5 Pokemon You Should Never Use

- Greetings Pokefans! Michael here, and as many of you probably know, some Pokémon are naturally very good at battle. They have great stats, great ability, a great moveset, or a combination of all of those things and more. And then there are the Pokémon that are okay. They'll

never

make a splash in the competitive scene, but they're good enough to use on a gaming team. But there are also some Pokémon that are just awful. They have no redeeming qualities when it comes to battle prowess and it is extremely difficult to be successful using them against any Pokémon at a comparable level to them.

So in today's video, I'm going to cover five Pokémon you

should

never

use. Yes, they can be successful in certain specific situations, but those situations are so few and far between that the Pokémon end up being practically useless. All the Pokémon on this list are those that are not capable of evolving further. There are a lot of really weak Pokémon that aren't fully evolved, but you can evolve them to make them stronger for eventual use. The ones I'm talking about will never be good, unless they get a new evolution in a later generation.

This list is in no particular order, but I think the last two are definitely the worst of the bunch. So don't forget to subscribe to my channel so I can reach a million subscribers soon and let's start with number one, Spinda. Not everything in Spinda is bad. It has a fairly large move pool with quite a few stab moves and has a pretty useful hidden ability on Contrary. Well, it would be helpful if he learned a move that lowered his own stats like Leaf Storm or Superpower so he could use it and then increase his stats after using it.

Now before I continue, I know there will be someone in the comments saying, "Spinda can actually learn superpowers," and I

should

address that because you were once right. Spinda was able to learn Superpower but he can't anymore. The only way to get a Spinda to know the move Super Power is from Dream World, a service that is no longer available and that move cannot be passed down through play, making it literally impossible to spawn a new Spinda with Super Power in any game of the main series. without hacking it. So the only way to get one now is for someone who got it years ago to trade it in.

So as a result, Spinda effectively doesn't get any stat-dropping moves, so the only real way you can make use of Contrary is in a double battle and have a partner Pokémon lower/raise its stats. But even if you come up with some fun strategy involving Contrary Spinda, you'll still have a lot of trouble getting anywhere because its stats are horrible. He has a base stat total of just 360, with 60 in each base stat across the board. This is one of the lowest base stat totals for a Pokémon that cannot evolve in the entire game. Freaking Magby has a higher base stat total and is a baby Pokémon.

So while none of his stats are completely terrible, they are all bad. So instead of being really atrocious at some things but maybe somewhat good at others, it's just severely mediocre at everything. Also, his typing doesn't help him either because Normal isn't super effective on any type, so Spinda can't perform super effective stabbing moves on anything. So while you might be able to get away with using a Spinda on a gaming rig, because you certainly won't be able to get away with it on competitive, it's going to be very difficult and, to me, that doesn't sound fun, so it might as well be. if you just don't use Spinda.

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But he's not just here because I hate him. The reason I hate him is because he has a very low catch rate and is therefore very annoying to catch despite being so weak and useless. But anyway, Delibird has a base stat total of 330, even lower than Spinda's, and is actually tied with Luvdisc for the fourth-lowest base stat total of all fully evolved Pokémon. Side note, Luvdisc would be an entry on this list if this list had six Pokémon and not five. If you're curious about fully evolved Pokémon that have lower base totals than Delibird and Luvdisc, third place is Ditto, which can be useful when transforming into stronger Pokémon.

The second is Smeargle, which has found use in the past due to its virtually unlimited move pool, and the first is Shedinja, which is the lowest because its base HP stat is literally just one. However, it can still be useful because if the opponent doesn't have a super effective move, he literally can't damage Shedinja with a direct attack. Meanwhile, Shedinja can counterattack with his reasonably solid base 90 physical attack. So while Shedinja isn't amazing, I certainly wouldn't classify him as useless. But back to Delibird, their stats are just horrible. His speed could be considered good at best, but his special attack, his best attack stat, is simply not good.

