The BEST Pokémon Of EVERY Type In Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- In today's video we go over what the BEST Pokémon of every type in Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are. Sinnoh has a pretty diverse cast of Pokémon so it was interesting to narrow it done to just one Pokémon for each typing but, by golly, I did it!
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It's unfortunate that BDSP decided to stay so close to Diamond/Pearl as Platinum's the best version. BDSP should've been better with: earlier access to many Pokemon, going based off Platinum, actual realized 3D game, reusable TMs, more content, and having post Gen 4 Pokemon. The UnderGround is a great addition though
I feel they are going to remake Platinum too down the line
@@christianthomey7352 I don’t think there will be a Plat remake, Legends Arceus is coming out next year, so chances are that’s acting as a Plat remake (or equivalent of).
I agree with everything except 3D 👍
Your absolutely right but don’t forget about the gym leader rematches too because that helps a lot.
I mean it’s supposed to be a remake of diamond and pearl so of course they would wanna stay close to the originals
Got addicted to pokémon again bc of this man 😂
Me too! Made me buy a whole switch just to play Pokémon again
The Pokemon Pusher lol
i just got shining pearl and when i went to heal my pokemon the first time, the healing song sent me back to 10 year old me playing on my DS Lite
@@who_k_nows just wait until you get the DS Sounds item.
When I started to play pokemon games on an emulator I was looking for best teams and this guy came through big for me. I haven't played pokemon games sense gen 3 fire red until my younger brother got sword and wanted me to get shield(keep in mind he was born a year after gen 3).
As someone who never owned a DS and thus never had the chance to play the og Diamond and Pearl, I’ve been really enjoying my run in a region that is new to me. My team as of now is:
Empoleon
Magnezone
Stararptor
Roserade
Houndoom
Snorlax
Nice! I got empoleon, magnezone, garchomp, gallade, houndoom, and mismagius!
This team is very susceptible to fire/fighting type. Aka infernape. So be careful 👍🏽
Sick, I did infernape, Luxray, roserade, togekiss, weavile, and garchomp
That's a badass team, even with double steel.
I think that Magnezone is a Pokémon that doesn’t get enough attention. The steel / electric typing is fantastic, and the 4x weakness to ground can be counted by magnet rise.
See I want to say Magnezone is the best but I remembered Staraptor with Close Combat exists, but it also has a really high special attack stat so I'm sure it can revenge kill it but it's also so slow that I feel the next mon will be able to hit and take it out that's why I'm kinda leaning to Raichu since it has 110 speed it will be able to outspeed everything but Crobat
Or levitate
I'd argue Gastrodon is the best water and ground type in BDSP.
It has the possibility burn the opponent with Scald, great defenses, recover, 2 immunities (if you have Storm Drain), increased special attack if hit with water moves, earth power, and ice beam.
Easy to take out, with grass moves. Grass knot that mf
@@jonnybones6952 that argument makes no sense you can say that about any typing. Water/Ground is one of the best typings there ever was.
@@jonnybones6952 don’t send it in against a grass move then, ez solution
Yeah, Gastrodon was the unexpected star of my team. Very fun to use. It's a little slow at times, but takes hits really well.
@@jonnybones6952 Empoleon has 3 weaknesses (electric, ground, fighting) compared to gastrodon who only has one. That makes Gastrodon better in that aspect compared to Empoleon. Plus, Immunity to Electric, which makes it a good switch in. It Also has Storm Drain, which gives it immunity to Water as well, so that means Gastrodon completely walls two entire gyms and gym leaders. Gastrodon is also bulkier stat-wise than Empoleon. Even if you find a grass type, you could just choose not to send out Gastrodon. That's what your other pokemon are for. Plus, chances are, it can live through a stab grass knot due to its massive bulk. Water is one of the best types in the game, Ground is also one of the best types in the game. Combining two of the best types that has amazing synergy with each other, plus good ability and stats makes this awesome pokemon.
