RE: The Challenge: Season 4 - Challenge 9 is over!
I feel like I'm in the bottom 3 because I'm from smogon I made my Pokemon good.
Looking at the moveset accusations -- you guys have clearly never trained a Pokemon up to level 100 before. At least 60% of Pokemon would have some crazy moves right at the end of their lives - hence the Ingrain up there. I also disagree with the design having a terrible idea behind it; corn -> bigger corn (stalk) -> corn snake. Many Grass-Type Pokemon are based from reptiles and snakes anyway.
More criticism:
The BST. 95 - 60 - 100 - 135 - 110 - 60 BST: 560 -- You compared this guy to Volcarona, Mega Absol, Togekiss and Mega Manectric. Their BSTs, respectively, are: 550, 565, 545, 575. HOWEVER, before you cry, think about it for a second: All of these Pokemon are in the hypothetical UU tier anyway. Plus, Mega Manectric is down in RU. Which is what I wanted to do -- I designed my Pokemon to be a major threat in [v]RU[/v]. Volcarona gets a fantastic movepool - everything it wants. From Quiver Dance to set up to Fire and Bug STAB. Mega Absol gets Magic Bounce and it is very fast, Togekiss is incredibly bulky but not overly powerful and Mega Manectric is in the same tier as what I wanted mine to be; except mine is slower and bulkier while Mega-Manectric is fast with the same special attack. Besides, look at the spread for the attacks. You have a slow Pokemon in Quetzacorntl but the base 50 speed tier is generally when people say "too fast to use Trick Room well". Here, we have a base 60, so it's in that awkward tier where it will take a lot of hits and not even Trick Room can save it. It doesn't have the greatest movepool, and to be honest it was just the TMs that boosted it up to that tier -- I didn't want it to have Energy Ball etc.. On a regular playthrough of the game (we are ingame now) he won't get most of the moves you mentioned -- he will get things like you would expect him to. He learns Flamethrower through level up, but you will probably have the TM sooner. He learns all of the status moves we all know about on Grass Type Pokemon etc. etc..
The moves that you said were stupid to learn: Fire Spin, Poison Sting, Sing, Will-O-Wisp, Perish Song, Brick Break, Quash, Flash Cannon, Hones Claws, Grass Pledge, Fire Pledge.
I don't know why you brought any of these up in a competitive light to be honest, they are all for flavour except MAYBE Will-O-Wisp and Perish Song.
Fire Spin - A move which every single basic Fire-Type learns. This was a no-brainer... plus the fact that it is supposed to be trying to mirror the trapping habits it's Dad has, but only letting out a little Fire Spin.
Poison Sting - Candy Corn can be poisonous.
Will-O-Wisp - Come on, all little Fire-Type Pokemon learn this. For example, Vulpix, Fennekin and Houndour are without a TM. With a TM are: The Charizard line, Archanine line, Pontya line, Magmar line, Flareon, Moltres, Typhlosion line, Magcargo line, Entei, Torchic line, Camerupt line, Torkoal, Chimchar line, Heatran, Victini, Tepig line, Pansear line, Darumaka line, Litwick line, Heatmor, Larvesta line, Reshiram, Talonflame line and the Litleo line. It makes sense to have it...
Perish Song - I actually explained this. It is something made of Grass SHOOTING FIRE. This would burn it down - this is why in the Pokedex entries it talks about Staleam being nervous most of the time. Both Perish Song and Sing are here because this Pokemon line is extremely peaceful by nature, which was also in the Pokedex entries.
I've run out of time, but answer this for now professor...
