The BEST and WORST Regional Pokémon Forms
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- Some Pokémon regional forms really revitalized old mons while others really disappointed.
I'm going to go over my top 5 best and worst regional Pokémon forms and tell you why they are winners/losers
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0:00 Intro
1:48 Dugtrio
2:42 Tauros
4:43 Marowak
5:51 Stunfisk
6:52 Muk
7:53 Raticate
8:44 Samurott
9:43 Avalugg
10:47 Darmanitan - Hry
I do think Alolan Ninetales should be on the list. With the snow rework, it makes ice types a lot more useful buffing the defenses, which makes Ninetales a little bit of a tank... well for ice type standards which ain't much. Combine this with Aurora Veil and now your team is very hard to take down. IMO the best hail/snow setter (rip Abomasnow), plus a decent enough 109 speed it does its job well.
Yeah it is a great mon. But I feel regular Ninetales has been an important sun setter in multiple tiers throughout the years so the base was still good.
The other mons ahead of it I just felt were improved upon more to warrant them over ninetales on this particular list
Hell, it was good even before the snow change
Sometimes Regional Variants are GameFreak's way of nerfing Pokemon they hate without lowering their Base Stats, to make it less suspicious.
Then why would they give them evolutions 💀
Avalugg moment
Farfetch’d, Corsola, and Qwilfish definitely got this treatment.
@@DaSheepKillerhow tho? They all get to evolve and get not only higher BST, but also better movepools
Where's the regional form of Urshifu at I hate him
Galarian stunfisk actually hurt me mentally because it's such a cool concept but they act like a bear trap isn't strong and deadly🙄 gave it such a unique niche that it literally can't do it
Yup. Would help if it had good coverage moves of the terrain types too. Snap Trap being so bad hurts too.
I think golem alola is a really fun pokemon, that thing hits like a truck, has solid bulk and it's signature ability is so cool!
I remembered it had a small niche as a steel trapper (specifically heatran) so I didn’t include it in the worst. But it wasn’t good enough to get a mention
Pastel Veil should have had an extra effect of halving Poison damage for the party.
G. Rapid ash should get Sharpness and Psycho Cut
That would be great for it. Give it a signature sharp move too maybe
i dont play competitive but i make a poison point to get an Alolan Muk whenever i can, its too good not to use, only one weakness and hits kinda hard while putting fairy and psychic types in their place, what's not to love?
also, it can learn ice punch (or ice fang, i cant recall) to counter ground types.
Suchhh a fun mon. Colors are beautiful too!
Lots of gen 1 mons have been blessed with great movepools over the years.
@@mikeleddyphoto i’m pretty sure it’s colouration is based on petrol mixed with water
It learns Drain Punch too, but I wish it had better recovery ...
KO'ing those shinies genuinely upset me.
I cannot belief you have such a high quality editing for your low amount of subs. You'll be going places
I was so psyched for Galarian Rapidsash, but I have thoughts:
1. It’s pointless to give it Psychic type too.
2. Wish it had some stat better to give it actual viability competitively
3. What’s the horn for? For stabbing! Gotta love a unicorn that looks magical but is actually a physical attacker. It’s just fun.
“Let us down bigly”
Alolan Ninetails should be here. Being able to set up Aurora Veil is ridiculously effective
i love galarian rapidash, but its really underwhelming. pastel veil should make it imune to all poison moves. and maybe take 10 points from sp. atk and put on speed it would be nice. this wouldnt make it broken or anything, but would be a cool improvement
G-Fisk lucked out by being one of the best pokemon in Pokemon GO pvp, being one of the faces of the most popular format for a long time.
your channel is good; going places. keep up the work
Really appreciate that, thank you!
Well, most of these had been pretty bad in vgc apart from like, Muk and Marowak. Unfortunately this is especially true for Darmanitan, who’s bad bulk and lack of spread damage made it pretty bad. And yeah, for belly drum sweepers we usually use something that can still take a hit, like Cetitan for example.
That doesn’t invalidate this list at all though. My favorite regional will be Marowak because it’s a really cool looking Pokemon and yeah, it’s pretty good!
