The Worst Types in Every Pokemon Region (Kanto - Sinnoh)

Not every Type can be the very best, today we take a look at the worst ones for Kanto, Johto, Hoenn and Sinnoh.
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[@liamheneghan4977]

I'm so glad that from Gen 5 onwards the Bug type was shown some love and added some badass Mons to the roster. I really think Bug is underrated

[@JPRPokeTrainer98]

Gen 5 Bugs are fantastic, glad to see them getting more love nowadays

[@castform7]

I'm still wondering why Bug hasn't had a full legendaries. The only thing close is the mythical Genesect (and the ultra beasts Buzzswole and Pheramosa if you're like that.)

[@jjc4924]

Gen. 4 is where I think Bug types gets alot better than the previous since it introduced some cool ones, bringing back the great ones like Scizor & Heracross and introduced new moves that makes them solid. But I agree that Gen. 5 Bugs gets an whole lot better than ever and it's the reason that I'm becoming an fan of Bugs.

[@naobi666]

Mmm Galvantula 🤤🤤🤤

[@sweetwheatsy]

@@jjc4924 Absolutely. The completely necessary high-power physical and special - X-Scissor and Bug Buzz (which, like, why did that first come there...? oh well)

[@TheMNHShow]

Kinda strange how Satoshi based the game on bug catching but made bugs the worst

[@StarkMaximum]

"When making Pokemon, i thought back to my times as a child catching bugs out in a forest on my own. Then I thought about how much it sucked and I hated it, so I made all the bugs shitty and really bad out of spite. Take that, bugs. Take that, you stupid insects."

[@kasei4023]

@@astolfofansunny4047 No, only the first half

[@StarkMaximum]

@@astolfofansunny4047 Yes, absolutely. I have never told a lie in my entire life, especially not this one.

[@armaggedon390]

Gen I is known for its bugs.

[@PinkBunnyCorporation]

@@StarkMaximum the internet never lies. I must believe it.

[@shadowflamegaming5598]

This definitely seems interesting, I might try to monotype with the best and the worst types now.

[@JPRPokeTrainer98]

seems like that could be fun to tell the differences between them lol

[@thepanelbiter9915]

I’ll definitely use the worst mono for a new challenge.

[@Venemofthe888]

Mono types are just fun in general

[@TheLegoLord100]

currently already playing Omega Ruby with a pure bug team and it isn't as bad as you would think, the only problem is HM's really, no available bug learns any of the water HMs. Roxanne is easily dealt with through beautifly's grass draining attacks and surskit's bubblebeam (though you do need to lvl to 17 for that), Brawly is a pushover and by the time you get to mauville I had a shedinja which only his voltorb could do anything against. On top of all that, OrAs makes it easier with the dexnav, letting you get a surskit with hydropump if you so desire for instance

[@cassiebrenneman9673]

Yup, I'll have to wait for the Galar one.

[@castform7]

The worst type in Gen 1 are a threeway tie between Dark, Steel and Fairy. They're basically non existant. Dark and Steel got better in Gen 2 but Fairy still took a few gens before it was actually good.

[@jaidamwhi4589]

Can you really classify them as worst types of the gen when they were not basically but absolutely nonexistent??

[@aleksio2926]

What about the bug type its ussles until gen4/5

[@diesel2744]

Lol

[@thiqqmochi5712]

I can back up this statement. Before, gen 6, I never even used fairy types. That's how bad they were.

[@georgelodge2614]

Dark and steel was created in gen 2

[@JPRPokeTrainer98]

Hope everyone is having a good day. Look forward to Part 2 soon! Edit: Bug beats Poison in Gen 1, meaning that Bugs actually do pretty well against Erika, Koga, and even Agatha to an extent! However, taking FR/LG and Let's Go into consideration, they still maintain their status as the worst type in Kanto.

[@MJ-sy2en]

Have a great day :)

[@thebestworst8002]

The strongest bug type moves in gen 1 are pin missile and twin needle which are either on Pokémon with weak attack or Pokémon that aren’t very good so bug is still the worst even if the type chart says otherwise

[@moblinmajorgeneral]

For Parasect, *use Spore* . Seriously, use it. If you can survive a hit, take the hit and Sleep stuff with it. Gen I sleep is way overpowered, and although Leech Life is super weak, the game is _not_ equipped to deal with you actually having a Bug move later into the game. If there's any Bug worth using outside of mechanics abuse, it's Parasect.

[@thebestworst8002]

@@moblinmajorgeneral yeah parasect is really underrated in gen 1 but it’s more spore and the gen 1 sleep mechanics that are really good rather than the bug type.

