The gameplay, the music, Gen I is just straight up old school fun; the way any game should be. I am 35 now and still playing Red, Blue and Yellow on my emulator

Speed is such a broken stat in Gen 1. It not only determines who goes first but the chances of you dealing critical. No wonder Tauros and Persian were so good.

I think nidoking deserved a mention. 🤧

I never understood why Pokémon stadium was hard as a kid. Learning the physical special split used to be based on type and critical was based on speed blew my mind when I fell back into the games.

Snorlax is especially powerful. It can be helpful against battle Sabrina because it's attack is powerful. Even though in gen 1 it was special, it's a tanky Pokemon.

I would have had slowbro at 10 instead simply due to how annoying it can be once it gets an amnesia up (for those who don't know, amnesia was basically two calm minds). With its incredible defense and hp stats and a good special stat, once this thing gets going, nothing short of a razorleaf or thunderbolt crit will be breaking through.

I love your videos, but what I love about this one is the fact that you used the pictures of the first Pokémon cards plus how they look in that game. Awesome!

I love that you included the original trading card art! It brings back so many memories.

I really adored gen 1. So many great Pokémon

I expected Tauros to be this list: he's insane in gen 1 OU XD

Love the OG pokemon card pictures of the pokemon in the video

I never realized that I needed Scott Steiner in my Pokemon videos until now. Thank you

I went to the Pokémon mall tours in ‘99 and 2000, and I battled in the Prime Cup tournaments back then. One finals match, another guy and I had Pokémon left with Double Team. Both of us used it multiple times, and neither of us could hit each other. Eventually, the rep gave us both a win, since they were timed matches…and we were stuck waiting for Struggle to come into play.

Dropping a like cause I casually clicked on the video to have something to listen to while doing stuff and didn't expect at all THAT Scott Steiner promo. That was great man

The Scott Steiner meme threw me off. Great job 🤣

As far as I'm aware, Gengar and Jolteon have a much bigger place in the Meta compared to Cloyster so I think that's all I would change personally, Jolteon over Gengar would be what I select due to Gengar being part poison giving it plenty of issues

I see mentioning special attack and defense as separate stats but gen 1 only has one special stat for attack and defense. In gen1 a special attacker snorlax was very normal

Gen 1 was a great time to be a Psychic-type and a Normal-type because of the Psychics scaring off the Fighting-types.

Charizard will always be #1 in my heart though 🥹🥹

3:27 i had a card with this art for rhydon, loved it! tcg had some great illustrations

I’d be curious to see a top 10 Pokémon of all time at some point🤔🤔

Cloyster was in my Elite Four team in every G1 playthru I have ever done. That beautiful Ice/Water mix dominated! I had a Graveler and sometimes a Dugtrio as well. Ice was my main approach for the dragons, and much of that test.

Psychic type are very overpowered. That's why it's there in the list.

I LOVE that this list is based off of how good they were in Gen 1, instead of listing the best Gen 1 Pokémon in todays standards.

7:51 It's funny how Pokémon has evolved. Exeggutor has gone from being one of the best psychic types in Gen 1 to now being amongst the worse due to its dual typing.

No gyradose? The Pokémon with the best move pool in gen 1 and the Pokémon who before the special split could destroy with all the beams/lighting bolt/flamethrower . Imagine a hyperbeam from a fully trained gyarados pre special split. Damn son you’re done

My buddy swore psychic types were better than everything else in gen 1. I bet him that my 4 normal types would beat his 4 psychic types and the winner gets the losers team. My kangaskhan tuaros Snorlax and Chansey dismantled his Alakazam Kadabra jynx and Psyduck and I only lost 2 Pokemon. He cried and we weren't friends anymore

They definitely buffed up cloyster Pokémon up in Pokémon mystery dungeon explorers of sky

Gen 1 was The first ever genoration of pokemon pokemon turns 27th this year👍

I have lived my whole life thinking Tauros was not a good pokemon, and now I don't know what to think.

Tauros, Jolteon, Nidoking, Starmie, Colyster, Kabutops are my Gen 1 team!🔥

could Ghastly just be the inner being of a Cloyster that has died and went on to then evolve into a ghost line of Haunter and Gengar? If you photoshop out the gas part of the sprite it'd look pretty close to the face within the shell of a Cloyster. Can't deny the resemblance

I love the use of the original trading card art!

naming my tentacruel "SEA ZUBAT" FROM NOW ON

Me:use special move Chansey: no problem Me:use phisical move Chansey:*explode*

Steiner math in a Pokémon video!!!!

You used Steiner Math in a Pokémon countdown. Bravo, good sir, bravo……

Dude this should be the first of a new top 10 series for u where u do a top 10 for each gen

Love seeing my Cloyster and Exeggutor, I use them on every playthrough and they never fail me. Especially since cloyster has good special so it can barely get knocked out

Also, happy to see Jynx and Exeggutor get the spotlight they deserve. I would always train a Jynx because her cry is hilarious. When I was little I thought she was a jellyfish for some reason...

