- Greetings, Pokefans! Michael here, and
the Eviolite... Or ee-vye-oh-lite, or eh-vee-oh-lite? I don't know. I'm just gonna call
it the Eviolite 'cause that's what I'm used to. So if that's wrong, I apologize. But anyways, it's a held
item that gives the holder a 50% boost to its defense
and special defense, but it only works on Pokemon
that are still capable of at least one more
permanent evolution. So forget mega evolution. The item is so
good and so useful that certain pre-evolved forms, holding an Eviolite
end up being better than their evolved forms. As a celebration
of these Pokemon, I'm gonna be counting down
the top 20 strongest Pokemon that are not fully evolved. Like with all my other strongest
Pokemon countdown videos, I'm gonna be doing the ranking based primarily on
base stat total, because it's more objective
and straightforward. And if there are any ties, then I'll break those
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top 20 strongest Pokemon that are not fully evolved. First up for number 20,
we have a three-way tie. Lairon, Sneasel, and Gligar all have a base
stat total of 430. So right off the bat,
I got to break this tie based on which one's
the most viable. Lairon is definitely
the worst of the three with four times weaknesses. Sneasel can have success, but it's essentially just worse
Weavile, since it's so frail that the Eviolite doesn't
help it that much. Meanwhile Gligar was in
Smogon's UU tier in Gen 7, a very respectable
place to land. So number 20 is
definitively Gligar. Gligar doesn't have
eye popping stats, like most of the
Pokemon on this list. Its best stat is its
defense which isn't amazing, but recall that it would
be holding an Eviolite, making its defense
actually quite good. With the right investment,
it can be reasonably tanky. And that's really
what Gligar excels at. Just sticking
around for a while. It has the ability Immunity so that it can't
be Toxic killed. It has Roost for
reliable recovery. It resists or is immune
to the pivot moves of U-Turn and Volt Switch. It only has two weaknesses, and it gets several nice
utility moves like Defog, Stealth Rock, Knock
Off, and Toxic. Well, it got Toxic in
Gen 7 but we don't know if it will have it in Gen 8
because it's not in Gen 8 yet. And Sword and Shield
really cut down on how many Pokemon
could learn Toxic. I feel confident that
Gligar and Gliscor would get Toxic though. I mean, Gligar's Poke
dex entries talk about how it injects
things with poison. Overall I don't
think Eviolite Gligar is better than Gliscor, but
it definitely quite good and shouldn't be overlooked. The next two entries
are also a tie and the weaker Pokemon
of the pair in my opinion is number 19, Misdreavus. Misdreavus has a base
stat total of 435, with poor HP,
Attack, and Defense but solid Special Attack,
Special Defense, and Speed. The Eviolite of course helps
with the defensive stats, making both of them
more acceptable. Misdreavus is not
particularly impressive, at least in my eyes. It does have a lot of
nice utility moves, like Will-o-Wisp, Taunt,
Pain Split, Thunder Wave, and Memento, plus Hex
as its main attack. However its middling speed
and bulk that is helped but not saved by Eviolite can hold it back from
having a ton of success. Gligar is definitely a
better competitive Pokemon than Misdreavus and that's a
flaw with my ranking system: Pokemon that have
higher base at totals, but are worst in competitive
end up higher ranked than Pokemon who are just
flat out better than them, but hey, I'm
acknowledging the flaws. So that should get me
some points, right? The other 435 base stat
total Pokemon is Tangela, making it number 18. Tangela's stat
spread is the reason I put it higher up
than Misdreavus. As you can see, it
has fantastic Defense even without the Eviolite, so the Eviolite just
makes it even better. Its Special Defense is horrible, but it does get bolstered a bit. Combine its tankiness with
all kinds of healing options, it is a Grass type after all and Grass types
like their healing. And the ability Regenerator,
and you have a Pokemon that can find success in
a defensive utility role. Well, some success. At the very least more
