It takes a legend to evolve 3 dragonite before level 55. He’s hella OP

we all know that lance lost against leon because he has plot armour or else he wouldnt be the „undeafeted“ anymore

Gotta say he's definitely the most intimidating looking out of the champions.

Lance doesn't do much in the anime, but he's super helpful in gold/silver & HG/SS

"Not all dragon pokemon are dragon type" - Lance

In the manga his dragonair destroys half of vermilion city with one hyper beam and that's pretty powerful

I think that Lance was a good Champion his team in the Original games being lacklustre is mainly due to the Dragon typing rare and their not being a lot of Dragon type Pokemon at the Beginning of the franchise but now with more of them being discovered his teams were slowing getting better and atleast he did a lot at a member of the Pokemon GMen fight Crime and protecting the regions.

I call him the Holy Nightmare for a reason. Took me nearly two weeks to finally defeat him. Even then victory was very narrow. I managed to lay a burn on his Dragonite. He used hyper beam. Somehow, my Typhlosion managed to survive with 1 hp. The burn took effect and I won.

Do not forget he is second to Leon at the World Tournament. In the games, it is different than in the anime.

Lance teaches a legendary typing. So that's why Lance is my favorite.

The difference between the other champions is you see his growth over time, when Cynthia just somehow has this amazing powerhouse of a team with no context behind it.

He’s a dragon master because he also used Pokémon that can pass for a dragon type. Plus with the low supply of dragons in the earlier gens.

I think in Masters Lance says something about not all dragons being dragon type, so between that and the limitations of living in a region that only had one line of dragon types I guess he had to be more flexible about what he considered a dragon. Regardless of his placing in team composition I personally found him one of the more enjoyable champions in terms of story presence. He felt more like he was actually doing stuff about what was going on without taking away from the player's involvement. There's also that red gyarados encounter.

To be fair mystic, Lance does use all dragons. It's just that it's the dragon egg group and an Aerodactyl Edit: Didn't know he had a Kanga, so that's another one for random good picks

Hyperbeam is there for nostalgic reasons, that thing was so great in Gen 1/2, and was heavily associated with Dragons.

I think having hyper beam is badass, Remember he used it on a person!

Did somebody remember his overpowered team in HGSS

I remember having so much trouble with Lance when I played SS as a kid

The Pokemon League Elite Four, Former Champion, Pokemon International Police Officer, Dragon Master, Lance is THE ORIGINAL G.O.A.T. The Games kind of underwhelming.

He has glorious cool hair

There's a few things I want to correct you on. 1. You say his team lacks dragons, but if you look at the mon's egg groups, you'd know most are in the dragon egg group. The only non-dragon type or non-dragon egg group mon is his Aerodactyl, but that's explainable. In Gen 1 and 2, there's only 5 dragon egg group mons, those being: - Charizard - Arbok - Seadra - Gyarados - Dragonite Arbok is a mon on Agatha's team, so it's clear why it's not on his team, but now he's left with only 4 mons, so what now? Well, while not a dragon type or in the dragon egg group, Aerodactyl is the closest mon in Gen 1 and even 2 to appear like a dragon. In fact, while its name hints as it being a kind of pterosaur, it kind of more resembles a wyvern, which is a type of dragon. Why they didn't give him this exact team in Gen 1 is beyond me, but he is still a dragon trainer for the most part. Plus in Pokemon Masters, even Lance states when being told Gyarados isn't a dragon that "not all dragons are dragon-type pokemon." 2. Lance wasn't a Champion in the anime, or not in the way you think. Lance in his debut episode was called the Champion of the Elite Four, but I think that is referring to him beig the strongest of the Elite Four. Why? Because the very next episode(along with any other episode he's spoken of or seen in) he was called "Lance of the Elite Four." 3. Lance may likely be above Cynthia in the anime. In fact, it's stated that the Master 8 compete in a tournament out of all of them and it's confirmed Cynthia was in the Master 8 class. 4. You're talking about how strong Lance is, but you didn't bring up some of the insane stuff Lance has done in the manga, like how he blew up a huge section of Vermillion City with a single Hyper Beam from his Dragonair or like how in the HGSS saga he's able to put up a good fight against Palkia. Lance in the manga was overpowered.

hyper beam is tradition. Just the blast of the sound make it the top elite even in the past. I love the game

Until they reveal who replaced Lance as kanto’s champion I’m still gonna consider him champion

Lance was my favorite only reason I have a massive dragonite card collection!!!!

You really don't know how good Lance is, do you?

