So in Kanto video there was Arcanine, in this one there is Hitmontop, does the next gens have intimidate pokemon that were also made useless with Incineroar being around?
@@kdlsimondistefan47well, Arcanine, Hitmontop, Salamence, Staraptor (was the best Gen 4 intimidate user I could find), Landorus, Gen 6 doesn’t have an intimidate so just insert Landorus again, then Incinearoar happened. And the Gen 8 and 9 intimidate users aren’t really worth talking about. Hisuian Arcanine is the next best for Gen 8 and 9 technically 9 because it wasn’t available until Gen 9.
Man when Karen said to win with your favorite pokemon I did NOT expect her to bring out an Incineroar, she truly is based and accepts her love for the cat, unlike SOME people Wolfe.
True. My favorite pokemons are Tera ghost Incin with safety goggles Tera water Urshifu Rapid with choice scarf Tera ghost Pelipper with focus sash Tera normal Rillaboom with assault vest Tera water Caly-Ice with clear amulet Tera fairy Raging bold with booster energy
delibird at least has gimmicks to make him unique despite being really bad. Ledian is an extremly faulty design with no forethought or that has EVER been looked back to be adjusted, on top of having everything that usually makes an early route bug bad.
10:05 "Maybe in the right conditions (Kingdra) could be good again" Lo and behold, 6 months later and Wolfey managed to win a regional with Kingdra. Nicely done.
more than half of the list are cross gen evos from gen1. only Ttar, Azul, Suicune and smeargle are full blown gen2 mons. you could argue Lugia and Ho-Oh arent really that bad as far as legendaries goes, but theyre also not great.
For anyone wondering why huge power doubling azumarill's attack from 50 to 100 is so good - thats not actually how stat doubling effects work. Azumarill's attack stat is calculated from its base 50 attack plus IVs and EVs, and then the final result - which at level 50 maxes out at 112 - is doubled. The final stat is roughly the equivalent of having base 150-160 attack, so somewhere between Groudon and Necrozma-Dusk Mane. Pretty impressive for such a little guy!
Just wanted to say I appreciate all the catchy Pokémon Colosseum music in this particular video. Perfectly fits since it focused so much on Johto Pokémon!
Shoutouts to TTar for staying in OU from gen 2 to gen 8 despite all the power creep. This thing faced down fighting types getting actual attacks, U-Turn, the physical/special split, quiver dance and shell smash, massive amounts of stat creep, and gimmicks out the wazoo. It didn't drop until Gen 9 basically turned UU into OU.
And honestly, TTar only dropped so much because the strongest things to do in sand are all banned. Those early days of the graveyard dog (forgot it's name) taking names late game were disgusting. Remember kids, full powered sand or rain are too strong for OU anyways.
@@AlbRomano On top of that Terra takes away its rock type which hurts its ability to abuse a mechanic that you really wanna be able to abuse. If it was Dark that got changed it would be able to shed the X4 weakness without saccing Sp. Def and sandstorm immunity.
Still using the egg-rabbit for raids to this day. Sometimes, you just need a good belly drummer. And while I like Ogerpon (been a long time since I liked a legendary), she just doesn't scratch that itch.
my dude crowbat was only good in specific formats, it's not like it saw massive usage in formats like 2015, where the top mons were all pretty slow crobat didn't just all of a sudden become bad because of the base 135s, it was always pretty mid
Wolfey youre an absolute king and your content is truly GOLD and unmatched!! I think itd be super cool to have a series where you invite other vgc players have a back and forth about their teams and maybe play some games after
You see a video from Wolfey and you know he is gonna say "Inceneroar" in some oportunity... My favorite comentarie is from the guy who counts the seconds take to him speak about Inceneroar in a video without any relation with the type or region Inceneroar has with
I think a really cool idea for a video could be what is Wolfey’s best Pokémon where you go through your competitive history and see which Pokemon has helped you the most.
Great indepth video, having the move damage amount adjusted to what it would be if it was used in weather, really puts things into perspective as to how powerful a pokemon can be.
The thing I love about this series, and about Ray's similar series, is learning about the *History* of these amazing Pokemon across different formats. Super super interesting as a casual player and spectator
Happy to see Suicune in this. My favorite vid of yours is that Eternatus climb and I really love how that team play together. Suicune is such an MVP there.
