in your opinion, good pokes that are being overlooked this gen

My votes:

Persian. Technician + Fury Swipe + High Speed Hypnosis + The POSSIBILITY of being unparalyzable make for one furious kitty. I'll make sure to test it out both as a disabler (Read: Sleep with Limber trait) and a Subbreaker (using technician and multi-hitting with Fury Swipes). If Fury Swipes reach 4 times its more powerful as a Return coming from him.

Gardevoir. I don't see her anywhere, while its still a semi-decent special waller (Can come in on quite some special walls) and startles with a slew of status moves (Hypnosis, Toxic, Will, TWave are all under its belt), possibility to set up screens, Wish support, or plain simple sweep special.

Kingdra. Dragon Dancer is a beast. While its physical movepool is pathetic, you can cover quite a lot with Normal + Water, and with Draco Meteor, any physical tank that isnt a steel type will hate you. And with Snipe...

Sharpedo. Sure, it can't take a hit worth crap, but it might be the new best thing in UU Choicebanding. STAB on Crunch and Waterfall coming from his attack CAN and WILL hurt a lot of stuff.


About Magnezone - he might be 4x weak to Earth but he CAN solve that weakness. Thank you electrolevitate.
 
You still have to consider that Persian has crap for Attack and defenses and only has a 25% chance not counting accuracy of Fury Swipes hitting 4 or 5 times, and that still hardly hurt anything with decent defenses.
 
Bastiodon is overlooked because it has piss poor HP and Aggron does almost everything it does better. Purugly is another overlooked pogey, They are annoying as hell to fight when Mars uses one
 
Skuntank can also do massive damage, it survived a STAB super-effective EQ from my Tortera and then knocked me out with poison stab and my torterra had been three levels higher -_-
 
SePh258 said:
Magnezone......>_> No seriously, I'm the only person that uses it.
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I would use it but my country doesn't have D/P yet. I wrote the first discussion on the thing anyway. Anyway, on topic, I think that Swellow is being overlooked, people keep comparing it to Staraptor.
 
Staraptor/Ambipom are the new Dodrio/Tauros; great, but mostly ignored.

Ambipom I myself only acknowledged this week
 
-FL- said:
Staraptor is being ignored =(, so as Mismagius and Torterra, who walls Tyranitar pretty well.
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Heh, funny that someone would mention Staraptor, Mismagius and Torterra in the same post. They're all in my prospective team ^^

On topic, I think everyone's just focusing too much on the big 20 or so right now. Once the hype of Rhyperior, Garchomp, etc. fades we'll see a lot of these mentioned pokes, and many more, get some long due recognition.

And howcome no one mentioned Raichu yet? Nasty Plot, Encore, awesome special movepool with Focus Punch/Reversal/Volt Tackle as physical options, good speed, great focus sash user, even has Wish.

Also, some stuff that got drastically better with the changes in DP, such as Arcanine, Hitmonchan and Alakazam.
 
torterra is being ignored imo. Sure, it has a piss poor typing, but if you can avoid the IBs you should be able to do some pretty good damage. Easy switching on SR/ rock moves to boot.

Im still curious how a curse set would work on that guy.
 
Tangrowth has lol spdef and is weak to ice beam, and there will be at least two ice beams on every team. This wouldn't be so bad if he wasn't slower than molasses in January.

I wanted to nominate Mismagius, but how underrated can it be if everyone is saying it's underrated? So i'll pick Rapidash. A speedy sleeper is always welcome, but this one also happens to have a nice attack stat as well, plus two great attack options in Flare Drive and Megahorn.
 
also to add to the list

porygon2 - thinking of a Trick Room team with this guy as TR works well as a subsitute for T-Wave or Agility. Ice/Bolt of this guy sends many pokes packing especially after it pulls off TR.

slowking - did I already meniton this guy? If i did, then I just want to say it again. . .this guy is incredible! i think people might start using him when they want a fairly reliable Salamence counter since he does very well against spec's mence (someone needs to run calcs on this though to verify). scheme and Trick Room. . .awesome but I'm Trick Room bias anyway.

forretress - a moderately useful alternative to Bronzong and Skarmory. can switch in safely on Tyranitar unless it decides to have Fire Blast. takes CBcrunches better than Bronzong and can handle Magnezone better than Skarmory
 
Hrothgar said:
So i'll pick Rapidash. A speedy sleeper is always welcome, but this one also happens to have a nice attack stat as well, plus two great attack options in Flare Drive and Megahorn.
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While I do completely agree that fast Hypnosis is awesome and that Rapidash FINALLY gets some offensive power in Flare Drive, mentioning Megahorn is kind of meh. Fire+Bug is some pretty horrible coverage.
 
