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Arcanine Snarl/Wild Charge as defender

How good this Arcanine as defender? He doesn't have STAB, but Wild Charge is SE against water type, which is usually used to beat Arcanine. It should be good, right?

Asked by Ales8 years 1 month ago
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Too low cp, only good as an attaker for me

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by Samuel 8 years 2 months ago

Good troll move, could be fun to use if the CP is high enough to put somewhere. Wouldn't invest in it unless it's close to 30 and you play the game to have fun

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At this point I wouldn't buff an Arcanine past level 30 unless it was 100%, as I already have two maxed out at 39. But it'd be a hilarious defender hitting Wild Charge on the Vaporeons that people bring against it (sadly it'd get knocked out even harder by Rhydon and the like)

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It might be a good attacker into Ice/Water pkmn
IF and only if the big change coming is weakness becoming x2, as in all other pkmn games...

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Or even a greater it gets a buff that differentiates the bonus from STAB! I dislike how the ratio of STAB to SE & NVE is equivalent, even if SE was changed from 1.25 --> 1.5x or 1.25x^2 i'd be content.

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by GS1 8 years 2 months ago

I have the same move set on the recent arancine evolve. I'm not sure why I even evolved an Arcanine to be honest. I guess it will be fun to put it in a gym to surprise a Vaporeon and annoy it for a little bit.

Before Gen 2 Arcanine was best used to counter a defending Lapras. Now both are irrelevant. If you want a fire mon you'll want Flareon with FS/OH.

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