>>46879820Good post reasonable anon, my favourite pokemon is chikorita and I agree with your words.
However I don't think counter is that good, especially for defensive pokemon like meganium, tangrowth or ferrothorn, since it is not stab nor do they usually have any investment on physical attack and the pokemon you get to use counter with aren't even weak to it, the scenario where counter works on meganium is extremely rare.
t. tried very very hard to make counter meganium work in various tiers
Though you gotta admit it is a little bullshit that they skipped gen 2 when handing out megas, they went straight to gen 3 and correct me if I am wrong gen3 starters have less fans than gen 2 starters according to polls (except for chikorita/meganium which is the least popular starter of all gens). Technically they disliked gen 2 enough to not give them megas when gen 2 had
and still has every logical reason to receive them even above the gen 3 starters.
Unfortunately megas are never coming back so competitive wise the starters are relegated to be worst versions of other starters, that's the main complain here. Competitively speaking all starters get enough love to make them niche viable in OU or UU, but not the johto starters, they are pure NU.
Answer us this, could you win comfortably with current meganium or typhlosion in UU? No. Could you win comfortably with current venasaur or charizard in UU? Absolutely.
At the end of the day though, it doesn't matter. I love my girl for the pokemon she is, and most typhlosion fans can love the badass badger for what he is too. A cool looking volcano.
