The Most Used Team for Every Pokémon Game

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I worked out what the commonly picked Pokemon are for each Pokemon game and used that information to come up with what team was the most used for each Pokemon game
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[@Wyrmington]

I love how this community unanimously agreed that they used that gen 4 team atleast once in their life

[@withyline]

Yeah, except I never used Roserade or Lucario once. I tend to use Bronzong.

[@echo-kh5ms]

I also never used floatsal , I always used vaporeon as a kid

[@SupremeDarkHero1994]

I have never used Floatzel because my starter of choice there is Empoleon.

[@ellie8272]

I never used anything close to that team lmao. I think I've only used 4 of the seven ever, and only ever three at once

[@aliastheabnormal]

I didn't use Roserade either. Mainly because evolving it was a hassle.

[@electro6942_]

Love how he didn't elaborate on the sinnoh team because we all knew what it would be

[@timmyreobed5043]

Personally I feel like Platinum deserved it's own spot due to its far superior Pokedex giving so many more options.

[@austinlawrence1655]

​@@timmyreobed5043 Agreed

[@Gamermonkey-nq7wp]

@@timmyreobed5043 i doubt much wouldve changed, if at all. Gliscor and mamoswine less popular than garchomp, luxray more popular and easier to get than electivire. Nothing to replace infernape, staraptor, or floatzel. Gallade was the only one that could've made the team, but it was competing with roserade or lucario.

[@SMCwasTaken]

I used Pachirisu instead of Luxray, and do not offend mah boi Floatzel

[@Purple_Sloth]

@@timmyreobed5043 its still the same ultimately. Especially considering average players like to stick with what they get first and not usually swap out pokemon unless its a box legendary or pseudo-legendary that looks cool and isn't too hard to get. Maybe Roserade or Garchomp get swapped for something else, but I don't think it would be too huge.

[@alexclusivekun4651]

The fact that I went through Sinnoh COMPLETELY blind, not knowing any of the pkm that was going to be in the game, I ended up with that exact 7. Plus Bibarel to use the HMs

[@ryukyoutubes]

thats basic

[@alexclusivekun4651]

@@ryukyoutubes what team did you have

[@ryukyoutubes]

@@alexclusivekun4651 the basic one 😭😂

[@TheIcecreamtaco]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@alexclusivekun4651if I had to pick a complete alt team: empoleon, drifblim (time manipulation), weavile, rapidash, bilssey or snorlax (from munchlax), and Gallade

[@Marrxzzzz]

I used Medicham, Torterra, Bastiodon, Drapion, Altaria and Azumarill I didn't really want to use the usual pokemon like Luxray and Staraptor so

[@Pefonmo]

Everybody's gen 4 teams being so similar makes a lot of sense once you look at DP's encounter pool.

[@INeedARadioTower]

Going from DPP to BW was crazy when I was young, hardly any prior Gen Pokemon in the beginning

[@TheIcecreamtaco]

@@INeedARadioTower BW is new pokemon only

[@Pefonmo]

BW had only Unova pokémon for the main game and still had more variety than DP.

[@skelassassin]

am I the only one who used momoswine instead of Lucario/rosarade

[@TheIcecreamtaco]

@@skelassassin how did you even get it at a reasonable point in the game

[@valeed03]

Bro didn’t even have to say anything for sinnoh cuz it was that obvious💀

[@boxkid759]

No we can't

[@JohnDoe______]

Yeah it was pretty obvious

[@todoplays6205]

It's basically copy & paste in every Sinnoh team

[@connorbosley4431]

See that actually quite annoys me, I would have liked to have heard a bit about it

[@spenceroneil4747]

I was gonna say Sinnoh had to be obvious. Granted I never used Buizel. I used Gyrados instead

[@jordansnow1715]

love how sinnohs team is so solid and basically handed to you early game that literally everyones team ends up identical (though if my egg togekiss ends up with serene grace, i always replace staravior with it).

[@gt123_5]

nice pfp my man

[@jordansnow1715]

@@gt123_5 aye thanks.

[@anerrorhasoccurred8727]

Same except I replaced Staravia with Drifblim on a few runs.

[@msrodrigues2000]

Unexpected, serene grace is the best ability for it

[@AleM2287]

8:34 i wanted to hear about Sinnoh 😢

[@LuxwingGo]

This video made me realize Ive made some really weird choices with my pokemon teams compared to everyone else 😂

[@katherinerichardson2273]

Me too i guess

[@AutisticGastrodon]

Same with me

[@MildChunkySalsa]

I think what surprised me is no Slowbro for Kanto

[@CodeXana]

That’s good!

[@jonathandevers6609]

My gen 4 team was apparently an anomaly. I had Infernape, Staraptor, pretty common. But I also had a Gastrodon, Lopunny, Hippowdon, and eventually Electivire

[@ding-dongditch8773]

luxray was such a bad electric type but so cool lol

[@bradyrussell8780]

@@ding-dongditch8773how is luxray bad?

[@jjmeteor]

​@@bradyrussell8780 has a high attack stat but mostly learned special electric moves. Learned a lot of dark attacks but didnt have a dark typing to benefit from it. So it wasnt great at all because of the movepool

[@ding-dongditch8773]

@@jjmeteor exactly this, lackluster attack as well, and speed isn't great

[@DavidSantos-ct4wj]

I had Luxray & Lucario. Other than that, this was definitely not my team, lol

[@thunders1531]

I lowkey loved how the gen 4 team was the “meme” team. I laughed so hard.

[@skalolazer]

Hi, new player here. Can you please explain the meme team and why it is so funny?

[@Vexy93]

@@skalolazer I think the meme is that the team is so popular that there's no need for presentation or explanation. Also the fact that 4 of them are part of Ash's final team (and he has 2 starters at the end) makes it even more fun

[@thatsmyname6805]

@@skalolazer bcs everyone used this team.. and also this team is quite strong.. Garchomp a top tier Pokemon in gen 4, wich was too strong in gen 4 OU, so it get banned in uber

[@SomeCrow-rq5dz]

Playing Shining Pearl it definitely grows tedious running into the same three pokemon on every route.

[@Conkel]

Pretty sure I never used a staraptor or lu- wait yea, luxray no idea, and floatzel never. Can't remember my platinum team nor can I even remember my diamond team.

[@Mac_Spector]

Sinnoh's most popular team definitely the most accurate one. So much data and analysis went into the sinnoh team, I'm amazed

[@SMCwasTaken]

I used Pachirisu

[@keokozonaioni9738]

I used torterra

[@noahberan6498]

I used Yanmega

[@lanmaoda1891]

I used palkia

[@eleanordipalac3012]

I used Gardevoir

[@matheusg.3508]

In Gen 1 all my friends had a Kadabra/Alakazam on their team, it's found pretty early in the game, and it doesn't take long for it to evolve and start dominating every battle (Plus it was a strong pokémon in the anime, so people liked it a lot... Same goes for Gengar, but this one is more of a late game pick)

[@laason1091]

Agreed, I would almost dare to say ALL my friends would have either Kadabra or Haunter. If they actually didn't, it was because they chose to go a bit wild and use Hypno or Mr.mime.

