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RSE & LGFR RBY

PRIMEAPE Slot 1 Slot 2 Slot 3 Slot 4 Rock Slide Submission Hyper Beam Body SlamScreech Move Effect Type Pwr Acc Rock Slide Damages the target. Rock 75 90% Submission The user receives 1/4 recoil damage. Fighting 80 80% Hyper Beam In Stadium, the user becomes uncontrollable during its next turn. Otherwise, the user attacks on turn one but it doesn't recharge on turn two if it KOs the target, breaks its Substitute or misses entirely. Normal 150 90% Body Slam Has a ~30% chance to paralyze the target. Normal 85 100% Screech Lowers the target's Defense by 2 stages. Normal N/A 85%           Other Options: Mimic, Counter, Meditate (Tradeback) Verdict: Ever wonder why Primeape always looks so angry? It's probably because Gamefreak screwed him over massively. First of all, he's a Fighting Pokemon, and, if you know anything about RBY, you know that's not a good thing. Primeape also lacks Swords Dance (only getting Meditate through tradeback), Slash (despite getting Scratch but not Swords Dance) and Earthquake and he has pretty bad stats other than Attack and Speed. He also has a bunch of unusable Special moves, including Thunderbolt and the elemental punches. All he can hope to do is Screech something and try to take it down with his physical Attacks... which doesn't work so well. Alas, Primeape, for you are awesome, but sadly not useful at all here.