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Old August 18th, 2012 (12:19 AM).
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I once thought Klinklang would be a decent pokemon to rack up kills with, but it turned out to be rubbish and down the box it went.
Yeah, I remember training one and it was a pain.

The entire line only learns Steel, Normal and Electric-type moves, has higher Attack stat than Sp. Attack and it only gets ONE PHYSICAL STAB MOVE, which unfortunately has low BP and is slightly inaccurate.

I mean, it's not even Electric-type yet it learns all these Electric moves. I mean, stuff like Thunderbolt, Charge Beam, Zap Cannon, Volt Switch, Thundershock etc.
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Old August 18th, 2012 (3:28 AM).
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Someone over at the team thread has indicated Purrloin will be on the final team. I don't mean this to come across as a gambling wager, but I'd put money down on whether Purrloin serves an integral part of the final team. There are a couple of TMs that give a STAB for it, but Liepard does not stand up to Zoroark despite being the same type.

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Yeah, Poorloin is pretty bad. Liepard's 88 Base Attack is loltastingly bad late game, and it's level-up is pathetic.

Plus there are so many better Dark types in this game (Scrafty, Krookodile, Zoroark) that I can't see why anyone would want to use Liepard (unless it's his/her favourite Pokemon or whatever).
But Zoroark isn't actually in the game!

Liepard is at least better than Mightyena. If only it learned some better moves...
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Old August 18th, 2012 (4:10 AM).
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But Zoroark isn't actually in the game!

Liepard is at least better than Mightyena. If only it learned some better moves...
Au contraire. If you have an Event Celebi, get the little boy Zorua in Castelia City; turns out they're friends (keep a free slot in your party, it has to physically join the party). Got an Event Shiny Entei, Suicine, or Raikou? Head for the woman in the trailer at Lostlorn Forest; this Zoroark comes at Lv.25. Or even if you can do those (or not), just trade for an Egg (in your own Trainer ID when hatched) or a baby (in another Trainer ID, it levels up quicker).

There are three available ways to get your Zorua/Zoroark. Do whatever one you like best and train it. It can come in handy for sneak purposes at first, in fact, as it comesout disguised as a Pokémon in your party when you go to battle, throwing off the opponent's battle strategy and could essentially give you a free hit for a couple of turns until they figure it out.

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Old August 18th, 2012 (7:53 AM).
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But Zoroark isn't actually in the game!

Liepard is at least better than Mightyena. If only it learned some better moves...
Well, you technically don't have to know anyone to have a Zorua in your game. It's very easy to get through the GTS, seeing as there is a boy that shows you a picture of Zorua in Castelia.

Mightyena's worse? Meh, at least it has Intimidate.
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Old August 18th, 2012 (6:16 PM).
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I once thought Klinklang would be a decent pokemon to rack up kills with, but it turned out to be rubbish and down the box it went.
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Yeah, I remember training one and it was a pain.

The entire line only learns Steel, Normal and Electric-type moves, has higher Attack stat than Sp. Attack and it only gets ONE PHYSICAL STAB MOVE, which unfortunately has low BP and is slightly inaccurate.

I mean, it's not even Electric-type yet it learns all these Electric moves. I mean, stuff like Thunderbolt, Charge Beam, Zap Cannon, Volt Switch, Thundershock etc.
tbh the fact that it wasn't part electric turned me off from using it, actually. Originally that was the disappointing factor for me, rather than how strong it apparently isn't. :(
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Old January 14th, 2013 (3:23 PM). Edited January 14th, 2013 by Chaos Fork.
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Tough one, two of my all time faves r in this generation

Here's my list
Woobat line: horrible zubat
Alomomola: expected it to be an evo of luvdisc
ALL of the musketeers: bad movepools and low stats for legends
Hydreigon: (I will be sent to hell for this) LEVEL64?!!
Trubbish: a pile of @#£*%
All atarters ecept oshawott: HORRIBLE design
BAST--i mean basculin: take a guess (it was my first legit shiny tho)
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Old January 16th, 2013 (11:39 AM).
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For me it was Swoobat! I raised it from and from level 5 and by level 49 it special attack was only 110 ... compared to my, for example, Arcanine which is a pysical attacker...Eventually I dropped him in my box and use a manaphy I recently got from pkmn ranger for the elite four... Don't worry I raised him from lv 1 :D
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Old January 16th, 2013 (1:44 PM). Edited January 23rd, 2013 by I.T..
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Quite a few actually. Keep in mind when I first purchased PKMN White, I knew NOTHING about their stats. Here are my responses in quotes.

-Emboar
"Why is this thing so damn slow?!"

-Zebstrika
"If you faint because of another water pulse attack I swear.."

