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What Pokemon in the anime (wild or trained) have just horrible or pointless movesets? Something makes you wonder what the writers were thinking when picking the moves for a particular pokemon. For example, Aerodactyl from early d/p. Its moves consisted of giga impact AND hyper beam. (there was also no recharging in between but that is for another discussion I guess). Also anyone notice how every big and scary pokemon, or fully evolved pokemon in the wild happens to know hyper beam (most anyways)?
 
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Misty's Starmie

>Tackle
>Water Gun

ighsdf. Not even BubbleBeam! Did she train it when she was 5 and didn't know any better?
 
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Misty's Starmie was definitely wasted potential. The thing didn't even use any Psychic attacks, nor did it have stuff like Ice beam or Thunderbolt. It really was just a bigger clone of Staryu, and it didn't seem any stronger than Staryu did.
 
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Ash's Oshawott.
3 Physical and 1 Special?

He needs one of the following:Ice Beam, Blizzard, Hidden Power, Round, Hydro Pump, Water Pledge, Surf, Grass Knot or AT LEAST Water Pulse, since he cannot rely on Water Gun in order to use his true strength, which is in Special Attacks, not Physical ones.

He needs to evolve twice, so it can add Hyper Beam and Hydro Cannon to its movepool.

I do not count Air Slash, Brine, and Trump Card, since he needed to have them to start with.

Oshawott is great on personality, but a crap battler.
 
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Argus Claydol said:
Ash's Oshawott.
3 Physical and 1 Special?

He needs one of the following:Ice Beam, Blizzard, Hidden Power, Round, Hydro Pump, Water Pledge, Surf, Grass Knot or AT LEAST Water Pulse, since he cannot rely on Water Gun in order to use his true strength, which is in Special Attacks, not Physical ones.

He needs to evolve twice, so it can add Hyper Beam and Hydro Cannon to its movepool.

I do not count Air Slash, Brine, and Trump Card, since he needed to have them to start with.

Oshawott is great on personality, but a crap battler.
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what would trump card even look like? Also I don't like to see hyper beam and hydro cannon together... i personally don't like it. Hydro pump would be better then cannon. I think oshy can learn hydro pump at his current state. air slash would be pretty interesting and a great coverage move against grass plus another good way to use its shells
 
Snivy's movepool is horrible. Attract, Leaf Storm, Leaf Blade, Vine Whip. One overused status move and three grass type moves? Eeeee.

Guess it's too bad the species doesn't have a very good movepool to begin with.
 
A good chunk of main girls' Pokémon movesets tend to be horrible, and some of their rivals' too, if the Pokémon barely appears(speaking of which, I love how still nobody mentioned Harley's Ariados can't legally learn Shadow Ball on the main wiki) or if they have a shallow movepool to begin with[regional birds, some of the gimmick mons owned by people, especially the ones whose main gimmick is Earthquake or Fissure(hi Minomadam!)]

Hikari got the worst case in that, Pachi barely used Sweet Kiss and barely used Hatred Fang/Super Fang. Mimirol was infamously bad, Pochama took until DP164 to learn Hydro Pump. Kasumi's entire team's treatment was bad, but then again so was Takeshi's besides Gureggu. Let's not talk about Kibago, that is a whole different beast on it's own, though at least Emonga and Doryuz have pretty good movepools (for now anyways).

Also of course Satoshi's Hatoboh is on her way to become a fandom meme, and the three moves thing that currently plagues the series have probably already became one.
 
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Argus Claydol said:
Ash's Oshawott.
3 Physical and 1 Special?

He needs one of the following:Ice Beam, Blizzard, Hidden Power, Round, Hydro Pump, Water Pledge, Surf, Grass Knot or AT LEAST Water Pulse, since he cannot rely on Water Gun in order to use his true strength, which is in Special Attacks, not Physical ones.

He needs to evolve twice, so it can add Hyper Beam and Hydro Cannon to its movepool.

I do not count Air Slash, Brine, and Trump Card, since he needed to have them to start with.

Oshawott is great on personality, but a crap battler.
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Well Oshawott is Ash's only Unova-n Pokemon to have won the most battles(Be it against a trainer or wild Pokemon).

And Water Gun isn't that weak, so I think it is alright for a special move and I don't see the problem with it's Razor Shell or Aqua Jet.

I don't mind its tackle, but I wouldn't mind it with something stronger.

Anyway, I have to agree with @Hitomi.

It usually just relies on Leaf Storm or Attract and her attract hardly works, whether her opponents stop it or if the opponent is also female.

