- Greetings Pokefans! Michael here, and in
the past, I made a video going over the toughest
gym leader in every game, but that video bases the
gym leaders' strength on how they fare against the player. I want to know the strongest gym leaders if they fought each other. In this video, I will be determining the strongest gym leader
of every single one of the 18 Pokemon types, based on how they would fare
in battle against each other. So don't forget to
subscribe to my channel, pick up a hat or a plushie at mandjtvmerch.com, and let's dive in. We'll go through this alphabetically, so let's start with Bug. The Bug Type gym leaders
are Bugsy, Burgh, and Viola. The teams I will be
using for each gym leader are what I consider to
be their most full team, ideally a team from their home region, but not necessarily if it's not available. Bugsy's team is his
HeartGold/SoulSilver rematch team. Burgh's team is his Unova
Leaders Tournament team, his World Leaders team
removes his Escavalier, which I don't like because
he uses a Karrablast on his regular gym team
in the Challenge Mode of Black 2 and White 2. By the way, if I'm using
a gym leader's team from the Pokemon World Tournament, I'm most likely going to be going for their specific region
leader's tournament team rather than the world
leader's tournament team, because the World Leaders Tournament, the teams they give them
are more randomly selected from various regions, and
I think it makes more sense for these gym leaders to use
Pokemon from their home region. And Viola's most full team is a Masquerain and a Vivillon, and that's it. Yeah, uh, she's not the strongest one. I could give Viola the team I gave her in my "If Every Gym Leader
Was The Last One" video, but that's a non-canon team, and I think that would
be an unfair advantage. For all the gym leaders in this video, they can only utilize official teams, which, spoiler, means
the Kalos gym leaders are gonna do really bad because none of them ever
use more than three Pokemon, 'cause they're the gym battles
in Kalos and nowhere else. So it's down to Bugsy versus
Burgh with these teams. One thing I should specify
before I delve into deciding between these two is that I'm not looking at the move sets of the teams I decide. The teams are just the species. I can't look at move sets because these teams appear in multiple
different generations. It would just get wacky to
try and figure that out. I can consider the moves
that species can learn, and I will be doing it based
on generation eight mechanics, but I'm not looking at
the specific move sets of the teams that will
show up on your screen. Right away, we can see
they both use Vespiquen, so we can basically cancel those out. Once we do that, Burgh has three Pokemon whose secondary typing is good against Bug by resisting it, being super
effective against it, or both. Crustle, Durant, and Escavalier. Bugsy has two, Scizor, and Yanmega. That's a point in Burgh's favor. Another mark against
Bugsy is his Shedinja, a Pokemon that may as well not be there since it's instantly KO'd
by a super effective move. Vespiquen and Crustle have
STAB super effective moves, and the other members
can learn them as well, like Leavanny's Aerial Ace. Remember, not looking
at specific move sets, just looking at what the
Pokemon can learn at some point. Because of Burgh having
more bug-stopping members and Bugsy's Shedinja being dead weight, I am naming Burgh the
strongest Bug type gym leader. Next up is the Dark type, a type that infamously took
forever to get any gym leaders. The two Dark type gym leaders are Piers and his successor Marnie,
but I'm also going to include Nanu since kahunas function
very similarly to Gym leaders. Piers' and Marnie's
fullest teams are their Champion Tournament's teams. Nanu's is his Sun and
Moon second battle team. Comparing these three, the decision is actually quite easy. Marnie has three team
members that have a type that's strong against Dark, Toxicroak, Scrafty, and Grimmsnarl. Piers only has one and
Nanu doesn't have any. While Liepard and Morpeko are lower on the base stat total side of things, I believe the rest of
her team could handle the other gym leaders on their own. Marnie is clearly the
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Drayden, and Raihan. Iris was a Dragon type gym leader, but in her most recent appearance, she's a Champion, so not
a gym leader anymore. Clair's fullest team is her HeartGold/SoulSilver rematch team. Drayden's is his Unova
Leaders tournament team, and Raihan's is his
Champion tournament team. Immediately, we can see that
Raihan only has five Pokemon, while the others have six. However, unlike with
