If You Could Pick a Starter Pokémon from ANY Type
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- If there was a game with a starter choice for every type, which Pokemon would the starters?
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i would pick all of them
I wish 😅 (also why of all people are YOU here)
Hi UA-cam your recommendations kind of suck =)
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edit: :(
Hi UA-cam
WHAT
17:27 fun fact in gen 5 speedruns, it's actually a pretty common strategy to ditch the starter for a Lillipup because it weighs less than the other starters but is close to starter stats and level up, so the animation when you send it out is faster with minimal difficulty raise.
So people have already been using Lillipup as a normal type starter in Generation 5 Speedruns
That's really interesting! I'm a gen 5 loving girl, and I've always been fond of using a Lillipup, at least for the early portion bc of the good attack stat coupled with 50 (75 stab) power tackle, but never really looked into speedruns of the game, thanks for sharing!
Well, I think only Emboar is faring better than Lillipup. The gen5 starters really arent that good and Stoutlands stats are JUST good enough to stampede over the games.
I thought it was because Stoutland weighed *more*, and that way it falls to the ground faster?
@@shimogane2474even if serperior was grass dragon:)
@@redox4604 They are talking about the early game bfr lillipup evolves. Pokemon speedruns are so amazing.
I love how you unintentionally(?) set up the fairy starter trainer to have an eternal grudge with the flying starter trainer lol
If you pick fairy the rival will pick corviknight no matter what
I love how some of these are already kind of "psuedo starters" of being exceptionally strong early route Pokemon that can really bolster your team.
“Vibes! Trapinch!” Had me DYINGGGGGG
The disrespect to flygon is crazy
13:30 Imagine: You get whatever gym badge matches the mid 30s. Suddenly you’re interrupted by an old woman who tells you about her past. She talks about how she once pranked a trainer years ago by giving her haunter an everstone before trading it. She then gives the player a link cable to atone for her sins. Mindy redemption arc.
Damn that'd be awesome
That would be the greatest thing Pokémon could do
no, just NO! the heathen Mindy does not deserve penance, only eternal damnation!
You’re really stretching a little bit to assume MINDY of all people would actually do this. Freaking Gaspar the Haunter holding an EVERSTONE!!!
You’re really stretching a little bit to assume MINDY of all people would actually do this. Freaking Gaspar the Haunter holding an EVERSTONE!!!
Mikey’s childhood dreams have both Hoenn puedos on the list. The glory of having a metagross, flygon, Salamance as options right off the bat.
Flygon it's not a pseudo
@@blacksheep7741he never said it was
@@blacksheep7741salamence and metagross is.
@@rein_k. Nuh uhs you are wrongs
@@JerdMcLean nuh uh, you are🙄
I would really only change one, that being Psychic into Ralts, purely because it’d be a super fun gimmick to have a starter be able to choose its final form.
and technically ralts is already a starter, that of wally.
@@drakephysecron6775 And I think the whole Wally and Ralts thing is one of the most charming moments in all of pokemon.
Gallade requires a Dawn Stone to evolve and only a male Ralts can become one.
I would put Ralts as the fairy starter to free up tinkatink for steel starter
@@crazychristopher1989 You could always change it so that either gender can become Gallade and have a forced story interaction that gives you a Dawn Stone.
Man, please don’t do this. Hop is going to have a stroke trying to pick his starter if this were true.
Normal type starter VS Hop
Definely
No he always picks the Pokémon weak to yours 😂
i also stroked to this video no pause
@@-BenGaming-and if you pick a normal type?
Me when I try to justify not liking someone even though they've done nothing to me personally: "Wait! Vibes!"
no fr
Sorry tinkaton, but your vibes aren't vibing
humans are _really_ good at picking up vibes, or at least the smart ones are, so you should pay attention to them!
As someone interested in game design, I LOVE how you actually consider all the elements of balancing and making it fun for the player.
10:30 "guess how many evolution lines are fighting all the way through."
Me: 3
"Only 3!"
Me: nice
He said 3 not 6
@@Gummyboypog what?
So the Dragon type starter is just Salamance. The Salamance type meme is still alive.
“Haha Trainer Face me and my dragon types”
“Oh yeah? well I have a Salamance type!”
“A what now- AUGH”
Palkias true weakness: Salamence type pokemon
I could really use a Salamence right about now…
@@donovan802"T-this, this is what we Get after Bullying Palkia so much..."
