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There are some moves that actually heal your opponents pokemon such as heal pulse. Plus, I don't know about you but moves that do damage to yourself in exchange for stat changes such as belly drum
Swagger, don't you mean Belly Drum? Because that's pretty much how you do a solo Zigzagoon run in a nutshell so it can be useful.
Anyway, ignoring the most obvious answer we have Constrict, a move with a whole 10 power and a chance to lower the opponent's speed, which I've never seen it do. Also any of the moves that kill the user, that's just no fun. (insert joke about final gambit shedinja here)
Swagger, don't you mean Belly Drum? Because that's pretty much how you do a solo Zigzagoon run in a nutshell so it can be useful.
Anyway, ignoring the most obvious answer we have Constrict, a move with a whole 10 power and a chance to lower the opponent's speed, which I've never seen it do. Also any of the moves that kill the user, that's just no fun. (insert joke about final gambit shedinja here)
Well, aside from the obvious Splash (designed to be useless), I can think of:
Bestow: giving your foe an item only works if they have nothing, and you have a harmful item. Of course, if you really have a harmful item you want to pass along, Trick is much more reliable.
Water Sport and Mud Sport: could be marginally useful in a double battle, but Budew's Water Sport is the only one that actually helps the user itself avoid a weakness, since most Pokémon that learn these are already Water or Ground-type.
Water/Mud Sport try to combine Water Sport with thick fat mons it just torture and even more worse using Water Sport + Rain Dance which makes fire attack just as weak and not super strong against bugs/steel/ice
How has nobody said Techno Blast? Genesect would rather use Thunderbolt, Ice Beam and Flamethrower for its moves, and since you'll most likely use it competitively, the drives offer no use.
Hold Back isn't a bad move, but it doesn't need to exist since it's a duplicate of False Swipe in every way, aside from being event-only. Quash and After You are a few other moves I've never really liked, and haven't really found any use for.
I've never understood the purpose of Quash. In single battles it's unusable, and while it could potentially have some use in doubles or triples, it's hardly worth wasting an entire turn to force another Poke to go last.
The OHKO moves seem fairly useless to me as well :c They sound amazing in theory, but the abysmal accuracy, on top of the fact that they always fail against a Pokemon of higher level than the user, renders them pretty redundant. If you're going to use a move on a lower level Pokemon, you might as well use a move that's more reliable.
It's funny how a lot of the moves, that were mentioned, actually have a use (although more in Doubles than single battles).
As for my pick, I'd say Explosion. As itself, it wasn't even bad of a move: you sacrifice something and do a ton of damage in return. However in gen 5 they nerfed it, by removing its defense halving properties. If you were able to greatly damage a wall before, now not anymore. Granted, for people who like to play challenges, it's not as frightening to deal with, anymore, but at the other hand, it also made challenges slightly easier.
How has nobody said Techno Blast? Genesect would rather use Thunderbolt, Ice Beam and Flamethrower for its moves, and since you'll most likely use it competitively, the drives offer no use.
It can still make use of the Douse Drive to allow Techno Blast to counter its massive Fire weakness, so not completely useless, plus the move itself got a huge power boost in 6th Gen.
I considered Memento as the most useless move as it is nothing but lowers the target attack by 2 stages and Our Pokémon fainting also but it is useless as the opponent can change their Pokémon so I think what is the use of this move?
It can still make use of the Douse Drive to allow Techno Blast to counter its massive Fire weakness, so not completely useless, plus the move itself got a huge power boost in 6th Gen.
I agree, what the heck were they thinking with that event Vivillon? Just a pathetic way to ruin one of my fave Bug-types.
There are some moves that actually heal your opponents pokemon such as heal pulse. Plus, I don't know about you but moves that do damage to yourself in exchange for stat changes such as swagger are really not worth it. What are some other moves that you avoid using?
Heal Pulse can be handy on Double and Triple Battles. ;) While Swagger is better used on Pokémon that relies on Special moves like Alakazam, Blissey, Delphox.
Here's my list:
Telekinesis
Kinesis
Embargo
Absorb
Water Sport
Mud Sport
Splash
Why does Cut and Strength still exist in general? Shouldn't the majority of Pokemon be inherently powerful enough to knock down a tree or push a boulder?
I considered Memento as the most useless move as it is nothing but lowers the target attack by 2 stages and Our Pokémon fainting also but it is useless as the opponent can change their Pokémon so I think what is the use of this move?
I totally agree. Moves that are not worth the trouble are just as bad also. Then there are moves that seem like they would do something but ends up not doing anything at all. like kinesis, which just puts the opponent in to the air... ok cool I guess? Completely different from magnet rise, which makes you immune to ground type moves for 5 turns. I always have this move for my Lucario.
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