TEAM SKY 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

It's fine that you're bi, we still accept you.

Ok

@@Curruptedgaming3524 Michael is a total daddy and clearly secretly LGBT, a person's relationship status has nothing to do with their sexuality.

Hey mikey I was wondering if I could do a video as an admin of team sky but in the timeline it was before the team sky leader Mikey discovers that he didn’t want team sky to be a evil team if I can the video will be on the channel mythical-legend gaming

See, the thing that bothers me with a lot of the Pokémon community is how much people seem to think being a mono type Pokemon is the worst thing ever, including the starters. Not every Pokémon needs 2 types

​@@EpicRandomness555 no one said its the worst thing and they need them. It's a disadvantage in this particular scenario for the purposes of this list that only takes into account a single Pokémon, of course it would be better in most cases to have dual typing when looking at a single Pokémon, just as it would be less of an advantage when looking at the typing of a team of Pokémon, but this isn't about teams, it's about specific individual starters.

@@TheLostVikingr Also, I'd assume this "secondary type" would be a regional form so it wouldn't matter competitively if you prefer the monotype anyway. Though i'd also add that it shouldn't just be for monotype mons, but for ALL the starters to be fair.

That’s a pretty good Idea. I’d give Blastoise the steel type if I could.

Eh, but most of em have secondary types alteady

Chespin is unironically the best base starter evolution in a playthrough since rollout gives it coverage against 4 of its weaknesses

It's not stab and requires multiple uses to make a difference

​@@eljordinio7647 and Vivillon cant do anything back, so unless rollout misses, its a free kill. Even then your gonna use rollout against Surskit, so its likely on its 3rd or 4th roll already

@@eljordinio7647usually a 2 hit KO and even if you miss, infestation is not that strong. Even the residual damage.

@@TheGodIvy that's facts

It won't out speed your Squirtle. Plus, you'll have other measures of dealing with it.

​@@LittleAl016you can deal with it but it will be hard I played these games like 50 times and played with different starter each time and always venasur and makes my team go to sleep yeah I have fire types to counter it but it is annoying

@@Ruinousria It's not as hard as you think. Given that you'll likely be outspeeding Venusaur, and have enough coverage to get him in a few enough hits. In all honesty, Exeggutor is more annoying than Venusaur.

​@@LittleAl016 you ain't killing that ivysaur in one hit

Victreebel and Exeggutor are better in gen 1. Victreebel has wrap spam and also has razor leaf and sleep spam and exeggutor is part psychic so obviously it’s broken

Then postgame 2x 1x for kanto gyms

it's not surprising regardless since it's widely seen as the worst starter of all time due to how Chikorita is completely useless in it's home region having 0 winning match up's outside of Chuck's poliwrath and Bruno's onix. honestly i wouldn't be surprised if someone picked chikorita in a Johto game...and ended up either restarting their save or boxed it because of how it doesn't get a single chance to shine

It sucks though because I love Chikorita

​@@kittenoffire3325true, chikorita is my favorite pokemon and I'm really sad about how gamefreak has treated her over the years

Chikorita deserves a fairy typing. It just deserves better after all these years. It deserves to be the cute little precious Princess it always should have been.

Is this really true???? If so, thats just sad.

Actually, that’s an error. This one poketuber called SmithPlaysPokemon talked about it and said that it’s just a text error. Charizard does take neutral damage from ice, but the displayed text says super effective

@@thegamedanalyst2169 I knew about the text error, where only the type effectiveness against a Pokémon’s secondary type is displayed. But Bulbapedia has the gen 1 type chart with ice neutral against fire. Unless that is a mistake.

@@SweetBananaDigitalit’s not a mistake, in gen 1 the type chart was a little different. For example, the aforementioned fire not resisting ice as well as bug and poison both being super effective against each other. There only one that was a bug was psychic being immune to ghost.

@@biannualcube2704 That’s what I thought.

Same lol

i’m gonna touch you

At this point, Chikorita fans have cried enough to make the Earth 72% water

chikorita is disgusting

chikorita is my buddy i dont care if she sucks

And he's flat out wrong for doing that.

@@LittleAl016 indeed

That's true 🤔🤔

I was just about to say that :(

It still can miss it though

@@buusinhojr.9555 I mean yeah but it’s not going to die in 1 infestation. And Vivillion has a deadly allergy to geology

The AI could also be dumb & go for Harden instead, not clicking Infestation every time while facing Chespin.

