That scenario really should only happen if the disadvantage Pokemon is at a significantly higher level than the advantage Pokemon (or I guess there's a certain stat setup (like a Gastly against a Mega Heracross's Pin Missile or a Weedle against a Mega Mewtwo X's Focus Blast), stat boosts/nerfs, etc.).
Funny thing is, Stadium 1/2 had a readily accessible pallete to change the color of the model. In fact they boasted it off with the Nickname mechanic changing the Pokemon's color, unless it was Shiny
The VGC was to do with its rulesets, as in which is allowed and what isn't allowed. The fact they don't go out of their way to flat out ban blatantly overpowered Pokémon and not allowing 670+ Legendaries, as well as blatantly overpowered Megas (back in Gen 6), is what make VGC stale so quickly.
Wigglytuff is pretty bad on that front yeah, especically when you consider its immediate direct competition of Clefable. Gen 6 kind of sort of tried to give it a niche, i guess, Normal/Fairy is relatively interesting as a typing and it got an actual stab to use things with and a (meager, true) +10 special attack in gen 6.
I think a lot of pokemon still find their weird niches here and there, even older pokemon.
They don't want to deal with Toxapex, Chansey, Ferrothorn, and friends, since even in 3v3, Stall can take a long time.
I don’t even think the high levels worked in Unova- Black and White 1 are pretty low level games, ending at the mid-low 50s, meaning a fair amount of pokemon end up evolving at the Elite Four (or if you’re Deino, only barely hitting your middle stage). Only justification I can think of for the later levels is the generally higher power of fully evolved Unova pokemon (compare Darmanitan to Rapidash) but that doesn’t really hold up in a game that only contains Unova mons.
Is it? Or is it because the core series's main gameplay is primarily single battles so most players aren't exposed enough to Double Battles to really form an opinion if they like it over Single Battles? If we ever had a core series which let us choose to have the whole game be Double Battles or had Double Battles be just as prevalent as Single Battles maybe we may see actual discussion whether players like one style over the other. Right now the only games that were mainly double battles is the Colosseum games which there only were two, had a very limited Pokedex, and they had the Shadow Pokemon mechanic which sort of made you think differently then just trying to defeat your opponent. Double Battles has a LOT more potential for deeper strategies and I think if the core series ever put more focus on it they can show that off.
Gonna wait for its evos to make a full judgement, sometimes you gotta consider the whole family instead of an individual alone.
That's one thing I think is the problem with Wigglytuff, it's BST is 435 while Clefable is 483. Why? Wigglytuff is missing 48 BST, not a lot but split it and put them in its defense stats and could make Wigglytuff at least slightly usable with 140/70/69/85/74/45 (and to put Jigglypuff on par with Clefairy have its BST be 115/50/42/50/46/20). If you can to give it a bigger boon, considering its dex entries, I say give it Fur Coat too. Boomburst isn't a bad suggestion either though how about also letting it have Moonblast (yes, the Jigglypuff family can't learn Moonblast, a Fairy-type that needs the MOON Stone to evolve). Also, considering its main gimmick is a super soothing voice that puts you to sleep, maybe give it a Signature Move that's a copy of Spore.
Okay, I actually have a different idea for Delcatty. First, stat increase to at least be 480: 90/75/75/75/75/90. Now, my idea, after reading its dex entry: give it Moody. Make it a wildcard, Delcatty doesn't have to follow your rules! Normalize is also a garbage Ability, it needs more stuff done with it (among many others like Stall that someone randomly brought up; could recommend suggestions but I already scooting on the edge of wishlisting).
Quick suggestions based on similar BST Pokemon:
If you have a better way to use Thunder Wave on Ground-types I'd be glad to hear it.
Glare. If you use Delcatty just to paralyse ground-types, you might want to play a Glare user.
That Team Rocket is much weaker than in the prequels.
And the sad thing is HGSS did slightly, emphasis on slight, attempt to address the level curve issue but did this by just sort of passively handing out level boosts of varying effort. A bit missing the point of the complaints, there.
Petrel has 6 Pokémon that can literally explode in your face, which is especially important since they didn't fix Self-destruct/Explosion until Gen V. He's definitely a threat to Nuzlocke players.
I just keep forgetting the scientist quartet exist--they all look the same and don't do anything. Xerosic at least has a distinct design.
Exactly. For some reason, Game Freak still makes you having to jump through hoops to get Pokemon with HA. It ceases to be special since Gen 6.
