[Music] Pokemon again listen explaining Pokemon the first time was insulting explaining Pokémon a second time would be a death threat we're back again to talk turkey on poke pets except we're going to head over from Kanto to jotto this time to discuss all manner of potential Partners who knows given the abundance of Evolutions in this region some mons that bottomed out near the tail end of the last list might get a second shot but this region is also the same one that introduced evil type oh they try to doll it up in English with dark type but what are the chances that a creature that was born evil is going to pee on the newspaper as a reminder these pets are being graded based on how easy it is to house them if they have a good typing for pet ownership determined by this graph if they're a well- behaved Pokemon if they're safe to be around and finally if it's an easy animal to take care of with Steel type being introduced alongside dark you might need to start penciling in some Polish to keep that coat nice and shiny after tallying up the scores we'll go over the five overachievers who are everything you could ever want in a pet as well as The Underachievers who at best didn't pass in work and at worst are going to show you if your intestines match the curtains starting out the list is Mr Lonely the sole representative of his grade and avoided being a worst pet Contender by a mere Five Points remember how I said some Pokémon would get a second chance to impress it's also a second chance to get worse Onyx wasn't a high ranking Pokémon before coming in with a five of his own but Steelix manages to dig his way even deeper onto the list in fact that's exactly how we got into this mess in the first place Steelix are born when an onyx Burrows deep underground some deeper than half a mile this can also take up to a 100 years to fully play out so if you're in the market for a present for your great grandson's 21st birthday teach on dig when it finally does show back up he's not any easier to take care of than Onyx was still shoveling delicious dirt into its mouth for nutrients which means that like it or not you're now the town moat maker his jaw is strong enough to crack through Boulders if you think you're un weatherized shed is safe think again imagine going to adopt a cat and coming back with a cat bulldozzer you dug your grave now dig it deeper five is another lonely number as its sole representative is one of johto's legendary beast beasts ente is a bundle of complicated feelings all trapped inside one big Grumpy Cat a common trait among all three beasts is an inability to sit still these three were the first roaming legendaries in Pokémon and nothing short of Contracting out a Doug Trio is going to keep them from running not rain nor sleep nor snow is going to stop these guys from getting where they want to go Which is far away from you and your dollar store treats then once you get your hands on the thing it only gets more complicated when this Pokémon barks somewhere in the world a volcano erupts not often a fire type deals psychic damage but knowing that when ente sees the mail truck whole civilizations are going to be turned to Ash it's pretty Haunting of the three beasts it's also the most ordinary while suun is off purifying lakes and you know not being an ice type for some reason and row is off chasing its tail and Tay is kidnapping women I know it's an illusion of him but the real ente didn't seem too eager to clear up the confusion I just think that's interesting I'm just saying we tally up the numbers ente definitely wins the kidnapping women competition six is when the categories finally start getting some meat on them as we've got four Pokémon to tackle up first is foretress not since electrode has a Pokemon seemingly had so little going for it on the outside it's a big metal ball with a few pegs on the side but on the inside well that's not really known but but it only takes one deck entry to turn this from a boulder buddy into one of the most hazardous Pokémon you could ever get is it deadly is it traumatizing does it come from alola I see a why in my future in the Devil's Playground of alola they've discovered that foretress handling is actually just a really clever way to cash in on life insurance since approaching it causes it to fire off sharp metal fragments want to know what else fires off sharp metal fragments guns and in case the more daring among us think they'll just build up its trust via email before daring to get close to it this is not something that forus can control no matter what as long as you approach him he'll fire off shrapnel it's not a conscious action it's a reflex yeah my pet's the shotgun door trap from saw what breed is yours sneez is next and as our first dark type he fails at leaving much of a positive impression dark and ice is already a miserable type combination for pet ownership the money that you save on lighting your house immediately goes into cooling at 24/7 it loves to hunt for itself but the only thing this little stinker feels comfortable going oneon-one with are unattended eggs I mean if I were four times weak to fighting I'd also probably try to avoid head-on fights as much as I could but that doesn't mean you have to like me worse yet this is a smart Pokémon the Dex is constantly bragging about its intelligence which means just like Gengar before it it's smart enough to know that it's being bad and just doesn't care following closely behind ente is his little brother ryow so there's a popular theory that when the brass tower burned down and hoo revived the three lost Pokemon into the legendary beasts the Pokemon revived were a Flareon jolon and Vaporeon makes sense the Kono girls in the dance theater showed that Eevee is clearly important to the town they followed the type theming and also ride the line of dog or cat just like Eevee I think what really solidifies this Theory though is how just like jolon when it comes to being a pet row is remarkably unremarkable if middle child syndrome hit jolon hard it backs up over reichow a few times for good measure his brothers get movies all to themselves but for row I fished this TV special out of the trash you want it sure he's a heck of a lot more dangerous than than jolon but it's not exactly hard to say that you can just copy and paste everything about jolon swap out the names and get the exact same result all that he really has going for him is that if this were prehistoric times and the Order of divinity was decided by who could wear the most neck ties he'd be a lock squeaking in with technically a higher score is gar now poison and flying was already a pretty poor typing combination with gbat and it's not going to take much longer to see how bad it is again so to burden another Pokemon with it what ground oh what do you think when you see a purple Scorpion Pokémon ooh ooh dirt he may not be Toxic by type but he's certainly Toxic by Nature being an independent Hunter means he's going to take care of most of the hard work for you but it's how he goes about catching that prey that raises some problems his hunting tactic involve latching onto the victim's face and injecting them with oh poison you say now what you aren't injecting them with mud well now