Top 10 Best Early Game Pokemon!
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- Top 10 Best Early Game Pokemon!
Heartgold Hardcore Randomizer Nuzlocke:
• What a Fantastic Start...
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1: opening (red blue remix) - mewmore
Stoutland should be in this list. Good stats, movepool and abilities, available super early and with almost immediate access to Return. A really amazing Pokémon.
I also just love that it can learn surf
Sadly no Return anymore. And they didn't even give it Body Slam or Double Edge
@@bananaspice1967 Removing moves like return, signal beam , pursuit and sky uppercut is one of the worst decision by Gamefreak.
@@MrChildYeeter I think them removing Return had some reason behind it, with how easy it is nowadays to get your mon to max friendship you'd have a very powerful move early game. But they should've atleast given Pokémon other strong normal type options to replace it.
As for the others, yeah they just deleted because "they'd be too confusing for new players" in the case of Sky Uppercut and Pursuit. As for Signal Beam, that's just a big fuk you to anything that needed it for coverage
@@bananaspice1967 1) tbh it's sad that they had to remove return. Ig it was the only move that symbolises the bond you have developed with your pokemon, which imo is what pokemon is about.
2) these are the same guys that told us to learn braille in gen 3 lol
3) ikr!
I think Corviknight is so fantastic. The fact that you can get a Steel type halfway into your game is such an advantage. It's the best type in the game, and having that Flying type as a back up makes it a superior Skarmory. I used it on my team in Scarlet and the way it would rip through a majority of the battles I faced reinforced my love for it. Especially since I have a shiny one.😍
When I used Corviknight against the Fairy gym in Shield, it was like I went in with a rifle!
Very glad Nidoking made the list. He always dominates my gen 1 playthroughs because I can get him so early!
I guess it's kind of different, but the route 1 Salamence in the alola games was pretty amazing imo
Staraptor is crimially underrated here. with tera normal choice band reckless staraptor destroys almost anything with double edge including most pokemons on this list your team would get recked up completely if you dont have ghost types.
How about Tera flying choice band reckless with brave bird?
@@gray-pogo2916 same base power both of them at 468. even stronger than tera water dracovish fishious rend
That sounds like competitive setups. This is for early on in your adventure, not PvP. So, I understand why it isn’t any higher. Who would have a HA Staraptor during their story journey? Realistically.
that’s true of anything with an attack stat of over 90, tera + band + ability + big move is pretty much universal
I think swellow is just better, guts with 85 attack and 125 speed out speeds and out damages pretty much every other regional bird, plus 140 bp stab facade and the fact that staraptor doesnt reliably get reckless until much later AND the fact that your time is limited with reckless recoil moves anyways because of how much damage you do to yourself
Though this Pokemon was not mentioned, Ampharos helped me in key situations early on. Catching Mareep early in Gen II and leveling it up was so worth it. Think it deserves some recognition.
Agreed with your points regarding Gyarados. What a beast.
Agreed! I never actually used Ampharos in the early game (regretfully) and now I'm using one in Violet and it's been my most reliable partner. Power Gem, Dragon Beam, Dazzling Gleam, and Discharge with the Static Ability to paralyze on contact. It covers a lot of ground, and can withstand a lot of attacks. It's becoming one of my all time faves!
Imo it’s still a decent Pokemon to use. But it doesn’t really get any special ice, water, & grass moves to help it counter ground type Pokémon.
That's why you have 5 other team slots@@FireheartSamurai
@@SERMareep2007 True but Amphros does deserve more special coverage moves like Freeze Dry, Giga Drain, Dazzling Gleam/Moonblast, Ice Beam, Flamethrower, Earth Power & Water Pulse. That’s just my opinion though.
@@FireheartSamurai he does have dazzling gleam but let's start by giving it tail glow first
As a long time huge fan of the Mankey line, I'm satisfied my boy finally got the love it needed.
Talonflame helped me a lot in Pokémon violet. It knew acrobatics and tore through many of the guns. Though volcrona is also uptainable in Violet early on as well if you have both you already. When paired with Meowscrada, the fully evolved grass starter you already have a ton of coverage from the early game.
Violet and Scarlet were extremely easy. You could be that game
With no coverage at all
Where did you get Volcorona “early on”? I ran a bugs only team, and i had beat all the gyms before it finally evolved.
@@captaincurtis9829 XP candies, once you get it’s first form in the very early routes just save up a bunch large and X-Large xp candies and use them all on it to speed up the process. Besides raid dens using raid dens since I caught it in the wild at a low level my Volcorona obeyed me despite not having the badges required.
