For everyone asking, "Why not this person?" Here is a list of every unique typing currently in the games, and if you keep scrolling it will even show pairings that used to be unique that are no longer such Dark/Ghost, etc... bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_Pokémon_with_unique_type_combinations
Isn't dragalge and its first form the only poison dragon type but I couldn't find it on the list or did I just over look it ( its one of my favorites because its typing lol) but yeah I couldnt find it on the list for some reason
Emperor Cubone honestly even though I like infernape better I like the feeling that the starters can have types and moves that are good against each other
@@agustinavilez1150 Check again; look at any pure Ghost and you'll see they resist Poison, (You can't really Poison a Ghost because it's already dead) So that makes it neutral on Mimikyu...
Well it's like this sometimes. Maybe he thought Cubone was a better channel mascot. There is at least one other channel that does this Also could be like Manny said
flerpaderp but it also allows it to sweep like it doesn’t already but it allows the consistency of sweeps it can also play as a spin blocker with balloon something that can come in on drill and block drill then quickly kill it but it’s still able to do that
Thomas, Aegislash’s main Steel-type attack is Gyro Ball. Something that takes advantage of its low speed. If anything, it should be SLOWER, and have the extra stats go into HP.
@@magicman6725 I don't get this reply. The original comment isn't edited, so this isn't a correction. Did you misread the OP's comment or implying that Arceus has wastes potential (which couldn't be further from the truth if you look at his high-use in Ubers)
Sad Weeb That’s probably it. I hate those people who go around deleting comments instead of owning up to their mistakes. It just makes everything a lot more confusing for everyone
I love Aurorus but its so bad battlewise. Sometimes I try to make Pokemon like Meganium and corsola work which isnt hard cauz most of them arent bad but very hard outclassed but I cant think of a way to make Aurorus work cauz its very likely dead before it can do sth.
And also because that would mean the magnemite line would’ve had a whopping 13 resistances and a poison type immunity, meaning they would’ve either resisted or been immune to more than two thirds of all the types in the game, which would be pretty overpowered.
@@pokevonforretress3761 hmm yeah but Shedinja and Eelektross are a thing. I can’t imagine that the Magnemite fam would have been that OP. Moldbreaker earthquake would blow all of em up.
One of the strongest typing in the game is Dark + Ghost. Only two pokemons have that typing, Sableye and Spiritomb and they had to make sure those pokemons sucked because the typing is ridiculous. 3 immunities, one resistance and one weakness. Just imagine if they created a pseudo legendary that's Dark + Ghost with Levitate as an ability.
Henrik Swanström was no weakness before fairy was introduced. But tbh it has almost no resists so an STAB outrage, Brave bird, or anything high power can easily knock them down. not to mention Dark and Ghost type are the same thing offensively They both are super effective against Ghost and Psychic Type both are resisted by Dark (and Steel before gen 6). the only difference is normal is immune to Ghost and Fighting resists Dark. Not really a good dual type since it provides almost no resists and offensively the dual types do almost the same exact thing so no real coverage.
I've got a funny story about Abomasnow. So, I had been out of pokemon for a while, had stopped playing after Emerald/FireRed. I got Diamond, but I both lacked time for it and it was slow enough I lost interest. Fast forward to X/Y and I was playing through it, having a good enough time. First time through the snowy area where Abomasnow hangs out and I find a shiny one. Now, I didn't really have any low-level pokemon in my party at the time, and I also didn't really know all that much about the pokemon's typing (because again, I wasn't trying to catch anything). So, I go, "Alright, who's weakest? Uh... my Talonflame should do." It had Fly on it, this was an evolved Abomasnow, and I was thinking that it was a pure ice type. So I hit Fly. Then, as the animation is running for it to go up I remember Abomasnow's other type: grass. I literally can do nothing but watch with hands over my mouth as I murder this shiny Abomasnow.
AardvarkLord I have another funny Abomasnow story, when I was playing Pokémon for the first time in Diamond I used the master ball on one in Mount Coronet not knowing about Dialga only moments later not to mention how awful Abomasnow is hahah
Fairy wasn't in Sinnoh. I just remember Spiritomb being annoying because of its typing. I know Sableye was Dark/Ghost, but its stats compared to Spiritomb are just utter crap, making Spiritomb the better of the two in terms of stats.
Spiritomb is one of the best unique types ever. I'd also give MegaSpiritomb either Wonder Guard or Magic Repressor (a new ability that makes it immune to Fairy). That, and change Fairy so that it's weak to Poison, Steel, Ghost, Bug and Grass and resists itself, Dark and Fighting (and is immune to Dragon), and to have Normal, Ghost and Grass resist it.
We still don’t have a grass/fire type. That would be an awesome typing. I’m thinking maybe a chili pepper or something. That way it’s still a plant but is extremely hot. And glad to see aegislash on here. Ghost is a solid typing in general and then adding the defensive steel type to it is great.
I thought of a Sunflora evolution personally. Give it a big stat buff (I thought something along the line of 85/65/75/125/90/85 would imo be perfect for it), a fire type and change it's hidden ability to Drought. Now it can either be a sun setter, a Chlorophyll sweeper or a Solar Power Wall Breaker. This is honestly what the *sunflower* Pokemon should have been from the start
@bryan diaz varela lol. Roughly 1/3rd of the world already doesn't see natural snow in their lifetime. If you research the effects of climate change, they are greatly over exaggerated.
I literally picked Piplup cos of the typing, Chimchar is just another boring Fire - Fighting and Turtwig’s Ground type doesn’t help him with much of anything, apart from getting a bloody 4x ice weakness which most Pokémon carry a move of for dispatching Pokémon with such weaknesses.
@@jpcsdutra Steel type is very bad too. Offensively it's null, only is effective against Rock (and Fairy) and has very important weaknesess (Ground, Fire, Fighting).
@@AnkaraAnkaraMessiMessiMessi yea but as you saw in this video many of the perceived best typings include it so it's not like it isn't a sought out type
You would think gamefreak would realize that if you are going to give a pokemon a 4x weakness (especially multiple 4x weaknesses), they should not make it a slow and tanky pokemon. The best way to handle this would be having it be a glass cannon like Weavile.
I get why, but its probably because Claydol having levitate does almost nothing at all for it. Like if flash sap sipper didn't give boosts. Also because everyone and their mother is aware that you have levitate since you have no other options, meaning you can't even trick them into checking if you have levitate.
"You have to take the specific pokemon into account" claydol has levitate which makes its typing slightly better for it "but we're just looking at the typing" 🤔
its probably because claydol having levitate helps it exacly never, so why even try to mention it. There isn't a situation where claydol having a different mediocre to good ability would be worse. Any ability that isnt purposefully bad like truant would be more useful on Claydol
@@anitashaw4374 and as you can see here, there are 9 resistances, an immunity and only 2 weaknesses - and 10 resistances in it's generation - which is better than all the others on this list
*banging pots together* MAKE BLASTOISE WATER/STEEL. It LITERALLY has canons on its back! I don't understand why Empoleon is Water/Steel and not the turtle with literal canons on its back.
@@imverygerby by that logic no gen 1 pokemon should have been made into steel or fairy type. However, magnemite and magneton both gained steel and jigglypuff, wigglytuff, clefairy, and clefable all gained fairy. The turtle with steel cannons on it's back should be a water/steel type.
Sweet Nightmare Gaming magnetmite was made steel so there would be more than just 3 Pokémon with the type in gen 2 fairy type was added to the clefairy line because it was their species name and the jigglypuff line because they are fairies as well
I’ll be honest. Yes, i was one of those kids who only used their starter through the entire game. In my first playthrough in pearl version, my empoleon carried me through the entire game.
My biggest problem with this list is that it only focuses on how good the type match ups are defensively. There is no mention about how they do offensively.
This. Trying to build a team but all the "Pokemon team charts" that I find only show defensive properties. Knowing what I resist means nothing if I dont know what I can fight..
