I think Heracross deserves a little shoutout for johto. It loses points for being annoying to get, but has a good type matchup against gyms 3-7. Though, that's more for hgss Heracross, since that game actually gives it a good moveset. It will never not be satisfying to steamroll whitney with brick break.
I just wish Heracross didn't suck in the first two games where it's available. In G/S/C it learns no offensive fighting moves, and only Megahorn in the 50s for bug moves. The situation in Gen 3 isn't as dire, with access to the Brick Break TM, but it's still not great... Only from Gen 4 on is it worth using, really.
@@Odlaw91 Not that you'd get a Heracross in Gen 3; since it's a postgame encounter in Fire Red and Leaf Green, and in Hoenn it's a rare encounter in the Safari Zone which has lots of unique encounters... your point stands, though.
Pro for Heracross: guaranteed in HGSS. If you skip a route 33 encounter, beat Bugsy and get Headbutt from the guy in Ilex forest, you can go to the guard north of Goldenrod and get the gift Spearow. Then head back to Azalea where there are only get three Headbutt encounters: Spearow, Aipom and Heracross. And Route 33 has the exact same Headbutt encounters. So it’s a tad complicated, but Heracross is always guaranteed, as long as you get Kenya the Spearow. Con for Heracross: Swarm. Yes, not having Guts makes Heracross not quite as useful, but having Swarm isn’t even that useful anyway. Excluding move tutor moves from the battle frontier, the only bug move Heracross can even get in Gen 4 (I haven’t played or researched the Gen 2 games) is Megahorn at level 55, so have fun getting that after beating half of the Kanto gyms
hey, I love Breloom as much as the next guy, but 60/80/60 defences with 70 doesn't strike me as 'good speed and bulk'. His attack is stellar for gen 3 standards, however, almost as much as Salamence For comparison, Gardevoir has 68/60/115 defences and 80 speed.
Hate to say this, but Garchomp FJ did make a pretty good argument for garchomp being a pretty good encounter... Very good video, and i'll definitely take note of Excadrill for the Unova Nuzlockes im planning on doing!
@omarkn7506 It's not available until post game in either Gen 5 (granted no Gen 4 mon is available until post game in BW), its only available in one area in Kalos where it's encounter rate is okay. It's only available through SoS encounter in Gen 7, which would generally mean you have to encounter another pokemon you haven't already caught before it would even show up. It's only available through the Crown Tundra in SwSh and then at a level where you're only going to be able to use it extremely late game with HC rules and its generally only going to be available through special means or not at all in remake games not called BDSP. That said, i would have picked Garchomp over Lucario. Yes, Lucario is a guaranteed egg in DPP, but his encounter rate is generally pretty low in other games, and he's not available until post game in Gen 7. You can potentially get him super early in B2W2 and Lucario woulf absolutely trivialize the first 3 gyms of that game but it's a 5% Riolu encounter and I generally find Cheren pretty consistent with a charm Marill into Growth Snivy combo anyways. Nor is Roxy or Burgh too bad as long as you pick up some counters to poison/bug along the way. There is, however, another pokemon who is available in every game from Gen 4 on including the remakes who usually have a decent to good encounter rate, an excellent typen, Excellent stats, a great ability and a useful second ability if you aren't lucky enough to get the first. It even pairs well with the common flying and water types. Can be encountered before the second gym in B2W2 and will generally have good match ups into most normal trainers, if not gym leaders. Magnezone. Magnezones isn't without its issues with its 4x ground weakness, speed that's too slow to be a fast sweeper and too fast to benefit much from trick room, and its not always the easiest to evolve. That said, the ground weakness can be played around with a strong flying/levitate mon, Magnet Rise, or an air balloon starting in Gen 5. I would also argue the advantages of steel typing more than make up for its weaknesses, dspecially in the Fairy heavy Gen 6 and 7 games. The evolution problem also isn't that much of a problem post Gen 5 as eviolite (usually available early) makes Magneton into a solid answer for a lot of fights. Magnemite itself is usually solid for early game.
Skeledirge is also worth mentioning for Paldea. Fire types already thrive in this Gen and a bulky Fire type with a healing move and a signature that raises special attack means you can usually just click torch song like 5-6 times and win
I should also add that Gyarados is INCREDIBLE as a FIELD pokémon in X and Y. Even if it has nature/IVs ill suited to combat, it can use Dragon Rage for reliable captures, Twister to dislodge berries, Bulldoze / Surf for Horde encounters, and more.
Can not believe you didn't even mention Lilligant for Gen 5. Sure, pure grass is a poor typing? But shes got amazing utility, disgusting setup & access to both Quiver Dance & Petal Dance while also having Own Tempo so she can blast gigantic holes even in things that resist her with literally no downsides. She completely swept the Elite 4 in Gen 5, took out the trash (Ghetsis) & completely swept leon in a Sword playthrough. Yes, including gigantimax Charizard. Lilligant is a monster
For Generation 7, while I do think Golisopod is a strong runner up, I raise you a different insect: Ribombee. It has a similarly great typing, can be found in both Alola and Galar, hits decently hard, is blazing fast, and has access to both status conditions and Quiver Dance. It's essentially a Butterfree with a better typing and a worse ability, albeit it isn't nearly as common.
It's ability may be worse than compound eyes, but shield dust can be super useful for playing around rng, since you don't have to worry about stuff like paralysis from discharge
A video i might love to see is like "Encounters that can solo each gym/boss in each game" (regardless of starter choice) Like brock can be soloed by mankey even if you picked the worst starter for him Same with beedrill on misty, diglett on surge, etc!
I honestly think flair is also a great factor. I am but a vain woman with hopes for my team to look stacked asf. Id 100% go for corvinight over skarmory just cause theyre bigger and look cooler😂 its like an extra level of confidence
Honestly really surprised that Skeledirge didn't even get a shoutout, I would have put it at number one nuzlocke mon for gen 9, top 5 at least overall. Amazing typing, bulk and signature move let it sweep most boss battle in the game
@@feckoff2422 Jan from pchal once did a vid (dont remember which one it was) and said something along the lines that skeledirge is the most broken starter for nuzlocking ever made to the point that you can solo the gen 9 games just with him
@@feckoff2422he has great bulk and slack off, and torch song to set up. His great typing and moves like snarl and will o wisp contribute even more to his bulk, and you have a mostly unkillable sweeper
You probably won't read this, but I love this idea of video! Strategizing and ranking Nuzlocke encounters and methods like this is always super interesting, and educational. Please do more
9:38 is the best build up to a sponsorship segment ever, that slow head turn absolutely killed me right up there with the holz kern "little boy" head voice
I so want a “GarchompFJ’s Premium Paste” - themed run. Like he slowly hijacks the game as time goes on and replaces the Pokémon with Garchomp and paste-themed Pokémon
I think it would be funny if he made a GarchompFJ channel and posts opposite videos of FlygonHG. Like in this case GarchompFJ would make a video of the worst Pokemon of every generation
I am surprised that Bulbasuar/venasuar wasn’t at least a honorable mention. The typing is amazing for Kanto, being super effective against the first two gyms along with the fourth and eighth, resists the third gym and the poison secondary type allows for it to take neutral damage from poison, which 2 of the main boss fights use (Agatha failing to beat poison type trainer allegations), and because of how much game freak loves gen 1, you can find or at least get a gen 1 starter like in Kalos, in Alola you can find starters with the pokéradar, galar with the Isle of armor dlc, and the terrarium in scarlet and violet
The first Nuzlocke I ever actually managed to win was in White version, where I obtained a Drilbur in Wellspring. She killed the 'mon I used to catch her, but she was completely worth it as in the end, only two of my team survived the fight against Ghetsis to get me the win and she was one of them. The other the Scrafty that took down Hydreigon.
