The WORST Pokémon Move of Each Type

Ever wonder what the worst Fighting type move was? How about worst Fairy move? Well in this video I go over what I think the worst move is of EACH AND EVERY TYPE!
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0:00 Intro
0:43 Grass
1:37 Fire
2:24 Water
3:43 Dark
4:30 Psychic
5:19 Fighting
6:03 Normal
8:33 Ghost
9:29 Steel
10:28 Fairy
11:13 Dragon
12:11 Ground
13:32 Rock
14:18 Flying
15:13 Electric
16:30 Poison
17:37 Bug
18:12 Ice

[@MattBudYT]

Hey all, this list does include in game situations but I was more thinking in game BATTLES. So yeah, Soak is a great move for false swiping ghosts but it was an honourable mention for in battle situations. And I didn't include signature moves in this so that's why no Trick or Treat, Forest's Curse, Kinesis ETC. Thanks everyone for watching

[@darktemplar446]

You got your 500 likes! Nice job, can't wait for the next video.

[@darianclark3980]

Razor Wind is such a horrendous Normal move Gamefreak won't buff it to become a Flyjng Type attack!

[@michaelwatkins4155]

There is other uses for soak you didn't account for. It specifically isn't just a change for the purpose of super effective moves, but also is most likely removing the enemy stab damage. A 33% damage reduction on those stab attacks. For the 2 mons who have Soak AND a type pairing that can abuse it (Tadbulb line and Lanturn line) it can be used to further combo into super effective damage the following turns. Soak's honestly a busted move, and entirely held back in the fact that very few pokemon who could actually abuse it learn it. Soak is basically saying that you don't need coverage moves, all of your moves are coverage vs that. Even just turning a neutral into a super effective the next turn already means it's been a value neutral, and removing stab on top of that just pushes it further. In a double battle, you could also use it as ghetto tera water for your second pokemon. Soak isn't bad, the pokemon who learn it and could abuse it are bad.

[@vez3834]

@@michaelwatkins4155 To be fair to the creator, he did include Distribution as a factor. So if only bad Pokemon can learn it, it's not as useful. (I do like Soak though :)

[@dgtallgamer]

Soak+Shedinja has seen quite a bit of competitive success in various vgc metas.

[@A.R_69]

Fun fact: If umbreon uses synchronoise, it will always fail, either because: 1- The target isnt dark type so it's type is different than umbreon's 2- The target is dark type, so the attack should work, but synchronoise is a psychic type move so it fails anyway

[@MattBudYT]

Unless you’re crazy enough to trick a ring target on the target😂 miracle eye as well but both would just be for the sake of memes

[@DryBones271]

Unless you Terrastilize it to not be Dark.

[@lordsalty2060]

@@DryBones271 I'll start running a Tera fighting or Tera poison umbreon with synchronoise now lol

[@TrixterTheFemboy]

Well, theoretically it can work if it's Soaked or something similar, but yeah it's not gonna work in most scenarios

[@TheSpecialPsycho]

Inverse Battles though. The best alternative battle format

[@geek2thextreme]

i think the only reason soak is bad is because of it's only on water types. they gave it to bellibolt and it's pretty great, at least in pokemon 1v1's

[@MattBudYT]

Yeah the distribution hurts some of these moves. Soak on more non water types would make it a bit better

[@JAnne_Bonne]

Or the likes of Lanturn or Ludicolo or Starmie. Or even the ones that have Freeze-Dry.

[@mrmetal19]

soak electric terra basculegion is kind of a funny gimmick ngl

[@wizardofthedumb6640]

i usually use psyduck soak on powerful mons (i tend to be underleveled) and combo into garganacl salt cure

[@danielcurren2119]

I know someone who used a soak floatzel against a primal groudon, since it’s a status move, it wasn’t negated by primal Groudon’s ability and then the legendary got destroyed by a thunder. Sure, it’s niche, but it has versatility as shown with the popularity of terrastilization and changing Pokemon types

[@icecreamorc]

Y'know, I think having an ability that just deploys 3 to 5 turns of mist when the Pokémon comes out would be a super great ability. Nobody is going to spend a 4th of their move slots on mist but it's not an awful move. I can see ice types and ghosts getting an ability like that.

