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Pokémon Reborn In-Game Tier List


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What with the new changes in the types of Pokémon available in the game, I've decided to create a tier list of my own detailing the usefulness of the Pokémon that are presently attainable.

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More will be added later, and you're always free to post suggestions; I'll take into account everything substantive that anyone may have to say.

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I like this tier list (Gyarados R.I.P.) but shouldn't Alakazam be at least B tier? Offensively it's a monster (like Gengar) the only drawback is that you get it too late but hey you can always grind (like i did for Metagross and Tyrantrum)

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Blaziken is pretty overrated. Due to the lack of life orb/swords dance, blaziken frequently fails to outright 1hko a foe, and will get worn out quickly due to lacklaster defenses. Reliance on recoil moves also makes him poor at going through random fodder you encounter along the way.

Greninja suffers from an aweful movepool due to the lack of decent TMs to make good use of protean. Without all the TM moves, it's lackluster at best.

Infernape is significantly better than the other 2, being powerful, reliable, and not TM dependent.

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Diggersby:

+ Avaliable after second gym.

+ Insanely powerful (especially when EV trained with decent IVs)

+ High powered and accurate dual stabs with good neutral coverage.

+ (Barely) fast enough to outspeed most threats with speed EV investments.

- Takes a while to find one with good IVs and huge power, and even longer to EV train one. (looking at a few hrs of effort)

- Not that great if not properly EV trained.

- Gets completely screwed over by haunter/gengar due to lack of TMs for coverage.

On my main playthrough, I was lucky enough to find an adamant diggersby with 30 att and 28 speed IVs. After EV training, it OHKO almost anything that doesn't resist it. Bulky resists typically gets 2hko'd, while less bulky ones dying in 1 hit anyways. Being able to actually outspeed almost everything helps too. (Hey, the AI pokemon apparently have terrible IVs and EVs...)

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Azumarill:

+ Avaliable after second gym.

+ Significantly stronger than the water starters, often able to 1hko the foe.

+ Bulky, can take quite a beating.

+ Good stab combination.

- Breeding aqua jet won't happen anytime soon, combined with unsalvageably low speed causes it to almost always tank a hit before striking back.

- Unreliable accuracy, while 90% isn't bad, it isn't reliable enough given reborn's difficulty curve and the fact that you are constantly getting hit.

- Takes ages to evolve from the useless azuril due to being friendship evolution before you get a bicycle or enough cash to keep giving it haircuts.

- Stuck with only one stab for quite some time, as play rough won't be avaliable until lvl 50.

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  On 5/25/2014 at 8:16 PM, Hally said:

Blaziken is pretty overrated. Due to the lack of life orb/swords dance, blaziken frequently fails to outright 1hko a foe, and will get worn out quickly due to lacklaster defenses. Reliance on recoil moves also makes him poor at going through random fodder you encounter along the way.

Greninja suffers from an aweful movepool due to the lack of decent TMs to make good use of protean. Without all the TM moves, it's lackluster at best.

Infernape is significantly better than the other 2, being powerful, reliable, and not TM dependent.

you can't be more wrong about Blaziken. It got Bulk up by level up, and Bluk up is good enough for him, after one boost, max atk blaziken still OHKO anything with STAB High Jump Kick (195 base Atk counting STAB) and Flare Blitz (180 base). AND you think it can't learn Sword Dance?? don't make me laugh, you just don't know how to teach him Sword dance :v :v, and it ONLY need life orb for UBER pokemons, not in-game mediocre pkms. and for Greninja is the same issue. you just don't know how to teach him good move without TMs, I CAN get greninja with this moveset: Hydro Pump/ Ice Beam/ Dark Pulse/ Extrasensory- is that powerful enough??? or even Infernape without elemental punch is not that good.

and you don't know how Azumaril can get BOTH AQUA Jet AND WATERFALL. so the "90% acc" doesn't matter :v. and i think your Diggersby don't have Return too, am i right?? :)

all of this required breeding. so if you want a powerful pokemon, don't say something like:"it's so late to get this pokemon, so it's not worth". it's ridiculous. you want something--> you have to give much effort to get it.

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I'll consider moving Abra up, but it really does take too much time to get that far into the game.

  On 5/25/2014 at 8:16 PM, Hally said:

Blaziken is pretty overrated. Due to the lack of life orb/swords dance, blaziken frequently fails to outright 1hko a foe, and will get worn out quickly due to lacklaster defenses. Reliance on recoil moves also makes him poor at going through random fodder you encounter along the way.

Greninja suffers from an aweful movepool due to the lack of decent TMs to make good use of protean. Without all the TM moves, it's lackluster at best.

