All you Gardevoir and Lucario lovers are really sleeping on Nidoking

LondonBugs

I mean, he's got strong attack, lots of HP, and can be obtained relatively early (at least in the Kanto games.) Sure, Gardevoir and Lucario CAN be as good, possibly better than Nidoking, but Nidoking is quick to obtain, strong, and reliable. Moon Stones were kinda phased out in the later games, but that's not what this post is about.

Flametix

I completely agree; gen 1 nidoking is way better than gardevoir and lucario. I have never seen gardevoir or lucario one hit KO all of the elite four with X accuracy fissure or horn drill.

TechHog

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/comment/15054#Comment_15054That might be due to the fact that you can't do that in any other generation...

TylerTheHuman

In the first 15 minutes of playing Pokémon yellow, I literally replaced my starter Pikachu with a Nidoking. Pikachu stat wise is bad.

Cookerisreal

volcarona can them all with a single quiver dance, volcarona solos

Duskull101

I love nidoking. his shiny is great and his stats are off the chart.