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pilotwings June 5th, 2007 3:57 PM

Are there any completely useless pokemon?
 
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 June 5th, 2007 3:58 PM

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

chaomocha June 5th, 2007 4:02 PM

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 June 5th, 2007 4:12 PM

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Originally Posted by chaomocha (Post 2511456)
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 June 5th, 2007 4:17 PM

For me, Bidoof and Zigzagoon.

~*!*~Tatsujin Gosuto~*!*~ June 5th, 2007 4:21 PM

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


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ToraSushii June 5th, 2007 4:26 PM

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

Storm-DC June 5th, 2007 4:29 PM

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 June 5th, 2007 7:09 PM

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 June 5th, 2007 7:30 PM

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 June 6th, 2007 8:15 AM

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 June 6th, 2007 9:01 AM

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 June 6th, 2007 9:05 AM

...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 June 6th, 2007 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by TwilightBlade (Post 2511775)
...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 June 6th, 2007 10:20 AM

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~*!*~ June 6th, 2007 12:24 PM

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


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Gyardosamped June 6th, 2007 12:49 PM

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

Diggeh June 6th, 2007 6:50 PM

I'd have to say Quilfish.

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

shinyGeo June 6th, 2007 8:24 PM

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 June 7th, 2007 4:46 AM

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!

Faceless* June 7th, 2007 6:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Diggeh (Post 2512183)
I'd have to say Quilfish.

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

Qwilfish is alright, he goes good w/ my water team, but poor him he's outranked by tentacruel (cruel isn't he? :D)

And all you picking on bidoof, or zigzagoon or w/e, i find him pretty useful to me as an HM slave


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