[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Lord Windos]

The balancing factor of Spore is that very few can get it, and if you used Shroomish for every battle your other Pokemon would suffer.

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Paras and Parasect are terrifying, though.  They learn the move for 22 exp...(and they also learned it at level 17 in Gen 4!  Yikes!)

Yet those Pokémon also have other moves that are (more) worthwhile spending XP on along the way, and I don't think evolving prevent them from learning Spore at all unlike Breloom, so they have that advantage as well. Don't have the pure firepower of a the kickboxing shroom, though, so it balances out somewhat!

The Paras line has bad level up move pool and a crippling weakness to Fire, Flying, and just about everyone other common type in the game, so it learning Spore at such a low level is more of a saving grace for the poor guy, rather than pure OP. Sure, Breloom is quad weak to flying and suffers other bad weakness, but at least he has a slew of useful resistences and moves to defend himself with. Poor Parasect doesn't even have that.......