[@blakelivesay]

Kadabra was GOAT. Psychic types were really strong in Gen1 and he had high special

[@cleytonmv]

Exactly, it’d have that Recover for Psychic and the Sleep + Dream Eater for ghost types that were super practical in game

[@firefoxyt6600]

Abra is annoying to catch, and Kadabra needs to be evolved by trading Haunter also needs to be evolved by trading, plus ghost type is probably not seen as necessary by people

[@nessand9291]

when I see abra on any pokemon game, must catch!

[@kevinbell5674]

Correction: Nidoran only started learning Double Kick early in Yellow. In the original games Double Kick was the last move it learned in the 50's. Nidoking is popular due to its versatility with TMs and HMs making him able to fit almost any role not filled by other team members.

[@Zwei-II]

Also you could have a lv16 nidoking by the time you arrive mt. Moon

[@kevinbell5674]

@Zwei-II By the time you reach Cerulean City. You gotta find the Moon Stones in Mt. Moon. Although, I would normally evolve it in between Misty and Surge but still early enough for it to learn Thrash.

[@octolockg5059]

Literally every single DP team. Loved the no explanation part. Completely missed it the first time and was like "Where did it go?"

[@ldmtag]

Since I hate how overrated Staraptor is I used a team of Monferno, Bibarel, Rampardos, Alakazam (cheated😂), Drifblim and something Grass I can't remember, but definitely not Roserade, it looks like a middle aged university professor of literature or arts.

[@blizzzzzzard]

​@@ldmtagAbomasnow ?

[@edwardrichtofen611]

@@ldmtag Did you just insult staraptor! xD

[@ldmtag]

@@edwardrichtofen611 no, I insulted Roserade

[@edwardrichtofen611]

@@ldmtag You said, Staraptor is overrated, Thats false, he is perfectly rated xD

[@Daizz009]

Love how nothing is said about Sinnoh, just the pokemon flashed trough knowing well that this has to be the most popular team ever

[@anlev11]

I used Gastrodon as a water type, the water/ground type is so good

[@kaliaatwell6285]

I’m honestly kind of surprised - I had Empoleon, Luxray, Ponyta, Garchomp, Abomasnow and Lucario for the end of my playthrough (tho I has Misdreavus in place of Lucario for the early game)

[@jasonreed7522]

The first 3 are univeral, everyone did Starter, Luxray, Starraptor. Sinnoh is an anomaly for having such good early route pokemon, and 1 non-starter fire type.

[@michaelscofield6721]

​@@jasonreed7522 speak for yourself I wanted a challenge and didn't want boring sheep team like everyone else 💀 whole point of pokemon is to have your own team not just copy everyone else to make the game easier

[@jasonreed7522]

@@michaelscofield6721 stop trying to sound edgy for using more than just the first 4 pokemon you encounter when 3 of them are fantastic. I have done plenty of runs and almost never use the same team twice because its boring. Its just a simple fact that Starly and Shinx are route 2 encounters that are actually worth using so many people did. I have never used Lucario or Garchomp on any of my teams because they are too out of the way to justify in Pearl, especially once i already have a balanced team.

[@MooseKINGstudios]

Not having an Eeveelution in Gen 1 is wild to me. I remember always using one.

[@terryliliana]

You would be surprised at how Popular Vaporeon is in Kanto, because did you know that... Vaporeon has an amazing move pool and solid stats that let it be a part of almost any team, never disappointing?

[@eeveemaster8902]

It also loves to become white

[@swakage13x]

I honestly didn't use a vaporeon in a playthrough team until y version

[@BlankMoments]

I've only used Vaporeon once, in a randomizer. So I don't really count it, as 'rom mons' cannot go into home with my 'real' teams. I used Flareon in ultra moon. It's the only Kanto eeveelution I have used in a real team so far.

[@worldsboss]

That gen 4 team is pretty spot on lol. Staraptor and Luxray were probably on every team out there!

[@jawdonxtrahero6673]

I played PLA and accidentally had them on the team with my Typhlosion and went oops, I need to get other team members, I've become a meme 🤣

[@rafaelam6862]

Yea i can agree with gen 4 as-well ecept maybe instead od infernape empoleon. do not question me i lov water typse

[@thegeekfanatic]

@@rafaelam6862 As an Empoloeon fan as well Empoleon/Torterra just become the gateway for Rapidash once you get to Solaceon Town lol

[@XSoulfire]

I used staraptor for only a little bit but kept luxray full time

[@ericpriest5383]

not mine

[@CiCiCrown9886]

The sad part about Sinnoh and why EVERYONE has that team is because their is a huge lack of diverse options in the early game and only really begins to give options after Gardenia and by that time, generally Shinx, Starly, and Buizel have tons of levels and have hit their first evolution. Lucario is put on teams cause coverage, good typing, and the fact it's kinda the poster child of Gen 4. Chomp cause Psuedo and the one that broke the Gold Standard back in Comp those days.

[@spiritolaminato654]

People meme about Sinnoh but this happens in Johto as well, arguably to a bigger extent than Sinnoh. At least Sinnoh has a number of strong mons in its dex later in the game, Johto’s dex is incredibly weak all the way through

[@marco2372]

@@spiritolaminato654 I feel like with Johto, much more than how strong or weak the Mons turn out later on, the issue is actually the terrible leveling curve that gets no better in the remakes making it so even using a team of 6 without overleveling your starter is already hard; changing someone for someone else later on just hurts since those games actually punish you for it. It's actually a bit striking how you perform much better in that game by just using around 3 pokés max instead of trying to go with a full team.

[@yorch1196]

Diamond & Pearl's Pokédex is the worst one, there are not Gen 4 Pokémon of Fire type and Electric type other than the famous choices (Infernape, Luxray), and the only Gen 4 Fighting type other than Lucario is Toxicroak. Even if you use Pokémon from other regions there aren't still any Fire types, the only other decent Electric Pokémon is Raichu and the only other decent Fighting type are Machamp and Medicham (Heracross is almost impossible to obtain using honey). At least in Platinum there's way more variety and a lot of cool underrated Pokémon: Togekiss, Gallade, Porygon-Z, Electivire, Magmortar, and the Eeevelutions.

[@BobbyCroseBewler]

This is a stupid take. You get budew for Roserade, Magikarp for Gyarados, Abra for Alakazam and Machop for Machamp all before the first gym.

[@CiCiCrown9886]

You are better off getting Roselia later on. Budew takes way too long to evolve (In Plat I was at Fantina still with a Budew, barring all the things that give points in friendship and the time of day for the evo, that should have evolved way sooner), Karp takes until Gardenia to evolve, requires you to know that the fisher gives you Old Rod, Abra requires you to trade to get it's full power and Machop is much the same (Machoke is pretty bad). The trade evos fall out of favor simply due to needing someone to trade with which isn't always accessible. All these issues combines pretty much make them non cookie cutter@@BobbyCroseBewler

[@falcodeboer4417]

I find it funny that in all the games my teams were so differently then the popular pics as I love seeing the different views of people on what they enjoy in their favorite pokemon team

[@dapukisgoingon]

Out of all of these, my Violet team was the most different I had Skeledirge, Clodsire, Pawmot, Olive tree, Hero Dolphin, Gardevoir 😂 The coverage is crazy. STAB fire, ghost, poison, ground, fighting, electric, grass, water, psychic, and fairy. Looks cool, derpy, cute, all at the same time. Feels realistic 😂

[@CamillaBishops]

Almost the same, but I chose sprigatito hence the ceruledge on my team lol Btw glad to see someone else having to use Gardevoir in gen9, I usually try to use new pokemon but I couldn't find a psychic one that satisfied me :/

[@lilyblossom9438]

I too had Gardevoir, Clodsire, and Hero Dolphin! I chose Sprig as my starter so I had a Ceruledge as well. Ended up with Ampharos as my electric type though, probably because I'm relatively new to Pokemon and haven't played many of the older games, and you can find it pretty early

[@Robin280497]

One thing to note: Mareep wasn't available in Crystal for some reason, so I guess Jolteon would fill the spot there.