[@richardbean1707]

Saved me the trouble of being that annoying guy in the comments correcting you lol

[@axelrod45-yugiohandmore38]

In Gen 1, Bug was actually super effective against Poison. So everything in Erika's Gym in the first games was weak to Bug

[@Infernosab3r]

Shame only 1 bug attack existed back then and its power was such you were better using a x2 weakness (fire/flying/ice) than the x4 bug

[@complaingel]

@@Infernosab3r There were three attacking bug moves in gen 1; leech life, pin missile, and twineedle

[@ZenoDLC]

@@complaingel Leech life was an early game move, being outclassed by the time you reach Erika Pin Missile is decent, but how many actually learn them? Twinneedle is a good move, but only Beedrill learn it

[@complaingel]

@@ZenoDLC Yeah. Still, 3 > 1

[@Kapados_]

@@complaingel but leech life was a normal move ok wrong information but i had a power of 20

[@moblinmajorgeneral]

Dishonorable mentions: Gen I: Rock. The reasons are numerous, from Rock Throw having 30 less accuracy in Gen I, only having 1 Rock Slide TM, being 4x weak to Grass and Water until Cinnabar Island, and most having awful Special, anyway. And it doesn't get better over time. Gen II: Bug. I feel like this one is self-explanatory, although Heracross in HGSS does give it the edge over grass. Hoenn: Poison. Don't let Crobat fool you, Poison in Hoenn is torturous. Wattson has a Magneton, Flannery has a Camerupt in Emerald, and Tate & Liza you flatout lose to. And there's no Grass specialist to make it better. Sinnoh: Fire. Highly limited pool (especially in DP) and 3 specialists with a steep advantage against you, as well as the scariest Pokemon in the game.

[@jjc4924]

About Gen. 4; Platinum fixes that by adding more Fire types. And I would switch Poison into Fire that's the worst to use in Gen. 3.

[@moblinmajorgeneral]

@@jjc4924 Fair on both points

[@ulisesarmenta8155]

@@jjc4924 It depends in whicho Hoenn game you are playing. In RS and ORAS, Fire is useful against Steven at the end. In Emerald, Wallace will destroy any fire type in your team. But you are right, in Hoenn fire types arent that needed. A fighting type is much better for a playthrough. I can make a case that Blaziken have better match ups with its fighting typing beyond the first gym.

[@Hyperneosonic97]

I hard disagree in Rock being the dishonorable in Gen 1, simply because all of the Rock-types are also Ground-types, and Rock-types also have a great matchup against the second-best type in Gen 1, that being the Normal-type. They also completely and utterly DESTROY Agatha and Koga, and Lance doesn't fare exceedingly well against them either due to his flying-heavy team (though it's a toss up regarding Gyarados), and the Rival also heavily dislikes the Rock-type, with at least two of his Pokemon being weak to them (and likely three), those being Pidgeot, his Fire-type, and, if you didn't pick Charmander, Gyarados. I'd also somewhat disagree with Fire being the dishonourable for gen 4, even in DPPt, because one of those fire-types happens to be the absolutely amazing Chimchar line, which renders Roark a moot point, though Wake and Bertha are still kinda tough. Completely dumping on Aaron is a bonus, though!

[@rjba02]

@Muhammad Ali Imran im sorry but your points don’t really work. You mention vileplume as a good option but that’s not because it’s a poison type, it’s because it’s a grass type. If it were just grass type, it would likely do better overall. For starters, instead of being destroyed by tate & liza, it would actually destroy them without poison. Also the defense about muk, weezing and swalot having a good move pool and tentacruel being fast doesn’t really matter. Lots of other pokemon also have good movepools and/or are faster. Sure you can use poison types if you want, not saying they’re bad, it’s just that if you do use them, the fact that they’re poison type is not the main reason you want to use them.

[@igorlopes8463]

I did a grass type run in platinum once, and Cyrus gave me PTSD, his entire team is a grass killer.

[@waterworks_yes]

Cyrus - Weed killer specialist

[@igorlopes8463]

​@Kiyoshi Colon look for "every flying type pokemon explained"

[@chonchjohnch]

You should have used abamasnow

[@heatherevans9252]

The first time I ever played pokemon, I was on SoulSilver. And, knowing pretty much nothing about the pokemon I was picking from, I picked Chikorita. And I never regretted it, no matter how hard I inadvertently made it on myself. Chicky, as I named the poor thing, is one of my favorite starters that I've ever raised.

[@shestewa6581]

Chikorita was my first starter on OG Silver, but I ended up getting frustrated as a stupid kid not understanding pokemon that I restarted and chose Typhlosion and pretty much used it + Lugia for everything. A few years later when I understood how types and moves worked I did it again with Chikorita and had way more fun. Meganium is good but most people don't get how to use it properly. Meganium in Radical Red gets part fairy type and the "triage" ability - meaning that all healing moves (giga drain, synthesis etc) get +1 priority. It's really cool. My favourite pokemon other than Togetic.

[@jupiterjam9776]

I picked totodile best choice I've ever made

[@generichumanname2420]

Chikorita is also the tastiest of them!

[@ShirtFan]

Chikorita also has the disadvantage in Johto that the first 2 gyms are literally anti-grass.

[@johnalas6877]

Chikorita was the best to keep the Johto games challenging in the early portions.

[@gabrieled.r427]

Kanto: Bug type Johto: Chikorita Hoenn: Bug type Sinnoh: Poison type

[@BrokeandatHome]

Thank you for saving me 15 minutes

[@sansdremurr607]

i did a playthrough of soulsilver with chikorita.