For me, a pokemon silver fan, he will always be the most iconic champion. If you really want to counter his entire team with just one pokemon, bring lanturn. I had one with surf, waterfall, discharge and blizzard (which later on I switched to hydro pump, thunderbolt and ice beam right before the rematch after kanto) and it has super effective moves against any of his mons, while tanking most of them if not all of them effectively. also, the battle theme is damn legendary

Lance was a badass in the games, he just fits as a champion I can't really explain it lol

Lance will always be my Favourite Champion followed by Cynthia and Leon

Also have to take into consideration that Dragons tend to be harder to raise. Plus in the anime Pokémon can still resist types they are weak too for example his dragonite taking an ice beam may not cause as much damage as it would in a game cuz he trained them well or something so him having a team that has high weakness to rock and ice doesn’t necessarily mean it’s bad when it comes to the anime. I mean we seen pikachu defeat ground types with electric moves and even beat abilities that would render electric moves useless with his pikachu. In the games sure you can easily set up a team that would destroy him but anime logic doesn’t follow game logic and being that he raised Pokémon in the dragon egg group he would easily be considered one of the strongest trainers in the anime

He’s arguably stronger than Cynthia if you don’t have any ice type moves.

Hyper beam was physical in gen 1 I should also mention that

"You don't get to be the champion of the Pokemon League without knowing how to spam Full Restores"

2:50 Red actually beat him with a lapras in pokemon origins . *the more you know*

- The Kanto and Jotoh League Champion 🏆 Lance The Dragon Master and Pokémon G-Men Leader. 🔥🐉 Dragon🐉🔥 Type Pseudo-Legendary Duelist Team : Kairyu, Kingdra, Aerodactyl, Shiny Mega Gyarados, Mega Charizard X.

In gen 1 games, atk and sp. Atk were combined and his dragonite's hyper beam hits hard asf.

How strong is Gary Freaking Oak?

We would love to see How Strong Is Red and How Strong Is Blue. Red and Blue are both legendary trainers in the Pokemon games, Please do that next time Mystic 😊🙏.

With enough love and compassion and dedication any Pokémon can be good And an experienced trainer like Lance has the strength and heart to make it happen And clearly it showed since he made it amongst the top trainers The way you are judging his team is a bit apathetic and shallow And not open minded and optimistic like it should be imo

Make for Steven stone , I think shiny mega metagross > Cynthia's gramchop

Maybe it’s just me but I like when gym leaders/elite four have a variety of Pokémon types

Maybe it is a weird question but I have always wondered which of the evil organizations in pokemon that was actually the strongest in archiving their goals and power and influence in the world. That could be cool seeing in a video

Doesn't Kukui talk about facing Lance at some point during Sun/Moon?

Charizard may technically be a fire/flying type, but pretty sure his design is based off a dragon.

If you play the fr/lg games in set mode, Lance is actually pretty difficult to beat.

"How strong really is Lance?" Lance: *laughs in x999 full restores*

I think any of the leaders or champions had their best team be their tournament team

I was always curious who the Champion was that Gary beat.

Actually in anime he was never champion. Check the sources and you'll see there's no an episode where he's introduced as Champion. Btw you forgot to mention his special Dragonite in the special tournament in Unova. It's the first time we see one with the ability Multiscale which can definitely turn him into a threat (it has dragon dance ).

Don't forget that he tried Dragonite to use Hyper Beam on a person.

He must be. He forced his Dragonairs to evolve into Dragonites before Level 55.

In an turn based game i feel like yea he's not built for the hype BUT maybe in like a "real world" type of deal in the pokemon universe he probably is a beast. Seeing as how pokemon can dodge on command an what not and if theyre trained well and he's an elite trainer they might take a hit or 2 even if its super effective no? 🤔 Type advantages doesn't necessarily mean Victory, not going strictly by video game rules etc.

I still can't get over what they were thinking when they were making his team on the Stadium Games. Fucking Arcanine and Snorlax? Really?

To be fair you can't blame lances gen 1 and 2 teams as there was only ONE dragon type mon for gen 1 and 2 for gen 2.

He will always be the og dragon man

Would love to ash vs lance in the anime

Have you ever casually played gen 2? The difference in level between Lance's strongest pokemon and Will's weakest is over 10 levels. I could barely compete with Will as it was. Lance's rematch team in gen 2 is then WAY more powerful. Lance is OP. I'd argue, he's even harder than Cynthia since you don't get level's, pokemon and items on the level as gen 4.

My issue with Leon is how much of a Gary Sue he is. Lance should have won. He had the type advantage. I honestly don't like Leon. He is overly hyped and needs to fail more.

I sweapt Cynthia lance handed my butt in the heart gold remakes in the rematch. His Garchomp kept using outrage at level 72. It was to fast.

Technically most of his Pokémon are Dragons just not Dragon type

3:55 "Even his Kingdra" and shows Seadra lol.

Jiren vs Cynthia would be a great match

You forgot to mention the three illegal Dragonites

Sorry Lance but when that piano plays you know your time is up.

Lance dragon team comes from the Dragon egg group not actual typing

Lance was a demon in the manga

My boy bird keeper Lance did better then I expected.

I think that the top 8 trainers in order in the master class of journeys are 1.Leon 2.Lance 3.Cynthia 4.Diantha 5.Steven 6. Rhyhim 7.Drake or Lucien or Brandon 8. Tobais or Alan maybe.

