Question about new Pokémon
Will the new Pokémon we are seeing be any useful to us when we evolve them into the bigger ones or are they useless?
Answers
Actually Staraptor might be useful; its moveset isn't the best but it has a decent attack stat and max CP of 2825, so there's surely so room for it in a flying battle party, especially if they correct its moveset in the future, which is not impossible.
And there are Shinx and Riolu in the 10 km eggs.
Everyone knew Lucario was going to be bad. Even with the best possible moveset it would be shat on by Machamp and any given Steel type.
But Luxray is good. It has Spark and Wild Charge (doesn’t really get better than that as far as electric moves are concerned), and it has high attack.
It’ll be outclassed by Zapdos, Raikou, Electrivire, and Magnezone, but it beats Jolteon.
And it can be shiny.
Unfortunately Rock and Fire pokemon both outlast and outdps Flying pokemon when it comes to attacking Grass/Bug types. Especially fire types are extremely strong and easy to get; At least Niantic (deliberately?) realized this and gave the Gen IV Fire Pokemon suboptimal movesets.
Flying types had the potential to become anti-fighting specialists with weather boost (it's easier to compete with the non legendary Psychics than with the Fire types) but no let's make both Flying and Psychic stronger with windy weather.
On top of that, they are given mediocre moves (I say mediocre because there's Sky Attack, without that I would say terrible).
I believe John Hanke had some sort of traumatic childhood experience with bird droppings.