20 Best & Strongest Non-Legendary Pokémon From All Games (Ranked)

Let’s set some floor guidelines for this itemizing. I may simply go and replica/paste the highest 20 Pokémon from Smogon, however that might be extremely boring. As an alternative I’m going to make this listing a mix between subjective and goal.

Quite than focusing solely on stats, I’m going to be how highly effective the Pokémon was when it was launched, its transfer pool, its STAB assaults, and what skills it has entry to.

There are rather a lot of highly effective non-legendaries on the market, so don’t be mad in case your favourite doesn’t make the lower.

Oh, and spoiler: there are quite a lot of dragon varieties on this listing.

20. Chandelure

Chandelure occurs to be certainly one of my favourite shiny sprites of all time, however that’s not what we’re right here to speak about.

When it comes to means, Chandelure has an insanely excessive particular assault. It’s one of many strongest ghost attackers within the collection, and it has entry to an unimaginable transfer set to again up that declare with STAB assaults.

It has entry to Calm Thoughts, making it an excellent stall breaker for lots of aggressive groups.

Nevertheless, it may be a little bit of a glass cannon.

In non-competitive play, a Chandelure can simply turn into certainly one of your go-to sweepers should you construct it proper.

19. Conkeldurr

I’m not a fan of Conkeldurr, however there’s little doubt in my thoughts that it deserves a spot on this listing.

Whereas it’s outclassed offensively by quite a lot of hard-hitting preventing varieties, it does boast an excellent protection and assault combine.

It suffers from its typing, which is without doubt one of the causes that it hardly ever ever sees aggressive play.

Nevertheless, as a fighter for an off-the-cuff playthrough of Unova, you actually don’t have any better option. And that’s saying one thing given the variety of good preventing varieties Gen V launched.

18. Gyarados

Gyarados has been a member of everybody’s workforce sooner or later of their Pokémon careers, even when they don’t notice simply how sturdy this explicit mon’ is.

It has nice typing and a stable stage of offense that makes it playable by itself. Nevertheless, it additionally has entry to Dragon Dance, turning it into among the finest sweepers within the sport.

Even in informal play, organising a Gyarados with Dragon Dance is usually sufficient to fully tear by means of quite a lot of the sport’s battles, even within the later parts of the story.

It has quite a lot of technicality to it, too. There are many merchandise decisions and builds for Gyarados, must you wish to take it to the worldwide area.

17. Breloom

Breloom doesn’t get the find it irresistible deserves, which is a disgrace.

It’s the primary Pokémon I ever totally IV and EV optimized, which in all probability says rather a lot about me on account of Breloom being a staller.

Regardless of its offensive capabilities, Breloom is primarily used as a stalling Pokémon. It has entry to Leech Seed, Substitute, Sleep Spore, and the Poison Heal means, that means you need to throw a poison orb on it.

Put that setup with a transfer like Focus Punch to reap the benefits of Breloom’s nice assault stat, and you’ve got a Pokémon that’s constructed to provide individuals complications.

16. Slaking

Slaking’s stats are among the highest within the sport.

In each regard, the Pokémon is an absolute monster that needs to be utilized on each workforce… is what I might say, if it weren’t for the truth that it will probably solely assault each second flip.

Slaking is exclusive on this respect, which is sweet for steadiness, however dangerous for viability.

You’re by no means actually going to wish to run certainly one of these. Nevertheless, it might be remiss of me to not embrace it on the listing on account of simply how excessive these base stats are. And if you would like a extra inventive run in ORAS then possibly this man does deserve a spot on that workforce.

15. Blissey

Blissey holds a particular place in my coronary heart, on account of pulling a whole lot of them in my time amassing Dark Explorer’s wayyyyy again within the day.

Significantly, all I may get had been Blisseys; it was unbelievable.

Blissey is the last word defensive Pokémon. It remained regular, not making the transition to fairy, fortunately. This implies it solely has one weak point, which is ideal for a tank.

It has an out-of-this-world HP stat and an SP. Protection stat that’s additionally phenomenally excessive. Plus it has entry to therapeutic strikes like Want and Heal Bell that make it a staple on quite a lot of aggressive and informal groups.

