Grass is good. Is the third type with most weakness after ice n rock . But some those weakness don't matter like bug, since there isn't a lot bug atker. They also resist the best type atk, earthquake
@@Watch-0w1Also the fact that they resist really good and common types like water, ground as you said and electric and that rock type coverage takes down 4/5 weaknesses
I know fire isn't looked down on in the same way as grass, but I sill think fire and grass lovers should share solidarity over being starter types that take an absolutely MASSIVE backseat to water types during the actual games. If you love water types you can pick up literally any pokemon game and make a fully mono team with choices to spare. If you love fire or grass and you want to try mono type, most games you'll be lucky if you can even make a full team.
@@Watch-0w1Actually, bug weakness is very relevant competitively, U-turn is very popular. Grass has good resistances though, ground, electric and water are all excellent, and sort of makes up for the weaknesses.
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
Maybe they wanted to keep that quirky charm of the original Hoenn games prsent in the remakes; you know like only Trapinch learning Earthquake and NOT its evolutions!
@@emperorcubone it's not just a Hoenn quirk though. Plenty of Pokemon learn moves in their first stage form they don't learn later on (looking at you, Growlithe 🥴)
It's actually not an oversight! In most of the games there's an NPC that tells you unevolved pokemon learn moves sooner, or moves their evolutions dont at all!
@@echo5172Sounds about right. I think it's meant to be a cost/benefits type of deal: either go for the immediate power boost or stick with a "weak" mon for better moves.
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 tried doing a grass monolocke in scarlet, sans starter, and the bug gym was a real sticking point for me. Granted, i was only going into it with a few pokemon at most, but i was glad to have an opportunity to use some of those early route grass types Paldea has!
@@Jw87563 I did use him, he was actually one of the ones that made me want to do it in the first place. Given that he's neutral defensively to ice and doesn't have the greatest BST, he kind of under performed as the ice check I was hoping he'd be though. I ended up having to have Cacturne and Brambleghast clean up a lot of mons with priority moves when Scovillan was unable to OTKO and got taken out.
@@ttuesdayy1 I'm actually tempered to try it again with a different team of grass mons. I was thinking of really making it challenging and trying to use weaker stuff like Sunkern and Hoppip, with maybe Chikorita as a starter.
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.
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 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
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 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.
I was curious about fire mono type teams earlier today so I pulled up the big list and did some counting. Most generations you can barely even make *half* a team of mono fire for a playthrough. 8 is the highest number of new fire types in a generation. Water types only have one gen where they get *less than* 8 new ones. In other words, what water type lovers would consider the second *WORST* number of water types in a gen, is literally the same as the *best* fire lovers can get.
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
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!
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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!"
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 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!
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 pretty used that exact mono-Grass team in Emerald once! It was quite fun! I'm excited for Water too because I genuinely have NO idea what the answer might be...
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 saw a mono-steel nuzlocke video and the guy was struggling hard to get through the region. It's actually funny how badly the steel type fared in Kalos. It was on the channel Magcarjoe
Bruh it's very hard to surprass the perfection that was the regular Decidueye. So there ain't no way I was expecting its Hisuian form to be better, if I expected there to be a regional variant for it at all.
@@lipika2841 Decidueye is the first pokemon I think of when it comes to evolution lines where every single stage is a 10/10 for me. Usually theres at least one stage I like even just a tiny bit less than the others. Decidueye is pokemon perfection to me.
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 :)
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'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.
@@emperorcubone no, no, you have to pick Charmander, buy the Magikarp and switch-grind it up, and then roll with just Charmander/Charmeleon/Charizard and Gyarados until you can get a Dratini or Dragonair. if the dragon master Lance uses them, they're Dragon type.
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.
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
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.
