The 40 Best Pokemon to Use in Pokemon Go
Great article on the top 40 Pokémon. My personal opinion, anything outside the top 20 is not a good fighter worthy of using at gyms. Hell I'd argue everything outside the top 11 isn't very good. Even within the top 11, Flareon and Blastoise haven't impressed me at all. They're fun! but they aren't good.
There is sooooo much potential for this game if they'd make half the pokemon worthy of fighting/defending with. Snorlax and Lapras are waaaay overpowered imo. Dragonite is sick too but he doesn't take forever to kill and he's much more obtainable. I have 3 Dragonites, evolved 2 of them. Snorlax took me months to catch 3 and I got lunch in the last 2 weeks to get the 3 I have. Lapras is a bitch to fight at the gyms.
The best common good fighter imo is Exeggutor. Tons of eggs everywhere, lots of hp on Exeggutor and if you get solar beam that ability can knock half life or more off a lot of good pokemon.
All that said, I'm still working on maxing out about every pokemon on the top 40 list just to do it. I try to save good IVs of each and then one day when I have enough stardust I'll power them all up. Sometimes I don't revive/heal my pokemon after fighting gyms so I can use my crappier pokemon just to see what they can do even if they suck. Gets boring healing my dragonite, exxegutor, vaporeon, arcanine and Gyarados over and over to see their same moves again and again.
Great article on the top 40 Pokémon. My personal opinion, anything outside the top 20 is not a good fighter worthy of using at gyms. Hell I'd argue everything outside the top 11 isn't very good. Even within the top 11, Flareon and Blastoise haven't impressed me at all. They're fun! but they aren't good.
There is sooooo much potential for this game if they'd make half the pokemon worthy of fighting/defending with. Snorlax and Lapras are waaaay overpowered imo. Dragonite is sick too but he doesn't take forever to kill and he's much more obtainable. I have 3 Dragonites, evolved 2 of them. Snorlax took me months to catch 3 and I got lunch in the last 2 weeks to get the 3 I have. Lapras is a bitch to fight at the gyms.
The best common good fighter imo is Exeggutor. Tons of eggs everywhere, lots of hp on Exeggutor and if you get solar beam that ability can knock half life or more off a lot of good pokemon.
All that said, I'm still working on maxing out about every pokemon on the top 40 list just to do it. I try to save good IVs of each and then one day when I have enough stardust I'll power them all up. Sometimes I don't revive/heal my pokemon after fighting gyms so I can use my crappier pokemon just to see what they can do even if they suck. Gets boring healing my dragonite, exxegutor, vaporeon, arcanine and Gyarados over and over to see their same moves again and again.
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