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It's about time I ranted again. DA did it, why shouldn't I?
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It's OK to like a Pokemon for its design and it's OK to like a Pokemon for its stats.
But the fact that some Pokemon have more usage than others, despite the fact that they are less useful, is absolutely ridiculous. "I don't care about X's stats, if it looks ugly I won't use it" is a message I keep reading on Pokemon fansites and I've had enough.
It's clearly due to design. FACT: DESIGN. DOESN'T. MATTER. AT. ALL. COMPETITIVELY.
Anyway, what frustrates me more and more is that most people here and on other communities believe design is much better than usefulness and is what makes people choose their favourites. I mean who actually LIKES Ferrothorn, one that has never played competitively? The answer is almost nobody. Here are some examples.
Exhibit A: Kyurem vs Glaceon
Allow me to point to my eeveelution thread. Kyurem is the mascot of BW2, Glaceon is another Eevee evolution which you can get by exposing it to an Icy Rock. Hell, if you asked me Kyurem has a better design than Glaceon. It has a cool icy tail, blue-ish wings and a fierce look that shows you DO NOT want to **** with it. And that's just the normal form, the fused forms might be a bit overdesigned, especially Kyurem-White, but at least they look like well-shaped dragons and have cool-looking power cords. Glaceon on the other hand, is your typical cookie-cutter icy fox with a bland design. On the battling field, Kyurem completely crushes Glaceon. It has dual 130 attacking stats, better bulk, a better movepool (which includes Draco Meteor, Outrage, Earth Power, Focus Blast...) and a base 95 Speed, compared to Glaceon's 60. What does Glaceon have? A better ability I guess, except Ice Body only works in hail which is probably the worst of the 4 weathers. And obviously that's Kyurem-N vs Glaceon, Black has 170 Attack and Fusion Bolt, White has 170 Special Attack, Fusion Flare, and is Uber.
DESPITE ALL THAT HOWEVER, GLACEON IS SO MUCH POPULAR THAN KYUREM, THE MASCOT OF POKEMON BW2. WHYYY?!!!! WHY DO PEOPLE CARE SO MUCH ABOUT THE FACT THAT GLACEON IS "CUTE" (I'll admit, it is cute) AND WOULD RATHER USE IT THAN GO TO TOWN WITH KYUREM?! Why would you choose to put Glaceon on your competitive team??? I mean, ****:
| 221 | Glaceon | 0.24699% | 9871 | 0.247% | 6577 | 0.220% |
| 302 | Kyurem | 0.10246% | 4095 | 0.102% | 2980 | 0.099% |
(Stats from here: https://www.smogon.com/stats/2015-09/ou-0.txt)
WHAT THE ****. WHAT THE ****. HOW THE **** DOES GLACEON HAVE 2.5x MORE USAGE THAN KYUREM???
Like I get it Kyurem is usually outclassed by Kyurem-B (except SubRoost which I encourage you all to try it) BUT HOW THE **** DOES A COMPLETELY INFERIOR 'MON GET MORE USAGE?! Why would you ever use Glaceon over Kyurem?
Oh that's right, people choose it because of its design. I thought you battle to win, not to get your ass kicked. And to win, you need powerful, reliable weapons. It's just like choosing Butterfree over Volcarona ffs. The excuse "but legendaries are for noobs lol" is not cool. Articuno is pretty bad, Regigigas is downright terrible, but they are still for noobs because OMG THAT BST. And something that's pretty funny is that one in two people who say legends suck use them themselves.
And of course, there are other Ice-types that dominate Glaceon in every single aspect. Weavile, Mamoswine, Abomasnow, you name it.
It's perfectly fine to like Glaceon, but you should feel bad if you think it's better than Kyurem or the other Ice-types shown above. Having more usage than Kyurem competitively is unfathomable.
