I say you should do this for every type!

Thanks for throwing my favorite type a bone. Grass always feels a bit looked down upon in a gameplay sense.

Word to the wise: If you are playing Alpha Sapphire and grab a lotad DON'T EVOLVE it until 19 so it can learn mega drain. If you just let your lotad evolve at 14 the only grass move it'll have is absorb and it won't learn any others by leveling. I mean you can heart scale the move back on, but you have to wait until you evolve get a water stone and evolve it again because you can't heart scale it on lombre for some odd reason You'd think by gen 6 they'd have fixed things like this

You forgot one very important bit for SV: you can go to Kitakami before doing any gym. Meaning you can get Ogrepon before a single gym

Oh! I knew I saw grass type did not realize the video was on making a team. Grass types are my favorite type& I always wanted to do like a nuzlock with just grass types.

Monotype runs are my favorite type of "challenge" run and I generally do at least one each generation. On my first playthrough of Scarlet I loved a lot of the Grass types available so I knew I had to do Mono Grass for Violet. I found the Ice weakness hardest to overcome, since half my team was quad weak, but other than that it was definitely doable and a lot of fun.

I’m working on an Alpha Sapphire grass only now: Sceptile, Breloom, Vileplume, Cacturne, Cradily, Ludicolo

The good thing about mono grass in paldea is that you get a lot pokemon that can cover your bad matchups lotad from dlc , toedcruel , jumpluff for bug gym (you can pickup acrobatics before the 1st gym) , rotom grass, not to mention how good meowscarada is (probably the stongest grass starter for a playthrough) because of it's movepool, high speed and attack stat

Realistically, any mono-type run in Kalos would be a walk in the park.

The only monotype run I've ever done was Bug in Sword, and that was actually really fun, especially since before doing it I shiny hunted in my completed Shield in route 1 for Blipbug and ended up getting a shiny Grubbin there too, both of which were very valuable members to the squad. Would absolutely recommend. As to mono-grass, I immediately thought of sapphire when you posed the question. You're probably right that Galar is best for it but I think I'd do it in Hoenn

The absolute biggest boon to Mono Grass teams in Paldea came with the DLC, specifically Ogerpon from Teal Mask. The fact she can be pure grass, water, and better yet Fire or Rock to help cover some of the biggest problems for grass types is HUGE. Hearthflame is easily the best choice for her on a grass team, but Cornerstone can help out a lot too.

This would be a fun series ! And with Fairy you can even do "what if fairies were in Johto" etc

It's a bit extra, but you can also get a third grass starter in Rowlet from the first swsh DLC if you pick up 100 stray digletts.

I'm excited to see the other monotype videos

I Have Done A Mono Run Of Every Starter Type In Pokémon Shield I Did Grass 1st Because Its My Favorite Type And It Was Really Fun With All The Team Options

I actually did a Sceptile solo run of Omega Ruby once, and due to it getting good coverage moves via tm like Rock Tomb and Aerial Ace it wasn’t that hard. Granted, since I was doing it at my own leisure I didn’t implement level caps or item restrictions, but it was still pretty fun. Also, I had a really funny experience during it: I was at the part where you team up with Steven to protect Latios from Team Magma, and the situation started going downhill almost immediately. His Metang’s Zen Headbut missed, and Leaf Blade left Camerupt in the low yellow. I was worried that Camerupt would one-shot Metang and then it and Koffing would gang up on me. However, Earth Power left Metang with 16 hp, and then KOFFING WENT BOOM!!! Koing itself, finishing off the Camerupt, leaving Metang with EIGHT HP, and doing chip damage to my Sceptile. My head cannon is that the Koffing and Camerupt knew that what they were doing was wrong, and chose to let us win

Yeah the Wild Area allowing for so much variation depending on weather feels like it will put SnS up there for a lot of types, especially Mono-Ice. Then for Paldea while the arcs are open world and you could challenge Eri before Katy, Star Bases grant TM recipes to balance them with Gyms increasing obedience level. Looking forward with this series, maybe wait until after May to do Fairy-type incase we are getting a smaller scale remaster game this year.

I did a mono-grass run on Alpha Sapphire, transferred the Seedot over from Rub6 and had a great time, I honestly found the steel types the hardest to deal with, Breloom being the only one able to do pretty much anything and ended the champion fight with just a little up left on my final mon!

