Delibird is also one of the few wild Pokémon in Johto that was given the “Flee” mechanic, meaning it can run away from you if you encounter it in the wild. I spent *hours* trying to catch one as a kid, but between its low encounter rate, low catch rate and willingness to flee, I never managed it. I never knew mean look existed back then
@@george9371 you can..be kinda like abra most of the time they just gonna flee away,try using different types and pokeball and pray to Arceus that you manage to get it,i once catch them for pvp in my school but turns out it is the first to faint
@@KetoCommander I've been FireRed on my phone and I take advantage of the GBA apps quick save feature whenever I'm trying to catch a rare or prone to fleeing pokemon. If things go wrong I just reset back to my last save point.
Fun Fact about Chimecho: It was the VERY LAST Pokémon programmed into Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire even after Jirachi and Deoxys. Its so forgettable they almost forgot to program it into the game. I think thats why its in 1 area at a 2% encounter rate.
@@Dingobabee what I don't get is why it got a baby form. I made my own fake Pokemon before and made a fake chimecho evolution called winchime. I made it gain the steel type because of the design concept was a windchime🎐.
@@hunterpikachu1763 that's an interesting concept actually. Idk if steel would be the best fitting (kinda trespassing on bronzong's shtick) but maybe Farie type instead to emphasize its musical, magical abilities? Would become interesting in having Levitate giving it 2 immunities, good stab and interesting utility.
Farfetched's rarity can be explained with lore, Farfetched's backstory is actually pretty sad, it was common a while ago but because it was delicious people hunted them to almost extinction.
A NATIONS STRENGTH. The actual Combined Level or Power or Something of a Pokemon-Region and therefore its actual theoretical Military Might. This is literally something i see non-covered by all of the Poke-Tubers. Its not covered on TH-cam?? Same for 'Goverments - do they even exist in Pokemon?'!
@@slevinchannel7589 Based on Sword and Shield, they do. However, it seems that the government is either run by a company or the champion, depending on the region. For example, the League seems to run Johto and Kanto, but Rose's company runs Galar.
I kind of get Johto having so many weak Pokemon, since it's treated more like an expansion of Kanto rather than a completely different region. Almost every Kanto Pokemon is available in Johto, and for the most part, Kanto Pokemon are gonna make up a majority of your Johto playthrough team. The same is true for other prominent Johto trainers.
My original teams on HeartGold & SoulSilver were all Johto Pokemon HeartGold Feraligatr Noctowl Ampharos Magcargo (obtained as an Egg in Violet City from Primo and hatched into Slugma) Ariados Steelix SoulSilver Typhlosion Noctowl Ampharos Politoed Hitmontop Sunflora
Very true Though I NEVER EVER see people defending Diamond, Pearl or Platinum but when obvious flaws about any other Generation are pointed out jump to the rescue...🤣🤣🤣 Physical Special Split, Stealth Rock, Toxic Spikes, making useless unevolved Gen 2 Mons finally usable (Gligar -> Gliscor; Yanma -> Yanmega; Murkrow -> Honchkrow; Misdreavus -> Mismagius) Still, it's all good, hating on Gen 4 seems to be a past time for most people...🤣🤣🤣 Anyways, yes they actually planned to discontinue the franchise or game series with and after Gen 2 so what you're saying makes a lot of sense! Gen 2 has MANY flaws but that's why we love it and Pokémon❤❤❤
But if people get that and why Hoenn has so many water routes... Then why don't people get Sinnoh not having many Fire Types as the very cold northernmost region of Japan, Hokkaido...? People really hate on Gen 4 a lil too much.
@@AD-tj4jc I think the pokemon fans love the Remake, Not the original Gold and Silver. Pokemon Heartgold and Soulsilver are a fun games well for me. After i beat the elite four and the champion, i didn't know there was a Postgame. And also I love Heracross.
Maybe it's because I did not grow out with HGSS, but I don't feel the same. The remakes don't fix any of the problems from the originals. Level curve is still horrible and half the new pokemon are in Kanto.
There are two reasons why alomomola isn’t the evolution of Luvdisc. First, the out-of-universe meta explanation, which is that Gen V was dedicated as a sort of soft-reboot of the series and has lots of design counterparts between it and the previous four generations, such as Trubbish and Grimer/Koffing (Trash/pollution), Jellicent and Tentacruel (jellyfish), and Purrloin/Meowth/Skitty (cats but make them feral). Luvdisc and Alomomola both play into the same archetype of sunfish. In-universe, they evolved convergently. Convergent evolution is when a single trait (e.g. wings) appears in multiple unrelated ways (insect wings vs bird wings vs bat wings). Clearly Alomomola and Luvdisc both derive some sort of ecological benefit from being pink and heart shaped in their environment. The obvious conspiracy response is that they forgot Luvdisc existed when they were designed Alomomola.
I like the idea of weak and rare Pokémon. It's realistic as weaker animals are often facing extinction. I think it would fun if a few weak Pokémon were so rare, that the Pokédex didn't cover them, and the professor in the game was surprised about their existence. It would be a nice bit of lore if later games showed their numbers going up, do to breeding efforts to save them.
"Amazing [player], your ditto and it's poor tuckered dong have singlehandedly brought [pokemon] back from the brink of extinction. You deserve a reward." [player] received one full heal. "Ah [player], there you are. There's no time to explain, your breeding effort has been too effective. We need to reduce the number of [pokemon]. I have three methods." "So you would like to choose the brick on a chain?" "So you would like to choose the baseball bat with a nail in it?" "So you would like to choose the prison shiv?"
He only did that cause he loves it one of his catchphrases is “Hail Yea” and that’s just “Hell Yea” but with the word hail, why hail? Castform Hail Form.
fun fact wobbufett 's name in japanese means thats right, so every time when he pops out of jessie's pokeball to say thats right it tends to be after ash or his friends mock team rocket and wobbufett agrees with them
I really like that the rare Pokemon are a mix of strong and weak. It makes the world feel a lot more real and gives it some character. How would it make sense that all of the rare Pokemon are also very good at battling?
To add insult to injury, even after Murkrow and Misdreavus were made available before beating the League in HG/SS, you still couldn’t use them in a Johto playthrough since the Dusk Stone wasn’t obtainable until after getting the National Dex.
Most stones are really difficult to get in Johto. My last SoulSilver game, I beat the league with a vulpix and a weepinbell. HG/SS are great games, but their flaws are kinda annoying.
#8 Dunsparce... When I was younger, I thought it evolved into Gligar. I had an obsession with only catching base forms, and never catching evolved forms, because the anime made me feel that I'd have a better bond with pokemon I leveled that Dunsparce, ignoring my friends who said it doesn't evolve, until I eventually either gave up or found out online
Damn I did that also I cried when i finally got it to lvl 100 and it didn't evolve so I looked it up online and that's when I found out also did the same thing with Shuckle sadly.... my childhood was filled with 😞
Beedrill: “I was bad!“ Mega Beedrill: “But now I'm good!“ Mega Beedrill is one of the few good things about Game Freak's constant pandering towards Kanto...
@@rileymcgowan6490 I just wish that Butterfree's Gmax form would be a Mega Evolution instead. Like a special counterpart to Mega Beedrill! Instead of an offensive ability Mega Butterfree gets a defensive ability for example to avoid damage of Stealth Rocks. :-)
For the Johto swarm pokemon, it's even worse when you consider how to activate them in the first place. You had to have a specific trainer register on your pokegear then have to wait for them to call you and tell you about the swarm that would last until the next day.
Just as stupid was it that you got next to no evo items in GSC aside from I think the bug catching contest and in crystal, specific trainers calling you.
Tbh johto dex deserves to br trashtalked. Especially the cindaquil line. Their stats are 1:1 copied from the charmander line (I still love cindaquill and johto, but the region oberall is incredible weak, you have countless better kanto options in the game, the gym leaders mostly dont even use jotho pokemon and the level curve is terribly designed)
The dex was generally garbage. One of the core cool things in Pokemon is to work up a guy and evolve. See what you get. This gen had so many random no evo guys that had no point. I think babies did (and still) have no point. Just dumb gen
Imagine, somewhere in an alternate universe in the pokemon world there's an animal tuber making a video of the 20 rarest animals you should not catch. It's just not worth it for the animaldex.
Blobfish are extremely rare animals, only found in deep waters near Australia & New Zealand. But are extremely weak and easily outclassed by nearly every other fish in the area.
Castform is honestly pretty fun to use compared to literally every other Pokémon on this list. I legitimately put a Castform on my Hoenn team and it helped a lot.
Exactly! That just goes to show that a person’s favorite Pokémon is too rare to justify their rarity and isn’t worth using if you don’t care about that Pokémon.
What Farfetch'd has going for it in Kanto, and what I think helps make sense of its location, is that it can learn both Cut and Fly. This is the point in the game that you will be getting both of those.