Infernape is significantly better than the other 2, being powerful, reliable, and not TM dependent.

I agree, but the point I was trying to make is that Blaziken's held in high regard for good reason; it does do high damage without taking much in exchange, even if it is only notorious due to all the excessive hype. I prefer Infernape over any of the other starters myself. Additionally, Greninja does only begin with Water-type and Normal-type moves, but it's certainly better than any of the alternatives, and it's still quite effective (certainly worthwhile) even dealing neutral damage between the two; what's exceptionally good about it is that it's reliable throughout the game, can avoid facing as much damage as it would otherwise have to take, and ends up being remarkably strong when it was already a capable Pokémon to begin with (and it's going to have even more use seeing how Gyarados has been removed).

I also heard that the Azurill event has been altered.

I'll take Diggersby into consideration; I've never used it myself.

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this needs to be edited but if you remember in peridot, if you get a bibarel you can trade it for an abra. Unless it was changed in episode 11, that needs to be edited. Plus the linkstone can be retrieved after shelly, or after Aya.

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  On 5/25/2014 at 8:51 PM, jman390 said:

this needs to be edited but if you remember in peridot, if you get a bibarel you can trade it for an abra. Unless it was changed in episode 11, that needs to be edited. Plus the linkstone can be retrieved after shelly, or after Aya.

Yeah; the Abra in the trade has been replaced by Litleo (what's really screwy is that you get a Linkstone itself before you get the opportunity to capture any of the Pokémon with whom it's actually used).

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Yea, the event was changed from Abra to Litleo.

  On 5/25/2014 at 8:16 PM, Hally said:

Blaziken is pretty overrated. Due to the lack of life orb/swords dance, blaziken frequently fails to outright 1hko a foe, and will get worn out quickly due to lacklaster defenses. Reliance on recoil moves also makes him poor at going through random fodder you encounter along the way.

I agree that Blaziken is overrated, even though I used it. But Blaziken can oko many pokemon with High Jump Kick itself. Bulk Up is a fine replacement for Swords Dance, which can be breeded onto Blaziken, and you definetely don't need a Life Orb as most of the pokemon you're facing aren't top-notch quality pokemon. And to be honest, I don't see why you need to kill random fodder when you just run away from them..

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Missing one HJK means you probalby lost your blaziken. The sheer number of random battles you fight in a playthrough makes HJK misses more annoying than ever. I prefer brick break over HJK for the reliability, but brick break requires swords dance for sufficient power, bulk up often falls short of the 1hkos. It takes far too long to breed the swords dance and brick break onto your torchic (and hope it has good IVs.) I really don't believe it's worth all that time spent if you are not doing a specific challenge.

If you don't mind all the HJK miss induced soft-resets, you probably don't even need a setup move. Frequently resetting in a playthrough doesn't feel S rank worthy in my opinion.

I honestly consider infernape to be much better than blaziken for playthroughs.

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As for breeding a froakie with a good movepool... well, by the time you get that done and train up your new greninja; you'd probably beat luna already if you simply went with chimchar as your starter instead.

EDIT: by random fodder, I mean all the random trainer battles you encounter along the way. There aren't many outside of reborn city, but I don't think that's a trend to stay. Restarting random trainer battles because blaziken missed a HJK is just too annoying.

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Froakie doesn't need a good movepool to be bred with; it gains progressively stronger moves as you play through the game (albeit very slowly). Furthermore, its strength coupled with its ability is fantastic. In fact, its strength in Attack and Special Attack in addition to its excellent Speed is good on its own.

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Froakie is pretty underwhelming until the shade gym, and fails pretty badly at luna. I just don't feel it's S rank worthy, as the level up moves just aren't strong enough against all the opponents you come up against.

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  On 5/25/2014 at 9:39 PM, Hally said:

Froakie is pretty underwhelming until the shade gym, and fails pretty badly at luna. I just don't feel it's S rank worthy, as the level up moves just aren't strong enough against all the opponents you come up against.

That is an excellent point.

That is, if you're using it on its own. It still handles a considerable extent of the adversaries you'll encounter overall, even if it does have trouble against Gym Leaders and bosses. It prevails against nearly all of the opposing Pokémon you face, and, as I'd mentioned earlier, all the Water-type starters are nigh-useless against the Gym Leaders in the beginning. Froakie's the only one that can still be useful even then (mainly with Quick Attack), and it gets even better throughout the game.

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I guess I'm just spoiled too much by diggersby, which handles pretty much everything except for the gengars and super high level special pokemons. I do feel greninja (with just level up moves) is a step down from infernape though, in terms of what it can handle.

