This was the first Pokémon game where I find myself constantly swapping out Pokémon and wanting to try different ones out. With usual games, I find one solid party and I stick with that team. This game, by far, is my favorite of the entire franchise.
Right?! I spend 15 minutes at the box trying to figure out which Mon I'm swapping for the new Mon I want to use. Kept that Kleaver and my shiny alpha Gengar on the team though!
Dont have the game jet. But after seeing all those footages, I will still continue with my idea that when there is a new game with new pokemon, then I just use new pokemon for my team. Even if it is harder. Team for now: Basculin(not a big fan of basculegion, might not evolve it) Sneasler (also not a big fan but okay) Thyplosion Kleavor Ursaluna Last one I'm still not sure if I should use wyrdeer or braviary. But I'll figuere it out
I had most of my team picked before starting, once the mons were leaked. I went for a “mysterious/dark” Pokémon team. So I’m basically playing as a “cool guy” trainer. A gladion type. Those are the mons I like the best anyway, and this game had great ones to choose from so I figured it was a good time. So I used; Quispy - typhlosion Reaver - weavile Gumdrop - Sneasler Mr. Magius - mismagius Shadow - zoroark Pharaoh - Umbreon It was pretty fun. And I didn’t struggle as much as I expected with that much overlap. First game though that I actually nicknamed my Pokémon. First game I actually got this immersed into
I didn’t understand it before I got my hands on the game, but I instantly understood once I start playing and my starter and umbreon are the only two that are not constantly changing, which honestly I’m loving so much!
My pokemon hunting MVP has definitely been drifblim. Open with hypnosis, mystical fire to lower offences and tank everything not called tbolt or crunch and tons of good immunities. It is too bad everyone seems to have crunch in this game lol.
That’s what mine was for a while, then it changed to Liligant just because it had stun spore and could do some damage, then it became PorygonZ, and then I got to the post game where it definitively became Darkrai
Bro facts!!!! I’ve been using it as soon as I got access to drifloon. It’s been my Pokémon catching MVP for sure. Hypnosis + 2 different immunities you can take advantage of
Gallade has been one of my go-to pokemon for putting together a capture team for several generations (Mean look, hypnosis, false swipe, thunder wave iirc) so it's cool to see he's one of the best for filling in pokedex entries too.
The game design was really good in thus aspect, bringing the players to change their team more often, which didn't happen in past games mostly because there was no reason to and because the wild pokemons were underleveled almost everywhere, which is resolved by alphas in this game. Speaking about them, since they are more leveled than other pokemons you want to catch them and add them to your team, and the challenge that comes with it is really good game design. Best game of the franchise even just because of that
@@O1OO1O1 take in count that it's not simply a new mechanic like dynamax but more of a brand new battle system, so it's bound to get better in future games. (Also I don't think it would suck so much if they told you how speed affects the order of the moves and how much moves themselves do, but just like EVs, what are we gonna do it's gamefreak)
I love alphas! I was lucky enough to get an alpha Eevee, who I evolved into Alpha Espeon. I kind of wonder if that was the right choice, but I'm happy with him! I still use my Oshawott, now Dewott, and Umbreon too. I have Leafeon and would like to try and get all Eevee's other evolutions.
You can complete the pokedex with any team, it's really your ability in the OW that matters more, but if you have to get into a battle for a pokemon, use Scizor with a defense or spdef nature (can be changed with mints), Scizor gets roost, false swipe, and an omni buff move (lol like he needed it). Goodra is also amazing because of shelter and its natural bulk with good move coverage. Both resist many types so they rarely struggle in majority of the fights. Hope someone read this under all these comments, have a blessed day!
@@jasonhuang6332 Yeah but as someone who has the shiny charm, it best to just catch the majority of them more than 5 times to get the Pokedex entry to level 10 as that's all you need for the majority of them. And ones that are too hard to get just use there style moves till they get to level 10. Rinse repeat. Obviously you havta do this with legendaries as there is only one to obtain. And the unknowns only dex entry for competition is to catch them all A-z-!? Which sure. To "make a team" to complete the dex entry is redundant for the majority of them as using the move yourself is quicker "seeing the pokemon use leafage" which yes does count. Just like evolving a rowlet to dartrix counts as "catching" them. How does Austin John not know this? Sorry I didn't watch the video. and have shiny charm hunting perfect dex entry FOr rowlet, dartrix n decidueye cuz I wanna shiny hunt them in the space distortions. Any questions please lemme know. I'm not talking out my ass
To do pokedex entries that are like use x move or just catching them, drifblim is a BEAST. Hypnosis + mystical fire is so amazing, and it's a defensive god
People are aware that they can just use that pokemon in battle and use the move themselves and it counts for the dex right? You don't have to let them beat on you and hope you see the right moves xD
I've always liked Gallade for being a hard hitting False Swipe user that knows Hypnosis, simply for the task of catching Pokémon. Of course, "Drowsy" in this game, is not as debilitating as Asleep status...but for catch odds boosting purposes alone, I assume it is just as effective as anything else, like Burn (which could accidentally KO the target) or Paralyze.
I use Ursaluna for this. Such a tanky beast with several immunities and a wide range of move pools (thunder, fire or ice punch). The only issue is that Ursaluna is too strong hahah
I think one thing that makes Torterra so good in this game is that in my experience, it physically cannot be paralyzed, immune to stun spore and all electric moves which is so nice to have
Once you are able to catch torterra, you can ask him to remember sleep powder and it makes catching pokemons really easy. Also an Umbreon was so good, he can tank those hits from alphas due to his high DEF, and you can always use power switch to swap those high DEF to ATK.
Hisuian Electrode is really good too. It's high speed stat means it can usually go twice, even without agile style, so I Thunder Wave then switch to Samurott to whittle it down. Also, Hisuian Goodra's Shelter move is really great as it's fast, boost defensive stats and obscures you.
Love tangrowth for stun spore when catching Pokémon! I’m bad at switching up my team because I get so attached to my babies lol. My final team ended up being Samurott Goodra Infernape Tangrowth Togekiss Ursaluna Beating the game with them was so much fun!
All I have left to do is spiritomb and the porygon line. I was surprised what Pokémon I was missing when I went to finish my dex though. So many Pokémon I thought “no way, I caught atleast 3 of those!” And nope. Like electivire. Can’t tell you how many times I flew over the alpha.. thought for sure I had a few of them haha.
