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>>44352448
>Good movepool including a rare and powerful boosting move in Coil, a powerful STAB move that greatly benefits from Coil in Gunk Shot, and a priority move in Sucker Punch for good measure
>Two great abilities in Shed Skin and Intimidate
>This is all ruined by shit stats that result in it getting OHKO'd before it can do anything

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Anonymous Tue 28 Jul 2020 17:58:35 No.44352785 Report

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This thing could sweep the story mode in Gen 1. It had Normal STAB Hyper Fang which could do work. It could also use Water Gun / Bubblebeam to deal with those annoying Rock/Ground types. Base 55 HP means that a lot of things could chunk it or knock it out completely. Plus, other Normal types completely outclassed it like Snorlax and Tauros.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Jul 2020 18:56:04 No.44353195 Report

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>>44352694
It's moveset was actually decent for 5th gen, and people even tried to use it in OU at one point because Rapidash had moves which were all supereffective against all the main weathersetters

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Jul 2020 18:57:26 No.44353209 Report

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>>44352756
Shed Skin is only ok at best, but Intimidate is an amazing ability and it could've helped kinda mitigate it's shitty Defense. Shame it has no good stats to use at all, let alone Defense

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Anonymous Tue 28 Jul 2020 20:09:20 No.44353805 Report

Quoted By: >>44353979

>>44352635
>>44352694
Rapidash was never good, and will never be good as long as Game Freak keeps making the games the way they do

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Anonymous Tue 28 Jul 2020 20:21:44 No.44353885 Report

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Neat design, cool typing, mediocre abilities (Sap Sipper is alright), and bad everything else.

No bulk, no speed, and a surprising shallow movepool for an early gen normal.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Jul 2020 20:29:58 No.44353979 Report

Quoted By: >>44353999

>>44353805
>keeps making the games the way they do
How so? What do you mean by making the games the way they do?

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Anonymous Tue 28 Jul 2020 20:30:59 No.44353988 Report

Quoted By: >>44354014 >>44354156

>>44352448
This could be said for every Gen 1/2 starter

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Jul 2020 20:32:15 No.44353999 Report

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>>44353979
Not buffing/changing any Pokemon in any meaningful way. Not releasing any balance patches, instead using new games as balance patches. Releasing a shitty nuke gimmick every Gen since X and Y, ect
I could go on

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Jul 2020 20:33:02 No.44354008 Report

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>>44353209
Shed Skin is what made Scrafty great in Gen 5. It had all the boosting moves it needed, and a way to heal HP, so its only weakness was status, which Shed Skin negated.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Jul 2020 20:34:04 No.44354014 Report

Quoted By: >>44354136

>>44353988
Venusaur has always been competitively viable. Feraligatr, even though it's the ugliest starter sans Primarina and should never be used by anyone, has completely usable stats, it just doesn't have a good complimentary typing

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Jul 2020 20:45:28 No.44354136 Report

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>>44354014
>Venusaur has always been competitively viable
Mostly due to Chlorophyll + Sleep Powder, not it's mediocre stats

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Jul 2020 20:47:36 No.44354156 Report

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>>44353988
Gen I starters constantly get buffs to stay relevant. Blastoise got access to arguably the best buffing move in the game.

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Anonymous Tue 28 Jul 2020 21:54:53 No.44354801 Report

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>>44354156
Blastoise is literally the least used out of the three Gen 1 starters, even with the buff

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Anonymous Tue 28 Jul 2020 21:59:40 No.44354839 Report

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