The rest of his stats are simply atrocious, making Delibird easily defeated by all types of attacks, even those he resists. On top of that, Delibird basically only has two abilities, despite having two regular abilities and one hidden ability. That's because his regular ability, one of them, is Vital Spirit, which prevents sleep, and his hidden ability is Insomnia, which prevents sleep. These abilities are completely identical, except for Vital Spirit, which makes high-level Pokémon more likely to appear in the wild, but that doesn't matter in battle. In battle, they are equal, so Delibird basically has a completely useless hidden ability when they could have given him one that would have actually helped him, instead of doing literally nothing.

To conclude this entry, I would like to read you a piece of literature, which is Smogon's Generation Five entry for Delibird: "One of the worst things about Christmas" has to be the mall Santas. "Every year, these insipid symbols "of an overly commercialized holiday" appear everywhere like clockwork, "intended to spread joy and cheer" but do nothing but offer "indifferent performances and disappointment." "Many children's holidays have been ruined "by these worldly avatars of Kris Kringle" in what can only be described "as a ritual murder of childhood innocence." Truly, they are a blight on our cultural landscape "and only when they are eliminated from our social consciousness" will be able to have some form of dignity begin to return to Christmas." Everything stated in the previous paragraph also applies to Delibird.

Next is a Pokémon that can perhaps be useful in certain situations but, in the end, I don't really recommend it, number three being Pyukumuku. The reason I don't really recommend it is because it has no attack moves, literally none. First of all, let's look at its total base stat of 410, which is kind of mediocre and the. distribution clearly indicates that this Pokémon is intended for a support or stop role. His defenses are excellent, but everything else is terrible, especially his speed, which is tied with Shuckle and Munchlax for the lowest base speed stat in the entire game.

But then, you look at Pyukumuku's moveset and the only moves, in his entire moveset, that are not status category moves are Counter and Mirror Coat, which I honestly think should be considered status moves because they are not direct attacks. that can hit at any time. Any other move that Pyukumuku has is some kind of support or setup move. That means your only ways to deal damage to an enemy Pokémon are Toxic, Pain Split, Summon Hail, get lucky with Mirror Coat or Counter Prediction, confuse the opponent using Swagger, Dynamaxing, and turn Counter and Mirror Coat into Max Knuckle or Mindstorm. , or passing out and dealing damage with Innards Out.

So while it is possible to use losing tactics to perhaps gain a victory in a single battle situation, it is really difficult to do so. In Gen 7, Pyukumuku had Block that it could use to prevent the enemy Pokémon from switching, but in Gen 8, it no longer has that, which really hurts it. You also can't Tox a Pokémon that can't be poisoned and Dynamaxing it, in order to use Max Knuckle or Max Mindstorm, would waste your Dynamax due to Pyukumuku's terrible attack stats, and God forbid your opponent knows Taunt because if that As it happens, Pyukumuku is literally completely useless.

It gets Baton Pass, so it could use it to pass power-ups to another Pokémon, but the only moves it knows can be passed are Substitute and Curse, which really limits the pool of Pokémon that would appreciate it. Maybe it could be useful as a support Pokémon in a double battle situation, but I don't recommend it because if it drops, it literally can't touch your enemy Pokémon and there are much better support Pokémon that can really pack a big hit. if required. While you could probably make Pyukumuku work like a gaming Pokémon, each and every battle would take you eons, which sounds miserable.

So I personally don't recommend using Pyukumuku except in extremely specific situations. Alright, that sums up the first three Pokémon that I definitely think you shouldn't use, but the next two are substantially worse. The first of them is number four, Unown. Like most of the Pokémon discussed in this video, Unown has a terrible total base stat of just 336. Most of its stats are an absolutely pitiful base 48, but its physical attack and special attack are a slightly better 72, which Which isn't horrible, but it's not good. The really bad thing about Unown is that it only has one move, Hidden Power.

Yes, you heard me correctly. That's literally the only move you can learn. One, that's all. Obviously, that's terrible. Its only move is one that has only 60 base power and most of the time, it won't even end up being a stab attack. It can attack with a mediocre move or it can switch. That's literally all Unown is capable of and even if he wants to attack, there's a good chance he'll be outspeeded and knocked out before he gets the chance. It even has a useless stat. Before the physical/special split in Generation 4, Unown had to have the same physical and special attack due to Hidden Power's type variation.