Seriously loving this list, as an OG player seeing the change in Pokemon like Clefable and Azumaril makes me happy, they are both amazing!
Pure normal Clefable was so much better. Man, I still need to vent about it once in a while.
There are 2 Pokémon that I think are absolutely underrated.
Firstly is golem. Golem is an absolute beast in the johto region. Geodude trivializes the first half of the game and continues to make notable actions against jasmine and Clair in the second half. Let’s also not forget how this thing steamrolls lance. In other games geodude is also great. In DPPT, geodude has a great matchup against the first few galactic matchups which are some of the more difficult battles in that game. Golem/Graveler can then help against Cyrus and Volkner in the late game. And Golem has a pretty high attack stat and elemental punches so it’s not completely restricted to defensive play. In hoenn geodude is like numel but better in every single aspect. Stab EQ and Rock blast is always nice and being able to shut down Wattson, Flannery, and Norman makes for a great mid game Pokémon. In kanto geodude kinda does get outclassed by dugtrio and the nidos but can still be a solid team member. Overall a great Pokémon.
Second Pokémon I want to mention is this 🐀. Hear me out bro. Ratata evolves really early at level 20 and in frlg it gets access to stab hyper fang at level 13 which is insane. It’s fast and hits decently hard for how early it is available so having a stab 80bp move that can flinch is wonderful. I haven’t even mentioned the fact that this thing gets guts which is a criminally underrated ability. Pre poison this rat and it will tear through the mid game. In frlg it even gets access to dig and physical shadow ball for some fantastic coverage moves. It falls off in the late game slightly but not too hard. In johto raticate is even better. In hgss It now gets crunch by level up meaning you don’t need to use a shadow ball tm on it (you probably shouldn’t do that post Gen 4 anyway lol). And crunch just so happens to be in time for the ghost gym. It’s also got some other good coverage moves in Gen 4 such as u-turn and pluck. Pluck is especially nice for the pesky fighting types. Another very interesting thing raticate got is swords dance via move relearned and tm. It’s probably better to just have guts but if you want to go the swords dance route you can. In BW2, Raticate doesn’t really get any major buffs other than I guess wild charge by tm. But it’s still available early and can do massive damage with guts facade.
I agree with raticate but isn’t golem trade evo which makes it pretty hard to get (also you need switch online to trade in bdsp. not in d/p/pt or hg/ss though)
So happy to see Clefable here. I always loved the movepool and I have used it in the past when it was just a normal type. I even once did a run where I would use metronome just for the fun of it.
Flamigo bro! You can get this 500 BST monster at level 7. There’s a reason it was first used for SV speed runs
Ni.
Do.
King.
He's been my favorite pokemon since I first saw him when I was 7 years old.
Luxury seemed so strong to me as an early game pickup. Might’ve just been how good the electric type was in diamond/pearl
Yessir! Gyarados is the GOAT!
Gyarados is stupid good for an in game play through, awesome list brotha 👏
Gardevoir is just better than alakazam. Not only because of trading issues, but its survivability in battles. Id sacrifice speed for defense anyday. Plus im one of those with issues with trading
Gyarados is one of those pokemon that's good throughout the entire game. I left a magikarp in the daycare, and my platinum nuzlocke would've failed had it not been for the clutch Gyarados I found when I went back. It's so good some hardcore nuzlockers are willing to ban it from their runs. So yeah, Gyarados with Rain/Dragon Dance, Mystic Water, and Waterfall is broken.
This was a pretty good list. Although if you’re looking for another topic, might I suggest looking at single-type Pokémon? Either as a top 10 or picking the best ones for each type?
I think an honorable mention should be given to pawmot. Not because he is a contender for top 10, but because he is enormously underrated while his typing, availability in tutorial area and ability to reach second evo at lv19 make him a really great asset. Actually, a position should be given to "the tutorial area in paldea"😅 : never seen so many good mons all together that early.
True
You can immediately evolve pawmot to stage 3 right after stage 2 as well if you knew its evo method.
@@caosisaac yes, and stage 3 is the second evolution...
@@mimmo4762 ah, got a bit confuswd at your wording haha.
Infernape, Staraptor, Alakazam, Gyarados. All four are available early in DPP which makes them really good there
Since this is about in-game play and not competitive, I probably would have put Raichu on the list or at least an honorable mention. Being available right away in most games and even being early enough to be useful in many DPP boss fights, plus Level 26 Thunderbolt. A pity this was changed to Level 42 in Gen 7 however.
I also think Stoutland is one of the better early route Pokémon as well.
