I hope you kept these dex entries because they will have relevancy thanks to gen4. It’s like it will almost be the generation that will bridge all of the gaps that many have been longing for and if we just so happen to see a fast fairy move as well then I am going to freak out. I truly am excited and hope we see it sooner than later. Here is a list of what will be useful based off of their evolutions and their stats. I hope I got everything.
Some of you may be saying that you won’t have use for some of these pokémon like electivire since you have zapdos or even better raikou on your electric type squad. Totally get that. But for the people who don’t have them and also to the many trainers like myself who want a versatile team of pokémon no matter what, these gen4 evolutions will definitely be worth getting. I mean look at this. They have access to some of the best moves available, they have high attack stats and spawn in the wild which means they can cost less to power up. Some even have their own nests which is something you won’t find with legendaries.
I hope this post changes some of your minds because knowing this info really helped to bring things into a totally new perspective for me. Good luck and catch 'em all, y’all!
EDITED: Misdreavus and Tangela added. Mismagius for its survivability and nodworthy attack stat, tangrowth for its bulk.
EDITED: Porygon added for Porygon-Z for high DPS attack stat.
I hope Rhyperior is useful as I had my eye on that one trying to collect the best possible Rhydon/Rhyhorns I can building the Candy in readiness since half way through Gen 2. Weather boosting has help greatly in catching good L30-35 Rhyhorns which we get plenty of.
I’ve also been doing the same for Swinub/Piloswine only these are much harder to come by in my area and I’m nowhere near as ready.
Rhyperior will be a beast. I have 2 rhyhorns ready to go but I’m waiting on gen4 because it’ll only cost 25 candies to get rhydon if I wait as opposed to 50 now. It learns rock throw/rock slide AND mud slap/drill run which are both better moves than stone edge and earthquake since their animations are faster.
Right there with you! Remember piloswine can be soloed. I have 2 now. A 98 piloswine and a perfect swinub I hatched recently. Between mamoswine, weavile and glaceon we’ll have even more great ice pokémon.
I’m lucky in that I don’t have to conserve the Candy for this. I’ve got 6000+ Rhyhorn Candy and that grows every day as they are very common in all my play areas.
Someone helped convince me to consider mismagius. Although she doesn’t have shadow claw she will learn shadow ball. So having her onbthe squad might not be a bad deal. Her attack stat isn’t too shabby.
I couldn’t agree more, there are several reasons due to this.
At my location there are few stops and gyms, somewhat improved the last year.
I still don’t understand why the raiding-system is locked to a specific time-spawn, this reduces and has reduced mine and others opportunities to participate, none the less that lower level trainers aren’t so welcome.
Also people don’t show up anymore for raids that are five or below, because they already have collected the Pokemons. I can’t fight a raid myself. The raid system should scale to the trainer level and award more rare candy, even at lower raid leves.
If Niantic made up some way to even buy something that can give more rare candy, I’d be more than happy.
But it’s only other weakness is water, so it’s a pretty decent generalist, plus it resists fighting which is nice for any gym defender in the current meta
Its a horrible generalist, it would need decent stats at first
Really, the only good evolutions are Magnezone, Rhyperior, Mamoswine, Porygon-Z, Glaceon, and maybe Tangrowth