ok back to zelda now

You didn't mention Mega Kangaskan and its absurd dominance in gen 6

7:05 Actually it was quite common for Kartana to use Breakneck Blitz, by using Normalium Z on Giga Impact Kartana is able to create a powerful nuke of a move to bust past a wall.

It's crazy they kept the normal gem despite getting rid of the other ones

My favourite Pokémon Type, Larry in SV truly embodies my spiritual self.

Plus there is also Wyrdeer and Ursaluna from Legends Arceus. Wyrdeer being another Normal/Psychic type that is immune to Ghost and neutral to Fighting, that can, as if SV, lower an opponent’s ATK with Intimidate while also raising it’s DEF with Psyshield Bash. As for Ursaluna, it is basically a tank with claws, especially when you take into account it’s access to Guts and Facade in Gen 9. Not to mention that it also has access to Play Rough as a counter to Fighting types.

I feel like Ursaluna is also a contender for a solid normal type. While I’m unconfident on the tier it will end up it, I do know that it will probably be the strongest guts user we’ve had in a while.

I feel the normal type being only resisted by 3 types isn't anything crazy, many other types also are resisted by around the same numer of types, like water, ghost, psychic or ground, among others.

*The thing I like about this KZfaqr is that he is welcoming and lets us come inside him*

Yes cows can drink their own milk. But nine times out of ten, if you see a cow with its udder in its mouth, it's probably checking to see if something is wrong under there or if they think something is wrong. Hope it helps 👍

With Gens 8 and 9 giving evolutions to several Normal types, hopefully other Pokémon with the same type can receive much needed buffs to become actual threats. Another good video as you can normally get from this channel.

Even if it has gotten so much weaker, I still find myself really liking the Normal Type. They usually have insanely diverse movepools and a lot of fun tricks you can mess around with. I'm just mostly annoyed they got rid of Return. It was one of my favorite moves and it was great neutral coverage for so much. Easily one of the best STAB moves for a Normal Type, too.

I find it fascinating that the discovery of normal types being immune to paralysis from body slam was only discovered in 2014

Also a fun fact is that they & many Fairy types (including ones retconned from Normal to Fairy) often both have big movepools & are in the Fast exp growth group. Fathom how well they could do in the Inverse Battle settings and/or if such could be brought in some form, competitive or otherwise

Some people like to claim that the normal type is essentially the "sound type" which to me is complete nonsense. If anything, I´d argue that the normal type is the type used to represent creatures, objects and concepts that are extremely abundant/prominent around the world. You could classify them more or less like this: "Pokemon that are normal type because they´re extremely common in many parts of the world" (like rats, birds, horses, cows, rabbits, cats and dogs)". "Pokemon that are normal type because of the things they do (or the concept related to what they do) are extremely common" . Like eating, sleeping, having rivalries/natural enemies (zangoose), dancing and singing (meloetta and jigglypuff line), being unable to swim (azurril), digging (diggersby). cleaning (cinccino), motherhood (kanghaskan and the blissey line), being a grandfather (drampa), taking care of injured people (again Blissey´s line), safety measures (like watchog and sentret that is a scout). "Pokemon that are normal type because they´re based on things commonly used by humans". Like toys, costumes, things to sleep well, energy sources (stufful, bewear, skitty, delcatty, helioptile, minccino, etc). "Pokemon that are normal type because they represent something related to one of the five senses". Like watchog and sentret again (good sight), audino (good hearing), Exploud (loud noises), aipom and ambipom (tact), Lickitung and Lickylicky (taste), etc. "Pokemon that are normal type because they represent something commonly accepted by humans as a truth or things that are related to the world itself". Like weather (castform), metamorphosis (ditto), evolution (eevee), gods/religion (arceus), terraformation/movement of the continents (regigigas), year seasons (deerling line), aging (slakoth line,) day and nigh cicle (drampa again), technological advancements (porygon line), etc. If you look well, basically all normal type pokemon fit in one or more of these four categories, which are all based on things/concepts that are present/prominent in many parts of the world.

For gen 1, I've even seen the argiment thrown around that Normal is better that Psychic. Whether or not I believe it I'm still not sure about, but the fact it is as close as it is goes to show the sheer power of Normal types in gen 1.

Tera Normal 252 AT Zangoose Facade with Toxic Boost (triggered by toxic orb, obviously) can deal some absolutely hilarious damage. Just throwing that out there in hopes that maybe it'll be mentioned in the video.

Awesome video Congrats again on 200k subscribers Great to see Normal types get there due credit

Ursaluna has also made a massive impact upon release too, having the strongest facade in the game and an incredibly secondary stab in ground.

One interesting thing I can’t help but notice is that despite the growing prevalence of Ghost types, Normal types aren’t growing in prevalence as well what with their powerful immunity to the type and Dark type coverage. Though this is most definitely because fighting is also prevalent keeping the Notmal type from backing big waves.