If you want a good pokemon for capturing use crobat because it has high-low damage and has hypnosis to put pokemon asleep Also its fast enough to get 2 moves on most pokemon
This is such a great guide dude, huge thumbs up Just wondering where you got the PLA research task list though. Would be quite useful for quite a lot of people
Can we highlight the fact that this man pronounces "arceus" the objectively correct way according to the rules of english. His content is worth it for this alone.
I started to perfect entries by looking at the pokes I would find in a specific zone. I think that is in general worth a look too, if one would make an attempt to be as efficient as possible. Although there certainly are overlaps with other maps, which could also mean that you could make a list of every pokemon in each zone that needs a specific move and see which ones overlap there and which ones you can ignore in the first map because the same move will be needed along with it in map 3. Honorable mention goes to magikarp for looking at all those eeveelution baby-doll eyes. Also helps with the splash quest.
As a dark-type trainer, you pointed out my pain in this video. The dark type with the best coverage is weavile... but it has middling coverage at best. And samurott, overqwil AND spiritomb combined only add one additional coverage, water. With weavile's 7 types, all the other dark types in the game only add 4 more.
It’s been crazy with my Pokémon team this game. First game I’ve ever gotten rid of my starter, I’d much rather use alpha torterra than decidueye. I also when putting the shiny ponyta on my team never expected rapidash to be one of the only ones to remain on my team through the whole game. And my shiny staraptor which is gone now was actually way stronger than I thought it would be
Dude, since the beginning, you said " everything has bite/crunch" oh man YOU WERENT LYING!!! Being a ghost fan, really made it tough. Great stuff! Great info!
Thanks! I thought I would have a set team but the only set one on my team is Typlosion. I probably won't have a set team until I do all the individual dex stuff first.
Wow. This is really intense with optimizing team. I am impressed. I optimized my team in a different way. Here are my six team members. The most important thing is type. Golem is rock-ground. Infernape is fire-fighting. Walrein is water-ice. Magnezone is electric-steel. Gardevoir is psychic-fairy. This is a group of the twelve types that best help me counter opposing types by exploiting supereffective moves. This is strength in the offensive sense. I like using duel types. They have greater type coverage with STAB. The downside is that they usually have a lot of types supereffective against them. This is weakness. I focus on supereffective matchups. Resistances and immunities are not as important. They are important for figuring out the weakness of duel types though. A team has six Pokemon. With duel types I double it to twelve types on my team. Here is how the types go. The best types for an offensive team is ground and fighting. They are the two types with the most offensive strengths. They got five each. The next types are fire, rock and ice. They have the second most strengths with four each. Rock and ice are the two most underrated types. The next types have decent coverage and help fulfill a role. Electric has a nice conductive role. It is strong against water and flying. Water has a nice erosive role. It is strong against fire, ground and rock. Flying has a nice predatory role. It is strong against grass, bug and fighting. Psychic has a nice mental role. It is strong against fighting and poison. The remaining three types are those for super niche. They have decent coverage like the last category. However they are special for countering certain types that are difficult to counter. Squeezing them in really benefits from dual type Pokemon. Dark is a niche counter for psychic and ghost. Fairy is a niche counter for dragon. Steel is a niche counter for fairy. There are eightieen Pokemon types in total. So there are six I have to leave out. I leave out the six worst for my playstle. Two are normal and dragon. They are so useless for using supereffective attacks and gaining advantage. Dragon is the most overrated type. Three are grass, poison and ghost. They focus way too much on status moves. So their type strengths and weaknesses are inferior. I just use better types. Water is like grass but better. Steel is like poison, but better. Dark is like ghost but better. Then there is bug. Out of all the types I left out bug is the best. It does have decent coverage. The strength against psychic and dark is especially nice. I leave out bug because bug Pokemon tend to have low stats. It is a minor reason.
I like my way of putting a team together. I recently beaten Shield. I had a similar team. It had Quagsire, Lucario, Colossal, Delibird, Morpeko and Galerian Rapidash. This video does bring up tutor movies. That is a good point. I can stretch my type coverage even further. My team members are high level now. They can't learn any new moves by level up. So the only way to learn new moves is tutor. I checked the tutor. I found something. Gardevoir can learn the grass move energy ball. Honchkrow can learn the ghost move shadow ball. Infernape can learn the poison move poison jab. That is nice. Of course normal moves are widely availiable. The only types I can't learn any moves from is dragon and bug. Fortunately there is no Pokemon that is only weak against those types. I was worried about Kingdra. I looked it up on Bulbapedia and found that it is weak to fairy now. I thought it was like that, but I still wanted to doublecheck. I am thinking about final movesets. This video had a list of best types. My list alighted very well. The only type I missed was grass. This isn't a huge problem. If I really need a grass Pokemon for Pokedex completion, I can just get one out of the box. I like Torterra, Leafeon and Parasect. If Gardevoir could learn Energy Ball, that would help too. It is nice that Legends Arceus has ride Pokemon. That way one can focus their team attacks only on battle. There are no more pesky TMs.
Awesome info. Fwiw, my "doing the rounds" team covers all move types except for Bug (which is so infrequent it's something I don't mind coming back to later), while simultaneously offering semi / total immunity to a long list of attack types for quite a few of my 'mons. For anyone interested, here's my team (if it matters, all are Alphas, with the exception of Magnezone): 1. Hisuian Goodra 2. Garchomp 3. Magnezone 4. Gardevoir 5. Hisuian Zoroark 6. Steelix I absolutely love this team, simply due to the sheer ease of battling with so many resistances/immunities. Being able to have every attack type except Bug covered is a huge bonus and lets me take care of each wild Pokemon's attack-type-specific research tasks as I encounter them. Sure, I may have to occasionally stop to swap a move in or out, but that's a minor hassle in my book in exchange for the immunity these 'mons offer. Btw, love this channel. Keep up the great work!
I just caught a shiny male ralts last night and this just confirmed my decision to evolve it into a Gallade! Also love my Snorlax that I’ve raised from a baby Munchlas! I’ve also become bonded to my Togikiss and refuse to remove it from my team despite having Gallade!
