Pokemon Platinum In-Game Tiers - Smogon University (2023)

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Table of Contents Introduction High Tier Middle Tier Low Tier Bottom Tier Untiered Introduction High Tier Abra Azelf Bidoof Buizel Chimchar Cranidos Gastly Gible Giratina Houndour Machop Piplup Rotom Scyther Shinx Starly Turtwig Middle Tier Bronzor Croagunk Froslass Gallade Gardevoir Jolteon Magikarp Marill Meditite Pikachu Ponyta Shellos Vaporeon Low Tier Bonsly Budew Buneary Chatot Clefairy Drifloon Electabuzz Geodude Girafarig Glaceon Gligar Hoothoot Magnemite Mesprit Psyduck Uxie Wingull Wooper Zubat Bottom Tier Absol Aipom Barboach Burmy Carnivine Chansey Cherubi Chingling Combee Duskull Espeon Feebas Finneon Flareon Glalie Goldeen Heracross Hippopotas Kricketot Leafeon Lickitung Magmar Mantyke Mime Jr. Munchlax Nosepass Onix Pachirisu Porygon Remoraid Rhyhorn Riolu Shieldon Skorupi Sneasel Snover Spiritomb Swablu Swinub Tangela Tentacool Togepi Tropius Umbreon Unown Wurmple Yanma Untiered Dialga Palkia Videos
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Introduction

High Tier

Middle Tier

Low Tier

Bottom Tier

Untiered

Introduction

The best possible Pokémon for an in-game team are the ones that are obtained at the start of the game, can OHKO enemies easily, take little damage from nearly any enemy, can learn many HMs, can heal themselves, can learn useful moves upon level up, don't need excessive TMs, and have a useful ability. Such a Pokémon doesn't exist, of course, but this means that Pokémon closer to this ideal are obviously the best ones to use.

The goal of this in-game tier list is to recommend a select group of Pokémon for an efficient run through the game. The ones that fit most of the above requirements are placed in the high tier. Very inefficient Pokémon will be put in the low tier. Things that are neither efficient nor inefficient, for example Pokémon that have some opportunity costs but don't end up as good as high tiered ones, will be put in the middle tier.

Don't confuse an efficient run with a speed run. Speed runs are often ones that are segmented and recorded with luck manipulation through resets, and aim for the absolute fastest time recorded, but the real time spent on them is usually much more. Just assume you want to play through in a relatively fast time frame. The most efficient team size for these runs is only one member, but if one doesn't assume something more like 3 members, the resulting in-game tier lists become incredibly centralized around Pokémon you get early on in the game rather than anything encountered later on. Also note when reading through this guide that some of the moves and abilities listed for a Pokémon may only be obtained by their evolutions. Some Pokémon may be placed in higher tiers due to their evolutions capabilities as well.

High Tier

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Abra

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: Has very high Special Attack and Speed stats, however, needs to be traded to fully evolve.

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Azelf

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Very wide
  • Additional Comments: Although it is available very late in the game it is available at a high level of 50 which compensates for this. Also has very high Attack, Special Attack, and Speed stats.

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Bidoof

  • Availability: Very Early
  • Stats: Decent
  • Movepool: Wide
  • Additional Comments: Very useful in-game Pokémon because it learns a vast amount of HMs, such as Cut, Rock Climb, Rock Smash, Strength, Surf, and Waterfall.

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Buizel

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: Has high Attack and Speed stats.

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Chimchar

  • Availability: Beginning
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Very wide
  • Additional Comments: Has great offensive stats, a high Speed stat, and learns a vast amount of TMs and useful moves upon level up.

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Cranidos

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: Has an incredibly high Attack stat capable of OHKOing many Pokémon.

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Gastly

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Wide
  • Additional Comments: Has a very high Special Attack and Speed stat, however, needs to be traded to fully evolve.

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Gible

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: Although it is found mid-game and evolves at a high level of 48, it is incredibly useful once it evolves because of its above average stats all-round.

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Giratina

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Wide
  • Additional Comments: Although it's available late in the game, it is captured at a high level of 47 which compensates for this. It has incredibly high stats all-round, especially defensive stats for its regular form and offensive stats for its Giratina-O form.

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Houndour

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: One of the few Fire-types in the game if you didn't choose Chimchar as your starter. Has high Special Attack and Speed stats and a useful typing and ability in Flash Fire.

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Machop

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Average
  • Additional Comments: Has a very high Attack stat and good defenses, learns useful STAB attacks upon level up, and has a useful ability in No Guard. However, it needs to be traded to fully evolve.

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Piplup

  • Availability: Beginning
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: Has a good typing and has a high Special Attack stat.

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Rotom

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Average
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: Has a great typing and useful ability.

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Scyther

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: Has a very high Attack and Speed stat and has a useful ability in Technician.

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Shinx

  • Availability: Very Early
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: Has great offensive stats and a useful ability in Intimidate.

