God damn I hated training this little bastard. The whole line sucks to train actually, even Metagross is painful until it finally learns Meteor Mash.
Literally useless for 59 fucking levels.
>evolves at lvl 64
Is this the latest evolution in the series?
>>26905782
Only Beldum is a to train.
>>26905798
>>26905813
These suck.
>>26905782
Deino and Zweileous. It's bad enough that it takes so long, but really, until Hydreigon the line is a fucking mess. They have Hasty, which is a mixed bag, but their movepool is beyond shitty, due to all of the basic physical moves Hydreigon can't learn, and all of the special moves the pre-evos can't learn because fuck you, that's why. It doesn't help that most of them will be modest or timid, making their physical attacks beyond shitty anyways, and their special attack is garbage, so what few moves they do get (Body Slam and Dragon Pulse, essentially) can't be used well at all. Fucking Beldum is better then Deino, ever since that fuckawesome buff it got, of learning actual moves. It's probably better than Zweilious too, not that you'd ever get a side-by-side comparison.
Anything that requires "lead with this and instantly switch it out" to be used. Is it too much to ask for ANY attack at all?
>one of the slowest pokemon in the game
>but at least it has great attack
>evolves into Vibrava and loses a ton of attack
>doesn't get that attack back until it evolves again
>>26905782
Any Rock/Ground. I just don't use them.
>>26906955
Fucking Magikarp dude. Gyarados is definitely worth the wait, but god damn, training Magikarp early in the game is a pain in the ass.
>>26907001
>gen 3 gyarados
Pure letdown. It might be gyarados but all of its decent attacks get no STAB, and most of what it gets runs off its embarrassing sp attack
>you NEED to evolve eevee into espeon before a certain level or no Psychic STAB for you
>happiness evo which basically consists of biking back and forth for a few hours
At least it's good once it evolves and has Psybeam. Psychic comes too late to use ingame without a tm though
>>26905813
Yeah it is. On top of that it gets there and in the end gets raped by fairy types.
>>26907044
Fuck it, every happiness evolution is a pain in the ass. Try to use it in a fight and it faints? You just got set back a ton.
>>26907044
you know you can make him remember the attack right?
>>26907274
if it's gen 2, nope
even when it's not, have fun getting a heart scale
>>26905782
The Salamance line and other Pseudo-legendary lines.
Pupitar
Rock/Ground typing and Johto's shit level curve means im probably gonna use my rare candies when its close to evolving
>>26905798
>that drastic Physical/Special swap upon evolution that leaves most of your past moves useless
This thing, especially before Wing Attack.
That, and anything in GSC or HGSS.
>>26906989
>Flygon has the same Attack as Trapinch
>>26907496
>poison/flying
>only damaging move for the first 12 levels is fucking leech life, a non-STAB 15 BP move
szubat is the single most JUST Pokemon in the entire game after magikarp
>>26907004
Yeah, Masuda's evolution line is quite the grind.
>>26907543
>not using it in a pinch to cheese big fights with Supersonic, letting it level up like mad
>not grinding on Oddish/Bellsprout after Mt. Moon when Gen 1 Bug was super effective against Grass and Poison, making it a cozy 1 or 2 hit kill
>>26907543
>evolves into one of the ugliest pokemon in the game
>another happiness evo later it finally becomes good
>>26907543
>not pairing it with Screech to harshly lower defense and mop the floor with Leech Life while recovering all the HP you lost Screeching
I call it the Screech Life strategy, it served me well on a Platinum nuzlocke
>>26905782
The shiny gift Beldum that came with like 3 useful moves from the get go was fun to train in ORAS though.
>>26905798
Agreed. Felt fucking good when I used it to sweep White's E4 though, and it was useful in the postgame for it's unique Flame Body/Fly combo.
>>26906989
I love using Flygon but getting past the Trapinch and Vibrava stage is a slog. Doesn't help that they're both frail as shit.
>>26907016
I still have PTSD after trying to use Gyarados in Emerald. It ended up being the HM slave of the team before getting permaboxed. Gen 4 and up are fine though.
>>26908770
And my own nomination are all bear Pokemon I've ever trained (Ursaring, Beartic, Pangoro). All suffer from the same stupid "slow and frail" meme stat spread and shitty movepools. The first two also come way too late in the game to be really worth it.
>>26908846
I think it was Crystal you could actually get a Teddiursa in the first few routes.
>>26907044
I hate how happiness evos are too slow to level up and has no visible meter