success than Misdreavus. The next three entries
are a three-way tie and the bottom of them
is number 17 Seadra. Seadra has a base
stat total of 440, and while its Defense
is pretty solid, its HP and Special
Defense are quite bad. The Eviolite is
useful for Pokemon that are more defensively
built than this, and the other two
base 440 total Pokemon have better defenses than this. I think Seadra is a
cool looking Pokemon, but in regards to
battle prowess, it's
just worse Kingdra. The next 440 base at
total Pokemon is Klang making it number 16 and it
is more defensively built. Since Klinklang doesn't have
better HP or Special Defense, a Klang with an Eviolite is
strictly better defensively than Klinklang,
meaning Klinklang is
the play for offense, Klang for defense. Klang can find some niche
utility, especially in doubles if paired with other
Plus or Minus Pokemon. A few of you may remember
Wolfey Glick's Klang in his Klang Gang video,
and it had some success in the VGC online metagame. Neither Klang nor Klinklang
tend to be stellar Pokemon, but I think its worthy to know that Klang is a better
tank than Klinklang if it has the Eviolite. The final in top base 440
Pokemon is number 15 Vigoroth. It actually is not as
defensive as Klang is, however it does have good
speed and respectable attack. I put Vigoroth as
the top Pokemon of Vigoroth, Klang and Seadra because it's the
only one of the three that is banned
from Smogon's Gen 7 Not-Fully-Evolved metagame. To be perfectly honest
I don't know why, there's very little
writing about it and I am not an expert in the
previous generation metagame that only allows
Not-Fully-Evolved Pokemon. And if you know an
expert in that metagame, I will be impressed. Next up is number 14 and
it's finally not a tie. The only Pokemon that
is not-fully-evolved and has a base stat
total of 448 is Doublade. Doublade has insane
Defense, great Attack, and garbage everything else. The Eviolite makes its
Defense one of the highest in the game, but it
improves its Special Defense from terrible to just decent. Its main usage is using
Swords Dance and Shadow Sneak to get around its poor Speed. It does have the
drawback of No Guard not helping its main attacks, meaning enemy Pokemon
simply always hit it, and as I mentioned, its
special bulk isn't great. It's not better than Aegislash, because Aegislash is crazy good, but Doublade is certainly good
enough and can hold its own and in was in the UU
tier back in Gen 7. Also quick PSA, also call out
for Pokemon 7 specifically, it's not pronounced to-do-blade It's a double blade: Doublade. The next two entries
are another tie. And first off we have number 13, the weaker of the
two, Piloswine. Piloswine has solid HP,
but underwhelming defenses. The Eviolite does
work well here though, since it bolsters
its worse stats and combines them
with its good HP, resulting in a
formidably bulky Pokemon. Unfortunately its typing
is not great defensively, having five weaknesses
compared to just one resistance and one immunity. It's a sorta bulky attacker, but not bulky or strong enough
to have widespread usage. It is strong enough to
be banned from the Gen 7 not-fully-evolved
metagame though. Piloswine is not better than
its evolution Mamoswine, but the same cannot be said
for the next 450 total Pokemon, Number 12: Chansey. Ignoring Eternamax Eternatus, Chansey has the second highest
base HP of all Pokemon, second only to its
evolution Blissey and only by five points. It then has great
Special Defense and garbage everything else,
particularly physical defense. However you can cover
for that bad defense using heavy EV investment,
its already absurd HP, and the Eviolite. Blissey's stats are somewhat
higher than Chansey's, but they aren't a
large enough jump to do more than the Eviolite. Eviolite Chansey just
takes hits better than a regular Blissey,
so that makes Chansey a better Pokemon. In Gen 7 it was in the OU tier and Blissey was in the UU tier. Combining Chansey's
simple refusal to die with all the utility moves
it gets, like Soft-Boiled, or Seismic Toss, or Heal Bell,
or Stealth Rock, or Toxic in the last gen, and you have one of the most annoying
