I Ranked all 61 New Pokémon Mechanics

Thank you surfshark, i skiped the ad but love the support 😂

bro vorgot mighty and alpha pokemon

Fire red and leaf green were where I logged the most hours though crystal was my first game. Growing up I just assumed that gen 3 had the physical special split. I just assumed hyper beam would be special so I'd never teach it to gyarados.

how in the WORLD are the special attack / special defense split and the universal critical hit rate not on this list? like i get the the crit damage change is pretty small, but gen 1 was a complete dumpster fire bc special pokemon were a million times better than all physical ones except possibly persian/slash and tauros/hyper beam.

hard disagree. game corner is nice in all of Gen 4. FRLG is also much better than Red and Blue

I always watch your videos when i do my nail fungus treatment

Am i stupid or did you miss mega evolutions?

Megas were a massive jump for the game and franchise. Maybe they weren't viable for competitive play but theres no denying there were popular for casual players.


Without mega evolution i doubt thered be Z moves, Dymamax or tera types. Mega evolution is the onlu gimmick to return as well, with it coming back in ZA.

The new forms were cool to look at and fun to use in game. Theyre undeniably the most popular gimmick.

the physical/special split was so nothing to me, until recently when i picked up sapphire for the first time. it's definitely been a hassle figuring it out!

number 63: bdsp

I wonder where he would put terrastelization. I’d put like top 3

i don’t understand why people didn’t like the pokemon-amie function you literally just play minigames and then your pokemon are curing themselves of status conditions, dodging attacks, and surviving one-hit KOs just bc they love you !!!! that’s awesome idc !!!

who’s here after the hail to snow change?

Urm you should’ve made this later so you could add scarlet and violet in there as well

I’m actually extremely disappointed with this video. I love your content and videos normally. But this one just sounds like a cocky competitive Pokémon player who doesn’t actually care about much else or the fans or your own followers.
A third of these mechanics were barely touched on. Half of those, you just mentioned they existed and that’s it.
Nearly half of all the mechanics period, you didn’t or barely explained at all. Hardly any in detail.
If anyone who wasn’t a HUGE Pokémon fan watched this, it would barely make sense to them. Even some of the ones you did explain, you explained like a cocky VGC player. 🤷‍♂️ Paying no attention to the actual value a mechanic had to fans overall.

This was overall a very misleading and confusing video. Not one about Pokemon Mechanics, but Wolfe’s opinion on those said mechanics.
Which is what a lot of us usually like yes, AS BONUS CONTENT. Not the SOLE content.

Man I miss StreetPass

Baby Pokémon have been pretty good in the tcg. There's 4 times I can think of that they were played

No way the ability to pet your dog is that low 😭

#1 is incinaroar

I wish they would do a new double battle pokémon game

I kinda hate pre-phis-special split mechanics

Nobody can tell me that ami wasnt awesome

ngl I would love a friend safari on ZA; it was such a social mechanic and it thought me how to use reddit at 13 even. Imagine how today it would fit

Who cares about evolution anyway 😅

The capture the flag was alot of fun

Mega Evolution



Everything else





Z moves

I loved triple battles... I was good at them too.

Naaaaa super training was fun as f

Why does everyone hate Z Moves they are awesome

"All the new stuff gamefreak brought in just to take it away the next game"

I wish Wolfey showed what games and generations all these gimmicks showed up and appeared in

As a new Pokemon fan, I have no idea when I would encounter most of these mechanics

Putting stuff like dynamax and weather ahove legendaries is so vgc

29 😳

Voltorb flip was fun

Love learning of the origins of the game we play today! It is amazing how for the game came and really grateful for all the new gen features! Hope you keep creating more of these! 😄

Quad battles are a thing of the past.6v6 is the new big thing

Pokemon amie being so low on the list is a crime! Terrible take. Its such a natural extension of the idea of pokemon. Theyre like pets, as a kid i imagined petting and feeding them. Then you actually were able to do it! It doesnt effect competitive battling, but it enhanced the other main piller of Pokemon, that being "the vibe"

I know I'm a year+ late to the party, but one thing I have not seen mentioned in any videos along this line is Gen 2's introduction of the EXP bar in battle. It's a small thing, but I'd say very impactful, as it's so nice to be able to see a mon's exp growth in real time as opposed to having to go into your party and view the stats of each mon if you want to see how much further you have to go until the next level

"If it was an Eeveelution type, it was Special"
Except for Grass which was all physical. Lol

"This saves so much time that would usually be spent breeding". I think i would prefer the second one actually!

O-powers sounds.. dirty.

bro the trials are way too damn high, get that horse shit to the bottom of the list fr

also super training is waaay too high considering its only in gen 6, wheres it extremely easy to EV trains with hordes... like super training is legit worthless

Why are vitamins included? They were present from day 1, so not really a new mechanic.