Most useless pokemon moves?

[Zenax]

Flatter. I can see that if you use Swagger, the target's attack goes up, causing it to hurt itself more, but why raise it's special
Focus Punch

Flatter can be used as an alternative to Confuse Ray for physical opponents, and Focus Punch is awesome when behind a substiture.
The rest is useless, though.

 

[BlackwaterPark]

Flatter can be used as an alternative to Confuse Ray for physical opponents, and Focus Punch is awesome when behind a substiture.
The rest is useless, though.

I don't think Imprison is useless. Once I lost to an NPC because Imprison rendered my Munna completely unable to do anything.

Anyway... Sing, Grasswhistle, and Supersonic. Why use a 55% accurate move when there's a 100% accurate counterpart?

 

[/Zer0]

I don't think Imprison is useless. Once I lost to an NPC because Imprison rendered my Munna completely unable to do anything.

Anyway... Sing, Grasswhistle, and Supersonic. Why use a 55% accurate move when there's a 100% accurate counterpart?

I don't know. Maybe sometimes the Pokemon can't learn those 100% moves?

There are no useless moves. Seriously. Just some examples I've heard; Fling + IronBall, Choice-Item-, etc. or Helping Hand from a Defensive Poke to an Offensive Wide Sweeper in Double Battles. Flatter and Swagger may seem useless, but just wait for the day a Contrary Pokemon gets it (Confuse Ray + -2 ATK/SPATK). I know Serperior's nature is capable of both .

 

[Flare's flash]

Lol,i thought of something funny.Ditto use transform on pokemon that knows imprision,ditto uses imprision.:lol:

Feint

Fient is useful,if you know a detect/protect spammer.

 

[chimera]

In my opinion, there are no absolutely useless moves. Even Mud Sport can be useful in a double battle.

 

[Absol90]

Helping hand to me is the most useless move.

 

[hurristat]

Meh, the sports, as the pokemon that know them are already strong against the move they know. (I know it's for double battles, but double battles are meh)

 

[Magnagarde]

Helping hand to me is the most useless move.

No

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s0i-6n6_Bc

 

[jda95]

Splash? Anyone? The move that has no effect whatsoever?

 

[Flare's flash]

Splash? Anyone? The move that has no effect whatsoever?

Maybe for a stall team,but if you have played the mystery dungeon series,it can be useful,but otherwise,yes,it is useless.

 

[The Knights of Wario Land]

Any 1-hit KO moves like Sheer Cold and Horn Drill. They're barely accurate and are banned in most tournaments, anyways.

 

[SHADE 45]

Splash is no longer the most useless move. Now, that goes to Heal Pulse when used in single battles.

 

[Julum]

splash, duh.

 

[Missingno. Master]

Splash is no longer the most useless move. Now, that goes to Heal Pulse when used in single battles.

But Heal Pulse has use in Double or Triple battles. Splash is useless in all styles of battle.

With a mustache.

 

[hurristat]

Well, of course splash is useless.

That's the point, so I didn't nominate it because it fulfills its purpose.

 

[Arceus the Dragon]

Splash, Self-destruct and explosion.

 

[TFSpock]

Actually, Selfdestruct and Explosion are good when you're Pokemon is hopeless, like with 5 HP left and you have others.

 

[Kutomba]

Mud Sport. I'm... never going to really NEED this... so...

 

[Betsy]

Aside from Splash, I think Screech and Growl are the most usless Pokemon moves.

 

[PH1RESTRIKE]

Selfdestruct and Explosion aren't useless but they became a lot less useful after Gen IV since they don't halve Defense anymore.

Constrict is horrible. Mud Sport is horrible. Giga Drain (used) to be horrible. Also I don't see how Dialga is the only Dragon-type Pokemon with a Dragon-type Hyper Beam.