Underrated or lesser known Pokemon Page 3

Started by Houndour2004 June 20th, 2004 11:29 PM
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Shana

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Another Pokemon you never see is Gastly. You basicly only see him in the episode where Ash goes to the Haunted House where all of the Ghost Pokemon live.
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Frostweaver

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but everyone catches Gastly to get an evil Gengar XD There's like TONS of Gastly TCG card (the one with nightmare is so ubar) and in the anime ti also appears in the Orange Islands for the haunted ship episode, as well as Morty's gym, and appearing 3 times in the anime is already pretty good.

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EDIT: lol you hit the button twice Tmbjr ;p
And of course... who doesn't like evolution spore and 1 energy solarbeam for 30, and no retreat cost? XD
I know..it is sad that I didn't notice until 7 hours later XD

I said that the Jumpluff line was good in the TCG...1 energy card for the entire line, but low HP and the dominance of fire decks at the time made it unusable...

Frostweaver

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at least water resistance from those who are pure grass types stops the Ancestral Memorying Kingdras to a halt immediately... and Kingdra pwns those fire decks quite easily if playing unlimited (breeder + breeders field = Kingdra 2nd turn using smokescreen for 1 energy with one of the most annoying side effect ;p) meh but that's back in the time when I pay attention to cards... I lost track at the advance generation and EXs

hmm...

I think Fearow is quite underrated... we see it for 4 seconds in MANY episodes, but only as a scapegoat for something. It's never used in the game because of Swellow, and in TCG it still sucks...
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I have more that I never hear of in teams:

Murkrow: I used it on my silver version for kicks...not bad, really

Aerodactyl: Eh, it's ok...I gained more respect for it in G/S/C when Lance's was so awesome, but still, nobody uses it.

Victreebel: Only place I've ever seen this is with James...I admit, I've never even used it =/

Lickitung: I'll definitely be using this one when FRLG comes out, it's like the king of forgotten pokemon...for one thing you can only get it so late in the game that it's useless once you see it, but it's also been wiped out of the memories of the fans of the anime by that fiend Wobbuffet.

Venomoth: I always liked it, but nobody else did =/ I always loved to see it use psybeam on colosseum for some reason...

Granbull: Eh, it's a dog. An ugly, purple dog. There are some pokemon I can't even stand to use, and this is one of them.

Swalot: Same as above, except replace dog with blob.

Muk: One of my favorites for how it looks, and an occasional choice of mine on stadium...but besides that, I don't see anyone use it.

Beedrill: Why does nobody use this for fun? Its like butterfree, except EVIL. And its the only pokemon that can learn Twin-needle...

Exeggutor: Another forgotten pokemon...grass/psychic always was such a cool combo, even if it didnt have the best attacks...heck, Gary had one at the end in R/B/Y, but usually all it would use was Barrage, we never got to see its true strength =/

Cloyster: Eh, there are so many water types in the game that this one usually gets passed up for someone like Poliwrath...

Roselia: Maybe not used because its so creepy-looking?

Illumise: Eeeeeveryone goes for Volbeat, never Illumise, probably because we remember it for being one of the first gen-3ers released...

Wigglytuff: Everyone things its cute, but does anyone battle with it? Ive never heard of it ever used...

Golem: Awesome, but such a pain to find someone to trade with I guess =/

Lapras: Why? Ive always been a fan of Lapras, and yet nobody uses it...I hope we can catch wild ones in FRLG, because if we cant then well probably only be able to get the ridiculously low-level one in Silph Co...
Wigglytuff is my strongest pokemon on Blue version (I play that alot XD) and I use it more than my others...
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I think Raichu is kinda underrated because of the Pikachu fad. I am in love with Raichu! Pikachu only enters my team until it's string enough to evolve! Raichu is currently my 2nd strongest in Sliver.... I haven't evolved my Pikachu in Saphire yet.
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Shana

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but everyone catches Gastly to get an evil Gengar XD There's like TONS of Gastly TCG card (the one with nightmare is so ubar) and in the anime ti also appears in the Orange Islands for the haunted ship episode, as well as Morty's gym, and appearing 3 times in the anime is already pretty good.
Yeah, your right...I guess he isn't as lesserknown as I thought. :P
My heart's a graveyard, baby.
And to evil we make love
on our passion's killing floor.
In my arms you won't sleep safely.
And of lust we are re-born
on our passion's killing floor.
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And besides, one of the Officer Jenny's has a Gastly...

I used a Wigglytuff in my Blue squad, trained her up from a lowly L3 Jigglypuff all the way to L100, and didn't do too bad either (ah the annoyance of Sing!).

Never see many Kangaskhan used...


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ahem... the gameboy has some fair amount of Kangaskhan users... it's one of the fastest physical striker of the normal type family capable of learning fighting moves (got a terrifying underestimated speed). Tauros is better due to higher speed and intimidate but it can't learn fighting type moves like Kangaskan.

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A Pokemon you never seem to see is Smeargul. (sp)
If you use NetBattle, you see Smeargle a lot. Its ability to learn any move in the game makes it incredibly customizeable to any strategy. As usual, I tend to make my Smeargles into poison annoyers XD

Shana

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I don't use NetBattle, so I wouldn't know. =P I like Smeargle though...he's pretty cool.
My heart's a graveyard, baby.
And to evil we make love
on our passion's killing floor.
In my arms you won't sleep safely.
And of lust we are re-born
on our passion's killing floor.

Timbjerr

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I've always wanted a Smeargle that knew Explosion, but I could never get one to survive being Explosion-ed :P
I think that if you had another of your pokemon killed with explosion, then send out Smeargle, Sketch would copy Explosion, given that Smeargle has a higher speed than the opponent's new pokemon.

Frostweaver

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I think that Murkrow, Venomoth and Aerodactyl are underrated. If you have the patience, they can be indispoable. But no-one uses them. *sniff*
Ahem!? Aerodactyl? That thing dominates netbattle and is on many MANY teams due to its vast movepool and being the 4th fastest in game along with Jolteon and Crobat

Venomoth is not used due to poor stats... you need a heavy amount of luck with sleep powder for Venomoth. It's not even that fast too... However you still see it fair amount of times in Kanto episodes ^^;

Murkrow is just useless beyond belief though... certainly underused but not underrated. It appears once in the anime and that's it... however it dominated TCG though with mean look and feint attack.

Shana

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An lesser known Pokemon out there is Paris. The only time you see him is in that one earlier Pokemon episode where Team Rocket evolves him into Parasect.
My heart's a graveyard, baby.
And to evil we make love
on our passion's killing floor.
In my arms you won't sleep safely.
And of lust we are re-born
on our passion's killing floor.