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It's hard to judge from the video, but I think this 1.8 million simulation already took weeks based on how slow results were coming in. Python is great for implementing fun ideas quickly, but it's not so good for scaling up into billions of match-ups. To run such a large simulation on a home PC you'd have to figure out a way of running simulations in parallel on the GPU and even with optimized code it would most likely take months.
To put into perspective how strong E-max eternatus is, Pure Hackmons is stuck at Gen 7 for the simple reason of it existing. If you EV and nature it right, you can make it so that it can only take 1 damage from a certain kind of move, because its stats were so high it MADE THE DEFENSE CALCULATIONS OVERFLOW.
There was a Gen 8 Pure Hackmons for a while on showdown, and the metagame page recommended you have AT LEAST two or three Eternamax Eternatus. That’s how stupid it is.
Yeah same especially since lore wise they aren’t even that crazy like to the point where I personally feel like they barely deserve the legendary title.
Not really. It's been like almost 10 years and only 3 mons are ahead of it. If anything that's an argument for the lack of powercreep. 10 years is substantial staying power. Now if it couldn't stay in the top 20 and the top 10 were filled with the last 2 gens of Pokemon you'd have a decent point.
The fact that Meganium scored beneath Scorbunny at 4:44 is depressing. How do you do so badly as a fully evolved starter to be outdone by a tiny rabbit?
@@hashinemiretsien9920 A fully evolved starter scoring beneath a non fully evolved starter, is power creep. Even the video creator said he didn't know what they were smoking when they made gen 8 starters. Think before you comment
@Bunoin It's not a powecreep if you look at the list a lot of non fully evolved pokemon it shows past meganium it's not just gen 8, theres even some water starters and also somehow bayleef 💀
The existential panic in your face when you realized you gave a *mythical* an ability it does not have that eliminates one of its weaknesses.....then immediate cut to the next topic. Just incredible
@@blawski6281 if every pokemon that floated just in its animation had levitate we'd have mons with abilities that make no sense like carnivi- nvm, have a good day
@@ryomaanime4563You know what? That'll be a super interesting game design choice. It gives weight to the choice of not evolving. Heck, even from a regular play point of view, it'll keep the under leveled geodude relevant.
I honestly think Reshiram had one of the most impressive performances. It has always been a bad restricted pokemon, but it outoerformed so many of it's peers
"megas are included beacuse they are fun and cool and rad, the rest are not" pretty much sums up the gimmicks of the newer pokemon games in general lol
Imo, Gigantamax is fine, Dynamax isn't though. Needs more balancing but still nice. Z Moves are cool but too strong too. Tera is not that great design wise but it's not broken like the others. Basically, they're not all that bad
@@Bunoin Not gonna lie, I haven't bought a Pokemon game since Ultra Moon (which I bought because I didn't buy anything since Y) if you aren't counting Legends Arceus. I'm just saying what's on my mind honestly, I think all of those concepts are pretty good but sadly rather badly implemented
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Man really just said "Oricum" over Orichalchum when naming Koraidon's ability and thought no one would notice. There were so many hilarious moments in this video and you did an amazing job as always, Frank!
This video was so cool. The editing was fantastic. Some of the shots and cuts were incredible. Even the commentary kept me engaged the entire time. 100/10 Frank
Eternatus eternamax was so busted that if you gave him 252+ on either special defence or defence he would take only 1 damage from moves that hit him because pokemon damage would rollover and bug out from the calculation
@@JohnSmith-rr3jthow this man going into a pokémon typa vid and talking about the objectively best pokémon, gets what he watched, and continues to call someone a nerd after someone explains how the strongest one is the strongest
If Primal pokemon are usually counted as "mega-adjacent", shouldn't Eternamax be considered "Dynamax-adjacent"? I mean, shouldn't it have been disqualified?
Well all the gimick lvl strat would theorectically go well against everyone oppoent who doesnt have a multi hit move, status or priority, just the ai cant play the properly.
Absol was my very first legitimate shiny, even found it accidentally. It's become my mascot pokemon, absolutely phenomenal glass cannon and false swiper for catching legendaries. Mega has magic bounce, which is amazing for status infliction demons when trying to catch them.
Imagine being Spectrier’s enemy though. You’re scared out of your mind because it’s a legendary, but then he just decides to end the battle and you win.
imma give it to you, that Manscaped ads is like the most entertaining and acceptable kind of ads i can accept in a video. Chief Promoting Officer (CPO) whatt? yeah 10/10 there, i even went out to reply :D
@@pleasedont7439 I mean, he didn't code the AI lmao. I don't know if I agree with quality either, the presentation took too long for anything to happen, I don't really care about a scripted phone call or him laughing at himself, but the AI wasn't his fault.
What’s that aerodactyl looking pokemon in the top 5 fossils? haven’t played in forever but he was my favorite, glad some of the pokemon still looked familiar
At least, Rampardos is well-suited for battles like this. It's a pure 1v1. Rampardos sucks normally because he's way too fragile to be of use for anything except head smashing something into oblivion, then getting revenge-killed. Here though, he just needs to head smash something into oblivion.
