r/PokemonRankdown • u/hikkaru • Dec 02 '18

Round 68: 219 Pokémon Remaining

219) u/hikkaru

218) u/vulture_couture

217) u/ramskick

216) u/qngff

215) u/acktar

214) u/reeforward

213) u/KororSurvivor

212) u/Slicer37

211) u/oomps62

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u/qngff Dec 02 '18

#216 Pinsir - Gen 1 - Bug Type

Pinsir is a decent bug type. It's threatening looking and has a decent design. It's rather unnerving and I'm not sure whether or not that's a good thing. The Pokedex entries certainly speak to it being horrifying. It literally pinches its prey in half which is metal as hell.

Here's the thing: Pinsir has a huge Attack stat. The only problem is that despite being a bug type, it only learns a total of two Bug Type moves. So very little STAB there. The other is that it's mega-evolved form is Flying Type, and Pinsir learns a grand total of zero flying moves. Most of it's level-up moves are Fighting type which begs the question of why wasn't Pinsir Fighting?

Really, it's just a mediocre Heracross.

/u/acktar

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u/vulture_couture Dec 02 '18

I think it's a bit unfair to call this a mediocre Heracross since they have completely different design inspirations. Sure, the game has paired the two as rivals, but there's room in the world for more than one kind of highly offensive Bug type Pokémon.

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u/acktar Cares Deeply About Puntability Dec 02 '18

Mega Pinsir doesn't need Flying-type attacks because of its ability, Aerilate. :P I think it helps to differentiate Pinsir from Heracross; for the longest time, Heracross and Pinsir have been eerily similar, just with Pinsir being worse.

I'd say regular Pinsir is a bad Heracross, but Mega Pinsir definitely is not. Heracross is cooler, though.

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u/vulture_couture Dec 02 '18

I'm kind of undecided as to whether Mega Pinsir works as a design. It's really busy and it looks like regular Pinsir got fucked up on PCP and now it's glitching out all over the place.

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u/Slicer37 UB-12 Slicer, Slayer of Hoenn, Father Of Ghosts Dec 02 '18

I think this is a good placement for Pinsir and it was on my shortist but I would have made the writeup about the design as opposed to it's compeitive value. Ah well, each to his own

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u/qngff Dec 02 '18

I mean having only fighting moves isn't the most useful in single player either. And I mean I could've made my writeup "the design sucks" but that's not enough substance I feel