Actually, Misdreavus helped me beat Red. When I was struggling against him, I caught a Misdreavus, leveled her up once and was able to take out his Snorlax which was the hardest one to KO. She learned Mean Look and Perish Song. I also love her design
That's hilarious that Delibird is only found in Ice Path. My first time playing Soul Silver I was rushing to fight Claire and my first encounter was a shiny Delibird. My first shiny ever
Not competitive, but I remember Wobbuffet being my MVP when I first faced the E4 in SS, despite it being 20 levels lower than the rest of my team. I will always respect Wobbuffet.
@@ColgatetheTogekiss Well, Wobuffet is a double-edged sword. It can be very useful in Nuzlocke but it is also very hard to use and, definitely not for the people who are impatient Im on the same board as Mikey cuz while Wob is fun for competitive, it's not fun for playthrough and really worth if you just want to do a regular playthrough unless you want to mess with it for fun
I personally think wobbofet is so rare because it can kill at least one Pokémon on your team so if it could pop up all the time it would be extremely difficult to make it through a cave
It's also got banned from OU and went to Uber tier because of one single broken ability. Shadow tag. Which locked your opponent out of the game and with mirror coat and counter shengains it could do some serious damage if you got trapped. Possibly costing you the match. It deserves to be rare.
Chimecho was literally the last pokemon I needed to fill my dex in sapphire as a kid and I had no idea what pokemon I was missing or where to find it when I finally did I loved it so much I raised it to level 100
Yeah, it doesn't have any evolution at the time so you would have literally no idea what you were missing, and it wasn't hinted in the game either since it's literally the last Pokemon added in the game even after Jirachi and Deoxys.
@@ethantreadway9478 Victory road would've been better since that's a place you'd look for a possibly strong, rare pokémon. It's in a single patch of grass, out of the main way, on the top of that mountain you go *once* to for story reasons for like 10 seconds and have zero reason to visit again, so unless you notice that patch of grass, you don't even know there's something you missed. Meaning you'd have a missing pokémon like no trainer uses, with only one location you might not even notice exists. It's honestly insane that Emerald Tate and Liza use 3 psychic types with levitate, but instead of using the fourth one to have give the player an inkling that that pokémon exists, they used Xatu instead. And there, they don't even have the excuse of "programmed like 3 seconds before release" because it's the third version glow-up. If I were to fix Hoenn gym leader teams, replacing the Xatu with Chimecho would be one of the changes.
26:35 I think it's very interesting that none of the Pikachu clones have evolutions even though Pikachu has a baby and evolution and I would love to see them get some
Dunsparce is based on the Tsukinoko a creature from japanese urban legends, it is said to be extremely rare leaving only its shed skin on the ground and sometimes "foot"prints. That can explain why Dunsparce is THAT rare
Farfetched’s low encounter rate makes sense imo. Because to find a duck that already comes with a leek is quite rare, dare I say, farfetched. Jokes aside, farfetched’ name and design is based on a Japanese expression that something is unlikely. So for it to have a low encounter rate keeps with the name.
Farfetch'd might not be worth it in gen 1, but in gen 6 it is an awesome team member. It gets Air Cutter at a low level, which in Kalos let's you get berries off trees. It also learns False Swipe by level up for easier catching, and can be used as your Fly Pokémon. Also is not hard to find. Definitely a good choice for any Kalos team.
Also lore wise, Farfetched's backstory is actually pretty sad, it was common a while ago but because it was delicious people hunted them to almost extinction.
I remember using a Dunsparce when I was way younger. Seeing it made me think of Larvitar which I had trained in another playthrough just before, and Dratini. I assumed it was going to evolved once or twice in to an insane super powerful Dragon or something. Pretty sure I got it to level 60 before giving up on any evolution. It still disappoints me to this day.
@@BiscuitHead22 yeah, I played Uranium and as soon as I heard Dunsparce evolved I immediately got one. Dunseraph is very cool. Very cool game but the last time I played it through was when it stopped after the 7th gym. Couldn't get in to it after it "officially" launched.
I did a crystal run the other day and had to come home on my lunch break to catch sunkern lol and yanma was the 2nd last pokemon i caught in it, my final box (6) has magmar, entei, ho-oh, lugia, yanma and misdraevus in it
It's funny I actually remember having the in game trade Farfetch'd on my 1st ever team in Pokemon Blue, mind you DUX only had one purpose, even tho my Charizard was my powerhouse, and was basically the only team member that battled, he couldn't freaking Fly yet (thankyou Yellow for fixing that by the way) so that's where DUX came in handy Also, side note, last night I watched a Pokemon Journeys episode that was focused on pokemon trades. It showed a Farfetch'd (named DUX) and Spearow trade... The nostalgic nerd in me was so happy! 😊
@@spongebobpopsicle5783 possibly, I really hoped it was, but in the episode the trainer called his FarFetch'd DUX, but the other trainer just said Spearow unfortunately
or just evolve them, instead of trying to find an evolved pokemon in the wild (idk if theres any evolved pokemon on the list, im saying this before watching the video)
When it comes to wobbuffet, I really enjoy battling using the gimmick, but shadow tag makes it annoying to face with the gimmick. It makes total sense that they didn't want you to constantly battle them and lose members constantly in a cave and have to backtrack every time you lose to one if you are like me and like to run back to heal up
@@finmat95 But you generally assume that if it's rare it's worth it. Would you want to spend 6 hours waiting for honey tree pokemon only to then find out that they suck, again excluding Munchlax.
Farfetch’d is literally endangered because according to the anime it was overly hunted of course it’s gonna be rare and if the anime doesn’t count then it’s still at least endangered. I know the point is that it’s weak but it at least has an excuse to be rare.
"Let's take a step back for a moment and look at Farfetch'd itself. Its Japanese name is made up of kamo (鴨 or カモ), meaning 'duck', and negi (葱 or ネギ), which refers to a variety of green onions." "There is a second meaning to the phrase, however. A duck bearing a green onion is a creature walking naïvely towards a nasty fate, and the idiom has come to refer to individuals who are easy to deceive. One dictionary gives the meaning 'along comes a sucker just begging to be parted from his money'. As a result, somebody who is easy to take advantage of can be referred to in Japanese as a kamo (鴨) or 'duck'." So it's intentionally meant as a joke, you were a fool to trade for Farfetch'd or easiliy taken advantage off. - Bulbapedia
Joke's on the person that traded it as I can just go and catch another spearow but that person cannot catch another farfetched. Not to insult or joke you tho, the resarch was good. Kudos!👍
I always liked how they managed Farfetched in the Kanto games. You trade it for a Spearow, so immediately it’s more powerful. However, if you would have just kept Spearow & trained it, it would become a Fearow, which is significantly stronger then Farfetcted. I always took it as the games way of saying “give stuff a chance before you get rid of it for a quick power buff, because in the long run it will be more helpful.” Essentially, it said you need to put in effort if you want the better option. I always liked that message, even if it wasn’t intentional.
I feel like some pokemon's rarity gives them an inherent specialness. Remember that some people care quite a bit more about collecting than they do about battling.
@@Moonstriker2514 I think that a 1/100 chance of finding a rare pokemon like a dunsparce is a lot more reasonable than something like a 1/8192 Pidgey, but fair enough, I suppose
Not really when a lot of people don't know the pokemon even exists not really special just stupid to do to weak pokemon without a special ability to make up for it.
I’m Happy To Report In My Fictional Romare Region Castform Does Get A Buff! It’s Hail Form Gives It A 90 Base Attack Stat Instead Of 60, The Rain Form Gives Is A 90 Base Speed Stat, And The Sunny Form Gets A Base 90 Special Attack Stat. HAIL YEAH!
@@poninefreak3321 Other Pokemon can fly Majestically through the sky But i can walk (They can walk) Other Pokemon can dig A hole that's real deep and big But i can walk They can walk!
Farfetch'd trade is before the Electric Gym because you need HM Cut to have access to it. If you don't wanna teach Cut to any of the Pokémon in your party just obtain the Farfetch'd, teach it Cut and therefore you haven't ruined the moveset of your party at all.
Credit where it's due for farfetched, it was a valuable member of my team at times for being the cut and fly master...but that was really it. As for pinchurchin you can increase the encounter rate of it by putting a static or lightning-rod poke in your lead (boltund, pikachu, etc) and it was pretty effective since pinchy there was the only electric spawn on that route iirc.
Mikey: "the rest of the Kanto pokemon that are rare are strong" *the one and only Lickitung in Kanto has entered the chat* Lickitung: MandJTV, we need to talk about Golduck.
7:12 Sunkern is cute and Sunflora is one of my favorite grass types, and has helped me throughout my Johto playthroughs. Even helping me beat the league. So while yes it's stats are bad. It's still a really good grass type imo
In a minimal defense of Luvdisc, at least you don’t need to catch it to get the heart scale. Thief will work just fine so long as you remember to remove the scale each time you get one. Frisk will also help tell you if it’s even worth using Thief. So in terms of actually catching any, you just need one for the Dex entry if you’re so inclined.