[Insert a good name here] said:
While I do completely agree that fast Hypnosis is awesome and that Rapidash FINALLY gets some offensive power in Flare Drive, mentioning Megahorn is kind of meh. Fire+Bug is some pretty horrible coverage.
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What else would you use? Double kick, Bounce? Yah, it's movepool is still limited. Fire+Bug is resisted by Fire Types and Dragon/Flying types and Rock/Flying and probably more. But Rapidash's main use is Hypnosis+Will o Wisp, followed by a pounding by Flare Drive. Rapidash could probably get away with using Charcoal or the Fire Plate as it's item. 20% Boost to Fire moves? Yes please.
 
Hrothgar said:
Tangrowth has lol spdef and is weak to ice beam, and there will be at least two ice beams on every team. This wouldn't be so bad if he wasn't slower than molasses in January.

I wanted to nominate Mismagius, but how underrated can it be if everyone is saying it's underrated? So i'll pick Rapidash. A speedy sleeper is always welcome, but this one also happens to have a nice attack stat as well, plus two great attack options in Flare Drive and Megahorn.
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Sure, true that, but it has massive attack, good support moves, VERY nice hp and defense and resists one of the most common moves in the game (earthquake).

And besides, it can always survive an Ice Beam, from anything, and put it to sleep to make it easier for Garchomp to sweep.

I really like Tangrowth, it has so many possibilities.
 
A lot of pokes that were BL in advanced are pretty overlooked this gen.

Things like: Tauros, Dodrio, Linoone, I'm slow atm that's all I can think of lol.

As for former top tier OU:

Also, I haven't seen Zapdos in any RMTs in quite a while and he used to be staple....what happened, man? Metagross and Flygon are overlooked too and imo they're both still great pokemon.

Also, Umbreon, Espeon, and Jolteon are being left out a lot.

EDIT: just remebered about Milotic and Suicune =(
 
Tauros - already mentioned in this topic. The fact that he has Intimidate, good defenses, and learns EQ and SE makes him better than Ambipom IMO when it comes to sweeping (leave Ambipom for BPing)

Cradily - under a Sandstorm team, little is going to phase him. the fact that he learns Swords Dance(which helps him actually dmg things now) and Rock Cart(not too useful on him but an option) and has the defenses to pull them off right in your opponent's face makes him a beast. Swords Dance, Stone Edge, EQ, Recover. Suction Cups makes him an ideal BP recipient too.

Probopass - electrolevitate and Sandstorm boost help him counter 2 of his weaks and the fact that he resists alot helps too (9 resistances and 1 immunity). Magnet Pull helps him counter almost every Steel type except those carrying HP Fighting and Metagross. switches in well to pokes like starmie or other bulky waters since his spc. def + sandstorm boost just makes him ridiculous to beat on the special side (minus anything not focus blast). better than bastiodon imo.
 
I miss Choice Band Mence...135 Attack, physical Dragon Claw...*sigh* Been pushed to the back seat thanks to CGmence.

It's not a different species, but I hope it counts, because all the other ones I would have mentioned are already...mentioned. =P


Although maybe Glaceon...don't like it's looks too much but it's got a hefty SAtk stat that supports a STAB Ice Beam...
 
Haven't seen a lot of talk about Tangrowth when he can in retrospect deal a lot of damage to many of the common speculated OU pokemon
 
I see Tangrowth being a factor, but that has been mentioned before.

I really like Spiritomb. It does not seem like much, but with "no weak" immuntites to some good attacking types/pressure, I think it could cause a lot of switches.
 
Dragonite is overlooked because of CGMence's wow factor, which imo just makes Dragonite better because fewer teams will be ready for it. Dragonite's CG set is *not* outclassed, and it can also rip holes with DD/Outrage (fair enough Garchomp does CB Outrage better). Dragonite beats the shit out of Empoleon and Blissey and firebot takes good damage from Focus Punch, and only really has trouble with Cresselia.
 
Okay, I previously knocked on Staraptor. I take that back. Even with moves such as Aerial Ace and Take Down, I have realized its power. It decimates almost every thing besides flying resists, and Brave Bird decimates those. This is like Tauros, except it has higher attack and better Stab.
 
also wanna mention:

Blaziken - Infernape seems good now, but this guy has some uses still. Being an unexpected BP'er or sweeping with Choice Scarf makes him moderately useful.
 
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