Re: Simple Questions / Simple Answers (Gen 5)
goombario64 said:
woo hoo! Just got black on monday! I've already beaten the first 5 gyms! And in case anyone saw my previous post about which one was the best starter...My friend traded me the remaining starters (I chose Oshawott, so he gave me Tepig and Snivy), so now I have them all! But anyway, I was going to have my zebstrika to be my main electric type, but then I found out that tynamo evolves twice, whereas Blitzle only evolves once. So I've decided that I'll go with tynamo and evolve him all the way. Think this is a good idea?
(if you don't want to read all this: I'd go for Tynamo personally, if you can get past the moves it has before evolution.)
It depends on how you want to use it. Tynamo has four moves, which aren't quite the best in my opinion - Tackle, Thunder Wave, Spark, and Charge Beam. It doesn't learn any other moves until it evolves at level 39, which could become a bit of a problem. When it evolves, it gets a bit more variety of moves (level-up wise, it gets some Poison moves, and a Dark-type move), and if you have the Thunderstone on you the moment it evolves into the second evolution (which I wouldn't recommend. I'd recommend getting it some more moves because the third evolution is similar to Tynamo in a way - small level-up moveset), then...yeah.
It all depends on what you're going for. If you're going for a faster Pokemon, I'd say Zebstrika. If you want no-weaknesses (but needing to level it up quite a bit before actually being able to get much use from it {Tynamo}, of course), then I'd say Tynamo/Eelektross.
Attack-wise...
regular Attack (bases for both):
Zeb: 100
Eel: 115
Special Attack (same as above):
Zeb: 80
Eel: 105
...So, yeah, if you can get past the level-up problem, I'd say Eel if you want more so attack/special attack (if you care about stats).
Edit: ...Well then. I didn't even notice the new post... I guess it was below the quick post... Sorry about that. xD}
Edit 2:
Other base stats:
HP:
Zeb: 75
Eel: 85
(not much of a real difference.)
Defense:
Zeb: 63
Eel: 80
Special defense:
Zeb: 63
Eel: 80
Should be all the stats.
As for the moves...
Eel: It gets some good powerful moves, like Thunder (120 power), but at the same time it only has 70% accuracy so that could be a problem. Thunderbolt has 100% accuracy and 95 power, so... I'd personally go with thunder. Of course, Eelektross also has Discharge which can be good (80 power, 100% accuracy. This one you'd need to do the move relearner for; one Heart Scale, Misralation city) as well. (Zebstrika also gets Discharge; level 36. Eel has it as a base move.)
Zeb: It has some good non-electric moves, like Thrash (120 power like Thunder, but it can't switch out or use moves other than Thrash until the phase of it is done), and for the most part the same TMs as Eel. Only difference I can think of really would be Wild Charge, which has
90 power, 100% accuracy, and is learned at level 47. And Zeb can also learn Charge; which Eel can't learn (it doubles the damage done by Electric moves if it's the next move used, and it also raises the user's special defense by one stage...until the end of the turn which if Zebstrika goes second wouldn't serve much purpose, but it's worth pointing out.)
That should be all. Sorry if I forgot anything. xD For all the moves go to the links above posted.
After this, I'd personally go for Zebstrika move-wise. But again, if you want no weaknesses, I'd say Eel. (But really, there aren't many ground types at all that are actual boss fights, if I recall. But for Pokemon such as Seismitoad {Water/Ground so it can't be hit by Electric, but it has a 4X grass type weakness if you have a Grass type on your team}, you'd need to make sure either one has moves other than Electric types).
This I forgot to put in my post before the edits, but I recommend Zap Cannon. Even if it only has 50% accuracy, it has 120 power; and paralyzes the opponent if it hasn't changed since Gen II.
