Daily Pokemon #007: Delibird

Delibird

Ice Flying wasn't a good type on Articuno because of its multiple weaknesses including a x4 weakness to rock making it easily crippled by Stealth Rock, so what makes you think that it would work on this thing. To be fair, the offensive coverage is OK, but that doesn't make up for the lousy defensive typing. Also, having only 2 resistances is nothing to be happy about.

Stats:

No stats over 80 is abysmal. I feel that I don't even need to say anything else. It's not even worth looking at this thing's movepool considering that it can't fulfill any role effectively, not even at low tiers.

Abilities:

• Vital Spirit: prevents sleep.
• Hustle: increases the user's Attack stat by 50%, but lowers the accuracy of the user's physical moves by 20%.
• Insomnia (hidden): prevents sleep.

Now this is not a typo by the way. Insomnia and Vital Spirit are identical, and for some reason someone decided to give both abilities to Delibird. For what these ability are worth, they are decent, or at least they would be decent on a bulky pokemon that would be prone to be put to sleep, Delibird is definitely not that. If your opponent is dumb enough to attempt to put Delibird to sleep; you are probably gonna win. Then again, you are using Delibird, so you might lose regardless.

I dislike Hustle, inmensely. It makes pokemon battles turn into more of an RNG game than they already are. Besides, do you really wanna make use of that 55 ATK stat? In general, if you wanna take the risks associated with Hustle feel free to do so, just don't blame me when you miss crucial hits and lose because of it.

Conclusion:

Delibird is one of those pokemon that is infamous for being notoriously bad. Bad typing, terrible stats, irrelevant movepool and abilities that don't add any value make Delibird one of the worst pokemon of all time.