My favorite type finally gets some recognition

Congrats Man on 200K

I think the stigma surrounding normal types mainly comes from how the games present the typing system to the player. The starters are a type triangle and then all the gyms focus on one specific type. It is generally perceived that type matchups are the biggest key element to pokemon battling. Normal types have basically no advantages, and the most prevalent examples of normal type pokemon are the rodents you find on route 1 and replace as soon as you can

Thank you so much for all videos you made. You are one of my absolutely best youtubers ever. :) Jsi borec. Mám moc rád tvojí tvorbu.

In firered I had done a run with some things I almost never used, raticate was one of those and while fighting the elite four it seemed op. And keeping in mind this is when i was younger and i was barely any levels higher than them, i remember for an unusual team and a starter, using raticate, primeape and dugtrio but i still most of all remember using raticate.

1:49 It actually is supposed to be pronounced fa-ri-gha-raf because that's how it was said in its reveal trailer, but pretty much everyone else collectively agreed to pronounce it fa-ri-ja-raf instead.

Many in the RBY community would actually argue that Normal is a better type than psychic in Gen 1. Really the only reliable checks outside of the big 3 consist of Gengar, Rhydon, and Golem, the latter two of which get obliterated by 4 times weaknesses to water and grass as well as an ice weakness which in Gen 1 normal types is a dime a dozen offensive type. Not only was Hyper Beam a terrible threat, but Body slam was considered one of the best most spammable moves in the game as well due to its high damage and paralysis chance. As previously mentioned, most threatening normals had massive move pools including the valuable Blizzard, which as per Gen 1’s mechanics, was essentially a sheer cold followed by a 90% accurate ice attack wrapped into one move.

Just wait for the Smeargle return to the mainline pokemon games in the dlc.😈

Surprised you did not mention Mega Kangaskhan in Gen 6, as it was arguably the most broken Mega pokemon back then (aside from Rayquaza)

would love to see videos like this for every type!

Normal kinda like the Mario of Pokemon types. Jack of all trades, master of none. For every stregnth, there's somewhat of a caveat. It's sort of the middle ground of the types and I can appreciate that.

1:51 no, you said it right

In Gens 1 and 2 I chose a Snorlax and a Furret for my A teams teaching them both Shadow Ball. They did great against Ghost types that were unable to hit them with attacks of their own type but Shadow Ball was super effective on them. Now I'm Playing Shield, and the only normal on my team is a Zigzagoon but even that's a normal/dark combo.

You should do one about the rise of the bug type and how they got better as more gens got released. Up til modern day when we have CC scizor and Tera bug Iron Thorns. Just an idea.

Normal type: actually amazing cuz ghost cant hit them, and their only weakness being fighting (which few trainers use)

I have a Furfrou in my copy of X version as my Ace, and it being a Normal type, it isn't affected by Ghost types. However it learns Bite naturally, and Bite being a Dark type attack since Gen 2, it hits Ghost types super-effectively, so Furfrou does have a great tool to deal with opposing Ghost types. The only drawback is that Bite is a Physical attack, so you should watch out for Abilities like Flame Body, Static and the likes.

I really like the Ghost/Normal type combination. Hisuian Zoroark Reminds me of Ichigo Kurosaki's Zanpakutō, Zangetsu. The color schemes and also the fact that Zangetsu is a spirit who has the Null elemental affinity.

I love the normal type! It's one of, if not, my most favorite type. I am a big fan of normal! Nice, and normal. 😊

I learned to appreciate more and more the pure normal type: I restarted Crystal just in order to use Teddiursa/Ursaring for almost the entire game (It's obtenable before the second gym), and It was amazing with just return!

Hearing the Future Redeemed music in the video and all I can think now is “DOUBLE SPINNING EDGE! DOUBLE SPINNING EDGE!”

What's up JPR

I wouldn't be surprised if Psychic is one you're planning on doing next considering we all know how it got nerfed but another aspect I'd like to mention is how Psychic 3 weaknesses actually got better due to more pokemon esecially in gens 5 and 9, better moves including the go to pivot move U-Turn, and physical special split which really helped ghost and dark and indirectly this stuff nerfed Psychic even more

Normal has always been my favorite type since gen 1 when I got 2 snorlax. I built an all normal team, and head cannon was a normal type gym leader.

Ootachi with Frisk, and Massuguma and Etebo-su with Pickup are the best Pokémon to have with you when you are hunting. Make sure you give them different move types.

Normal-type Pokémon can have plenty of move variety. They can use moves of different types.

watching in 2x speed so I can enjoy good content and go back to Zelda as fast as possible

They call them normal, but they're truly anything but

Snorlax shooting Hyper Beams out of its eyes is still pretty freaky lol

breakneck blitz was actually used in competitive singles to hit walls in gen 7 that you dont wanna hit physically like static ability zapdos so yeah

2:15 lol Persian is so dramatic

I’m here to give a Gen 9 honorable mention to my man Squawkabilly for being a *surprisingly* competent Guts/Hustle sweeper with Quick Attack, Facade, and Brave Bird. It’s even got Parting Shot for a nice pivot move to mess with your opponent.

