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Slowbro or Slowking

Why Slowbro has 9/10 rating and slowking just 8/10? I thought the stats are the same!

Asked by Shintoby8 years ago
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Slowking only have 1bar moves, so they are more predictable in fight.
Cant make up any other explanation that would make sense.

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I think that's the reason. Slowbro's charge moves are better for defense then Slowking's. Hence the better rating for Slowbro.

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They are both pokemon who do better on defense than offense imo.

So having worse chargemoves for defense might justify the difference in rating.

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IMO slowking is a offensive version of slowpoke when slowbro is a deffensive version

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yea i couldnt agree more. slowking is more of an offensive pokemon. slowbro better on defense, slowking having fire blast is interesting of course, but even though the move hurts grass he gets no STAB from it and the move doesnt hit frequent enough on defense. same story for blizzard, tho its a better move than fire blast

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I don't think most gen 1 rankings have been updated yet so potentially standby. He may get downgraded upon reevaluation due to new gen 2 competitors.

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