Why make completely unusable gimmickmons like Pyukumuku and Wobbuffet? Even when you want to use them in a playthrough they're barely usable.
>>58190558I'm glad Wobbuffet was excluded from Arceus, Scarlet and Violet.
>>58190558having pyukumuku on my team saved me from losing against ultra necrozma in my first usum playthrough
>>58190558merchandising
>>58190726They'd be better for merchandising if people got attached to them through gameplay
>>58190558Pyukumuku is usable if you know what you’re doing. Get gud scrub>Toxic>Soak>Protect>Recover>Leftovers>Innards Out
>>58190817If you're playing a gimmicky set on smogon sure you can make it work, but if you're playing the actual game it's an actual chore to use it over literally anything else
>>58190817>t.shit tier player
>>58190558They’re cute and marketable.
>>58190754>people only buy plushies of the strongest Pokémon they use in their playthroughstell me more about how powerful Pichu and Slowpoke are
>>58190558>create innards out, an ability that would be amazing on a pokemon with high hp and low defenses>give it to a pokemon with low hp and high defenseswhat were they THINKING
>>58190558You need stuff like that in the game. Pokemon like that are supposed to be like traps like the player is supposed to be ignorant of the different Pokémon like put of hundreds of Pokémon they ALL cant be useful.
>>58190987Well erm uhh pichu is obviously errr great in smash bros and slowpoke is uh well err*SHARTS*
>>58191155>anon learns about game balance
>>58190558My brother in christ it's a sea cucumber. The fuck else you expect it to do besides shit out its guts?
>>58190558I've used Wobbuffet a handful of times in singleplayer. It's really good at cheesing late-game fights.
>>58190558If you aren't a compshitter they're usable.
>>58190754Why do you think Wobbufett was made the Fourth Wheel of Team Rocket? They don't need the games exclusively to make a Pokemon into a merchandisable shillmon.
>>58190558Wobbuffet WAS good in competitive singles at some point though.
>>58190987>>58191893slowbro is unironically a great bulky mon to use in a campaign playthroughit's not slowpoke technically but people still get attached to the prevo forms of mons they like (e.g. eevee)
>>58190831This exactly. Pyukumuku is fun in PvP. But during a playthrough it turns easy battles into unnecessary slogs.But sure, if you have fun killing the obligatory full team of Magikarps with Toxic, be my guest.
>>58190985They’re be more marketable if they weren’t worthless shitmons
>>58193812Just because they're bad in the mainline games doesn't mean they don't have value elsewhere, such as the TCG, mobile spinoffs or animated media.
>>58190558Pyukumuku is probably the best thing to come out of that generation.