Not that it matters (much)

Did they give it metal claw early bc of the first gym in that gen

@@Sheenifier They gave that line metal claw in the remakes during gen 3 but in gen 1 steel type didn't even exist. It was introduced in gen 2 and Magnemite and Magneton were given the type retroactively.

@@Confron7a7ion7 I was talking about gen 3

@@Sheenifier IDK, probably. They never really tell us why they do things but that would make sense.

Based battles 2 pfp

I feel like y'all hating on Pikachu but this pokemon yellow so ability and the special and physical state just special so yeah

Yeah Pikachu can practically solo Mount Moon.

Yeah, I have a feeling Michael based this on a theoretical on-paper assessment rather than playing through the games. I'm sure he's played through the games, but I don't think he heavily relied on his experiences to come up with the list. For example: Squirtle does not belong on this list. On paper you say "weak to the 3rd and 4th gyms, that's too much of a struggle too early." Except: 1) The squirtle line has the best early coverage movepool once you account for TMs. It's the only one of the three that has a decent STAB move in bubblebeam and gets both body slam and dig. 2) Dig provides good coverage against Surge. Also, as long as you have ANY ground type on your team at all, Wartortle only needs to beat the Voltorb and the Pikachu. Surge's Raichu can't damage ground types, so even a Geodude from Mt. Moon auto-wins against it. More likely, you'll have a Diglett or Dugtrio from Diglett's Cave right there. We're assuming you're largely using your starter, but can use other Pokemon if it's little effort. You don't need to put any effort into training the Diglett or Geodude, just catch them and use them for that one battle. 3) Before facing Erika, you had to get through Rock Tunnel, and probably ventured into the Rocket hideout and/or Pokemon Tower. If you're not super-optimizing your run, Blastoise will likely be in the 40's by this point, so Erika's level 29 Victreebell and Vileplume will not be pertinent. If you are super-optimizing your run, you either know that Erika can be delayed or know to get/use Ice Beam. 4) The other starters have their own setbacks that are even worse. Venusaur gets ZERO coverage and can only learn grass or normal moves (well, and status moves). Also, around 70% of the non-gym trainer pokemon you face before leaving Vermillion are bug, flying, poison, or fire types, so your best damage-dealing move most of the time in the early game is....Tackle. Meanwhile, Charizard doesn't learn a STAB move better than Ember until either reaching level 46 or beating Blaine.

@@cathygrandstaff1957 But considering that Pikachu starts to fall off once you reach Koga, why would you want to use it at Mt. Moon? Like, the strongest foe Pikachu can handle by itself is Lorelei, and that's it.

@@LittleAl016 Hey I used Pikachu all through Pokémon Yellow and didn’t have a problem with it. Then again I used Iron to boost the heck out of its defense so it could take hits as well as boosting special. Besides, it’s worth having it along to talk to and interact with, you’re missing everything that makes Yellow special if you don’t keep Pikachu in your party.

@@cathygrandstaff1957 I didn't say anything about taking Pikachu out of your party, now did I?

It better (or else)

It already did

Yes

Facts

And to Chikorita probably

Also tera type exists in paldea so u can just change meowscarada's typing.

@@Svithi.N.98 Ehhhh, yes, but actually no. Your starter Sprigatito defaults to grass tera type, and you can't reasonably change it until late/post game.

@@Celestia282 true. But you can technically grind for tera shards if u want and change tera type in Larry's town once u beat the gym

@@Celestia282 but at least pure grass type is better than Grass-Dark

​@@Celestia282 Larry gives you 50 Normal Tera Shards for beating his gym, Hassel gives you 50 Dragon, and Tyme gives you 50 Rock for completing their stories. Normal Tera for Meowscarada is terrible, but you didn't day anything about good Tera type choices.

Vivillon's Infestation is her only supereffective move against Chespin and it's not going to OHKO Chespin

@@fadhilmulyono9230 no but the damage will add up and if U miss a rollout or surskit gets a crit with quick attack beforehand, chespin will be in trouble

But onix and geodude have high defenses making metal claw a 3-4 hit KO on each as its not stab. Charmander needs to survive rock tombs for that long.

Onix and Geodude didn't really have much Special (Defense) to withstand an Ember spam.

To everyone who replies, I made this comment to help further prove why Charmander is the worst starter in Kanto

@@ShadowKnight5204 And you're wrong. It's actually Bulbasaur.

