>>50550481Emboar was actually a decent RU Pokemon back in Gen 5. RU in Gen 5 was filled with such towering competitive behemoths as Hitmonchan, Hitmonlee, Aerodactyl, Absol, Archeops, Druddigon, Dusknoir, Electivire, Hariyama, Lanturn, Klinklang, Lilligant, Qwilfish, Spiritomb, and Uxie.
In such a tier, Emboar stood out from the rest. Sure, Entei and Moltres were in the tier, but Emboar had something over them: stealth rock neutrality. On top of that, it had the highest attack of any Fire-type in the tier, a tier where Fire was one of the most important attacking types due to Ferroseed. Emboar absolutely mauled anything that didn't resist it, and was an amazing wallbreaker. With its wide movepool and versatile stats, it could be run defensively, as a mixed wallbreaker, as a scarfed physical revenge killer, or even as a banded tactical nuke. Its band set was particularly notable, since anything that let Emboar get in for free was going to cost one of its teammates their lives. Even bulky fucks like Dusknoir and Uxie would get disappeared by a Flare Blitz
It certainly wasn't a meme like Typhlosion was. ihabt didn't need to meme it into the tier, it was already good there.