[@TaLeng2023]

I've been suggesting these for a long time. Auto Trick Room for an event mythical. Maybe cover legendaries each have auto Reflect and auto Light Screen. Pseudos get auto Mist, Safeguard, Lucky Chant, Gravity, etc

[@MattBudYT]

Agreed. It’s like the terrain abilities. Most mons wouldn’t have a slot/take a turn to set it up, but they are amazing to have as an ability and have on switch in

[@AacroX]

White Smoke would've been perfect for this. both Mist and White Smoke have to do with a white cloud that prevents stat drops or hear me out: make Misty Terrain prevent stat drops along with status conditions

[@BlaqueT]

Agreed. This with either abilities or moves that set it up as well, like Tailwind, Trick Room, Gravity, etc. They missed an opportunity to give Origin Dialga/Palkia abilties that set Trick Room/Gravity respectively

[@thatguy8003]

​They won't give any mon an auto-trick room ability, they design the game around vgc and even on something like magikarp auto-trick room breaks it. It makes the auto setter a mandatory pick for the party whether to get your own trickroom strat up or to just switch off your opponents trick room

[@SakhotGamer]

I think dragon's worst move being dragon rush of all things is just proof of how good dragon mons usually are

[@crystalpokedude4329]

Dual Chop is way worse imo. Very limited access, a chance to miss at 90 accuracy, and 2 hits to stretch things out way longer.

[@tomatogenesis]

@@crystalpokedude4329 It really is not though, it can break past Substitute, especially after a turn of setup (like Swords Dance) Garchomp sometimes uses it for that reason

[@MattressGuy]

@@crystalpokedude4329 2 hits is an advantage for many reasons such as substitute and focus sash, and it's a great early game move for those pokemon that get it such as the garchomp line in-game. i've used it a good amount of times, but i've never used dragon rush despite it being distributed so much more.

[@madelinetheperson1833]

Now that the dlc is out i think dragon cheer is the worst dragon move

[@SakhotGamer]

@@madelinetheperson1833 yup, definitely.

[@Prisoner-gk6lr]

Have to give an honorable mention to the psychic type in the move psywave, the horrible TM that Sabrina gives one in Gen 1 after defeating her. A move that does between 1 or the user level as damage which makes it a gimmicky, terrible version of seismic toss which more often than not does miniscule damage.

[@MarioMastar]

Yeah, That one should've been on the list. The ones he mentioned do have niche uses and can be planned for in doubles with Shuckle or Chansey, but Psywave was utter trash even with Psychics being the strongest type cause it doing fixed damage couldn't be taken advantage of with STAB or weaknesses...and fixed RANDOM damage based on your level (x1.5) so at best it can do 150 damage ......flat.... every option is better for Psychic.

[@Prisoner-gk6lr]

@@MarioMastar Thankfully Sabrina fixes her shit, maybe knowing she handed out trash before, and gave the much more appliable TM for calm mind later.

[@mayac69]

Gen1 Mist would actually not protect from Moonblast stat drops. Gen1 Mist specifically protects from stat lowering moves, not secondary effects. Otherwise it would have had a niche in Mewtwo mirror matches.

[@MattBudYT]

Thanks for pointing that out. I must have confused it with Gen 2 when Mist did protect against secondary effects.

[@arcangherss999]

And it does not protect from Moonblast Stat drops cause Moonblast didn't exist in Gen 1 😂

[@somechupacabrawithinternet8866]

here is a buff: blocks spikes rocks webs seeds and stat lowers for 5 turns, 8 turns if user is holding damp or heat rock

[@watery2211]

​@@somechupacabrawithinternet8866Nice idea, but probably better running taunt over mist even though it is shorter.

[@somechupacabrawithinternet8866]

@@watery2211 it also blocks yo mama and game freak when they want to ruin your game with laziness

[@TrapeZoid_-117]

Actually, the worst normal type move (in Gen 1 specifically) is Focus energy. They screwed up the programming and it ends up cutting your Crit rate in Half. At least Constrict does minor amounts of damage.

[@pxm2337]

That can actually be good in play throughs, because crits ignore helpful stat changes, so it can be good if you’re trying to set up. Still pretty rare.

[@astralguardian5930]

Then again that Focus Energy issue was unintended, unlike Constrict.

[@loppie_445]

Actually I’d argue that title belongs to Gen 1 rage instead, Gen 1 focus energy has some niche uses, Gen 1 rage is comically bad

[@leftlegleg]

Actually they fixed it now. The worst is actually hold hands because, similar to splash which could be swapped with it, both do absolutely nothing, they have no purpose.

[@GravityIsFalling]

Brutal swing was used in gen 8 VGC to activate metagross policy Tho it was rare as people preferred bulldoze most of the time

[@MattBudYT]

Yeah just a case of being underwhelming and outclassed

[@GravityIsFalling]

@@MattBudYT Actually I remember now it was used by tornadus because it didn’t have bulldoze so it had to run it to support metagross

[@DemonVermin]

They made it amazing in the PMD remake as a powerful AOE attack. Silver lining ofc.

[@10Gpixels]

My favorite part of competitive Pokemon, is that a lot of “bad” moves can find a powerful niche with the right team.

[@MattBudYT]

Exactly. You can definitely find a niche for half of these moves even if they aren’t the best or most reliable

[@lipika2841]

This includes worry seed, topsy turvy, sweet scent, stockpile, simple beam, role play, scary face, reflect type, poison gas, nightmare, memento & more.