You can obtain Farfetch’d before the electric gym in Kanto because it is intended to be used just to teach it cut, which you need to enter the gym and the rock tunnel.
There are more mons that get Cut and are more useful, and available at the time,,like Meowth(especially in FRLG because of Pickup) and then Persian is pretty okay if you don't have a Normal/Flying type, and until Snorlax...
That’s true, but I think that farfetchd is that weird because it represents a Japanese saying that is said when something really weird happens but it ends up being helpful. The saying was something like “as useful as finding a duck carrying a leek when you’re hungry”.
@@AlldaylongRock Meowth can't be learn Cut in the Original games. The only mons that can learn Cut in those games are Bulbasaur, Charmander, Oddish, Bellsprout, Sandshrew and Farfetch'd. Considering Bellsprout and Sandshrew are Blue exclusive, you are pretty much boned if you chose Squirtle in Pokemon Red, since then the only options are Paras, Oddish and Farfetch'd. But considering Paras has an abysmal 5 and 10% encounter rate, you might not even stumble upon one.
Funny. I got my Farfetch'd in FireRed, and used it for the entire playthrough as my best Pokémon. It was also the first Pokémon who got lvl.100 on my savefile. I was a kid... But I still love my Cheding.
As unbalanced and janky as gen 2 is, I will still always love it. Crystal was the first pokemon game I ever played, so it's special place in my heart will always remain
10:05 fun fact, this is the Pokémon that took out Cynthias final Pokémon for me in brilliant diamond. Coco would’ve been taken out by the garchomp had it not been for the ridiculous friendship I had with it and the Shell Bell. Long story short I used fly because if Coco could take a hit from it or was faster somehow, I didn’t want her being taken out if the garchomp survived. She was not faster, but friendship allowed her to survive on one HP as she flew up and took it out without a friendship boost. It was low health so that contributes to how she took it out in one hit, but it does not change the fact that she was the one that won the championship in Sinnoh for me. So I have a respect for the murcrow
I’d say that Murkrow itself also became better in Generation 4 and beyond *because* Honchkrow exists. That means it gets access to the Eviolite which gets introduced in Generation 5 alongside its ability Prankster which makes it a force to be reckoned with
@@robertlupa8273 he's got a whole 24min video showing A LOT of reasons why he personally thinks gen2 was by far the worst generation in pokemon history and brings up a lot of valid points with proof regarding balancing, stats and so on. It's basically a meme like Michael's "hail yeah"
I have a major bias for Dunsparce. I had one in my most recent Ultra Moon playthrough and it clutched my fight against Lysandre in the postgame. It survived on 1HP for 5 turns against Yveltal. Thank Arceus for Pokemon Refresh!
I used Cherrim for my bdsp playthrough, and honestly she really came through and helped me with the Cynthia fight. That sunny day and solar beam combo was great
Same, I used Cherrim in my Pokémon BDSP Soul Link Nuzlocke with a friend of mine (he played Brilliant Diamond, I played Shining Pearl) paired with his Roserade (we nicknamed them both “Blossom”) and she actually put in work despite me already also using Torterra (paired with his Empoleon, our starters)
@@Jdudec367 I mean it's a gimmick, it's just a really bad one that you can barely call it a gimmick. It's like how unown's only gimmick is that it only learns hidden power, and it doesn't have the stats to make use of the move properly. A gimmick that just isn't possible in gen 8 due to the move cut.
@@michaellarose4913 Well it's easy to call it a gimmick since it's it's signature move. Wait really? They cut the move out? That's surprising, did they cut Delibird itself out then?
Back when I was a kid playing either Silver or Crystal, I saw in a Pokédex entry that Lapras was over hunted so they were close to extinction. So I decided to breed so many of them, only to just release them. I truly thought I was going to be able to save them lol
Good news, you may actually have lol. The Moon and Ultra Moon entries state that due to protective measures and people cherishing them, the Lapras population has risen dramatically. 😊
Re: Farfetch'd Trade in Vermillion I like to imagine Farfetch'd are actually native to Johto and since Vermillion is a port city, travel is fairly easy and this is just a case of someone bringing pokemon home from other regions.
Yeah i think you are right. I mean, that at least can explain the low encounter rates (Or Route exclusive encounters) for some weaker Pokemon in a region. You can basically make the same argument for the Pokemon that can only be found in Safari Zones in a region.
I hate how munchlax has such a low encounter rate because HE is a stupid hungry baby snorlax HOW IS IT RARE TO GET A MUNCHLAX? IT IS EXPECTED TO EAT EVERYTHING SO WHY IS IT NOT COMMON IN HONEY TREES DOES HE NOT EAT HONEY?
Wobbuffet isn’t totally useless. Used it in Sapphire back in the day to catch Latios and Latias as they were roaming Pokémon and would run away if your Pokémon didn’t have the shadow tag ability
I used Wobbuffet in my first Ruby playthrough. It got me through so many difficult encounters, and went very deep in the contests (until I messed up on the pokeblocks, it was my first playthrough after all.)
I was surprised to see Porygon was not on this list at all. Granted, it does not meet both "rare" requirements, but with the grinding required to obtain Porygon, I thought it would at least be an honorable mention, like Munchlax.
Dunsparce may be weak and be a pure normal type. And sure, it’s rare, but its coverage is actually pretty good since it can learn air slash and can have the ability serene grace which gives air slash a (I think) a 60% chance to flinch, which means you have to worry a lot less if you need to use it against fighting types. It can also learn dig, which is helpful if you don’t have a ground type for Lieutenant Surge’s gym and any electric type in general. Therefore, it’s actually quite a solid Pokemon to use competitively and since it’s so unpopular, it can give you the element of surprise… unlikely, but quite possibly.
I think from a worldbuilding standpoint, farfetch'd makes sense. It being hunted to near extinction canonically would drive it to further routes to get away from people who might want to kill it. The few people who have it for trade are poorly placed, but farfetch'd being so rare and so hard to get even when in the overworld makes so much sense when looking into its dex entries! It's rare *because* it's so weak
Misdreavus was quite solid back in Gen II tho; viable alternative to Gengar that wasn't weak to Psychic and Earthquake, plus Perish Trapping shenanigans (and Pain Split as well).
During a Flying monotype run in Heart Gold I remember spending days of play, about an hour a night after work, hunting for Yanma to use for Yanmega. Good times...
gible should be on the list, it is available extremely early for a psudo legendary in sinnoh, and not only is it early, it is a fairly common encounter (15% in diamond/pearl, 20% in platinum) and to top it all off there are very few other species that appear in that area (3 in d/p, 4 in pt) and they are all very common in areas that are accessible before or shortly after you can access its area, so it is possible to guarantee or get very close to guaranteeing a gible encounter in a nuzlocke if you use the species clause and are careful about what order you pick up your encounters.
@@coopercummings8370 That's only in Platinum. In Diamond and Pearl it's not available until after you beat the 6th gym. Also it's only available in the secret part of the caves under cycling road
Castform is honestly pretty good. I used one in Alpha Sapphire and beat half of Winona's team using Hail form (Hail Yeah!) It still fainted but it's still a pretty good memory of Castform :D
I love Chimecho! It’s always been my favorite Pokémon, it’s so cute and always makes me so happy. I have to admit it’s not the strongest Pokémon and not great at battling, but I always tried to get one on my team either way.
They're not the same rarity, you can still get more than 1 beldum per game, wich is more than mewtwo by default, Beldum is just absurdly hard to catch and using a masterball for it is honestly fair
@@An_Entire_Lime wtf- i used a pokeball on it on the first turn and that's it- it got caught... Also if zekrom is so hard to catch how the hell did i catch it with a pokeball on the first turn in black 2 just an hour ago?- MY LUCK!
I believe the same applies to dunsparce based on its tsuchinoko inspiration, which I believe has its being hard to encounter as part of it in the myth. Edit: corrected spelling
@@king_alloy farfetch'D I can understand cause it's nearly extinct because of overhunting, but Dunsparce is inspired of Tsuchinoko, a legendary creature in Japanese folklore... why make it so weak though ?
@@longdemaglio1451 tsuchinoko aren’t actually extremely powerful creatures. While they are cryptids, their only defining features that make them threatening is their venom (so arguably dunsparce should be poison type) and it’s ability to roll like a ball, and double jump. For the sake of their origin dunsparce are rare. The same is not said about it’s strength.
Yeah but you could at least make this super rare pokemon actually worth getting by making it stronger or giving it a stronger an evolved form. I understand that it's rare for the lore but that doesn't explain why it's rare and weak
3:30 in defense of farfetch'd, it is a normal flying type that has access to the move Cut, which is needed to get into the vermillion gym. desperate for quick use of cut and don't want to waste it on a key team member? it's... easy?