Though Empoleon is better coz you can get it earlier and has better attack and speed stats
I know Luxray isn’t nearly the best electric type, but I still am gonna use it because it cool
Idk I like mine because it has insane stats
He's pretty much my starter at this point 😂
@@kitty.miracle meh yours just suck
"Gyarados and Empoleon are the best Water types you can get in BDSP"
*Me:* laughs in Gift Egg Manaphy
Who uses legendarys
@@justinterry2926 10 year olds.
@@justinterry2926 Mythicals
@@justinterry2926 You also get 3 free mythicals
@@SERMareep2007 same thing as legendarys and who uses them
Dude crobat is honestly so under rated. Iv used it my whole play through and it honestly slaps everything. Cross poison and pluck have been sweeping everything so far. Iv been loving it!
Also taunt and haze. Those moves saved my ass against Cynthia when she tried to set up swords dance
Mega Drain and Cross poison carried me my first playthrough
Shoutout to mew since it can learn all the TMs which can be bought relatively early, allowing for fire/psychic/electric/fairy (others available), great coverage with high power and special scaling lets you solo anything as long as you remember to go to a pokemon center or rest for PP, because you will 1 shot almost everything
Snorlax is a great pick for best Normal type, and it might very well be the best Normal type overall (as in, for the majority of the playthrough). But I would have at least given an honorable mention to Blissey, who can single handedly take care of 4 of Cynthia's 6 pokémon (or 3, if you're playing on Set mode and you are unfortunate enough for Milotic to come out while your Blissey is not in battle)
There should be a best team for post game, meaning gym and elite four rematches with maybe a palmer matchup thrown in. Maybe to help the restrictions could be no hidden ability starters and you have to include at least one of the Sinnoh starters
So far the team for battle tower is using is a mixed attacking dragonite with life orb, huge power azumarill with belly drum and sitrus berry, and sash Gengar.
@@hmohngcheelee7549 my desire to be unique is going to make my run much harder than it could be as it does with most things in life. Right now I'm dead set on using swampert and either Lati@s with an unknown third maybe Scizor if I decide to pay for online so I can trade
While I see Mystic's take on Houndoom v Drapion, I just can't help but side with my boi Drapion.
Weavile: Do I exist?
I think Togekiss is extremely good. It gets good coverage too
Some one agreas with me
Nice info, thanks!
I am using honchkrow in my brilliant diamond play through so it’s good to see someone recommended it
Great video list mystic
Would love to see a video on top in game team mixes depending on which starter you chose
I think one thing that’s not talked about enough is that Gyarados gets waterfall as early as level 21, which is pretty much it’s best water type move it will use and it gets it very early on. Intimidate also helps its bulk slightly and team utility, plus being immune to ground vs being weak to it. Especially with so many strong ground types in the game. I love empoleon tho and I’m glad it got some good recognition!
Garydos best water type move is a Hydro pump and he has a. Plethora of move sets dragon moves, and being able to use fire type moves as well.
And he gets dragon dance which can easily be set up with his bulky nature
I just started play brilliant diamond yesterday and this is what I’m thinking my final team will be:
Empoleon
Houndoom
Staraptor
Luxray
Roserade
Garchomp
This is very close to the basic sinnoh team you see in memes lol but it still looks sick
@@bigboi-ri1wl this isn’t 100% final but I do agree it does look sick. These are also all Pokémon I haven’t used before.
i'll be honest....luxray isnt worth using cause your stuck using spark on it for the entire main story, tbh if you want my opinion: raichu or magnezone are the better electric options you can use as they're just better then the lynx
Sinnoh starter pack team
@@bulborb8756 You can run a special set with wise glasses
Basing clefable as "the best" just because of coverage was a choice...