[@averymontemayor8420]

But sinnoh originally had 2 fire types? How was it better than poison

[@gabrieled.r427]

@@averymontemayor8420 because Infarnape kicks ass

[@gabrieled.r427]

@@BrokeandatHome 👍🏻

[@xavierashford9072]

Early bug types weren’t even that good to begin with since in the first four gens, they lost to the first gym.

[@Venemofthe888]

3 of them are rock and you can't even get a bug type in black and white before the first badge or even the second

[@xavierashford9072]

@@Venemofthe888 One of them is flying. Don’t forget that.

[@Venemofthe888]

@@xavierashford9072 dw i didn't at all :)

[@jjc4924]

Thank goodness starting with Gen. 4 that gets somewhat better and Gen. 5 gets alot better.

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

Gen 5 made bugs amazing.

[@cecerafferty5570]

See this makes me proud of sweeping Brawly's gym back in the day with a Dustox, panicking the whole time because the rest of my team just did not survive and the Dustox blew my mind

[@robertlupa8273]

Yeah, the Wurmple line is surprisingly a really good counter to Brawly, as both quad resist Fighting and quickly learn a super-effective move (Gust or Confusion).

[@Ben-wu3or]

brb gonna do monotype runs in all four games with all of these types

[@solgaleo3533]

I’m currently doing monotype bug for Ultra Moon and will probably try monotype Dragon Omega Ruby after.

[@thenightranger987]

"Poison types in Sinnoh have a hard time against Fire." Good thing Flint barely uses fire types!

[@thewisthersgames]

Bad thing that he use Steelix and Driftbun

[@jaretco6423]

Only in Diamond & Pearl anyway.

[@TheFourthGenGamer]

So close to that plaque!

[@HaxballHydra]

Hi dint expect to see u here

[@samuelline9573]

This jsut made me happy that SwSh finally gave us a game with early Ice and Dragon types.

[@Missingn0mast3r]

Did you not play X and Y? You can have a pokemon of every type before the second gym there, with 13 of the 18 types being available before the first gym.

[@samuelline9573]

@@Missingn0mast3r funnily enough I'm playing through it again right now, and I never knew you could get bagon so early.

[@Missingn0mast3r]

@@samuelline9573 Axew too, i think. I distinctly remember Dual Chop being completely broken. Edit: yep, it's REAL early. In the Zubat cave, before you even get the second pokedex.

[@korrochime2432]

Gen 7 also has some pretty early dragon types (bagon & noibat come to mind), but it still lacks early ice types EDIT- The ultra games also make ice types available in the first island, so it looks like every type can be obtained before you reach the second one

[@Missingn0mast3r]

@@korrochime2432 i try to forget early-game Alola tbh. Those tutorials are brutal. Even the Kingdom Hearts 2 prologue can't hold a candle to that slog.

[@thegreatandpowerfulbill4786]

I watched a soul silver nuzlocke, they went with the id method of getting the starter and they got chikorita, they actively tried to kill it and it was able to live through out the entire journey, long live mr. stake

[@sansdremurr607]

nice

[@mooshie_008]

Can you pass the name, it sounds interesting

[@thegreatandpowerfulbill4786]

@@mooshie_008 tfs gaming soul silver nuzlocke, mr. stake is the chikorita

[@thegreatandpowerfulbill4786]

@@mooshie_008 full disclosure they did change blue and reds teams to reflect more of their leaf green nuzlocke

[@heinzdoofenshmirtz8643]

It had a close call against Misty, though. [The foe's Starmie used Ice Beam!] [A critical hit!] [It's super effective!] [Mr. Stake snapped out of confusion!] [Mr. Stake used Frenzy Plant!] [It's super effective!] [The foe's Starmie fainted!] [Mr. Stake gained 1197 Exp. Points!] [Mancrobat gained 1197 Exp. Points!] [Player defeated Leader Misty]

[@ghostpepper618]

In Gen 1, Bug would've been 4x good against the grass/poison types But the bug type was weak anyways

[@onijester56]

It's a yes-and-no. Bug was strong against Poison, but Poison was strong against Bug. And Poison-type Pokemon were better than Bug-type Pokemon stat-wise while even the worst Poison-type move was better than the best Bug-type move.

[@pforgottonsoul]

to be fair there weren't all that many bug type moves in gen 1, i remember pin missile and leech life but that was about it.

[@onijester56]

@@pforgottonsoul Specifically, Leech Life was like 25 power, maybe 30. And Pin Missile was 15 power per pin, hitting 2 to 5 times for a max 75 power, but averaging 45 power off of three needles. Despite Bug-type moves being Physical and Alakazam having low Defense and meh HP, a Jolteon wasn't even guaranteed to OHKO the psychic kitty.

[@devincetee5335]

Bug theoretically was the best type in gen one, in practice the worst.

[@theccarbiter]

Twin needle is a very useful and underrated bug move in gen 1

[@abarette_]

hey, remember when they added Challenge Mode in BW2? Well, we already had that in GS. JUST PICK CHIKORITA.

