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Useless moves general

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 02:07:26 No.27454329 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>27454372 >>27455184 >>27455457 >>27455474 >>27456837 >>27457396 >>27459593 >>27461523

>Useless moves general

Thats it, share the moves you think are shit from a casual and competitive point of view

>Mud Sport
>Water Sport

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 02:09:19 No.27454372 Report

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>>27454329
Constrict

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Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 02:56:59 No.27455184 Report

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>>27454329
yfw there actually is a portuguese """"artist"""" who has a song called mr gay (stylised mister gay)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhl4qES9eCw

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 02:58:55 No.27455212 Report

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Leech Life

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 03:01:55 No.27455275 Report

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heal block

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 03:05:42 No.27455335 Report

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Quash

Alphaville !!TORtoOQMEfy

Alphaville !!TORtoOQMEfy Mon 01 Aug 2016 03:08:01 No.27455385 Report

Quoted By: >>27456280 >>27456700 >>27456736

splash

and uh, supersonic

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 03:11:53 No.27455441 Report

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Smelling Salts

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 03:12:46 No.27455457 Report

Quoted By: >>27456607

>>27454329
Muddy Water
Accuracy is just a little too low to be usable.
But the secondary effect is decent.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 03:12:58 No.27455462 Report

Quoted By: >>27455844

RAZOR WIND

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 03:14:02 No.27455474 Report

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>>27454329
Anything that starts with Fury and doesn't end in "Cutter"

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 03:15:07 No.27455487 Report

Quoted By: >>27455648 >>27460520 >>27461528

Vacuum Wave.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 03:25:00 No.27455648 Report

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>>27455487
> Literally just a sp. attack version of Mach Punch.

It's not useless, it just suffers from not being on the movelists any Pokemon that could actually benefit from it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 03:25:45 No.27455657 Report

Quoted By: >>27455844 >>27460520

Aside from the obvious Splash

Rage Powder

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Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 03:38:17 No.27455844 Report

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>>27455462
Literally no reason at all for this shitty move to require a turn to charge
>>27455657
Rage powder is useless in singles only

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 04:06:01 No.27456280 Report

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>>27455385
I would say Supersonic is just a "weak" Confuse Ray for low level Pokémon, desu.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 04:19:25 No.27456515 Report

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>Synchronoise
Can only damage Pokemon who share the same type as the user, most of them resist the move anyway.

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Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 04:24:39 No.27456592 Report

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>>27456515
>Synchronoise Umbreon

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 04:25:41 No.27456607 Report

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>>27455457
It gets a surprising amount of use on triples rain teams.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 04:27:45 No.27456637 Report

Quoted By: >>27456750 >>27457755

>>27455648
The only pokemon who has it that could use it is fucking Lucario. The other mons who learn it? Hitmons, Toxicroak, and scyther. Jesus, did GF just forget about it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 04:29:30 No.27456659 Report

Quoted By: >>27457856

>>27456592
>not running Miracle Eye Synchronoise Umbreon

It's like you love losing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 04:32:18 No.27456700 Report

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>>27455385
do you just namefag because you want hate? I don't understand why you do this, please enlighten me.

metronome

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 04:33:59 No.27456716 Report

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Growl

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 04:35:14 No.27456736 Report

Quoted By: >>27457856

>>27455385
Splash is pretty useful actually. They can't have Pokemon know ---/---/---/--- because you couldn't select a move and it would lock the game in battle. Splash is for when they want a Pokemon to have no moves.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 04:36:16 No.27456750 Report

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>>27456637
Croagunk in little cup makes use of it.

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Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 04:41:21 No.27456812 Report

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>>27456700
>not liking metronome

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 04:42:07 No.27456821 Report

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>>27456812
you seem mad

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 04:42:58 No.27456837 Report

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>>27454329
After You

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 04:44:49 No.27456860 Report

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I don't play competitively that often, but it seems like Leech seed is almost useless in game.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 05:20:36 No.27457396 Report

Quoted By: >>27458188 >>27460520

>>27454329
>Focus Punch
>gets hit
>can't move
>can't use Power Herb

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 05:23:39 No.27457452 Report

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>>27456837
>not using a fast after-you-er in doubles with a slow, hardhitting mon to wreck face

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 05:37:47 No.27457755 Report

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>>27456637
nasty plot infernape friendo

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 05:41:34 No.27457856 Report

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>>27456659
no you do which is why you run that set. I'll just stick to Stallbreon

>>27456736
Nigga are you thinking of struggle?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 05:43:35 No.27457888 Report

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>>27457755
You'd need to transfer it up from gen 4 amici.

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Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 05:58:19 No.27458150 Report

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Name one time your Pokemon learned MUD SPORT and you thought "yeah, that could possibly be a tiny bit useful in any situation that could ever happen!"

