Underatted

[Tazzler]

Title should say it all. underrated*

Ampharos- God, this thing is awesome. It is totally the best UU electric and imo better than some OU electircs. it is slow as hell, but makes up that with good defenses and hp which most electrics seem to lack. It has awesome special attack -its thunderbolts hurt- and a decent special movepool. It has enough attack to make blissey, lax, and regice wary of coming in. Counter on it rocks as it can take evrything but Stabbed, cbed EQ.

Sczior- Make a great physical sweeper even w/a bad movepool. It has many stat upping moves and baton pass to boot. Coupled with nice resistances, its swarmed, danced silver winds hurt.

Articuno- Too awesome, great defenses, makes all your PP run out.

 

[SpaceFlare]

Don't forget Subpunch Amphy. Switch it on a sure switcher. Pull up a sub and FP behind it.

Articuno deserves some love. With XD moves however, usage of Articuno and Moltres have been up.

Scizor gets Morning Sun thanks to XD. Now it can heal itself as it sets up to sweep.

 

[≈*Virulent Tsunami*≈]

Gligar gets all the respect it deserves, so that makes me happy

Aggron seriously needs more recognition. It's good, but it's neglected in favor of a lot of other Pokémon. Two 4x weaknesses hurts, yeah, but good HP, Base 110 Attack and Base 160 Defense makes up for it, IMO.

Espeon is a great Pokémon, but for some reason, I scarcely ever see it.

~*CB*~
The 8th Champion​

 

[Tazzler]

Yes, gligar is a great underrated pokemon, it rules UU.

 

[◘Ins0mnIac◘]

I must agree with Ampharos I wouldn't of beat XD without it.
Breloom- Insane power and easy to train. Mega Drain+Mach Punch = crazy delicious.
Donphan- Usually big juked out Pokemon are overrated....
Medicham- Fighting/Psychic is the best dual you can currently get next to Sableye IMO.

 

[Komedic Konservationist]

Donphan- Usually big juked out Pokemon are overrated....

Donphan isn't big.... It's only 2 feet high at the very most. Also, being in Ash's arsenal, it gets quite alot of attention as it is, and on netbattle is widely known as the best rapid-spinner out there.
As for underrated Pokemon.....
URSARING!!!!!!!!!!! Well, that was totally (not) unexpected. Everyone who knows me will also now how supportive I am of this amazing beast. It has massive attack, and with Sword Dance, Guts, and STABed Facade/Return, plus a wide range of popular physical moves such as Earthquake, Brick Break, and Aerial Ace, it can destroy powerful tanks such as Meganium and Aggron to shreds in little more than a few hits. Unlike it's counterparts Donphan and Piloswine, it has only one weakness, which is easily countered by Aerial Ace. And as if all this wasn't enough, it looks absolutely awesome. I simply love how it's intimidating without being over the top, and mantains a perfect balnce of fiercenss, dim-witted gentleness, and rogue power. It also pulls off looking exactly like a real bear without being dull and uncreative, because of the subtle additions to it's design; like the fur epauletes, stomach ring, elongated claws and bigger tail. And don't even get me started on how adorable it's pre-evo is, unless you enjoy limitless essays that is! And yet despite all this, Ursaring is one of the most underrated creations in the Pokemon universe. It is practically never used, except in XD, and everywere it is criticised for being ugly and dumb (which it isn't) I have even seen it shafted in favour of crap like Raticate, which has got to be one of the sadest things ever.
Gligar, Lanturn, Xatu, and most of my Johto favourites are also terribly shafted, even though the have excellent potential. Ah well..... the less popular they are, the more there is for me.

 

[Evanji Axu]

Mightyena. She gets some nice support moves like Taunt, Scary Face, Yawn, and Poison Fang. And she's cool looking.

 

[Freakshow]

Articuno- So beautiful and cool, and is a Stall MAchine. Why the heck is this thing BL?

Dragonite- Only because of Salamence. This thing survives Ice Beams more easily than Mence, nad has a greater movepool.

Tentacruel- This thing seriously needs more respect. I mean...its able to counter some OU stuff (Suicune, Vaporeon, Milotic, Non-TB Starmie). Although it gets enough respect in UU, IMO it should at least be BL

 

[AJ Flibble]

Machamp. No, I'm not saying this because it's my favourite, but because he's often forgotten in the worshipping of Breloom and Heracross. When people are too busy worshipping them, they forget about Machamp, and even the ones that recognise it downplay it. People always go on about Breloom's base 130 attack, but not a soul notices Machamp's equal stat. Also, it's HP is above average, and it has decent defenses. Nuff said.

Lanturn, Ampharos, Victreebel, Jumpluff, Butterfree and also Flareon get honorable mentions.

Flareon in particular is the forgotten eeveelution. With low speed, HP and defense, the low HP also countering it's high Special Defense, you'd be forgiven for saying it sucks. However, it's Special Attack is decent, and it's Attack is oddly awesome (also base 130), and it gets some nice moves of the Fire type and physical types to play with. However, it's a Fire type, and automatically considered crap. Sad. He's my second favourite eeveelution, behind Umbreon.

