The Worst Ingame Trade for Every Game

The Worst Ingame Trade for Every Game
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[@toopided]

Should have skipped Mindy as she is on another level of villainess. Years and years of therapy over that horrific woman

[@diogoalmeida4293]

That trade doesn't count. It was made the way it is cause in-game trade evolutions aren't triggered in Gen 4.

[@thatman666]

Insert (That’s the most evil thing I can imagine) meme

[@toumabyakuya]

@@diogoalmeida4293 Yes, yes they are.

[@toumabyakuya]

@user-gt7vi9jm9m Then they should have tried to fix the bug instead of hiding it. Or they could have at least swapped the Haunter for a Gengar, after all, for all intents and purposes, that was the Pokemon players would have received.

[@Texascowboy68]

Well it’s a good thing in gen 9 they corrected this greatest injustice to trainer kind.

[@dragonfirenetwork4554]

The Medicham for Haunter trade is definitely the biggest Swerve in Pokémon history making gamers believe they were going to get a Gengar

[@FreddPhucks]

It's as big a Pablo Sanchez in backyard sports, when he says he can't speak English low key.

[@matthewdamico9776]

@@FreddPhucksall fax, no printer

[@natnew32]

Honestly it really isn't the worst trade in gen 4 once you get over the anger. There's Buizel for Chatot by Norton; it's the only way you could get chatot this early, and its leppa berry is nice, but it has bad stats and a worse moveset; Sing and Chatter are its only redeeming qualities. Floatzel won't win tournaments but it's actually a solid pokemon. Bulk isn't amazing but it's really fast and has good enough attacking stats for an ingame playthrough, plus a better movepool. PS Chatot will disobey until you beat the second gym, and if it's even slightly overleveled it will disobey vs the next two. Apparently this thing is good in contests according to bulbapedia, idk. There's also a postgame trade of Finneon for a foreign... magikarp. I don't think I need to elaborate further. By contrast Haunter is pretty good actually, once again nothing amazing but it should know Shadow Ball at that level and has solid stats, especially for a mid-stage.

[@niccotalbert4378]

💯💯. I had lucario at least for my fighting type. That trade pissed me off.

[@gustavoleitao2907]

Oh man, i had the luck to find my first ever save on pokemon red, i was 7 years old and that was 18 years ago, not to my surprise i had this Lickitung, 7 year old me was scammed, poor guy, no wonder took him a huge amount of tries to beat the E4 hah (and a mvp kadabra)

[@toumabyakuya]

- Slowbro for Lickitung: Being fair, if you only own one GB and only either Red/Blue, then this was your only way to get Lickitung, so it cannot be the worst trade. - Obstagoon for Kantonian Mr. Mime: This one is weird. Unless you get the DLC, there's no way to get the Kantonian version of Mr. Mime.

[@MrDarkness1119]

Agreed. In Generation 1, I would consider Ponyta for Seel or Raichu for Electrode as worse trades. Yes, Electrode has better speed, but it doesn’t know any electric attacks. If I really need a Seel, I will just Surf back to Seafoam Island instead of trading you my Ponyta that I caught in Pokémon Mansion and I want to evolve into Rapidash because I chose Blastoise as my starter and I want coverage for Blue’s Venusaur.

[@levievil9220]

People who have the let’s go games or Pokémon go before it got ruined: I don’t have such weaknesses

[@silversalamence10]

That XY Hiker is the LAZIEST susan ever, wanting an easy Gyarados because he can't be bothered to train one himself.

[@markmagician2471]

Uhhh it's a pain to train a Magikarp

[@silversalamence10]

@@markmagician2471 that’s the joke.

[@markmagician2471]

@@silversalamence10 pretty sure it's worse to pay 500 poke dollars for a Magikarp on level 5 in Pokemon Red

[@silversalamence10]

@@markmagician2471 we’re not talking about gen 1 though. Of course 500 quid for the level 5 Magikarp in gen 1 is one of the worst deals ever, but that was kinda the point back then.

