10 Underused Pokémon You're TOTALLY Wrong About

The beginning of your journey through any Pokémon game always starts the same: You’re ten years old, which means, obviously, that it’s time you left home (and school, I assume) to begin your new life. Collecting and fighting monsters, talking to strangers and walking into people’s houses without knocking are just a few activities you can expect from your journey.

However, the most important part of the Pokémon trainer experience is to traipse from town to town, challenging adults to fight you.

Pokémon battles can be quite rewarding if a preplanned strategy comes to fruition, but to do so you’ll need the right team for the job. It's here, where many of the 800+ pocket monsters are written off due to their looks alone.

Why go for a depressed-looking tortoise with a baked pie for a shell when you can have Pokemon’s very own poster-boy, Pikachu?

But, if you want to be the very best (like no one ever was), your real test is to look past the superficial qualities of your Pokémon and delve into the stats, because nothing makes a game fun like the need for a calculator.

Speaking of ugly Pokémon… Greedent, which looks like a cross between a squirrel and Peter Griffin from Family Guy, is an early-game rodent Pokémon in Sword and Shield. The fact you can get your hands on them so early into the game means you’ll most likely catch one to fill out your team, before carelessly dumping it into your storage box two towns later.

Before throwing this poor little squirrel into an eternity of Poke-jail for not being cute enough, take a look at its stats. With a huge start on HP and defence, Greedent already has the foundation to be the tank in your team.

A way to truly utilise Greedent's defence is by giving it a Maranga Berry, which raises the user's special defence on consumption. In addition, having the ability Cheek Pouch to restore a third of the Pokémon's HP after it consumes the berry will be a bonus, as it has a stacking effect.

Using moves such as Stuff Cheeks and Stockpile are great ways to further boost the Pokémon’s defence making it almost impossible for opponents to lower Greedent’s health.

However, the penultimate reason players are wrong for disregarding Greedent is because of a sneaky little move called Body Press. The move uses the defence stat to calculate damage to the opponent, as opposed to attack.

Meaning, not only is this scrappy little misfit an un-killable hit sponge, but it’s also a powerful one-hit killing machine.