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Friendly reminder than in Gen 4 focus blast Machoke was a legit set for ingame runs.
A 180 BP nuke coming from moderate spatk at that stage of the game hits harder than low kick and karate chop, it is until high 30s that the Machop line gets a physical move that out damages focus blast.
I'm not kidding, no guard focus blast machoke is actually great ingame.