[@yaboi21321]

​@@silversalamence10eh. Free acquisition of a gyardos potentially in a nuzlocke

[@iuxbaesuzystan]

The Lickitung trade isn't bad that's your only way to get a Lickitung in Red, Blue, FRLG. You can catch Slowpoke and evolve at any time.

[@jamesheatherly4209]

The Snubull for Steenie trade is actually good because she’ll evolve to Tsarena once you level her up since she already knows Stomp.

[@ekonthungcyrusngullie4391]

And hits like a truck

[@DrTyranitar]

The Arbok trade in USUM is actually pretty useful. It comes right before Totem Lurantis, who is a notoriously tricky boss to take down, but Arbok resists all of Lurantis' attacks, and weakens it with Intimidate. The Noibat trade in USUM is much worse

[@GoldSayaProductions]

Lickitung isn't in Mewtwo cave?

[@GatorRay]

Eh. I'd rather hunt down a female Salandit and use a Salazzle instead. I know said mon is more of a glass cannon. But still.

[@AmityvilleFan]

In the Ultra-games the Phantump-trade is as insulting as the infamous Gengar-trade.

[@cathallynch1]

That damn Haunter. Let's not forget that this is Gamefreak's shady attempt to get people to buy two games/consoles. They say 'trade with friends' but few people I knew were committed enough to Pokemon.

[@derky76]

Already knew the haunter trade would be mentioned yet again lol

[@SuperWiggler]

That Corsola won me a Master Ball in the lottery. Best. Trade. Ever!

[@JoshuaDDales]

The worst ingame trades, outside of the Mindy Haunter trade, in my opinion would be any where the Pokémon the NPC asks for is literally right near where they are.

[@MegaMilesprower]

Sad thing is, in lickitungs case, its almost the only way to get one gen 1, i dont remember if it was possible to encounter

[@KamenRiderGumo]

It wasn't. In-game trades were the only way to get Lickitung, Mr. Mime, and Farfetch'd in R/B. And you had to trade far superior Pokemon to get them (Slowbro, Abra, and Spearow). In Yellow, Lickitung could be found in the wild in Cerulean Cave, Mr. Mine was still available but required a bloody Clefairy to trade for, and the Farfetch'd trade was removed entirely.

[@TheBestEver1998]

​@@KamenRiderGumoSame for Jynx. Thats a pretty good trade

[@fawful-chortles1281]

About Lickitung, note that it was the ONLY way to obtain it in the games it was an in-game trade in (and remember how much of a hassle trading IRL was back then, and also it was very rare in Yellow, so I would say this in-game trade is still the easiest way to fill in Lickitung’s dex entry) so I wouldn’t say it’s THAT bad of a trade. Also, Slowbro isn’t that difficult to obtain in the wild, granted if you knew where to look. It has a 25% spawn rate with Super Rod in the badge check area (as well as Seafoam Islands, albeit it’s harder to find one there) so it’s completely unnecessary to level up a Slowpoke.

[@Vigriff]

Let's not forget that the Flabebe and Snom trade is pointless because of Tera Raids, I should know because I caught a Poison-Tera Type Snom very early in my journey.

[@TKnHappyNess]

Technically you can fish for Slowbro on Route 23 in Red and Blue, but you need three badges to reach the water part, plus the Super Rod

[@xfdzfd4370]

Magikarp Salesman: *swindles James again and again Mindy: THAT'S MY BOY! MWUAHAHAHA!!

[@rockowlgamer631]

Poor arbok, they should give it an evolution. Call it Enitnepres.

[@Vigriff]

An evolution or at least a Regional variant that's Dark/Poison.

[@rockowlgamer631]

@@Vigriff I say evolution not regional because that doesn't fix the problem, it just gives the new regional variant more popularity leaving the original in the dust. Like alolan ninetales.