TORTERRA MENTIONNED!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOO! Also, you are definitely sleeping on the Garchomp, he is so good. There's a great reason why Garchomp is unanimously feared when it's used to near full ability. Ominous piano starts playing in the background. 😰
Not an angry comment, but more of a why comment. I feel like the list would do better if you did this by generation of games instead of generation of Pokemon. Take gen 1 for example. You say its gyarados and its not even close, but alakazam and kadabra are also pretty reliable encounters in gen 1 and curbstomp the games. As for honorable mentions, raticate is useless in gen 1 because abilties dont exist yet. I feel like the list doesnt make sense if you dont talk about the games themselves.
alakazam needs trade evo or a modded safefile and thus is pretty bad- gyarados before gen 4 is garbage since water is special and it doesnt get any good flying moves.
Alakazam and Kadabra have fallen off a bit in more recent generations as Psychic is not the best typing when a lot of pokemon have dark type moves. Admittedly Gengar runs into the same issue of dark type moves but he's held up better because of the double immunity to fighting and normal which are both common and gets the triple immunity with ground in games where he still has levitate. Also now that steel no longer resists ghost, gengar doesn't have to worry about steel types holding him back. Plus Abra just teleports away any time you dont have a guaranteed way to prevent them from doing so and fail at your One Ball HG impression. So sometimes running into Abra isn't an advantage, so much as it's a missed encounter. This is actually another advantage for the Gengar line since they can learn Mean Look to prevent that cowardly Abra from getting away. Snorlax is also an insane member to find from Gen 1 and I'd argue its huge bulk and good move pool make it a better mon than Gyarados in non-set up runs. However while it is a guaranteed encounter in Kanto, Johto, Kalos and Galar games, it's otherwise very rare and you won't get the Johto encounter until well-after the main run of the game and by then you probably have a pretty solid team put together.
Gonna shout out Dreadnaw. Two phenomenal abilities in Strong Jaw and Shell Armor, early evolution level, good offensive typing, faster than you'd expect with great physical attack and decent bulk. Also pretty easily available in both Galar and Paldea.
@@sveiprTorch Song Throatspray for instant +2 Special Attack Boost, Slack Off for Recovery, Shadow Ball for Coverage, eventually Unaware because why the fuck not, immunity to Fighting and Normal Pokémon, decently bulky... Tera Fire for extra Oomf, and with all of that - you may still be able to have a crit and do even more damage !
I’m surprised Heracross didn’t make the Gen 2 list. Bro is fairly easy to encounter and an absolute menace with Guts. Helps trivialize Whitney, can sweep Jasmine, Pryce, and half of the E4 just on type advantage alone.
Flygon can you please continue the series where you only use a regions starters to determine the best, I know johto will be obvious lol but all the other regions have a bit more balance.
IS Johto obvious? I thought people flip flopped between the croc and the rat. Hoenn on the other hand? Yeah, that’s so obviously Swampert it ain’t even funny.
@@thevioletbee5879at least for me both are good but there’s a lot of decent guranteed water types in johto like Gyrados or Lapras compared to decent fire type encounters
@@thevioletbee5879I guess it depends what "best" actually means. If you are just looking at who is the strongest then that's pretty easily Feraligatr, but when you take in to consideration oportunity cost it's probably Typhlosion because fire types are rare. Overall water starters are probably the best, but the grass and fire starters are often the best pokemon of that type in each game while water straters are rarely the best.
@@thevioletbee5879 In Gold, Silver, and Crystal, it's pretty cut-and-dry Typhlosion, since Feraligatr is a physical-attacking pure water type, meaning his only STAB is always special, and the majority of his coverage is as well (shoutouts to Crunch being special). In HGSS, it's a bit closer, but still leaning towards Typhlosion - pure fire is actually a pretty solid defensive type, and the opportunity cost of getting a pure water type as your starter is kind of unfortunate, especially given that the first time you fight a major trainer with a water weakness is literally post-game.
@@timob1681 I actually think Feraligatr is better in gen 2. It can solo the first 3 gyms just by using rage and before the 4th gym it gets surf which is the most powerfull move you'll realisticaly have by that point of the game.
I cannot stress how GOATed Excadrill is in Gen 5 nuzlockes. Easy to encounter as early as Route 4 (and able to be found in most every other cave afterwards) thanks to how Drilbur is encountered and can be searched for safe from Woobats and Roggenrola thanks to repels. Right before the N & Ghetsis fight I taught my Archeops Sandstorm and taught it U-Turn to let Excadrill wreak havoc. Poor Simon fell to Ghetsis' Hydreigon miraculously landing a Focus Blast, after which my Stoutland switched in and avenged my Excadrill with a theatrically appropriate Retaliate.
Gonna give a personal honorable mention to Lokix in Scarlet and Violet. Pretty much found almost immediately leaving Mesagoza, good speed and attack, has first impression AND U turn., and pretty much soloed Geeta's entire team for me.
I was using an Excadrill in Indigo Disk, and every battle I was more and more in awe of how stupidly broken the thing is. and it was evil, just pure evil with either a Choice Scarf if it needed the outspeed, or an Assault Vest if it didn't. and because of the heavy EV investment in Speed, I was only worried about a handful of speedy Pokemon. so I'd slap on the Assault Vest, and Excadrill would go to work.
Did Skeledirge fall off in favor or something..?? Bro is genuinely OP, with its bulk, great typing (he was JUST glazing Chandelure for it lmao), and insanely broken signature move!
Careful with the Shedinja, it doesnt wall Tate and Liza´s Solrock because it knows flamethrower, you do wall the Xatu and the Lunatone (They can still hit you with confuse ray and hypnosis tho) but both the Claydol and the Solrock have ancientpower and Flamethrower to hit you.
