IMPORTANT NOTE! I FILMED THIS BEFORE THE SAN DIEGO REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS WHICH MEANS SOME THINGS (TALKING ABOUT TAUROS, BAXCALIBUR, AND PALAFIN IN PARTICULAR) ARE OUTDATED - THE LIST SHOULD OVERALL SHOULD STILL BE SOLID

Calling donphan "average tusk" is the best thing I've heard since hariyama being "normal hands", definitely need to use this name system in the future.

Dugtrio in singles: Has a niche in Ubers in which he traps and kills legendaries Dugtrio in VGC: help mum I've been killed by a Fake Out D:

"The reason Ursaring is down here is because... it's not good" Hard hitting analysis from the Worldchampion himself

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="91">1:31</a> Fun fact, even though Ursaluna is not yet in the games, Ursaring (and Stantler, too) still gets the added defenses from holding an Eviolite.

You’d think that with the changes to snow, Glaceon would be finally usable You’d be wrong, but I admire your optimism

I would love to see a video where Wolfe and another player like Aaron take the F tier list, make a team, and play a best of three set. That would be so much fun to watch. Always enjoy your hard work, man! Please also thank your incredible team for their effort too!

Seeing Wolfey put Cyclizar in C tier when Smogon banned it from OU is one of the many astounding differences of Singles and Doubles. I love playing different formats, there are some Pokémon that would never see any use if it was just Singles or Doubles.

The level of content you’re pumping out is unreal, in both quality and quantity. Truly the world champ difference.

Tera gave Oricorio so much more. I don't know how good it'll be beyond series 1, but it was my saving grace in a number of series 1 matches. Being able to switch in or Protect and still get an attack in and/or a stat boost has saved me a number of times. I had tera Ground for Oricorio, and I loved that it changed Revelation Dance's type. I know the stats are bad, but sometimes an extra hit can save you, and Oricorio is reliable in giving you that extra hit.

Timestamps for the tiers <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="0">0:00</a> : F Tier <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="582">9:42</a> : E Tier <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1020">17:00</a> : D Tier <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2252">37:32</a> : C Tier <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="61">1:01</a>:41 : B Tier <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="81">1:21</a>:55 : A Tier <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="96">1:36</a>:01 : S Tier

It's a bit specific but Toedscruel's ability giving it the opportunity to sleep Gholdengo is kind of wild. It has given me a few good jump scares on showdown.

How is he uploading so many high quality videos so quickly

The only use I had for luvdisc was to tell my crush that I loved her. I was shy, so I named my charizard after her. I put my Pokémon order as “I” unown, luvdisc, and then the charizard. Luckily, she was savvy enough to figure it out when she saw the order. Otherwise, I agree. It is a waste of data. I wonder how much they got paid to design it.

Wolfey mad underestimating Oricorio: Quiver Dance Volcarona + Protect Oricorio allows for protecting while setting up and Fiery Dance Volcarona + Oricorio allows for three attacks in one turn and a lot more sets

This is a perfect example of a creator refining and improving his craft! First competitive Pokémon channel I’ve subbed to and don’t regret it at all! Excited to see what the future holds!

As much as I love Palafin, I'm absolutely terrified of it becoming meta and wiping everything it faces

How have we not seen a Special Attack Intimidate ability yet??? Like mind break or Contemplation 😂

Fun fact about Copperajah: with its hidden ability Heavy Metal it becomes the heaviest pokemon by far at 1300kg (next heaviest is 1000kg). This means that with Heavy Slam, it almost always gets the maximum base power of 120 (+ STAB). With a base attack stat of 130, this thing can go for 1HKOs with Choice Band. It can even 1HKO Annihilape depending on EVs and/or damage rolls. It gets nice coverage moves like Superpower, Earthquake, and High Horsepower. Tera ground + High Horsepower can 1HKO Skeledirge. It also gets Sheer Force if you prefer the more consistent Iron Head and fairy/rock coverage with Play Rough and Rock Slide. Unfortunately for Copperajah, Gholdengo exists, which nullifies its entire existence as a steel type heavy-hitter. And despite its good HP, its defense stats aren't good enough to make it bulky, especially since you'll want to be investing EVs/nature in attack. It basically mandates using a support ally like Friend Guard Maushold, which isn't always ideal. So... yeah, D tier is accurate.