[@jahjab1226]

You'd think so but in my case, Graveler ended up taking that spot while my Eeveelution ended up being Umbreon. Graveler beats Falkner, beats Bugsy, resists Miltank's Rollout and beats Morty since the Gastly line doesn't get Levitate yet. Not to mention Typhlosion learns Thunder Punch via Move Tutor in Crystal. Also you get a free Suicune in Crystal so that would also be in everyone's team.

[@imackiemsamich]

You can also get pichu from the mystery egg and since the evolution stones are obtainable in crystal raichu could fit on a team of you are willing to raise pichu oh and Pikachu learns thunderbolt at lvl 26 and paired with the decent stats and nice enough little niches its a good pick if your playing through crystal

[@nerdymidwesterner3662]

I used magneton but that woulda been really good instead 😢

[@terraventusaqua123]

No Thunderstones until the postgame.

[@kmrskates]

Usually on my crystal playthroughs, I'd use Graveler or Magneton instead of Ampharos. Sad that it didn't receive the best electric to use like GS did.

[@ghostygirl2395]

Funny enough, when I originally played Alola, I *wanted* a salazzle, but I either forgot or didn't know how it evolved. I ended up just taking the first male salandit I caught into the E4, and the little guy basically won me the game by surviving attacks with friendship. I miss him.

[@fridaesr8724]

Awww, my first alola team also had a male salandit I caught by the fire trial place and named sam :D At that point I didn't know salazzle existed and when I did find out, I was too attached to him to really care so I just left him in the team ahahahah, I did evolve myself a salazzle for the pokedex but proceeded to abandon her in the box. good times :D

[@myselfsk5908]

for me salazzle catching was a nightmare as it had dragon rage it does 40 guaranteed damage so If I dont catch it in 2 turns and upto that point my pokemon werent strong enough, it was 2 HKO on most of them

[@xabierarana2645]

I remeber wondering why my salandit was taking so long to evolve, then cheking it on internet and be like "damit, i got a male, now i gotta go back for the female and level it", and doing it because i loved that little rascal.

[@beaksters]

Same lol.

[@lucasaugusto1020]

This is the most wholesome thing I ever saw

[@TheEmeraldX]

During my first time playing Sword and Shield, I actually went ahead and use an obstagoon on my team. Definitely its most memorable moment was my battle with Piers, where I sent it out against his obstagoon, and we spent like six or seven turns trying to use counter at the same time and failing.

[@jakariashafin1695]

Cool

[@yourmomscrackpipe]

my Shield team is completely different, but to be fair most of them are Pokémon i brought in via Home

[@seranoraa]

For Unova,: Galvantula, Volcarona and Bisharp really got super popular so surprised by the picks for that one!

[@MarthaVsHumanity]

I’m baffled that Latias/Latios didn’t replace Flygon on the ORAS team, given that you get it for free in the story, AND its Mega Stone.

[@iiokrammii693]

Literally became one of my earliest-favorite legends for what it did for me back in my ORAS run tbh

[@TheCoolBeanie]

Only noobs or kids use legendary Pokémon in a play through for me it was insta boxed

[@housecat6183]

@@TheCoolBeanie If you don't care about a challenge, like most of the fanbase, then there's no reason not to use a Pokemon you want to use in a singleplayer playthrough of a game that encourages you to use what you want.

[@TheCoolBeanie]

@@housecat6183 if it’s someone’s favourite by all means that’s their business enjoy the personal experience when I was a kid I used legendarys I even went out and got Reggirock but I stand by what I said I’m not telling someone not to pick the favourite one I’m just saying it is what it is

[@iiokrammii693]

@@TheCoolBeanie considering I was 11 when I played oras, I won't deny that lol

[@hypnoticsheep142]

Lmao the Sinnoh team is so accurate😂 Personally I always chose Turtwig and opted for Shellos instead of buizel, but this selection really is iconic😂

[@ShadowMudkip123]

Was gonna say the exact same thing lol

[@Dinobolt1]

I used 3 of them when I went through Brilliant Diamond this year. I chose Chimchar because Infernape was my favorite G4 starter evolution, raised a Roserade from a Budew because that's the best G4 grass type outside of Leafeon, and went with Floatzel because that's my favorite G4 water Pokemon for its design alone. Mine managed to take out Cynthia's Garchomp with 2 Ice Beams. Of course he was 6 or so levels above but still. The other half of my team were all version exclusives with an Electivire, Honchkrow and a Gligar who became a Gliscor after my first day at the Battle Tower.

[@Elite4koga]

My platinum team was Infernape Togekiss Gardevoir Raichu Vaporean GARCHOMPPPPP

[@aleksi9470]

Where is it on this video?

[@imnobody101]

My first playthrough of pearl was: Infernape, Crobat, Roserade, Floatzel, Garchomp, and Weavile

[@pyro2708]

Glad to see my boy Raichu represented. Also that sinnoh team was spot on.

[@cassandraspoelhof3752]

I also use Linoone a lot in ORAS because of Pickup. It’s my favorite Ability because it’s so handy for play throughs. Love it so much.

[@JT_VA]

Honestly a little surprised that Hawlucha wasn’t mentioned for USUM since you can get a traded one before the first trail that stays relevant throughout the whole game since it was the increased experience and amazing stats and typing

[@michaelnelson1127]

Yeah, it was my only non-Alolan team member in my ultra Sun playthrough.

[@LegoReader12345hello]

@@michaelnelson1127 that reminds me of how I had the event snorlax in my sun experience with the exclusive z move

[@usermcskull4713]

​@@LegoReader12345helloI had it in my Moon! it's Hold Back was very useful for catching

[@Chtis.]

I used it on my first USUM team and it swept the whole game. It was also very useful in postgame along with my Tyranitar. I love both of those mons because of those playthroughs

[@alfonsopayan09]

Super huge alola fan here Him snorlax and ribombee were missed but then again I know not many people like alola like me so they didn’t have many new games and mixed their playthu parties

[@ashgreninja-flurriko2173]

For Sinnoh, it was almost the same, except my Electric type was Magnezone and my Water type was Gastrodon. I did play Platinum.

[@Dante...]

Same except I had Vaporeon as my water type and Gardevoir instead of Lucario.

[@akirananimoto5843]

My team was exactly that, aside from I used Gastrodon instead of Floatzel, and sometimes I would pick Torterra instead of Infirnape. I have a very strong love for Turtwig and it's evolutions. I would normally use Lucario, but if I picked Torterra for that run, I'd swap it out with Rapidash until I could get a Magmar, then trade with myself to get Magnortar.

