The BEST Pokémon Move of Each Type
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- Опубліковано 6 чер 2024
- Ever wonder what the best Normal type move was? How about best Psychic move? Well in this video I go over what I think the best move is of EACH AND EVERY TYPE!
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0:00 Intro
1:01 Grass
1:46 Fire
2:43 Water
3:49 Electric
5:11 Ice
6:19 Ground
6:47 Rock
7:33 Flying
8:47 Bug
10:06 Poison
11:13 Ghost
12:22 Normal
14:17 Fairy
14:50 Dragon
15:29 Steel
16:32 Fighting
17:18 Dark
17:49 Psychic - Ігри
Feel like normal really should have been protect, it’s just unbelievably versatile. Even in singles it’s a great scouting move or a great stall move to recover with left overs or build up toxic damage. Even outside of VGC, protect and its clones are beyond useful.
Agreed, Metronome is too silly of a choice in my opinion
Protect and Fake-Out are by far the two best moves in doubles
@@BallroomSpartans you know Metronome was a joke pick right? I said Shell Smash after😂
beyond useful in singles? they're certainly very good, but in singles there are better options
Pivot moves and momentum shifting moves can be substituted easier over protect in singles than the faster doubles metagame not to say protect isn’t a great scouting and survival option in singles
I had a nightmare recently that Draining Kiss was buffed to 74 base power. I don't know why it was 74 instead of 75, but it was pretty scary.
an uneven power move sounds very scary
You've been playing too many rom hacks
@@the_mothdegenerate973technically, 74 is even whereas 75 is uneven
@@IzzyReal multiple of 5 move
@@the_mothdegenerate973 see? Now that's accurate😉
Nuzzle > thunder wave
Exactly
distribution is shit though(only pika clones have it) while thunder wave is omnipresent and can be learned by non electric types)
Feel like Aurora Veil should have been considered for the best ice move(know its not that wide spread as freeze-dry etc. but on those who get it(with snow warning) its pretty good
Electric should have gone to Nuzzle. It's just a more accurate thunder wave that does some damage
This.
And it's not stopped by taunt
distribution is shit though(only pika clones, boltund and toxtricity have it) while thunder wave is omnipresent and can be learned by non electric types). if we're gonna base off practically signature moves then the best fire type move should've been v create
My list would be this:
Bug: a tie between U-turn and Quiver Dance
Dark: Knock Off
Dragon: a tie bewteen Draco meteor and Dragon Dance
Electric: a tie between Thunderbolt, Volt Switch and Thunder Wave
Fairy: Moonblast
Fighting: Close Combat
Fire: a tie bewteen Blare Blitz and Will-o-Wisp
Flying: Brave Bird
Ghost: Shadow Ball
Grass: Spore
Ground: a tie between Earthquake and Headlong Rush
Ice: a tie bewteen Ice Beam and Freeze Dry
Normal: a tie between Swords Dance and Shell Smash
Poison: Toxic
Psychic: ironically Psychic
Rock: Stealth Rock
Steel: Iron Head
Water: Scald
Fake out?
I mostly agree, but there are a few things I would like to add
Flying: tailwind
Dark: nasty plot, parting shot
Fighting: victory dance
Normal: protect
Isn’t nuzzle just a better t wave?
@@buttnuggetsauce7666Not that many mons get it where as thunderwave is far more distributed. And even the mons that get nuzzle most aren’t the greatest.
@@buttnuggetsauce7666But then again some of the ones that were on here that won are also not distributed between a lot of mons (like spore and shift gear). But I feel like the mons that get access to spore and shift gear most are better then most of em that get nuzzle.
Dialga when having to use a full power Draco meteor against his greatest enemy: weepinbell
Electric should be Nuzzle, since it’s T wave but better.