Thank you for adding that legendary TNA moment in your video. Steiner was insane on the mic 😂

I never had a problem defeating any of these Pokémon, now catching some Pokémon was difficult

Some of the fastest Pokémon with powerful 1 shot potential in late game are Electrode and Dugtrio. Scyther can get some good crits with speed but it’s not as strong due to a lack of STAB. In Pokémon Stadium my rental teams often had Starmie, Alakazam, and Electrode as the 3 I would fall on using for 3on3 battles. List looks really good here Mystic!

first gen pokemon are definitely my favourite, so many great ones I just can't choose

I think People who play RBY OU probably knew what the list was gonna be.

I can't wait for you to redo this video with the right stat lines as though special attack and special defense weren't the same

Brooo i almost died choking on my food when the scott steiner insert came up

All of the cool pokémon are in gen 1. It has a special place in my heart.

Love the video and keep up the great work

Jynx is so underrated.

Love the original card artwork for Rhydon, game me a smile for the many memories.

I think you gotta nickname your next alakazam ‘disaster’ in honor of big bad booty daddy

why not part 2 for gen 1 top 10 of any gen game not just red and blue, to compare

I love alakazam, but I usually prefer a starmie lead. Just personal preference though. I’ve just had more success with it personally. Alakazams psychic hits so hard though, and can at times outlast a lot of Pokémon due to its special defense being super high because special is just one stat, and with reflect. I either run psychic, thunder wave, reflect, recover, or sometimes replace reflect with seismic toss for chip damage, and I guess a more offensive alakazam. Plus he’s super fast so high crit ratio and special drops from psychic are devastating.

Most people know the missing-no glitch. Most people don't realize in that same area you can catch stuff glitched over level 100 with the stats to go along with it. So the best pokemon were actually those Ratata type and Pigeon types you could get from there. You just win with raw stats, the only downside is they sometimes don't listen to you because your badge level is always too low!

Truly surprised you didn’t mention arcanine once

5.Venusaur 4.Snorlax 3. Dragonite 2. Gengar 1.Mewtwo

1 million points for the Scott Steiner reference. But I wanna know what Big Pappa Pump had to say about the percentages 😂

Nidoking for unpredictable moveset and slowbrow for amnesia setup.

What about what if every Legendary, Mythical, Ultra Beast and Paradox Pokemon were used by an in-game Trainer each (one per Trainer)? Also maybe top 10 gimmicks Ash Pokemon should've used (Megas, Dyna/Gigamax, Z-moves) and in which fight those could've been used?:-) I, for example wanted Sirfetch'd to have Corkscrew Crash t beat Drasna's Mega Altaria. Ash Mega Evolving Gengar once or twice would've been nice. Giga Melmetal and Kingler would've been awesome. Infernape with Firium-Z would be really deadly (maybe to beat Cynthia Mega Garchomp). It sounds like a good what if list

Jynx is goated, to say the least.

Oh yeah, Tauros! We would all spend hours in the Safari Zone trying to get one! It could literally attack everything!

You should Continue to make videos like that, that`s more The Old Mystic 🙂🙂

Haha never thought I'd ever see Scott Steiner referenced in a Pokémon video, bravo!

Call me a genwunner but damn do i love gen 1. Glitches, imbalances and all it WAS my childhood! Always will remember hunting for over level 100 Pokémon and being sure not to use them except in link cable battles

Wow no mention of Nidoking thats unexpected. Same goes for Aerodactyl who i always find fun to use. Rock/Flying with solid attack, a good special and high topspeed. Gen 1 had its balance issues. The special stat itself was a big flaw since it counted for both offence and defence. That was the reason Alakazam was such a beast or indeed Mewtwo but hey Mewtwo is the strongest pokemon ever created. After the special split Alakazam became more a glass cannon, still a big threat but not impossible to handle. Then another downside of the first generations was the attack type determines what value it used, either Attack or Sp Att. Hitmonchan for example was terrible in gen 1, high attack but its elemental punches used its abysmal special stat. Gyarados had Hyperbeam to save its usefulness but also it has a high attack and low special making its water moves underpowered. Anyways these things have been fixed and alot of first gen pokemon have seen their usefullness increase since, Not to mention the abilities and other things that been added later to keep them relevant in current generations and not to be put on the shelf or to act as dex fillers.

high speed works on normal as bodyslam can't paralyze them

Good list, but I would switch Rhydon and Zapdos, Exeggutor and Starmie, And Snorlax and Chansey

Rydon also knows surf.