[@lucasinexile4396]

I mean if you don't want Gengar and Wooper (Quagsire) to take away Galarian Meowth's spot for the best gift, then you should not include in-game trade mon as gift mon anyway (I know that means you had to choose between Castform and Wynaut, but they can be fun to use). I actually traded Boldore to Emolga in my first playthrough of White and it is kinda a MVP in my team, and the first to reach Lv 100. I understand that it seems to be a bad trade consider the opponent got Boldore to evolve to Gigalith (which apparently he didn't want and wanted the Emolga back in B2/W2). However, I think the Basculin trade is much worst, not just how bad Basculin is, but also more common than Emolga. You just need to get Surf. For Emolga, you found them from rustling grass which you mostly found Audino all the time (and some people may think you can only get Audino from those shaking grass when they played it for the first time and never get anything other than Audion or probably the fully evolve form of some of the Pokemon in the grass). What's worse about the Basculin is that the the form you got from trade is the one that you can get simply by surfing or fishing. They did not trade the the opposite form, which need to be found from rippling water. Other than that, I kind of agree with you. The Mr. Mime trade is the only way to get a Kantonian one until the DLC but an Obstagoon is too big for the cost.

[@lavaboyoh1893]

Boldore for Emolga: That’s probably why in Black and White 2, Manny feels guilt and does the exact opposite, wanting an Emolga for Gigalith

[@abbeyroadfan94-J.P]

To me in yellow cubone for machoke(champ) is the best trade as you get a nice fighting pokemon

[@morganbrick9837]

I think my favorite ingame trade is in sword and shield in the city where the water type gym is, this lady will give you a female Cottonee named Candyfloss if you give her a Minccino

[@cofiyu-gi-ohtutorials7249]

Today i discovered that you can heal your pokemon wherever you find bed

[@anthonyanglemyer]

Man, Mystic, I dunno how, but you're proving yourself entertaining. The bits and pieces you put in are good.

[@nickdentoom1173]

Interesting you didn't talk about the Motostoke trade. Bunnelby for Skwovet. You literally can catch both of them before the trade. Whats the point?

[@danielhess1082]

If the Magikarp trade was in an earlier generation, it would actually be beneficial, since in earlier generations what ever level your traded mon is you get the same level mon in return. So now you have a Magikarp that now has an xp boost that only has to level up once to evolve. One other minor drawback is having to replace the Magikarps moves with good moves, but that's nothing the Surf HM and a few others can't take care of

[@Rioluscave]

“Welcome to the Salty Spittoon. How tough are you?” Mr. Mime: “Got a bottle of ketchup?” Sure *Mr. Mime spending hours opening the bottle not remembering he is psychic*

[@hbarudi]

Don't give up your playthrough pokemon for an in game trade. Always breed and train extras to give to the in game trade npcs.

[@Rioluscave]

Even though this doesn’t have anything to do with this list. The lickitung from Detective pikachu could have been Jessie’s. Hence the part of Ditto turning into her.

[@5Porygon]

Thank you so much for all videos you made. You are one of my absolutely best youtubers ever. :) Jsi borec. Mám moc rád tvoji tvorbu.

[@darktemplar446]

Mindy is the actual pokemon villain. I was so disappointed as a child when my Haunter didn't evolve.

[@hungrytaco6879]

Mindy isn’t a regular npc, she’s evil personified

[@F14thunderhawk]

mindy is a bitch for doing it, but haunter is actually better then gengar without mega/dyna

[@BJGvideos]

Most evil person in the Sinnoh games. Cyrus, Charon, Volo? Babies compared to this. She must be descended from Melli.

[@joeyteter9383]

I’ve used Arbok so many times in Alola (and Kalos) because I love poison types and adore Arbok. So I make that Trumbeak trade every time…whether I’m using it or not. But yea I always caught Ekans on route 2 and used that one since route 8 is so far into the game lol

[@GatorRay]

Honestly. I'm shocked the gen 4 remakes didn't move the NPC named Paul to the post game. And have him give you a say an Azumaril in exchange for a Honchkrow. I mean they already changed up Clair's team by giving her a Gyrados like the one she used in her gym battle with Ash.