[@muk_is_superior]

​​@@lipika2841memento is great

[@clegge7]

​@@lipika2841worry seed actually saw some use this past VGC season! Amoonguss was so common that some Rillaboom would run Worry Seed to use on their partners to make them immune to Amoonguss spore. Very niche, but it saw some use and decent success.

[@ElysiaWhitemoonOmega]

@@lipika2841 i kinda love topsy turvy, its hilarious if used at the right moment (opponent goes for a gtreedy second or third dragon dance, and poof topsy turvy:D)

[@lordsalty2060]

Grudge is really REALLY funny in metronome battles if you pull it

[@someGuy-kl7cb]

another argument for rock throw being the worst, is by the time rock throw becomes usable, rock tomb is basically accessible in EVERY game its released in, making rock throw even MORE useless.

[@tomsmithok]

as a shuckle user, I think power split and guard split are great moves

[@astralguardian5930]

Power Split Shuckle actually can make it deal some damage and since the average of the low attacking stats of Shuckle compared to stats of opponent could end up making Shuckle even harder to kill as well.

[@tomsmithok]

@@astralguardian5930 and I used to use guard split shuckle in double battles to make eviolite chansey unkillable

[@ArbitraryOutcome]

Guard Split immediately reminded me of that one Showdown VGC replay from the salt compilation where someone ran it on Shuckle to make their Chansey nearly unkillable (though this also involved the Chansey spamming Minimize so like).

[@GravityIsFalling]

100% fake lmao it’s so easy to stop those strats

[@ArbitraryOutcome]

@@GravityIsFalling Yeah it's cause the other dude didn't have an out/was dumb probably.

[@synthwavesun2450]

@@ArbitraryOutcome Ik what you're talking about. He could have just Gmaxed his Urshifu early and he would have won lmfao

[@PrismaAce]

hi, vgc player here this strat is real. its not good, but chansey cheese has the ability to snatch a few games with good positioning. still a gimmick, but i would argue a good enough gimmick to say its not the worst psychic move in the game. power split is terrible tho edit: showdown salt replay probably fake tho lol and even if it is real. low ladder is not the best place to determine viability

[@killette2]

@@PrismaAce both power split and guard split are good imo, you just need to know how to use them and trick room is crucial

[@Oscar-ek2jx]

Power split is pretty good on araquanid, since it has low attack but an ability that doubles the damage of water moves. Ypu can come in on high attack mons and cripple them whil making yourself stronger

[@airam1721]

Now it only needs aqua jet or trick room

[@HailStoneEQ]

Heavily disagree on Soak. In singles it 100% isn't good, but in VGC it is actually a pretty solid option. I used a Soak Tapu Fini Zekrom team in SwSh and it worked out very well

[@twotamatos]

I disagree on all this grass whistle & inferno are great moves after using gravity or accuracy boosts & guard split & power split change the targets base stats so u can make anything viable this guy is just really bad at the game so therefor labels a buncha moves he doesn’t know what they do as bad it’d be like going no look at this simple beam what a worthless move yah make my ability simple now I can’t do anything without realizing dude simple gives u 2X stat boosts what r u on

[@diamondmemer9754]

Steel roller is actually pretty good for catching Xerneas in a dynamax adventure, not much use besides that but it makes it far better than any other move in this video

[@khalilcollins65]

Rock is easily the type that’s asking for a consistent move. Gamefreak refuses to give us a good 100% accurate rock attack but said “what if you get hit with a rock attack every time you switch in 🤔

[@SJrad]

A good 100% accurate physical rock type move* because power gem exists for special attackers

[@MattBudYT]

Rock Type Close Combat would be pretty crazy to see

[@KingTaltia]

Soak is actually fairly useful, at least, on Smeargle, when trying to catch hard to get pokemon, I generally have a Smeargle with the moveset False Swipe, Spore, Soak, and another higher power but non-stab/above 100 power move. This way I can use soak to get rid of ghost types immunity to false swipe, and grass types immunity to spore.

[@Milesprowerthegamer]

I don't think soak even deserves an honourable mention. It has useful utility ingame, albeit niche, primarily for catching Pokemon alongside False Swipe and Spore, since it removes whatever type immunities they had.

[@a-s-greig]

It won't help you hit Shedinja.

[@ryanprower4246]

​@@a-s-greigAnd what wild Shedinja are we talking about?

[@a-s-greig]

@@ryanprower4246 OP said 'type immunities,' and the first place my head goes is to Wonder Guard shenanigans. False Swipe on a Shed ain't doin' nothing before or after Soak, but Spore still works. And Shed might not be a natural wild encounter, but who's to say we're talking about the base games anyway? The possessed shell might crop up unexpectedly in a randomizer. Ya never know.

[@a-s-greig]

@@ryanprower4246 Incidentally, are you and OP related? It's not every day I see a brace of old-timer Tails fans in my fandom-specific bantering efforts.

