Flygon or Garchomp? Page 2

Started by Regeneration January 11th, 2011 4:41 AM
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Which one do you prefer?

While Garchomp is clearly stronger I have always and hopefully always will prefer Flygon over it.

First of all I don't care for Garchomp's concept. It's land shark/jet combination is awfully boring to look at. I think another big factor that turned me off towards Garchomp is its huge fan boy appeal. For a while you couldn't look up something Pokemon without coming across someone talking about how awesome Garchomp is. Really serious competitive players annoy me after a while. :)

Flygon on the other hand is one of those Pokemon that I consider to get decent attention, but not enough to annoy me to no end. I see it as one of the odd ball dragons because of Trapinch and Vibrava, and I really like it just because of that. It doesn't fit your cookie cutter dragon look, that meaning it doesn't look overly masculine. If anything it's always appeared to be a very feminine looking dragon, but maybe that's just me. I guess I enjoy its uniqueness the most while Garchomp is too much of the same old thing.

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Flygon has my vote, I love it. Garchomp is cool too though.

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I've never had any of these two Pokémon in my team, I know they are both strong Pokémon though but I'll have to go with Flygon!
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Couldn't really pick ... xD Garchomp was one of very few pokémon I really liked from gen 4, and I had one on my team that I grew really attached to. On the other hand, I've always had a soft spot for Flygon, and one of my characters has one.


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I like Flygon's design better but other than that and their ability differences, Garchomp is superior in every way and thus, Garchomp > Flygon.
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Flygon looks cooler and it's a staple on my team, so it obviously gets my vote.

Garchomp is undeniably stronger, but I don't like its looks and I find Flygon easier to use. Better ability too (Levitate)

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Flygon is underrated, in my opinion. Garchomp, on the other hand, is severely overrated. Seriously. While it has good stats and a decent moveset, it's not quite as sensational as Flygon.


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Well lets see...the antlion/dragonfly, or the Land Shark?

Sorry Garchomp, I still don't like the fact that you've sided with Cynthia and that Serebii noobs use you waaaaaaaay too much, plus your shiny is unfortunately terrible.

So I'm siding with Flygon, who would've had potential if Gamefreak payed more attention to it. GIVE IT PEVERSITY GODDAMN IT. It's a Sand Dragon, come on! Also it looks plain awesome. It has goggle-like eye-protecters, it looks like its going to flat out kick your ass. If you've seen some of it's card art, you'll know what I'm talking about.

Also, it looks damn cute as well. So Flygon gets my vote.

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Sharks cant fly right? (googles it)
In Doctor Who they had flying fishes of all sorts, including a shark...but then again, it was pulling a carriage, so it's not really relevant is it? :P

I think the problem with Garchomp and Flygon is their very similar stat distributions - Garchomp's just got slightly more speed and about 30 more attack, meaning it makes a better revenge killer. And unlike Flygon, it can actually sweep on its' own.

However, for all of you who say Garchomp's too good...in competitive battling, it's beneficial to Flygon that he's too good, as it means Flygon gets its' own niche in OU battling.
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Garchomp is the more powerful of the two by only around 80 base points, has around the same movepool as flygon ,but can sweep much more powerfully. But theres only one downside to that: he's in Uber tier while flygons in OU. And unless you want him fighting arceus or another insanely powered pokemon then stick with OU. So simply put flygon is the garchomp of OU. But id have to go with Garchomp, he's just better all around in just about everything.

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I like Flygon better because it looks cooler to me.

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Throughout my life of playing Pokemon, I have had both of them in my team individually, and at the same time.

I do like both, but if I had to choose, it would be Flygon. I only ever used Garchomp because it is very powerful and can just sweep Pokemon out like no tomorrow.