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Celebi Jirachi or Mew?

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I saw a post on here about some information uncovered at the GO fest thing they had about special research having celebi being soon, and I got to thinking which of the three would be the best, I know that jirachi isnt out yet, but hear me out.

All three of them are psychic, have identical stats (though mews got no secondary type), so their usability comes down moves
>Jirachi's got the nifty typing of psychic steel, so we may finally get a steel types that doesnt have a drawback, but equally it could be held back by lack of steel moves, it could turn out to be a less good metagross and another psychic type mewtwo outclasses
>Celebi's grass/psychic type actually lends itself to having the most weaknesses of any type combination of 7 (sharing with grass/ice and psychic/rock) and doesnt get too many grass moves, but could get confusion/future sight
>and lastly mew, the pokemon we all had high hopes for only to get crushed by the TM costs if you didnt get lucky with moves

Which of these three seems like it has the most potential?

Asked by MetagrossMaxis6 years 9 months ago
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With a base attack of 210, all of them are completely unable to compete as psychic-types no matter what so let's look at the secondary typings:
Celebi: Doesn't currently learn any grass moves in Game master, doesn't have available grass fast moves, could get Grass Knot. With any grass fast and Grass Knot it would be a competent grass attacker. With Charge Beam(currently has it in GM)/Grass Knot it doesn't live up to Venusaur/Eggy/Sceptile.
Jirachi: Currently has Doom Desire in the Game master which is a great move. With Confusion/Doom Desire(currently has both in GM) it currently out-DPS's and out-TDO's Metagross.

Mew is a fan favorite but we knew in advance it wasn't going to be great. The TM cost isn't even that relevant because even with optimal moves it's very rarely a good choice for anything.

Tl;dr Jirachi has the most potential and it's not even remotely close. It would be the top attacker of one of its types immediately if released.

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Edited. Sorry, sometimes easy to forget because I've had a long time to get used to all the abbreviations for the different moves.

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Thanks.

Well its good to see that jirachi at least has potential, unless we get a metagross event and it gets meteor mash or something, plus the candy availability could be a problem

thats one thing abut legendaries I dont get, they have the /ability/ statistically speaking, to out DPS and TDO a lot, but because of the candy availability, and in practice due to not being able to cherry pick the best iv's, a lot of times they cant because you cant level them up without spending an arm and a leg in rare candy, and the 'inferior' option becomes better because its more available, this is the case with mythics a heck of a lot more as you can only get 1

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It would be really bad game design if the strongest units were also easy to get and level up. It stands to a reason that most of the best pokemon are severely limited by candy availability.

Also the IV of legendaries doesn't really matter at all when you compare them to the competition, the stat differences between different species are much larger than the 10-15 IVs of legendaries. Mewtwo>Alakazam, Kyogre>Gyarados, Raikou>Jolteon, regardless of IVs.

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It's stupid good. Overcoming the difference of Metagross having 47 more base attack and Jirachi not having a steel fast move seriously makes me doubt that they'd release it as it currently exists in the game files.

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