AFAIK, apart from STAB, offense is handled by the actual moves. Grass would be a problem to Ludicolo's typing, but slap Ice Beam and it becomes a non-issue. And you also have to account that some Pokémon like Ferrothorn have more utilities than actual offense (and make no mistake, Ferrothorn is great)
Well it’s more “Best pokemon with unique types and worst unique types” He seems to be really biased when it comes to these lists as the worst end generally goes against certain rules he had in place...or in this case, the best breaks the rules
I like how when you talk about the pokemon you show multiple different pictures of them, instead of a bunch of dumb memes about everything you say like other poketubers do. Long live the emperor!
Still never seen anybody use them online, Pretty much just end up facing mimikyu, togekiss, snorlax, charizard, gyarados, grimmsnarl and a handfull of others non-stop
Ice just needs a small buff. So far only Steel type resists Dragon and, I know it just got nerfed because of Fairy types but maybe Ice should get that resistance too. And as another minor buff, make Ice the only type to be immune to itself. That might make it just a little bit better. I know only a complete beginner would try to attack an Ice type with an Ice type move but it is just a minor buff just so Ice isn't completely defenseless.
@@elmsigreen that doesnt really make any sense to me, ice type is a literal glass cannon, strong on offense, terrible in defense, because really, ice is really frail unless its really thick, and even then it can falter to pretty much anything
@@Yominication tell that to a glacier or any decent amount of ice, they are not that easy to get through. Ice does need quite a buff. Grass, ground, bug, and water are all things that it should logically resist.
Mamoswine's common use Superpower despite having a STAB Earthquake, and Weavile's constant spam of Low Kick despite the unreliability of said move should tell enough of how well Ice and Fighting pair together.
Most Poketubers dont think competetive. These videos even though he keeps talking about numbers are mostly just his own experiences and not reality a lot of the times. Also the video mixes worst/best pokemon with worst/best type combinations. A lot of pokemon with terrible type combinations can still fare well if the stats and their movepool is outstanding. On the other hand theres garbage pokemon like Bisharp that are just slow, frail and dont have the moves to let their op types shine.
@Niels the Lizard Boi Its ok, but nowhere nearly as powerful as its ridiculous type combination suggests because of its bad movepool and lackluster stats.
I think that Heatran's Fire/Steel Typing is really good. He's immune to poison (and Fire, if you count his Flash Fire Ability), has a four times resistance to Ice, Steel, Fairy, Grass, and Bug, and a regular resistance to Normal, Flying, and Dragon, and a resistance to Dark, and Ghost pre Gen 6.
@@MrGodallmighte Bisharp has 4x weakness to fighting and Toxicroak has 4x weakness to psychic. Also Heatran has much more resistances to these two pokemons, Heatran is the pokémon with the highest number of double resistance.
I was searching every where to try and find someone who mentioned heatran and i found you. I am vonvinced heatran objectively has the best typing, I dont know why it isnt on any of these lists lol
All of the Pokemon you say are "too slow" for use in battle are actually great Trick Room pokemon. Mega Abomasnow with a Quiet Nature 252 SpA 252 HP 4 Atk and 0 Spe Ivs wrecks. And its ability bringing in hail means 100% accuracy Blizzard.
Really it's only because Levitate doesn't really benefit Claydol all that much? It's just kinda there. And even with that extra immunity it still kinda has a tough time... But thank you my friend!
Levitate can be overcome in a couple of ways, as well, I guess, whereas Kings Shield isn't, so gravity and mold breaker can be used against Claydol to hit it with a ground move if you absolutely have to...
@@emperorcubone But Levitate does help it out, earthquake is soooo meta & you said it yourself when you where talking about Magcargo, ground along with water is a very common attack type so being immune to it is great & helps it out
Because He was talking about weaknesses and claydols ability technically gives it an immunity but 1. It doesnt really do that much for it and 2. Another ground psychic Pokemon would not have an immunity to ground
Technically, Aegislash's ability doesn't do anything. The behavior is hard-coded on Aegislash him/herself. That's why Ditto can't use it and why it can't be disabled in any way. Same deal for Multitype.
@@jeffreygao3956 It doesn't even need Bug STAB as Poison is effective on Grass, Dark is effective on Psychic and having super effective damage against Dark doesn't really matter if you resist it. Sniper ability with a Focus Energy and Night Slash/Cross Poison while holding a Scope Lens if way better imo.
Slightly off-topic, but it bums me out that Claydol doesn't have a crazy high special attack. One of my favourite designs and it having built-in floating laser jars is awesome... but it can't DO anything interesting with them.
R.I.P. Spiritomb and Sableye. Your no weakness was gone too soon. There's some reasoning for Ghost to resist Fairy, but in any case it sucks it's gone cuz that was the whole gimmick with 'tomb
I think Mega-Altaria should be given an honorable mention because it's only weaknesses are steel, poison, ice, and fairy. It resists or is immune to 8 other types and it has the moves to deal with its weaknesses with earthquake and steel wing. Dragon/Fairy type has to be my favorite unique typing that's been in the franchise.
Joan Aguayo Planell oh yea for sure.. Trick room 110 special power ice moves coming off that Pokémon almost guaranteed before everything else.. mmm that’s good
mathmonkey4 well stats don’t work like multiplying so a base 60 speed isn’t base 30 x2, base 30 x2 is more than that, I don’t feel like doing the math XD because I can’t go on Showdown right now but it’s probably closer to base 80 speed at least. Also if this were to actually happen I was kind of implying the speed stat would’ve been improved anyway. Like base 50 or something hopefully at least.
@@oopajf61 In terms of STAB it's probably the best offensive typing in the game because it is 100% unresisted until they come out with a Normal + Ghost type. Defensively it's not great but Marshadow happens to have the perfect stats and ability to take advantage of it so it overall works great for that pokemon.
@@stevenleonmusic I don't know why but I judged it only defensively when he clearly says "strongest" ☠️ You're dead right, probably the best offensive typing
Despite alolan Raticate/Rattata’s bad typing, I still fell in love with the new design. Rattata and Raticate have surprisingly been one of my favorites for a while now, I even went outta my way to catch a shiny Rattata. Not great in battle, but the design in my opinion is rad.
You should have looked at the competitive formats too. Claydol was an important part of the meta in generation 3 being immune to spike and being able to get rid of them. Abomasnow has had many vgc appearances and has gotten better with a mega, blizzard spam and stab priority ice shard. The whole video doesn’t really give the impression that you did much research, just more based on your own personal experience playing casually.
@@Naru_cissu Shedinja isn't bad. It's got 13 immunities. If you play it right, you can wall an entire team with it if they no longer have a way to cause status damage, have a super effective move, or the ability to bypass the ability.
@@toxickandy9669 i know youre right, but shedinja is still has a lower BST than a nincada so technically shedinja is weaker than a nincada. With strategy - shedinja is of course an awesome pokemon. I personally think shedinja should be at least better that nincada, and my favourite is sturdy shedinja + safeguard
Back in Gen 5, I had a silly gimmick team - Trick Room Hail, with Cleffa, Clefairy and Clefable. And mixed Life Orb Abomasnow was a beast. Sure, he couldn't switch in to much (sometimes I'd Explode my Bronzong to get him in), but with Blizzard, Wood Hammer, Earthquake and Ice Shard he smashed almost everything for serious damage. Being the gen that was all about weather wars meant there were a lot of opposing Politoeds, and by outslowing it Abomasnow could get the hail up and then destroy it with Wood Hammer, whilst Earthquake did a number on Ninetales if Trick Room was up. That's not to say it's good in general, of course, but mixed attacker Trick Room Abomasnow is certainly something I have a soft spot for.
I love Aurorus! It’s been my favorite Ice type for so many years. It’s typing is terrible but it learns some pretty good moves and it helped me a lot in Pokemon Y.
