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I'm a little surprised about how badly Houndour did compared to the success of Houndoom. Does evolution really matter that much? Oh well, I'm still holding out for Arcanine or an Eeveelution to win. ;)

Nope, $170 is too much for a system I won't play. Maybe when Generation VI comes out.

$170 is kind of out of my price range still. If it was $120-130 (like the DS Lite was, which will never happen) then it'd be a bit better. But as is, no can do. Besides, I wouldn't want a console that doesn't have games I'm interested in (yet).

Wish I could....I can afford three, but I'm saving up for a set of bagpipes! Woot!

I'm still glad I bought it when I did. I knew very well that the price would drop after a little while, but then I wouldn't have been able to play LoZ in 3D as many times as I did!

Ow, I actually like Vileplume...

I'm surprised that pinsir did so bad. He's one of the greatest bug types!

Compared to Scyther/Scizor/Heracross/Volcarona/Genesect and a few others, Pinsir isn't that good a bug type, imo

Of course Pinsir isn't good compared to the some of the very few Bug Pokemon worth something in battle. How about all of these "winners":

-Butterfree
-Beedrill
-Parasect
-Ledian
-Ariados
-Beautifly
-Dustox
-Masquerain
-Volbeat
-Illumise
-Kricketune
-Wormadam
-Mothim

NOOOO!!!!! Not Wartortle! ultimate sadness...

Unless your a psychic or dark type, nearly anyone can out class any pure bug type.

@Frost
How am I not surprised that 10 out of the 13 in the 'winners' list are from Gen 3 and back, even though all of them are pathetic (looks and battling). I've noticed many Gen 4 and Gen 5 get a lot of stick for their lack of originality. Generally, from my experience, many ppl seem to love pokemon from the Gameboy games but then hate Pokemon from the DS Games. Having said that im surprised that Kricketune and Mothim got through

@ Majin Pichu
Im going to have to disagree with you there. Finally a Gen 1 starter evolution is out! ultimate greatness...
Now for the fall of Charizard!!!

Yeah, go Kabutops! Poor Vileplume...

... none of those Pokemon advanced in Idol except for Butterfree. I was using them as an examples of Bug Pokemon who are worse than Pinsir because somebody said Pinsir isn't that good of a Bug Pokemon compared to like five of the only better Bug Pokemon.

But surely there are a ton of Pokemon who made it to round 2 in Idol who suck more than Pinsir in battle. Metang for starters.

@Frost You really enjoy conflict don't you?

Personally I like Metang over Pinsir, but granted I like very few bug types. Oh and go Vaporeon!

@IceArceus12 I have to kind of agree with you. I am not a fan of the epic craze that is the gen1 starters and the "charboner" but for some reason wartortle is the only one that has stuck with me thru the years.

@Shade2075
Um... what did I do?

Nintendo is compensating those that bought the 3DS early with 20 free downloadable games. It's called the ambassador program.

@Shade2075 - I agree with everything you said. I think we could be best friends. :D

@ Frost you listed one pokemon as better than another, it literally is just begging people to start an argument...

I'm surprised that Smogon's mere existence hasn't erupted World War III, in that case.

All I REALLY did was a list a bunch of Bug-types (and a NFE middle evolution) that are generally considered to be terrible in battle and say that Pinsir is better than them IN BATTLE. I like Butterfree a lot more Pinsir. Do I think Butterfree is better than Pinsir in battle? No. That's not trying to make conflict.

@Frost Um, I'm not trying to make you angry it was more of an observation. Where i saw conflict possibly coming into play was rating one over another (even if statistically). I seem to remember a similar issue with the gen 5 starters.

Not even mad, bro. But also not trying to start anything either.

@Frost Let me just clear something up, I dont judge Pokemon totally on their competitive battling skills. I also Judge them on their looks and how comfortable I would feel owning them as a pet in real life too. I think Pinsir looks awful and I would never want to own it. I'll list some more Bug-types who I consider better than Pinsir:

Scolipede
Genesect
Crustle
Escavalier
Whirlpede
Skorupi
Armaldo
Shuckle
Foretress
Accelegor
Karrablast
Beautifly
Ledyba
Yanma

And Frost, we should argue more :)

i can argue. my favorite bug type is scolipede ALL OTHERS SUK.

to far?

@ mudkip eez awsome
I think you did go a bit too far...

@IceArceus12, Hey you forgot Yanmega. :P

@ Biosci
Surprisingly, I actually prefer Pinsir to Yanmega

@IceArceus12, Even though Yanmega is like better in Pinsir in nearly every way possible. Battle wise, Yanmega wipes Pinsir out with either Air Slash or Ancient Power. Personally, I don't like Yanmega's normal colors, but I love the Shiny form. Pinsir is just meh...

*Face Palm* I should keep my big mouth shut...

YANMEGA PRIME IS WAY BETTER THAN PINSIR UNDAUNTED LOL!

@ Frost
I'm guessing "prime" and "undated" has something to do with TCG (Which I have absolutely no clue about so I can't comment

@ Biosci
I don't want to own a thing that (according to it's Pokedex entry) destroys glass with the mere flapping of it's wings. Also those huge ugly red eyes aren't for me...

@Frost Pinsir is pretty good. with swords dance rock slide brick break and x-scissor it can be a good sweeper. But Pinsir winning, like nearly all pokemon, was a bit of a long shot. Pinsir isn't exactly the most popular pokemon out of all of them or even out of all gen 1 pokes.

Haunter made it! Woohoo! *looks at talk about Pincer* Meh. *walks away*

Calm down guys, we all have different opinions and preferences. I personally do things Frost's way, I evaluate pokemon mainly according to their battling skills. I can say Scizor is the best bug-type, but it doesnt bother me when someone rages in my face and says "my Durant pwns your ugly meat cutter"

lol @Frost, WW3 over Smogon's tiering would have really begun if all people in the pokemon community were bitching like what happens here...

I actually don't base much of my Pokemon opinions on battling skills at all, lol. I mean it's nice if something adorable happens to be good in battle, but my favorite Pokemon ever has been consistently NU in every Generation that had that tier, and it was only ever UU because NU didn't actually exist in RBYGSC. However I can still be objective when it comes to which Pokemon are probably better in battle.

Ledian, for example, is absolutely terrible in battle, so it doesn't take a whole lot for Pinsir to be better than it as a battle, even though I like Ledian more than Pinsir.

Woah, Woah, Woah, we weren't even having that much of an argument...looks like we'll stop it here though

Seems Charizard's Derpy cousin made it first in this last round. :P

@Bicosi I have only one remark to that comment, Dragonite now has a reason to use Outrage!

@Shade2075 Then Charizard uses HP Ice and kills Dragonite. Lol xP

All 8 Eevee-related Pokemon made it to Round 3. Success~ :)