Which Gen 4 Evo: Yanmega or Gliscor?

Question

For some reason I associate Yanmega and Gliscor as sort of counterpart Pokémon. Maybe because of the close numbers in the Pokédex and the Physical typing and then the Flying typing (yes, I know that Flying is a physical typing). I just wanted to know.

Comments

It depends on the rest of your team and the format.

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Well, I don't really have a team! I don't do any competitive. Just overall like move sets, stats, tiers and typings (I know that Gliscor has a better typing).

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It really still depends on the format. If you were playing a format where earthquake and poison heal were banned, then obviously Yanmega is better. If you were playing a format where tinted lens was banned, then obviously Gliscor is better.

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Then say that Poison Heal, Tinted Lens, and Earthquake were all banned.

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Can you just tell me what format you're playing?

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I'm not playing any format. I just want to know overall, which is better.

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Competitive battling only exists within formats. There's no such thing as "overall".

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Yanmega --  an opportunity to make a dragon bug wasted :(

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Just tell us the rest of your team an di will make an answer

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@Consumption Another way I can try to explain this is that the format makes the rules. You can't play any game without rules.
@Madness I don't think dragonflies look like dragons to Japanese people.

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Leaving flags so I'm reminded of this later.
@NotForConsumption As others have mentioned, this would be more answerable if you could establish what a general assessment would entail. For example: are you referring to singles or doubles, Smogon rules or not -- any other parameters? The answer would vary considerably between different formats.

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It would be singles. And yes, smogon rules would apply. And I know that in XY Yanmega was one of the Borderline tiers and I'm pretty sure that Gliscor is in RU. So just in a regular singles battle with Smogon rules.

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There are lots of different kinds of singles with Smogon rules. Are you asking about OU, UU, RU, Ubers, Monotype, or CAP?

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RU Singles.

Answer 1

Yanmega is better in RU because Gliscor is banned.
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