Very fond of this type of video! Learning from your playthroughs is great but having a specifically condensed learning video makes going back over tips much easier. Also delighted to see the GOATS Primarina and Starmie get mentions.
@@SeraphimSigilist the coverage comes from TMs, so you need to invest a lot to make it good, especially in games with no reusable TMs. Its level up moveset is trash and its abilities are pretty bad except its hidden ability which in most games you can't get in a regular encounter.
It definitely would have been if he went game by game instead of gen by gen. I honestly think it would have been better if he did. Half these mons arent good in half the games due to availability. In gen 3 the best encounter is still gyarados.
What if: a nuzlocke race in a game, with yourself or someone else. Each has to use a different starter and the starter has to survive until the end of the game. Then you can analyze the difference each starter made in gameplay and teambuilding
For Black and White, it's surprising no mention of Zoroark. A mon who break the AI, sweeping anything with a fighting type in the back and a lead with a psychic move it'll spam, it's incredible. And surprisingly not awfully hard to get, you can for sure get it in BW2 which it utterly destroys the E4 in that game except Marshal and doesn't do bad with the gyms and other fights like Colress, and with Ghetsis's lead. It's late in XY but can be got, you can get very early in USUM, overall just an utterly dominate BW pokemon. Sure Excadrill is more easily gotten and a bit better if you don't abuse illusion, though felt it should've gotten in a mention, great video though!
24:59 it also has Swords Dance to make up for it. It can use Encore to lock opposing pokemon into moves, it learns Thunder Wave to stall out opposing pokemon, it can break Sturdy by setting up Stealth Rock or through Mold Breaker, it's insane.
I feel like im spiting everyone by having Gen 7 be my favorite. It's not nostalgia either, my first mainline game was ruby, i just happen to prefer the story-focused games
Gen7 is great and it’s also kinda funny bc technically the player isn’t the main character, the plot revolves around Lily and Cosmog, you’re just a ride or die friend who’s really great at battling
I disagree with meowscarada, I think Skeledirge is easily better as it has a much better type match up against a lot of fights, and torch song is busted. Also, I think Tailow is overrated specifically against Brawly. He's a great mon, but being part normal type means that he doesn't resist fighting, and one good smack will take it down. In my opinion, the best Brawly mon (minus the ultra rare sableye) is dustox. Bug poison gives him a 4x resist into fighting, and he has access to gust and confusion, meaning he can easily take care of any of Brawly's Pokémon. Other than that though, great list.
0 ATK IV, 0 ATK EV LV19 (the emerald level cap) one shots Machop, Meditite and has a guaranteed 2shot on Makuhita with Guts activated through the Sitrus berry. It literally can't lose unless Makuhita clicks Revarsal as its first move. Hell if you train Taillow to be one KO way from leveling up, it has a 75% chance to just oneshot Makuhita, Reversal being the first move picked or a crit is the only way it can possibly lose. And it only gets stronger as the game goes on thanks to Facade being fairly easily accessible, granting it a 140 power move with doubled attack.
@@PKMN649 well, I lost a Tailow against Brawly on my last nuzlocke of emerald. Pretty sure it was one shot against makuhita and wasn't crit, sooooooo........ I stand by what I said.
I don’t know if you’re familiar with the Roblox game Brick Bronze, but Gogoat is actually phenomenal in that game. Leech seed, growth, synthesis and horn leech is outstanding
For Gen 1, I absolutely agree with Gyarados being the best Nuzlocke Pokemon, but I feel like both Nidoking and Nidoqueen are great encounters to have for Nuzlockes as well. For Gen 3, Breloom, despite it's quad weakness to Flying, is an absolute force with the right moveset and if you max out the speed EVs, but I can't disagree with the Shedinja pick. Overall, all very good choices for best Nuzlocke 'mons.
I think the second best gen 1 encounter has to be Bulbasaur. It solos the entire early game, and even though it gets less useful late game it means you don't have to sweat about what mons you get for Brock (who if you pick Charmander can be an issue), Misty (for whom you need fast and strong or a Bellsprout) and Surge (a much smaller issue because Diglett cave)
Id like to shout out Whimsicott. Found a shiny one late game on a white 2 redux run and the thing solo'd the dragon gym and a good majority of the elite 4. Absolute power house disguised as a cotton ball
Really surprised you didn't mention ferrothorn for gen 5: amazing wall (probably better than blissey imho), fairly easy to get, great typing and good damage output with bodypress and gyro ball
farfetch'd is not always bad :( ive watched your normal type playthrough so i know that FOR A FACT farfetch'd is a perfect little angel with great stats
Shocked you didn’t mention haxorus for gen 5. I realize he may come a bit late but really he gets so many natural tools like d dance and then outrage he can just sweep in the right circumstance (I know no dragons ;( )
Saw Hippowdon at the beginning of the video and wanted to talk about one I had in a Y nuzlocke. I got an adamant Hippopotas as my encounter on Route 9. She had what felt like above average attack and defense for that point in the game, swept Grant, and evolved just as I started to feel like she was losing steam. Absolute monster, stayed a core part of my team for the rest of the run. Once, she tanked an unexpected Grass Knot from a random Raichu. According to Bulbapedia, at Hippowdon's weight, Grass Knot's base power is 120. Combined with a grass weakness, I thought she was dead for sure. Wrong. I wasn't using Pokemon Amie, but she still tanked it in the red and easily one shot with Earthquake. Really hope I get the chance to use one in another run! Also, shoutout to Conkeldurr. I have no clue whether Guts or Sheer Force is considered the better ability, but I can tell you from my White 2 runs that Sheer Force Conkeldurr goes absolutely stupid. I guess the main problem with it is having the means to actually evolve Gurdurr. But if you do, you can get Conkeldurr pretty early and make a joke out of the midgame, and it'll stay relevant in the lategame.
Hmm, I'm surprised by meowscarada as the paldea pick. It was my first starter for a blindish nuzlocke(looked up the levels for fights still) and it definitely felt strong, it's just really hard to overstate how dominant skelederge is as well.
I'm surprised that Latias and Latios didn't get an honorable mention in Gen 3 solely from the guaranteed one in ORAS before Gym 6, due to their incredible stats and typing for that point in the game. Though I guess you can't find them anywhere else.
Voclarona is a beast. It being too late into B&W probably disqualifies it, but as a pre 4th badge guaranteed encounter if you know what you're doing in b2w2, it's a must have.