Bagon in Gen 7.
Stoutland in Gen 5.
Magnemite since steel type.
Alolan Persian is surprisingly viable for Echoed Voice and other special attacks.
I bet Island Scans also can provide decent options.
All of these Pokémon are highly deserving of this list… and coming from another Gardevoir fan, I’m so glad it was ranked pretty high.
10) hell yeah! Staraptor Praise! Staraptor is honestly my favorite pokemon of all time! With it rivaling even Giratina!
Would've been even better to have an honorable mention list possibly? Either way, solid list. Heracross is fun to use, especially in HG/SS
Not going to lie I would have made a rule to exclude starters...because they are so obvious.
Where is Magneton/zone? Incredible typing, great special attack, and you can get it very early in Virbank complex or Triners school
My lvl 60 Clefable was the powerhouse against Cynthia in the first match of BD. I've swept the entire team of the queen of Sinnoh with this fairy. Just used "Calm Mind" until +6 in both S.ATK and S.DEF and the rest is "Hall of Fame" history. :)
I had a level 14 Lucario on my Scarlet team before I even hit the first gym. It carried me through most of the game.
Currently running a Clefairy (not Clefable yet) with Mega Punch on Leaf Green. Even as a Clefairy, its one or two hit KOing Pokemon above its own level. Sure it falls off late game, but Clefairy is an amazing early game mon.
Staraptor is my favorite Pokemon of all time. I’m glad to see love for it
I enjoyed the list Mystic.
I will say if you have all three Gen I and II games, along with the N64, you could probably have all six starters by the time you are going for Whitney's gym, not to mention other possible trade evolutions: Abra and Gastly, or or Mankey to handle the nightmare known as Whitney's Miltank.
(Shuddeers)
I know its cheap, but it really helps when trying to fill out the NationalDex.
Well... actually, catch a drowze/abra (depending on version) in the grass outside the care, do the in-game trade for lady machop in the market, say bye bye to miltank.
Normal flying is a good type combo. Taking neutral fighting damage is a fair trade for normal stab and ghost immunity.
Ninjask. Swordsdance, X Scissor, Protect, Baton Pass. Speed boost included. Caught early and is the easiest and one of the most effective set up mons
Not to mention Gardaviors access to shock wave in gen 3 a move that never misses lol
This has been interesting to ponder
Wooper/ Quagsire . water ground coverage good bulk . Recovery and can toxic stall. Also in later generations unaware ability allows it to ignore any opponents seting up moves like dragon dance or swords dance
I continue to be a Talonflame supporter. Getting a Fletchling early (especially in Scarlet/Violet where you can get it in area one) sets up your game for a LONG time. Acrobatics plus high speed will destroy most pokemon, especially the bug and grass types which are so common early game. When steel or Ice becomes more common, fire attacks like Flame charge or eventually Flare Blitz will keep it relevant.
Talonflame won't win you a competition, but for taking care of random trainers and clearing out wild pokemon, you can do a LOT worse then this speedy assassin for much of the game.
I always use Gyarados in every gen, I know it’s boring but I just can’t help myself. Just absolutely shreks every single game
Nidoking and Gardevoir are also both staples for me, they’re just so solid
Keep up the awesome work and videos
I knew my man magikarp would not let me down!
SPLASH ALL DAY BABY
Before I watched the video I had Heracross in my head... Taking down that Miltank in Goldenrod used to be such a pain till I started headbutting trees😂
Should do a mini series of best early game Pokémon to catch in every region
I put Annihilape on Top 1. It placed an otherwise mediocre Mankey evolutionary line to a top tier. Staraptor is great, but I favor Corviknight over it. It's a beast in Gen 9 with the combo of Iron Defense, Body Press, and Fighting Tera.
I used kadabra in an Ultra moon Nuzlock. Hoodinie killed basically anything it went up against. Was an absolute monster early game. Sadly he died while I was training them to get caught up with the rest of my team one day.
Gardevoir has issues in Kalos with its movepool. You'll have to make do without any Fairy-type attacks whatsoever until after you beat the 6th gym, which gives you the TM for Dazzling Gleam. One town later and you can upgrade that to Moonblast via Move Reminder, but it sucks that it doesn't get anything earlier.
Luckily, ORAS fixed this and it actually learns early and mid-game Fairy-type moves by level up.
