was that a difficult challenge.
Beating the elite four and lance with onix, graveler, corsola, sudowoodo, shuckle and a rhydon was rough....
The red fight went a lot smoother with tyranitar, golem, rhydon, kabutops, sudowoodo and aerodactyl.
The second run i did was water types in sapphire just because i wanted an easy monotype run.
I love Blitzle because the first one I encountered was shiny, and somehow I'd managed to go through Gen 2, 3 and 4 without ever encountering a shiny until that point (besides Lake of Rage Gyarados)
No, you can get Wattrel on the beach pretty easily which makes it the regional bird.
i would love to see your opinion on a mono bug type version of this video,
maybe kanto can have a shot there
I'm sure I'll get there eventually!
I did do an electric type only run in firered a few years ago I cannot remember alot of it outside of patiently waiting until i beat koga just so I could complete my team and get my 1 team member that wasn't pure electric. I will also mention that you can get a voltorb in the route right before rock tunnel (route 10) in every kanto game except Yellow for some reason. So at least you don't just have a Pikachu from the start to Celadon city.
Yeah, since Voltorb wasn't a constant I figured I'd just throw it in with all the other "Power Plant" crowd since it's close enough anyway... (Plus it's not like Voltorb is gonna help much IN the Rock Tunnel anyway.)
@@emperorcubone would had been better if voltorb was earlier though like north of either cerulean or vermilion to have another electric type option in the early game as going to cerulean meant that if you didn't get Pikachu back in viridian forest you wouldn't be able to for a while. Or if they made voltorb/electrode electric/steel as they are sentient pokeballs.
my top 3 types Ice, Dark, Flying
Ive only ever done 1 mono type run.. Emerald with only Water Types.. but it's been probably 10 years since I've done that one. Maybe it's time for another mono Type run 🤔
My favorite I've ever done was a Mono-Flying run of HGSS, and then I hunted for shiny Lugia to add to the team!
The emperor is a shaker of things, upwardly?
Oooooooo which game would be best for a ____Team. Good thought mate 👍
Done 3 already! Now just 14 more to go... yeah that'll take a while.
I’m trying to monotype nuzlocke each gen. Gen 8 is the only generation where electric isn’t represented so for me the answer to this question is Gen 8.
Gen 9 is rock, all types are represented but rock is only the crab titan and there’s a school teacher with rock so rock is best, Gen 3 is grass , Gen 2 is ground , and realistically Gen 1 is flying , with normal and bug also available but getting past brock sucks for normal , and bug doesn’t get a full team. I’ve yet to sift through 4,5,6 or 7
Dark and psychic type next? Do all the special type first.
I mean, doing a mono-type challenge is an obstacle already, so having to wait for a storm in Galar's wild area seems a minor issue XD
Maybe, but you could just skip ahead to pick up a Pikachu on Route 3 instead of potentially wasting hours.
I feel with regions without a Pokemon available for a given type before the first gym, it would make sense that a person actually attempting this would try to get an egg traded to them with a Pokemon of an appropriate power level. I know this video is assuming no trades at all, but that is something worth saying still.
Now that you've covered the starter types and honorary starter type, are you going to branch out into other types? Like Psychic or Fighting?
White 2 elekid, mareep and Magnemite
Well since I got a second DS and mastered the art of self trading, most of my games are good for mono-type teams😁
I LOVE trading over the options that I want for my team from the start, it's so fun!
I know you have covered the mainline games, but what about some of the side games? Would they be better?
Well it depends because not all side games are the same; I mean Mystery Dungeon has a totally different structure to a mainline game, or Pokken. So I'm not sure how to begin judging those...
In which region could you create the most solid team for the rest of the playthrough before the first gym e.g. in Hoenn you can get ralts, wingull etc whereas in B2W2 you can get a riolu?
I have a couple of videos about that over the years, but this one might be the most relevant?
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@@emperorcubone forgot about that one!😳 thanks though!
It's cheating, but whenever you get to Ice the best thing to do is to breed Ice Types from Game 1 and trade them to Game 2 as eggs and hatch them.
Honestly, Kanto is probably the best region to do a monotype poison run.
To be fair, you can skip Brawly and go to Slateport and beyond before beating him
True, but going the first hour and a half of the game without your intended type kind of makes you lose interest...
@@emperorcubone Yes, definitely. It is kinda ridiculous that all of the only four new electric types are all on the same route...
I used Kilowattrel in my violet
I love that bird! Best one since Gen 6 honestly.
Funny how the 3 newest generations are the best for electronic types.
Obviously, DP Sinnoh. You have Luxray, Pachirisu, and Raichu. But you also have the breakout electric type stars, Octillery and Ambipom! So good you don’t need more than 5 except for your flyer. And the best flyer in DP Sinnoh is obviously the best flying type in the game, Chatot.
Platinum gives you terrible options like Rotom, Electavire, and Magnezone. You don’t need any of them tho when you got the best electric types in all the Sinnoh games. They didn’t even give Volkner an Ambipom in Platinum. Can you even call that an electric gym?
Haha, Ambipom is indeed one of my favorite Electric types!
I personally don’t understand why the Pokemon egg looks the exact same for all species in the games. Now, there are variations in the anime, but the characters are still stupid about guessing what Pokemon will hatch
That is funny when the egg have a clear Aipom hand on it or something and they just can't figure it out. But the short answer is it would take a lot work to change the egg animations for hundreds of Pokemon back in the day, and I'm sure they wouldn't want to now that it's over 1,000.
@@emperorcubone good point
The Pokemon Eggs in the Series look just like the Pokemon Eggs in the Games now just so you both know that.
At least have them based on their egg groups
Pokémon Reborn, Rejuvination, and Desolation have unique ehg sprites for every Pokémon thag can hatch form an egg, and unique shiny eggs sprites as well
You know you can play Most of Legends Arceus as a Pacifist, right? You only need to fight in the Forced Battles, otherwise you can catch, avoid, and dodge/throw your way through the game >.> That's how I did it
Yes of course, but then your Pokemon would never gain any experience. So how would they evolve?
@@emperorcubone I mean I just used my starter and the slew of Legendaries you catch at the end of the game....
First