Poor pidgey up early to get the morning worm, singing a merry song in the sunshine. All of a sudden a LVL 100 RHYDON HORN DRILLS YOU INTO A PILE OF FEATHERS!
Nope, no pokemon during that time had stats close to Mewtwo. Even if you put Gen 1 Mewtwo in today's game with both special at 156 and only gen 1 movesets, it'll be too bulky to take out in a few hits.
454ffv ah, ah, ah. you said "I don't think any pokemon in the future can compare to Gen 1 Mewtwo." Well, these are Pokemon in the future. So they count.
tauros stab hyper beam is probably the hardest hitting unbuffered physical attack in the game. Articuno stab blizzard is the strongest unbuffed special attack.
I still remember Training my Kadabra to lvl 95, because I hoped it will someday evolve to Alkazam... I was very sad when I googled the right way to evolve...
Trained all my pkmn to lvl 100. Any I could catch or liked, think I done the elite four a couple thousand times and in gen 2 I done elite four well over 900! Exp share were, well still is amazing! 🙏
Gen 1 OP Checklist: 1) Are you a Psychic or Normal type? 2) Can you abuse the fact that Sp. Atk and Sp. Def aren't split up? 3) Can you abuse the Spd = Crit chance mechanic? 4) Can you abuse Hyper beam or any status conditions? 5) Can you learn Amnesia?
Golem can't do any of these things and he's still busted, rhydon doesn't take advantage of hyperbeam as much as you might think, and jynx is probably the best lead in the game but its hp is too shitty to live a decent special attack.
For some reason, I like to imagine how terrifying Regice would be if it existed in Gen I. Think with me for a bit. 200 Special and Amnesia. With 90% accurate Blizzard.
I personally loved Nidoking. You could get a Nidoran early, and then a moon stone in the cave after Brock. By the end of the game i had his move set: flamethrower, earthquake, thunder, and surf. He also has decently high special attack. Next time I play a gen 1 game I will try some of the Pokémon listed here, but i’ve always got to have that Nidoking!:)
video recomendations are more pvp oriented. your multy use nidoking is perfect for pve. love it. always got 1 nidoking in my team and you can get him at lv 16 with moons stones
I remember Dragonite having impressive stats in Generation 1. Even though there were no effective Dragon moves and with it's horrible move set while leveling up, it did fairly well because of it's high attack. It's still one of those Pokemon I wish I could use effectively. Dugtrio was also overpowered for in game purposes. Just being able to catch and use one at level 31 before obtaining the 3rd badge and with it's high speed stat, scoring critical hits became unbelievably easy with it.
Starmie should definitely have made the list, as should Exeggutor. Jolteon and Dragonite are cute, but nothing like as good as those two. I don't think anyone would argue against Mewtwo, Mew, Slowbro, Tauros, Snorlax, Chansey or Alakazam, and Rhydon would certainly be on my personal list (though as you mention, Rhydon and Golem are pretty much interchangeable). Starmie is such a beast, though, with Recover, and Eggy's Psychic + Sleep Powder (with a last ditch Explosion) is hard to find fault with. And Gengar for the honourable mentions. Don't forget, gen 1 is all about Thunderwave. Paralysing your opponent's Starmie and Alakazam is a top priority; and some of the best paralysis spreaders are... Starmie and Alakazam. (And Chansey!) Eggy puts something to sleep and don't forget how OP sleep is in Gen 1!), then Psychics down the opponent with a surprise Explosion (ideally hitting your opponent's Chansey or Alakazam). And usually you'd switch your Rhydon or Golem in to tank Explosion, but Eggy makes that hard with Mega Drain. Starmie has great bolt/beam coverage, Recover and Thunder Wave; and when the ice moves all have a chance of being a OHKO...
Nidoking and Nidoqueen. I never play a game without them. They can learn almost all moves aside Fly. I have beaten the leagues with just them alone on first tries and had them as reliable back ups for when my other Pokemon died.
Ruben Olguin Nidoqueen had better special attack so I put thunder, ice beam and flamethrower on her. Nidoking was horn drill, surf, earthquake and whatever I felt like for the 4th move at the time.
@@ronswanson7371 it's true. Flareon is just bad. Low speed. Meager defenses and dire movepool makes it not good to be used. So overall Flareon sucks. Just flat out when it comes to battle
I'd personally like to add Sandslash as an honorable mention. Primarily for the same reason as Persian; once it learns Slash, it's quite brutal, despite having lower base speed. It is certainly very weak to some elemental types, considering it's low special, but it is probably my favorite brawler in GEN 1. I almost always run one on my team. With Sandshrew evolving at level 22, it's quite easy to get this pokemon early game. For how much base attack and defense it has, it still has pretty good HP and speed. Not only is Slash great, but Dig, Rock Throw, and Earthquake can all have devastating effect, with the added bonus of Dig being a useful utility outside of battle. It has great match-ups against electric, rock, and poison pokemon. These types often were capable of doing lots of burst damage or applying crippling status effects. As a result, while certain elemental or normal types may have been able to do more damage to the target, or take the first move due to greater speed, they could end up receiving a lot of punishment and not having the stamina left to take out a powerful pokemon they were a specific counter to later in the fight. Sandslash is a great pokemon to keep on your team as a general tank with few weaknesses, which also has to ability to 1 hit many of the weaker pokemon. This allows you to save your more offense based, low defense/HP pokemon for later in the fight , and have them be clear of status effects, when the opponent brings out their specialized bruisers. I found Sandslash to be of great utility during both Victory Road and The Final Four, as he could take the hits for my more fragile pokemon, and still dish out a decent bit of damage on his own.
Yeah exeggutor was OP as fuck in gen 1, not sure where the honorable mention for it was at minimum it's better then golem. Can probably learn amnesia too. I would say nidoking exclusion from honorable mention is odd, but psychic pokemon wreck it and water as well.
@@dstreetz91 It can't learn Amnesia, but it doesn't need to. 75% sleep rate, Psychic typing, good HP and a high-attack Explosion. It's definitely a top 6 Pokemon and should be on pretty much every team, even if you have Mew and Mewtwo available.
I missed Omastar. In Gen 1 he has a very high special stat, which indeed means sp. att. & sp. def. Plus, due to his Rock type, he has a high defense. Just give him some special type moves and he kills it
one important thing about Hyperbeam, if you one shotted a pokemon, it had no cool down. Victreebell or Venusaur should have made it in over Rhydon. The only reason they wouldn't be overpowered is because of Mewtwo and Alakazam. Sleep Powder, wrap, leech seed and always critical razor leafs. Sleep status was broken in this game because waking up took a whole move, and if you were wrapped, it wouldn't even give you a chance to wake up. . Dugtrio was a great pokemon,. Having high speed made moves more accurate, which made fissures a pretty reliable move, as well as very fast Earthquakes and critical hit slashes. Nidoking was great too, very strong and versatile
Love the effort you put into video by not even bothering to throw those level 100 Pokemon against any other than a level 4 Pokemon to demonstrate it's power....
