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[Eotyrannus]

...What the fuuuuuck.

[Neonivek]

Here's another awesome underrated pokemon. Durant!

Ohh I already know how annoying he is...

For the longest time I had a team and basically went "You know what... I am fine without having any fire moves" and Durant is the Pokémon that made me decide otherwise.

My Current team (With Hitmonchan with 3 elemental punches) isn't hurt by Durant... but still (this isn't a competitive team as you can tell by my build of Hitmonchan... Since I took out his one great move, free flinch with damage, for something else)

[umiman]

Oh man. I could write articles about all the Hitmons. My favorite is Hitmonlee because of the insane Liechi Berry + unburden + endure combo. In one move you get 150% bonus attack, 200% extra speed, and 200 base damage on Reversal.

[Bluerobin]

We had a pokemon showdown tourney over in Community Games a while ago and my Durant was a star. I combined him with Gliscor for Baton Passed Hone Claws and the accuracy drop from Hustle didn't even really matter. Hmm, I miss that tourney, it was a really neat concept.

[Cerol Lenslens]

Durant Caveat: Remember Hustle? A key component of Durant's attack power in the above write-up? In exchange for that wonderful attack power boost, it lowers your accuracy significantly. Yeah.

If you're a player who prefers using Flamethrower over Fire Blast because you've been burned (pun intended) by the RNG making lower-accuracy moves miss too many times (often in a row ) to count, Durant may not be the 'mon for you.

I personally abhor Hustle, but that said: if a high-risk, high-reward playstyle is your thing, Durant seems like a solid choice.

Edit: Or do what that ninja Bluerobin did and buff your accuracy back up.

[umiman]

Durant itself has access to hone claws too, so you don't even need to choice it. Just hone claws once and all your moves will hit like 97% of the time if you don't like the risk.

[Furtuka]

New trailer with new footage

[umiman]

Since we're all going to go back to Hoenn soon, let's take a look at some of the rarer, more obscure pokemon of the past few generations that some of you might not even know exist.

For example, this guy I'm going to introduce actually didn't exist until generation IV, but his pre-evolution first showed up in Johto. Even then, he's still very rare. Here's the games where you could actually catch him in game without resorting to special events:

1. Gold, Silver, Crystal (and Heartgold / Soulsilver)
2. Leafgreen
3. Pearl
4. White

That's it. Given that list, I wonder if we'll even see him in these upcoming games as it seems even Gamefreak forgot he existed.

This Pokemon is very good and I think the only reason we don't see people use him as much as he should is because of how hard it is to get him these days. You're either cheating for him or you're importing him from a Pokemon White 1 game.

Anyone know which Pokemon I'm talking about yet?

[Eotyrannus]

Mismagius, I think?

[Kanil]

Doesn't the GTS make pretty much any non-legendary rather trivial to acquire?

I suppose you have to want the pokemon, and if it's uncommon, you might not realize that it's good...  but if you actually decide you want one, getting it is really easy, yes?

[Oneir]

Evolved pokemon introduced in Gen IV, whose pre-evolutions were introduced in Gen II.

• Aipom -> Ambipom -- Level up knowing double hit.
• Gligar -> Gliscor -- Level up at night holding a razor fang.
• Murkrow -> Honchkrow -- Dusk stone.
• Piloswine -> Mamoswine -- Level up knowing ancient power.
• Misdreavus -> Mismagius -- Dusk stone.
• Porygon2 -> Porygon-Z -- Trade with dubious disc.
• Sneasel -> Weavile -- Level up at night holding a razor claw.
• Togetic -> Togekiss -- Shiny stone.
• Yanma -> Yanmega -- Level up knowing ancient power.

Of these, the only one exclusive to Pokemon White is Misdreavus/Mismagius. I'll admit to sometimes forgetting they exist, and I guess they're usually pretty uncommon in-game.

Talk about special events got me hopeful for something really unusual, though. :c (Which is why I stuck how they evolve in the list, like a chump)

[Thexor]

Doesn't the GTS make pretty much any non-legendary rather trivial to acquire?

I suppose you have to want the pokemon, and if it's uncommon, you might not realize that it's good...  but if you actually decide you want one, getting it is really easy, yes?

Sort of. Pokemon that don't appear in the current games tend to be rather rare, even on the GTS. People don't like putting up Rattatas, or previous-gen starters, because there's nothing notable they could ask for. (Besides other previous-gen Pokemon, but that doesn't help you if you've only got access to Gen VI.)

Now, you can always ask a nice collector for one, and most of the time they're happy to trade it for nothing. But unobtainable Pokemon in the current games are rarely thrown onto the GTS, and when they are people tend to snatch them up quickly. Frankly, I've had better luck from Wonder Trade (if you've got a bunch of unobtainables, and you aren't hoping for anything in return, why not Wonder Trade them?) than the GTS when it comes to acquiring common Pokemon from other generations.

[Neonivek]

I am a bit surprised the whole pre-evolution stuff has SORT OF died down.

[Nighthawk]

I'm surprised there aren't more older Pokemon with only one form that didn't get more evolutions in later games.

ZANGOOSE, ANYONE? I want an evolved form for that thing! Ugh!

[Neonivek]

Can you think of a preevolution that was added after Elekid? (I forget the generation)

I think the Pokémon games sort of treat the whole prevolution thing as a gimmick that they don't feel they need to explore anymore.

It probably helps that the whole thing was... sort of pointless... >_> Only being used for specific moves.