Furret - new generalist prestiger?
I see Furret
https://pokemongo.gamepress.gg/pokemon/162
as a really great prestiger. It combines the good aspects of raticate (availability) and wigglituff (good defensive power - underestimation by cp-formula - good prestiger)
It has one of the greatest movesets in game :
Quick attack / hyperbeam.
What i do at the moment: Catch all Sentrets i see, some even with pinap-berry. Evolve the big ones with lucky egg just same as rattatas, keep QA/HB as permanent prestigers, mark all other movesets as one-time-prestigers, transfer them after they faint.
I just wanted to share my thoughts and am curious how others do.
Answers
Prestiging will take a bit longer with furret, because it has less attack power. But as defense is way better, it deals more damage until it faints.
When in danger of time out, raticate is better, of course.
QA/HB is still the best combination on raticate (same on furret) regarding cycle damage. QA/HF is slightly worse, but quite useable.
In actual battle, HF can be better, if the third HF would kill an opponent, and in the same time, the second HB would not have been ready - normal issue comparing flexibility of 2-bar vs. 1-bar- moves.
Second good thing for 2-bar moves: they don't waste energy when waiting for opponents charge attack.
I tend to agree, HF may be at least as good as HB on raticate.
So at first glace if is has Sky Attack is worth the attention (by No attention I mean: back in the day I just selected 6 recently evolved Pidgetto in the range of 600-800 CP to kill by "blindly" taping the screen, while smoking, my 2400 Exeggutor :) or whatever was beneath. No I'm doing something similar with Murkrow which I catch for Dark medal.