Glad I have salamence in my violet team :D
Would arguably say that Sandile wins the vibes for ground, based on the cute starter turning to a grumpy teenager, then to a badass final form
Krookodile is just Sandile but bigger and stands upright with different colored scales
@@theamazingspooderman2697Yeah, and?
@@addison_v_ertisement1678 so its lazy?
@@theamazingspooderman2697 It's the same thing with the Charmander line. Also, it's not magically bad just because it didn't take much effort.
@@addison_v_ertisement1678 Charmander doesn't have wings, Charizard does so the comparison is not the same
I'm just saying its lazy, like Pawmot
“Deerling, because it’s an animal with a bit of plant”😂😂😂honestly so glad this video got recommended to me, you’re fucking hilarious😂
Fun fact about ralts, if you pick it starting at level 5 the only move it will have growl.
'Can you guess how many fighting types start at base?'
Jokingly: Three
"Its three."
😮😮😮
I was guessing 2. I forgot that Mankey counted now. It's weird how imbalanced some of these types are.
@@solitare4602 I, meanwhile, guessed the three lines dead-on. So proud of myself for remembering the Machop, Mankey, and Timburr lines.
I said one 😂 I could only think of machop
@@solitare4602I guessed 2 as well. I got Machop and Mankey, forgot of Timburr.
I guessed three or four. I didn't realize it was this bad.
Primeape also learns Rage Fist at level 35 in SV, so it mostly fits inside the starter evolution level range in this case (level 36 evolution if you do the requirement immediately)
"my new game, my rules" got me cracking 😂😂😂
Fun fact, there is an exception to this. In Pokemon Go, you can pick between grass, water, fire, and electric. If you walk away from the starters repeatedly, you eventually unlock Pikachu. It is, in fact, real, and I have done it myself.
12:24
the way this was worded makes me imagine a corvisquire evolving into a tornadous and its way too funny to me
Picturing a fairly normal bird pokemon becoming a humanoid genie thing is quite funny lol
@@NovumDoesObservation just imagine it evolves into the threrian forme
Same
@@inscritogratis5693 Incarnate is way funnier tho
digimon anh
This is actually something ive wanted to see in a pokemon game.
Just imagine the replayability if you have 18 types of starters to choose from
There is a pokemon fan game like that called This gym of mine, where you can pick three different starters from every single type.
try pokerouge
Especially if they were all new pokemon.
@@rockowlgamer631 if that was the case we are going to be waiting for the next 7 years
@@sebia1238good, maybe the games will actually be polished if we wait that long. Tears of the kingdom was a god damn masterpiece that’s a miracle considering it’s on switch. Imagine if we got a TOTK-quality pokemon game. But we won’t because of that 3 year rule.
Edit: full nat Dex could be a possibility if the devs were given time, which addresses two of the biggest complaints with modern pokemon games
people say how the gen 9 designs are bad and not creative, but they were so unique only the starters and tinkaton fitted as starters and tinkaton only was there because there was no options
13:07 the way Mikey saids “disgusting” just scratches my brain
“VIBES… TRAPINCH” I’m dead, great choice tho
“Or it’s Slaking being as strong as Groudon but with a garbage ability” I don’t know why, but I just find that funny
I was rooting for Flygon ... Because it's friendly vibes goes with the starters .. and I want one😊
Yeah that guy has vibes
Funny to have Mikey explaining that Beldum could be changed from only learning Tackle while I'm googling when Beldum was changed from only learning Take Down. (Gen VIII, by the way)
Just give it Confusion and Metal Claw at levels 10 and 15 and you're good.
I've played unbound with pseudos as starters and they just gave beldum a steel type version of tackle, flash and actual tackle for its move set
Yeah, realistically you'd just modify the moveset like in Unbound, seems fine to me
I was thinking the same thing. "Like Beldum would be horrible only knowing Take Down. Huh, what's that? Tackle you say? When!?"
That made shiny hunting it so much easier. Not have to worry about a recoil move on something with an abysmal rate so you can’t swipe it.
This is my favorite take on this idea I’ve seen yet. You’re the only person I’ve seen who’s given decent explanations to their choices. I like how you argued that later evolution lines could be made up by a greater reward like Salamance. Many people seem to miss that haha
I came just to make sure Flygon was the ground type. It was underwhelming but we got there!
4:57
Mikey: "and by the end it's a..."
Me "a KISS member!"
Mikey "... A... Furry😅"
Me "... Or that, I guess😅"
Bro I was about to comment he same, but now I don´t want to post the same comment
Well the others aren't members of KISS. He was saying that Zigzagoon (Galar) is like the other starters where they start as small quadroped babies, and turn into bipedal furry bait.
