4th Gen Are there any completely useless pokemon?

[pilotwings]

I am looking to battle online and I'm building a team. Right now I'm raising a hippowdon and a cherrim, and I got to thinking - are there any pokemon that just plain suck and stand no chance in a real player vs player match? I'd like to avoid wasting hours raising one of those if possible.

 

[Forci Stikane]

Magikarp & Feebas. Their evolutions, on the other hand...

 

[chaomocha]

um biabrel i find not very great

its like a swampert because they are water/ground i belive but swamperts better

also what kind of pokemon are you even looking for, it will help narrow things down

 

[Rat]

um biabrel i find not very great

its like a swampert because they are water/ground i belive but swamperts better

also what kind of pokemon are you even looking for, it will help narrow things down

Except it's water/normal, not ground.

 

[SilverDragon]

For me, Bidoof and Zigzagoon.

 

[~*!*~Tatsujin Gosuto~*!*~]

I find Zigzagoons very useful. They pick up things as for the Bidoof, yea there stupid


:t354:tatsujin gosuto

 

[ToraSushii]

Bidoof ish very suck. I wouldn't catch its shiny version. xP
Ehh....Pokemon that lack Defenses and Offensives?

 

[Storm-DC]

yea, of course; legendaries.. it's no fun playing with them since in a 'real' pokemon world only one trainer would be able to fight with them.

 

[powurz]

There are some Pokemon that are just not as good as other pokemon for the same role. If you were going for a team of underused Pokemon, then I guess there could be exceptions made. But I think that some Pokemon just don't fill a niche as well as others.

 

[AztecSunshine]

poor bidoof i love bidoof he is not useless he is usefull for his cute'ns
and zigzagoon rules the pickup world he is great and i used to have a linoone named ricky in my team he was my powerhouse

 

[Ftkatyowser]

Prolly depends on what sort of team your aiming for- a mix, type-specific, a team with no over-powered legendaries, ect. Magikarp and Feebas, obviously, but thier evolutions (Milotic more than Gyrados) I find to be a pain. As for Bibarel, it's fine for certain things in the game (contests), but It'd probobly be iffy online.

 

[pilotwings]

I was looking at the bug pokemon like parasect and vespiqueen, the water/ground type wishcash, and a couple other ones. I know bibarel is horrible. Are there certain types that simply cannot win in a real match?

 

[TwilightBlade]

...Unown. 8D
And Stantler.
Every pokemon serves a purpose in the world so none of them are 100% useless. Unown give us letter seals and Stantler moos... and stuff.

 

[Storm-DC]

...Unown. 8D
And Stantler.
Every pokemon serves a purpose in the world so none of them are 100% useless. Unown give us letter seals and Stantler moos... and stuff.

stantler? play against samson's 'road kill'-team and say that again ;)!

 

[Samson]

haha XD. stantler is like the mew of normal-types... it learns SO many moves.

speaking of mew, legendaries are pretty useless. i went through looking at legendaries so i can make an uber team if anyone actually requests an "uber battle" from me,... and the only legendary i actually liked was Mew.

 

[~*!*~Tatsujin Gosuto~*!*~]

Yea I like Mew, I also use Giratina and Zapdos as well


:t354:tatsujin gosuto

 

[Gyardosamped]

Silcoon and wurmple, weedle, caterpie, metapod, pretty useless.

 

[Diggeh]

I'd have to say Quilfish.

That poor Pokemon needs an evolution...I loved him so much... ;_;

 

[shinyGeo]

Bidoof...i mean seriously...if pokemon were real would you like a beaver being the first pokemon you encountered? He'd make a good HM slave but nothing more. I even saw a shiny one. Didnt catch it...I HATE BIDOOF!

 

[pilotwings]

So I guess that most of the pre-evolutions are useless. That's cool, because I was reading through the type faq on gamefaqs and the guy was calling alot of the pokemon horrible.

I wouldn't even use bidoof as an hm slave. I use aipom, and he even has pickup!