>>56265591which doesn't make sense. They could've given it a high speed and high attack because all it had was Bide Tackle and Screech.
at 45 base attack (30 actual), it barely has a chance knocks out a level 12 charmander that has the worst dvs. You could give it 95 base attack (44 actual) and it would only knock out that same charmander in 4 hits 50% of the time. But really the best way to beat it would be using either bug. The worst level 12 Beedrill is still only knocked out in 5 hits and can poison it while chipping with fury attack. Same with Butterfree while you knock it out in 7 hits. Keep in mind this is just with tackle (the best move it can do) it's going to be using Bide and Harden sometimes, so it's still easy. You could even buff it's hp to base 65 (55 actual) and special to 70 (37 actual) and it'd only take a few more hits to take down. It pretty much already outspeeds everything at this point in the game so you could give it 95 base speed (44) actual and it'd only raise the crit chance by 10% (crits at level 14 are only around 1.5x instead of neary 2x later). It's only marginally harder for Charmander pickers and isn't a shitmon. Now it has a different niche than Rhydon and Golem instead of being strictly worse. It has slightly better physical bulk, slightly worse special bulk, hits less hard, but much faster. You could probably nerf the changes here a little (while also improving its abysmal level up movepool) but this would make Onix useable while still retaining around the same challenge as it normally has.