I got chills at the smeargle section. I knew it was coming but that time period where smeargle dominated was so traumatizing that i don't think i will ever forget it, even when I'm 60 and retired from pokemon games. i still have nightmares about that stupid dog, and the music you chose for it was so fitting lol. it perfectly captures the impending sense of doom you feel when you see smeargle on closed team sheet. on a more positive note, i really enjoyed hearing your insights on what the best mons of this gen were. i found myself agreeing a lot of the time and I'm happy that suicune is on this list. ALSO edit to say. TYRANITAR THE GOAT!!!
I mean when you fight witney your team is still under level than the milktank and will get rolled by the milktank alone But when you fight claire your team is mostly comeplete and have good stat so that why people is more raging on witney than claire@@TheDeathlyG
@@silentfox2366 Actually, Kingdra is far worse. Miltank is ~level 21, while trainers are in the mid to upper teens and wild Pokemon are about 6 levels below. Claire's Kingdra is level 40, a whopping 15-19 levels above most wild encounters you can grind for exp. If you did every trainer encounter AND grinded some wild encounters, you could expect to be mid 30's at best. Kingdra comes in with not only a significant level lead, but also a major type advantage as you cannot get a Dragon Type Pokemon (the only Super Effective move typing) from a wild encounter. Even if you did, the only Dragon type move that does anything is Dragon's Breath, as Twister is both ineffective and lacks a helpful secondary effect due to Kingdra's speed. Additionally, all her Dragonair's have Thunder Wave, meaning at least one if not more of your 'mons will be paralyzed. Unlike Whitney who's bane, Machop, is easily accessible, Claire lacks such an obvious counter. She has a higher level disparity, status conditions all over the place, and better typing. She is objectively worse to fight, even though you have more options.
@@TheDeathlyG I was always amazed when the internet got more connected and I started hearing all these horror stories about Whitney's miltank while having zero issues with it in any of my playthroughs. Meanwhile Claire? Her Kingdra got me to actually use items in a battle because it did absolutely terrible things to my team if I didn't. The huge irony being that after getting hyped up on Claire, the Elite 4 and Lance were relative pushovers in comparison.
I think the reason most folks (myself included) have more visceral memories of Whitney and not Claire (who I personally find forgettable) is because most folks when they replay the game tend to make it up to Whitney, but are less likely to reach Claire near the end of the Johto segment of the game. Their playthroughs may peter out and due to disinterest or burnout and end up shelved. Thus folks see more of Whitney, not Claire. Though I'm only speaking from personal experience. Many of my "spur of the moment, on a whim" attempts to start a run of G/S/C/HG/SS usually end in me giving up partway through. Usually a town or two after beating Whitney.
Very happy to see Azumarill on the list because I really did think Huge Power/Belly Drum/Aqua Jet would be all it needs. And I'm glad to see that's not only a great strat but it won you a match. Kudos to the water bunny
@@VanessaVersusFunnily enough, in the biggest tournament video, Wolfey points out that he picked counters for Incinerorar even though he had a lesser usage the previous tournament, because he refused to disrespect the GOAT
LOVE these videos so much! Hearing input from a World champion is always very amazing to learn from! I really do enjoy watching them all the time and look forward to them! Hope you keep creating more! 😄
Perfect! I needed something to listen to while I mow the lawn and Wolfey comes in clutch with a 47 min video. I should finish mowing a few min after this video ends😁
When I was a kid I traded a charizard for a smeargle when it was first released because I thought it was rare. You don't know the hatred I have for that mon
Nice to hear some Colosseum/XD OST in a competitive doubles video! Definitely really iconic doubles oriented pokemon games so fits really well for these videos
When people say this what they actually mean is just the Red fight, which is pretty great! The rest of that section is just bad though, the wild Pokemon aren't scaled so you just use your overpowered elite four team to stomp most gym leaders with no challenge.
@@melissazadrozny5167 I enjoyed seeing what happened in the 2 years since. Cinnabar exploding, the creepy Pokémon tower turning into a radio tower, blue replacing Giovanni, etc.
Dunsparce was my very first pokemon card. Was given to me in school as a pity card, to this day I love and appreciate the little guy more seeing him as the cutest lil sleepy snake.
I think I’m one of the only people who genuinely love Dudunsparce’s design. Him just turning into *more* Dunsparce makes me love him so much and shows he was already perfect as a Dunsparce
I'm one of those who for years rooted for Dunsparce to get some love becauae I love the lil guy. S/V delivered on that AND on giving my other bud Girafarig the love it deserved. Even though Dudunsparce is still a joke to some, I'm glad to see it finally grow ❤
Had a similar experience as a kid, except mine was a Weedle card, back when the trading card game was just starting to take off (yes, I'm old). Still have a fondness for that little guy. Incidentally, I actually really like Dunsparce as well.