This makes sense for another reason in that Gen 8 is the first Gen where the Move Reminder is in Every Pokemon Center. Getting to the Digging Duo early and thus having access to extra Leaf/Sun Stones gives you early access to Vileplume, Bellosom, Whimsicott, Lilligant, Exeggutor, Shiftry, and Leafeon. All of these Pokemon can be immediately given some of their best moves before you even face a Gym. To be fair I think Gen 8 is the single best Gen for Stone Evo Pokemon

"As cool as the hisuian decidueye may be" dude he is a monstrosity. The original is 10 times better. However I love you're content. You're a legend

I remember trying a Grass type mono team a loooooong time ago back in gen one. I only did it because kid-me was imitating mono type trainers like Misty from the anime. I originally wanted to do a Fire or Water team, but there weren't a lot of available Fire pokemon back in Kanto. And Water types are inaccessible until you obtain certain fishing rods and learn Surf.

This is a fun idea. Excited to see more of these. I did a monotype water team in Sapphire and have ideas for a grass type team in Sapphire too. I'm thinking for my monotype grass team would be Sceptile, Ludicolo, Breloom, Cacturne, Tropius, and Cradily. I'm intrigued to see how well water would do in other regions. Hoenn was pretty easy to do mono water.

I do what most call Mono-Type challenges a lot in Pokemon Games(I personally call them "Type Challenges"). Shield in particular has been the site of the most completed challenges like this so far

love this video. makes me want to do more mono type runs

My grass mono type run of Alpha sapphire was so much fun. I had Sceptile, Cacturne, Ludicolo, Breloom, Cradily and Whimsicott. Honourable mentions to my Roserade, who got me through a big chunk of the game, but was replaced towards the end by Whimsicott. And to Tropius, who flew me around the region but is criminally useless in battle (give us an evolution!).

I did a Grass type run in Pokemon Black. It was really tough but gave me a new appreciation for Serperior

Monotype content like this is always an easy win! Great stuff!

As someone who did a mono-Grass type run in HGSS, the early game is painful but the later gyms (especially Bryce and Claire) are BRUTAL especially with the garbage movesets all the Grass types seem to have in those games

I like this idea for a series, a fire edition will be 🔥

I've been waiting for a video like this! A few months back I made a list of which games I'd do a monotype run (two runs per region xD) and I had a hard time thinking for Grass, Fire, Water, Ice, and Rock. I did a Steel type run in Brilliant Diamond, and currently doing runs on Violet (Electric), Emerald (Fighting), Fire Red (Flying), and Shield (Ice) I hope you make one for all types because this is a pretty neat idea for a series.

Always a good day when Cubone uploads!

And that's even neglecting to say that in the Crown Tundra you can get plenty of level 65 Pokémon before the first gym in the dynamax adventures, including Grovyle and Sceptile as a third grass starter, plus a Level 70 Tapu Bulu and Kartana

I'd love to see the rest of the types. Genuinely curious though if Galar just ends up winning every time because of the huge availability.

Additionally for Sword, you not only can get Seadot right away in route 2, but there is a hidden leaf stone in Turfeild, letting you have a Shiftry right before Milo. I found this out recently when doing a dark type run and with stone evolutions having full access to their moves via move reminder you can easily get the advantage with air cutter as well as a sunny day growth set up Also yeah Sword is fantastic for monotype runs! For any wanting to try ones in Sword, highly recommend ice, bug, and dark since the game has not only very early acessability for all these types, but diversity to allow them to shine and diversity to have them form nieces that can't be done in other games, even in SV

One of my favorite challenge runs playing Heart Gold recently was with a sand team. I traded my starter for a Hippopotas egg and only caught Rock, Ground, and Steel types. Unfortunately, I forgot about Skarmory (the only sand immune flier available before the national dex) being a Soul Silver exclusive, so I also traded over and painstakingly leveled an egg of one before the 6th badge when I realized.

Wow, Emperor Cubone! That was an amazing video! Sure, the Grass type has many weaknesses, but it's got great tricks up its sleeve in the form of utility and status moves for, say, helping out your teammate in a 2v2 battle. To me, the Grass type represents peace as well as lush wilderness I can explore. Pokémon are famously usually found in tall grass, after all. 🌿 I can't wait for the Water and Fire videos! I'm looking forward to those. Your videos are great, be they opinionated or based on certain facts or others' opinions. That's the fun thing about media in general -- people can start fun conversations with each other due to often having differing opinions about a certain topic, you know?

