Is Blue The STRONGEST Pokemon Rival?

[@samboo8634]

Strongest? Maybe. Iconic? Definitely

[@acemanOOOO]

Hotel? Trivago

[@DarkVileScream]

Marko? Polo

[@hiei248]

Smell ya later

[@jessetate9701]

Red is

[@AL-nv4gk]

BA NURR NA NURR NA NURR NA NURR NERR!! 🎵🎵🎵

[@RTaylor661]

Blue was smart saving up all his rare candies he gathered through out his journey. Then use them all at once on his starter to boost an easy 10-15 lvls for the elite four fights.

[@Axecon1]

Gotta give a shoutout to Silver from the Adventures manga. He's never really lost a battle and is the most accomplished trainer of all the PokeDex holders (one of the few to get all gym badges in a region, mastered training faster than all other characters, never lost to Gold).

[@SonicSwift99]

Silver and Platinum are probably the most accomplished of all the Dex holders aside from Red. I'm pretty sure they're the only ones to beat all the gym leaders in a region and almost never lose a battle.

[@sayantanshaw4608]

Yeah, but if I remember correctly I think he stole the badges (Not saying he can't win them though, most probably can).

[@JoaoSilva-gm1pk]

I like how in the Gen 2 remakes, Pidgeot is the strongest pokemon level wise. Considering is the second pokemen he caught in his journey.

[@Sybry605]

Pretty sure it's Raticate, maybe it's the other way around idk

[@Yhwach_isGAY]

​@@Sybry605 How tf did you forget? Didn't you fight him in viridian city after getting your starter and having your first fight?

[@cjtrahey4195]

Just a note: Blue’s English VA in Masters (Billy Kametz) passed away last week. Masters also seems the think that Blue is the strongest rival as well.

[@jried1051]

I'm pretty sure it was 2 weeks.

[@souleblade32790]

I like Blue as a rival, but Silver is my favorite, plus his battle theme is awesome.

[@erik19borgnia]

I mean, as a RIVAL, I also prefer Silver. But if I have to say which one is the strongest, I think Blue is ahead.

[@sebastiendennis2648]

Y’all remember the 2nd fight against Blue where he pulled out Pidgey and that thing absolutely spammed sand attack? If you didn’t put that thing in the dirt quick, you were fighting a battle of attrition and you still had to beat his starter afterwards.

[@nintendolife25]

Gotta hand it to Blue……he always changes the Pokémon he uses. In some games, he uses Aerodactyl. Other times, he uses Pidgeot. And sometimes, even a Tyranitar. You regardless of how many Pokémon you know he used before, you almost never know what team he’ll make with them.

[@chevtones]

If you go by scaling, he’s the only rival to beat a champion-level trainer in Lance. Lance who gave Leon a difficult fight. And he shows up in the PWT alongside trainers like Cynthia and Steven and Red. So yes absolutely, and any argument about Gen 1 AI and move sets is corrected by his appearance in future games. He’s levels above any other rival.

[@kurama251]

I built his venasaur team as a competive team back in x and y. The team did a amazing job with tailwind set up harvest on exagutar lighting rod for rydon morning sun on arcanine chlorophyll for venasaur and just megas on his team in general. Oh and life orb magic gaurd on alakazame and evolight on ryhdon. I think arcanine had rocky helm as well. I just woke and jumped straight om your video so I get to keep making edits lmao awesome video

[@malachirodrigues3013]

Smell yaa later is my favourite dialogue.

[@crimsonking2874]

Personally Blue is my favorite Rival. He’s the only one who made it to the Elite Four and and actual won to become Champion. All the other Rivals stop after being beat by you outside the Elite Four. So they only ever get past Victory Road at the farthest.

