Should I teach my Zubat wing attack in Fire Red?

Question

My level 20 Zubat is going to try to learn wing attack at the next level. Should I replace it with astonish, leech life, supersonic, bite, or just not learn it at all?

*Note: This is fire red.

Comments

Obviously. Wing Attack gives it STAB. It *is* essential. Replace it with Astonish, as you don't need both Astonish and Bite. However, both Astonish and Leech Life are waste.

Answer 1

Wing Attack is a brilliant move for Zubat. It is it's first Flying STAB move, and it won't get too much better than 60 BP for a while. I suggest replacing Astonish. It's astonishingly (geddit?) weak, and the Supersonic can be really clutch sometimes. Leech Life is good coverage, but weak in Gen 3, being 20 BP. Bite is okay, but that can be replaced with a Poison STAB move later maybe, but it's not terrible.

I would say, get rid of Bite or Astonish. Astonish is literally so weak, and Bite would be good, if it wasn't still Special in this Gen...

So yeah, get rid of Astonish or Bite for some STAB Flying/Poison moves. The only move really worth keeping is Supersonic, but otherwise the rest of the moves are okay until it gets better ones.

Good luck with the playthrough!

Comments

Leech Life base power is 20 before Gen 7.

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on right... it says that it is base 80 in the pokemondb.net/pokedex/zubat/moves/3, soooo sorry my mistake :))

Answer 2

I will say just give space for wing attack and remove leach life, why it can even defeat a grass and psych type like starmie, and It will evolve soon if it hits level 22 so don't waste time for grinding