[@nabeeljami283]

Everything was same for me except I had gastrodon due to me finding a shiny of it😅. Else it would have been a floatzel. It was also the mvp for me in the cynthia fight. It was the last mon standing and survived that monsters dragon claw like a champ and then hit the blizzard

[@novaexplorer2397]

Same, except my water type was Tentacruel

[@Rainb0wzNstuff]

Same but I had bronzong for my steel type, the early 4 was still there tho.

[@guitarhero3394]

For Scarlet, I decided to have all three starters on my team. The other three were Gardevoir, Lucario and Gyarados (which I later swapped out for Tinkaton; my favorite Pokemon of the generation)

[@incandescence5547]

I used completely different teams from what was most popular in most cases, but I was very surprised by the meowscarada/ceruledge version of the paldea team being literally the exact six pokemon I used on my first playthrough of violet

[@emp0leontrainer]

I actually thought Blaziken was the most popular starter of gen 3. They continued with fire/ fighting starters long afterwards and also gave it a mega evolution later on.

[@Masterchief0521]

I think he's popular early on but Nuzlockes started primarily in RSE and Mudkip is easily the best for those with the Electric Gym being an early game pain. Personally I like Treeko

[@GamerUmbre]

The psychic gym. That's why Blaziken isn't on the most used team also Swampert isn't weak to electric and is only weak to grass.

[@Aka60thChip]

same here, everyone i know and there mothers pick it

[@NoctuaOlivae]

Yeah all my friends had blaziken when I was a kid

[@anerrorhasoccurred8727]

@@Masterchief0521 same, Treeko was always my favourite from that Gen. I love it even more after Mystery Dungeon.

[@Eclipsmon8421]

For me Gastrodon was always a very underrated pick for Sinnoh, you get both a very useful water type and a very useful ground type at the same time (one that you don't need that much investment to evolve no less), and you get many useful moves. And you get pretty much as early as Buizel. Gastrodon is also notable for being very useful against the elite four.

[@RotaAbyssian]

Yeah, Gastrodon was usually a staple for me. Mismagius as well, because Misdreavus is one of if not my favorite Ghosts of all time, and finally seeing it get an evo was cathartic as hell.

[@Eclipsmon8421]

@@RotaAbyssian I would like to use Misdreavus more but it has availability issues.

[@yarigiannini2980]

@@RotaAbyssian I used gastronomia as well in the first game and the remakes

[@Zillionman2010]

I loved using Gastrodon enough that it shifted my team around it. I prefer both Empoleon and Torterra to Infernape, but because I know I'll have Gastrodon to cover their types I almost always ended up picking Infernape.

[@pkmntrainermark8881]

I ended up using an East Sea Gastrodon in Shining Pearl and then a West Sea Gastrodon just a few months later in Legends. Solid Pokémon.

[@matt.oconnor]

Came for Kanto and was not disappointed. Though I always chose Bulbasaur I can confirm that Nidoking, Pidgeot, Lapras we’re 3 of my final 6 every single playthrough. Covered all my important HMs. Arcanine and Zapdos filled my final typings. My all time favorite team. Classic mons.

[@tobias_levi]

Pretty odd that you skipped Crystal considering Mareep is not obtainable in that version. Not to mention Suicune would probably take Lugia's place on the team too in that game. Also wished you went into HGSS too, since the remakes have the advantage of having the Gen 4 Johto evolutions (i.e. Togekiss) and Larvitar and Houndour finally being available in Johto via the Safari Zone.

[@EmmaSol94]

I always play the games twice, second time I purposefully pick Pokemon I wouldn't normally or haven't played before. It's made me appreciate a lot of Pokemon I would have otherwise ignored! Some of the picks for most popular here were actually in my second team and not first so it's interesting to see how we all choose differently.

[@arielcabrera7990]

same, I just finished playing alpha sapphire and using both cacturne and altaria was something I never considered but turned out to be really fun!

[@Chen_Gaming]

Yep! Love doing this.

[@Dragon_Moth]

Same, I particularly use Pokémon i would never use anywhere else. My latest Emerald playthrough I used obscure ones like Shiftry or Masquerein

[@benamisai-kham5892]

I like doing this per version, if I buy both. I'll play one, and play the second opposite. (Grass starter in one? Fire in the next *sometimes water because it's my least picked starter type)

[@yonkokodak]

I definitely did the same team never picked tge popular ones in atleast one playthough just to give every pokemon a chance

[@BobJones007andahalf]

This is so great. Would LOVE a "least used" team based on the same polls!

[@olivernguyen50]

Oh there is alot my friend

[@jakezepeda1267]

Catch me and my 6 Dunsparce.

[@BeeBwakka]

That's not how statistics work, there's a huge number of teams that would be equally "least used" just because of the sheer number of permutations of teams

[@BobJones007andahalf]

@@BeeBwakka hence the open quotes :)

[@BeeBwakka]

@@BobJones007andahalf that doesn't make it any less of an unanswerable question

[@jarrettbellboy]

10/10 video. I’m glad you mention how early availability really influenced the most common types. It’s one of my favorite design choices of Sword/sheild- the game really opens up the amount of options early in the game. This is especially helpful for those wanting to do monotype runs.

[@alexanderkeny5072]

11:19 I mean it can seem shocking until you consider Seismitoad gets rain dance with the swift swim ability. A water type that can switch in on electric moves and has the defenses to back up surviving a turn to set up rain dance makes it a decent choice for a mixed attacker with the spread moves of EQ and Surf. Even gets Drain Punch for restoring. Just keep it away from grass and you’re good.

[@christianmarvello7527]

I'm surprised the Magnemite line wasn't mentioned in B2W2 cause its a steel type available before the poison gym so basically Roxie couldn't touch you, I assumed many people picked it up because of this

[@yoshiwoollyworld]

Isn’t magnezone in?

[@sibernout7717]

@@yoshiwoollyworld yes

[@NathanDavis508]

Right!? Magnemite carried that 2nd gym in bw2, and it does really well against the water gym later on, and steel resists so much it could be used to destroy the plasma grunts. Also, no garchomp for x and y…

[@utthejj9063]

hi i think you meant me (i picked it)

[@JadoDog]

An explanation on Baxcalibur: I was playing Scarlet and Violet with a friend and we found the raid den for its first form after our second gym. It was a water Tera type and we both had it on our teams longer than most of our other team members.

[@red_dll]

Since I started playing PokeMMO, I love these kind of videos! It gives me ideas for what Pokemon I can catch in one region and then use it in another region's storyline. Using Unova Pokemon in Kanto is new and fun to me.

[@piratebear3126]

I actually did run both Skeledirge and Ceruledge on my team in Violet, along with Annihilape. I even had planned on having the Ghost dog for 4 Ghosts on my team, but I ended up growing attached to Mabosstiff before I found a Greavard.

[@BJGvideos]

Because of the storyline or on your own?

[@marion817]

I thought people would’ve gone for that flying Togekiss in Hisui. It was a pretty powerful early game catch. I guess many missed it. That Togekiss carried me all the way to the Volo battle. The movepool, stats and even bulk were pretty amazing for in-game stuff.