Im actually surprised Urshifu Water didnt break top 10. Its builds are INSANE with excellent coverage moves, an attack that hits through protect and ALWAYS CRITS
Greninja fans always be like this lol. Hating everything doesn't put it in #1. The truth is it was too weak even before the nerf. His rank would be higher, yes, but not even in the top 3.
Curse was used to predict a sub or etc, and deal with some mirror coat users. Plus can be useful against darks at times. It was still VERY fringe tho, would have prob been better with just full out attacking moves.
He doesn’t seem to have much understanding of 1v1 format vs 6v6 or doubles format, so he just choose “a competitive moveset” without considering which format said moveset is supposed to competing in.
@@estevaovalentim3286 Yeah this is the best result you can get unless you want to interfere with tens of thousands of 1v1s manually, which would be a tall order to say the least lmao
@@JackLeighton-uh6sl Interestingly, one of Swampert's most competitive sets used curse and he still ranked above Calirex who got the same. Gess the AI just wanted to do him dirty.
I'm so sad it ended that early. What was the final mon's win rate? What did it lose too if it did at all? Will Frank ever figure out how to say eviolite?
It had 3216 wins and only 75 losses! Miraidon in second had 3081 wins and 210 losses so it was a HUGE gap. The only Pokémon that could beat it were insanely bulky pokemon that could take an eternabeam and chip it down abusing the recharge turns (like blissey with seismic toss). I might do a stream breaking everything down even more, thanks for watchin ❤
@@AstroidmaniaVideosno i want to see if it would lose with its set that makes its defense 0 making it only ever take one damage unless with outside attacking damage like status moves i would have to assume nothing is beating it
"I tweaked some of the movesets to be viable in 1v1s" "Also I left Curse on Spectrier for some reason" Believe it or not, Spectrier is Legal in Smogon 1v1s, so you actually could've gone to the 1v1 metagame thread and found this exact set from a sample team: Spectrier @ Life Orb Ability: Grim Neigh Tera Type: Ghost EVs: 4 HP / 140 Def / 164 SpA / 200 Spe Timid Nature - Hyper Beam - Hex - Will-O-Wisp - Calm Mind This is how you make a Spectrier for 1v1s lol
Thank you, this was bugging me so much. Like I enjoyed the video for the most part but how am I supposed to believe that Spectrier is ever supposed to run curse AND place lower than every single first stage starter in pokemon
Would love to see a sequel, with the mistakes cleaned up or even just more data scrapped out to show off more oddities. Hearing about the biggest upset by rank. Win loss percentages of Pokémon. Any surprises regarding type match ups. Strongest Pokémon of each Generation. Infighting within groups of Pokémon for the strongest bird or dog or regi. Evolution line upsets.
You cant base this list off objectivity, the simulated AI definitely messed up bad (or Frank's manual sets were just bad) in a lot of places after looking at the list closer as some of the pokemon high/low on the list I cant even fathom being in those spots. Although Miraidon did win a recent official regional tournament so there is that
I'm glad Meloetta got ranked high. She's not as worthless as many people think. Her ability to change her typing and stats mid battle is kind of OP. Not to mention, she has Serene Grace (which boosts the chance of causing status effects), and she can learn all sorts of status causing moves (including relic song, which can induce sleep).
power creep: "Hey, Slaking, MOVE!" Slaking: "nah, too lazy... give me another generation or two..." power creep: "You've been saying that since Gen 3!" Slaking: "oh well, next one's the charm."
Fun fact: Since Eternamax Eternatus is allowed and physical attackers are more popular, if it had 240+ Def it would win against every single Physical attacker, since it would only take 1% damage due to defense overflow.
17:35 Haxorus was done so dirty after getting into the top 20 of all time. Just chilling, naming box legends then saying "eh, what's the other guy" "Breaking into the top 20" completely skipping #20 that being freaking Haxorus of all things Edit: Just realized regular Diancie was even disqualified, officially not just getting the spotlight in the video but also stealing the #19 spot from the bug looking dragon fellow
Sad to see Shedinja only at #677 with a lower win-to-lose ration. I expected it to be much higher considering its ability and many Pokémon simply not having anything to hit it with.
Unfortunately, I think bug is probably the worst typing to combo with the ability. Way too many mons can learn some random flying or fire move, not to mention shit like Toxic or Will-o-wisp being kinda prevalent.
The reason Shedinja is *kinda* viable in pro play is because you know how to use it against a good matchup, and usually the pool of meta pokemons are severely limited. When we're talking about battling every single other pokemon, given good coverage moves, then he falls off.
I remember my fight against Dome Ace Tucker in Emerald. My slaking is IV/EV trained with Hyperbeam, Slack Off, Substitute, and Yawn. Arguably the best slaking one can make. But this dang charizard had the balls to barely survive a full hyperbeam! It became a dance with me substituting away from overheat, healing, and just trying to get him to sleep so I can attempt to hyperbeam again but I missed MULTIPLE TIMES! Then finally-I get to hit him again. This all could've been over sooner if my Slaking had 380+ attack power instead of 376.
