Category: RBY
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Venomoth – Less Terrible than Butterfree
Venomoth has a lot in common with Butterfree both superficially and competitively. Thankfully, it’s not nearly as bad as Butterfree though.
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Seaking – Overshadowed and Underpowered
Seaking is one of the most forgettable Pokemon in existence. Its showing in competitive RBY is even worse.
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Butterfree – You Had One Job
It turns out that in competitive RBY, Butterfree does only one thing, and does it worse than everything it’s competing against.
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Hitmonchan – So Close, Yet So Far
Hitmonchan in RBY isn’t really useless, but it is deeply flawed
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Golbat – Random Bullshit Go!
Polishing a turd, finding a use for RBY Golbat, what’s the difference?
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Magneton – A Pleasant Surprise
Update: since I completed my testing of this Pokemon, many of Showdown’s replays were lost (occurred Nov/Dec 2023). Consequently, some of the replays I used as a showcase may no longer work- apologies! Having freed myself from the torture of trying to achieve a basic level of competence on ladder while using Ditto, I set…
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Ditto: Setting the Standard of Trash
Update: since I completed my testing of this Pokemon, many of Showdown’s replays were lost (occurred Nov/Dec 2023). Consequently, some of the replays I used as a showcase may no longer work- apologies! Ditto is, by design, the standard for terrible Pokemon in RBY. Its lack of resistances and atrocious stats make it incredibly difficult…
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Exploring the Depths of Viability
When discussing the viability of strategic options in competitive Pokemon, the cutoff between viable and unviable can just as easily be argued to be the most important distinction or the least important distinction. The reasons behind arguing it as the most important point are obvious- to say something is unviable is to say that it…