These kinds of lists are kinda hard to be objective for tbh since Tms and Gyms depend on which game you’re playing, but overall great picks and video 👍🏻
flygon prefacing gen 8+9 by saying he doesn't have a lot of game knowledge with the games but then going on to say he's only played them through about 6 times.....my friend thats at least 5 more times than a lot of us those games are long as hell
A follow up to this could be - what are the best Pokemon in each SPECIFIC game? Instead of talking about Pokemon over all generation, speaking about the difference between playing Red, Platinum or Ultra Moon? Then it becomes unique to that single game
Okay now make a Paldea nuzlocke with just THOSE pokemon, 2 of which aren't in the game so you only have 7 for the entire game😶 let's see how terrifying they all are together
I think that has a lot to do with how you level up in their respective games dragapult was introduced in the generation that introduced xp candy which is a much more tolerable way of getting to high levels whereas for hydreion just had to level up naturally
@@EliLeonard-r7vnot to mention the (admittedly small) post game ,two entire dlc areas and even the leon fight you can use dragapult. Vs hydregion who after the credits roll you still cant do crap with
Great video, couple things Choice scarf (available directly after the 4th gym in Gen 9) makes skelidirge the best Pokémon bar none. Also while i do mostly agree with excadrill, I gotta shoutout stoutland who for no reason one shots 80% of the fights in the game with max friendship return, has intimidate, great bulk and surprising speed and coverage. On top of all of that it’s extremely accessible
I used Arboliva in my first casual Violet playthrough. I was shocked how good it was. Awesome stall abilities and a very high 125 Special Attack for Terrain Pulse is so good against nearly everything in the Paldea Region.
i think i agree with the picks for every generation (except maybe 7? but i dont know a ton about that gen) but one thing im a little confused/disappointed in is NO MENTION for skeledirge or lokix. Lokix should've been an honorable mention at least for its access to swarm first impression & decent attack + speed, and a movepool that allows it to sweep the champion fight, a long resume for a common pokemon that evolves early As for skeledirge, i think it should've been the gen 9 pick. It's guaranteed, has great stats, matches up well into the early game, and can sweep several bosses (including two of the elite four) with torch song especially once you get easy access to ev vitamins or the choice scarf to make up for its lackluster speed. its probably the most broken starter of all time. meowscarada is really good but i wouldve given it to big dirge
My shoutout for Paldea over Meowscarada is actually Garganacl. The whole Nacli line is excellent as far as rock types go, and it gets access to excellent chip damage in the form of Salt Cure and recovery in the form of…Recover. Pure stall isn’t as strong in Gen 9 but Garganacl puts in work.
Only one of these I'm sure gets a spot is Gyarados. Magikarp is a near guaranteed encounter in most gens, you get it early, evolves early into lategame stats, great stats, surprisingly large movepool, works great in team composition with electric and ground types for free switches. The mixture of excellent movepool, solid stats, and both early & abundant availability makes it a teambuilding pillar, it's nuts.
i think your majorly overlooking the power of shiinotic. good bulk, decent typing, effect spore as an ability, early evolution level and a deep move pool including powerful stab moves, reliable recovery and spore. the only drawback is that it is pretty rare in alola and galar.
Yay, my boi Raticate made the list :') it's so slept on but it's so good in early-game Nuzlockes, thanks to its speed and Guts and Super Fang and a surprisingly deep coverage movepool
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That slow turn to the camera at 10:15 made me cackle
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The underlying music slowly playing into the ad made it a top notch joke! xD
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I think Heracross deserves a little shoutout for johto. It loses points for being annoying to get, but has a good type matchup against gyms 3-7. Though, that's more for hgss Heracross, since that game actually gives it a good moveset. It will never not be satisfying to steamroll whitney with brick break.
I just wish Heracross didn't suck in the first two games where it's available. In G/S/C it learns no offensive fighting moves, and only Megahorn in the 50s for bug moves. The situation in Gen 3 isn't as dire, with access to the Brick Break TM, but it's still not great... Only from Gen 4 on is it worth using, really.
@@Odlaw91 Not that you'd get a Heracross in Gen 3; since it's a postgame encounter in Fire Red and Leaf Green, and in Hoenn it's a rare encounter in the Safari Zone which has lots of unique encounters... your point stands, though.
Pro for Heracross: guaranteed in HGSS. If you skip a route 33 encounter, beat Bugsy and get Headbutt from the guy in Ilex forest, you can go to the guard north of Goldenrod and get the gift Spearow. Then head back to Azalea where there are only get three Headbutt encounters: Spearow, Aipom and Heracross. And Route 33 has the exact same Headbutt encounters. So it’s a tad complicated, but Heracross is always guaranteed, as long as you get Kenya the Spearow.
Con for Heracross: Swarm. Yes, not having Guts makes Heracross not quite as useful, but having Swarm isn’t even that useful anyway. Excluding move tutor moves from the battle frontier, the only bug move Heracross can even get in Gen 4 (I haven’t played or researched the Gen 2 games) is Megahorn at level 55, so have fun getting that after beating half of the Kanto gyms
The funny thing is, despite it being annoying to *find*, it's trivial to guarantee a catch via Dupes clause.
Just want to shoutout Breloom. Grass/Fighting is a great combo & it has good attack, speed, & bulk. Destroys everything except Flanery & Winona.
Including Flannery and Winona if you've seen his Grass Emerald nuzlocke
hey, I love Breloom as much as the next guy, but 60/80/60 defences with 70 doesn't strike me as 'good speed and bulk'. His attack is stellar for gen 3 standards, however, almost as much as Salamence
For comparison, Gardevoir has 68/60/115 defences and 80 speed.
I'm more concerned with later gens where everything learns Aerial Ace and Breloom has so-so defenses and is 4x weak.
@@ParasaurolophusZ If anything, good for pivoting. But yeah, shame he doesn't get his hidden ability. Poison heal + detect + Mach Punch helps a lot
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Hate to say this, but Garchomp FJ did make a pretty good argument for garchomp being a pretty good encounter...
Very good video, and i'll definitely take note of Excadrill for the Unova Nuzlockes im planning on doing!
Only reason I don't say Garchomp is because a Gible or Gabite encounter isn't super common outside Sinnoh. Especially early game.
@@rboss5919 it's the earliest pseudo legend you can get in Kalos and Paldea too. What's your point?
Bagon is way before in Kalos. But his encounter chance is stupidly low.@@omarkn7506
@omarkn7506 It's not available until post game in either Gen 5 (granted no Gen 4 mon is available until post game in BW), its only available in one area in Kalos where it's encounter rate is okay. It's only available through SoS encounter in Gen 7, which would generally mean you have to encounter another pokemon you haven't already caught before it would even show up. It's only available through the Crown Tundra in SwSh and then at a level where you're only going to be able to use it extremely late game with HC rules and its generally only going to be available through special means or not at all in remake games not called BDSP.