Ah yes, Johtonian Incineroar Mono Fire-type Has Flash Fire instead of Intimidate Doesn’t have Fake Out or Parting Shot Wait, isn’t that just Typhlosion?
Another great video Wolfe! I can’t wait to see which is the best Gen 3 Pokémon competitively. Your content is amazing! I rooted for you to win during the NAIC.
32:35 - can we just take a second to admire the Manuel Massaro team, which brought three pokemon with a BST below 350 to an international tournament and then proceeded to get second place?
The three small babies I get, they have very specific uses, i want to understand what are doing the cat, the psychic dog and why the intimidate user is the Kroc specifically
@@kdlsimondistefan47 that too. i think the cat had parting shot and some other tricks to let it support. i'm just wondering who all of these supports are supposed to be supporting.
@@kdlsimondistefan47 it does, but also, moxie feels like overkill when you're doing extreme evoboost + baton pass strats. wouldn't it be better to have something that could be immediately dangerous?
Been watching your videos for a minute now and never realized how much work you put into them. I figured it took awhile but 100-200 hours is crazy. Subbing just off that fact, keep the content coming. 💪🏽
I always try to guess the top 5 before watching the video and as a singles player, I was surprised to not see Umbreon, skarmory, and blissey (even though I know eviolite Chansey is a thing)
@@theduker5926these videos focus on VGC specifically, which are fast-paced doubles formats that skarmory and blissey have never been good in edit: Nvm you kinda acknowledged that i can’t read
I'm a big shuckle fan, was in the battle tower in Emerald & got stuck against a Magneton while running toxic stall... Poison not working on steel I thought I'd lost. Eventually forced it to struggle & won! Got so excited I dropped my Gameboy & it froze so it didn't count😂😂
My favorite thing about this video is the use of Pokemon Colosseum music in the background. Colosseum was a game that primarily featured Johto Pokemon and revamped a lot of their animations (most notably Ampharos and Azumarill), and allowed players access to them who had complained about Ruby/Sapphire's lack of backwards compatibility with Gold/Silver. Not sure if that was intentional on Wolfey's part but I appreciate it nonetheless.
For your next videos can you do: -Best Dark Pokemon -Best alolan Pokemon -Best cat Pokemon -Best intimidate Pokemon -Best smash bros Pokemon -Best Pokemon
I had no idea Tyranitar was that good, but he's always been my favorite pokemon so this was a cool watch at the end. I had the most fun when I had a team with Tyranitar and Aggron on it so they quickly became my go-too for clearing the game
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Loving these “Best Pokekon Of” videos, also can’t wait for the banger Orlando, EUIC and NAIC videos coming up!!
If Incineroar really existed I'd love to see you interact with one😂😂😂😂😂
"hey, why was hitmontop so good?"
"well you see, we didn't always have inci-"
So in Kanto video there was Arcanine, in this one there is Hitmontop, does the next gens have intimidate pokemon that were also made useless with Incineroar being around?
@@kdlsimondistefan47 Salamence?
@@kdlsimondistefan47well, Arcanine, Hitmontop, Salamence, Staraptor (was the best Gen 4 intimidate user I could find), Landorus, Gen 6 doesn’t have an intimidate so just insert Landorus again, then Incinearoar happened. And the Gen 8 and 9 intimidate users aren’t really worth talking about. Hisuian Arcanine is the next best for Gen 8 and 9 technically 9 because it wasn’t available until Gen 9.
@@InfinityZeroEX gyarados to
😅😅 23:10
Man when Karen said to win with your favorite pokemon I did NOT expect her to bring out an Incineroar, she truly is based and accepts her love for the cat, unlike SOME people Wolfe.
Honestly, Incineroar is my favourite Pokémon, even before I knew that it was the best competitive one.
i like most of the pokemon in a meta so i can say i use my favourites
True. My favorite pokemons are
Tera ghost Incin with safety goggles
Tera water Urshifu Rapid with choice scarf
Tera ghost Pelipper with focus sash
Tera normal Rillaboom with assault vest
Tera water Caly-Ice with clear amulet
Tera fairy Raging bold with booster energy
Long live the king
Yup yup, win with your favorite even if everyone else hates it. Be proud and take the W. 🔥😼
For anyone interested, it takes 192 seconds for incineroar to appear in a video about Johto Pokemon
3:11
I count appearances in when Wolfy mentions it, not when it appears on a team. So in that case it is at 19:16
You guys do awesome work :]
@@calls7989 actually he says it’s name at 14:09
This has to be a recurring theme, I'd even consider disliking if I'm in didn't show up xD
I can’t wait for Wolfey to do the top 10 best Alola pokemon, I can’t even begin to imagine who number 1 could possibly be
maybe...
one from smash bros...
torracat
Might be Litten..
it’s gonna be minior
@@celly-vq8dcminior made me laugh
Ultra Necrozma, obviously.
