Best Team: Ground Type Edition

[@cultleaderofmonke4758]

Omg torterra is finally on the thumbnail

[@toxicmailman]

My powers have doubled since we last met Count

[@collyext0652]

Count Dooku We banana

[@russanothewise440]

Let’s go Torterra!!

[@Jnicholss11]

Mystic: Mudsdale will be our defensive wall Also Mystic: 0 investment in any defenses

[@claudiacarrest1838]

Torterra is my favourite starter, he’s awesome with his ecosystem on his back

[@waternapple552]

Look man, we get it. You don’t like torterra. You don’t need to bring it up every time he is mentioned

[@Unknown-gf1ci]

His reasoning for hating it OmG iT's SlOw AnD nOt MaJeStIc I'm giving him a hard time, I respect his opinion but he's annoying af about it I like torterra, more than empoleon and infernape especially

[@mr.shuckle6656]

Not to mention he sucks with ev spreads

[@mrclean7473]

Same with Incineroar I dOn’T lIkE iNcInErOaR hE’s BiPedAl

[@mr.shuckle6656]

All 3 of the Dpp starters are good

[@raiinefall]

@@mr.shuckle6656 I agree

[@jamjam7116]

Torterra Gang

[@Ob1tuber]

Go Torterr Infernape sorry I prefer the fire starter

[@hogunthegrim5464]

Praise Torterra! The Messiah!

[@akayoshboo]

Torterra gang, united

[@joeysingsyt9346]

Oh I'm a brazeiken fan

[@cultleaderofmonke4758]

Torterra gang rise

[@mohamedaboelnasr5202]

"Torterra is such a gentle giant a pokemon to let you rest on its back take care of you and protects you and he will love you as much as you love him and he looks so hugable"

[@thepikarivera7706]

I always wanted to sleep on Torterra's back below the tree.

[@PrimarchRoboleonFrenchyman]

Imagine traveling on the back of torterra

[@claylord4457]

This is my pokemon A E S T H E T I C

[@benkeirstead491]

I feel like Mystic would die if he didn’t mention how much he hates Torterra every 20 seconds

[@agent00puffball]

I'm amazed Excadrill isn't on this team. It is just such a beast in sand.

[@Whyknaut]

As someone who has used excadrill in their unova playthrough and post game horn remakes I could not agree more

[@garymalpeli1983]

I know right? He used Excadrill on his steel team but I told him c’mon mystic excadrill is a MUST on any sand team why put him on the steel team over the ground one?

[@donovan802]

He was on the steel team.

[@succhead6884]

Pretty stupid that excadrill is on the steel team same with Lucario

[@DrunkenEros]

This is why not reusing Pokemon is dumb. The more teams you make the more limited you are. The teams will never be the best that way

[@MysticUmbreon]

Torterra was never my most hated Pokemon, it's Electrode. Torterra is actually not that bad. Also I apologize if audio sounds a little different I had to do my recordings in a different room all week ;/

[@insanealpha3240]

We understand.

[@WinterSupernova39]

Nah u made videos trashing the hell out of it you got mad because it was slow what kinda Turtle is suppose to be fast??

[@kaq466]

@@WinterSupernova39 Yo bro torterra is my favourite of the sinnoh starters.

[@perm1thurple581]

Torterra is literally in my top 3 favorite starters.

[@therealnerdyg]

He is my #1

[@laxusstrauss5945]

Me too such a cool pokemon Top 3

[@thetreyceratops]

Ignore Mystic

[@sowelljs]

So Merciless Freak, which are your top 3 starters? Torterra can’t be a favorite for everyone. 😛

[@edgarcardiel0272]

@@sowelljs mine are Feraligator, Venasaur, and Swampert

[@blaster.m1943]

>won't put Mega Swampert on the team because of his SINGLE weakness is 4x effective against grass >puts Mega Steelix who has weaknesses to the most common types out there Bruh

[@eonnephilim852]

B r u h

[@re-vb9ph]

Meanwhile Gliscor, Torterra and Landorus are 4 weak to ice.

[@blaster.m1943]

@@re-vb9ph so what? That just means thats one weakness thats easy to perdict rather then multiple ones

[@blueguardian7384]

Mega steelixs defense against fighting types go brrrrrrttttt

[@blueguardian7384]

And ground

[@HasselHoffman-im5he]

Well, Torterra is no longer his most hated Pokémon. That honor goes to Inteleon lol

[@perm1thurple581]

I actually really liked Intelleon's design. It reminds me alot of like James Bond or Johnny Joestar.

