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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?

Asked by hondababe5 years 6 months ago

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Mostly useless. The three starters may have a shot when they receive special moves during their community day. The next wave of new pokemon will be more interesting

Useless!!

Aside from the starters Niantic have released the pidgeys, sentrets, rattatas and Drowzees of gen 4.

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.

But both riolu and shinx doesnt have good moves or stats when fully evolved.

Luxray has 232 base attack with Spark/Wild Charge, which makes it better than Jolteon. I don't know how you call that not good.

But is it better than electavire/magnazone? people areleady have good iv ones of their pre evolutions and massive candy stocks for them already prepared. if its not better than either, when DPS is the concern, shininess is irrelivent, expecially when you need to start from scratch on it.

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.

Im pretty much expecting Lucario to get some sort of event for aurasphere of force palm or something added down the line. It wil never hold a candle to the king of Steel metagross however.

Never personally been a fan of luxray's shiny, might make a decent trade fodder though

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.

The electric, rock and ice types are game changing but the rest made me felt like they just wanted us to stick to using machamps, dragonites, tyranitars, mewtwo and kyogre and nothing else.

The starters will become good when they get CDs way later and Luxray, the 3rd evo of Shinx is a decent non-legendary electric. Not much that's useful here.

Luxray makes a better Jolteon thanks to Wild Charge.

An interesting note is that post stat rebalance they have the same maximum CP.

huh, interesting, wonder what the stat differences are to make that possible.

They have the same base attack and the average between their base defense and stamina is half a point apart. While the average isn't used in CP calculations it's a fairly good indicator that their aggregate score would be the same.

Good to know, so its just the moveset that puts luxray ahead dps wise?

TDO as well, but otherwise yeah. If Luxray had been given Thunder Shock/Thunderbolt like Jolteon it would have exactly the same DPS. TDO would be insignificantly higher because its bulk is shifted towards HP over defense.