Especially in ORAS, Swampert is still the best despite Mega Blaziken being a competitive powerhouse. The thing in pokemon battle, may it be casual or competitive, you can only choose one pokemon for gimmicks (Mega, Z-moves, Gigantamax, Terra). So in ORAS playthrough, having your starter not Mega evolve is more beneficial since you can use your legendaries (Latios/Latias, Groudon, Kyogre) to Mega. Swampert's Mega is still strong but since its not beneficial to Mega evolve, it gives you incentive to choose another pokemon for Mega yet Swampert wouldn't lose its purpose in the team since it can still deal damage and be an HM carrier.
@@Mizumii25 honestly that’s my biggest argument for giving gardevoir more bst… to put it in line with other Pokémon with weak starts… IT EVOLVES LATER THAN GYARADOS YET IT HAS SIGNIFICANTLY LESS BST…
@@the-angel-of-light-gardevoir8agreed. and yet, it's still a power destroyer. I love using Gardevior. the type combo makes her a force to be reckoned with
Yes, I agree with you Excadrill and Kroocodile are very good at Pokemon white and black. For example, I also used Haxorus, and I can say that he is just a killing machine.
I honestly don't know what they were thinking putting Riolu before the first gym in b/w2. The only argument is to help players trying to beat the hard mode but it's still too op.
I feel like Darmanitan deserves an honorable mention for Unova. Hustle can make raising Darumaka kind of difficult but it shore hits like a truck once it evolves
Unironically I subbed out my starter (picked tepig) for him on my first playthrough; hated emboar but quickly fell in love with darumaka and even more when it became darmanitan
Last time I used an archeops on a team. I one-shot black kyruem. I felt bad for ghetsis at that point. All that time making that plan only to watch it fall apart in one turn.
Not entirely sure if I agree with Salamance being the choice for Alola, simply because of how hard it can be to get due to the pure RNG nature of the SOS mechanic. If I want a Salamence, I’d rather have the fun of catching a Bagon and taking it with me on my journey through Alola. Grinding Bagon up naturally into the powerhouse that is Salamence is very rewarding. As for who I think the best Pokémon to use in Alola is, I’d have to say Primarina. Water/Fairy is a brute of a combo and early access to the Fairy type with Disarming Voice on Popplio makes the early game extremely easy, because nothing at that point really counters it, except for Alolan Grimer at the school.
Only downside with Lucario in Black and White 2 is that you'll be running Force Palm as STAB unless you want to grind Battle Points for Brick Break or get Drain Punch in Humilau. Aura Sphere is at Level 51, while Close Combat is at Level 55
wait isn’t skeliderge slightly better in sv? same reasoning as scorbunny for swsh, you get it early, it has great stats, and it can basically tank anything.
As far a peanut butter goes... I don't have a preference... I'll literally eat that stuff out of the jar crunchy or smooth with jelly or without... I also like to add honey or banana to my peanut butter sandwiches or have the toasted... Also my lactose intolerance will not stop me from enjoying a cold glass of milk with my peanut butter
Magnezone should have at least been an honorable mention for B2W2. Magnemite is untouchable against the poison gym and beyond that it does well in the entire region
Flamigo was *amazing* in my first Paldea playthru, hard agree. I knew Annihilape was a thing but... The birb was just too awesome. Also, it's a birb. Nuff said. xD Also... Crunchy peanut butter.
Awesome video it’s nice to see that fan favorite Pokémon such as Alakazam, Nidoking, Infernape, Lucario and Charizard are the best Pokemon to use for a playthrough.
I still remember my first BD playthrough, first Pokemon game in years I had played and beaten, and my Infernape helping me through Cynthia as best as he could. I still love the guy, I swapped Typhlosion for Infernape in Arceus
Great video Mystic. I enjoyed the Salamence bit, and it had me laughing. That actually brings me to something: Since you brought up Megas, do you think they'll come back for the Gen VI remakes, and how would you create your own Megas for Pokemon like the Nidos, Flygon, and Dragonite?
