i always see people making gym leaders stronger, but never weaker, this is so creative

I can't believe Martin isn't real

worry seed and sleep sleep powder is a sick combo... its like taking a laxative and a stool hardener

The true worst gym leader was the friends we made along the way…

That Vibrava could be quite dangerous, since it can paralyze, confuse and trap you. Now, obviously the paralysis and confusion chance are incredibly low, and Vibrava has zero bulk and will die to anything. It's also not very fast. But it can dream big, even if those are nothing more than dreams, and it's more than most of his teammates can do (because Gligar could land every single guillotine without being killed before it happens too, but that's even less likely)

Be honest- did you base this entire video off of the “useless endeavour” joke?

The TM thing, they should have at least had to have one TM that they were going to give to the Trainer after the Trainer wins.

Some errors in the video: - Fake Out is Normal-type not Dark - Despite you said that you will consider only things up until Generation 3, there are some Generation 4 moves like Worry Seed, Brine, Payback, Psycho Cut, Miracle Eye, Natural Gift, Fire Fang, X-Scissor, Earth Power, Dark Pulse and Rock Polish

A way to make Surge worst is to only give him mons with 4 electric moves and max PP, so as long you pack 1 diglett from the cave he literally can not touch you :3

I don't know what's worse, these Gym Leaders or Peter lying about having a nephew

The thumbnail is inaccurate, putting googly eyes on things makes them automatically better

Please do this with more gym leaders! (And maybe E4 + Champion?)

I'd love to see this turned into a series! This is a fun concept that not many have tackled like you said. Good C O N T E N T ✨️

These teams are so bad even the worms have a chance.

10:59 Beat up's whole gimmick is that it uses every team member's attack.

This is by far the best subversion of this topic that I've seen. It's incredible. Keep up the amazing work.

Now we just need a ROM hack featuring these new teams…

"i dunno i made him up" is such a strong line to end on

Excellent premise, please do more. I can't even imagine how you'd make most Johto gym leaders weaker.

Are you allowed to pick abilities? Because Onix’s is showing as Rock Head, which is actually not bad since it’s stuck with Double Edge, whereas Sturdy will just let it stall for a bit longer.

This video is fantastic. Great editing and commentary! I wouldn't have thought making the Gym Leaders bad would be an interesting or humorous concept but you both make it so. :)

8:29 Koga’s ace Pokémon that’s Lv. 43 is now the menacing, terrifying, titan of all poison types: Qwilfish. In the background: oh no

Guillotine simply fails if the user is lower level than the target, so Gligar should be Giovanni's second pokemon so it's at the lowest level

Love your guys content, can’t wait to see you grow more :)

Improving Gym Leaders: I sleep Make them as bad as possible: I wake.

Wait which episode are those Giovanni dancing clips from? XD

12:58 this sounds like something that could be in one of those quiz videos XD. Which Pokemon has the best typing, except its about a pokemon with multiple hands like machamp or something

15:51 fools ! You just gave him rock head double edge,now he will destroy the opponent with his 45 base attack !

Says Blaine wouldn't bother to evolve growlith while putting it right next to Blaine's pre-existing arcanine lmao.

"Whoopsie! That's useless without a move to inflict sleep in the first place." A lesson I learned the hard way when I first played these games. Ironically, I also taught it to a Haunter.

Interesting choice giving Giovanni an Onix with Double-Edge while its ability is Rock Head.

I loved the concept for this video! I'd love to see more of this

6:09 fake out is totally dark type and super effective against psychic type 😂😂

Oh god, the Jokes, Puns, Banter and Cutaways in this video are great. I’ve never actually seen this channel before. I look forward to more good stuff like this! 💚

this looks like it'd be the perfect challange for a trainer who has an obsesion with throwing themselves out into battle rather than their pokemon

The subtle "oh no" when qwilfish was mentioned was amazing

Genius idea guys! Fun way to highlight how terrible level up movesets in gen 3 are

Surge should've have had a Zapdos BUT he only ever uses X Speed on every turn

We can't wait to see you do this to the other gym leaders from the other regions

Another delicious piece of James from the two of you

I will never get over how creative you guys are. This is brilliant 🤣

Absolutely hilarious premise I’d love to see for the other gym leaders!

I love this unique concept. Down for more for all other regions, would be interesting to see how they differ within each regional dex.