@@arrivals1 when underground you could not be attacked so you did not need high defense high speed in order to get another dig off before being attacked is what mattered.
My sweeper in my most winning team when I was a kid was Jolteon. None of my friends used one, and I didn’t fully understand how the stats affected battles at the time, but I always knew it was a boss. I feel so vindicated to hear it make this list.
+andrew jones What's with the fuckin' attitude I've been getting the last few months on this place? It's kinda starting to piss me off. Nobody can say anything to anymore without getting a smart ass "I look down upon ye, pleb" response in return. Bullshit. Fuck.
Bro you gotta chill out. I was simply asking a question. I already knew Gen 1 remakes existed and I was asking why you had to retaliate by trying to make me sound misinformed. And hey, it's TH-cam's comment section. I'm pretty calm against some of the other stuff you see
+Sherwin Lewis probably because its stats are similar to dragonite, but lower. However, it still should have because it can run icebeam, thunderbolt, surf, fireblast, thunder, blizzard, body slam, strength, and, of course, hyper beam, and you can get it early in the game unlike dragonite.
+Sherwin Lewis because gen 1 gyarados is pretty bad. No physical stab even tho it had a great atk stat and its best move was hyper beam but it didnt get stab off it so it was worse than tauros and snorlax at using it by farrrrr. It has a wide special movepool but a horrendous special stat. There is no reason to use gyarados pretty much when lapras and starmie were far better water types in gen 1. Ofc this changed when the physical special split happened and gyarados finally got some stab water attacks but thats not for a while.
Exeggutor is fairly bulky with a very high special stat and resistances to Ground and Psychic moves which constituted a large portion of the meta. It could wall opposing pokemon like Golem, Rhydon, Alakazm, Exeggutor, Snorlax, etc. Exeggutor was also a very solid status inflictor thanks to Sleep Powder, making it a good lead. With a 125 special stat for stab Psychic as well as the ability to use Explosion, Exeggutor was also pretty potent offensively. Meanwhile, Victreebel is just an overrated sweeper that is too slow to be of an use by itself. It has good attacking stats and access to Sleep Powder, but its slow and weak to Psychic, making it only very useful against Paralyzed pokemon. Something like Tauros is generally better as a late game sweeper.
Yes, the thing is PSYCHIC is overpowered type in gen1. mewtwo, exeggutor, dragonite, arcanine, starmie. Yes starmie amazing moveset and speed and special attack, even with lower base stats as say lapras or gyarados, is still slightly better and can 1-2hit KO most other pokemon. ALL pokemon with low special stat (combined with low speed stat are dead before they can attack, say Rydo.. wat a joke) Besides the pokemon in the video have been given rare candies to level 100, that is why they are so low on stats (next to them not being caught for talent).
+la dodgers 4 life Machamp was terrible in gen 1. Slow, low special and weak to psychic. Best moveset is like: Submission, Earthquake, Body Slam and Hyper Beam. In fact, every fighting pokemon was useless at that time. What were the developers thinking? lol
+la dodgers 4 life Nidoking is the best pokemon in gen 1 for the base game. Its used in speedruns as the one hit killer, you get it sooo early, double kick against Brock (no quick attack grind), end game earthquake+ ice beam+ thunderbolt+ horn drill with x-accuracy, x-speed and/or x-attack for tough battles you're a OHKO machine.
@@Kraymoens fighting types had a lot of shitty aspects, but they also had their strengths. I've got a hitmonlee and while it's in the PC right now I def seem to remember it having the fighting moves and reflect. Reflect makes up for its awful defence stat and from then on its speed excels against rocks and normals, and well anything else that isn't flying or psychic or exceptionally strong. I'm talking in game of course, I'd never use it in competitive play. Ultimately I got bored of it though and stored it away but like most feeble Pokemon teaching it a few tactical moves/reflect makes a world of difference. Reflect is probably my most commonly taught move.
I remember how much heresay there was when Pokémon came out about Mew. I only played the original 2 games because they came out when I was in middle school. But man was I obsessed with the originals! I did not stop until I got all of them (thanks to my buddy owning Blue and a game boy link cable). It blows my mind that new generations are so into this series still.
I remember when playing the gen 1 game, i always bring beedrill to counter sabrina using twineedle. Then he died instantly to alakazam since alakazam is fast and beedrill is also a poison type.
I always led with a Gyrados with Fire Blast, Thunder, Surf, and Hyper Beam. Great way to start a match, as it can generally cover any weakness and OHKO pretty much anything, and its speed really wasn't that bad. Also, insane HP + OK defense = still acceptable defense for the lead pokemon. Yes, throw out a Jolteon and I switch to Golem. It was just a nice way to pretty much guarantee I'd be up by one right off the bat.
On my emulator I did a randomizer run where I put Mewtwo as one of the starters and tried to see if I could dominate everything with just this Pokemon in my party. Turns out I can, actually. Mewtwo truly was broken beyond all belief back in the day, no wonder Game Freak put it as an endgame Pokemon.
+Bob Lasso He said in the video, not at the number 1 spot in the video. You really think there's 10 others in that generation better than fucking *GOD*?
"Hey, you know, there were good swords in ancient Rome, and all, y'know? But I can think of at least 10 guns now that are better at killing than those swords, man." Power creep. Look into it, hmm?
+Bob Lasso Eh. All's I'm saying is it is incredibly unfair to compare the strongest of an earlier generation of ...well... anything to the strongest of a later one, since power creep is going to ensure the latter is more powerful. Swords and guns both kill people. Guns do it better, because they are newer, and more powerful by default. In hindsight, I should have compared a musket to a PSG-1.
I remember going to a pokemon league video game tournament when I was a kid around the year 2000 and being gifted a mew for participating. It was great. My team was alakazam, charizard and Pikachu and still made it to the top 10. Lol nobody really understood the game back then and internet guides weren't really a thing.
+Alif Azmi It kinda was for me. For some reason, I always thought Mew and Mewtwo had the same stats, except that Mew could learn any TM or HM, so I thought Mew kinda threw Mewtwo out of the way..., but apparently Mewtwo has better stats, so I was wrong. :P
+LOLZ334 mega Evolution should be necessary, i dont really want another mega rayquazza on that sky atm,better give it to someone with a bit lower stats like marrowak,raticate or kabutops
I live in Vegas. I found a game boy with Pokémon Blue in it at Ceasers Palace. I took it home and finished it. It’s the only Pokémon think I ever watched or played. But I did finish it
I really like this series of video AM, It's very interesting. But how much do you think it will Change this Top if we start to talk of the remakes, Red Fire and Leaf Green?