Looking forward to the 1-minute Water challenge video :D "Yeah just fire up Sapphire or Emerald, grab Mudkip, a Wingull and a Lotad before the first trainer, aaaaaand that's all your weaknesses covered! Oh and fish up a Tentacool for Cut. See yall in the next video!"

Love this concept! Hope it gets good views so you can make more

I’ve done successful mono-grass runs in Johto, Hoenn, and Galar. I’m currently going through Paldea and I still have to finish getting through Unova and Sinnoh. Grass is my favourite type, along with rock and ground, so after I play through with other starters, mono-grass is always my first challenge run.

funnily enough I started a Grass Mono-Type run in Sword a few days ago

As my fav type, I’ve ran three separate grass solo playthroughs. The first was in Pokemon Black. My team consisted of Serperior, Leavanny, the in game trade Lilligant, Maractus, sawsbuck and Ferrothorn. Next was in Legends Arceus. I used Decidueye, Leafeon, Torterra, Roserade, Alpha Tangrowth, and Elecrode. And I just finished my play through of Emerald, #Team Flora. I used Sceptile, Shifty, Ludicolo, Breloom, Vileplume, and Cradily. The only other solo type run I’ve played was a bug run in sword. I love using typings that are considered by most to be weaker. Next I want to do a ice run, but I’m not sure which game to do it in, most Ice types are really late game.

As someone who's done a monograss run in galar (with extra restrictions that I have to use Pokemon I've never used before) the options available are amazing and you clear all the way through the champion which is just brutal. Especially with a level cap his team just shreds every grass type with dracopult cinderace and Charizard being major annoyances and haxorus being super annoying too especially because with my personal rules I had nothing to cut down fire damage

My first monotype was a grass run in Scarlet and I had a blast! The secret I found that turned the challenge on its head was Terratrialization. Catching dual types with the non-grass type being terra (for example a normal terra Deerling) or doing raids as they popped up with grass types Pokémon gave my team a lot more variety than it appears. It’s not my normal content but I’m so tempted to make a video discussing my own mono type grass journey because a lot of things defied my expectations Also I memed on him but jumpluff became my best setup mon to my utter shock lmao

I did White 1 as my first Mono-Grass team run back in 2011! I did a few honestly... I still disliked Snivy and had Pansage replace it right away! Black and White 1s are both amazing for monoteams! Would also suggest trading the full team right away, but it is possible to do without them as well! Mono-Bug is also very fun in this generation! Mono-Rock is what I have personally had the biggest issues with! Never can get fun and satisfying teams when going with Mono-Rock when Mono-Steel has the far better defensive cores and even Mono-Eletric teams normally have one or two who can learn Energy Ball or Grass Knot! For most of the games, I would suggest Normal or Poison for your first Mono-Team run! Most normal types get amazing coverage and Poison is a very reliable status!

I'm laughing at the poor fool that tries a mono-fire run in Sinnoh.

Love this video idea! I played mono grass in alpha sapphire, poor team aqua. Hoenn has some amazing early options with dual typings, so my guess is the hoenn games

I shouldnt have tried to count how many new mons of each starter type there are in each gen cause it just convinced me even more that fire always draws the shortest straw. Now I want you to do a version of this video for fire so more people can see just how few choices fire gets especially compared to grass and water.

Sinnoh is a great Grass region from my experience in Platinum and BDSP. Platinum: While the early game is pretty slow with only Turtwig and Budew, their stun spore/curse strategy is effective enough to survive getting the tree encounters or skipping them entirely for Leafeon. Leafeon is a HUGE team player you didn't mention and carries the team! It's fast, tanky, and can support with growl, swords dance, and baton pass. The great marsh offers Tangela as the best option, which is great. Lastly, Abomasnow is excellent since it can handle the flying types and dragons. BDSP: This game is similar to Platinum's, but slightly different encounters. For starters, certain grass encounters can be obtained underground. Wormadam is worth going for since it can sweep with quiver dance. A HUGE change that nobody noticed is that after Spear Pillar, you can encounter Root fossils and get Cradily, which is a nice defensive core.