[@nmikk10]

I spent about an hour trying to catch it to no avail so I gave up

[@brodiefromthe6]

to spice things up I tried playing Platinum with Togekiss as my flying type over Staraptor (one of the hardest things I've ever done) and I fell in love with it's movepool. with Aura Sphere, Air Slash, Thunder Wave, and Fly, I just spammed Thunder Wave and Air Slash lol

[@Carcosahead]

⁠@@nmikk10ditto, I gave up and went on to play the rest of the game

[@OmegaSMG]

Togekiss is seriously underrated, easily one of my favorite Pokemon ever

[@OmegaSMG]

​@@brodiefromthe6 Togekiss has one of my favorite movepools in the game. Aura sphere, extrasensory, signal beam, tri attack, roost or softboiled, so many options that are just unexpected nukes after the physical special split.

[@JoeMH1995]

I think its interesting that trade evolutions are not very common. Especially in the early generations where trading was not available for everyone. Graveler is often very good early-game, but I was always disappointed as a kid because I could never get Golem. In Gen V, one of my biggest factors was that so many pokemon take forever to evolve. I didn't want to be five gyms in with a tynamo. Its kind of the opposite of Nidoking and Nidoqueen, which you can fully evolve before the third badge.

[@Dad_420]

Yeah most people don’t have anybody to trade with

[@juniedaniel6428]

I’ve used trade evolution Pokémon or Pokémon that required a friend to evolve throughout my teams like Scizor, Electivire, Alakazam, and Palafin, but I get why these mons didn’t get mentioned, cause not everyone has friends 🥲

[@Dad_420]

@@juniedaniel6428 yeah. And even less people have friends that play Pokémon and have the same game

[@JoeMH1995]

@@Dad_420 Or link cables or a decent home internet connection. Kids these days don't know how easy they have it...

[@Dad_420]

@@JoeMH1995 I know right. It was so hard back in the day

[@tattletail1122]

I love how accurate red's HeartGold and SoulSilver team was to the most common kanto teams

[@lswatEnt]

I really enjoy the KZbin community so much and how some show others so much love

[@Toadaux]

Something you didn't mention in regards to Dragapult being on the Galar team is that the fact that thanks to raid dens you can get Dreepy extremely early in the game, getting it on your team by the third gym and having it for most of your journey.

[@ldmtag]

Yeah, except it evolves at lv50 and you have to wait until lv60 to finally get Dragapult. I don't get the appeal

[@Soljodokick]

@@ldmtag cool ghost dragon

[@ldmtag]

@@Soljodokick but it only becomes one at lv60 - when all of your base story is finished. What's the appeal to evolve it just to take on Leon?

[@testerwulf3357]

@@ldmtag Yea..these feel more like "popular dream teams" than functional "this is what I used during the story" teams. I only used 2 of the mons on the "galar team everyone used" but I think swapped one out near the end? I don't remember. And only 1 mon on the X&Y team.

[@ldmtag]

@@testerwulf3357 well, on second thought, when I faced Leon for the very first time I had my Dragapult facing his Dragapult, and, I believe, mine wasn't even overleveled. When you first beat the game in the first couple weeks it came out, when manuals aren't online yet, than mayve you can afford something spontaneous like adding a Dragapult last moment before beating the league. But I don't think this is how Pokémon games are intended to play. It's a game of planning and logistics, you plan your ultimate "route" knowing in advance which items and pokemon you obtain at which points of your progress, and, yeah, during your second proper playthrough it's super impractical to raise a slow growing pseudo just for one last match, unless you're fine being 20 levels above your opponent and want to basically solo the game.

[@dimentdash]

11:20 What's shocking about Seismitoad? It's a very easy water to get after the second gym and the Water/Ground typing and it's stats make it a balanced offensive and defensive Pokemon. I had one when I played BW the first time.

[@Zillionman2010]

It's competing against both Krookodile and Excadrill for the ground spot which are two of the best ground types in the game. Unless you were desperate for a water pokemon most people won't take it over those two.

[@Lock-Senpai]

I think it was his personal opinion as in one of his previous vids he said he finds seismitoad'a design uncomfortable

[@masonkyle6318]

Many casual players only judge pokemon based on looks and some find it ugly. I can kinda see why

[@silverwind4236]

Note on LGPE: The Gift pokemon (3 starters, Magikarp, Hitmonbros, Lapras, Aerodactyl, etc.) all have very high IVs usually in ideal distributions (yes, even the scamagikarp). Anyone that notices this is inclined to use gift pokemon in their team. Similarly, AVs made base stats less important, so you could find yourself with very powerful version of otherwise weak pokemon, if you train them enough. This being the case, I think those pokemon would have been used more often than others.

[@haveyoumettess]

Typically with later games I would plan out my teams rather than go in blind, but every so often I find myself with some “surprise” Pokémon on my team that end up becoming some of my favorites. Those include Jigglypuff in Kanto, Electrode in Johto, Rapidash and Abomnasnow in Sinnoh, and my precious Orbeetle in Gen 8.

[@clash_king1025]

I know manetric was gonna be the most used electric type of Hoenn, but my electric type of ORAS was actually cosplay Pikachu Yep, that is right. That gift Pokémon is what I decided to fight Steven with My ORAS team in general was a big fever dream. It was swampert, shiftree, shedinja, Pikachu-cosplay, latios and primal groudon. It was my first Pokémon game in a while so I kinda went off the walls lmao

[@SMCwasTaken]

I used Plusle, pls don't get mad at me the reason why i don't like Manetric or any "BadAs" looking Pokemon in general it's because it feels like i'm raising some rebellious teenager

[@clash_king1025]

@@SMCwasTaken Honestly respect

[@ChespinCraft]

Omg I had a such a similar experience. I had Swampert, Pikachu-Belle, Latias, Primal Kyogre, Metagross and Linoone lol

[@milky7257]

I remember my Alpha Sapphire team. Mega Blaziken, Zigzagoon, Swellow, Ninjask, Shedinja, Cosplay Pikachu and Castform. Absolute bonkers team.

[@ryanholley406]

One thing to note, I believe Heracross was also available in the bug catching competition in HGSS. This would help explain the popularity in him being on many teams as catching a Heracross would award the most points

[@ldmtag]

I'm pretty sure Heracross isn't available at BCC. Cos I remember I finished my first couple playthroughs of HGSS without even remembering Heracross existed. It's always been in Headbutt trees in Azalea Town, pretty early for a standalone 500 BST pokemon, but I believe I had to box it vecause it got no moves.

[@padmister123]

Pinsir and Scyther were the best bugs in the bug contest I don't think Heracross was in it.

[@pointlesswill9045]

Heracross isn't in the Bug Catching Contest. Also fun fact, because of how headbutt trees are determined in GSC, in Crystal, if your trainer ID has a 7 at the end, you have to wait til after Whitney to get Heracross. I was pretty pissed when I found that put and looked at my trainer ID

[@legobeachtrooper6916]

I got a female Heracross in Heart Gold head butting a tree in Azalea Town, she made my battle with Whitney soooo much easier

[@Fr0zenNightmare]

I'm just at the beginning of the video, but I'm REALLY surprised Kadabra/Alakazam isn't one of the 6 mons... that was an absolute powerhouse, fast leveling + evolving and you get an Abra after Mt. Moon

[@MorganMoogle]

That Kanto & Johto team ❤ I see you mentioned that shiny Beldum in ORAS. There was also a speed boost Torchic distribution that was so overpowered it got banned from the competitive scene 😂. Great video, I can’t argue with the choices. Most of us players thinking we were clever edgelords when we were younger, only to know everyone picked the same!