It's hilarious how the top 2 strongest obtainable pokemon are straight up given to you at the start of their respective games (of course you have to unlock their true power at the end but still 💀)
Zacian, Zamazenta and propably any Steel/Fairy like Tinkaton. I think the Eternatus boss battle has it only have STAB moves (poison dragon) and with those it literally can not hit Tinkaton (or other Fairy/Steel) for any damage at all.
@GamePandaXXL but in the boss battle it has flamethrower and recover also if we were to take its best move set it would have something else beside dragon and Poison moves
@GamePandaXXL yeah I get that but it's not going to go down at all since it's hp stat is 255 its def is 250 spdef is also 250 and it's attacking with spatk of 125 that's not something that's to be taken easily
I clicked to the end to quickly see number one. Then I clicked a little back to see the top 10. Then I rewound a bit to catch what you were saying. And I clicked through the top 100. Got dang, I wanna watch the whole video now! You got me. :D
“There may be tampering with the results” Yeah if a decent mega and a powerful legendary Pokémon are in the bottom, I would consider redoing the entire thing
I know this is a fun list and all but the more I look at the list the more I wonder wtf happened with some of the pokemon. Abra is higher than alakazam AND mega-alakazam?
In regards to Miraidon you said "Why did they think this was fair???" and to that I just turn and point at the cutscene where it refuses to die and becomes unbelievably broken in the final cutscene because plot armor. You can't even intentionally fail, iirc.
Nah the absolute shade on greninja after robbing him of his ability protean then going on to praise Cinderace's libero, WHICH IS THE COPY OF GRENINJA'S PROTEAN, is actually insane
Is it? I thought it was an annoying part of the video that felt like rather cheap humor. It seemed to detract from the video to me, when it could have been used to expand more on the data obtained.
This was a very interesting video. Reviews where the content creator is speaking directly to the audience often are a chore to watch but Asteroid creativity in integrating cutaways to side comments/thoughts and product commercials are amusing and whimsical but engaging as well
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Hey Frank you’re amazing and awesome and I have a huge crush on you
I’m glad to hear that Gurphy’s been redeemed
@@mrsarceusuhm
I was mad at first Gurphy is literally my favorite legendary pokemon glad to see it was a mistake
What was his rank then?
When I bought pearl at 6 years old, it wasn’t because it was pink. I simply knew palkia was in the top ten Pokémon twice.
this goes haard
@@fortifieddarkness5394 LOL the youtube translate is hilarious
@@orionl7406 what does it say?
@@fortifieddarkness5394”this goes fireplace”
@@fortifieddarkness5394 "this goes fireplace" 🔥🔥🔥
When people say that Magicarp is the weakest pokemon in the world, I'll have proof that he managed to beat a Mega Heracross
I figured it’d be feebass
He solo'd the one v one
Well ofcourse if you're throwing in the most amount of rng favors you could beat anything.
There's a Magikarp in the anime that can jump into space
There is also a game where Magikarp jumps into space.
I wish below each rank it had shown their win/loss ratio so we could see just how big the jumps got in the higher ranks
He's got the full list in the description
"if you aren't a box art legend you might as well retire" garchomp chilling at 26
It’s crazy that thing fell out from OU. Just completely absurd.
@@RePorpoisedIt was just not good for the metagame
Never lose Garchope
Further proof that Cynthia is goated
Was mentioned.
This lil Sunkern defeating a Groudon 1v1 and lil Scatterbug defeating a Kyogre 1v1 should be our daily reminder that anything is possible.
* with enough luck
Machop use low kick
it gives so much confidence and determination
nothing is possible!
Cosmog beating eternatus eternamax
Ok, now do 45723462400 more to find the best pokémon in a double battle
You are a menace, and I hate that you have gotten me to endorse this idea, I really wanna see this happen but omg that simulation would take WEEKS
It's hard to judge from the video, but I think this 1.8 million simulation already took weeks based on how slow results were coming in. Python is great for implementing fun ideas quickly, but it's not so good for scaling up into billions of match-ups. To run such a large simulation on a home PC you'd have to figure out a way of running simulations in parallel on the GPU and even with optimized code it would most likely take months.
Its incin. Case closed
@@wanderingwatcher3981you do realise it's you have a script match x, y pokemon you can run multiple instances of that script...
Hey, imagine how long the lion video took with tropius breaking the simulation by surviving over 950 turns
Zapdos beating megaray through the most insane RNG luck is the most zapdos thing to ever happen
Praise Battery Jesus
Oomf
Oomf spotted
crazy how it cant use rain dance tho
it sure is
The last Pokémon standing: "So what do I win for surviving almost two million battles?"
AV: "A notable mention."
So I watched this after stopping after Gen 2. I still don’t know who won 🤣🤣
I finished and im not sure either lol@ericwong3868
I Don't even know its name
Same, I did a quick Research it is eternatus
@@Javiercar It's Eternamax Eternatus, I knew it'd win
I simulated 1,810,053 pokemon battles just to watch one Wolfie video and realize it’s Incineroar
Incineroar is viable only in doubles, this video is on singles, so yeah
competitively speaking, incineroar is indeed stronger
@@shadmanzahid9588woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh
I for one accept our new ground-immune Diancie overlord.
fellow diancie lover POG?