forgive my presumptions but doesn't that sound like what a poison type would do aside from that the only other major noteworthy thing about gar is that it likes to make its home up on high cliff faces which means that housing is only as easy as your chimney is tall seven is again home to one no hoper in the form of arados all right guys we're all going to be real nice to arados and pretend we didn't see this coming from a mile away there's not much that needs to be said that Arad Do's bright red coloring doesn't already tell you a giant poisonous bug as a pet is already a gamble when you can keep it in a terrarium but when you have to start negotiating out land with it the dynamic shifts and this isn't a Beedrill situation where once it finds a spot it just completely takes it over no arados doesn't like having just one spot to itself it refuses to make just one web and will scatter them all around to catch as much food as possible even leaving a single strand to help it get back to a web quickly and ariados is a nocturnal Hunter so as you try to sleep the sounds of a giant spider scuttling around your house will be your white noise isn't that Pleasant there isn't a lot violent about its deck entries one even imply this thing can make friends but all that needs to be taken with a grain of salt when dealing with a spider that weighs as much as a couple hams eight is home to the next three Pokémon with the first one not being a credit to his type's already abysmal reputation merro is just a little he's said to be the bearer of ill fortunes and Dread to whoever sees it at night but after it swipes the hat off my head for the 15th time I start to wonder if it's the baren of Darkness or just a brat he's a small bird which means he's pretty easy to house but you're not going to really want him inside when he spends all night moving your wallet and keys around to new hiding spots just to watch you waddle around in the morning to try to find them assuming it even lets you have them back just like Meowth they love shiny objects and are likely to hide them in personal spots only they can get to and trying to get them back will only give you the conversation starter of why do you have the those Talon marks on your face he'll probably steal his own food just for the thrill of it but other than that avoid merro after him is the soul dragon type of jodo KRA has come to avenge his Line's middling performance from last time always got to oneup the younger brothers cedra was fine so kindra's got to be terrible creates massive whirlpools every time it moves notice how it didn't say in the water KRA should be a majestic water dragon again it's the only one the region has to call its own but delving into what KRA actually does it becomes pretty easy to see that it's resting on that Majesty it won't stop talking about how much it sleeps it's either making whirlpools or sleeping in a cave does that sound like it wants to play fetch add up the danger inactivity and strict living conditions and it's not hard to see that when it comes to water dragon types sure was the first one last up is pyos swine and it's the first one where how awful he is almost wraps back around to being Charming having a face-to-face chat with this thing requires throwing yourself on the ground he's slow blind and yet still 3et tall ever wonder what it's like to have a mound of dirt as your pet sandygast is in shambles so what makes him so bad surely if he's so slow he can't be up to much right yeah if you don't count head trama as much thanks to being unable to see pyos swine is on constant high alert of everything that could be a threat and will Rush headlong into whatever might be a danger to it this includes attackers Predators table legs chair legs human legs he covers the whole spectrum and it doesn't matter if he's not the fastest a 100b pig smashing into you is going to hurt trim his eyebrows and maybe it can work but as is wait until CNO bad for Pokemon worse for tourism nine is next and first up is a Pokemon whose name doubles as instructions unnown folks out there with a favorite letter of the alphabet or who just really hate K are going to find a lot to love with this thing but what is this thing unknown has threatened for years to have some sort of hidden power or importance that it just never really delivered on it floats around making a low hum one that gets louder if you own multiple teaching a parrot how to cuss is so last year I made my pets spell a bad word and getting a bunch of them together is about the only way you're going to get any value out of them since when they're alone all they do is stick to the wall despite how much people value Unown it's never really done much of note aside from making an ente that kidnaps women the flip side of a Pokémon that's not really trying at all is what that's giving 100% at all times even when it really really shouldn't and Caesar is that if you have any experience with Scyther you're already going to have a leg up on training this thing since it is no different in how strong it is it's just distributed that strength differently it might not have changed stat-wise but ever since it put on that metal coat it's been a lot more intense a pair of scissors might seem safer than sides but a scissor is kind of like two Sid on its own so if Scyther is a danger to you Scizor is like a danger to National Security it's an aggressive hot rod red roach with a need to win or die trying now megas aren't being counted in this discussion because how best to abuse your dog isn't something to look into when picking him out so if I start banging this pot next to his head that will upset him but Mega Caesar does give us a look into how serious this thing is with how it will fight so hard its body begins to melt hitmontop comes next and you've already got an unreliable little pup you adopt him hoping to see him spin look how little time he spends spinning you're not called hitmon Stand now get spinning or get lost he comes with all the usual trappings of fighting types like being overly intense and a bundle of energy and kicks but what puts hit on top this low is a mixture of being a pain to take care of and a pain to get kicked by this thing kicks our killer especially when it finally does start spinning and ups that destructive force by 10 times but the hardest part of owning a hitmontop is just getting one in order to get your hands on a hitmontop you need a Tyrogue whose attack stat is the same as his defense stat ah yes the perfect Middle Ground between punching and kicking kicking who' have thought that a fighter could be such a diva finally for nine and it brings me no pleasure to rate him so lowly it's Crow bat my beloved bat is sadly not the best of pets first off this thing is ginormous you would peg him at beach ball size maybe but no he's moving sideways through every door he sees he's a blood Drinker too like gbat so he's going to require gallons upon gallons of blood every day and if he's too far away from home you're going to need to pick him up cuz he traded out his legs for extra Wings his fat little body will be there bursting with yummy plasma hopefully having killed whatever he got it from so it doesn't come to try to take it back none of that