[Guide] Competitive Analysis: Neopunk

[Dragonstrike]

I've been working on the Gellin guide on and off today.  I don't actually recommend HP Rock.  It's part electric, so flying is no issue.  Bug and ice can both be handled by HP-fire, and fire...well, it's better just to let the other team members handle the fire types for the most part in Gellin's case, since Archilles and Inflagetah are the fire types that are the biggest cause for concern.  (and you hit the fire types harder with Solar Beam or Thunderbolt than a super effective hidden power, unless it's ground on a Chimaconda or a SE Hidden Power on a Frikitiki)

There's far more pressing concerns for Hidden Power's type in Gellin's case, unfortunately for the cell.  Like being able to hit Dragon and Grass types that resist its STAB moves.

HP Ice pretty much the only move it can use that could put a dent into them, but that means that Steel and Bug types still wall the ever loving nucleus out of Gellin. Choosing to either HP puts you in a position to be trivialized by one of its counters. Oy vie...

Ironically, Nuclear Gellin doesn't suffer as much from this, since Radioacid wreaks anything that's not steal, and it has HP Fire just for them. Any other move is superfluous on it at that point, and its abilities just trivialize things even further for the germ. That, and its typing gives it neutral resistance to common attacking types (Ground, Water, Grass, Electric) give it more longevity than most other Nucmons.

All things I've noted in the guide so far.  My top 5 HP types for it are:
Fighting (tracton.  helps with metalynx still too.  murders actan)
Fire (metalynx.  And bugs.  And ice.  and steel and grass.  As powerful as a neutral Solar Beam when 2x super effective and in the sun, so it's not completely inferior to a neutral thunderbolt when only 2x SE, unlike other hidden power types)
Ground (almost purely for Chimaconda, though it also nails Yatagaryu and M-Ampharos)
Ice (most dragons and a few grass types.  murders cocancer and gliscor, as well as coatlith)
Fairy (most dragons.  murders baariette)

And for N-Gellin, reduce that list to fire and fighting (pick your poison.  Would you rather dent both tracton and metalynx or obliterate just metalynx?).

Unfortunately, picking any one of those types leaves Gellin walled by other pokemon, but each one handles a range of pokemon that Gellin would have trouble with otherwise.  Using Gellin requires a lot of careful team planning, for more than one reason.

The only Grass type Gellin really has to worry about in the 'standard' tier is Metalynx, and then the large variety of dragons that accompany it.  Lower down is where Frikitiki comes into play, but the monkey isn't too difficult to handle for the most part, unlike the other fire mons, so Hidden Power Rock isn't all that important, I feel.