[@Unknown-gf1ci]

@@perm1thurple581 that a motherfucking JoJo reference

[@Unknown-gf1ci]

@Pokémon Nerd 98 design That's it

[@redmanharfire7896]

Why intelleon

[@HasselHoffman-im5he]

redman harfire he says why he hates it in his team for sword or shield. One of the two

[@trdc1551]

*Bertha has entered the chat*

[@ronswanson7371]

The Real Dub Club 😏

[@garymalpeli1983]

And she DOES know all about Hippowdon after all.....

[@yoshiblade7555]

*Giovanni has joined your game*

[@TonyMontana_19]

Torterra with a gigantamax form would be insane

[@joshuaded1052]

He would literally be a continent Pokémon

[@garymalpeli1983]

So happy Gliscor is on this team. Always been one of my personal favorites and I always considered it very underrated. Love that poison heal ability/toxic orb hold item combo.

[@invaderzin1858]

Shoutouts to you for liking gliscor

[@casualcrusader1547]

5:39 Nice.

[@skolnation3531]

Can you please do a themed team based on The gym leaders in all regions including galar

[@MysticUmbreon]

That sounds interesting! Could you give me more details about it?

[@skolnation3531]

@@MysticUmbreon Maybe like if the gym leaders ace pokemon has bad moves you can look at the Pokemon and find all of his appearance s in a game... if this makes sense

[@christinahartjen7118]

I was thinking making a team with 1 of each gym leader's Pokemon. You could do a video for this with every generation too.

[@justinsharpless8363]

My ground type team by generation: Kantonian Sandslash Flygon Hippowdon Krookodile Palossand Sandaconda

[@Unknown-gf1ci]

What moveset did you have for hippowdon

[@justinsharpless8363]

Unknown 247 I haven’t set up move sets yet

[@Unknown-gf1ci]

@@justinsharpless8363 oh ok

[@fusedzamasu8949]

Gen 2 and 6?

[@justinsharpless8363]

Fused Zamasu I skipped those gens because you can only have a team of 6.

[@spider-mancantsee5875]

Thank you for adding torterra and hippodown, they are my favorite ground types and they need some love

[@AdamHallDeathPunch]

I wish he would redo the Fire Team and remove the legendaries. I think 3 or 4 of the picks were legendary.

[@therealnerdyg]

He shpuld redo these teams by basically summarizing these videos and then saying what he would change for SwSh monoteams

[@demarkus4566]

Electric types: :(

[@johnherrera5261]

Suck

[@thereza3]

@@johnherrera5261 lol

[@thereza3]

@@raiinefall are you sure about that?

[@wookeattan39]

Elektross: AM I A JOKE TO YOU!?

[@demarkus4566]

@@wookeattan39 use smackdown then a ground type move

[@nerfbastion7579]

I believe Fighting type should be next

[@luketalbot2643]

Seeing my favourite starter in the series in a team is always a joy

[@macwelch8599]

Grass/Ground is so darn powerful if not for that major weakness to Ice types

[@FreedomAnderson]

It’s nice to hear something positive about Torterra from you.

[@tee-p6f]

DO BEST ICE TYPE TEAM SINCE I LOVE ICE TYPES AND ITS MY FAVORITE TYPING

[@ang3lkiller]

He already did ice types

[@nishap7195]

castyler he did that about a month ago I believe

[@havoren]

Glad to see Mystic giving Torterra some love even though he doesn’t like it lol!

[@gemmalow6515]

Me: *Sees the thumbnail* some Torterra love?

[@thezacdaniel5409]

A Pokémon can’t appear twice .... why? At most it would be twice? I just don’t get and would prefer this rule be ignored, as to better adhere to the video title.

[@DrunkenEros]

Ikr, the teams will never be the best otherwise

[@jorgegamboa5821]

Agreed. Not having Excadrill on this team because he was on the Steel team is just crazy

[@diegoizaguirre3452]

Why did you skip out on zyguard it literally has the best signature move in the entirety of Pokémon, thousand arrows is op

[@marioponce8482]

I prefer Heavy Slam over Iron Head, but you also have Gyro Ball for Mega Steelix. So I guess that is ok.

[@mr.shuckle6656]

Ehh iron head is fine

[@jojo6783f]

@@mr.shuckle6656 iron head is worse than gyro ball on steelix because the flinch chance just get waisted

[@greencharisard1444]

Ah yes, my boi torterra finally getting some recognition

[@biohazard2267]

Can you do an updated best ghost team?

