Coming from a Relicanth user, it does have very good bulk to compensate how late it comes, and has the rare Head Smash/Rock Head combo in later gens. And I love its origin concept.
i hate this mon from the in-game aspect as you have to achieve weird things to get this pkmn in gen4. you need to get an odd keystone AND after that you need to talk to 32 people in the underground of sinnoh. alternatively you can always talk to the same person all over again but you always have to dig up and dig down again to let it count as 32 people you have talked to. as a kid it is 1. too much effort 2. when you dont have an exact guide you will never know how to get it and 3. its just sooooo weird to obtain it, that you will never get the idea at all.
the literally ONLY thing which sets this pkmn apart from all the others are the different patterns on it, bout yet we have vivillon with different patterns too, that you dont even think about spinda in the first place as vivillon outshines it in any aspect. it is also bad in competetive and in-game-wise it never was appealing to me.
in my opinion they are way too similiar and their shinies reflect that as well. i like them in their competetive aspect, but from the design they are too similar in the incarnate-formes. the therian-formes are awesome tho.
i would really like keldeo way more if it finally gets ice beam, not getting ice beam is such a downfall for it, as icy wind can miss and is not the strongest move, giving it ice beam would give keldeo at least some sort to bypass certain pokes with choice specs as its item of choice. ice beam would make it a better revengekiller too when it comes to flying-types which resist its first stab in water like noivern.
both of them suck competetively and i feel like whenever i use them they wont do much for the team at all. being a pure ice- or fire-type sucks when you first of all slow and prone to getting revengekilled or second of all getting left out without any viable movepool-buffs. with the addition of heavy-duty boots things have become better for ice- and fire-types but i still dont think these 2 are highly viable in lower tiers too.
poor ariados, such a great design but competetively so bad that you might forget about him really quickly. i love its design, but compepetively it sucks. no viable new ultra-instinct-buffs, no new overall crazy status-buffs, its just a wannabe-galvantula.Ariados gets Sticky Web + Toxic Thread as well as sporting an immunity to sleep + poison. It's an abysmal Pokemon but at least Gamefreak keeps tossing it enough buffs to let it technically have a niche. I remember using it in 4th gen as a Breloom + Gengar check lol.
relicanth is unironically my favorite pokemon but i wont deny that its late gameness for its bad stats is a huge F for my mans
Sucks so much it received its Signature Move two generations late... and it was Physical instead of Special... and one generation later it was given to another Pokemon that can use it better.
My least fav Unova mon alongside Audino. The fact this mon was created very late in development explains a lot.
It certainly helps that there are a lot of water types (it's actually more common than Normal). Though since it's been mentioned, I feel I should put in my nomination for Ash-Greninja. It's almost certainly the pokemon I am least likely to use for anything.
During the ending arc of Best Wishes they brought back Ash's Charizard seemingly for no reason. Then when they revealed Charizard was getting not one but two Mega Evolutions and that they were building up this other character (Alain) who uses a Mega Charizard X. It all made sense now: they brought back Charizard so that Ash could use it as his Mega Evolution Pokemon, using Mega Charizard Y, thus setting up his League rivalry with Alain... then suddenly Ash's Greninja gained the ability to go super ninja. It's like one of the producers was a big fan of Naturo and wanted to pay homage to it ending so, while everyone else was figuring out how Ash would get his Mega Ring & Charizardite Y, burst in doing ninja hand signs and told everyone to instead make Greninja a super ninja.
I really do not see how Ash bringing back Charizard at the end of Best Wishes (which even at the time seemed far more an attempt at a ratings grab) follows into the theory that actually it was set up for bringing it back at the end of XY again, for Charizard Y against Alain, 3 almost 4 years later.
I was just explaining my line of thinking at that time. Bringing back Charizard was a total ratings grab. Charizard is my favorite Pokemon, partially thanks to the anime, and when they did that in Best Wishes and then did nothing with it I thought "there had to be another reason they brought back Charizard, there's no reason for Ash to take it away from what is essentially a Charizard-haven where it's the boss, has a mate, and he can call for it anytime he needs/wants its help". It felt like such a dumb decision, I want to say tone deaf though I know that's not the right word, and I was picking through straw to find anything that would justify this. When Megas was introduce and showed Charizard was getting one/two I thought/clinged on that being the reason.
Oh Jesus, I can’t imagine what Mega Ferrothorn would look like but I can certainly imagine how good it will be in competitive..
Imo Finneon looks quite pretty.Lumineon is kind of a failure in every regard. I could excuse bad abilities and bad stats, not every pokemon is meant to be a competitive powerhouse. But I can't forgive that design, specifically the color palate.
Gamefreak took inspiration from three of the most colorful fish in the sea:
And they gave it the most blah color pattern ever.
Darkblue and lightblue are the worst color contrasts they could have picked. Even in real life they are made to camouflage a fish into the background (many open ocean fish are light blue on the bottom and dark blue on top, so that they blend into the water around them depending on which angle you are seeing them from)! This fish was born to be forgettable!
It could have been salvaged if they used that splash of pink as an actual splash instead of a pink mole on it's tail-fin, as it does have a decently inspiring body-design with the butterfly fins. It would have been interesting if they took the butterfly-fish to a logical climax by giving it butterfly wing patterns (like vivillion and beautifly). But they went above and beyond to hide that, so it really just looks like just a fish. What were they thinking?!
Finneon... actually isn't too bad. The better use of the pink really comes out here, so it really boggles me as to why they toned that down in the evolution. Finneon's main problem (other than evolving) is that the interesting part of the design is in the back, meaning that it looks really dull when shown from the front.
This is probably more apt for the design thread, but I'm the last one that posted there so it's all locked up for me until someone bumps it.
I heard the theory of Ash getting a MCY although not with his appearance in Best Wishes an evidence, but it makes sense. It happened with Aipom before, the only Pokemon in Ash team (not counting Pikachu) that stayed for the Sinnoh adventure. Because in Gen 4 it evolves into Ambipom.
Guys, I was joking. I highly doubt Naruto had anything to do with decisions made in the Pokemon anime. My original joke was saying "and then suddenly Greninja went Super Saiyan". However, then I thought "hey, Naruto has a bunch of BS power-ups, let me see if I could find the Super Saiyan equivalent in that series and joke that what happened to Greninja". Never watched Naruto, but GEEZ, if you though DBZ was bad with the tiers of power-up transformations... Anyway, couldn't find find it (like Naruto had a bunch of "super eye" abilities that didn't quite fit and all the tailed beasts people had all their own transformations but none of them quite fit as it had to do with their specific beasts (and none were frogs)) so instead I went with just joking the director read a batch of Naruto cause I knew around that time the original run had ended so joked about them paying homage instead.
So you wanted to say Greninja went Sage/Sennin/Whatever Mode?
... Sure.
To be fair, those mons do fare well in game (I mean, assuming it's not a chore to get them, looking at you octillery).
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