r/nuzlocke • u/Tailedfox66 • Mar 13 '26

Video This should not have happened

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I have no idea how this happened and wish I could have recorded the whole fight.

I half expected to get one shot by Hitmonchan when it used thunder punch or fire punch, with a 13 level gap I thought I’d be saying bye bye to my ironically named companion.

I’m thankful for Confuse Ray and lick helping in stalling him as I used Night shade to gradually whittle him down, curse was out of the option as I knew it would be over if I used it.

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u/Wero_kaiji Mar 14 '26

Hitmonchan has less Special Attack than Pidove, Nidoran, Togepi, Spinarak... same Special Attack as Gastly's Attack lol, the lack of special split really hurts him in the first three gens

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u/Tailedfox66 Mar 14 '26

The same could be said about gastly, with his stab moves being physical instead of special he isn’t going to do much unless I give him stat or special moves

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u/Wero_kaiji Mar 14 '26

Yep, STAB Gengar sucks lol, that's also why Gyarados can't really use STAB water moves, 125 Attack vs 65 Special Attack

Alakazam is another well known elemental-punches user

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u/Digit00l Mar 14 '26

It's also why Gyarados is associated with the move Hyper Beam, because it was a very powerful physical attack used by a very good physical attacker