[@zinniaq3020]

2:35 you knew what you were doing there

[@joefarrow1599]

You can just catch Slowbro with a Super Rod on Route 23, and Lickitung is rare and cool

[@Submissive-Soul]

if the mindy trade was irl and i had pokemon id hold her hostage with my pokemon and make her double trade back get my medicham back and give her a lvl 1 magicarp

[@alejandro_rodriguez_99]

Level 100 Magikarp better so she can't evolve it.

[@alejandro_rodriguez_99]

Level 100 Magikarp better so she can't evolve it.

[@alejandro_rodriguez_99]

Level 100 Magikarp better so she can't evolve it.

[@BorreloadMJ]

If theirs a “best trades in every game” video, I already know what trades will be in X/Y & Usun/Umoon. I used those trades on my team

[@TKnHappyNess]

I believe he did one already

[@stevendouglas3781]

I really miss the vibe of the early generations, where people were not obsessed with stat balancing and meta gaming. It causes modern fans to misunderstand things when they go back. The point of a pokemon like lickitung was to have a rare weirdo pokemon you could only get in a trade. The mystery of how that trainer caught it or what it really is was the whole point. The goal of combat was never to have all species have 3 evolutions and equal stat totals. Some pokemon are more powerful than others. That was always intended.

[@cheetahofthewind13]

The worse part about the haunter trade is if im not tripping is that in the remakes it also still has the everstone

[@martonyomchale342]

As a mono water player that 500 dollar Magikarp came in clutch. I had a Gyarados by Lt. Surge and then I reck everything. Is there any Pokémon that solos a game every gen like Gyarados?

[@DaggersandDiplomacy]

The Slowbro trade is only bad in one gen 1 game. The trade changes depending on your game.

[@shinybugg9156]

I really wish frosmoth were a good pokemon. I really like it.

[@joltx9909]

The only possible benefit for the trade emolga in BW is that it will gain 1.5 exp which no regular emolga can. but regardless, Im glad they fixed it in the sequels

[@Stinkoman87]

I did that trade because it was easier than testing my luck on rustling grass.

[@Rioluscave]

Anything that evolves because of trading is such a kick in the pokeballs. What’s the point if you aren’t going to get the evolved Pokémon. Not all of us got the trading cords to trade or friends to trade. And I didn’t get fully involved in Pokémon until heartgold.

[@emmanorman8172]

It was too promote kids to become friends and talk to others. I as a life long introvert never did that, I saved up my money for 2 gameboys or DS's and 1 each of the 2 games.

[@Rioluscave]

@@emmanorman8172 I didn’t get into trading until I finally got Wi-Fi and by using wonder trade in XY.

[@nickdentoom1173]

I feel like that is exactly the reason why we haven't gotten any trade evolutions since Alola (And no, Alolan Golem doesn't count, since its an Alternate form, so it makes sense they would keep its evolution mechanic as well).

[@brianmoyachiuz905]

I'd rather spend 500 pokéyen (or pokédollars) for a magicarp than trade for it

[@christopherbennett5858]

The worst trade of every generation… hmmm… Gen 1: Giovanni. The mob boss who got beaten by a 10 year old. Gen 2: Silver. A yes, the hot topic rival. Not even the fun kind of thief. Gen 3: Tabitha. Dude got redesigned in the games that made so many horny redesigns and he got the smug treatment. Gen 4: Saturn. What’s worse than being a boring cult leader? Following the boring cult leader. Gen 5: N. What’s worse than heading a cult that’s actually based on lies? Being raised in said cult where you’re in a game that won’t even consider discussing the debate and fixating on the only person that can’t talk back. Gen 6: Xerosic. You designed the admin outfits, didn’t you? I don’t want to put the plus Sized guys on this list but wow he’s a creep. Gen 7: Gladion. Sorry, just… why all of the Chunibyou poses? Lillie really should’ve been the main character. Gen 8: Piers. Dude literally sent out his fans to stalk his baby sister. I’d put Rose here but they went for a bad environmentalism story instead of making him the Mammon to Leon’s Fizzaroli. Gen 9: Turo. Im sorry, Professor Dilf, but you really sucked as a parent. Heck, your AI is more of a parent than you ever were.