"Don't use Ledian"
You know, we all joked about Delibird until recently.
delibird at least has gimmicks to make him unique despite being really bad. Ledian is an extremly faulty design with no forethought or that has EVER been looked back to be adjusted, on top of having everything that usually makes an early route bug bad.
I mean, iron bundle is technically a different pokemon to delibird so delibird is still ass
Johtonian Incineroar
Agreed
The only correct answer
Tera type jhoto incineroar
I'm going fucking insane
Me: *LITERALLY TWEAKING*
Politoed with Drizzle: I support the star of the show.
Tyranitar with Sand Stream: I support myself I am the star of the show!
Incineroar with Intimidate:
@@joeywittman9822"I run the show."
@@jerrysandoval2001 You misspelled ruin*
Drizzle drizzle
Tyranitar shows up: Final fantasy 13 battle music starts. Army of One!!
You wanna tell me the main counter to the X shaped deer is a X shaped Bat? yeah sure
The deer is Y shaped
@@stickysquirrel5687 it's Xerneas, no Yerneas.
To Y belongs to Yveltal
@@stickysquirrel5687If its legs is separated, you will see the X shape
its called a crossbat for reason.
10:05 "Maybe in the right conditions (Kingdra) could be good again"
Lo and behold, 6 months later and Wolfey managed to win a regional with Kingdra. Nicely done.
Fun fact: 10% of gen 2 is on this list
more than half of the list are cross gen evos from gen1. only Ttar, Azul, Suicune and smeargle are full blown gen2 mons. you could argue Lugia and Ho-Oh arent really that bad as far as legendaries goes, but theyre also not great.
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For anyone wondering why huge power doubling azumarill's attack from 50 to 100 is so good - thats not actually how stat doubling effects work. Azumarill's attack stat is calculated from its base 50 attack plus IVs and EVs, and then the final result - which at level 50 maxes out at 112 - is doubled. The final stat is roughly the equivalent of having base 150-160 attack, so somewhere between Groudon and Necrozma-Dusk Mane. Pretty impressive for such a little guy!
Base 152 attack to be exact for max investment level 50 Azu. Fear the round rabbit
@@itztaytay2 My fav mon and one of the core members of my first team
Ohh thanks for the explanation
I honestly was always confused by this thanks
Then there's Belly Drum. We don't talk about Belly Drum.
Calling it now: Wolfey says not to bring Hitmontop to worlds because it’s his secret weapon
He's not wrong though. Incineroar is just better and he just won't use hitmontop.
0:55: “Crobat is a poison and flying type Pokémon”
Me: No, Crobat is THE Poison and Flying type ‘mon. No rivals
Golbat is clearly right there smh…
Why are its teeth such nightmare fuel?!
@@bosniagaming2708 y'all sleeping on Zubat smh
It genuinely surprises me we haven’t had a single new poison/flying pokemon in almost 25 years
*Laughs in levitate Weezing*
*Cries because Weezing only runs Neutralizing Gas*
Just wanted to say I appreciate all the catchy Pokémon Colosseum music in this particular video. Perfectly fits since it focused so much on Johto Pokémon!
18:08 DID BRO MAKE TOP 16 AT A NATIONAL WITH UNOWN????????????
Shoutouts to TTar for staying in OU from gen 2 to gen 8 despite all the power creep. This thing faced down fighting types getting actual attacks, U-Turn, the physical/special split, quiver dance and shell smash, massive amounts of stat creep, and gimmicks out the wazoo. It didn't drop until Gen 9 basically turned UU into OU.
And honestly, TTar only dropped so much because the strongest things to do in sand are all banned. Those early days of the graveyard dog (forgot it's name) taking names late game were disgusting.
Remember kids, full powered sand or rain are too strong for OU anyways.
@@AlbRomano On top of that Terra takes away its rock type which hurts its ability to abuse a mechanic that you really wanna be able to abuse. If it was Dark that got changed it would be able to shed the X4 weakness without saccing Sp. Def and sandstorm immunity.