Don’t make Wolfeyvgc commit suicide

That's very balanced

Jesus😂😂😂

Sir this is a worst starters video

VGC players describing why they hate Gens 7 and 8

There's also no reason to keep using Pikachu once you get your Nido up to snuff, I.E. once it learns Double Kick. And/or catch a Clefairy, make sure it learns Sing on level up, and then evolve it to Clefable. If having an Electric type is somehow a must, though, there's also Zapdos.

Ok, so it's not just me. I played Silver when it first came out and picked Chikorita. And I don't remember having any problems with Whitney at all. (Granted, that was over 20 years ago now, but if it was as traumatic for me as it was for Mikey, I'd probably remember it. 😆)

@@AllenMS828Yeah Bayleef can definitely help against Whitney. Ideally Geodude and/or Muscle the Machop will help even more, but Bayleef can still contribute.

I actually did a Chikorita run a while back in Silver and beat Whitney on my first try, although that's probably because I had to overlevel to beat Bugsy. I leveled it up to level 29 to beat him by spamming Body Slam. Thank God for emulator speed up.

@@dawnsbunearyoh wow you suck

Yeah, the major issue with this video is that it only does a surface level inspection instead of a full deep dive. While it doesn’t actually matter which Pokémon you choose as your starter as each gym has a counter usually right next to it, picking Meganium is legitimately choosing to play on easy mode as it walls so many difficult fights. Especially Whitney and Claire.

They also gave Double Kick to the Nidos (which are early game along with Mankey)

Technically, "solo runs" were popular since the first time a kid who either couldn't read or didn't like reading skipped the tutorial text and didn't know how to catch more Pokémon so just ran with their starter 25+ levels ahead of anything else they managed to get ahold of.

Ash’s Pikachu has the stats of a Raichu so it won’t evolve into one

man i agree, i love it but it just needs a regional to give it a better stat spread and the fairy type then it will finally stop getting flamed by people

I'd still not really like it because, FAIRY TYPING IS COMPLETELY DUM AND UNNECESSARY!!! My first Pokemon game was Yellow Version, and I still easily beat Lance without Fairy types.

Maybe it'll get into Legends Z-A and also get a Mega Evolution. Then we'll get to say Mega Meganium.

@@montyeggman3075 yeah i hope they do that for the gen 2 starters. and mega meganuim is fun to say

aRe YoU aSsUmEiNg ThEiR gEnDeR?! Ok no but I’ve always loved meganiums design and I wish it was better.

If only Aurorus existed, Blue would be in trouble.

Bulbasaur is still useful. Meganium isn’t. :0

In gen 1 and remakes bulbasaur is useful. In gen 2 and remakes chikorita doesn’t have anything going for it because of both gym and rival battles.

@@DarkEclipse23 Meganium is pretty decent in gen 2 due to its bulk and eveyone using weak moves. It gets destroyed in the gen 4 remakes tough.

In both blue/red and fire red leaf green exeggutor doesn't have a psychic move and is weak to poison.

if only he put actual research in his videos as well, like saying Chespin is bad in the Bug gym when it literally learns Rollout at lvl 8

​@@theamazingspooderman2697 this guy is an entertainer. He's a KZfaqr first. If his inaccuracies get him comments like yours, you're giving him one more comment he wouldn't have received otherwise. But you do you 🤷

@@theamazingspooderman2697 He also said "Wartortle isn't helping much in Misty's Gym" when HE LITERALLY KNOWS BITE BY THE TIME HE FACES MISTY. Also, did he just straight up forget that Blastoise can learn Ice Beam? And did he just straight up forget that Lapras requires grinding in order to be usable?

it probably people who dont care about the pokemon being good in game cuz (maybe unpopular opinion)sprigatito looks cooler then mudkip

@@karthiksreeram1593 Doesnt matter meowscarada is too fast and hits too hard with flower trick. There is no world where it comes anywhere near this list. None of the gen 9 starters should.

@@jacksonmunro1925 yup

I’m pretty sure he was ranking the weakest choice per starter options. (Including B2W2, XY Kanto starters, Legends, etc) That said, I’m not 100% on board that Sprigatito is the worst choice, but Fuecoco sweeps so weed cat is not the best either

​@@jacksonmunro1925 average glass cannon enjoyer :

Fennekin struggles in a Bug gym how?

He's probably referencing surskit being an issue for fennekin but to be honest any of the starters do good against the gym

@@zeusoi2854 Viola's first 'mon is Surskit, which has water STAB, and is hit by fire for neutral instead of super effective.

