Cover Fossil or Plume Fossil?

[RedBlastoise]

Which one did you pick in your B/W games - The Cover Fossil or Plume Fossil? Did you use one of the Unova Fossil Pokemon on your team? Who is your favorite Gen 5 Fossil Pokemon, Carracosta or Archeops? What do you think of this Fossil pair compared to the Fossils of other regions?

 

[Leonhart]

I didn't particularly care for the Gen V Fossil Pokemon, although I suppose that Protoga (Tirtouga) is somewhat cute at the very least. I chose the Cover Fossil in Black, White 2, and Black 2 for that reason.

 

[Cat's Eye Draco]

Cover Fossil. There weren't many water types besides Carracosta that I liked in Gen V, and as much as I liked Archeops's design and high speed/attack stats, its Defeatist ability could be a real pain sometimes.

 

[wolf jani]

Cover Fossil because Tirtouga & Carracosta look cooler + they don't have a hindering ability.

 

[Eternalfalcon]

I choose plume as I already had a water type that being dewott but I love both of them equally, in my opinion they have great designs and awesome stats I love sweeping with either of them, I think why I love them so much comes down to nostalgia for the episode, I forget what it's called but it's the one where tirtouga is from the past I think

 

[shoz999]

The cover fossil. Tirtouga/Carracosta is my favorite turtle Pokemon and I think the sea turtle/flightless bird was a welcome addition to fossils. One thing I notice is that both Carracosta and Archeops both play around a risk and reward battle style, Carracosta having Shell Smash and Archeops having the Defeatist ability and I freaking love it. I especially like Costa, Black's Tirtouga/Carracosta from the Pokemon Adventures manga who has a stubborn badass old man personality lol. Black's relationship with his Carracost is basically, "Please notice me Senpai!" lol.

 

[Dicklaycia]

I chose the Cover Fossil while playing through Pokémon Black. I found Tirtouga to be cute, and Carracosta was a solid Pokémon to use. On top of that, I am not a huge risk-taker, so Archeops' Defeatist is a really big turn-off for me.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

Cover mainly because of the bad Ability Archen and Archeops have. I really like the Archen line more than the Tortouga line but that awful Defeatist Ability makes me not want to use it.

 

[Ignition]

Can’t decide as both are great. I’ll probably say Archeops due to liking it longer

 

[Leonhart]

Cover Fossil. There weren't many water types besides Carracosta that I liked in Gen V, and as much as I liked Archeops's design and high speed/attack stats, its Defeatist ability could be a real pain sometimes.

Abagoura (Carracosta) actually has an appealing design now that I think about it, although I never would've used one myself despite that, because from what I remember the species has a low Speed stat, and I tend to use Pokemon that are fast. And while on the subject, I always thought that Abagoura looked a lot like an older version of Kamex (Blastoise) without the shell cannons.

 

[MockingJ]

Plume fossil because I needed a Flying Pokemon and didn't like any of the others available in Gen 5. I think that Tirtouga looks awful and is a cheap copy of that prototype turtle Pokemon from the old GS beta days.

 

[RedJirachi]

Cover, duh. Defeatist is just too awful to deal with. Truant at least keep a legendary-tier Pokemon in check, and Slaking is thicc enough you can live through the break

 

[SubtleVVeirdoh]

First time playing, I chose the Cover fossil as Serperior was my starter and, like it’s been stated BW didn’t really have any favorable Water types. I like both tbh, even with Defeatist being Arches’ only abilities.

I prefer the cover fossil over the dome fossil, but I like it as much as like I the helix... as far as the rock/water fossil Pokémon go.

Aerodactyl > Arche... just because its ability isn’t completely useless.

 

[PokeMon2.0]

Cover Fossil. Even though I like Archeops it’s ability is useless, if it only had something like Truant it would be great!

 

[TwilightBlade]

I like Water types so I always picked the Cover Fossil and just traded for the Plume Fossil. I never used either of the Unova Ffossil Pokemon however, because I thought Carracosta was too slow and Archeops has a horrible ability.

 

[NeedsAName]

Haven't played Black or White but I got an Archen in a fan-game where there were almost no Rock-types and I loved using it on my team. Worked great against the flying gym. I still love Archen, but I feel Tirtouga/Carracosta have really bad designs, an overused type-combo (Also Omanyte, Omastar, Kabuto, Kabutops, Corsola, Relicanth, Binacle, Barbaracle, and Drednaw), and don't have anything that I can't use something else for.

 

[Emboar_Rulez]

I like them both but it usually depends on if I have a surfer of flyer yet

 

[Leonhart]

Haven't played Black or White but I got an Archen in a fan-game where there were almost no Rock-types and I loved using it on my team. Worked great against the flying gym. I still love Archen, but I feel Tirtouga/Carracosta have really bad designs, an overused type-combo (Also Omanyte, Omastar, Kabuto, Kabutops, Corsola, Relicanth, Binacle, Barbaracle, and Drednaw), and don't have anything that I can't use something else for.

I dislike the overuse of the generic Water/Rock type combination as well, because it's been done so often that it makes things predictable. But I still think that having a Fossil Pokemon with a dull type combination is better than having a Fossil Pokemon with a self-sabotaging Ability.

 

[Emboar_Rulez]

Both fossils were very useful you can use one as a surfer and one as a flyer and I used both of them many times.They both had flaws Archeops ability was bad and Carracosta had a bad typing.

 

[RedBlastoise]

I dislike the overuse of the generic Water/Rock type combination as well, because it's been done so often that it makes things predictable. But I still think that having a Fossil Pokemon with a dull type combination is better than having a Fossil Pokemon with a self-sabotaging Ability.

I don't think there's even anything that bad about the Water and Rock combination that most fossil Pokemon have other than the 4 x weakness to Grass attacks of course. But that's still just a minor flaw in my book.

you can use one as a surfer and one as a flyer and I used both of them many times.

Yes we know since you already said that in your previous post.