Board 8 > What is your favourite early 'rodent' pokemon?

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andylt
01/09/22 3:25:39 PM
#1:


I know they're not all rodents








I'm in a pokemon mood.

Call them Route 1 Rodents, HM slaves, earlygame two-stage normal types, pests, worthless trash, whatever you like.

For me it's a two-horse race between Zig and Doof, and everything after gen 4 here means nothing to me.

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Nanis23
01/09/22 3:30:35 PM
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Bidoof is so bad it's good

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BlueCrystalTear
01/09/22 3:45:33 PM
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Nanis23 posted...
Bidoof is so bad it's good

It's a meme here for a reason.

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Radix
01/09/22 3:47:39 PM
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zig zag > the doof > rattata > who cares

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HanOfTheNekos
01/09/22 3:50:33 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/4/5/AAOJ0pAACyht.jpg

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mnkboy907
01/09/22 3:56:17 PM
#6:


Bunnelby > Zigzagoon > Skwovet > Bidoof > A-Rattata > Sentret > G-Zigzagoon > Rattata > Patrat > Yungoos

Diggersby > Furret > Gumshoos > A-Raticate > Raticate > Greedent > G-Linoone > Linoone > Bibarel > Watchog

Obstagoon

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Zigzagoon
01/09/22 3:58:53 PM
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Hi

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Esuriat
01/09/22 4:10:21 PM
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Zigzagoon and Rattata are both very good. Sentret is fine but it becomes Furret which is one of my favorite Pokemon in general.

Pretty indifferent on everything else though I haven't played since Gen V.

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-hotdogturtle--
01/09/22 4:32:16 PM
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Diggersby is my favorite gen 6 Pokemon and Bibarel is one of the best in-game Pokemon to use in any game.

For the unevolved forms, uh... Yungoos looks kind of cool.

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swordz9
01/09/22 4:48:50 PM
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Realizing I dont care about any of them.kinda sad
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Xuxon
01/09/22 4:56:14 PM
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Pikachu!

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Kenri
01/09/22 5:08:45 PM
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Sentret is my fave but mostly because it becomes Furret. Bidoof is definitely the most useful though.

OTOH I hate Bunnelby and Patrat

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01/09/22 5:39:06 PM
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Zigzagoon wins this pretty easily, although Linoone is much weaker.

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StealThisSheen
01/09/22 5:46:33 PM
#14:


Rattata and Raticate are great

As are the Galarian Zigzagoon line

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Underleveled
01/09/22 5:50:38 PM
#15:


Sentret and it's not even a little bit close.

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pjbasis
01/09/22 5:58:19 PM
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Are any of them actually as good as Rattata? For a route 1 normal type, the high speed and attack power always made it seem actually useful.

Later ones seem so durdly.

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mnkboy907
01/09/22 6:19:35 PM
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pjbasis posted...
Are any of them actually as good as Rattata? For a route 1 normal type, the high speed and attack power always made it seem actually useful.

Later ones seem so durdly.

Yungoos and Gumshoos actually have really high Attack, but they're slow (like most other Gen VII Pokemon).

Skwovet is nothing special, but Greedent also has usable stats, aside from being godawful slow.

And of course Galarian Zigzagoon actually has a third evolution with a good base stat total, so it's the most well-rounded and useful (even though Gumshoos and Greedent do have a higher Attack stat).

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Hbthebattle
01/09/22 6:22:21 PM
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mnkboy907 posted...


Yungoos and Gumshoos actually have really high Attack, but they're slow (like most other Gen VII Pokemon).

Skwovet is nothing special, but Greedent also has usable stats, aside from being godawful slow.

And of course Galarian Zigzagoon actually has a third evolution with a good base stat total, so it's the most well-rounded and useful (even though Gumshoos and Greedent do have a higher Attack stat).
Bunnelby and Diggersby also have Huge Power, which, uh, certainly helps

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MoogleKupo141
01/09/22 6:22:37 PM
#19:


Bidoof is adorable

also shout out to Skwovet/Greedent who I to think are great and definitely the best since Bidoof

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mnkboy907
01/09/22 6:27:39 PM
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Hbthebattle posted...
Bunnelby and Diggersby also have Huge Power, which, uh, certainly helps

Sure, but you're not gonna run into one of those on Route 1.