Viola, I'm not gonna count his lack of a full team against him. With Viola, she only had two Pokemon and no other official Pokemon
anywhere else in the games, but Raihan has other teams
with different Pokemon. Those Pokemon specifically
are Gigalith and Sandaconda from his gym battle team. So for any gym leaders who don't
have any full teams of six, if they have other Pokemon
that they use in other teams, I'm allowing myself to
take one of those Pokemon and fill out their team with it. So for Raihan, I'm gonna use Sandaconda since it's the more
reptilian and dragon-like between it and Gigalith. Looking at the three teams, Drayden has an immediate
advantage by having two fully evolved pseudo-legendary Pokemon compared to just one each
for Clair and Raihan. Drayden is also unique from the other two because his team is the only
one to be entirely Dragon type. This is both helpful and
hurtful since it means he has more Pokemon to deal with
the others' Dragon types, which is also more Pokemon
weak to their Dragon types. One thing I can say is
that Claire beats Raihan. Raihan has two Fire types
and two Ground types, both of which are completely walled by every member of her
team except Dragonair. That leaves his Dragon type attacks, but only half her team is Dragon type. In short, Clair's
non-Dragon type coverage, mainly Water and Flying, are better than Raihan's other types. I don't think Drayden has
as much of an advantage over Raihan, but since
Claire beats him so handily, we can disqualify Raihan. As for who's superior
between Claire and Drayden, it's tough to say based
on species match-ups due to what I mentioned earlier about having more Dragon types
being a double-edged sword. I think the best way to break this tie will be averaging their
teams' base stat totals to see overall which team
just has stronger Pokemon. Clair's team's average
base stat total is 526.8. Drayden's is 539.17,
meaning Drayden's team is overall stronger, making him the strongest Dragon gym leader. Interestingly, though,
if Claire's Dragonair had been fully evolved, she
would have won by a lot. Her average jumps up to,
like, 563, so honestly, I think it's a bit poetic
that Drayden won over Clair. Clair is not the strongest
Dragon gym leader because she failed to bring
out the full potential of all of her Pokemon. And also is a sore loser who wouldn't just give
me my fricking badge! Next up is the Electric type. The gym leaders are
Lieutenant Surge, Wattson, Volkner, Elesa, and Clemont. Lieutenant Surge's full team is his HeartGold/SoulSilver rematch team. Wattson's is his Hoenn
Leaders tournament team, since his final Emerald rematch
team is not fully evolved due to Magnezone not existing yet. Volkner's team is his Sinnoh
Leaders tournament team since his Platinum rematch
team has only five Pokemon and and his World Leader's team is dumb 'cause it makes his Rotom Fan Rotom, against other electric
types, that would be dumb. Elesa's team is her Unova
Leaders tournament team, and Clemont's fullest team
is his gym battle team, which obviously immediately makes him the worst of the bunch. Of the four remaining, Elesa
is notable for having Stunfisk, the only Ground type,
and thus the only Pokemon of the whole bunch that can
deal super effective STAB damage to all the other electric types. Additionally, her Elektross
with no weaknesses is an impressive Pokemon, and with Zebstrika, Stunfisk, and Emolga if it has its hidden
ability, half her team is totally immune to electric. Lieutenant Surge and Volkner are using Earthquake-capable Electivires, but Elektross and Emolga
stop those quite well. She doesn't have the highest
average base stat total of these four, having 482 on average, but that's less than 20 points
behind the highest average, which is Volkner with about 500. Her having Stunfisk and Elektross
is really helpful, though, and I think I have to
give the crown to Elesa, mainly because of how useful
those two Pokemon are. Next up is Fairy. The gym leaders are
Valerie, Opal, and Bede. Valerie's best team is her
three Pokemon gym team, so she is immediately disqualified. Opal's fullest team is
her gym battle team, while Bede's is his
Champion tournament team. While Bede would clearly
win here since he has an extra Pokemon, I
still think he would win even if Opal did have one more. Their Mawiles cancel out, and
while that does leave Opal with a Poison type Weezing, Bede has more than enough
Psychic types to deal with it. Bede is the strongest
Fairy type gym leader. After that is Fighting. The gym leaders are Chuck,
Brawly, Maylene, Korrina, and Bea, plus Hala as kahuna. Chuck's fullest team is his HeartGold/SoulSilver rematch team, Brawly's is his Emerald rematch team, Maylene's is her Sinnoh