EDIT: Additionally, I'd say that Forretress is also underrated compared to fellow Bug/Steel Scizor, although they're both underrated in terms of battle. Plus, Forretress looks badass.

 

[Cobalt_Latios]

Dragonite- Only because of Salamence. This thing survives Ice Beams more easily than Mence, nad has a greater movepool.

Not necessarily. My Lapras at level 50 beat lance's Dragonite on Pokemon Fire Red with Ice beam in One hit(thought it might also be because of the fact that it also has flying giving it a tough time).

Dragonair is one of the few second evolutions that's quite good. Given enough time to train it can be dangerous.

People dont give the Unowns enough patience.

Im not sure, but i think that Onix/Steelix dont get enough attention. Sure they may be worse than geodude/graveler/golem, but they're quite good in their own right.

Edit: forgot one more thing

Flareon in particular is the forgotten eeveelution. With low speed, HP and defense, the low HP also countering it's high Special Defense, you'd be forgiven for saying it sucks. However, it's Special Attack is decent, and it's Attack is oddly awesome (also base 130), and it gets some nice moves of the Fire type and physical types to play with. However, it's a Fire type, and automatically considered crap. Sad. He's my second favourite eeveelution, behind Umbreon.

Yeah, for XD i chose Flareon because i found that there was a serious lack of fire types in that game. Its now one of my best guys on it.

 

[SHUCKLE MAN]

Luvdisc. I am being serious!

It is bad but everyone seems to think it is a parallel to Caterpie, Sunkern, Feebas, Ralts, Azurill, Magikarp, Weedle, etc. It is not!! It may be bad but I would put it in the same league as Murkrow and Delibird. I do not care if it has a boring design.

 

[≈*Virulent Tsunami*≈]

Articuno- So beautiful and cool, and is a Stall MAchine. Why the heck is this thing BL?

Because Electric, Rock(4x), Fire, Steel say hi to your perfect Stall Machine ;[

Steelix is considered a heck of a lot better than Golem, tbh. Steelix>Rhydon>Golem.

~*CB*~
The 8th Champion​

 

[Orion-Sama]

Steelix is considered a heck of a lot better than Golem, tbh. Steelix>Rhydon>Golem.

I thought Rhydon was OU and Steelix was Borderline?

Pinsir plz. That guy is a monster. Literally. HUGE Attack, good Defense and Speed, and OK HP. The Special Defense, while a bit on the low side, is half-decent. His Movepool is very good as well. Brick Break/Focus Punch, Earthquake and Rock Slide. Swords Dance as well. Also, his Type is certainly good. The only con? Lack of a Bug Move. Still, with such good Movepool, he can easily spend his Hidden Power to get STAB. He still earns an usable Bug Move, though. Being outranked by Heracross doesn't helps matters either, and how he's shafted in favor of over-popular Bugs like Scizor/Scyther (Ugh. For Scyther, mind you...) and Heracross... -____-

 

[i dont know 2 A.K.A. quilava lover]

you guys forgot DITTO he is the best if he is level100 then he will be fast he then transforms and hits you but it wont do much because he will then be the same type as him so i think he is deffinitly under rated

 

[Cacophony]

Tentacruel needs a better rep. Just because it evolves from one of the most frequently-encountered Pokemon in the games doesn't make it bad. Tentacruel is a capable battler with relatively good base stats and a wide and useful array of moves to choose from. It looks cool as hell to boot. I find it depressing to see so few people actually using this thing...

 

[SapphireL]

Feraligatr imo. >_> a Swords Dance or 2, and it hits HARD. Seriously.

Tentacruel is pretty good imo. I mean... the moves Substitute+Swords Dance+Sludge Bomb = totally cool. XD

 

[SHUCKLE MAN]

I have tried useing Tentacruel and I was not pleased. I really thought it could do something.

To fix Tentacruel they could
1)Give him levitate
2)Make Water weak to fighting and poison
3)Give tentacruel calm mind.

Obviously point 2 will make Starmie and Slowbro yet more popular which would mean that there would be Starmies on just about every team. But hey!

Feraligatr was very useful for me on Netbattle. Same goes for STeelix. Rhydon also rules in a double battle with Water/Flying types, but nowadays people prefer using Marowak no doubt.

 

[Ajnidehs]

My UU team (under-used if you don't know what UU is) contains:

Gorebyss (for BPing)
Miltank (Physical Sweeper)
Swellow (Endure/Endeavor combo)
Mantine (Special Defence)
Sneasel (more Physical Sweeping)
Grumpig (Trick Band and the Special Sweep)

It surprises a lot of people, and wins a lot as well. One other Pokemon I should put in here is Linoone. A Bellynoone (that's a Linoone with Belly Drum) is almost unbeatable when it pulls it off.

 

[AJ Flibble]

Well actually, most Pokemon that don't look like Dragons are underrated, as are Hitmontop and Hitmonlee. Chan sucks, yes, but Top has decent defenses and a few decent moves too, and Hitmonlee is one of the strongest and fastest fighters of the lot! Pinsir and Dewgong could also be mentioned, along with Electrode.

 

[Evanji Axu]

Charizard is really underrated, he can destroy teams...


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