[@novacraft257]

Insta dead before fighting the gym

[@solgaleo3533]

I recently got a copy of crystal. I decided since I picked cyndaquil on VC gold and totodile on SoulSilver I’d pick Chikorita on this playthrough Big Fuckin Mistake

[@abarette_]

@@solgaleo3533 haha I feel that

[@rexythet.rexfromjpreadabou186]

Chikorita is the least memorable of ALL the starters.

[@user-rl4tg2mr9n]

I love all the gen 2 starters but man, choosing chiko is huge mistake

[@fenistereinc.5797]

Leaf stones can be given by a female trainer in the route down goldenrod city. So you are wrong. I remember myself using a Victreebel during the johto part of the game.

[@Ails1234]

Yep, you can get all the stones by registering certain trainer's phone numbers (in Crystal, not G/S)

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

Was about to comment this.

[@jamesshark5422]

True but that is just cancerous

[@SirCowduck]

I've recently been going through Crystal on 3DS, and when I looked up how to evolve my Weebinbell I just deleted every trainer's number I had except that one girl until I got the stone.

[@guardianboreal1432]

"Unless you're a compulsive grinder and really want that Vibrava..." Me: How did you know? Actually, i go all the way to Flygon before Winona unless i'm feelin' lucky against Norman.

[@nicholase82]

In gen 1 the most underwhelming type was the ghost type. It couldn't do its role as a counter for the Psychic type at all.

[@cliffturbo2146]

13:13 that's a very fitting name.

[@ClaptonsWig]

Short answer: Ice Long answer: Ice Type

[@Xman34washere]

Gen 1 Bug and Dragon: lol

[@shaliniupadhyaya]

Don't disrespect ice.

[@sexuallobster134679]

@@Xman34washere dragon? It was resistant to the most common types. No stab moves but you didnt need them between the stats, learnset and resistances.

[@reillywalker195]

Ice is a great offensive type, and most water-type Pokémon can learn at least one ice move for coverage. Unfortunately, ice is horrible defensively, meaning nearly every ice Pokémon that isn't Cloyster or Lapras is a glass cannon.

[@bayleefbelife1727]

Me who’s a pokemon master because I beat johto with chikorita: *pokeen mastur*

[@justsomeguywithgreyhair1824]

i started playing pokemon with crystal and i chose chikorita and i caught a pidgey and THATS IT i beated the game with only these two even tho i had no knowledge about the game and that makes me a grand master

[@bayleefbelife1727]

@@justsomeguywithgreyhair1824 Oof yeah. I had a full team, but your two pokemon gain exp faster than most species, so they’d be way overlevel compared to a team of 5/6

[@yelenielalicea9963]

@@bayleefbelife1727 Pokémon games are easy anyways

[@christopherwalczak8402]

I definitely could have watched all 8. That was really entertaining. Great work!

[@gardenspiritxell6941]

I did a mono bug in hoenn, it really was a journey 🙃

[@arr0w769]

I feel like shedinja would be amazing against many mons

[@heinzdoofenshmirtz8643]

@@arr0w769 It would, yeah. Due to its ability Wonder Guard, which prevents it from being directly hit by any attack that isn't super effective.

[@NecromancyForKids]

@@arr0w769 Lots of trainers with random movesets that just happen to be good against Shedinja

[@Ayunnuya]

Great concept for a video! Looking forward to the next one and hope you do best types for each region too!

[@seanwilson8895]

I recall that in Diamond and Pearl, the only fire types available before the post game were Rapidash and Infernape, though this was improved a little in Platinum

[@jjc4924]

Yes. In Diamond & Pearl; the only Fire type Pokemon that are available are Chimchar & Ponyta. But in Platinum; they added Flareon, the Houndour line, the Magby line, & if you wonna count Heat Rotom. And in postgame, you get an Heatran, Numel, Slugma & I think Torkoal.

[@Naro_Rivers]

@@jjc4924 Rotom Heat doesn’t really count as of Platinum, since Rotom doesn’t change type until the Unova games.

[@lollertoaster]

I don't even count Eevee as a fire type in Platinum, it learns a first decent physical fire move after lvl. 70.

[@lloydirving6209]

7:12 "grass types are barely usable in claire's gym despite her ace being kingdra" I don't get what you mean by this, kingdra is neutral to grass, so of course it doesn't give an edge to grass types.

[@trananbinhjerry6438]

Well it's part water so maybe he got mixed up like how people mess up seel is ice type??

[@Voltorb1993]

This is the first video of this guy that I watched and I subscribed immidiately. Very well put together and researched, off to look at part 2 now.

[@cheeseburgerlazers]

this vid was pretty cool def wanna see part 2 when its ready

[@zaffle7456]

12:09 “forget about that whenever a remake happens”. Pokémon community: “Sinnoh remakes confirmed????”

[@monkeygotbanana]

It’s already kinda confirmed fam

[@b3nja_garcia748]

I did a only psyquic type run in emerald, and I gotta say he is right, at the beginning I only had ralts and abra which learn only psyquic type moves, and with the insane amount of poochyenas and carvahnas it was a rough time.

[@Embtic]

Thank you for the list of types to monotype run in each region!

[@AC-rr4xq]

I am impressed with your detail and consideration in your choices. You have a sub sir!

[@thomascorrenti4792]

This was my first video on this channel and it’s really great!

