POKEMON TIERLISTING BANANZA

This one is probably my favorite, but that may be down to me really liking the Bug type as a whole. Title explains it all, imagine yourself having a nice garden (For Water/Bug types and Anorith it's a koi pond) when you suddenly learn that one of these species is suddenly taking up residence there. The categories are also pretty simple to explain, it's what you do in response to this infestation. The Helpful to Garden tier is mostly filled with pollinators or species that'll keep away pests, or in regards to the upper part of the tier bordering the Get The Raid tier, it's species that really don't affect your garden in any significant way. The cocoon Pokemon are mostly there since it's too late to get rid of their caterpillar forms and hey, may as well have pretty Vivillon or Butterfree flying around the garden at this point. In hindsight, I think we really undertiered Orbeetle. The main argument for his placement is that it's smart enough for you to reason with but there wasn't really a placement for that, so it's dead in the middle. Thinking on it more, it's basically a mind-controlling supervillain ladybug, I don't care if it eats aphids get it outta my fucking garden. You could probably argue Heracross is too low, I mean they can fling 10x their weight into low orbit, but they seem too docile for that. Give them their space, let 'em suck on your honeysuckles (Not like that you sick pervert) and you should be good. I think the funniest tier on this is the Call The Police tier, the mental image of a small SWAT team invading some housewife's garden to beat the crap out of a bunch of Beedrill is hilarious to me. The single funniest part of the tier is easily Pineco and Forretres 'cause you could argue calling the cops is an overreaction for some of these, but those two are basically living bombs. You would genuinely need a whole bomb squad to get 'em outta there. As for the Flamethrower tier... yeah in the upper parts of it you're just fucked. I don't care if Scizor and Genesect are 4x weak to Fire, you're not wakling away from that alive. At that point just pray.

It's a pretty well-known trivia fact that the Dark type is called the Evil type in Japan, so it just made sense to try ranking how much each Dark type Pokemon lives up to that title. Full transparency, I think this is our most scuffed one. I liked making it and my friends and I had some good discussion during it, but it's ranking morality which is more subjective and we included Mega evolutions for... some reason. I really don't remember why, we didn't do it for any of the other ones. It also made the tierlist instantly outdated since we did this right before Legends ZA came out and added a bunch of new Megas. Moving on from my complaining, I think this one's pretty funny 'cause it shows the true dichotomy of the Dark type. A lot of them wound up in neutral since they were kinda just animals or basic tricksters but not very harmful or mean-spirited... The top of the Supervillain tier contains some heinous motherfuckers though. Seriously, we got a planet eater, an ancient evil sealed away milennia ago, the sins of mankind brought to life as Chinese artifacts, and Malamar. Malamar's not the most evil, but were it not for the Runious Quartet he'd easily be top 3. You ever read that Dex entry from SwSh that says it "Had a hand in a history-altering event"? Yeah. Yeah it may've done Pokemon 9/11, which is a wild thing to fucking say. The only reason the Ruinous Quartet are higher is because they're born from the evil of several centuries worth of men and Wo Chien specifically is based on an old Chinese saying that goes "There is not enough bamboo in the world to make enough tablets to write down all of your sins." If that implies anything about the old king of Paldea who owned these guys, yeah that's pretty evil. Kinda surprising to see Yveltal the death god in Asshole, but one of my friends argued he was more of a force of nature than something malicious, which is fair I suppose. The Good tier is an interesting one since I'm reminded how many Dark types lean into the "tough guy with a heart of gold" trope. You see it with Pangoro, Mabosstiff and Incineroar, it's neat to think about. Also Absol is a pretty obvious placement for most morally upright Dark type since its dex entries always say how it's trying to warn people about oncoming disasters and is simply misunderstood by mankind. I don't care for Absol, I find that dex entry kinda tryhard-edgy when given to the Pokemon with an emo haircut and a less than interesting design. But I'm not gonna hold that against the guy, he's just trying to help.

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This is actually the first tierlist we did which led us down this Bunnelby hole. We excluded legendaries from it since you can't have multiple of those for a farm, a rule we only really held up with this one. We had some varying takes on this as a whole, but there was a pretty easy conclusion of "Swinub's the best one to farm". They're small, they're docile, they provide meat and fur, and they're pigs so they'll probably eat anything. A lot of the top tier picks are here because they're either similar to real animals we farm (pigs, horses, catfish, etc.) they're super docile, or they provide plenty of materials that make them worth farming. The only weird one may be Rhyhorn since it's very much not docile, but they got here for two reasons. The dex is very clear about how stupid they are so I argued that'd be comparable to IRL sheep, and they're apparently super common race animals in Kalos so there'd be a market for raising them... Okay enough beating around the bush, you're probably curious about the Kill on Sight tier. That's reserved for Ground types we believe have no reason to be farmed and, were you to encounter them on your farm, would pose enough of a threat to warrant violent action. Some of them are just there for being wholly inorganic and therefore really bad farm picks like Sandy Shocks or Galarian Yamask. However, the ones near the bottom are outright dangerous to your entire livelihood, a Steelix or Garchomp encounter could completely demolish your farm. Imagine you run outta your farm with a shotgun in hand and you just see a fighter jet land shark flying at you at Mach 3, or you hear the ground rumble and suddenly a giant steel snake swallows up half of your land and all the Swinub you're farming run off in all different directions, your house starts to come down. Complete pandemonium.

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