@@Team_OrchidAlso losing Pursuit, Sand Stream nerf, and Fairy types.
@@skeetermania3202i agree, losing pursuit was a big deal for ttar
And now imagine if this thing would have a better typing rather than Rock/Dark...
Wow the dog at 3:37 is really handsome, I bet the owner must also be really handsome.
Ive seen him in person and tbh he is very handsome
Never thought I would see a dog owned by a wolf. 😂
Frankly it should be illegal to be this smart and handsome at the same time
Just so you guys know, Wolfey has his own editor, the editor and Wolfey are not the same person 😅
@@alurimel thats what they want you to think
Quagsire because hes so silly
Politoad is a close second in the silly Olympics
Silly creachers :3333333
Dunt sparts
Gligar is silly though
I would like to second this message
QUAGSIRE IS BEST
LOL I love Wolfe. “I’ll shed 3 tears per person and I’ll die from dehydration”
33:50 the absolute despair in the facecams of all the players getting put to sleep throughout the smeargle segment made me laugh incredibly hard
As someone whose favorite pokemon is legitimately Ledian, I appreciate the shout out
I like him cause he’s such an underdog. Criminally underrated. Not my favorite mon (male meowstic takes that) he’s up there
Ledian's the goat of screen setting I love the little guy
Samurott is my favorite, but Ledian is my favorite bug type (and I LOVE bug types!)
Ledian is such a bro, using one in my Silver playthru rn :]
he has carried me in pmd dx by having forge ahead,
got my marrowak with 200 stats across the board + 480hp with 1 burried relic run
Shout out to Azuramill for carrying in high difficulty Tera Raid battles before Ogerpon and Terapagos came out.
Azu strongest bunny 10/10 no notes
Huge Power Belly Drum Azu is also really fun in singles. Shoutout to Perish Trap sets as well.
Still using the egg-rabbit for raids to this day. Sometimes, you just need a good belly drummer. And while I like Ogerpon (been a long time since I liked a legendary), she just doesn't scratch that itch.
It's crazy that 130 speed now isn't really enough for non-Prankster because of all the 135s...
Back in my day, 95 was the benchmark for a fast mon.
my dude crowbat was only good in specific formats, it's not like it saw massive usage in formats like 2015, where the top mons were all pretty slow
crobat didn't just all of a sudden become bad because of the base 135s, it was always pretty mid
@@Reginald425 I remember memorizing that base 86 was max speed 151 years ago, because of Rotom-Wash, etc. and using that as my baseline.
@@Kasaaz151 years ago? 1873?
@@Wraithlet151 max speed a while ago
Wolfey youre an absolute king and your content is truly GOLD and unmatched!! I think itd be super cool to have a series where you invite other vgc players have a back and forth about their teams and maybe play some games after
0:21 It's gonna be tyranitar. Do I even need to watch until the end of the video.
You see a video from wolfey and you immediately know that the comment section is gonne be filled with Incineroar comments
You see a video from Wolfey and you know he is gonna say "Inceneroar" in some oportunity... My favorite comentarie is from the guy who counts the seconds take to him speak about Inceneroar in a video without any relation with the type or region Inceneroar has with
Incineroar
The stupid cat is everywhere
🔥😼 World Champ Difference babyyy 🏆🍼
This is an other testament that FSG's How GREAT is Tyranitar ACTUALLY is going to be really long.
I mean, they just released another movie-length video, so maybe that won’t come until the end of 2024 or early to mid 2025.
The Gen 9 portion is gonna be really heart breaking seeing him fall off as much as he did
Another?
It's really fun to have TH-camrs who acknowledges the singles format.
especially because tyranitar is good in both singles and doubles
I think a really cool idea for a video could be what is Wolfey’s best Pokémon where you go through your competitive history and see which Pokemon has helped you the most.
The Dunsparce slander is fair but still cuts me deep to my core
Mood
Great indepth video, having the move damage amount adjusted to what it would be if it was used in weather, really puts things into perspective as to how powerful a pokemon can be.
The crazy thing about Crobat is that for the longest time, it was the most powerful Poison Pokemon stat-wise, until Nihilego and then Eternatus came.
I'm not sure if that is good for Crobat or sad for the poison types...
Came here for the Tyranitar rep, wasn’t disappointed
That crobat in stadium was such a jumpscare
Agreed
The contrast of Ghetsis' malevolent theme song against Smeargle's goofy ass face was hilarious.