That said, i would have picked Garchomp over Lucario. Yes, Lucario is a guaranteed egg in DPP, but his encounter rate is generally pretty low in other games, and he's not available until post game in Gen 7. You can potentially get him super early in B2W2 and Lucario woulf absolutely trivialize the first 3 gyms of that game but it's a 5% Riolu encounter and I generally find Cheren pretty consistent with a charm Marill into Growth Snivy combo anyways. Nor is Roxy or Burgh too bad as long as you pick up some counters to poison/bug along the way.
There is, however, another pokemon who is available in every game from Gen 4 on including the remakes who usually have a decent to good encounter rate, an excellent typen, Excellent stats, a great ability and a useful second ability if you aren't lucky enough to get the first. It even pairs well with the common flying and water types. Can be encountered before the second gym in B2W2 and will generally have good match ups into most normal trainers, if not gym leaders. Magnezone. Magnezones isn't without its issues with its 4x ground weakness, speed that's too slow to be a fast sweeper and too fast to benefit much from trick room, and its not always the easiest to evolve. That said, the ground weakness can be played around with a strong flying/levitate mon, Magnet Rise, or an air balloon starting in Gen 5. I would also argue the advantages of steel typing more than make up for its weaknesses, dspecially in the Fairy heavy Gen 6 and 7 games. The evolution problem also isn't that much of a problem post Gen 5 as eviolite (usually available early) makes Magneton into a solid answer for a lot of fights. Magnemite itself is usually solid for early game.
Gliscor, for me, is the best encounter I could've asked for
Skeledirge is also worth mentioning for Paldea. Fire types already thrive in this Gen and a bulky Fire type with a healing move and a signature that raises special attack means you can usually just click torch song like 5-6 times and win
The salt deserves a mention more than the olives. Salt cure and purifying salt is ridiculous.
I should also add that Gyarados is INCREDIBLE as a FIELD pokémon in X and Y. Even if it has nature/IVs ill suited to combat, it can use Dragon Rage for reliable captures, Twister to dislodge berries, Bulldoze / Surf for Horde encounters, and more.
Can not believe you didn't even mention Lilligant for Gen 5. Sure, pure grass is a poor typing? But shes got amazing utility, disgusting setup & access to both Quiver Dance & Petal Dance while also having Own Tempo so she can blast gigantic holes even in things that resist her with literally no downsides. She completely swept the Elite 4 in Gen 5, took out the trash (Ghetsis) & completely swept leon in a Sword playthrough. Yes, including gigantimax Charizard. Lilligant is a monster
For Generation 7, while I do think Golisopod is a strong runner up, I raise you a different insect: Ribombee.
It has a similarly great typing, can be found in both Alola and Galar, hits decently hard, is blazing fast, and has access to both status conditions and Quiver Dance. It's essentially a Butterfree with a better typing and a worse ability, albeit it isn't nearly as common.
Ribombee was the absolute MVP in my run of US
It's ability may be worse than compound eyes, but shield dust can be super useful for playing around rng, since you don't have to worry about stuff like paralysis from discharge
My issue is that it's pretty fraile
@@justjoannak so is volcarona
A video i might love to see is like
"Encounters that can solo each gym/boss in each game" (regardless of starter choice)
Like brock can be soloed by mankey even if you picked the worst starter for him
Same with beedrill on misty, diglett on surge, etc!
I honestly think flair is also a great factor. I am but a vain woman with hopes for my team to look stacked asf. Id 100% go for corvinight over skarmory just cause theyre bigger and look cooler😂 its like an extra level of confidence
25:59 Bro forgot to mention Skeledirge I can’t 🤭🫵🏻
Honestly really surprised that Skeledirge didn't even get a shoutout, I would have put it at number one nuzlocke mon for gen 9, top 5 at least overall. Amazing typing, bulk and signature move let it sweep most boss battle in the game
Not better than the cat or clodsire, and not even better than the duck.
Very good in vgc and comp singles tho
@@feckoff2422 Jan from pchal once did a vid (dont remember which one it was) and said something along the lines that skeledirge is the most broken starter for nuzlocking ever made to the point that you can solo the gen 9 games just with him
@@feckoff2422he has great bulk and slack off, and torch song to set up. His great typing and moves like snarl and will o wisp contribute even more to his bulk, and you have a mostly unkillable sweeper
You probably won't read this, but I love this idea of video! Strategizing and ranking Nuzlocke encounters and methods like this is always super interesting, and educational. Please do more
9:38 is the best build up to a sponsorship segment ever, that slow head turn absolutely killed me
right up there with the holz kern "little boy" head voice
I so want a “GarchompFJ’s Premium Paste” - themed run. Like he slowly hijacks the game as time goes on and replaces the Pokémon with Garchomp and paste-themed Pokémon
I think it would be funny if he made a GarchompFJ channel and posts opposite videos of FlygonHG. Like in this case GarchompFJ would make a video of the worst Pokemon of every generation
I am surprised that Bulbasuar/venasuar wasn’t at least a honorable mention. The typing is amazing for Kanto, being super effective against the first two gyms along with the fourth and eighth, resists the third gym and the poison secondary type allows for it to take neutral damage from poison, which 2 of the main boss fights use (Agatha failing to beat poison type trainer allegations), and because of how much game freak loves gen 1, you can find or at least get a gen 1 starter like in Kalos, in Alola you can find starters with the pokéradar, galar with the Isle of armor dlc, and the terrarium in scarlet and violet
The first Nuzlocke I ever actually managed to win was in White version, where I obtained a Drilbur in Wellspring. She killed the 'mon I used to catch her, but she was completely worth it as in the end, only two of my team survived the fight against Ghetsis to get me the win and she was one of them. The other the Scrafty that took down Hydreigon.
Magikarp is also literallly a free encounter by fishing in any city with bodies of water, there's no reason to not get it
TORTERRA MENTIONNED!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOO! Also, you are definitely sleeping on the Garchomp, he is so good. There's a great reason why Garchomp is unanimously feared when it's used to near full ability.
Ominous piano starts playing in the background. 😰
Not an angry comment, but more of a why comment. I feel like the list would do better if you did this by generation of games instead of generation of Pokemon. Take gen 1 for example. You say its gyarados and its not even close, but alakazam and kadabra are also pretty reliable encounters in gen 1 and curbstomp the games. As for honorable mentions, raticate is useless in gen 1 because abilties dont exist yet. I feel like the list doesnt make sense if you dont talk about the games themselves.
alakazam needs trade evo or a modded safefile and thus is pretty bad-
gyarados before gen 4 is garbage since water is special and it doesnt get any good flying moves.
I guess it gets repetitive because there is a case for gyarados to be best in every game (except gens 2, 3, and maybe 1) it's in.