[@Kingboo4245]

Alright, but now, what if he went through the forms and picked out the weirdest teams for each gen? Would be interesting to see what odd teams some people made.

[@michaelnelson1127]

That’d definitely be interesting. I wonder how many ‘overleveled starters, random everything else’ would be in there. I know that was the case for my first playthrough of White, where my record said I used Emboar, Zekrom, then 4 randoms in the mid-20s.

[@mileschicken1]

@@michaelnelson1127 I opened my DS for the first time in years the other day and found out my platinum hall of fame team was torterra, electivire, azumaril, Abomasnow, giratina and haunter. Really random collection of Pokémon.

[@mastergreeen1385]

​@@mileschicken1 was the Haunter from Mindy?

[@iwannaseehowlongyoucanmakethis]

Lilligant was so good, espescially if you played Black/Black 2 and got it through NPC trade so it had the increases exp. That Petal Dance/Own Tempo combo was devastating. Also in Black 2, you can catch a level 30 Volcarona in the desert temple, that was also good.

[@Masterchief0521]

lilligant and Darmanitan taught me about EVs and the Physical-Special split because I was used to gen 3 where it was split by type

[@miikaroos3809]

I think you mean Petal Dance/Own Tempo.

[@iwannaseehowlongyoucanmakethis]

@@miikaroos3809 you're right

[@MimoriAzume]

Oh wow, this was really interesting to watch! I don't think I've used the majority of the pokemon in this video, but i might try some of them out now!

[@AlexsGoogleAccount]

1. When I surveyed over a hundred teams for RSE, my results were the same as your RS team, except I included Salamence over Flygon to avoid the type overlap between Flygon and Swampert. My results showed Salamence to be more common than Altaria or Flygon, though it was also in a community that replayed these games a lot more than the average player. 2. If the starter isn't Swampert, the team is (Blaziken, Manectric, Gardevoir, Aggron, Flygon, Gyarados) or (Sceptile, Manectric, Gardevoir, Aggron, Flygon, Gyarados). Gardevoir was the most used Pokemon overall. 3. In B2W2, Arcanine's placement before the Bug gym makes it an obvious pick. It's already a fan favorite but coverage options for most players at that point are limited. In my first playthrough of Black 2, I only picked up a Growlithe after getting stuck on Burgh. 4. The average Red/Blue team does not necessitate the average Fire Red/Leaf Green team, nor is Yellow necessarily representative for Let's Go, nor Gold/Silver representative of Crystal, HeartGold, or SoulSilver, nor Ruby/Sapphire of ORAS. In each of these games, there were A LOT of changes in Pokemon spawns. 5. Assuming Lugia is on the Johto team is only valid for Silver/SoulSilver. Otherwise it is postgame exclusive.

[@GatorOne-in7hk]

In Pokémon Scarlet I didn’t have a traditional team, instead I tried a rotation of a whopping 12 Pokémon. So you could say I had two teams at once, lol. The members were Skeledirge, Clodsire, Gardevoir, Tinkaton, Pawmot, Lokix, Palafin, Honchkrow, Gholdengo, Baxcalibur, Flapple and Farigiraf. Normally I try to avoid too many repeating types on my teams, but there were so many Pokémon I wanted to try out that I had to make exceptions, especially with Gholdengo.

[@that-guy-pearce]

Same lol. I had the same core 3 members (Skeledirge, Klawf, Cyclizar) and rotated out the last three slots depending on which storyline I was on. For the final boss I used Kilowattrel, Mabosstiff, and Dondozo as my other half and that's what I consider my "final team"

[@SupremeDarkHero1994]

Same here, you have so many options available right from the start that I ended up using over 20 pokemon with my only constants being Skeledirge and Kingambit.

[@michaelnelson1127]

Same. I finished with 11 Pokémon in rotation, and ended up using the Titan Great Tusk even though I already had a ground type (Toedscruel) and fighting type (Pawmot).

[@jorgegonzalezavila9376]

Having the patience to get Pawmot, Baxcalibur, Palafin and Gholdengo all at once deserves an award.

[@TheFlashyLucario]

Oooh I did something similar in Legends Arceus, rotating out everything occasionally. The team changed per boss fight, and even my Typhlosion wasn’t permanently on the team, nor the shiny Staraptor I caught 2 hours in as a Starly. Still my favorite playthrough of all time

[@aaronw7602]

I went into Shining Pearl telling myself I wasn't going to use any of those for how overused they are and yet I still ended up with a Luxray and Roserade.

[@Endacity]

I got a roserade too but my excuse was that it was a shiny

[@Atmoras]

I'd love to see a playthrough of you using these teams :) could be interesting

[@BJGvideos]

I'm surprised Flamigo isn't on the popular SV mons list , considering you can get it in the first hour and it's a titan-killing machine

[@flaregamer64]

The funniest thing about Dreepy is that I'm sure most people got it through Wonder Trade and then never went to catch a wild one for themselves ever again.

[@takumidoutou4412]

I actually did catch my down funnily enough

[@Lolia.]

I got mine that way very early in game haha, instantly fell in love with him and was so excited to see what it would evolve into. I was not disappointed, instant top 10 favourite Pokémon.

[@ldmtag]

But traded pokemon get overleveled too quickly, I always catch or at least breed my own mons

[@flaregamer64]

@@ldmtag And that really helps a pseudo-legendary like Dreepy lol

[@ldmtag]

@@flaregamer64 but there's no fun in beating an opponent of lower level

[@eaglechild92]

I'm shocked that annihilape was not on Scarlet and violet team. Its a absolute beast and peak design

[@yhussain245]

To be fair, without already knowing Annihilape exists and how to evolve him, you would never have any chance to get him until either A, you for some reason choose a random fighting type in a specific region of the map and then repeatedly use one move that isn’t even stab. Or B, you see Annihilape in the final Team star fight, and use trial and error to find it, even then it’s just a generally hard to encounter Pokémon

[@Him_15]

@@yhussain245that’s what I was gonna say good point

[@AgrestisAnima]

Yeah I didn't know the evolution was a thing, and I don't like the little monkey in my team normally. And am I the only one using the Region original Pokémon that aren't in other games?

[@migzy4704]

I didn’t use him because I already had a ghost type on my team. And I don’t like having two Pokémon of the same type on my teams.

[@Nikowo1610]

​@@migzy4704not me often having three ghosts on my team

[@magicaltour1]

Lucian and Cynthia together were so hard, I had to restart the game and develop a team specifically to counter them. I did end up with Infernape, Roserade, and Luxray on my team, but I used Gastrodon, Honchcrow, and Bronzong for the rest of the team. This was the team I confronted Cyrus with, but after catching Dialga, I switched him with Bronzong for the Elite Four. Water/ground became my favorite typing thanks to Gastrodon, and Honchcrow made short work of the commonly seen Medichams.

[@utmostkibbles9125]

Cloyster is my sleeper gen 1 pick. Surf, Ice beam, toxic, and clamp was a great set. Clamp, like wrap and firespin, was very op back in the day.

[@Redsnausage]

Scarlet was the first time I've ever used two pokemon with the same typing in my in game team, Skeledirge and Ceruledge were both just too cool for me to skip out on them

[@Frost4Real]

Same here, kinda. I already had Annihilape, so wasn't going to get Ceruledge cos double ghost, but glad I did cos hes just too cool. Charcadet line best new pokemon in SV 👌🏻

[@BADBOYTAILS]

U had a ceruledge in scarlet? U traded with a friend right?