It’s crazy how often we swap out Pokémon in this game. I’m so used to going for my faves and going ahead. Now I struggle to even find my main team in the mess of my PC. I’m doing 100% so I’m anxious about getting rid of some that are incomplete.
YES, thank you for this! I'm in the end game and this will streamline all the rest of my research. I have a weird request: Can you do a video on tips for catching water pokemon? I don't know why, the rest of this game is not hard, but I CANNOT do it. They don't stun, and I can't sneak, it's awful.
@@testerfox6998 this isn’t foolproof but I just kinda swim up close to them while holding ZR once the white cross hair appears to lock on, then throw the ball as quick as possible before it swims away Idk how to do it better either though lol it’s weird
@@testerfox6998 I always approach on at full spreed, double jump in air, hold zl to target, zr to throw, and normally u can capture in air as u land on them and ! trigger them.
Hey Austin, i thought this would be Pokémon to help with catching all the Pokémon, and was exited with that, as I’m having trouble doing so, I hope you do make a video like that and maybe some tips like how to get high friendship fast and where to get some evo items.
Go to a low lvl area & knock out everything. Use him to break rocks & hit trees. & Don’t let him get knocked out. All that helped me get it high in no time
I think using the same team of Pokemon to get the Defeat with super effective move tasks is flawed. Many Pokemon have tasks to use a certain move a number of times or to use moves in a certain style. In order to maximize efficiency it would make sense to use Pokemon who want to use a certain move vs Pokemon you need to defeat with a super effective type. For example: Basculin wants to use Wave Crash 40 times. Wave Crash is a water move. Geodude has a Defeat with water moves 15 times task. So use Wave Crash with Basculin on Geodude and you get credit for both tasks. Apply this across the board. Chimchar wants to use Ember, find a Pokemon that you need to defeat with fire moves and use Ember on Chimchar to get the defeats. At some point you are likely to run out of Pokemon that need super effective defeats, but still have Pokemon that want to use a specific move/style since the amount that want to use specific moves/styles is way more than defeats.
It took like 45 hours but I managed to catch all 242 Pokémon. One of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had in a Pokémon game. I hope this is the future of Pokémon with more gradual updates
I am having a hard time choosing between Torterra and H-Goodra. My one complaint of this game is the move pool, some have overwhelming amount of moves and others just...get very little. Also how so many moves were taken out...My poor Umbreon has to use rest instead of moonlight and has no physical dark moves. Thank you for the video.
In case anyone is wanting to find a pokemon that learns Fire, Fighting, Electric, and Ground Moves due to being the most common super effective type requirements, Infernape has all of those, plus Rock, Steel, Ghost, Poison, and Flying coverage as well. Very solid pokemon that wasn't brought up in the video. It does cost money for tutoring, but with distortion farming that shouldn't be a big issue
Gastrodon is my go too, so many Pokemon can’t do anything and it has recover. Offensively it’s not that strong so agile moves can leave enough HP to make the catch even when you are at a high level. If you fail- tank a hit, recover, and try again, most alphas can’t come close to one hitting after level 70 or so.
I have been loving using Unown of all things for these. For mons whose task has only one weakness or have a 4x weakness, it works very well since spamming Hidden Power is guaranteed to get the best type matchup
As a ghost trainer I have a dusknoir that has ice, fire, thunder punches and bulldoze. Haven't used that line since ruby but he has grown on me a lot and is my first level 100 pokemon.
I think the best way to approach this is to get 2 things done at once. For example: I have to defeat 10 Geodudes with grass type moves. And for Leafeon I have to use grass blade a certain amount of times. So I swap in Leafeon and get to work. Another one I did recently: Staravia use aerial ace, defeat Silcoon with flying type moves. Having a constant team will cost you time if your goal is to fully complete the Pokedex.
Damn, this video made you work for it. You had to do a decent amount of research to be able to complete the Pokedex on the first Pokemon game where you can do it by yourself (no trading) this is actually pretty impressing
Of note is that between Gallade and Lucario, they can learn EVERY type attack. Gallade can't get water, dragon, steel, and dark, while lucario learns water pulse, dragon pulse, darkpulse/crunch, and flash cannon/bullet punch. Meanwhile Lucario can't get flying, bug, fire, grass, or fairy, but Gallade learns aerial ace, x-scissor, fire punch, leaf blade/magical leaf, and dazzling gleam. As a bonus, Gallade can also get hypnosis, calm mind, and false swipe so he can also be your capture expert if you otherwise have a strong team.
I think you might be overthinking this a little. If you're trying to go for maximum efficiency in completing the dex, the best way to go is use pokemon that require you to see certain moves at the same time. Example I need to see Bibarel use Aqua Tail like 40 times so I will use him to knock out geodudes. And once you hit your move quota, swap for something else. This requires you to check on it and swap much more often but it saves so much time in the end.
4 Pokemon from Obsidian Fieldlands that can cover all types except dragon: Samurott, Infernape, Togekiss, Snorlax Good additions to this are Goodra (for dragon) and Torterra (for better grass move than Togekiss' Magical Leaf) Alternatively, swap out Snorlax for Wyrdeer (requires Torterra for full type coverage) Movesets: Samurott: Ceaseless Edge, Aqua Tail, Poison Jab, X-Scissor Infernape: Raging Fury, Drain Punch, ThunderPunch, Shadow Claw Togekiss: Moonblast, Air Slash, Psychic, Magical Leaf Snorlax: High Horsepower, Iron Head, Ice Punch, Rock Slide
I need to get ahold of Austin and teach him some spreadsheet skills. Listening to him talk about copying a spreadsheet so he can count the number of times rock types need to be used and I'm yelling at my phone "Use COUNTIF dude!" 😹
Thank you for compiling all of this info, this is so helpful- I couldn't figure out what the most effective move types would be for completing Pokedex entries, this is a total savior video!
Hisuian goodra also has 10 moves with 82 dex entries (fire, electric, Ice, fighting, ground, steel, poison, water, dragon, and rock) I feel like it is worth a shout out.
3:15 Just off the top of my head, there IS an Electric/Flying, but that's Thunderus who obviously isn't a "Defeat with x move" pokedex since its a legendary.
what ive found surprising in this game is the ai is pretty good. it seems that most EVERY pokemon whom has super effective weakness ALWAYS has a super effective counter to waylay the type that is strong against them to maul them pretty good in defense
I have already completed the pokedex and gotten level 10 on them all so I have my shiny charm and at this point I'm just on a quest to get a shiny living dex and an alpha living dex but I still watch all of these videos simply because I love the efficiency that this man does things with and it's nice to see how he did it. I love this channel.
