Submitting Cyndaquil for top tier
-Availability: Start: Available from the start of the game, as your starter. No difficulty to obtain
-Stats: High: Once evolved into Typhlosion, it sports excellent stats, with great Speed and Special bulk, good attack and respectable bulk.
-Moves: By level up Cyndaquil is restricted to fire attacks and normal attacks for the most part, however it is capable of learning both Fire Punch and Thunderpunch. Once Earthquake is obtained a moveset of Flamethower/Earthquake/Thunderpunch/filler (Swift) can clear the game more or less of its own merit
-Power: High, 109 base special attack makes it very easy for Typhlosion to consistently clear through enemies. With a great speed stat it will often clean teams without taking damage at all.
-Type: Fire STAB is one of the best in-game, with only Rock, Water and Fire resisting it, none of which feature prominently on opposing teams. It also obtains super effective coverage on three gym leaders pre-e4. Defensively it resists Grass, Steel, Fire, Ice and Bug, the latter two being important for gyms.
-Match-ups: Head-to-head
Falkner: Early-game Ember means that Cyndaquil can usually win, must be wary of Mud-Slap
Bugsy: Easy win, quick sweep
Whitney: Takes out Clefairy with little difficulty but must flee from Miltank's Rollout and bulk
Morty: Stands about even with most of his team, no particular advantage of disadvantage
Chuck: Loses to Poliwrath
Jasmine: Sweeps her easily
Pryce: Will often sweep, if Typhlosion Thunderpunch takes care of Dewgong
Clair: Worst match up for Typhlosion
Will: Thunderpunch and Flamethrower beat the majority of his team
Koga: Clean sweep
Bruno: Will usually outpower his Pokemon, but will lose to Machamp
Clair: Wins against Vileplume (Flamethrower), Houndoom (Earthquake) and Murkrow (Thunderpunch), neutral against Gengar and Umbreon
Lance: Thunderpunch beats half his team
Lt. Surge: Earthquake, clean win
Sabrina: Even match
Janine: clean win
Erika: lol
Misty: Thunderpunch can beat the less defensive mons, Misty wins
Brock: The ones with good defense win, but Omastar and Kabutops lose
Blaine: Earthquake, clean win
Blue: Advantage on Pidgeot, gyarados, exeggutor, neutral vs Arcanine and Alakazam but can win more often vs arcanine, loses to rhydon
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