sounds good so what makes him worthy of the nine he earned well Crobat is one of the first Pokemon to not evolve with level UPS uh stone or trading he evolves with friendship the only way for a Crobat to exist is if you've shown a goldbat the sort of love it could have only dreamed of and this gives it a shockingly high Behavior rating Crobat learned how to love and it's thanks to you so it's already your best friend Crobat cannot exist without the milk of human kindness for one route in alola during raid battles 10 brings us to the okay pets these guys might not be the first choice you should go for but with enough elbow grease you can sculpt them into a great part partner yanma is the first member of that group and he's a mixed basket that leans more towards positive than negative of course if you have one of those houses with Windows in them yanma might be a bad choice since his wing bead is so fast that a sudden stop can create a sonic boom that can shatter glass and there are parts of your head that aren't as durable as glass he's also about 4T long which means he's as long as pyos swine is all so housing him can be difficult but the ease of Care on this guy is insanely good dragonflies in the real world are great at catching pest species like mosquitoes yeah I'd go right the back up if I were you bozo this is yanma country it's not much worth keeping track of yanma when he's out of the house since he's so fast so he's pretty self-sufficient in terms of walks but he has plenty of problems keeping him from breaking into the higher tier corsola may be the biggest glass cannon in terms of pet ownership it's a rock with a face and it's nice about it no big old sour scowl like Geodude this thing loves life what little life it gets corsa's problems have nothing to do with corsola if these two stats were different corsola wouldn't be anywhere near these other jabronies but its housing and ease of care ruin this thing do you have any any idea how hard it is to grow coral Coral may be one of the most fragile forms of life on the planet needing a perfect ecosystem to survive and gets hit by pollution worse than almost anything else that means unless you keep its water impossibly clean changing it out daily to filter out the impurities corsola is going to get really sick do you think there's a reason the only other corsola we know about are the dead ones Octillery is another Pokémon that I wished was higher up because he's just a regular octopus and I love him for it first off starting from remade is not going to prepare you for where this goes puberty's a now it shouldn't be a shocker that an octopus based on tanks is a heavy hitter but it's not just the attacks coming out of his mouth you need to look out for since his head is just as dangerous octopi can also be super smart and become attached to their owners if they're treated right so not smacking around Octillery might just be the key to not having a hole punched in your chest he's getting carried by typing I'll admit it finally is another Pokemon that should be no surprise to see so low Skarmory sometimes this is really easy an aggressive bird covered in swords shouldn't need an explanation but Skarmory is too popular he might as well get one oh you're lucky you're so handsome shock of shocks Skarmory isn't actually that poorly behaved nothing in the decks leads you to calling it one way or the the other so it's safe to assume that he's a decent pet in that regard housing though well if you take into account that he's made of metal it's pretty bad the two things the Dex loves to talk about when it comes to Skarmory is how fast he loves to fly and how it MTS its steel feathers that means that while traveling at over 180 mph there's a chance Skarmory will just randomly drop a samurai sword onto a crowd of unsuspecting people keep him well groomed and maybe you can let him fly like he likes but if you don't just make sure to get that funeral suit steamed 11 is the home to three of the most iconic Johto Pokémon and three that people are just going to be so happy to see solo down feraligator seems like the most cut and dry case out of any of these feral alligator he was so excited to get to hurting people he left home without all his vowels at a hulking 7 foot tall and a massive 195 lbs what real alligators weigh half a ton you might be able to lift this guy for alligator once again proves that typing can make up for a lot when it comes to being a pet as water typing buoys a lot of negatives like incredible aggression a voracious appetite and huge bulk that makes him a pain to keep as a pet like I said not hard to see why he ranks so lowly he's not quite Charizard but he's not quite better umbre on his neck stand from one starter to another I see you or Umbreon is the highest rated dark type out of the whole lot great no matter what I say it's still an evu you're going to get a certain level of cutesy charm no matter what and housing it is as easy as any other Evolution that said he's not doing himself any favors the major problems with him are being nocturnal and safety can't really play with him much if you two have completely opposite sleep schedules but what's worse is that out of self-defense Umbreon has the ability to sweat oh oh poison I've said this for years but now I'm sure of it jodo is just Kanto again your dog works up a sweat suddenly the air reeks of death it's a fair trade for watching Rings light up lastly is woba Fett so let's get the big one out of the way what you exactly would do with a woba Fett is a mystery the closest thing you can compare it to is a punching bag but you don't buy a dog to practice ropa doe on it so the problem really comes from what exactly does woba Fett do at least why not has legs all we know about woba Fett is that it doesn't like bright lights so I guess keep it indoors honestly he kind of makes a better home defense system than a pet in that regard he sees somebody walk in Destiny Bond 12 is our biggest class yet with a crowd of five including a few of Cho's best and brightest who just so happen to completely fail at being pets tyion is first and normally those exposed Flames would be an issue but a trip to the third dimension seems to have curtailed any worry of that that retractable flame is about an equal exchange for an apparent secret technique tyion NOS where it can rub its fur together to create an explosion yeah dude it's called explosion licky licky can learn it too without the exposed flame Typhlosion is about as close to a normal type as you can get and without any mention of a 10,000 Dee hot sack it makes him fine getting a tyion over a normal type is like getting a dog who knows how to make a Molotov cocktail he might not do it but just get a pug for God's sake jump Pluff is absolutely bizarre this thing shouldn't be as low as it is it's just a ball that jumps right well for the most part yeah it's just just that but thanks to scarlet and violet this thing's credit took a humongous hit somehow the less offensive one is violet who talks about how breathing in near a jump Pluff is likely to have you breathing in spores that cause horrible coughing and itches yeah breathing you might want to put that on the hold when jump fluff's around that makes its yearly