I have a new strategy. After you’ve grind caught a lot of some poke. Use a full or half team Of Them And this way you can spam styles and moves and just cross all the moves off the list
It was sorta reassuring hearing you say you don't have alpha Galade. Having something that even someone that grinds the game the way you do is a nice feeling
Just spent 8 hours working from home in my office. Clocked out, spun the chair around and played 5 hours straight. Catching alphas with cakes and stealth is my absolute favorite thing to do.
My Typhlosion has drain punch, flamethrower, thunder punch and infernal parade. He's my go to since i used grit gravels early to max out speed and atk stats.
Found it kind of hilarious how you exported the info out of Excel format to do a search function 😂 You could have easily filtered the list or simply made a pivot table, would have saved yourself a lot of effort. Great content as always but damn that part was funny 😂
I think it's wonderful that the game lets you play with your favorite Pokemon a lot more than before, since you can make it very strong. I really hope this continues like that since I love we have more freedom, and we are no longer limited with IVs
If you need a versatile Pokémon for coverage, mismagius is the best. It can learn soooo many 80 base power moves, hits really hard and levels up insanely fast. Total beast, as always. It won’t help you with like false swipe, but for coverage you won’t find much better.
Past several games I haven't run a team of 6, I've had a box or 2 of interchangeable mons I use (I guess from the idea of competitive teams I'm used to) especially with exp share making everyone level. By endgame I had 2.5 full boxes of actively used pokemon
This is why my shiny Golem knows Fire Punch and Thunder Punch. I definitely do have a few Pokémon that aren’t /as/ helpful. My goal is to get an alpha of every species and use that for any of the species move-using tasks.
I completed the Pokedex last night, I fought god, now I am lost. I don't know how I'm going to go back to playing a more traditional Pokemon game after this.
I figured what you meant by this list based off of the title was use these Pokemon to complete your Pokedex and use your favourites for everything else.
I have Gengar, Mismagius, Dusknoir, Zoroark, Basculegion, Kleavor. I was all set up for "Defeat with this move" except Steel. I had a Steelix in my box for that.
This was the first Pokémon game where I find myself constantly swapping out Pokémon and wanting to try different ones out. With usual games, I find one solid party and I stick with that team. This game, by far, is my favorite of the entire franchise.
Right?! I spend 15 minutes at the box trying to figure out which Mon I'm swapping for the new Mon I want to use. Kept that Kleaver and my shiny alpha Gengar on the team though!
Same I’ve trained ten teams all the way up in a my first ten hours
I was just about to comment the same exact thing. I’m glad this game is getting the praise it deserves.
Dont have the game jet. But after seeing all those footages, I will still continue with my idea that when there is a new game with new pokemon, then I just use new pokemon for my team. Even if it is harder.
Team for now:
Basculin(not a big fan of basculegion, might not evolve it)
Sneasler (also not a big fan but okay)
Thyplosion
Kleavor
Ursaluna
Last one I'm still not sure if I should use wyrdeer or braviary. But I'll figuere it out
I had most of my team picked before starting, once the mons were leaked. I went for a “mysterious/dark” Pokémon team. So I’m basically playing as a “cool guy” trainer. A gladion type. Those are the mons I like the best anyway, and this game had great ones to choose from so I figured it was a good time. So I used;
Quispy - typhlosion
Reaver - weavile
Gumdrop - Sneasler
Mr. Magius - mismagius
Shadow - zoroark
Pharaoh - Umbreon
It was pretty fun. And I didn’t struggle as much as I expected with that much overlap. First game though that I actually nicknamed my Pokémon. First game I actually got this immersed into
I didn’t understand it before I got my hands on the game, but I instantly understood once I start playing and my starter and umbreon are the only two that are not constantly changing, which honestly I’m loving so much!
Eyyy nice I have also been using an Umbreon for so long he is called Boogey
Mate, Umbreon & Starter (Typhlosion in my case) Gang! Same for me haha
This is the first game I’ve ever gotten rid of my starter. I’d much rather have alpha torterra than decidueye lmao
I accidentally evolved my eevee into umbreon even tho I meant to get espeon lmao
Same the two I won't swap are my starter and my infernape
The perfect video for this momentous week in Pokemon grinding. Austin John is always on the cutting edge of guides
My pokemon hunting MVP has definitely been drifblim. Open with hypnosis, mystical fire to lower offences and tank everything not called tbolt or crunch and tons of good immunities. It is too bad everyone seems to have crunch in this game lol.
Not only that, everything in this games seems to have recoil moves killing themselves lol. Hypnosis saved my @$$ many times.
That’s what mine was for a while, then it changed to Liligant just because it had stun spore and could do some damage, then it became PorygonZ, and then I got to the post game where it definitively became Darkrai
Bro facts!!!! I’ve been using it as soon as I got access to drifloon. It’s been my Pokémon catching MVP for sure. Hypnosis + 2 different immunities you can take advantage of
totally agree
my first playthrough, he was AMAZING!
Gallade has been one of my go-to pokemon for putting together a capture team for several generations (Mean look, hypnosis, false swipe, thunder wave iirc) so it's cool to see he's one of the best for filling in pokedex entries too.
Except that it doesn't get mean look or t-wave in PLA, so it's not really that great
you asked for it, so I made it :)
Meanwhile me not having the game:
2nd
Thanks this helped me level up my research level
Surprised umbreon didnt make it ;)
Yes
Luxray is absolutely my go to for most of these with crunch, the 3 elemental fangs, iron tail, and all interchangeable.
The game design was really good in thus aspect, bringing the players to change their team more often, which didn't happen in past games mostly because there was no reason to and because the wild pokemons were underleveled almost everywhere, which is resolved by alphas in this game. Speaking about them, since they are more leveled than other pokemons you want to catch them and add them to your team, and the challenge that comes with it is really good game design. Best game of the franchise even just because of that
The battles suck, though. Super shallow, no strategy.