In my opinion, togekiss has just as good coverage AND has better stats than clefable. Hits harder, and can also take a hit. I know you think it's "overrated" but I think it deserves a second look. It's one of my strongest team members
It really is
Drapion is much bulkier typing and stat wise, and can still hit hard with Swords Dance. Houdoom in glassy and would fall short in the pkmn league, where drapion can sweep and take hita
Fun fact: swimming is just flying in water and flying is just swimming in the air
9:21 fun fact Giving it quick attack and a fighting move,even rock smash or something gives it basically perfect neutral coverage (atleast for the dex)
Add SD and you basically kill everything
I don't know if you'd be up for suggestions but I'd like to hear your top 3 moves if each type (1 special attack, 1 physical attack, and 1 status move from each category possible) i think you'd make some interesting points to compare with mine.
Mystic Umbreon:”Gyarados has no flying type moves”
Me:”What about Hurricane?”
Bounce: am I a joke to you?
Hurricane is a special move which won't hit hard since gyrados is not a special attacker
Bounce too weak
It’s a special move on a physical attacker
And bounce
Bounce
- for water type: I still love that you can sweep the entire elite 4 and cynthia (except for her milotic, but you have 5 other pokemon for that) with a milotic, and yes, if you are afraid of garchomp, just put dragon pulse in milotic and ohko it. Too bad you get it VERY late, and it's complicated to evolve it.
- for fighting type: so sad gallade wasn't even mentioned. I don't know the location of dawn stone in bdsp, but gallade is still a strong pokemon that can actually learn drain punch.
- 6:33 Can't you go to pastoria city without fighting veilstone Gym? I mean, this games aren't THAT linnear.
- 10:38 Sucker Punch.
- 11:30 Tired of hearing about clefable? What about luxray, staraptor, infernape, lucario, garchomp, snorlax, alakazam, gengar...? Everybody talks a lot of them.
- 13:35 Well, you ALWAYS talk about gengar when about ghost types, and every ghost gym leader have a Gengar (or in platinum fantina's case, a haunter due to how soon the battle is)
- 14:30 So, are we going to pretend togekiss doesen't exist or that is not worth talking about?
I got a Milotic halfway through the gameplay. I love Milotic though, she's a damn tank with recover and leftovers.
Over a decade later and I'm still mad that Luxray isn't an Electric/Dark dual type
I honestly love Toxicroak for poison / fighting. Is it the best? Nah. I just like having it flat out go "No" to water moves if you have one with Dry Skin. Healing in rain with drain punch. Good stuff.
Gastrodon is a beast of a Water/Ground type. Available super early, one weakness, HUGE bulk in Defense and Sp. Def, AND it gets access to Recover for self-healing and Scald for burn chance. It’s RIDICULOUS.
I agree with most of the pokemon on the video but does anyone feel that clefable is overrated because I’ve tried to use it but it’s just too weak and togekiss is a far better option since you can get togepi early game and evolve it fully before the third gym by use of pickup by pachirisu to get a shiny stone so you have the best flying and fairy type in the game for later gyms.
Togekiss is goated - why have a fairy slot when you can take 2 birds with one ball instead. Give you a free slot to choose another mon 😉
I agree too. Clefable has Coverage but what good is it if you can’t dish out the moves ? Togekiss and also Gardevoir might not have its coverage but they can dish out better damage then clefable
Excellent break down!
I've been playing BDSP like crazy. Love the video currently trying to build a team.
Sweet video!!
No
I think considering the big battles would change the rankings as now the big opponents have Good IVs and EVs, particularly the league. When it comes to Cynthia, odds are you wont out-speed unless its Gastrodon, or Unless youre over-levelled. So Picks like Alakazam which depend on hitting first before theyre killed... suffer, so for the psychic type i would have considered if gardevoir's chance to live over alakazam is significant enough. Or if alakazam has enough of an ability to hit those difficult opponents before being hit itself.
This is a rather counter intuitive aspect of BDSP, as glass cannons just dont work, so gameplay styles need to shift to accommodate
I have been using Rotom-W for my electric/water type. Love him!!!!