Ive actually done a grass type solo run in Johto.... it was rough.... but a few mons suprised me. The Chikorita line has great support moves and survivability when used correctly, the Hoppip line has great utility because of leachseed and all its status moves.... Even my Sunflora got a little bit of action. It was hard, but no where near impossible :)

I have actually done a Grass type only run with Pokemon X before. It was actually a walk in the park. Chespin with Rollout and Gogoat who is able to learn Surf for crying out loud carried the run for real. If you take the right pokemon with the correct dual typings it's really easy.

Grass is actually well balenced with water and fire since grass has an insane amount of utility. Powder, drain, ect.

Galar getting some much needed love! Rillaboom is so cool.

I'm busy finishing up a mono-type flying challenge run in Sword now. Having access to the Isle of Armor DLC fairly early on helped for building a really solid team, with reserves!

I'm looking forward to your eventual Mono Ghost Type video, since I'm currently doing one in Infinite Fusion. (Modern mode)

I completed a grass only run in Violet. It was a real challenge to stay under the level cap. Even after first DLC dropped, the challenge was not trivial. Ogerpon definitely helped cool down the difficulty though

This is by far my favorite way to play through any pokemon game, essentially role play as if I am aspiring to become a gym leader and building a team that focuses on that type. I try to build around a starter type & available legendary. Here are the types I used for several of the games along with my championship team. Black version was a bit of a cheat since I needed to combine bug & grass. Fire Red: Flying (Charizard, Zapdos, Scyther, Pidgeot, Aerodactly, Gyarados) Heartgold: Water (Feraligator, Quagsire, Poliwrath, Gyarados, Tentacruel, Lanturn, Suicine) Ruby: Ground (Swampert, Rhydon, Camerupt, Flygon, Groudon, Claydol) Diamond: Fighting (Infernape, Machop, Lucario, Medicham, Heracross, Toxicroak) Black: Grass & Bug (Serperior, Ferrothorn, Scolipede, Crustle, Galvantula, Volcarona) Shield: Fighting (Zamazenta, Urshifu, Galarian Zapdos, Gallade, Cinderace, polywrath) This is by no means strategic against the gyms/evil faction, but I did try to avoid a single type if you couldn't build a full team in a decent amount of time in the game.

I did a ghost team in Moon. I’m also currently doing a Hypno-only run for Violet

Unrelated to the Grass Type but I can almost guarantee from personal experience that for whenever you do the Ice Type that the hardest game will be Black 2 and White 2 for games where you can start off with a Pokémon of that type as you are stuck with that one Pokémon line for like over half the game (Smoochum and Jynx) and then when you finally are able to find another, it’s Castform lol.

The matter of struggling to get enough team members early on is why I usually tend to just send over eggs or Pokemon to breed when doing Monotype runs. Otherwise I would never have been able to use Hisuian Electrode or Zoroark in my Monotype runs for Paldea. Also, Paldea is very unique because Terastalization allows players to change a Pokemon's type, and frankly if Brassius is allowed to have Tera Grass Sudowoodo on his Monotype team as a gym leader, then I personally had no qualms at all about catching the Tera Grass Floette just outside his town to use in my own mono-grass adventure.

Prediction, water will have the most easiest time doing mono run in any game

9:34 "Arcobatics" 😂😂😂

Grass is my favorite type so thank you for showing them some love!

Id probably still do a Gen 1 game because Victreebell is OP in those games. Razer leaf auto crit, Swords dance and Body Slam for anything Razer leaf doesn’t destroy and Sleep powder to set up on any resists. Maybe not the most quantity of options but between Bulbasaur in the early game, Victreebell crushes almost the entire game from Cerulean on, and Exeggutor to deal with Koga and anything from the Gastly line. It’s a quality line up!

Are you planning on doing this for every type? I've been wanting to do monotype runs on different games but I've realized options can be quite limited in certain games. I'd love to see one for Flying-type as it's my favorite type and I'd like to know where I can find the most options! Also, cool to see Grass being first as it's the type I was planning to tackle on first.

I know this requires you to trade over a pokemon holding an ability patch but if you could do that in Paldea and use it on your Sprigatito to get it's hidden ability, that could help out against the ice and fighting as it Meowscarada can learn moves to counter and having Protean but I get what you are saying.