[@Vigriff]

I really wonder what goes through the developers minds when they thought these trades were okay.

[@C_Train74]

I think rarity was the justification for most of these.

[@toumabyakuya]

@@C_Train74 Yeah, I mean, at least for both Lickitung and Mr. Mime (if we ignore the DLC), those trades are the only way to get said Pokemon.

[@JamieHumanRights]

Everstone Haunter remains the worst in game trade of all time.

[@GoodHunter9]

I still curse Gamefreak's name for that Haunter blue-balling.

[@mark_lgaming6565]

Would love to see a best trades list. The drowzee for female machop in goldenrod city is a lifesaver

[@shadowdragun]

Honestky abother reason why the flabebe for snom trade is bad is, well, from my experince flabebe is much rare in s/v than snom, floette spawns more commonly everywhere On top of thatx even if you somehow have a flabebe to trade away before cortondo...snom is a friendship evolution. With terrible stats and wkrse movepool...what help is it going to be?

[@unclephillymya]

That person who trade me a Haunter with a Everstone needs to be arrested !!!

[@unclephillymya]

Person = NPC

[@HesGotaGun505]

I’m surprised you didn’t use Sandygast for the pile of sand.

[@jakeherth77]

It’s kinda sad how dirty they did some Pokémon. It’s almost like they actively hated some of their creations. Also wanted to bring up how dirty they did some of the shinies in the game. Even if they would have just color swapped then for the shiny it would have been better than some of the shinies. Lookin at you gengar

[@johnnypollack3243]

Keep up the great work and videos

[@adamangus2005.]

Going into this video and i already know that SHE is gonna be on this list

[@jasoncarto]

Tbh, the trade for Magicarp is actually really good. Why? Because it’s essentially a Pokémon with 1.5x faster xp gain for only the cost of 15 levels. It’s a fair trade imo especially if you can’t do actual trades.

[@jasoncarto]

And the fact that it has perfect IVs is already icing on the cake. For all my play throughs on any game after I get max badges I always use traded pokemon to get through the rest of the game. I also always trade off the started and level it pretty high.

[@chrisgonzales4420]

They should give the pokemon who trades are unfair egg moves that are useful.

[@thaolvue]

never own a gengar before and that troll was hurtful. glad yellow have the machamp

[@stellarsub-orbital9922]

Okay but Lickitung is pretty OP in the TCG

[@brendanboomhour7606]

The Arbok trade, you can catch Trumbeak on, Route 8, so it's not really that bad a trade

[@Pokéfan1388]

A pretty good trade because Trumbeak is more common and worse than Arbok. Also, it comes before that lurantis battle so Arbok can resist everything and do super effective damage.

[@brendanboomhour7606]

@@Pokéfan1388 any trade where you can literally just nab whatever they're after off the nearest roadside, is automatically a good trade, if it'll come in handy in an upcoming battle, it's a great trade, seems a certain youtuber didn't do his homework

[@MichaelGomez-kh8hl]

Is there a video of good trades

[@coloureve9433]

The arbok trade can actually be incredibly worth it for a nuzlok run. Guaranteed intimidate is always worth it. Trumbeak is a lot easier to come by in a nuzlock than an ekans.

[@infinity9069]

Call me crazy but I actually did the Boldore for Emolga trade but my reason was that I couldn't get an Emolga encounter at all no matter how much I tried

[@rainfallen7574]

Frosmoth slander... And I have my 5 perfect IVs Ice Scales beneficial nature bug I bred from Sword XD (but no you're right mystic, sadly it sucks)

[@briansherrod1916]

Mindy has a special place in hell for her trade! I’m also not trading a Dragonair for a Dodrio! Lol

[@nichiyes26]

Lickitung might not be the most useful mon, but when I go to complete the Pokedex I'd much rather just have to find another Slowbro. Fuck the Safari Zone.