I said "it's just a guy" 😂
@@cTc10691 Well, you aren't wrong 😂
Hey sometimes even furries want to rock'n roll all nite🤘
Hey Mikey, here’s the thing about Starter Pokémon: they get a head start on friendship values! So, the friendship evolutions aren’t that problematic.
The 3rd stages would be problematic as they'd evolve too early (but with a regular starting friendship value it's fine - which is why Zubat was chosen) - but if you crank it up high enough, it might work
@@mapeus Yeah, especially since Crobat is easy enough to get before the second gym.
@@mapeus yeah, my Golbat always evolves at lvl 23 or lvl 25, no matter the game
@@theamazingspooderman2697 that is strange mine evolve at 35, still crobat is good
Baby Pokwmon especially are. So if they would evovle by a few levels
🤦♂️ Male Kirlia can evolve into a Gardeviour 😑
He knows
Every time i catch a zubat early on in my playthrough it almost always evolves to crobat directly after evolving to golbat bc of how much friendship it gets up to that point
“I’m sorry, this one sucked” lmaoooo 15:12
Smith!!
It did suck xD
5:01 the Dragon segment really puts into perspective how bad the Type gets it outside of competitive. Barely any Primary Dragon Type Pokémon that aren’t Psuedo Legendary, Mythical, or Legendary, with some of them feeling like Dragon should be the secondary type, like with Altaria and Tatsugiri, and the only regular Primary Dragon Type Pokémon evolution line, Axew’s, still struggles as much as a Psuedo Legendary with evolution levels, but still levels up just as slowly!
I also agree with Mikey that Haxorus should have Pseudo stats! It’s literally already a point faster than the actual psuedo of Unova, Hydreigon. Put more points into the speed and attack and make Haxorus a physical sweeper compared to Hydreigon’s special orientation.
@@dinodude8899I’d actually argue Haxorus should keep the stats it has but have it’s evolution levels reduced and/or change it’s XP group to be faster. We need more dragons with a bit quicker evolutions
I'm surprised he didn't consider Goomy for the Dragon pick...
I get the feeling that Haxorus was originally intended to be the pseudo legendary for Gen 5, before being dropped in favour of Hydreigon. Unfortunately the evolution levels and level speed remained those of a pseudo legendary's, without the power of one.
@@MilkshakeVA the Rain evolution kinda screws over Goomy.
21:34 "late lvl and beat up friends"
Hilarious
I love this video concept, would love to see a game like this
i wish there was a sandbox mode after you beat the main game, like a second save file, where you can choose all your pokemon, choose levels, IVs and probably more stuff, bascially you can do whatever you want so you can make any pokemon your starter!
I’d also love a challenge mode for the players who want a challenge. Every trainer uses held items and has properly trained Pokemon at some point in the story.
There are Randomizers, for both of those situation, for most games. I know the Randomizer for the newest game, Scarlet and Violet for example, let you set if the NPCs will have perfect IVs, smarter AI, held items, full teams of 6, and so on. You can also set to have the Starters Randomized, or you can put in the Dex ID and specifically pick what pokemon shows up. You can even randomize the abilities, types, and move sets of pokemon to really make it crazy and insane.
Pretty sure Randomizers for the older games, let you do even more stuff to fine tune it.
They would have to slap on a big "None of these pokemon can go into home or be traded" sticker on that I imagine
"But its evolution levels are tge *disgusting* 50 and 60"
The way he said it had me dying
I love how you turned into Stewie when you said friendship and a stone for the Togepi line evolution 😆
Nice to see a lot of favourites from early gens again. And i have never ever seen before that mr. Mime has an evolution now. It is beautiful.
Petition for MandJTV to rate all of his 2023 Playthrough teams
He made a video going over every team he used last year. Not sure if that’s what you mean
@flynnscheib2487 no, he hasn't done it for 2023 (yet)
@@jdouble-l19978especially with his crazy playthroughs, like Infinite Fusion
no thats the most unoriginal idea ever
But then it gets more views
starters having a friendship evolution is actually really neat, and it works pretty well
I'm so happy Mr. Mime's line made the cut. I've loved Mr. Mime since Pokémon Yellow when you traded for him and his nickname was Miles. I still name my Mr. Mime's "Miles" in remembrance of my childhood lol.