Galarian Rapidash may be pretty bad but it looks ✨Regal✨ (It does get Psycho Cut btw)
Yeah I put a little note in the video because I missed it in the commentary
Solid video
I’d personally move duggy to a higher spot, maybe 1 or 2 (the downgrade to a technical uber to this is crazy) and swap tauros for Ninetales. That’s kind of it honestly, great list.
Duggy is definitely a disappointment but I feel that stems mostly from its ability. In doubles arena trap isn’t as good, and it is banned in singles. So I gave it a bit of a break.
But it is definitely bad enough to be on the list, I just think it is still more useful than the other mons even though the downgrade is technically worse than say Stunfisk or Raticate.
Fire/Ghost types have yet to miss. Every single one is an absolute BANGER. (Especially the Regional ones.)
RIP avalugg though. I think they are the one Pokemon Arceus canonically hates.
Such a cool typing and so much design wise to work with
@@MattBudYT yeah. Not choosing Fuecoco because "I always use a Fire/Ghost" type is not a bad problem to have lol (funnily enough I still wound up using a fire/ghost pokemon in my playthrough lmao)
Honestly, I don’t get how typhlosion is an honorable mention, it’s ability is worthless, it’s slower, and less bulky, it’s only benefit is 2 new immunities, other than that? It has no use
Fake Out immunity on an Eruption user, better offensive typing and special attack, 5 speed drop isn’t a big deal when Typhlosion was mostly used for its damage output
It’s an upgrade
Ghosh gives it solid immunities and resists including x4 to U turn. Ghost stab is notoriously hard to switch in to and along with strong STAB fire this mon is a bit harder to handle and more versatile.
It’s not amazing but I feel like it’s a pretty good upgrade. It wasn’t as good as the mons I mentioned before but I at least wanted to shout it out on a slide for a second.
Surprised Sneasler didn’t get any love. I’d say it’s def third best at worst after Samurott and Darmanitan.
It’s because it is a new mon technically. Like Clodsire, it isn’t eligible for this list. If it’s name was Hisuian Weavile then it would be able to be on the list
Yet it's stab moves are walled by gliscor.
@@NellvinCervantes-gt4ot so by that logic Delibird is better than Sneasler since its ice STAB destroys Gliscor?
Not a good argument since there is going to be a mon that resists any dual STAB
Great quality for this early into your channel 👏🏻
Thank you, trying my best to make it entertaining to watch!
Would your ranking change if you ranked them only by their design?
Yeah some of them. I like Duggys design actually and could get with Stunfisks design if it had a more fitting design and ability to go with it. Mimicry I get, but some trapping based ability would be a lot better.
Oh boy those are some good variants
Your my favorite regional variant
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I won't order mine because I don't want to think but...
Worst: Raticate, Dugtrio, Meowth (Any of them), Stunfisk, Rapidash, Sandslash HM: Any of the mons with Regional Evolutions (not named Sneasler or Clodsire)
Best: Darmanitan, Ninetales, Zoroark, Samurott, Slowking HM: Braviary/Lilligant (Did not know Lilligant had VGC use)
Meowth does not do anything, it just vibes, maybe the unique evolution with the steel type does something but this is regional forms not evolutions.
I dont't have a reason for Slowking, he just kinda slaps most of my teams so I assume it is good.
Zoroark gains one of the best typings in the game combined with it's ability which can buy it loads of free turns. Also Immune to Normal, Fighting, and Ghost. Any of the three would be better than Psychic immunity but it gets all three.
My drunk idea to make h-avalugg somewhat better: what if instead it was an ice/fighting type?
Avalanche + Revenge combo would be nasty
Alolan Persian is also a pretty bad mon. Its even worse because it doesn't even look cool...
Actually criminal not putting slowbro/slowing on this list
Since those mons are already pretty great I didn’t include them as I based it more on how much of an improvement these forms were
les go
Biggly?
I’m Gen 6 latest vet & being not too knowledgeable on regional variants I’m kinda skeptical of your choice of words
0:08
Just saying, it makes sense & I can agree with your opinion however ya could’ve just said “let us down big”, not trying to be the word police but proper vocabulary will lead to higher credibility & in my opinion ya should’ve caught that one on the editing table
It’s an actual word you know? I don’t normally use it but it fit the rhythm of the sentence in a fun way I felt. It was popularized by Trump’s usage back a bit so it’s kinda a fun little addition.