[@Savedon-131]

The first time I beat him was where all of my pokemon are exhausted and I have only two pokemon that can take him down. They were level 52 and 54. I then beat him 36 more times after that

[@kevmasengale6903]

Three words is all I need to describe why Blue is the best rival... "Smell ya later"

[@prathambafna6119]

Yes Blue is the strongest rival. Let's put somethings in consideration No.1 He is the only rival to become champion (excluding N) No.2 He turned from a bad guy to a mature and powerful character in the gen 2 games. No.3 He became the virdian city gym leader and had a team stronger and type divers than Lance the current champion (in gen 2 or its remakes) And Lastly He has that arogant aura around him that makes us want to beat him up that made him so iconic. And you can say so to Mystic just think defeating him in the league final is so satisfying. (It was for me in Fire red.)

[@theoboy2716]

hau became alolan champ before you beat him in usum

[@prathambafna6119]

@@theoboy2716 What in sun and moon the player is the first champion and they fight Kukui to become champion not Hau. And Hau only challenges the player in title defence. So LoL 😁

[@theoboy2716]

Thats sun and moon, in ultra hau is waiting for you cuz he alr beat the e4, go on a random usum playthrough and check the champ battle

[@rvs2677]

Blue claps N, Wally, Silver and Hop combined with just the starter even on his worst day.

[@rendy3730]

I like blue because he feels more like a rival than any other rivals in the series, and he genuinely push the player to be better, because we know how smug he is when he won, even when he loses he still wouldn't admit that you're the better trainer

[@MegaMachiOnline]

Former Champion, Easily E4+ Level, canon Battle Legend Meta-wise, he has OFFENSE, BULK, BALANCE (talking roles) & the one thing people kinda overhype…TYPE DIVERSITY Cheren & Wally are comparable in a meta sense but canonically speaking… Not a chance-only reserved for Gladion

[@malachirodrigues3013]

I would say yes he is. Iconic and powerful enough because of his psychic Pokemon alakazam and exeggutor.

[@ShiningJudgment666]

But also because he's a bit of an antagonist. His Exeggutor in Red/Blue/Yellow is atrociously bad though.

[@markmagician2471]

Yeah but Alakazam would always get one shot by my Snorlax

[@BHNOW100]

How can u say its stronger than cynthia

[@TheCat0327]

Strongest? I don't know, but he can smell you later.

[@erikkronmuller7211]

Gary in Silph Co was the one the messed me up the most. More than him as a champion in Gen 1 & 3

[@ShiningJudgment666]

The Silph fight can actually be a tough one.

[@unknownuser494]

I think N's seasonal team in b2w2 is pretty hard because his most pokemon has drought or something like abilities and because of solar beam or blizzard dealing a lot damage.

[@staticspider344]

Blue? Overrated? Nah, he's a BLUEprint (teehee) for a GOOD rival. What do I mean by good? I mean he's not in your face every step of your journey either stalking you or menacingly waiting for you to approach him. Brendan/May weren't bad, but they were a tad forgettable. The real rival for gen 3 was Wally. Barry's annoying at first, but dies down a bit. Gen 5 might be where things go south. The idea of two rivals doesn't sound bad until you realize how often they're going to halt your progress. Whether you find them easy or not is irrelevant. They're there, holding you up, in multiple places. If you somehow haven't figured it out, I was mocking Hop at the start. Compare him to Marnie, who is much less annoying and doesn't bother you half as much. If fact, she's not a bother at all compared to Hop who won't stfu and quit stalking you. I sincerely hope the rival for S/V does not show up as much.

[@MagicSnapO]

Gen 1 and gen 2 had the best rivals. Black and White 2 had a cool rival as well. All the other rivals were just passive nice people. I think ot was done purposely. Seems like kids got soft and didnt like a challenge in pokemon. Not to enemy teams have such childish motivations for their plots. Good teams ended at arguably gen 5 but honestly gen3 was the peak.

[@tomclark362]

Pokemon should add a champion mode where after becoming the champion you have to defend against high powered NPCs trying to become champion.