How do you get Rotom?
I am a HUGE Houndoom fan and used Houndoom on my team but I think Drapion is a bit better because of typing. Poison/Dark is an incredible type giving only one weakness in Ground.
Both of them are a beast with the right moves just give nasty plot to houndoom and with drapion having its ability battle armor with black sludge is pretty good
My Team in BDSP (Though I'm not done yet, I'm taking a break from progression to shiny hunt Dialga, I figure I might try Shiny hunting Legendaries in this game) is as follows:
Starter: Torterra aka the bulldozer that stomps Sinnoh flatter than a pancake
Requisite Water type: Manaphy (I love it), first Mythical I've ever been able to use on a playthrough and I'm not going to deny a Mythical what I've been saying they need for years.
Flyer: Crobat, I always used Staraptor in previous Sinnoh playthroughs (I wonder why) but I've recently grown very fond of Crobat and It's become the second strongest member of my team (also it evolved into a Crobat right after the Second Gym!)
Heavy Hitter: Rampardos. I know I said Torterra and Crobat were the Strongest, but this stony girl (mine happens to be female) is the second fastest member of my team (after Crobat) and is the one who hits the absolute hardest with that oh so beefy attack stat.
Requisite Fire Type: Houndoom. Screw the fact that Infernape is statistically the best fire type, I burned my way through team Galactic with the help of this Loyal Hellhound.
Final Member: The Lucario from Iron Island... funny thing is I told myself I wouldn't be using the Riolu this time, I'd hatch it and put it in the box. But I ended up using him because of how quickly he caught up to the rest of my team... It literally just took going through Byron's gym and the Riolu had evolved and was only a few levels below the team average.
I dunno Mystic, I used Mammowine on my run and found that it was useless during the Elite 4. It would constantly get one-shotted by pokemon with similar levels. On my second elite-4 run, I swapped to Weaville with swords dance + speed + sash and it peformed far better.
Agreed
Weavile is actually one of my favorite Pokémon
Depends on who you use it for. But Ice Shard is important for Mamoswine. Garchomp unless boosted can't one shot Mamoswine. Use one ice shard and it will get it to red and Cynthia will use healing. Or if it only gets to yellow you're guaranteed to KO it. Weavile I'd too frail to survive a hit and Garchomp will outspeed it anyway.
Mamoswine's actually a great pokemon, hell the one i got in the underground was a killer swinub with oblivious, a jolly nature AND knew icicle crash, frankly mamoswine is a very strong pokemon
@@gabrielcarrasco8414 Weavile is faster than Garchomp but I guess it's too frail to survive an attack from Garchomp
dark type: drapion: for those heavy hitting fast pokemon
Flying: what about togekiss specialy bulky and special attack is 120 special attack though i know the speed isn't there but serene grace air slash is very deadly
Fr and it also gets a fighting move like satraptor in aura sphere. And since he used other Pokémons stab type as an argument like magnezone togekiss fairy type is way more useful than staraptors normal type.
Togekiss, while it’s a great Pokémon and all, is just such a pain to get in these games that you’re honestly better off using Staraptor as your Flying type instead. It’s such a pain to have to deal with the stupid Friendship evolution and finding a Shiny Stone to evolve Togetic is also very time consuming. There are also better Fairy type options in this game, such as Gardevoir and Azumarill that are much easier to obtain than Togekiss and in my opinion, more worth it in the end. Heck, I even planned to have Togekiss on my playthrough team for my first playthrough of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, but ended up using Staraptor and Gardevoir instead because of how painful it is to obtain a Togekiss in these games. You’re better off using that Shiny Stone on a Roselia and getting Roserade instead and having a powerful Grass type on your team. Plus, even though Budew and Roselia evolve through the same methods as Togepi and Togetic respectively, you can at least find wild Roselia in the Underground so you won’t have to deal with trying to raise friendship with Budew.