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Starly

  • Availability: Very Early
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Wide
  • Additional Comments: Has a very high Attack and Speed stat and learns powerful moves upon level up such as Close Combat and Brave Bird.

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Turtwig

  • Availability: Beginning
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: Has a high Attack stat and learns powerful moves upon level up such as Earthquake and Wood Hammer.

Middle Tier

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Bronzor

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: Has great defensive stats, great typing, learns Hypnosis upon level up, and has useful abilities.

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Croagunk

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: Has a high Attack stat and useful ability in Dry Skin.

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Froslass

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Average
  • Movepool: Very wide
  • Additional Comments: Has a very high Speed stat, useful typing for defeating the Elite Four, and learns a wide variety of moves such as Shadow Ball, Ice Beam, Blizzard, and Thunderbolt.

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Gallade

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: Has a very high Attack and Special Defense stat, however, its strong physical moves are learned at very high levels.

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Gardevoir

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has a very high Special Attack and Special Defense stat, however, it has a shallow movepool outside of Psychic-type attacks.

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Jolteon

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Very shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has a very high Special Attack and Speed stat, however, it has a shallow movepool outside of Electric-type attacks.

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Magikarp

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: Despite being useless as a Magikarp, once it evolves it is an incredibly useful Pokémon. Gyarados has a very high Attack stat, great defenses, learns Dragon Dance upon level up, and has a useful ability in Intimidate. However, it has a poor level up movepool and relies on HMs and TMs.

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Marill

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has an incredibly high Attack stat with the ability Huge Power and has good bulk.

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Meditite

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: Has an extremely high Attack stat with the ability Huge Power capable of OHKOing Pokémon easily. However, it has a poor level up movepool.

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Pikachu

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Wide
  • Additional Comments: Has an above average Attack, Special Attack, and Speed stat, and learns a wide variety of moves through TM.

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Ponyta

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Decent
  • Movepool: Very shallow
  • Additional Comments: One of the few Fire-types in the game if you don't choose Chimchar as a starter; however, has a shallow movepool outside of Fire-type attacks.

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Shellos

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Average
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: Has a very high HP stat, above average defenses, and learns Recover upon level up.

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Vaporeon

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: Has high HP, Special Attack, and Special Defense stats.

Low Tier

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Bonsly

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Below average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has below average stats and a shallow movepool.

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Budew

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Below average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has poor offensive stats as a pre-evolution and has a shallow movepool outside of Grass-type attacks. However, outside of Turtwig, it is the best Grass-type in-game.

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Buneary

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Below average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has below average offensive stats.

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Chatot

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Below average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has below average offensive stats, a shallow movepool, and is available late in the game.

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Clefairy

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Decent
  • Movepool: Very wide
  • Additional Comments: Has decent stats all-round and a very wide movepool, but its movepool relies on TMs.

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Drifloon

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Decent
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has a shallow movepool and is only available on one day of the week (Friday).

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Electabuzz

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Very wide
  • Additional Comments: Available too late in the game and can't be fully evolved unless you have the Electirizer item and somebody to trade with.

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Geodude

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Decent
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: Has a bad typing, low Speed stat, and needs to be traded to be fully evolved.

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Girafarig

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Below average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has a shallow movepool and below average offensive stats.

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Glaceon

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has a shallow movepool outside of Ice-type attacks.

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Gligar

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Decent
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Needs the Razor Fang item to fully evolve and has a shallow movepool.

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Hoothoot

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Below average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has below average offensive stats and a shallow movepool.

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Magnemite

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Available too late in the game and has a shallow movepool outside of Electric-type attacks.

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Mesprit

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Very wide
  • Additional Comments: Available too late in the game and must be found in the wild randomly to be captured.

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Psyduck

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Below average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has below average stats and a shallow movepool.

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Uxie

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Decent
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Despite having excellent defensive stats, its offensive stats are quite poor.

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Wingull

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Below average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has below average offensive stats and a shallow movepool, but learns 3 useful HMs in Fly, Surf, and Defog.

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Wooper

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has below average offensive stats and a shallow movepool, but has good defenses and a useful ability in Water Absorb.

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Zubat

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Below average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has poor offensive stats and a shallow movepool.

Bottom Tier

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Absol

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: Available too late in the game.

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Aipom

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Decent
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: Only capturable from honey trees (which takes 6 hours for a Pokémon to appear), has a low encounter rate, and you would have to rely on luck to find one.

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Barboach

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Decent
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has below average offensive stats.

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Burmy

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Poor
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Only capturable from honey trees (which takes 6 hours for a Pokémon to appear), has poor stats overall, and has a shallow movepool.

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Carnivine

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Decent
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Available too late in the game and has a shallow movepool outside of Grass-type attacks.

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Chansey

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Below average
  • Movepool: Very shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has very poor offensive stats, a very shallow movepool, and very low Defense and offensive stats.