Pokemon to fight in most any situation. Next up is number 11, not a tie this time: Sliggoo. Sliggoo has amazing
Special Defense and middling or bad
everything else. With an Eviolite it takes
Special hits very well, but it doesn't seem to
do a whole lot else. Sliggoo is a weird Pokemon here. It doesn't seem to be used
at all in regular metagames and it only seems to
be middle of the pack in the not-fully-evolved
metagame despite having the
highest base stat total of all of the middle-evolution
pseudo legendary Pokemon by a sizable margin. All of the others are
410 or 420, ha-ha-ha, but for some reason
Sliggoo is randomly at 452. What? Why? It's weird. But now we are
finally to the Top 10, and numbers 10 and
9 are, thankfully, the final tie of the video. The inferior of these
two is number 10 Golbat. Golbat has a base
stat total of 455. Normally it has middling bulk, but the Eviolite
makes it quite solid. Combine that with
good defensive typing and access to utility moves
like Defog, Toxic, and Roost, and Golbat is able
to find success in some of the
lower tiers like NU despite not being fully evolved, and it is banned from the
NFE metagame in Gen 7. So Golbat is all right, but it's not better than Crobat. The next 455 total Pokemon
is so good with an Eviolite, that it's better
than it's evolution. That being number
nine, Dusclops. Dusclops also has
that base 455 total, but most of its stat investment goes into its
monstrous defenses. Those already-massive defenses
get boosted by the Eviolite even more, definitely more
than making up for its poor HP. Now Dusclops isn't
that good in Singles, but in Doubles,
particularly VGC, in this most recent generation, it is a staple. It is the premiere Trick
Room setter due to its bulk, immunities, and
access to Bulldoze, which slows down
its partner Pokemon, which in Trick Room
makes them faster. I think its usage has gone down since all the legends were
added in the Crown Tundra, but before then
it was widely used and is still a very
reliable Trick Room Pokemon. At the very least,
it is definitively
better than Dusknoir. Next is Number eight,
Galarian Mr. Mime. Kantonian Mr. Mime has
the same base stat total, but it does evolve! So it's not here. Galarian Mr. Mime isn't
as special as Dusclops. It has good special defense
boosted up but the Eviolite, but its bulk in Defense
in HP is bad enough that it still ends
up pretty frail. Plus eyes is not great
defensive typing. I don't believe it
gets much if any use outside of the
Not-Fully-Evolved metagame. But it was on my Metronome Battle Federation
championship team! Ha-ha! Next is Number 7, Magneton. Magneton has a base
stat total of 465. It has good defense,
amazing special attack, and middling other stats. It's certainly not that bulky, but in Gen 7 it was
actually in the UU tier. Apparently, its primary
usage was using Magnet Pull to trap opposing Steel
types, particularly Scizor, and then K.O. them
with Hidden Power Fire, while they couldn't do
anything to it in return. Seem to be reasonably effective but then Gen 8
removed Hidden Power and now Magneton doesn't have
any fire to (indistinct) so, so it's not good any more. Nowadays you're better
off just using Magnezone. A quick note before we move
onto Number six is Phione. Phione would be next
in line on the list with its base stat total of 480, but it's technically a
fully-evolved Pokemon. It's the offspring
of Manaphy, yes, but it cannot
evolve into Manaphy and therefore does not
get the Eviolite boost. Instead of a pre-evolution, think of it as more just
like a mutant offspring. Like a mutated Manaphy. That's weird. And pointless. Why did
they make this thing? Number six is Rhydon. It has a base stat total of 485. Stellar defense and
Attack and very good HP, but bad everything else. The Eviolite definitely
makes it tough to take out, unless you're using a special
Water or Grass move, though. While I believe the Eviolite
gives Rhydon better bulk then Rhyperior, it
means that Rhydon has to hold the Eviolite, where Rhyperior can
hold other items that can really play well
into its battle strategies. From what I've seen,
Rhyperior's main use in VGC is as a Trick Room sweeper, usually paired with something
next to it, often Dusclops, to use Bulldoze on