You can take it a step further with all of these pokemon by applying Box Trick Training (see Bulbapedia) to manipulate the maximum amount of stats out of them. Basically adds an extra 20-30 permanent points on average to each stat category after completing the training. It's how I beat the Master Ball Stadium Cup on R-2 challenge mode.
One thing that you skip over in regards to Jolteon is the fact that it naturally learns Pin Missile, a Bug-type move, that is super effective against Psychic. And with its naturally high speed you can often get the upper hand against some of the highest tier Psychic-type Pokemon. I never met an Alakazam that I couldn't take with Jolteon.
Who else just played Pokemon games without going into all this 'broken move' shit? I just had the highest attack moves on every Pokemon and I still smashed every Pokemon game I ever played. Moves like 'wrap' and 'agility' were replaced instantly with moves like Strength, Surf, Flamethrower and mothingfucking Earthquake!!
+Tedaus20 Congratulations, now play against actual people with that set and get destroyed. I played like that for... probably my first playthrough or two as a child. Then Stadium came out and taught me the error of my ways. It's been a journey of learning and improvement ever since :) Of course online communities help a lot for that as well :p
+Harkz0r I've never wanted to or been fussed about battling other people, I just like to enjoy the game in my own way, which is the way I've described above. It's worked perfectly for every Pokemon game I've played so far. I can totally understand why people enjoy your method though, it's a lot more tactical and I imagine you put a lot of thought into crafting your perfect team.
***** Yeah, fair enough. I can appreciate that - I actually never got as in-depth in competitive battling as I could have, due to the time sink of breeding Pokémon. I gave it a preliminary attempt in my childhood, then came back later and played some sim matches online, but that's all. I enjoy the creative aspect of coming up with teams and learning the metagame and so on, though. I enjoy the casual approach too sometimes, it's just that the games themselves are so easy that I can't really imagine having difficulties (outside of certain infamous trainers/battles). Then again I guess a lot of RPGs are like that... apart from Megaten, lol.
Its worked perfectly because you're playing a fucking children's game, LMAO. Actually play competitively, where you vs humans instead of dumb-downed AI that Nintendo purposely made easy
I used to get magikarp as soon as I could so I could swap during battles to raise it's levels. Once it evolved into gyarados battles got easier. With it's ability to use water, fire, and electric based attacks plus hyper beam made it my top choice. Always kept a sandshrew on hand, haunted or gengar, pidgeot, and whatever else had decent numbers
Not sure if it's only in Pokemon Stadium 2 or not, but Chancey also had rest where you would fall asleep for a couple turns and would regain all of its massive HP!
My original lineup: Swords Dance Mew, Amnesia Mewtwo, Light Screen Chansey, Reflect Starmie and 2 of these 3: Gengar (for sleep opening/hyper beam swaps), Electrode (guarantee paralyze on a fully geared up mew or mewtwo) or Agility/Wrap Dragonite.
Arcanine is powerful stats wise, however, it lacks versatility. It can only hit with fire (which is poor in gen 1 meta) and non-stab normal moves (and dig- which can be countered hard by competent opponents). Gyarados is crippled by a 4x weakness to electricity which means anything that can learn thunderbolt instantly counters it. Also it has weird stats, lots of attack stat but no stab bonus makes physical moves... meh, compared to something like tauros anyway. Special is meh and speed is a subpar.
I feel really old after reading so many comments of people who never played Gen 1 games (they problably weren't born yet when Gen 1 came) saying things like "abilities", "weather effects" or moves that were introduced in later generations lol
I'm one of those obnoxious pokemon nerds. I love playing Gen 1 competitively. It's where I started, and I've revisited it many times. I watched your video just to be a jerk, and tell you how wrong your list was... But it's a solid list. 😂 Nice video, man. The only constructive criticism I have is the fact that you didn't mention golem or zapdos. Golem is every bit as good as Rhydon, and he can pack explosion. Zapdos is an absolute nightmare to face once someone's team is worn down (once they don't have their Rhydon or Golem). Drill peck on Zapdos can destroy things that Jolteon can't do a thing to! Persian is another that you didn't mention. Slash with Persian's speed is basically a guaranteed Crit, plus he can abuse things like bubble beam to deal with Golem/Rhydon, which Taurus can't, although Taurus is all around better. While obviously Mew and Mewtwo are the best, most competitive environments ban them, so I haven't dealt with them much since I was a kid and it was "anything goes." Again, nice video. Thanks for doing your research instead of just posting a thoughtless video. 👍
Hey, I had the same idea and similar background hehehe He did mention some of them in the honorable mentions but your comment added a bit more depth to it.
Raymonds Wow, thank you for pointing that out. Once he mentioned Mew, I skipped ahead and saw Mewtwo, and then I was done. I feel silly for skipping those few seconds now. I guess he didn't really address _why_ he excluded the "honorable mentions," except the legendary birds (which almost all pokemon can be countered), but it's not fair to put moltres in the same category as Zapdos and Articuno. I was glad to see Victreebell in the mentions. That's a great stun spore wrap annoyer. I've used it way more than I've used Dragonite in that role.
Zed Grimm Meh, his stats aren't really "better," they are very similar. Rhydon hits slightly harder, but Golem is faster. Honestly, Golem has the better move pool out of the two of them. He can explode. Also, I always had friends to trade with. 😉
**nostalgia crying** Freaking Tauros, man. It demolished EVERYTHING back in the day. And nobody really concentrated on developing counters for _Tauros specifically_ in the Gen 1 meta (at least not where I was) until Gen 2 was out, so I had a FIELD DAY. *Hyper Beam BAM* ok i deserved that *Body Slam BAM* cmon man *Earthquake BAM* r u srsly with this bro? *Blizzard BAM* SPECIALS TOO? SCREW YOU I'M OUT me: ...but you'll still got two more pokemon. **opponent flips me off** Seriously, Tauros is the reason I had no friends in elementary/early middle school. I kicked everyone's ass.
I was fairly good at link battles in school. I probably won around half or maybe a little more, so I'd say that was ok given we all kind of shared tactics anyway. One of my trump cards believe it or not (lol) was a mewtwo with the moveset psychic, blizzard, hyper beam and self-destruct. I never believed in strategy when I was a kid instead preferring to hit hard and hit fast, and most of the time it was ok. As soon as my mewtwo got weak I'd just explode it, and knock out another Pokemon. One time though I battled this quiet kid who had strategy down and managed to ruin me using a zapdos with flash and possibly a paralysing move. It was eye opening and I think I lost the battle hands down, which was unusual as my losses were usually close ones. I've grown up now and I much prefer strategy like buffing stats, poisoning, evasion etc. None of us ever used a Tauros in school, missed a trick there I suspect. A lot of the Pokemon I use could be considered weak, but I strongly believe in winning with your favourites and not some "dream team" if you don't play competitive. I have a butterfree, which is decidedly feeble, but then I taught it reflect and it creams anything that comes up against it now.