Delibird is also one of the few wild Pokémon in Johto that was given the “Flee” mechanic, meaning it can run away from you if you encounter it in the wild. I spent *hours* trying to catch one as a kid, but between its low encounter rate, low catch rate and willingness to flee, I never managed it. I never knew mean look existed back then
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@@george9371 you can..be kinda like abra most of the time they just gonna flee away,try using different types and pokeball and pray to Arceus that you manage to get it,i once catch them for pvp in my school but turns out it is the first to faint
@@KetoCommander I've been FireRed on my phone and I take advantage of the GBA apps quick save feature whenever I'm trying to catch a rare or prone to fleeing pokemon. If things go wrong I just reset back to my last save point.
The Fast Ball Works Better On Pokemon That Can Run Away In Johto.
Dunsparce better not be on this list.
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Mikey: 20 Pokémon that you shouldn't catch
Goh: *and I took this personally*
Farfetched in yellow is actually strong cuz it has swords dance i used one and my farfetched was OP
IKR. I had a hard time watching Pokemon Journeys because Ash was just left out.
Ash never got a chance to catch anything until Episode 10.
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He specifically said that it was ok catching them for the Pokedex, which is Goh`s goal
I used a farfetched in a random gen 1 team in pkkemon showdown, it was pretty good
"No one should ever be using a Delibird for any reason"
Unless it's a cyborg, then it's Uber.
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Deliborg
Iron bundle.(actually there is a robot delibird)😅
Fun Fact about Chimecho: It was the VERY LAST Pokémon programmed into Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire even after Jirachi and Deoxys. Its so forgettable they almost forgot to program it into the game. I think thats why its in 1 area at a 2% encounter rate.
yep, at the top of mt pyre
I thought chimeco was a gen 4 pokemon!
@@Dingobabee what I don't get is why it got a baby form. I made my own fake Pokemon before and made a fake chimecho evolution called winchime. I made it gain the steel type because of the design concept was a windchime🎐.
Imagine it being found at the Victory Road.
@@hunterpikachu1763 that's an interesting concept actually. Idk if steel would be the best fitting (kinda trespassing on bronzong's shtick) but maybe Farie type instead to emphasize its musical, magical abilities? Would become interesting in having Levitate giving it 2 immunities, good stab and interesting utility.
Farfetched's rarity can be explained with lore, Farfetched's backstory is actually pretty sad, it was common a while ago but because it was delicious people hunted them to almost extinction.
I wish kanto farfetchd could evolve into sirfetchd
@@henrykrebs6367no
far fetch’d crits pretty much every slash he shouldn’t be made fun of like that
the duck comes bearing onions
@@henrykrebs6367why it’s basically useless to have the galarian form if that were the case
Counter argument: these pokemon are rare because they suck at surviving.
i like that sound of that XD
That's actually the cannon reason for most of them being rare. Farfetched specifically was eaten to near extinction. By humans.
A NATIONS STRENGTH.
The actual Combined Level or Power or Something of a Pokemon-Region and therefore its actual theoretical Military Might.
This is literally something i see non-covered by all of
the Poke-Tubers.
Its not covered on TH-cam??
Same for 'Goverments - do they even exist
in Pokemon?'!
@@slevinchannel7589 Based on Sword and Shield, they do. However, it seems that the government is either run by a company or the champion, depending on the region. For example, the League seems to run Johto and Kanto, but Rose's company runs Galar.
That explains Farfetch'd
I kind of get Johto having so many weak Pokemon, since it's treated more like an expansion of Kanto rather than a completely different region. Almost every Kanto Pokemon is available in Johto, and for the most part, Kanto Pokemon are gonna make up a majority of your Johto playthrough team. The same is true for other prominent Johto trainers.
I headcanon that Johto was once a colony of Kanto, and was called "New Kanto".
My original teams on HeartGold & SoulSilver were all Johto Pokemon
HeartGold
Feraligatr
Noctowl
Ampharos
Magcargo (obtained as an Egg in Violet City from Primo and hatched into Slugma)
Ariados
Steelix
SoulSilver
Typhlosion
Noctowl
Ampharos
Politoed
Hitmontop
Sunflora
Its probably because GSC were gonna be the last games in Pokemon
Very true
Though I NEVER EVER see people defending Diamond, Pearl or Platinum but when obvious flaws about any other Generation are pointed out jump to the rescue...🤣🤣🤣
Physical Special Split, Stealth Rock, Toxic Spikes, making useless unevolved Gen 2 Mons finally usable (Gligar -> Gliscor; Yanma -> Yanmega; Murkrow -> Honchkrow; Misdreavus -> Mismagius)
Still, it's all good, hating on Gen 4 seems to be a past time for most people...🤣🤣🤣
Anyways, yes they actually planned to discontinue the franchise or game series with and after Gen 2 so what you're saying makes a lot of sense!
Gen 2 has MANY flaws but that's why we love it and Pokémon❤❤❤
But if people get that and why Hoenn has so many water routes...
Then why don't people get Sinnoh not having many Fire Types as the very cold northernmost region of Japan, Hokkaido...?
People really hate on Gen 4 a lil too much.
Alternate title: Mikey raging at the ridiculous balancing of Johto
I really don't get how gen 2 is so beloved with these glaring issues
@@AD-tj4jc Exactly i hate gen 2 so much it is not worth playing at all. It is basically kanto but easier and more weak pokemon
@@pikasup1696 get 2 remakes r awesome
@@AD-tj4jc
I think the pokemon fans love the Remake, Not the original Gold and Silver.
Pokemon Heartgold and Soulsilver are a fun games well for me. After i beat the elite four and the champion, i didn't know there was a Postgame.
And also I love Heracross.
Maybe it's because I did not grow out with HGSS, but I don't feel the same. The remakes don't fix any of the problems from the originals. Level curve is still horrible and half the new pokemon are in Kanto.
I still don't understand why alomomola isn't the evolution of luvdisc.
I thought it was when I was younger
@@Repook we all did
Agreed
There are two reasons why alomomola isn’t the evolution of Luvdisc. First, the out-of-universe meta explanation, which is that Gen V was dedicated as a sort of soft-reboot of the series and has lots of design counterparts between it and the previous four generations, such as Trubbish and Grimer/Koffing (Trash/pollution), Jellicent and Tentacruel (jellyfish), and Purrloin/Meowth/Skitty (cats but make them feral). Luvdisc and Alomomola both play into the same archetype of sunfish. In-universe, they evolved convergently. Convergent evolution is when a single trait (e.g. wings) appears in multiple unrelated ways (insect wings vs bird wings vs bat wings). Clearly Alomomola and Luvdisc both derive some sort of ecological benefit from being pink and heart shaped in their environment.
The obvious conspiracy response is that they forgot Luvdisc existed when they were designed Alomomola.
@@eledile8766 you are so smart thank you!
I like the idea of weak and rare Pokémon. It's realistic as weaker animals are often facing extinction. I think it would fun if a few weak Pokémon were so rare, that the Pokédex didn't cover them, and the professor in the game was surprised about their existence. It would be a nice bit of lore if later games showed their numbers going up, do to breeding efforts to save them.
"Amazing [player], your ditto and it's poor tuckered dong have singlehandedly brought [pokemon] back from the brink of extinction. You deserve a reward." [player] received one full heal.
"Ah [player], there you are. There's no time to explain, your breeding effort has been too effective. We need to reduce the number of [pokemon]. I have three methods."
"So you would like to choose the brick on a chain?"
"So you would like to choose the baseball bat with a nail in it?"
"So you would like to choose the prison shiv?"
@@andrewince8824This is the greatest comment I have ever read!
EXACTLY what I was yhinking
@@andrewince8824 the prison shiv--
this is what happened with lapras
Misdreavus might not be the best pokemon but it will always have a place in my heart because of a certain spinoff... "It Doesn't Affect MISDREAVUS"
Gruntyboy: Steals Some if Mikey’s stuff
Mikey: “UGH, well anyway”
Oh No
Anyways
Oh well
Does anyone know why grunty boi looks like Mikey
@@fernandabomfim27Congratulations you won the stupid award
That's what Bulbasaur says when Squirtle interrupts the intro
Mikey: Castform isn't worth using
Also Mikey: Beats ORAS with only Castform
He only did that cause he loves it
one of his catchphrases is “Hail Yea”
and that’s just “Hell Yea” but with the word hail, why hail? Castform Hail Form.
Sadly Castform doesn't get much love
Also Pokémon Challenge players: Beats Pokémon with any Pokémon on this list
Makes a lot of sense since it is a challenge
Hericy.
fun fact wobbufett 's name in japanese means thats right, so every time when he pops out of jessie's pokeball to say thats right it tends to be after ash or his friends mock team rocket and wobbufett agrees with them
That also means that when Meowth says "Meowth ! That's right !", he's agreeing with him.