Paldea is AWESOME for Grass types. Only needing Ferroseed to help the Dragon and Flying resistance.

Grass is my 2nd fav type so this will be fun

Grass types are my favorites, I generally try a mono-grass for my first playthrough of any pokemon game.

I've actually been doing something similar recently but for Dragons exclusively. You can't do it on any of the games before B2/W2 since it's impossible to get a full team of dragons before any of their National Dex's, but from B2/W2 onward, it's incredibly difficult but possible. I've been coming around to the idea of Mono-Type Runs, so this video was well-timed for me.

The structure of this video did not go how I thought it would lol assumed you were going to outline the fights for each region with the best possible grass types to use

Yay feel i love mono type run to make game challenging . I did grass mono run on paldea. Some part were hard but just have to make a balance team that cover type disadvantage and role. Like meowcarada was my fast revenge killer

I hate to be the correction guy, but as someone who has done two separate challenge runs involving Applin as a core team member, they are only useful post Kabu because their evolution apple is locked behind Hammerlock. From there either evolution shines really well with the expiation of Opal!

I've been doing a bunch of mono type runs in Omega Ruby. Currently doing a mono Normal run and about to take on the League

I Believe you in Hoenn I think you probably beat emerald with grass types

I love monotype challenges ♥

Before you do this for the bug type, I'd like to add that I did a bug-only run of Black 2 and it was surprisingly doable. Only Roxy gave me serious trouble.

To have Johto kick Grass' teeth in even more - there literally are only 6 pokémon in major battles grass types are even super effective against - Chuck's Poliwrath, Pryce's Seel, Dewgong and Piloswine (two of which can clap back hard with STAB SE ice moves), Will's Slowbro, and Bruno's Onix. Resisted by: Team Rocket's entire lineup, Falkner, Bugsy, Morty's part-poison types, Jasmine's Magnemites, Clair's Dragonairs, Will's Xatus and Exeggutor, Koga, Karen's Murkrow, Vileplume, Houndoom and Gengar and Lance's Dragonites and Charizard And the rival? Oof. By the second fight, he has the SE starter... and a Gastly and Zubat which both resist grass. He then also proceeds to add a Magneton (resist), a Sneasel (SE against you) and an Alakazam, the only pokémon grass types don't have a problem with (aside from the myriads of grass/poison types ofc...) Seriously, I don't know if there was a single region as hostile to one type as this infamous one.

If you do one for fire, somehow I don't think it's going to be Diamond or Pearl.

I almpst exclusively do mono-type runs. My pre-watch guess for Grass: Galar.

Im actually doing a mono bug run of Shield right now and its going really well especially with access to Isle of Armor

Fire type I think Pokémon black and white two might work since you could get Tepig, growlithe and magby early on. Water type are like the most common types out there so it would be pretty easy to do one.

So I did Grass only in B2W2 a few years ago, here's some notes on that: Serperior with Coil is great and let me sweep through Iris, Leavanny carried the early game, Lilligant getting Quiver Dance early helped in the midgame, Ferrothorn was practically required for the rest of the game, Roserade was there because I hate Amoonguss and refused to use one, and Maractus was a quirky pick that was mostly useless and made me regret picking it over Sawsbuck (I wanted to give Maractus a chance since I already used Sawsbuck in an even older run).

You should do this for Bug Type next, I know Black and White would be interesting since you can only get Bug Types after the second gym.

Sceptile is my favorite Pokemon and emerald was my first game so it's gotta be Hoenn, though perhaps omega ruby so Roselia can actually evolve. Any game with Tsareena does have her as a solid choice especially with high jump kick helping get around the usual suspects for walling grass types plus being a solid screen setter imo. It's easier to do any run on a switch game if you don't intend to transfer them though since you can do it on an alternate account.

My prediction is gonna be Hoenn/Sapphire; plenty of water-types, water-themed villains, & you can even use Ludicolo for the HMs

I actually did a Grass type run in Pokemon Ruby. I was able to beat it with Shiftry, Cacturne, Tropius, Sceptile, Breloom, and Cradily. Movesets Breloom- Stun Spore, Mach Punch, Sky Uppercut, and Headbutt Sceptile- Aerial Ace, Leaf Blade, Dragon Claw, and Earthquake Cradily- Toxic, Earthquake, Giga Drain, and Rock Tomb Tropius- Fly, Magical Leaf, Aerial Ace, and Body Slam Shiftry- Rock Smash, Strength, Faint Attack, and Flash Caturne- Needle Arm, Sand Attack, Faint Attack, and Double Team

I'm currently going through every region using only poison types (in Johto atm), so I'm curious about your video for it.

