I just don't get why GF make them so terrible in game. Nothing about them warrant this much scurrility. Croagunk stat are below average for two stage evolution, yet it didn't evolve until 37, even later than your 3 stages starter.
It typing isn't anything special to warrant such low stats either, with 4x weakness to Psychic which many special attacker carry. With their abysmal defend and low speed, they die to just neutral stab hit or a single non-stab psychic move.
Their STAB isn't that effective as well, only notably good against Normal, Steel, Dark and Fairy but plenty of Fairy are carry Psychic move and they got neutral hit by both Normal and Steel.
Despite their glass canon stat, both of their ability are defensive one, with random water immunity which is not very useful since he can't stab super effective them. Poison touch are chance based and Poison is the worst status for in game run since no one playing stall here.
And talk about in game run, even their movepool are terrible. Despite their poison type, they only know Poison Sting and Poison Jab as physical move, with Poison Jab always at over level 30. That mean you have to play half of the game with Poison Sting. May as well just run a pure Fighting Pokemon at that point. Without TM, this pokemon is unusable.
Like I don't get it, what is so good about them that GF feels the need to nerf them this much? It just feel terrible using him in story run that I almost never finish a run with them in my team.
by SecureDonkey