For old Pokemon Yellow, the 500 bucks Karpador is the single best investment in Pokemon History. Because there was so special attack but only special as a Stat, Garados had Hyper Beam, Surf, Ice Beam and Thunderbolt😂 and obliterated everything
I tried crunchy peanut butter last month, and I honestly like it more than creamy. It may be harder to spread, but it adds much more texture. Throw it in a sandwich with wheat bread, bananas, and raisins and it smacks 👌🏻
Good Video, but flamigo is quite a hot take. Skeledirge is for me so much better. It will destroy 7 out of 8 Gyms, kills 1 Elite 4 member and is neutral good against 2 other members, kills half of Geeta's team, performs well against all rivals and Turo and got far better stats. Only weakness is, that it has some bad matchups against titans and team star members. But I think the all around deal is in longterm better in my opinion. But I enjoy this silly flamingo as well 😉😄
Yeah Unova was pretty stacked. I remember my Kroocodile absolutely torching everything until I just put him in the back so I could use other things out of mercy. I can still hear him breathing in the back in a dark corner of a Dusk Ball just itching to wreck bloody murder on someone's entire team lol including when I finished the game with an absolutely stacked team with all the bells and whistled and that dude still just wanted to rip everything apart.
I think creamy and crunchy are just about equally good, but if you’ve never tried a peanut butter and star fruit sandwich, I highly recommend. Really any fresh fruit. I don’t use jam anymore, idk why anyone would when the produce aisle is just around the corner. Thank you for coming to my Pokémon Tedtalk
I would say Salamence for Alola is a good choice in terms of power but the huge difference in power between it and your early game team + low % of appearing and low catch rate means it's not that easy to get your hands on it, so I would instead go for the traded Hawlucha you get on route 2, right before the first totem pokemon which is 2x or 4x weak to fighting (depending on the game you're playing) and can pretty much demolish almost every early-mid game boss (kahuna hala, totem araquanid and lurantis, kahuna olivia, guzma, kahuna nanu). It's just THAT good and if you don't want to use the traded one because of the boosted xp gain you can use it for the first totem and then catch a wild one in the very next route to avoid the issue.
The Gardevoir mention into Swampert was bait Im not gonna lie. Good play there Mystic. You had me going there. Valid point on Swampert being the best choice for that game. My fav starter at that.
Actually for Paldea Clodsire and Annihilape are by far the best options. Clodsire counters about 90% of the teams and Annihilape can just overpower pretty everything besides the Fairy Team Star member and the Psychic gym
AH! Peanut butter! To be completely honest I don't eat it much and it's mainly reserved as a baking ingredient. Marmite's a better sandwich spread in my opinion; it goes well with cheese.
@MysticUmbreon can you please film a series where talk about the best teams for Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness? In the series, you could talk about what are the best Pokémon to add to your team based on what eeveelution you picked. This would make for an awesome video series.
Idk how you said cinderace was a pyro ball machine but not acknowledge skeledirge being a better version with it's boosting torch song and excellent typing
What would be sweet is if pokemon made a like ultimate game. Either a mainline or a one off like legends, where you travel to all the regions and battle all the gyms, plus have a showdown with rivals and even a evil group or whatever along the way. Then end it with the unanimous champion or something like that. They can create hownit plays out but that would be crazy. Just something different then the 8 gyms and battle the elite 4 and become champ of one region.
Creamy peanut butter is better in every possible way. Don't like creamy and prefer crunchy? No problem, just sprinkle peanuts on it and BAM, crunchy PB. Creamy is easier to eat, it's easier to spread, it's customizable, as proven by my sentence earlier, and I think it's cheaper too. Creamy all the way.
