@@paxsondavies1575 13:45 explains! No other Pokemon is as good a gym defender as Blissey! Blissey is the ONLY Pokemon who can have a horrible IV but STILL be a great Pokémon to defend a gym. If you are not spending money in the game to buy Pokécoins, you can earn them through defending gyms. This Pokémon is the best at gym defense to earn coins, despite being bad at battle. No other Pokemon is as good a gym defender as Blissey. This will get you 50 free coins/day! Yay!
Returning player, got back into it as my son plays and he spurred me to pick it up again. Now it's a competition between him and I. These videos have helped me look out for who I need in m roster
Honorable gym/raid mentions: - Tyranitar (dark and rock, both are exceptional) - Rhyperior (rock & ground again both amazing) - Slaking (big CP gym defender feels like a raidboss when taking down) - Machamp (great replacement for Lucario since Riolu/candy is pretty hard to get) - Sylveon & Togekiss (great fairy types to take down pesky dragons with ease next to your ice types) - Roserade (exceptional as both grass and poison attacker) - Gengar (basic is good but especially Mega is unforgiving, there is no better mewtwo raid/psychic grinder)
Swampert most essential by long long run Good in great league, ultra league, master league. One of the best water and ground type for raid battle. It has a shadow and also has a mega (unreleased).
I like to catch Eevee. The reason is because it's evolutions are versatile. The Eeveelutions cover 17 types either offensively or defensively. They also each only cost 25 Candy to evolve, making them very budget-friendly. Here is a List of the covered types. The Bug type is covered by Flareon and Sylveon. The Dark type is covered by Sylveon. The Dragon type is covered by Glaceon and Sylveon. The Electric type is covered by Leafeon. The Fairy type is covered by Flareon. The Fighting type is covered by Espeon and Sylveon. The Fire type is covered by Vaporeon. The Flying type is covered by Glaceon and Jolteon. The Ghost type is covered by Umbreon. The Grass type is covered by Flareon and Glaceon. The Ground type is covered by Glaceon, Leafeon, and Vaporeon. The Ice type is covered by Flareon and Vaporeon. The Normal type is the ONLY type uncovered by the Eeveelutions. The Poison type is covered by Espeon. The Psychic type is covered by Umbreon. The Rock type is covered by Leafeon and Vaporeon. The Steel type is covered by Flareon, Jolteon, and Vaporeon. The Water type is covered by Jolteon and Leafeon.
@@amygordon101: *Two ways to obtain it:* • Evolve an Eevee named 'Kira' _(only works once)._ • Set an Eevee as a buddy, earn 70 hearts with it, then evolve it.
I go with celebi, melmetal and empoleon. Celebi mainly to deal with swampert as its super weak to grass type. What i think is more important is to play out your team you know, like catching charged moves on low hp pokemons, fast switching, counting opponents fast attacks until next charged move. All of them play a very good role. But i will try your team. Sounds pretty good to me.
Blissey is a fun gym defender but gym defenders in general are useless. The only Gym Defense is a Golden Beryy, any defender topples quickly when facing a half decent attacker
Yh especially with the cp drop, can take blissey out with any decent attacker when it’s not been fed for a while or just punch it to death with machamp and cross chop
I was actually struggling between machamp and lucario on this list lol. Ultimately, I settled with luc because of how strong it is. But yes machamp is a great pickup.
Should have gone with machamp especially since it has a shadow version and is better in almost every situation gl, ul, ml, raids, only slightly behind in gym battles against blissey types. In otherwords lucario is completely non essential because it's easily replaced by a COMMON pokemon
Totally agree,, I finally got a good metagross and it takes forever to get his meteor mash off . I also would prefer Giratina... I use my rhyperior more than any other pokemon for attacking and defending gyms. Rock wrecker takes out pretty much everybody. Did this guy even mention him?????
Mewtwo is overrated because generalists always lose to specialists. I do have 4 at level 40 and shadow at level 42, but mostly just for show, rarely the best attacker for raids. Some fun in master league but other pokemon are just as good if not better.
Never had trouble taking down a Blissey that wasn’t constantly being fed berries. I still use my 100% Chansey bc she has great stats and still falls below 1500CP making her ideal for low-maintenance long-term defense (due to slow motivation decay).
Really if you have anything with solid fighting type moves like any decent Machamp and you know when to dodge, Blisseys are a cakewalk now. Not nearly as bad as those level 10 gyms back in the day constructed out of walls of Blissey.
Tyranitar was absolutely essential in the earlier days of Pokémon go for sure! I would have pry still had it on the list somewhere for that reason alone.
@@AFR0MAMBA With Aura Sphere, Lucario tops Machamp for gyms and raids. Generally, Machamp is considered better for PvP. Now, if you have a Shadow Machamp, you will have the best of both.