Everything said about Hawlucha can be said about Flamigo, except Flamigo is arguably better. You can get it very early at around level 7, having access to it before you even get to the first pokemon center. Flamigo easily solos the first two gyms (bug & grass), beats the first team star base (dark), and at level 18 learns low kick which absolutely destroys the first titan, klawf. It also comes in handy against the team star fighting base and against Larry (gym). With the scrappy ability it can hit ghost types with fighting STAB and also makes flamigo immune to intimidate. It ended up always being my highest level mon throughout my playthrough, it's almost way too good
Awesome!!!❤❤💯💯
Margikarp literally evolves before most Pokemon…not getting it to level 20 is just pure laziness 😂
The thing that made alakazam so OP is that it's a trade evolution alakazam level 16, also is it just me or are some of these mid game? Since they're all fully evolved I expected more baby or no evolutions
That's why I like legend arceus so much: pkm home -> link cable item and your kadabra-> alakazam is ready to go whenever and wherever you are.
Abra can be obtained early in DPP, same with Starly and Magikarp
@@TKnHappyNess understatement in red and blue you get it before misty
@@ScrewArceus Those three have it where you don't need any badges, plus there's also an in-game trade in Oreburgh
Nidoking is my all time favourite pokemon. Was hoping he'd make the list
Bruh..... Staraptor, Alakazam, Hawlucha, Clefable! Marshadow is one of my favorites!
Yup checks out it’s not a mysticumbreon video without him simping for Gardevoir 😂
So, idea. Plenty of poke tubers mention that some types are good offensive or defensive. I'd appreciate a ranking on all 18 types on what they're good for and what they're bad at. Also what the best dual types for each type are and worst. Would be nice.
In places you can get Gardevoir early, it’s actually a good Pokémon to use. Since that fairy typing can help it out in certain in game Pokémon battles. And I can vouch for it to.
You can catch a Riolu in Black 2 and White 2 at Floccesy Ranch between level 5 and 7. You can get a Lucario within the first hour of the game. That's broken.
Idk your the only one that's said this. This should be number 1
Honorable mention should go to Shedinja. That and a good bulky offensive like Swampert can duo the whole game
I've honestly had to retire from Gardy and Gyarados from playthroughs, using them too much.
I've said the same thing about Gengar and Azu, but somehow they ended up on my Scarlet playthrough team. Especially when they just hand you a Gengar.
Since Annihilape is on this list I'm surprised that some Pokémon you can pick up before even reaching Mesagoza, like Gastly, Flamigo and Houndour, didn't at least get an honorable mention.
Also shootout to Salamence that you can get via SOS battle ON THE FIRST ISLAND in S/M US/UM, that's a 1% chance for Bagon to call Mence and Bagon itself only has a 1% chance of appearing on Route 3, but the possibility of catching Mence this early still exists (although its catch rate is only 45 and you probably only have Poké Balls at this point).
I did this in my US playthrough. It honestly didn’t take as long as I thought it would, maybe an hour- hour and a half. I came back when I had great balls. It almost felt like cheating lol. I had Mence, TTar, and Metagross on that team.
*Sees the number two entry.
That's my girl!!!
Anyone who disrespects our girl shall be immediately met with divine punishment
honestly, i grab one as soon as the game lets me, so powerful, great level up moves and the TM's/TR's only add to the power, Thunderbolt being a prime example.
Even Syncronise has came in clutch a few times spreading statuses to my opponents lol (and its nice snagging modest natures)
Im sorry for bothering you about this Mystic,
But are we going back to the best in game teams for every type
in first Gen....my early game ace is Butterfree due to physic move that can bulldoze the first few gyms
Hmm I see a common thread with the strongest Pokémon
Weak base forms
Ridiculous final forms….
Sometimes patience is the ultimate reward
You know what Pokemon would be a formidable opponent to the #1 Gyarados? Ampharos! Lighting type, high defenses, very high Sp Atk, and access to Power Gem, and lots of lighting moves. And you can get it pretty early on.
Don't apologize for gardevoir! It's a good pokemon. These people be trolls!
If Gyarados could actually learn some Flying type moves, I’d agree
I'm glad I guessed #1 and #2 correctly lol
I’d put my petition in for Flamigo. It has comparable stats to Hawlucha and the same typing and you can find it before the story of the game even starts. Plus it’s typing can let it steam roll the first 4 bosses of the region.
Even though it has nice stats. That pokemon just looks bad that I would literally ignore it.
Flamigo has actually a better stat spread than hawlucha from an in-game perspective, and as good if not better abilities too. It's just that Flamigo really miss that brick break hawlucha has levelling up. I'd say Hawlucha has a better movepool in general.
Forgot about the level 9 salamence in sun and moon
This guy really really really likes clefable
I do! LOL
Idk, Azumarill never worked for me. Everytime I tried to use one, It sucked.