Everyone asks "Where's Viridian's gym leader, never how is Viridian's gym leader". Much worse now.

Love how you put more thought into making their team worse than I do in making my team good in any given playthrough

You should've given Koga's Weepinbell Sleep Powder, to set up for the Haunter before it.

PLEASE! I NEED MORE OF THIS

The worst part about Giovanni's team is that for the type of character he is, it would make sense for him to import pokemon from other regions, and his disaster of a team is what it took for me to realize this.

How a gym leader look like to a competitive player:

Love this video want to see more of this kind 😂

You two are the masters of PokéPuns 👏🏼

I loved this. You should do Johto too, that way you cover most of the remaining types (just missing dark and fairy.) ❤

I love this already. This could be the funnest pokemon series ever.

12:30 random infinite fusion moment

Wait, if the teams and movesets are based of frlg...how does Koga's qwilfish have brine? That's a 4th gen move

now this is a good thought exercise

This video is a fun idea, though I do have several arguments against some of these decisions (Assuming Gen 3 learnsets) (New options indicated with (*)): - Really going to need to define what is “best STAB attack”; is it “highest base power”, “best move that is compatible with its stats”, or “highest in level-up learnset”? - Lileep’s weaknesses are rather finicky to work with (Fighting, Bug, Steel, Ice) while having an ability that does something, so I would argue that it would actually be HARDER to take down n both Brock’s and Erika’s teams, lacklustre moves aside. Also, the page that was referenced shows that it gets Confuse Ray at level 29, which is the level that Lileep was indicated to be - Onix has even more weaknesses, 2 of them are quad effective, and Rock Head doesn’t help it at all. I don’t think Brock could sink lower than Onix, even if Onix has more moves - (*) Lombre has rather finicky weaknesses (No weakness to Fire and Ice), while Nuzleaf has the same stat total, an ability that is only marginally more useful (Chlorophyll), and even 0 STAB moves until level 31 for Faint Attack. (Unless the requirement is that it HAS to be able to have a STAB attack in the first place) - Koga - Haunter is a Ghost type and has Levitate, deterring Ground and Psychic types, even if running off its weaker Attack stat - Weepinbell’s Wrap could do fixed damage over time and is Grass-typed to deter Ground types - Qwilfish being Water-typed and having Brine could deter Ground types - (*) Beedrill and Ariados have Swarm, are not weak to Ground, and deter Psychic with Bug, but have a lower BST than Qwilfish (Beedrill Moves: Pin missile, Rage, Pursuit, and Twineedle) (Ariados Moves: Leech Life, Fury Swipes, Night Shade, Poison Sting) - (*) Grimer evolves at level 38 and has a lower BST than Nidorina (Moves: Acid Armor, Screech, Minimise, Sludge) - (*) Gloom has lower offences, and has to use Absorb (20 BP) in place of Vine Whip (35 BP), though Moonlight and Sleep Powder are significantly more dangerous (Moves: Absorb, Acid, Moonlight, Sleep Powder) - Sabrina - Kadabra with its Gen 3 learnset still WILL have a special attack, and at the level it’s at, it’ll be Psychic, so pass (Even then, the rule of giving it its best STAB attack ) - (*) Chimecho has less special attack, has Psywave (Technically a special attack), and Levitae is not terribly useful (Moves: Psywave, Double-Edge, Heal Bell, Yawn) - Blaine - Houndoom with its Gen 3 learnset will have Ember, Faint Attack, Odor Sleuth and Bite, so it’s still not particularly strong - (*) Magcargo has the second lowest BST of all fully evolved Fire types, but it will have Flamethrower, Amnesia, Harden, and Rock Throw - Giovanni - Dugtrio’s learnset shown is from Gen 4; its Gen 3 moves would be Slash, Sand Tomb, Mud Slap, and Fury Swipes - Pupitar has Dark Pulse when Crunch is the same base power, is higher in the level up learnset at level 41, and is more compatible with its stats - (*) Sandslash has a slightly higher BST than Pupitar, but is stuck with Slash, Fury Cutter, Crush Claw and Sand Tomb

I hope this becomes a new series from you guys

You should make more of these

*janine casually becoming the strongest gym leader in kanto and beating her father*

Now you have to Nerf the Elite Four/Five!🎉

Gamefreak copying this man for their next inevitable Kanto remake

Now the trick is you do a ditto only run.

Will you do these for future generations?

