Surprising Pokemon Stats

[Greninjaman]

What aspects of a Pokemon surprised you and make you go "huh, I could have sworn that this Pokemon is faster/taller/has a higher/has a lower (insert stat here) stat? I'm talking something like, a Pokemon being slower/faster than it should be; being taller/shorter than it should be. Things like that.

 

[guzmania]

purugly speed stat

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[Greninjaman]

One thing that I remember is Onix having the same attack stat as Pidgey. What? Onix is a giant rock snake. Pidgey is a tiny bird.

 

[Herbizarre]

Trapinch's Attack stat. Granted, those teeth aren't just for show, but its Attack being as strong as Flygon is surprising to say the least.

 

[Kanjouhi]

Veluza.
Just everything about it.
Its Speed is the worst offender obviously, considering you can barely outrun it in the overworld and its name is derived from the Spanish word for fast but it's on par with a literal snail (Wo-Chien) and it's outsped by MAGIKARP, but its defensive stats are weirdly high for something whose main thing is cutting off its own flesh. Like, its design CLEARLY wants it to look like a glass cannon with crazy speed and great attack in exchange for ass-tier defence, but its stats just SCREAM master of nyone. It wants to be Barraskewda SYO BAD but Game Freak just isn't letting it

 

[Norzan]

Cranidos with 125 base attack. This one is really funny because that base attack stat is flat out higher than several legendaries.

 

[Funnylion]

Sceptile being a special attacker. I know it was released before the phys/spec split, but then maybe they shouldn't have made leaf blade, its signature move, a physical attacking move after the split! Also, it literally has "blades" on its arms.

 

[colours]

i think froslass' stats are kinda infuritating. it's like game freak either a) intended for it to be a mixed attacker (which... i think would be a poor choice for it?) b) couldn't decide whether to make froslass physical or special so opted for a middle ground, in which it excels at exactly neither. its stats are ALL middling except for speed, which is fine, good actually, but when you don't hit very hard, and you're not meant to be defensive, then what's the point?

 

[Kanjouhi]

i think froslass' stats are kinda infuritating. it's like game freak either a) intended for it to be a mixed attacker (which... i think would be a poor choice for it?) b) couldn't decide whether to make froslass physical or special so opted for a middle ground, in which it excels at exactly neither. its stats are ALL middling except for speed, which is fine, good actually, but when you don't hit very hard, and you're not meant to be defensive, then what's the point?

idk why they did that either but it means i can run physical attacker froslass in nu on showdown which catches ppl off guard. syo. it's okay for me

 

[Greninjaman]

Groudon and Arbok are the same height (11 feet, 6 inches). It's weird to me that a snake is as long as Groudon is tall. Groudon I feel should be much taller than that (like Kaiju size as depicted in the anime). Groudon shaped the land, so it being the size of Godzilla makes more sense than 11 feet.

 

[colours]

stunkfisk has a very odd stat spread that to this day i cannot figure what the point of it is other than... being a meme, i suppose. u_u

 

[Dr. Gro 3001]

Trapinch's Attack stat. Granted, those teeth aren't just for show, but its Attack being as strong as Flygon is surprising to say the least.

For me, it is less that Trapinch shares Flygon's Attack and more that its Attack is higher than Vibrava's.