Pinsir   

RSE & LGFR RBY

PINSIR Slot 1 Slot 2 Slot 3 Slot 4 Swords Dance Hyper Beam Seismic Toss Body Slam Move Effect Type Pwr Acc Swords Dance Raises the user's Attack by 2 stages. Normal N/A N/A 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% Seismic Toss Does damage equal to user's level. Hits Ghost-type Pokemon. Fighting Var Dmg 100% Body Slam Has a ~30% chance to paralyze the target. Normal 85 100%           Other Options: Mimic, Slash without Swords Dance, Submission, Guillotine if you suck. Verdict: If you want evidence for how much Bug collectively sucked in RBY, say hello to Pinsir. It has decent stats, especially for a Bug, and it doesn't have the disadvantage of being part Poison, but, unfortunately, it also has absolutely no movepool. Due to learning nothing but Normal and Fighting moves, Pinsir just isn't threatening at all; however, due to a programming error or similar oversight, Seismic Toss can hit Ghost Pokemon in RBY, so it does have access to one move to (most likely unsuccessfully) combat Gengar with. Pinsir looks awesome but, in RBY, his movepool is simply too limited.