[@reggielacey2235]

Also you have to remember that there are At least 3 different blues, the mega and non megas timeline blue as well as the let's go and potentially Sword and shield blue

[@Sarcopagusmonster]

No I personally think the B2W2 rival is the strongest especially his victory road team

[@bmont170]

My favorite rival is the one from white&black2. Always liked his character design

[@anivibes2968]

the best written rival characters are silver, N and Hop actually. they had so good character development

[@gnacid]

Strongest probably but all ik is that he's the best at smelling

[@kaedesemo204]

My ranking of the final battles against your rivals before you challenge E4 and Champs in every gen and version: 1st Rank: Silver in HGSS 2nd Rank: Blue in FRLG 3rd Rank: Gladion in SMUSUM 4th Rank: Hop in SS 5th Rank: Wally in ORAS 6th Rank: Hau in SMUSUM 7th Rank: Marnie in SS 8th Rank: Bede in SS 9th Rank : Barry in Platinum 10th Rank: Wally in RS 11th Rank: Blue in RBY 12th Rank: Brendan/May in RSORAS 13th Rank: Barry in DP 14th Rank: Silver in GSC 15th Rank: Trace in Let's go 16th Rank: Cheren/Bianca in BW 17th Rank: Hugh in B2W2 18th Rank: Calem/Serena in XY 19th Rank: Klara/Avery in Isle of Armor 20th->22nd Rank: Shauna, Trevor, Tierno in XY Special Rank: N

[@manporo5865]

I would put Platinum Barry over Bede and Marnie, but that's about it. This list is spot on.

[@Hip-Gnosis1134]

Blues champion music in red blue and yellow slaps so hard

[@rektmephisto8423]

Ahh yes the rival that loves your scent

[@onijester56]

I'm tempted to analyze the teams for at least the final rival fight of each game. Specifically from an offensive standpoint and a defensive standpoint. Level makes things tricky, because you can theoretically have a bunch of Pokemon over-leveled. And the player's specific team composition is...like, my "Legends Arceus" team currently has 3 ghost-type Pokemon. Inversely, if I pull out my Pokemon Yellow or Pokemon Crystal, and assume they are still functional, on both I have a fake-"Bolt-Beam" Clefairy/Clefable, a "Hyper/Super Fang" Raticate, and a Kadabra (with obligatory "Psychic"). I suspect that the former team is gonna be "walled" a lot more than the latter team, though the latter team almost certainly doesn't have as high a stat-distribution or as powerful moves. Pitting any rival against only one of these teams is gonna skew things, but I don't have the mental energy to check every rival's final team against two specific teams of mine. However, few of the Rivals end up also being the Champion. So, I would posit Blue post-League/as-champion as an independent analysis alongside potential "post-game" rival fights.

[@looking517]

Who’s the strongest trainer in each game?

[@joltx9909]

Blue is nice and all, but my favorite rivals will always be silver and hugh. also gladion if you can count him as one

[@alexisdipoalo9443]

From my experience, it depends on what you define as strongest. In lore, 100% with only Terry and MAYBE N if you count him as a rival as contenders ( since all 3 became champion or at least beat them ) As far as in game teams go, he's honestly really bad even assuming we use the remakes as opposed to red/blue they share alot of weakness ( to use your idea of strongest, he gets murdered by ice hard and frankly a water type murders half his team as most know ice moves and water kills 1/3 his team )

[@jeremymiller3305]

In my opinion, Blue is not overrated. He is the strongest rival because from a story perspective, he defeated the elite 4 to become champion. He also replaced the 8th gym leader in Kanto in Gold,Silver, and Crystal as well as the remakes. Wally did not do that. Sure he has a mega Gallade with all Pokemon holding items and complete moveset, but Blue also has a complete team. His moveset for his champion team in Red and Blue were horrible, but as Yellow and later games updated their moves, Blue got better. You also forgot to mention that at the end of Sun and Moon, you get to challenge both Red and Blue at the battle tree. Blue also has a mega Pokemon, in lets go, Mega Charizard Y. In my opinion, he was a well written character is Ash's development. In the beginning when Ash was weak as a trainer before he earned all 8 gym badges, Gary was strong. At the end oh the Johto series, he won against Gary, so after Ash explored Johto to beat the gym leaders, he became stronger compared to his Pallet Town kanto adventures. Gary and Blue are in my opinion cool characters.

