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I feel that the Treecko line is usable just running through the game, but outside of moving from gym to gym, they’re like a soccer player who has never heard of leg day.

Hey, don’t be hatin on treecko.

I’ve said it before, aesthetically the Treecko line is fine.  Their movepool does not fit their stats though, and it hasn’t since Gen IV.

Who cares about stats?

Many people, especially when the stats determine how much damage you can take and deal out.  Treecko’s line has terrible defenses so it cannot take a hit well.  It has poor attack, so it cannot do damage efficiently with most of its movepool, but it has great speed and special attack.  Unfortunately it has few options that take advantage of what it is made to do.

Competitively it’s terrible, but it still has a good design.  Even just going through the game there are better grass types with access to better attacks and the means to use them well.

As for me, IDGAF. It’s not how you train the pokemon, it’s how you use it.

That’s the problem though, it’s not about training the Treecko line, it’s about how they are set up to be used.  Treecko and its evolution have high speed and special attack but low defenses.  Effectively they’re lizard mages in an rpg.  The problem with that is that instead of spells and techniques that take advantage of what they’re best at they’re given knives that they can’t use nearly as well as a lot of others.

The Treecko line are mages told to attack with sticks instead of spells and that hurts them a lot.