I don't mind her Leaf Blade and Vine Whip(sort of).
 
almost all of Ash' Unova Pokes with exception of Palpitoad, Boldore and Swadloon.
Tranquill: gust,air cutter and gust! Must I say something besides this! Where are the strong moves Staravia had, on which Ash worked with it! Brave bird, aerial ace!???
Oshawott: tackle and water gun (wtf), aqua jet and shell blade! Ok shale blade is his signature move, but why all of Ash's pokemon have to be copy cats! Wouldn't it be better to give it some move we didn't saw by now! Scald, water pledge? Or I have an Idea a non water type move! ! !
Tepig: ember, tackle(wtf), lamethrower and gen2 flamewheel! What can I say and not start to cry!
Snivy: the whip, leaf blade, leaf storm and attract! Which are solid moves! But attract is over used, leaf storm bad animated! The whip and the blade are moves Ash knows how to use in his matches.
Zurrugu: justa lame! Headbutt meanigless! And Ash never know to use attacks like leer!
At the and this Pokes didn't get enough screen time and Ash should send Pichu into rotation!
 
It's kind of odd how the TV series is all about showcasing all the brand new Gen V stuff...except the moves. Why aren't they showing off more of the moves that were introduced in this generation?
 
Tranquill with only three moves bothers me... It really bothers me. That girl is in her 2nd form and still knows only 2 flying type moves and 1 normal type.
You kiddin me? I am definitely sure they'll give her 2 or 3 new moves (Aerial Ace, at least) all together during the Mistralton Gym episode but that's just unfair....

Same for Corphish, it did got alot of attention but less to none development.
 
Charizard's moveset is pretty mediocre as well because he's not suppose to be a mixed sweeper. Seismic Toss and Steel Wing won't get him anywhere with his below average attack.
 
As far as BW is concerned, Snivy moveset and battle style is by far the worst. Every time she battles, it goes like this - Attract -> spam grass moves randomly. It wouldn't be actually that bad if only they didn't use the same stock animation every damn time. At first I liked Snivy, but seeing her battle got old ridiculously fast. Hope she gets a new move soon, or even better - evolves.
 
Dogasu said:
It's kind of odd how the TV series is all about showcasing all the brand new Gen V stuff...except the moves. Why aren't they showing off more of the moves that were introduced in this generation?
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Seriously. What's up with them giving Tsutarja Leaf Storm instead of Grass Mixer for example? It's the only gen 5 pokemon that learns it, so it's essentially a signature move. That always struck me as a bit unusual, especially after how cool they made Shooty's one look.


Anywho!
Mimirol was always one of the biggest offenders imo, and it was part of the reason I didn't like her very much. Apart from being saddled with the painfully cliche contest move of Ice Beam (which, let's face it, didn't even make much sense on a forest-dwelling bunny in the first place...), it's other two moves weren't much to write home about either. Particularly Bounce, which was pretty redundant given how often every other 'mon in this series tends to give the middle finger to gravity.

Additionally, while he was one of my favourites on the show, Corphish wasn't too great either. Though it's more the fact that it was the only AG pokemon that didn't actually go through any changes in the battling department, rather than it being irredeemably bad. What it did have was ok, since it had all the bases covered. Projectile move, a couple of physical moves and defensive move- that's pretty well-rounded. They just outstayed their welcome methinks.


...christ. I gotta learn to stick to one set of names.
 
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Ghetsis-Dennis said:
Charizard's moveset is pretty mediocre as well because he's not suppose to be a mixed sweeper. Seismic Toss and Steel Wing won't get him anywhere with his below average attack.
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When it comes to seismic toss its Ash's charizard's signature move basically, besides flamethrower. It worked for him and it looked great in the anime.
 
Ash's Totodile. Tackle, Headbutt, Bite, Water Gun - now that's a really pathetic moveset. Four of the most generic, dull moves in the show and the poor 'dile got them all.

Altough I'm sure the writers will give it a whole array of new moves (Aqua Tail etc) should the thing just re-appear ;_;
 
Ghetsis-Dennis said:
Charizard's moveset is pretty mediocre as well because he's not suppose to be a mixed sweeper. Seismic Toss and Steel Wing won't get him anywhere with his below average attack.
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That's a rather strong assumption that base stats apply in the anime, which I don't think there has ever been any evidence for (or at least, it's controversial evidence). Due to that I wouldn't say the moveset is bad. It's quite decent coverage.
 
...No mention of Kibago yet?
FOR SHAME.

Scratch, Dragon Rage... Standard. Boring, but predictable for a baby.















...THEN FUCKING OUTRAGE..


AND MY/OTHERS' ACCOMPANYING OUTRAGE AT THE RIDICULOUSNESS OF SAID MOVE.
-flips a desk-
 
Kairyu said:
Ash's Totodile. Tackle, Headbutt, Bite, Water Gun - now that's a really pathetic moveset. Four of the most generic, dull moves in the show and the poor 'dile got them all.
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how pathetic was it when duplica said her Ditto-Totodile to use hydropump and Ash's T hadn't no idea what it was.

May's
skitty: how much I hated assist and the other stupid moves.
munchlax: had so much potential this poke, but mediocore moves.

Dawn Buneary, Pachirisu and Mamoswine. it wasn't so bad but it was bad.

TR all pokes had shitty moves with exception of Cacnea, loved that P!
 
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