[@jarrettbellboy]

If you want to spice up your Pokémon experience try using a monotype team. It adds a level of interesting strategy and creativity. It’s all I do now.

[@bengan2588]

you made me look up my hall of fames for every game and it mad me tear up seeing the dates and all the memories flashing before my eye. Pokemon have been with me for 23 years

[@thanksgivingh6185]

beautiful 🤟

[@sincroslash87]

And now im gonna go replay all the pokemon games and use the teams that were shown in this video.

[@larskaiser8131]

Funnily enough, apart from a few overlaps my teams usually look nothing like the ones given there. As a kid I stayed away from Moonstone evolutions, for example, since they no longer learned attacks (keeping TMs for "forever" since they were one-time only). Thus I never experienced the full power Nidoking. Like, in X and Y I went with Fennekin and Bulbasaur, added an (Azu-)Marril, a Salamence, the free Lucario and... either Magnezone or Rotom, I forgot. Then again the idea of the team was to have 12 different types among all Pokemon.

[@bryanlemmens68]

Im surprised no one mentioned latios and latias since you get one for free and immediately get its mega stone. I used it on my team a lot, and it gave me the win in some tough challenges

[@tyranidswarmlord9722]

That and Komo-oh being more popular than Mimikyu = was pure cap.

[@theamazingspooderman2697]

there designs aren't that good maybe that's why

[@kamilkuc6242]

I'm honestly surprised how Gyarados is skipped in every generation beginning from 3rd! I always get Gyarados and Dragon Dance sweep the entire game with him, simply love this way of playing the game :D

[@ldmtag]

Gyarados was cool in Gen 1 with that 100 SPECIAL stat. Gen 2 and 3 it was mediocre, and in Gen 4 with new physical Water moves it was back, but nobody cared, I guess, because a lot of new pokemon were released. I would not use Gyarados over Bibarel

[@the_flying_airplane5335]

Gyarados is one of my favorite Pokemon, and considering its ease of access in most games, is very often on my team! Powerful yet easy to get, provided you have the patience for evolving Magikarp

[@bugcatcherjacky1334]

Same. Every Nuzlocke I play has a Gyarados too 😂

[@mnemo7096]

i used to watch this guy in 2020 and now ive found him again lets gooo time to binge watch him as i play the og pokemon games

[@markmadsen1791]

I apparently play these games differently than most people do. Most of these teams share no more than two Pokemon with my playthroughs, though some do get up to three matches. Although I do use many of the honorable mentions.

[@SkippyKairos]

Very interesting video to watch and compare with my own in game teams. 1. I was shocked to see that Torchic resulted in the least popular gen 3 starter, pretty sure growing up it was #1 for most people. 2. I'm also surprised Sigilyph didn't make it onto any Unova team. 3. That Sun/Moon team is exactly my team except I had Toxapex instead of Vikavolt. 4. Somehow I've never used that gen 4 team before

[@ldmtag]

Ikd, sure Blaziken is amaziken, but Torchic is ugly a f. If I didn't know how final evolution looks I'd never pick one. And even knowing how it looks,... dude, that Water/Ground typing!

[@EpicNerdsWithCameras]

Did people actually like Sigilyph? I never remember being very interested in it, personally.

[@ldmtag]

@@EpicNerdsWithCameras I never liked it because it's one of the worse objectmons. I don't like its ancient Egyptian theme, I think it doesn't fit in Pokémon world, and it lacks character. Gonna say something very unpopular, but I prefer even Klefki and Comfey over Sigilyph, let alone the og objectmons Magneton and Electrode

[@abbiepancakeeater52]

When I played Pokemon Sun, I thought Chargabug was so cute that I gave it an eviolite and never evolved it. Not sure why I find it so adorable. Grubbin is even cuter.

[@SkippyKairos]

@@EpicNerdsWithCameras I used it for a couple playthroughs and it works out great! Learns many fantastic attacking moves

[@alancinwolfe111]

A little surprised Flamigo wasn’t mentioned for Paldea. That guy was great for my in-game run, it solos a bunch of the goals. It’s a little simpler on the design side and people probably weren’t interested in seeing what it had to offer, if I had to guess.

[@Rena0Dawn]

I agree! Flamigo is an over powered bad ass! He keeps surprising me. I thought it was just an innocent funny flamingo walking around but he’s intense 🤣

[@christianturner6667]

I'm surprised Lokix didn't make it. That little bug stomped so many pokemon during my playthrough lol

[@Chen_Gaming]

Very true! It's about the strongest Pokemon you can get early in the game given it doesn't need to evolve. But also a very uninspiring design...

[@themasterblaze7563]

Flamigo wasn't as popular upon release week. It for sure got more popular overtime. Especially due to speedrunning as well.

[@ldmtag]

Flamigo is nothing special without its Hidden Ability. I tried using it, but it was just average. In Paldea you can have so many other cooler and stronger options.

[@bluegallade]

Glad I use more obscure picks. It was unintentional but my paldean team was 5/6 ghost types, including skellidireg, ceruledge and gholdengo.

[@farlow1798]

My favourite part about Gen 8 was how diverse my team was, i just picked my favourite pokemon so some of them ended up pretty weak which gave me a MASSIVE challenge against Leon Inteleon Corviknight Toxtricity Appletun Coalossal Sandaconda Probably still my favourite ever team in a pokemon game ngl

[@iceberg78]

mines was Cinderace Gyrados Corviknight Machamp (traded) Charizard (from pokemon home) and Incineroar (from eggs)

[@typhlosion7872]

For SV, another thing that makes the tie between starters make sense is that Fuecoco is the most popular first stage starter and Meowscarada is the most popular third stage starter

[@CombatLegsVIDS]

And the final evo of the water starter looks horrible

[@CreativitySkys]

@@CombatLegsVIDS Epic tbh

[@happymask8042]

I definitely had a Skeledirge and an Armarouge on my team. I think you underestimated the amount of people that likely had both the fire starter and Charcadet evo.

[@800iq2]

Ampharos was amazing for me in Johto. Learning fire punch along with its electric moves it was pretty versatile and strong. Leveled it to 100

[@LightningEvil72]

Agree on these teams based on community popularity/rankings. I think at most for any given team were 4 members I used, usually just 2 or 3 of those chosen though opting for personal favorites that still give type coverage over which had best stat lines/popularity.

[@justinmccall9370]

Hey Auragurdian, after doing that livestream of basically restating all your favorite pokemon of each category, Have you ever thought of redoing your top 10 favorite pokemon list?

[@TheAuraGuardian]

🤔

[@barnab2003]

🤔

[@BigHeadBobert]

@@TheAuraGuardian what do you think about… tinkaton.

[@GoodlyData86596]

Breloom (under the right circumstances via waiting until after level 40 to evolve shroomish) can learn both spore and false swipe, making it a “catching slave” hence its popularity.

[@farlow1798]

i didn't even know this I just adore Breloom

[@n00bowser]

Has anyone honestly really used Shroomish until Lv 54 (Bulbapedia, check the Gen III learnset) only to get a "catching slave"? Sounds like wasted effort to me, especially when Stun Spore's 75% accuracy is more than enough for catching wild pokemon. If you ask me, Breloom's popularity is explained by the fact that it's a really cool pokemon. I still remember being in awe as a kid when you reach the pkmn ranger trainer on route 121 and thinking "Shroomish evolves into that? Now I want one!".

