I'm so glad that from Gen 5 onwards the Bug type was shown some love and added some badass Mons to the roster. I really think Bug is underrated

Kinda strange how Satoshi based the game on bug catching but made bugs the worst

The worst type in Gen 1 are a threeway tie between Dark, Steel and Fairy. They're basically non existant. Dark and Steel got better in Gen 2 but Fairy still took a few gens before it was actually good.

This definitely seems interesting, I might try to monotype with the best and the worst types now.

Dishonorable mentions: Gen I: Rock. The reasons are numerous, from Rock Throw having 30 less accuracy in Gen I, only having 1 Rock Slide TM, being 4x weak to Grass and Water until Cinnabar Island, and most having awful Special, anyway. And it doesn't get better over time. Gen II: Bug. I feel like this one is self-explanatory, although Heracross in HGSS does give it the edge over grass. Hoenn: Poison. Don't let Crobat fool you, Poison in Hoenn is torturous. Wattson has a Magneton, Flannery has a Camerupt in Emerald, and Tate & Liza you flatout lose to. And there's no Grass specialist to make it better. Sinnoh: Fire. Highly limited pool (especially in DP) and 3 specialists with a steep advantage against you, as well as the scariest Pokemon in the game.

In Gen 1, Bug was actually super effective against Poison. So everything in Erika's Gym in the first games was weak to Bug

Kanto: Bug type Johto: Chikorita Hoenn: Bug type Sinnoh: Poison type

Early bug types weren’t even that good to begin with since in the first four gens, they lost to the first gym.

Hope everyone is having a good day. Look forward to Part 2 soon! Edit: Bug beats Poison in Gen 1, meaning that Bugs actually do pretty well against Erika, Koga, and even Agatha to an extent! However, taking FR/LG and Let's Go into consideration, they still maintain their status as the worst type in Kanto.

I did a grass type run in platinum once, and Cyrus gave me PTSD, his entire team is a grass killer.

The first time I ever played pokemon, I was on SoulSilver. And, knowing pretty much nothing about the pokemon I was picking from, I picked Chikorita. And I never regretted it, no matter how hard I inadvertently made it on myself. Chicky, as I named the poor thing, is one of my favorite starters that I've ever raised.

See this makes me proud of sweeping Brawly's gym back in the day with a Dustox, panicking the whole time because the rest of my team just did not survive and the Dustox blew my mind

brb gonna do monotype runs in all four games with all of these types

"Poison types in Sinnoh have a hard time against Fire." Good thing Flint barely uses fire types!

So close to that plaque!

This jsut made me happy that SwSh finally gave us a game with early Ice and Dragon types.

I watched a soul silver nuzlocke, they went with the id method of getting the starter and they got chikorita, they actively tried to kill it and it was able to live through out the entire journey, long live mr. stake

Leaf stones can be given by a female trainer in the route down goldenrod city. So you are wrong. I remember myself using a Victreebel during the johto part of the game.

In Gen 1, Bug would've been 4x good against the grass/poison types But the bug type was weak anyways

"Unless you're a compulsive grinder and really want that Vibrava..." Me: How did you know? Actually, i go all the way to Flygon before Winona unless i'm feelin' lucky against Norman.

I definitely could have watched all 8. That was really entertaining. Great work!

hey, remember when they added Challenge Mode in BW2? Well, we already had that in GS. JUST PICK CHIKORITA.

In gen 1 the most underwhelming type was the ghost type. It couldn't do its role as a counter for the Psychic type at all.

Short answer: Ice Long answer: Ice Type

13:13 that's a very fitting name.

I did a mono bug in hoenn, it really was a journey 🙃

Great concept for a video! Looking forward to the next one and hope you do best types for each region too!

This is the first video of this guy that I watched and I subscribed immidiately. Very well put together and researched, off to look at part 2 now.

Me who’s a pokemon master because I beat johto with chikorita: *pokeen mastur*

7:12 "grass types are barely usable in claire's gym despite her ace being kingdra" I don't get what you mean by this, kingdra is neutral to grass, so of course it doesn't give an edge to grass types.

this vid was pretty cool def wanna see part 2 when its ready

I am impressed with your detail and consideration in your choices. You have a sub sir!