I think Geodude is better In Johto because it's good against the first two gym's, resists Whitney's Normal types, good against Morty's and Jasmine's Steel and Poison types with magnitude, Pryce's Ice types, Will's Xatu's, Koga's poison and bug types and Lance's entire team
i like both crunchy and creamy, but for different things. for a sandwich, i like creamy, but for toast or eggo waffles, i prefer crunchy. it seems more substantial to me so that it doesn't just melt away on the hot food. but my real issue is people who prefer creamy and their reason is the chunks make their teeth hurt. like what? excuse me, are you some kind of infant with soft marshmallow teeth? give me a break.
For Sword/Shield I definitely see why Scorbunny though does include the DLC as u could use: legends, UBs, & Tapus before the first gym. I can't see that many NPC being able to stop them
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crunchy pb all the day
I have to go with creamy peanut butter.
Creamy for sure
Alakazam also being able to learn the 3 elemental punches and psychic in GSC and having better stats than Nidoking has left the chat
Hoenn is always the easiest to figure out with swampert. It's just a beast
Same thing with Gardevoir but having somebody to kick up the slack while your letting your ralts grow into a beast is helpful
True....you don't need to think of you wanna go competitively....
@@zubairsadiq5565 who cares about competitive when you can just shred with almost all of your favorite Pokémon, regardless of vivability….
Especially in ORAS, Swampert is still the best despite Mega Blaziken being a competitive powerhouse. The thing in pokemon battle, may it be casual or competitive, you can only choose one pokemon for gimmicks (Mega, Z-moves, Gigantamax, Terra). So in ORAS playthrough, having your starter not Mega evolve is more beneficial since you can use your legendaries (Latios/Latias, Groudon, Kyogre) to Mega. Swampert's Mega is still strong but since its not beneficial to Mega evolve, it gives you incentive to choose another pokemon for Mega yet Swampert wouldn't lose its purpose in the team since it can still deal damage and be an HM carrier.
That whole ralts teleported off thing absolutely broke me XD
There’s a reason I called ralts a Psychic Magikarp…
I mean it's accurate but i think Abra might be more accurate for that title T.T Trying to switch grind all 3 of these is a nightmare..... T.T
@@Mizumii25 true and there’s also cosmog… so I guess there’s multiple
@@the-angel-of-light-gardevoir8yup it really sucks but they do become some really strong pokemon so I guess it's a fair balance?
@@Mizumii25 honestly that’s my biggest argument for giving gardevoir more bst… to put it in line with other Pokémon with weak starts… IT EVOLVES LATER THAN GYARADOS YET IT HAS SIGNIFICANTLY LESS BST…
@@the-angel-of-light-gardevoir8agreed. and yet, it's still a power destroyer. I love using Gardevior. the type combo makes her a force to be reckoned with
Before you started discussing Unova I was expecting you to say either Excadrill or Krookodile
PLATINUM you can have Garchomp WAAAAAYYYY earlier
Yes, I agree with you Excadrill and Kroocodile are very good at Pokemon white and black. For example, I also used Haxorus, and I can say that he is just a killing machine.
For real, I traded someone a bred Axew and he literally just clicked dragon claw until he reached the hall of fame.
I honestly don't know what they were thinking putting Riolu before the first gym in b/w2. The only argument is to help players trying to beat the hard mode but it's still too op.
I feel like Darmanitan deserves an honorable mention for Unova. Hustle can make raising Darumaka kind of difficult but it shore hits like a truck once it evolves
Unironically I subbed out my starter (picked tepig) for him on my first playthrough; hated emboar but quickly fell in love with darumaka and even more when it became darmanitan
No sure about Archen winning against Skyla, Archen evolves at level 37, and gets outspeed by Swamna, who is part Water.
Thanks for putting my favorite Gen 1 Pokemon on this list as the best of Johto, I really hope the Nidoking line returns in Gen 10.
Hopefully comes back with a stat buff to help counter power creep
Is Nidoking better to use than rhydon is in HG and SS ? I really like both
Last time I used an archeops on a team. I one-shot black kyruem. I felt bad for ghetsis at that point. All that time making that plan only to watch it fall apart in one turn.
