Also known as Green in the Japanese version of the Generation I Pokemon games, Blue is the main rival to the player in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Red & Blue and remains to this day one of the best riv🍌als in the Pokemon series. Not only is he always one step ahead of the player, but he always feels like a challenge in the context of🌳 the other battles around the player character, something that has been lost in more recent generations.
Having appeared so early in the series, Blue has had many iterations over the years and has come back for several games, including his role as the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Viridian gym leader in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Gold & Silver as well as both Red and Blue appearing in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Generation VII games for the Battle Tree post-gam🍸e content. Thanks to his many appearances, Blue has had many, many different Pokemon in his team, with some being far better than others.
26 Raticate
If there wasn't the running theory that Blue was visiting the 🌄Pokemon Tower because the player killed his Raticate in the S.S. Anne battle, it would be very easy to forget that he even had a Raticate. Only appearing in two battles, Ratatta, and later Raticate, didn't put up much of a fight and it's no wonder that he swapped it out later in the game.
25 Sandslash
Only appearing in a handful of battles in Pokemon Yellow, Sandslash makes about as big an impact on Blue's team as Raticate did, with a pathetic range of moves that only really gets better by the time players reach the Pokemon League, where its168澳洲幸运5开奖网: only notable attack is Earthquake.
24 Clefable
Only appearing in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon Stadium, Blue's Clefable had the potential to be a great threat that fell flat due to its poor stats and misuse. With Psychic, Thunderbolt, Blizzard, and Double Edge, it has the ability to hit most Pokemon for at least neutral damage, though this isn't the way a Clefable is supposed to be used and makes it a rather lackluster choice for hi♑s team.
23 Pinsir
Like Clefable, Pinsir only appears in Pokemon Stadium 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:and had the potential to be a great threat🎐, only to be let down by the fact that Pinsir can't learn a single Bug-type move. However, with Swords Da𝐆nce, Seismic Toss, Hyper Beam, and Toxic, it has the potential to plow through teams that don't deal with it fast enough, though it will fall very fast to a well-placed Flamethrower.
22 ಞ Electabuzz
Another Pokemon Stadium exclusive that would later become one of Gary's Sinnoh Pokemon as Electivire in the anime, Electabuzz suffers not from its moveset, but from its stats. Unfortunately, while it has Thunderbolt, Thunder Wave, Reflect, and Seismic Toss toඣ use, this isn't enough to deal significant damage to the player's team.
Both Reflect and Thunder Wave have the p☂otential to make the player's life hard, but Electabuzz is so frail that it can be felled by any relatively powerful neutral attackꦚ.
21 Piloswine
While Blue's Round One team in Pokemon Stadium 2 is easily one of his best, incorporating Pokemon used in Red, Blue & Y🐎ellow, his Round Two team is significantly worse.
One of these team members is Piloswine, which isn't terrible as it is holding a Quick Claw and has the moves Ice Beam, Rock Slide, Earthquake, and Roar. But, like Electabuzz, it is able to be knocked out far too 🤪ea✤sily.
20 Scyther
Another Pokemon from Blue's Round Two team, Scyther would have been better utilized had it been evolved,168澳洲幸运5开奖网: but as a Bug and Flying-type, t𝓡here are too many moves that can easily𓂃 take it down.
The biggest threat that Scyther can present is with Baton Pass, as it has both Agility and Swords Dance alongside Wing Attack, 𒉰meaning if the player doesn't knock it out fast, it may pass high stats onto another teammate.
19 Houndoom
While Houndoom isn't as good as one of Blue's other 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fire-type Pokemon, it is still fairly decent and makes for a good addition to his Round Twꦺo team in Pokemon Stadium 2.
That being said, it suffers from two of its coverage moves, Iron Tail and Reversal, being physical attacks while Flamethrower and Crunc🌟h are special attacks — moves that it makes better use of thanks🎉 to its stat distribution.
18 Slowbro
Of the handful of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Water-type Pokemon that Blue has used in Pokemon Stadium, Slowbro may be one of the best examples of wasted potential. While it has powerful moves l💃ike Psychic, Surf, Earthquake, and Blizzard at its disposal, it suffers from not having more support moves to help it make up for its low speed, meaning it can often be knocked out rather quickly.
17 Magneton
Appearing only in Blue's Yellow team if his Eevee doesn't evolve into Jolteon, Magneton suffers from having a very shallow movepool at the time, though it is still a powerful 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Electric-type in its own right.
The main difficulty that plaꦕyers will face is with its combination of Thunder Wave,🐼 Screech, Swift, and Thunderbolt, which can easily tear through teams that aren't able to cope with the Paralysis status effect.