AYYY FELLOW FANS
diancie my beloved ☺️
@@HoneeyMoth you were waiting for this moment xd
My favorite rock type. Although I hate most rock types, so it wasn't a high bar.
To put into perspective how strong E-max eternatus is, Pure Hackmons is stuck at Gen 7 for the simple reason of it existing. If you EV and nature it right, you can make it so that it can only take 1 damage from a certain kind of move, because its stats were so high it MADE THE DEFENSE CALCULATIONS OVERFLOW.
It was nevermeant to be a pokemon just a battle for 3 teams. Course its busted and shouldnt really exist
There was a Gen 8 Pure Hackmons for a while on showdown, and the metagame page recommended you have AT LEAST two or three Eternamax Eternatus. That’s how stupid it is.
Jesus christ this is not a joke. it has more deffensive stats than ultra nekrozma’s entire statsheet.
There's no way Smogon competitive moves were used for Spectrier because what competitive Spectrier is using Curse?! Brb off to Smogon to find out
@@SharpiePlaysresult ?
“cinderace is best because it can change its type to get stab on everything”
greninja, being given battle bond in a 1v1 format: am i a joke to you
The fact that number 2 and 3 are Koraidon and Miraidon is insane! The power creep is real!
Yeah same especially since lore wise they aren’t even that crazy like to the point where I personally feel like they barely deserve the legendary title.
@@joshuafrazier3904I mean lore wise they are the apes predators of the past and future so I mean I guess it works
@windrose5988 honestly that is kinda funny to think about but atleast we know the arceus we see is only a fraction of his power
@windrose5988so koraidon and miraidon are jrpg protagonist, checks out.
I would say eternamax can't particapate because it can't attack without G-max moves meaning he would only know struggle
The fact that mega ray got 4th is by far the best showcase of power creep ever.
Beaten out by the two newest box legendaries and a boss battle that’s meant to be like, a 4v1? Gen IX Pokémon did not have to go that hard
the motor bikes overpowering a busted giant flying freaking snake dragon with insane sky diving power is insane
Not really. It's been like almost 10 years and only 3 mons are ahead of it. If anything that's an argument for the lack of powercreep. 10 years is substantial staying power. Now if it couldn't stay in the top 20 and the top 10 were filled with the last 2 gens of Pokemon you'd have a decent point.
@@Alovatololo To be fair, Necrozma was screwed over by the AI (if I had to guess, it assumes both sides are comparable).
@@Alovatololo ok but this was a pokemon that was so busted they had to make a new tier specifically for it
Garchomp at 26 is exactly what I expected. That thing made me see the light since I was a child and had to battle Cynthia’s for WEEKS……
E-Max Eternatus is so strong that it beats literal god by a long shot, yet my punk-rock salamander and my friend's sheep beat him easy.
never underestimate the power of a good jumping
😂
4v1 moment
You forgot about dog with sword and dog with sheild showing up
with the help of some good boys that hard counter it.
It’s too bad Flebebe couldn’t make it. Would have gotten first place for sure. I smell sabotage.
Truly a shame, but once he feels 100% he’s always welcome
@@AstroidmaniaVideos the fact that metagross is a steel type and still got sick for some reason is absurd 💀
@@hatirase2255rust
@hatirase2255 Definitely foulplay. Hopefully his lawyers will pull through in this ongoing investigation.
How did shedinja do
The fact that Meganium scored beneath Scorbunny at 4:44 is depressing. How do you do so badly as a fully evolved starter to be outdone by a tiny rabbit?
Because of powercreep
@@Bunoin Bro powercreep has nothing to do here, Meganium was never that of a good pokemon
@@hashinemiretsien9920 A fully evolved starter scoring beneath a non fully evolved starter, is power creep. Even the video creator said he didn't know what they were smoking when they made gen 8 starters. Think before you comment
Cos it's a game
@Bunoin It's not a powecreep if you look at the list a lot of non fully evolved pokemon it shows past meganium it's not just gen 8, theres even some water starters and also somehow bayleef 💀
Seeing Mimikyu hit 104 genuinely made my heart happy
My boy made it to the top 10% of pokemon
AYYYYYY NO WAYYYYYY LESSS GOOOOO
I wish I knew where Marshadow ranked 😢
@@thebossbrothers123 Marshadow placed #83 :)
@@LeewardWind yaaaay, should been like top 50 though with how ultra banned in comp he is.
@@thebossbrothers123marshadow use swagger
Marshadow used spectral theif
The existential panic in your face when you realized you gave a *mythical* an ability it does not have that eliminates one of its weaknesses.....then immediate cut to the next topic. Just incredible
be completely honest
diancie fucking deserves levitate
like she ltierally floats in both the game and the anime
@@blawski6281 if every pokemon that floated just in its animation had levitate we'd have mons with abilities that make no sense like carnivi- nvm, have a good day
@@vincentcircharo8259 Geodude would lose levitate on evolving ._.
@@ryomaanime4563You know what? That'll be a super interesting game design choice. It gives weight to the choice of not evolving. Heck, even from a regular play point of view, it'll keep the under leveled geodude relevant.