@@O1OO1O1 take in count that it's not simply a new mechanic like dynamax but more of a brand new battle system, so it's bound to get better in future games. (Also I don't think it would suck so much if they told you how speed affects the order of the moves and how much moves themselves do, but just like EVs, what are we gonna do it's gamefreak)
I love alphas! I was lucky enough to get an alpha Eevee, who I evolved into Alpha Espeon. I kind of wonder if that was the right choice, but I'm happy with him! I still use my Oshawott, now Dewott, and Umbreon too. I have Leafeon and would like to try and get all Eevee's other evolutions.
You can complete the pokedex with any team, it's really your ability in the OW that matters more, but if you have to get into a battle for a pokemon, use Scizor with a defense or spdef nature (can be changed with mints), Scizor gets roost, false swipe, and an omni buff move (lol like he needed it).
Goodra is also amazing because of shelter and its natural bulk with good move coverage. Both resist many types so they rarely struggle in majority of the fights.
Hope someone read this under all these comments, have a blessed day!
Depends if you want to 100% the Dex - some entries need you to defeat the Pokemon using specific move types, as Austin goes over.
@@jasonhuang6332 Yeah but as someone who has the shiny charm, it best to just catch the majority of them more than 5 times to get the Pokedex entry to level 10 as that's all you need for the majority of them. And ones that are too hard to get just use there style moves till they get to level 10. Rinse repeat. Obviously you havta do this with legendaries as there is only one to obtain. And the unknowns only dex entry for competition is to catch them all A-z-!? Which sure.
To "make a team" to complete the dex entry is redundant for the majority of them as using the move yourself is quicker "seeing the pokemon use leafage" which yes does count. Just like evolving a rowlet to dartrix counts as "catching" them. How does Austin John not know this? Sorry I didn't watch the video. and have shiny charm hunting perfect dex entry FOr rowlet, dartrix n decidueye cuz I wanna shiny hunt them in the space distortions. Any questions please lemme know. I'm not talking out my ass
@@faerora nobody cares bruh ain’t nobody reading this
Just evolved my scizor yesterday. Probably gonna do this lol
And I got my shiny Goomy 😊✨
@@thecougsy same. I was relieved when I saw you can evolve Scyther into Scizor and not have to settle for Kleavor.
To do pokedex entries that are like use x move or just catching them, drifblim is a BEAST. Hypnosis + mystical fire is so amazing, and it's a defensive god
Elaborate
People are aware that they can just use that pokemon in battle and use the move themselves and it counts for the dex right? You don't have to let them beat on you and hope you see the right moves xD
@@relyks8645 yeah, this was how I finished quite a few of mine. Magikarp though I just threw my fish at another one and smashed a for a while lmfao
@@relyks8645 yes yes I know, but when it's defeat with x typing and you enter in battle they sometimes do it, which helps you complete it faster
@@emiliovilasgomez9708 True
I've always liked Gallade for being a hard hitting False Swipe user that knows Hypnosis, simply for the task of catching Pokémon. Of course, "Drowsy" in this game, is not as debilitating as Asleep status...but for catch odds boosting purposes alone, I assume it is just as effective as anything else, like Burn (which could accidentally KO the target) or Paralyze.
Gallade can also learn thunder wave which is a good substitute for Hypnosis unless you're going after ground types.
My Umbreon is my mvp. I know I can handle any situation with her since she can take almost any hit and lowers offense with snarl.
the snarl/calm mind combo with baby doll eyes for priority is who I bring with me as my 4th if I know I'm gonna face something spicy
I use Ursaluna for this. Such a tanky beast with several immunities and a wide range of move pools (thunder, fire or ice punch). The only issue is that Ursaluna is too strong hahah
I think one thing that makes Torterra so good in this game is that in my experience, it physically cannot be paralyzed, immune to stun spore and all electric moves which is so nice to have
I guess with the removal of moved like Lick and others Torterra catches a massive buff!
@@minecraftmayneax Tri attack?
@@to4sted102 Ahh I suppose so, I guess I figured since it can't paralyze electric types that it wouldn't work on ground types
I also love that placed alpha mismagius, it covers psychic ghost and dark if you want but also can get thunderbolt, energy ball, etc etc etc
I also love that switching up my team constantly keeps my overall level average lower, which helps the game be more challenging
Once you are able to catch torterra, you can ask him to remember sleep powder and it makes catching pokemons really easy. Also an Umbreon was so good, he can tank those hits from alphas due to his high DEF, and you can always use power switch to swap those high DEF to ATK.
I was trying to get myself a umbreon yesterday & to came out of it was sylveon which I didn’t want.
Hisuian Electrode is really good too. It's high speed stat means it can usually go twice, even without agile style, so I Thunder Wave then switch to Samurott to whittle it down. Also, Hisuian Goodra's Shelter move is really great as it's fast, boost defensive stats and obscures you.
I do the same with Jolteon. Jolteon can go three times(!) before the opponent moves if you put in an Agile Quick Attack as your second move.
@@DarkAngelEU holy wow I already loved Jolteon but he's gotta be on my team for this now lol
Love tangrowth for stun spore when catching Pokémon! I’m bad at switching up my team because I get so attached to my babies lol. My final team ended up being
Samurott
Goodra
Infernape
Tangrowth
Togekiss
Ursaluna
Beating the game with them was so much fun!
Bruh same exact team ive been ride or die with except gengar instead of togekiss
I read you saying that this video would take a lot of effort to make, but I didn't realise it was THIS much. Bravo good sir, this is amazing
All I have left to do is spiritomb and the porygon line. I was surprised what Pokémon I was missing when I went to finish my dex though. So many Pokémon I thought “no way, I caught atleast 3 of those!” And nope. Like electivire. Can’t tell you how many times I flew over the alpha.. thought for sure I had a few of them haha.
I was waiting for this one! Can't wait to finally finish up my dex so I can get that sweet sweet endgame lore! Thanks Austin!
If you want a good pokemon for capturing use crobat because it has high-low damage and has hypnosis to put pokemon asleep
Also its fast enough to get 2 moves on most pokemon
@@noahjenckes6186 when do you get darkrai? I’m at the end of coronet
@@noahjenckes6186 you need brilliant diamond and shining pearl, I don't have that but crobat is faster than darkrai anyway
@@noahjenckes6186 ye crobat is one of the fastest pokemon in the game darkrai is more of a special attacker
It's not as grindy as Pokémon Go but it's a close second.