[@WutendPLayZ]

[...] Eviscerated by Lucian [...] Drapion (and Skuntank): Am I a joke to you?

[@robertocorti9845]

Not that great of a sp def,not that fast, not super effective on gallade but hopefully you have a crobat,actually lose to bronzong. Cinthya is actually easier,source: my monotype, level capped, even potion usage, mono platinum playthrough

[@jeremystinson2124]

This was a really well put together video.

[@zone6484]

Can’t wait for part 2 great vid

[@baddragonite]

Grass is weakest in Johto? * laughs in Meganium line solo run *

[@jjc4924]

Even with it's new beaf up an later gens, it still sucks.

[@brendanstreecko7847]

Gamefreak really hated grass types in gen 2

[@mariowalker9048]

My meganium was able to hold it's own in my Crystal playthrough

[@someguy9421]

In gen 1, bug and poison hit each other super effectively. While this does give Bug more credit than you gave them for in situations such as against Erika’s gym, the poor move distribution does still heavily hinder the type.

[@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.

[@safarifarfetchd9649]

Can’t wait for part 2!!

[@masterofchaos7282]

Gonna take a wild guess and say psychic for gen 7. Despite getting some pretty decent Pokemon like alolan raichu, there’s a lot of pain to be had, especially in ultra sun and moon. Let’s see you’ve got either a gumshoos or raticate both with bite, the bug type Araquanid with the buffed leech life, alolan marowak with hex, totem lurantis with x scissor, vikavolt in vanilla sun and moon with bug bite, mimikyu with Shadow claw and leech life as well as battles with Guzma, Nanu and Acerola. It’s a pretty bad time for psychic. Literally the only saving grace for the trials is that you can get a malamar which you can teach topsy turvy to make the totem Pokemon easier.

[@hollyswoods]

Yeah I kinda figured I would have a hard time in Sinnoh during my all poison run of the games

[@nathhje]

I see this as an excellent opportunity to run through ORAS with a mono bug team. Since the games are so easy it should make for a fun challenge, I was already considering this idea because during a wedlocke I did my Dustox and Volbeat both did really well, which really goes to show how easy the games are. A team of Dustox, Beautifly, Volbeat, Illumise, Ninjask and Shedinja might actually be viable here, though probably still pretty hard.

[@cusersgrass9198]

Hello! Just wanted you to know there were a couple of inaccuracies in the matchup/location chart for types. Psychic types can be acquired before Misty. Route 24 to the north has Abra in RB, Abra is in Route 6 in Yellow and LGPE, and Drowzee is on Route 11 in all games. In LGPE, Steel types can be acquired before Erika by trading a Diglett for an Alolan Diglett in Lavender Town (and a Sandshrew in Celadon if you're playing Pikachu). In LGPE, Ice types can be acquired before Erika with the Celadon trade either being Alolan Sandshrew in Pikachu or Alolan Vulpix in Eevee. Psychic types can be caught before the first gym in Johto, there are Unown in the Ruins of Alph. Fairy types can be encountered before Bugsy by hatching the Togepi egg. And in GS, Jigglypuff is a rare encounter on Route 46, so before Falkner. In Crystal, Ice types can be acquired directly after Bugsy. The Odd Egg has a chance to hatch into Smoochum, so with a few resets you could get an Ice type pretty early. Finally, you can get a Ghost type before Roxanne. Nincada can be found on Route 116 and evolved into Shedinja. It is a bit of a grind to Level 20, but it isn't the worst. This isn't to say the video is bad! I really enjoyed it, and I'm looking forward to the next part. Also, this isn't a comprehensive list, just what I picked up on that would be (reasonably) possible.

[@Lordsarefan]

Correction about gen 1: Beedrill wrecks Erika. Bug is also super effective against Poison in gen 1. All Grass / Poison mons are 4x weak to Bug moves. So Twinneedle wrecks her big time. Didn't test my Beedrill against Koga, yet. Agreed with the rest tho.

[@JPRPokeTrainer98]

You are correct, I made an oversight about Bug beating Poison in Gen 1. I would still say that in FR/LG and Let's Go that Bug isn't very good though.

[@bubbykins4864]

If you take all eight currently existing versions of the Kanto games (Red, Blue INT/Green, Blue JP, Yellow, FireRed, LeafGreen, Let's Go Pikachu, Let's Go Eevee) into account, Bug is still the worst for Kanto. I didn't put the Johto versions of Kanto on there because you'd likely have plenty of better and stronger Bug types by the post-game.

[@Lordsarefan]

@@JPRPokeTrainer98 true true. Wasn't meant in a bad way tho. Didn't know that too untill my latest playthrough either and I've played since all the way back then. Just never bothered to actually use Beedrill after the first gym in Gen 1.

[@heinzdoofenshmirtz8643]

Beedrill does fairly well against Sabrina in the remakes with the correct strategy. Source: FlygonHG, who did a mono Poison run on FRLG and had a Beedrill, who swept Sabrina by taking out Kadabra with Twinneedle then setting up one Agility before knocking out Mr. Mime and then outspeeding and OHKOing Alakazam before taking down Venomoth.