[@cwm7294]

Just some stuff I could think of from the top of my head: Z grass whistle is used for niche pokemon's sweep for youtube content, although there's no Z move anymore Brutal swing was used to activate weakness policy on actual strong teams Also moves like embargo exist if we also count mud sport and all I think magic room should have a honorable mention-what do you think Aruguably Halloween is worse than grudge maybe

[@ragnaricstudios5888]

Yeah, I respect his decision on Brutal Swing since there are better moves for that, but Embargo’s such a bad move

[@Hyperneosonic97]

@@ragnaricstudios5888 No mention of post-nerf Dark Void? There's a good reason why Darkrai, if it runs a sleep-inducing move at all, runs Hypnosis instead.

[@________ess]

I dont think soak should be a honorable mention as it is very useful for catching. Ghost types and removing stab from powerful mons are useful in situations such as shiny hunting

[@Rainfire-forgets-to-animate]

Plus removing spore immunity from grass types and making steel and rock types a little less annoying

[@lordmudkip7344]

Soak has been a really good in some VGC formats. Mostly because it can make your own Shedinja a win condition more easily

[@beaksters]

What a nice interesting concept I’ve literally somehow never seen before. Amazing idea!!!

[@vez3834]

Great video! Keep it up. Am actually working on a fangame and I'm planning on buffing a lot of bad moves, so this video provided me with a lot of good ideas on which ones need a buff.

[@MattBudYT]

Keep me updated on that, sounds really cool

[@vez3834]

@@MattBudYT Yea, sure :)

[@luirromenjivar1390]

Despite having an actual good secondary effect, I think Skitter Smack would be a good candidate for the worst Bug type move, this was introduced in Sword/Shield alongside other amazing moves like Triple Axel, Corrosive Gas or Burning Jealously, but this move doesnt really have any particular use. Bug coverage isnt very good, and even then, the move is 70 bp and 90% acc, and all bug types that learn it have better options on Leech Life, X-Scissor or Bug Buzz.

[@SmallPluggedInFan]

I aint reading all that but it seems like a good analysis Edit i read it

[@DRAGUNUV]

i dont think ive ever seen a more worthless comment in my life@@SmallPluggedInFan

[@Idonothaveastand]

I think Fire has the best moves imo, since literally all of them have a secondary effect of some sort. The type with the worst moves has to be Rock. Literally the most inaccurate type having only like 3 Perfectly accurate moves [with the exception of Status and Signature moves] makes it a gamble to use

[@pageclayton6850]

The worst fire type move has to be gen 5 incinerate though. It was a 20bp move that destroyed berries, so a worse Absorb for Pansear (who, if you picked oshawott, you'd wanna bank on in the first gym) and a worse knock off for utility, since it only gets rid of berries (whereas knock off gets rid of everything except some berries)

[@rossthemoss6827]

Poor rocks really got the short end of the stick on all fronts your options are Stone edge with a 20% chance to do nothing Rock edge with a 10% chance to do nothing and the flinch not mattering that much for rock types with how slow most are Power gem which only a few rock types can actually use. Rock tomb which can still miss for some reason and is to low base power to be a main stab. rock blast which or course can still miss and is not that great on most mons. And the newest in meteor beam which…I only really say Necrozma and a few other non rocks run in Gen 8

[@NokoTheTaco]

@@rossthemoss6827 Meteor Beam is a powerful move that is coming back in SV with new distribution. One of the best Rock moves in the game.

[@rossthemoss6827]

​ @NokoTheTaco I think is a niche but pretty solid move, and it has some success to its name with G-max Coalssal in doubles and ninhelgo, celestella, Archeops and necrozma in singles. The main issue with the move is...there isn't really that many rock types that can get any value out of it, which sucks for the only new rock type move in recent years. - There was like 5 special attacking rock types in gen 8 and I only saw 3 really run it since giving up your item for power herb is a noteworthy trade off. - and once you get out of those 5 special attackers you either get 60 special attack or below (Aggron, Aerodactyl, etc) or can't really afford to give up an item slot for a one time boost (Cradily..and uh Cradily)

[@jorgepina650]

For me, the worst normal move is Bide. Giving your opponent two free turns before you can deal damage is a terrible deal

[@MattBudYT]

Yeah that's actually one that slipped my mind. Good one to bring up, it should be in the conversation for worst Normal move.

[@vez3834]

I do wish to say that Bide probably killed countless Pokemon in playthroughs. In Nuzlockes it is especially devastating. So it's usefulness is in making people cry :)

[@MarioMastar]

and it's telegraphed to death unlike Counter or Mirror...the special version. Once the opponent uses Bide, if you can't kill them in 2 turns, just switch out or set up. Easily wins as the worst move that isn't a meme like splash (plus Z Splash, Z Celebrate and Z hold hands have amazing effects, I don't think Z-Bide does though)

[@halomaxus]

I'm surprised that Quash wasn't the pick for Dark type moves

[@LordShonji]

That's actually really good in doubles as you can make threatening fast pokemon go last

[@Joaquin-rd3km]

​@@LordShonjiit's not "really good" lol. It's very niche and even in VGC formats where Murkrow is good most of the time it doesn't even run it. Usually it's not worth using your turn just to make 1 Mon move last.