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 almost accidentally did a Grass monotype in BW and there's actually a small note. You can get *both* Cottonee and Petilil in both games from an ingame trade, which is a lot given they're really good Grass types. (Also it'll get the trade boosts, which helps.) Sawsbuck is actually pretty decent given Normal and Fighting are just, generally good to have around in this game. Elesa, all her pokemon do have coverage on you but you do shut down her Volt Switch strategy. You can also lie for a Leaf Stone before the third gym for the monkey I actually did do a Johto Grass monotype and it's better than it looks! Chikorita is defensive and bulky so the first two gyms are not that bad at all (you get dual screens really early!), and then all gyms past 4 have all a secret Grass weakness. Even Claire's Kingdra which is trouble for the other two is a much easier time for Meganium. You also get chances for Leaf Stones on the phone pretty early, right after Bugsy thanks to Picknicker Gina, so you can realistically actually have Victreebell and/or Exeggutor (and/or Vileplume) well before the E4. And then after the E4 you get Carnivine and Budew from Sinnoh Sounds. (There's also the Safari Zone but, we don't talk about it.) (Also with the Pokewalker, you right away can get Oddish too and basically right next Sunkern before anything) They're not super free but, they are pretty fun runs.
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
@emperorcubone I think it's based on where I grew up. I grew up on a farm and there were quite a few wooded areas around me as well. They remind me of spring and summer, which is when I'd be able to go play outside more too.
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.
I wouldn't count anything out if you want to take the extra effort (I traded over Pokemon to SoulSilver all the time to start a new file!) but I figured we'd start by talking about the lone kid in room with just the one console and go from there.
@@emperorcubone fair enough, like I said, I did get what you were saying in your video I just wanted to throw that out there. Anyways, I'm just glad Paldea is a pretty decent game for a mono grass run, my husband and I love doing different runs and he's always restarting his game because he thinks of a new run he wants to do instead. Btw, I hope you continue with this series, it sounds fun. Have a lovely Tuesday.
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?
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.
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
This is true; I don't usually like the strategy because I find Pokemon ignoring me infuriating, but all you need is one lucky hit to connect and destroy pretty much anything!
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 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.
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.
It is an improvement, and might put it above Kanto, but that's a whole lot of work with a mild payoff. If you want to do all that you can, but I doubt I would bother trying... (Also you should still make your own version of it!)
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
Yeah no, Ogerpon is THEE single best mon to help round out a mono grass type team. Hearthflame and Cornerstone especially help to deal with Flying and Ice types. Hearthflame is definitely the best since she can shred steel types that Grass mons usually struggle with, and is great into other grass mons and helps with bugs. Another great pickup is Hisuian Lilligant since if you get hustle and a widelens she can destroy steal types after setting up once with Victory Dance.
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.
That's true, and you could always try using a crazy overleveled Pokemon that won't really listen but could still destory the enemy in one hit. Adds extra challenge...
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.
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).
@@emperorcubone You know, rationally I can see why people love Sinnoh. But emotionally, as someone whose favorite type is fire, I will never understand the love for Sinnoh, never agree with it, and never forgive gamefreak for neglecting my spicy babies so completely that it killed my interest in pokemon for ten years. Edit: I was curious so I looked it up. Fire is the only type of the three starters that has a gen with 0 new fire types that arent starters, legendaries, mythics, or new evos for old lines. Even when you include legendaries and mythics, and new evos, there are only 4 gens where you can make a full team, gens 1, 2, 5, and 9.
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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
Yeah it is... mainly due to the Wild Area. Like... Water is the best for a Mono run, as its only weakness is Grass (Due to lack of Electric type specialist), which is instantly remedied in the Wild Area where you can get a Wingull.
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
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.
I actually did a run of both Shield and Violet with only Grass-Types. My Shield Team: Roserade, Ferrothorn, Cradily, Exeggutor, Tsareena, G-Max Rillaboom Violet: Rillaboom, Whimsicott, Gogoat, Rotom-Mow, Ogerpon, Toedscruel
@@emperorcubone Agreed. I really like Rillaboom, and being able to use it after I foolishly chose Cinderace in my normal run through of Shield felt like a breath of fresh air. I'm still bummed that I couldn't reliably use Lilligant (my favorite Grass-Type), but hey, maybe in Hisui.