@@owenaspinall2046in Gen 1, it effectively has 100 SpAtk thanks to the Special stat, and iirc in Gen 3 it has enough numbers to overcome lack of STAB
Alakazam and Kadabra have fallen off a bit in more recent generations as Psychic is not the best typing when a lot of pokemon have dark type moves. Admittedly Gengar runs into the same issue of dark type moves but he's held up better because of the double immunity to fighting and normal which are both common and gets the triple immunity with ground in games where he still has levitate. Also now that steel no longer resists ghost, gengar doesn't have to worry about steel types holding him back. Plus Abra just teleports away any time you dont have a guaranteed way to prevent them from doing so and fail at your One Ball HG impression. So sometimes running into Abra isn't an advantage, so much as it's a missed encounter. This is actually another advantage for the Gengar line since they can learn Mean Look to prevent that cowardly Abra from getting away.
Snorlax is also an insane member to find from Gen 1 and I'd argue its huge bulk and good move pool make it a better mon than Gyarados in non-set up runs. However while it is a guaranteed encounter in Kanto, Johto, Kalos and Galar games, it's otherwise very rare and you won't get the Johto encounter until well-after the main run of the game and by then you probably have a pretty solid team put together.
@@DieGurke_ but gyarados is also broken in gen 1 because special is a combined stat and it has its current special defense as its combined stat.
Gonna shout out Dreadnaw. Two phenomenal abilities in Strong Jaw and Shell Armor, early evolution level, good offensive typing, faster than you'd expect with great physical attack and decent bulk. Also pretty easily available in both Galar and Paldea.
I'd take Torch Song Skeledirge over Meowscarada but maybe that's just me :/
I was suprrised to not see Skeledirge on here tbh, I thought Throat Spray Skeledirge was stupid good
Definitely not just you
Torchsong Skeledirge, with slack off for recovery, can legit solo the entire game.
@@sveiprTorch Song Throatspray for instant +2 Special Attack Boost, Slack Off for Recovery, Shadow Ball for Coverage, eventually Unaware because why the fuck not, immunity to Fighting and Normal Pokémon, decently bulky... Tera Fire for extra Oomf, and with all of that - you may still be able to have a crit and do even more damage !
@@shinyhitomi3916also a much better type combo; meowscarada has SOOOO many weaknesses, plus a quad to bug lol
I’m surprised Heracross didn’t make the Gen 2 list. Bro is fairly easy to encounter and an absolute menace with Guts. Helps trivialize Whitney, can sweep Jasmine, Pryce, and half of the E4 just on type advantage alone.
Flygon can you please continue the series where you only use a regions starters to determine the best, I know johto will be obvious lol but all the other regions have a bit more balance.
IS Johto obvious? I thought people flip flopped between the croc and the rat. Hoenn on the other hand? Yeah, that’s so obviously Swampert it ain’t even funny.
@@thevioletbee5879at least for me both are good but there’s a lot of decent guranteed water types in johto like Gyrados or Lapras compared to decent fire type encounters
@@thevioletbee5879I guess it depends what "best" actually means. If you are just looking at who is the strongest then that's pretty easily Feraligatr, but when you take in to consideration oportunity cost it's probably Typhlosion because fire types are rare.
Overall water starters are probably the best, but the grass and fire starters are often the best pokemon of that type in each game while water straters are rarely the best.
@@thevioletbee5879 In Gold, Silver, and Crystal, it's pretty cut-and-dry Typhlosion, since Feraligatr is a physical-attacking pure water type, meaning his only STAB is always special, and the majority of his coverage is as well (shoutouts to Crunch being special). In HGSS, it's a bit closer, but still leaning towards Typhlosion - pure fire is actually a pretty solid defensive type, and the opportunity cost of getting a pure water type as your starter is kind of unfortunate, especially given that the first time you fight a major trainer with a water weakness is literally post-game.
@@timob1681 I actually think Feraligatr is better in gen 2. It can solo the first 3 gyms just by using rage and before the 4th gym it gets surf which is the most powerfull move you'll realisticaly have by that point of the game.
I cannot stress how GOATed Excadrill is in Gen 5 nuzlockes. Easy to encounter as early as Route 4 (and able to be found in most every other cave afterwards) thanks to how Drilbur is encountered and can be searched for safe from Woobats and Roggenrola thanks to repels. Right before the N & Ghetsis fight I taught my Archeops Sandstorm and taught it U-Turn to let Excadrill wreak havoc. Poor Simon fell to Ghetsis' Hydreigon miraculously landing a Focus Blast, after which my Stoutland switched in and avenged my Excadrill with a theatrically appropriate Retaliate.
I remember how much of a pain it was for me to find Drilbur back in Black & White for my Snivy team. Definitely worth it, but still a pain.
Gonna give a personal honorable mention to Lokix in Scarlet and Violet. Pretty much found almost immediately leaving Mesagoza, good speed and attack, has first impression AND U turn., and pretty much soloed Geeta's entire team for me.
I was using an Excadrill in Indigo Disk, and every battle I was more and more in awe of how stupidly broken the thing is. and it was evil, just pure evil with either a Choice Scarf if it needed the outspeed, or an Assault Vest if it didn't. and because of the heavy EV investment in Speed, I was only worried about a handful of speedy Pokemon. so I'd slap on the Assault Vest, and Excadrill would go to work.
3:34 I just love the Sea of Stars battle music being played here. That’s all.
You should also do a video of the best nuzlock encounters in their home region. I suspect Nidoking and Staraptor are definitely making that list.
Did Skeledirge fall off in favor or something..?? Bro is genuinely OP, with its bulk, great typing (he was JUST glazing Chandelure for it lmao), and insanely broken signature move!
Yo a Moxie shoutout. I love seeing creators I enjoy interacting. Hope we can get some two way interaction between you two!
Careful with the Shedinja, it doesnt wall Tate and Liza´s Solrock because it knows flamethrower, you do wall the Xatu and the Lunatone (They can still hit you with confuse ray and hypnosis tho) but both the Claydol and the Solrock have ancientpower and Flamethrower to hit you.
I have finally watched enough of these great videos to predict when the ad is coming and the leadups never fail to make me laugh.
Very fond of this type of video! Learning from your playthroughs is great but having a specifically condensed learning video makes going back over tips much easier. Also delighted to see the GOATS Primarina and Starmie get mentions.
oh the JOY of having golispod finally get some love and recognition
I'm surprised Nidoking wasn't included
Nidoking's just not in enough games, and it sucks.
I don't know about it sucking. It gets pretty even attack/special attack and tons of coverage
@@SeraphimSigilist the coverage comes from TMs, so you need to invest a lot to make it good, especially in games with no reusable TMs. Its level up moveset is trash and its abilities are pretty bad except its hidden ability which in most games you can't get in a regular encounter.
It definitely would have been if he went game by game instead of gen by gen.
I honestly think it would have been better if he did.