It’s one of many hardest Pokémon within the sport to truly KO, making it a premier option to throw towards your folks in an off-the-cuff battle to enrage them. Or to deliver into your subsequent E4 problem.

14. Blaziken

Blaziken was already highly effective earlier than it received a mega evolution.

With its mega kind, it’s unbelievably sturdy.

It boasts an excellent bodily assault stat that’s able to OHKO sweeping quite a lot of groups. That is compounded by its base pace, which regularly solely wants one hit from its Velocity Enhance to make it sooner than the rest on the sector.

It doesn’t maintain up effectively if it will get hit, however your opponent’s Pokémon shouldn’t be standing lengthy sufficient for that to occur.

13. Infernape

Infernape falls underneath the UU metagame bracket and lacks in nearly each space when in comparison with Blaziken.

What makes it increased on my listing, although, is its usability by means of story mode.

Infernape is without doubt one of the strongest starters we’ve seen in a Pokémon sport, with its typing being particularly good for Sinnoh.

It’s additionally rather more versatile than Blaziken, with entry to the identical STAB strikes, however a stat pool that leaves its construct rather more open. To not point out it boasts a better pace stat.

You get entry to Swords Dance and Nasty Plot, that means you possibly can sweep just about something in story mode it doesn’t matter what transfer set you utilize with Infernape.

12. Magnezone

Magnezone has area of interest use as a aggressive Pokémon in OU, however boasts an excellent SP. Assault and protection stat for normal play.

It has entry to the Magnet Pull means, which prevents metal varieties from switching out.

If utilized appropriately, this will fully decimate sure aggressive groups.

It’s an excellent all-rounder that may usually be the distinction between victory and defeat in a battle.

11. Volcarona

Volcarona is without doubt one of the deadliest Sp. Assault sweepers that Pokémon has ever seen.

It has entry to the ridiculously highly effective Quiver Dance, which enhances its already excessive particular assault and pace stats.

I imply, discovering one in Unova is about up like discovering a legendary Pokémon. So it shouldn’t be an excessive amount of of a shock that that is one highly effective beast.

It has an excellent transfer set that may show helpful each competitively and in informal play, making it a staple of all kinds of various groups.

10. Gengar

Gengar is without doubt one of the OG powerhouse Pokémon that has gotten stronger 12 months on 12 months.

It has ludicrously excessive pace and SP. Assault stats in its base kind, and that’s compounded should you mega evolve it.

This factor is completely able to wiping out groups with out evolving it, however Mega Gengar is one thing else totally.

It will get entry to the Shadow Tag means, that means you possibly can primarily simply decide a Pokémon you wish to KO. Mixed with its phenomenal transfer pool and STAB assaults, Gengar sees play in any respect ranges, from informal runs in your favourite gen all the way in which as much as uber in aggressive.

There’s nothing higher than fully sweeping a workforce with a Pokémon that was launched in Gen I.

9. Metagross

On the absolute highest stage of play, Metagross isn’t significantly viable.

At each stage under that, although, it’s a full monster.

Its assault and protection stats are phenomenal, and it’s in a position to mega evolve, making these stats much more outrageous.

Its pace is nothing to scoff at both. And it has entry to an excellent number of strikes, albeit restricted efficient STAB choices.

Metagross was much more dominant than it’s now. Nevertheless it’s nonetheless a ridiculously highly effective Pokémon for each type of workforce, not only a informal one.

Plus, Beldum is tremendous exhausting to catch. With an encounter charge of like 4% p.c in most generations, it’s robust. so Metagross needs to be sturdy to steadiness out the 2 hours you’re going to spend attempting to catch one.

8. Tyranitar

Now we’re moving into the actually highly effective Pokémon.

Tyranitar shouldn’t be a stranger to any of you studying this listing.

It has a stupidly excessive base assault stat with HP and protection stats which are nothing to giggle at, both.

It’s received nice typing with a loopy wide selection of STAB strikes that embrace Pursuit, making it a large menace in aggressive play.

Plus, it’s a large dinosaur that type of jogs my memory of Reptar from Rugrats. And what else may one actually ask for in a Pokémon?