[@AdamDawson3]

Beautifly & Dustox were very useful to me in ORAS and I always have a Mothim on my team in Diamond, Pearl & Platinum and btw Bibarel is part Water.

[@jjc4924]

Well it was since Gen. 4 that Physical/Special stats were an thing and Gen. 4 & onwards gets cool moves to help out alot better.

[@Jlaps941]

I’d love to see an updated version that includes Paldea, considering there’s a specialist for every type since there’s a lot of major battles including gym leaders, Elite Four members, Team Star leaders, Titans, Nemona, Penny, Arven, and the Professor Battle

[@shirase8244]

This has been kn my recommended the whole day. I'll watch it now so KZbin will be pleased

[@reginlief1]

11:02 me, who's favourite Pokemon IS vibrava

[@naraiceylob]

Its interesting that Psychic was one of your runners up for worst type in gen 3. The thing is that you have Ralts and Abra early who evolve into pure powerhouses. It doesn't matter that Psychic isn't great (Gardevoir can learn some great coverage). If you are stuck with average psychic types I'd agree that they suck.

[@ShortStoryLuke]

Just recently did a sword playthrough as a bug type gym leader. My team was all bugs, plus flygon. Went very well actually.

[@Fjunbollen13]

5:47 Crystal also fixes that problem with Picknicker Gina who will sometimes call you and give you a Leaf Stone.

[@nitadennen5589]

my butterfree did well against posion and fighting type pokemon with confusion and helped me defeat sabrina easier by putting her abra kadabra and alakazam to sleep allowing me to switch into nidoking and destroy them all with body slam before they woke. it even defeated bruno's hitmonlee and hitmonchan and 1 of agatha's 2 genghars I'm talking about my butterfree from my last yellow playthrough which I used as a main team member the only main move I had it use was confusion but I did have it use sleep powder against Sabrina's abra kadabra and alakazam and defeated her with nidoking. I used it through the whole playthrough my team was pikachu butterfree victrebell primeape and nidoking I never got past agatha I broke my phone 1 day and had to get a new 1 and never beat that copy but it was still fun to play though.

[@atonofspiders]

Glorious

[@RWAsur]

Yeah Sinnoh's dual types help poison a lot. Crobat was a big mvp on my first pearl run despite the rest since flying took away ground weakness

[@Stardust314159]

For my Gold playthrough, I used a defensive Meganium with Light Screen, Reflect, Body Slam, and Giga Drain, and Milekee (nickname) was a beast, notably holding his own against Red's Snorlax 14 levels higher.

[@genderlich]

You can get leaf stones in Crystal from one of the rebattleable trainers near the day care! I used an Exeggcutor on my team.

[@OMGitsUBER]

Bugs: Are bad in general Me with a Ninjask in Hoenn: 0_0

[@jucool5]

Why would you have a *Ninjask?*

[@OMGitsUBER]

@@jucool5 Ninjask is cool and I like Ninjask

[@trananbinhjerry6438]

A sword dance furry cutter, furry swife, double team and shadow ball is enough to sweep everything

[@jjc4924]

Honestly, I think Gen. 3 introduced the worst Bug types out of any gen. Even more so than Gen. 1.

[@psychie8625]

I need to call something. While Bug was weak to Poison in Gen 1, Poison was also weak to Bug. This meant that every Pokémon in the Celadon Gym (except for Tangela) was quad weak to Bug. This doesn't change the overall result, but I still feel it was worth noting.

[@boarragnarok6798]

A solid episode of a man repeating the word bug? Can't wait!

[@phantomstarsx9343]

I almost want to use this as a baseline for some challenges. HGSS though... Dont get me wrong cyndaquil line is my favorite but when i played the game using chikorita and its line only... it actually did pretty well. with synthesis, barrier/reflect, status moves, headbutt and several other options, it took some creativity but i did beat red with meganium. granted though as you pointed out its 1 grass type, but it is a solid pokemon. i think doing a grass only run is SS would be a fun challenge when i think about it

[@EcnoTheNeato]

I feel like Fire should get an honorable mention in (non-platinum) gen 4. They have a few nice matchups, but unless you picked the fire starter, you're not exactly drowning in Fire types to choose from!

[@anothergamer112]

I'd honestly give Johto to Dark type. Why? You can't even use it! There are five dark types in Johto (Umbreon, Murkrow, Houndour, Sneasel, and Tyranitar). Four are only available in Kanto, two of which can only be gotten after getting all 16 badges. If you evolve the gift Eevee into anything other than Umbreon and don't breed it, you are completely blocked off of using any dark types until post game. EDIT: I learned Sneasel can be found in the Ice Path....in only Crystal.

[@davidecarucci1073]

Also umbreon barely learns dark moves

[@Drakorre]

And Umbreon Is terrible offensivly

[@anothergamer112]

@@Drakorre you could teach it curse through breeding...though it only benefits from it in gen 4 onward since dark is all special in gens 2 and 3.

