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Porygon-Z hidden power, overall which are good and which bad?

As predicted Sinnoh Stones come faster than my need for teams of 6 Rhyperior or Weavile...thus I have three Porygon-Z. Hidden Power fire (highest level), hidden power (bug) highest IV (14a,15,15); hidden power psychic level 20 (lucky).

In the future if I take one to 2500cp, (disregarding candy and dust) which has a better hidden power? Or perhaps charge beam better than all of these hidden powers?

Also, overall which Porygon-Z hidden power would you like best (if any)?

Asked by devshaw5 years 3 months ago
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I love how people were complaining about sinnoh stones being so hard to get, now we have more than we really want. Not really relevant to the question, but just fun to see

As for the question, would say probably dark, dragon, ice, or ghost would be best, assuming this if for PvP, as those are effective against giratina, and to a lesser extent latios (ice and dragon being effective on flygon) all of which are common in ultra league (however all of pory gon's moves are resisted by giratina, flygon triple resists Zapcannon and latios resists solarbeam and zapcannon). No hidden power type really is best for Porygon Z, as each would let it preform a different role. What really seems to hold porygon back would be its charge moves.

Psychic hidden power might be good if we see pokemon like tentacruel or other poison types more in PvP, but psychic doesnt have a very good effectiveness profile to begin with.

In PvP, Hidden power has higher DPT, while charge beam has higher EPT, with hidden power having a hair better EPTxDPT than charge beam.

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Thanks, and I do know Porygon-Z is pretty lame in every area...but having evolved 3, now is the time to settle on one. Fortunate that fire hp is on my 2380 one, the bug and psychic are mid 1860s. I think the fire could help in some situations.

I guess it is a tell about where I am with PvP, especially with ultra league I want novelty things to use and shiny options bc I don't care that much about being undefeated. I do have other wants to evolve Sinnoh Stones with but I don't have great candidates to spend candy on (want a better electabuzz, etc).

***Now I'll never lose again, starting now everything else is just window-dressing

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Not related to the actual question at all, but I battle every day (minium 3 friend, plus 1 trainer) and haven't had a Shinnoh stone in maybe 10 days now.

I got one per day initially, for the first 3 or 4 days, but since then nothing.

The rng drop rate on these things seems to be wildly variable across players. So for me, I'm definitely still wishing they'd be a little easier to get.

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I battle my son mostly for the daily PvP rewards, I am lvl40, he is lvl34. While the lvl40 account gets very few stones, the lvl34 gets at least 1 per day if not 2. A similar pattern is established when we raid together, when I'm receiving 2 RC's, he is getting 6 & more TM's. This is a pattern established over 18 months or so, pure rng? I don't think so, there is something about helping lower level players in the equation am sure & nobody can tell me otherwise. Now, porygon z, I would suggest synergy with the stab hyper beam would be the better HP in partly cloudy weather.

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I've received 18 on my main account and 13 on my lackey account. Sure I could use more bc on my main account I have 2900 Murkrow candy after evolving 2, but I've never gotten a Murkrow lucky and not many boosted ones. Also evolved three but only ever got one Roselia lucky...1600 candy left (after 5100 total trades!).

There are three I am waiting on: never evolved a Magmortar, Electivire, or Togekiss bc I have nothing great to evolve and would like a lucky/shiny/96%+.

FYI, research breakthrough has been giving me Stones again.

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