floats around the world on the spring Breeze seem Sinister when you know the side effects but it's Scarlet that really puts this thing so far down those travels around the world it does to spread its spores they have to end eventually and when the trip ends they do too a jump fluff who loses all of its spores dies and given how this Pokemon leaves home when the breeze rolls in your jump Pluff is just going to vanish one day and the only Solace you get is that one day it'll die I can't live with that do you know how sad it will be when jump Pluff just vanishes one day and then a few days later you hear a knocking on the door it's a baby hop pip that has the exact same face that your jump Bluff has and it jumps up into your arms like it's known you its entire life just because you treated jump Bluff so good I can't I'm not emotionally ready for jump block if Octillery and Crobat were hard for me to rate lowly rating what was once my absolute favorite is heartbreaking but if Pinsir got this low Heracross has got to be here too so though Heracross is a parallel to Pinsir in a lot of ways where one is a stag beetle Heracross is a Hercules beetle and swaps out a pair of mandibles for a great big horn that horn is caus for alarm since he loves tossing things with it so while he can keep attackers at Bay he's also likely to send a log flying through your roof cuz he wanted to see if he could throw it EAS of care though is a huge Boon to him since he loves nectar and honey you know exactly what to buy and it's not hard to find it occurring naturally trees have nectar and honey coming out the Wazoo and some Pokémon like Bulbasaur have it coming out their wazo Heracross isn't bad but you need to know exactly what you're doing now if there was a Jack's preference category Heracross would be number one no problems but I can't do that Dawn fan is next and a design like this is one that's built to last as long as people exist will be liking Donan just like with jump Pluff paa helped characterize Donan a little better but instead of a rag weed spreading ticking Death Clock paa leaves it as donfan is pretty calm when it isn't calm though which it seems to be a lot it will curl up into a ball and Barrel head long into whatever is causing it trouble nearly 300 lb of elephant charging at you doesn't sound like something you would want to see but at the very least you can rest assured knowing d fan will be fine since it's very hard to superficially damage yeah he treated the I95 like a bowling alley and took out a couple dozen cars but he doesn't need a bath and he wouldn't want one either ground types hate that again Specialized Care is a must finally is Lugia who is not a water type Lugia is not a water type lives under the water parallel to a fire type psychic of course it is they aren't going to make one box legendary super effective against the other de game freak die love Groudon cosigned by solo just like with a Pokemon like jumpluff or venomoth its real destructive potential isn't because it's mean but because it has to move Al Lugia on the move has the ability to at least destroy a house and if he's really getting up and going he can cause a 40-day long storm what the hell is going to be left after 40 days of storms well water which it isn't Lugia's ease of care comes from how it just doesn't really need your help it's a giant whale monster that lives at the bottom of the ocean what are you going to do and if I may I'd like to propose that Lugia is some sort of chaos sigil that does mental damage to anybody who looks at him for too long it's happened twice now all I'm saying is that calling the ultra beasts lovecraftian is a bit disingenuous when this guy has been driving writers insane for over 20 years the three Pokémon saddled with the Unlucky number 13 start out with your friend in mine dunpar everybody's favorite lump of yellow Clay is our Bridge towards yeah that's fine I guess since he's very standard in a lot of ways he thanks God every day he was born a normal type as it helps out his rather standard stats all around he's easy to care for well behaved and not much of a danger if you don't count the drill but what's he going to Menace with that wine corks housing though is his Achilles heel since whenever he spots someone he doesn't recognize his immediate reflex is to burrow underground he's going to dig his way from the living room to the basement a lot is what I'm trying to say he's not a bad choice but going to the dog park might be a bit boring with him being underground all the time and while I'm at it I just want to hop up on my handy dandy soap box and say if you can't appreciate the dunpar I don't think Pokémon's for you he is wonderful and the manifestation of malicious compliance oh you want more dunpar here you go have a double no triple following him is another Pokemon who kisses the ground scarlet and violet walks on giraffa rig giraffa rig is a Pokemon kind of defined by its solitary gimmick of finding a deck entry about anything other than its butt head and the Brain inside that head is impossible it's always talking about how it stays up while giraffa rig sleeps or how it might bite someone who tries to approach him from the rear but other than that it doesn't mention much else what we do get is that it's a grazer eating grass and tree shoots which means that's ease of care taken care of and it's relatively small size means you're not in danger of ruining your lawn it's nice to see a psychic type that doesn't see you thinking and take it as an insult finally is URS ring who is trying as hard as possible to prove that being a normal type means you don't have to try that hard now try to believe me he is not poorly behaved yeah that's right pet him tug his fur Pat his belly steal his baby he'll be cool it never talks about how violent it is or an incident where it bit a kid's head off no instead it talks about how Ursaring is a very hungry bear who likes to eat honey and berries it doesn't matter if it goes unsaid it's a a bear he's still going to be dangerous he's just not being a for no reason 14 houses just one Pokemon Noctowl knock owl's normal flying type means he's in stiff competition with Heavy Hitters like Pidgeot and while he's not bad by any stretch he's got a few issues that keep him from being a really good pet one problem it doesn't have surprisingly is housing that's because even though it's nocturnal like a lot of other Pokémon it's feathery down means that it flies in almost total silence it's a hunter which means you don't have to worry about food and also incredibly expressive with it easy to read its mood based on its head orientation if it's right side up you're doing something right if it's upside down flee Town poor knock doow though what a massive variety of types it could have been only to have them all stolen out from under him oh he's a smart bird so psychic flying M oh oh well he hunts at night so dark flying ghost flying oh man I can't keep up you're telling me 15 comes after 14 we're into the good pets now these guys are rock solid and only have room to grow from here and who better to usher in this era of better pets than every jotto player's favorite friend miltank check under your seats barf bags were provided