Screw the Pokemon Fan Club President, Rapidash is pretty lame for a first gen pokemon. In a game with Charizard, Arcanine, and Ninetales, come on, who's using this? ****ing Bronies probably. I'm not a big horse fan, so it's design doesn't really appeal to me. It would probably boost up a few spaces if it's shiny sprite was similar to Ponyta's but they dropped the ball big time. Ponyta has a top 10, maybe even top 5 shiny sprite, and Rapidash is damn near the bottom...
It always bugged me that it loses it's flames in the first movie. Kind of picky and funny, but come on, get it right.
Battlewise, fire is absolute crap now, but it's still close to the bottom of the fire totem pole. It's got the battle advantage over Flareon at least, because lol Flareon.
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