@@tamarjaeger It also has Water Sport

​@@zeusoi2854 bcz of Water Sport but the wording was wrong as Fennekin doesn't struggle

Bulk on something like Meganium or chespin doesn't really matter if you have unfavorable matchups most of the time. Especially in Meganium's case who is beyond useless in Johto

Charmander is only marginally worse than Squirtle, and is itself better than Bulbasaur.

Doesn’t he say charmander is worse than squirtle? He ranks charmander higher on the worst starter list than squirtle.

@@ShadowFox1412 He ranks Charmander worse than Squirtle yes. My issue is that he's on the list at all. Same with Squirtle. He's worse than Squirtle, yes. But he's not bad at all.

@@eljordinio7647 Actually not really, most trainers in the gen 2 games use weak moves. A 40bp gust will be a 80bp move against Meganium. Meganium can just tank it no problem (not to mention most trainers default to using normal type moves). Gen 4 is a different story tough.

Fr like he doesn’t even mention the moves they’re able to learn and is just going off of types

​@@adrianhandley9895 coverage is great but it's stab moves that get more damage in

@@eljordinio7647 if the move kills, it doesnt metter if they do not have stab

@@Joao.Ramiro sometimes it does

Sure, Chespin beats Viola, but does that make Chesnaught better than Delphox or Greninja?

I like squirtle too

you just like hard mode. And it's Pokemon so hard mode is still easy so....

Worst of all is that smith plays analyses the game and he pick squirtle as the best starter

I like squirtle bulbasuar and charmander.

@@doodle1488I’ve been doing the math myself for my own project and Squirtle is fundamentally the best Gen 1 starter by far

Mystic Umbreon's done that for basically every game at this point.

At least he said sprigatito isn't bad it's just that he has few options ( I have sprigatito in Pokemon Violet )

The measure are relied on early fight since that is where starter mater the most Meowscarada will still be pretty busted later anyways

Sprigatito is best stater for speedruning

That saved my skin in my moon nuzlocke refusal to evolve my popplio and yhe maxed friendship let them live on 1 up so often

They generally are. In fact, most of the only generations where you can say that they're not would be gens 4, 6, 8, and maybe 9.

​@@LittleAl016squirtle isn't great in kanto,totodile is actually quite good but in gen 2 typlosion is superior(in the remakes it's subjective),and once again samurott is mid

​@@LittleAl016Also what are you talking about?from what i know greeninja is the best xy starter

@@isidorodaviddoro1920 Excuse me? How in the world is Surf usage "not great"? How is strong performance against 5/8 Gyms, niche use in 1/8 Gyms, strong performance against the 1/2 of the E4, and neutral performance against 1/4 of the E4 "not great"? There's only a few bad matchups Squirtle actually faces, and all of them have other options the player can use to overcome said bad matchups. Also, Typhlosion is mid in the original GSC while Feraligatr has pretty decent coverage. Also, "mid" describes Emboar, not Samurott, who BTW is the GOAT. Also, Fennekin is the best XY starter, not Greninja.

Wow

Grass/Normal calf pokemon based on the soy plant with the Protean ability

Could have a Grass/Fairy mega evolution

Mega Meganium?!

Gen 1 rby not the gen 3 frlg. They were updated with more and better movesets.

Yeah, but scarf contrary leaf storm is one hell of a drug

​@@ismael8391 Scarf Contrary Leaf Storm Serperior has scarred me on Pokémon Showdown

snivy/serperior can learn alot of useful tm's tbh what michael didnt cover in this video is tm's and moves in general.. for example charmander learns metal claw at level 13 which can beat brocks geodude with ease and definetly is not a dead weight. alot of pokemon here dont deserve what they got and if he actually checked movesets and tm's alot of these would not be here

@@sheenakr7616he's just going by type matchups because if you know strategy, you can pick any starter you want lol

serperior is better than meganium because it's more useful against the evil team, who don't usually carry pokemon that are strong against it. meanwhile team rocket's out here with houndour/houndoom and all the fucking koffing and zubat in the world.

