Worst move?

[Vlado Vladimir]

From moves that are intended as a joke or to be useless on the first place, I'm obviously going to say splash, celebrate and hold hands. I mean, c'mon, if these moves do virtually nothing, you can't expect them to ever be good or bad. Being good or bad would be a privilege for these moves.

From attacking moves, I'd say pretty much all moves of less than 35 base power. Not only are they weak, but for some reason they also got 85% accuracty to boot, I mean why? why would you make a move like fury swipes have 85acc? are you afraid that with 100%acc it would be OP? well sadly, not even then it would be anything more than a weak move. The list includes: double slap, constrict, fury swipes, take down, bind, fury attack, leech life, wrap, poison sting, comet punch, abosrb, bubble, rage, mud-slap, and to some extent, twin needle, pin missile, and all those with 25 base power but that at least have more than one it.

From status moves, I'd say quash, imprison, me first (you never get lucky with it), sing (wouldn't be here if it wasn't for horrible 55% accuracy), hypnosis (was it too much to let it have 75-85% accuracy?), kinesis (same thing for the accuracy), spite (have you ever used it, honestly?), memento (I mean, you could have it be like curse and cut your HP to half, but having you to actually die for it? if you're gonna die this move could at least lower the opponent's stats three stages or four...), snatch (never, ever got lucky predicting with this one), bestow, grass whistle (that accuracy dammit), and I'm sure I'm forgetting some..

Well those "weak moves" like Absorb, Bubble, etc. are part of the pokemon growth in my opinion, it doesn't make sense (in my opinion) a baby level 3 Budew with a 75 Base Power like Giga Drain, so I'm ok with most of these moves Edited June 2, 2015 by Vlado Vladimir

[pyrromanis]

Well those "weak moves" like Absorb, Bubble, etc. are part of the pokemon growth in my opinion, it doesn't make sense (in my opinion) a baby level 3 Budew with a 75 Base Power like Giga Drain, so I'm ok with most of these moves

Exactly! If every pokemon in the early game had 70+ base power moves everything would be OHKO or 2HKO. That wouldn't be really fun :/

[zimvader42]

Well those "weak moves" like Absorb, Bubble, etc. are part of the pokemon growth in my opinion, it doesn't make sense (in my opinion) a baby level 3 Budew with a 75 Base Power like Giga Drain, so I'm ok with most of these moves

See where you're coming from and I agree with absorb to an extent (always liked the trilogy absorb>mega drain>giga drain), but I'd like them to be stronger (except bubble I guess, which actually got doubled in power since past generations). Leech life being one I never particularly understood why was so weak: fully evolved pokemon can learn it (not too much into the whole pokemon growth deal you were talking about) and yet it has only 20 BP. I mean you're draining your opponent's blood, and you're using fangs for it (in the case of things like zubat, noivern, etc,) why would you just deal 20BP? recovering 50% of the HP dealt by a 20BP attack is almost nonsensical (even for absorb IMO: they could have made it into a 40BP like bubble, then mega drain 60BP and giga drain 80BP).

Of course it doesn't make sense a baby budew having giga drain (it would be quite hilarious tho XD), but these moves are weaker than they should be IMO, as 40BP would be much better for them (and leech life, to me, should have a BP of at least 50, but oh well).