Essential mons shouldn't include unobtainable/raid locked stuff like legendries. It should include relatively obtainable mons with good stats and multiple uses e.g. community day stuff (Machamp, starters). Only legendary/mythical that should be allowed on a list like this is Melmetal because anyone can get one and max it to 50 if they are able to.
I strongly disagree. Most raid locked Pokémon can still be obtained through trades, special research, events, etc. This list should serve as sort of an "end goal" for players. Otherwise, I would have called the video "Top Ten Budget Pokémon"
@@CountJinsulaOfficial How many legendaries would you have to trade to get a good one? How likely is it that you can get a lucky trade? If a legendary is out for a month a f2p/casual player would have to catch close to every legendary they raid for the month to even think about maxing one, and even then you need more than one of each legendary maxed to make use of their power over time. And besides obtainable doesn’t necessarily mean “budget”. That’s what nests and exclusive events are for. Nice to see you reply though, was not expecting it 😊
It is always going to be difficult for f2p players, unfortunately. After going f2p myself, I am only able to do maybe 50 Legendary Raids total per month. Like many things in the game, luck plays a big factor. But I think Niantic could do more to help. Mewtwo is one of, if not the best Pokémon to have, but aside from Shadow Mewtwo from Giovanni, theres no real way to get one outside of raiding. Hopefully, Niantic will fix this and give us different ways of getting it. Thanks for the feedback!
@@ProTuneHD you get enough best friends, your odds of one/more of them going lucky goes way up. and most of us who have played long enough to be best friends no doubt have a spare mewtwo, most of which will be glad to get rid of, since they are getting rid of a bad mewtwo and free up 1 spot, plus a chance go to hundo on what you get from whatever they trade up back... Me speaking as someone who had a bunch of bad mewtwo (and no hundo yet, a 15/15/13 is my best). I am not a f2p player and definitely not casual. casual players shouldn't even count (a former coworker of mine was one, he played on bus commutes and the few times he'd go raiding with me (pre-pandemic), he didn't have much worth trading, but even he had spare legendaries. About 1/5 of my friends are lucky now (51/268), and that's after the last distance-trade event (I had probably 80 lucky friends before then)
Dialga gets bodied by pokemon like melmetal. Or even fairy, ice, and steel types. You have to use him very carefully. Balancing dialga with a good team might do the trick but since i go with a fairy/psychic and melmetal, i take care of dialga pretty easily. As for togekiss, i agree. The dps is very good
Dialga is what Master League is built upon. If you don't have a specific answer for Dialga, you will lose. I agree, even if Melmetal and Metagross are more annoying Dialga is more devastating.
I have a few pokemon to mention. I used to be a hardcore player, but now I'm more casual so I have some lesser known pokemon. You mentioned Blissey because of gym defense, but the problem is you can only put one of each kind of pokemon, so Blissey, Slacking, and TTar are the first ones stuck in. I have a 100% level 40+ Clefable. With charm, dazzling gleam, and meteor mash, she hard counters fighting types and hits Lucario for neutral damage. Unlike Blissey, she does enough damage to use as an attack if you choose. Next is Scizor. Great typing and fury cutter with x scissor is great for burning shields. Give it iron head for a seal attack. Gardevoir with charm/dazzling gleam/shadow ball is another one of those good defenders and I love attacking with her. Gyrados is next. Unlike Kyogre, it resists ground attacks so it is a good gym defender and I prefer it as my go to water attacker, for budget reasons, and they also have a dragon charge move. I use 3 lvl 40 ones. Obviously Machamp, but you covered that... Finally, I love Arcanine. Mine is from 2016. 3078 cp so far. Fire fang/flamethrower/wild charge. I love it for team rocket battles, taking down gyms, and can catch people in battles.
Gyarados is a solid attacker, but I wouldn't so much say good defender. That x4 weakness to electric types gets exposed really hard should anyone have a halfway decent Jolteon.
As a city player, can't stress enough how important a good IV Blissey is. Also, NEVER put Tyranitar in gyms. We all laugh when it's in gyms since it goes down in about 4 seconds
@@DaGGzu Both Rock and Dark are weak to fighting types, and since T-tar is a Rock/Dark dual type, any fighting type moves it gets hit by hurt 4x as much. It pretty much instantly dies to any fighting type with a backbone like Machamp, since not only are the fighting type moves highly super effective, they're also STAB (Same Type Attack Boost). T-tar doesn't stand a chance in defense.
I think we all know who truly is the most essential pokemon: Sharpedo. It's literally a shark torpedo that you can use for JAWS reenactments on the beach after naming em "Bruce".