100% agreed. Chespin’s high risk high reward but man that reward is so worth it

I'm pretty sure Chestnaught potentially gets super effective coverage against everything but Dragon. Throw an Expert Belt on him and you can absolutely steam roll a majority of the fights. I'd say it's biggest hurdles are Flying-types, because of that Quad-Weakness, Dragons, and other Fighting types ironically.

bulk doesn't matter either way as Kalos is so easy

Emphasis on luck

@@theamazingspooderman2697 Roll-Out is 95 Acc, not that much luck needed. I fought Viola with Chespin a lot. I think I had one or two instances where Chespin missed its roll-out and even then, I still won the battle after. It's really not that hard to beat Viola with Chespin

You still need at least 2 or 3 hits before rollout can do enough to win u the battle, and while vivillon does have a 4x rock weakness you can exploit, it's still faster and has a chance to either increase its defence with Harden, or weaken you with infestation before you can beat it And if U miss even once, which is still possible, then u HAVE to build up power again. If Chespin could learn defense curl, then rollout is much easier to work with cos it's already double in power

​@@eljordinio7647 Infestation doesn't hit that hard though, my starter is like lvl 15 before that fight or during that fight

I hope he goes to Orre next.

He will suffer in the grueling deserts of Pokemon Arizona!

idk man pachirisu won worlds

Granted, you may wanna hold off on the evolution until lv.26, because then it can learn Thunderbolt without needing the tm. Aside from that, and getting the gift Bulbasaur, there’re no reasons to NOT force it to evolve, unless you literally lack the means of trading it.

Infernape

Oshawott

CHARMANDER IS THE BEST!!!!!

Salamance

​@@pipoledo Salamence isn't a Starter 😑

I wouldn't say 'so many' games. Only Johto and Kalos, all other games either have a Rock gym, something neutral, or are the Striaton gym. (I guess you could argue Paldea also has a bad matchup, but Paldea is a weird case)

hear me out, i’ve always thought grass should be good against fairy. while it would admittedly make more sense a resistance, one of fairy’s weaknesses (poison) and one of the types that resists it (fire) have something to do with harming plants, meaning they have some relation. so the literal plant type should reign over the other nature related type

Maybe that is why game freak originaly made so many grass poison types including the starter to help it's wealnesses

@@patar00 honestly. Psychic should be strong vs fairy. finish that triangle cause fairy kinda replaced psychic xD as for grass...could be strong vs fairy, but i think they just need to reduce how many types resist it. cause it struggles so much offensively

​@@patar00yeah.....fairies dont work that way. While its true some like Nymphs and Driads protect the forest, the rest like say Trolls, Gnomes, Dullahans (yes, dullahans), etc either are neutral or dont care And the fairy typing is based on ALL fairied, not just Thinkerbell😅

It has way too many weaknesses

Skeledirge is 100% the best starter in S/V.

Don't listen to the doubters. Squirtle is the best. Ever.

I love Blastoise but to GameFreak it’s not their golden child of Charizard nor is it Venusaur so why would they care about it at all

Putting Squirtle here twice is stupid. Any starter that is capable of Mega Evolving is already better than the majority of starter Pokémon. Even if the ability Blastoise gets is situational, it’s stat boost more than makes up for it

All gen 1 speed runners take Squirtle, he is cracked

@@MadMalMan that is more due to hms, since obviously it can learn surf, but it can also learn cut as well

Same

Same here

*an

@@teriso1793 Pretty sure "an" is used for vowels, but I dont have english as my native language, so you may be right

@@GGLVIGG0 its more abt the pronunciation

Oshawott is actually the best Unova starter. And Squirtle is the best Kanto starter when strictly talking about Kanto.

@@LittleAl016 Squirtle is only intermediate difficulty for Kanto and is only the second best starter behind Bulbasaur for Kanto with Charmander as second best for Kalos. Which one of my two Unova teams are actually canon and definitive?

@@smb-c3po No. "Intermediate difficulty in Kanto" is Charmander, not Squirtle. Squirtle, on the other hand is "Easy Mode in Kanto".

@@LittleAl016 Char is hard mode, Squirt is medium, and Bulb is easy. What are all the single stage Dark-type Pokémon that got official cards? I need two copies of one of them for my Blastoise V Battle deck and also multiple copies of a two-stage Fighting-type line to help against Lightning decks.

@@smb-c3po Wrong. Squirtle is easy, Char is medium, Bulb is hard.

... which has nothing to do with the point of the video.

@@youtube-kit9450Yet it has everything to do with the video.

@@shanedawndusk3290 Even if you know what you're doing, you're not winning many battles with Pikachu.

@@LittleAl016 Not with that attitude

@@shanedawndusk3290 Not with any attitude, Xander Crews.