We gonna talk about how patterz Gen 6 team gets absolutely SLAMMED by a single unburden Hawlucha? No? Ok

For the Crobat rant, Kid me used a crobat in gen 3. Evolving it doesnt necessarily require you to know Friendship mechanic you just naturally end up evolving Golbat by walking, leveling up, and feeding it healing items.

The Gen 4 bit is still so funny after all this time. It’s incredible how you make a Reigon filled to the brim new evolutions. And then you can’t use them. Replaying through Platinum with a team of unused Gen 4 Pokémon made me realize why everyone’s team is the same. My team was Infernape, Gengar, Porygon Z, Weavile, Gliscor, & Gastrodon

“I didn’t know there were Johto eeveelutions when I was a kid” despite the fact that you only got the the surf HM if you you beat all five of them…

I think that you forgot how much something being a static encounter really bumps up the usage (Archeops and Zoroark in Gen 5 or getting a Toxtricity egg in Sword and Shield). If a good Pokémon is just given to you, you are a lot more likely to use it compared to having to go out and find it.

You don’t have to know how to evolve Golbat through happiness, but when you get it prior to the first gym it’ll eventually like you enough to evolve. For the longest time I thought Golbat evolved somewhere between 35-39 as a kid since it was never consistent I thought it was a level range lmao

Alolan Ninetales was exclusive to Sun, so Moon players didn't have access to it unless they traded.

You don't need to know how to evolve a Golbat into a Crobat. If you were a kid like me, and I think I have high odds of being right, you defaulted to assuming they'll evolve if you level them up enough, and spending enough time with a Pokemon that requires friendship will naturally lead into spending enough time with them that they'll get there with minimal intentional effort to build up its friendship. It is a very passive mechanic.

My golden rule with new games is ALWAYS for the first time through the game I use a team made of new mons, with the exception of PLA. It's a great way to force myself to meet new pokemon and grow to like them, instead of falling back to favourites. I think, when Generation 10 is announced, I'm going to go completely blind for the first time.

Your shocked reaction at Clodsire being popular is surprising. Besides the starters everyone has a Clodsire for a bit and either kept it around or boxed it since it’s base stats weren’t incredible, but even still Clodsire’s typing walls out so many of the main objectives, especially with Water Absorb.

I remember my first team: Blastoise (I didn’t know you could catch Pokemon - I was 5) I had a pet turtle at the time. My brother gave me his old copy of Pokemon Blue while he was playing Emerald. He was born 1990 and I in 2000. I didn’t really know what was going on but he helped me until I picked my starter and then just let me loose. I remember getting to level 18 with Wartortle in Viridian Forest because I could not find a single Pikachu and that was the only Pokemon I knew from the anime on Saturday mornings hahahaha. I got all the way to the elite 4 tho!! My brother ended up picking my moves so I’d be prepared for it: Ice Beam, Surf, earthquake, and Skull Bash. I got to pick skull bash cause I thought it was cool lol. I’m 24 now and Blastoise will always be my favorite Pokemon! Also, he will always be known to me as “Mr. Bubbles”. I never did end up beating the elite 4 because I kept running out of moves by the time I got to Blue . I didn’t know about elixirs lol. I remember finishing around level 80 tho. So I guess now I gotta do a solo run now in Blue and finally finish the game 19 years later 😂

Everybody: Keys are a stupid idea for a Pokemon!!! Also Everybody: This chandelier kicks ass!!!!!!!!!!!

As a kid I had crobat early. Had No clue how it evolved. But to be fair by the time zubat evolved it was already max happiness.

BRO, I WILL NOT HEAR THIS ARCHEOPS SLANDER IN MY HOUSEHOLD, THAT MONS SWEEPS THROUGH SO MANY BATTLES EASILY😂

16:53 Yeah while Archeops isn't good competitively, in a normal playthrough where you're most often faster and with Archen/Arcehops's high offenses Defeatist is rarely an issue, and you can often just heal with potions anyway if you fall into Defeatist range.

