I'm not surprised that Hoenn managed to rank so high and was only beaten by a region that is pretty much islands in the middle of the ocean. 7.8/10 🗣

Some of the best theorymonning i've seen in this genre. You actually acknowledge game-specific issues, like Fairy not existing in any Johto game, and mechanical specifics like Bugsy not actually being able to harm a psychic mon despite his typing. Most people who do this just assume modern mechanics everywhere and only consider type matchups per gym. excellent work

The same passage of R/S/E of people who did not choose Mudkip, did not take water/flying or water/ground: Vietnam flashbacks

Johto wouldn’t have a fairy, but it’s got a pretty early Lapras available on the correct day.

My guess was Hoenn, but the real number one makes so much sense. I’ve done a Fairy type monotype run there-maybe I should try water next!

You get poliwag before the first gym in johto. Water stones are basically post game, but you can still use politoad.

That rhyme during the explanation was amazing

Water in my favorite type…I always have to have a Water-type on my team every game, no exception. I’ve never actually considered doing a mono-run of it before though and now this got me thinking about it.

You can get oshawott simipour tirtogua and palitoad all before the 4th gym. Then immediately after you catch ducklett,beat skyla and cheren and boom 3 new team members

I half expected to hear, "and until next time, stay watered!"

This just reminded me that I have to complete my run of the Galar region with my all bug type team

Came, saw Corsola twice, therefore it's a good video. :D

Slight correction on johto: can get tentacool right after getting the rod, poliwag too if ypu backtrack to route 30. Hope you're having a good day

I've actually managed to get by in Pokemon: Brilliant Diamond using Water-types(admittedly, I did struggle against Gardenia, but I quickly found a work around). Plus, I've completed a run of Water-types in Shield successfully, too.

As a mono water player since gen 1, after beating Surge you can get flash, then go to route 10, rock tunnel, come down through Lavender town, go all the way down to the fishing guru on route 12 to get super rod, go back to route 10 catch slowpoke, go back to Vermillion catch Shellder. When you get surf get the free Lapras, and go down to seafoam and get Staryu then evolve it. You end up with Blastoise, Gyarados, Lapras, Cloyster, Starmie, and Slowbro they best mono Water competitive team. If you don't want Lapras Tentacruel is a good substitute as well and can befound with the super rod on route 12.

RSE as monowater could be fun also because you could roleplay a former Team Aqua grunt.

I have to disagree about Hisui. It’s probably one of the best places to mono water. You have a lot of type variety and the game gives you answers to any challenge you could face. Liligant? Gyarados. Electrode? Tentacruel and Walrein (Palkia too for the rematches). Empoleon shreds through Volo after Garchomp goes down

One thing you can do for Sofaciles is alola is get the in game trade/catch a Barboach an have a Wiscash to be immune to electric.

Well I’m going to do a mono water nuzlocke in every region anyway so it’s good to know What regions will be the hardest

Mono water for Johto would be great for me. I love totodile,lanturn,mantine, and qwilfish over most pokemon in the series so i would be so happy to have a mono water challenge here!

I started a mono-Water in FireRed once to test out the GBA core on my MiSTer. Since I'm playing to level caps, I had two very memorable grinding moments due to overleveling my starter: For Misty, I tackled everyone on Route 4 with Magikarp until it reached level 20. Both Wartortle and Gyarados eventually became overleveled in Rock Tunnel so I had to switch to just Vaporeon for . I, of course, savescummed in Team Rocket's casino for the Ice Beam TM to steamroll the Grass gym. I still haven't beaten FireRed in any form despite having 3 concurrent monotype runs on different devices.

you cant have both osowott and panpour before like gym 3 i think

Been waiting for this one! I was wondering where Hoenn was going to fall on this list, no surprise it's toward the top. I know I've mentioned my Water monotype team in Sapphire but maybe I should try that in Alola too, I had no idea there were so many options that I can probably create 2 full teams of Water types.

Water is my favorite type, although I do prefer dual-types cuz it makes it easier to cover more types. So if I was to have a mono Water-type team I'd have all them be dual-typed, preferably ones that can counter Water's admitably few weaknesses, so only Grass and Electric.

Honestly hoenn would be great for a water mono run just because swampert is in a good position for majority of encounters in the region, also the semi early wingull and lotad are pretty good additions.

Mudkip and vapeoreon are the best water types, but they ruined one of them.

I hope that Bug type is next, since it is also a pretty early type.

I especially like Hoenn (well, Sapphire/Emerald) for this because the starting trio of Swampert, Pelipper and Ludicolo shares no weaknesses. Water/Ground famously has its single quadruple weakness to Grass, Water/Flying takes super effective damage only from Rock and Electric, and Water/Grass cancels out *both* of Water's weaknesses in exchange for having 3 out of Grass' 5 weaknesses in Bug, Flying and Poison. You're not even past the first *trainer* and you've got your defensive coverage dealt with already!

