>>43355214For an in-game playthrough it's perfectly fine. Being an early-gen Normal type means it has an access to a really wide variety of moves and it has a lot of utility between Pickup, being able to exit dungeons quickly as your Digmon and being able to take the role of several HMs if you need it to.
>Please tell me the modern games have different tiers for the battle tower like smogon has OU, UU, NFE, etcSadly, no, but Linoone is more than usable within battle towers (albeit linear, which is a fitting trait for Linoone) thanks to Belly Drum/Gluttony/Extreme Speed.