Almost everyone who played Diamond and pearl had a staraptor luxray floatzel starter and bidoof

My first team is almost exactly the thumbnail. Started with yellow at 5 years old, team was Pikachu/Pidgeot/Nidoking and the starter trio. Crippling ice type weakness but what did I know as a toddler trainer lol

“I don’t know how many kids could get Crobat” Crobat was my love when I was 9

i f*king CAN'T UNSEE THE GUARDEVOIR FACE, WAHT HAVE YOU DONE

Larvitar can be found in the Safari zone and you can access it before Jasmine. In HG/SS he has Rock Slide already at lvl 17 when you catch him as well. He is just a pain to raise

Something I started doing in Gen 7/8 (can't remember when, exactly) is swapping out my Pokemon a lot as I built my team. It keeps the Exp. Share from being too overwhelming and it's a lot of fun to be able to use a lot of different Pokemon. I don't even remember what I took to the Elite Four in Gen 9, because after I finished the game I kept swapping out and raising new Pokemon to use, too.

Funny story about Crobat. As a kid(9-10) I was pissed you couldn’t get one in Firered. I didn’t know it was from friendship so I connected the game to Colosseum and used cheats to rare candy Golbat until it evolved. It’s such a vivid memory because that Golbat hated me because it evolved at level 74. Lol

How do people not know that larvitar can be caught in the safari zone after the 6th gym in hg/ss

7:50 I couldn't wait to hear your "WHAT??" because even as someone who chose Bulbasaur on my first OG Yellow version before the 2000s

My Kanto team is: - Pride the Charizard (starter) - Wrath II the Gyarados (bought for $500) - Envy the Mew (via Glitch in Cerulean) - Sloth the Snorlax (fishing route) - Lust the Mewtwo (Ditto Glith Lavender) - Wrath the Rhydon (Safari Zone) Wrath II later replaced with: - Greed the Gengar All changed to 4 perfect DVs using 8F

I was pretty young playing on my gameboy adv and used Crobat, he evolved just naturally training him

Seismitoad not learning Waterfall is criminal though

Then there are ppl like me who rotate between 20 to 30 different pokemon in one playthrough cause I want to use them all. 😅

Bruh, My Gen 6 Team was pretty much all Gift Pokemon lol.

"Shut up, Me" that's a quote for the ages.

20:29 you can get a static Volcarona after Clay in B2W2. A tunnel opens up from Driftveil to the Relic Castle and you can get the Volcarona from the BW postgame. It’s level 35

Since you had this conversation, the versions I bought first on their gens were: Blue Crystal Sapphire, Fire Red Pearl, Soul Silver White, White 2 X, Alpha Sapphire Moon, (didn't plan Ultra) Let's Go Pikachu Shield, Brilliant Diamond Violet

First game was Sun: Decidueye, Machoke, Salazzle, Wishiwashi, Toucannon, Solgaleo Eh, could've been better.

Gen 1 team consisted of 50% hm slaves

In HGSS can catch a Larvitar in the Safari Zone btw, it’s available as a regular spawn. Many KZfaqrs have caught it

I mean, my first gen 4 playtrough did in fact have a crobat. I didnt know how to evolve it, it just kinda happened after a while.

"Am I a dumb idiot?" Me to myself often.

I can‘t unsee that guardevoir face now 😭

In paldea, i used a different team for the main game and each of the dlcs Main game: Skeledirge, cyclizar, klawf, cetitan, ceruledge and baxcalibur Teal mask: gallade, mudsdale, dipplin, sinistcha, infernape and noivern Indigo disk: ogerpon, hydrapple, archaludon, kleavor, swampert and blissey

Modern twitter gonna have a field day when they see Patterz and AuraGuardian say the term HM slave

Pat going back to look at old nuzlockes…. Where you don’t get to choose your team.😂 Love the vids Patterz

I love how everyone just accepts that we all used the same team unknowingly and unintentionally in gen 4. Especially since at least half of your team is already caught before the first gym.

20:00 I liked how Patterz says this, but didn’t say anything when Red and Blue’s team had 3 electric type weaknesses😂

YES, GIVE MY BOI SWAMPERT ALL THE LOVE! My favorite Pokemon of all time!