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
@@isaiahsmith1805 you can use dual type pokemon in mono type runs. The only thing that matters in a monotype run is that every pokemon on your team shares one type
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.
Great point about the rival! People claim Unova didn't have Bugs before the first Gym because it would make the starters unbalanced, but what about Silver stomping out your Bayleef with prejudice!?
To improve Grass, I would make flying no longer resistant to grass type moves (always thought that resist was a weird one!) and add Rock to the resistances. I think this would make Grass more playable.
I say you should do this for every type!
I do think it would be fun to do so, but it depends on if people like it i guess!
tbh... for Water the outcome would also be Galar, since the only weakness is Grass (Due to the lack of an Electric Specialist.
Agree.
@@emperorcuboneI agree with the original commenter, you should do this for all the other types. I think it would be fun.
Came to say I hope this is the start of a new series, glad I'm not the only one!
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
Thanks for throwing my favorite type a bone. Grass always feels a bit looked down upon in a gameplay sense.
Yeah, that can be a rough favorite to have, but I'm glad you like it!
Grass is good. Is the third type with most weakness after ice n rock . But some those weakness don't matter like bug, since there isn't a lot bug atker.
They also resist the best type atk, earthquake
@@Watch-0w1Also the fact that they resist really good and common types like water, ground as you said and electric and that rock type coverage takes down 4/5 weaknesses
I know fire isn't looked down on in the same way as grass, but I sill think fire and grass lovers should share solidarity over being starter types that take an absolutely MASSIVE backseat to water types during the actual games. If you love water types you can pick up literally any pokemon game and make a fully mono team with choices to spare. If you love fire or grass and you want to try mono type, most games you'll be lucky if you can even make a full team.
@@Watch-0w1Actually, bug weakness is very relevant competitively, U-turn is very popular.
Grass has good resistances though, ground, electric and water are all excellent, and sort of makes up for the weaknesses.
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
Maybe they wanted to keep that quirky charm of the original Hoenn games prsent in the remakes; you know like only Trapinch learning Earthquake and NOT its evolutions!
@@emperorcubone it's not just a Hoenn quirk though. Plenty of Pokemon learn moves in their first stage form they don't learn later on (looking at you, Growlithe 🥴)
It's actually not an oversight! In most of the games there's an NPC that tells you unevolved pokemon learn moves sooner, or moves their evolutions dont at all!
@@echo5172Sounds about right. I think it's meant to be a cost/benefits type of deal: either go for the immediate power boost or stick with a "weak" mon for better moves.
@@echo5172Okay, the first stage learns it sure, but to make the final stage able to heart scale it back on but not the middle stage makes zero sense.
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.
My brother ended up with half Grass types in Paldea anyway, so I could see how you would easily get enough for a full team!
If you redo the mono grass run, I think Scovillain will help a lot with Ice types.
I tried doing a grass monolocke in scarlet, sans starter, and the bug gym was a real sticking point for me. Granted, i was only going into it with a few pokemon at most, but i was glad to have an opportunity to use some of those early route grass types Paldea has!
@@Jw87563 I did use him, he was actually one of the ones that made me want to do it in the first place. Given that he's neutral defensively to ice and doesn't have the greatest BST, he kind of under performed as the ice check I was hoping he'd be though. I ended up having to have Cacturne and Brambleghast clean up a lot of mons with priority moves when Scovillan was unable to OTKO and got taken out.
@@ttuesdayy1 I'm actually tempered to try it again with a different team of grass mons. I was thinking of really making it challenging and trying to use weaker stuff like Sunkern and Hoppip, with maybe Chikorita as a starter.
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.
Well maybe now you'll narrow it down on which games to choose! Good luck!
