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Ground Type Thread

Anonymous Thu 12 Jan 2017 19:07:27 No.31352113 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>31353001 >>31353015 >>31353982 >>31354096 >>31356051

Who was the best Gen 1 Ground Type?

In terms of:
>in-game
>competitive
>art design

Which is your favorite? And which one holds up the best today?

Let's have a Ground Type thread.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Jan 2017 19:12:23 No.31352178 Report

Quoted By: >>31352221 >>31354096

how much better would claydol be with shore-up

my bro is useless ;-;

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 12 Jan 2017 19:15:17 No.31352221 Report

Quoted By: >>31352341 >>31354096

>>31352178
Tell me what you like about Claydol. I never saw the appeal.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Jan 2017 19:24:13 No.31352341 Report

Quoted By: >>31353435 >>31353982 >>31354096

>>31352221
I just like ancient ruins and stuff, and I think they all look cool. Bronzong and Sigilyph and also really great.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 12 Jan 2017 20:21:15 No.31352973 Report

Quoted By: >>31355598 >>31355634

My ground bro has been my favorite since gen 4

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Jan 2017 20:22:55 No.31353001 Report

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>>31352113
In game: Nidoking? Speedrunners use him.
Comp: I think Rhyhorn.
Art design: Dugtrio

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Jan 2017 20:23:57 No.31353015 Report

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>>31352113
in-game dugtrio since it gets eq naturally, slash and is fast
rhydon on the other 2.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Jan 2017 20:28:54 No.31353073 Report

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In Gen 1 I really liked the designs of Sandslash and Marowak, but my favorites are Steelix and Torterra

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Anonymous Thu 12 Jan 2017 20:45:14 No.31353298 Report

Quoted By: >>31354096

Golurk is one of the coolest, flying clay golem bro. Too bad he isn't great, but he has props for being one of my survivors of my very first Nuzlocke, so he has that going for him. More recently, Gastrodon saved my ass in a Sun Nuzlocke.

Torterra is great in Sinnoh, Nidos are amazing everywhere, Excadrill is MVP territory, Hippowdon is awesome, Flygon finally got a good level up movepool in ORAS, Krookodile is awesome, man Ground has so many great Pokemon, especially designwise.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Jan 2017 20:47:35 No.31353334 Report

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>ingame
Nidoking, it learns everything.

>competitive
1. Arena Trap Dugtrio
2. Sheer Force Nidoking

>design
Nidoking, ez

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Jan 2017 20:53:31 No.31353435 Report

Quoted By: >>31353509

>>31352341
That's pretty interesting.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Jan 2017 20:59:35 No.31353509 Report

Quoted By: >>31353609

>>31353435
I guess?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Jan 2017 21:04:50 No.31353609 Report

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>>31353509
Well I mean, you don't really hear a lot of people say they like the Pokemon that resemble ancient ruins and whatnot. So that's different. I think it's cool.

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Anonymous Thu 12 Jan 2017 21:14:33 No.31353742 Report

Quoted By: >>31353784 >>31354096

>>31353609
That so? I guess I'd be a ruin maniac or something similar then.

I did say Claydol was my bro (and it really was in Emerald & B2) but Gastrodon is my favourite ground type overall. I've used it so many times and it never underperforms, Shellos is always my first or second catch in Sinnoh.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Jan 2017 21:17:41 No.31353784 Report

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>>31353742
Dude, claydol is so awesome dude!

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Anonymous Thu 12 Jan 2017 21:30:36 No.31353982 Report

Quoted By: >>31354096

>>31352113
Geodude is my favorite Ground-type from Gen 1. Gliscor, Claydol, and Golurk are all tied for my overall favorite Groundmon. Torterra and Mudsdale are pretty cool, too.

Never really seriously tried using Ground in competitive besides Garchomp, though I've finally given in and am trying out Lando-T + 5 Karenfag mons.
>>31352341
Claydol, Bronzong, Lunatone, and Solrock form this perfect quartet of spooky, red-eyed, genderless, Mineral egg group, secondary Psychic relicmons with Levitate. I've always wanted to try building a monopsychic team around them.

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Anonymous Thu 12 Jan 2017 21:38:08 No.31354096 Report

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>>31352113
Dugtrio is my favorite. I basically soloed yellow with it alone as a kid.
>>31352178
>>31352221
>>31352341
>>31353742
>>31353982
Holy shit, good to see all this claydol love. Such a cool dedign and concept that gets ignored.
>>31353298
Golurk is the best ground type dedign wise. Actually while not my #1 I would honestly say golurk is the best design in the series.

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Anonymous Thu 12 Jan 2017 21:43:47 No.31354179 Report

Quoted By: >>31355150

In overall terms of in-game use, Nidoking is outright superior. You can get the first form before you even enter Viridian Forest, and the Moon Stone to evolve it is just after Brock, meaning if you grind a little you can have a Nidoking by the time you leave Mt. Moon. It learns Thrash of all fucking things if you evolve it early, meaning it can basically one or two-shot all other Pokemon for a while. It learns a massive amount of TM moves AND has serviceable stats and speed to make use of them. It's outright an essential part of any team. It also managed to look badass in first gen when everything tended to look extremely fucking clownshoes.

Competitively, it's Rhydon. Nidoking is still good, but the weakness to Psychic is rough and Rhydon just makes his movepool worth more with those stats.

Now I wanna use Nidoking again, fuck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Jan 2017 22:45:17 No.31355150 Report

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>>31354179
This. Nidoking is the best.

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Anonymous Thu 12 Jan 2017 23:06:30 No.31355484 Report

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best ground type

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Anonymous Thu 12 Jan 2017 23:13:23 No.31355583 Report

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Why is NidoKANG ground type?

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Anonymous Thu 12 Jan 2017 23:14:20 No.31355598 Report

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>>31352973
Hell yeah my nigga.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Jan 2017 23:16:28 No.31355634 Report

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>>31352973
Garchomp is so awesome.

Strong as fuck, top-tier design, not too difficult to pick up. I main him in Pokken, too.

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Anonymous Thu 12 Jan 2017 23:20:10 No.31355691 Report

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Pretty much had this thing in every game since B/W

probably my favourite mon of all time

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Jan 2017 23:44:04 No.31356051 Report

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>>31352113
Nidoking, Though getting that early Dugtrio in gen 1 was amazing. Of the ground types available in gen 1, those two have also adapted well to competitive.
Designwise, I prefer Nidoqueen and Rhydon, but whatever.
Nidoqueen is definitely my bro from gen one. Along with Aggron, I get one in any gen I can.

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