Username: patronsaintofaspies

Album: Gen 4

Turtwig: 8 Lowered my score because it evolves at Level 18. Who thought this was a good idea? It was okay for Totodile because Totodile had more than one good attack before evolving.

Grotle: 7 There was a Grotle in Pokemon Ranger that was at the other side of the river near one of the forests at the early stages of the game, and you couldn't go over to capture it yet. That made me very sad.

Torterra: 9 Ice kills it, but I really like bulky Pokemon. Its main problem is that it only has 75 Special Attack, which gives it a lack of access to draining moves. It'd either bump it up to 85 or give it a Physical Giga Drain.

Chimchar: 5 I never pick Chimchar anymore because that cry is so fucking annoying,

Monferno: 6 Access to Flame Wheel is always nice.

Infernape: 7.5 Still good, but I swear to God, this is the most overrated starter. Being frail as a paper bag isn't always a good thing and it continued the whole trend of Fire and Fighting types. Also, Close Combat isn't worth it half the time on Set Mode.

Piplup: 7 My favorite Sinnoh starter. Anybody else remember the Diamond and Pearl manga with Piplup and Hareta?

Prinplup: 6 Honestly, one of the more mediocre mid-evolution starters. I'm using the Piplup family in my current playthrough and Prinplup was boring as hell. It only has Bubblebeam and maybe Metal Claw.

Empoleon: 10 Now, this is a huge improvement. I love starters having uncommon types and bring half Steel gives you a lot of nifty resistances.

Starly: 6 Another intolerable cry, but it's very good early game if you manage to keep it alive.

Staravia: 7 I love the access to Wing Attack and Return relatively early on but it lags behind in comparison with the other members of your team until evolves.

Staraptor: 10 I'm a little tired of seeing it in so many in-game teams but it's obviously the best early game bird in terms of power.

Bidoof: 4 LOL. Memes aside, Bidoof is just not that good. He's a great character in Mystery Dungeon, but aside from that, it takes a long, long time to level up. Pokemon having only one attack when you get them also feels just wrong.

Bibarel: 5 Hey, what's the point of having an interesting type combination if your only good Physical attack is Waterfall, which is given to you by the time you've been dumped to the PC? It is the most iconic HM Slave, though.

Kricketot: 1 Shitty design and I hate Bide. For evolving at Level 10, training it up is frankly awful.

Kricketune: 3 Oh, come on. I love the idea of musical Pokemon, but DELEDELELEWOOP? Is this the Nintendo equivalent of PC Music? It's as mediocre as mediocre can be.

Shinx: 5 Too few attacks at first, and it had no reason to be in Mystery Dungeon other than being a four-legged Pikachu. I also dislike Rivalry.

Luxio: 7 Pretty cool middle evolution. Spark and Bite can't go wrong early-mid game. I prefer it to Manectric.

Luxray: 7 It suffers from some problems other Electric types have (stats aren't good enough, shallow movepool) but it's pretty darn good-looking.

Budew: 4 Other than providing an otherwise awesome Pokemon early on (though, come to think of it, you get the Shiny Stone late anyway, so what's the point?) it's pretty darn useless unless you're too lazy to level Chimchar up to 14 or catch a Psyduck.

Roserade: 10 One of the best Sinnoh evolutions, and a true gay Pokemon icon!

Cranidos: 6 Roark is a pain to battle. I like the color scheme, at least?

Rampardos: 5 Hey, Game Freak? Please stop giving Pokemon an absurdly high base stat and then dumping the others, unless you're planning on making another Blissey or Wobuffet. It's not funny.

Shieldon: 4 I never get this one's fossil in Platinum, LOL.

Bastiodon: 3 I get that it's supposed to be Rampardos's defensive counterpart but I managed to defeat it with a Mud Bomb from fucking Gastrodon. Lame.

Burmy: 4 Remember naked Burmy? Never forget.