+asdfers The critical hit rate of high-crit moves was (Base Speed/64). Thus, any Pokémon with a base speed of 64 has guaranteed crits with high-crit moves. To illustrate how low that is: Sandslash (65), Magneton (70) and Vaporeon (65) have more than that. In other words, high-crit moves are practically always a guaranteed crit in Gen 1.
I found Snorlax was still pretty good against the Gastly line In Gen 1 there weren't Abilities so Gengar,etc. didn't have Levitate which mean you could just exploit it's weakness to Ground types (they're part Poison) and just have Snorlax run Earthquake on them
I think it’s great that you showed off the power against level 3 rattata
Youngster joey would be mad.
they were all top percentage rattata's tho..
lmaoo right
Poor pidgey up early to get the morning worm, singing a merry song in the sunshine. All of a sudden a LVL 100 RHYDON HORN DRILLS YOU INTO A PILE OF FEATHERS!
I know they did not see it coming
Wow I totally forgot about Amnesia…
Wow I totally forgot about Amnesia…
Lol
Nicely done
XD
well played.
How meta was that xd
"Jolteon's double kick could do pretty good damage"
*murders a poor lvl 4 Rattata*
Yeah, why couldn't he go against the elite four? After acquiring all badges and beating elite four the first time, I just sweep em back repeatedly.
Jolteon with Pin-Missile is the only advantage against Psychic types in Gen 1
I don't think any pokemon in the future can compare to Gen 1 Mewtwo. High base total and virtually no weakness.
Mega rayquaza
Nope, no pokemon during that time had stats close to Mewtwo. Even if you put Gen 1 Mewtwo in today's game with both special at 156 and only gen 1 movesets, it'll be too bulky to take out in a few hits.
454ffv
ah, ah, ah.
you said "I don't think any pokemon in the future can compare to Gen 1 Mewtwo."
Well, these are Pokemon in the future.
So they count.
Arceus dark=bb mewtwo
Tyranitar > MewTwo
You forgot to mention what made stab hyper beam in gen 1 so good. If you beat the opponents pokemon with it, you don't have to rest on the next turn.
+name bn True in the Gameboy games, but actually this wasn't the case in Stadium. I guess a lot of battles were link battles anyway though.
+name bn Also it was a physical move lol
tauros stab hyper beam is probably the hardest hitting unbuffered physical attack in the game. Articuno stab blizzard is the strongest unbuffed special attack.
Unless you play Pokemon Stadium
Strongest special should be STAB Sky Attack from Moltres?
I still remember Training my Kadabra to lvl 95, because I hoped it will someday evolve to Alkazam... I was very sad when I googled the right way to evolve...
i almost did the same but i googled it when i got to lvl 50 and it still didnt evolve.
This foooo
Trained all my pkmn to lvl 100. Any I could catch or liked, think I done the elite four a couple thousand times and in gen 2 I done elite four well over 900!
Exp share were, well still is amazing! 🙏
Cameron Tupper Kadabra evolves into Alakazam via trade, not by leveling up
@@InfernalLeo777 lmao
Dragonite: I'm not overpowered...
... *its just everyone else is weak.*
I nicknamed my Alakazam "Raisin Bran" because he's got two scoops
😂😂
Gen 1 OP Checklist:
1) Are you a Psychic or Normal type?
2) Can you abuse the fact that Sp. Atk and Sp. Def aren't split up?
3) Can you abuse the Spd = Crit chance mechanic?
4) Can you abuse Hyper beam or any status conditions?
5) Can you learn Amnesia?
If you meet one or more of these criteria, congrats! You are or may just be very, very overpowered!
Golem can't do any of these things and he's still busted, rhydon doesn't take advantage of hyperbeam as much as you might think, and jynx is probably the best lead in the game but its hp is too shitty to live a decent special attack.
6) wrap?
+Bakes 13 I considered wrap a status condition.
can you not be virgin? xD
The ultimate battle: Gen I Mewtwo vs Mega Rayquaza
+John Porteous imagine taking gen 1 mewtwo, and giving him a megaevolution.
Oh God, I don't wanna know. The only thing that could stop him would be Mega Arceus
whos the true god of pokemon now? lol xD
Gen I Amnesia Mewtwo stomps everyone HARD!
I say Mega Mewtwo X VS Mega Rayquaza.
For some reason, I like to imagine how terrifying Regice would be if it existed in Gen I. Think with me for a bit. 200 Special and Amnesia. With 90% accurate Blizzard.
Banned
Oh god. If we keep the generation 1 move pool. It would’ve know- thunder wave, substitute, explosion, rest, t bolt/thunder, earthquake, rockslide.
@@mrtrollnator123 lmao
Yeah, that MewTwo was lucky Rattata didn't have endeavor and quick attack during that time.
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You forgot to mention how Jolteon with its Pin Missile and high crit rate was the best way to take down a Psychic type back in Gen1.
I think we're all a little happier with these frequent uploads :)
+Truegreen7 I couldn't agree more =)
Are you the real truegreen7?
+Piolo Gregorio maybe click on him to check?
+Truegreen7 so right
but know he has stopet, what happened to the gen 2 video?
I personally loved Nidoking. You could get a Nidoran early, and then a moon stone in the cave after Brock. By the end of the game i had his move set: flamethrower, earthquake, thunder, and surf. He also has decently high special attack. Next time I play a gen 1 game I will try some of the Pokémon listed here, but i’ve always got to have that Nidoking!:)
video recomendations are more pvp oriented. your multy use nidoking is perfect for pve. love it. always got 1 nidoking in my team and you can get him at lv 16 with moons stones
I remember Dragonite having impressive stats in Generation 1. Even though there were no effective Dragon moves and with it's horrible move set while leveling up, it did fairly well because of it's high attack. It's still one of those Pokemon I wish I could use effectively. Dugtrio was also overpowered for in game purposes. Just being able to catch and use one at level 31 before obtaining the 3rd badge and with it's high speed stat, scoring critical hits became unbelievably easy with it.