Traded in from another game because the Plume Fossil is only available post story
@@TKnHappyNess that's what I usually do unless it's the first time playing through the game
For whitney may I suggest bayleef as it learns reflect and poison powder by Whitney's level cap
creamy and crunchy are both good, they have different uses. this video has me wanting to give the hoenn remakes another try :]
Your opinion is invalid if u even remotely enjoy crunchy
Not entirely sure if I agree with Salamance being the choice for Alola, simply because of how hard it can be to get due to the pure RNG nature of the SOS mechanic. If I want a Salamence, I’d rather have the fun of catching a Bagon and taking it with me on my journey through Alola. Grinding Bagon up naturally into the powerhouse that is Salamence is very rewarding.
As for who I think the best Pokémon to use in Alola is, I’d have to say Primarina. Water/Fairy is a brute of a combo and early access to the Fairy type with Disarming Voice on Popplio makes the early game extremely easy, because nothing at that point really counters it, except for Alolan Grimer at the school.
I caught a bagon instead for that salamance reason. Easier to catch & raise
Only downside with Lucario in Black and White 2 is that you'll be running Force Palm as STAB unless you want to grind Battle Points for Brick Break or get Drain Punch in Humilau. Aura Sphere is at Level 51, while Close Combat is at Level 55
wait isn’t skeliderge slightly better in sv? same reasoning as scorbunny for swsh, you get it early, it has great stats, and it can basically tank anything.
also torch song is good
Creamy peanutbutter is my usual go to but sometimes crunchy hits different
As far a peanut butter goes... I don't have a preference... I'll literally eat that stuff out of the jar crunchy or smooth with jelly or without... I also like to add honey or banana to my peanut butter sandwiches or have the toasted... Also my lactose intolerance will not stop me from enjoying a cold glass of milk with my peanut butter
Crunchy peanut butter for Oatmeal.
Creamy for everything else
Magnezone should have at least been an honorable mention for B2W2. Magnemite is untouchable against the poison gym and beyond that it does well in the entire region
For Black 2 and White 2, special shoutout to Magnezone.
So good, so fast.
Also, if you haven't grinded a Lucario, it WALLS Roxanne.
You mean Roxie
@@TKnHappyNess yes. I sometimes mix the names up.
Not the characters or the gyms, but the names
Flamigo was *amazing* in my first Paldea playthru, hard agree. I knew Annihilape was a thing but... The birb was just too awesome. Also, it's a birb. Nuff said. xD
Also... Crunchy peanut butter.
Swampert, my beloved! Always happy to see my favourite starter get the love it deserves!
Awesome video it’s nice to see that fan favorite Pokémon such as Alakazam, Nidoking, Infernape, Lucario and Charizard are the best Pokemon to use for a playthrough.
Creamy peanut butter is hands down the best. No questions asked.
Flamigo is a doofy, goggle-eyed gawky bird that somehow manages to be top tier. I love it. Mine is named Bestie.
Ngl I’m surprised Nidoking and Alakazam weren’t swapped with Nido in gen 1 and Zam for Gen 2. Love the list tho
I still remember my first BD playthrough, first Pokemon game in years I had played and beaten, and my Infernape helping me through Cynthia as best as he could.
I still love the guy, I swapped Typhlosion for Infernape in Arceus
Creamy peanut butter is superior in my opinion
The fact that this stupid pink bird is the best Pokémon to use in Paldea is wild! I woulda never thought it was that good.
Great video Mystic.
I enjoyed the Salamence bit, and it had me laughing.
That actually brings me to something:
Since you brought up Megas, do you think they'll come back for the Gen VI remakes, and how would you create your own Megas for Pokemon like the Nidos, Flygon, and Dragonite?
For old Pokemon Yellow, the 500 bucks Karpador is the single best investment in Pokemon History. Because there was so special attack but only special as a Stat, Garados had Hyper Beam, Surf, Ice Beam and Thunderbolt😂 and obliterated everything
The best peanut butter can be found at Ingles. You grind it in store so it has a little crunch, but too much. The honey roasted is the best one.