I love that pat watches the sponsor segment, such a good guy 😊

Bro i thought gardevoirs face was that way too 🤣

Patterrz being surprised by no fairy types being on the final team when the biggest thing i remember from that time was everyone at my school who played hated the fairy type just cuz

The thing is The Zubat line couldn’t actually learn fly until Gen 4…

I also would always keep my starter 1-2 levels above the rest of my team. By gens 2-3 I had developed a system where I would level up each member of my team a few levels at a time, to keep them all equal, but always making sure the starter stayed the highest.

Ive realised since pokemon sun and moon ive stopped using the regional bird. I kind of figured if they're giving me an easier way to fly why not try something new and it left a spot on my team. It even allowed me to use one of my favorite regional forms galarian darmanitan

Whenever i play pokemon i usually tend to stick to the 'starter' (included in the type trio) a flying type, and coverage types generally. Sometimes deviating on replays

I'm glad I'm not the only one who used to make sure my starter was the highest level

I always got a dratini and trained it using the vs seeker on the bike path near the entrance where that group of 6 bikers be chillin and I usually got the dragonite after only a day of grinding

2:49 You could get a fire stone as a gift from a certain trainer if you added them into your contacts, there’s a trainer for each stone and the sun stone would be the big catching and in crystal there’s a hidden room in the puzzle area where you catch unown to get a moon stone or if you’re really lucky your mother can buy a moon stone if you let her have funds.

The stones in crystal were phone calls if i recall fire stone was the ire breather in union cave. The one i frequently needed was the thunderstone from the lass just west of morty's city for jolteon.

It wouldn't matter if they did know how to evolve golbat or not, friendship evolutions happen naturally through using the pokemon given enough time, so they would have just had golbat for a while before it evolved.

My boy is the most popular Johto starter. Love to see it

It's an interesting trend I've noticed that, while most people I've talked to don't have a strong opinion on Perrserker one way or the other, the few people from the UK that I interact with adore the little fella almost unanimously. Maybe the guy just has a distinctly British Isles appeal to him.

And the friendship mechanic is easy for a kid to get. My favorite pokemon is togepi, so my first action when getting the Togepi egg in HGSS when I was a kid was to walk around in circles and battle gastly in sprout trower (they cant hurt togepi and extrasensory is supereffective) until it evolved into Togetic.

1 - While it's not the best mon around competitively, Archeops is *amazing* in a playthrough, and will often one round or two round anything you put it up against due to its excellent movepool. Defeatist rarely comes into play during maingame due to Archeops having very optimized stats too, thankfully, and using Archeops is like having an early Salamence on your team. 2 - 18:38 Personally I found XY to have the best distribution, though B2W2 definitely comes very close to it. Also, B2W2 *did not sell badly,* they were the second best selling "third" version at the time, only beaten by Yellow, though Yellow was helped by being made at the peak of the Pokemon craze. USUM would later take B2W2's position as second best selling "third" version though.

I have a memory of getting to Blue, getting down to a Golbat I was using just for my batteries to die

Actually, Growlithe was a version exlusive for Blue, and Vulpix was for Red. Blue had: Ekans, Oddish, Mankey, Growlithe, Scyther, Electabuzz while Red had: Sandshrew, Bellsprout, Meowth, Vulpix, Pinsir, Magmar

I relate so much to that but about your starter being a few levels above the rest of your team. I still do that to this day.

I find it funny how my Galar team was mostly the runner ups 😅 Messi the Cinderace Dash the Boltund Alice the Hatterene Crush the Drednaw KISS the Obstagoon Stryker the Dragapult

Patterz, we have the same taste! I played yellow, blue, silver, ruby and pearl! And after that, white, x, moon, shield and violet. I always feel like my choices are the less popular ones, but maybe not, haha. Then again, i still love chikorita.

Haven’t seen the video but I have a clue on Gen 4 😂

I won’t lie, I actually used Noctowl on my team when I played through Gold on an original cartridge back in 2023. It wasn’t actually too bad. Granted, I was trying to use Pokémon I hadn’t used before, so my team also felt kinda random. There was Hypno, Forretress, Feraligatr, Noctowl, I tried Arcanine but realized that I had no way to evolve growlithe so I swapped it out with Ursaring, and then Dragonite, and yes, I did evolve it to a Dragonite before I challenged the elite four. Because I wanted my team to be fully evolved before I beat the game. And yes, you can catch it before the elite four, you can fish for it in the route after Blackthorn city