How to beat Red, Yellow and Blue in two easy steps:
Step 1: Get an Alakazam
Step 2: Get a Dugtrio
Bron and haunter
Starmie should definitely have made the list, as should Exeggutor. Jolteon and Dragonite are cute, but nothing like as good as those two. I don't think anyone would argue against Mewtwo, Mew, Slowbro, Tauros, Snorlax, Chansey or Alakazam, and Rhydon would certainly be on my personal list (though as you mention, Rhydon and Golem are pretty much interchangeable). Starmie is such a beast, though, with Recover, and Eggy's Psychic + Sleep Powder (with a last ditch Explosion) is hard to find fault with. And Gengar for the honourable mentions.
Don't forget, gen 1 is all about Thunderwave. Paralysing your opponent's Starmie and Alakazam is a top priority; and some of the best paralysis spreaders are... Starmie and Alakazam. (And Chansey!) Eggy puts something to sleep and don't forget how OP sleep is in Gen 1!), then Psychics down the opponent with a surprise Explosion (ideally hitting your opponent's Chansey or Alakazam). And usually you'd switch your Rhydon or Golem in to tank Explosion, but Eggy makes that hard with Mega Drain. Starmie has great bolt/beam coverage, Recover and Thunder Wave; and when the ice moves all have a chance of being a OHKO...
I was looking for this comment. What an absolute travesty that Starmie and Exeggutor weren't included.
Nidoking and Nidoqueen. I never play a game without them. They can learn almost all moves aside Fly. I have beaten the leagues with just them alone on first tries and had them as reliable back ups for when my other Pokemon died.
Same!
Plus, you can glitch yourself a Level 100 Nidoking before Brock!
what move set do you run on them?
Ruben Olguin Nidoqueen had better special attack so I put thunder, ice beam and flamethrower on her. Nidoking was horn drill, surf, earthquake and whatever I felt like for the 4th move at the time.
+Fiona McCann You can also just catch a Nidoran near Viridian City, and level it up until it's ready for the Moon Stone.
Lapras! confuse ray + thunderbolt + ice beam + surf / body slam :)
"We had 3 of them to choose from, and 1 of them was hurible!" 😂
Randal Highben 😠😡
@@ronswanson7371 it's true. Flareon is just bad. Low speed. Meager defenses and dire movepool makes it not good to be used. So overall Flareon sucks. Just flat out when it comes to battle
@@yaboidragonitehere1137 earthquake destroys it, even from a pokemon like lickitung
I'd personally like to add Sandslash as an honorable mention. Primarily for the same reason as Persian; once it learns Slash, it's quite brutal, despite having lower base speed. It is certainly very weak to some elemental types, considering it's low special, but it is probably my favorite brawler in GEN 1. I almost always run one on my team. With Sandshrew evolving at level 22, it's quite easy to get this pokemon early game. For how much base attack and defense it has, it still has pretty good HP and speed. Not only is Slash great, but Dig, Rock Throw, and Earthquake can all have devastating effect, with the added bonus of Dig being a useful utility outside of battle. It has great match-ups against electric, rock, and poison pokemon. These types often were capable of doing lots of burst damage or applying crippling status effects. As a result, while certain elemental or normal types may have been able to do more damage to the target, or take the first move due to greater speed, they could end up receiving a lot of punishment and not having the stamina left to take out a powerful pokemon they were a specific counter to later in the fight. Sandslash is a great pokemon to keep on your team as a general tank with few weaknesses, which also has to ability to 1 hit many of the weaker pokemon. This allows you to save your more offense based, low defense/HP pokemon for later in the fight , and have them be clear of status effects, when the opponent brings out their specialized bruisers. I found Sandslash to be of great utility during both Victory Road and The Final Four, as he could take the hits for my more fragile pokemon, and still dish out a decent bit of damage on his own.
Eggxecutor? Not even in honourable mentions ? Really?
@Jacob Choi No he's not. You can't even catch Mewtwo until the game is over.
Exeggutor is a nailed-on Top 10 for Gen I. Criminal exclusion indeed...
Yeah exeggutor was OP as fuck in gen 1, not sure where the honorable mention for it was at minimum it's better then golem. Can probably learn amnesia too. I would say nidoking exclusion from honorable mention is odd, but psychic pokemon wreck it and water as well.
@@dstreetz91 It can't learn Amnesia, but it doesn't need to. 75% sleep rate, Psychic typing, good HP and a high-attack Explosion. It's definitely a top 6 Pokemon and should be on pretty much every team, even if you have Mew and Mewtwo available.
I missed Omastar. In Gen 1 he has a very high special stat, which indeed means sp. att. & sp. def. Plus, due to his Rock type, he has a high defense. Just give him some special type moves and he kills it
one important thing about Hyperbeam, if you one shotted a pokemon, it had no cool down. Victreebell or Venusaur should have made it in over Rhydon. The only reason they wouldn't be overpowered is because of Mewtwo and Alakazam. Sleep Powder, wrap, leech seed and always critical razor leafs. Sleep status was broken in this game because waking up took a whole move, and if you were wrapped, it wouldn't even give you a chance to wake up. . Dugtrio was a great pokemon,. Having high speed made moves more accurate, which made fissures a pretty reliable move, as well as very fast Earthquakes and critical hit slashes. Nidoking was great too, very strong and versatile
Horn drill a lv2 pidgey ... you sure don't mess around.
Hartia hahahaha
Love the way you do these videos, Great job
Love the effort you put into video by not even bothering to throw those level 100 Pokemon against any other than a level 4 Pokemon to demonstrate it's power....
Good luck catching Chansey... -.-
+TheEeveeFan That would take a ton of safari balls. Yup
DarknessXER more luck than balls
Probably a few saves as well since you could eventually run low on money otherwise. Yup
DarknessXER Yeah that's true no kidding :(
Lucky egg would be so useful in FireRed but it's like impossible to catch it/get it
+TheEeveeFan Get XD, free lucky egg :)
Why is there a ton of footage of you using these Pokemon to fight tons of level 2's on Route 1? LOL
I think it's just to get the animations.
probably because there are no trainers left after finishing the game, except for the elite 4 i think
No it's because he using cheats to get those Pokémon and get them to lvl 100 and to get videos from emulator
Jonny Nitpick one word. “Spite” 😂😂
Probably a combination of emulating, cheating, and not having friends to play with
You forgot Dugtrio. Third fastest pokémon in the game and the move Dig still had 100 power.
Also Dig takes you to the Pokemon Center's entrance instead of the Cave's entrance.
Dugtrio isn't really that good in Gen I. All it has is high speed.
Dugtrio is gawd in gen 1
Nah. Very fast, but too frail.
@@arrivals1 when underground you could not be attacked so you did not need high defense high speed in order to get another dig off before being attacked is what mattered.
My sweeper in my most winning team when I was a kid was Jolteon. None of my friends used one, and I didn’t fully understand how the stats affected battles at the time, but I always knew it was a boss. I feel so vindicated to hear it make this list.