Yes yes it's so good and cute
I've got both Pokemon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl for Christmas but I'm going to wait in January for the news on the update of Wonder Trades and GWS (Global Wonder Station) because they're the important part of the Pokemon Games even though Link Trade is available.
Roserade may have better covarge than Torterra, but catching a budew and evolving it via friendship is annoying and so is finding the shiny stone. Also Torterra has Stab earthquake.
just catch a roseila in the underground if you dont like budew
@@gaugelawson2209 you will still have to get the shiny stone
@@popcorn_enjoyer patients is key roseila aint that bad just go to iron island before the 6th gym and the shiny stone is at the end
@@gaugelawson2209 im not saying that roselia or roserade is bad, but poison isnt the best secondary type compared to ground
@@popcorn_enjoyer do you want to die from 1 ice shard
This video was pretty awesome
Mystic in one video: Honchkrow bad, Crobat bad - Staraptor is the best
Mystic in this Video: Honchkrow is the best, and its a close one between Staraptor and Crobat
Dude, get your shit together! You statements are getting more ridiculous and dump with every video you make.
I’m pretty proud of the Aggron set I just made. Up in defense, down in special attack. Has body slam, iron defense, substitute, and focus punch. Biggest flaw is it can’t hit ghosts.
And no stab
i'd heavily recommend completely reworking that move set at that is just horrendous, if you can get rock head as an ability, do a quick bit of breeding for head smash, and then go with either heavy slam or iron head and some coverage
When it comes to water, you’ve never mentioned Milotic. I took out 4/6 of Cynthia’s team with Milotic.
The recover actually broke me. The same feeling when i was catching suicune. 86 pokeballs, UGHHH
@@nombot0313 pokeballs or ultra balls for suicune?
@@memey6978 ultra quick timers and dusk cuz i was out out pokeballs
Is legends different enough to warrant its own version of this video? First Pokémon game Ives REALLY gotten into for a long time. Love the content!
Is this the first ever video where Mystic praises Torterra?!?!
Lmao
The thing with magnezone is it's so easy to one shot. Ground and fire both put it down immediately. Luxray may not have the move pool, but it's definitely the better option
I'd argue that Clefable isn't that good compared to Gardevoir and Togekiss. STAB and raw stats are more important than coverage in a playthrough situation every time, and Clefable just falls short on both fronts by having lower stats and only a single typing. If I need to use a move that isn't my current Pokémon's stab, I'll usually just switch to a Pokemon who does have that stab, with coverage really just being there as a last resort in most cases.
You can get a Ancient Power Swinub in the underground if you look long enough. You'd miss out probably on the potential Icycle Crash but I think it's worth the grind.
My spuad currently
Azumarill,
Heracross,
Tyranitar,
Metagross,
Infernape,
Garchomp.
I'm constantly back and forth on putting in Snorlax and/or Gengar but not sure who I would remove if I did..
Luxray would have been a contestant for best Electric type if it had access to Play Rough and Psychic Fang like in SwSh and if it would learn Wild Charge A LITTLE earlier than level 92.
Also Drapion could also have been a shout for best Poison type, Togekiss for best Fairy type and Gallade for both psychic and fighting (since you can theoretically have one for the 2nd gym if you grind for a pick up dawn stone)
Nice and big fan
I personally think Electivire is the better electric type given it is only 2x weak to ground and has access to ice punch. pokemon in the underground can have egg moves so it is possible to get one( I got one). furthermore, it is most likely outspeeding most ground types which makes it nearly invincible in a playthrough while magnezone is very slow
i think the main reason magnezone was picked over e-vire is pretty obvious: e-vire can ONLY be found in Diamond as it can't be found in Pearl
@@bulborb8756 he does talk about version exclusives tho for example in this video he said that the best bug type in brilliant diamond is scissor but for shining pearl it’s heracross
I think the reason is that getting the elemental punches is annoying and also the fact that electiwire is a physical electric type which is much worse than being a special electric type also magnezone is slow but it has bulk so it doesn’t matter
Can you also make videos about the best Pokemon of each type including post game Pokemon? :)
Curious- do you consider traditional competitive/the current (and very new) meta when crafting these “best of” lists? I ask because some of the chosen Pokémon moves (and lack of synergy) makes me think these lists are strictly for the average player who just wants to have fun throughout the game(s), or grind them at max efficiency. There definitely seems to be a large overlap with the “strongest” Pokémon themselves, though. I am just missing some of my fave Ground and Water type heavy hitters here.