[@ShiningJudgment666]

Blue's Yellow moveset was still ass.

[@alexvaughan1013]

Silver is a real d*ck. When you beat Bugsy with your over-levelled Quilava and no other strong Pokemon, he shows up and swamps you with his Croconaw.

[@chimuoma390]

Indeed He Is!He Destroyed Me So Many Times!Except I Had Croconaw And He Had Bayleef!And I Didn't Have An Ice Move,Because In GSC,Ice Fang DIDN'T EXIST!

[@thaolvue]

blue is the strongest, the first battle(picking his name was hard)

[@anthonyanglemyer]

If I have to give an opinion, I would have to say that Blue is indeed one of the more iconic Pokemon characters, and rivals, in the entire franchise. His history and skill, throughout incarnations, speaks for himself, I feel.

[@Nameless_mixes]

I feel like Blue is still the strongest rival (aside from the one fight with May/Brandon in RSE by Cycling Road). Silver, Cheren, N, Hugh, and Gladion are more important in terms of thematics than actually being a threat. I’d say that maybe Bede would be the closest we’ve gotten to Blue. But he’s hindered by only having on type in his team. The only rival that I would consider to be more powerful than Blue across all media would be Paul. We all pretend that Tobias doesn’t exist…

[@SuperSaiyanRome]

Blue/Gary should’ve been in the Masters 8

[@kannan07]

13:53 why just blue,he'd probably solo half the verse,just using crab hammer🤣

[@GreyLeo]

Umm yeah he is especially if you go by the fact mostly everybody struggled with him in red/blue. Imo Wally's best isn't much of a challenge due to the fact you have access to mege evolution and mega Mawile could sweep his entire team. If set up properly. If you struggled against Cynthia my friend Blue would of crushed your spirit.

[@ryleyboake9507]

Love your vids mystic❤️👍🏻

[@liamking8983]

His strongest team I think is his rematch team in FR/LG I still remember that lv73 tyranitar of his

[@dantelan-i-er5466]

That ember on a lvl. 63 Arcanine is really hurting me.

[@Dusxio]

Will we be seeing a ranking of all the incarnations of Blue? XD

[@michaelkowal3230]

Does Blue have a magneton as a replacement to Jolteon if he has Vaporeon or Flareon in Pokemon Yellow?

[@NavyBlueDude]

Yes. At least in my mind and statistically.

[@Kannadiga2301]

Nice 👌 video mystic

[@neekcinco7221]

Lance was that GUY before Blue/Gary beat him. Now he’s like a punching bag…. In the anime he’s just around to be some guy who’s supposed to be good but really just loses now a days….

[@muhammedsalmankz8282]

Yes he really is the most strongest and most iconic because he has a very powerful and diverse teamhe and one who becomes the champion of kanto and technically jhoto as well

[@ednamodee]

I’ll say Blue/Gary is the most iconic rival like if he was still a trainer battling and gaining more experience like Ash he would be in the Masters 8 lets be honest

[@silversalamence10]

When it comes to the Gen 1 AI, nothing sticks out to me more than when TPP's Venomoth, which was rather underlevelled took down Lance's Dragonite since it insisted on using Barrier because hurr durr psychic strong against poison.

[@ShiningJudgment666]

Oh yes, gotta love good AI.

[@zisolo4283]

In terms of the impact to the franchise, its not even close, Blue / Gary is by far the greatest rival in the game / anime.

[@dannygillmor2337]

Wish we'd see blue with an Alolan Eggexutor

[@jonathanabgrall6075]

Blue is a good Rival but a pretty trivial champion compared to say... Cynthia.

[@vicer2476]

Meybe some rivals turnament?

[@minnotaurbrute7802]

Can we get a best team series envolving 2 or all 3 starters

[@strongerthankakarot2744]

He has a pretty powerful team u know

[@gpaulso]

Blue and Silver are literally the only cool rivals in the entire franchise.

