Most Dissapointing Pokemon You Have Used From The 5th Generation

[Charmed]

Tranquill and Swoobat were terrible Pokemon to train in my opinion. The latter was the worst out of the two; I thought it was cute, so I added it to my team, but it fainted so many times that it wasn't even funny. Tranquill's move set was limited, so it wasn't that great, either.

[iPokemon]

Liepard, I thought it was going to be good at first.

[Magester]

Gigalith was mine. I was mostly disappointed about Power Gem on it. Why give something like that a special attack? I still like its look, but I won't use it anymore.

[manaichain]

Victini's stats, it's sat in my box, i think i used it twice to see what the moves look like

Musharna has limited move pool and speed, not good combo

Lilligant, i'm sorry but all it does is Petal Dance. Does it know ANY non Grass attacks?. I can imagine Sap Sipper...nyum nyum nyum feed me

Basculin, go to the trouble of making it in 2 flavours, both are pants

Garbodor...the design mainly...it had so much potential but thrown on the rubbish tip

designs for the Djinn trio or whatever they are called, come on its pallet switch, huuuge cop out Game Freak

[venetrix]

Druddigon. Looks awesome but way too flimsy.

Eelektrik (I never bothered evolving mine). No weaknesses AND Eviolite use mean it should at least be able to pretend to wall, but it doesn't have the stats to back it up.

[ricedonut]

I used a Vaniluxe, and it was a little underpowered. It failed to take a lot of things out in one hit, and even after I gave it flash cannon, it still underperformed. My Sawk had a pretty shallow movepool which consisted of pretty much only Fighting and Normal moves.

[jwla]

I haven't really been disappointed with anything I have had on any of my teams. I try, on different play-throughs, to play with different Pokemon than I am used to. So far, many of them have lived up to my expectations. Maybe I am just optimistic... I mean, I used a Nosepass throughout one of my Gen III play-throughs, and enjoyed it.

[SmartD]

Eelektross, I thought a Pokemon with no weaknesses would be cool on my team, but it was too slow to use.

[TheRibbonedCubchoo]

Hydreigon. I actually used one.


It is NOT. worth it. it evolves REALLY late, and even then, its stats are still pretty average. Just get a beartic around hydreigons lv and ice crash it, it'll go down in one (two, if you have an attack reducing nature) hit usually.

[The Eleventh]

Swanna, Zebstrika and Druddigon were all quite disappointing when I played through the games with them, more so the former two. Zebstrika worked very well until the Elite Four and beyond; it only needs a small upgrade to be particularly useful.

I don't understand why Swoobat is subject to such negativity. Mine was a great addition to my Black team.

[Lucina Archaelis]

I would say the Elemental Monkeys, Zebstrika, and Unfezant were the most dissapointing for me. The Elemental Monkeys I actually never really liked but when I tried using one, it would always quickly faint just like Unfezant. Zebstrika was just too boring to train even though I did like the little cry it made.

[Ugliduck99]

Hmmmmmmm hard
You see I really stuck with the team I had and it served me well

But............

Darumaka, scraggy, cubchoo, the elemental monkeys and thundurus (the only flying type move it can use is sky drop, which is useless)

[tamerofdragons77]

Archeops was terrible the first time I played the game. It has a terrible ability and the it lears aren't very good.
Bearctic sucks too because its defence stats are weak. A flamethrower or even brick break could one hit ko it.

[TheBluePorygon]

Pansear was amazing, I fell in love instantly. The I saw Simisear and collapsed at the fail of an evolution

[Ponymon]

I thought a Pawniard that I caught would do something apart from faint all of the time, but it didn't

[koolbob1872]

The most disappointing Pokemon to me is definitely Sawsbuck. It was my favorite 5th Gen Pokemon until I actually used it.

[Dark Storm]

Bisharp, as much as I like it, seems awfully frail for such decent defensive stats.

Hydreigon, it's training/evolution cycle is ridiculous, Braviary is in that boat too sadly(the Pokemon I was looking forward to most, pre-release, and the reason I picked White).

Swoobat for it's useless stats as I really like it.

Garbadoor and Lilligant for their crap movepools(Hoping they fix that in B/W-2).


Little sad to see Sawsbuck listed here a bit, as it's one I planed on using in a Black or White 2 playthrough.

[Ver-mont]

I hate to say this, but Serperior was a bit of a letdown. It's still easily my favorite design out of the final forms of the Gen V starters, but my God, its movepool is so poor and Grass is such a horrible defensive type. I don't think it's a bad Pokémon, but I expected much more.

Liepard. I tried it once, and it's a cool Pokémon and everything, but its paper-thin defense is unbearable.

[G50]

Snivy's line, was such a pain to work with in-game, and was very disappointed at its moveset and it being tougher to use than past Grass Starters.

[HTodd]

I had high hopes for Galvantula, but it really did not impress me. It might just have been this particular one, but it took forever to level up and would faint after a 1x effective move. However, one trip to Chargestone Cave and my new Eelektross did the trick