I agree swampert is top tier. Also think groudon and kyogre should be a bit higher since they are OP in master league. Also believe machamp is far stronger than lucario, but we can agree to disagree.
I’m a relatively new player struggling with who to power up and evolve and never seem to even win many pvp’s or team good leaders and getting very frustrated. Also , I have not even encountered a Rayquaza yet! 😢Any idea how or why not (level 30)? Ty -appreciate any help
Hey man! Appreciate all the content as a new player! But I like taking notes when I watch and sometimes if you don’t have the names up of the Pokémon and just your names/ number codes I miss them!
You have melmetal, blissey, and lucario but no ttar, machamp, giratina, or reshiram? Even dragonite has lost a lot of meta relevance unless you have a shadow one.
Sounded like a middle school persuasive essay "use this because......... sure it may not...... But......." you should improve on the script but thank you for the information 👍👍💯
It would be so dope if niantic added a third charge move in pvp but the charge move is a special like healing or sleep or just buff moves. I don’t know how they would adjust the shields since those moves don’t do damage
Absolutely. More damage-inducing fast/charge moves will overpower Mewtwos, Dialgas, Groudons and the like. But stat-inducing moves will spice things up while allowing a fair amount of balance. Great idea!
Great solid list. Gengar and Snorlax should be an honorable mention. Snorlax is Good for defense as well as pvp. And mewtwo you want psystrike and ice beam.
I been doing the Kanto cup with nidoqueen mew and psychic raichu and I’ve had great luck managed to get to level 20 in the battles and have caught 4 legendary
Overall pretty good list,lucario is good and all but the availability of it makes it terrible so you could use something like hariyama instead. A Pokemon i was hoping to see whas rypherior because it's an absolute unit especially with its Cday move
Surprised you didn’t mention beedrill.. it’s not the best Plant but it’s so under rated. I know its part of the one research task , the mega task. But that’s also why it’s a good one to have , make sure you get a get 3* or even 4* (shiny if lucky😂..) and then you’ll eventually build it up and get the mega candy for free…from that task 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️ obviously it can’t be used in to pvp too much when in mega form , but it is extremely useful I’m other ways . Especially in mega form against team Rocket grunts & bosses. Plus , it’s shining mega looks insaneeeeeeee 😩😩😩🔥🔥🔥
Should add machamp in... not many people is able to get lucario, but machamp is much more easily to get and with good iv shadow machamp, should be able to do 3* raid solo...
For the number 10 pokemon, it won't let me connect to pokemon home, I always enter the correct password for my Nintendo account but it always says unable to connect
Megas would be included if it was a top 15 for sure. I would have pointed out that you don't have to raid for Mega Energy. You can stack up research tasks that award it and power up a pokemon.
Here’s a list of the ones I have Melmetal: yes Dragonite: yes Mamoswine: yes Groudon: yes Kyogre: yes Rayquaza: yes Metagross: yes Lucario: no Blissey: yes Mewtwo: yes
You don't get your coins until your pokemon gets knocked out. Weekly streaks mean nothing. Leave weak pokemon and create an opposing team player that can easily take 'em out.
@@CountJinsulaOfficial Ah, ok. I’m stoked for that move!!! I have my Lucarios ready for it! I was so stoked for Mega Absol! His hundo M is so strong maxed out! Lucario would be a MURK MACHINE in MEGA!!!! Mine is only a 96 15/14/14 or so and he kills hard AF against a lot of the larger battling Pokémon that people lean towards with amazing efficiency!!! I can’t wait to see that announcement!!! I hope they mega Sableye too!!!!🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
I really wanted to include him, but I just find so many uses for the top ten that I did include. Maybe in the future, once the garchomp mega is released, I'll redo this video.
Do you have a starter guide video? OR an how to (get there video)** ,are all of these not hard to get for a person just starting out tommorrow? Like a hot tips video for beginner Pokémon go trainers? Like what questions would they have to answer? …things to note 444_44
Shadow Salamance should have been on this list as it's number 1 dragon pokemon....... I just caught a 98% shadow bagon....... I have a hundo lucario though
The way I say Rayquaza is the official pronunciation. ;)
Sounds horrible lol
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Errtoso... I need friends :(
Lol came to the comments to tell you to stop saying it like that xD
@@ertosoomg4658 ill add you
No it's not, sorry to break it to you, it will always be ray-qwa-zah
These are the top 10:
1. Mewtwo
2. Blissey
3. Lucario
4. Metagross
5. Rayquaza
6. Kyogre
7. Groudon
8. Mamoswine
9. Dragonite
10. Melmetal
Thx
Why blissey?