[@davidecarucci1073]

@@Drakorre yes

[@cornman8728]

To be fair, in oras, if you have a dustox, it learns quiver dance, bug buzz, toxic, and venoshock, which is a powerful stab combo, or you could swap out toxic and venoshock for sludge bomb and a coverage move

[@jg1404]

I actually did a Mono-Bug run in Alpha Sapphire and it was surprisingly not that bad. Then again with the additional moves added for Bug Pokémon in later generation made the game pretty smooth. The biggest challenges were Flannery(Masquerain doesn’t really do much even with Bubble Beam) Winona(I actually had to backtrack to get Anorith but even then her Altaria is still overwhelming to deal with) and unshockingly, the Elite 4 aside from Sydney. My team was Mega Heracross, Dustox, Illumise, Armaldo, Masquerain, and Shedinja as I found that they were the best Bug Pokémon you can use in the Horn region.

[@jjc4924]

I would also add Fire being worst types to use in Gen. 3 because; besides the Torchic line, none of them; old or new, aren't that good. There isn't that many Fire types to capture and there's so many Water type Pokemons in Hoenn that's just to much to handled. About 4 or 5 out of 8 Gym Leaders can beat them out easily. Such as Roxanne ( if you choose Torchic ), Flannery ( including her Camerupt because it's part Ground type ), Winona ( if only you have Combusken & Blaziken out since there part Fighting types and not even Marcargo that; despite being part Rock type that has the advantage against Flying types, will have an hard time because of it's poor stats, Altaria and maybe another one can learn Earthquake ), the Psychic twins because of Lunatone & Solrock ( and both Combusken & Blaziken will have troubled because again; they're part Fighting types ) and Juaz ( or Wallace if your playing Ruby & Sapphire only ). 3 out of Elite Four can beat it down that have the super advantage; which are the Dragon Elite Four, an Ghost Elite Four beacuse her 2 Dusclops learns Earthquake and even the Ice type Elite Four since 3 of them are part Water types. And I don't know how well they do with the Champion Steven if your playing Ruby & Sapphire only. But in Emerald; they'll definitely will have trouble with Champion Wallace since your fighting another Water type specialist.

[@bulborb8756]

yeah, fire does struggle quite a lot in Hoenn due to the sheer mass of water, and yeah aside from blaziken and MAYBE camerupt, the rest of the flames aren't anything to write home about as fire loses to Roxanne, Tate & Liza as well as Wallace on top of being useless against Team Aqua, however they do have a good performance against Glacia and Steven which is sadly their only good match up (however Glacia is an issue due to her having a couple water types)

[@frasergibson5763]

Disagree. I have a Ninetales in Ruby who’s an absolute beast

[@lamedrawings]

Your avatar looks like Junpei from Persona 3 if he became a Pokemon trainer.

[@TrinityDestroyer]

I ran a Parasect in FireRed once, and it was actually really good, one of the best Pokémon I ever used in a Gen 3 Kanto play-through.

[@iTheCreep]

I’ve been in the middle of a bug mono type run on Omega Ruby without thinking about how messed up I’m gonna get. I have spent the last few sessions doing EV resets and training on the Super Training because it’s getting tough, especially when trying to keep a level cap there for the gyms/bosses/rivals etc.

[@scottjarman544]

I did a mono poison type for sinnoh, and I think sinnoh has the best lineup of poison types out there

[@atonofspiders]

Did the same thing earlier this year. Toxicroak, Drapion, Crobat, Skuntank, Gengar, this gen is indeed amazing for poison and what a fun playthrough

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

Thankfully gen 5 made bug types one of the coolest till this day.

[@duskydoggo]

I love the fact that I decided that for my first playthrough of Silver (on the virtual console), I was gonna use Chickorita because it was literal garbage, I didn't really like tododile at the time, and my Crystal save had cyndaquil as my starter. I even named the save after the typing of the starter. (And, no, the trainer name wasn't grass. It was Rye.)I adored that save, and have no recolection on how the heck I beat the first gym, as I know I didn't overlevel, or even catch another pokemon. What was I doing? The save is fun though.

[@Amelia4111]

THERE SHOULD BE ONLY ONE C IN CHIKORITA!

[@stardustdaydreamer1581]

I’m currently doing a grass monotype on SoulSilver just because I knew that it was hard, and I have definitely had to take at least two tries for most of the gym battles so far (I’ve gotten through Whitney). I also managed to beat Falkner with only a Chikorita in Gold, but I had to level it up to level 15 to get through his fight in one try. In short, Grass + Johto is hard.

[@busky9142]

I haven't watched the video yet but I already agree

[@shadowjfd]

Fire is the useless type in diamond/pearl. It was the most needed type through the entire story, yet, we only got 2 fire types, and both super fragile sub par Pokemon, and they are a no go in some gyms like rock and water, and a steep road with the elite 4 except aaron

[@Ghoulofidiocy2917]

Monferno *cough* secondary typing *cough* coverage *cough* grass knot

[@shadowjfd]

Those who picked grass or water starters doesn't have that couch pokemon, and I already said that it is too fragile on certain areas

[@chrisquigley2725]

JPR have you ever played Nexomon, if not give the newest a try if you want a difficult challenge. It takes me back to gen 1 pokemon on difficulty, like needing to run back and keep reviving

[@SneedPatch]

1:24 Beedrill matches up pretty well with Misty's Starmie since you get Twineedle at Level 20, which is typically around the level your team will be when you fight her

[@adhdweirdo4314]

k, im a sinnoh baby, and i play diamond, even i know the fire starter is op in this game, i beat the eltie 4 with 4 pokemon, one being a level 17 bibarel. plus, diagla level 54, staraptor level 54, and my level 60 starter. it was easy, just used a lot of heals and revives. i dont even like it, i perfer the water starter. however even i cant deny its an amazing starter.