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-hotdogturtle--
01/09/22 6:37:55 PM
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pjbasis posted...
Are any of them actually as good as Rattata? For a route 1 normal type, the high speed and attack power always made it seem actually useful.

Later ones seem so durdly.
Even Watchog, the most gen 1-esque Pokemon in gen 5, has higher attack than Raticate.

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StealThisSheen
01/09/22 6:57:53 PM
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-hotdogturtle-- posted...
Even Watchog, the most gen 1-esque Pokemon in gen 5, has higher attack than Raticate.

Barely, and it's much slower.

It's not so much the attack, but the combo of attack and speed.

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MZero
01/09/22 7:05:14 PM
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Sentret, especially if we count their evolutions

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yellowwolley
01/09/22 7:05:27 PM
#24:


Sentret > Rattata > Skwovet > A-Rattata > Bidoof > Bunnelby > Zigzagoon > G-Zigzagoon >>>>> Patrat > Yungoos


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Raka_Putra
01/09/22 7:36:48 PM
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Zigzagoon, it's cute enough, it's quite useful as an HM slave, and Pickup is great for early game.

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azuarc
01/09/22 7:41:16 PM
#26:


Control-F Pikachu

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andylt
01/10/22 7:54:05 AM
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This is for the early two-stage Normal type rodents, Pika would fit with all the electric pika clone rodents better than this!

It's a close race between Zigzag and The Doof, though with over 100 votes I am doubting the legitimacy of these results >_>

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Janus5k
01/10/22 8:01:46 AM
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Only familiar with the first four gens. If we're just considering the unevolved forms, probably Zigzagoon. For evolved it's Furret by a lot.

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DreamEater12
01/10/22 8:36:23 AM
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How many of them can have the ability Pickup. All of them are about the same use, but I just really enjoy having a Pokmon collect items for me.

Zigzagoon > bunnelby purely on nostalgia.

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ctesjbuvf
01/10/22 8:39:24 AM
#30:


Lillipup is close to this and has pickup. That's the other one I can remember.

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DreamEater12
01/10/22 8:57:11 AM
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I almost always have a pickup Mon on me from the earliest I can. Even if it only picks up basics it is basically free and the games aren't generally hard enough to need 6 Mons.

Managed to grab a destiny knot from Pachirisu recently way before I could get it normally.

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junk_funk
01/10/22 11:47:06 AM
#32:


Zigzagoon easily the best of that list.

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Alanna82
01/10/22 12:15:18 PM
#33:


Zigzagoon solely because I once got incredibly lucky in a link battle where my Roselia and Linoone took out my opponents last 4 pokemon because Linoone's headbutt flinched every time and Roselia kept absorbing HP from the foe.

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andylt
01/10/22 2:01:54 PM
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Ziggy seems to have pulled away, congrats. Evolved poll is up!

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Raka_Putra
01/12/22 9:26:14 PM
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The timing of this new animated Bidoof short is pretty impeccable!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTidwW3iLHk

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andylt
01/13/22 8:04:03 AM
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Nice that Pokemon has fully embraced Bidoof now, though it took far too long tbh. I like the acknowledgment in there that doof is primarily used for HMs and little else lol.

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tcaz2
01/13/22 8:19:43 AM
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Raka_Putra posted...
The timing of this new animated Bidoof short is pretty impeccable!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTidwW3iLHk

That was legitimately great.
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Raka_Putra
01/14/22 1:30:50 AM
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Yeah, the team really understood the charm of Bidoof and there are just so many great moments.

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GenesisSaga
01/14/22 8:33:43 AM
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Raka_Putra posted...
The timing of this new animated Bidoof short is pretty impeccable!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTidwW3iLHk

That was adorable

Doesn't change my answer though. Zigzag was my favorite even before the user friendly known as Ermine turned me on to it. My first one was named Bandit and his Pickup ability was a life saver early game. My first shiny that I captured Gen 3 was also a Linoone (bittersweet as I had spent ages trying to get a shiny Zigzagoon, but beggars can't be choosers I guess)

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