@@completely1cky483 why would a RUclipsr pin a comment about their whole video haha
@@paxsondavies1575 13:45 explains! No other Pokemon is as good a gym defender as Blissey! Blissey is the ONLY Pokemon who can have a horrible IV but STILL be a great Pokémon to defend a gym. If you are not spending money in the game to buy Pokécoins, you can earn them through defending gyms. This Pokémon is the best at gym defense to earn coins, despite being bad at battle. No other Pokemon is as good a gym defender as Blissey. This will get you 50 free coins/day! Yay!
Returning player, got back into it as my son plays and he spurred me to pick it up again. Now it's a competition between him and I. These videos have helped me look out for who I need in m roster
I'm the only one that plays pokemon go in my family
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Who has the best pokemon?
@@Akubla Jesus christ, i am probably the only one that plays it in my neighboorhood
Same with meand my mum. Got herback into pogo n i beat her. No.... Destroy all her pokemon in battles
first 2 minutes is like me trying to fill in the last 75 words in an essay.
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
🤣
I skipped to 2 minutes and heard “to be the best like no one ever was” and started dying😭
Honorable gym/raid mentions:
- Tyranitar (dark and rock, both are exceptional)
- Rhyperior (rock & ground again both amazing)
- Slaking (big CP gym defender feels like a raidboss when taking down)
- Machamp (great replacement for Lucario since Riolu/candy is pretty hard to get)
- Sylveon & Togekiss (great fairy types to take down pesky dragons with ease next to your ice types)
- Roserade (exceptional as both grass and poison attacker)
- Gengar (basic is good but especially Mega is unforgiving, there is no better mewtwo raid/psychic grinder)
Cool, my shundo Rhyperior is actually useful
I am a new player but I hatched few togepis … one of them is a 4* togetic now so yeah its not useless thanks haha
Togekiss is number 1 fairy type
what about Garchomp? I think it's the best generalist Pokémon after Mewtwo.
Slaking is my favourite gym defender. Due to yawn, its attack is basically zero and it's not that bulky either. Super easy to take down.
Swampert most essential by long long run
Good in great league, ultra league, master league.
One of the best water and ground type for raid battle.
It has a shadow and also has a mega (unreleased).
but it needs legacy move water cannon to make it good in PVP.
@@ankhmorpok1497 yes ofcourse !
Yeah. Mega garchomp is going to be one of the strongest Ground type attacker when that mega gets dropped.
Swampert! I can take down almost anything with mine.
You need to have a part 2 & 3 to this video, almost all the legendaries are difficult to power up
Mewtwo is everything
I have a 100% shadow mewtwo fully powered up but I’ve been waiting to get rid of Frustration
Missed your chance I guess then. There was an opportunity a few weeks ago
So is it better to not Purify??
@@jb9494 Never purify a good mewtoo.
@@london19657 damn it. I didn’t know I already did
@@london19657 and a shadow ho-oh?
I like to catch Eevee. The reason is because it's evolutions are versatile. The Eeveelutions cover 17 types either offensively or defensively. They also each only cost 25 Candy to evolve, making them very budget-friendly.
Here is a List of the covered types.
The Bug type is covered by Flareon and Sylveon.
The Dark type is covered by Sylveon.
The Dragon type is covered by Glaceon and Sylveon.
The Electric type is covered by Leafeon.
The Fairy type is covered by Flareon.
The Fighting type is covered by Espeon and Sylveon.
The Fire type is covered by Vaporeon.
The Flying type is covered by Glaceon and Jolteon.
The Ghost type is covered by Umbreon.
The Grass type is covered by Flareon and Glaceon.
The Ground type is covered by Glaceon, Leafeon, and Vaporeon.
The Ice type is covered by Flareon and Vaporeon.
The Normal type is the ONLY type uncovered by the Eeveelutions.
The Poison type is covered by Espeon.
The Psychic type is covered by Umbreon.
The Rock type is covered by Leafeon and Vaporeon.
The Steel type is covered by Flareon, Jolteon, and Vaporeon.
The Water type is covered by Jolteon and Leafeon.
They now cover all 18 with Flareon's Superpower.
Please help me find a Sylveon
😮😢
@@amygordon101:
*Two ways to obtain it:*
• Evolve an Eevee named 'Kira' _(only works once)._
• Set an Eevee as a buddy, earn 70 hearts with it, then evolve it.
@@Inspirator_AG112 Thank you very much!
In ultra league my go to team is swampert, mewtwo, and lugia. They chew up just about everything with a few exceptions
I go with celebi, melmetal and empoleon. Celebi mainly to deal with swampert as its super weak to grass type. What i think is more important is to play out your team you know, like catching charged moves on low hp pokemons, fast switching, counting opponents fast attacks until next charged move. All of them play a very good role.
But i will try your team. Sounds pretty good to me.
What rank have you reached in pvp?