27:12 we finally get to see the absorb bulb team from the best water types video.
The thing I love about this series, and about Ray's similar series, is learning about the *History* of these amazing Pokemon across different formats. Super super interesting as a casual player and spectator
Ray who
@@nomenclature7662 Ray Rizzo, 3x pokemon VGC world champion.
Ray rizzful
Ray the Rizzler
Happy to see Suicune in this. My favorite vid of yours is that Eternatus climb and I really love how that team play together. Suicune is such an MVP there.
Man wolfeys azumarill mega khangaskhan team was evilll💀
Pokemon Colosseum music is the best. Well done music editor.
Dude I like how you used Pokemon Colosseum Final Boss theme to talk about the #1 Johto pokemon.
I still remember Evice's fight, so intimidating!!
Incineroar was mentioned 6 times in the video about the best johto pokemon
19:18 finally, an incineroar reference.
nu uh he said incineroar at 14:10
14:09 he already talked about it
very amusing to hear Ghetsis' theme playing in the background while you talked about Smeargle
I mean, is he wrong?
I am so glad I’m not the only person who heard Scizor’s cry in Melee as Seezor.
I got chills at the smeargle section. I knew it was coming but that time period where smeargle dominated was so traumatizing that i don't think i will ever forget it, even when I'm 60 and retired from pokemon games. i still have nightmares about that stupid dog, and the music you chose for it was so fitting lol. it perfectly captures the impending sense of doom you feel when you see smeargle on closed team sheet.
on a more positive note, i really enjoyed hearing your insights on what the best mons of this gen were. i found myself agreeing a lot of the time and I'm happy that suicune is on this list. ALSO edit to say. TYRANITAR THE GOAT!!!
Claire’s Kingra back in original Gold/Silver and the remakes still gives me nightmares
Same man. People talk about Whitney's Miltank (rightfully), but Claire's Kingdra took down entire teams...
I mean when you fight witney your team is still under level than the milktank and will get rolled by the milktank alone
But when you fight claire your team is mostly comeplete and have good stat so that why people is more raging on witney than claire@@TheDeathlyG
@@silentfox2366 Actually, Kingdra is far worse. Miltank is ~level 21, while trainers are in the mid to upper teens and wild Pokemon are about 6 levels below.
Claire's Kingdra is level 40, a whopping 15-19 levels above most wild encounters you can grind for exp. If you did every trainer encounter AND grinded some wild encounters, you could expect to be mid 30's at best.
Kingdra comes in with not only a significant level lead, but also a major type advantage as you cannot get a Dragon Type Pokemon (the only Super Effective move typing) from a wild encounter. Even if you did, the only Dragon type move that does anything is Dragon's Breath, as Twister is both ineffective and lacks a helpful secondary effect due to Kingdra's speed. Additionally, all her Dragonair's have Thunder Wave, meaning at least one if not more of your 'mons will be paralyzed.
Unlike Whitney who's bane, Machop, is easily accessible, Claire lacks such an obvious counter. She has a higher level disparity, status conditions all over the place, and better typing. She is objectively worse to fight, even though you have more options.
@@TheDeathlyG I was always amazed when the internet got more connected and I started hearing all these horror stories about Whitney's miltank while having zero issues with it in any of my playthroughs. Meanwhile Claire? Her Kingdra got me to actually use items in a battle because it did absolutely terrible things to my team if I didn't. The huge irony being that after getting hyped up on Claire, the Elite 4 and Lance were relative pushovers in comparison.
I think the reason most folks (myself included) have more visceral memories of Whitney and not Claire (who I personally find forgettable) is because most folks when they replay the game tend to make it up to Whitney, but are less likely to reach Claire near the end of the Johto segment of the game. Their playthroughs may peter out and due to disinterest or burnout and end up shelved. Thus folks see more of Whitney, not Claire. Though I'm only speaking from personal experience. Many of my "spur of the moment, on a whim" attempts to start a run of G/S/C/HG/SS usually end in me giving up partway through. Usually a town or two after beating Whitney.
Nothing makes me happier than hearing the Colosseum/XD soundtrack. W Editor.