This was my first video on this channel and it’s really great!

I recall that in Diamond and Pearl, the only fire types available before the post game were Rapidash and Infernape, though this was improved a little in Platinum

Thank you for the list of types to monotype run in each region!

This was a really well put together video.

I did a only psyquic type run in emerald, and I gotta say he is right, at the beginning I only had ralts and abra which learn only psyquic type moves, and with the insane amount of poochyenas and carvahnas it was a rough time.

12:09 “forget about that whenever a remake happens”. Pokémon community: “Sinnoh remakes confirmed????”

Can’t wait for part 2 great vid

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

[...] Eviscerated by Lucian [...] Drapion (and Skuntank): Am I a joke to you?

Correction about gen 1: Beedrill wrecks Erika. Bug is also super effective against Poison in gen 1. All Grass / Poison mons are 4x weak to Bug moves. So Twinneedle wrecks her big time. Didn't test my Beedrill against Koga, yet. Agreed with the rest tho.

Grass is weakest in Johto? * laughs in Meganium line solo run *

This has been kn my recommended the whole day. I'll watch it now so KZfaq will be pleased

Its interesting that Psychic was one of your runners up for worst type in gen 3. The thing is that you have Ralts and Abra early who evolve into pure powerhouses. It doesn't matter that Psychic isn't great (Gardevoir can learn some great coverage). If you are stuck with average psychic types I'd agree that they suck.

In gen 1, bug and poison hit each other super effectively. While this does give Bug more credit than you gave them for in situations such as against Erika’s gym, the poor move distribution does still heavily hinder the type.

Can’t wait for part 2!!

I need to call something. While Bug was weak to Poison in Gen 1, Poison was also weak to Bug. This meant that every Pokémon in the Celadon Gym (except for Tangela) was quad weak to Bug. This doesn't change the overall result, but I still feel it was worth noting.

I would also add Fire being worst types to use in Gen. 3 because; besides the Torchic line, none of them; old or new, aren't that good. There isn't that many Fire types to capture and there's so many Water type Pokemons in Hoenn that's just to much to handled. About 4 or 5 out of 8 Gym Leaders can beat them out easily. Such as Roxanne ( if you choose Torchic ), Flannery ( including her Camerupt because it's part Ground type ), Winona ( if only you have Combusken & Blaziken out since there part Fighting types and not even Marcargo that; despite being part Rock type that has the advantage against Flying types, will have an hard time because of it's poor stats, Altaria and maybe another one can learn Earthquake ), the Psychic twins because of Lunatone & Solrock ( and both Combusken & Blaziken will have troubled because again; they're part Fighting types ) and Juaz ( or Wallace if your playing Ruby & Sapphire only ). 3 out of Elite Four can beat it down that have the super advantage; which are the Dragon Elite Four, an Ghost Elite Four beacuse her 2 Dusclops learns Earthquake and even the Ice type Elite Four since 3 of them are part Water types. And I don't know how well they do with the Champion Steven if your playing Ruby & Sapphire only. But in Emerald; they'll definitely will have trouble with Champion Wallace since your fighting another Water type specialist.

Yeah I kinda figured I would have a hard time in Sinnoh during my all poison run of the games