If it's not crunchy peanut butter, you're doing peanut butter all wrong!
The exact crunchy you showed - skippy super chunk - absolutely goated
creamy peanut butter is the best
I believe even Jynx is a solid Pokémon and one of the best to use for Kanto games in gen 1 and even gen 3.
Thats right. Jynx is really good! Especially in gen 1.
I tried crunchy peanut butter last month, and I honestly like it more than creamy. It may be harder to spread, but it adds much more texture. Throw it in a sandwich with wheat bread, bananas, and raisins and it smacks 👌🏻
Creamy peanut butter, but with a good brand, not that imported, at best, meh option.😅
Good Video, but flamigo is quite a hot take. Skeledirge is for me so much better. It will destroy 7 out of 8 Gyms, kills 1 Elite 4 member and is neutral good against 2 other members, kills half of Geeta's team, performs well against all rivals and Turo and got far better stats. Only weakness is, that it has some bad matchups against titans and team star members. But I think the all around deal is in longterm better in my opinion. But I enjoy this silly flamingo as well 😉😄
Yeah! Skeledigre is burns out everything on its way! But i must admit Quaquaval with aqua step also good!!!
Yeah Unova was pretty stacked. I remember my Kroocodile absolutely torching everything until I just put him in the back so I could use other things out of mercy. I can still hear him breathing in the back in a dark corner of a Dusk Ball just itching to wreck bloody murder on someone's entire team lol including when I finished the game with an absolutely stacked team with all the bells and whistled and that dude still just wanted to rip everything apart.
I think creamy and crunchy are just about equally good, but if you’ve never tried a peanut butter and star fruit sandwich, I highly recommend.
Really any fresh fruit. I don’t use jam anymore, idk why anyone would when the produce aisle is just around the corner.
Thank you for coming to my Pokémon Tedtalk
I mean, both. But like creamy is for everyday and crunchy is for special occasions. What special occasions. I do not know. lol
The starter should’ve been every answer😂
I would say Salamence for Alola is a good choice in terms of power but the huge difference in power between it and your early game team + low % of appearing and low catch rate means it's not that easy to get your hands on it, so I would instead go for the traded Hawlucha you get on route 2, right before the first totem pokemon which is 2x or 4x weak to fighting (depending on the game you're playing) and can pretty much demolish almost every early-mid game boss (kahuna hala, totem araquanid and lurantis, kahuna olivia, guzma, kahuna nanu).
It's just THAT good and if you don't want to use the traded one because of the boosted xp gain you can use it for the first totem and then catch a wild one in the very next route to avoid the issue.
The Gardevoir mention into Swampert was bait Im not gonna lie. Good play there Mystic. You had me going there. Valid point on Swampert being the best choice for that game. My fav starter at that.
I love creamy peanut butter, it's just so smooth. I don't want a crunch in my sandwich.
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Actually for Paldea Clodsire and Annihilape are by far the best options. Clodsire counters about 90% of the teams and Annihilape can just overpower pretty everything besides the Fairy Team Star member and the Psychic gym
AH! Peanut butter! To be completely honest I don't eat it much and it's mainly reserved as a baking ingredient. Marmite's a better sandwich spread in my opinion; it goes well with cheese.
Crunchy peanut butter. Hands down no questions asked
Other than Alolan Ninetails and Alolan Marowak, which Alolan Form is the best to use?
Alolan deez nutz
Alolan Muk
Crunchy peanut butter is the way to go
@@cryptidgaming8697 I prefer creamy myself
You can max friendship riolu before Roxie and it won't be over leveled. Ik because my first run of White 2 I got it solely for the steel typing
Crunchy for sandwiches only, smooth for everything else
Crunchy and smooth peanut butter are both great to me. Usually people choose one or the other but ill eat both.
