What is the Best Pokémon in EVERY Game?

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Credits: Craig Livingstone (Production), Weebra (Editing)

0:00 Red and Blue
4:29 Yellow
4:40 GSC
9:43 RSE
13:32 FRLG
14:10 DPP
16:03 HGSS
17:08 BW
20:05 B2W2
21:49 XY
25:28 ORAS
27:19 SM
29:09 USUM
29:48 LGPE
30:13 SWSH
31:13 BDSP
32:12 PLA
33:07 SV

➤Music Tracks used:
Ruby Delusions ~ Sonic Mania
Fish on ~ Yakuza 3
Going Down Now (Instrumental) ~ Persona 3 Reload
Nemona's Thema ~ Pokemon Scarlet/Violet
School Days (Instrumental) ~ Persona
Pesto Anchovi ~ Pizza Tower
Parasail Minigame Theme ~ TLoZ Breath of the Wild
Reach Out to the Truth - in Mayonaka Arena ~ Persona 4 Arena
It's a Golden Show ~ Catherine
Tokyo Daylight ~ (ATLUS Kozuka Remix)
Living in the City (Instrumental) ~ Sonic R
An Exhibition ~ Streets of Rage 4
Ibuki's Theme ~ Street Fighter 4
唖然呆然 (disc 2 track 5) ~ Yakuza 0
Whirling of Varambhaka ~ Genshin Impact
They're Back ~ Streets of Rage 4
雪上の格闘技 (Disc 2 Track 29) ~ Yakuza 5
Highway ~ Yakuza 5
Golden Meadow ~ Tekken 8

[smithplayspokemon]

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[theeducatedfool]

Solidarity to everybody else who never had a trade evolution Pokémon growing up.

[kevinconverse]

The pain in Smith's eyes talking about Gyarados is only matched by Wolfey talking about Incineroar

[jacobkohr]

Gen 1 Alakazam: Psychic type spamming Psychic
Gen 2 Alakazam: PUNCH IN THE FACE!

[franbh]

"Wait, it's all Gyarados?"

*Cocks gun*
"Always has been."

[clashwithdaragh]

In BDSP Gyarados learns waterfall at level 21....WATERFALL! AT LEVEL 21! 😅

[noname-xomp]

Why you look like Nickleback & Nicholas Cage had a baby

[Lockheart_]

Another note I'd like to make about Gen I Gyarados is it's another Pokémon with virtually no weakness. Its weaknesses are Rock and a 4x weakness to Electric. However, in Red and Blue, once you beat Surge (which is a mere bagatelle, considering Diglett/Dugtrio with 100-power Dig are available before taking on the third gym), there are zero boss fights using Electric Pokémon for the rest of the game. In Yellow, Lance's Dragonite will have Thunder in its moveset, and Blue may have a Jolteon, but even so, Gyarados' matchups will be nonetheless excellent throughout the game.

As for Rock, Gyarados outspeeds every Rock-type except for Aerodactyl, who incidentally, can't learn any Rock moves in Gen I. Gyarados, being a Water-type, has the advantage over Rock so therefore has no reason to fear its Rock weakness.

So once you beat Surge, you've got a Pokémon with some of the highest stats in the game, which also isn't gonna be taking Super-effective damage. It's S-tier.

[arrowblade_]

3:05 Gyarados is not in almost every mainline game, it is in every mainline game. My trusty Snek stays with us even through black and white and legends arceus. He truly is one’s most loyal companion.

[danielalexandre]

2029 here and after multiple playthroughs i can confirm that the best mon for gen 10 *and gen 11* IS Gyarados

[sometimesjoeyplays]

imagine if gen 1 gyarados was water/dragon…heck, kingdra was tough in OG gen 2

[YarnLalms]

The Alakazam line can only be obtained once you reach Dewford in Ruby and Sapphire, it's only pre gym 1 in Emerald. Nidoran is also moved past gym 1 in FRLG. Fun fact about Gen 8 dlc, you don't have to win the fight against Peony, so you can literally go to the Dynamax Adventures which have you use rentals, meaning its possibly to catch level 50+ nonlegendaries and level 70 legendaries BEFORE THE FIRST GYM

[travisalexander]

Best part of the video is the Gen10 speculation amounting to, "If you do not think Gyarados is going to make the podium of best potential moms (mons*, even) you haven't been paying attention!"

[thepuppet]

Fun fact I learned about Drilbur in Gen 5; If you forgo its evolution to Excadrill up until level 33, you can get Earthquake at that level. Just waiting to evolve Drilbur for just 2 levels.

[christiandevey]

“You caught a geodude, right?”
- Imported “Chees” Cheese

[tomhuddleston]

Nidoking in Gen 1 is busted for this reason - X accuracy, the item, doesn't just raise your accuracy, it gives you PERFECT accuracy. It entirely removes the check to see if a move will land.

Nidoking learns horn drill, which will never miss and OHKO the target assuming Nidoking is faster. For early game when trainers use a lot of NFE Pokémon, this means it will go on a rampage and utterly dominate anything in front of it. By gen 1 standards, Nidoking sits as the #44 fastest in Gen 1, which means there is a lot of targets he can abuse with this strat. But even better, if you use one X speed, he will outrun everything outside of Aerodactyl, Mewtwo, Jolteon and Electrode pretty much.

[keksidy]

You should note that Gastly is only worth it in GSC if you can get trade evolutions. Kadabra gets the elemental punches but not Haunter. Haunter is still okay, but you're definitely gonna miss that coverage

[reillywalker]

Gen II Gyarados is still a great Pokémon despite its severe nerf from Gen I.

Gen II Gyarados can make great use of Return at max friendship with 102 base power, and it's one of the few Pokémon that learns Rain Dance by level-up, so its base 60 special attack can be easily mitigated. Catching a wild Gyarados as opposed to evolving from Magikarp also provides access to Thrash which, while potentially risky to use, has a hefty base 90 power to tide you over until you get Gyarados's friendship high enough to make Return worth using. Getting Dragon Rage at level 25 is also useful for dishing out reliable damage early.

[MaxKetchumGameing]

I think Swampert should be in the running for RSE, if not an explicit #1. It’s definitely much better than the Gardevoir line, which doesn’t exist until level 30

[Subgenrelol]

I’m currently doing my first Platinum playthrough, as I have started from gen 1 but just stopped playing when gen 4 came out, and I have to agree Gyrados is a monster. He clutched out the elite four for me and absolutely spanked Cynthia’s Garchomp, even though he was 5 levels under. A true menace