20 Most Overrated Pokémon In History

Toxicroak is another Pokémon that appears useful by virtue of its ratio of type strengths against type weaknesses, but this is a shallow assessment of a misleadingly useless battler. Toxicroak's type and moveset make it appear like a bit of a brawler, but it isn't actually able to pull this strategy off.

It carries a good split of physical to ranged attacks to balance its strong Special Attack and Attack stats, but nothing that it is able to call on is likely to be as fatal as one would hope. Most of its moves sit in the 60-80% potential damage category, meaning you'd have to be very lucky to pull out a victory in a fast-paced competitive battle.

Since striking first or landing the winning shots early can be the biggest factor in high-level battling. The likes of Spiritomb is much deadlier, and it carries less in the way of type weaknesses. A Pokémon like Toxicroak that's likely to leave an opponent with a fighting chance in any battle is hardly one worth taking a chance on.