Here we will post pokemon we feel are ovverated.underates, and why.

MY biggest one is Blaziken. People think it looks cool, it is fast, it has great attack. It does have great attack stats, but those are the ONLY good ones. They aren't going to do much for you witt that low speed and terrible defenses! Of course, many people feel differently, which is why it is overated, and why it is on the top of my list........

Almost all of the starters' final evos are over-rated (same goes for legendaries). I don't see why people use them so much when they aren't all that great... the Grass starters are especially overrated, as these are usually the worst of the trios. Hopefully the P/D starters won't be as over-used as the previous ones.

And also, one of the most over-rated Pokemon in existance - Gardevoir. Lol, I love to use it and I guess I kinda over-rate it. It's not always that great, especially when it comes to NB.

As for under-rated, well... I've never really thought about what Pokemon are under-rated and such, so I'll just leave this one.

Overrated

Sceptile- Last time I used it, it sucked badly. The only good thing about it is Speed and Leaf Blade.

Swampert- It seems great until it battles a Grass type.

Blaziken- I agree with mudkipman about Blaziken. The only good thing is its attack and Blaze Kick.

Underrated

Luvdisc- It sucks in battle, but it comes with a heart scale sometimes. If you ask me, it's worth it.

Venasaur- Almost everyone I know who plays pokemon against me doesn't use a Venasaur because it's weak. It has good stats and good moves and I beat them with it every battle. They still don't shut up about it though.

I think Jarichi is overrated. Personaly, I try to avoid using it, I don't like it's attacks.

Overrated: blissey/skarmory (building teams became centered around counters to these things).

Underrated: Dugtrio. Killing Machine. Nuff Said.

OVerrated: dragons in general: every bodyseems to have one. Yet they usually have bad sp Def and ice beam kills them
Underreated: crobat. I love it, but noone seems to be passinet (sp) enough to get it. Yet they go after blissey...

Sorry, but I have to say this. Dragons? Bad special defense? The world is a sad place when a base 80 to 105 is bad. Sure, they're overrated, but they don't have bad special defense. Nope, it's the common four times weakness to ice that finishes them off.

I think that Skarmory is completely overatted. Me, seeing that everyone on Netbattle either has one or bases their Team around, decides to go and capture one, thinking it will be great to train, and what happens, I challenge my friend, and it gets wiped out by a Clefable, using Metrenome to Sacred Fire. It's put me off since.

Underrated; Though I think Arcanine looks cool, everyone uses him, but no one realises that its movepool completely mucks him up. He can't even do the whole sunnybeam - business.

Well I have to argue with dragons. Shure they get a little crazy with them but they are worth having! I would be happy with a dragon that had Earthquake, Flamethrower (much better than Fire Blast or Overheat), Outrage-Dragon Claw-or Dragonbreath, and Thunder. I would use a team of dragons (make shure you have a fighting or fire type in you party).

A lot of you guys have put my thoughts into words, but some I don't agree with

The comment on swampert is my biggest one. I wouldn't say that swampert is the epitome of awesome, but it isn't terrible. I'm not saying that you are saying it is, but if anything, I feel it is actually underrated.

It has an awesome counter to grass types, ice beam. It has pretty nice defense and special defense, so it can actually take grass type-hits pretty well, and then Ice beam them. People take the weakness to grass types a little to far, like almost all weaknesses (except for dragons to ice)

An Miasma. FINALLY someone shares my viewpoint on Meowth/persian. Those things have been abused for so many years, this is great!

man I absolutly hate spinda. they are the MOST irritating pokemon i've ever seen!



I used it the first time i played coluseeum, the only thing i didn't like was it was slow, but that's ok.

<font color="999999">I totally agree with this guy! he is just right at this, Pikachu was good in the old days, but it is now just a face! (rithm).

About Dragonite, believe it or not, I used it over Salamence, it is just like a curse or something that my friend fell in love with this dragon (¬.¬) when he saw it for the first time!, Salamance could be faster than my brown, bulky dragon, but his Ice Beam pwns even Rayquaza; how many fear-causing Salamance have you seen using Ice Beam/Blizzard/Icy Wind? yep, never

Underrated?

may be Bellosom, or Chimecho or even Togetic, maybe also... Foretress?

I think is the most overated pokemopn of all, as well as most legendarys, I know the are powerfull but they can be defeated by a normal team.

As for Underated pkmn I would mention and

I can't understand why anyone would underrate altaria and Lapris. (Lapris kiked my butt on stadium)

no duh

Underrated;

Ampharos kicks Pikachu in just about anything.

Scythers are great for catching PokeMon with false swipe + High Attack and Speed you can catch almost any in 2 turns XD.

Crobats don't have the best move set but it is great for finishing off minimizers and double teamers with airiel ace. Poison too pl0x.

I think the most underrated pokemon is Yanma and Arbok. Yanma can be great in terms of strategy. Arbok can be real deadly if you teach it the right moves. Another would be Mr.Mime. It can also be a great asset in a battle, stratagey wise like Yanma

i think in general the und rated folk include:
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? Why? It's awful, stat-wise and movepool-wise, and only a fool would use it in serious competition (sorry to all you fools out there...)

I don´t think is overated, in fact the only reason to use it is light ball. And really deserves to be an Uber pkmn, his speed, special attack, moveset and type combination makes him an excelent special sweeper.

Overated:
Skarmory: It Sucks
Blissey: What good is it it cant attack
Kyogre: A waste of time

Underated:
Mightyena: A killer in RuSa Emerald
Ninjask: High Attack an Speed nuff said
Venusaur: Personally i think its the best