Emboar (SM)

Flaming pig lol

Location: Ancient Poni Path (Island Scan on Saturday)

Stats, Evolutions
This unovan starter has low defenses and speed, while it also has beefy HP, and great attacking stats. Its HP isn't high enough to make it truly bulky, but those attacking stats are nice to have at least.

Movepool, Abilities, Typing
Unique move: Superpower, which is a potent fighting-type move but lowers the attack and defense of the user. Not good for longer battles. The best moves you also have are Heat Crash (A fire-type Heavy Slam) and Flamethrower, although Assurance is not bad sometimes. The last notable move before the league is Head Smash, a move with HUGE power that deals equally HUGE recoil to the user, which is ideal considering how high Emboar's attack is. Oh, and it's a rock-type move.

Emboar has so much coverage with TMs, it's ridiculous. I bet Typhlosion is jealous. (Why can't I seem to stop mentioning the guy?). Hyper Beam, Sunny Day + Solar Beam, Smack Down, Earthquake, Scald, Stone Edge, Gyro Ball, Poison Jab, Grass Knot and Wild Charge... For a Fire type, that's impressive coverage. And don't get me started on the STAB options... Oh boy...

Its ability is Blaze. Bland ability blah blah blah.

Its type is Fire/Fighting. It's mediocre defensively, being weak to quite a few types, but resisting many of them too.

Important Battles
It has a disadvantage against Hapu that it trades with doing decently against Kommo-o. In the League, it's decent against anyone but Kahili.

Conclusion
It appears late, at a point when you might have seen better Pokémon of either of its types, but out of the endgame Pokémon, Emboar is one of the few to be noteworthy. It has high attacking stats (its physical Attack is particularly brutal), that, its offensively great dual typing, and amazing coverage, gives it excellent flexibility. If you want to use it at all, pick moves that will help you in the upcoming battles. But if you already have a Fire or Fighting-type, then keep them, considering how little game there is left. Although to be fair, Emboar is not that bad. Definitely good enough to survive getting cooked.

Rating: 70%