Bisharp
Totally amazing design. Fell in love with it as soon as I saw it. It's also based on a chess piece, and as I am a chess nut, that also added brownie points for the Sharp Sword Pokemon. In-game, as long as it's supported by a good flying Pokemon, it has always proven extremely useful. It got me through three of the Elite Four single handed, barred only by Marshal, who was defeated by the aforementioned supporting Flying-type. With a beastly Attack stat, I used a combination of Night Slash, X-Scissor, Shadow Claw and Sword's dance to crush those puny Psychic and Ghost types. But it's severe weakness to the excessively common Fighting type has somewhat limited my usage of it- but when it has been used, it has always performed outstandingly. I can't speak for it in competitive battling as I have never used it in such an arena, but I think it would be less effective there, due to the prevalence of Fighting and Ground-types as major offensive Pokemon, but in having the (unique) typing of Steel and Dark, it resists the critical types of Psychic, Dragon, and Ice, whilst being very good against Psychic and my personal hated enemies, Ghost-types. So, overall-
Design, 10/10
In-game, 8/10
Competitive- (Speculated) 7/10
Overall, 8.3/10
My favourite Steel Leader... Well, if Steven of Hoenn counts, then it's him. He's just so... Epic. But other than that, Byron is just a bit rugged and crude-looking. It may be ironic for a Steel-type user to say this, (I base my usage of Steel-types around the graceful and deadly Samurai, and combine them with Poison and Dark-types for a homage to Ninjas) but he's just so inelegant and crude. Jasmine's definitely the more preferable of the two.
Sorry I was inactive last week, I was on work experience and had to stay with my technophobic grandparents ^^;