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RSE & LGFR RBY

RAPIDASH Slot 1 Slot 2 Slot 3 Slot 4 Fire Blast Body SlamFire Spin Hyper Beam Agility Move Effect Type Pwr Acc Fire Blast Has a ~30% chance to burn the target. Fire 120 85% Body Slam Has a ~30% chance to paralyze the target. Normal 85 100% Fire Spin The user becomes uncontrollable and attacks for 2-5 consecutive turns; the target cannot make attacks of its own during this time, but it may switch out, use items or run away. Fire 15 70% 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% Agility Raises the user's Speed by 2 stages. Psychic N/A N/A           Other Options: Reflect, Hypnosis (Tradeback), Double Kick (Tradeback), Horn Drill (rofl). Verdict: Rapidash looks cool as hell, and, like many Pokemon that look cool as hell, it also really sucks. Fire was a really bad type in RBY and Rapidash is probably the worst of the lot. It is stuck trying to wear down opponents with STAB (Fire Spin only recommended because Rapidash is fast) and/or Normal moves before finishing them off with Hyper Beam. Double Kick is Rapidash's only option against Rock Pokemon, and even that's a tradeback; Rapidash also has really bad Defense, so Reflect might be decent on it. Agility, as always, will help improve Rapidash's chances for a CH, but don't expect it to go out and beat up much.