Latest Posts
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Parasect – Fleeting Power
Parasect’s design is spectacularly bad, making it all the more surprising that it can actually achieve results in competitive play.
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Haunter – Strength, Weakness, Same Thing?
Haunter is an oddball. Running it alongside Gengar creates a team with significant weaknesses, but is also… strangely liberating?
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Marowak – Meeting Expectations
RBY Marowak is easy to evaluate theoretically, and I found my expectations were accurate when I tested it in competitive play.
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Beedrill – Bugs Really Got Screwed Didn’t They?
Beedrill somehow has a claim to fame in RBY. Sadly, its flaws serve to undermine this premise, and it ends up being exceptionally inadequate.
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Pidgeot – What Else Would You Expect From an Early Game Pokemon?
In casual play you might often use Pidgey early on before moving onto better Pokemon. It’s fully evolved Pokemon is similarly overshadowed in competitive RBY.
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Poliwhirl – A True Test of Luck
Poliwhirl is surprisingly powerful in competitive RBY… as long as luck doesn’t turn against you.
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Kadabra, Because Who Wouldn’t Want More Psychic Types?
Kadabra may seem totally unviable in competitive RBY, but if you run it alongside Alakazam, it actually performs reasonably well.