We really need a better widely distributed physical ghost type move, poltergeist is fine but having to rely on your opponent having an item on top of the 10% chance to miss is annoying
On top of having to wait for dlc for mons to get access to it
Yeah, and the anti-synergy with staple move Knock Off is EXTRA annoying. Though Shadow Claw is a thing, it's 70 BP so a bit underwhelming as would-be staples go.
its honestly pretty sad how shadow ball is still sitting at 80 bp when theres moonblast sitting at 95 with the same secondary effect
Even parents have favourite kids
moonblast has spa. drop shadowball spd.
its not the same effect shadow ball is a 20% to drop spdef and moonblast is a 30% to drop spatk
Imo electric should be volt switch. That move instantly makes whatever mon its on better
pivot moves are always good
Also, Twave??? Why? Nuzzle is just a 100% accurate Twave with chip 😐
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Return and hidden power are also contenders for normal, despite getting removed
12:50 Fakeout and Protect are my picks here
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Fun video. I had fun guessing the move beforehand and predicted and agree with virtually all of these takes, except a minor few:
Fire: Id argue that Flare Blitz's 120BP makes it more useful more of the time than flamethrower despite the recoil. Its also seen alot more often on teams, which i think reflects this. The difference between 90BP and 120BP may not seem huge, but when running calcs the number of things 120BP can OHKO while 90BP has to 2HKO makes it a non-trivial differential.
Electric: I'd still argue that volt switch is by far the best electric type move. So much so that ive seen electric mons run volt switch that never touch twave or tbolt at all, but only much more rarely do i see a mon who has access to volt switch forego that move in favor of tbolt or twave.
Ground: EQ is so bad in doubles its essentially never ran at all, with either High Horsepower or Stomping Tantrum being used exclusively despite their seeming flaws-which says alot about how bad EQ is in doubles. I'm not sure that these are necessarily "better" ground type moves, but it certainly does complicate the question so I thought it was worth bringing up.
Eq died because of grassy terrain for the most part. A lot of people ran eq back then with leviate or flying types (some being the genies so even more reasons to run eq) but yeah eq has a legacy
Normal not being protect or baton pass is absolutely wild
Scald proves why burn and e en paralyze should be for a few turns like in Legends
Nah it’s called building around getting rid of them with moves like heal bell or aromatherapy. And think about how much that would suck for guts, marvel scale, quick feet, and toxic boost mons.
@@davidstratton696 Guts/toxic boost would be fine, most of them would just use toxic orb regardless. But sleep really should be changed to the Legends equivalent to make it more balanced.
@@sinteleon It would still mess up the mons with guts, quick feet, marvel scale, toxic boost, flare boost. Not all would use an orb either. Think of a mon like Gurdurr who likes to hold eviolite. It’s just lame to make it a few turns (it makes heal bell and aromatherapy nowhere near as useful). And sleep is fine. Idk how it is in Arceus but it’s fine in the regular games. No the only one that needs to be changed is freeze. Either change it or just get rid of it.
@@davidstratton696 Sleep was changed to drowsy, making the opponent randomly skip turns similar to paralysis, with added phys damage taken instead of a speed drop. Perhaps freeze could be changed to something similar, but with opponent taking added damage from spec damage?
@@sinteleon That sounds absolutely horrendous why tf would anyone want that? Sleep is fine the way it is especially if that crap is the alternative. U want to do something when your sleeping then use sleep talk and also what about yawn? Is that just tossed out because yawn adds the drowsy status and that causes them to fall asleep next turn unless they switch out. That is far better of a drowsy condition. It’s far too complicated and is just honestly dumb to add. It’s even more frustrating to deal with this drowsy condition then it is how sleep is in the regular games. Like way more frustrating.
With freeze that’s definitely an improvement but really anything is better then how freeze is. I know they had frostbite as a condition in Arceus which is the special burn and that is so much better and balances the game a lot (like y is their only 1 for physical attackers that’s dumb). Honestly they should just toss out freeze and replace it with frostbite.
I love that you use Mewmore music. Right away, I was like "oh my god, is that Mewmore???" even though I haven't heard their remixes in years! They have such a distinct style and it has me bopping my head while I watch the video. XD You have incredible taste.