It pretty much means what you suggested I say in place of it. I don’t mind people nitpicking my opinions, but just saying there’s nothing technically improper with the vocabulary choice there. You are free to dislike it for sure though.
@@MattBudYT that’s a new one on me, just never heard a sentence structured like this before, minor nitpick as I did understand what you where saying & for the most part I liked your take on the regional variants just not to knowledgable on them in a competitive sense & ascetically it’s hard to say which is my favourite as like I said before I only really played up to generation 6 so it’s hard to have a frame of reference
You take on the Dugtrio, Muk & Rapidash make a lot of sense in a competitive framework thou
@@MattBudYT I mean there are enough Psychic Fairy Types & has been a common typing since it came out in XY, at least Fire Fairy would’ve eliminated most of its weaknesses, & the whole point of a Dugtrio is speed to make a solid sweeper & I know you had plenty better examples but IMO it seams like the dual typing they gave Muk makes him much more viable for battles in comparison to his Kanto variant
Not that other regional variants are bad I just see that as the biggest improvement & most of the other ones original variant is just as viable but grimer & muk got a noticeable improvement
@@Lapis_Pylosiphorum all good bud! I agree, we didn't need to reinvent the wheel with the Psychic Fairy type. Fire Fairy is much more exciting and at least unique.
They did it right with most of the mons I feel, it was actually kind of challenging to find 5 mons that were so bad for this list. Of course there's mons like Persian I could have used, but if anything it is better than the regular even though it's still kinda meh. I do love the upgrade on mons like Muk though.
To think they would go all the way with the My Little Pony Theme for Galarian Ponyta & Rapidash and not touch the actual thing that has made regular Rapidash so underwhelming-it’s stats. Even an extra 5 points to its speed would have made a sizable difference. Pastel Veil needs to be buffed to make it completely immune to Poison moves.
Top 5 Best and Top 5 Worst cross-gen evolutions:
-SPOILERS: Electivire and Dusknoir are at the bottom two whiling Annihilape, Ursaluna, and Kingambit are the top 3 even if all too obvious-
Galarian Rapidash is a really weird case. If it was its own Mon, everyone would say it is just a Rapidash clone. Now it does things like Rapidash but worse, so everyone says we already have rapidash. But it only does things worse, because of its typing. Physical Fairy and Psychic types are always worse then their special counterparts. If it was a special attacker, then it would be worse then Guardevoir or Mr. Mime. So all in all, everything just weird. I am hoping for good physical Fairy and Psychic options though due to powercreep, i think it will be too late
Steel Fisk!!! Nooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!
I'm still really mad that Rapidash isn't a like a fairy /flying Pegasus
That would be great. Give it a signature Flying move too
Tbh galarian did the best at forms
How dare you calling galarian rapidash a bad regional form😡
The design is fine just competitively it sucks. Would have been amazing as a fire/fairy
Alolan Raticate is genuinely my favorite regional variant lol I know it’s bad though 😔 lol
Idk about worst, but the best (in my opinion, mostly by design) are
#5- Alolan Dugtrio
#4- Paldean Wooper
#3- Alolan Diglett
#2- Hisuian Electrode
#1- Hisuian Voltorb
I’m very biased on voltorb and electrode
Consider official Pokemon format ( vgc) also
Alolan Muk is my GOAT love that gay little guy
Smogon is not a good reference. They ban shit they can’t handle and their meta is unbalanced
What reference would u use?
Well it’s a pretty decent metric to judge mons viability over time. It also lets less powerful mons thrive in lower power level tiers.
VGC/Doubles you may never see certain mons used, and with no tiered system it is hard to solely go by that.
Keep in mind G-Rapidash got banned in Smogon at some point, with the reasoning being: access to both Swords Dance and Calm Mind make it hard to predict whether it's running a physical or a special set.🤣
@@TheRicardobtc tbh g-rapidash has some good special moves and special attack and special defence buffs are good if not dealt with
Not enough reason for a ban considering its sp.atk move pool is atrocious tho
@@TheRicardobtc banned from where? The PU tier? I think when I checked the highest tier it cracked was NU
first view no way
#StupidComment #NoOneCare
I really hate when videos do best and worst instead of one or the other