Tyranitar is a beast. So useful with Smackdown Stonedge OR Bite Crunch. It's tanky. I use it all the time
i have both
I want tyranitar😭
@@idc._uri5113 it spawned like crazy during go fest. But i dont use tyranitar. Doesnt fit my team.
Fighting wrecks tyrannitar, so probably why it didn't make the list.
Thankful to have a hundo Mewtwo back in the EX raid days
Very nice 👍
Those were the days.
Same
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@@ertosoomg4658 I added u brah, wanna send each other gifts I’m out of balls ):
Blissey is a fun gym defender but gym defenders in general are useless. The only Gym Defense is a Golden Beryy, any defender topples quickly when facing a half decent attacker
Exactly. If someone wants to take down your gym, they will. Blissey just makes it more annoying.
Yh especially with the cp drop, can take blissey out with any decent attacker when it’s not been fed for a while or just punch it to death with machamp and cross chop
shocking to not see machamp, just because of how easy the candies are to farm. good list though, well done
I was actually struggling between machamp and lucario on this list lol. Ultimately, I settled with luc because of how strong it is. But yes machamp is a great pickup.
How are his candies easy to farm? He doesent spawn in the wild anymore
@@user-yh6dq2hl2t I think he meant because of how recent his community day + kanto day spawns
I haw a shundo machamp!
Should have gone with machamp especially since it has a shadow version and is better in almost every situation gl, ul, ml, raids, only slightly behind in gym battles against blissey types. In otherwords lucario is completely non essential because it's easily replaced by a COMMON pokemon
I think instead of metagross I would have said Origin Giratina. It counters lot of raid boss and its very strong for ML.
Totally agree,, I finally got a good metagross and it takes forever to get his meteor mash off . I also would prefer Giratina... I use my rhyperior more than any other pokemon for attacking and defending gyms. Rock wrecker takes out pretty much everybody. Did this guy even mention him?????
makes sense, but getting metagross is more accessible these days
From the amount i played, metagross fits better for me in ML than Giratina origin form. Like i have had players just quit after seeing metagross.
What Essential Pokémon did I leave out? Let me know below!
I THINK DIALGA
Togekiss if u say currently
Rhyperior. A top rock and ground attacker that allows duos of many legendary raids. Also relatively easy to obtain.
Swampert of course
Mewtwo is overrated because generalists always lose to specialists. I do have 4 at level 40 and shadow at level 42, but mostly just for show, rarely the best attacker for raids. Some fun in master league but other pokemon are just as good if not better.
Never had trouble taking down a Blissey that wasn’t constantly being fed berries. I still use my 100% Chansey bc she has great stats and still falls below 1500CP making her ideal for low-maintenance long-term defense (due to slow motivation decay).
Really if you have anything with solid fighting type moves like any decent Machamp and you know when to dodge, Blisseys are a cakewalk now. Not nearly as bad as those level 10 gyms back in the day constructed out of walls of Blissey.
Garchomp is an absolute badass!!! Sand tomb (lowers enemy defense) and earthquake!
Tyranitar was absolutely essential in the earlier days of Pokémon go for sure! I would have pry still had it on the list somewhere for that reason alone.
Fun watch. Definitely would swap out Lucario for Machamp and Blissey has no place on the list.
Yeah she got nerfed a while back
I don’t have a Lucario yet. Why does he make it seem like it’s so much better than Machamp?
@@AFR0MAMBA With Aura Sphere, Lucario tops Machamp for gyms and raids. Generally, Machamp is considered better for PvP. Now, if you have a Shadow Machamp, you will have the best of both.
Essential mons shouldn't include unobtainable/raid locked stuff like legendries. It should include relatively obtainable mons with good stats and multiple uses e.g. community day stuff (Machamp, starters). Only legendary/mythical that should be allowed on a list like this is Melmetal because anyone can get one and max it to 50 if they are able to.
I strongly disagree. Most raid locked Pokémon can still be obtained through trades, special research, events, etc. This list should serve as sort of an "end goal" for players. Otherwise, I would have called the video "Top Ten Budget Pokémon"
@@CountJinsulaOfficial How many legendaries would you have to trade to get a good one? How likely is it that you can get a lucky trade? If a legendary is out for a month a f2p/casual player would have to catch close to every legendary they raid for the month to even think about maxing one, and even then you need more than one of each legendary maxed to make use of their power over time. And besides obtainable doesn’t necessarily mean “budget”. That’s what nests and exclusive events are for. Nice to see you reply though, was not expecting it 😊
It is always going to be difficult for f2p players, unfortunately. After going f2p myself, I am only able to do maybe 50 Legendary Raids total per month. Like many things in the game, luck plays a big factor. But I think Niantic could do more to help. Mewtwo is one of, if not the best Pokémon to have, but aside from Shadow Mewtwo from Giovanni, theres no real way to get one outside of raiding. Hopefully, Niantic will fix this and give us different ways of getting it. Thanks for the feedback!