I think that Aurorus should have an absurd amount of Health points and very very good defense and sp defense to compensate the type weaknesses, is such a beautiful and rare Pokémon to be left like that, is based on a 🦕 ffs
I actually think ice/fighting has great potential to be an awesome combo. The Pokemon needs mach punch and ice shard though. Give it sucker punch as well as a choice band and you have an amazing revenge killer.
Dude. Dude. THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING how Empoleon isn’t worse just because the other starts happen to have their weaknesses. That doesn’t make them better just because one can beat the other.
All 3 of them can OHKO each other under the right circumstances so it comes down to speed. I would argue Torterra is the worst because it has the lowest speed. Torterra can OHKO the other 2 with Earthquake if it doesn't get OHKO'd by Empoleon's Ice Beam or a Special attack by Infernape (it can usually tank a physical hit). Infernape can use Fire/Fighting to OHKO the other 2 as long as it takes advantage of the right stat (Special Attack for Torterra, Physical for Empoleon). Empoleon can OHKO the other 2 with STAB Water or Ice Beam. So really it's all about speed. Infernape is the best on paper but Torterra has Rock Polish and Empoleon is effective with Choice Scarf-all 3 of them are pretty good.
Steven Cooper i have to disagree with torterra being the worst of the three as defensive torterra can both survive a special attack and a physical attack from Infernape if it gets a good roll on pure Defense max health 4 spd torterra infernapes fire blast only does 87-104% of torterras health and that’s not counting the accuracy check of fire blast and if torterra goes special defensive then you can’t even OHKO it with fire blast it’s the same with Attack infernape so id argue that torterra is better than infernape as even defensive torterra Guarantees an OHKO vs offensive Infernape
People are dumb when they say torterra can beat empoleon easily because all water types starters can learn ice beam and torterra is 4x weak to ice and is slower
@@smaragdchaos Actually it can, have you seen how high its defense and special defense are, Torterra also has decent speed for its size and the majority of its move list is pretty effective against Empoleon's typing
Fun fact: Come Gen VI, Ninetales got completely replaced by Mega Charizard Y as the sun setter for the team. Come Gen VII Abomasnow would be replaced by Alolan Ninetales as the best Hail setter for the team, mainly due to speed, better unique typing and Aurora Veil
I find myself wishing Vikavolt made it on this list, since despite the Dex entry claiming it could fly acrobatically between dense trees at high speeds, it's SLOWER THAN GRUBBIN, but unfortunately Bug/Electric isn't unique enough, thanks to Galvantula.
@@eddiew2325 am i the only one who thinks taking shots at a profile name wholly unrelated to both this comment thread and the video itself and is factually incorrect as just being a uninspired opinion with little creativity sucks
Ludicolo spamming double team as a strat made me H A T E it. I've used it frequently, but fighting it just blostered my appreciation for birds and having Aerial Ace on all of them. Swellow quickly took over Pidgeot as my favorite bird back in generation 3. I'd always name it Bravery or Courage, so if you ever find one in online trades, it's mine and you bet it's fully EV trained.
Aurorus grew on me after I used it for the first time in the Max Lair and I heard it’s cry. After that I kept on seeing wild Amaura and Aurorus and seeing their rainbow sails and that’s what cemented it as one of my favorite Pokémon
But that is the salvation to... every bad Pokémon typing. Then make Crabominable fast. Then make Parasect fast. Then make Abomasnow fast. I think the issue here is giving good Pokémon typings good speed, and giving bad Pokémon typings bad speed. 2 quad weaknesses means some typings must get a hit on their opponent before they get annihilated.
@@masterblaster2678 Parasect would be bad even if it had base 150 speed as all it can do is spore something. Speed matters more for offensive type combinations like Crabominable. If Crab had base 105 speed with worse defenses, it would probably be UU or better. Look at Weavile. It has among the worst defensive typing in the game with a very mediocre ability, but it's still a very threatening mon because of its excellent offensive typing and is used in OU as a result.
Macargo: they might be too scared to make another Fire/Rock type. Game freak: Hold my beer, may I present Coalossal! (yes, I am aware this video was made before sword and Sheild and is in no way a critism to this video)
I was sad that Chandelure wasn't on the list, since it's one of my favorite Pokémon, but then I remembered that Blacephalon is a thing now. I'm honestly glad, Fire/Ghost is a really cool typing just aesthetically and I'm glad Chandelure has a friend, I also really love Blacephalon. Other than that, I'm surprised Rotom wasn't brought up. I guess it's stats are kinda meh but I think it has a good movepool and it actually benefits from it's typing.
Theoretically the way to use Magcargo is to do sunny day, switch to Magcargo, use rock polish, then solar beam the lured water/ground Pokemon. The sunny day, speeds up solar beam, boosts fire moves(which Magcargo shrugs off easily thanks to quad resist and then utilises for its own fire stab), and weakens water moves(which means Magcargo can resist a water priority move) So if you use a grass type and set up sunny day, the opponent might try and throw in a fire type to make use of the sunny day boost for its own STAB, which will potentially leave the fire type screwed against Magcargo which can easily switch on a fire attack But yeah considering the tons of Pokemon carrying water/ground attacks and the fast ground types with neutrality to grass(Garchomp specifically) plus the multiple turns of setup that you might be giving an opponent it’s purely a gimmick
I just discovered this channel through this video being in my Recommended, and I squealed when you said Empoleon is your favorite of all time because I’ve had the same sentiment ever since I played Diamond and Pearl! Also because I feel that it’s not that common of a favorite!
Only reason why I watched this video was because my favorite starter from all the Gens was in the thumbnail. Empoleon, Gen 4 was nostalgic to me as it was the first game that I played through the game on my own as while I did have fire red and Emerald. In fire read I beated the fifth gym and didn't know where to go or what to do next. For Emerald I was stuck where you had to battle Winona cause I was trying to progress through the bridge where Kecleon was blocking the bridge. Gen 4 I chose Piplup cause it was my favorite basic type which is water. What made Gen 4 memorable to me was I didn't know about saving before having a battle with the gym leader and I was having a tough time with Gardenia. By the time I beated her. My piplup was a Empoleon. Also Gen 4 was the time I met my best friends which I have been friends with 10+ years and counting. One time we ended up battling each other and I was done for. Only having Empoleon left in my team while he had his full health Torterra and some other Pokes, it was a Double Battle. Lived from getting hit by a attack which I believe was wood hammer though I can't quite remember. Though Empoleon was at yellow/red as of health. So then my Empoleon OHKO'd his Torterra with a Hydro Cannon. That was the day we learned about Pokémon abilities and they actually worked cause it couldn't be possible for Torterra to die from it without the help of Torrent. Which in turn enlightened us to the competitive scene of the game
Crabominable is good on a Trick Room team. Sigilyph learns trick room and is a tank sweeper because of its roost cosmic power and stored power abilities. Lead with those two in a vgc and you will frustrate many, but be sure crabominable has protect on that first turn.
If Empoleon is not ohko'ed by Infernape, your monke will never survive any move from penguin. And Empoleon has very decent defences, so chances for him to survive close combat and oneshot with surf or scald are getting sky high. I always thought in that way: You have the best Infernape, and Barry have the worst Empoleon.
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For everyone asking, "Why not this person?" Here is a list of every unique typing currently in the games, and if you keep scrolling it will even show pairings that used to be unique that are no longer such Dark/Ghost, etc...
bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_Pokémon_with_unique_type_combinations
Isn't dragalge and its first form the only poison dragon type but I couldn't find it on the list or did I just over look it ( its one of my favorites because its typing lol) but yeah I couldnt find it on the list for some reason
Ludicolo has the clout
Emperor Cubone honestly even though I like infernape better I like the feeling that the starters can have types and moves that are good against each other
Wowowowow wait my dude, you said Ghost covers Mimikyu's Poison effectiveness? Ghost doesn't resist Poison so that's another weakness right there :P
@@agustinavilez1150 Check again; look at any pure Ghost and you'll see they resist Poison, (You can't really Poison a Ghost because it's already dead) So that makes it neutral on Mimikyu...
