The q💝uestion of which is ‘better’ is one of the oldest known to humankind. We just can’t get away from this whole competitive idea. Right from an early age, there we were at recess, demanding to know which our classmates think is better: Nintendo or Sega. This is totally subjective, but friendships were won and lost and sexualities questioned over this decision.
The question of whether Mew or Mewtwo is better is another controversial one. On the one hand, Mewtwo brings much more to the table in terms of sheer power, if we’re talking special attack stats in the games. That’s enough for some straight away, but it can be a tough one to answe✤r. Did you watch Mewtwo carve a path of death and destruction through the movie? If you did, you might be inclined to think it’s stronger and better too.
You’ve got to look inside, though, and consider the f🍷acts from all angles. This is one of the inspirational after school special messages that Pokémon has always tried to get across. It’s not just ab﷽out power, it’s about trusting and believing and all of that flowery hippy stuff.
Mew might seem relatively harmless in comparison. It is the quiet, unassuming ying to Mewtwo’s CRUSH AND DESTROY yang. The party pooper🌺. Despite that, it’s not to be underestimated. This little guy has powers and abilities that the volatile clone Pokémon will never have. Buckle up, friends, and🌳 let’s take a look at 15 Things Mew Can Do That Mewtwo Can’t.
15 Shapeshifting That Ditto Would Be Proud Of
Ditto, I think we can all agree, isn’t the most awe-inspiring of Pokémon. It’s just an adorable little hunk of jello nothing, and while that’s kind o⛎f a talking point at parties, it’s really not going to get you too far in life. That don’t impress me much, as Shania Twain once said.
The one thing Ditto is known for is stealing the 🎐appearance, stats (bar HP) and moves of opposing Pokémon, by means of Transform. This ability was once unique to it, but there are now two other Pokémon who can use this move: Smeargle (by means of Sketch) and Mew. Granted, Mew can’t make 🅘much use of it, but it’s one extraordinary thing that Mewtwo can’t do. That’s 1-0 to Mew, right there.
14 LEARN ALL OF THE MOVES!
As far as Psychic type special attackers go, Mewtwo is incredibly versatile. 𝓀This thing’s got the kind of movepool that most others would sell their spouses and run their grandma through a meat grinder for. Ice Beam, Thunderbolt, Flamethrower, Energy Ball… it gets access to all kinds of things it shouldn’t really. Like a geneꦚration one Normal type on steroids.
But hey, do you think Mew’s impressed? Heck no. S/he’s still going all sassy Shania on Mewtwo’s butt. After all, what’s better than learning a lot of different moves? Learning every damn move, that’s what. The little guy is compatible with every TM and Move Tut𓄧or move in the game, only missing out on exclusive moves like Secret Sword. As such, you can never be sure what this teeny♋ tricksy Pokémon is going to want to do.
13 Actually Show Its Face In Standard Play
As I say, Mew is quite unpredictable when you come across it in battle. Which you will do on occasion, unlike its uppity clone child. Mewtwo, being the unrepentant, no-effs-given powerhouse that it is, was banished straight to Ubers by competitive community Smogon. While these guys tend to have a monopoly on generally-accepted unofficial rules, this is also usually the case in an official tournaജment setting too.
Nintendo and Game Freak’s own tournament rules usually keep the legendary big boys on the ban list, althou🎉gh recent years have seen the likes of Primal Kyogre and Primal Groudon being made le🎉gal. Away from these cases, Mew is usable in Smogon OU (that is, standard play), while Mewtwo certainly isn’t. Mew’s fair game though, for reasons we’ll get into next.
12 Do More Than Just Plain Bring The Pain
When Mew arrived with generation one, it started a trend in the games that ran all the way uಞp to Black⛄ and White. This trend was for Mythical Pokémon with a perfectly-rounded base 100 in all six stats. The Pokémon who opted not to hate and appreciate, hopping on the bandwagon, were Celebi, Jirachi, Manaphy, Shaymin (in its original adorable hedgehog-y forme) and Victini.
As such, Mew is not a too stronk, nerf plz threat for standard competitive play. While neither its offenses or defenses are stellar, it has a great versatility, particularly when you consider the range of moves it can access. I’ve always ♐had a lot of fun using Mew, whether as a boosting sweeper (physical with Swords Dance or special with Nasty Plot), a handy supporter or more of a tank.