[@serenitywingss]

hey dude, this is a great video! i was shocked at the end when you requested only 500 likes for this, and then i discovered you're a pretty new youtuber! you deserve to blow up way more than this, and i'm very happy the algorithm chose to reccomend this to me :)

[@MattBudYT]

Appreciate that so much❤️

[@stinkyhyena9000]

I'm surprised to not see Imprison on here! It requires you to share a move with the opponent, and then use it knowing you share the move. Super situational!

[@edgargaebolg9307]

It's useful for Trick Room combos like Rabsca + A-Golem tho

[@Richard-ec8xy]

Situational but can be extremely extreeeemely useful under the right circumstances

[@nari4481]

That move is literally being used in VGC to counter Trick Room teams. Imprison should not be near in the worst moves category.

[@MattBudYT]

It has a pretty decent use in doubles for locking Protect which a lot of mons run. And as others mentioned, anti Trick Room strategies. Agreed if we were going by singles standards though!

[@TheTumbleFever]

Most of these are viewed through the gen 9 point of view, not necessarily when they were introduced.

[@MattBudYT]

Yeah, a historical look of worst moves at the time would be a cool video. Moves like a bugged Gen 1 Focus Energy or Rage for instance would be fun to cover.

[@SmallPluggedInFan]

Ive been waiting for anybody to make something like this

[@keb_in]

I thought you had like 75k-100k subscribers! It really looks like a video of a big big channel. The quality is insane! I'm subscribing, what a great video 😎

[@MattBudYT]

Appreciate the kind comment, welcome! I'm hoping the quality only goes up as I try to grow

[@itzorangesteve2853]

ok for dark I would pick embargo. this stops the opponent from receiving held item effects for 5 turns. Brutal swing can be used to activate weakness policies in doubles so I think it's more useful

[@MattBudYT]

Embargo is a good choice actually!

[@lipika2841]

Torment too

[@vez3834]

@@lipika2841 Torment forces a Choice Scarf/Band/Specs user to use Struggle. So it effectively forces them to switch out. I can also see it being useful on something like Sableye with a lot of immunities, where the opponent might not have multiple moves to hit you with.

[@lipika2841]

@@vez3834 yup didn't thought about those.

[@T0matoPasta]

Or quash. I honestly feel like a lot of people forget that move even exists.

[@caritahearts2405]

I'm surprised Flatter wasn't mentioned. It acts the same as swagger, it even has 100% accuracy! but it raises the target's special attack by two stages, which like... the reason Swagger raises attack is because confusion damage is calced based on the targets physical attack and defense. You gain no benefit from using Flatter over Confuse Ray.

[@brachy6695]

Still, if you use swagger on a physical mon, it can either outlast the confusion/ use an equipped Lum berry (Quite specific scenario) and come out with a nice raise in its attack.

[@anmspafan7855]

erm, ackshually - flatter only raises the target's special attack by one stage, most likely as a tradeoff for the confusion damage not being affected by changes to special attack... still a really bad move though. Maybe if confusion damage used the target's higher attack stat, (physical/special) flatter would've had some use

[@conansglasses2645]

This feels like it woild be a 75k-100k views video . Its criminal that youre not viral

[@MattBudYT]

Let’s hope it can get there someday! Just trying to make some quality content and grow. Appreciate the kind words

[@Chloethemarxenjoyer]

This aged unbelievably well

[@valor9x7]

It's currently almost at 200k

[@cojiro169]

Man i was really taken off guard when i saw the view and subscriber count. I haven't seen any Pokemon content in almost 2 years so the algorithm is taking a liking to you, keep it up king

[@MattBudYT]

Thanks for the nice comment bud

[@Asm0d3u5]

Very good video, you deserve way more views and subs!

[@MattBudYT]

Appreciate it❤️ trying to work my way there while making good videos

[@pakainnamansenyo10]

Soak actually helped me a lot with pyuku up to gen 8 AG

[@reptiledisfunction9232]

bet another lit pokémon tuber i’m so hyped. for me it’s just you freezai jimothy cool and aim. i’m so excited to have a number 4 in my roster

[@MattBudYT]

Wow that’s some elite company. Glad to be added to the roster I won’t disappoint!

[@SillyEwe]

Slapping power split on a shuckle is an underrated strategy. It just needs sturdy so it can set up a sticky web first and a cutstap berry to have it move first for the strategy. I kid you not when I say I got a rage quit after pulling it off once.

[@onetallpheeesh]

So we're all just gonna act like Banette wasn't showing us her Mega Banetties in the thumbnail?!