heres a semi-new series idea. the best pokemon of each type in each generation with only pokemon introduced in the generation counting. for dual types, just pick one type or else it will be just 8 or so pokemon.
I feel like Infernape doesn’t learn Drain Punch because of balancing. Being able to deal huge damage AND healing at the exact same time, I feel it’d be too much for your starter, especially with how early you get Drain Punch.
Drapion is stringer than houndoom imo, due to it's bulk it is absurdly easy to set up with a swords dance or two and after that there arent really any npcs that can stand up to it
I bought TM thunder taught it to my Luxray and god dude what a force now, also put quick claw on my Luxray, boxed my starter and run a 4 Pokémon party for more of a challenge. It’s to easy to use all the meta Pokémon so I just use one and the rest just use Pokémon that catch your eye honestly it’ll give you a harder time with gyms and challenge you to the peak of each fight
Cool video
Fun fact: if you stab a bowl of cereal you will be a cereal killer
Houndoom vs. Drapion: For me it's rule of cool. I would rather roll with a fiery hell-hound than a rejected villain from A Bug's Life.
It’s funny because the way you’re describing using Clefable is exactly how and why I used Blissey in Legends Arceus lololololol
Blissey legit made my life so much easier.
I feel when looking at let's say best electric for example you should be looking at its electric moves and stats not all moves it can learn. Were not worried about it having fairy moves when were talking about its contention for best electric.
I was hoping you would come up with this idea
I used electivire in my playthrough and oh my that thing was way too good. For me thats the best electric but thats my opinion
What moveset do you use for it. I have one on my team, and while it is usually capable of holding its own, I would probably consider it the weakest link on my team.
I never found a use for electivire in ANY game including romhacks LOL it looks cool but has subpar abilities and only pure electric typing, doesn't stand out for any use
i spent quite a bit of time getting some of its egg moves. I ran electivire with fire punch, thunder punch, ice punch, and earthquake. but it’s also fun to run it with brick break or cross chop
@@FoBMaKuLiT Yeah elekids were just too rare for me to hunt one down with both a good nature AND ice punch, so I had to settle with fire punch, my team didn't have any fire types otherwise
@@ethanmontgomery6132 ya my elekid had fire punch and i just found another elekid with ice punch so that i could have them learn it while in the daycare instead of breeding another egg.
Playing BD has got me feeling all nostalgic. I really want to play Gen 2, 3, 5 and 6 again but finding them for a good price is next to impossible. £78 for soul silver at my local shop :((((
WHAT
Use an emulator
Drapion’s my favorite Pokémon, so I think it’s pretty clear where I stand on dark types
Legends Arceus giving Infernape Drain Punch is poetry
Fire:- Ho oH
Water:- kyogre
Electric:- magnezone/rotom-water
Ice:- weavile
Ground:- groudon
Dark:- weavile/crawdaunt
Ghost:- giratina
Fairy:- togekiss
Dragon:- giratina
Psychic:- Mewtwo
Grass:- breloom
Fighting:- blaziken
Flying:- rayquaza
Rock:- T-tar
Bug:- scizor
Normal:- staraptor
Steel:- dialga
Edit:- poison:- gen gen gengar
All those legendary pokemon are super late game so I don’t recommend using them
Feel like Drapion should also been considers for poison
Ancinet power is an egg move for Swinub and Grand Underground mons have egg moves, I caught several Swinub with Ancient Power, so you dont even need a heart scale
i used an altaria in my play through and it’s actually better than you’d think cotton guard dragon pulse moonblast sky attack were my moves and it worked out pretty well against physical pokémon i just used cotton guard twice and could take about anything physical ice punch included shit was a tank and could hit solid
Milotic is my favourite in BDSP. Took me 6 hours to find a feebas but it was so worth it.