Wormadam: 7 I saw a Nuzlocke once where the main character put all three Wormadams on their team. It was pretty great, but unfortunately the link seems to have crashed.

Mothim: 4 Does anybody even remember this thing?

Combee: 1 The fact that male Combees are useless is proof that misandry runs rampant in today's feminist gaming industry. Subscribe to r/KotakuInAction now.

Vespiquen: 7 u/TheKneesOfOurBees

Pachirisu: 7 ALL HAIL SE JUN PARK-no, seriously, I think this is the beat Pikaclone Gamefreak will ever have to offer.

Buizel: 5 Water types are meant to be bulky.

Floatzel: 6 https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/598dqs/pokemon_of_the_week_floatzel/d9aolhh/?utm_content=permalink&utm_medium=front&utm_source=reddit&utm_name=pokemon

Cherubi: 4 Bitch

Cherrim: 4 Game Freak, did you not learn your lesson from Castform? Why does this exist?

Shellos: 6 Why is Shellos the only Pokemon aside from Unown that can learn Hidden Power naturally? What secrets lie in its deep, lusty eyes?

Gastrodon: 7 Wow, an actual occurrence of evolution in Pokemon! I'm shocked!

Ambipom: 4 I used to like this Pokemon but then I learned that some people legitimately try to give it Fake Out, Last Resort, and nothing else. Stop.

Drifloon: 4 Forget Hypno, the Pokedex basically confirms that Drifloon carries children away. When you catch it in front of Vally Windworks you're basically saving the little girl's life. Consider yourself a hero even before you defeat Cyrus.

Drifblim: 5 Remember when Fantina wasn't that hard of a gym leader to beat? Haha.

Buneary: 6 One of the few regular Pokemon in the wild to have 0 happiness upon being captured. I like the implied character development, especially since as of Generation 7 it learns Return once it evolves.

Lopunny: 6 I hate straight people.

Mismagius: 0 I legitimately like this Pokemon but last Nuzlocke Fantina's Mismagius basically killed almost every member of my team and I was afraid of being wiped out. All this was because of a critical Shadow Ball on a Luxio that had Charged six times. Fuck you, Mismagius,

Honchkrow: 10 Yes, yes, I know that it's supposed to be a pimp, but I absolutely love the witchy vibes.

Glameow: 5 Meh?

Purugly: 4 I hate this thing. You expect it to be strong because of Mars then it essentially turns out to be a fat, slightly more powerful Delcatty. I want GOOD cat Pokemon, dammit!

Chingling: 1 Useless pre-evolution for an already useless Pokemon.

Stunky: 5 I kind of wanted to use this for my current playthrough but it turns out that Stunky isn't available in Platinum. Sad.

Skuntank: 7 Really ugly design, and flatulence jokes drive me up the wall. Surprisingly, however, I do consider it to be a decent Pokemon.

Bronzor: 6 Cool concept, but the especially low attacking stats make it a huge pain to train. I'd support increasing them by 20 points, it's not like it'd be noticeably powerful against foes anyway.

Bronzong: 10 One of my favorite Gen 4 Pokemon. I love Steel types and Bronzong just kills it when it comes to forcing an opponent to guess what Ability it has. I'm actually using one for the first time and it's a really reliable member of my team, especially since I'm playing in Set Mode.

Bonsly: 5 Sudowoodo wasn't even a good Pokemon in the first place. Why bother?

Mime Jr.: 7 Made a creepy Pokemon into a Pokemon with a really cute pre-evolution. This is one of the only clowns I'll ever be able to stand.

Happiny: 6 It's cute, but literally why? It's not as if it serves any use in unevolved Pokemon battling, especially with the lack of good moves or stats.

Chatot: 9 Okay guys I'm giving this a high score for memories's sake but I tried to record LWYMMD on my DS once and let Chatot mimic the sound and I learned that Chatter comes out as a garbled, distorted mess which means that I will never hear Chatot squack 'Why? Oh, cause' she's dead!' so now I hate it so much

Spiritomb: 9 Like the reference to 108 being an unlucky number, and this was a much better use of the Ghost/Dark type combination than Sablye. That being said, why did Game Freak make this one so damn hard to get? Ugh.

