Pokemon: What's wrong and what it needs

[Words Of Wisdom]

Gnizmo said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

 

I still don't understand.

I didn't use the word broken.  The OP didn't use the word broken.  You are the only person in this entire thread to even use that word.  Who exactly are you arguing against?

Also, broken to me was the Deoxys I faced the other week that had the Wonder Guard ability.

 

Cheaters do anything they can to win. It is predictable if annoying. It is one of the better reasons to round out the online experience for Pokemon a bit better. Having no true counters would be the simplest definition of broken/over powered in my view. At least as it applies to pokemon. It is not a broad enough definition admittedly, but it works when you weed out the clearly superior ones, and then see how the dust settles.

I use the term broken because of how I view the world. Things are either balanced, or not. If not they are broken for better or worse. In this case I use it to mean significantly better than other pokemon. The majority of legendaries are found in OU or lower. This is the same as with all pokemon. As such, most legendaries are balanced. The minority are much more powerful than non-legendary pokemon. DPPt was particularly bad about introducing unbalanced pokemon though.

I have fewer problems with the overpowered pokemon than the underpowered ones.  There are 20-25ish pokemon in the uber tier but there's a mountain of them in the NU tier.  Just once I'd like to have a Butterfree, Arbok, or Ditto on my team and have it be awesome.