@@FFXfeverGeodude would then go on to be a menace in LC.
I honestly think Reshiram had one of the most impressive performances. It has always been a bad restricted pokemon, but it outoerformed so many of it's peers
"megas are included beacuse they are fun and cool and rad, the rest are not" pretty much sums up the gimmicks of the newer pokemon games in general lol
Newer pokemon gimmicks only please VGC players and not even all of them
Imo, Gigantamax is fine, Dynamax isn't though. Needs more balancing but still nice.
Z Moves are cool but too strong too.
Tera is not that great design wise but it's not broken like the others.
Basically, they're not all that bad
@@winterbeast6326fanboy cope
@@Bunoin Not gonna lie, I haven't bought a Pokemon game since Ultra Moon (which I bought because I didn't buy anything since Y) if you aren't counting Legends Arceus.
I'm just saying what's on my mind honestly, I think all of those concepts are pretty good but sadly rather badly implemented
Super glad they're returning in Legends Z/A.
Shoutout to Reshiram at 4 for just being just a normal dude amidst all these monsters
5
He's basically a box legend
@@Beowulfgang_AmadeusReshiram IS a box legend
@@Azun_Kurone yeah but only for Black, the Pokemon game that I'm pretty sure doesn't exist.
@@Beowulfgang_Amadeusi literally own a copy that game
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Man really just said "Oricum" over Orichalchum when naming Koraidon's ability and thought no one would notice. There were so many hilarious moments in this video and you did an amazing job as always, Frank!
LOL thanks yusuf, thought I could get away with it
I also noticed that crime
Just like when dylan was making more evees or whatever he said CUMEON
20:25
Oricum Pulse but not Hardon Engine. The tables have turned
Seeing Bounsweet just slowly pan downward after Spectrier killed me, stuffed my cold dead body in a bag, and yeeted me into the Mariana Trench 💀
why does that last part actually sound so specific tho💀
Im dead 💀 🤣 😭 😂 😩 😫 💀 🤣 😭 😂
This video was so cool. The editing was fantastic. Some of the shots and cuts were incredible. Even the commentary kept me engaged the entire time. 100/10 Frank
Eternatus eternamax was so busted that if you gave him 252+ on either special defence or defence he would take only 1 damage from moves that hit him because pokemon damage would rollover and bug out from the calculation
False; the specific investment is 31 IV 244 EV positive nature; 252+ would give essentially no Def/SpD
Nerd
@@JohnSmith-rr3jt Welcome to the fandom "Mr.Jock"
@@JohnSmith-rr3jtyou are on a video related to a Pokémon battle simulation. You are one of us
@@JohnSmith-rr3jthow this man going into a pokémon typa vid and talking about the objectively best pokémon, gets what he watched, and continues to call someone a nerd after someone explains how the strongest one is the strongest
The goat returns 🐐
first reply
ohhh... HIIIII
Frank is a human not a goat.
Where is shedinja ranked
21:45 BREAKING NEWS: grass is green
If Primal pokemon are usually counted as "mega-adjacent", shouldn't Eternamax be considered "Dynamax-adjacent"? I mean, shouldn't it have been disqualified?
yes but it's funnier this way.
Also, I'd allow Stellar Terapagos, though it would be limited with nothing else having Tera.
Well it does have by far and away the most base stats out of all Pokémon, I think that’s the reason he included it
Yeah it should've. I think he just included it because its funny
It has it’s own base stats and dynamax doesn’t change base stats
"Some pokemon just idnt do well in the 1v1 format, like whimsicott"
Also whimsicott and cottonee: *banned from 1v1*
The AI isn't able to handle encore or sub-leech
💀💀💀 ai knows skill issue
pretty sure it had to be lvl 1 for that strat
Well all the gimick lvl strat would theorectically go well against everyone oppoent who doesnt have a multi hit move, status or priority, just the ai cant play the properly.
@@XenithShadow true
Hell ya. Mega Absol and Leafeon being side by side in the rankings is cool. They’re my top two favs
You have good taste
Absol was my very first legitimate shiny, even found it accidentally. It's become my mascot pokemon, absolutely phenomenal glass cannon and false swiper for catching legendaries. Mega has magic bounce, which is amazing for status infliction demons when trying to catch them.
Slaking being the goat without trying.
Slaking has always been my goat
He always tries...half of the time.
Imagine being Spectrier’s enemy though. You’re scared out of your mind because it’s a legendary, but then he just decides to end the battle and you win.
Mega rayquaza at #4 is criminal. I get that e-max brokenness beat it but it getting beat by the gen 9 box arts is insane.
I can't believe you got Frank, Frank, and Frank to join you in making this video. I love the guest stars. Keep it up.
Don't forget about Frank, too.
@@khaibuithe9828I can’t believe he forgot about Frank!
Miraidon obviously got that powerful because he is from the future and thus has even more powercreep than the others
imma give it to you, that Manscaped ads is like the most entertaining and acceptable kind of ads i can accept in a video. Chief Promoting Officer (CPO) whatt? yeah 10/10 there, i even went out to reply :D
Frank's videos are an example of "quality over quantity." Because every single one is an absolute banger.