Gible: 5 Except for Dratini, Axew and Goodra, all the pre-evolved Dragon Pokemon have been huge misses to me. Gible isn't an exception.

Gabite: 7 Ah, a middle form that's only partially relevant because of a Mystery Dungeon short that nobody remembers.

Garchomp: 9 Okay, I can hate on Cynthia's Garchomp all I want, but the species itself is as cool as hell, and the shiny form is fabulous.

Munchlax: 10 Munchlax is my favorite pre-evolution by far and away. It's so adorable and cuddly and I love it so much. I don't even care about the Honey tree thing.

Riolu: 9 Honestly, another iconic pre-evolution. Great starter in Mystery Dungeon, and great Pokemon to catch at the beginning of B2W2 (where it isn't even that rare!).

Lucario: 10 It's no wonder Lucario was a big success. Everything from gameplay to design just worked entirely in its favor. I also love how the Steel typing makes up for its bad defenses. It also has the only Mega Evolution of an already powerful Pokemon that I really enjoy.

Hippopotas: 7 Really cute, but I'm annoyed that you have to catch multiple copies of an old, useless gimmick Pokemon in order to get a good chance of getting it.

Hippowdon: 7 One of the most interesting gender differences out there.

Skorupi: 5 Meh, I've never used this line and I immediately associate it with the Ninja Boys that keep popping up on you mid-game.

Drapion: 10 I don't care that it isn't a Bug anymore, this definitely deserved to be on Aaron's team. It's such a non-traditional Dark type and it's awesome.

Croagunk: 6 Only iconic because of Brock, if we're being honest. The one in Mystery Dungeon was really annoying before Sky because his shop was basically useless.

Toxicroak: 8.5 I immediately associate Poison Jab with this Pokemon. It's pretty cool, even if it has a huge problem with Psychic types, especially bulky ones that survive a Sucker Punch.

Carnivine: 7 I like Pokemon with weird designs, but other than that there's not much use for it other than being a Grass type with Levitate, which isn't especially helpful.

Finneon: 3 Listen, Water is one of my favorite types, but if this entire line isn't evidence that there are already too many fish Pokemon, I don't know what is.

Lumineon: 4 This is one of the most forgettable and mediocre Water types to have ever existed.

Mantyke: 5 Skarmory got cheated-why doesn't it get a pre-evolution too? I like how you evolve it, even though it's somewhat tedious. It doesn't look cute to me, though. The eyes are just a little too uncanny.

Snover: 7 Honestly, really cute!

Abomasnow: 7.5 Remember when Smogon named a recommended moveset for Abomasnow 'President Snow'? I think they had one named 'Barack Aboma' too.

Weavile: 9 I know I said I didn't like fragile lightning bruisers, but this is a vast improvement of a cool but virtually useless Pokemon from two generations past. Pressure is pretty useless on it, though.

Magnezone: 8 I'm torn on this one. I actually love its stats and I love its role as law enforcement in spin-offs, but that design is just so goofy.

Lickilicky: 4 Which kink is this?

Rhyperior: 5 It's not terrible or anything, and it did give Rhyhorn the unique advantage of being able to use the Eviolite next generation, but I still constantly forget that it exists.

Tangrowth: 7 I actually learned that it's based on a cave man recently, which is really interesting! Unfortunately, it's not that good in-game, because of the lack of good, naturally learned moves and that terrible Special Defense. I suppose it's better in Generation 5 and beyond, when you can afford to use TMs on it.

Electivire: 7 Wasn't a big fan of this line in the first place, but it's pretty okay, and a cool choice for Volkner's signature Pokemon.

Magmortar: 6 Flint's Magmortar is such an asshole. It has Thunderbolt AND Solar Beam, so basically you have no real defense against it unless your Bronzong has Heatproof. I was never that invested in this species, anyway.

