Can't wait for more content like this about the actual Pokémon game series rather than the tcg.

What can't this guy do top 10 lists on?

I think Neo Genesis Slowking likely deserves a callout here. It was one of only two cards to ever get banned while Wizards of the Coast still ran the game. The other, Sneasel, was just a very efficient attacker that by modern standards would be a joke, but Slowking would likely need to be banned from Standard and even Expanded if it was somehow reprinted today. Slowking has unimpressive stats - it's an 80hp Pokemon with a 3 retreat cost and a 3 energy attack that does pretty pitiful damage. But it was basically never brought into the active spot intentionally, as it existed primarily for its Pokemon Power (aka PokeBody/Ability by more recent terms). Whenever an opponent played ANY Trainer card, which by modern terms would mean Items, Supporters, Stadiums, and Tools, you could flip a coin, and if you won the flip the effects of the Trainer would be canceled and it would instead be placed on top of their deck. Slowking was printed such that this ability could only be used while it was an active Pokemon, which meant that you had a serious tradeoff for using it, but that clause was unintentionally left off of the English printing, which was played as written. This meant not only did you not have to put up a worthless attacker and risk it getting knocked out, but also that you could stack multiple Slowking abilities at once on your bench. With two or even three instances of this ability, it would become incredibly hard for your opponent to play any of their Trainer cards, and if they tried to, they'd end up with their draws being locked in as Trainer cards that would still do nothing for them.

Pokémon Green Blizzard. 1/3 chance to freeze? No.

If putting Sleep Powder on here but not it's straight upgrade wasn't engagement bait then I'm disappointed

How was body slam not being able to para normal types 'Not known for a long time'? It's something I noticed replaying Blue years ago and always thought it was a coding oversight. I figured they programmed it so that secondary effects wouldn't effect types that share a type with the move used on them. That would prevent fire types from being burned, electrics from being para, poison types from being poisioned, and that would also explain why body slam wouldn't para normal types. I'm kinda curious now as to how this was discovered.

Having to evolve from an item makes it so a fossil pokemon would have to be absolutely insane to justify playing

Counter is on the list but not Earthquake? Bro is either engage baiting or doesn't know the first thing about the Pokemon games.

some funny pronounciations here😂

Right off of the bat Rock Slide is absolutely not a top 10 move. Exactly two relevant Pokemon use it and it is exclusively to deal with Zapdos and nothing else because neither of them want to ever be in front of an Ice Type. Counter is a bit more of a meme than a full on move. The rest of the moves are definitely the best moves in the game, Hyper Beam is absolutely not the best, Body Slam, Blizzard/Ice Beam (they're functionally the same) and Amnesia are the ones fighting for first second and third place. Explosion is 4th. Hyperbeam is fighting with Thunder Wave and Sleep Powder/Sweet Kiss, Hypnosis for the rest of the positions.

In NC97 the moves in SSS tier are Doubleteam/Minimize, Blizzard, Rest, and Substitute, followed by Thunderbolt, Psychic, Thunderwave, Hyperbeam in SS tier etc

Fun fact Amnesia can also be learned by Psyduck/Golduck via the gift Psyduck you get from getting good at Pokemon Stadium which is really cool

Hitting ice super effectively is great in gen 1. Jynx articuno lapras and cloyster are all notable ice types in OU.

Pokémon competitive scene: "This specific card combo makes your opponent discard their whole hand. We need to ban all of them." MtG competitive scene: "Hey tournament players, here's a half dozen more Emrakuls and they all basically win you the game as soon as you cast them, have fun, just don't use it in Commander!"

Blizzard was even more crazy in Red & Green, as the freeze chance was 30% on top of its power and accuracy. This was changed in Red & Blue.

"Psychic is a psychic type attack" is probably my favorite clarification you have ever given in any of your channels.

Rock slide+earthquake remains a fantastic attacking combo to this day, not much resist it. People think of rock/ground as a horrible typing, but thats largely because its stuck on mons that are sooo slow they pretty much always go last. It may not fit thematically, but i would really love to see a rock/ground type with an actual speed stat one day, it would be something, special or physical, both works, just make sure to give it power gem if its a special rock type, so many rock types has suffered from not getting a decent special rock attack.

Remind me again, what does Welder do?

Hope to see more vids like this

Recover deserves a mention. Every single Pokémon that gets it will never drop it from any set and is great because of it.