Poliwag can be caught in Johto before Violet too.

Do fighting type next please, it’s like the 4 most popular starter type

The old rod right after the 1st gym gets you Poliwag, goldeen, krabby, tentacool and Magikarp. Also in Crystal u get poliway before the 1st gym at night above cherrygrove in the grass.

The only game I've done a Water monotype run in was Ultra Moon. Was pretty fun!

Any game with out starmie is already knocked out for me!

Clearly Hoenn. 7.8/10

I am guessing Electric is next I know Unova can rank well cause of White 2 think about it: a Mareep before first gym, Elekid before 2nd in white 2, ALSO before 2nd is Magnemite which can completely wall Roxie. Not to mention other leaders like Skyla, Marlon, members of Iris Team. Clay is the one tough battle imo.

3:55 I think this is the closest I've ever seen to a pokemon youtuber recommending playing pearl

So how about an Electric type mono type video next since Pikachu is kinda a starter Pokemon as well.

I actually feel like Water types have become more difficult to obtain lately. It might be my bias but with how they disposed of the rods in recent games and how nerfed it was in Alola (only able to be used in certain spots). I feel like that blocks most water types until you get surf and that has become one of the latest substitute for HM’s. Also any clue what type you are considering next?

Johto let's you get Polywag before the first gym

Great video, but I’m surprised you waited until after “Water-Type Month” to post it.

I'd like to see thos done but for psychic ghost and dark teams

I did my water run in Arceus. Overall though the type you choose in Hisui matters very little, I learned

Ice and Dragon would be interesting to cover, considering rarity and difficulty to obtain. I did those two in SwSh, but like all of my monotype runs I just restored to getting eggs from another file cause a lot of the cool Pokemon just show up too late in the game for my liking.

Its just funny to me because sapphire was the first game I got my hands on and i had a team of a Swampert, Pelipper, Lanturn, Relicanth Wailord and Kyogre. Lol

You can actually catch wiglett very early on before you even get to the second town you just have to take a detour

I did Water the most in my Monotype Runs, but I'll talk about my run in Black. I did get a Panpour before the third Gym, it just took me an hour of waiting for rustling grass. For the rest of the team, Samurott was consistently good, Seismitoad and Swanna covered the weaknesses to Electric and Grass, Carracosta and Jellicent were the tanks. Jellicent even toxic stalled Hydreigon to death.

just clicked the video bc i just started a sapphire run with water only on my GB micro, and just play when taking a shi-...yeah

Now that the starter types are done, ground type? Also if you do fairy (and dark/ steel to a lesser extent), will you factor in the Pokémon that were given that type retroactively? Or just as they were when that region was first released? And will remakes factor in at all?

I played hoenn many times with water only and it is easy, even against the Twins.

I guess you can get the basculin by trading somebody a mimicno in Dirftmal city

I'd honesty say Hoenn (particularly RSE since I'm more familiar with them) would be the easiest games for a mono water team especially with mudkip since there's barely any trainers with grass coverage to take out Swampert or Whiscash.

This gonna take a long time for all the types to be covered.

I tried a water nuzlocke, but had to stop after I lost my shellos. Couldn't go on without my Squishy :(

S/V no doubt. once you get the swimming after beating the second titan you can catch any water type in the game

Water type is the best!!

Hoenn no doubt

Gen 2 or its remake since Totadile is easily the best starter water type I HATE MUDKIP since Torchic in that game is SO much better.

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Not only that, but you cannot even have Panpour if you have chosen Oshawott. Imo, its kinda unfair to Paldea that you included the Isle of Armor for Galar, why you didn't include Kitakami for Paldea. Galar is imo the best though, due to the lack of an Electric type specialist and the only threat being Milo. Like, you aren't limited to Sobble only early game, due to the wild area, but also due to you being able to catch Lotad (Shield), Chewtle, Magikarp and Arrokuda on Route 2. So you can essentially already have a team of six before you even attend the ceremony in Motostoke, which is the most out of any other region. Even Paldea, with its Open World aspect suffers water types early on

Why is hisui here?

9:22 squtile is only in ultra sun and moon

calling the video mono-type water team heavily implies that you would only use mono type pokemon that are water. so no dual typings.

7.8 out of 10 video. Too much water.

I stick by what o said in a previous video: ‘which game is best for monotype X’ is a redundant concept because Pokémon games are too easy and made for elementary schoolers. If I’m doing a challenge run I don’t want to make it easier! The better video concept is ‘worst region to monotype X !’. That interests me .

Water should have another weakness. Way too good