What I like about Paldea with grass is that, with DLC. You get Ogerpon as early as gym 4, due to the teal mask capping at around level 30 if you do it before beating the game (Although Ogerpon is level 20 for some reason) Edit: Okay it actually caps at around 40, but those are battles after you catch Ogerpon.

Does Ogerpon not help in Scarlet and Violet? You can get get Ogerpon incredibly early, with the only requirement to start the Teal Mask being 3 hours of game time. Being able to get 3 different dual typings with 1 pokemon seems useful, especially since Ice is weak to Fire for Grusha and there are numerous Grass/Ghost types in Paldea and Kitakami for Eri

I actually have done a mono grass run in Shining Pearl, since HM would not get in the way, but transferred over my full team (at lv 1) from the start. Used Torterra, Leafeon, Roserade, Abomasnow, Rotom Mow, and Tangrowth.

I once did a grads type run in emerald about 15 years ago now, for the life of me i cannot remember how I beat flannery because I lombre didn't have access to good water moves even for the point in the game, i can only guess i had rock tomb from Roxanne's gym on something and used a lot of status moves

I'm guessing that Kanto would be high in the rankings for a Poison-type run, given how many Poison-types there are in those games. On the flipside, Galar is probably the only one that's at all feasible for Dragon-types without trading due to the Wild Area, and Hoenn is right-out for Ice-types since the only ones in Gen 3 are locked away in Shoal Cave (and there's only two lines to boot).

I love sinnoh... but did it add a lot of any particular types? It always seems like diamond and pearl have such a small pool of different types to use.

A few things: Great minds think alike because I had a video idea for this topic back in mid february (as grass is my favourite type). Except mine would had been alot longer. For Sinnoh, you can get a leafeon before the third gym as there is an eevee in Hearthome city and the moss rock is in eterna forest. I know Leafeon is not the best eveelution but its still better than flareon and glaceon. And specifcally in Platinum through the great marsh, you do get access to tangela which can become tangrowth, as well as Tropius. Does this make using grass types in Sinnoh better than other regions? Likely not but its better than the selection in DP.

so when i do monotype runs, i use an encounter cheat so i can just encounter any pokemon of that type at any point so "when i can encounter pokemon" is irrelevant to me, since i feel that having to wait and all that is boring, i dont just give myself OP mons though, i put them on a list then ask some friends to pick a number at random, then nuzlocke rules; 1 pokemon per route (I do NOT play with perma deaths) but still a fun video since i actually havent done mono-grass yet (Grass, Electric and Poison are left, just beat white 2 with only bugs a few days ago

As someone who did a monotype run in every gen up to sword and shield, and am half-way trough SV, I can say, Galar, Paldea and Hoenn are the easiest. Some walls here and there, but you can get loads of covarage with secondary types. My prediction for fire is Paldea and Hoenn for water

Well... for good measure, you did forget you can get Pansage in Santalune Forest (However, this doesn't affect the outcome either way). Tbh, its not surprising Galar performs well for the Grass type, this also mainly due to the Wild Area. If you continue this... Galar would be best for the Water type as well (Again, due to the Wild Area). I feel like its not totally fair in comparison due to the Wild Area in Galar and Isle of Armor and Paldea and Kitakami. You can get Pokemon early for example.

I don't like monotype runs like these, tbh, but Paldea is a good option as you also have access to both the Kitakami Expansion and the Indigo Disk dlc pretty early on. While the Pokemon in the indigo disk dlc is much higher leveled, you have access to the items in the area meaning you could evolve Pokemon needing specific items early.

I did an electric mono type run in galar. It might be the best region for a few mono type runs.

As the local hater of grass types i have to say its best in gen 5 You have a shockingly decent pool and ofc ferrothorn and alot of speedy lads, also helps that some of the best grass types ever are from there As long as you can get thru the horrendous early game imo thw rest of the game is so favorable to it