You should rename this to 'pokemon we're all gonna use when the gen 1 remakes come out"
+andrew jones Correction: When the gen 1 remakes come out _again_. Already happened in 2004, you know.
I did know that. did you have to nitpick so much into that comment?
+andrew jones What's with the fuckin' attitude I've been getting the last few months on this place? It's kinda starting to piss me off. Nobody can say anything to anymore without getting a smart ass "I look down upon ye, pleb" response in return.
Bullshit. Fuck.
Bro you gotta chill out. I was simply asking a question. I already knew Gen 1 remakes existed and I was asking why you had to retaliate by trying to make me sound misinformed.
And hey, it's TH-cam's comment section. I'm pretty calm against some of the other stuff you see
I love how he gets all smartass and then complains about you acting like a smartass. Never change, TH-cam.
gyarados wasnt even in the fucking honourable mentions.......
Yeah I was wondering about that. I miss Hyper Beam Gyarados
+Sherwin Lewis probably because its stats are similar to dragonite, but lower. However, it still should have because it can run icebeam, thunderbolt, surf, fireblast, thunder, blizzard, body slam, strength, and, of course, hyper beam, and you can get it early in the game unlike dragonite.
same I was wondering about gyarados and hyperbeam
+Sherwin Lewis because gen 1 gyarados is pretty bad. No physical stab even tho it had a great atk stat and its best move was hyper beam but it didnt get stab off it so it was worse than tauros and snorlax at using it by farrrrr. It has a wide special movepool but a horrendous special stat. There is no reason to use gyarados pretty much when lapras and starmie were far better water types in gen 1. Ofc this changed when the physical special split happened and gyarados finally got some stab water attacks but thats not for a while.
+Paul Kim Horrendous special stat? It was base 100. Lol
Mewtwo is just if Alakazam and Mew had a baby then gave it steroids.
Mewtwo was made in a lab though...
I can't believe magikarp was not on the list!!!
It was banned to Uebers
Exeggutor? It was better than Victreebell by a longshot.
psychic, explosion right..
Exeggutor is fairly bulky with a very high special stat and resistances to Ground and Psychic moves which constituted a large portion of the meta. It could wall opposing pokemon like Golem, Rhydon, Alakazm, Exeggutor, Snorlax, etc.
Exeggutor was also a very solid status inflictor thanks to Sleep Powder, making it a good lead. With a 125 special stat for stab Psychic as well as the ability to use Explosion, Exeggutor was also pretty potent offensively.
Meanwhile, Victreebel is just an overrated sweeper that is too slow to be of an use by itself. It has good attacking stats and access to Sleep Powder, but its slow and weak to Psychic, making it only very useful against Paralyzed pokemon. Something like Tauros is generally better as a late game sweeper.
+websurfer955 does it learn Amnesia???? xD
+Sianic12 comment of the day
Yes, the thing is PSYCHIC is overpowered type in gen1. mewtwo, exeggutor, dragonite, arcanine, starmie. Yes starmie amazing moveset and speed and special attack, even with lower base stats as say lapras or gyarados, is still slightly better and can 1-2hit KO most other pokemon. ALL pokemon with low special stat (combined with low speed stat are dead before they can attack, say Rydo.. wat a joke) Besides the pokemon in the video have been given rare candies to level 100, that is why they are so low on stats (next to them not being caught for talent).
Lol I thought amnesia was terrible in pokemon. Woops!
i apparently had zero idea what i was doing when i played pokemon.
same here man.. always thought it was just better to attack twice (and just kill them) than to mess around with silly boosts
Yeah me too, i still do its just easy against trainers and such, only if you're a pro or battling against humans its of greater use.
Never used a non attack move hahahha
It's the difference between just playing the game or actually playing competitive against real people
Just found this in 2017 - thanks for the info it was cool to get flash backs and hear the old sounds of the game.
The truck reference gave you my like.
(the video was pretty nice too ☺️)
No wonder I always lost, god damn Nidoking and Machamp are Anna Kournikova type pokemon, they look excellent but never win.
+la dodgers 4 life Machamp was terrible in gen 1. Slow, low special and weak to psychic. Best moveset is like: Submission, Earthquake, Body Slam and Hyper Beam. In fact, every fighting pokemon was useless at that time. What were the developers thinking? lol
+la dodgers 4 life Nidoking is the best pokemon in gen 1 for the base game. Its used in speedruns as the one hit killer, you get it sooo early, double kick against Brock (no quick attack grind), end game earthquake+ ice beam+ thunderbolt+ horn drill with x-accuracy, x-speed and/or x-attack for tough battles you're a OHKO machine.
Nidoran gets double kick at very late levels in the originals.
Gen 1 Nidoking is amazing.
@@Kraymoens fighting types had a lot of shitty aspects, but they also had their strengths. I've got a hitmonlee and while it's in the PC right now I def seem to remember it having the fighting moves and reflect. Reflect makes up for its awful defence stat and from then on its speed excels against rocks and normals, and well anything else that isn't flying or psychic or exceptionally strong. I'm talking in game of course, I'd never use it in competitive play. Ultimately I got bored of it though and stored it away but like most feeble Pokemon teaching it a few tactical moves/reflect makes a world of difference. Reflect is probably my most commonly taught move.
I didn't let my Slowbro to learn Amnesia yesterday, I'm feeling special now.
Man, your videos are awesome
I remember how much heresay there was when Pokémon came out about Mew. I only played the original 2 games because they came out when I was in middle school. But man was I obsessed with the originals! I did not stop until I got all of them (thanks to my buddy owning Blue and a game boy link cable). It blows my mind that new generations are so into this series still.
I remember when playing the gen 1 game, i always bring beedrill to counter sabrina using twineedle. Then he died instantly to alakazam since alakazam is fast and beedrill is also a poison type.
... You can walk through the entire game with Butterfree. Literally the entire game.
I love this video :'D Your jokes are the best out there :D
I love the Boo sound effect when he showed the best ghost type Pokémon ever. ;)
I always led with a Gyrados with Fire Blast, Thunder, Surf, and Hyper Beam. Great way to start a match, as it can generally cover any weakness and OHKO pretty much anything, and its speed really wasn't that bad. Also, insane HP + OK defense = still acceptable defense for the lead pokemon. Yes, throw out a Jolteon and I switch to Golem. It was just a nice way to pretty much guarantee I'd be up by one right off the bat.
gengar using hypnosis + dream eater is nearly un beatable
HAHAHA THE Bycykle helmet! I fkn love that dude! :D
Voice so calming i feel asleep thanks
On my emulator I did a randomizer run where I put Mewtwo as one of the starters and tried to see if I could dominate everything with just this Pokemon in my party. Turns out I can, actually. Mewtwo truly was broken beyond all belief back in the day, no wonder Game Freak put it as an endgame Pokemon.