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 06:00:38 No.27458188 Report

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>>27457396
substitute and being good at the game makes it useful

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 06:02:03 No.27458215 Report

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>>27457888
>not playing on showdown
what are you gay?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 06:14:40 No.27458453 Report

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>>27458150
>pokemon learns it
>it's already immune to electric moves

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 07:16:24 No.27459329 Report

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>petal blizzard
>every mon that learna it has middling attack at best and there are a number of physical grass-types that could really use it

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 07:33:07 No.27459467 Report

Quoted By: >>27459641 >>27459687 >>27459695 >>27461343

>Ghost type using Curse

I don't understand why anyone would do this. 50% of your Pokemon's HP now in exchange for 25% of the opponent's HP at the end of every turn? If you aren't doing more than 25% damage with you regular moves then you need to switch Pokemon, not give up half of your HP for a guaranteed 4HKO.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 07:52:56 No.27459593 Report

Quoted By: >>27459634 >>27460520

>>27454329

Frustration, simply having the Pokemon with Frustration in your party is going weaken the move as its friendship increases while you walk about. There's no reason to use it over Return.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 07:58:13 No.27459634 Report

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>>27459593

It's objectively better than Return until a point though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 07:59:03 No.27459641 Report

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>>27459467
>Curse continues damages you even if you switch out so long as the user remains alive
Would it be useful then? I only see it being on Unburden Drifilblim but that's better than nothing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 07:59:46 No.27459650 Report

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>metal sound

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Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 08:01:00 No.27459655 Report

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>>27456821
says the guy triggered by tripcodes :^)

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 08:02:41 No.27459687 Report

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>>27459467
I think functionally Ghost Curse is for giving wilds and AI trainers a way to harass players in the campaign and screw them over.

Because in a serious fight it has no use but it can sure as hell be a pain at that point.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 08:03:25 No.27459695 Report

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>>27459467
Ghost Curse is also kinda scary in a nuzlocke

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 08:08:30 No.27459735 Report

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>>27459634
Your Pokemon start off with a base happiness of 70(in most cases, even if traded) that makes Frustration even objectively worse than Strength unless you specifically go out of your way to make your Pokemon unhappy.
Once your Pokemon transitions from 70 Happiness to 128, Return becomes better. And you get something like 4 happiness per 255 steps and 5 happiness per level up, so that doesn't take long at all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 08:16:06 No.27459795 Report

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>>27458453
Every fucking time

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 08:33:49 No.27459924 Report

Quoted By: >>27461365

Leech life and astonish

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Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 08:42:05 No.27459976 Report

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Powder

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Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 09:45:44 No.27460520 Report

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>>27455487
>>27455657
>>27457396
>>27459593
wrong

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 11:15:09 No.27461269 Report

Quoted By: >>27461359 >>27461515

Flatter
Most early game moves, shit like tackle, growl, leer... (but its understandable)
Quash
Snatch
Work up
The sport moves
Land's Wrath has no reason to exist
Fury cutter
All shitty event moves like celebrate and hold hands
etc.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 11:24:51 No.27461343 Report

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>>27459467
>Not using Curse Harvest Trevenant
pleb

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 11:26:01 No.27461350 Report

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>>27459735
>ditto

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 11:27:10 No.27461359 Report

Quoted By: >>27461364

>>27461269
Snatch can actually be very fun to use in doubles

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 11:27:54 No.27461364 Report

Quoted By: >>27461661

>>27461359
Fun=/=good
That's why metronome should be counted, its fun as fuck, but it's a garbage move.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 11:28:10 No.27461365 Report

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>>27459924
Astonish is weak but at least it has a good flinch chance for early-game shenanigans.

Leech Life is truly shit, though. I never understood why it had such low base power, especially in gen I where it was one of the only moves super effective against Psychic-types, but it was still barely stronger than Tackle even if used against a Psychic-type.

Constrict is also needlessly weak. It's literally the weakest damaging move and its secondary effect is also only a 10 percent chance.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 11:48:21 No.27461515 Report

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>>27461269
some mons have no better boosting moves than work up (lol m-pidgeot)

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 11:49:27 No.27461523 Report

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>>27454329
hold hands
it is literally useless

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 11:49:52 No.27461528 Report

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>>27455487
On the other hand, it's a very useful move in PMD.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 11:53:53 No.27461557 Report

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Water Sport should lower the power of Fire, Water, Ice and Steel moves.

Mud Sport should lower the power of Electric, Poison and Rock moves (including Sneaky Pebbles)

Then add Steel Sport.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 11:57:16 No.27461582 Report

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Hold Back. Renamed False Swipe that only 3 pokemon get, two of which aren't named Smeargle. Event exclusive too

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 12:04:22 No.27461661 Report

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>>27461364
it's a gimmicky move. That's not bad because it has uses. At least it can be use somewhere.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 12:11:08 No.27461745 Report

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I still wonder why Gamefreak still make lot of move only useful in double/triple battle when most of the in-game battle are still 1vs1

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Anonymous Mon 01 Aug 2016 12:34:32 No.27462031 Report

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