@@emperorcubone I know it's type but would felbebe the fairy holding a flower be a cheap lie it's not grass type but learns alot of grass moves.
I'm laughing at the poor fool that tries a mono-fire run in Sinnoh.
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
Oh I love shiny Vikavolt, congrats!
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
I'm excited to see the other monotype videos
All in good time! :)
This would be a fun series !
And with Fairy you can even do "what if fairies were in Johto" etc
Well for Johto specifically they probably wouldn't be caught until Kanto in the postgame like most things, but it would be interesting!
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’m working on an Alpha Sapphire grass only now: Sceptile, Breloom, Vileplume, Cacturne, Cradily, Ludicolo
I did an Emerald one a long time ago, which is why Hoenn is so highly recommended!
I did mine with roserade and tropius instead of vileplume and catcurne
same!!
Cradily my beloved
Galar getting some much needed love!
Rillaboom is so cool.
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.
I was curious about fire mono type teams earlier today so I pulled up the big list and did some counting. Most generations you can barely even make *half* a team of mono fire for a playthrough. 8 is the highest number of new fire types in a generation. Water types only have one gen where they get *less than* 8 new ones. In other words, what water type lovers would consider the second *WORST* number of water types in a gen, is literally the same as the *best* fire lovers can get.
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
This is very true; no need to wait until level 53 to evolve into the final stage when you can get the stat buffs AND the best attacks right now!
Cant wait for the next type video, love these
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!
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
Monotype content like this is always an easy win! Great stuff!
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
I like this idea for a series, a fire edition will be 🔥
Always a good day when Cubone uploads!
I'm glad we could share it together!
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.
I probably will make them all eventually; which region was Ground assigned?
love this video. makes me want to do more mono type runs
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
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.
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.
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!"
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.
Grass is actually well balenced with water and fire since grass has an insane amount of utility. Powder, drain, ect.
Love this concept! Hope it gets good views so you can make more
You and me both friend! Although 18 videos on the topic would be quite the commitment for anyone to watch...
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've done the early team trading thing, just not for mono-types, but it's a fun way to do it! That's how I started with a Milotic basically!
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 pretty used that exact mono-Grass team in Emerald once! It was quite fun! I'm excited for Water too because I genuinely have NO idea what the answer might be...
Grass types are my favorites, I generally try a mono-grass for my first playthrough of any pokemon game.
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.
Maybe; the amount of variety cannot be overstated!
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
Johto movesets are pretty bad, that's for sure!
Realistically, any mono-type run in Kalos would be a walk in the park.
This is fair, it's really just the Bug type gym being first with only two and half options before you can move on that's a sticking point...
I saw a mono-steel nuzlocke video and the guy was struggling hard to get through the region. It's actually funny how badly the steel type fared in Kalos.
It was on the channel Magcarjoe
"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 mean I like them both (and the Ghost type probably was better for it) but I see your points!
Everybody has His opinion
I have mine
You have you ares
I do not enjoy H. Decidueye slander :(
Bruh it's very hard to surprass the perfection that was the regular Decidueye. So there ain't no way I was expecting its Hisuian form to be better, if I expected there to be a regional variant for it at all.
@@lipika2841 Decidueye is the first pokemon I think of when it comes to evolution lines where every single stage is a 10/10 for me. Usually theres at least one stage I like even just a tiny bit less than the others. Decidueye is pokemon perfection to me.
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 :)
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'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.
Yeah, good luck doing "Mono-Dragon" in Red and Blue; just playing the whole game normally until the Safari Zone...
@@emperorcubone no, no, you have to pick Charmander, buy the Magikarp and switch-grind it up, and then roll with just Charmander/Charmeleon/Charizard and Gyarados until you can get a Dratini or Dragonair. if the dragon master Lance uses them, they're Dragon type.
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.
If you go find all the Digletts before the first gym, you EARNED that Flying type to destroy Milo...
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.
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
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.
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!