Just wished they were mostly around 23 minutes, more goated content
So true. Nothing else this is just fact.
Turn upp, now TAKE OFF
"quality over quantity" codes a garbage AI... Yeah right, Q U A L I T Y
@@pleasedont7439 I mean, he didn't code the AI lmao. I don't know if I agree with quality either, the presentation took too long for anything to happen, I don't really care about a scripted phone call or him laughing at himself, but the AI wasn't his fault.
"amazing movepool" and spectrier were not words i'd thought i'd hear in the same sentence lmao
Well maybe if there’s a “doesn’t” in there
It has actually a broken movepool though.
It has an amazing movepool of Shadowball and Draining Kiss, it doesn't really need anything else.
@numberhunter62 It definitely doesn't need curse
I mean compared to the Pokemon it placed around who’d consider themselves lucky to know four moves at all.
the delay on the "thanks Frank" during the news segment was so real
Honestly, I'm just happy my boi Rampardos made top 5 anything, even if it's just the fossil category.
Rampardos looks so beastly! He's far more menacing than even most of the pseudolegends in aesthetics!
What’s that aerodactyl looking pokemon in the top 5 fossils? haven’t played in forever but he was my favorite, glad some of the pokemon still looked familiar
@@Chimeraeateverything You've said a major clue already! I'm sure you can guess (:
At least, Rampardos is well-suited for battles like this.
It's a pure 1v1. Rampardos sucks normally because he's way too fragile to be of use for anything except head smashing something into oblivion, then getting revenge-killed.
Here though, he just needs to head smash something into oblivion.
bastiodon enjoyers rise up!!! 😎🫡
I always had a chill on my back when I say that “Zapdos is the strongest bird in its trio” because of electric causing paralysis, now I have proof
Im actually surprised Urshifu Water didnt break top 10. Its builds are INSANE with excellent coverage moves, an attack that hits through protect and ALWAYS CRITS
Frank struggling to say evoilite is probably my favorite part
Wait a minute, it's not spelled Eviolite?
EV- VIOL-LIGHTEEEE.
you struggling to spell eviolite is the second funniest part
@@Chicxy_Madness HELP I DIDNT EVEN REALIZE
@@kazthekoolestt HAHAHA THATS EVEN FUNNIER PLEASE KEEP IT
5:15 love the transition from "greninja didn't have protean" to "libero is amazing, the best ability obviously cinderace was 1st"
Fuck Greninja
I audibly cheered at this. My boy.
I don’t play Pokémon anymore but the production of this video made it very very watchable. Great job
I can't think of a better way to spend my 1:21am EST on May 12th 2024, thank you Frank
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Anytime! (1:21am EST!)
1:25 for me but wth
I can't think of a better way to spend my 1:21am PST on May 12th 2024, thank you @nickp7364
Same time rn
"If you aren't a box art legend, might as well retire"
Slaking: allow me to introduce myself
Every emerald team I use starts with Slacking
17:15 didn’t expect to shed a tear watching this video
Greninja would have won starters if he wasn't nerfed, if he got 12 with no ability, he can absolutely win
And It’s HA is basically libero
@@aaeinstein200libero is basically protean*
Greninja took that easily
@@aaeinstein200put respect on proteans name
Greninja fans always be like this lol. Hating everything doesn't put it in #1. The truth is it was too weak even before the nerf. His rank would be higher, yes, but not even in the top 3.
@@켄지yeah with infernape barely top 3 no chance greninja beats him
How did "competitive move sets" include curse Spectrier... Has to be a meme
Curse was used to predict a sub or etc, and deal with some mirror coat users. Plus can be useful against darks at times. It was still VERY fringe tho, would have prob been better with just full out attacking moves.
He doesn’t seem to have much understanding of 1v1 format vs 6v6 or doubles format, so he just choose “a competitive moveset” without considering which format said moveset is supposed to competing in.
@@theluchakabuto5206 he mentioned that he adapted some of the movesets (like removing all stealth rocks), i suppose this is only for content
@@estevaovalentim3286 Yeah this is the best result you can get unless you want to interfere with tens of thousands of 1v1s manually, which would be a tall order to say the least lmao
@@JackLeighton-uh6sl Interestingly, one of Swampert's most competitive sets used curse and he still ranked above Calirex who got the same. Gess the AI just wanted to do him dirty.
13:08 Incineroar not being number one and WolfeyVGC relieved rn 😂
I'm so sad it ended that early. What was the final mon's win rate? What did it lose too if it did at all? Will Frank ever figure out how to say eviolite?