[@domenicavallone28]

Grass absolutely sucks in Johto games but I always choose Chikorita! It’s my favorite gen 2 starter 🥰

[@darthvader7886]

But unfortunately chikorita line sucked

[@brendanstreecko7847]

@Android Fanboy though in johto they made it really hard for chikorita fans

[@kimyona9746]

I did a trio run of crystal with only using meganium, Marowak, and Lanturn

[@nich6200]

I do want to say that I chain caught caterpie until I got a perfect one that I trained up and then solo ran with as just a caterpie through the entire elite four in let’s go eevee. It tanked attacks from dragonite and two shot or one shot Pokémon with tackle. It was the let’s go games, but still. I also only healed between battles

[@gagegarlitz1962]

@JPRPokeTrainer98 It's possible to get the elemental evolution stones fairly early on in GSC. You just have to get the number of a trainer just before goldenrod city, she'll occasionaly call and tell you that she has an evolution stone to give you. I beat the Johto E4 with Victreebell by doing this, and it's actually pretty strong, especially against Bruno.

[@triman7039]

Ah yes, my favorite poison type... Scyther.

[@stripedbandit5252]

I feel like fairy should be weak to bug. Idk why but I thought it was when I first played the games

[@icollectmonkeynipples1476]

Because most fairy types can learn psychic moves? I think fairy types are well balanced enough as is

[@CyanicCore]

Interesting method, but (and) well organized!

[@trevor0078]

ive used beedrill in lets go and i had it set up as a critical hit machine with drillrun, focus energy, twin missle and i think poison jab. it was absolutely savage and shred through everything. ive also used crobat in diamond and that thing was just generally gud with its damage out put.

[@scorpioncox8978]

Me: *watches the johto segment knowing I swept the likes of Whitney, Pryce and Clair with the chikorita line* Hmmm Interesting

[@NotAlt3418]

Wait what

[@scorpioncox8978]

@@NotAlt3418 you read that right mate

[@josephfunnykins3349]

Pikachu is a pikaCHUMP!

[@LynnK2000]

I just finished the first half of soulsilver with mono grass without overlevelling/using items in battle. Almost every major battle is a real struggle, sleep powder is hugely important, as is the sunny day TM you can get after clearing out the radio tower. Tangrowth is definitely the MVP in that run, even though you can't really use him until victory road without overlevelling. Ancient power comes in clutch against almost all grass weaknesses

[@zaffle7456]

How do you not have 100k, you’re my favorite poketuber

[@JPRPokeTrainer98]

appreciate it!

[@samuelketner1391]

In gen 1 and only gen 1 bug was also super effective against poison, with poison super effective against it. So a single bug move would be 4x effective against 2/3 of Erica's mons

[@Sweepout]

In gen 3 Kanto Herracross with megahorn could demolish the gyms. That’s about it for bugs in gen 3 kanto. Lol

[@darkside9020]

Agree with Gug, but in Gen 1 Bug is super effective against poison, so Bug moves do 4x damage on Erika's Grass/Poison types, they do still have the disadvantages you mentioned (lack of moves, weakness to Poison) but they can potentially do damage on Poison types.

[@benjaminsmythe8967]

You're underselling Butterfree w/ confusion. It can do a surprising amount of damage. I agree bugs are weak but I'll forever have a Butterfree in my six, when playing Blue.

[@memeyjotaro5502]

Alola and Galar: *confused screaming*

[@backlogrob8358]

Calling it, fire is gen4’s worst 😂🤣😂🤣

[@castform7]

I mean just cause you can only get 2 in gen 4 doesn't particulary make it bad. Gen 1 had plenty of Bug types and it was still the worst.

[@jjc4924]

Platinum fixes that now that they added Houndour, Flareon, the Magby line & Heatran.

[@varunace8913]

@@jjc4924 include rotom heat so we get houndoom,Flareon,rotom heat,rapidash,infernape,heatran,magmortor so more than you could expect there are more options edit heck I forgot numel and camerupt in post game 🤣

[@jjc4924]

Varun. Yep. That's why I'm pretending that Diamond & Pearl doesn't exist and we have an way better & improved version for Sinnoh.

[@HDDNeptunia]

I've been using chikorita for my latest HG playthrough and I've made it past the elite four and haven't removed meganium :)

[@Brad-Ley]

I agree with you on most terms except for a minor few scenarios: 1. Bug being bad in LGP/LGE (because you forgot about the ridiculously useful "Fell Stinger") 2. Realistically gyms 4 and 7 can be conquered with not much difficulty, you just have to have good situational awareness considering you're at a defensive disadvantage.