Leaders tourney team, Korrina's is her gym battle team, so obviously she's out despite having a Mega Lucario elsewhere. It's just not enough to
only have four Pokemon. Hala's is his second battle team from Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon
that I will fill out using Primeape from
his Sun and Moon teams. Finally, Bea's team is her
Champion tournament team, filled in using Hitmontop
from her gym battle team. Hala is immediately out
because two of his Pokemon are weak to fighting, a disadvantage no other fighting leaders have. Of the remaining four,
Maylene is the clear winner in my eyes. While Brawly and Chuck
both have a Medicham and Bea has a Hawlucha, Pokemon that are strong against Fighting, Maylene has both a Medicham and a Gallade, plus a Toxicroak that resists Fighting. She does have a Lucario
that's weak to fighting, but the other three more
than make up for that. Plus she has Infernape, one
of the strongest non-legend, non-mega Fighting types out there. Maylene is definitely the strongest Fighting type gym leader. Next is Fire. The gym leaders are Blaine,
Flannery, Chili, and Kabu. Blaine's best team is his
Kanto Leaders tournament team, since his HeartGold/SoulSilver
rematch team doesn't give him an Arcanine,
which I think is absurd since that's his ace from the Kanto games. Flannery's is her Emerald rematch team. Chili's is his World
Leaders tournament team since it has an Emboar while
his Unova Leaders does not, and Kabu's team is his
Champion's tournament team that cannot be filled out since these are all the Pokemon he ever uses. As you may have noticed, these
teams have a lot of overlap. Flannery's team stands out, though, because she has two Pokemon,
Magcargo and Camerupt, whose secondary types
are strong against fire. Chili has one Pokemon like that, and the other two have none. This is enough for me to classify
Flannery as the strongest. Next is Flying. The gym leaders are
Falkner, Winona, and Skyla. Falkner's team is his
HeartGold/SoulSilver rematch team, Winona's is her Emerald rematch team, and Skyla's is her Unova
Leaders tournament team. Winona's team immediately catches eyes because of Dragonite, Skarmory,
and Dragon-Dancing Altaria. Tropius is dead weight, but those three will be the Pokemon to beat. Falkner's only real answer for Dragonite is Ice Beam on Pelipper,
but Dragonite is faster and can learn Thunderbolt. Skyla's Swanna is faster
than Dragonite though, but I did the calcs on
completely neutral sets and Swanna cannot OHKO
Dragonite with Ice Beam, even if it doesn't have Multiscale, while Dragonite's
Thunderbolt does OHKO Swanna. In short, the other two do not
have answers for Dragonite, so that plus a defensive
Steel wall in Skarmory and another Dragon sweeper
makes Winona the strongest. Next up is Ghost, another
interesting type, like dragon, because it's strong against itself. The Ghost gym leaders are
Morty, Fantina, and Allister. Morty's best team is his
HeartGold/SoulSilver rematch team, Fantina's is her Sinnoh
Leaders tournament team, and Allister's team is his
Champion Tournament team filled out with Mimikyu
from his gym battle team. I could have done Polteageist, but Mimikyu is a better Pokemon. Of the three, I think Allister
is the weakest of the bunch, mainly because he lacks a
very useful Dark-Ghost type like the other two. Plus, his team is, on average, slower, which is a huge problem and
a double-edged sword battle against other Ghost types. As for the final two, their
teams are darn near identical. Both have Mismagius, Drifblim,
Dusknoir, and Gengar. If we cancel all those
out, we are left with Morty's Sableye and Gengar versus Fantina's Rotom and Spiritomb. Looking at these, I have to
give the edge to Fantina. Both of them have a Dark-Ghost Pokemon that is not weak to Ghost, but Sableye is just super weak in general, having a base stat total of only 380. Morty's fast Gengar is good, but Sableye really detracts from things. Spiritomb is much better, and while Rotom is on the weaker side, it's
not as weak as Sableye. Fantina gets the win. Next, we have Grass. The gym leaders are Erica,
Gardenia, Cilan, Ramos, and Milo. Erika's team is her Kanto
Leaders tourney team, since her HeartGold/SoulSilver
rematch team has Bellossom instead of
her classic ace Vileplume, so I'm going with a team that has both. Gardenia's team is her Sinnoh
Leaders tournament team, Cilan's team is his Unova
Leaders tournament team, Ramos's is his gym team,
which clearly won't cut it, and Milo's is his
Champion tournament team. Well, sort of. Milo has different teams
