K, I guess that hint sucked. My fondest memory of Magcargo is using it as my egg hatcher in Emerald (Yay Flame Body). If not for flame body though, it's pretty bad. It's one of those pokemon that is pretty much just it's types personified. It's fire and a rock... that's pretty much it. Not surprisingly, it's NU. Being 4x weak to water and having a 30 speed makes it absolutely awful.
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