What pokemon is greatly hampered by bad typing/ Stat/ movepool?

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Purpose of this post is to discuss how bad typing/ stat distribution/ movepool hampers pokemon and what is the pokemon that hamepered greatly by bad type/ stat distribution/ movepool. Choose three or four pokemon (Don't discuss helpless pokemon like Beautifly though)

I'd say pokemon that greatly hampered by bad type/ stat distribution/ movepool are:

#1 Glaceon
It has fanatastic special attack and have fake tear to fear off even extreme special wall like Blissey and Snorlax. Moreover, it has good defense and special defense and can pass wish. But its shitty HP and ice type doesn't help its better than decent special defense and defense. Moreover, it doesn't have nothing to baton pass like Nasty Plot and shitty speed which is shameful since Ice is great offensive typing but shitty defensive typing. Bad Special attack movepool is also bad. I think if it has boltbeam, nasty plot, baton pass, and great speed rivaling those of Gengar, it would be OU or BL pokemon.

#2 Aggron
He has awesome physical defense, attack and have good stat distribution. However, it is greatly hampered by bad typing. Being weak to 4X weak to fighting is very bad news for this great pokemon since it is pretty common attack typing in OU. Moreover, being weak to Ground, Water which are also common types doesn't help him either. Now he need to face super effective physical water attack.....

#3 Ninetale/ Arcanine
First of all, ninetale have great speed and respectable special defense but that's all. However, it doesn't have good HP and special attack to pool off its good special defenser or speed. Overuse of Stealth Rock doesn't help it either since it make already fragile ninetale more fragile. Arcanine is victim of shallow movepool and stealth rock. Howl is very suck boosting move in D/P (It wasn't good at ADV either) and Arcanine doesn't have good movepool to pool off his good attack and special attack stat unlike his monkey counterpart do.
 
IMO I disagree and agree with parts of what you said,

Glaceon has real potential in a hail team, and to my knowledge Glaceon can't learn thunderbolt.
You forgot to mention Aggron 4x weak to ground.
And Pure fire types such as Rapidash, Arcanine, Ninetales, Entei just to name a few are bad choices with stealth rock being so rampant.
But arcanine has access to extremespeed, so at least it has some potential.
 
Entei is a much more severe case than Flareon.

Shuckle got shafted!!! If you even traded every 5 base defenses for 1 base HP, it'd still be way way way better off.
 
WTF! Glaceon is by no means bad on hail.

Ninetales and Arcanine are also pretty damn good pokemon. They both can get flashfire, and Ninetales gets Hypnoplot.. its a pretty underated pokemon. The only reason its not used is because everyone uses Heatran for their fire needs. Arcanine isn't as bad as people think in this gen. With a flash fire boost and a life orb, even water pokemon will cringe from boosted Flare Blitzes and Overheats. These pokemon aren't bad, there are actually TERRIBLY worse pokemon to mention and make a case on in this thread. Flareon and Rapidash are far worse than these two. Arcanine is already too powerful for UU, and only Grumpig holds Ninetales down in UU. Arcanine and Ninetales just suffer from "pure fire type syndrome," where Infernape and Heatran get SR resist (Heatrans movepool isn't all that much better, really).

Entei isn't as bad as people think either. People need to just give up on it's physical side and make it a calm minder.
 
glaceon in hail+brightpoweder is pretty nice. his blizzards a real killa

octillery's killed by his stats
good potential w/ his movepool n ability but just too weak to work
 
Obligatory Flareon/Entei reference.

In that same vein, I'd say *Luxray* got shafted rather hard. His best physical electric move is *Spark*, a move that gets outdamaged against neutral targets by freaking Return of all things.
 
So basically we say what if x pokemon had x type/stat/move? I really don't see the point as that's very, very broad.

Ampharos is hampered by all but his typing out of those 3. =(
 
Masquerin.

Screw it, we could have had a perfect gyarados counter with intimidate and resistance to ice, water, and ground (Although stone edge messes it up). But instead we get another shitty flying/bug type that no one cares about.

And he gets shafted with such shitty base stats.
 
Shuckle is solid. I love it as is.

Flareon imo, is one of the biggest fails. I give it a movepool!

I agree with all the bug/flying, aka, beedrill, dustox, Masquerin, etc, etc.

There are countless Pokemon that just got.. screwed over, whether it be type, movepool, and stats.
 
Entei could work.

What about Slaking. It is an fucking strong pokemon. Great attack and HP, base 150 or something. Base 100 speed. Good defenses en they give him that fucked up ability.
 
Ninetales - Hypno-Plot lead is win, but later it's good day for the fox.

Parasect - Spore-Dance = Win but typing fucked it up.
 
lol about regigigas and slaking,
but if they didn't have the abilities that they do, they would be severely overpowered.
 
They could have at least given him (Slaking) a worthless ability like Pick-Up over that abomination called Traunt.
 
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