I have my Pokemon legends arceus and it’s kinda close, my team was hisuian decidueye, hisuian zoroark, alpha kleavor, alpha garchomp, alpha lucario and a hisuian arcanine

Poor Arcanine, I used him so much in Let's Go Pikachu :)

I used to do the same thing with the starter until Alola. The gift Lycanroc could literally not be stopped. That’s also when I first noticed stats of Pokemon being swayed to physical and special and natures doing things. Let’s just say my first game I had to myself was White and my brothers would withhold information so I would always lose

Crystal was my first pokemon game and my team was Gatr, Vaporeon, Growlithe, Vileplume, Graveler (had no one to trade with) and Pidgeot

I see Lapras above Gyrados too. Knowledge on how to evolve Magikarp into Gyarados wasn't as wide spread as it is today due to the internet not really being a thing in 1999. So trying to figure out, how to get a useless pokemon to evolve was a headache a lot of people saved for after the Elite Four. Some people probably even leveled it to level 18 and then gave up, stuck it in the box, because it still only knew Splash.

Patterrz you gotta remember that these are not TheAuraGuardian's choices, these are based on number of times they showed up on a team for that specific game. Hence why Crobat was the obvious choice for gen 2.

As a kid, i found a shiny heracross and I had NO IDEA shiny Pokémon was a thing. I was so confused and i defeated it in battle. I was so bummed when i found it later how rare it was

Oh no, I see the Gardevoir face now

Here's pretty much all the notable teams I've used: -FireRed: Venusaur; Alakazam; Machamp; Jolteon; Lapras; Aerodactyl -HeartGold: Feraligatr; Ampharos; Nidoking; Arcanine; Espeon; Dragonite -White: Serperior; Excadrill; Scolipede; Sigilyph; Carracosta; Chandelure -White 2: Samurott; Braviary; Zoroark; Volcarona; Eelektross; (shiny) Haxorus -X: Chesnaught; Charizard; Aegislash; Aurorus; Lapras; Goodra -Omega Ruby: Sceptile; Manectric; (shiny) Aggron; Camerupt; Milotic; Salamence -Ultra Moon: Primarina; Vikavolt; Salazzle; Tsareena; A-Sandslash; Kommo-o -Sword: Inteleon; Corviknight; Flygon; Gardevoir; Toxtricity; Haxorus -Shield: Cinderace; Gyarados; Roserade; Hatterene; Tyranitar; Dragapult -Brilliant Diamond: Empoleon; Staraptor; Luxray; Gallade; Houndoom; Garchomp -Shining Pearl: Torterra; Drapion; Magmortar; Togekiss; Gastrodon; Lucario -Legends Arceus: H-Samurott; H-Goodra; (alpha) H-Arcanine; Sneasler; H-Braviary; A-Ninetales -Violet: Quaquaval; Ceruledge; Tinkaton; Toedscruel; Lokix; Baxcalibur -Scarlet: Meowscarada; Skeledirge; Florges; Glimmora; Farigiraf; (shiny) Tatsugiri

I remember how I had to use Pawmot as my electric type in Violote even though I wanted to use Kilovatrel, but Desteny said no by giving me a Shiny Rookidee before my first gym battle, and no way I don't use a fullods Shiny for the entire run of the game. But I then used it in the other version

Real talk, your playthroughs of newly released games are some of my favorite specifically because you don't look up all the new mons in advance.

" razzaquaz " 😂😂😂

How do you stream ds games??

