| Gnizmo said:
My point is exactly what I originally posted. Calling all legendaries broken is non-sense, and they do not come close to dominating the tournament scene. Did you miss that part of the OP? The real question is what was your point? Other than pointing out something I had mentioned in my post, and making factually incorrect additions like pseudo legendaries being prevealent in the Uber Tier (For the peanut gallery: There are as many baby Pokemon as pseudo legendaries in the Uber tier). They float up to the OU tier commonly, but still make up a minority in it. Yes they are good, but no they don't really have a huge impact on the tournament scene. And I really don't expect much more from Articuno. The only one of any legendary trio to consistently place in the OU tier is Zapdos, and that is because it has a really good type combination, and a good stat distribution. It just easily supports my argument and was the first one I checked on. I wouldn't be surprised to find Moltres or a few others down there as well. |
Yeah, I did miss that point in the OP. Is it somewhere else besides number 5? All that point is about is saying there are too many.
My point is what the first post was. Legendary pokemon dominate the Uber tier. That pretty much nulls your statement of "For the most part they are not actually all that much better than the normal ones." That is to say, you lied. You can't have just about every pokemon in the highest power tier of the game be a legendary and then say they're not all that much better than normal ones.
I agree with Articuno and Moltres being lower though. It's the X4 to rock that totally kills them because it means that they take 50% of their HP in damage from Stealth Rock which is one of the first setups you'll have to deal with. Toss in Stone Edge which gets around quite a bit into the mix as well as weakness to other common types like Water and Electric and they're pretty much done. Ho-oh is in a similar situation to Moltres but it's boasting base stats of 680 total (same as Mewtwo) whereas Moltres is running 580. The disparity in power between the two is shocking, but that's why Ho-oh is stays high tier and Moltres doesn't.
Most of uber isn't held by legendary trios though, it's held by the individual legends like Deoxys, Mewtwo, Mew, Arceus, etc. There are a few trio members that come close to that level (Suicune is the biggest IMO), but not many make it all the way up there. Garchomp manages but that's because it's a beast. A couple weeks back I swept a friend's entire team with a dancing Garchomp.
