Board Thread:Pokemon Arena X - Discussion/@comment-5398529-20140624072050/@comment-5537612-20140624123506

Let's see.

Most of the top tier pokemon were top tier because of their high mobility and spammable attacks. Accelgor had the mobility (both speed AND high jumps), and its attacks were powerful. Mega drain was more spammable than it should've been, and allowed it to heal itself.

Kingdra was powerful because it had bubblebeam and dragonpulse, which back then were very very good. Both moves hit for trucks, hit easily and are also very spammable.

Raichu was speedy, but also had one very powerful tool in the form of Thunder Shock. In old PAX the projectile was VERY fast, and as a result easy to hit with and also easy to knock someone over with to follow up with other moves.

Lucario had dragonpulse and was fast. Really you could have a fast pokemon with only dragonpulse as move and it would still be viable.

Also, dark void was not fun to fight against. You know how the scout in TF2 has a bat that can stun people for a couple of seconds? Being completely locked down for a long duration is flat out bad. The sleep debuff should end after taking damage from moves other than stuff like dream eater.