Half these mons arent good in half the games due to availability. In gen 3 the best encounter is still gyarados.
Could be wrong, but i think they meant nidoking not being in many games sucks
What if: a nuzlocke race in a game, with yourself or someone else. Each has to use a different starter and the starter has to survive until the end of the game. Then you can analyze the difference each starter made in gameplay and teambuilding
For Black and White, it's surprising no mention of Zoroark. A mon who break the AI, sweeping anything with a fighting type in the back and a lead with a psychic move it'll spam, it's incredible. And surprisingly not awfully hard to get, you can for sure get it in BW2 which it utterly destroys the E4 in that game except Marshal and doesn't do bad with the gyms and other fights like Colress, and with Ghetsis's lead. It's late in XY but can be got, you can get very early in USUM, overall just an utterly dominate BW pokemon. Sure Excadrill is more easily gotten and a bit better if you don't abuse illusion, though felt it should've gotten in a mention, great video though!
24:59 it also has Swords Dance to make up for it. It can use Encore to lock opposing pokemon into moves, it learns Thunder Wave to stall out opposing pokemon, it can break Sturdy by setting up Stealth Rock or through Mold Breaker, it's insane.
I feel like im spiting everyone by having Gen 7 be my favorite. It's not nostalgia either, my first mainline game was ruby, i just happen to prefer the story-focused games
The post-reformation aesthetic was also pretty good actually
Alola gang
Aside from the intro which is just interminably long, I am honestly with you. Probably my favourite 3 starters as well.
The story is great…. Getting to it is a slog though.
Gen7 is great and it’s also kinda funny bc technically the player isn’t the main character, the plot revolves around Lily and Cosmog, you’re just a ride or die friend who’s really great at battling
I disagree with meowscarada, I think Skeledirge is easily better as it has a much better type match up against a lot of fights, and torch song is busted. Also, I think Tailow is overrated specifically against Brawly. He's a great mon, but being part normal type means that he doesn't resist fighting, and one good smack will take it down. In my opinion, the best Brawly mon (minus the ultra rare sableye) is dustox. Bug poison gives him a 4x resist into fighting, and he has access to gust and confusion, meaning he can easily take care of any of Brawly's Pokémon.
Other than that though, great list.
Skeledirge literally carries Scarlet and Violet from beginning to credit roll. I like Meowscarada, but I agree with you, it wasn't the right pick.
0 ATK IV, 0 ATK EV LV19 (the emerald level cap) one shots Machop, Meditite and has a guaranteed 2shot on Makuhita with Guts activated through the Sitrus berry. It literally can't lose unless Makuhita clicks Revarsal as its first move. Hell if you train Taillow to be one KO way from leveling up, it has a 75% chance to just oneshot Makuhita, Reversal being the first move picked or a crit is the only way it can possibly lose. And it only gets stronger as the game goes on thanks to Facade being fairly easily accessible, granting it a 140 power move with doubled attack.
@@PKMN649 well, I lost a Tailow against Brawly on my last nuzlocke of emerald. Pretty sure it was one shot against makuhita and wasn't crit, sooooooo........ I stand by what I said.
@@WolfmanXD did you have guts acivated tho? I can't imagine that you are not able to one-shot with guts wing attack.
@@bottomtext251 yes, I did.
I don’t know if you’re familiar with the Roblox game Brick Bronze, but Gogoat is actually phenomenal in that game. Leech seed, growth, synthesis and horn leech is outstanding
For Gen 1, I absolutely agree with Gyarados being the best Nuzlocke Pokemon, but I feel like both Nidoking and Nidoqueen are great encounters to have for Nuzlockes as well.
For Gen 3, Breloom, despite it's quad weakness to Flying, is an absolute force with the right moveset and if you max out the speed EVs, but I can't disagree with the Shedinja pick.
Overall, all very good choices for best Nuzlocke 'mons.
When you were doing the bit about the factors I was expecting a Factor sponsorship segue ngl
Notice how 2 of these choices are bug types but only one is a fairy type: bug
I think the second best gen 1 encounter has to be Bulbasaur. It solos the entire early game, and even though it gets less useful late game it means you don't have to sweat about what mons you get for Brock (who if you pick Charmander can be an issue), Misty (for whom you need fast and strong or a Bellsprout) and Surge (a much smaller issue because Diglett cave)
HE’S SAYING FACTOR TOO MANY TIMES THAT’S THE SPONSOR
You forgot to take in the factor that today's sponsor, SquareSpace, is an online platform that h
I didn't even know numbers went higher than 16! They had to invent a whole new number just to keep gyrados balanced and evolve at the late level of 20
bro got married and posted the next day
Id like to shout out Whimsicott. Found a shiny one late game on a white 2 redux run and the thing solo'd the dragon gym and a good majority of the elite 4. Absolute power house disguised as a cotton ball
I hear that Sea of Stars music in the background with the Gen 1 talk. Great choice!
Ive never had so much trouble keeping up with word pronunciations in a pokemon video before. 10/10
I think a "Best nuzlocke encounters on each game" would be an interesting take as well!
I’d say Heracross might deserve a shout out as well
HGSS heracross is utterly disgusting for how early it is
An early game monster that has excellent utility throughout the game that you can (almost) guarantee is insane
It might have a case if it was just HGSS, but considering Blissey's utility in other games, it is the clear winner.
Thank you, bro. I don't know how fucking MANTINE got a nod but Heracross, who absolutely carried his HGSS Bug monotype, didn't even get a mention.
I would agree if he sorting them by game, but he's sorting them by generation
Really surprised you didn't mention ferrothorn for gen 5: amazing wall (probably better than blissey imho), fairly easy to get, great typing and good damage output with bodypress and gyro ball
farfetch'd is not always bad :( ive watched your normal type playthrough so i know that FOR A FACT
farfetch'd is a perfect little angel with great stats
I enjoy when bully Flygon shows his nature.
Shocked you didn’t mention haxorus for gen 5. I realize he may come a bit late but really he gets so many natural tools like d dance and then outrage he can just sweep in the right circumstance (I know no dragons ;( )
Saw Hippowdon at the beginning of the video and wanted to talk about one I had in a Y nuzlocke.
I got an adamant Hippopotas as my encounter on Route 9. She had what felt like above average attack and defense for that point in the game, swept Grant, and evolved just as I started to feel like she was losing steam. Absolute monster, stayed a core part of my team for the rest of the run.
Once, she tanked an unexpected Grass Knot from a random Raichu. According to Bulbapedia, at Hippowdon's weight, Grass Knot's base power is 120. Combined with a grass weakness, I thought she was dead for sure. Wrong. I wasn't using Pokemon Amie, but she still tanked it in the red and easily one shot with Earthquake. Really hope I get the chance to use one in another run!