How do you not have 100k, you’re my favorite poketuber

Hello! Just wanted you to know there were a couple of inaccuracies in the matchup/location chart for types. Psychic types can be acquired before Misty. Route 24 to the north has Abra in RB, Abra is in Route 6 in Yellow and LGPE, and Drowzee is on Route 11 in all games. In LGPE, Steel types can be acquired before Erika by trading a Diglett for an Alolan Diglett in Lavender Town (and a Sandshrew in Celadon if you're playing Pikachu). In LGPE, Ice types can be acquired before Erika with the Celadon trade either being Alolan Sandshrew in Pikachu or Alolan Vulpix in Eevee. Psychic types can be caught before the first gym in Johto, there are Unown in the Ruins of Alph. Fairy types can be encountered before Bugsy by hatching the Togepi egg. And in GS, Jigglypuff is a rare encounter on Route 46, so before Falkner. In Crystal, Ice types can be acquired directly after Bugsy. The Odd Egg has a chance to hatch into Smoochum, so with a few resets you could get an Ice type pretty early. Finally, you can get a Ghost type before Roxanne. Nincada can be found on Route 116 and evolved into Shedinja. It is a bit of a grind to Level 20, but it isn't the worst. This isn't to say the video is bad! I really enjoyed it, and I'm looking forward to the next part. Also, this isn't a comprehensive list, just what I picked up on that would be (reasonably) possible.

Beautifly & Dustox were very useful to me in ORAS and I always have a Mothim on my team in Diamond, Pearl & Platinum and btw Bibarel is part Water.

my butterfree did well against posion and fighting type pokemon with confusion and helped me defeat sabrina easier by putting her abra kadabra and alakazam to sleep allowing me to switch into nidoking and destroy them all with body slam before they woke. it even defeated bruno's hitmonlee and hitmonchan and 1 of agatha's 2 genghars I'm talking about my butterfree from my last yellow playthrough which I used as a main team member the only main move I had it use was confusion but I did have it use sleep powder against Sabrina's abra kadabra and alakazam and defeated her with nidoking. I used it through the whole playthrough my team was pikachu butterfree victrebell primeape and nidoking I never got past agatha I broke my phone 1 day and had to get a new 1 and never beat that copy but it was still fun to play though.

Just recently did a sword playthrough as a bug type gym leader. My team was all bugs, plus flygon. Went very well actually.

I see this as an excellent opportunity to run through ORAS with a mono bug team. Since the games are so easy it should make for a fun challenge, I was already considering this idea because during a wedlocke I did my Dustox and Volbeat both did really well, which really goes to show how easy the games are. A team of Dustox, Beautifly, Volbeat, Illumise, Ninjask and Shedinja might actually be viable here, though probably still pretty hard.

Yeah Sinnoh's dual types help poison a lot. Crobat was a big mvp on my first pearl run despite the rest since flying took away ground weakness

Gonna take a wild guess and say psychic for gen 7. Despite getting some pretty decent Pokemon like alolan raichu, there’s a lot of pain to be had, especially in ultra sun and moon. Let’s see you’ve got either a gumshoos or raticate both with bite, the bug type Araquanid with the buffed leech life, alolan marowak with hex, totem lurantis with x scissor, vikavolt in vanilla sun and moon with bug bite, mimikyu with Shadow claw and leech life as well as battles with Guzma, Nanu and Acerola. It’s a pretty bad time for psychic. Literally the only saving grace for the trials is that you can get a malamar which you can teach topsy turvy to make the totem Pokemon easier.