[@HouseNDeLectro]

You forgot in pokemon yellow, Jynx trade vs Poliwhirl ( Even if u cant even catch jynx xD...) Cerulean City

[@EthanGrace938]

Wait, why did you use gen 3 stats on a gen 1 game

[@noelramos7328]

Yoooooo 2:35, chill this is a kids show 😂

[@clarencewilson2881]

U would never catch me trading a pokemon who goes to the salty spittoon for a pokemon who goes to weenie hut juniors got me SpongeBob reference😂

[@SpartanManJug]

I still have the colorsa you gave me back in the swsh days

[@austintilley7210]

The garados for magicarp with good ivs is actually a good trade getting those ivs is hard

[@F14thunderhawk]

its not. once you get to wifi enabled games, wonder trade is swamped with perfect iv dittos with the destiny knot for breeding.

[@Glitchjar]

You literally can’t get Kanto mr mime in the game

[@michaelmcqueen6808]

In red and blue that was the only way to get that pink blob

[@jasonsjy88]

I think Gen 4 pokemon version having the worst ingame trade of all: buizel for chatot (Eterna Condominium); medicham for haunter (can't evolve) (Snowpoint CIty); and a Hiker named Meister in the house in Route 226 (Pokemon Platinum) will trade you his German Magikarp for a Finneon (which could softlock the game). Only oreburgh city ingame trade was ok (machop for abra).Thanks mystic for all your video. Love it!~

[@georgeDeming]

mr.mime is a solid pokemon. at least in gen 1 he was solid.

[@diogoalmeida4293]

Mindy's Trade is a biproduct of Gen 4's broken in-game trades. AKA they don't trigger Evolution. Blame that on Gamefreak.

[@toumabyakuya]

Then they should have fixed that instead of giving Haunter an Everstone.

[@Jarvy2007]

Can you also do the best ingame trades aswell?

[@Lilninja246]

He already did silly kiddo

[@animax5312]

I traded my Boldore for Emolga.... Then leveled it up to 100 using the lucky egg 😢

[@aliastheabnormal]

Does anyway actually take in game trades seriously?

[@rococogoth]

Corsola is best pokemon. Heck to what they did lore-wise to my baby!

[@jonahdengler3858]

Please pin my suggestion on updating the ranking videos of the Gym Leaders, Elite Four, and Champions, Mystic! Might I also add the evil teams and rivals too! 🙏

[@ResurgentRaven]

Personally I think the Slowbro/Lickitung trade is just fine. The Raichu/Electrode trade...that is garbage.

[@canalxpcial5108]

The only thing i learn here is... Someone just don't tried to use Quasire or even Gengar's full potential in game... And that my english is way worst then a Haunter with a stupid Everstone... 😂😂😂

[@dylanshadowstar9779]

Not going to meantion thay in black and white 2 theres a trade where trade emolga and get boldore. It's a nicd story beat

[@knellycornnan5132]

Bellossum is also cuter then Corsola.

[@TiztasticallyWicked]

Swellow bout to Thunder Armor Brave Bird

[@wizardmari3497]

nice video

[@sockosophie3132]

3:54 just trade the Haunter with everstone, hehehehe....

[@Animesrk]

Nice video mystic

[@geoffstonehouse6304]

How is haunter for medicham not number one on this list? The huge fuck you of getting a haunter holding an everstone made me quit for the next 3 generations.

[@jonahdengler3858]

It’s pronounced flore-JESS, “Patrick Star”! 🤨

[@mazaltawab9360]

You didn't mention seedot for ralts. That trade sucked.

[@treashtyl89]

the boldore tade is worse cause it's a trade evolution

[@ImyIsStillHere]

Shame no violence. love and peace

[@learntowinskillforsuccess1920]

Please put video best team on pokemon light platinum

[@axels3188]

This was a good video.

[@gabrielfitzer5055]

Someone needs to make a Pokémon game where I can play as a gym leader