Thread: Attacks you think are pointless or wrongly typed

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HA HA HA! ALWAYS AMUSES ME

Any of the 'sports and stat changing moves. Almost all my Pokemon have four hurty-moves, as I call them. They all do damage to the opponent. Hurty-moves is stupid, I know. I came up with it in the 2nd grade I think, and nothing describes them better.

Originally Posted by 1998

"AncientPower" needs to have a space in it. Would it have killed them to put a space? It bothers me every time I see it.

The limit for attack's names is 12, do the math.

Originally Posted by Envoy

Pokemon isn't all about brute strength, y'know. Let's say for example that you have a Tauros on the field when I throw my Salamence at you. You get intimidated and assume (correctly) that the Tauros won't be able to handle Mence, so you switch to your Glaceon. That should scare him off. But during your switch, Mence used Dragon Dance. Now, it hits almost twice as hard and is almost twice as fast as it used to be. One Outrage from him (you really have almost no chance of outrunning it after a Dragon Dance) and Glaceon is dead (Outrage+STAB+1 from Salamence will OHKO anything that doesn't resist it...and some things that do.) Ta-da. Salamence now sweeps your whole team. How do you feel about Stat changesr now?

ingame =/= metagame

Statups have much less use ingame as they do in the metagame.

As for the thread topic:

Moves that cause a set amount of damage. Sure, they're great on level 10s that have like 30 hp, but after like level 15 they're worthless. And most pokemon that learn dragonrage and the like don't get them until after they're useful.