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"Aren't you ever gonna evolve?"
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Old January 16th, 2013 (4:14 PM).
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Zebstrika. It looked so cool but it was ridiculously fragile. Don't 1HKO the opposing Pokemon and he's gone. Seriously, he was dying from water attacks. Still love him though <3
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Old January 16th, 2013 (4:15 PM).
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Swoobat.. It's extreamely terrible in my mind. i used it for my black run-through, and it was crap. i only kept it because it was the fastest on my team at the time.
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Old January 16th, 2013 (4:55 PM).
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Reuniclus. I spent so much time raising them in White and then again in White 2 only to be bitterly reminded that they're so, so slow.

Also Beartic because its abilities are terrible.
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Old January 16th, 2013 (5:29 PM).
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Cryognal.
I thought it looked pretty neat, but he didn't really preform as well as I hoped he would have.
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Old January 16th, 2013 (11:28 PM).
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Pansear, Purrloin, Ducklett..
My disappointment in Pansear was probably my fault. I evolved it, not knowing it learned nothing after it's evolution.
Purrloin was too fragile, even after it evolved. It's speed didn't make up for it, and it was only average offensively.
Ducklett was a weak little thing, which went away when it evolved. As Swanna, it is average everywhere; that's all I can say. There was nothing that stood out about it, nothing special. It had no strong points.
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Old January 17th, 2013 (12:29 AM). Edited January 17th, 2013 by Hikamaru.
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Reuniclus. I spent so much time raising them in White and then again in White 2 only to be bitterly reminded that they're so, so slow.
Reuniclus may be very slow, but it's a plus if Trick Room is used.

Its high Special Attack makes it a common Trick Room threat in OU, with its good movepool and stats to get it going. Tested one myself and if trained right it can be deadly not to mention most of the Psychic-types in-game have pretty good stats.
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Amoonguss; I still love it, but it's just not a strong Pokemon at all.
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Old January 17th, 2013 (6:20 PM).
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Snivy. Almost its entire moveset is grass type moves, and it has no significant stats except speed. Even the WATER type starter beats the grass, because of its ability to learn both Megahorn ad Ice Beam. Although I wasn't surprised. The only time I remember the grass starter NOT failing us is Gen III with Torterra's ground type to back it up, yet still making it so water type attacks still did decent damage.
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Old January 18th, 2013 (7:26 AM).
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I was going to use a Manna/Musharna and I dropped it early on because it just didn't do anything. Same with Pansear/Simisear and Panpour/Simipour. Much better Pokemon of their type are available. :/
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Simipour. When I chose Snivy for my starter, I was frustrated at the third gym, as both of my Pokemon kept losing to Leavanny, Burgh's main Pokemon. When I got to Castelia City I came to the area with the Scientist giving out stones to elemental monkeys. I got excited and decided to evolve Panpour with the Water Stone at Level 18, and didn't realize that there were better moves that I could've used to have a shot against Burgh, such as Bite and Scald. :( That's what I don't like about elemental monkeys: They can't learn any level-up moves once they are evolved.
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When I first played it i was very disappointed:
Pidove and evolution just learned special attacks
Blitzle was very weak, his shock wave did nearly nothing

As I played it again the dog from the beginning seemed very strong with STAB tackle and body check
But Stoutland was again very disappointing
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the elemental monkeys were pathetic...
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I know people might hate me for this but a lot of the Gen V PKMN were disappointing :\
It's still the best PKMN Generation in terms of gameplay though
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I didn't like the Elemental monkey's evolutions, and how they didn't naturally learn moves anymore.
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Those elemental monkeys and their evolution were disappointing...
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Amoonguss; I still love it, but it's just not a strong Pokemon at all.
But it isn't meant to be a strong attacker, though. :( it's meant to be a supporter Pokemon and it's damn good at that imo.

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Simipour. When I chose Snivy for my starter, I was frustrated at the third gym, as both of my Pokemon kept losing to Leavanny, Burgh's main Pokemon. When I got to Castelia City I came to the area with the Scientist giving out stones to elemental monkeys. I got excited and decided to evolve Panpour with the Water Stone at Level 18, and didn't realize that there were better moves that I could've used to have a shot against Burgh, such as Bite and Scald. :( That's what I don't like about elemental monkeys: They can't learn any level-up moves once they are evolved.
Yeah I'd imagine that'd be annoying :( however the entire move pool of it is pretty good IMO, with iirc it having access to surf focus blast ice beam and grass knot iirc (maybe not tho).
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Definitely Woobat. It sucks like Zubat, but unlike Zubat it doesn't have epic evolutions like Golbat and... Crobat.
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