Normal needed to be protect
Mattbud I love your video types
I gotta say I was expecting Expanding Force for psychic. Every single psychic type gets it, you can tera psychic to make Flying types land and benefit from the Terrain buff, (not levitators tho) and 120 power to both foes (+30% from terrain and then -30% for being a spread move) is just insane. The only drawback is needing to run Indeedee or Tapu Lele, both of whom have really strong options on their own. You mention Trick Room being entirely it's own archetype which is fair, but Expanding Force isn't too different
Would be really interesting to do this again with physical special and status for each type
Grass: Leaf Blade, Giga Drain, Spore
Fire: Flare Blitz, Flamethrower, Will-O-Wisp
Water: Wave Crash, Scald, idk
Electric: again idfk, Thunderbolt/Volt Switch, and Thunder Wave
Normal: Extreme Speed/Fake Out, Boomburst, Substitute/Protect/Swords Dance/Shell Smash
Ice: Ice Shard, Freeze-Dry, Aurora Veil
Ground: Earthquake, Earth Power, Spikes
Rock: Rock Slide, Power Gem (the only good one), Stealth Rock
Flying: Brave Bird, Hurricane, Defog or Roost
Bug: U-Turn/Leech Life, Bug Buzz, Sticky Web
Fighting: Close Combat/Body Press, again Idfk, Bulk Up
Psychic: Psychic Fangs, Psychic/Psyshock, Calm Mind
Poison: Poison Jab/Gunk Shot, Sludge Wave, Toxic
Ghost: Poltergeist, Shadow Ball/Hex, Destiny Bond
Dark: Knock Off, Dark Pulse (the only good one), Taunt
Steel: Iron Head/Bullet Punch, Flash Cannon, Shift Gear
Dragon: Outrage, Draco Meteor, Dragon Dance
Fairy: Play Rough (literally the only accessible one…….ever), Moonblast, Moonlight
I think that curse could have probably replaced Shadow Ball here. Curse has been and will continue to be one the the games best set-up moves and has even shaped formats in the past (Im looking at you Snorlax). Im a little shocked it didnt even get a mention tbh
If we wanna get technical,
curse was typeless until gen 5. I still should’ve been mentioned though
I would have chosen sword dance for best normal move, because while it is mostly outclassed by shell smash. Sword dance is destributed to hundreds of pokemon, while shell smash is only learned by a dozen or so mons.
Nuzzle for electric
Conclusion: set up moves are op
Guessing what they were before you revealed them was fun! I was able to successfully guess the best moves for Fire, Water, Ice, Ground, Bug, Ghost, Fairy, Dragon, Fighting, and Dark. I eas pretty close with normal tho, I guessed Swords Dance
my list would be
Grass: spore
Fire: flare blitz
Water: flip turn
Electric: volt switch
Ice: freeze dry
Ground: EQ, Headlong or spikes
Rock: stealth rock
Flying: defog or tailwind
Bug: u turn
Poison: toxic
Ghost: last respects
Normal: protect or fake out or tidy up or rapid spin
Fairy: Play rough or moonblast
Dragon: Scale shot
Steel: flash cannon or iron head
Fighting: close combat
Dark: knock off
Psychic: trick room idk
If you’re going to include moves with niche distribution like Shift Gear and Spore, Nuzzle really should have won the Electric category
Ignoring status/boosting moves for normal because there's so many (and because type mostly doesn't matter for a move like swords dance), I feel like Boomburst deserves a shoutout. It's one of the strongest moves in the game without a drawback (at least in singles), it has decent PP too (10 instead of 5), it's special which, all else equal, is usually a little better than being physical because of intimidate, and it hits both opponents in doubles. Even hitting neutrally it's as strong as some SE coverage moves that see use.
It got a shoutout
But somehow follow me didn’t
Personally, Helping Hand and Rock Slide are my choices for Normal and Rock types respectively. I'm a Doubles guy who just really likes Tyranitar, so I guess I'm a bit biased.
the way this dude really leans into the EY in poKEYmon reminds me of my mother
Love the idea of the video, I really do...is just...I hope this helps you: I believe you tried to take too much of a scope .. maybe define it in different videos.. "best moves per type for singles" "VGC"...etc.. just those 2 would redirect your overall decisions better. Also, be careful, you define Spore for grass(really low distribution). And then, right away discarded other moves for the same reason(or chose them for the opposite reason)
Why Thunder Wave over Nuzzle though? Nuzzle is better accuracy paralysis, AND it does damage. Not a lot of damage, sure, but enough to make a Focus Sash no longer viable.
