Originally Nominated by: GenesisSaga
First Appeared in: Pokemon Black/White
Gen 5 Ranking: 15/20
Fun Fact: I'm at an honest loss here, Bulbapedia isn't helping... unless you consider saying it's based off of a Chinchilla a fun fact <_<
I think the biggest reason for the low ranking here is that I hyped myself up for Minccino. When it was first revealed, I thought it looked cute, yet not sickeningly so and could have some battle potential if it evolved. Looking back I was probably just fooling myself, but a chinchilla pokemon seemed like an awesome idea. Then I heard somewhere that it's name was going to be "Chillarmy" and it only got better because that's just an awesome name. Then it started falling apart for me. It ended up with a meh name, and an evolution that basically looks like Minccino is really clumsy and had trouble with the toilet paper, I mean just look at this thing...
I'm not wasting a moonstone on this thing when there are five other options (well I'd still throw one at it instead of Skitty). Cinccino's stats are nothing to write home about, it's movepool is horrid unless I'm missing something vital (what's with pokemon that can learn Sunny Day, but not any other fire move or Solar Beam, or a complimentary ability anyway?) and it just looks so bad, even if I would use a normal type pokemon, I'm going with Stoutland or Bouffalant any day of the week. Who knows, maybe I can dream that Minccino will get some kind of Togepi treatment and get a nice boost someday, but I'm not counting on it.
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"If you gave away something you wanted you have no right to call yourself 'Greed'"-Ling Yao
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