Rhyperior & Groudon
Now that Groudon has arisen and has surpassed Rhydon as the best ground-type attacker, when gen 4 comes out, how do you think Rhyperior will fare against it? Will Rhyperior have a significant max CP buff or a minor one? Will it even be relevant?
Answers
If the stats formula is still the same by Gen 4, Rhyperior will have 230 stamina, 241 attack and 224 defence, which gives it a CP of 3416 or 7 at level 40 depending on whether CP is floored or rounded.
Rhyperior will be slightly tankier but Groudon has higher attack so Groudon will probably do just as much total damage before fainting but do it quicker, assuming moveset is the same.
As for relevancy it'll depend on moveset, but if the optimal moveset for Rhyperior is the same as, or worse than Groudon's, it'll most likely be worse since there's the candy cost of evolving into the Rhyperior, it may need an evolution item because it does in the main series, and no one wants to use rare candies to get Rhyhorn candies, whereas Groudon just needs candies to be powered, and no player has qualms with using rare candies on legendaries.
I have an idea; if held items were to be added, an item exists called 'eviolite' in the main series that allows not-fully-evolved-Pokémon, which Rhydon will be once rhypherior is introduced, to have their defense and special defense stats multiplied by 1.5. Perhaps in Go, when held, it adds a defensive bonus to such Pokémon?
And I agree I was so disappointed when I saw rhypherior. Magnezone has grown on me but still looks ugly...at leasat they didn't just add more magnemites to magneton and call it an evolution