[@joshuatreacy6610]

genuinely sad Paul isn't a Rival. he probably would have been just as challenging as blue

[@axels3188]

I think that Blue is the Strongest rival in story but not in definitely I liked Gary in the anime just wish he was shown more in the show and battled Ash more like Blue did in the games I’m not well known of him in the manga but from what I hear he is good.

[@LegendaryBeanie]

If it’s in game yes If it’s the anime Paul is perfect rival he’s a mix of blue and silver And that’s a proper rival non of this hop shit

[@lightfurya2087]

Blue: Strongest? No. Infamous? Yes. Silver: strongest? No. Infamous? yes. Brendan/May: strongest? No. But it’s close. Infamous? Yes. Wally: strongest? Yes. Infamous. No.

[@ypob2007]

You don’t need surf when blizzard is 90% accurate

[@ShiningJudgment666]

Fire also doesn't resist Ice in Gen 1. The bonus is PP and the fact Surf does more damage on neutral targets.

[@ypob2007]

@@ShiningJudgment666 you get a 30% freeze chance

[@ShiningJudgment666]

@@ypob2007 Pretty sure it's 10%. They were going to do 30 but it would've been too broken.

[@ypob2007]

@@ShiningJudgment666 the Japanese versions had a 30% freeze rate, i just mixed things up. Damn, the gen one games were weird af

[@hazzmat9527]

Blue and Iris are your only rivals that become champions before you and the level gap between you and him is higher than you Vs here. Plus his alakazam. He's the only champ I had to rematch. Got close with Cynthia tho

[@axels3188]

Iris was never a rival she was a gym leader in the games.

[@hazzmat9527]

@@axels3188 well that's great for my opinion that blue is the strongest rival

[@ShiningJudgment666]

@@axels3188 Iris was champion in Black 2 and White 2.

[@textbookwin]

How cool would it be to choose from kid teen young person middle aged and ever person? Character creation should go farther but it won't

[@kuitaranheatmorus9932]

Epic stuff

[@melvondrewhite2674]

Definitely Yes ‼️

[@anivibes2968]

its gladion

[@MarcoOlivares92]

who is silver? His name is OBVIOUSLY ???

[@longwang3o3]

Need to do who is the strongest professor

[@ShiningJudgment666]

Professor Oak actually has a hidden battle in the Gen 1 games.

[@chimuoma390]

@@ShiningJudgment666 Prof.Haruhiko Kogure And His Rainbow Element(All Resistances 1100)Chronomon Holy Mode Murders Oak,Even With Mew,And All Pokemon At Lv100!Holy Flare!

[@markmagician2471]

Strongest? Yes

[@keithgregg7282]

Cynthia imo would destroy ue

[@redsnorlax1945]

Def not the strongest champion but prob the strongest rival 2 5 and 6 can be rough in a nuzlock or solo run

[@dannygillmor2337]

Blue or Silver

[@ArtsyAllAround]

No way

[@RaynmanPlays]

Blue is, without a doubt, the _best_ rival. The ones we have today are just... well, they don't actually feel like rivals. More like cheerleaders.

[@Seth6000]

Yes

[@acedatninja23]

Ummmnm I don't know

[@casper8435]

I wonder who you consider the strongest rival in the anime. My pick would be Leon. Considering the fact that he is the current monarch of the wcs in the journeys series.

[@cloak1408]

Do not ever bring up Hop again…he’s the worse rival ever

[@theoboy2716]

Hau should get a shoutout for beating the alola league before u in usum

[@finleyknight443]

Nah, I think Silver, Wally and N are better rivals

[@croaxidc5503]

x and y had THE worst rival characters EVER

[@Scizor_-jf4gj]

first?

[@souleblade32790]

I like Blue as a rival, but Silver is my favorite, plus his battle theme is awesome.

[@chimuoma390]

In HeartGold,I Named Silver Devlin!I Love That He Went Back to Professor Elm To Return His Stolen Starter!