Your Most Unexpected Pokemon Power House

Started by Volroc April 30th, 2010 3:20 PM
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Im sure everyone has raised a pokemon that they didnt think was worth it at first, then had their mind blown, so which one turned out to be your unexpected power house?

for me it was Gorebyss, a pure water pokemon that learns psychic attacks, has amazing speed, and is completely focused on Special Attack, not to mention how fast it levels up, it just blew my mind :surprised:
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Mine was definitely an old Primape I had on Pokemon Fire Red. I had no idea he would be so useful in the game. He beat Brock, Misty, Lt. Surge, Blaine, and Giovanni all by himself without me having to use any other Pokemon. He's also MEGA easy to level up and is very useful down victory road. He wasn't terribly used in the E4 but he did take care od a few of Bruno's Pokemon for me and handled A lot of my rivals at the end. He was just a beast for me the entire game.
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My Arbok it's so fast and elimanate opponent's in one poison jab and oftens poisens it was the weakest in my SS team level wise but later, well it grew by alot, it also has good SD and defense.
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Dunsparce as a para-flincher was something I never expected, because this little guy could stall elite four teams solo.
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My Rampardos is really unique and people underestimate him...

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In my experience, it was Tentacruel. I first really used one as part of my RBY poison monotype challenge and I was totally impressed with how much of a special tank he could be, plus he used the broken Toxic+Wrap combo quite nicely XD
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Ive had a few that Ive given a go and been really impressed with when I thought they wouldnt be that great.
At the moment its Swalot for me. Easy to level up, for a poison type its a bit of a powerhouse, Ive had a high critical hit / paralysis ratio using body slam. It has mass amounts of HP.
In my opinion, way better than its first gen counterpart, Muk.
Ariados (again a poison type) was another surprise pack for me.
The other was Steelix. It seems like it would be cool enough, but Onix never appealed to me to begin with, I gave it a go though and ended up loving Steelix.
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I caught a Wingull at the beginning of Ruby and ended up raising it more as my starter than my Torchic (which ended up sitting in the PC after it became Blaziken). I've never really cared about stats, but it is one epic Pokemon, now a Pelipper obviously. It's level 80-something in my game and I just love it. xD

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Tauros is a beast beyond belief, but I didn't KNOW that.. until I used him in my team in HG. It's just ridiculous how well he handles any situation with Payback, Zen Hedbutt, Return and Surf.
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tentacruel seriously? O_O definitely not what i was expectin

i agree Rotom can be killer

rofl at the killer sandshrew, i used to use sandshrew on yellow, havent used it since sadly T^T

Fizz! i do that too usually with my beginner, but the D/P/Pt series hasnt got a good fire beginner so this time around my gorebyss must pick up the slack lol


dunsparce rocks!

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My Rampardos. I was surprised with its power. Took out Cynthia's Spiritomb in one Head Smash.
:surprised: whoa!
i might wanna try that lol

i thought of another one of mine:
my gold caterpie on firered (no lie i got a shiny caterpie i was like holy MFSOMFG :) )
and once it evolved into butterfree it was unbeatable, it took out misty on its own,& gave lt.surge a run for his money on its own
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My Rampardos. I was surprised with its power. Took out Cynthia's Spiritomb in one Head Smash.
TBH, not that surprising, seeing as how Spiritomb has terrible HP and Rampardos is renowned to be the Pokemon with the highest base ATK other than Deoxys... Plus STAB.
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