> favorite type ground type
>Channel named Emperor Cubone
“Empoleon is my favorite Pokémon of all time”
EMPEROR Cubone
I'm fairly certain the "Emperor" part is a reference to Empoleon.
Well it's like this sometimes. Maybe he thought Cubone was a better channel mascot. There is at least one other channel that does this
Also could be like Manny said
EMPORER cubone
Empoleon isn't my favorite pokèmon but I adore him😍
Jayden The Gengar same here! My favorite is Gyarados with Empoleon closely behind.
“We have to take the Pokémon itself into consideration.”
30 sec later
“It has levitate, but that isn’t inherent to the typing.”
Ikr. Fast foward to aegislash stance changing everywhere.
But stance change was unique to Aegislash, levitate wasn't unique to Claydol.
Yuki Naruto It’s still part of the Pokémon.
@@GSballreborn neither were tryanitars stats
Exactly what I said, gets even worse when he talks about mimikyu and aegislash
You wondered why Steel lost its resistances to Ghost and Dark in gen 6, but could you imagine Aegislash if it didn't?
Imagine it also had a 100 base speed stat or a 95 I would cry going up against that thing
Having a higher base speed would ruin it. It'd be better if it had lower speed and more HP.
flerpaderp but it also allows it to sweep like it doesn’t already but it allows the consistency of sweeps it can also play as a spin blocker with balloon something that can come in on drill and block drill then quickly kill it but it’s still able to do that
Thomas, Aegislash’s main Steel-type attack is Gyro Ball. Something that takes advantage of its low speed. If anything, it should be SLOWER, and have the extra stats go into HP.
But it’s in Ubers anyway, so who cares?
You forgot that Toxicroak has access to _Dry Skin_ ability, giving it an extra immunity to water.
Yeah but it also gives it a weakness to fire and it takes damage in strong sunlight
@LagiNaLangAko23 It's not a full weakness, just 1.25
It's already said in Claydol that its ability isnt counted.
He also brought up Salazzle and didn't mention Corrosion
Hands
Aurorus is the culmination of Kalos: good design, but completely wasted potential
@@mattygee6852 Dude he's talking about Aurorus not Arceus
@@magicman6725 I don't get this reply.
The original comment isn't edited, so this isn't a correction. Did you misread the OP's comment or implying that Arceus has wastes potential (which couldn't be further from the truth if you look at his high-use in Ubers)
@@rayjamesgonzales7808 Lad he's replying to someone else, probably a deleted comment cause the guy realized he was wrong.
Sad Weeb That’s probably it. I hate those people who go around deleting comments instead of owning up to their mistakes. It just makes everything a lot more confusing for everyone
I love Aurorus but its so bad battlewise. Sometimes I try to make Pokemon like Meganium and corsola work which isnt hard cauz most of them arent bad but very hard outclassed but I cant think of a way to make Aurorus work cauz its very likely dead before it can do sth.
Adding a normal type usually hinders a pokemon. But imagine a normal/ghost pokemon
No it doesnt
It gains an immunity to ghost
Your Mom that doesn’t do much. 1 immunity, plus a weakness to one of the most offensive types of all time. A normal/ghost is too poserful thpugh
It also will be immune to fighting and only weak to dark
Reece West imagined if it had justified
Aegislash: The specific reason steel doesn't resist Dark and Ghost anymore
And also because that would mean the magnemite line would’ve had a whopping 13 resistances and a poison type immunity, meaning they would’ve either resisted or been immune to more than two thirds of all the types in the game, which would be pretty overpowered.
@@pokevonforretress3761 its not specifically magnemite, I think all steel types were to be balanced
U think there’s still one out there?
@@pokevonforretress3761 hmm yeah but Shedinja and Eelektross are a thing. I can’t imagine that the Magnemite fam would have been that OP. Moldbreaker earthquake would blow all of em up.
anybody else notice how this video was made in powerpoint?
Dont hate
@@brianarriola1160 im not hating i just noticed and i found it kind of odd since i had never seen it before :)
Yes i did lol
Young lil thunder cat
@@jonahlyons4646 There are a lot of people doing videos in prezi. So a different kind of presentation programm.
"They are too scared to make another rock fire type"
Sword and shield: I'm about to end this man's whole career
Justin Frost ngl he cold
Same with dark normal
Bug fire
And fighting-flying with Galarian Zapdos
And now we have hisui Growlithe as well 😂
One of the strongest typing in the game is Dark + Ghost.
Only two pokemons have that typing, Sableye and Spiritomb and they had to make sure those pokemons sucked because the typing is ridiculous.
3 immunities, one resistance and one weakness.
Just imagine if they created a pseudo legendary that's Dark + Ghost with Levitate as an ability.
why levitate when there's wonder guard
Before gen 7, it had no weaknesses
Mega Sableye is super good
Henrik Swanström
was no weakness before fairy was introduced.
But tbh it has almost no resists so an STAB outrage, Brave bird, or anything high power can easily knock them down.
not to mention Dark and Ghost type are the same thing offensively
They both are super effective against Ghost and Psychic Type
both are resisted by Dark (and Steel before gen 6).
the only difference is normal is immune to Ghost and Fighting resists Dark.
Not really a good dual type since it provides almost no resists and offensively the dual types do almost the same exact thing so no real coverage.
Knight And SpaceShip mega sableye though, literally one of the best megas out there
That's ok Magcargo, you'll ALWAYS have a spot on my team, as the Egg warmer.
I used magcargo, then I use litwit, and now I use fletchinder.
#makemagcargogreatagain
Gives TM for sunny day
This will work
Brb warming my eggs on some magma
Volcarona is better, its an egg warmer / flier.
Empoleon is HANDS DOWN my all time favorite Pokemon. If I could have him in the newer gens my heart (and teams) would be set for life
Same 💙🌊 piplup and evolutions supremacy >>
i hope they rework piplup line and make it an actual physical attacker
Empoleon is my favourite starter and my second favourite pokemon after Alakazam
@@Elbatpeccanu1996yeah it needs a regional form or should have gotten a mega.
I've got a funny story about Abomasnow. So, I had been out of pokemon for a while, had stopped playing after Emerald/FireRed. I got Diamond, but I both lacked time for it and it was slow enough I lost interest. Fast forward to X/Y and I was playing through it, having a good enough time. First time through the snowy area where Abomasnow hangs out and I find a shiny one. Now, I didn't really have any low-level pokemon in my party at the time, and I also didn't really know all that much about the pokemon's typing (because again, I wasn't trying to catch anything). So, I go, "Alright, who's weakest? Uh... my Talonflame should do." It had Fly on it, this was an evolved Abomasnow, and I was thinking that it was a pure ice type. So I hit Fly.
Then, as the animation is running for it to go up I remember Abomasnow's other type: grass. I literally can do nothing but watch with hands over my mouth as I murder this shiny Abomasnow.
Sad times
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My condolences
AardvarkLord I have another funny Abomasnow story, when I was playing Pokémon for the first time in Diamond I used the master ball on one in Mount Coronet not knowing about Dialga only moments later not to mention how awful Abomasnow is hahah
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I'm still living in Sinnoh. was expecting Spiritomb.
Fairy wasn't in Sinnoh. I just remember Spiritomb being annoying because of its typing.
I know Sableye was Dark/Ghost, but its stats compared to Spiritomb are just utter crap, making Spiritomb the better of the two in terms of stats.
I was expecting Heatran 😂
I was hoping to see Rotom.
I'm living in Hoenn and Ludicolo is my powerhouse.
Spiritomb is one of the best unique types ever. I'd also give MegaSpiritomb either Wonder Guard or Magic Repressor (a new ability that makes it immune to Fairy). That, and change Fairy so that it's weak to Poison, Steel, Ghost, Bug and Grass and resists itself, Dark and Fighting (and is immune to Dragon), and to have Normal, Ghost and Grass resist it.