You get a free raid pass daily so how are they unobtainable? Even if they're not out now they will be back at some point.
@@ProTuneHD you get enough best friends, your odds of one/more of them going lucky goes way up. and most of us who have played long enough to be best friends no doubt have a spare mewtwo, most of which will be glad to get rid of, since they are getting rid of a bad mewtwo and free up 1 spot, plus a chance go to hundo on what you get from whatever they trade up back... Me speaking as someone who had a bunch of bad mewtwo (and no hundo yet, a 15/15/13 is my best). I am not a f2p player and definitely not casual. casual players shouldn't even count (a former coworker of mine was one, he played on bus commutes and the few times he'd go raiding with me (pre-pandemic), he didn't have much worth trading, but even he had spare legendaries. About 1/5 of my friends are lucky now (51/268), and that's after the last distance-trade event (I had probably 80 lucky friends before then)
I dont know if it's a "top essential" but Dialga and togekiss seems like an absolute must have for pvp
Dialga gets bodied by pokemon like melmetal. Or even fairy, ice, and steel types. You have to use him very carefully. Balancing dialga with a good team might do the trick but since i go with a fairy/psychic and melmetal, i take care of dialga pretty easily.
As for togekiss, i agree. The dps is very good
Dialga is what Master League is built upon. If you don't have a specific answer for Dialga, you will lose. I agree, even if Melmetal and Metagross are more annoying Dialga is more devastating.
I have a team of Blissey's, I've also have ran the same Chansey as my buddy since buddies came out... People clown but she's a tank!
She thicc
I had a shiny 3 star Chansey but evolved her to blissey ( I regret it)
I have a few pokemon to mention. I used to be a hardcore player, but now I'm more casual so I have some lesser known pokemon. You mentioned Blissey because of gym defense, but the problem is you can only put one of each kind of pokemon, so Blissey, Slacking, and TTar are the first ones stuck in. I have a 100% level 40+ Clefable. With charm, dazzling gleam, and meteor mash, she hard counters fighting types and hits Lucario for neutral damage. Unlike Blissey, she does enough damage to use as an attack if you choose.
Next is Scizor. Great typing and fury cutter with x scissor is great for burning shields. Give it iron head for a seal attack.
Gardevoir with charm/dazzling gleam/shadow ball is another one of those good defenders and I love attacking with her.
Gyrados is next. Unlike Kyogre, it resists ground attacks so it is a good gym defender and I prefer it as my go to water attacker, for budget reasons, and they also have a dragon charge move. I use 3 lvl 40 ones.
Obviously Machamp, but you covered that...
Finally, I love Arcanine. Mine is from 2016. 3078 cp so far. Fire fang/flamethrower/wild charge. I love it for team rocket battles, taking down gyms, and can catch people in battles.
Gyarados is a solid attacker, but I wouldn't so much say good defender. That x4 weakness to electric types gets exposed really hard should anyone have a halfway decent Jolteon.
I just started again 2 months ago. I started in 2016 and my best pokemon was a 1.4k flareon. Now its a 2.7k lugia and zacian.
As a city player, can't stress enough how important a good IV Blissey is. Also, NEVER put Tyranitar in gyms. We all laugh when it's in gyms since it goes down in about 4 seconds
I’m new why is tyranitsr bad
@@DaGGzu 4x weak to Fighting types. Machamp (or any fighting type) will rip through Ttar like tissue paper. It's best used in raids
@@DaGGzu Both Rock and Dark are weak to fighting types, and since T-tar is a Rock/Dark dual type, any fighting type moves it gets hit by hurt 4x as much. It pretty much instantly dies to any fighting type with a backbone like Machamp, since not only are the fighting type moves highly super effective, they're also STAB (Same Type Attack Boost). T-tar doesn't stand a chance in defense.
I think we all know who truly is the most essential pokemon: Sharpedo. It's literally a shark torpedo that you can use for JAWS reenactments on the beach after naming em "Bruce".
How can you exclude swampert.
He is monster in any league and a good water type attacker and also has a mega evolution
Had to consider raiding, gym Battling, gym defense.
@@CountJinsulaOfficial he is a good raid and gym attacker
I agree swampert is top tier. Also think groudon and kyogre should be a bit higher since they are OP in master league. Also believe machamp is far stronger than lucario, but we can agree to disagree.