Dugtrio difference in power from Singles to doubles is insane. Arena Trap is great at smogon singles

Wolfie puts so much into his videos and I respect him so much for that :) and also congrats on 900k subs! Almost there..

It's so interesting to me that the reason a Pokémon can be really good in singles, is the reason it's not as good in doubles, or vice versa. And then you just have some that are just good in both formats for the same reason, or two completely different reasons😂

Wolfe: “Ursaring is bad because it is bad.” Edit: side note about Luvdisc, in the random battles format on showdown Pokémon have their levels adjusted to make things more evenly matched. However Luvdisc is the only Pokémon I know of to be level 100, and I’m sure it would be higher if that was an option.

S TIER ranking explained and STARTS AT <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="96">1:36</a>:04 A TIER STARTS AT <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="81">1:21</a>:56 B TIER STARTS AT <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="61">1:01</a>:45 C TIER STARTS AT <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2253">37:33</a> D TIER RANKING EXPLAINED AND STARTS AT <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1022">17:02</a> E TIER STARTS AT <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="583">9:43</a>

Could we see a video of how to use each paradox Pokémon when they become legal? The stats, abilities, and move pools seem interesting and I kinda wanna see a video getting to rank 1 only using paradox Pokémon

I appreciate the prep work that went in to getting them in order ahead of time.

I destroy pretty often with oricorio, it's a great tailwind setter that supports volcarona really efficiently and can even baton pass all it's buffs to someone in the back. It copies every dragon dancer and even has good synergy with Quaquaval. All this and it even has a unique interaction with terrastalizing where it's signature move changes to match it's tera type giving it a super great offensive option that mitigates a lot of its inherent weakness

Take a shot every time Wolfey says something akin to “it’s not a bad Pokémon by any means, but…”

The amount of high quality content you are putting out is absolutely unreal, keep it up Wolfe!

I'm actually excited for Hisuian Electrode. Grass/Electric is a good type, and it has such high speed that you can invest in bulk and still be faster than frick. Plus, it's movepool makes it look like a pretty good support; Taunt, Thunder Wave, Grassy/Electric Terrain, Reflect, and a lot of other neat moves. Again, it's very fast, so having good support with high speed is something I'm looking forward to.

I think Altaria deserves a bit more credit. I think it has a decent niche as a Pokémon with cloud nine, Will-o-wisp, perish song and tailwind. It’s definitely not good but I think it’s better than F tier.

As a very old fan of yours, this video is such a breath of fresh air. I love unscripted Wolf, it’s my favorite content

Quick note on medicham: it got skill swap this generation. That's insanely scary

Dude I really hope you reach 1 million. I loved watching tournaments with you battling and I am so glad you are putting so much videos on youtube! I can not wait to battle you competitively one day🖤 Thank you for everything

You underrated oricorio, when a teammate uses a dancing move, oricorio uses it to, and since moves like Fiery Dance exist, it is really strong. But another thing is that Aqua step is also a dance move. It really well combo's with Volcarona and Quaquavell.

The biggest difference between doubles and singled with pokemon like forretress and toxapex is that setting up hazards gives those mons offensive pressure in singles where switching is essential.

I’ve been using Spiritomb on ladder and it’s been incredibly solid. It’s incredibly hard to stop it from setting trick room (most of the time it lives to set it up twice) and then will o wisp, snarl, and helping hand make it always relevant.

With circle throw, leech life, sticky web, and a unique protect, Spidops would be decent if it only had better stats. Alas. Still my favorite pokemon.

