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Just putting this out there right now, but Magnemite and its evolution are basically one way tickets to beating the entire damn game in B/W 2. SO overpowered to have it so early and next to a poison gym that it resists massively and only has tackle to compensate. Leveling is easy early on. From there, it can be fully evolved thanks to the electric cave, or Evolited in Magneton form for a small boost in defense (although I don't know why anyone would do that....). Joltik did ok, but Magnemite's forms far outclassed it by a lot. Mareep is available VERY early, but Magnemite (again) vastly outclasses it.
Axew is fun, especially given the new champion's powerful dragons, but it still has the same nagging high level evolutions. Still, the lack of a good ice type means it's one of the few options to take on Iris. Almost a must have. My first play-through without it was much more difficult come that battle.
Lucario, on the other hand, was a massive dissapointment. It just did not do well in ANY of the gyms past the first one, and its lack of a good fighting move until LATE game is just sad.
Next playthrough (#3), it gets dumped. However, Scraggy remains *very* useful with it's amazing dual types and insane attack.
N's Zorua you get early on is great for the bonus experience and is a nice dark type. I love its ability. :3 Still, scraggy is still the better option in my opinion, for the dual coverage.
Growlithe massively over-classes Tepig in the long run. I abandoned the damn pig thing nearly 3 gyms in. However, like in the last game, Darumaka and Darmanitan are just so good that it's almost an uber class fire type for the game. ESPECIALLy given the insane amount of high leveled steel type pokemon you will face repeatedly.
Like in the last game, *useful* water types are few and far in between. Oshawott is (sadly) one of the few good options until much later in the game. You can get access to Azumarill early on, but it's just not as useful and takes forever to become a competent team member.
So in my opinion, it's....
Magnemite*Axew*Oshawott*Scraggy*Darumaka*HMSlave
Axew is fun, especially given the new champion's powerful dragons, but it still has the same nagging high level evolutions. Still, the lack of a good ice type means it's one of the few options to take on Iris. Almost a must have. My first play-through without it was much more difficult come that battle.
Lucario, on the other hand, was a massive dissapointment. It just did not do well in ANY of the gyms past the first one, and its lack of a good fighting move until LATE game is just sad.
Next playthrough (#3), it gets dumped. However, Scraggy remains *very* useful with it's amazing dual types and insane attack. N's Zorua you get early on is great for the bonus experience and is a nice dark type. I love its ability. :3 Still, scraggy is still the better option in my opinion, for the dual coverage.
Growlithe massively over-classes Tepig in the long run. I abandoned the damn pig thing nearly 3 gyms in. However, like in the last game, Darumaka and Darmanitan are just so good that it's almost an uber class fire type for the game. ESPECIALLy given the insane amount of high leveled steel type pokemon you will face repeatedly.
Like in the last game, *useful* water types are few and far in between. Oshawott is (sadly) one of the few good options until much later in the game. You can get access to Azumarill early on, but it's just not as useful and takes forever to become a competent team member.
So in my opinion, it's....
Magnemite*Axew*Oshawott*Scraggy*Darumaka*HMSlave
Especially nice to have it when the opponent starts spamming double team or minimize... at that point the possibilty to deal indirect damage continuously just saves you if you don't have a "can't miss" move at hand (I've had this happen to me in BW, especially with those pesky wild emolga...).