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Cherubi

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Below average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Only capturable from honey trees (which takes 6 hours for a Pokémon to appear), has below average offensive stats, and a shallow movepool outside of Grass-type attacks.

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Chingling

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Below average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has poor offensive stats and a shallow movepool.

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Combee

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Poor
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Only capturable from honey trees (which takes 6 hours for a Pokémon to appear), has a shallow movepool, and has poor offensive stats.

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Duskull

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Decent
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has a shallow movepool, evolves at a high level of 40, and needs to be traded with the Reaper Cloth item to fully evolve.

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Espeon

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Too time consuming to evolve Eevee into it and has a shallow movepool outside of Psychic-type attacks.

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Feebas

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Very poor
  • Movepool: Very shallow
  • Additional Comments: Available too late in the game, too hard to capture, too hard to evolve, and practically useless until it does evolve.

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Finneon

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Poor
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has poor offensive stats and a shallow movepool outside of Water-type attacks.

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Flareon

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has a shallow movepool outside of Fire-type attacks.

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Glalie

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Decent
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Available too late in the game, shallow movepool outside of Ice-type attacks, and has below average offensive stats.

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Goldeen

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Below average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has below average stats and a shallow movepool.

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Heracross

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Wide
  • Additional Comments: Only capturable from honey trees (which takes 6 hours for a Pokémon to appear), has a low encounter rate, and you would have to rely on luck to find one.

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Hippopotas

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Poor
  • Additional Comments: Has a shallow movepool and an ability that hinders the rest of the team.

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Kricketot

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Poor
  • Movepool: Very shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has very poor stats besides its Attack stat, has a very shallow movepool, and is useless until it evolves.

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Leafeon

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has a shallow movepool outside of Grass-type attacks.

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Lickitung

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Average
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: Has poor offensive stats.

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Magmar

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Very wide
  • Additional Comments: Available too late in the game and can't be fully evolved unless you have the Magmarizer item.

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Mantyke

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Below average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Available too late in the game and has below average offensive stats.

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Mime Jr.

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Below average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has a shallow level-up movepool outside of Psychic-type attacks.

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Munchlax

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Wide
  • Additional Comments: Only capturable from honey trees (which takes 6 hours for a Pokémon to appear), only has a 1% chance of appearing, and is only available on certain trees which depend on your ID/SID combination.

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Nosepass

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Below average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has poor offensive stats and bad typing.

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Onix

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Below average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has a shallow movepool and poor Speed and Special Defense stats.

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Pachirisu

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Poor
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has poor stats overall and a shallow movepool.

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Porygon

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Wide
  • Additional Comments: Needs to be traded twice in order for it to fully evolve and is available too late in the game.

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Remoraid

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Below average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Available too late in the game and has below average offensive stats.

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Rhyhorn

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: Can't be fully evolved without the Protector item and has poor Speed and Special Defense stats.

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Riolu

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: Obtained too late in the game and at too low of a level.

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Shieldon

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Below average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has below average offensive stats and a terrible typing.

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Skorupi

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Available too late in the game and has a shallow movepool.

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Sneasel

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Available too late in the game and has a shallow movepool.

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Snover

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Average
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: Available too late in the game and has an ability that hinders the rest of the team.

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Spiritomb

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Very hard to obtain since it can only be caught once 32 people have been talked to in the underground over Wi-Fi.

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Swablu

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has below average offensive stats and a shallow movepool.

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Swinub

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: Available too late in the game.

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Tangela

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Very shallow
  • Additional Comments: Available too late in the game and has a shallow movepool outside of Grass-type attacks.

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Tentacool

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Average
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: Available too late in the game.

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Togepi

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Below average
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: Available too late in the game and obtained as an Egg. Is also very hard to evolve.

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Tropius

  • Availability: Late
  • Stats: Average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Available too late in the game and has a shallow movepool.

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Umbreon

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Decent
  • Movepool: Very shallow
  • Additional Comments: Too hard to evolve Eevee into it, poor offensive stats, and a very shallow offensive movepool.

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Unown

  • Availability: Mid-game
  • Stats: Poor
  • Movepool: Very shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has very poor stats and can only learn the move Hidden Power.

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Wurmple

  • Availability: Early
  • Stats: Poor
  • Movepool: Very shallow
  • Additional Comments: Has poor stats overall and has a shallow movepool.

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Yanma

  • Availability: Very late
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Shallow
  • Additional Comments: Available too late in the game and has a shallow movepool.

Untiered

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Dialga

  • Availability: End
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Decent
  • Additional Comments: It's only available once you have completed the game.

Pokemon Platinum In-Game Tiers - Smogon University (98)

Palkia

  • Availability: End
  • Stats: Above average
  • Movepool: Wide
  • Additional Comments: It's only available once you have completed the game.

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