Togekiss: 11 Nice, we're back to the good cross-generational evolutions! Serene Grace Togekiss is annoying, but its so fun to play with, and the wide movepool just makes it more fun to unleash destruction upon your enemies. Its line developed from something made for the anime to a great source of torture.

Yanmega: 10 Underrated evolution, I love how much strength it has for a bug and Speed Boost can fuck you over if you're not careful. I wanted to use one, but unfortunately I couldn't find any room to put it on my team.

Leafeon: 8 I like it, and I enjoy the fact that you can get it so early, but why the hell does it learn Leaf Blade at Level 71? Please no.

Glaceon: 9 Really elegant design, but it learns Ice Beam way too late, and I'm not a huge fan of the stats. But, still, it's so pretty.

Gliscor: 9 This one is amazing to use, it has such a wide movepool and you can set up Swords Dance to basically kill everything. Just keep it far, far away from Ice.

Mamoswine: 7 I like this one, but I'm really disappointed about the fact that I trained one for a Nuzlocke just to have Clair kill it. Come to think of it, why isn't this entire line from Fossils?

Porygon-Z: 9 Definitely one of the weirdest Pokemon around. I love its backstory and Adaptability can basically immediately kill a fucking Blissey if you set up correctly.

Gallade: 8 Used this one once, it was pretty alright. I don't know much about its Mega Evolution. Also, I'm not sure it should have taken the place of Wally's Gardevior in ORAS.

Probopass: 4 It's a-me, Mario?

Dusknoir: 7 EVIL.

Froslass: 8 Not a huge fan or anything, but anybody who doesn't like Froslass more than Glalie is weird.

Rotom: 10 May be an unpopular opinion, but I love the Rotom Pokedex and I just adore it in general. I just wish getting it to transform into one of the appliance forms was easier, because it dies pretty quickly otherwise.

Uxie: 7 I don't want my memory to be wiped, no thanks!

Mesprit: 6 Something about its design feels wrong.

Azelf: 9 I still can't believe Azelf can actually fucking explode it was even a popular suicide lead in Generation 4 because it learned Explosion I'm gonna cry

Dialga: 10 I actually love the design of Dialga's body. No, not in that way, perverts. The way it looks like its made up of long crystal shards is so cool. Roar of Time is also an awesome, if impractical move.

Palkia: 8 Insert dick joke here

Heatran: 7 Wow we love a non-gender neutral legendary!

Regigigas: 1 Forget Zygarde, people; this is a failure of a Legendary Pokemon. It takes so much time to get it, in Platinum you have to catch it at Level 1, and its Ability basically means you're better off using a fucking Kangaskhan.

Giratina: 9 It was pretty lame in Diamond and Pearl, but the Distortion World was awesome and the Origin Form literally looks like Satan as a Pokemon.

Cresselia: 8 Eh, mono Psychic isn't that good for the defensive role it tries to play, but it still manages to hold up despite its flaws, and it's not a bad Pokemon by any means.

Phione: 4 This is a Glalie with better design and typing. I mean, it literally has the same stats. No thank you!

Manaphy: 7 Don't care for it as a Mew clone, but the one May took care of in the movie was so adorable. I cried when it left.

Darkrai: 9 EVILLLLLLLLL (in Mystery Dungeon, in the anime it's actually pretty nice TBH)

Shaymin: 10 Normal Shaymin is, like, a 7. Sky Form Shaymin is an adorable badass that protects the environment and heals the land, when will your faves?

Arceus: 8 Okay, listen here, if Arceus is meant to be God, why are all of its eighteen forms not coequal in glory, coequal in majesty? Bug Arceus doesn't need to exist. Also, Arceus shifts from one of its forms to another, which commits the heresy of modalism. Nintendo hasn't done their theological research, obviously. (I kid, Arceus is kind of based on Eastern deities I think)

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