You better put me in gen 4's video...
i agree
+Bob Lasso He said in the video, not at the number 1 spot in the video. You really think there's 10 others in that generation better than fucking *GOD*?
"Hey, you know, there were good swords in ancient Rome, and all, y'know? But I can think of at least 10 guns now that are better at killing than those swords, man."
Power creep. Look into it, hmm?
+Bob Lasso Eh. All's I'm saying is it is incredibly unfair to compare the strongest of an earlier generation of ...well... anything to the strongest of a later one, since power creep is going to ensure the latter is more powerful. Swords and guns both kill people. Guns do it better, because they are newer, and more powerful by default. In hindsight, I should have compared a musket to a PSG-1.
+Bob Lasso Mmmm. I do tend to overthink things on occasion. This may have been one of them.
The last music in background brings me so much nostalgia, generation one is definitely the best to me 🙏
I remember going to a pokemon league video game tournament when I was a kid around the year 2000 and being gifted a mew for participating. It was great. My team was alakazam, charizard and Pikachu and still made it to the top 10. Lol nobody really understood the game back then and internet guides weren't really a thing.
Love that you named Mewtwo Plato. I'm assuming it's because he's spent his whole life in a cave?
wow, number one was SURE a surprise
I know right ?
+Alif Azmi It kinda was for me. For some reason, I always thought Mew and Mewtwo had the same stats, except that Mew could learn any TM or HM, so I thought Mew kinda threw Mewtwo out of the way..., but apparently Mewtwo has better stats, so I was wrong. :P
+ShyBoy6ty9 MewrapeyouhardwithagiantcockTwo has the highest Special atack of all, so yeah.
Starmie is criminally underrated
Nice vid man :D
Am i the only one who wants a mega dragonite, just imagine, huge claws and bigger wings
Give dragonite a dragoniteite
+Daniel Valadez fair point, what would it's Mega stone be named
+LOLZ334 Dragonitte
I find Mega dragonite very likely for a future johto remake
+LOLZ334 mega Evolution should be necessary, i dont really want another mega rayquazza on that sky atm,better give it to someone with a bit lower stats like marrowak,raticate or kabutops
You're showing off how powerful these Pokemon are by battling level 3 Pokemon?
I live in Vegas. I found a game boy with Pokémon Blue in it at Ceasers Palace. I took it home and finished it. It’s the only Pokémon think I ever watched or played. But I did finish it
Probably ruined another kids happiness stealing their Gameboy
I really like this series of video AM, It's very interesting.
But how much do you think it will Change this Top if we start to talk of the remakes, Red Fire and Leaf Green?
Did anyone else notice that those level 100 stats are incredibly low?
rare candy and missingno I reckon.
pokemon stops at gen 1 for me
Silver and emerald are also good
what are you gay smh
@@espiritu2757 no u
@@mid3900 omae wa
Lame
6:28 PERFECT name for a Snorlax. I LOVE IT!
You can take it a step further with all of these pokemon by applying Box Trick Training (see Bulbapedia) to manipulate the maximum amount of stats out of them. Basically adds an extra 20-30 permanent points on average to each stat category after completing the training. It's how I beat the Master Ball Stadium Cup on R-2 challenge mode.
One thing that you skip over in regards to Jolteon is the fact that it naturally learns Pin Missile, a Bug-type move, that is super effective against Psychic. And with its naturally high speed you can often get the upper hand against some of the highest tier Psychic-type Pokemon. I never met an Alakazam that I couldn't take with Jolteon.
Who else just played Pokemon games without going into all this 'broken move' shit? I just had the highest attack moves on every Pokemon and I still smashed every Pokemon game I ever played. Moves like 'wrap' and 'agility' were replaced instantly with moves like Strength, Surf, Flamethrower and mothingfucking Earthquake!!
+Tedaus20 Congratulations, now play against actual people with that set and get destroyed.
I played like that for... probably my first playthrough or two as a child. Then Stadium came out and taught me the error of my ways. It's been a journey of learning and improvement ever since :) Of course online communities help a lot for that as well :p
+Harkz0r I've never wanted to or been fussed about battling other people, I just like to enjoy the game in my own way, which is the way I've described above. It's worked perfectly for every Pokemon game I've played so far.
I can totally understand why people enjoy your method though, it's a lot more tactical and I imagine you put a lot of thought into crafting your perfect team.
***** Yeah, fair enough. I can appreciate that - I actually never got as in-depth in competitive battling as I could have, due to the time sink of breeding Pokémon. I gave it a preliminary attempt in my childhood, then came back later and played some sim matches online, but that's all. I enjoy the creative aspect of coming up with teams and learning the metagame and so on, though.
I enjoy the casual approach too sometimes, it's just that the games themselves are so easy that I can't really imagine having difficulties (outside of certain infamous trainers/battles). Then again I guess a lot of RPGs are like that... apart from Megaten, lol.
Its worked perfectly because you're playing a fucking children's game, LMAO. Actually play competitively, where you vs humans instead of dumb-downed AI that Nintendo purposely made easy
"OH MY GOD YOU SUCK THAT WAS TERRIBLE"
not even a minute in and im dying you sir deserve a sub
I don't know why I can't stop watching this.
Dude, one of the best pokemon is Jynx. Blizzard and Psychic, well... I straight up ran through the entire elite four with her alone
Jynx with Lovely Kiss? Best lead ever
I always preferred ice punch over blizzard
Pffft! Jynx wouldn't even make the top 5 Psychic-types in Gen I.
What about magikarp it's a god fish god forbid the all mighty splash a move that is so devastating that it can destroy worlds
it learns magikarps revenge at level 101
I used to get magikarp as soon as I could so I could swap during battles to raise it's levels. Once it evolved into gyarados battles got easier. With it's ability to use water, fire, and electric based attacks plus hyper beam made it my top choice. Always kept a sandshrew on hand, haunted or gengar, pidgeot, and whatever else had decent numbers
Sadly, I watched a 40 minute video on seeing if you could beat the game with just Magikarp. Was surprisingly interesting.
@@Caluma122 By Jrose11?
Not sure if it's only in Pokemon Stadium 2 or not, but Chancey also had rest where you would fall asleep for a couple turns and would regain all of its massive HP!
My original lineup: Swords Dance Mew, Amnesia Mewtwo, Light Screen Chansey, Reflect Starmie and 2 of these 3: Gengar (for sleep opening/hyper beam swaps), Electrode (guarantee paralyze on a fully geared up mew or mewtwo) or Agility/Wrap Dragonite.
number 1
Alakazam or Mewtwo
(havent watched video yet)
Horn drill is a OHKO move and has nothing to do with power. It only works if your faster then the enemy.
