Ranking EVERY Healing Move in Pokémon

[@MattBudYT]

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[@alansdiamonds3634]

You should do a pokemon status tierless with not only the official "burn, freeze, paralyze, sleep, confusion, poison" but also The non-official Or limited time ones, like " Salt cure " or " frostbite "

[@alansdiamonds3634]

If you do , can you also please separate "poison" from "badly poison"

[@alansdiamonds3634]

Thank you. Love your videos

[@Slimeonian]

Celesteela with Leech Seed, Ingrain and Leftovers my beloved

[@MattBudYT]

And the sp.def beast boost for unkillable substitutes

[@jvsilky]

Don’t forget giga drain for chip and extra hp

[@Andreecals]

Could also have grassy terrain for more healing and resistance to earthquake

[@ophiuchus_kin]

​@@Andreecalswait, doesn't it fly?

[@MattBudYT]

@@ophiuchus_kin ingrain makes it “grounded”

[@collettiville]

14:57 fun fact, since it is technically considered an attack you can still use it to heal your allies even when you are taunted, something that no other move on this list can do.

[@maartendekroon267]

I was thinking "there's something missing". That was it! Every attacking draining move is skipped.

[@patatanavidenya]

but that also means it gets redirected by follow me/rage powder 😢

[@Nosue-vw5rj]

​@@maartendekroon267 he explains in the beginning that he wouldn't include them

[@papawheely3627]

It also means, though, that you can't use it on your allies with Telepathy, even though it would heal them.

[@collettiville]

@@patatanavidenya So do heal pulse & floral healing. At least with pollen puff, when it gets redirected it will damage the opponent instead of healing them.

[@papawheely3627]

19:20 Roost also makes pure-flying mons (like Tornadus, Rookidee/Corvisquire, and Moltres/Talonflame/Fletchinder after using burn up) into normal-types, allowing them to occasionally dodge neutral hits from ghost moves, which allows them to heal and avoid all damage just by not having a secondary type.

[@bingewatcher4678]

I like Slack off and Soft-Boiled..Soft-Boiled can heal your party as well during playthrough

[@MattBudYT]

@@bingewatcher4678 if I was including in game effects then Soft Boiled would be top of those moves. I think Milk Drink also had an in game effect but can’t remember?

[@nathanieljones8043]

Milk drink in game in gen 4 would do a pain split esc effect out side of battle

[@VirtualVirtuoso101]

@@MattBudYTpre-gen VII both milk drink and soft-boiled can be selected outside of battle to transfer 20% of the user’s HP to another party member. Even though your focus was on in-battle, I feel like that can act as a tiebreaker

[@Your_LocalWizard]

I once played against a team with revival blessing, they used it to revive their Moltres. The only problem with that is that the Moltres had its boots knocked off...

[@echo5172]

NO MOLTRES! PUT ON YOUR TIMBS MOLTRES!!!

[@spartacusthememelord6890]

"Oh, hello!" "And goodbye!"

[@StarlightWarriorGamerJames]

Well frap.

[@InvaltidWord]

"the pukester" 😭

[@MattBudYT]

@@InvaltidWord 🤢🤮

[@jamesc1901]

New Mattbud video.. *starts car*

[@FAI_CW]

You're a real one for that 😅 I can relate

[@magnuspkmn]

cracks open beer

[@Andreecals]

The only reason jungle healing has more pp than lunar blessing is because zarude isn't in gen 9, so it's signature move's pp didn't get its pp nerfed like most other healing moves

[@Andreecals]

Yet

[@spartacusthememelord6890]

​@@AndreecalsI thought Zarude was in Gen 9. I've gotten it in Ranbats before

[@Your_LocalWizard]

@@spartacusthememelord6890 it is, it's just that nobody really has one

[@spartacusthememelord6890]

@@Your_LocalWizard ah, I see. Makes sense

[@miraisthebestfr]

Zarude is in gen 9 and got banned from RU lmao

[@kellenbailey7433]

Referring to Pyukumuku as "the puke-ster" is something I will be forever stealing thank you

[@nathanieljones8043]

Ingrain pretty good in gen 3 on cradily even if you don't baton pass cheese. Also nice sponsor also already played the demo before the video.

