Fun Pokémon to use in-game

Talk about some Pokémon that you find fun to use in game in Gen IV that some people might overlook on occasion.

Personally I wanna talk about Scyther in Platinum. It shows up after the third gym which is pretty good availability (especially with a fighting gym coming up) and immediately has really great stats for that point in the game. The main draw however is that it can come with technician and at the level caught is about to learn Wing Attack. You can only reliably match a 90 power STAB at this point in the game is if you’re doing a solo run or if you taught a ground type Earthquake, so this is a really good boon to using Scyther.

Once the flying typing becomes less useful to you, say around the 6th or 7th gym, you can trade evolve into Scizor as well. Not only is it awesome that there are genuine benefits to staying a Scyther and you can therefore strategically decide when you wanna evolve, but in general Scizor is excellent. You can immediately relearn bullet punch, and with technician + the boost to attack Scizor has over Scyther, it’ll come in to its own as a strong shiny new team member all over again.

Would highly recommend.

 

Perap (Chatot) was a fun novelty back when I played Diamond, mainly due to its move Chatter. I just loved recording my voice for that one move.

 

Oh yeah lol. I believe Nintendo removed that feature because of some "inappropriate" chatter online.

 

I say Rotom, it is faster than its appliance forms but doesn't hit hard, but I still enjoyed using it on my team. I wish the Move Tutor for Signal Beam wasn't unavailable before the Elite Four, though.