I often use Shadow Ball at first but I always switch it to Hex as soon as I can, this is because my strategy usually falls around using some other move that has a chance to inflict a status condition, and just keep using that move until it inflicts it's status condition, and then I use Hex and almost nothing survives. This is especially good with the Gengar line, as they learn Hypnosis naturally, a move that has a 100% chance to inflict Sleep if it hits. Shadow Ball is cool early-game, but late-game, I always have Legendaries with crazy signature moves like Moongeist Beam or Shadow Force, and regular ol' Shadow Ball has a hard time being a top pick.
I could also campaign for Curse to be the best Ghost Type move because even though it uses up half of your Pokémon's max health, it is a great last-resort move. For example: a level 100 Pokémon that keeps using Rest every time I get it low and regens all of it's health. I can use Curse and then I just have to hold out 4 or 5 turns until it inevitably faints, spamming Hypnosis in the meantime. The reason why I would still choose Curse over Nightmare is because for whatever reason, I have terrible luck getting Sleep to last 4 turns.
One thing about scald is it got nerfed by becoming a signature move of volcanion
It’s back now as a TM. It’s at least less distributed now. Was nice to have it gone for a while.
Why not nuzzle over thunder wave? its literally way better and you have mons like hatterene that can spam it
Please do best abilities for each type next
I'm surprised that no one in the comments has mentioned Triple Axel yet, especially since a bunch of mons rose a tier solely by virtue of having it. Freeze Dry is obviously very strong on its own right and you could definitely make a case for it being stronger than Triple Axel, but it's definitely better than Ice Beam or Ice Shard, which ended up as the honorable mentions.
I wish you would put a caption on the screen that says the move you've chosen and leave it there throughout the entire segment. I kept having to rewind because I wasn't sure what you said.
Nah, Electric is Volt Switch for me... it has wide distribution among electric types and the momentum it provides is critical.
tidy up is SO good tho genuinely a goat move
If we consider trick room for psychic, I'd say tailwind should be given consideration for flying as well.
1:39 on that breloom set I would actually go for spore over sub since it’s easily broken and breloom has 4x weakness to flying making it frail. Sleep guarentees one focus punch going through
Yeah that’s why I put (these often still run spore). But sometimes you’ll see breloom without it for more coverage attacks or on a banded set.
oi mate, can you give me the name of the last song you used on the video pls? thanks
Since i started playing Kyurem White i have been gaslighted thinking moonblast had 100% chance of lowering my spatk. It has ALWAYS, literally ALWAYS, dropped It in the last 48 games
Great list!
Just a question concerning the music: what's the remix of the dive theme that starts at around 8:50?
It's sensational
Just search Mewmore Dive and it should be the first result!
@@MattBudYT txs a bunch dude!
Think next time you could do one damaging move and one non damaging move for each type would of made it more interesting
Everyone talks about Draco meteor but no one talks about a boosted dragon pulse in gen 9 even though its more strategically useful especially in doubles (especially using throat spray on a hyper voice hydragon with steel tera)
Here's what I'm thinking for each type
- Normal: Protect
- Fire: Flamethrower
- Water: Scald
- Grass: Spore
- Electric: Thunderbolt
- Ice: Freeze-Dry
- Fighting: Close Combat
- Poison: Toxic
- Ground: Earthquake
- Flying: Roost
- Bug: U-turn
- Rock: Stealth Rock, in general Rock Slide
- Psychic: Trick Room, in general Psychic
- Ghost: Shadow Ball
- Dragon: Draco Meteor
- Dark: Knock Off
- Steel: Heavy Slam
- Fairy: Moonblast
I love using Metronome because it’s just silly.