Idk why he likes alakazam so much. Its a beast and was my 3rd favorite pokemon back in the day behind charizard and dragonite. But i smoked Sabrina's alakazam with charizard everytime. I ised fire against sabrina and the E4 trainer, cant remember her name but i smoked them easy everytime.

You know that things are serious when you see Alakazam in 6th place

I'd like to see you do a video about eeveelutions and movesets

Other Honorable Mentions: Tentacruel: Reason: Same as Dragonite. Set up with wrap. Nidoking: Reason: Diverse move pool and decent stats Electrode: Reason: High speed stat + Explosion

My pre watch predictions are charizard Onix arcanine Gyrados Alakazam Dragonite Lt. Surge's raichu Venomoth Jolteon Hitmonlee (Omitting mewtwo, moltres, zapdos, and articuno)

I'm always tempted to be controversial on this topic and say that Exeggutor is my choice for the best Gen 1 competitive Pokémon. Tauros is absolutely fantastic, but as true now as it was in the days of the PBS, no matter how tempted you are, you really should leave it for last. It's the best cleaner, but at the same time Persian and Dodrio can do its job, just not as well. Exeggutor on the other hand is just so disruptive during the course of the battle. Between sleep powder and Psychic as its standard moves, and explosion, double edge, mega drain as possible options, there's nothing that at least one of its threats doesn't seriously threaten. Add on to that the flexibility of even being a capable lead, Exeggutor always seems to do more for me in advancing the gamestate favourably, even if it's not as glamerous as Tauros' job.

What a great idea for a video series bro

I love how this is really a Top 20 list lol

I don't agree with the list, but I really liked the G1 remembrance.

Give Jynx dreameater with lovely kiss was a stable on my squad

When I was a kid I was under the firm belief that Alakazam was the most powerful Pokémon not including legendaries.

Cloyster with Clamp and Toxic was a serious threat Insane in nuzlockes

Guys, help me out here. I'm taking part in a Pokemon tournament with a couple of friends. We are allowed to prepare 3 Pokemon up to lvl 25, nor foing beyond the 3rd arena. Then we would fight against each other, have another 30min of game play and fight each other again. We are doing this 5 times. What Pokemon should I use and which attacks should they know? Please remember, only Pokemon allowed until I hit arena 3. Thanks guys! Your help is very much appreciated!!

Content is good, but the sibilance is seriously detracting from the video. Hopefully fixed in later vids!

Moltres should have been an onorable mention at least

1.Keep sand attack on Eevee 2.evolve to jolteon 3. Teach thunder wave. 4. First in battle. 5 switch to mnesia slowbro after set up 6. Game done Currently playing blue kaizo n the last challenge in victory road is 2 ace trainers with 6lvl 90 in a row. Spent weeks thinkin if strategy. That was the only way

I'm a huge wrestling fan so seeing Scott Steiner was absolutely amazing lol

Therefore, we can agree that Normal and Psychic types were broken af in Gen 1. I wish a Gen 1 Elite Four had a normal type trainer to show the difficulties

Mystic! Why not continue this series with, top 10 strongest gen 1 Pokémon in gen 2 or gen 3 etc. so the best gen 1 Pokémon in the following games. then do the following gens

Hey Mystic you should take inspiration from AlmightyMandals his top 10 are great

Exeggutor getting that 4x leech life from ariados one shot every time

I like how you used the og art work

So I just told Gyrados you didn't even give them mention and they are on their way to find you

It seems Snorlax and Tauros have the same move set

Jynx definitely deserves the top 10

My top 10 Pokemon of Gen 1 no legendaries (all games): Alakazam, Rhydon, Machamp, Snorlax, Starmie, Nidoking, Gyarados, Arcanine, Clefable, Magneton

Barring legendary Pokemon my go to gen 1 team was usually Venusaur, Arcanine, Gyarados, Nidoking, Electabuzz and Snorlax. Aside from the fact that they all looked like killers minus maybe Venusaur who got in because he's just the only grass type I liked. They were all really strong. and after i beat the elite 4 Dragonite would swap out with Nidoking. Snorlax was just the best guy to throw in when you needed to fully restore your team. Also this team kind of sucks because you have to go to the PC to get a bird to fly you around but all the flying types sucked in gen 1 so I didn't really care. Gengar is my absolute favorite Pokemon of all time but I used to restart frequently because I was a Pokemon crack addict as a kid and there's only so many times you can tell your buddy to get the trade cable out. Otherwise I'd 100% go with Gengar, Alakazam, Golem, Venusaur, Gyrados and Arcanine

Never knew Tauros was THAT good in gen 1. Lmao

What gen 1 team do you guys use? My team is 1. Chairzard 2.lapras 3.snorlax 4.gengar 5.Dragonite 6. Exeggutor.

You had me at gen 1 🤓

I always had 2 snorlax in my party. 😄😄