I was praying you would do this! Thanks for grinding out this vid Wolfey 🙌🏼

Yo Wolfy if your reading this your videos as of lately on Scarlet and Violet have been amazing. This video and the one you made explaining IVs Evs and making the perfect competitive Pokémon have really helped me step into the competitive Pokémon scene. I hope your the first competitive Pokémon channel to reach 1 million, you deserve it and keep up the amazing effort on your videos

Oricorio + Aqua Step absolutely boomed me on showdown due to the surprise factor

Seeing cycalzar getting banned from smoogon while also being seen as bad in doubles really showed the difference between the two lol

I mostly agree. Happy to see Volcarona always performing well. Larvesta is my favorite, love to see it returning and having a place in the meta. Great job with the content, I've been following since I got into VGC and you were a 'real youtubist' with just over 100 or 200k subs. Congrats on the growth, I'm glad you continue to pump out content.

I feel like you missed something pretty important about Slowking--his regenerator + chilling reception sets for snow. It's got really good synnergy, and while the loss of turn-1 snow kind of bites, it also is a solid way to override other weather since it's bound to come last. Slowking himself being a water/psychic also resists a lot of things that do super-effective to ice, so it becomes a really good addition to snow teams.

This feels like a modern day version of Wolfe’s older videos, and I love it.

Wolfe, Thanks for this insightful video ! I appreciate the work you put into this video and your patience in explaining it all. I’m a layman at team building, and this video is helping me narrow the scope of my options for the team I am building !

So I put this on as background noise not expecting to pay much attention, but this was super fun to watch through! Really well paced dude. I think you spent exactly the right amount of time on each Pokémon. One note: Cyclizar has the ability Regenerator, which heals 33% of its health upon switching out. So Shed Tail only ends up costing it 17% of it's health, making it much more viable :)

Gotta love the subtle shade from Wolfey with “it might be good in singles but it’s not good competitively”

Almost 2 hours of Wolfey ranking Pokémon? You’re too good to us

Excellent video and such great informative content once again Wolfey, thank you so much!! At this rate you're well well on your way to 1M!!!

Love your Content man. Keep it up, and Good luck at the Pokemon Tournaments!

How do you keep putting out the exact Pokemon content that we need every single time? WCD baby!

Don’t think this changes their ranks but I think it’s worth mentioning that Ursaring and Stantler both benefit from the eviolite in Scarlet and Violet even though Ursuluna and Wyrdeer aren’t currently available!

I have been using this list to run a low-tier tournament and it's been really interesting! Lots of creative sets out of the 8 players and some interesting metagame stuff going on. Would love to see more on it, or maybe more development of the list.

amazing video, love your content Wolfey!

I feel like we’ve both shifted to a new reality cause I swear to god that Gogoat was Grass/Normal, only playing showdown last week I realised that it was pure Grass type

Sup, I respect how much work and time you put into all this. Keep it up

This was super helpful, I'm just jumping back into the scene again and hadn't played since the Alolan generation of pokemon. So this helped me get a good idea of what to build for a team. I admit I wasn't too thrilled back then when doubles started becoming the standard, but at this point I think it looks fun.

I like looking at things from a competitive point of view instead of a “my opinion “ point of view. I also love how you rank a Pokémon and tell us valid reasons why. And the best part is that your not scared to just say a Pokémon is straight up bad because some Pokémon are just bad all together. The bluntness is what I’m here for.

You’re the man, Wolfey. Thanks for being you

It’s incredible the amount of content you are putting out

Great commentary. Thanks Wolfe 👍

This is unreal content. Thanks Wolf!

Forretress gets iron defense and body press now, so it really isn't that passive. You should probably use Garganacl over it usually, but it has a few tools to make it worth considering (sturdy/overcoat, thunder wave, helping hand, volt switch).

This ranks are so good! I really want you to make a tier list design wise

i do miss old wolfey intro but the quality of the new videos is second to none, keep it up bro

Wolfey has accessed the multiverse to communicate with other versions of himself to produce infinite videos per second. Love the vids wolfey :D

My heart hurts. My dancer team almost got me to master ball last season, but that's probably cause of gimmick and her dancer teammates. Was a fun team though, just had rough weaknesses to common pokemon

Wow, I can’t believe I just watched 1 hour and a half of ranking Pokémon me, Wolfey is really captivating 😳

very VERY cool video! I will consider now taking a step into VGC

Love the videos Mr.Glick!!