Nicely done and well thought out 👍
Love how the reason Cosmog was eliminated was because of the moveset, no other reason why it shouldn't be a starter
Ikr. Nah, it evolving into a whole legendary isn’t part of the reason, it’s just the moveset 😂
Trapinch based on ✨vibes✨ was hysterical 😂
Haven’t watched in like 3 years good to see you again, Mike.
My personal choices based 95% on vibe:
Bug- Sewaddle
Dark- Galarian Zigzagoon
Dragon- Gimbal
Electric- Shinx
Fairy- Togepi
Fighting- Machomp
Flying- Rookidee
Ghost- Litwick
Ground- Trapinch
Ice- Swinub
Normal- Lilipup
Poison- Oddish
Psychic- Hatenna
Rock- Aron
Steel- Tinkatink
Friendship evolution way back then was a real pain in the butt back in the day.
Fortunately nowadays it’s much easier to friendship evolve most Pokemon that need it.
Luxray was designed to be an electric type starter Pokemon ⚡
No it wasn’t. It was designed to be a Pokémon
@@-BenGaming-starters are Pokémon
@@Moonlight_Free_Fireno poop shirlock
It's actually first partner Pokémon
@@SuperbGorilla Shut up they are called starters and will always be called starters
22:08 beldum's only move isn't tackle, it's takedown. I know because I've used beldums as starters multiple times for various reasons, and only having an 85% accurate recoiil move is a nightmare...
I would not recommend beldum as a starter, but would probably still pick it again.
They replaced take down with tackle 3 years ago, clearly you ain’t used him enough
Mikey I love your vids so much whenever I’m having a bad day I always watch your videos and they cheer me up so I would just like to say thank you
I love the Axew line so much, and I cried so many tears when I found out they weren’t pseudo legends. LIKE WHY
bro actually cried over a pokemon lmao
@@theamazingspooderman2697He was probably a kid, chill bro
@@simonrespeto even as a kid, who cries over a pokemon? you have to have no friends or be way too sensitive even as a kid to cry over a pokemon
@@theamazingspooderman2697 I mean it's a cute little dragon, and they took something away from it
@@theamazingspooderman2697 Who's the edgy boi, who's the edgy boi? That's right, you are.
to get around the trade evos, the player's rival could be like a gamer or a computer scientist, have a porygon as a starter, and make it hold a linking cord which the rival could gift the player after a battle or something
Tbh I feel like the trade requirement should just be removed, but that sounds like a funny story beat
@mapeus I couldn't agree more trade evolution is the worst mechanic in these games and makes older games impossible to 100% without owning 2 consoles at now.
This is actually very well thought out.
Now he’s got todo the ultimate starter trio
You could say if you choose the steel starter you'll have a "hard" start, but end up with and an absolute "machine"
Literally 🤣
Brilliant joke, mate
I’ll have to “steel” this joke.
Shame it has some flaws to *iron* out. By trainers with *metal* can *forge* a path to victory.
@@alphabladelm2011 you get it
15:00 "Wait! Vibes!" Made me laugh out loud.
Your edits are awesome and really elevate the viewing experience.
Imo, every Pokémon game should have a starter of each type.
The best choice would obviously be tera type Incineroar.
Ah yes, the terror of VGC.
I really love these videos where you carefully go through all your criteria. It's how my brain works too lol.
Throwback to my first Shield playthrough where I used Galarian Zigzagoon as my “starter” so I couldnt agree with your chooce more 👌
Parts of this were funny to watch for me, the guy who went from red and blue, then skipped all of it until Pokemon Go. 😂😂
Michael is cool.
Thank you
Yes he is
@@michaelshalkowski5225No probably
İ actually sorta recommended this idea as a referans to nexomon
He's also pretty smart. He says a lot of things that I agree with.
Haxorus may have 60 less BST but 50 of them are Special Attack, and since mixed ist mostly useless, its almost the same in the end.
Rare to read that. But that is absolutely right!
Facts that is also part of the reason pseudos haven't been that good in the competitive the last few gets (and yes the other reason is fairy types) they are built to be Swiss army knives or jack of all trades which is just not good as now they have all these stat points that amount to nothing like having 90 Sp. Atk means nothing with your Atk stat is like 120, could easily but most of those points from Sp. Atk into Atk or Speed
Like look at Ultra Beasts or Paradox mons they are very much optimized and most are very good in competitive
They aren't useless, like at all. Salamance do like running draco meteors or fire blast on occasion. It being mixed allows for extra utility that Haxorus doesn't bring
@@mohammadmuriePheromosa haa 130+ in both attacking stats and is one of the few tht are actually banned
love that mankey is there. is my favorite fighting pokemon even back in gen 1
This would be a very nice change of pace in the series
3:14 YOOOOO, I'm so happy you went with this choice! I know Vikavolt is one of your favorite, so I thought you were gonna choose it (I love it too don't get me wrong) and I love Orbeetle so much.