depending on the version and whether you've done the
Galarian Star Tournament or not. It's kind of complicated
and very annoying, but I'll just say right now,
he's not the strongest one. He doesn't have any Poison types, so we can just kick him out. That leaves Erika, Gardenia, and Cilan. Erika is a strong contender
due to half her team being Grass-Poison. Gardenia only has one
Grass-Poison type in comparison, and Cilan has no Grass-Poison types, but he does have a Grass-Flying Jumpluff and the Grass-Steel Ferrothorn. Erika and Cilan are clearly
stronger than Gardenia, but between the two remaining,
I have to give it to Erika. Her Poison types wipe out
every member of Cilan's team except Ferrothorn. Ferrothorn will be tough
for her to take down, but when she has her
entire team to do that, multiple of which can
learn fighting moves, I think she'll be able to handle it. Additionally, Cilan's Jumpluff
isn't actually that helpful because all of the flying
moves it learns are physical and it has
terrible physical attack. Erika is the strongest grass gym leader. Next is Ground. Ground only has two gym
leaders, Giovanni and Clay, two cranky, old, ruthless businessmen. And then there's the kahuna,
Hapu, who is a small girl. I just think that's funny. Giovanni's fullest team as a gym leader is his Kanto Leaders tournament team, Clay's is his Unova
Leaders tournament team, and Hapu's is her Ultra Sun
and Moon title defense team filled out by Alolan Dugtrio
from her Sun and Moon teams. Clay is the easy victor here due to having both a Water and an Ice type. Additionally, none of his
team is weak to ground, while Hapu's Dugtrio is weak to it, and two thirds of Giovanni's
team is weak to it. Next up is Ice. The ice gym leaders are
Pryce, Candice, Brycen, Wulfric, and Melony. Pryce's team is his
HeartGold/SoulSilver rematch team, Candice's is her Sinnoh
Leaders tournament team, Brycen's is his Unova
Leaders tournament team, Wulfric's is his gym battle team, And Melanie's is her
Champion's tourney team that cannot be filled out
'cause she only ever uses these five Pokemon. Wulfric and Melanie are immediately out due to failing to have six Pokemon. For the remaining three, they
have quite a lot of overlap, especially Pryce, his entire team is used by one of the other two. Because their teams are so similar, and because none of the
Pokemon have a secondary typing strong against Ice, I have to calculate average base stat totals. Pryce's average is about
498, Candice's is about 503, and Brycen's is about 512. That makes Brycen the
strongest Ice gym leader to me, but I will say this match-up
is quite a bit closer than most of the others. Next up is Normal. The gym leaders are Whitney,
Norman, Lenora, and Cheren. Whitney's team is her
HeartGold/SoulSilver rematch team, but swapping out Clefable for Ambipom. All these match-ups assume
modern day battle mechanics, which means Clefable is
not a Normal type anymore, it's a Fairy type, and
that wouldn't make sense for her to use it, so
I'm replacing it with the Pokemon and Ambipom
from her Johto Leaders Pokemon World Tournament team. Norman's team is his Emerald rematch team, Lenora's team is her Unova
Leaders tournament team with Clefable swapped out for Stoutland for the same reason as Whitney, and Cheren's is his Unova
Leaders tournament team. Clearly Cheren wins
because he uses a Castform. Hail yeah! I'm kidding, The Castform
is actually a detriment, which makes me sad, but whatever. To me, Norman is easily the strongest. While his Slakings must deal with Truant, they are incredibly
powerful when they can hit, and they can both learn a
ton of Fighting type moves, as can his Kangaskhan. While it doesn't matter
much since I'm assuming all these battles are single battles, if they were double battles, Norman would absolutely
devastate the others by having his Blissey or Spinda Skill Swap Truant off his Slakings. Next up is Poison. The gym leaders are only Janine and Roxie. At the most recent point in the timeline, Koga is an Elite Four
member, not a gym leader, so we're not discussing him. And we're also not
gonna be covering Klara. While she is officially a
minor league gym leader now, it's minor league. This is the major leagues, baby! Janine's team is her
HeartGold/SoulSilver rematch team and Roxie's is her Unova
Leaders tournament team. The teams are quite similar,
both having Crobat and Drapion, neither having a Ground or Psychic type, and they both have multiple Pokemon that can learn Earthquake. Janine's Ariados can learn Psychic, but that's not that impressive due to Ariados having poor special attack. Because of all these similarities, the best way to compare