Who tf is eating crunchy peanut butter over creamy peanut butter
Mudkip is so goated in both the og gen 3 and Oras. Long live my homeboy swampert for carrying me
Honourable mentions to Slaking in Hoenn and Staraptor in Sinnoh
All peanut butter is terrible.
Crunchy beats creamy in taste and texture no contest at all
Keep up the awesome work and videos love the video
For X/Y you could have just went with Talonflame over Zard.
Obviously crunchy pb
Creamy is the best kind of Peanut Butter.
@MysticUmbreon can you please film a series where talk about the best teams for Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness? In the series, you could talk about what are the best Pokémon to add to your team based on what eeveelution you picked. This would make for an awesome video series.
In Unova, if you hack in a Terrakion at the start it'll demolish most of the gym by itself
Idk how you said cinderace was a pyro ball machine but not acknowledge skeledirge being a better version with it's boosting torch song and excellent typing
What would be sweet is if pokemon made a like ultimate game. Either a mainline or a one off like legends, where you travel to all the regions and battle all the gyms, plus have a showdown with rivals and even a evil group or whatever along the way. Then end it with the unanimous champion or something like that. They can create hownit plays out but that would be crazy. Just something different then the 8 gyms and battle the elite 4 and become champ of one region.
Creamy peanut butter is better in every possible way. Don't like creamy and prefer crunchy? No problem, just sprinkle peanuts on it and BAM, crunchy PB. Creamy is easier to eat, it's easier to spread, it's customizable, as proven by my sentence earlier, and I think it's cheaper too. Creamy all the way.
Crunchy, like the texture
Chuggaaconroy would be proud.
I think Geodude is better In Johto because it's good against the first two gym's, resists Whitney's Normal types, good against Morty's and Jasmine's Steel and Poison types with magnitude, Pryce's Ice types, Will's Xatu's, Koga's poison and bug types and Lance's entire team
The best Pokémon to use in each region are whatever you like the most.
Haven’t watched the video yet but I’d like to wager that mystic says gardevior at least 5 times.
For gen One i'd Say nidoking and alakazam tied.
For gen 2 alakazam Is even more broken compared to gen 1 due to coverage.
These were all good choices.
Im so glad to u used lucario in white 2❤
i like both crunchy and creamy, but for different things. for a sandwich, i like creamy, but for toast or eggo waffles, i prefer crunchy. it seems more substantial to me so that it doesn't just melt away on the hot food. but my real issue is people who prefer creamy and their reason is the chunks make their teeth hurt. like what? excuse me, are you some kind of infant with soft marshmallow teeth? give me a break.
Hey Mystic I know you're a busy man, but are we going to get a best team for US/UM No restrictions?
How many times will Gardevoir, Alakazam or Gengar show up here?
Smooth PB. I don't want no road bumps in my sammich.
For gen 1, one hit ko nidoking is a real contender for best. Id say its tied between it and Alakazam
If you get a libero electro ball Scorbunny you (which is possible with dlc
Crunchy and smooth are good, I have no gripes
Creamy peanut butter is goated.
Creamy peanut butter all the way. Keep up the good work my friend.
Why couldn't use the starter pokemon in one category?
Creamy peanut butter is the only option. Crunchy is an abomination.
FLAMIGO SUPREMACY. it ended up being my highest level mon by the end, soooo good it's almost unfair
What about Clodsire? Beast tank Mon..
Didn't know Swampert could use fly
I didn’t want hoenn to be marshtomp but I knew that it was
Same
Why not the legendary pokemon?
For Sword/Shield I definitely see why Scorbunny though does include the DLC as u could use: legends, UBs, & Tapus before the first gym. I can't see that many NPC being able to stop them
infernape is a good choice for gen 4 but if you're playing platinum you could get gible way earlier than DP. I think you just need cut
Loved Swampert and Lucario, liked Nidoking, Sneasler, and Alakazam, didn’t like everything else.
How about arceus?
It would have been better if legendaries are included, they are legendary of course they are OP
I think midkip is supposed to be a mudskipper