They were awesome, but not epic. One epic tactic I once read was a trainer fighting with her Steelix against her rival, who was using an Infernape. She managed to distract her opponent using Substitute, which allowed her Steelix to disappear, which her opponent took to mean it had went underground and had Infernape dig after it. What she hadn't counted on was Steelix knowing Magnet Rise, hovering out of view, and when Infernape was underground, it used Earthquake and knocked the bugger out due to the x4 from being underground =P Epic trickerah!