(I Only Have A Nintendo Switch) My First Lets Go Pikachu Team Is -Partner Pikachu (The Only Pokemon I Knew Before Playing) -Charizard (duh) -Aloaln Exeggutor (He Tall (he's accusaly my favorite pokemon)) -Mewtwo (Only Legend In The Game (not including the birbs and mew)) -Onix (rocksnek) -Gyarados (I Knew That Floppy Fish Would Become Something Cool) My First Sword (before eternatus)Team Is -Rillaboom (Because DanTDM Got Rid Of His) -Corviknight (birb) -Drednaw (Its Cool..) -Centaskorch (Fire Bug Is Cool -Arctozolt (He Frozen) -Lucario (My First Dynamax Den Was Riolu) (btw when playing sword i only knew gen 1 pokemon and aloaln forms so ALL NON GEN 1 WHERE NEW) My First Sword Team (after eternatus(But Doesn't Include It)) -Rillaboom (I NEVER Get Rid Of My Starter) -Lucario (Again My First Dmax Den But Its Now My 2nd Favorite Pokemon) -Sylvally-ghost (I Didn't Have A Cat So This Is Close Enough) -Vikavolt (I Didn't Know It Existed Until I Started Trying To Complete The Pokedex) -Hydregon (I Didn't Like Any Other Water Types And I Thought It Was A Water Type (it learns hydropump)) -Zachian-crowned (Kinda Self Explanatory) My First Brilliant Diamond Team -Infernape (BIG SUPRISE) -Luxray (cat.) -Staraptor (birb.) -Mew (cat2.) -Gyarados (fesh.) -Diagla (TIME) My First Legends Of Arceus Team -Hisuin-Decidueye (I Like Owls) -Luxray (CAT.) -Sylveon (He's Cute) -Drifblim (My Favorite Ghost Type) -Alpha-Kricketune (You Know The Alpha You Fight Before Wyrdeer Shows His Face) -Orgin-Palkia (aqua honce dragon) My First Scarlet Team -Meowscarada (I Liked Sprigatito In The Traillers) -Vaporeon (My 3rd Favorite Pokemon (no not like that)) -Clodsire (I Liked Wooper) -Talonflame (I REALLY Wanted To Use It) -Garganacl (It Looks Like Minecraft My 2nd Favorite game (Was Gonna Be Koridon But I Can't Use The Original Without Not Being Able To Ride) -Elektross (I Also REALLY Wanted To Use It) And What Might Be My Legends Z-A Team -???-Serpior (Its Most Likely The Grass Starter With Cinderace/Blaziken For Fire And Empoleon For Water) -Aggron (Its Never Been Available Without NaTIoNal dEx) -Zygarde (Big Shocker) -Greninja (Its Possible That Just Like X&Y You Can Get A 2nd Starter) -blank (for new pokemon) -blank (for new pokemon) tha-tha thats all fokes

Crobat was popular because it was heavily advertised when the games came out

My first game was Ruby and I had no idea what I was doing, lol. Older kids at daycare helped me with some stuff if I got stuck I do remember some of my team members. An over leveled Blaziken Swellow Nuzleaf Linoone (pretty sure) Absol Walrein I know I had other pokemon because I have a habit even back then of catching and using different Pokemon throughout my journey. By the time, Emerald came out I learned enough from the older kids at daycare (thanks, Billy!) that I actually knew what I was doing. Despite Torchic being my first starter and it always having a place in my heart, Mudkip is and always will be my favorite starter.

Gen 5 most used flying type was brave bird and mandibuzz 😅 for both black and white version and theirs sequels, idk how the person that made the video didn’t know that

I'm surprised I actually remember my original team of Charizard, Blastoise, Gyarados, Nidoking, Dragonair, and Venamoth.

1:35 they asked the same audience twice, ofc they are probably going to match opinions

My first game was pearl so my team was Infernape,Staraptor,Luxray,I believe Gyarados, Palkia at the end, and Mindy's Haunter like an idiot

Patterrz I heard some news the other day that made me sad. I rewatched one of your Scarlet Nuzlocke videos and it made me laugh Thank you for brightening up that day for me

When we were kids we didn't respect magikarp until gen 2

I’m gonna try and remember my teams for every game I’ve played so far Never played a Gen 1 game (or a Kanto game for that matter) Gen 2: Feraligator, Gyarados, Crobat, Heracross, Ampharos, Ho-Oh Gen 3: Never played a Gen 3 game, but did play ORAS: Mega Sceptile, manectric, Shiny Mightyena, Ludicolo, Swello, Walrein Gen 4: Infernape, Gyarados, Luxray, Roserade, Togekiss, Garchomp Gen 5: BW Serperior, Archeops, Stoutland, Seismitoad, Excadrill, Beartic B2W2: Serperior, Lucario, Ampharos, Krookodile, Azumaril, Volcarona Gen 6: Greninja, Charizard, Lucario, Snorlax, Aurorous, Talonflame Gen 7: Incinaroar, Blastoise, Agaron (which I transferred from B2W2), Komo-oh, Vikavolt, Mudsdale. Gen 8: Rillaboom, Urshifu Rapid Strike form, Orbeetle, Toxtricity yellow, Galarian Slowbro, Corviknight Hisui: Hisuian Samurot, Infernape, Kleavor, Hisuian Electrode, Hisuian Zoroark, Hisuian Goodra Gen 9: Meowscarada, Pawmot, Clodsire, Armorogue, Annihilape, Tinkaton