Magcargo: “I am the only Rock/Fire type”
Coalossal: “I’m about to end this man’s whole career”
Alolan Raticate "I'm the only Normal/Dark type"
Obstagoon "I'm gonna end this man's whole career"
Hacobob and then alolan persian comes out of the shadow.
I’m the only ghost fighting type!
I was expecting that comment lol 😂
Fellow kaisa main is a pokemon fan wow
We still don’t have a grass/fire type. That would be an awesome typing. I’m thinking maybe a chili pepper or something. That way it’s still a plant but is extremely hot. And glad to see aegislash on here. Ghost is a solid typing in general and then adding the defensive steel type to it is great.
I was thinking more charred Ent but that works too!
Also, it would be perfect for capitalizing on Chlorophyll.
I thought of a Sunflora evolution personally. Give it a big stat buff (I thought something along the line of 85/65/75/125/90/85 would imo be perfect for it), a fire type and change it's hidden ability to Drought.
Now it can either be a sun setter, a Chlorophyll sweeper or a Solar Power Wall Breaker. This is honestly what the *sunflower* Pokemon should have been from the start
Well we finally got one In S&V. And it’s a Pepper.
@@Gothic7876 I think I like my charred ent better.
Wow you really nailed it. Nice dude
The ice type's many weaknesses is a metaphor for global warming.
yeah yeah they have been complaining about global warming since 1990. human c02 emmisions have increased by 50% since then, and we are fine.
@bryan diaz varela lol. Roughly 1/3rd of the world already doesn't see natural snow in their lifetime. If you research the effects of climate change, they are greatly over exaggerated.
Or is a reference to ice being very fragile
@@russianbot2179 It doesn't affect humans all that much, but you know, we aren't the only species on the planet.
@@russianbot2179 yeah cuz the coral reef is thriving right now
Ludicolo
Toxicroak
Bisharp
Mimikyu
Empoleon
Aegislash
I’m gonna try this team
Nice idea, I might try the opposite in a egglocke, should be.... interesting....
That's a lot of steel
I know the perfect counter: Fire!
Jeffrey Gao OOF!
@@jeffreygao3956 and ground type
Empoleon is your favorite Pokemon?
Good to meet a fellow man of culture.
I literally picked Piplup cos of the typing, Chimchar is just another boring Fire - Fighting and Turtwig’s Ground type doesn’t help him with much of anything, apart from getting a bloody 4x ice weakness which most Pokémon carry a move of for dispatching Pokémon with such weaknesses.
exactly!!!
Mine
He has my personal favorites to with empoleon and cubone, good to know I’m not the only one ahah
I never cared about Empoleon, Fire Typs are freaking rare in sinnoh and Infernape have a great design. Also Dawns Piplup annoyed the crap out of me.
Game freak needs to buff the Ice, Rock, and Grass types. These have for the longest time been the worst types in the game.
Grass is very powerful offensively, but the other two certainly don't make up for their awful defenses with their mediocre-good offenses
@@cable4751 *Tyranitar, Gigalith, Weavile, and Crabominable have entered the chat*
Rock was passable in Gen 1. It was certainly one of the most defensive types, but then everything changed when Steel types attacked.
@@jpcsdutra Steel type is very bad too. Offensively it's null, only is effective against Rock (and Fairy) and has very important weaknesess (Ground, Fire, Fighting).
@@AnkaraAnkaraMessiMessiMessi yea but as you saw in this video many of the perceived best typings include it so it's not like it isn't a sought out type
You would think gamefreak would realize that if you are going to give a pokemon a 4x weakness (especially multiple 4x weaknesses), they should not make it a slow and tanky pokemon. The best way to handle this would be having it be a glass cannon like Weavile.
"We need to keep in mind the individual Pokemon"
"We need to ignore Levitate"
Decent list, but the immediate hypocrisy doesn't sit well with me.
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that.
I get why, but its probably because Claydol having levitate does almost nothing at all for it. Like if flash sap sipper didn't give boosts. Also because everyone and their mother is aware that you have levitate since you have no other options, meaning you can't even trick them into checking if you have levitate.
Talks about mimikyuus ability. Not any others
Yeah, but be honest, why a ground type move on a Claydol, even without levitate
He also said it doesn't do much either, what benefit does claydol have with it? It's just worthless since no one would use a ground move on it anyway.
"You have to take the specific pokemon into account" claydol has levitate which makes its typing slightly better for it "but we're just looking at the typing" 🤔
He forgot his rules
Maybe it's cause GameFreak could easily give Claydol a different ability in furture games.
its probably because claydol having levitate helps it exacly never, so why even try to mention it. There isn't a situation where claydol having a different mediocre to good ability would be worse. Any ability that isnt purposefully bad like truant would be more useful on Claydol
Blake Slone it’s still blatant hypocrisy right out of the gate.
@@timcal2136 it's not, he said the ability does nothing, and should therefore be ignored. I don't see the hipocrisy.
Empoleon is my absolute favorite starter pokemon, and Aegislash is my all time favorite! Glad to see that they are on the good list!
What about Dialga's Dragon/Steel typing?
A Dragon that can only take neutral damage to Dragon, Ice, and even Fairy moves? Yes, definitely.
Sure
@@haydenboggs3271 And a immunity to Poison types too. And it doesn't need HP Ice because it gets Ice Beam.
@@anitashaw4374 and as you can see here, there are 9 resistances, an immunity and only 2 weaknesses - and 10 resistances in it's generation - which is better than all the others on this list
My first thought was - "Oh finally a list with dialga on it." Research please!
You also forgot to mention Toxicroak can have a water resist and fire weakness with DRY SKIN
Toxicroak is soo cool and nice detail
You forgot that abilities don’t count
*banging pots together* MAKE BLASTOISE WATER/STEEL. It LITERALLY has canons on its back! I don't understand why Empoleon is Water/Steel and not the turtle with literal canons on its back.
Because blastoise came out in gen 1
@@imverygerby by that logic no gen 1 pokemon should have been made into steel or fairy type. However, magnemite and magneton both gained steel and jigglypuff, wigglytuff, clefairy, and clefable all gained fairy. The turtle with steel cannons on it's back should be a water/steel type.
Sweet Nightmare Gaming magnetmite was made steel so there would be more than just 3 Pokémon with the type in gen 2 fairy type was added to the clefairy line because it was their species name and the jigglypuff line because they are fairies as well
@@imverygerby aaaand why would that make giving blastoise the steel type worse than those three examples? It makes just as much sense as magnemite.
Sweet Nightmare Gaming not really when one is visibly made of metal and blastoise’s cannons could easily be just formed shell
"Too scared to make another fire/rock type in case it turns out just as bad"
Coalossal: Am I a joke to you?
this video was released months before Sw/Sh came out. But yeah, Rock/fire type is just bad.
Ive actually notcied that coalossal is alot more useful in sword and shield than the snail boi was ever. 10/10 would transport coal again.
@@thisisatr3xjoe474 cause it's a bad pokemon, sadly.
It could be good if it was fast. Could never be a tank
Same with dark / normal with Obstagoon. Sword and Shield just werent released yet
I’ll be honest. Yes, i was one of those kids who only used their starter through the entire game. In my first playthrough in pearl version, my empoleon carried me through the entire game.
Same. It took me until gen 6 to grow out of that, honestly.
"Empoleon is my favorite Pokémon of all time."
MandJTV: Wait that's illegal.
Lol imagine if it was MILTANK
And Sceptile was his least favorite.
Hail Yeah!
My biggest problem with this list is that it only focuses on how good the type match ups are defensively. There is no mention about how they do offensively.
Trust me, one Stone Edge on a Aurorous will just 1 hit KO it
@@PeruvianPotato if it hits
This. Trying to build a team but all the "Pokemon team charts" that I find only show defensive properties. Knowing what I resist means nothing if I dont know what I can fight..
AFAIK, apart from STAB, offense is handled by the actual moves. Grass would be a problem to Ludicolo's typing, but slap Ice Beam and it becomes a non-issue. And you also have to account that some Pokémon like Ferrothorn have more utilities than actual offense (and make no mistake, Ferrothorn is great)
That's why Crabominable on a trick room team is a serious threat!!!
