Kricketune Discussion

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Kricketune
Type: Bug
Trait: Swarm
Base Stats: 77 HP / 85 Atk / 51 Def / 55 SAtk / 51 SDef / 65 Spd
Tier: NU(Neverused)
x2 - Fire, Flying, Rock
x1 - Normal, Water, Electric, Ice, Poison, Ground, Psychic, Bug, Ghost, Dragon, Dark, Steel
x.5 - Grass, Fighting, Ground

Notable Physical Moves
Scissor Cross
Return
Brick Break
Aerial Ace
Nature Blessing

Notable Special Moves
Don't bother

Notable Other Moves
Sing
Screech
Perish Song
Protect
Endure
Swords Dance
Substitute

Lol, even though it's move pool isn't terrible, I can only make one set that could work:

Item: Salac Berry
EVs: 6 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Nature: Jolly
Moves:
- Substitute/Endure
- Scissor Cross
- Swords Dance
- Brick Break

I think it's rather self explainatory.

Anyways, Kricketune is not going to be that great, being NU like every other annoying bug. It could work if it gets set up though.
 
I guess we have to make a topic for all of these, don't we? :]

I think this Pokemon might end up a friend of Luvdisc... it really is not very good at all. Scissor Cross/Sing/Swords Dance/Brick Break? I guess it could work!
 
Kricketune gets owned by Soundproof, however:

Kricketune @ Leftovers
~ Substitite
~ Perish Song
~ Sing
~ Scissor Cross

Use this with Stealth Rock and Spikes support, and be the annoying POS you always could be.

I'm actually kind of surprised this doesn't get Slash or Blade Test. And it stops learning moves at Lv. 38... what is this madness.

Oh, and actually, its special movepool is basically Bug Upheaval, Silver Wind, and Hidden Power, so its essentially STAB all the way. Using Silver Wind to hax would be LOL.
 
Oh, this is the evolution of the thing that we thought had something to do with Volbeat. Anyway, considering the majority of NU Pokemon are Bugs, I wouldn't mind putting Aerial Ace on this thing. Shame it doesn't get anything for fliers.
 
This is really just one of those pokemon that dosn't have very good stats. Not enough moves to really do much either.

One of the only ways to utilize him would be to sing, then swords dance up.

Kricketune @Salac Berry(possibly survive an attack with a bit of health to activate this)
-Return/Brick Break/Somthing
-Sing
-Swords Dance
-X-Scissors
 
Why the fuck gamefreak can actually make some GOOD bug pokemon not named Heracross/Scizor/Scyther/Pinsir? :/ And also, all the pokemon at the start of the game are doomed to UU/NU... :( I know that, for example, Gible family (Gible/Gabite/Garchomp) would be kinda game breaking, but couldn't they just use the old crappy ones at the beggining, such as Pidgey, Hoot-hoot and tailow, and put more in the later parts of the game, where even a T-Tar isn't a "I beaten the game using one pokemon"? Poor Kricketune, it got cool moustache... :(
 
well, not all beginner pokes are doomed to UU/NU. The starters, zubat family (crobat can caught pretty early), magikarp (gyrados says "Hi!"), and Starly (hey there mr. intimidate + close combat + 120 base stat attack) are just some off the bat.

Too bad Kricketune sucks though. Designwise he looks pretty cool, but his stats and movepool (Bide on something with such low def? what was GF thinking!), just dooms him to NU unless he gets a new evolution in the next generation.
 
To its merit, I think its cry sounds pretty cool! No way it's stepping out of NU though, and even there it's likely to be a rare sight.
 
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