I'd actually argue that fire types are even worse then the bug types in gen 3 some more points for the bug types: - heracross, armaldo and pinsir is are still pretty good pokemon - shedinja, ninjask and volbeat are not as bad as you make them out to be, shedinja outright walls a lot of pokemon, often giving him free attacks when they have to switch. ninjask gets swords dance really early, making it a good sweaper in early game and can baton pass those boosts in late game. volbeat gets signal beam and tail glow early on and a lot of good tms. they still aren't amazing, but still can have some use - if you are playing emerald, bugs minus armaldo have a neutral matchup against wallace compared to their losing matchup against steven - if you are playing ORAS pretty much all of the bugs become waaaay better - Masquerain and Beautifly both get quiver dance and bug buzz making them pretty usable - all the physical bug types gets stuff like x-scissor and or u-turn - with the dexnav you can get a lot of their great hidden abilities or egg moves, like moxie on pinsir and heracross and prankster on volbeat and illumise - pheobe only has a super effective move agains bugs in emerald with rock slide, and a lot of the bugs get shadow ball or a dark type move to deal super effective damage to phoebe and heracross, armaldo and pinsir gets a strong earthquake for good neutral damage. this one is way more neutral then it is bad for the bugs. - tate and liza only has rock slide in ORAS where all the bugs are noticably better so a lot of them can just outspeed and one shot the solrock before it can even use it. in RS you only have to deal with flamethrower from solrocks base 55 special and in emerald claydol also has ancientpower. i think this matchup is more even then it is losing. points against the fire type: - the only fire types in hoenn are blaziken, camerupt, torkoal, magcargo and ninetails. out of these the only one i would say are any good are, blaziken and maybe early to mid game camerupt. besides blaziken and nintails the fire types in hoenn are also really slow. which makes them really hard to use - the fire types has a losing matchup agains maxie which always has a scary ground type move on his camerupt. archie i'd still not consider a great matchup even if his sharpedo never has a water move. crunch still hits hard tho. - all the fire types can struggle a bit with winona. she has a peliper with water gun and an altaria with earthquake. they beat skarm and tropius pretty cleanly. its still gonna be a bit of a struggle. - all the fire types can't really deal with tate and liza at all, both solrock and lunatone resist allmost all of their moves, claydol has earthquake, and ORAS solrock has rock slide. so i'd say that is a losing matchup as well. - glacia is not a positive matchup for the fire types at all, besides maybe for blaziken. over half her team is bulky water types with thick fat, i have no idea how the rest of the fire types can deal with that at all. - the entierty of drakes team resist fire with with bunch of them knowing eathquake or some other ground move. in emerald he also gets a kingdra with surf. i'd also consider this a losing matchup. - steven isn't really a good for them either. half his team har earthquake and 2 more has anchientpower. he only has 2 pokemon that are actually weak to fire. the only 3 pokemon who has a chance of beating his ace one on one is ninetails, blaziken and maybe torkoal. the other 2 just gets outsped and one hit ko-ed by earthquake. i don't think its a straight losing matchup but its definitly not great. - in emerald you have wallece lmao - the fact that a huge chunk of the game will be spent facing mostly water type pokemon. and the fact that 2 out of the 5 fire types are 4x weak to water and that 3 out of the 5 fire types has a base speed under 40 doesn't help at all. - ORAS doesn't do as much for the fires as it does for the bugs. - ninetails does actually become pretty good in ORAS. getting drought, really good coverage moves and calm mind or nasty plot. - magcargo and torkoal get shell smash, but they are realistically too slow to get much good use out of it. TLDR. the only good fire types in gen 3 are blaziken and ORAS ninetails. RSE ninetails is just too weak without a movepool and the rest are too slow in a region that has an abundance of fire resists, earthquake and water. they don't have a good matchup against any of the important battles and there are a bunch of battles especially towards the end that they struggle hard with. they have 0 winning and 5+ losing. while bugs has 2 winning and 5- losing.

For my Gold playthrough, I used a defensive Meganium with Light Screen, Reflect, Body Slam, and Giga Drain, and Milekee (nickname) was a beast, notably holding his own against Red's Snorlax 14 levels higher.

Bugs: Are bad in general Me with a Ninjask in Hoenn: 0_0

I feel like Fire should get an honorable mention in (non-platinum) gen 4. They have a few nice matchups, but unless you picked the fire starter, you're not exactly drowning in Fire types to choose from!

I’d love to see an updated version that includes Paldea, considering there’s a specialist for every type since there’s a lot of major battles including gym leaders, Elite Four members, Team Star leaders, Titans, Nemona, Penny, Arven, and the Professor Battle

You're underselling Butterfree w/ confusion. It can do a surprising amount of damage. I agree bugs are weak but I'll forever have a Butterfree in my six, when playing Blue.