So really this list is "best and worst Pokemon with unique typings", not "best and worst unique typings."
Well it’s more “Best pokemon with unique types and worst unique types”
He seems to be really biased when it comes to these lists as the worst end generally goes against certain rules he had in place...or in this case, the best breaks the rules
I feel fairy steel is currently the best typing as it has 2 immunities, only two X2 weaknesses, and many resistances including a X4 resistance to bug.
I agree, it just kind of sucks that the only pokémon with that typing aren't the best
Heatran has nine 4x Resistances and one immunity.
@@Nosretep Nine 4X? Haha no, five 4X and four 2X
@@Nosretep Plus a Poison immunity
@@eangdaniec8515 no, Heatran has five 4x resistances, 4x resistance for Steel, Ice, Fairy, Grass and Bug.
Emperor = Empoleon
Cubone = Cubone
He said they are his all time faourites... Man that's clever! I just got it!
Right on the money!
@@emperorcubone I cannot believe that i never understood this, good god.
Agreed
@@emperorcubone that's genius.
I don;t like Empoleon and Mudkip
Ludicolo wears a sombrero
That is incredibly Mexican
And a poncho he called a pineapple...
then that makes Ludicolo a mexican pineapple duck
Ludicolo vs Gumshoos
Weavile: I'm ice and dark type
Fightning types: Let us introduce ourselves
I like how when you talk about the pokemon you show multiple different pictures of them, instead of a bunch of dumb memes about everything you say like other poketubers do. Long live the emperor!
Love how he also put pokken tournament pics as well.
I'd like the comment but it's currently at 69
Alexander Martens What is this meme about?
@@agentblackbird9435 It's not actually that funny I don't know why I do it so much :/
Skipper = Empoleon confirmed
Obstagoon and Coalossal: *exists and are way better*
Alolan Raticate and Magcargo: *crying*
Urshifu: OMAE WA MOU SHINDEIRU...
Still never seen anybody use them online, Pretty much just end up facing mimikyu, togekiss, snorlax, charizard, gyarados, grimmsnarl and a handfull of others non-stop
My two new favourite Pokémon tbh and it’s really cool how early you can get them
Slugma! Dude! WTF!
I’d love to see a Gen 8 version of this. They added a ton of unique typings.
I would definitely expect an Ice Type combination would be the worst because of them having a ton of weaknesses and pretty much no resistances
Yeah... Some Pokemon like Weavile can grow past that but others are not so lucky...
Ice just needs a small buff. So far only Steel type resists Dragon and, I know it just got nerfed because of Fairy types but maybe Ice should get that resistance too. And as another minor buff, make Ice the only type to be immune to itself. That might make it just a little bit better. I know only a complete beginner would try to attack an Ice type with an Ice type move but it is just a minor buff just so Ice isn't completely defenseless.
@@elmsigreen that doesnt really make any sense to me, ice type is a literal glass cannon, strong on offense, terrible in defense, because really, ice is really frail unless its really thick, and even then it can falter to pretty much anything
Like normal
@@Yominication tell that to a glacier or any decent amount of ice, they are not that easy to get through. Ice does need quite a buff. Grass, ground, bug, and water are all things that it should logically resist.
Saw Empoleon in the thumbnail and was like I have to see what this is about for the sake of nostalgia
Dialga’s dragon/steel and Spiritomb Dark/Ghost (which literally had no weakness until Fairy came out & 3 immunities)
Sableye is dark ghost too but dialgas typing is by far the best unique
Mastrmyrtr9 *laughs in Duraludon*
Duraludon : *AM I A JOKE OF YOU* ?
I was looking for Dialga in the comments. It's not unicue anymore but it was.
But Dialga is weak to fighting and ground
Ice + fighting is not a bad typing. Nothing switches into it offensively. Crab is just a bad Pokemon.
It could be useful in trick room sets.
Mamoswine's common use Superpower despite having a STAB Earthquake, and Weavile's constant spam of Low Kick despite the unreliability of said move should tell enough of how well Ice and Fighting pair together.
Most Poketubers dont think competetive. These videos even though he keeps talking about numbers are mostly just his own experiences and not reality a lot of the times. Also the video mixes worst/best pokemon with worst/best type combinations. A lot of pokemon with terrible type combinations can still fare well if the stats and their movepool is outstanding. On the other hand theres garbage pokemon like Bisharp that are just slow, frail and dont have the moves to let their op types shine.
@@ISSO1407 Bisharp is far from garbage, it's pretty excellent with that typing and Defiant
@Niels the Lizard Boi Its ok, but nowhere nearly as powerful as its ridiculous type combination suggests because of its bad movepool and lackluster stats.
I think that Heatran's Fire/Steel Typing is really good. He's immune to poison (and Fire, if you count his Flash Fire Ability), has a four times resistance to Ice, Steel, Fairy, Grass, and Bug, and a regular resistance to Normal, Flying, and Dragon, and a resistance to Dark, and Ghost pre Gen 6.
but he gets bent, kicked in the face and smashed over the head with a heavy piece of mining equipment with the VERY common Earthquake.
@@MrGodallmighte Bisharp has 4x weakness to fighting and Toxicroak has 4x weakness to psychic. Also Heatran has much more resistances to these two pokemons, Heatran is the pokémon with the highest number of double resistance.
I was searching every where to try and find someone who mentioned heatran and i found you. I am vonvinced heatran objectively has the best typing, I dont know why it isnt on any of these lists lol
TL;DR: Ice Bad, Steel Good, Bow down to the Emperor Penguino and his trusty sword.
Ice is best when it isn't ice using it
All of the Pokemon you say are "too slow" for use in battle are actually great Trick Room pokemon. Mega Abomasnow with a Quiet Nature 252 SpA 252 HP 4 Atk and 0 Spe Ivs wrecks. And its ability bringing in hail means 100% accuracy Blizzard.
The thing is, nobody actually cares about lvs. You want to ruin your day by grinding the right one, do it
@@edgymcedgelord5297 but literally anyone who wants to see a pokemons potential has to care of EVs and IVs and natures
@@edgymcedgelord5297 Lol oh boy are you wrong
Edgy McEdgelord
>IVs don’t matter
Nice joke there Jimbo, what’s next, you’re gonna tell us natures don’t matter either?
@@edgymcedgelord5297 never played competetive, did ya?
Why not count the ability on Claydol, but do count it on Aegislash?
Besides that, great video man 👌🏻
Keep up the good work
Really it's only because Levitate doesn't really benefit Claydol all that much? It's just kinda there. And even with that extra immunity it still kinda has a tough time...
But thank you my friend!
Levitate can be overcome in a couple of ways, as well, I guess, whereas Kings Shield isn't, so gravity and mold breaker can be used against Claydol to hit it with a ground move if you absolutely have to...
@@emperorcubone But Levitate does help it out, earthquake is soooo meta & you said it yourself when you where talking about Magcargo, ground along with water is a very common attack type so being immune to it is great & helps it out
Because He was talking about weaknesses and claydols ability technically gives it an immunity but
1. It doesnt really do that much for it and
2. Another ground psychic Pokemon would not have an immunity to ground
Technically, Aegislash's ability doesn't do anything. The behavior is hard-coded on Aegislash him/herself. That's why Ditto can't use it and why it can't be disabled in any way. Same deal for Multitype.
I love the dual typing of Poison/Dark from Drapion
There's two other dark/ poison types with skuntank and alolan muk.
Drapion should have this ability: Swarming Might(gives it STAB for Bug type attacks.)
@@jeffreygao3956 It doesn't even need Bug STAB as Poison is effective on Grass, Dark is effective on Psychic and having super effective damage against Dark doesn't really matter if you resist it. Sniper ability with a Focus Energy and Night Slash/Cross Poison while holding a Scope Lens if way better imo.
@@Squirtle_Squad_Supremacy Drapion's used by a Bug type specialist, evolves from a Bug Pokémon, and is part of the Bug Egg group.