That makes so much sense when I remember some dialog in the show.
99% sure it actually means "That's the way it is" as a reference to a Japanese comedian.
In german its name is Woingenau which translates to" where exatly?"
Also, in French his name is Qulbutoké, which is a joke with a Culbuto and Oké, so he just always answer ok.
I really like that the rare Pokemon are a mix of strong and weak. It makes the world feel a lot more real and gives it some character. How would it make sense that all of the rare Pokemon are also very good at battling?
To add insult to injury, even after Murkrow and Misdreavus were made available before beating the League in HG/SS, you still couldn’t use them in a Johto playthrough since the Dusk Stone wasn’t obtainable until after getting the National Dex.
I’d still use them in HGSS. I like Misdreavus more than Mismagius and Murkrow is perfectly fine on its own even before the evolution.
The best part is that the dusk stone is in Cerulean cave. A place you can't access until you beat all the Kanto leaders.
Surely you can use Pick Up?
Most stones are really difficult to get in Johto. My last SoulSilver game, I beat the league with a vulpix and a weepinbell. HG/SS are great games, but their flaws are kinda annoying.
@@Fizzypopjimmi you can also get one in the Pokeathalon Dome once you beat the league. Still annoying but not THAT annoying
#8 Dunsparce...
When I was younger, I thought it evolved into Gligar. I had an obsession with only catching base forms, and never catching evolved forms, because the anime made me feel that I'd have a better bond with pokemon
I leveled that Dunsparce, ignoring my friends who said it doesn't evolve, until I eventually either gave up or found out online
I wanna laugh but I can't cuz i would do the exact same thing lol
@@st0ne559 you should laugh, it's funny. We're laughing together not maliciously
Damn I did that also I cried when i finally got it to lvl 100 and it didn't evolve so I looked it up online and that's when I found out also did the same thing with Shuckle sadly.... my childhood was filled with 😞
Mannn I just caught one last night
Catcher of base form pokemon? Very swag
"beedrill and butterfree's purpose is suppose to be bridge pokemon"
Me, who still uses Butterfree in any of their kanto playthroughs:.....wut?
Beedrill: “I was bad!“
Mega Beedrill: “But now I'm good!“
Mega Beedrill is one of the few good things about Game Freak's constant pandering towards Kanto...
Butterfree being one my favorite Pokémon.
*Sniff sniff* I’m not mad.
@@rileymcgowan6490
I just wish that Butterfree's Gmax form would be a Mega Evolution instead.
Like a special counterpart to Mega Beedrill!
Instead of an offensive ability Mega Butterfree gets a defensive ability for example to avoid damage of Stealth Rocks.
:-)
I freaking love Beedrill and Butterfree
I don’t like many gen one Pokémon to make a full team, but Butterfree is one that makes the spot >:)
For the Johto swarm pokemon, it's even worse when you consider how to activate them in the first place. You had to have a specific trainer register on your pokegear then have to wait for them to call you and tell you about the swarm that would last until the next day.
Just as stupid was it that you got next to no evo items in GSC aside from I think the bug catching contest and in crystal, specific trainers calling you.
Alternative title for the video: Michael trashing Jotho pokedex.
Edit: Johto
Tbh johto dex deserves to br trashtalked.
Especially the cindaquil line. Their stats are 1:1 copied from the charmander line
(I still love cindaquill and johto, but the region oberall is incredible weak, you have countless better kanto options in the game, the gym leaders mostly dont even use jotho pokemon and the level curve is terribly designed)
JOTHO = JOHTO
Micheal being a competitive player to a casual player for 28 minutes
The dex was generally garbage. One of the core cool things in Pokemon is to work up a guy and evolve. See what you get. This gen had so many random no evo guys that had no point. I think babies did (and still) have no point. Just dumb gen
Jo tho
Imagine, somewhere in an alternate universe in the pokemon world there's an animal tuber making a video of the 20 rarest animals you should not catch. It's just not worth it for the animaldex.
Panda is exceedingly rare and difficult to breed, but they’re completely competitively outclassed by the more common Bear types Grizzly and Polar.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Blobfish are extremely rare animals, only found in deep waters near Australia & New Zealand. But are extremely weak and easily outclassed by nearly every other fish in the area.
Even with the law of infinite universes, I highly doubt that.
Red pandas are very rare but they are a bit worse than their much more common racoon variant
For anyone upset that Mikey put their favorite pokemon on this list: to be fair, he put in Castform too.
Castform is honestly pretty fun to use compared to literally every other Pokémon on this list. I legitimately put a Castform on my Hoenn team and it helped a lot.
Exactly! That just goes to show that a person’s favorite Pokémon is too rare to justify their rarity and isn’t worth using if you don’t care about that Pokémon.
What Farfetch'd has going for it in Kanto, and what I think helps make sense of its location, is that it can learn both Cut and Fly. This is the point in the game that you will be getting both of those.
I forgot about that way to go Dux!
Sword dance mfers
Actually, Misdreavus helped me beat Red. When I was struggling against him, I caught a Misdreavus, leveled her up once and was able to take out his Snorlax which was the hardest one to KO. She learned Mean Look and Perish Song. I also love her design
So she was a Wobbuffet?
OMG I did exactly the sameee
I have a Lapras with Perish Song!
@@mizukittyakinyama Is it in frlg?
@@Pokechrome well, it's actually in Sword, but I just wanted to point it out
That's hilarious that Delibird is only found in Ice Path. My first time playing Soul Silver I was rushing to fight Claire and my first encounter was a shiny Delibird. My first shiny ever
pppp
Dude ur luck is GODLY
I shiny hunted via masuda method for a delibird when I was a kid and I got one.
😯😯😯😯😯
I got Shiny Giratina through internet
Mikey: Wobbuffet has no practical battle use.
Competitive battlers in gen 3 and 4: *sad sweaty noises*
Wobbuffet is STILL good in singles. Mikeys wrong on this one, but he usually considers this stuff for playthroughs only .
Not competitive, but I remember Wobbuffet being my MVP when I first faced the E4 in SS, despite it being 20 levels lower than the rest of my team. I will always respect Wobbuffet.
@@cillianstewart9441 yeah it’s insane and super underrated
@@ColgatetheTogekiss Well, Wobuffet is a double-edged sword. It can be very useful in Nuzlocke but it is also very hard to use and, definitely not for the people who are impatient
Im on the same board as Mikey cuz while Wob is fun for competitive, it's not fun for playthrough and really worth if you just want to do a regular playthrough unless you want to mess with it for fun
@@cillianstewart9441 Respect the 'fet.
15:31 I’ve been out of the loop for a while, so I didn’t realize that Duhdunsparce was a Gen 9 Pokemon. Thanks!
I personally think wobbofet is so rare because it can kill at least one Pokémon on your team so if it could pop up all the time it would be extremely difficult to make it through a cave
Makes sense
Eh, In HGSS maybe, but in regular Gold and Silver there's a button you can click called "Run".
There were no abilities in gen 2 tho
you get a free wynaut in gen 3, which evolves to wobbuffet
It's also got banned from OU and went to Uber tier because of one single broken ability. Shadow tag. Which locked your opponent out of the game and with mirror coat and counter shengains it could do some serious damage if you got trapped. Possibly costing you the match. It deserves to be rare.
Grunty Boi: steals something
Mikey: OH NO, anyways
Stolen
Micheal has got the advancement *careles hoenn baby that talks to himself*
Zuko watching a Pokèmon video
That's rough buddy
Grunty Boi: *exists*
Me: Oh no.
_le king krimson_
Anyway.
Chimecho was literally the last pokemon I needed to fill my dex in sapphire as a kid and I had no idea what pokemon I was missing or where to find it when I finally did I loved it so much I raised it to level 100
Yeah, it doesn't have any evolution at the time so you would have literally no idea what you were missing, and it wasn't hinted in the game either since it's literally the last Pokemon added in the game even after Jirachi and Deoxys.
@@RGC_animation now imagine that it was only found at the victory road.
@@ethantreadway9478 It is literally only found in one single patch of grass lol.
@@ethantreadway9478 Victory road would've been better since that's a place you'd look for a possibly strong, rare pokémon.
It's in a single patch of grass, out of the main way, on the top of that mountain you go *once* to for story reasons for like 10 seconds and have zero reason to visit again, so unless you notice that patch of grass, you don't even know there's something you missed. Meaning you'd have a missing pokémon like no trainer uses, with only one location you might not even notice exists.
It's honestly insane that Emerald Tate and Liza use 3 psychic types with levitate, but instead of using the fourth one to have give the player an inkling that that pokémon exists, they used Xatu instead.
And there, they don't even have the excuse of "programmed like 3 seconds before release" because it's the third version glow-up.
If I were to fix Hoenn gym leader teams, replacing the Xatu with Chimecho would be one of the changes.
