Arcanine or Ninetales?

Started by TeKan56 September 28th, 2013 10:47 AM
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Which is best?

Soulless Ghoul

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Growlithe/Arcanine.

I'm a little biased, cause I love dogs more than I like Foxes.

But meh.

And like Head said, Growlithe/Arcanine has a better move set.
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Tough choice. I rather go with Arcanine, its a shame that back then, both Arcanine and Ninetails had extremely few moves and weren't that great to be used. If you even wanted Arcanine to learn flamethrower, you had to give it the TM. But anyway, I think he's the better choice. He's fast and you can get a better use of his moveset than what Ninetails has.

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Arcanine is majestic, and Ninetales is graceful.

I've always loved Vulpix and Ninetales though, so I'll go with Ninetales.

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Aircane has more base state then ninetales. and its better then ninetales but ninetales is also a very good pokemon. If you want you can have ninetales but i suggest you to have aircane

I have experience for having aircane and ninetales both !

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I liked Ninetales better when it came to design. It was simple, and very elegant. When it came to battling though, Arcanine was the better Pokémon. Ninetales may be good in the current gen. thanks to Drought, but it didn't have this ability in generation three, and its stats were quite low. Arcanine, on the other hand, had very good Attack stat and great Speed. After a single Howl, it was able to take down your opponent's entire team all by itself.

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Battles-wise, definitely Arcanine. He gets the amazing Intimidate ability to cut your opponent's attack, has a better movepool, and overall has better stats. You can get a lot more out of him as a fire type.

Stinks though, since Ninetales is a great Pokemon design-wise! Its movepool just isn't very diverse.

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If we're only talking game, I don't really know what I think. As I don't use either of them much. I like Ninetales' look but generally, Arcanine is even cooler in my eyes. Ninetales seems so frail, and from what I've seen of Vulpix in the games, I don't like its moveset very much. Arcanine (Growlithe) was more of a reliable pokémon on a team.

And speaking outside the games completely, I like them both! Maybe Arcanine more, just because I generally don't like frail pokémon much. And because it's a tigerdog! Raikou and Arcanine, both tigerlike and both pokémon I like a lot. Designs do matter.
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Looking back at the favorite Pokemon of each type thread (here), this is what I said:

Fire - I can never decide if I like Ninetales or Arcanine more, so they'll have to share this spot.

I love Ninetales' moveset much more (if it were Fire/Psychic rather than pure Fire it'd be my favorite), but Arcanine has a better Special and regular Attack stat than Ninetales does. I honestly can't choose just one of the two, because I know that I'll feel bad later about doing it, haha.
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3rd gen wasn't very nice to Arcanine or Ninetales, they weren't very good back then. Arcanine is more powerful but Ninetales has better support moves and Vulpix learns Flamethrower earlier than Growlithe.

5th gen, though... Ninetales is useful with Drought. And Arcanine almost breaks the game, it's obscenely powerful.


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Tough decision... Ninetales looks more elegant, but Arcanine is more powerful... I'm torn.

Arcanine is a Legendary Pokémon... Does that count?

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Arcanine seems more tough and noble.
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I'd have to go with Arcanine since I really liked that one episode in the anime with Growlithe and James, and I'm not a huge fan of Ninetales' design (even though I like foxes and fire types, I just like Fennekin's design more :))


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