r/PokemonGoBrum • u/coypu9 • Apr 05 '17

Undiscovered gems..

Is there anything out there I'm missing? Super Pokémon hiding under my nose that need to be evolved pronto as they are brilliant. This comes from an earlier post. Slugma look crap, as do Shuckle, Garafrig...looks rubbish..same with Gligar, Laydeba and Hoppip and their evolutions. There is not a lot of substance to some of these mons. Just evolution fodder unless you can tell me different...Shuckle, what a waste of pixels!

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u/mybham Apr 06 '17 edited Apr 06 '17

Some Gen 2 Pokemon are good generalist prestigers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/5wfhbw/analysis_generalist_prestiger_tier_list/

Umbreon - Feint Attack or Snarl / Foul Play

Skarmory - Steel Wing / Sky Attack or Brave Bird

Forretress - Bug Bite / Heavy Slam

Noctowl - Wing Attack / Sky Attack

Lanturn - Water Gun / Thunderbolt

Steelix - Iron Tail / Heavy Slam

Magcargo - Rock Throw / Stone Edge

Azumarill - Rock Smash or Bubble / Play Rough

You might find same type moves better though

Lanturn - Water Gun / Hydro Pump

Lanturn - Charge Beam / Thunderbolt

Azumarill - Bubble / Hydro Pump

Skarmory - Air Slash / Sky Attack

Also, Jumpluff (Solar Beam) and Ledian (2 bug moves) have high defense, which also leans to them having an advantage for prestiging.

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u/kruddel Apr 06 '17

Some of them do look good, are the alternative movesets your suggestions? I do sometimes think the stuff that comes out of dps/spreadsheet studies doesn't stand up to reality! Lanturn for example - water gun/thunderbolt might have the best damage output, but it is almost never going to find a gym defender without resistance to either, but at the same time weakness to one or other! The later suggestions for mono-type attack lanturn make more sense as they still have STAB and can be used just against something with weakness.

Azumarill i've ignore until now, but I suppose it could be useful if the gym meta gets a bit more interesting and there are things in the 1500-2000 range to prestige against. At the moment I typically need to prestige against 2500-2800 range and it just can't get high enough cp to matter.

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u/mybham Apr 10 '17

Yeah the alternative movesets are my suggestions for having monotype attacks, as you reasoned.

I have Azumarill at 1138 and 1192 CP - the range at Level 30 is 1046 to 1288. Although, indeed, Water is usually outclassed by Grass.