I laughed so hard at the "crobat disrupting the opponent" stock footage lol
Very happy to see Azumarill on the list because I really did think Huge Power/Belly Drum/Aqua Jet would be all it needs. And I'm glad to see that's not only a great strat but it won you a match. Kudos to the water bunny
Absolutely love that the editor included music from Pokémon Colosseum during Suicune’s segment 👏
The way Wolfey hates Incineroar you’d almost think it has irl intimidate
It does! The psychological impact of knowing you have to fight the angry cat will impact how you play and build teams
@@VanessaVersusFunnily enough, in the biggest tournament video, Wolfey points out that he picked counters for Incinerorar even though he had a lesser usage the previous tournament, because he refused to disrespect the GOAT
One of my favorite vgc fun facts is that Suicune has never played a game against a mon with a physical electric move
Tyranitar's back must really hurt from carrying all of gen 2
LOVE these videos so much! Hearing input from a World champion is always very amazing to learn from! I really do enjoy watching them all the time and look forward to them! Hope you keep creating more! 😄
Perfect! I needed something to listen to while I mow the lawn and Wolfey comes in clutch with a 47 min video. I should finish mowing a few min after this video ends😁
Love the colosseum soundtrack in this video. Pyrite theme. The best song in the best games of the series.
When I was a kid I traded a charizard for a smeargle when it was first released because I thought it was rare. You don't know the hatred I have for that mon
Can't wait for the Generation 7 video. Super curious to see which one that will be
Alolan Incineroar
You’re never gonna guess the #1 mon
Nice to hear some Colosseum/XD OST in a competitive doubles video! Definitely really iconic doubles oriented pokemon games so fits really well for these videos
What a great generation. Finding Kanto after beating the elite 4 in Silver is truly a GOATed Pokemon experience.
When people say this what they actually mean is just the Red fight, which is pretty great! The rest of that section is just bad though, the wild Pokemon aren't scaled so you just use your overpowered elite four team to stomp most gym leaders with no challenge.
I was honestly so excited when the internet told me that I hadn’t beaten the game, and that there was practically another game within it left to play.
@@melissazadrozny5167
I enjoyed seeing what happened in the 2 years since. Cinnabar exploding, the creepy Pokémon tower turning into a radio tower, blue replacing Giovanni, etc.
They should include the previous region in every pokemon game I think
@@melissazadrozny5167how are you going to tell someone else what they mean
LOVE the Pokémon colosseum music, editor goated for that. Wolfey vids stay the best on TH-cam
Great games
I can't help but just picture Tyranitar pulling off Gonzap's jumping double fist pump from XD Gale of Darkness at 43:24 as it really kicks in.
I’m not expecting Ariados to be here but shoutout to my fave of all time
Azumarill fan here, glad to see the zero to hero blue bun sees some love even in the most recent gen.
Tyranitar was also really good in the pre-VGC formats all the way back to gen 2. It's never been bad.
Dunsparce was my very first pokemon card. Was given to me in school as a pity card, to this day I love and appreciate the little guy more seeing him as the cutest lil sleepy snake.
I think I’m one of the only people who genuinely love Dudunsparce’s design. Him just turning into *more* Dunsparce makes me love him so much and shows he was already perfect as a Dunsparce
Same! He's just a little guy who turns into a bigger little guy!
I'm one of those who for years rooted for Dunsparce to get some love becauae I love the lil guy. S/V delivered on that AND on giving my other bud Girafarig the love it deserved. Even though Dudunsparce is still a joke to some, I'm glad to see it finally grow ❤
@@MsVilecat My Dunsparce, Quagsire and shuckle were aces on my soul silver playthrough
Had a similar experience as a kid, except mine was a Weedle card, back when the trading card game was just starting to take off (yes, I'm old). Still have a fondness for that little guy. Incidentally, I actually really like Dunsparce as well.
Johtonian Incineroar/Xerneas team shows up: “You are my special”
Ah yes, Johtonian Incineroar
Mono Fire-type
Has Flash Fire instead of Intimidate
Doesn’t have Fake Out or Parting Shot
Wait, isn’t that just Typhlosion?
@@typemasters2871 They're talking about Hitmontop.
@@solitare4602 ah, my mistake
Wolfey talking about politoed gives proud father vibes lol
Wolfey's war on Incineroar knows no bounds. He is like a supporting actor. The fella shows up every video.
Another great video Wolfe! I can’t wait to see which is the best Gen 3 Pokémon competitively. Your content is amazing! I rooted for you to win during the NAIC.
Gen 2 is my favorite gen. Tyranitar, Houndoom, entei, suicune, dolphan, typhlosion, so many fantastic designs
what about scizor
@@Dalton-mt2cn fuck yeah. That too
Feraligatr!