Flying is one of the most fun because it's basically mandatory to get a bunch of other dual types!
I almost accidentally did a Grass monotype in BW and there's actually a small note. You can get *both* Cottonee and Petilil in both games from an ingame trade, which is a lot given they're really good Grass types. (Also it'll get the trade boosts, which helps.)
Sawsbuck is actually pretty decent given Normal and Fighting are just, generally good to have around in this game.
Elesa, all her pokemon do have coverage on you but you do shut down her Volt Switch strategy.
You can also lie for a Leaf Stone before the third gym for the monkey
I actually did do a Johto Grass monotype and it's better than it looks! Chikorita is defensive and bulky so the first two gyms are not that bad at all (you get dual screens really early!), and then all gyms past 4 have all a secret Grass weakness. Even Claire's Kingdra which is trouble for the other two is a much easier time for Meganium.
You also get chances for Leaf Stones on the phone pretty early, right after Bugsy thanks to Picknicker Gina, so you can realistically actually have Victreebell and/or Exeggutor (and/or Vileplume) well before the E4.
And then after the E4 you get Carnivine and Budew from Sinnoh Sounds. (There's also the Safari Zone but, we don't talk about it.)
(Also with the Pokewalker, you right away can get Oddish too and basically right next Sunkern before anything)
They're not super free but, they are pretty fun runs.
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
Grass is my favorite type so thank you for showing them some love!
Oh that can be a rough but I'm glad you love them! What makes them your favorite?
@emperorcubone I think it's based on where I grew up. I grew up on a farm and there were quite a few wooded areas around me as well. They remind me of spring and summer, which is when I'd be able to go play outside more too.
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.
I wouldn't count anything out if you want to take the extra effort (I traded over Pokemon to SoulSilver all the time to start a new file!) but I figured we'd start by talking about the lone kid in room with just the one console and go from there.
@@emperorcubone fair enough, like I said, I did get what you were saying in your video I just wanted to throw that out there. Anyways, I'm just glad Paldea is a pretty decent game for a mono grass run, my husband and I love doing different runs and he's always restarting his game because he thinks of a new run he wants to do instead. Btw, I hope you continue with this series, it sounds fun. Have a lovely Tuesday.
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?
I appreciate this outlook; you're completely right, the conversations are so fun!
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.
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
This is true; I don't usually like the strategy because I find Pokemon ignoring me infuriating, but all you need is one lucky hit to connect and destroy pretty much anything!
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 was just waiting for Tropius to show up! I love that guy!
I did a Grass type run in Pokemon Black. It was really tough but gave me a new appreciation for Serperior
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.
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.
It is an improvement, and might put it above Kanto, but that's a whole lot of work with a mild payoff. If you want to do all that you can, but I doubt I would bother trying... (Also you should still make your own version of it!)
@@emperorcubone At some point I will get around to making the video, but it's not a priority of mine right now.
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.
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
It's really easy in Violet due to the many Grass options that provide coverage; especially Meowscarada who is fast and has great coverage.
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!
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.
Im actually doing a mono bug run of Shield right now and its going really well especially with access to Isle of Armor
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.
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.
Yeah no, Ogerpon is THEE single best mon to help round out a mono grass type team. Hearthflame and Cornerstone especially help to deal with Flying and Ice types. Hearthflame is definitely the best since she can shred steel types that Grass mons usually struggle with, and is great into other grass mons and helps with bugs. Another great pickup is Hisuian Lilligant since if you get hustle and a widelens she can destroy steal types after setting up once with Victory Dance.
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.
That's true, and you could always try using a crazy overleveled Pokemon that won't really listen but could still destory the enemy in one hit. Adds extra challenge...
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.
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).
I had to breed a Maractus with Wood Hammer to make it useful, lol
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
Paldea is AWESOME for Grass types. Only needing Ferroseed to help the Dragon and Flying resistance.
I love monotype challenges ♥
If you do one for fire, somehow I don't think it's going to be Diamond or Pearl.