The problem with lileep is that rock/grass is actually a good typing against the starter trio becoming neutral to all three with the exception of charmanders metal claw. On the principle of typing lileep is too strong for this challenge. Onyx and it's weaker then an Oddish attack stat would remain a better leader pokemon

Poor lileep 😭

This is a Really, Interesting, & Unique Video!!! 😍😍😍😍 Brock : Can't think of anything so it works. Misty : Is so UGLY, that Feebas Evolves from just being around Misty's Ugly Face!!! Lt. Surge : Can't think of anything Better. Ericka : How about adding Paras & Parsect with Dry Skin? Knowing Solar Beam! Koga : Can't come up with Better Team. Sabrina : What about a Beldum? After all it only knows Take Down! Blaine : Magcargo & Camerupt on his Team as both are 4x Weak to Water and since you need Surf anyway to get to Cinnabar Island!!! Giovanni : That Vibrava though with Dragon Breath is Decently Powerful plus its got a 30% to Paralysis!!!

It's technically possible for mud sport to do something on an Onix but not with those moves. Onix can learn mimic by move tutor in fr/lg and if it mimics conversion when fighting a porygon that can make it no longer ground type and able to be hit by electric moves.

knowing the type split for gen 3 makes me see that some pokemon are actualy good :I

Make all of them have zero I.V.s and hold the Flame/Toxic orb

You guys are straight up looking at the Gen IV movesets this whole video 😵‍💫

I know it’s not the video format but for Blane give him his gen one AI and replace all his super potions with regular potions. Hard to make his team worse when almost all water types in gen one can no setup sweep with surf.

If this becomes a series could I see you making kalos gym leaders worse?

Pretty cool idea... I wish you didn't break your rules in the first pokemon of the first gym leader though. It got much better after that, but someone seeing that might exit out after, thinking you repeatedly do that.

Will you do one for jhoto and so on

Fun fact: Fake Out…is a normal type.

astonish does let dugtrio hit the otherwise walling gengar line and misdreavus.. and shedinja!

I read the title and thought it meant bad as in over powered.

... I do not know if there is a sense of irony in catching this video not long after finishing a playthrough of Pokemon Yellow Legacy, which is a ROM hack that went in the opposite direction of this (fixing Gen 1's biggest problems without losing that Gen 1 feel). So, next question is how much worse could you make the Gen 1 versions of the Kanto gym leaders by using only Gen 1 mons, moves, and general Gen 1 weirdness? 🤔

"Making kanto gym leader stronger!" This guy: magikarp go Splash

10:48 Is... is that PokeOne? Am I going insane?

This is so funny 😂❤

Gligar with Guillotine is too good Among with Growlithe with Flamethrower Because they can do something We can't allow that

With these new teams I'm going to have to re-think my entire strategy--- Oh wait, no, it's still hit everything with pikachu, cos there's something wrong with me.

Fun video, though i think the gym leaders should have access to the tm they give you, also if they have a pokemon that evolves through a stone already they should have access to said stone for other pokemon

Ok this is was really fucking funny and I loved this idea. lol

13:37 actually it probably wont even work because most people have a mon above level 45 by then and ohko moves are nullified by having a higher level mon

Rip Janine and mr identity theft (green) need a sequel with the elite 4 and champion.

for some reason I now want to see Sinnoh Pokémon Champion Cynthia with a way worse team. (though for non-mono type trainers, I assume the types of the pokémon would still have to be the same as the original ones)

I’m 101% sure the lvl 50 Onix should’ve had stone edge. It gets it at lvl 49. But it’s 80% accurate so woohoo.

9:28 uhhh that psycho cut is actually good in a gen 3 game since physical and special moves are based on typing not based on moves

I have to give a lot of credit for this idea

Luckily the games make misty the worst. But ash watched/fought a gym leader battle with those two and got wrecked/watched somebody get wrecked.

That face at 7:29 XD

Pls do Johto and other regions as well… actually, Johto only needs help with Clair and Whitney :/ Also, Giovanni’s Onix has Rock Head… so Double Edge wouldn’t do recoil…

Jynx with Mean Look AND Fake Tears? Buddy, that's one of my ex-girlfriends!

Please do more

😅 You guys didn't hold back much. To even screw with the emotional health of the poor things.

the gym leader who used a stone to evolve should use one bc in fire he evolved one already

No Chimecho for Sabrina? No Swalot for Koga?