I was messing around in a double battle, and I was like “ha wouldn’t it be funny if Annihilape randomly self-destructed”
And then it used Explosion, and I cried
For poison my #1 is Acid Spray and Normal Body Slam with Slash close behind.
I agree with most of these, but for Poison I'd choose Coil simply because:
1) It's a great setup move, being one of the only moves that boost accuracy
2) Not a fan of stall teams
I don’t like stall teams, either, but there’s really no contest.
On one hand, you have coil. It’s bulk up with an accuracy boost, and it’s limited to 9 pokemon this gen. Only two mons that learn it see competitive use, and neither of them use it because they’re special attackers.
On the other hand, you have toxic. Toxic has always been one of the most powerful moves a defensive pokemon can have, and it is given to a _lot_ of defensive pokemon.
@@Joker-fq6yx the thing is, toxic is also used to break stall, cause of the evergrowing poison ticks making it impossible to outlast if you manage to get it off
The ONLY one I have a question about is Psychic maybe being Stored Power, since it single handedly carries so many mediocre mon into unbridled levels of ignorance, but that could be recency bias since this is perhaps the best Stored Power has ever looked thanks to Terastalization. Trick Room was absolutely a good pick otherwise.
This was a great list! I guessed 12 of them, and the 5 I didn't I oiked yours way more. I completely forgot about Shell Smash being Normal-type and not Water-type. I didn't think of Shift Gear or Spore because of distribution, but Spore has enough representation in various tiers.
Thinking of it now, I want Shift Gear Metagross so bad. It would be so broken
physical mons now have spirit break... I guess
Tapu Koko needs it. Good move just only on 2 mons😫
fire - flare blitz (i see it more commonly), or eruption (it commands respect). flamethrower is a good ol-reliable tho =).
normal - it depends on which generation lol. Body Slam/Hyper beam for gen 1, rest for gen 2, then belly drum, baton pass teams were so strong, self destruct/explosion were great through gen 4, fake out is good in doubles, etc lol. your choices were good tho.
In what universe is Thunder Wave better than Nuzzle?
cool
I'd say Quiver Dance deserves the spot as best Bug move as it's the only setup move banned in BH on Showdown, which goes to show how powerful it really is.
As far as best ice type move goes Aurora Veil has my vote.
Don't forget pursuit for dark
What is that music title?
While gen 1 moves made types like Dragon, Bug, Ghost, Fighting and Bug useless. Ground got its best move in the very first game.
If we’re talking just singles, the best normal move is easily baton pass. There’s a reason it’s banned in every smogon tier in the past 4 gens
For me
Grass: spore/matcha gatcha
Fire: heat wave
Water: surging strikes
Electric: volt switch/thunder clap
Ice: freeze dry/aurora veil
Ground: stomping tantrum/earth power
Flying: tail wind
Bug: quiver dance/pollen puff
Poison: toxic/ toxic spikes
Ghost: shadow ball/rage fist
Normal: protect/ follow me/fake out
Fairy: dazzling gleam
Dragon: dragon dance/fickle beam
Steel: flash cannon/heavy slam
Fighting: drain punch/close combat
Dark: sucker punch
Psychic: trick room/calm mind
I can tell you’re a vgc player
@@tales9342 the reason i don't like earthquake
surging strikes, rage fist, fickle beam, matcha gatcha are all signatures and thus are disqualified.
@@sinteleon then prob aqua jet for water, spore for grass, shadow ball for ghost, and dragon dance gor dragon
Toxic was heavily nerfed in gen 9, fuck all can learn it now
i feel like you should've included the best signature move of each type as a bonus
I made another video for best signature moves of each type if you want to check it out!
@@MattBudYT cool i just saw it!
for me, I'd say Eruption is one of the best fire type moves, maybe Heat Wave
the fact whiscash gets dragon dance 💀💀💀
Before watching, my predictions are:
Normal: Protect/Substitute
Grass: Spore
Fire: Flamethrower
Water: Scald
Electric: Thunderbolt
Flying: Brave Bird/Defog
Ice: Ice Beam/Freeze Dry
Bug: Quiver Dance
Rock: Stealth Rocks
Ground: Earthquake
Fighting: Close Combat
Psychic: Psychic/Calm Mind
Poison: Toxic
Ghost: Shadow Ball
Dark: Knock Off/Sucker Punch
Dragon: Dragon Dance
Steel: Iron Head
Fairy: Moonblast
U got 14 of them right it looks like. Nice.