[@MattBudYT]

XD

[@JustJulyo]

Don't know why KZbin recommended me this video but glad I subbed now

[@Submissive-Soul]

liking this video just bcuz its a small channel and this is great work

[@Winningthewormoff]

for some reason I swore by Dragon Rush as a kid, for some reason it always worked, until it never hit again

[@Z2Wolf]

Water Sport and Mud Sport are really good for Contests, and I actually think it was specifically made FOR contests, since they're part of a double point combo, are flavored as basically frolicking about in jets of water/mud puddles, and was introduced in the same gen contests were.

[@aer015]

While not in line with the main series games, Mirror Move was absolutely fantastic to have in Mystery Dungeon. I had it on torchic against Primal Dialga during my first ever playthrough (my partner was a mudkip or totodile), and it was lovely seeing every dragon claw and roar of time be reflected and do massive damage to him. Also, my partner used up many revival seeds staying alive while I was protected. Mirror Move was also great for monster rooms.

[@walkerwilson1019]

brutal swing pretty nice for self proc-ing weakness policy in doubles

[@AnAshenSpirit]

I genuinely used Steel Roller in Gen 8 VGC, Used it on a Metagross and a dynamaxed partner to set terrain with max moves, then with my slower Metagross hit with the Steel Roller afterwards for two 130 damage moves at once, fun times

[@Popinazo]

Cool vid; I'm waiting for the one with good moves

[@ChrisMcGiggity]

This was an incredible and interesting video to watch! Sub well earned sir! Keep up the great work cant wait to go binge watch more 😊 For the question: Best- dragon Worst- probably normal?

[@MattBudYT]

What a great comment to read before heading to bed. Appreciate the support. New video out at 10am EST😎

[@limerplaz8208]

4:05 I just want to clarify this Because “knock off” is not buffed by technician due to it being 65 bp, so in a play through, technician brutal swing dose more damage.

[@petelee2477]

3:18 Even in that very niche scenario I could accomplish the same thing with rain dance and comes with the added benefit of activating swift swim and powering up water moves.

[@thekoifishcoyote8762]

Powder is an honorable mention because you needed to use it on a non-grass type without safety goggles or the overcoat ability, and it only deals even decent damage if the opponent uses a fire move that turn. Honorable mention because it's not available in gen 9, and the two bug-types that could learn it would lure in fire types (and would love a chance to use quiver dance).

[@captainnebraska3197]

If I remember right, I had a Steel Roller Ferrothorn in Gen 8 that I just used to remove beneficial terrain that my opponent set up.

[@BucketBoysOfficial]

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[@quijassajiuq900]

If you make a best moves of every type then I only ask that you remember that Thousans Arrows is a move that exists. Really cool video :)

[@MattBudYT]

Definitely an amazing move. That would go in a best signature moves video though. Best moves would have to be something more than 1 evo line gets.

[@therealeternalzoroarketern9018]

funnily enough, I remember using Venom Drench in Ultra Sun against the totem Kommo-O, and it was an amazing strategy. It helped my team survive hits from it while its health got chipped down.

[@Mijzelffan]

All that needs to happen for electrify is to be given to a pokemon with lightningrod, volt absorb or a fast ground type and it suddenly has the power to become very busted

[@BestgirlJordanfish]

It’s a shame because conceptually wow I love Soak so much. Maybe if the right mons got it (such as grass or electric tanky mons or prankster) and it lowered Evasion or Speed or something it’ll be juuuust right.

[@pbToast03]

One of my favorite doubles combos in gen 7 is Malamar + Aegislash. King's Shield + Brutal Swing, Malamar gets a sharp boost to attack due to Contrary then it hits the opponents

[@MarioMastar]

Safe to say Dark types don't really have a bad move either. Like Ice and Dragon, it's kind of meant for late game and rarer pokemon and unlike Rock, the first gym leader of half the games doesn't have those types (ironic cause Rock has one of the better coverages we all know about thanks to the infamous Stealth Rock), so it's like the worst of a list of excellent moves.

[@pbToast03]

@@MarioMastar I'd say Embargo is pretty trash

[@yeseungshin8009]

shuckle can interestingly make use of power and guard split; it can average its abysmal offenses with an opponent to cripple them or share its massive defenses with a teammate, often one with a lot of health, like minimize chansey, to make them insanely annoying to kill

[@russellfautheree4650]

I had a team in SwSh Doubles that focused around Contrary Malamar. I taught it Brutal Swing, Superpower, Psycho Cut, and Rest. I remember using Brutal Swing while having an ally Aegislash use King's Shield or Obstagoon using Obstruct to boost Malamar while still hitting both opponents.