I feel like Armarouge is one of the best pokemon, it is like an anhilape, if you give it like the covert cloak, paired up with the armor cannon, you have a 120 base power move with no drawbacks.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2168">36:08</a> So you know what would be really cool and might even help improve Revavroom based on what you said for it? If they gave us the Starmobiles. The Team Star bosses should've each given us their Revavroom in the post-game, and each should've had their respective boss fights ability, torque move, and tera type, with all of the torque moves then being added as egg moves for all Revavrooms. It's so weird to me that they added the first Steel/Poison type, gave it so much unique stuff in the story, and then didn't give us access to any of it.

You can tell he puts thoughts into the video. 99% of other KZfaq’s just do it live, but he doesn’t.

Quick note on toedsacruel ive brought up before, I find that using it with murkrow and quash makes using Spore much better, can actually knock out gholdengo before it attacks

Challenge Idea: you make a wheel with every fully evolved Pokémon and attempt to get at least 3 wins with the random team if you don’t want to use a Pokémon you have two rerolls hope you try it have fun wolfy and hopefully you have the world champ difference

LET'S GOOOOOOO i love how you ranked all returning pokemon too, will you also be doing this when the dlc will come out?

Bro, your grind is incredible

Wish you had included the home transfer Pokémon that will be available soon! Still thanks for so many great videos Wolfe

Mega 👏 altaria👏 should 👏 have 👏 been 👏 its 👏 third 👏 stage 👏

Hawlucha actually has an interesting niche this gen because it can use Haze on Gholdengo. Also, a few of these are DEFINITELY changing as soon as Paradox mons are introduced. Sun and Electric Terrain are going to be so much stronger as soon as they come

I found running oricorio and volcarona together worked really well with volcarona using fiery dance and quiver dance and being a higher speed making it give oricorio the spatack boost before it attacks being very useful

I remember 100k Wolfey like it was yesterday how my boy has grown on KZfaq your a great KZfaqr and I love watching your videos

Houndoom in F. My boy has fallen on the hardest of times. Gamefreak help a good dog out.

Would be nice to show the stats for each Pokémon as you talk about it

How can you make so many high quality videos like these man so unreal

Wolfey's commentary on Alomomola: "it's better than luvdisc" Yeah no shit sherlock 😭

Normally as someone who plays singles and doubles I would be mad at some of the tier choices but it’s Wolfey you really can’t disagree with the world champ haha

-Kricketune does have technician stab fell stinger, which can become an absolute threat with the right partner and speed control. -Sudowoodo has recoilless head smash, a sizable defense, and a large move pool. -Altaria has dragon dance and can be paired with costar

I actually used masquerain unironically at the start of the format when I was dicking around on the showdown ladder It's a really good partner pokemon for coalossal specifically because I think it has the weakest aqua jet in the game and then with intimidate, haze, and helping hand it can provide a lot of support after activating coalossals weakness policy. So that was pretty nice realizing a bad pokemon I'd normally always overlook was actually the best fit for a niche I was trying to fill.

I’d never think that a murkrow would be one of the best Pokémon in a competitive format but I guess you do learn a new thing every day.

Wolfie please don’t forget to take time to yourself. Don’t burn yourself out, you’re awesome!