It had 3216 wins and only 75 losses! Miraidon in second had 3081 wins and 210 losses so it was a HUGE gap. The only Pokémon that could beat it were insanely bulky pokemon that could take an eternabeam and chip it down abusing the recharge turns (like blissey with seismic toss). I might do a stream breaking everything down even more, thanks for watchin ❤
@@AstroidmaniaVideosplease do break it down further! I'd love to see it
@@AstroidmaniaVideosno i want to see if it would lose with its set that makes its defense 0 making it only ever take one damage unless with outside attacking damage like status moves i would have to assume nothing is beating it
Blissey still taking it@@Sur3sT
@@AstroidmaniaVideoswas there a Pokémon that 3-0ed or 2:1ed eternamax
Is there a full 1-1089 list anywhere? My entirely functional brain really wants to gawp at it 😂
I just wanted to see where snom was placed
Same
I'm more curious on the best and worst of each type, he skipped over steel, ice, psychic, ground, rock, and poison
Check the description y'all
Woohoo, Rhydon beat Rhyperior! Eviolite beats Protector and Weakness Policy.
Diancie being given levitate and absolutely DESTROYING primal groudon was insane
"I tweaked some of the movesets to be viable in 1v1s"
"Also I left Curse on Spectrier for some reason"
Believe it or not, Spectrier is Legal in Smogon 1v1s, so you actually could've gone to the 1v1 metagame thread and found this exact set from a sample team:
Spectrier @ Life Orb
Ability: Grim Neigh
Tera Type: Ghost
EVs: 4 HP / 140 Def / 164 SpA / 200 Spe
Timid Nature
- Hyper Beam
- Hex
- Will-O-Wisp
- Calm Mind
This is how you make a Spectrier for 1v1s lol
Absolute menace
Thank you, this was bugging me so much. Like I enjoyed the video for the most part but how am I supposed to believe that Spectrier is ever supposed to run curse AND place lower than every single first stage starter in pokemon
I mean yeah but in his defense keeping an eye on 1000+ pokemon would be pretty tricky and a LOT of work.
Also it's a meme video, it's just not that serious and if some Pokemons get the shaft in the process then it is what it is.
@@miserable_mump9687 He just made a mistake. It happens when you're dealing with literally 1000+ Pokemon
Would love to see a sequel, with the mistakes cleaned up or even just more data scrapped out to show off more oddities.
Hearing about the biggest upset by rank. Win loss percentages of Pokémon. Any surprises regarding type match ups. Strongest Pokémon of each Generation. Infighting within groups of Pokémon for the strongest bird or dog or regi. Evolution line upsets.
100% this
Absolutely. Maybe he could also add those forms he skipped for one reason or the other like AshGreninja.
Ice coming in at 4 for overall ranking was the most shocking thing to me.
Greninja scoring as high as it did with no ability is crazy
so objectivly miraidon is the strongest PLAYABLE pokemon 22:12
You cant base this list off objectivity, the simulated AI definitely messed up bad (or Frank's manual sets were just bad) in a lot of places after looking at the list closer as some of the pokemon high/low on the list I cant even fathom being in those spots.
Although Miraidon did win a recent official regional tournament so there is that
@@Rubenlostitbut you can because the simulations the same for every pokemon so each pokemon is equally as bad as playing
@@Rubenlostitmiraidon also won the world championship
@@EndersandYT I imagine that for ones where more advanced strategy is needed, the bad playing has a much more extreme effect.
@jaydenraynor391 for some that rely on a specific move or ability maybe but overall it's equally fair
dude the acting on this video was hilarious and and point, amazing!
What the hell it's the undertale guy!
I'm glad Meloetta got ranked high. She's not as worthless as many people think. Her ability to change her typing and stats mid battle is kind of OP. Not to mention, she has Serene Grace (which boosts the chance of causing status effects), and she can learn all sorts of status causing moves (including relic song, which can induce sleep).
A Gen 3 pokemon being the strongest non-legendary is insane, the power creep just doesn't affect Slaking I guess.
power creep: "Hey, Slaking, MOVE!"
Slaking: "nah, too lazy... give me another generation or two..."
power creep: "You've been saying that since Gen 3!"
Slaking: "oh well, next one's the charm."
Fun fact: Since Eternamax Eternatus is allowed and physical attackers are more popular, if it had 240+ Def it would win against every single Physical attacker, since it would only take 1% damage due to defense overflow.
17:35 Haxorus was done so dirty after getting into the top 20 of all time. Just chilling, naming box legends then saying "eh, what's the other guy" "Breaking into the top 20" completely skipping #20 that being freaking Haxorus of all things
Edit: Just realized regular Diancie was even disqualified, officially not just getting the spotlight in the video but also stealing the #19 spot from the bug looking dragon fellow
Sad to see Shedinja only at #677 with a lower win-to-lose ration. I expected it to be much higher considering its ability and many Pokémon simply not having anything to hit it with.
There is a high chance it got stalled out into Struggle, which instantly snaps its neck
@@omnibeta1876 Doesn't it run Swords Dance a lot?
Unfortunately, I think bug is probably the worst typing to combo with the ability. Way too many mons can learn some random flying or fire move, not to mention shit like Toxic or Will-o-wisp being kinda prevalent.
@@Polzemanden Guess Curse beats it.
The reason Shedinja is *kinda* viable in pro play is because you know how to use it against a good matchup, and usually the pool of meta pokemons are severely limited. When we're talking about battling every single other pokemon, given good coverage moves, then he falls off.
Hi patterz.