This is such a great guide dude, huge thumbs up
Just wondering where you got the PLA research task list though. Would be quite useful for quite a lot of people
Polygon and gamerant have a lot of info on them
yes I would want that spreadsheed too, ive been googling for something easily searchable and have gotten nothing
Gallade is the best. One of my favorites. Used him a lot in Sword/Shield.
Agreed, and same.
I think I used an absol and bisharp in usum and ss. Are either in the game?
This is the best Pokémon game I’ve ever played. I actually want to complete the Pokédex and it’s a lot of fun doing it
Can we highlight the fact that this man pronounces "arceus" the objectively correct way according to the rules of english. His content is worth it for this alone.
I started to perfect entries by looking at the pokes I would find in a specific zone. I think that is in general worth a look too, if one would make an attempt to be as efficient as possible. Although there certainly are overlaps with other maps, which could also mean that you could make a list of every pokemon in each zone that needs a specific move and see which ones overlap there and which ones you can ignore in the first map because the same move will be needed along with it in map 3.
Honorable mention goes to magikarp for looking at all those eeveelution baby-doll eyes. Also helps with the splash quest.
Give this man his 2mill subs. The amount of effort and work he puts into these videos is incredible! Literally my favourite youtuber ever!
As a dark-type trainer, you pointed out my pain in this video. The dark type with the best coverage is weavile... but it has middling coverage at best. And samurott, overqwil AND spiritomb combined only add one additional coverage, water.
With weavile's 7 types, all the other dark types in the game only add 4 more.
Austin John never cheaps out on the content he makes. Literally spends hours just to help us out.
Darkrai with strong style Dark Void always helps. Throw any ball and they’re caught.
What do styles do for status move?
Increase accuracy
@@Next2Null also increases the effectiveness of the status.
How do you get darkrai
@@RORONINS have bdsp save data
It’s been crazy with my Pokémon team this game. First game I’ve ever gotten rid of my starter, I’d much rather use alpha torterra than decidueye. I also when putting the shiny ponyta on my team never expected rapidash to be one of the only ones to remain on my team through the whole game. And my shiny staraptor which is gone now was actually way stronger than I thought it would be
Dude, since the beginning, you said " everything has bite/crunch" oh man YOU WERENT LYING!!! Being a ghost fan, really made it tough. Great stuff! Great info!
Gallade is great; hypnosis for sleep, false swipe for obvious reasons, drain punch for sustain
Thanks! I thought I would have a set team but the only set one on my team is Typlosion. I probably won't have a set team until I do all the individual dex stuff first.
Same. I always have my starter in my party wherever I go or whatever I'm doing.
Hey austin john, can you link that spread sheet of all the tasks you need to do to complete the pokedex that you were using please?
I need Austins spreadsheets, he's so organized
I second this! It’s so handy for swapping out based on new adds and shinies etc
Wow. This is really intense with optimizing team. I am impressed. I optimized my team in a different way. Here are my six team members. The most important thing is type. Golem is rock-ground. Infernape is fire-fighting. Walrein is water-ice. Magnezone is electric-steel. Gardevoir is psychic-fairy. This is a group of the twelve types that best help me counter opposing types by exploiting supereffective moves. This is strength in the offensive sense. I like using duel types. They have greater type coverage with STAB. The downside is that they usually have a lot of types supereffective against them. This is weakness. I focus on supereffective matchups. Resistances and immunities are not as important. They are important for figuring out the weakness of duel types though. A team has six Pokemon. With duel types I double it to twelve types on my team.
Here is how the types go. The best types for an offensive team is ground and fighting. They are the two types with the most offensive strengths. They got five each. The next types are fire, rock and ice. They have the second most strengths with four each. Rock and ice are the two most underrated types. The next types have decent coverage and help fulfill a role. Electric has a nice conductive role. It is strong against water and flying. Water has a nice erosive role. It is strong against fire, ground and rock. Flying has a nice predatory role. It is strong against grass, bug and fighting. Psychic has a nice mental role. It is strong against fighting and poison. The remaining three types are those for super niche. They have decent coverage like the last category. However they are special for countering certain types that are difficult to counter. Squeezing them in really benefits from dual type Pokemon. Dark is a niche counter for psychic and ghost. Fairy is a niche counter for dragon. Steel is a niche counter for fairy.
There are eightieen Pokemon types in total. So there are six I have to leave out. I leave out the six worst for my playstle. Two are normal and dragon. They are so useless for using supereffective attacks and gaining advantage. Dragon is the most overrated type. Three are grass, poison and ghost. They focus way too much on status moves. So their type strengths and weaknesses are inferior. I just use better types. Water is like grass but better. Steel is like poison, but better. Dark is like ghost but better. Then there is bug. Out of all the types I left out bug is the best. It does have decent coverage. The strength against psychic and dark is especially nice. I leave out bug because bug Pokemon tend to have low stats. It is a minor reason.
I like my way of putting a team together. I recently beaten Shield. I had a similar team. It had Quagsire, Lucario, Colossal, Delibird, Morpeko and Galerian Rapidash. This video does bring up tutor movies. That is a good point. I can stretch my type coverage even further. My team members are high level now. They can't learn any new moves by level up. So the only way to learn new moves is tutor. I checked the tutor. I found something. Gardevoir can learn the grass move energy ball. Honchkrow can learn the ghost move shadow ball. Infernape can learn the poison move poison jab. That is nice. Of course normal moves are widely availiable. The only types I can't learn any moves from is dragon and bug. Fortunately there is no Pokemon that is only weak against those types. I was worried about Kingdra. I looked it up on Bulbapedia and found that it is weak to fairy now. I thought it was like that, but I still wanted to doublecheck. I am thinking about final movesets. This video had a list of best types. My list alighted very well. The only type I missed was grass. This isn't a huge problem. If I really need a grass Pokemon for Pokedex completion, I can just get one out of the box. I like Torterra, Leafeon and Parasect. If Gardevoir could learn Energy Ball, that would help too. It is nice that Legends Arceus has ride Pokemon. That way one can focus their team attacks only on battle. There are no more pesky TMs.
