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Beat Pokemon HeartGold today. I'll save my overall thoughts for after Exdeath completes the game, but I do want to post my team ranking.

1. Lanturn - Honestly Lanturn was probably the Pokemon I wanted on my team the least. I never found its design terribly interesting, I just wanted an electric type, but used Ampharos in a previous playthrough. Thankfully Lanturn defied those odds and managed to be both bulky and capable of dishing out some good damage with a great moveset

2. Bellossom - So I've got a pretty big affinity for Grass types. The Sceptile line is my end all favorite and I've used Victreebel, Roserade, Leavanny and Tsareena before and all of which ended up being great. I'm happy to see Bellossom can join their ranks. She was probably the most useful member during the first half. Her access to Sleep Powder plus Magical Leaf's good damage and ability to not miss made her incredibly useful. Unfortunately late game was not kind to her. The only way she could do much is if Sunny Day was up or Typhlosion had blinded the enemy first. It kinda sucks she didn't see more action later on, but she was still awesome

3. Yanmega - Yanmega could've easily been number 1 if he learned Air Slash and Bug Buzz earlier. Now don't get me wrong, his Detect/Speed Boost was incredibly useful because it guaranteed a free attack and switch, but when are only real options were U-Turn and AncientPower she really didn't to topple that many foes, but I do look forward to eventually leveling her up and having her join my other strong Pokemon

4. Forretress - This placement surprised me a ton! Usually my late team additions don't accomplish much and I usually drop them from the team. But Forretress persevered, her incredibly Defense and HP really helped in terms of support. She could use Spikes or even set up Sunny Day for Typhlosion/Bellossom. Would love to see one at full potential.

5. Slowking - Ugh it was really hard to decide between the bottom two, but Slowking at least ended being useful to the team at the end. However he was easily the most disappointing member. I knew he'd be slow, but I figured his SpAtk and bulk would make up for it. It didn't. He was supposed to be my ace in the hole against Lance. But his Blizzard wouldn't one shot the Dragonites and I couldn't survive more than one hit to get a Nasty Plot off so he ended up needing support from the other mons and items to succeed. So sadly he was pretty frustrating.

6. Typhlosion - I'm sorry but he was useless after we caught Lanturn. Sure he helped really early on, but his Level Up moveset is garbage and I wound up using him to take hits or set up Smokescreen and that was it. He'll probably get better as he levels up.

They all at least got some use in, but I likely won't be using the Bottom 2 for anything


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