while it's downright Pleasant in almost every way ease of Care and housing tank this Pokémon's performance cuz it's a cow do you ever wonder why casual cow ownership never really caught on it's cuz taking care of a cow is hard work so much food and land goes into raising a healthy cow that you're dedicating loads of time energy and money into meeting its needs that's on top of the five gallons of milk it produces every day meaning you're a Milkman now whether you want to be or not sudden career pivots aside it's really good in all other aspects it's a happy plump little cow that loves rolling around and drinking milk does it curl up into a ball and suck on its own teeth or does it spray the milk directly up into its mouth by owning a milk tank you can find the answers to one of life's greatest Mysteries Stantler is next and well sometimes you get one who's just straight down the middle is there anything interesting about Stantler no is there anything wrong with Stantler no are we staying here any longer no Mantine is next and has quite a bit to talk about the wind riding manay is an incredibly friendly Pokemon with it becoming a popular Pastime in alola to swim and surf alongside them it's mellow enough to let remade swim alongside it Hunts on its own and doesn't seem to have a mean bone in its body problem is he has too many nice bones Mantine is big really really big a 7t wingspan means that there's no way to keep this thing comfortable and it's going to need to stay in the ocean not even an olympic sized swimming pool could keep this guy happy you need to pull the size of a football field to make him comfortable this is another case where under very specific circumstances Mantine is a perfect pet but outside of its Niche it's completely unreal istic 16 is the home to the final Legends of Johto both the bird and Beast and this weird just a weird lumpy fish why does Lantern look like that I know it's not part of the grading but lanterns always looked real weird to me I don't know why anyway electricity and water go together right obviously this is a type combination so bad it ought to be a deduction on its own but believe it or not it doesn't produce the sort of electricity we all associate with electric types lanterns lights are all bioluminescent created by bacteria that lives in it that means that playtime with Lantern won't turn into a massacre that must mean it's safe right wrong flashbang Lantern's main method of incapacitating enemies involves flashing its lure brightly enough to Blind its prey so brightly it can be seen from the surface over 3 miles down the idea of generating lights that can be seen over 3 Mi away in water is horrifying cuz the thing about those dark depths it's dark light travels so poorly through water that to generate intense enough light to be seen that far away would produce so much energy and heat it would just vaporize anything in its vicinity so how the heck is that safety stat so high if it can give you third degree burns with its headlights well I think it's safe to assume that it's not busting this out all the time living so far down in the ocean is what facilitates needing such a strong light above the water it's going to require a lot less to stun an opponent so it will pull back and be a lot more reasonable so even though it's a big number and awfully spooky to the average reader it's not as bad as it first seems It's not like his body is made of electricity that'd be stupid poly Toto proudly presents a pristine PowerUp for polywhirl though procuring the part for its progression may prove pestering the potent potential of poly Toto is plain to peep prohibiting punches may appear pedantic but passing on the possibility for pugilistic Powers provides prodigious precipitation per chance you presumed that prevents problems but peing its personal practices provides proof of putrid performances polywhirl and Poliwag are its proteges and as principal Pioneer of their preparation its piercing peels produce phobic performances poly toad may please Pros pursuing prestigious prizes but poly Toto's Pleasant personality proves phony with puny progyny next up is suun and it's been so long you may have forgotten but he's actually in a trio yeah there's like two more of them one of them wants to be Ash's dad I guess now what's holding him back is that nothing holds him back putting this thing on a leash is just a way to lose a leash he won't stay still no matter what but for once he actually has somewhere to be suun is is a majestic beast who has the magical power to purify water which means you own a dog who's making a difference he's also not the easiest to care for since he's not doing this for his health or you know maybe he is the ease of care is because you need to hold yourself to a higher standard of living or else suun is going to start getting pissed off no more littering got to sort your bottles in cans drive a fuel efficient car I bet suun would love a break but as long as that g M guzzling rev of room is in the driveway I guess he won't get one finally is hoo and the first thing you're going to need to get over with hoo is the moral issues of keeping a beautiful wish granting Phoenix in your garage but you're not even going to get your hands on it if you're not worthy hoo only appears to the pure of heart so if you manage to get so far as to plan out what color to paint his room he already respects you hoo actually lacks a lot of the downside that placed Lugia noticeably lower like no disasters in his wake no issues with housing sure he's still a 12T tall 400 lb bird but he's not making this any harder than it has to be the two all the way up in 17 start with the second in Joto's statue Trio zatu what a pretty statue your friends will say when they walk into your house thanks he has anxiety zatu is in a similar boat to his statuesque Brothers in Waba fet and PSE sudao since he's not really up to much as a psychic type he has a bit more potential thanks to his ability to move things with his mind but there's a double-edged sword with zatu sure his immobility means he's at no risk of hurting anybody why he's standing there though is the big issue zatu has two eyes you know like Onyx one eye watches the future while the other observes the past the most generous interpretation is is that he's immobile because he knows the future will come to pass no matter what and there's nothing he can do to change it all right my bird has already sunk all the way into nihilism and you're telling me it gets worse yes in the Omega Ruby entry it discusses how zatu will stand motionless out of fear of a horrible future yet to pass keeping zatu around will just be a massive stress spot where looking at him reminds you oh yeah I'm going to die one day if you can accept your own mortality sure get yourself a totem bird Aeros is next and the world's most awkward sheep is pretty great as a pet first off if anybody is watching this in a lighthouse sit down cuz you're about to meet your new best friend sheep are kind and friendly animals and as dubious as its species is I'm inclined to say it would be just as lovable as a sheep with its wool not to mention it's got long dormant Dragon Blood that awakens when it mega evolves but remember remember