Every generation we get three new starters, and it always seems we get one that manages to fail at practically everything. This time we have Delphox. A Pokemon with many common weaknesses, a limited movepool, and a useless ability. It has okay offensive stats. Don't take it the wrong way, Delphox is built to be a special sweeper, and it does this job well. Let me explain why something with such good offensive stats and amazing design is bad. Let's get started...
- Terrible offensive movepool for an offensive Pokemon. Fire Blast / Psychic / Grass Knot is basically the extent of what it gets. Shadow Ball and Hidden Power if you want to scrape the bottom of the barrel, but it really doesn't get anything else.
- Great defensive movepool on something that can't really use it. Wish, Mystic Fire, Light Screen etc are all really nice, or they would be on something that had more usable bulk.
- Stealth Rock weak. It loses a quarter of its health just switching in.
- Ghost weak. Mega Gengar guarantees that Delphox will not last long.
- Dark weak. Pursuit is a hassle.
- Almost incapable of touching Latias, Latios, or Heatran.