11 Keep His Darn Cool
If there’s one thing we all know about Mewtwo, it’s that the guy can be a little on the temperamental side. You don’t want to be the unfortunate henchman who has to snivel his way into Mewtwo’s lair and explain that Bond has escape🔯d. Mewtwo isn’t the kind of cloned super-feline who tꦬakes bad news graciously.
Whether in the movie or series lore generally, this much shines right through. You’re walking on the finest of eggshells while Mewtwo’s around. By contrast, its parent Pokémon is all kinds of timid and chill. Mew isn’t one to seek confrontation, nor is it one to throw the ki🍸nd of temper tantrum that leaves a smoking crater the size of Albuquerque in its wake.
10 Be A Pain In The Butt In Pokémon Snap
As with a lot of legendary and mythical Pokémon, Mew is so reclusive that many people in the Pokéverse consider it a mirage. You often see this sort of thing stated in the Pokédex entries of these guys; which is fair enough. After all, I guess𒉰 your chances of cruisin🌺g off to work and seeing an Articuno just chilling outside (yep, that pun was intended, and I’m quite proud of it) are slim to bupkus.
Even with all of that said, however, I doubt that any other Pokémon goes to such extreme, pain-in-the-butt lengths to avoid the paparazzi that Mew does. This little guy, you’ll remember, is the de facto final boss of Pokémon Snap, and man does it hate ꦑhaving its photo taken. All that dodging, weaving, bouncing, barrier-making… this was all kinds of a bad time for me as a child.
9 The Most Desirable Superpower Of All
Well, that’s debatable, naturally. The classic Invisibility vs Flight argument has been raging for decades, and there’s no sign of that ever going anywhere. The power to render yourself invisible is one of the most popular picks in any debate on the sub🔴ject, though, that’s what’s important here.
You know who can’t do t✱his? Mewtwo. You know who can? Well, Albus Dumbledore fo൲r one, but Mew, that’s who.
Being the good, upstanding, be🎀nevolent little dude that it is, Mew does not abuse this power. It’s never gone all supervillain on our butts. All it does is use this ability to keep out of the limelight, remain undetected and undisturbed. As we’ve seen before, it’s a timid, solitary creature; the acorn fell super far from theཧ tree when Mewtwo was born.
8 Pink Energy Bubbles A Speciality
Whenever Mewtwo is seen, be it in the movies, games or other media, it’s usually depicted in the act of firing some kind of energy blast or other. That’s jusꩵt what Mewtwo does. It is its thing. Shadow Ball, Aura Sphere, something else… it finds meaning in life only in firing these powerful projectiles at everyone’s darn faces.
Mew, again being the less batcrap crazy, Hulk smash-y of the Mew duo, has an entirely different party trick. It’s able to learn just about any move in the series, but its signature power is these energy bubbles it produces. In keeping with its mischievous but peaceable personality, these are not weapons as such, but serve a variety of purposes for the Pokémon. Transportation, defense (darn those bubbles in Pokémon Snap), anything it fancy really.
7 Glitch Its Way Into Pokémon Red And Blue
As we all know, defeating Pokémon Red and Blue’s League and becoming the new champion is not the end of things. That’s the protagonist’s main goal, granted, but becoming the very best like no-one ever was 🐭is just the start of it. If you want to catch ‘em all, you’ve got to hope right back into it, head on through that ca꧃ve you can now access and take down Mewtwo.
You can’t miss th🔥e guy. It’s huge and furious and right there in your face. The ever-elusive Mew, however, is much more difficult to obtain. For most Red and Blue players, it could only be acquired by means of a cheat device, or by exploiting the elaborate Not forgetting, of course, all that business about using Strength on a truck.
6 Pass As A Household Pet
You know, by the standards of the Pokémon world, this wouldn’t be such an odd thing at all. There’s no sign of regular domesticated a🌸nimals as we know them, but NPCs we meet have the next closest things as pets: Persians, Furfrous, those sorts of things. Just look at Mew, and try telling me it wouldn’t look right at home squatting over anyone’s litter tray. You know it’s true.
Often times, legendary Pokémon ⛎look like huge, generic, Tokyo-crushing monsters of hulking death and ruin. By contrast, mythical ‘mon (a similar but distinct group) are often smaller and cuter.
Mewtwo is almost seven tall, and isn’t going to be swayed by your dangling a catnip-laꦯ💟den treat in its direct. Mew, on the other hand, wouldn’t be above playing the piano in viral videos on the web, given half a chance.