[@abegazscott6679]

When your are down with this all the types you should make them all battle

[@MagicalBread]

This is a random comment. I think Dyanamax/ Gigantamax is cool, but I miss Mega-Evolution.

[@JavaIsnom]

Based Torterra

[@dtexdarkus]

“I’m going to distribute the EV’s on Gliscor a little different than normal.” Normal for you, or normal for anyone else who uses gliscor lol.

[@donovan802]

Does having two Ground/Flying types seem like the best option?

[@jordanmurray410]

Pssh you ask that like this kid has a clue

[@rosanirodrigues557]

Yeah! I Loved Torterra! He’s Awesome! 🥰

[@onlineprof13]

I've been waiting for this one

[@MEGalomaniac6829]

I love seeing Torterra getting some love! He really isn't bad to use in Sinnoh, if you just toss a Quick Claw on him. He's usually my MVP.

[@MEGalomaniac6829]

@@Amelia4111 Mine was a he, according to my game file, sooo....

[@mcmc14]

Mystic: earthquake is the best ground type move. Thousand arrows: am I a joke to you?

[@kristopherhuffman8746]

Man no extadrill or nidoking, totally expected them. Though I am glad someone else saw the gliscor. Also shocked at no gastrodon, to deal with water. Good list though.

[@donovan802]

In this series, a Pokemon that you put in the thumbnail is on the team, but based on your strong (and in my opinion, unreasonsable) biases against Torterra, I honestly thought you put it in the thumbnail as a joke.

[@kayqueoliveira5980]

Please explain about dual types weakness, I'm lost about it.

[@lukediehl1210]

Weakness = 2x damage Resistance = 0.5x damage If you have 2 types, you multiply the weakness/resistance of one type by the weakness/resistance of the other. Let's use a hydro pump against 3 different pokemon for an example. Ludicolo is grass/water. Both grass and water resist water. 0.5 x 0.5 = 0.25x damage Torterra is grass/ground. Grass resists water, but ground is weak to it. 0.5 x 2 = 1, neutral damage Rhyperior is rock/ground. Both rock and ground are weak to water. 2 x 2 = 4x damage

[@kayqueoliveira5980]

@@lukediehl1210 thanks man, this information save my life.

[@RajeshKK72]

@@lukediehl1210 Also Immunities, Swampert water typing makes it weak to electric But Because of Ground typing 2 x 0 = 0 Immune to Electric types

[@timhiltz6323]

Swamper resist ice because of water typing , but ground is weak to it.

[@lordmolag45000]

Wow. I did not expect torterra to be in the thumbnail.

[@HolyShitNew]

Torterra is so great i love this design

[@pokeczarelf]

Be sure to call your Ground-type mentor Obi-Wan, because you need the High Ground in order to make your Ground-type pokemon have the High Ground advantage.

[@tyranitorn8632]

I cried the entire time of this video

[@Marvelkid3]

Great video I'm actually doing a mono ground playthrough on pokemon sword I chose the following, hipowdon, excadrill, seismitoad, runegius,flygon, mamoswine. Also caught a hidden ability seismitoad via raid so I have water absorb if needed.

[@dylanosbrey2244]

not to tell you what to do but at the end of making all the best teams for each type you should have a round robin and then a tournament with all the teams to see which is best

[@spadeschaoser9046]

we all know you love Torterra, you love it so much you put it in the thumbnail, its ok Mystic, we know you want to be Mystic Torterra. Its ok, we'll support you when you tell us you love Torterra.

[@seanwilliams249]

I love this team and I love my ground type pokemon. I am a little surprised that Mamoswine didnt make it though. I cant remember is Mamoswine was in the ice type team but Mamoswine is a beast as well. Palosand would also be another good option with a good type and good recovery. Also a great ability. GROUND TYPE LOVER FOR LIFE!

[@Alexcoman51]

Choosing mega Steelix over swampert is a sin Love the content tho!

[@garymalpeli1983]

Alex Coman yeah I mean his reason was (partly) because Swampert has a times 4 weakness. But that is his ONLY weakness. Protecting against Grass can’t be THAT hard am I right? I agree I would have gone Swampert > Steelix also.

[@zacharyjoy8724]

I can only assume that Mega Swampert will be on the Water Team. Why else would it not be here?