Nice list U missed the omnipresent Ground king tho

8:50 This is not a bug, it’s an intentional (albeit weird) decision that saves on memory. IIRC, it’s also how fire types are immune to burn and Ice types are immune to freeze. In gen 2 they mostly fixed this, but missed some others. Tri-attack can burn fire types and freeze ice types. Also, Steel Types in gen 2 can be poisoned by Twin Needle. 14:30 Psyduck also gets it via Pokemon Stadium. It’s one of the reasons why it got banned from Gen 1 NU

almost all the moves on the list are TMs in gen 1

A little disappointed there was no mention of partial trapping moves. They aren't amazing moves, but they're easily staples of gen 1 competitive and one of the big reasons I enjoy playing lower tiers of gen 1

I'm gay but even I enjoyed this video.

I didn’t check who this video was by so was really thrown off when I heard your voice. Dope that you’re getting into other games though!

Hyper Beam was nuts in Gen 1, but I would've given a mention to Earthquake. It wasn't as widely distributed as it is now, but it's telling that 100 accuracy and 100 base power on the same move is still something you rarely see more than 25 years later. Shout out to Gen 1 Razor Leaf for being a crit, pretty much, every time. Offensive Grass moves were bad in Gen 1, but Razor Leaf was incredible.

One of the funny things about the Rock typing is that if a Pokémon had every type at once, it would still have a Rock weakness. Blizzard having a 90 accuracy had to be one of the many oversights in the Gen 1 games. The scary thing about Explosion is that the move got stronger while keeping its halving Defense effect, though they eventually removed that effect. Explosion Metagross was terrifying, because with it's 130 base Attack, it was going to take out anything that wasn't immune or had a really high Defense and a resistance.

You were off a bit on counter still. It's not limited to the last damage your opponent used. As long as the last damage done was normal or fighting type and the opponent goes first and doesn't use a move that does 0 damage or a non normal or fighting type attack, counter will do double the damage. This actually means you can counter your own attack if the circumstances are right. This can result in such classic techniques as countering your own explosion or countering your own counter. You can't counter an opponent's counter though. In addition, about half of all the status moves in the game won't affect Counter as long as you use them. You can't boost your stats, lower their stats, or put the opponent to sleep and counter them, but you can paralyze them, confuse them, or use a recovery move. This allows you to paralyze an opponent and then counter their damage next turn when they get fully paralyzed, but this can desynch the game if they choose a move that can't be countered. Edit: Oh yeah, it also works if your opponent uses an item.

body slam 😊😊😊 great for solo runs everything picks up once you can get it in ss anne 🫡🫡

Without having seen the video I'm guessing... 1. Hyper Beam 2. Explosion 3. Amnesia 4. Recover 5. Blizzard 6. Body Slam 7. Psychic 8. Thunder Wave 9. Rock Slide 10. Earthquake EDIT: Looks like I more or less called it correctly, the only move I forgot about was Sleep Powder, which I would have traded for Earthquake and inserted somewhere in the middle of the list.

Yes! I would love if you start covering all kinds of gens! Looking forward to this

Ok, this will be an awesome vid series.😂

How was lycanrock higher on the best gx pokemon list than buzzwole, but is lower than buzzwole on the fighting tier list?

The two Morpeko V Unions look great in a twelve page binder with the other Morpeko promos. :) One of my favourite pages in my Galar binder.

1:18:49 pneumonia from scarlet and violet

2:13 Don’t we have cards like that these days? Edit: I’m referring to Professor’s Research.

Why wasn’t Tag Team Arceus + Dialga + Palkia here

So I did some research in 2007 as to why the Charizard card was so rare, and it had nothing to do with its power at all, it was because someone started a playground rumor that if you set the card on fire, it would release golden sparks into the air. I’m not even joking hundreds of cards were lost this way.

No top 10 cards for boosting Pokémon’s attack

Sorry but that Castform design at 5:13 is insane lmao

It came again as Tera haha

Aren't the *broken* aka insanely good water types only broken because they are dual water/psychic?

Manaphy’s ability should be an impenetrable defense if you read it very literally. “Prevent all damage” … “done by attacks” Wether these are “damage counters” or numbered damage, those are both still damage, period. If what you said is really how that works, then that’s just annoying and makes it harder to understand rules from a surface level.

Raikou, Suicune, and Entei are not dogs. Their creator and designer literally said so.

I love the style of your videos. No hype, no flash, just earnest analysis. It's a forthright style of video that I'm always looking for.

Espeon star is my dream card… It has been that way for about 10 years… Maybe I should try to change that…

GIANT FAN. :D

Yo just thought I’d add this. I played Tyrantrum with fossil researcher and energy that boosted its attacks by 20 per energy, plus a tool that boosted it back when they dropped and I won tournaments with it, it worked at the time as it was a good match up against the meta! Just my 2 cents. Overall though, fossils in the tcg suck, thanks for covering this!

Surprised the elephant in the room wasn't addressed: that they're freaking hard to read