For best Psychic, I have to go with Jirachi. Psychic/Steel stomps the Galactic fights since you can switch into a poison move and proceed to dismantle with Psychic.
late to this... I want to suggest though, for both ice and ghost potentially... Frosslass... a powerful special attacker with decent coverage and is faster than it reasonably should be... I understand the arguement that there are better options for either type in theory, but it deserves an honorable mention for both as a solid choice still as it covers both really well
oh, and also he should have mentioned Togekiss for both fairy and flying options as it's stupidly good as either one
Lol, how did he get Peter Castform Griffin to do that voiceover about rosarade 🤣?
An argument for luxray
Luxray is cool
Tbh i think hippowdon is the best ground type in bdsp it has crazy bulks and helps out in e4 with stealth rocks, and sand stream
Well, looks like I used the Best Ground type, Electric type, Steel type, and Flying type in my playthrough of Brilliant Diamond.
Garados has intimidate which means he has somewhat of a defense statt of 118. Also it can dragon dance and Easily set up a full sweep while still beeing a bulky water type. There is a reason why many nuzzlocker are banning Gardos for playthroughs.
Drapion is actually the better Dark Type Pokemon when comparing it and Houndoom for a playthrough simply because of Knock Off. STAB Knock Off is one of the best moves to have in BDSP for the late game. Drapion's bulk and lack of weaknesses often lets it take a hit and Knock Off a Gym Leader's or E4 Member's item which usually reduces that Pokemon's threat level significantly.
Cool, have fun being stuck with an almost useless Skorupi for most of the journey.
@@chrisjohnsen8448 lol Not even. With Exp Share you can have Drapion by right around the 5th Gym (which it completely anihilates). Drapion is also available on its own as a daily binocular Pokemon in the Great Marsh. It's such a good Pokemon from mid to late game. The fact that Drapion trivializes Lucian with Knock Off cannot be overstated. As a Dark Type, making the most of its Dark Type, it's the best for a BDSP playthrough. Houndoom is great for its Fire utility, but Drapion is better at utilizing the Dark type.
Think I'll run Gardevoir for Psychic, anyway, just 'cause "outspeed + OHKO" gets boring and Gardevoir can run a nice tank set with draining kiss
Same for me as well, because Gardevoir maybe kinda bit slow but the flexibility on move pool and the Fairy typing makes her best for me. And she didn't require a trade evolution.
Small point to support Magnezone: sure 4x ground weakness is scary, but using magnet rise would make it completely immune to ground attacks
But fire moves one shot it most of the time also. I tried using it over luxray and was disappointed
Poliwrath is a pretty insane fighting type though, hypnosis, belly drum, drain punch, waterfall gg
Okay, here’s my opinion on what the best Pokémon to use for each typing is in Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl:
Normal- Staraptor
Flying- Staraptor
Fairy- Gardevoir
Honorable Mention: Azumarill
Psychic- Gardevoir
Dark- If the player picks Chimchar, Drapion is the best Dark type option in these games. However, if the player picked one of the other two starters in the Sinnoh region, then Houndoom is the best Dark type.
Fighting- Infernape(only for those who picked Chimchar)/ Machamp(if the player is able to trade and didn’t pick Chimchar)
Steel- If the player picks either Turtwig or Chimchar, Magnezone is the best Steel type available in these games. If the player picked Piplup however, then Empoleon is the best Steel type.