Also, shoutout to Conkeldurr. I have no clue whether Guts or Sheer Force is considered the better ability, but I can tell you from my White 2 runs that Sheer Force Conkeldurr goes absolutely stupid. I guess the main problem with it is having the means to actually evolve Gurdurr. But if you do, you can get Conkeldurr pretty early and make a joke out of the midgame, and it'll stay relevant in the lategame.
Hmm, I'm surprised by meowscarada as the paldea pick. It was my first starter for a blindish nuzlocke(looked up the levels for fights still) and it definitely felt strong, it's just really hard to overstate how dominant skelederge is as well.
I'm surprised that Latias and Latios didn't get an honorable mention in Gen 3 solely from the guaranteed one in ORAS before Gym 6, due to their incredible stats and typing for that point in the game. Though I guess you can't find them anywhere else.
I so much love your ad transition. Thanks for the good job Garchomp FG
Nice! This will help with my nuzlocke attempts!
Gyrados: "I'm the best gen 1 nuzlocke encounter"
Nidoking: "Nah I'd evolve"
This video has arguably one of your best intros.
I absolutely love your sponsor segways, I always stick around to watch them, they are the best
Voclarona is a beast. It being too late into B&W probably disqualifies it, but as a pre 4th badge guaranteed encounter if you know what you're doing in b2w2, it's a must have.
FLYGON FLYGON FLYGON I SEE YOU USING SEA OF STARS MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUND. YOU ARE A GOAT, JUST LIKE THE HIT GAME SEA OF STARS!
You get a like on this just for the Tentacruel glow up at the start. I love tentacruel
Wooow I really thought we were getting some Gogoat love, I practically swept all of Pokemon Scarlet with it
Not even mentioning Linoones ability to solo the gen 3 elite four is wild 😂
These kinds of lists are kinda hard to be objective for tbh since Tms and Gyms depend on which game you’re playing, but overall great picks and video 👍🏻
For Excadrill, I agree considering he saved my butt a couple of times in PokéRogue
That smile and slow turn at the Segway will haunt me for the rest of my days
flygon prefacing gen 8+9 by saying he doesn't have a lot of game knowledge with the games but then going on to say he's only played them through about 6 times.....my friend thats at least 5 more times than a lot of us those games are long as hell
Oh man I remember my gen one gyrados, intimidating and physical attacking everyone with his non-normal type moves.
The 3rd point matters if you have a pokemon who is theoretically good but "released in the wrong gen"
25:58 Flamigo, Cyclizar and Skeledirge?
That ad transition was perfection. Chefs kiss
A follow up to this could be - what are the best Pokemon in each SPECIFIC game? Instead of talking about Pokemon over all generation, speaking about the difference between playing Red, Platinum or Ultra Moon? Then it becomes unique to that single game
Okay now make a Paldea nuzlocke with just THOSE pokemon, 2 of which aren't in the game so you only have 7 for the entire game😶 let's see how terrifying they all are together
I swear no one complains about Dragapult evolving late but everyone has an aneurism of Hydreigon doing the same
I think that has a lot to do with how you level up in their respective games dragapult was introduced in the generation that introduced xp candy which is a much more tolerable way of getting to high levels whereas for hydreion just had to level up naturally
@@EliLeonard-r7vnot to mention the (admittedly small) post game ,two entire dlc areas and even the leon fight you can use dragapult. Vs hydregion who after the credits roll you still cant do crap with
4ra’s system is so transparent, love how they handle their draws and bets.
i agree with you but im still posting an angry comment! GRRRRRRRRR IM MAd
Me, who has never - and probably will never - do a nuzlocke: "Hm, yes." *proceeds to scribble notes that are actually just poor attempts at stickmen*
Great video, couple things
Choice scarf (available directly after the 4th gym in Gen 9) makes skelidirge the best Pokémon bar none.
Also while i do mostly agree with excadrill, I gotta shoutout stoutland who for no reason one shots 80% of the fights in the game with max friendship return, has intimidate, great bulk and surprising speed and coverage. On top of all of that it’s extremely accessible
are you ever going to nuzlocke radical red hardcore mode? also theres crystal clear as well which has so much replay value, also vintage white
i think i remember him saying in one of his previous vids sometime ago that he wants to play rad red but just not now or something like that
These ad segues just keep getting better.
I used Arboliva in my first casual Violet playthrough. I was shocked how good it was. Awesome stall abilities and a very high 125 Special Attack for Terrain Pulse is so good against nearly everything in the Paldea Region.
i think i agree with the picks for every generation (except maybe 7? but i dont know a ton about that gen) but one thing im a little confused/disappointed in is NO MENTION for skeledirge or lokix. Lokix should've been an honorable mention at least for its access to swarm first impression & decent attack + speed, and a movepool that allows it to sweep the champion fight, a long resume for a common pokemon that evolves early
As for skeledirge, i think it should've been the gen 9 pick. It's guaranteed, has great stats, matches up well into the early game, and can sweep several bosses (including two of the elite four) with torch song especially once you get easy access to ev vitamins or the choice scarf to make up for its lackluster speed. its probably the most broken starter of all time. meowscarada is really good but i wouldve given it to big dirge
Flamigo and Cyclizar too. Lokix isn´t as good
Poor garchomp, falls victim to the "superior" dragon/ground, flygon
My shoutout for Paldea over Meowscarada is actually Garganacl. The whole Nacli line is excellent as far as rock types go, and it gets access to excellent chip damage in the form of Salt Cure and recovery in the form of…Recover. Pure stall isn’t as strong in Gen 9 but Garganacl puts in work.
Only one of these I'm sure gets a spot is Gyarados.
Magikarp is a near guaranteed encounter in most gens, you get it early, evolves early into lategame stats, great stats, surprisingly large movepool, works great in team composition with electric and ground types for free switches. The mixture of excellent movepool, solid stats, and both early & abundant availability makes it a teambuilding pillar, it's nuts.
i think your majorly overlooking the power of shiinotic. good bulk, decent typing, effect spore as an ability, early evolution level and a deep move pool including powerful stab moves, reliable recovery and spore.
the only drawback is that it is pretty rare in alola and galar.
Love how Flygon used she/her pronouns for Eevee and it's evolutions despite them being 88% male.
Gotta rep the 12%.
And male pronouns for Zacian, the female of the species.
I assume they just got influenced by having one on a team like the she/her chandelure
The gendered pronouns definitely weirded me out ngl
I like how you used the ad segway to give an objective review of Garchomp while staying in character.
"Gen 1" -> Starts talking about abilities
Yay, my boi Raticate made the list :') it's so slept on but it's so good in early-game Nuzlockes, thanks to its speed and Guts and Super Fang and a surprisingly deep coverage movepool