Awesome info. Fwiw, my "doing the rounds" team covers all move types except for Bug (which is so infrequent it's something I don't mind coming back to later), while simultaneously offering semi / total immunity to a long list of attack types for quite a few of my 'mons. For anyone interested, here's my team (if it matters, all are Alphas, with the exception of Magnezone):
1. Hisuian Goodra
2. Garchomp
3. Magnezone
4. Gardevoir
5. Hisuian Zoroark
6. Steelix
I absolutely love this team, simply due to the sheer ease of battling with so many resistances/immunities. Being able to have every attack type except Bug covered is a huge bonus and lets me take care of each wild Pokemon's attack-type-specific research tasks as I encounter them. Sure, I may have to occasionally stop to swap a move in or out, but that's a minor hassle in my book in exchange for the immunity these 'mons offer.
Btw, love this channel. Keep up the great work!
I just caught a shiny male ralts last night and this just confirmed my decision to evolve it into a Gallade! Also love my Snorlax that I’ve raised from a baby Munchlas! I’ve also become bonded to my Togikiss and refuse to remove it from my team despite having Gallade!
As a note, gardevoir can learn aura sphere for the fighting coverage. Idk how that affects the data though
Austin: here's the best mons to carry in your team.
Also Austin 99% of the time: Oh hey, a wild pokemon! TORTERRA MURDER IT
It’s crazy how often we swap out Pokémon in this game. I’m so used to going for my faves and going ahead.
Now I struggle to even find my main team in the mess of my PC. I’m doing 100% so I’m anxious about getting rid of some that are incomplete.
YES, thank you for this! I'm in the end game and this will streamline all the rest of my research. I have a weird request: Can you do a video on tips for catching water pokemon? I don't know why, the rest of this game is not hard, but I CANNOT do it. They don't stun, and I can't sneak, it's awful.
Yeah, I am having a hard time finding a Basculin without it swimming away
@@testerfox6998 this isn’t foolproof but I just kinda swim up close to them while holding ZR once the white cross hair appears to lock on, then throw the ball as quick as possible before it swims away
Idk how to do it better either though lol it’s weird
@@testerfox6998 I always approach on at full spreed, double jump in air, hold zl to target, zr to throw, and normally u can capture in air as u land on them and ! trigger them.
Smoke bombs are your best friend.
Double yes on Basculin! I caught them all mid air but there's no hope for me of getting close enough for a smoke bomb
Is the spreadsheet available to be shared? It'd be great to have to figure out what team I can/want to make from your list
I agree and I don't want to make my own
I tried to make a spread sheet of what team is the most resilient to all types... I haven't touched it for a week. So this... bravo
I am using an alpha Purugly and it’s so good! It’s move pool is SOOOO big! It’s so unexpected that it learns so many types of moves !
Hey Austin, i thought this would be Pokémon to help with catching all the Pokémon, and was exited with that, as I’m having trouble doing so, I hope you do make a video like that and maybe some tips like how to get high friendship fast and where to get some evo items.
Go to a low lvl area & knock out everything. Use him to break rocks & hit trees. & Don’t let him get knocked out. All that helped me get it high in no time
I think using the same team of Pokemon to get the Defeat with super effective move tasks is flawed. Many Pokemon have tasks to use a certain move a number of times or to use moves in a certain style. In order to maximize efficiency it would make sense to use Pokemon who want to use a certain move vs Pokemon you need to defeat with a super effective type.
For example: Basculin wants to use Wave Crash 40 times. Wave Crash is a water move. Geodude has a Defeat with water moves 15 times task. So use Wave Crash with Basculin on Geodude and you get credit for both tasks. Apply this across the board. Chimchar wants to use Ember, find a Pokemon that you need to defeat with fire moves and use Ember on Chimchar to get the defeats.
At some point you are likely to run out of Pokemon that need super effective defeats, but still have Pokemon that want to use a specific move/style since the amount that want to use specific moves/styles is way more than defeats.
Austin made a spreadsheet because he takes his job seriously. 👍🏽
That Thanos snap at the beginning of your video was spot on! 😂😂
It took like 45 hours but I managed to catch all 242 Pokémon. One of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had in a Pokémon game. I hope this is the future of Pokémon with more gradual updates
I am having a hard time choosing between Torterra and H-Goodra. My one complaint of this game is the move pool, some have overwhelming amount of moves and others just...get very little. Also how so many moves were taken out...My poor Umbreon has to use rest instead of moonlight and has no physical dark moves. Thank you for the video.
Umbreon - use Power shift and it will literally 1 hit ko everything in the game lol. It's a bit broken actually. Also snarl to lower offences.
In case anyone is wanting to find a pokemon that learns Fire, Fighting, Electric, and Ground Moves due to being the most common super effective type requirements, Infernape has all of those, plus Rock, Steel, Ghost, Poison, and Flying coverage as well. Very solid pokemon that wasn't brought up in the video. It does cost money for tutoring, but with distortion farming that shouldn't be a big issue
Gastrodon is my go too, so many Pokemon can’t do anything and it has recover. Offensively it’s not that strong so agile moves can leave enough HP to make the catch even when you are at a high level. If you fail- tank a hit, recover, and try again, most alphas can’t come close to one hitting after level 70 or so.
First w00p w00p
you forgot the "DELELELE" but i'll let it pass cuz you're first lol
You are lol
@@AustinJohnPlays This is the way
it’s giving Cher
Hisuian Typhlosion has been great for me with the ghost typing, being immune to normal moves keeps wild pokémon from using recoil damaging moves!
*Laughs in Wave Crash*
Everything in the game has bite or crunch
I have been loving using Unown of all things for these. For mons whose task has only one weakness or have a 4x weakness, it works very well since spamming Hidden Power is guaranteed to get the best type matchup
As a ghost trainer I have a dusknoir that has ice, fire, thunder punches and bulldoze. Haven't used that line since ruby but he has grown on me a lot and is my first level 100 pokemon.
I think the best way to approach this is to get 2 things done at once. For example: I have to defeat 10 Geodudes with grass type moves. And for Leafeon I have to use grass blade a certain amount of times. So I swap in Leafeon and get to work. Another one I did recently: Staravia use aerial ace, defeat Silcoon with flying type moves.
Having a constant team will cost you time if your goal is to fully complete the Pokedex.