[@rijoncastaneda]

My favourite ground starter is swampert and finally you agree that swampert is nice thank u

[@upasanapradhan9997]

Where is garchomp or krookodile

[@chidexter2486]

mystic can you tell me more about this team weakness so i cant counter anyone w this ground team if i met someone in a 1v1

[@jojo6783f]

Why iron head and gyro ball. Its never good to have 2 moves from the same type. And iron heads flinch chance is just waisted

[@nicholas6836]

Just so ya know if steelix gets knocked out there are no other Pokémon on your team able to take a special ice move like ice beam/blizzard

[@klekto6141]

Ground type team are only on power. groudon: bruh I’m so good

[@alldayagain]

So when he says "the monotype tier", is this a competitive thing? I always just assumed he meant a monotype run

[@michaelbowman6684]

This is for the Monotype Competitive Tier, which is fancy way of saying that all the Pokemon on your team have to share at least 1 typing between them. For example, this is a Ground Team, thus all the Pokemon have to have the Ground Typing. If you were to make a Water Team, all the Pokemon on your team would have to be Water Type. It's confusing, because he doesn't reuse Pokemon from previous Monotype Team videos. As an example, he didn't use Mega-Garchomp or Excadrill on this team, because he used them in previous videos, even though they are staples of Monotype Ground. The entire premise of this series is flawed, because he is artificially limiting the amount of Pokemon he can use to create a team with each video, thus, this is not the "best" Ground Team you could create competitively. If you want a good starting point for creating a Ground Monotype Team, here is an example team from Pokemon Showdown: Garchomp-Mega (M) @ Garchompite Ability: Sand Force EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe Naive Nature - Draco Meteor - Earthquake - Fire Blast - Stone Edge Excadrill (M) @ Steelium Z Ability: Sand Rush EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe Jolly Nature - Earthquake - Iron Head - X-Scissor - Rapid Spin Hippowdon (F) @ Leftovers Ability: Sand Stream EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD Relaxed Nature - Stealth Rock - Stone Edge - Slack Off - Whirlwind Landorus @ Life Orb Ability: Sheer Force EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe Hasty Nature - Earth Power - Sludge Wave - Gravity - Knock Off Gastrodon (M) @ Leftovers Ability: Storm Drain EVs: 252 HP / 20 Def / 236 SpD Calm Nature IVs: 0 Atk - Scald - Earth Power - Recover - Toxic Dugtrio (M) @ Focus Sash Ability: Arena Trap EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe Naive Nature IVs: 21 HP / 0 Def / 0 SpD - Earthquake - Reversal - Sucker Punch - Sludge Wave I hope this team inspires you to create a Monotype team of your own. I personally prefer Monotype over any other tier, because there is much more variety in the teams you face. It's highly unlikely that you'll even face someone who is using the exact same team as you, as there is, ironically, more Pokemon that are competitively viable because of the rule-set, like Seismitoad. It would be very difficult to make Seismitoad work in OU, but Seismitoad in Monotype is actually one of Monotype Ground's best Pokemon, as it can check and destroy Belly Drum Azumarill better than any other Ground Pokemon, which is a massive boon. EDIT: Corrected some mistakes in grammar and punctuation. EDIT2: Exported the team from Pokemon Showdown, for ease of editing the team.

[@jacobcamacho5452]

Why didn't you give hippowdon fire fang, that way you could have coverage against grass and ice simultaneously

[@schlafenkirsche]

Ground Type is Probably the Strongest Type in Pokémon, 5 Super Effective Hits, 3 Weaknesses, 2 of the 3 Weaknesses are the Worst Defensive Types, Ice and Grass..

[@seanwilliams249]

Eryzio actually did a video on what the strongest typing is. Sadly ground was. It in the top 3 but I beleive it is easily the top 5.

[@schlafenkirsche]

@@seanwilliams249 he is wrong.

[@petervanheyde2102]

My ground type team 1.Torterra 2.Krookadile 3.Nidoking 4.Gliscor 5.Tyranitar6.Garchomp

[@timmeboy2094]

Can you make a best sword and shield team?

[@AhmedHussain-ju6xd]

I am suprised excadrill wasn't here. With sandstorm up and honeclaws that beast can sweep

[@scayree]

You are planning a best sword and shield team right?

[@Holcombi]

Where's Groudon on this team?

[@dr.anitamahapatra1590]

i would actually bring a claydol with trick room as most pokemon are slow

[@inferodios]

I love gliscor and torterra with all my heart, so I fully endorse this video.

[@tapioca8678]

doesnt torterra get synthesis?? why leech seed for recovery if it has synthesis for even more reliable recovery?