if I see you mega evolving a Pokémon I'm going to have to assume you're doing some other heinous 18 is the final group with five mons and we start with aom people love pets with personality dog sneezes once now it's the sneezing dog same with the murder dog aom is like that except there's a great chance you're going to hate his personality aom is a monkey and while real monkeys can be like a sugar high baby with the ability to climb anything apom seems to be just a little more tempered nothing describes it as a pest or annoying in fact the worst you can Levy against him is that he's a clutz given how much he does with his tail aom's own hands have grown clumsy and he has difficulty holding stuff key not being a dark type means it's a lot more likely apom will know when he's taken a joke too far and will'll give you back whatever it swipes after it's satisfied merro and meel meanwhile are in the backyard burning your driver's license sud Sudo woodo is next and one of the instances of behavior being so low not because it's a poorly behaved Pokemon no see it doesn't do enough for it to be poorly behaved pseudo woodo is obsessed with acting like a tree it is pseudo wood after all that means you're buying a literal statue most of the time get it wet and things might get hectic but at least unlike zatu whose stoic nature is out of pure Cosmic dread sudoo at least enjoys doing it and in that context he's actually a pretty great pet you aren't going to catch a pseudo woodo without knowing what you're getting yourself into so once you have one you can join the pseudo woodo fan club and subscribe to their magazine send in photos of pseudo woodo and get them graded and learn all there is to know about the rock who wants to be a tree next is Quagsire he's just a big dumb idiot plus he can introduce you to Whooper drink the bug milk you're making him sad he's making so much of it drink the bug milk or he's going to cry yeah that's Shuckle for you needing to get him all the berries he needs to ferment all that bug juice is going to be quite the pricey Endeavor unless you knuckle down and make your own trees other than that and a harsh typing score Shuckle Kind of Wonderful he's just a little worm living in a rock and while it's it's going to be awkward when your guests find out where this delicious punch came from the Pokedex doesn't treat Shuckle drink making process like the weird thing it absolutely is it comes down to taste really as it does with a lot of bug types but Shuckle is easily the best one to come out of jodo last up for 18 is Deli bird and you can own Santa Claus sure you've got to keep your house at subzero temperatures but he's a kind soul it's impossible to hate a Pokémon who doesn't want to do anything but be nice and spread Goodwill it's not his fault that sometimes there are bombs in his presence Deli Birds throughout history are known to help the lost and hungry by bringing them food they're great with kids and if that housing problem gets too bad you can always consider picking up an alolan Deli bird since they're far more resilient to the heat than others hypothermia though is just a small price to pay for spreading Joy like Deli bird does the final stop before the best of the best is 19 and once again an eeve Lucian managed to sneak in and this time people haven't been weird about it as weird about it Espeon is the Sun to umbreon's Moon which means where Umbreon fails Espeon succeeds umbreon's poisonous sweat is replaced with very sensitive hairs on the tip of espeon's forked tail and nobody's ever slipped sensitive hair into tea to kill their rich husband if you take away the psychic powers espeon's kind of just a normal cat it likes bathing in the sun gets sad when it's cold and it's got a jewel if you haven't found your cat's Emerald yet you're just a bad pet owner Espeon is also another Pokemon where it will only exist if it loves its trainer and unlike Umbreon it developed its powers further because it wanted to keep its trainer safe not because glowing sounded cool finally is lean the second half of jod do's poor underwhelming bug Duo lean is a shocking upset to see make this far I thought it'd be written off real early by some deck Sentry talking about a time at robbed a gas station but instead it paints a very cute picture during the day it's very sleepy and enjoys curling up in the grass to rest and eat berries at night it seems to draw a strange power from the Stars themselves and uses that to fuel its fighting efforts except as we learn it's not especially dangerous in that regard just one of his fists is barely enough to do anything that's why he needs four of them you're not in any danger around lean even the dust it spreads while looking up at the stars is treated as a symbol of good luck lean is really on the cusp of breaking into the 20s which is where we're moving next and how's our absolute top 10 tier poke pets these are the gold standards that if you can get you absolutely should 20 is Prime real estate and it belongs solely to the king slow king that's right when an evil little creature isn't sitting on his head and teaching him slurs slow King can actually be pretty cool now he is still getting gallons upon gallons of poison dumped into his brain but unlike Umbreon and gigar he rises above it and only uses as a brain booster slow King is an extremely intelligent Pokemon able to match wits with other psychic types like oranguru and act as a sage for people in need of advice while his large size might make him a bit of a tight squeeze his greatest asset is his temperament slow King is easygoing and laidback while being more alert than Slowpoke that does mean he's more likely to remember when you forget to buy him those pants you promised but just don't don't forget dummy 21 is our introduction to the first actual dog in this generation smeargle don't let those overdeveloped hind legs fool you this guy's a pup and a creative one smeargle's main feature is its tail and the paint like fluids it secretes that it uses for drawings this is the first time secrete and fluids are used to describe a Pokémon that doesn't end in a fatality smeargle is a kind and docile Pokémon with not much of a care in the world EX ccept how to express itself behavior-wise that can often create problems since it will wander around town and mark the buildings with graffiti but if you can make sure he varies up his designs they might not catch him but even then the cost of canvases is offset by the greatest part of owning a smeargle he's a money-making machine collectors go go off for smear Gart so set your little buddy off on the one thing he loves more than anything and by the end end of the day you've paid off your student debt the trans icon thems a zerel is next and there's not much that can really sell a zerel more than it does to sell itself it's a big beautiful bundle of blue hugs it's like Stantler but in Reverse where why it's so amazing is so plain to see that you don't really need help understanding do you want me to talk about how it loves riverbeds do you want to hear about its excellent hearing how it became fairy type or do you just want to look at its face our final stop on the road to the top five best and worst is 22 and it's a grass