I'm surprised Mega Kangaskhan wasn't mentioned even though Mega Lopunny was mentioned for Gen 6... After all it created havoc in VGC for a while 👀..

I play your videos at full volume at home even when my family is asleep because we weren't idiots and made sure our house didn't have walls made of paper maché amd chewing gum

I love the normal type, because for a pure normal type, you can just get a rodent or a common pokemon, but (Unlike a certain avian type) to combine it with another type, you have to get creative, because you basically have to put a limit on the coolness/cuteness.

3:51 it wasn’t one of the most dominant Pokémon in the meta game, it was THE most dominant Pokémon in the meta game without question and at one point was ranked higher then mew and mewtwo in Ubers. It is described as the MOST broken Pokémon ever allowed to stay in OU

Fun Fact, the left hand art in the thumb nail belongs to one of the most meme worthy decks of Pokemon in the Gen 5 tcg

Something that I'm always puzzled by is the inclusion of pokemon in the normal type that most definitely are anything but: Porygon, Arceus, Silvally, Spinda, and many, many more. I think TPC and Nintendo should've made these pokemon of other typings or of the ??? type, especially the legendaries.

With Weezing now having returned in the Teal Mask, Slaking is gonna wreak HAVOC on VGC

14:04 Larry has a Dudunsparce?! That makes for *two* major trainers who have this abomination! Gotta find what's the best Fighting type once I decide to play SV.

fighting coverage went from low BP moves on fighting types, to everything and everyone getting access to close combat.

The official reveal trailer for farigiraf pronounced it with the hard 'g' , so you were correct the first time.

Stoutland Greedent Diggersby Bewear Ursaluna Porygon-Z Meloetta Arceus H-Zoroark Indeedee Staraptor Mega Lopunny Silvally Type:Null & Ursarang(Eviolite)

4:45 Does Blaziken also get Hi Jump Kick?

juanks

Normal type is my fav type. and during SUN and Moon it was BEAST and do u guys wanna know why? Eviolite Type Null, nerfed in USUM I think and 100% nerfed after swsh

Honestly, leaving Mew and Mewtwo aside, most believe that Normal was THE best type in Gen 1. The Big 3 Normals are all but required on every team, and there’s a significant gap between Chansey and the fourth place mon, Starmie. Also, Gen 2 Blissey is significantly worse than Gen 1 Chansey because Gen 1 Chansey has 105 Sp Atk.

Love that you’re always using xenoblade music

7:06 ... *Raises hand*

"Not using Snorlax in Gen 2 isn't being creative, it's asking to lose." - Some comment I found on a video. (not word to word) I just forgot which one it was.

Damn this videos music is making me feel full of beans

Poliwhirl and wrath not having mouths bother me even though I know it’s their intestines the water comes from

Did you change the title?

Normal as a type will always be one I see as a "jack-of-all-trades" due to how balanced the type is, what it lacks in 0 super effective damage it makes up for in spades with diverse move pools and having some pretty durable tanks like snorlax, the type itself is far from being bad (unlike grass, poison, bug and ice who are all...terrible)

"Z moves doesnt do anything for normal type" *cough in ghost conversion porygon z*

What is swift as a move? What are those stars? Why the stars?

It’s all normal until they throw in the most strongest moves and Pokémon in the game

Normal types have always been my favorite

Can’t believe he changed the title and thumbnail from Positive to negative

Hah, I REWINDED when you told me to sub, jokes on you now you have to me 😁

"can cows drink their own milk" mammals-

Aipom is my favorite Pokémon first Pokémon I ever caught

Ursaluna is gonna be busted............whenever HOME S/V update arrives

Could you imagine a Snorlax evolution, now that would be crazy

Bring back non recharging hyper beam

I wish Normal type moves would be super effective against something. That’s the whole reason I don’t teach them to my Pokémon

Adult cows don't drink milk. They become lactose intolerant as they grow up. I think. I don't feel like factchecking that lol

I don’t think normal is anyone’s favourite type, although normal does house my favourite Pokémon (Snorlax) so I have an affinity to it.

Gen 9 best is definitely mouse, friend guard + power mons = insane

Is dynamic punch bad? I like it over close combat sometimes

You didnt explain the gen 3 swellow guts facade.....combo

I would sell my soul for a Diggersby with Huge Power

I run a tera normal slyveon

As someone who's just completed a normalocke in Paldea, normies? Yeah, still great. And the amount of dual types they have now makes everything way more viable. :D I have wayyyy more respect for Pyroar than I used to have lmao

Many normal types can learn a vast variety of types of moves. They can save you if you don’t have space in your team.

"Bad" *with a pic of gen 2 snorlax*

The bad face looks like snorlax liquid sharted

Normal's biggest weakness is that it has no strengths.

Removal of Return and Frustration frustrates me

Normal is actually my favorite type, so I appreciate this more positive take.

You forgot about Mega Kangaskhan in Gen 6