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Also, how will double battles be dealt with? Some gyms are double battle gyms, and there will be more doubles in the future from the sounding of pledge move changes.

Flygon + diggersby works extremely well in doubles, but flygon is mediocre at best in singles; how will pokemon like flygon be rated.

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Is there anything special about this one over mine? It is a lot less filled out, and mine is still updated to the current episode. I havnt done anything recently because of the forums bugging out and my computer crashing, but i will be replacing it relatively soon.

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  On 5/25/2014 at 10:05 PM, Hally said:

Also, how will double battles be dealt with? Some gyms are double battle gyms, and there will be more doubles in the future from the sounding of pledge move changes.

I have some problems with this tier listing thread already (such as no mention of Dragon Rage making Charmeleon wipe the floor with the first two gyms -no contest- in roughly 7 turns, can almost guarantee Ralts not being 0-badge-available, etc), but I wanted to make a quick point that the implementation written for the pledge moves allows for single battles and double battles to use them in a similar fashion and doesn't imply increased amount of double battles per se.

  On 5/25/2014 at 7:27 PM, Truly Deceptive said:

So, with Pokémon Reborn beginning as it does, you think you're given a fair opportunity to roll with any Pokémon you want; right?

I'm also not sure why anyone would think this ... or why there's a need for a second tier list at all, but I digress.

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'twas a joke made in jest.

...but kind of a shame that it does tend to be the case (Water-type starters just can't win, and some Pokémon are shamefully outclassed).

Oh; also, I'd completely forgotten about Dragon Rage Charmeleon. Thanks for reminding me.

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  On 5/25/2014 at 10:20 PM, Truly Deceptive said:

...but kind of a shame that it does tend to be the case (Water-type starters just can't win, and some Pokémon are shamefully outclassed).

Not sure I agree with this either (Mudkip is great, Oshawott does well in BW2 and holds its own in BW1, and Reborn allowing for Protean Froakie lets it run circles around the AI. Additionally Bulbasaur and Turtwig are great, and Chespin is decent as well).

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Yeah, there really is no point to this thread, seeing as we already have a tier list thread that works well enough and is much more comprehensive in the number of pokemon it covers.

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  On 5/25/2014 at 10:20 PM, Truly Deceptive said:

(Water-type starters just can't win, and some Pokémon are shamefully outclassed)

im using swampert and i can say that pokemon save me a lot of times, and totally owns gym leaders like the first one, aya, and cain can´t touch you with him

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  On 5/26/2014 at 12:35 AM, Sheep93 said:

Yeah, there really is no point to this thread, seeing as we already have a tier list thread that works well enough and is much more comprehensive in the number of pokemon it covers.

Khey wasn't here for a while (@Khey: I understand the situation completely though. Forums went down for a while, and most people bar Vinny has a life, so there's that too), and as you may or may not know: Old topics gets replaced by updated ones.

I'm not going to lock this topic, but Khey's list does have a lot of info already. On the worse case, i could change this into a discussion topic and pin a topic just for the tier list, much like RD's Reborn guide.

But i'll see what we can do about that in the future

and by future i mean next week since i have to tests. So yeah ^^

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  On 5/26/2014 at 3:57 AM, Vinny953 said:

Khey wasn't here for a while, and as you may or may not know: Old topics gets replaced by updated ones.

I'm not going to lock this topic, but Khey's list does have a lot of info already. On the worse case, i could change this into a discussion topic and pin a topic just for the tier list, much like RD's Reborn guide.

But i'll see what we can do about that in the future

and by future i mean next week since i have to tests. So yeah ^^

Fair enough. You're a mod and I'm not so you know better than me how stuff works around here. I'll trust you to do whatever's best.

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RIP Crobat He used to be a A MURDERER now he is still good but his rather late accesibility makes him a bit less usefull id say A tier

Here is why He has a great moveset with oves such as acrobatics Confuse ray Poison fang and Others With breeding he can become a good specialy offensive pokemon because he can get Nasty plot that way

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  On 5/26/2014 at 3:57 AM, Vinny953 said:

Khey wasn't here for a while (@Khey: I understand the situation completely though. Forums went down for a while, and most people bar Vinny has a life, so there's that too), and as you may or may not know: Old topics gets replaced by updated ones.

I'm not going to lock this topic, but Khey's list does have a lot of info already. On the worse case, i could change this into a discussion topic and pin a topic just for the tier list, much like RD's Reborn guide.

But i'll see what we can do about that in the future

and by future i mean next week since i have to tests. So yeah ^^

I think that would be an excellent idea. :)

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