This is the high quality content that I live for
Damn, this video made you work for it. You had to do a decent amount of research to be able to complete the Pokedex on the first Pokemon game where you can do it by yourself (no trading) this is actually pretty impressing
Spells out fighting but leaves the last letter out for ground😂😂 Love ya Austin
Of note is that between Gallade and Lucario, they can learn EVERY type attack. Gallade can't get water, dragon, steel, and dark, while lucario learns water pulse, dragon pulse, darkpulse/crunch, and flash cannon/bullet punch. Meanwhile Lucario can't get flying, bug, fire, grass, or fairy, but Gallade learns aerial ace, x-scissor, fire punch, leaf blade/magical leaf, and dazzling gleam.
As a bonus, Gallade can also get hypnosis, calm mind, and false swipe so he can also be your capture expert if you otherwise have a strong team.
Gallade and it's move pool have carried me through the end game!
Personally, I keep a Gliscor in my party for a wide pool + false swipe. Nice for the rare Pokemon that doesn't use double edge! 😂
I think you might be overthinking this a little. If you're trying to go for maximum efficiency in completing the dex, the best way to go is use pokemon that require you to see certain moves at the same time. Example I need to see Bibarel use Aqua Tail like 40 times so I will use him to knock out geodudes. And once you hit your move quota, swap for something else. This requires you to check on it and swap much more often but it saves so much time in the end.
4 Pokemon from Obsidian Fieldlands that can cover all types except dragon: Samurott, Infernape, Togekiss, Snorlax
Good additions to this are Goodra (for dragon) and Torterra (for better grass move than Togekiss' Magical Leaf)
Alternatively, swap out Snorlax for Wyrdeer (requires Torterra for full type coverage)
Movesets:
Samurott: Ceaseless Edge, Aqua Tail, Poison Jab, X-Scissor
Infernape: Raging Fury, Drain Punch, ThunderPunch, Shadow Claw
Togekiss: Moonblast, Air Slash, Psychic, Magical Leaf
Snorlax: High Horsepower, Iron Head, Ice Punch, Rock Slide
This dude just hibernates, and when a game comes out, just doesn't sleep for like a month
Respect
I need to get ahold of Austin and teach him some spreadsheet skills. Listening to him talk about copying a spreadsheet so he can count the number of times rock types need to be used and I'm yelling at my phone "Use COUNTIF dude!" 😹
Thank you for compiling all of this info, this is so helpful- I couldn't figure out what the most effective move types would be for completing Pokedex entries, this is a total savior video!
Can we get that spreadsheet of dex tasks!!
Hisuian goodra also has 10 moves with 82 dex entries (fire, electric, Ice, fighting, ground, steel, poison, water, dragon, and rock) I feel like it is worth a shout out.
3:15 Just off the top of my head, there IS an Electric/Flying, but that's Thunderus who obviously isn't a "Defeat with x move" pokedex since its a legendary.
There is also Rotom Fan, but that can't be found in the wild
what ive found surprising in this game is the ai is pretty good. it seems that most EVERY pokemon whom has super effective weakness ALWAYS has a super effective counter to waylay the type that is strong against them to maul them pretty good in defense
I would personally include Snorlax as it helped me farm and tank during distortions
soon as i caught alpha snorlax he never left my team, his movepool is so wide i could sweep in battles with him
These videos are so extensive, I don't know how he does, my mind just explodes lol
I have already completed the pokedex and gotten level 10 on them all so I have my shiny charm and at this point I'm just on a quest to get a shiny living dex and an alpha living dex but I still watch all of these videos simply because I love the efficiency that this man does things with and it's nice to see how he did it. I love this channel.
I have a new strategy. After you’ve grind caught a lot of some poke. Use a full or half team
Of
Them
And this way you can spam styles and moves and just cross all the moves off the list
It was sorta reassuring hearing you say you don't have alpha Galade. Having something that even someone that grinds the game the way you do is a nice feeling
Just spent 8 hours working from home in my office. Clocked out, spun the chair around and played 5 hours straight. Catching alphas with cakes and stealth is my absolute favorite thing to do.
My Typhlosion has drain punch, flamethrower, thunder punch and infernal parade. He's my go to since i used grit gravels early to max out speed and atk stats.
This is one of the few pokemon games were I'm happy to run multiple teams of pokemon. Having a team for the pokedex is really helpful!
I switch my Pokémon around a lot too. Mostly to level the smaller ones and get their Pokedex entries.
Omg the effort you put into this game and videos! Where would I be without you
Found it kind of hilarious how you exported the info out of Excel format to do a search function 😂 You could have easily filtered the list or simply made a pivot table, would have saved yourself a lot of effort. Great content as always but damn that part was funny 😂
I think it's wonderful that the game lets you play with your favorite Pokemon a lot more than before, since you can make it very strong. I really hope this continues like that since I love we have more freedom, and we are no longer limited with IVs
If you need a versatile Pokémon for coverage, mismagius is the best. It can learn soooo many 80 base power moves, hits really hard and levels up insanely fast. Total beast, as always. It won’t help you with like false swipe, but for coverage you won’t find much better.
Past several games I haven't run a team of 6, I've had a box or 2 of interchangeable mons I use (I guess from the idea of competitive teams I'm used to) especially with exp share making everyone level. By endgame I had 2.5 full boxes of actively used pokemon
This is way more work than I could ever be asked to do for a video game.
You're wild Austin John! lol
This is why my shiny Golem knows Fire Punch and Thunder Punch. I definitely do have a few Pokémon that aren’t /as/ helpful. My goal is to get an alpha of every species and use that for any of the species move-using tasks.
I completed the Pokedex last night, I fought god, now I am lost. I don't know how I'm going to go back to playing a more traditional Pokemon game after this.
I figured what you meant by this list based off of the title was use these Pokemon to complete your Pokedex and use your favourites for everything else.
I found myself having a status move in each pokemon to help catch the alphas. Now I will look into doing this
I always use gengar and gallade for play through , great move pool and power, pairs very well with each other
My Alpha Snorlax NEVER shows up when I toss him out for battle. The camera has to zoom out. He was taller that Origin Garitina! I love my big boy~
I have Gengar, Mismagius, Dusknoir, Zoroark, Basculegion, Kleavor.
I was all set up for "Defeat with this move" except Steel. I had a Steelix in my box for that.
1:38 dude does so much research I think he would be a great Pokémon professor if they would exist in Reallife
I do the same thing, definitely helpful, and I prefer to get the Pokémon I don't like completed in the dex over doing my favorites first