I like Orbeetle too, but I stand by Leavanny being amazing, perfect, and having the starter vibes
“Do you know how many 3 stage fighting types there are?”
Yeah Timburr and Machamp
"How do I make a decision?" "Oh no! Feelings!”
I love how he’s kept the same background music for so long it’s acc jazzy bro
“How do I choose? 😭”
“Oh wait! Vibes!”
At this point do we need to say he's gonna change the thumbnail
Choosing Trapinch based on vibes makes complete sense when you think about the starters' traditional cuteness
When I played White for the first time, Lilipup found itself as my main Pokémon for that game with Snivy being in my party but not my main. This really made me so happy to hear it was the Normal starter
Absolutely loved this! It’ll always amaze me how rare it is for various Pokémon to fit well into the starter role. Definitely picking Trapinch!
Take your "free Fan-game ideas" ticket! Thank you for pushing creativity, MAndJTV!
This video inspired an idea you should totally do!
A nuzlock where you're given all the type starters you chose, one of each type and see how far you can get
You should get people to make a mod where people play the game using your starters along with the 1 gen starters
Hey there vsauce. Michael here, sandyghast is real…. OR IS IT?!?!
No H in Sandygast 😅
So random but funny
8:58 shinx is my favorite 3-stage electric line. Follows starter rule of starting cute, gets to end looking awesome, and doesn't have awkward middle phase that is sadly too common in 3-stage lines
If I ever decide to make a Pokémon game, Imma use this as a guide fir the starter selection.
It would have been nice to include some early route commentary for where these could be picked up for monotype run :)
Electric: I get choosing Luxray for the BST, but Ampharos definitely has better starter vibes.
Agreed. Personally I’m never touching shinx on this list if I played this hypothetical game a million times. I would pick mareep quite a bit. But that’s just me I’m sure Shinx has a billion fans
@@cameronschmit6472 ampharos also gets a mega which starters are all getting these days
I think they both have starter vibes- the luxray line is like what people hoped out of the litten and sprigatito lines
I'm slightly inclined to ampharos but I also like shinx and flaafy.
Both shinx and mareep are available as starters in the mystery dungeon games which is something.
Also its really funny/silly/clunky how the term is "first partner pokmon" which is kinda a facepalm
21:47 small mistake, honedge evolves via dusk stone not dawn stone
I like how at the very beginning at 0:28 he forgot the rock type and had 2 poisons on the screen.
This entire video was just me going “fair enough”
4:51 It’s the best of all the options on stats and levels BUT it’s a regional form
I was really hoping that Michael was gonna pick applin as the dragon type just for the fun of it
What he said about both the Dragon and Steel type starters also applies to Fighting with Mankey, the later evolution level rewards you with a more powerful Primeape rather than just a Machoke or Gurdur, also Primeape learns Rage Fist at level 35, it’s perfect
I honestly would choose half of this options if given the chance. But I think I would still choose a water, fire, or grass type starter over the options you given if one happens to be one of my favorites.
17:22 In black & white speedruns speedrunners ditch their starter at the start for a lillipup
- A Ponyta!
- .... Not a fire type!
- Galarian ponyta!
- It doesnt evolve enough times!
- ... any horse is fine
so we need a new horse pokemon😉
@@MagnakayViolet If we follow the trend of Fire starters being the Chinese zodiac, we still need a Fire Horse starter.
@@hayleybartek8643 plz let that theory die already
@@MagnakayViolet exactly!
5:22 I mean, Axew was basically Iris' starter in the anime, so it fits just fine.
I mean dragon being slow to evolve but getting super strong if you put in the effort is kinda perfect
Picking Tinkaton for the Fairy type starter then immediately after going with Corviknight was perfect, it shot it out of THE SKY!!
If zoura had a middle evo it would be the most obvious option for dark types
i think the biggest problem with these pokemon is that they were not designed to be starters. starters were created with a certain goal in mind, but these were created with different goals. it was fun to watch you try and decide on each type's starter, but it would be most effective to just create starters of each type so they actually match all the criteria. looking forward to that video!
Primeape will forever be my favorite Pokémon. So glad we chose Mankey as the fighting starter 😂