Exhibit B: Roserade vs Tangrowth
Roserade is one of those classic Pokemon that gets waaay more love than it should. It's a cool Pokemon, I like it a lot, has a cool design and it's ****ing awesome in-game with its 125 Special Attack and STAB Sludge Bomb. Still, I like Tangrowth more because of its powerful mixed capabilties and huge physical defense, combined with Regenerator.
The same can't be said about most people however, which probably would still like Roserade more even if it didn't have those cool stats. The answer is once again the design. I mean, why?!
| 118 | Roserade | 1.10792% | 44279 | 1.108% | 32534 | 1.086% |
| 143 | Tangrowth | 0.75297% | 30093 | 0.753% | 22945 | 0.766% |
OK, this is less frustrating. Roserade is very usable since it has Toxic Spikes and 125 SpA... but I severely doubt it has more usage just because of its higher Special Attack. 90 speed is cool for a wallbreaker but really isn't enough to outpace a ton of the offensive metagame. Tangrowth, on the other hand, is extremely hard to take out in one hit, especially with Assault Vest, and it has a colorful movepool which allows it to check many threats.
AND THE DIFFERENCE IS 0.35%. IN FAVOUR OF ROSERADE. FFS
See, one thing that makes Roserade appealing is its masquerade theme. Which frankly, doesn't matter competitively, as it's all about stats. "lel tangrowth is ugly as **** roserade is awesome" - this kind of mentality is present both in-game and competitively. Depressingly much.
If it makes you change your mind, Tangrowth is B rank on the viability ranking thread, while Roserade is C-. Of course this thread is a bit unreliable (mega diancie is A+ rofl wtf) but it's one of the best resources we have at this moment.
Exhibit C: Milotic and Vaporeon vs Alomomola
| 58 | Milotic | 2.54142% | 101570 | 2.541% | 75888 | 2.533% |
| 83 | Vaporeon | 1.71326% | 68472 | 1.713% | 50833 | 1.697% |
| 170 | Alomomola | 0.48239% | 19279 | 0.482% | 14632 | 0.488% |
OK YOU'RE JUST SCREWING WITH ME NOW. MILOTIC AND VAPOREON COMBINED GET 4.3% WHILE ALOMOMOLA, A POKEMON THAT COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY OUTCLASSES THEM, GETS 0.5% USAGE.
This is utterly undescribable, it's just ridiculous as ****. I get it. Milotic and Vaporeon were usable last gens. But we're in 2015. We're in Gen 6.
"But Vodka, Alomomola has a terrible special attack stat and its HP is its only good stat! Milotic and Vaporeon are good attackers!". The simple threat of Scald would make even a Pokemon with 1 Special Attack and Alomomola's stats pretty damn good. Uninvested 100/110 Special Attack won't be doing a lot of damage, trust me. You can try to use them as special attackers, but Keldeo exists. Besides, do Milotic and Vaporeon get Knock Off? I guess they both get Mirror Coat but Alomomola's huge HP stat means it can OHKO anything? And on top of that, why would you use it when there's Wobbuffet?
So of course design has to play a huge part. I agree that Milotic is the most beautiful Pokemon in existence. I agree it's stunning. What I do not agree with, however, is your thoughts that design matters competitively. Vaporeon has a fairly bland design seeing as it's an Eeveelution, but it's still cute I guess? And "lmao alomomola looks sooo stupid and boring lel"... I can hear those words.
Both Milotic and Vaporeon are completely unviable in OU. I guess Vappy had its days in the Baton Pass era but that's gone. So there's no reason to use it over Alomomola, except for its design. Yet it has 3x more usage.
/rant
So yeah, the important thing to know is that competitively, design doesn't matter one single bit. It's a pain to see scrubs on the low ladder bringing Glaceon and Electivire and Milotic and Ambipom and other completely unviable stuff purely due to their designs.
In-game it's perfectly fine to use them, you can beat the game with any Pokemon. Competitively however you'll be playing humans like you and me. All Pokemon are at level 100 and you need something called "strategy". You can't do that with your ass.