Few takes from this vid: - He forgot that Evolite Ursaring is a thing in Singles (and it currently works despite its evo not being available). - Houndoom is among the list of Gholdengo and Skeledirge counters, so as Clawitzer. - Ghost Tera Cacturne with Water Absorb can fully counter Palafin (lacking Ice Punch, that is). - ORICORIO IS A MENACE IN DOUBLES if you use it alongside Aqua Step Quaqaval and/or Fiery Dance Volcarona/IronMoth as those also proc Dancer and provide you a 3rd attack within a single turn (search about it on youtube). - Forretress is indeed a box of surprises, as it not only has all the tools to manage the hazards and clean terrain but also it is the only Tera Normal Explosion + Normal Gem user after Garganacl. - Sawsbuck has Body Slam and Headbutt and, outside Serene Grace, Tera Water + Sap Sipper means 1 weakness while retaining Spore immunity (and a +1 boost on a predicted switch into it). - Kofu unironically taught us how to use Crabominable. - Camerupt is indeed awful when not terastalized, but seen some streamers running Tera Grass with it otherwise. - I would put Whiscash in E tier too, until I found one of those (holding AV) in doubles spamming Icy Wind, Spark, Chilling Water and Fissure, which actually made me reconsider twice. - I think Luxray still lacks bulk enough to justify it being D tier. - Eelektross is more like a borderline between C and D tier, it just needs the right way to fit 4 moves into it, which is its major issue besides its speed. - Sandaconda also has the surprisingly good recovery in the form of Rest + Shed Skin. - Skill Swap Intimidate can be exchanged with another ally with Intimidate (from Gen8 onwards), thus providing a -2 ATK for both opponents. Additionally, you can also reproc your weather back if you use Skill Swap on an ally's weather ability while also providing a -1 ATK to your opponents. - Spiritomb also has some moves for doubles that allow it to speed control, altho its biggest selling point also comes in the form of Foul Play when combined with those. - Encore Lumineon is also a bit annoying to deal with. - Doesn't Medicham get Axe Kick? - There have been some players using Zoom Lens Rotom-F alongside Thunder and Blizzard for an orthodox BoltBeam combo, as well as terastalizing it to Electric to remove all weaknesses. - Sap Sipper Water Tera Goodra is pretty strong, and most importantly, it's a great Spore bait against those who underestimate it. - Mudsdale with Counter is ironically good against wallbreakers like Dragonite as Counter even bypasses Multiscale to my surprise. - Appletun should be B Tier. Seen streamers in ranked play using it as their trump card in singles, and it's pretty rewarding even on the thightest situations. - Dudunsparce also has Yawn and plenty other means of disrupting. Its pre-evo in Ghost Tera (under Evolite) using Curse + Roost can also stall teams in lategame scenarios (same strategy can be also done with Skeledirge, but with the additional option to trap with Fire Spin).

Even with the proviso that this was shot before the Sandy Eggo ( : 3 ) regionals, it's a very solid list and I'm impressed that Wolfey called out the potential high ceiling of Glimmora and Garganacl (back to back on the list) in particular.

Hey wolfey. I love watching your videos and iwant to thank you for making amazing content.

Another important note is the fact that you accidentally put spideops in the F tier instead of the S plus tier

so much missing: cinderace, charizard, scyther, new future and past forms, legendaries from shrine

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="83">1:23</a>:18 i started cackling like a madman at that, that is hilarious! Also, i wouldnt put either dugtrio or ursaluna in f tier. For dugtrio, its mostly due to speed, and ability. Arena trap is dumb lol. Preventing switches is kinda insane, you basically force your opponent to attack, and they dont have a choice. Removing such a crucial option is kinda big. I wouldnt say it makes dugtrio GOOD on its own, but definitely at least E tier. Ursaring is actually interesting, because even tho ursaluna isnt in the game yet, it technically does have an evolution coded in the game, so that means eviolite should right now work on ursaring. That can allow you to maybe do some stupid things with him, be a bulky attacker, maybe a wall/support. Im almost positive you can make him actually work surprisingly well. Because of that eviolite potential, i just cannot see him being f tier.

Revavroom might be underrated, it seems good in specific teams. I've seen it on a trick room team with taunt, haze, and Terra grass as a dondozo check along with spin out to lower its own speed. It had very specific speed, I don't remember exactly what for, but it could outspeed certain things out of trick room and underspeed other things after spin out in trick room

So many Gen 1 and Gen 2 Pokémon have some weird base stats, a legacy of the Special Stat Split and then the Physical / Special Move Split.