And then Natu appears
I remember my Ampharos sweeping everything it came across so a long with typhlosion it was my heavy hitter
Love Hitmontop’s idle animation dancing Capoeira. Hitmontop is called “Kapoera” in Japan.
25:55 Wolfey pronounces Gengar correctly.
Love these videos! And im happy to see tyranitar still kicking up its sand and doing its thing.
32:35 - can we just take a second to admire the Manuel Massaro team, which brought three pokemon with a BST below 350 to an international tournament and then proceeded to get second place?
The three small babies I get, they have very specific uses, i want to understand what are doing the cat, the psychic dog and why the intimidate user is the Kroc specifically
@@kdlsimondistefan47 that too. i think the cat had parting shot and some other tricks to let it support. i'm just wondering who all of these supports are supposed to be supporting.
@@snolls105 ...Doesn't the Kroc have also Moxie?
Maybe the Kroc is the one they're supporting
@@kdlsimondistefan47 it does, but also, moxie feels like overkill when you're doing extreme evoboost + baton pass strats. wouldn't it be better to have something that could be immediately dangerous?
33:28 omfg, I think my mind had blocked that cursed Pokemon Stadium animation
Gotta love that Colesseum soundtrack. Was a great way to get a lot of gen 2 pokemon in gen 3 as well!
I love the Pokémon colosseum music playing throughout the video. 😍😍😍
Been watching your videos for a minute now and never realized how much work you put into them. I figured it took awhile but 100-200 hours is crazy. Subbing just off that fact, keep the content coming. 💪🏽
I love that you put coliseum and xd gale of darkness music in your video !!
The lack of Umbreon respect is so loud
As my favorite Pokémon, Umbreon is admittedly not great in doubles. In singles? A lot more terrifying, especially in older formats.
I always try to guess the top 5 before watching the video and as a singles player, I was surprised to not see Umbreon, skarmory, and blissey (even though I know eviolite Chansey is a thing)
@@theduker5926these videos focus on VGC specifically, which are fast-paced doubles formats that skarmory and blissey have never been good in
edit: Nvm you kinda acknowledged that i can’t read
I'm a big shuckle fan, was in the battle tower in Emerald & got stuck against a Magneton while running toxic stall... Poison not working on steel I thought I'd lost. Eventually forced it to struggle & won! Got so excited I dropped my Gameboy & it froze so it didn't count😂😂
100-200 hours put into these videos? Sheesh Wolfey, but that shows the dedication put into these type of videos.
My favorite thing about this video is the use of Pokemon Colosseum music in the background. Colosseum was a game that primarily featured Johto Pokemon and revamped a lot of their animations (most notably Ampharos and Azumarill), and allowed players access to them who had complained about Ruby/Sapphire's lack of backwards compatibility with Gold/Silver. Not sure if that was intentional on Wolfey's part but I appreciate it nonetheless.
I love the scizor illustration rare used in the background! Keep using great tcg art in your videos!
For your next videos can you do:
-Best Dark Pokemon
-Best alolan Pokemon
-Best cat Pokemon
-Best intimidate Pokemon
-Best smash bros Pokemon
-Best Pokemon
Fun fact suicune used to have water absorb as one of its own ability untill gramefreak decidedly to remove it.
You still haven’t filled out the Wo-Chien apology form
I just wanna take a moment and say i love your thumbnails. Props to the artist.
Pepperidge farm remembers! Suicune was by far my favorite gen 2 pokemon alongside Tyranitar and Misdreavus.
Tyranitar is Godzilla's Pokemon OC and I say this lovingly because the Nidos always gave me Baragon vibes (and I love Baragon.) 😂
0:44 what the heck
So you're saying Moody Octillery isn't the best? Dislike
I liked to counter your dislike :/
Love that the background music playing is Evice’s theme. One hell of a fight with a beast of a ‘mon 😮💨
I had no idea Tyranitar was that good, but he's always been my favorite pokemon so this was a cool watch at the end. I had the most fun when I had a team with Tyranitar and Aggron on it so they quickly became my go-too for clearing the game
Where’s my boy Feraligatr? He’s a beast sweeper
no hes not
he needs 2 dragon dances to get set up... takes too long
Check out “worst starter Pokémon”
Feraligatr is pretty decent in singles, but it's never really been good in doubles
He’s good but doesn’t really do much that other water types can’t do better
Love you man
Kurt's thumbnail art gives me so much life everytime!🙏
:)
Your editor is dope, I love your discussion videos because of 'em two champs working together🤣
I love it when Wolfey has a new idea and makes it a series, SUPER cool