type Extravaganza first up is the guardian of time celby at least they used to be nowadays they're kind of the middle level manager of time thanks a lot dalga celby is a beacon of sorts with its arrival heralding a positive and prosperous future life just improves with a celby around not just your own but the life around you cel's ability to revive plant life and bolster the environment means that it can generate positive feelings all around an entire city would see its mood improve thanks to celby the only problem is that its nature leads it to leave a lot to travel through time where and when it ends up makes it hard to determine when you're going to get to see it again but it's also said to leave eggs from the future that it finds now this could be good but at the same time you have to think about what zatu has been saying cuz the future sounds kind of scary finally is the highest rated starter ever Meganium you'd think that housing what amounts to a dinosaur would be tough but at 511 it's not that tight a squeeze besides it'll be spending most of its time basking in the sun it has a power similar to celibe where it can revive dead plants and has a major bonus over other grass starters unlike venusaur's poison typing monog grass Meganium doesn't give off poison but a sweet scent and calms down aggressive people and Pokémon the same Meganium positive influence means it doesn't just help itself but other Pokemon that can't quite keep their emotions under control though it might not be enough to Wrangle the bottom five which leads us into the top five except jod Do's funny cuz they went and gave an evolution to the last champ Porygon Porygon 2 is pretty much a better Porygon same digital home ease of care safety heck the one problem with Porygon was literally smoothed out so naturally he's still the best so top six best poke pets no uh no not that either blissy yeah chansy got an evolution too and it's just more chansy top seven best the winner gets the bronze medal but before we can even think about the lofty Heights of third place we've got to deal with our fifth worst poke pet with a sour mug like that it's not a surprise quilf is not too keen on the pet life and he's sure to let you know quilf are known to puff up at the sight of danger and launch their spines at their attackers it poor swimming skills give it a complex like pyos swine where anything it can see is a Potential Threat so it's incredibly violent but a poison type is only as dangerous as the poison he creates and it just so happens that quill fishes is among the worst of them all simply fainting doesn't sound that bad but where are you going to be tangling with a quilf the water and the doggy paddle gets a lot harder to perform when you can't to move just waiting until we get to Hui where he can't stop puffing up as for the fifth best poke pet isn't it weird that this was togepi's final evolution for a few regions like this thing is begging to evolve this is not the neck of a confident final evolution now no next that's the future totic comes from the absolutely blessed Togepi line and is the highest rated friendship Pokémon that means you've proven yourself and our just now reaping the benefits when it's around kind-hearted people it will shower them with happiness or as one Dex entry insists on calling it Joy dust do not inhale the joy dust the only con you can really find with toga tick is that if you start acting like a bad person or have a lot of jerk friends it makes Togo tick sad it doesn't make it sick or make it die you'll just disappoint it this is a Pokemon who's so kind you might start getting impostor syndrome like surely I don't deserve this guess what dummy you do number four for the worst is you had one shot ghost types and the best you could muster was going from the second worst to the fourth worst hey next list you might actually escape the bottom five as long as one of you doesn't start wanting to kill children Mia's crimes extend far past only being available in Kanto and with nothing but a head and a necklace it can do major damage the deck's entries start gently saying it loves to annoy and spook people by biting their hair and screaming in their face when they sleep that's the nice stuff it does by the way by aola though they started to realize why play it so subtly just start draining people of their life force lure them in with the sounds of crying children it flat out admits that its entire reason for living is just to scare people listen Ghost types stop being so bad and I'll start being nicer speaking of nicer is number four best sunflora has never been on a list that either wasn't worst fully evolved Pokemon or best Pokemon themed after the sun in all fairness Sun Flora is an extremely safe pick baby's first Pokemon isn't a bad title for sunflora as a pet it's not physically or specially intimidating it's got no secondary typing that drags down a fantastic grass typing it doesn't have much negative in its deck entries truly sunflora managed to get this far not because it's especially standout like a TOA tick or the later pick it makes it this far cuz it's very plain and it's not the worst thing when your dog can't bend Space in Time number three worst could stand to learn a lesson from that oh man what a fallof for pseudo legendary Aries last gen Dragonite friend shaped Sailors good Tyranitar evil nasty green who would be green Dragonite sweetie I know you're just trying to make him feel better oh man does Tyranitar not want to be a pet featuring nicknames like a mobile disaster and Mountain Mover his destructive potential can't be understated Tyranitar can rearrange entire mountain ranges during its very frequent temp tantrums and can be felt coming from a mile away it's a brand of aggression unmatched by most any Pokémon and its impenetrable armor means that not only is it impossible to take down it knows it Tyranitar on top of all of this is an incredibly headstrong Pokemon thanks to its bulk and will throw that weight around the only people it spares are people too weak to put up a fight a big talk coming from Mr four times weak to fighting it also might not have the easiest time against our number three best poke pack yep the new final evolution for a line that bottomed out at Steelix levels of you're so lucky you have a cute face bossom takes the odish line all the way to a third place finish uh what was holding it back was the uh the poison bossom lives for one thing and one thing only dancing when the sun emerges it will dance happily improving moods and releasing wonderful scents if the Sun isn't out surprise it has a dance to call forth the sun nothing will stop this thing from dancing and with all the benefits that it brings far be it from me to stop it for the number two worst poke pet seeing him away from number one might be a shock but yep the elephant finally entered the room so ma cargo hangs over the Johto pet scene like an anvil cuz it seems like a conversation isn't even necessary mag cargo is said to clock in at over 18,000 de and boils water on contact with its skin yeah I think it also ignites the atmosphere but sure let's talk about the water now the Pokedex can exaggerate on occasion especially in regard to what these things can do to