them is, once again, average base stat total. Janine's is 477.5 while Roxie's is 486, so I'm giving the win to Roxie. This makes sense to me,
since Janine's Ariados really drags down the average. She would have won if she
used a stronger Pokemon whose base stat total was
closer to her other Pokemon. Next up is Psychic. The leaders are Sabrina,
Tate and Liza, and Olympia. Like Klara, Avery is just
a minor league gym leader, and that's not good enough for this video. Also Tate and Liza will
be counted together because while they battle
separately in other situations, like the Pokemon World Tournament, they fight together in their gym battles. Sabrina's team is her
HeartGold/SoulSilver rematch team, Tate and Liza's team is
their Emerald rematch team, Olympia's is her gym team, which immediately disqualifies her. Comparing the last two, I have
to give the win to Sabrina. Alakazam is the strongest
Pokemon of all of them due to being fast and strong, and with access to Shadow
Ball, it would be devastating. Gallade is also very
useful, being one of the few physical attacking Psychic types, and with access to both
Leaf Blade and Night Slash, it covers all of Tate and Liza's team. Wobbuffet may seem like dead weight, but anyone who's played a
Nuzlocke and run into one of these knows that there's a
good chance it takes out at least one Pokemon. Sabrina is the winner. Next up is Rock. The gym leaders are Brock, Roxanne, Roark, Grant and Gordie,
plus the Kahuna Olivia. Brock's team is his
HeartGold/SoulSilver rematch team, Roxanne's is her Hoenn
Leaders tournament team, since her Emerald rematch team didn't use most of the Hoenn rock
types, which I think is dumb, Roark's team is his Sinnoh
Leaders tournament team, Olivia's is her Ultra
Sun and Moon league team filled out by Alolan Golem
from her Sun and Moon team, Grant's is his gym team, and Gordie's is his
Champion tournament team, which I cannot fill out. Grant and Gordie are immediately out because they failed to
have teams of six Pokemon. Looking at the secondary typings
of the remaining Pokemon, Brock has five with other
types good against Rock, as does Roxanne, while Roark has four and Olivia only has two, so that's enough for me
to oust Roark and Olivia. For the remaining two, it's close, but I have to give the edge to
Roxanne for two main reasons. The first is that Brock doesn't have a good answer for Cradily. If he had a Steel type, it'd be different, but as of now, Cradily decimates his team and he has no super effective
STAB to hit it back. The second reason is Onix. If it was a Steelix,
he'd be in great shape, but Onix is so weak that
it really holds him back. Roxanne is the winner. Next up is Steel. The only gym leaders
are Jasmine and Byron. Peony is a previous Steel type gym leader, but since you can never fight
him while he's a gym leader, I don't think he should count. It's the same reason
I'm not counting Mustard for the Fighting type group. Jasmine's team is her
HeartGold/SoulSilver rematch team and Byron's is his Sinnoh
Leaders tournament team. Both of them have Steelix,
Magnezone, and Bronzong, so those cancel out. For the remaining Pokemon,
Jasmine is the clear winner. Empoleon's Water-type
handles half of Byron's team and her Metagross is a
fricking pseudo-legendary. Also, Byron's Bastiodon
and Aggron both have two four-times weaknesses,
one of which is Ground, that Jasmine's Steelix covers with STAB. And finally is Water. The gym leaders are Misty, Juan, not Wallace because he
moved up to champion, Crasher Wake, Cress, Marlon, and Nessa. Misty's team is her
HeartGold/SoulSilver rematch team, Juan's is his Emerald rematch team, Wake's is his Sinnoh Leaders team, Cress's is his Unova Leaders
team, as is Marlon's, and Nessa's is her
Champion's Tournament team, filled out by Barraskewda
from a previous team. While this is a lot of teams to compare, the winner is clear to me, Misty. That's because she is the only one to have a Pokemon whose secondary type is strong against Water, Lanturn. Additionally, both Starmie and Lapras can learn Thunderbolt and
Lapras gets Freeze-Dry, the ice move super
effective against Water. Other leaders have some of those perks, but none of them have as many as Misty. So to summarize, the strongest gym leaders for each of the 18 types are Burgh for Bug, Marnie for
Dark, Drayden for Dragon, Elesa for Electric, Bede for
Fairy, Maylene for Fighting, Flannery for Fire, Winona for
Flying, Fantina for Ghost, Erika for Grass, Clay for
Ground, Brycen for Ice, Norman for normal, Roxie for
Poison, Sabrina for Psychic, Roxanne for Rock, Jasmine for
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