Thread: Most over rated pokemon.

well just had to make another one seeing that the under rated thread is doing well but any ways witch pokemon do you think are truely over rated?

Weavile was overrated until people realized it sucked.

Salamence.
Why zee fawk is he Uber?
He isn't that hard to kill.
Several effective counters are-
*Starmie with thunder wave and ice beam.
*Life orb lucario with ice punch and ninjask sub-swords dance support.
*Cressilia with ice beam and stealth rock support
*Weavile
*Mamoswine

And several others.

One word: Charizard.

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Oh, who am I kidding? I have this pathological need to explain myself, I can't just give one word answers.

For some reason, Dragonlike Pokemon are by far the most popular Pokemon in the franchise. You only need to take a look at fan favorites like Gyarados, Salamence and Garchomp to notice this is true. Fire types, too, are very popular (for reasons unknown.)

You combine these together and you have Charizard. The first Dragon looking Pokemon in the whole franchise (much more identifiable as a dragon than Dragonite. Y'know, the actual dragon.)

Thus, he's always been one of, if not the, most popular Pokemon in existence. People love themselves some Charizard, especially the younger, more impressionable, members of the fandom.

That said, Charizard's battle performance is actually quite subpar at best. Back in RGBY, it actually lived up to it's reputation, but ever since DPPt came around and gave us so many powerful Rock type moves, Char has had a very difficult time keeping up.

Stealth Rock, which is omnipresent in battle, takes away half of Charizard's HP just for deciding to take a peek outside it's pokeball. His subpar defenses and HP ensure that even resisted hits can hurt and his typing doesn't do it any favors. Stealth Rock, Stone Edge and a slew of powerful Rock types (Tyranitar, Aggron, Rampardos) seal the deal for him.

He does have good offenses and a wide movepool (it's not all bad), but his staying power is pure crap, he gets outclassed by nearly every other Fire type worth mentioning (except Typhlosion), he's not even a real Dragon type and a pebble can kill him.

Yet people still seem to love him unconditionally. Does that seem fair to you?

Charizard is definitely one of the most overrated Pokemon in existence. He's NU for a reason, people.

Most of the Dragon Pokémon, along with Charizard like Envoy said. Still love it to bits though.

Pikachu is extremely overrated in my opinion.

Probably Arceus.

I think Charizard is the winner of this thread. Perhaps many of the classics are as well.

Charizard #006. Fire/Flying.
Dragon-like. Fire type. Starter.
Stealth Rock. Various Rock-type moves.
That'd be everything I say.

Originally Posted by Envoy

One word: Charizard.

....

Oh, who am I kidding? I have this pathological need to explain myself, I can't just give one word answers.

For some reason, Dragonlike Pokemon are by far the most popular Pokemon in the franchise. You only need to take a look at fan favorites like Gyarados, Salamence and Garchomp to notice this is true. Fire types, too, are very popular (for reasons unknown.)

You combine these together and you have Charizard. The first Dragon looking Pokemon in the whole franchise (much more identifiable as a dragon than Dragonite. Y'know, the actual dragon.)

Thus, he's always been one of, if not the, most popular Pokemon in existence. People love themselves some Charizard, especially the younger, more impressionable, members of the fandom.

That said, Charizard's battle performance is actually quite subpar at best. Back in RGBY, it actually lived up to it's reputation, but ever since DPPt came around and gave us so many powerful Rock type moves, Char has had a very difficult time keeping up.

Stealth Rock, which is omnipresent in battle, takes away half of Charizard's HP just for deciding to take a peek outside it's pokeball. His subpar defenses and HP ensure that even resisted hits can hurt and his typing doesn't do it any favors. Stealth Rock, Stone Edge and a slew of powerful Rock types (Tyranitar, Aggron, Rampardos) seal the deal for him.

He does have good offenses and a wide movepool (it's not all bad), but his staying power is pure crap, he gets outclassed by nearly every other Fire type worth mentioning (except Typhlosion), he's not even a real Dragon type and a pebble can kill him.

Yet people still seem to love him unconditionally. Does that seem fair to you?

Charizard is definitely one of the most overrated Pokemon in existence. He's NU for a reason, people.

What he said.

Others worth mentioning would be a majority of the Gen I mons.

Originally Posted by minimag

Salamence.
Why zee fawk is he Uber?
He isn't that hard to kill.
Several effective counters are-
*Starmie with thunder wave and ice beam.
*Life orb lucario with ice punch and ninjask sub-swords dance support.
*Cressilia with ice beam and stealth rock support
*Weavile
*Mamoswine

And several others.

I was just going to put a Salamance in my team :( thanks for proving me not to

Anyway Charizard will win this thread. Some more honorable mentons are Sceptile, Weaville and Gliscor has never been up to par for me... also don't forget Tyranitar

Arceus. But so is Garchomp.

Originally Posted by EonMaster

I was just going to put a Salamance in my team :( thanks for proving me not to

Anyway Charizard will win this thread. Some more honorable mentons are Sceptile, Weaville and Gliscor has never been up to par for me... also don't forget Tyranitar

Gliscor isn't overrated.
It's good that it's good good typing, movepool and defence, but people don't go, holy shit, sammy just sent out a gliscor, I'm doomed.
And Tyranitar IS good.
Unlike most automatic weather inducers, Tyranitar has good defences and attack and moves, plus a type combo that doesn't utterly suck(looking at you, abomasnow)

Garchomp and Salamence are literally overrated. I hope Smogon comes to realize that in the upcoming B/W metagame.

And yeah, Charizard's an automatic contender in this thread. But hey, so is Pikachu. All because of Ash's Pikachu.

Dragonite. Why does Lance need 3 of them??

Also Charizard in trading cards!