Yoghurt, that's one of the best alakazam names I've seen
I like that vegeta sneaking in when chancey was being discussed.
hey I like flareon hes my favorite evee evolved
how is victorebel the best grass type?
7:46 I would argue Exeggutor was the best Grass-type Pokemon in Gen 1.
Wow Amnesia I totally forgot about that.
Wow Amnesia I totally forgot about that.
No mention of Exeggutor or the slam dunk Ice Beam/Blizzard meta? Wat.
this. not to mention egg bomb(physical JAB) and you could teach him thr psychic TM
May the Schwartz be with Alakazam.
did u said.. Thuderwave? XD it basically brighten up my day :D
OMG the spoons of death had me laughing so hard
Mewtwo is actually the most OP pokemon to date, no other pokemon in existence has higher base stats
Arceus
lol, Mega Mewtwo
+God mega rayquaza
naw fam
+God They both have base 780 and mega Rayquaza made his own tier
But...Arcanine...
Arcanine is powerful stats wise, however, it lacks versatility. It can only hit with fire (which is poor in gen 1 meta) and non-stab normal moves (and dig- which can be countered hard by competent opponents).
Gyarados is crippled by a 4x weakness to electricity which means anything that can learn thunderbolt instantly counters it. Also it has weird stats, lots of attack stat but no stab bonus makes physical moves... meh, compared to something like tauros anyway. Special is meh and speed is a subpar.
Yet Rhydon is 4x weak to Water.
Yes should at least be an honorable mention!
Exeggutor and Nidoking/queen as well :(
Pretty lazy research or just lack of experience if you ask me...
I always had to have a Lapras on my team. Absolute tank and can learn many movesets.
Thanks for adding slowbro
I feel really old after reading so many comments of people who never played Gen 1 games (they problably weren't born yet when Gen 1 came) saying things like "abilities", "weather effects" or moves that were introduced in later generations lol
Look guys a Genwunner
I was born in gen 2 but at 6 I played Pokemon blue
We are OG = Original Gen Pokemasters *SIP* Pepperidge Farm remembers...
I'm one of those obnoxious pokemon nerds. I love playing Gen 1 competitively. It's where I started, and I've revisited it many times. I watched your video just to be a jerk, and tell you how wrong your list was... But it's a solid list. 😂 Nice video, man. The only constructive criticism I have is the fact that you didn't mention golem or zapdos. Golem is every bit as good as Rhydon, and he can pack explosion. Zapdos is an absolute nightmare to face once someone's team is worn down (once they don't have their Rhydon or Golem). Drill peck on Zapdos can destroy things that Jolteon can't do a thing to! Persian is another that you didn't mention. Slash with Persian's speed is basically a guaranteed Crit, plus he can abuse things like bubble beam to deal with Golem/Rhydon, which Taurus can't, although Taurus is all around better.
While obviously Mew and Mewtwo are the best, most competitive environments ban them, so I haven't dealt with them much since I was a kid and it was "anything goes."
Again, nice video. Thanks for doing your research instead of just posting a thoughtless video. 👍
Hey, I had the same idea and similar background hehehe
He did mention some of them in the honorable mentions but your comment added a bit more depth to it.
Raymonds Wow, thank you for pointing that out. Once he mentioned Mew, I skipped ahead and saw Mewtwo, and then I was done. I feel silly for skipping those few seconds now.
I guess he didn't really address _why_ he excluded the "honorable mentions," except the legendary birds (which almost all pokemon can be countered), but it's not fair to put moltres in the same category as Zapdos and Articuno.
I was glad to see Victreebell in the mentions. That's a great stun spore wrap annoyer. I've used it way more than I've used Dragonite in that role.
However rhydon was easier to get, as you didn't need to trade, his stats are better, and God is his movepool large
Zed Grimm Meh, his stats aren't really "better," they are very similar. Rhydon hits slightly harder, but Golem is faster. Honestly, Golem has the better move pool out of the two of them. He can explode. Also, I always had friends to trade with. 😉
But he did mention those.. in the honourable mentions...
The mewtwo using amnesia before hitting that lv3 ratatta was murder
Rattata, not Ratatta!
fun fact: if you look at hitmonchan's sprite it's a doduo pooping in front of a togekiss
**nostalgia crying**
Freaking Tauros, man. It demolished EVERYTHING back in the day. And nobody really concentrated on developing counters for _Tauros specifically_ in the Gen 1 meta (at least not where I was) until Gen 2 was out, so I had a FIELD DAY.
*Hyper Beam BAM* ok i deserved that *Body Slam BAM* cmon man *Earthquake BAM* r u srsly with this bro? *Blizzard BAM* SPECIALS TOO? SCREW YOU I'M OUT
me: ...but you'll still got two more pokemon. **opponent flips me off**
Seriously, Tauros is the reason I had no friends in elementary/early middle school. I kicked everyone's ass.
I was fairly good at link battles in school. I probably won around half or maybe a little more, so I'd say that was ok given we all kind of shared tactics anyway. One of my trump cards believe it or not (lol) was a mewtwo with the moveset psychic, blizzard, hyper beam and self-destruct. I never believed in strategy when I was a kid instead preferring to hit hard and hit fast, and most of the time it was ok. As soon as my mewtwo got weak I'd just explode it, and knock out another Pokemon. One time though I battled this quiet kid who had strategy down and managed to ruin me using a zapdos with flash and possibly a paralysing move. It was eye opening and I think I lost the battle hands down, which was unusual as my losses were usually close ones. I've grown up now and I much prefer strategy like buffing stats, poisoning, evasion etc. None of us ever used a Tauros in school, missed a trick there I suspect. A lot of the Pokemon I use could be considered weak, but I strongly believe in winning with your favourites and not some "dream team" if you don't play competitive. I have a butterfree, which is decidedly feeble, but then I taught it reflect and it creams anything that comes up against it now.
I thought Persian was gonna be on number 1
Mewtwo was too good
The Neamon k
+Ϝმβϛҭͼя Соӏმ (Spirit Tracks Link) Persia? Why?
Ruth Ellen The crits
+asdfers The critical hit rate of high-crit moves was (Base Speed/64). Thus, any Pokémon with a base speed of 64 has guaranteed crits with high-crit moves. To illustrate how low that is: Sandslash (65), Magneton (70) and Vaporeon (65) have more than that. In other words, high-crit moves are practically always a guaranteed crit in Gen 1.
The Alakazam spoon - eyeball joke killed me lmao
I found Snorlax was still pretty good against the Gastly line
In Gen 1 there weren't Abilities so Gengar,etc. didn't have Levitate which mean you could just exploit it's weakness to Ground types (they're part Poison) and just have Snorlax run Earthquake on them