Chimecho is friend-shaped.
26:35 I think it's very interesting that none of the Pikachu clones have evolutions even though Pikachu has a baby and evolution and I would love to see them get some
Pikachu clones really could use them. It’s stupid they don’t considering Raichu has been there since the beginning.
Well... u got ur wish
in scarlet and violet, pawmi, the pikachu clone for the gen can evolve. got ur wish :)
pawmi cutest
Dunsparce is based on the
Tsukinoko a creature from japanese urban legends, it is said to be extremely rare leaving only its shed skin on the ground and sometimes "foot"prints. That can explain why Dunsparce is THAT rare
I liked dunsparce for rollout. I think I also had a belief at the time it would have a dragon evolution.
@@reelement8032 Well 💀
My Dunsparce steamrolled Whitney with Defense Curl Rollout, and then Lance and his team of all Flying types@@reelement8032
@@reelement8032 that didn’t age well
Farfetched’s low encounter rate makes sense imo. Because to find a duck that already comes with a leek is quite rare, dare I say, farfetched.
Jokes aside, farfetched’ name and design is based on a Japanese expression that something is unlikely. So for it to have a low encounter rate keeps with the name.
Farfetch'd might not be worth it in gen 1, but in gen 6 it is an awesome team member. It gets Air Cutter at a low level, which in Kalos let's you get berries off trees. It also learns False Swipe by level up for easier catching, and can be used as your Fly Pokémon. Also is not hard to find. Definitely a good choice for any Kalos team.
"A duck comes bearing bunched onions" is the translated expression, and Farfetch'd's Japanese name, Kamonegi, is a shortened version of it.
@@spectralwiitch7544 thanks for clarification
Also lore wise, Farfetched's backstory is actually pretty sad, it was common a while ago but because it was delicious people hunted them to almost extinction.
@@Xan8-l8v Exactly
I remember using a Dunsparce when I was way younger. Seeing it made me think of Larvitar which I had trained in another playthrough just before, and Dratini. I assumed it was going to evolved once or twice in to an insane super powerful Dragon or something. Pretty sure I got it to level 60 before giving up on any evolution. It still disappoints me to this day.
Same. It's a cool enough design and I like the Normal types. It really deserves an evolution.
It should've been a baddass Normal/Dragon type pseudo legendary. Shame it stayed as a meme.
Same here! I also caught Yanma and tried to evolve it in Pokémon crystal. Before a evolution existed…
It does in uranium and Dunseraph is awesome.
@@BiscuitHead22 yeah, I played Uranium and as soon as I heard Dunsparce evolved I immediately got one. Dunseraph is very cool. Very cool game but the last time I played it through was when it stopped after the 7th gym. Couldn't get in to it after it "officially" launched.
I did a crystal run the other day and had to come home on my lunch break to catch sunkern lol and yanma was the 2nd last pokemon i caught in it, my final box (6) has magmar, entei, ho-oh, lugia, yanma and misdraevus in it
It's funny I actually remember having the in game trade Farfetch'd on my 1st ever team in Pokemon Blue, mind you DUX only had one purpose, even tho my Charizard was my powerhouse, and was basically the only team member that battled, he couldn't freaking Fly yet (thankyou Yellow for fixing that by the way) so that's where DUX came in handy
Also, side note, last night I watched a Pokemon Journeys episode that was focused on pokemon trades. It showed a Farfetch'd (named DUX) and Spearow trade... The nostalgic nerd in me was so happy! 😊
is the spearow name kenya?
@@spongebobpopsicle5783 possibly, I really hoped it was, but in the episode the trainer called his FarFetch'd DUX, but the other trainer just said Spearow unfortunately
Well now you have a fighting type farfetchd and it’s evo
@@spongebobpopsicle5783 nah it was spearey or how ever you spell it (pronounced spear-e)
Farfetch'd I think is made for that purpose. I remember using it only for the hm cut and fly.the early bibarel
mikey: "Wobbuffet is useless, 99% of the time."
me: "If it's not 100% accurate, it's 50% accurate"
So does it useful 50% of the time?
So, the accuracy of finding these rare Pokemon is 50%, and everyone just gets unlucky all the time
@@14akamaru that's for the overall pokemon, mikey said wobbuffet is useless *99%* of the time
@@jennyrazon9582 when did I actually talk about the usefulness of the Pokemon? I was taking about the chance of finding them.
@@fishbakeditself1213 or its usefull 50% of the time
This video in a nutshell: *Forget about these Pokémon if you don't care about the Dex*
or just evolve them, instead of trying to find an evolved pokemon in the wild (idk if theres any evolved pokemon on the list, im saying this before watching the video)
@@FlareToga76 most of these pokemon can't
Lmao very true
I just started my first Pokemon game and its platinum cuz sinnoh is my fav , and i found only 1 very rare Pokemon and its a shiny gligar
I feel like thats smushed in my brain
When it comes to wobbuffet, I really enjoy battling using the gimmick, but shadow tag makes it annoying to face with the gimmick. It makes total sense that they didn't want you to constantly battle them and lose members constantly in a cave and have to backtrack every time you lose to one if you are like me and like to run back to heal up
Dude misdreavous dominated gen 2 competitive, she was literally THE stall queen
Yeah, in competitive. It's still stupidly rare, and it's stats don't justify that. Also, it only fit on stall teams, so yeah.
@@verximama828 I don't get why the rarity of a pokemon should be determined by its stats. If a Pokémon is rare, it's rare, no matter what.
@@verximama828 in all fairness though, generation 2 was THE stall generation, most competitive teams used curse sets and rest/sleep talk sets.
@@finmat95 But you generally assume that if it's rare it's worth it. Would you want to spend 6 hours waiting for honey tree pokemon only to then find out that they suck, again excluding Munchlax.
@@MultiWilliam25 Very fair
Farfetch’d is literally endangered because according to the anime it was overly hunted of course it’s gonna be rare and if the anime doesn’t count then it’s still at least endangered. I know the point is that it’s weak but it at least has an excuse to be rare.
Past forms of Farfetch'd will be hunted as boss battles in legends Arceus.
"Let's take a step back for a moment and look at Farfetch'd itself. Its Japanese name is made up of kamo (鴨 or カモ), meaning 'duck', and negi (葱 or ネギ), which refers to a variety of green onions."
"There is a second meaning to the phrase, however. A duck bearing a green onion is a creature walking naïvely towards a nasty fate, and the idiom has come to refer to individuals who are easy to deceive. One dictionary gives the meaning 'along comes a sucker just begging to be parted from his money'. As a result, somebody who is easy to take advantage of can be referred to in Japanese as a kamo (鴨) or 'duck'."
So it's intentionally meant as a joke, you were a fool to trade for Farfetch'd or easiliy taken advantage off.
- Bulbapedia
Joke's on the person that traded it as I can just go and catch another spearow but that person cannot catch another farfetched.
Not to insult or joke you tho, the resarch was good. Kudos!👍
But I used Farfetch'd my fireRed Elite four-
Solo challengers picking up Farfetch'd to have cut and fly on the same pokemon: *Joke's on you, nerd!*
Yeah, this Pokemon was meant to be a scam to sucker idiots.
Doesn't the anime episode it first appears in reference this as well??
I always liked how they managed Farfetched in the Kanto games. You trade it for a Spearow, so immediately it’s more powerful. However, if you would have just kept Spearow & trained it, it would become a Fearow, which is significantly stronger then Farfetcted. I always took it as the games way of saying “give stuff a chance before you get rid of it for a quick power buff, because in the long run it will be more helpful.” Essentially, it said you need to put in effort if you want the better option. I always liked that message, even if it wasn’t intentional.
*THERE SHOULD BE ONLY ONE E IN FARFETCH'D!*
I feel like some pokemon's rarity gives them an inherent specialness. Remember that some people care quite a bit more about collecting than they do about battling.
Your comment is literally a shiny hunter justification statement
@@Moonstriker2514 I don't really know what that means or has to do with my comment
@@mackojacko I just meant that is why people shiny hunt
@@Moonstriker2514 I think that a 1/100 chance of finding a rare pokemon like a dunsparce is a lot more reasonable than something like a 1/8192 Pidgey, but fair enough, I suppose
Not really when a lot of people don't know the pokemon even exists not really special just stupid to do to weak pokemon without a special ability to make up for it.
Fun Fact: Pikachu is the most accurate Pikachu clone.
No raichu is.
More Fun Fact: Ash's pikachu is a ditto
@@jhin0413 what?
Fun fact water type Pokemon are good at being water type Pokemon
@@kaebriejones5643 In other news,water is wet.
Mikey: "Gotta catch 'em all!"
Also Mikey: "Now these are the Pokémon you shouldn't bother catching...."