Indian elephants so can we really trust 18,000 de how are you even going to get an accurate measurement on something like that if you go based on the real world equivalent to mag cargo magma you're looking at nearly a nth of that measurement at only 2,000 de that's much more reasonable and just as fatal now 2000° is how hot mag cargo's body is but that doesn't automatically mean it's going to be 2,000 de everywhere it goes people have been able to get around 5 ft away from an active lava flow in little more than a T-shirt and cargo shorts and feel like they're near a fireplace mag cargo is far less fatal than you'd first assume by reading its hyperbolic deck entry but it's still magma it's still hot enough to ignite wood by getting too close to it evaporate water burn you what keeps mag cargo out of the worst of the worst is a combination of how it's not as dangerous as it seems but it's also not badly behaved their shells are described as brittle and it's afraid of the rain so it sounds kind of like a scaredy-cat to me even with an okay personality mag cargo still earns its low spot as for the top spot we got a tie the last two Pokémon are so fantastic and lovable they each got a perfect score truthfully they both get first place so take their placement with a grain of salt we might as well be going alphabetically we're going alphabetically number two best poke pet goes to where is he Majestic Urbane a inspiring furet there have been Pokemon like aeril where their amazing aspects are kind of hard to put into words with furet I find it near impossible he wants to live in your couch cushions and Chase rattatas how could you hate him imagine using him as a neck pillow when you sleep imagine how good he is at giving hugs imagine picking anybody other than furet all right I did sorry the come down to the absolute worst poke pet in jodo though is like a plane crashing oh big shock the hell hound isn't nice Houndoom is a hauntingly evil Pokemon mix two types that underperform on their own and put it on a pooch with the personality of a hot brand the conversation should begin and end end at its horrible attitude and aggressive nature but what Houndoom exceeds at is being an in such unique ways first up is its fire which is created by igniting toxins God damn it this unique way of making fire means that the fire also smells awful so while you're burning to death everybody around you is going to have to hold their nose let's say The Impossible happens and you survive a Houndoom attack well the horror shows only just gun as the toxins in houndoom's fire serve a secondary purpose once you're burned with a houndoom's flame the pain never ends however long you choose to make the rest of your life is going to be spent feeling like you're on fire there's a reason older cultures thought he was the Grim Reaper now turns out he's just working on commission for him Houndoom is a monster of a Pokemon if you own one no one is going to believe you're not a serial killer and after a whole list of calling Pokémon dogs who' have thought that the whole thing would be bookended by two dogs I didn't believe it at first I really didn't this big old mut looks like the furthest thing from a good pet he looks like the furthest thing from anything else in the top five but lo and behold it's actually the best of the best so what is it about granbull that makes him such a perfect pet well first off he's a fairy sure let's go with that the first thing you have have to learn about grandbull is how much its looks deceive you what looks like the world's toughest guard dog is little more than an overly pampered puppy who's more timid than anything he hates fighting and causing trouble and just wants to be a good boy if Mastiffs can be good dogs then so can grandball he'll fight if he absolutely has to but if it can be avoided he'll just run away that actually makes him kind of unpopular with people who want him to be a guard dog or a nasty pitpull they can and sick on people but he's just not that kind of dog the Pokedex calls him totally incompetent as a guard dog which harsh but at least you're pointing people in the right direction so you're totally safe around it it's as easy to house as a dog has the perfect typing easy to take care of and best of all is a total scaredy sweetheart granbull just needs a little love and you've got the perfect pet so what's the takeaway from all this it seems like this should all be cut and dry but but then you see an example like this a short all about how kind Slugma is and notice how the girl isn't melting later her grandma is knitting with arados and that guy was way down on the list meanwhile this Togekiss is more than happy to see the entire human race extincted what I'm trying to say is that as much as you want to break it down into numbers a Pokemon at the end of the day is such a Fantastical work of fiction that you really can't there's probably a loving and caring Houndoom out there or a nasty and rotten Furret ultimately I don't think there's any point at trying to rank them like this psych Digimon one again baby pop the champagne we never need to check our watches again it's always auman o clock we're watching the Digimon movie tonight boys Angela and aait included another win for the good guys remember children sometimes the worst Hells are of our own creation Sora igly pyos swine Slugma Crow bat poto Noctowl Hound hour Heracross natu Tyrogue arados Lugia Steelix F andero betch you didn't even know there was a jodo poke rap cuz it sucks it's not nearly as good or iconic is the original like these singers are being beaten to death by this Rhythm as am I I'm not trying to say that I'm any better I'm just trying to say pseudo vooodo corsola Teddy or sneez foretress Mantine Pichu larvar hoot hoot milk tank toad dial glar Lantern scarm Marie spin Rock Tyranitar I even had to get a new version of the song made just so I didn't get killed by copyright who I will credit EG phobia created this song and they are absolutely fantastic a joy to work with they turned absolute dog piss into lemonade Chikorita dunpar aom Pupitar Porygon 2 synic Quil elid Ry cow Waba Fett tyan granbull Pokemon Stantler Espeon Leiva Togepi there's also singing in between the Pokémon which makes this so much harder to fill so let's nourish the brain a bit this is the opening to The Great Gatsby in my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since whenever you you feel like criticizing anyone he told me just remember that all those people in the world haven't had the advantages that you've had a mindblowing piece of literature from F Scott Fitzgerald the author we were all forced to read in middle school and never really got the message of there was a 2013 movie by billfish ho oh aeril croca snobble urser ring yanma smoo jump slow King blissy Caesar donfan Hound millery Wooper Mar Reef hitmontop Mar roll Umbreon Bailey so what's your guys's favorite Pokémon mine used to be Heracross but uh I sort of warmed skern lean giraffa rig merro remade jumpluff quava smeargle swine of macargo furet B awesome fluffy anente mum Magby Z mous toga tick chule quag Pine Co inin chaer alligator hoip KRA Unown clef sweeton Deli bird Cent skip Bloom now I think it might be [Music] electivire