Earthquake is so good and useful that players will forget that because it's multi target it gets weaker. We just don't notice 😂
You should do this list but only for signature moves or moves not many learn.
Let’s just say that might just be in the works as we speak
Many of the memes you use came from Brasil!
Brasil #1!
I only disagree with close combat, but that's because I mainly use tanky pokemon like arazuamill
What would you put for best fighting move?
10:58 You mispronounced loathe.
If signature move is included I think salt curse is more powerful for rock. More damage on steel types that resist it.
Salt Cure is definitely a busted move. Will be a front runner for best signature move of each type.
While salt cure is great, it's in contention with mighty cleave, the move that turns iron bolder from meh to OP (but yes these two are the best rock signatures by far)
Volt switch is better than tbolt imo. Pivoting is super good in competitive.
Isn’t it crazy that the best and worst Grass-type moves are both banned by Smogon now?
15:13 My sides with poor Tropius
To me best normal move is protect
the best flying type move is DEFINETELY tailwind, I don't think there is any debate and if there is then you should use a tailwind team.
How was steel not heavy slam?
Arguably the best fighting move can be victory dance, but only 1pokemon knows it and it isn't really good. If victory dance was given to other fighting types it would have easily been the best fighting move.
01:09 click here to start the video
Rapid Spin... I don't need to explain.
How do you chose thunder wave over nuzzle
distribution
@@Joker-fq6yx spore has just as bad a distribution.
flying shoulda been tailwind
i’m offended volt switch and aurora veil didn’t win their respective types
psychic should be Calm Mind tbh
That’s also a good choice
I feel like lava plume is better than flamethrower just because of it's insanely high burn chance
Imo Protect is by so far the best Normal that it's not even funny. Like the competitive scene is so centered around Protect that half of Urshifu's power comes from the fact that it ignores it, and it's also the reason why all status moves just became a better Protect when the Pokémon is dynamaxed.
Normal type should be encore or protect
Ok i was gonna let you off the hook for not using Baton Pass nor Protect for the normal move but including TRICK ROOM makes me question everything
Protect is the backbone of VGC moreso than trick room. Protect is also more useful in Singles than Trick Room and Baton Pass gets banned from singles every gen.
Clearly being elite in both formats isnt a prerequisite so there is no reason to have Shell Smash over these two.
Metronome or Shell Smash? Even if you wanna say Roost is better than all other recovery moves, Recover was the first and it's existence has shaped metas. Protect needs no introduction. I would say the single best Normal move is Body Slam, the best generation to be a Normal type was Gen 1 and it's because Body Slam was right there on every good mon
Great video but the background music is a bit annoying at some points ngl
Best flying for me is Tailwind. 🙂
Why pick Thunder Wave over Nuzzle? Nuzzle is just better TWave with distribution that's still about as good as Spore.
Also I understand picking Trick Room since it's an entire team type. But I still want to give a shout out to Psyshock. A move so good almost all Psychics would trade the 10 base power for the physical coverage
Why can't fighting type get a reliable and strong special attacking move.
Why can't poison type get a reliable and strong physical move? Yes, there is poison jab, but poison type, other than hitting fairy, is a mediocre offensive type, should have had something stronger imo.
Why is sludge bomb special, when about every other "bomb" move in the game is physical?
defog clears
is nuzzle a signature move???
Nope
It’s exclusive to pikachu clones
@@marx4421hatterene gets it
No, but Covert Cloak and the shit distribution shuts it down HARD
@@Asm0d3u5 As opposed to taunt shutting down thunder wave, and taunt is WAY more common. Yes, distribution might not be there, but that doesn't make it bad, like how spore also has shit distribution cause of how OP it is.
Nuzzle?