Gotta catch some of them
How dare mikey go mean on truegreen7
Gotta catch all but a few
I’m Happy To Report In My Fictional Romare Region Castform Does Get A Buff! It’s Hail Form Gives It A 90 Base Attack Stat Instead Of 60, The Rain Form Gives Is A 90 Base Speed Stat, And The Sunny Form Gets A Base 90 Special Attack Stat. HAIL YEAH!
Mikey: *puts Dunsparce on the list*
John: *peace was never an option*
No. No it wasn't 😡
@卍 SUPPORT MAP PRIDE! 卐 dude, you are disgusting
Lol. To be fair, Mikey put in Castform too, his own favorite.
@@anafu-sankanashi8933 Reported him 5 times and counting
I swept a mans team with a dunsparce. It being on this list hurts on a whole nother level
“Pokémon would be better if Delibird did not exist.”
Me, remembering the Pokémon Stadium mini games: “hey, you don’t mean that ):”
This
I loved that minigame! 🐧
Mikey: "Furret is way better than Dunsparce"…
Furret: "Cause I can walk!"
(He can walk!)
Lol i thought about that too😂
Idk why gamefreak would give Dunsparce the ability Serene grace.. it doesn't even evolve which sucks ,__,
*Accumula Town theme intensifies*
@@poninefreak3321
Other Pokemon can fly
Majestically through the sky
But i can walk
(They can walk)
Other Pokemon can dig
A hole that's real deep and big
But i can walk
They can walk!
Farfetch'd trade is before the Electric Gym because you need HM Cut to have access to it. If you don't wanna teach Cut to any of the Pokémon in your party just obtain the Farfetch'd, teach it Cut and therefore you haven't ruined the moveset of your party at all.
Credit where it's due for farfetched, it was a valuable member of my team at times for being the cut and fly master...but that was really it. As for pinchurchin you can increase the encounter rate of it by putting a static or lightning-rod poke in your lead (boltund, pikachu, etc) and it was pretty effective since pinchy there was the only electric spawn on that route iirc.
omg... i had to catch that thing last week and wasted half an hour...
Mikey: "the rest of the Kanto pokemon that are rare are strong"
*the one and only Lickitung in Kanto has entered the chat*
Lickitung: MandJTV, we need to talk about Golduck.
@@slevinchannel7589 can you stop spamming
“That end up being really rare.”
“Ha ha it is I granty boi”
Is he a rare Johto Pokémon?
He better be, because I want to avoid him, though it seems like he tends to swarm often.
I have a concern about your spelling not being rude tho
@@microwavestealer9998 I fixed it👷♂️
@@ethantreadway9478 Not sure what you changed but it's grunty, not granty
A wild Grunty Boi appeared!
7:12 Sunkern is cute and Sunflora is one of my favorite grass types, and has helped me throughout my Johto playthroughs. Even helping me beat the league. So while yes it's stats are bad. It's still a really good grass type imo
In the case of Luvdisc, I use the move thief. My pokemon steals the heart scale, and kills it at the same time.
Sameee, i always use a pokemon with frisk (to find the heart scale) and thief to steal it. Of the pokemon doesn't have a scale i just run
Mikey: “Does it make me sad?…… hail yeah it does 😔✊🏻”
"It should be worth my time to find." Me who has 6 Chansey in Pokemon Firered: 👀👁👁
You absolute madlad.
@@robertlupa8273 I hunted them when I was 9. Stopped when my PC couldn't hold anymore pokemon
In a minimal defense of Luvdisc, at least you don’t need to catch it to get the heart scale. Thief will work just fine so long as you remember to remove the scale each time you get one. Frisk will also help tell you if it’s even worth using Thief. So in terms of actually catching any, you just need one for the Dex entry if you’re so inclined.
You can obtain Farfetch’d before the electric gym in Kanto because it is intended to be used just to teach it cut, which you need to enter the gym and the rock tunnel.
There are more mons that get Cut and are more useful, and available at the time,,like Meowth(especially in FRLG because of Pickup) and then Persian is pretty okay if you don't have a Normal/Flying type, and until Snorlax...
That’s true, but I think that farfetchd is that weird because it represents a Japanese saying that is said when something really weird happens but it ends up being helpful. The saying was something like “as useful as finding a duck carrying a leek when you’re hungry”.
@@AlldaylongRock Meowth can't be learn Cut in the Original games. The only mons that can learn Cut in those games are Bulbasaur, Charmander, Oddish, Bellsprout, Sandshrew and Farfetch'd. Considering Bellsprout and Sandshrew are Blue exclusive, you are pretty much boned if you chose Squirtle in Pokemon Red, since then the only options are Paras, Oddish and Farfetch'd. But considering Paras has an abysmal 5 and 10% encounter rate, you might not even stumble upon one.
Funny. I got my Farfetch'd in FireRed, and used it for the entire playthrough as my best Pokémon. It was also the first Pokémon who got lvl.100 on my savefile. I was a kid... But I still love my Cheding.
As unbalanced and janky as gen 2 is, I will still always love it. Crystal was the first pokemon game I ever played, so it's special place in my heart will always remain
10:05 fun fact, this is the Pokémon that took out Cynthias final Pokémon for me in brilliant diamond. Coco would’ve been taken out by the garchomp had it not been for the ridiculous friendship I had with it and the Shell Bell. Long story short I used fly because if Coco could take a hit from it or was faster somehow, I didn’t want her being taken out if the garchomp survived. She was not faster, but friendship allowed her to survive on one HP as she flew up and took it out without a friendship boost. It was low health so that contributes to how she took it out in one hit, but it does not change the fact that she was the one that won the championship in Sinnoh for me. So I have a respect for the murcrow
Why wasn’t it a honchkrow you can get a dusk stone before you can even obtain it
I’d say that Murkrow itself also became better in Generation 4 and beyond *because* Honchkrow exists. That means it gets access to the Eviolite which gets introduced in Generation 5 alongside its ability Prankster which makes it a force to be reckoned with
Same reason why the Rhydon stans who hate Rhyperior should be _grateful_ that Rhyperior exists.
Michael: *just raving on about Johto being a mess*
Pchal: *snickering in the corner*
I don't watch PokemonChallanges, why would he be snickering?
@Squidward Oh I thought it meant he loves gen 2.
@@robertlupa8273 he's got a whole 24min video showing A LOT of reasons why he personally thinks gen2 was by far the worst generation in pokemon history and brings up a lot of valid points with proof regarding balancing, stats and so on. It's basically a meme like Michael's "hail yeah"
I have a major bias for Dunsparce. I had one in my most recent Ultra Moon playthrough and it clutched my fight against Lysandre in the postgame. It survived on 1HP for 5 turns against Yveltal. Thank Arceus for Pokemon Refresh!
Holy crap, that's a formidable dunsparce. My dunsparce in my first soul silver playthrough was the one to defeat Whitney's Miltank.
16:35 Legends Arceus: Useless? I THINK NOT!!
Can we talk about how Luvdisc should evolve into Almomola? It would make them a lot better
I'll never understand how GameFreak didn't go for that.
I used Cherrim for my bdsp playthrough, and honestly she really came through and helped me with the Cynthia fight. That sunny day and solar beam combo was great
Same, I used Cherrim in my Pokémon BDSP Soul Link Nuzlocke with a friend of mine (he played Brilliant Diamond, I played Shining Pearl) paired with his Roserade (we nicknamed them both “Blossom”) and she actually put in work despite me already also using Torterra (paired with his Empoleon, our starters)
"Delibird has no gimmicks" and Mikey is getting coal for Chrismas
but he speaks the truth
@@THEWolfBlade3622 It's signature move is it's gimmick.
Mikey doesn't know delibird has hustle.
@@Jdudec367 I mean it's a gimmick, it's just a really bad one that you can barely call it a gimmick. It's like how unown's only gimmick is that it only learns hidden power, and it doesn't have the stats to make use of the move properly. A gimmick that just isn't possible in gen 8 due to the move cut.
@@michaellarose4913 Well it's easy to call it a gimmick since it's it's signature move. Wait really? They cut the move out? That's surprising, did they cut Delibird itself out then?
Back when I was a kid playing either Silver or Crystal, I saw in a Pokédex entry that Lapras was over hunted so they were close to extinction. So I decided to breed so many of them, only to just release them. I truly thought I was going to be able to save them lol
Good news, you may actually have lol. The Moon and Ultra Moon entries state that due to protective measures and people cherishing them, the Lapras population has risen dramatically. 😊
That legit is so kind with kid logic
“Pokemon would be better if delibird did not exist” *Little Z would like to know your location*
lolll
*ShadyPenguinn would also like to know your location*
I would also like to know………
Nah, I’m only just joking…
@@Gatchaman2154 he likes prinplup more
@@rohitwankhede9153 Huh. I could have sworn that Delibird was the mascot in his channel.