Can u elaborate on earlygame? Pre 1st gym, pre 3rd? First half?
One my personal favorite erily game mon has been squawkabily
Hustle
Tara flying
Aerial ace
And sharp beck
The number 04 slot!
Seviper. My favorite trade evo.
Another classic.
Don't forget Gyarados also learns Dragon Dance in some gens.
I am pretty sure Hawlucha is used in Speedrunning USUM
Imagine how unfathomably busted annihilape would be if power up punch was still a move
Isn't Talonflame a great Pokemon too? Or Corvknight?
Hypno is a Pokémon named after the God of Sleep but it doesn’t learn Dream Eater.
No Scolipede? :(
I couldn’t wait to get Annilape.
Mareep? Gastly? They did extreme well in my Heart Gold walkthroughs
Salamence in USUM says hello iykyk
I can't believe that Toucannon has the highest BST of all of the regional birds at 499, and it still kind of sucks competitively.
Weedle should totally be on this list. It has Poison sting! Enough said.
Don't agree with the first two. I think Swellow, if any early bird, is good for early game. Staraptor evolves at lvl. 34, at which point you're in the mid-game for most games. Swellow evolves at lvl 22 which is super early, plus it potentially has guts. This means you'll actually have Swellow to use in the early game, you don't even need to grind a lot to get it, if you want it super-early. I also don't think Clefable is good early game, it's decent sure, but its wide move pool won't be relevant before you reach the mid-game in most of the Pokemon games. Flamethrower, thunderbolt etc aren't moves you access until the mid-point or past it most of the time and before that Clefable has middling battle potential.
you know i've been thinking of a strongest list that I wonder if you've done it or not mystic, top 10 strongest pokemon who can't evolve, of course no legendaries obviously.
I have thought about something. Why is Altaria a flying AND dragon when Gyarados is only a Water/Flying type??? Does this BIIIG dragon looking fish not deserve a dragon typing instead of flying while Altaria a decent looking bird can? I mean flying and fairy typing fits Altaria much better in my opinion.
Top 10 video idea: Top 10 best starters.
What do you think, Mystic?
I think he listed each stater by type before, but now that the pokedex has been updated, it would be nice to see how starters are doing these days
Completely agree except Arcanine should be on this list
Am I the only one who found it criminal that the Zubat line isnt mentioned here? Closest thing to Gyarados in terms of availability and it carries hard
I feel that boltund is an early game that I think is a great pick.
Downside is that it doesn't get the one crucial fang it needs: Ice
Honestly, Gardevoir never left my rooster ever since gen 6
Ok, that's it! You should start making content that NOT including Gardevoir anymore. Lol
I'll never shut up about this, because people DO need to hear it: in Gen 1, 500 Pokedollars for a Magikarp is an Arceus-send. Sure, you will have to spend a lot of time giving it EXP, but if you can get it to 20 BEFORE facing Misty, you have THE best option to challenge her Starmie, who is too strong for even Ivysaur unless you overgrind. Gyarados' own 100 Special neutralizes Bubblebeam AND Bite is more than enough to shred Starmie. After that, give him Bubblebeam, and it'll shred thru most of the game. You'd be spending the same mount of time grinding Bulbasaur/Ivysaur to be able to check Starmie's 100 Special anyway, so might as well use that time to get Gyarados sooner.
Hell, he's a better Dragonite in normal gameplay. Already a pain in the ass to get Dratini, then grinding in Gen 1 is the worst, so going to 55 is a pain. And while Dragonite is amazing, it's ultimately not worth the effort for the story. By contrast, with only the cost of SLIGHTLY worse stats and a more common double weakness, Gyarados has two powerful STAB moves, Thunderbolt and Blizzard, Hyper Beam, and the Attack and Special to fuel them.
For that reason, I never choose Squirtle anymore in my Gen 1 games. I can already get a FAR better Water type long before I even get Blastoise.
My Anihilape is my baby. I beat the entire game with it. And i call it Survivor. All the pokemon in my Forever Team are named after jojo stands.
Anihilape is Survivor.
Blastoise is Diver Down
Torterra is Oasis
Chandelure is my Purple Haze.
Rhyperior is called instead of 20th Century Boy itll be shorted to 20BC.
And Registeel would be Metallica.
And as fate would have it. Every single one of them knows the move CURSE. As a result. And as a last resort. Any one of them can be terrastylized into a Ghost Type, and the curse can be placed on the opposition at any given time. And without it. They get a power boost.
So i call them, The Cursed Ones.
Crobat deserves a shout too