I love the video! Thank you for the tips 🙂
I’m a relatively new player struggling with who to power up and evolve and never seem to even win many pvp’s or team good leaders and getting very frustrated. Also , I have not even encountered a Rayquaza yet! 😢Any idea how or why not (level 30)? Ty -appreciate any help
Hey man! Appreciate all the content as a new player! But I like taking notes when I watch and sometimes if you don’t have the names up of the Pokémon and just your names/ number codes I miss them!
How do you not have Garchomp on here, he’s a beast
Totally agree.. I love my Garchomp too. Hes so good at beat just about everybody , that i still dont know what hes strong and weak against.
@@mixingreen it's weak to dragon 2 times weak to ice and also weak to fairy
@@deasns1922 bruh so are all the dragon flying types on this list. weaknesses barely matter if you are using them in the right raids and gym battles
I raided with my friends and got a Giratina and that Pokemon is seriously so helpful
honestly what a great video man. way past sub earned.
You have melmetal, blissey, and lucario but no ttar, machamp, giratina, or reshiram? Even dragonite has lost a lot of meta relevance unless you have a shadow one.
So just catch all the legendaries pseudo legendaries. Oh and blissy lol. Mamoswine is the only one I didn't expect tbh love the cid rho
blissy may not be best pvp pokemon but its first evolution form makes me cry in great league
the 1s I use most is Garados and Salamence
Awesome Video!! Needs more bidoof though, jk!
Your wish has been granted by Niantic
@@subhashishsrivastava3146 Ooooooooh Nooooooo!!!! Should of said deinos!!!!
Sounded like a middle school persuasive essay "use this because......... sure it may not...... But......." you should improve on the script but thank you for the information 👍👍💯
Thank you for the feedback! I'll keep that in mind for future scripted vids 👍
I really dig Swampert. It's an stable in every league and pretty decent in raids.
not in raids unless you have community day move but even then....there are much better options❤
@@The_Animal_Man completely agree, that’s why I can’t use a word beyond descent to describe it (with HC).
I'll make a list video like this specifically for GBL pokemon. Expect swampert there :)
It would be so dope if niantic added a third charge move in pvp but the charge move is a special like healing or sleep or just buff moves. I don’t know how they would adjust the shields since those moves don’t do damage
I'm down for this
@@CountJinsulaOfficial I figured it out, it will just let the other player know it’s a special charge move so players don’t waste their shields.
Absolutely. More damage-inducing fast/charge moves will overpower Mewtwos, Dialgas, Groudons and the like. But stat-inducing moves will spice things up while allowing a fair amount of balance. Great idea!
Great solid list. Gengar and Snorlax should be an honorable mention. Snorlax is Good for defense as well as pvp. And mewtwo you want psystrike and ice beam.
My all around favorite Pokemon that I use for gym battles, raids, etc...are Zarude, Zekrom, Gyarados. My top three
What moveset on zarude?
Gallade, Riachu, Togekis...have never let me down
I been doing the Kanto cup with nidoqueen mew and psychic raichu and I’ve had great luck managed to get to level 20 in the battles and have caught 4 legendary
For gyms or what
Please make part 2 for this🙏🙏
i'm just playing less then a month, but vaporion does some wonders for me.
Is wobbafett good defense
Overall pretty good list,lucario is good and all but the availability of it makes it terrible so you could use something like hariyama instead. A Pokemon i was hoping to see whas rypherior because it's an absolute unit especially with its Cday move
Plus it can learn surf for a surprise attack
Why use Hariyama when you can use Machamp, that got a CD?
i tried the Pokemon Home thing but when Pokemon Go said i had a mystery box, the app closed and now i cant figure out how to get it back
Surprised you didn’t mention beedrill.. it’s not the best Plant but it’s so under rated.
I know its part of the one research task , the mega task. But that’s also why it’s a good one to have , make sure you get a get 3* or even 4* (shiny if lucky😂..) and then you’ll eventually build it up and get the mega candy for free…from that task 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️ obviously it can’t be used in to pvp too much when in mega form , but it is extremely useful I’m other ways . Especially in mega form against team Rocket grunts & bosses.
Plus , it’s shining mega looks insaneeeeeeee 😩😩😩🔥🔥🔥
I’m newish to this but how do you have two attacks? Like do you get that option after a certain level?
Yeah its below the evolve option
Should add machamp in... not many people is able to get lucario, but machamp is much more easily to get and with good iv shadow machamp, should be able to do 3* raid solo...
Shadows kind of change things. Shadow Machamp is fantastic, probably Top 3 ahead of Lucario.
Man I named my dragonite OG 😂😂
Can I transfere all my 0 1 and 2 stars pokemon? Im just starting, and my pokemon storage is full, I don't know wich ones I can get rid off.
