>>31527444>>31527506>Gyarados and Mence>Either being half as versatile as Arcanine isMaybe Gyarados but between all the Kokos, Finis, Ninetales, Porygon 2, etc he won't be getting much done.
Meanwhile Arcanine laughs on the face of 3/4 of the top 10 in usage can either kill or annoy back without worry.
Furthermore, Intimidate is nowhere near one of the main reasons those two get used unlike Arcanine.
Arcanine is THE Intimidater of this meta. I don't believe anyone here can argue with this.
>yet it was always disregarded as third or fourth option since it didn't excel at anything.It's almost like we can use half the dex and the first, second and even third options are, you know, unable to be used.
>more than half of the dex can outright one shot it despise his "okay defenses"I fucking wish. The damn dog never fucking dies. Oh you are gonna EQ/Tectonic me? Good thing you are Intimidated oh dear I survived in 1% better eat my Figy berry and heal 50% of my HP :^)
>all of those okay stats fall short since not only it lacks specializationWhich is actually strength because of how versatile it has become.
> but its best stats, offense; aren't enough to break through bulky thingsArcanine is not supposed to be killing shit. It's supposed to sit there and soften them for the rest of the team and once in a blue moon Flare Blitz or Extreme Speed something.
>Garchomp is way more splashable than Arcanine and it's faster, bulkier and stronger.Usage stats clearly prove you wrong.
>It's faster, bulkier and strongerIf you look just at the numbers, yes. However, if stats were everything then, I don't know, Silvally would be dominating the metagame and we all know that's never happening.
>and Arcanine can barely stand strong neutral hits wereas Garchomp can.Arcanine can also soften blows before they touch him unlike Garchomp. Arcanine has much more staying power than Garchomp does.
>>3152754410/10 argument. You clearly have convinced me.