[@GoodlyData86596]

@@n00bowser you are 100% correct on this, but berloom is a mortal among legends in terms of being a cool Pokemon, he doesn’t really stand out despite his mushroom origins trying its best to make him stand out.

[@GoodlyData86596]

@@n00bowser also I never played gen three, I only played the remake and it was the best thing ever so sorry it slipped my mind to check the gen three move learn pool on that.

[@psychoticchaos]

My teams were pretty different from the most used, except the Meowscarada alternative team at the end. That was my exact lineup at the E4 with the exception of the minecraft block dude, I had Baxcallibur instead.

[@cyusontheinternet]

My Sc/Vi team ended up being Skeledirge, Lurantis, Tinkaton, Annihilape, Garganacl, and Cetitan. I love all of these pokemon to death but WOW Lurantis and Cetitan need MAJOR buffs. Lurantis was fine but was held back by being a pure grass type (I think Fighting would do it wonders), but I can't recall a single major battle where Cetitan wasn't IMMEDIATELY knocked out upon entry. The rest of the team was incredible though-- Tinkaton had an atk lowering nature and Gigaton Hammer STILL one-shot almost everything I used it on

[@elpistachio]

I got my copy of Violet fairly recently so I was able to hear what were the more common picks. So I went out of my way to make a team as different as possible. I eventually settled with: Brambleghast, Scovillain, Revavroom, Cetitan, Ting-Lu and Drednaw

[@ragergamer3111]

Bold choice not having a starter on it

[@kaydenhrtan8677]

What is your starter Pokémon in Violet? Sprigatito? Fuecoco? Or Quaxly?

[@Megadaxo]

My scarlet team was Quaquaval Brambleghast Tinkaton Clodsire Baxcalibur and Armarouge My violet team was meowscarada revavroom kilowattrel tauros ceruledge and Palafin

[@amyschildgamerlive4519]

​@RagerGamer I agree. For most people they keep their starter the whole game. I'd say very bold not to include it.

[@elpistachio]

@@kaydenhrtan8677 Fuecoco was my starter. I held on to it until it was fully evolved and I got a different team member to replace it.

[@YourLocalCryptid164]

For Baxcalibur, you can actually find it's first stage pretty early on if you are lucky with the Tera Raid Dens (I had gotten one just after getting my first badge, the bug badge, from a nearby Raid Den)

[@jacktheomnithere2127]

reminds me of how a caught Vathek, my Noibat, in Sword through my first Max Lair... *before* the first gym. we were both lucky for catching a Dragon type this early; and i'm glad to meet someone who had the same experience as me (love the name, btw XD).

[@YourLocalCryptid164]

@Jack the Omnithere thank you XD admittedly it is an in joke between friends and its kinda stuck. Yeah, Raids in general have been great to help me get some of the pokemon I really want early on so I've been really liking them for that. I'm also really looking forward to Home Compatability cause I REALLY wanna transfer in my old mons to Scarlet. I miss using my old Volcarona and Gardevoir XD

[@MrSupersonic2012]

Yeah, the Shinnin team is pretty funny qnd pretty accurate. I don't ever used Luxray or Floatzel because i just didn't care for them. I might have used Roserade at some point. But i know definitely had Infernape, Garchomp, and/or Lucario on my teams. My last playthrough of Platinum i changed it up by going with Piplup. Infernape is great, and pretty mandatory since Shinnon has so few fire types. But Emploeon is pretty cool. Water/Steel is awesome typing. I think my team was Emploeon, Scizor, Weavile, Garchomp, Leafeon, and a Tyranitar i traded from HGSS. Was a pretty sick team.

[@dougstrother5184]

I remember feeling so cool when I discovered an awesome combo with galvantula back in the day. Basically, if you’re galvantula has compound eyes and a wide lense, then thunder becomes 100% accurate. As well as any other move with >70% accuracy. I destroyed the game and my couple friends who also played with my keen eyed galvantula

[@mariothane8754]

My Unova teams were 100% different. That’s the only region I had differences with from yours. At the same time, this team was the one I had the most trouble with. It seems like as you get older, your teams diverge more and more from the trends, kind of surprising to not see Azumarill anywhere but I only picked up on it recently.

[@babydragon3095]

Azu was trash early until they buffed it’s ability I believe

[@yeahyeahwowman8099]

My Unova team was, Krookodile, Archeops, Eelektross, Whimsicott, Cryogonal, Reuniclus.

[@youcanttoochme]

@@yeahyeahwowman8099 based...eelektross is nuts, i ran intimidate krook but it can get moxie as well

[@selthafour6948]

Where’s the lilipup at? He even talking an the same game? Nvm i just needed to wait. Stoutland carried me in the gen 5 elite four.

[@TheCookie13]

My White 2 team was/is (I haven't finished playing the game) Serpirior, Lucario, sandlies final evo (forgot it's name), walrein, arcanine and scolipeed it's not very different and I plan on replacing either krok or arcanine for archeops but still Edit: Might/Will Replace Lucario With Mienshao

[@Moon-nk3co]

I’d love a follow up video of your favorite or more interesting team submissions

[@TheAuraGuardian]

🤔🤔🤔

[@utmostkibbles9125]

In platinum you can get an abra very early and teach it hidden power, so I'd usually end up with at least the bold choice of Infernape, Luxray, Staraptor, Gastrodon, Alakazam, and Lucario

[@devonyork7124]

I threw strategy out the window in Gen 9 and went with swag instead. My team was Skeledirge, Ceruledge, Annihilape, Pawmo, Baxcalibur, and the last spot changed a lot, I had Tinkiton, Gengar,and Cititan, rotating in and out a lot.

[@adrianisawesome1234]

I find it a coincidence that half of the Pokemon for the Hoenn team I used in Emerald were in the video. My Pokemon Emerald team was Swampert, Manectric, Gardevoir, Mightyena, Ninetales and Salamence.

[@Frost4Real]

I feel like everyone must have used that top 3, I know I did 😅

[@sixtales7681]

Honestly, that makes sense.. every KZbinr I saw picked Fuecoco like it was a hive mind, and most notably they all also had Violet. So I did the opposite. I picked Scarlet, and I picked up the Grass Cat that they all feared would look ugly when it stood up. I do not regret my choice, and I'd make it again.

[@ldmtag]

I knew how Meowscarada looked slightly before the release. At first I liked it, but later it UNgrew on me for some reason. I found Jumpluff to be a much more fun Grass type to use.

[@testerwulf3357]

Plus, Meowscarada is really strong! It's even the favored pick for speedruns. Violet is also the laggier one of the 2 games..it's funny how the favored pick in the start isn't as much favored anymore (fuecoco and it's lines are still really popular! But people seem to like the Scarlet Paradox forms more as they're more interesting and it's not as laggy and many have started or already warmed up to the mighty grass cat line).

[@kaydenisreseidk]

seeing breloom was a lovely surprise!! it's my favorite Pokémon and it often goes overlooked

[@ryanmeek6284]

Flagon is such a “pokemon fan” pick for the flyer. Flygons cool but most kids just starting a playthrough had no patience for trapinch. Taillow is so strong early on, wingull is everywhere, etc