I don't have anyone to play Pokemon Go with so Raid bosses are impossible to do for me
Big Boy Gyrados is being slept on and he has a mega too
dragonite is week for all ice element specielli glacion and super power op for batlle vs dialga
What kind of min IV on shadow dragonite we need to make it valuable?
How do I get MewTwo. What does trade mean? I'm new to this game. Any help would be greatly appreciate.
For the number 10 pokemon, it won't let me connect to pokemon home, I always enter the correct password for my Nintendo account but it always says unable to connect
Sort of surprised that you left out megas, I have a mega as the cornerstone of each of my solo raid teams.
Megas would be included if it was a top 15 for sure. I would have pointed out that you don't have to raid for Mega Energy. You can stack up research tasks that award it and power up a pokemon.
Ive had a couple of good metagrosses for a while now and tbh I don't see the hype... Decent yes but great? Not sure.
Can you link Home and Go with a guest account on home without a Nintendo switch account?
I can’t believe Dialga wasn’t in here, I always get wrecked by Dialga in Master League!!
What if the cp us low on the blissey? I should trade or transfer it right?
Lol youre insane 😂 Kyogre is a beast in ML I run mines and it does me good! 😊
Garchomp is my Tank
Eevee might sound weird but it's all evolution had basic coverage
Video idea - top 10 most useless Mon in Pogo
you missed out badoof
I'm surprised slacking wasn't on it want to be cool have a maxed out slaking
I have a Best Buddy Hundo Mewtwo with psycho cut and shadow ball
could have mentioned the fact that meltan needs 400 candies to evolve
bro i got melmetal cp 3224 in two mistery box openings
I tryied to get a lucario but the egg gave me ALOLOMOLA instead of Riolu
Here’s a list of the ones I have
Melmetal: yes
Dragonite: yes
Mamoswine: yes
Groudon: yes
Kyogre: yes
Rayquaza: yes
Metagross: yes
Lucario: no
Blissey: yes
Mewtwo: yes
Same except no kyogre or rayquaza
How do people get two charged attacks?? 🤔
Nobody can take it anymore to be forked in the Go League ... !!!
Damn!!!
Not me with 3 shiny Melmetals 🥱😏😏
Can Pokémon Home work if I only play on my mobile phone?
You don't get your coins until your pokemon gets knocked out. Weekly streaks mean nothing. Leave weak pokemon and create an opposing team player that can easily take 'em out.
My opinion: replace Rayquaza with Garchomp, Replace Lucario with Shadow Machamp
does meltan require a nintendo switch?
Nope not anymore. You can get Mystery Box by transferring to Pokemon Home.
@@CountJinsulaOfficial thank you for replying
I use my 100 iv Shiny Mewtwo for so much
Uh how mamoswine has 2 charged attacks? I'm lost
Do I need to complete the go Meltan quest to do the Mel metal method you talked about at 3:25?
Nope it should be available to you now
List noted.
Is Lucario still able to mega? I’m pretty sure I would have done everything I could to get it but my Lucario don’t mega. :(
Was it just too badass or what? We have Mega Absol now though which is nice but I’d take Lucario M any day!!!
Mega Lucario hasn't released yet in Pokémon GO. It will sooner or later!
@@CountJinsulaOfficial Ah, ok. I’m stoked for that move!!! I have my Lucarios ready for it! I was so stoked for Mega Absol! His hundo M is so strong maxed out! Lucario would be a MURK MACHINE in MEGA!!!! Mine is only a 96 15/14/14 or so and he kills hard AF against a lot of the larger battling Pokémon that people lean towards with amazing efficiency!!! I can’t wait to see that announcement!!! I hope they mega Sableye too!!!!🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
Even garchomp is one of the best Pokemon in every aspect a great PVP and PVE Pokemon it should get a spot in a top 10
I really wanted to include him, but I just find so many uses for the top ten that I did include. Maybe in the future, once the garchomp mega is released, I'll redo this video.
@@CountJinsulaOfficial Choosing the top 10 is one heckty task but you're doing a nice work congoo😍😍
Do you have a starter guide video? OR an how to (get there video)** ,are all of these not hard to get for a person just starting out tommorrow? Like a hot tips video for beginner Pokémon go trainers? Like what questions would they have to answer? …things to note 444_44
man I’m such a noob
:) I should go play mafia wars :)
Wait how do you have two super attacks
Shadow Salamance should have been on this list as it's number 1 dragon pokemon....... I just caught a 98% shadow bagon....... I have a hundo lucario though
Shadow salamence wasnt available at the time i recorded this. But yes I agree
How many do you have?
Snorlax is a great gym defender
For me swampert is the beast and my best Pokémon and favourite
How is Tyranitar or Machamp not on here!??!?!
i have 3 mewtwos but are all 1800 is this ok
Sirfetch’d is my go to pokemon