Raquazzaquazzzz lol hahahaha I died when I heard that

Man something that I feel REALLY hurts that video is that the remakes for Gen 2/3 should've been separated into their own sections in the remake gens. First, Gen 2 and 3 didn't have the physical special split which would've impacted some choices. Second, there were ways in HGSS to get evo stones, making those far more viable, and in ORAS, there were SO MANY added Pokemon to the wild you could use, plus the dexnav that REALLY could've changed teams around. I know that in HGSS and ORAS I used COMPLETELY new teams of stuff and didn't use any of the same members I did in original runs of Gen 2/3. All of my friends had similar experiences(I only know this because we would hang out after Pokemon midnight release for a few days together afterwards to play through the games and talk about new/cool stuff we saw/did).

FRLG are the kind of games that are the most fun when you use the standard team. I only ever play that game when I need some nostalgia so I always use the same team

Late but just got this. Fire Red: Charizard, Raichu, Pidgeot, Primeape, Lapras, Snorlax. Crystal: Feraligatr, Ampharos, Gyarados, Dragonite, Entei, Raikou. Ruby: Blaziken, Manectric, Swellow, Groudon, Salamence, Breloom. Emerald: Sceptile, Swellow, Manectric, Rayquaza, Mightyena, Tentacruel. Ruby and Emerald had Lombre for HM Surf and such SoulSilver: Typhlosion, Ampharos, Gyarados, Fearow, Weepinbell, Lugia. White: Samurott, Braviary, Zoroark, Haxorus, Zekrom, Victini. White 2: Samurott, Braviary or Crobat, Electabuzz, Lucario, Haxorus, Zoroark. Omega Ruby: Swampert, Manectric, Swellow, Crobat, Latios, Breloom. Azumarill for water if no Swampert Y: Greninja, Charizard, Tyrantrum, Barbaracle, Garchomp, Lucario. Sun: Incineroar, Toucannon, Hawlucha, Alakazam, Solgaleo, Kommo-o. Replaced Toucannon with Raichu Ultra Sun: Decidueye, Zoroark, Alakazam, Crobat, Mimikyu, Lycanroc No switch games. Still don't have DPP

That Paldea team was the EXACT team I used in my first playthrough. I don't know whether I should feel feel validated or not.

Contrary to most, I was the type of kid who when he found a cool pokemon, I would instantly replace my starter, however my brother would basically do starter solo runs. Also, the guy made a mistake archeops can't learn fly, so people often picked another flyer

i thought i was the only one who thought gardeviour face a was backwards as a kid it always disturbed me lol

I opened back up my save of Alpha Sapphire after 8 years (the first mainline pokemon game I played, technically the only one I played to completion. I was a home console main, buying a portable console for the first time in 2016. So I did play a selection of the console pokemon games like pokemon snap or stadium 1&2); it seems my game clear team was: Level 65 Swampert, level 55 Seaking (no idea why I had that in my team tbh...), level 52 Latias, level 54 Machamp, level 48 Gallade and a level 45 Froslass (my personal favorite mon) which I remember breeding with a Vanilluxe for Avalanche. What surprises me most about revisiting my save is the amount of legendary I had... I remember having Kyogre, Rayquaza and speed form Deoxys, but I also had a Victini, an Azelf, a Cobalion and a Latias (obviously since was in my game completion team). Though I never got the shiny Metagross mentioned in the video 🤔

Wow, my gen 9 team could not have looked more different! I mean, I guess it technically could have, since it had Tinkaton, but with Meowscarada settling for silver, my team was still 5/6 different. Meowscarada, Tinkaton, Armarouge, Gengar (in-game trade), The Great Tusk & Cetitan

Gen 8 was the first time I boxed my starter immediately.