[@closetevangelism]

4:58 I actually used a strategy with Guard Split Shuckle with a Mental Herb and a Drifblim. Drifblim has excellent HP, terrible defense, so then I used Guard Split to average out their defenses to 137 and 142 at base. Calm Mind to boost special attack, minimum attack stat with Strength Sap to stay healthy, a Sitrus Berry to heal me and activate Unburden to double my speed, and then Shadow Ball and Heat wave to sweep in Doubles. I also set up hazards with Shuckle before either sacrificing it or switching it out. All I needed then was a few Heal Pulse users and some coverage. If I got the Guard Split off, I won every time. It was so broken

[@ajmaldonado9720]

For fire types, I would have mentioned Flame burst. Sure Inferno is also notable mentioned, but at least it has a 100% burning chance

[@oz_milkman4122]

i'm surprised Quash wasn't the move used for Dark Type

[@ITYW]

Soak is unironically a great move, sad to see it included- put it on a Smeargle with Spore and False Swipe and you’ve got the ultimate catching pokemon

[@PedroHenrique-vs3mf]

Nerd moment: Soak has a really small niche use! It can be used on ghost pokemon to make them able to be false swiped! Yeah, nothing incredible, but a niche lmao

[@TaLeng2023]

I suppose it also remove their immunity to Shadow Tag

[@Saimeren]

"Grass whistle" reminds me of "Whistling through the wheat field".

[@LucasDarkGiygas]

thanks for the video

[@TheLemonyBard]

Dragon Rush did save me once from having to restart the Elite Four in a game in a risky last ditch effort, so it takes a special place in my heart

[@groundh0gday200]

even the effect of water sport is just outclassed by rain dance, which many water types learn anyways

[@NokoTheTaco]

I used Venom Drench Toxic Spikes/Baneful Bunker Venoshock Recover with a Merciless Toxapex in my SW Nuzlocke and it was clutch when there weren’t any Poison or Steel Pokémon on the field. Venom Drench is an extremely powerful debuff move when used in conjunction with Toxic Spikes. When the opponent was too bulky for my Toxapex to take out with an OHKO, or strong enough that it could two-shot, spamming Venom Drench and Recover was my saviour. Carried me through most to the mid-game to end-game. The real worst poison moves are Corrosive Gas, which takes away the targets Item, and the signature move of Pyukumuku, which is just recover that can only activate if you have a status condition (it also heals the status condition).

[@penned_dragon]

Purify is even worse actually, it only works if your opponent has a a status and then it heals the status of the opponent

[@awesomeocelot7475]

Honestly Inferno either needs to be learned by a Pokémon with No Guard or get buffed to like 75% accuracy or something since Inferno is such an awesome and powerful sounding move.

[@stanmissletainn5811]

weedletwineedle uses quite a few of these moves in battles which is so funny

[@ZorotheGallade]

Interestingly enough, the romhack Pokémon Clover has a Pokémon called Sesquatch which is prety unique because of its signature ability :"Suddenly". It's an ability that acts like a permanent Power Herb, letting you do both phases of a charging move in the same turn. Despite Sesquatch having middling stats, it has awesome typing (Normal/Ghost: 3 immunities and only weak to Dark) and its moveset includes Skull Bash, meaning it can spam a very powerful STAB while constantly buffing its own defense. One of the best Mons ever. Back on topic, I guess Sesquatch COULD make use of Razor Wind...if it didn't already have access to Skull Bash which hits harder and has a useful extra effect of raising defense.

[@MattBudYT]

It’s crazy that even with that ability Razor Wind would probably be passed over for Hyper Voice if it had both😂

[@cozmicclockwork1136]

Funnily enough grass whistle does actually have the smallest niche carved out for it. Since both sleep powder and spore are powder moves, they don't work on other grass types and Pokemon holding safety goggles. The latter of which is actually fairly common in modern doubles for people who want to counteract amoongus since it's a very popular spore and rage powder user. Someone using grass whistle can bypass both of these issues and still get a sleep off, although of course the accuracy makes it a gamble still.

[@marbeltoast]

One thing I'd change is setting fighting's worst move to high jump kick. It's had so many changes over the years but I always remember pokemon throwing themselves into a wall and dying when they tried to land that attack.

[@Richard-ec8xy]

You have never seen mega medicham in your life if you think this move is bad. it used to be ass but no you are just wroooong here

[@a-s-greig]

It was _terrifying_ on Mega Medicham tho

[@roastingnerd8545]

I remember having a shiny chandelure that I lovingly named Ikea that had inferno, and I swear to god it ALWAYS MISS that at one point thought my game is bugged

[@xLadyRaine]

i know grass whistle is bad but the gen 3 sound for it is so pleasant

[@Lulink013]

12:44 Solid visual joke right here, thank you

[@treeninja8924]

I actually had a niche soak strat in gen 8 DOU. I ran regeleki and a scarfed tapu fini with soak. Soak a opponent before anyone can move, nuke with regieleki

[@dungeonpastor]

Fun fact: mist is the reason that guard spec.s say "The Mist faded." When they wear off.

