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Power up rock vs. dark Tyranitar

Which seems like it will be more useful, a legacy double rock or a double dark Tyranitar?

I already have a level 40 rock, and would be powering up a level 32 rock. For dark, I have a level 35 and 30.5.

Asked by will1145 years 4 months ago
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In the immediate future the dark one. There are 4 incoming Gen 4 T5 raids that are weak to dark, 5 if Giratina-O gets its own turn. Tryanitar won't be immediately outclassed by anything until Darkrai as Honchkrow and Weavile are on the glassy side despite their higher DPS.

On the rock front, there won't be an immediate target for it until Gen 5 or re-reruns of the birds. Even still, Rampardos is slated to heavily out-DPS it and Rhyperior will be tankier. Tyranitar is effectively a compromise between the two.

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Thanks for the input. Gen 4 is the first one with which I’m not too familiar from the main series.

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Depends on the weather where you are, partly cloudy and foggy Tyranitar are both beasts, but in gen 4 theres 4 psychic types which are all weak to double dark tyranitar but none that are weak to rock, however many previous generation and a few gen 5 legendaries are weak to rock, as well as we dont know exactly what the CP rebalance will to rhyperior and rampardos or when it will come.
Assuming weather's not a factor, I'd go with the double dark one as it has more legendary match ups in the immediate future.

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The CP rebalance is already applied to all Gen 4 Pokemon, their projected stats are what we can expect them to have. The only ambiguity for them lies in last minute move changes.

After messing with stat values it also turns out that Tyranitar post balance will outclass Rhyperior in both DPS and TDO, though the latter not by much. Which one is better will depend on what the raid boss is and if their secondary typing will either help or hinder them. Against Articuno for example Tyranitar is still a better option, whereas against Zapdos or Thundurus Rhyperior will be a better pick.

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Gen 4 pokemon have the rebalance applied? Interesting, wonder if this will be a just gen 4 pokemon thing for the future or if at gen 4's mass release it will be applied to all.

makes sense the two would have differing math ups, though Ho-oh presents a problem for both rampardos and rhyperior and to a lesser extent tyrantiar as well (steel wing and solar beam). Its interesting to see niantic didnt make one better in everyway than the others, i'd say niantic's getting better about things but I think we all know thats not what happened.

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Frankly I don't know why they haven't been able to apply it to everything yet. It went live for all of 15 minutes when the first wave came out, something like the HP bug shouldn't be keeping it this delayed. We all know it's coming and it's something we're all anticipating. They deliberately said it would be retroactively applied to all Pokemon.

But yes, Gen 4 has it applied already. Pre-nerf, Giratina-A's CP didn't break 4k before the CP rebalance. After the rebalance its unnerfed CP comes out to like 4040 or something. I don't have numbers in front of me this exact minute but I have done the math before.

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Double Dark is more broadly useful and safer from competition in the near future.
Double rock is more niche and could see competition soon. The expected gen 4 competition is uncertain, however, with how Niantic runs things.

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