>>29033995Despite the 1 v 1 matchup being bad, Emboar does much better in a general competitive than Samurott.
Emboar has a niche roll with very high damage output, albiet at the cost of health and also being rather slow.
Samurott has nothing special...which makes it a bad competitive choice. Everything in its kit is average. 108 SpA wouldn't be bad, if it had a means of boosting it or a better speed stat. It's has SD and Aqua jet...which basically makes it a worse version of Azumarill. It gets shell armor...and zero defensive moves to abuse it as well as barely above average defensive stats. 70 base speed is...middling. Very sad. The perfect speed of "never fast enough" and "to fast for trick room."
But I do like Samurott's design a little better than BaconMon.