Electric- Magnezone(only if the player didn’t pick Piplup. Otherwise, don’t use an Electric type in these games)
Ground- Torterra(only for those who picked Turtwig / Gastrodon(for players who started with Chimchar) / Hippowdon(for those who picked Piplup) / Garchomp(for those who picked either Chimchar or Piplup and want a more powerful and faster Ground type and are willing to wait until after the seventh gym to obtain it)
Water- Empoleon(for those who started with Piplup only) / Gyarados(for those who didn’t pick Piplup)
Grass- Torterra(only for players who picked Turtwig) / Roserade(only for players who didn’t start with Turtwig)
Fire- Infernape(only for those who picked Chimchar) / Houndoom(only for players who started out with Piplup or Turtwig)
Poison- Roserade(only for the players who didn’t pick Turtwig) / Drapion
Ghost- Gengar
Bug- Scizor(only for players who didn’t pick Piplup and have access to trading) / Heracross
Rock- Golem(only for those who didn’t pick Turtwig and have access to trading) / Sudowoodo
Dragon- Garchomp(only for those who didn’t pick Turtwig and are willing to wait until they have seven gym badges before obtaining it) / Altaria(because it’s the only other option, lol)
Ice- Mamoswine(only for those who didn’t pick Turtwig and are willing to grind for Heart Scales to evolve their Piloswine into Mamoswine) / Weavile
EDIT: And in case you couldn’t tell, I would not recommend using Torterra in these games, unless it’s like your favorite Starter or something because it’s super slow and get outclassed by other Ground types such as Gastrodon, Hippowdon, and Garchomp(even though you can’t get it until late game) and when it comes to the Grass typing, Roserade is just the best Grass type to use period. I’m not trying to discourage anyone who wants to pick Turtwig. I’m just saying that there are better Grass(for example, Roserade) and Ground options.
other grounds that also outclass torterra would be steelix, quagsire and mamoswine, and as for your stand on electric....yeah....your not wrong....electric is pretty underwhelming in Sinnoh cause i think a lot of trainers use pokemon that either resist electric or are a ground type (in my experience....ground types are used quite often with how much you see stuff like the geodude line, onix, steelix, the hippos, quagsire, whiscash and gastrodon)
Scizor is a great pick for both but i do agree that magnizone (sorry if spelt it wrong) is better
Yeah, they really did Luxray dirty with the movepool.
But I'm still taking him to the league XD
Togekiss legit carried my entire playthrough ❤️
Same garchomp killer
I'm fine with honchcrow sharing the spit with staraptor
Nice
I think Snorlax could be tied with Ursaring. It has guts ability with base 130 attack and stab facade is powerful
Drapion hands down best dark type. Battle armor prevents crits and it can take damn near any attack easily and has WAY better coverage.
You also have Sniper and Scope Lens with Night Slash or Cross Poison being a definite hard hitter as well as being speedy
You should have done the second best for fighting fire ground and water so we have a best pokemon of each type no matter what starter we pick
What's your opinion on drifblim? I used him in my 1st playthrough and he was amazing for me
PS: my full team was Infernape, Roserade, Gyarados, Magnezone, Altair & Drifblim
What about Rampardos for the Rock type and Salamance for the Dragon type ? And for steel type honestly I like Aggron 💪
Hold on, somethings not right. MysticUmbreon not roasting Torterra? Unbelievable!
I honestly think that pachirisu is one of the best electric types due to being an amazing support Pokémon with super fang, follow me, nuzzle, charm, sweet kiss, double team and baton pass
And eerie impulse
your talking about a competitive thing here when this is mainly in-game, and even on both sides: pachirisu is terrible
Yes pachirisu is great with its 45 special attack and 45 physical attack great Pokemon just stfu it’s absolutely awful and I hope you are joking
It's absolutely awful in the main games
Why am I getting harassed for liking pachirisu
That flying type section should've went to Togekiss