7. Alakazam

Alakazam is the yin to Gengar’s yang.

Each of these guys are older than me, which reveals how highly effective they’ve remained is completely surprising.

Like Gengar, Alakazam is a little bit of a one-trick pony with large SP. Assault and pace stats, however fairly poor defensive qualities. Nevertheless, should you use it proper then your Alakazam shouldn’t get hit in any respect.

Particularly throughout a narrative playthrough.

That is speaking about common Alakazam, by the way in which. We’re not even going to say its mega evolution out of worry of turning into a damaged file.

6. Salamence

These subsequent six Pokémon can actually be put in any order you need. 5 of them are dragon varieties as effectively, which speaks volumes as to simply how overpowered that typing is. Particularly when you think about that fairy types are nonetheless a comparatively new factor.

All of Salamence’s stats are noteworthy. Nevertheless it sees all of its play due to a ridiculous assault and pace stats.

Its SP. Assault stat is fairly excessive, too, so you possibly can construct a particular Salamence should you really feel prefer it.

It has entry to Dragon Dance and a spread of STAB strikes that makes Salamence a whole powerhouse in any respect ranges of play.

5. Haxorus

I all the time most popular Gen V’s different notable dragon kind to Haxorus, however there’s no denying the truth that its base 147 assault stat is actually fully unreasonable.

I’m going to start out repeating myself right here, however entry to the dragon kind transfer set is so extremely invaluable in the case of assessing the power of a Pokémon.

STAB Outrage places out unheard-of ranges of injury, which mixed with a good pace stat, makes Haxorus certainly one of Pokémon’s most feared dragon kind sweepers.

4. Hydreigon

I’ll be the primary to say that Hydreigon is without doubt one of the coolest wanting Pokémon I’ve ever seen.

It earned its spot in my Unova social gathering purely off of seems. It’s solely after that I realized how highly effective this monster is.

The place Haxorus excelled in bodily assault sweeping, Hydreigon excels in Sp. Assault utilization.

It has Nasty Plot, STAB Draco Meteor, a base pace of 98, and a base SP. Assault of 125. That’s all I’ve to say on the matter.

3. Dragonite

There’s an argument to be made that each Hydreigon and Haxorus are higher than Dragonite, and I perceive that.

Within the present panorama, that’s a really affordable assertion. If we evaluate factors of introduction, although, Dragonite blows the opposite two out of the water.

Dragonite was the one kinda non-legendary powerhouse in Gen I, and it confirmed. With no fairy weak point and an absence of usable ice varieties, this chubby monstrosity reigned supreme over the Kanto Pokédex.

Plus it was a staple of Elite 4 member Lance. That Dragonite/Lance mixture is without doubt one of the most recognizable duos in Pokémon historical past, and that must be revered.

2. Aegislash

Aegislash is the one non-dragon kind to breach the highest six, which speaks volumes about how useable this Pokémon is.

There are lots of arguments as to why Aegislash is so highly effective. However the one one which must be introduced up is its means to vary varieties.

In its blade mode, Aegislash has base Sp. Assault and Assault stats of 150.

In its protect kind, these 150 stats get assigned to its protection and particular protection. To prime it off, it solely adjustments to blade mode if you go to make use of an attacking transfer, that means you get your self among the finest partitions within the sport that may transition to among the finest attackers everytime you need.

Its different stats lack, nevertheless it actually doesn’t want them.

Used appropriately, Aegislash is at the very least one free KO in your opponent, if no more.

1. Garchomp

What else may occupy the highest spot on this listing?

Like Lance and Dragonite earlier than it, Garchomp is the staple of Sinnoh Champion Cynthia.

With out referring to its mega evolution, it has an assault stat of 130 and a pace stat of 102. These additional factors in pace are effectively definitely worth the loss that it takes in assault when in comparison with Haxorus.

Oh and it will get entry to Swords Dance, too.

In story mode, Garchomp is able to single-handedly carrying your workforce by means of no matter area you’re enjoying. In aggressive play, it’s used on the highest stage – which is simply proof as to how highly effective this penultimate dragon really is.