Warning: if you don't like rants, kindly click the back button.
It's OK to like a Pokemon for its design and it's OK to like a Pokemon for its stats.
But the fact that some Pokemon have more usage than others, despite the fact that they are less useful, is absolutely ridiculous. "I don't care about X's stats, if it looks ugly I won't use it" is a message I keep reading on Pokemon fansites and I've had enough.
It's clearly due to design. FACT: DESIGN. DOESN'T. MATTER. AT. ALL. COMPETITIVELY.
Anyway, what frustrates me more and more is that most people here and on other communities believe design is much better than usefulness and is what makes people choose their favourites. I mean who actually LIKES Ferrothorn, one that has never played competitively? The answer is almost nobody. Here are some examples.
Exhibit A: Kyurem vs Glaceon
Allow me to point to my eeveelution thread. Kyurem is the mascot of BW2, Glaceon is another Eevee evolution which you can get by exposing it to an Icy Rock. Hell, if you asked me Kyurem has a better design than Glaceon. It has a cool icy tail, blue-ish wings and a fierce look that shows you DO NOT want to **** with it. And that's just the normal form, the fused forms might be a bit overdesigned, especially Kyurem-White, but at least they look like well-shaped dragons and have cool-looking power cords. Glaceon on the other hand, is your typical cookie-cutter icy fox with a bland design. On the battling field, Kyurem completely crushes Glaceon. It has dual 130 attacking stats, better bulk, a better movepool (which includes Draco Meteor, Outrage, Earth Power, Focus Blast...) and a base 95 Speed, compared to Glaceon's 60. What does Glaceon have? A better ability I guess, except Ice Body only works in hail which is probably the worst of the 4 weathers. And obviously that's Kyurem-N vs Glaceon, Black has 170 Attack and Fusion Bolt, White has 170 Special Attack, Fusion Flare, and is Uber.
DESPITE ALL THAT HOWEVER, GLACEON IS SO MUCH POPULAR THAN KYUREM, THE MASCOT OF POKEMON BW2. WHYYY?!!!! WHY DO PEOPLE CARE SO MUCH ABOUT THE FACT THAT GLACEON IS "CUTE" (I'll admit, it is cute) AND WOULD RATHER USE IT THAN GO TO TOWN WITH KYUREM?! Why would you choose to put Glaceon on your competitive team??? I mean, ****:
| 221 | Glaceon | 0.24699% | 9871 | 0.247% | 6577 | 0.220% |
| 302 | Kyurem | 0.10246% | 4095 | 0.102% | 2980 | 0.099% |
(Stats from here: https://www.smogon.com/stats/2015-09/ou-0.txt)
WHAT THE ****. WHAT THE ****. HOW THE **** DOES GLACEON HAVE 2.5x MORE USAGE THAN KYUREM???
Like I get it Kyurem is usually outclassed by Kyurem-B (except SubRoost which I encourage you all to try it) BUT HOW THE **** DOES A COMPLETELY INFERIOR 'MON GET MORE USAGE?! Why would you ever use Glaceon over Kyurem?
Oh that's right, people choose it because of its design. I thought you battle to win, not to get your ass kicked. And to win, you need powerful, reliable weapons. It's just like choosing Butterfree over Volcarona ffs. The excuse "but legendaries are for noobs lol" is not cool. Articuno is pretty bad, Regigigas is downright terrible, but they are still for noobs because OMG THAT BST. And something that's pretty funny is that one in two people who say legends suck use them themselves.
And of course, there are other Ice-types that dominate Glaceon in every single aspect. Weavile, Mamoswine, Abomasnow, you name it.
It's perfectly fine to like Glaceon, but you should feel bad if you think it's better than Kyurem or the other Ice-types shown above. Having more usage than Kyurem competitively is unfathomable.