You may be right...
@@emperorcubone You know, rationally I can see why people love Sinnoh.
But emotionally, as someone whose favorite type is fire, I will never understand the love for Sinnoh, never agree with it, and never forgive gamefreak for neglecting my spicy babies so completely that it killed my interest in pokemon for ten years.
Edit: I was curious so I looked it up. Fire is the only type of the three starters that has a gen with 0 new fire types that arent starters, legendaries, mythics, or new evos for old lines. Even when you include legendaries and mythics, and new evos, there are only 4 gens where you can make a full team, gens 1, 2, 5, and 9.
I'm looking forward to your eventual Mono Ghost Type video, since I'm currently doing one in Infinite Fusion. (Modern mode)
Well I can already tell you not Red and Blue!
funnily enough I started a Grass Mono-Type run in Sword a few days ago
Nice! How's the team looking?
@@emperorcubone Rillaboom, Shiftry, Venusaur, Flapple and Tangrowth so far; haven't quite decided on whose going to take up the final spot yet
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.
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 really love trading over teams like that! I did it all the time for HGSS and White 2!
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
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!
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.
I Believe you in Hoenn I think you probably beat emerald with grass types
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
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.
I did an electric mono type run in galar. It might be the best region for a few mono type runs.
Yeah it is... mainly due to the Wild Area.
Like... Water is the best for a Mono run, as its only weakness is Grass (Due to lack of Electric type specialist), which is instantly remedied in the Wild Area where you can get a Wingull.
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
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.
They actually added some decent Ground types (Garchomp, Gliscor, Torterra, Gastrodon, etc.) and I guess Normal, maybe?
Fire types!
Oh wait you said "add a lot of" not "completely ignore".
Johto Grass sounds like a fun challenge tbh
Victreebell is a beast in gen 1, better than some legendaries
You're not wrong!
I actually did a run of both Shield and Violet with only Grass-Types.
My Shield Team: Roserade, Ferrothorn, Cradily, Exeggutor, Tsareena, G-Max Rillaboom
Violet: Rillaboom, Whimsicott, Gogoat, Rotom-Mow, Ogerpon, Toedscruel
I'm glad Rillaboom made it to both! Such a fun Pokemon...
@@emperorcubone Agreed. I really like Rillaboom, and being able to use it after I foolishly chose Cinderace in my normal run through of Shield felt like a breath of fresh air. I'm still bummed that I couldn't reliably use Lilligant (my favorite Grass-Type), but hey, maybe in Hisui.
Grass is my 2nd fav type so this will be fun
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
Meowscarada's a dual type not a mono type
@@isaiahsmith1805???
Mono grass team run Pokemon with secondary type.
@@isaiahsmith1805 you can use dual type pokemon in mono type runs. The only thing that matters in a monotype run is that every pokemon on your team shares one type
Rotom Mow isn’t a grass type in platinum🥲 unless remake
I know, I said POST-Platinum, Which I guess for Sinnoh just means BDSP...
@@emperorcubone it’s sad how grass is shafted a lot… this is coming from someone who doesn’t use grass type starters.
Funnily enough, when my girlfriend did a casual playthrough of Shield, at one point her team was Thwackey/Gossifleur/Steenee/Cherubi/Applin 😂
9:34 "Arcobatics" 😂😂😂
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.
Great point about the rival! People claim Unova didn't have Bugs before the first Gym because it would make the starters unbalanced, but what about Silver stomping out your Bayleef with prejudice!?
To improve Grass, I would make flying no longer resistant to grass type moves (always thought that resist was a weird one!) and add Rock to the resistances.
I think this would make Grass more playable.
Yeah, I get why Flying is super effective, but if a bird flys into a tree it still hurts a lot!
I'm currently going through every region using only poison types (in Johto atm), so I'm curious about your video for it.
Honestly Poison seems to peak early and somehow get harder with time...