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Morepatterz*
Boost this to the top😂
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Hey Pat
I remember my fight against Dome Ace Tucker in Emerald. My slaking is IV/EV trained with Hyperbeam, Slack Off, Substitute, and Yawn. Arguably the best slaking one can make. But this dang charizard had the balls to barely survive a full hyperbeam! It became a dance with me substituting away from overheat, healing, and just trying to get him to sleep so I can attempt to hyperbeam again but I missed MULTIPLE TIMES! Then finally-I get to hit him again. This all could've been over sooner if my Slaking had 380+ attack power instead of 376.
Seeing victini get ranked so high feeds my soul just right
Before watching the video, I'm going to predict that Shedinja does really well just because of how many Pokemon can't hit it at all.
It got rank 677, which is kinda mid.
I thought I was so smart picking Shedinja for a top 25 placement and then I look at the list and ITS 677 THATS NOT EVEN IN THE TOP HALF 😭
This was surprisingly fun to watch, and it had mostly to do with presentation.
It's hilarious how the top 2 strongest obtainable pokemon are straight up given to you at the start of their respective games (of course you have to unlock their true power at the end but still 💀)
Wait so Eternamax lost 70 times but to who did this thing lose to??
God
Zacian, Zamazenta and propably any Steel/Fairy like Tinkaton. I think the Eternatus boss battle has it only have STAB moves (poison dragon) and with those it literally can not hit Tinkaton (or other Fairy/Steel) for any damage at all.
@GamePandaXXL but in the boss battle it has flamethrower and recover also if we were to take its best move set it would have something else beside dragon and Poison moves
@@BlueStr1ke yeah but if you cant use any STAB moves against creatures that hit you for super effective stab youre still at super bad odds
@GamePandaXXL yeah I get that but it's not going to go down at all since it's hp stat is 255 its def is 250 spdef is also 250 and it's attacking with spatk of 125 that's not something that's to be taken easily
I clicked to the end to quickly see number one. Then I clicked a little back to see the top 10. Then I rewound a bit to catch what you were saying. And I clicked through the top 100. Got dang, I wanna watch the whole video now! You got me. :D
The “back to you frank” *pause* “thanks frank” got me rollin 😂
this editing is just beautiful like i don’t even understand how it just makes me feel so comforted
Seeing hitman, champ punches way up, the rankings actually made me very happy 😂 something about that stance
I genuinely love how you give some of the highest quality Pokemon content there is
Jezus christ raboot being so incredibly high 13:11
Its what libero does to a pokemon
My friends used to make fun of me for liking Golurk. But my favorite haunted statue came under right below Ultra Necrozma.
“There may be tampering with the results”
Yeah if a decent mega and a powerful legendary Pokémon are in the bottom, I would consider redoing the entire thing
I know this is a fun list and all but the more I look at the list the more I wonder wtf happened with some of the pokemon. Abra is higher than alakazam AND mega-alakazam?
Oh, and you actually got me to watch the sponsor. I knew I was in for a treat when you rolled out the greenscreen.
I am shocked that Meloetta did so well. Shocked in a good way, though - it's my favourite Pokémon!
In regards to Miraidon you said "Why did they think this was fair???" and to that I just turn and point at the cutscene where it refuses to die and becomes unbelievably broken in the final cutscene because plot armor. You can't even intentionally fail, iirc.
Nah the absolute shade on greninja after robbing him of his ability protean then going on to praise Cinderace's libero, WHICH IS THE COPY OF GRENINJA'S PROTEAN, is actually insane
Everybody knows that Mega Lopunny is Nr.1 and I am not saying that because its my SUPER favorite Pokemon OF ALL TIME!
Nah it's definitely your favorite, sit down 😭
@@yourhomieee
Batman there's no laws against the Pokémon Batman
@@linksbootymeat😨😨
_"What are you doing to that Lopunny?"_
I was really wondering how the pacing of the video would be with all of this data and you absolutely crushed it Frank! Good stuff 👌
bro ngl, the fact that my boy Megagross was left out of this running hurts😭
one of my fav megas and a regular in any party for me
I was so excited to see Diancie so high as it's my favorite, only to get absolutely devastated at the Levitate revelation
Dude! You have to stop being so dang entertaining! I’m awkwardly smiling at my screen whenever you hit a quip 😂
17:01 “if you’re not a box art legendary you might as well retire”😂
Franky we ain’t forget about the Olive Garden breadsticks we need it
19:10 arcues would be number 1 if you gave him his special item
First time seeing your video, and your edits, comedic timing and just production is really top notch and funny without being too much.
1:56 why is this so funny
Is it? I thought it was an annoying part of the video that felt like rather cheap humor. It seemed to detract from the video to me, when it could have been used to expand more on the data obtained.
I never experienced more joy than when you said “Palkia is better”. Palkia is my favorite Pokémon and was my first legendary.
This was a very interesting video. Reviews where the content creator is speaking directly to the audience often are a chore to watch but Asteroid creativity in integrating cutaways to side comments/thoughts and product commercials are amusing and whimsical but engaging as well
5:35 in 1v1 whimsacott actually got banned in Gen 6, because of prankster sub leechseed
And I'm still upset about it