Exhibit B: Roserade vs Tangrowth
Roserade is one of those classic Pokemon that gets waaay more love than it should. It's a cool Pokemon, I like it a lot, has a cool design and it's ****ing awesome in-game with its 125 Special Attack and STAB Sludge Bomb. Still, I like Tangrowth more because of its powerful mixed capabilties and huge physical defense, combined with Regenerator.
The same can't be said about most people however, which probably would still like Roserade more even if it didn't have those cool stats. The answer is once again the design. I mean, why?!
| 118 | Roserade | 1.10792% | 44279 | 1.108% | 32534 | 1.086% |
| 143 | Tangrowth | 0.75297% | 30093 | 0.753% | 22945 | 0.766% |
OK, this is less frustrating. Roserade is very usable since it has Toxic Spikes and 125 SpA... but I severely doubt it has more usage just because of its higher Special Attack. 90 speed is cool for a wallbreaker but really isn't enough to outpace a ton of the offensive metagame. Tangrowth, on the other hand, is extremely hard to take out in one hit, especially with Assault Vest, and it has a colorful movepool which allows it to check many threats.
AND THE DIFFERENCE IS 0.35%. IN FAVOUR OF ROSERADE. FFS
See, one thing that makes Roserade appealing is its masquerade theme. Which frankly, doesn't matter competitively, as it's all about stats. "lel tangrowth is ugly as **** roserade is awesome" - this kind of mentality is present both in-game and competitively. Depressingly much.
If it makes you change your mind, Tangrowth is B rank on the viability ranking thread, while Roserade is C-. Of course this thread is a bit unreliable (mega diancie is A+ rofl wtf) but it's one of the best resources we have at this moment.
Exhibit C: Milotic and Vaporeon vs Alomomola
| 58 | Milotic | 2.54142% | 101570 | 2.541% | 75888 | 2.533% |
| 83 | Vaporeon | 1.71326% | 68472 | 1.713% | 50833 | 1.697% |
| 170 | Alomomola | 0.48239% | 19279 | 0.482% | 14632 | 0.488% |
OK YOU'RE JUST SCREWING WITH ME NOW. MILOTIC AND VAPOREON COMBINED GET 4.3% WHILE ALOMOMOLA, A POKEMON THAT COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY OUTCLASSES THEM, GETS 0.5% USAGE.
This is utterly undescribable, it's just ridiculous as ****. I get it. Milotic and Vaporeon were usable last gens. But we're in 2015. We're in Gen 6.
"But Vodka, Alomomola has a terrible special attack stat and its HP is its only good stat! Milotic and Vaporeon are good attackers!". The simple threat of Scald would make even a Pokemon with 1 Special Attack and Alomomola's stats pretty damn good. Uninvested 100/110 Special Attack won't be doing a lot of damage, trust me. You can try to use them as special attackers, but Keldeo exists. Besides, do Milotic and Vaporeon get Knock Off? I guess they both get Mirror Coat but Alomomola's huge HP stat means it can OHKO anything? And on top of that, why would you use it when there's Wobbuffet?
So of course design has to play a huge part. I agree that Milotic is the most beautiful Pokemon in existence. I agree it's stunning. What I do not agree with, however, is your thoughts that design matters competitively. Vaporeon has a fairly bland design seeing as it's an Eeveelution, but it's still cute I guess? And "lmao alomomola looks sooo stupid and boring lel"... I can hear those words.
Both Milotic and Vaporeon are completely unviable in OU. I guess Vappy had its days in the Baton Pass era but that's gone. So there's no reason to use it over Alomomola, except for its design. Yet it has 3x more usage.
/rant
So yeah, the important thing to know is that competitively, design doesn't matter one single bit. It's a pain to see scrubs on the low ladder bringing Glaceon and Electivire and Milotic and Ambipom and other completely unviable stuff purely due to their designs.
In-game it's perfectly fine to use them, you can beat the game with any Pokemon. Competitively however you'll be playing humans like you and me. All Pokemon are at level 100 and you need something called "strategy". You can't do that with your ass.
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