Re: Farfetch'd Trade in Vermillion
I like to imagine Farfetch'd are actually native to Johto and since Vermillion is a port city, travel is fairly easy and this is just a case of someone bringing pokemon home from other regions.
I think licktung is a Sinnoh pokemon and all the Johto pokemon you find on Kanto are in reality Kanto Pokemon
Yeah i think you are right. I mean, that at least can explain the low encounter rates (Or Route exclusive encounters) for some weaker Pokemon in a region.
You can basically make the same argument for the Pokemon that can only be found in Safari Zones in a region.
@@Eric-py8yy so is Togepi
Professor Elm said that this Pokemon is a new one and he had never seen it
@@thaiangquoc9505 Yes
Rare Pokémon are just like rare animals: they are struggling to avoid extinction exactly because they are somehow weak.
Yes
Or being mass hunted down by humans for profit
That actually makes sense
@@Chriscraft-ug3sz or because we're destroying their natural environments.
Ah yes! Siberian tigers, the *weakest* animals!
I hate how munchlax has such a low encounter rate because HE is a stupid hungry baby snorlax HOW IS IT RARE TO GET A MUNCHLAX? IT IS EXPECTED TO EAT EVERYTHING SO WHY IS IT NOT COMMON IN HONEY TREES DOES HE NOT EAT HONEY?
Clicked faster than Michael could say “HAIL YEAH”
Same
HAILL YEAHH
Well I clicked faster than he said" Greetings, poke fans"
That’s not possible!! No ones ever been able to do that!!
Ice try getting away with that pun. There's a Haze surrounding this comedy... Uhh Blizzard. Sorry I'm not that creative
Day 1 of asking for “if every evil team leader was champion”
That is an awesome idea I’d like to see this
This would be cool, he better include Grunty boi tho
@@resinct3267 that would make it even better
AWESOME SPAM IT
I wanted this but gym leader inspired by giovanni
Wobbuffet isn’t totally useless. Used it in Sapphire back in the day to catch Latios and Latias as they were roaming Pokémon and would run away if your Pokémon didn’t have the shadow tag ability
I used Wobbuffet in my first Ruby playthrough. It got me through so many difficult encounters, and went very deep in the contests (until I messed up on the pokeblocks, it was my first playthrough after all.)
I was surprised to see Porygon was not on this list at all. Granted, it does not meet both "rare" requirements, but with the grinding required to obtain Porygon, I thought it would at least be an honorable mention, like Munchlax.
When you thought the catch rate of that Pokémon is High, but it's actually Low...
Mikey: "A FOOLISH MISCALCULATION!"
I think it makes sense for some weak pokemon to be rare.
I mean, they're so weak their population is decreasing and it makes them rare to find!
its supposed to be the opposite.
Makes sense lol
@@ashthepokemonmaster2375 From a game dizign standpoint, yea, in a lore standpoint, nah Op's right
What about starters there so rare that there not in the wild we’re does the professor get the starters?
@@dommydom95 probably the last few or they cloned them in the lab
Gamefreak: "What do you want"
Every pokefan: "adventure"
More eeveelutions
@@Twinklethefox9022 Y E S
What's a pokefan?
I have only heard of pokéfan.
Yeah
@@foxeh9238 It was a joke lol
Dunsparce may be weak and be a pure normal type. And sure, it’s rare, but its coverage is actually pretty good since it can learn air slash and can have the ability serene grace which gives air slash a (I think) a 60% chance to flinch, which means you have to worry a lot less if you need to use it against fighting types. It can also learn dig, which is helpful if you don’t have a ground type for Lieutenant Surge’s gym and any electric type in general. Therefore, it’s actually quite a solid Pokemon to use competitively and since it’s so unpopular, it can give you the element of surprise… unlikely, but quite possibly.
Alternate title - Micheal ticks off several poketubers, including himself.
I think from a worldbuilding standpoint, farfetch'd makes sense. It being hunted to near extinction canonically would drive it to further routes to get away from people who might want to kill it. The few people who have it for trade are poorly placed, but farfetch'd being so rare and so hard to get even when in the overworld makes so much sense when looking into its dex entries! It's rare *because* it's so weak
Who else realised that when grunty boy said adventure is was a she-ra reference
Well, Mikey has said that he likes "She-ra" before. So it was only a matter of time before he made a reference to it.
Ra what
What's "She-ra"?
Misdreavus was quite solid back in Gen II tho; viable alternative to Gengar that wasn't weak to Psychic and Earthquake, plus Perish Trapping shenanigans (and Pain Split as well).
Mikey: "gets robbed"
Also him: NO..... well anyways
He's used to Grunty boi's shenanigans
During a Flying monotype run in Heart Gold I remember spending days of play, about an hour a night after work, hunting for Yanma to use for Yanmega. Good times...
Now we need a video on Pokémon that are maybe a tad too strong to justify their commonness.
Or even a vid on Pokémon that are too weak (or too strong) to justify their catch rates.
gible should be on the list, it is available extremely early for a psudo legendary in sinnoh, and not only is it early, it is a fairly common encounter (15% in diamond/pearl, 20% in platinum) and to top it all off there are very few other species that appear in that area (3 in d/p, 4 in pt) and they are all very common in areas that are accessible before or shortly after you can access its area, so it is possible to guarantee or get very close to guaranteeing a gible encounter in a nuzlocke if you use the species clause and are careful about what order you pick up your encounters.
@@coopercummings8370 That's only in Platinum. In Diamond and Pearl it's not available until after you beat the 6th gym. Also it's only available in the secret part of the caves under cycling road
Nidoran and dugtrio comes to mind
Gyarados and Tentacruel.
Castform is honestly pretty good. I used one in Alpha Sapphire and beat half of Winona's team using Hail form (Hail Yeah!) It still fainted but it's still a pretty good memory of Castform :D
I love Chimecho! It’s always been my favorite Pokémon, it’s so cute and always makes me so happy. I have to admit it’s not the strongest Pokémon and not great at battling, but I always tried to get one on my team either way.
I literally adore how every pokemon is a fan favorite. So cute
bad pokemon
@NOGlameows It's a really cool Pokémon indeed
I say it makes sense for Farfetch’d to be rare since multiple of its’ dex entries say that it is endangered and has a low population.
Also the fact the critical hit ratio of both farfetch'd and sir fetched is insane. Guessing everyone overlooks that fact.
@@jesseeades1434 this was before farfectch’d could have it’s alternate form and evolution
Apparently it was overhunted for food. I just realized its a duck like psyduck but it tasted better apparently so it's endangered
Dunsparce doesn't need an evolution, he is already an aesthetic god.
Its evolution should be way more powerful, but it only grows a tiny little horn on its head. XD
It gets an evolution in pokemon uranium and its awesome, look it up its called dunseraph
Doesn’t farfetchd get hunted by people to be eaten with their leeks?
Beldum: Same rarity as Mewtwo
I got so angry that I couldn’t catch one that I used a master ball on it
They're not the same rarity, you can still get more than 1 beldum per game, wich is more than mewtwo by default, Beldum is just absurdly hard to catch and using a masterball for it is honestly fair
@@An_Entire_Lime wtf- i used a pokeball on it on the first turn and that's it- it got caught... Also if zekrom is so hard to catch how the hell did i catch it with a pokeball on the first turn in black 2 just an hour ago?- MY LUCK!
Well you can get a freaking Metagross(Or Metang) in The Rustling Grass of Giant Chasm in BW2 and its spawn rate is higher than a beldum in those games
@@AnonExistence Zekrom and Reshiram have a catch rate of 45 in Gen V. In Gen VI onwards, that's 3.
@@haydenlaw1484 c o o l
I actually caught a Dedenne for a nuzlocke in Y.
He didn't last long but nuzzle was at least helpful to paralyze.
Nuzzle is really good.
Farfetch’D isn’t just “rare” it’s “unlikely” some might even say…… it’s build into the lore/name cmon man
I believe the same applies to dunsparce based on its tsuchinoko inspiration, which I believe has its being hard to encounter as part of it in the myth.
Edit: corrected spelling
@@king_alloy farfetch'D I can understand cause it's nearly extinct because of overhunting, but Dunsparce is inspired of Tsuchinoko, a legendary creature in Japanese folklore... why make it so weak though ?
@@longdemaglio1451 tsuchinoko aren’t actually extremely powerful creatures. While they are cryptids, their only defining features that make them threatening is their venom (so arguably dunsparce should be poison type) and it’s ability to roll like a ball, and double jump. For the sake of their origin dunsparce are rare. The same is not said about it’s strength.
Yeah but you could at least make this super rare pokemon actually worth getting by making it stronger or giving it a stronger an evolved form. I understand that it's rare for the lore but that doesn't explain why it's rare and weak
3:30 in defense of farfetch'd, it is a normal flying type that has access to the move Cut, which is needed to get into the vermillion gym. desperate for quick use of cut and don't want to waste it on a key team member? it's... easy?