it, slowing it down, thus making it faster, but also
activating a Weakness Policy for extra power. Rhydon not only cannot
hold the Weakness Policy, because it's holding
the Eviolite, but it also lacks the
ability Solid Rock, which decreases the damage
taken from super effective hits. So I said that Rhydon
with an Eviolite is bulkier than Rhyperior but if the hit is super
effective, that's not even true. Number five is Electabuzz. It has a base stat total of 490. Its best stats are Speed
and Special Attack, which are solid. Its special defense and
Attack are middling, while its HP and
Defense are poor. The Eviolite certainly helps, but Electabuzz is not
a Pokemon that excels. To be fair to it though,
Electivire isn't good neither, who was in the PU tier
in Smogon in Gen 7, despite its very
high base stat total. Number four is Magmar. It has a base stat
total slightly better than Electabuzz's, being 495. Unfortunately for it though,
its spread is not great. It has near equal investment
in Attack and Special Attack, which means a lot of base
stat points are going to waste on the one attacking stat
you're not going to use, 'cause you're only gonna
use one or the other. Magmar isn't the
same as Electabuzz, neither it nor its
evolution are that great in the competitive scene. Number three is Scyther. Scyther has a base
stat total of 500. Oddly enough, it is the
only example of a Pokemon having the same base stat
total as its evolution. Scizor is base
500 total as well, but it is slower, stronger,
and more defensive. But while Scyther's
effective base stat total can be made higher
with the Eviolite, it's still inferior to Scizor. Bug-Steel is an simply
a amazing typing, especially compared
to Bug-Flying, which is a bad typing. Plus Scizor has access to
STAB Technician boosted Bullet Punch, which is amazing. So Scizor great, Scyther
looks cool, not great. Number two is,
appropriately, Porygon2. With a base stat total of 515, it's a flat out strong
Pokemon even without evolving. Its stats are pretty
balanced overall, with most of them being solid, but the Eviolite makes it
a very solidly bulky tank. Its evolution Porygon-Z
becomes faster and hits harder, but it's actually
frailer, so Porygon2 is both naturally bulkier and
has access to the Eviolite. It is miles easier
to KO a Porygon-Z than it is to KO a Porygon2. This has actually
resulted in Porygon2 being far, far more widely used in the VGC metagame
than Porygon-Z. Porygon2 is a really effective
bulky Trick Room setter because of its bulk and
it only has one weakness and it also has access to
really nice utility moves like Recover and Ally Switch and a pretty wide attacking
move pool as well. In Singles they're
more similar viable, but in doubles, Porygon2
is miles better. And finally is Number one,
the not-fully-evolved Pokemon that is stronger than a lot
of fully evolved Pokemon, that being Type: Null. Yeah. The legendary. You know, I don't think
it should be a legendary. Type: Null has balanced
stats across the board aside from its speed, meaning it becomes super
bulky with the Eviolite. And that is really all
it has going for it. Despite having a base
stat total of 534 it still ended up untiered in
Smogon Gen 7 Singles metagame. Which is like, man. I mean it was good enough to be banned from the
not-fully-evolved metagame, but despite that base stat
total, it doesn't measure up to the fully-evolved Pokemon. My suspicion for
why this happened is that it has a pretty
limited move pool. It is extremely slow and
it stats are two balanced. Pokemon with super balanced
stats tend not to fare too well like Castform of Glalie. That is unless they're really
strong Pokemon like Mew. So in summary of
the 20 strongest
not-fully-evolved Pokemon 14 of them were fully evolved at the time of their
introduction, which makes sense. Actually it's 15, if you
count Galarian Mr. Mime, which is kind of. Also the not fully
evolved Pokemon that I think ended up better
than their evolved forms within Eviolite are Chansey,
Dusclops, and Porygon2, so, the bulkiest ones that
appreciate even more bulk. Thanks so much for watching
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