

Fraud Pokémon
Pokémon that seem like they would be good in a nuzlocke, but they aren’t up to par with other encounters. I mostly mean in vanilla games. I’ve seen rom hacks make terrible Pokémon very usable.
Nuzlocking Pokémon has made me hate the Pidgey line. It genuinely does nothing. Every other Normal/Flying type outshines it in FRLG, even Farfetch’d. Compare this to other generations where the early bird is worth a team slot, ex. Swellow, Staraptor, Corviknight.
Lombre is honestly terrible. Stones in Emerald aren’t until after Tate and Liza. You end up stuck with a weak middle stage until after level 42. This is personal, but I wiped to the Champion’s final Pokémon in Recharged Emerald and I honestly blame my Ludicolo. It was so weak. The only thing it did good was wall most Water types.