11:02 me, who's favourite Pokemon IS vibrava

I did a mono poison type for sinnoh, and I think sinnoh has the best lineup of poison types out there

Great video, but I have to point out that while Poison is super effective on Bug in gen 1, Bug is also super effective against Poison this gen. So for Erika, Bug is actually amazing, most of them have secondary typings of Poison, Flying and Grass meaning they resist grass by x4, and Grass/Poison types are x4 weak to Bug. Seeing as Victreebel and Vileplume have no damaging poison moves, Beedrill would demolish them. Koga is tougher with poison attacks but still weak to Bug, plus Bug/Poison type take neutral damage so they have a better matchup. Just wanted to make that clear for anyone interested in gen 1 games

You can get leaf stones in Crystal from one of the rebattleable trainers near the day care! I used an Exeggcutor on my team.

Fire is the useless type in diamond/pearl. It was the most needed type through the entire story, yet, we only got 2 fire types, and both super fragile sub par Pokemon, and they are a no go in some gyms like rock and water, and a steep road with the elite 4 except aaron

Thankfully gen 5 made bug types one of the coolest till this day.

I ran a Parasect in FireRed once, and it was actually really good, one of the best Pokémon I ever used in a Gen 3 Kanto play-through.

I’ve been in the middle of a bug mono type run on Omega Ruby without thinking about how messed up I’m gonna get. I have spent the last few sessions doing EV resets and training on the Super Training because it’s getting tough, especially when trying to keep a level cap there for the gyms/bosses/rivals etc.

Your avatar looks like Junpei from Persona 3 if he became a Pokemon trainer.

I haven't watched the video yet but I already agree

I almost want to use this as a baseline for some challenges. HGSS though... Dont get me wrong cyndaquil line is my favorite but when i played the game using chikorita and its line only... it actually did pretty well. with synthesis, barrier/reflect, status moves, headbutt and several other options, it took some creativity but i did beat red with meganium. granted though as you pointed out its 1 grass type, but it is a solid pokemon. i think doing a grass only run is SS would be a fun challenge when i think about it

In Gen 2 you can get the elemental stones, in the route before third GYM theres a girl that gives you her phone number after battle, Her team members are 2 hoppy and bulbasaur I guess, she then will call you and she can either just talk about her pokemons, challange you again, or tell you that she has someting for you, it turns out to be a leaf stone, the water stone is given to you by a fisherman after the 4 gym and obtain surf, go to the rout to the right and surf till you see a fisherman at the edge of the lake, battle him ant register his number then He will call you to speak or to said that He found something for you, that turns out to be a water stone

I'd honestly give Johto to Dark type. Why? You can't even use it! There are five dark types in Johto (Umbreon, Murkrow, Houndour, Sneasel, and Tyranitar). Four are only available in Kanto, two of which can only be gotten after getting all 16 badges. If you evolve the gift Eevee into anything other than Umbreon and don't breed it, you are completely blocked off of using any dark types until post game. EDIT: I learned Sneasel can be found in the Ice Path....in only Crystal.

Grass absolutely sucks in Johto games but I always choose Chikorita! It’s my favorite gen 2 starter 🥰

I love the fact that I decided that for my first playthrough of Silver (on the virtual console), I was gonna use Chickorita because it was literal garbage, I didn't really like tododile at the time, and my Crystal save had cyndaquil as my starter. I even named the save after the typing of the starter. (And, no, the trainer name wasn't grass. It was Rye.)I adored that save, and have no recolection on how the heck I beat the first gym, as I know I didn't overlevel, or even catch another pokemon. What was I doing? The save is fun though.

To be fair, in oras, if you have a dustox, it learns quiver dance, bug buzz, toxic, and venoshock, which is a powerful stab combo, or you could swap out toxic and venoshock for sludge bomb and a coverage move

k, im a sinnoh baby, and i play diamond, even i know the fire starter is op in this game, i beat the eltie 4 with 4 pokemon, one being a level 17 bibarel. plus, diagla level 54, staraptor level 54, and my level 60 starter. it was easy, just used a lot of heals and revives. i dont even like it, i perfer the water starter. however even i cant deny its an amazing starter.