[@crimsonstormsurge]

Milk drink should be #1 due to the psd it gives anyone who fought that miltank. No but genuinely great video

[@Fives_Waffeleisen]

Babe wake up MattBud dropped another ranking video

[@FAI_CW]

I appreciate the amount of content lately, cheers :) But make sure you don't burn yourself out. Give yourself time if you need it.

[@Andreecals]

You should mention that pollen puff also gives you an option to heal allies without fear of taunt, a nice advantage compared to heal pulse and floral healing

[@KaysonVanOrman-ef4ku]

When it comes to Strength Sap most of the mons that get it are specially defensive anyway. Quiver Bellossom anyone?

[@x_bell1142]

Great video!

[@Adamzx1258]

i think it would be cool to rate all moves of each category like slicing, sound, contact and punching, stuff like that

[@maartendekroon267]

The casualness with which he says "Milk Drink Miltank" confirms for me he never played GSC😅😂

[@invisibilius1978]

tbh i think roost leaving metal birds open to being quaked and punched is enough to make it worse than recover. most common roost mons would probably take recover if they could

[@abigriffin9496]

I would like to note that while almost every healing move took a PP hit, wish didn't. It still has 16 uses compared to others' 8.

[@bobjob2514]

lol. I built a heal pulse clawitzer to stop all those belly drum spammers from throwing my raids in early gen 9. They kept drumming turn 1 no matter what, using up a sitrus (if they even had that), and immediately dying anyway.

[@MrBokLee]

Strength sap is sooo annoying….love countering it with sap sipper! 😅

[@MattBudYT]

Broken move. Hate playing against it and feel like a 🤡 using it.

[@LimeLoaf]

yeah, I was extremely shocked to learn it was a gen 7 addition. Seems like a broken gen 9 move.

[@decidueye98]

14:52 Pollen Puff is a blessing in Doubles. Focus Sash Ribombee does wonders. Did you know Lurantis also gets the move? Assault Vest mixed Lurantis goes brrrr.

[@spacebird1598]

Don't forget ingrain also can be boosted with the big root which is another reason its better then aqua ring Edit: just learned big root also buffs aqua ring so that's cool

[@saiyanfreak]

Strength Sap does have a flaw. It increases the attack of Pokemon with Defiant or Contrary, and boosts the special attack of Pokemon with Competitive by two stages. It also makes you lose MASSIVE HP if you use it on a Liquid Ooze Pokemon like Swalot or Tentacruel. At the same time, Pokemon who can't get their attack stat lowered (because of clear amulet, hyper cutter, clear body, etc) means you will ALWAYS heal based on its current attack stat. The fact the move doesn't fail under these circumstances is crazy.

[@goldeatbetwen6428]

Techicly, heal order is better than other healing moves since it has the most pp

[@Blost]

when (or if) it gets added to gen 9, game freak is most likely reducing its pp

[@ishismits1862]

Swallow and spit up being so useless is so unfortunate. I recently had the idea to add an ability called accumulation, which would increase a pokemon's stockpile counter each turn, without providing the associated defense boosts. This ability could be given to pokemon such as garbodor or swalot, and would grant them a 300 BP move or a full heal with no drawbacks after just 3 turns

[@ZerglingOne1]

Revival Blessing/Lunar Dance combo go!

[@Bird-wz7nx]

Kinda surprised you didn't talk more about PP, because that's another big reason weather heals took a big L historically, and is a big win for Wish. Not that I'd change too much about rankings, but I consider it a big factor. Not that Stall is thriving these days, but if Leech Seed got this much love, idk

[@Bruce_P-Z]

I would join in your tournaments in the discord, I'm already in it after all, but I'm currently in a draft league and that's been taking a lot of my time

[@BucketBoysOfficial]

LOVE HEALS > ANY POKÉMON MOVE ♥️

[@funkymachine]

Recover used to be 32 pp which was absolutely nuts in adv.