[@eduvbs]

Grudge had some use when Mega Banette was around, making it a good surprise combo as ppl would bait Destiny Bound and proceed to lose some dark or even stab move. It worked againt Dinamax too as they re immune to Destiny Bound. Today? Well, it really sucks.... Soak was used in duals or VGC to make enemy losing defense or stab, as well as in some Sheninja cheese strat.

[@Iamverykarpy]

its pretty rare that i fully agree with these videos but i actually agreed with basically everything

[@MattBudYT]

That is pretty rare cause some of these are hot takes I feel :P thanks for watching

[@austinlisenbee8415]

On top of that most zap cannon pokemon also have lock on in there move pull to meaning they can actually get around the bad accuracy with set up.

[@ricardoludwig4787]

Soak is actually pretty good, it rarely comes into play into normal conditions but it often gets banned in additional metagames like hackmons, turns out most water types arent great at hitting mono water opponents, and gamefreak doesnt give it to the ones that can like ludicolo

[@Accrovideogames]

Water Sport and Soak are really good in doubles, and Soak removes the opponent's STAB in addition to making them more weak against you. Steel Roller is a good backup move in competitive play to use against players who rely on terrain.

[@MarioMastar]

WIth that Ice move that destroys terrain being usable regardless of if terrain is set up though, the problem with Steel Roller is it's like a less reliable hyper beam at best. Plus Steel is pretty terrible offensively being only strong against the two types EVERYONE can punish, Rock and Ice, and the harder but there's better options for it Fairy type. So even best case scenario it's not worth running seriously.

[@jamonero]

I love the move Electrify. I play a lot of electric mons and in double (or triple) battles, when you see a ground type mon and flying mon, you know they use earthquake 100% of times. Electrify the Earthquake user to absorb or reduce the damage of earthquake while he kill the partner is great. The funniest part if you electrify a dynamax, he uses Max Lighting, so... free electric terrain and reduced damage. Boltund is a great Electrify user. Is fast and you can equip it with cell battery, so if you get hit with electric attack, you get a free +1 attack boost. Magnetic Flux and Gear up is fun in triple battles, so you can buff 3 of your mons using 1 move. Nice video, see ya!

[@mds_main]

I actually love Mirror Move and I usually leave it on my mons if they get it. One funny story happened during the XY era, I was battling a guy online when he sent out a Kyogre and I sent out my Pidgeot. He tried using Sheer Cold but failed and then I used Mirror Move and it hit. If I remember correctly he abandoned the match.

[@austinhensley6553]

NGL never knew what mist did, been playing Pokemon since the 90s

[@dandyriver_]

16:58 “and then we have acid, another basic move” made me laugh a bit too much (i’m a chem major)

[@thecarsongardner]

Some of these moves only have utility in double battles under niche circumstances. Not all, of course, but a few (like soak and guard split).

[@thevioletbee5879]

Wait wait wait, that steel type honorable mention sounded really good. Aren’t there a lot of teams that rely on setting up terrain? Misty terrain teams especially would be screwed.

[@MattBudYT]

It is really dependent on having either your own terrain or an opponents. You would have to run a secondary steel move since it erases terrain after use. So in just general battles if you have your own terrain you may want to use it. And if neither of you have terrain it is literally unusable. Honourable mention cause it can be useful in those particular scenarios

[@vez3834]

Although not part of the discussion technically, I think removing terrain is really cool conceptually.

[@thunderstar7682]

Honestly thought dragon rage would be on here since it can only do 40 damage and the chances of getting a dragon mon early enough to where 40 is a significant number is slim to none

[@chic0nic0]

Grass Whistle is the only sleep-inducing Grass-type move that can affect Grass types. It was absolutely pivotal in my run of Alpha Sapphire where I ran a monotype Grass team where I limited myself to only Grass-type moves.

[@MarioMastar]

XD You know a move is bad when you literally have to do a challenge run where the only move you can use is that move to make it worth using.

[@chic0nic0]

@@MarioMastar I had Sleep Powder and Spore as competition, but there were legitimately situations where it was worth trading accuracy for being able to hit fellow grass types.

[@CrocoDylianVT]

Water sports seems more focused for doubles, it could also be useful if the fire one is stronger (better stats or higher level) or if you feel extra spiteful and want to make your opponent suffer if they're down to just one fire Pokémon

[@sinteleon]

The thing about bug is that it's literally carried by their moves, which seems to be generally better than average.

[@jeffroymael6969]

While grudge is an ability that require you to faint for not much in term of use it at least don't faint your Pokémon to use it in the void unlike curse (as a ghost type) that only inflict 25% of the foes total health as damage if the opponent switch. It basically sacrifice your Pokémon to force a switch but putting a counter to revenge kill is already a reason to switch. There also nightmare that do the same but is only usable on asleep target instead of sacrificing 50% health, the problem is that no Pokémon that learn nightmare have a reliable way to inflict sleep effect in the first way.