What is the Best Pokémon in EVERY Game?

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

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

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

"Wait, it's all Gyarados?" Cocks gun "Always has been."

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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!"

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.

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

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.

One thing I really wanna add Staraptor can switch in for free against Cynthia’s garchomp since it is immune to earthquake and it can get off an intimidate

BW2 had so many great candidates: Lucario, Crobat, Magnezone, Darmanitan, Arcanine, Excadrill, Espeon and many more.

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

Alakazam (with Mewtwo) being OP in the first Gen is the reason why the typing is eternally punished into mediocrity in later Gens.