[@eeveewithcoffee9554]

Aqua ring, ingrain, leftovers, grassy terrain, Leeth seed, sub. Hacked Pokémon nightmares

[@jvsilky]

Never realized moonlight also got buffed in sun. Never tested it but my brother and I always thought moonlight got buffed in rain instead. The more you know

[@ansonchan8537]

pukester and restmon

[@SonicMeters]

Neat video idea

[@danielmonteiro7781]

I hate all healing moves because to me they seem kinda random for which pokemon receives it Like there’s no reason why some pokemon should have recover

[@danielmonteiro7781]

Also I bave the same feeling about status moves WHY DOES FERROTHORN HAVE THUNDER WAVE

[@DJTileTurnip]

​@@danielmonteiro7781it lives in the Chargestone Cave

[@dustindurham6825]

I now want to make a special variant of strength sap called mental drain, and it would be psychic type.

[@mihai1997]

BD/SP's elite 4 Drifblim be like: BOO! Hope you have something that bypasses accuracy.

[@SpliffingBrit]

Is pain split a healing move or a draining move?

[@MattBudYT]

@@SpliffingBrit not effected by liquid ooze so not a draining move

[@creeperman1295]

R.I.P. Partner Eevee's Sappy Seed since it technically isn't like draining moves (i.e. Giga Drain + Leech Life) since it applies the Leech Seed effect after doing damage instead of the damage directly being used to heal the user 😔

[@MattBudYT]

Those let’s go moves aren’t “canon” to me😂 I will never include them on a serious list.

[@creeperman1295]

@@MattBudYT Fair enough, I just like being cheeky in replies sometimes 😅

[@Vanillastump]

Purify is useful if your opponent is running a pokemon with Guts and a flame orb or something.

[@MattBudYT]

Not really unless they are using trick room. They will outspeed otherwise and you will heal them after they attack and prevent them from taking chip damage from status before the orb activates again.

[@thatonguy2407]

I have a personal grudge against Slack Off. Snorlax should get it. The fact that Snorlax can't use Slack Off hurts me.

[@A_cube_guy]

My favorite healing move is explosion

[@crimsonstormsurge]

Ok how did I never know roost had that secondary effect

[@somebody4094]

15:04 why in the helllll, the horses have pollen puf!?

[@D.MD02]

SI-NES-TI-YA? Are you serious?????

[@TrevorJuve]

Ah but this doesn't consider the fact that Soft-boiled had a niche non-competitive use in being a field move from gen 1 all the way until gen 8 that you could use in the overworld 🤔 that should clearly change the ranking and make it #1 /j

[@NomNom4556]

My favourite move is pain split coz i love cofagrigus

[@waterierStone]

Even if palosand had sand stream it would still be crap.

[@icehouse32oz]

2:44 HAHAHAH

[@chrisunderwood_dg]

I agree

[@walterday4491]

Pain split is so much worse than heal pulse in my opinion

[@dashingocto3629]

How did diace get so much health from that wish??

[@YourLocalZoroark]

Dream Eater:

[@MattBudYT]

It’s a draining move so not included

[@alexgrissom3513]

5:24 what is Senestia?

[@ReplayThatShit]

Sinistea

[@henriquectx]

Pollen puff too low on list. It is the best on doubles, even considering it is a bug type attack. But I would say it is meant to be a bug-type because it is broken, as u-turn

[@DanDennisRobloxman]

Istg strength sap somehow always heals to full 😭

[@DefinitelyNotAFerret]

Ingrain definitely #1 😂😂

[@MattBudYT]

Ingrain the 🐐

[@kanaxaufxanax490]

Did he forget Wish?

[@MattBudYT]

@@kanaxaufxanax490 I guess you’ll never know unless you rewatch the video

[@Andreecals]

Not even about healing wish's powers

[@VictorHernandez-cz1be]

Wait. Did I miss rest??

[@calub_wendex1233]

He placed it at #20 7:42

[@frostycamden1192]

clefairy and what? what’s senestia.

[@KxngKam14]

Shore up?

[@KxngKam14]

I hate that move

[@MattBudYT]

@@KxngKam14 bro got stalled by Palossand

[@danielolivierpepin]

Too many memes its annoying

[@gillriet773]

Big fan of Wish, and Im an even bigger fan of Wish/Ally Switch. Anyway, I just wanted to remind you all that in S/V only the Chimecho and Firigiraf lines have this capability anymore. 🦒🎐 I have run those moves on my giraffe since day 1 and it has never let me down.❤