Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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Welcome back to the Unova Region! With one of the largest and most well-balanced regional pokedexes, trainers have oodles of options with which to take on Pokemon's one and only HARD MODE DIFFICULTY! Unovan trainers are no chumps, but luckily power creep appies to YOUR team, too! Why are there random, underlevelled Braviary and Volcorona? Why do we get the Return TM before the second gym? Is it finally time to GET IN THE ZONE...Magnezone?! Let's! Managed Democracy!

So this is how liberty dies...feeding the enemy a +1 moxie boost...

This is the PREMIUM edit of the livestreamed tier list, 24 hours of analysis condensed down to a CONCISE 5 hours, and it didn't even take me a full year to make! Wow, making Regileki look like Shuckle over here...

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Timestamps
00:00 Call to Crusade
02:57 BW2 Overview
16:50 Tiering Criteria
27:14 Snivy (Truth)
36:19 Snivy Propaganda (Lies)
52:43 Tepig
1:25:01 Koffing
1:47:34 Krookodile and Excadrill
2:01:18 Eeveelutions
2:13:55 Darmanitan
2:39:11 Goitha the Harvester
2:47:23 Heracross
2:54:25 Zoruark
3:16:16 Haxorus
3:37:05 Chandelure
3:49:41 Cobalion
4:06:51 Shuckle
4:23:58 Beldum
4:33:22 StarChild
4:39:50 MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!