Massive attack stat

>Massive attack stat
>Respectable defense stats
>Great abilities
>Great movepool
Why do tourney faggots continue to do my boy wrong? He's an underestimated powerhouse.

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this. agility and swords dance makes his near unstoppable.

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post elo

>too slow to outspeed anything that would bother investing in speed'
>too fast for trick room
>55/50 special bulk means it dies to any special attacker that it doesn't move before

RBY was peak Kingler

>high attack so normal attacks hit hard enough
>Crabhammer was a special move but it also had increased critrate so it would therefore crit every turn

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Kingler is my boy but it is the definition of a mid mon. It's got enough tools in its arsenal (two great abilities, Wide Guard, Ally Switch, viable Gmax form) to be usable but it has a number of crippling weaknesses (middling Speed, paper thin Special bulk, mediocre movepool). If you really want it to succeed you need to support it a lot, but you could use any of the other myriad Pokemon that are actually good competitively and not require that much investment in those mons so compfags would rather just be more consistent and not use Pokemon like Kingler.

>No Aqua Jet and good coverage that works with Sheer Force
>Good movepool

>Dies to any special attack in conjunction with mediocre speed
>Respectable

Kingler is a nuke but your overestimating it. Lower Attack aside, Feralgatr is better in every aspect

Kanto problem - it has so many Water-types available in game that there's no reason to pick mid-tier pick like Kingler besides just for the sake of it. It does not help that it's available on like one route where you need to specifically go back with better rod just to get it.

At least in Johto it's available surprisingly early if you know what you're doing - It's a rare old rod encounter in Cherrygroove City so you can get it pretty much right after defeating first gym. It's still kinda meh there but at least you don't need to fuck around in mid game just to get it.

And competitive viability... well who gives a shit about competitive. It sucks lol.

simply outclassed by many others

Tourney faggot champion Ryota Otsubo actually uses kingler though, he built this.
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As for smogon crawdaunt is just better due to having a solid secondary stab and priority, and most smogon players would rather commit suicide than use a "suboptimal" pokemon.