"Clefable and Wigglytuff are really the only ones he needs to worry about." Alolan Ninetails wishes to have a word with you, with its Ice/Fairy type double fucking dragons both ways lmao.

Honestly Aerodactyl is his most threatening pokemon, it's very fast and hits very hard, with type coverage against electric, ice and rock, its 3 common weaknesses. And most good water types has a secondary typing which is weak against rock. On top of that, STAB rock slide not only hits hard but has a chance of flinch and with its power, it can finish you off with hyperbeam

Cynthia, Lance, Leon. Strongest champions in that order.

Steven Stone next please

It would have been a cool idea if instead of a team full of non dragons he actually only used a lv80 Dragonite and made it a boss battle like with Ultra Neckrozma

4:51 Mega Drain is Giga drain in Let's go.

10 year old me :Lance unbeatable 12 year old : teaches feraligatr ice punch

I’m new to this channel, it came up on my feed. I’m only 6:04 in, I there is just a lot of talk of game mechanics and what I imagine is competitive standard battle stats. I know early on he said there was very little if any back story, that being said. I don’t think we should approach this from merely a competitive standpoint. Especially going backwards, dragons in the first 2 generations were some if not the strongest and rarest typing. Not to mention westerners then at least the westerners I met back then didn’t understand or were aware of the Japanese lore behind some of the pokemon. Maybe it’s premature but my point is there are other aspects of the pokemon universe that aren’t just competitive. Especially looking back when that type of thinking was not as really well founded.

Untill and unless he has multiscale dragonites. Interesting fact's his whole team's weak to Stealth rocks

Lance graduated in the seto kaiba University of dragon users

Actully Lance is incredibly strong. For some reason pokemon just like using him as the guy to build up other characters. It's kind of annoying.

With enough love and compassion and dedication any Pokémon can be good And an experienced trainer like Lance has the strength and heart to make it happen And clearly it showed since he made it amongst the top trainers The way you are judging his team is a bit apathetic and shallow And not open minded and optimistic like it should be imo You sound A little bit too Paul if you ask me

Bruh I forgot how crazy Pokémon adventure was

The less annoying version of iris (btw Im talking about the anime) or should I say the elite four/champion with hex (I'm talking about his dragonite not being level 55 or above which is the required level for dragonair

read the title and went "I gotta see this"

I'm the only lance simp in here?

I’d love to say do champion iris next but the fact that she’s ash’s female companion in unova kind of ruins things IMO

Bro i literally grinding my team for Lance's champ battle🔥

the more you mention pokemon adventures, the more i come.

He's the coolest looking Champion for sure. The colors and cape make him seem like an experienced superhero.

4:50 Mega Drain has giga drain base power for some reason

Lance? Somebody go get Red please 🤦🏽‍♂️ lol

Cynthia wants to know your location

Damn. I didn't know Garchomp was a Tyranitar counter

Ahh. Lance the Bird keeper.

He is very strong bcoz he has f*cking 3 dragonites at level 50 while others evolve at level 55.

I wonder who took his spot as the Final Elite Four Member in the Kanto Generation 1 Pokemon Region!!!!!

How strong is Bruno as he was the only Elite Four member to still be part of it in Gen 2 (Lance was Champion, not Elite Four, not that is bad, just saying)

You can’t just judge a character on the behalf of games. In games, no matter how strong the opponent is, you will win cuz that’s what the game is all about. Set moves are already given in the system. So Logically, it doesn’t have a human mind to use move sets in a strategic way especially in Kanto and Jhoto games cuz’ those are starting 2 regions and technology wasn’t that much advance as it is right now. And if u have to judge it by games then defeating Legendary Pokemons by Magicarp is also possible. But in anime which we can said in reality it’s even hard for a pokemon with type advantage to defeat a legendary Pokemon. Kanto and Jhoto leagues are both actually Indigo Leagues that’s why both regions have a same Champion which is Lance right now also known as Captain of Elite 4. Remaining League Champions are Steven Stone, Cynthia, Iris, Diantha, Ash and Leon.

Lance never beat Red(Kanto's champion before him) he was given the position because red left to complete his pokedex and then secluded himself on mount silver. And blue hasn't been champion since he lost to red.

My opinion, Lance's team should have had Kingdra and Tyranitar on it. Having four dragons on the team, one that not even weak to neither ice or rock types, and Tyranitar since it is the strongest pseudo-legendary mon in Johto. And those 2 could have boosted the power and difficulty of Lance's team up some. Kanto/Johto Champion Lance: Dragonite ×3 Kingdra Aerodactyl Tyranitar Or Dragonite ×2 Kingdra Aerodactyl Tyranitar Gyarados Or Dragonite Kingdra Gyarados Charizard Aerodactyl Tyranitar Honestly, any combination with those two involved, would have definitely boosted Lance's team up a lot, imo.

Lance is Strongest bird keeper

Fairy type can really messed up his team.