Slightly off-topic, but it bums me out that Claydol doesn't have a crazy high special attack. One of my favourite designs and it having built-in floating laser jars is awesome... but it can't DO anything interesting with them.
pew pew
The lack of a good special ground attack also hurts it a lot.
R.I.P. Spiritomb and Sableye. Your no weakness was gone too soon. There's some reasoning for Ghost to resist Fairy, but in any case it sucks it's gone cuz that was the whole gimmick with 'tomb
At least sableye has mega-evo
Nah, I'm so glad they got knocked off their high Nazgûl horses! Fairies are the true dragonslayer!
I think Mega-Altaria should be given an honorable mention because it's only weaknesses are steel, poison, ice, and fairy. It resists or is immune to 8 other types and it has the moves to deal with its weaknesses with earthquake and steel wing. Dragon/Fairy type has to be my favorite unique typing that's been in the franchise.
*Talks about Ludicolo but doesn't play Mirror B theme*
Also I wish Cradily had made the cut for one of the best
I was really hoping for a Miror B. mention. I really wish more people recognised XD and Colosseum but Nintendo seems to want to forget about it. :(
Yo... wait.. just IMAGINE if mega abamasnow got Slush Rush on mega..
Sets it’s own hail and then doubles its speed.. it would be so much better
Well, at least he is a monster on Doubles Trick Room teams with that perfectly accurate Blizzard.
Joan Aguayo Planell oh yea for sure.. Trick room 110 special power ice moves coming off that Pokémon almost guaranteed before everything else.. mmm that’s good
Base 30 speed x2... is still horrid
mathmonkey4 well stats don’t work like multiplying so a base 60 speed isn’t base 30 x2, base 30 x2 is more than that, I don’t feel like doing the math XD because I can’t go on Showdown right now but it’s probably closer to base 80 speed at least. Also if this were to actually happen I was kind of implying the speed stat would’ve been improved anyway. Like base 50 or something hopefully at least.
JaseT-videos that’s only assuming it has evs in speed or +speed nature. And tbh that’s like running max speed ferrothorn
What about Marshadow's typing? It's obviously one of the strongest ones.
When you put it in paper you realize it's not that good, it's just Marshadow's stats are insane
@@oopajf61 In terms of STAB it's probably the best offensive typing in the game because it is 100% unresisted until they come out with a Normal + Ghost type. Defensively it's not great but Marshadow happens to have the perfect stats and ability to take advantage of it so it overall works great for that pokemon.
@@stevenleonmusic I don't know why but I judged it only defensively when he clearly says "strongest" ☠️
You're dead right, probably the best offensive typing
I 100% agree
Only Normal/Ghost is truly safe from it.
Despite alolan Raticate/Rattata’s bad typing, I still fell in love with the new design. Rattata and Raticate have surprisingly been one of my favorites for a while now, I even went outta my way to catch a shiny Rattata.
Not great in battle, but the design in my opinion is rad.
I find it better than vanilla raticate bc dark stab goes long ways idk
"steel don't have to worry about fighting...."
I'm sorry WHAT
That’s very funny
You should have looked at the competitive formats too. Claydol was an important part of the meta in generation 3 being immune to spike and being able to get rid of them. Abomasnow has had many vgc appearances and has gotten better with a mega, blizzard spam and stab priority ice shard. The whole video doesn’t really give the impression that you did much research, just more based on your own personal experience playing casually.
I guess Emperor Cubone just doesn't play much competitive. Heck, I'm actually awful in Showdown!
I love the 6v6 lists you do! Always fine myself looking back on it
I love Aurorus but it would definitely benefit from an ability like solid rock, most ice types will.
or other abilities like Flash Fire
It should've been dragon typed, like the other fossil Pokemon of Kalos
"The individual pokemon HAS to be taken into account" *Doesn't count Claydol immunity to ground*
What I’d like to know is:
Top ___ pokémon that get worse when they evolve. If there are any.
Well after what we just saw I'd argue Crabominable is one. But that is an interesting concept...
@@emperorcubone There's also plenty of mega evolutions which would fall under this. Like mega garchomp.
Determined Games shedinjaaaaa...
@@Naru_cissu Shedinja isn't bad. It's got 13 immunities. If you play it right, you can wall an entire team with it if they no longer have a way to cause status damage, have a super effective move, or the ability to bypass the ability.
@@toxickandy9669 i know youre right, but shedinja is still has a lower BST than a nincada so technically shedinja is weaker than a nincada. With strategy - shedinja is of course an awesome pokemon.
I personally think shedinja should be at least better that nincada, and my favourite is sturdy shedinja + safeguard
"We have to take the Pokemon itself into consideration"
*Literally ignores Claydol's Levitate.*
He literally said it doesn't help much. It's still in pu for a reason
Can you imagine Aegislash without the steel nerf?
"... keep Steel and Fighting move away" AuraGuardian should say hello here.
I always forget that Lucario is part steel type
Emperor Cubone : They don’t want to make another fire / rock type
GameFreak : aight bet **makes coalossal**
Update: Hisuian Growlithe says hi
Back in Gen 5, I had a silly gimmick team - Trick Room Hail, with Cleffa, Clefairy and Clefable. And mixed Life Orb Abomasnow was a beast. Sure, he couldn't switch in to much (sometimes I'd Explode my Bronzong to get him in), but with Blizzard, Wood Hammer, Earthquake and Ice Shard he smashed almost everything for serious damage. Being the gen that was all about weather wars meant there were a lot of opposing Politoeds, and by outslowing it Abomasnow could get the hail up and then destroy it with Wood Hammer, whilst Earthquake did a number on Ninetales if Trick Room was up.
That's not to say it's good in general, of course, but mixed attacker Trick Room Abomasnow is certainly something I have a soft spot for.
I love Aurorus! It’s been my favorite Ice type for so many years. It’s typing is terrible but it learns some pretty good moves and it helped me a lot in Pokemon Y.
I think that Aurorus should have an absurd amount of Health points and very very good defense and sp defense to compensate the type weaknesses, is such a beautiful and rare Pokémon to be left like that, is based on a 🦕 ffs
I actually think ice/fighting has great potential to be an awesome combo. The Pokemon needs mach punch and ice shard though. Give it sucker punch as well as a choice band and you have an amazing revenge killer.
Dude. Dude. THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING how Empoleon isn’t worse just because the other starts happen to have their weaknesses. That doesn’t make them better just because one can beat the other.
All 3 of them can OHKO each other under the right circumstances so it comes down to speed. I would argue Torterra is the worst because it has the lowest speed. Torterra can OHKO the other 2 with Earthquake if it doesn't get OHKO'd by Empoleon's Ice Beam or a Special attack by Infernape (it can usually tank a physical hit). Infernape can use Fire/Fighting to OHKO the other 2 as long as it takes advantage of the right stat (Special Attack for Torterra, Physical for Empoleon). Empoleon can OHKO the other 2 with STAB Water or Ice Beam. So really it's all about speed. Infernape is the best on paper but Torterra has Rock Polish and Empoleon is effective with Choice Scarf-all 3 of them are pretty good.
Steven Cooper i have to disagree with torterra being the worst of the three as defensive torterra can both survive a special attack and a physical attack from Infernape if it gets a good roll on pure Defense max health 4 spd torterra infernapes fire blast only does 87-104% of torterras health and that’s not counting the accuracy check of fire blast and if torterra goes special defensive then you can’t even OHKO it with fire blast it’s the same with Attack infernape so id argue that torterra is better than infernape as even defensive torterra Guarantees an OHKO vs offensive Infernape
You said that you would take the Pokémon itself into consideration but then immediately Claydol’s levitate doesn’t count?
People are dumb when they say torterra can beat empoleon easily because all water types starters can learn ice beam and torterra is 4x weak to ice and is slower
Yeah exactly, lmao.