They wanted it to do the same damage regardless of whether it was physical or special type. But now that Hidden Power is always a special attack, all those base points in Unown's physical attack are literally completely useless because he literally can never use a physical attack. The only situation I can think of where using an Unown might be okay is if you have a hidden psychic power one and you're fighting a Poison or Fighting type gym leader and you add choice specs to make sure the damage they do cause is actually something usable, but even so, if the opposing Pokémon has Psychic-type coverage and outspeeds you, your Unown will probably die.

Seriously, catch an Unown for the Pokedex in whatever game you're playing and maybe collect all the letters just for fun, but never use it in battle. It will fail you. And the last Pokémon I'm talking about in this video is also my least favorite of all the Pokémon in this video, number five being Wobbuffet. God, I hate this thing. I used to like him because he's funny in the anime, but now after what he did to me, I hate him. Wobbuffet has a total base stat of 405. Every stat is terrible except his HP, which inIt's actually phenomenal.

Based on stats alone, it looks like he could play a decent support role, but then you look at his moveset and realize this is a bunch of garbage. As of Generation 8, Wobbuffet only has access to eight different moves: Splash, Charm, Encore, Amnesia, Counter, Mirror Coat, Safeguard, and Destiny Bond. There you have it, that's all. That's the whole set of moves. Yes, it's still more than Unown, but at least Unown gets a direct attack. That means your only ways to damage an enemy Pokémon are one, Destiny Bond, where you predict it and use it at exactly the right moment and then they knock you out and therefore you knock them out in return, which I think would still work out. in a loss of battle.

Alternatively, you can predict a physical or special move correctly and then use Counter or Mirror Coat and then take enough damage that you can hit them back a lot, but not so much that you get KO'd. That means your only way to damage an enemy Pokémon is to damage your Wobbuffet, which is horrible. Well, actually, you can do direct attack damage by using Max Knuckle or Max Mindstorm if you dynamax your Wobbuffet. However, remember that Wobbuffet's base attack stats are an abysmal 33. So even with a super effective Max Mindstorm backstab, you're not doing much damage.

Wobbuffet is such a bad Pokémon that when Mah-Dry-Bread made its challenge of trying to beat Emerald with just a Wobbuffet, she couldn't beat it. She couldn't beat him with just the Wobbuffet because he had no way to explain Ludicolo's Leech Seed against Wallace. To my knowledge, this is the only gaming challenge she has ever done that she couldn't beat. I haven't seen them all, but I have seen many and he has surpassed everyone else I have seen. That's why I hate Wobbuffet so much. It's completely useless if it's on your team, whether it's your Pokémon or your partner in a raid battle, looking at you, Alfie, loss-causing deadweight buffoon.

But if you fight it, it's a nightmare. On too many occasions I have encountered a Wynaut or a Wobbuffet in a nuzlocke. That means I can't run away from him because of his Shadow Tag ability, so I'm forced to defeat him little by little so that his Counter or Mirror Coat can't do too much damage to me, but I also have to make sure that when I knock him out, I don't use Destiny Bond. It's horrible and has resulted in many of my Pokémon dying because I get a crit that doesn't knock it out. It's vile.

Also, another bad thing about Wobbuffet is that it has one of the dumbest gender differences of all time. Oh, we want to show that this wild animal is female. Let's put human lipstick on it because it makes sense and it's creative and not stupid. I'm being sarcastic, it's extremely stupid. Okay, sorry I went on a bit of a tangent, but seriously, Wobbuffet has no redeeming qualities. Yes, Shadow Tag is an awesome ability, but Wobbuffet can't really use it because he can't punish the Pokémon he catches since he can't reliably deal damage to them. It's not even useful against wandering legendaries because your Wobbuffet can't reliably damage them without risking killing them.

Just never use a Wobbuffet. Get it for your Pokedex and throw it in your box because it serves no purpose other than comic relief on a TV show. Thank you so much for watching and a very special thanks to my Patreon patrons who are helping support me in a way independent of YouTube's fluctuating ad revenue, which is at an all-time low in January. So if you want to support me in the same way and get some cool benefits like early videos without ads in return, the link is in the description below. Also, if you want to see more of my fun Pokémon content, I recommend this video here and don't forget to check out Harry's.

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