I feel like fairy should be weak to bug. Idk why but I thought it was when I first played the games

I’m currently doing a grass monotype on SoulSilver just because I knew that it was hard, and I have definitely had to take at least two tries for most of the gym battles so far (I’ve gotten through Whitney). I also managed to beat Falkner with only a Chikorita in Gold, but I had to level it up to level 15 to get through his fight in one try. In short, Grass + Johto is hard.

bug type moves in gen 1 actually did super effective damage to poison types so you might wanna change that : / bug types in gen 1 still suck, but a move like leech life would destroy her weepinbell/victreebel and gloom/vileplume, + the rival's bulbasaur (if you choose squirtle) not to mention they literally learn no damaging poison type moves via level up lol-

Ah yes, my favorite poison type... Scyther.

Me: *watches the johto segment knowing I swept the likes of Whitney, Pryce and Clair with the chikorita line* Hmmm Interesting

A solid episode of a man repeating the word bug? Can't wait!

I actually did a Mono-Bug run in Alpha Sapphire and it was surprisingly not that bad. Then again with the additional moves added for Bug Pokémon in later generation made the game pretty smooth. The biggest challenges were Flannery(Masquerain doesn’t really do much even with Bubble Beam) Winona(I actually had to backtrack to get Anorith but even then her Altaria is still overwhelming to deal with) and unshockingly, the Elite 4 aside from Sydney. My team was Mega Heracross, Dustox, Illumise, Armaldo, Masquerain, and Shedinja as I found that they were the best Bug Pokémon you can use in the Horn region.

Pikachu is a pikaCHUMP!

In gen 3 Kanto Herracross with megahorn could demolish the gyms. That’s about it for bugs in gen 3 kanto. Lol

Despite loving Chikorita, I found Meganium completely useless in Gen 2 compared to Bellossom, who became one of the best tanks I’ve used in any Pokémon game anywhere. Bellossom and Umbreon provided the back end defense to a well-rounded offence such that I could stall a Tyranitar twenty levels above me. Meganium, on the other hand, reliably fainted in one hit on every single gym leader I encountered and has the ignominious distinction of being the first starter I ever benched.

@JPRPokeTrainer98 It's possible to get the elemental evolution stones fairly early on in GSC. You just have to get the number of a trainer just before goldenrod city, she'll occasionaly call and tell you that she has an evolution stone to give you. I beat the Johto E4 with Victreebell by doing this, and it's actually pretty strong, especially against Bruno.

In gen 1 and only gen 1 bug was also super effective against poison, with poison super effective against it. So a single bug move would be 4x effective against 2/3 of Erica's mons

Alola and Galar: *confused screaming*

ive used beedrill in lets go and i had it set up as a critical hit machine with drillrun, focus energy, twin missle and i think poison jab. it was absolutely savage and shred through everything. ive also used crobat in diamond and that thing was just generally gud with its damage out put.

I do want to say that I chain caught caterpie until I got a perfect one that I trained up and then solo ran with as just a caterpie through the entire elite four in let’s go eevee. It tanked attacks from dragonite and two shot or one shot Pokémon with tackle. It was the let’s go games, but still. I also only healed between battles

Calling it, fire is gen4’s worst 😂🤣😂🤣

5:47 Crystal also fixes that problem with Picknicker Gina who will sometimes call you and give you a Leaf Stone.

I agree with you on most terms except for a minor few scenarios: 1. Bug being bad in LGP/LGE (because you forgot about the ridiculously useful "Fell Stinger") 2. Realistically gyms 4 and 7 can be conquered with not much difficulty, you just have to have good situational awareness considering you're at a defensive disadvantage.

"If you beat the game with only Chikorita you truly are a Pokemon master." I beat everything including Red, no items in battle with Chikorita. And I'm not joking when I say this but he actually undersells how hard it really is. Because not only are you weak to every gym but you are weak to almost every random trainer too. There are a ton of random poison, bug, and flying trainers making even harder. When you get to Kanto after brute forcing your way through the elite 4 it doesn't get easier. Your stats are so low that you're still going to struggle vs Blaine, Jasmine, Erika, and Blue. For clarification it took me being level 90 to beat the elite 4, level 98 to beat Blue and level 100 to beat Red and I still barely managed to beat him. It ultimately came down to good RNG.