@bryan diaz varela Giga Drain neutral against Empoleon and Torterra can't live an ice beam to its face.
torterra was amazing for all my playthroughs.
Then the 2 other starters should be better for your playthrough
@@smaragdchaos Actually it can, have you seen how high its defense and special defense are, Torterra also has decent speed for its size and the majority of its move list is pretty effective against Empoleon's typing
"bug isn't that big of a threat"
*sad golisopod noises*
Edit: thanks for all the likes guys!😀
**sadder Scizor, heracross and Volcarona noises**
@@style7184 Volcarona=Stealth Rocks
Someone: Dude Ima use Volcarona and reck everyone!
*Opponent sets up stealth rocks*
Someone: Hey where did my Volcarona go?
@@determineddaaf3 "It's been crucified on those rocks*
Style **Cries in Scolipede, Pheromosa and Genesect noises*
Crabrawler Should Have Stayed A Single Pokémon
i like crabominable. Ok now u can bullet punch me
Crabominable could have been way better
Fun fact: Come Gen VI, Ninetales got completely replaced by Mega Charizard Y as the sun setter for the team. Come Gen VII Abomasnow would be replaced by Alolan Ninetales as the best Hail setter for the team, mainly due to speed, better unique typing and Aurora Veil
“Marcargo is the only fire and rock type”
Carkol and hisuian arcaine: and I took that personally
*Coalossol
I find myself wishing Vikavolt made it on this list, since despite the Dex entry claiming it could fly acrobatically between dense trees at high speeds, it's SLOWER THAN GRUBBIN, but unfortunately Bug/Electric isn't unique enough, thanks to Galvantula.
A very impressive Powerpoint presentation.👌
“Aurorus is a Brontosaurus with ice powers”
Amargasaurus: “am I a joke to you?”
Yeah that Pokemon could be based on that dinosaur
@@joshuamonroe8666 Actually, its German name is Amagarga :).
Gandalf 1098 am I the only one who thinks Gandalf sucks
@@eddiew2325 am i the only one who thinks taking shots at a profile name wholly unrelated to both this comment thread and the video itself and is factually incorrect as just being a uninspired opinion with little creativity sucks
Ludicolo spamming double team as a strat made me H A T E it. I've used it frequently, but fighting it just blostered my appreciation for birds and having Aerial Ace on all of them. Swellow quickly took over Pidgeot as my favorite bird back in generation 3. I'd always name it Bravery or Courage, so if you ever find one in online trades, it's mine and you bet it's fully EV trained.
Aurorus grew on me after I used it for the first time in the Max Lair and I heard it’s cry. After that I kept on seeing wild Amaura and Aurorus and seeing their rainbow sails and that’s what cemented it as one of my favorite Pokémon
If Aurorus was fast, it would be pretty ok.
Like i mean it gets scaarf or rock polish
But that is the salvation to... every bad Pokémon typing. Then make Crabominable fast. Then make Parasect fast. Then make Abomasnow fast.
I think the issue here is giving good Pokémon typings good speed, and giving bad Pokémon typings bad speed. 2 quad weaknesses means some typings must get a hit on their opponent before they get annihilated.
The ice and rock types need to have their resistances fix.
@@masterblaster2678 Parasect would be bad even if it had base 150 speed as all it can do is spore something. Speed matters more for offensive type combinations like Crabominable. If Crab had base 105 speed with worse defenses, it would probably be UU or better. Look at Weavile. It has among the worst defensive typing in the game with a very mediocre ability, but it's still a very threatening mon because of its excellent offensive typing and is used in OU as a result.
If my grandmothers had wheels she'd be a bike
Macargo: they might be too scared to make another Fire/Rock type.
Game freak: Hold my beer, may I present Coalossal!
(yes, I am aware this video was made before sword and Sheild and is in no way a critism to this video)
Thank you, from the bottom of my broken heart, for noticing when the video came out.
I was sad that Chandelure wasn't on the list, since it's one of my favorite Pokémon, but then I remembered that Blacephalon is a thing now. I'm honestly glad, Fire/Ghost is a really cool typing just aesthetically and I'm glad Chandelure has a friend, I also really love Blacephalon.
Other than that, I'm surprised Rotom wasn't brought up. I guess it's stats are kinda meh but I think it has a good movepool and it actually benefits from it's typing.
Bastiodon should get King's Shield as well as the new Shield Legendary
Theoretically the way to use Magcargo is to do sunny day, switch to Magcargo, use rock polish, then solar beam the lured water/ground Pokemon. The sunny day, speeds up solar beam, boosts fire moves(which Magcargo shrugs off easily thanks to quad resist and then utilises for its own fire stab), and weakens water moves(which means Magcargo can resist a water priority move)
So if you use a grass type and set up sunny day, the opponent might try and throw in a fire type to make use of the sunny day boost for its own STAB, which will potentially leave the fire type screwed against Magcargo which can easily switch on a fire attack
But yeah considering the tons of Pokemon carrying water/ground attacks and the fast ground types with neutrality to grass(Garchomp specifically) plus the multiple turns of setup that you might be giving an opponent it’s purely a gimmick
God, Ludicolo is a defensive monster in Colosseum...
Wasn't there a Team Rocket member at the end of Mt. Moon or something in Red and Blue that had a Raticate? I hated that. ._.
Sick vid G, this one is one of your best.
Is Empoleon where you get the "Emperor" in your name from?
How had I never noticed?
Thank you for actually proving why Empoleon is the Best Starter and typing in Sinnoh
I just discovered this channel through this video being in my Recommended, and I squealed when you said Empoleon is your favorite of all time because I’ve had the same sentiment ever since I played Diamond and Pearl! Also because I feel that it’s not that common of a favorite!
Absolutely! It's just one of the best! Yet to be topped in my opinion...
Only reason why I watched this video was because my favorite starter from all the Gens was in the thumbnail. Empoleon, Gen 4 was nostalgic to me as it was the first game that I played through the game on my own as while I did have fire red and Emerald. In fire read I beated the fifth gym and didn't know where to go or what to do next. For Emerald I was stuck where you had to battle Winona cause I was trying to progress through the bridge where Kecleon was blocking the bridge. Gen 4 I chose Piplup cause it was my favorite basic type which is water. What made Gen 4 memorable to me was I didn't know about saving before having a battle with the gym leader and I was having a tough time with Gardenia. By the time I beated her. My piplup was a Empoleon. Also Gen 4 was the time I met my best friends which I have been friends with 10+ years and counting. One time we ended up battling each other and I was done for. Only having Empoleon left in my team while he had his full health Torterra and some other Pokes, it was a Double Battle. Lived from getting hit by a attack which I believe was wood hammer though I can't quite remember. Though Empoleon was at yellow/red as of health. So then my Empoleon OHKO'd his Torterra with a Hydro Cannon. That was the day we learned about Pokémon abilities and they actually worked cause it couldn't be possible for Torterra to die from it without the help of Torrent. Which in turn enlightened us to the competitive scene of the game
#1 best: ground ground
So true!!!
Crabominable is good on a Trick Room team. Sigilyph learns trick room and is a tank sweeper because of its roost cosmic power and stored power abilities. Lead with those two in a vgc and you will frustrate many, but be sure crabominable has protect on that first turn.
All they need to do is buff ice type i wish i could get this out there, and tbh bug really needs a buff too
A wild emperor cubone has appeared! Clicking the video asap is super effective👍
SilverKnight congratulation! You caught the content
Evan Simpson It's a shining variant of a PokéTuber!
Yeah he definitely didn't steal this comment from anyone...
Determined Games me? I thought of it 🤔
@@Mojavekight17 If that's true I guess our minds are just very similar :P.
Empoleon rules!!
What was the soundtrack in the end? That track is awesome (not the endcard)
If Empoleon is not ohko'ed by Infernape, your monke will never survive any move from penguin. And Empoleon has very decent defences, so chances for him to survive close combat and oneshot with surf or scald are getting sky high. I always thought in that way: You have the best Infernape, and Barry have the worst Empoleon.