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Erm Arcanine or Ninetales

Arcanine or Ninetales

In my personal opinion I would go with Ninetales. I would go for Arcanine but my little sister loves Ninetales so I'll stick by my decision. (But only because my sister will not try to hit me).
 
I like them both, but my personal choice is ninetales, as i always used ninetlaes in most of my games, and i think it has better potential than RK9.
 
Spike Razzor said:
I think we have had enough of your opinion, now zip it.
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Seconded.
Ninetales has good Speed and Special Defense, decent special attack, and w/ Flashfire, SD, and decent special attack, you have a massive Explosion of a Overheat. That you can do more than once with the same effect.
 
Groudon does bring up something that I agree with, and its that Nintailes fails. Before you give me a hard time, let me explain.

HP - Decent. But only when its maxed out...

Atk - Poor, but not usesable.

Def - Decent. But only when its maxed out...

Speed - Awesome!

S.Atk - Decent. But only when maxed out with nature.

S.Def - Awesome!
 
Spike Razzor said:
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No offense to you in any way...im defending jumpman here, he's insane at netbattle...(i mean INSANE) so he does know what he's talking about... BUT: yeah it is gettin somewhat annoyin.
 
Spike Razzor said:
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Amen. Arcanine may have special moves like ES, but that doesn't mean that Ninetails is usless. Any pokemon can be strong if you raise it to be, and Ninetails does have decent stats that could make it quite powerful, if used right.
 
umm Bleep, why are you defending jumpman? Everyone has an opinion and they can post it.

Besides I do agree with the fact that ninetails can not pull off much
someone please post a moveset that would work for it, on net battle.

Nintails@ white herb/ petaya <-- not that it will survive a hit to let it activate
~Sunny Day
~Overheat/Flamethrower
~HP: grass <-- too bad it can't OHKO swampert
~Confuse Ray/Grudge

Grudge is the opnly thing I have seen ninetail be good for. It has the speed to use grudge right before something with earthquake obliterates it. Quite nice if it is a CB'er since your can send in dugtrio next and destroy the creature whilst it struggles.

Other then that the set is lol and could be pulled of better by other fire pokemon
 
I think we have had enough of your opinion, now zip it.
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Too bad my opinion is correct.

Ninetales seriously fails at everything. IT CANT DO ANYTHING. pyrotrapping/shuffling is destroyed pretty easily, and it can't sweep well. >_>

Arcanine may have special moves like ES
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Hello, are you some stupid jesus or something? Extremespeed is PHYSICAL... >_>
 
and smeargle and deoxy's and thats it

lol 5 pokemon learn the move out of 386, I think its pretty exclusive
 
husk1442 said:
and smeargle and deoxy's and thats it

lol 5 pokemon learn the move out of 386, I think its pretty exclusive
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I think the only way a move gets to be exclusive IHO is if it's Doom Desire or Psycho Boost >.>
 
cmatz0 said:
Amen. Arcanine may have special moves like ES, but that doesn't mean that Ninetails is usless. Any pokemon can be strong if you raise it to be, and Ninetails does have decent stats that could make it quite powerful, if used right.
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I'm sorry, but thats the lamest thing you could say here. This isn't the TV show, this is the game and if you havn't noticed there are certain Pokemon that fall into the UU and NU group, because there movepools/stats/type(s) arn't good. Ninetails has all three of these problems, limited moves, bad stats, its a fire type (possibly the worst type).

Bleep: Yes, Jump is good, I'm not saying he isn't. Its just that hes getting too carried away. Thank you for saying that in a calm manner =).
 
Groudon80 said:
oh... but its not elusive, as linoone, and rayquaza also learn it.
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o boy, a whopping 5 out of how many...368 or sumtin? yeah, thats kinda exclusive in my book. and i'm not "stupid jesus", whatever the hell that means, i know ES is a physical attack, you're the dumbass who couldn't even tell what i meant by special.

Yeah Spike, quite powerful might have been the wrong words, but i can't see ninetails being NU - maybe very UU, but not NU. Its certainly not the greatest, but not the weakest fire type, so i'm sure someone has one. And i meant by any pokemon can be good if you raise it is that it can be usable (maybe in some rare cases not so), and may not be the best, but if you like it you could find some way to make it work (i like oddish, but hate its evolutions, and i have found a semi-decent way to make it work, even against my friends who are competitive battlers and one of which who used to be good on netbattle before his computer broke).
 
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cmatz0 said:
Yeah Spike, quite powerful might have been the wrong words, but i can't see ninetails being NU - maybe very UU, but not NU. Its certainly not the greatest, but not the weakest fire type, so i'm sure someone has one. And i meant by any pokemon can be good if you raise it is that it can be usable (maybe in some rare cases not so), and may not be the best, but if you like it you could find some way to make it work (i like oddish, but hate its evolutions, and i have found a semi-decent way to make it work, even against my friends who are competitive battlers and one of which who used to be good on netbattle before his computer broke).
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Hey I'm not Nintails hater or anything, I had one on Silver for GB, gave it C-Ray, Fire Spin, Toxic and FT. In RS its not that good because of 510 Evs, so it either hanging on by a threat at BL (because of Wow) or right up at the top of UU. In game its a good Pokemon, but online you will need a team to back it up.
 
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i'd say arcanine. ES is an awesome move, and his stats are pretty good. his movepool is not big, but who cares, you only get 4 move slots anyway and he's got the exclusive ES. that's 3 slots left for a not-so-small movepool, and quite frankly that's enough

i still use charizard as my fire pokemon though cuz i'm into sentimental stuff like that. but if i didn't care about using my favorite pokes and don't mind just using OU's with movesets that other ppl have created, then i'd use arcanine for sure. :P
 
husk1442 said:
umm Bleep, why are you defending jumpman? Everyone has an opinion and they can post it.

Besides I do agree with the fact that ninetails can not pull off much
someone please post a moveset that would work for it, on net battle.

Nintails@ white herb/ petaya <-- not that it will survive a hit to let it activate
~Sunny Day
~Overheat/Flamethrower
~HP: grass <-- too bad it can't OHKO swampert
~Confuse Ray/Grudge

Grudge is the opnly thing I have seen ninetail be good for. It has the speed to use grudge right before something with earthquake obliterates it. Quite nice if it is a CB'er since your can send in dugtrio next and destroy the creature whilst it struggles.

Other then that the set is lol and could be pulled of better by other fire pokemon
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:\ i never said anything abuot his opinion or yours, i was just saying that he's an insane netattler, so he does know what he is talking about. maybe its a little extreme repeating it, but he is good and he does have bragging rights.

i didn't mean any harm :(
 
I realize he's good but, the fact that he is good shouldn't determine your decisions.

"Oh well Jumpman's favorite pokemon is Ninetails, so I guess it has to be better than everything else"
 
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