[@thewarrior8497]

Which region do u guys think have the best starter Pokémon overall and why? For me I would probably say Hoenn but I really love the Sinnoh starters!

[@jaretco6423]

Sinnoh starters are my favorites. They're more balanced in battle wise. Never liked the Hoenn starters to be honest.

[@darrellsimon4462]

Primal groudon would have been nice to deal with ice types grass types and the water types(most times)

[@hydreigoncommander2043]

Yay!!! Another video!!!

[@tee-p6f]

wtf is so wrong with torterra he isnt bad at all

[@mahranislam3554]

Bad stats.

[@tee-p6f]

Firestorm Soldier yea his typing is bad but he is basing it off design

[@getapermify]

If you give torterra the move set of crunch, seed bomb, earthquake and iron head, it can hold its own pretty well

[@cadenroberts7984]

My favorite Torterra set is Leech Seed/Earthquake/Toxic/Protect and holding Leftovers. Sort of like yours, just more of a stall wall

[@zhugedai1279]

When you skip every pokemon but torterra and keep hearing him say he doesn't like torterra 🤣 one of the best pokemon designs

[@jordanianstudios]

TBH if you're using synchronize then the flame and toxic orbs are still useful but I get what you're saying

[@fitzyakamcsyke]

Landorous Therian, Groudon, Swampert, Mamoswine, Excadrill, Garchomp.

[@slushiecat5k854]

And here I thought I would be seeing Primal Groudon on the team seeing as it’s a great strong legendary

[@amberjha5974]

My ground type list Garchomp Torterra Swampert Excadrill Krookodile Groudon if possible If legendary isn't allowed then Gliscor

[@donovan802]

I would probably replace Landorus with Krookodile. Landorus is by no means bad, I just think Gliscor already fulfills the Ground/Flying-type well. Give Krookodile Moxie with physical attacks, and you can likely get a good sweep.

[@zacharyjoy8724]

Don Crump As someone who used a Moxie Krookodile in my Unova playthroughs, I can safely say that is VERY true.

[@eaglepro6937]

Love your videos

[@Woofrie]

Smooth Rock is banned, so I gave Hippowdon a Rocky Helmet instead

[@anthonypeipert5011]

My style for my ground type team has been to use sandstorm to my advantage

[@anrovai]

I dont get it if his team is so slow overall why doesnt he put in a mon with trickroom? specially in 2v2 the trickroom up would make torterra or mudstale sweepers

[@QasimAli-nk8gy]

Garchomp: SAD GARCHOMP NOISES

[@NitronNeutron]

Garchomp is on the dragon team

[@QasimAli-nk8gy]

@@NitronNeutron Yeah but still or flygon

[@NitronNeutron]

@@QasimAli-nk8gy flygon is on the bug team.

[@btb8675]

So... half of your best ground type team will get OHKOd by ice beam (one of the most common and readily available coverage moves in the game). Steelix will not survive 2 neutral special attacks from anything worth having ice beam on. I would recommend giving torterra a yache berry instead because those waters he’s supposed to kill will almost surely pack beam or blizzard so leftovers won’t save him but focus sash might be safer too

[@pbtenchi]

Torterra is my favourite pokemon...

[@anthonyt425]

Torterra is so underrated!

[@125Dave8]

I'm surprised Gastrodon wasn't included on this list. What it lacks in speed it makes up in HP and Sp. Defense. It is 4 times weak to Grass, but that's it's only weakness, and it can learn Ice Beam.

[@lolboy-ln6qn]

Why not include excadrill ,tyranitar or flygon???

[@eonnephilim852]

Tyranitar is rock dark, flygon was in bug

[@slick19]

Flying types: I am inevitable.

[@YourGamingHighness]

Rock type moves said hi. 🙂

[@YourGamingHighness]

@Leavanny The Cute Mantis Rock Slide.

[@YourGamingHighness]

@Leavanny The Cute Mantis Oh well.

[@xrn769]

Leavanny The Cute Mantis Mudstale

[@xrn769]

Leavanny The Cute Mantis it has rock slide

[@jojo6783f]

A quick special atacker with ice beam and flamethrower can beat this entire team

[@haridojamaru829]

the unvoa storm legendary pokemon is a beast and is the best pokemon even now

[@redlikerubes_]

For Steelix’s moveset you should replace Iron Head with Body Press, just my opinion

[@TheOmegaZero]

That torterra best be named after me 🤪🐐

[@cloutchaser9425]

imagine having a ground type team without lando t