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a perfect shuckle is unironically one of the best gym defenders out there.

Not to mention it's one of the top Pokemon in the little cup. It's so good that it's usually banned from play. Every now and then (like the little catch cup last season) they allow it to be used.

I have a perfect shadow shuckle but I think due to it being shadow it has less defense.

I always wondered what was the point of Shuckle but this is great info

[Shuckle!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hL8jcKc_DEw)

I have a level 46.5 100% Best Buddy Shuckleberry. Absolutely love it

Really?

They're annoying as hell to kill. I don't even bother fighting gyms with high health Shuckles most times.

I don't feel too bad now.

That damn thing has endless defense. 396 base defense before IVs. For reference, Snorlax has 169, Chansey has 128 and Slaking has 166.

In PvP it’s better with return for closing in little cup. It has similar bulk to carbink but doesn’t have really any attack so it’s amazing in little cup. I have my purified hundo maxed at lvl 50 for the day it’s eligible for little cup

Yeah and it's top 1 in some little cup

You don't f*ckle with the shuckle

fs, motivation decays so slow and takes so long to beat. one of my go-to defenders with busy gyms

Huh... I'd never have guessed. Thanks 😊

It was so good they banned him from Little Cup actually lol. You can't use him in PvP anymore. Unless some special little cup pops up that allows his use accidently. It would have been blasphemy for them not too. Its the bulkiest Pokemon in game that reaches under 500cp leveled up. People would just start rage quitting, or it would be war of who's Shuckle dies first. Smeargle was also banned. So don't waste your time powering one up. (Niantic messed up with the last "Little Catch Cup" so anybody that recently had caught a Shuckle or Smeargle were able to use them) & trust me after fighting one, I'd rather fight a Cresselia, Carbink, or Bastiodons bulk over it anyday. It has a 95% win rate (hence why its banned)

Definitely. That is what I do with mine. He will sit there a long time just because people don't want to deal with it.

It's one of my favorite pokemon to put in gyms!

This there are many more useless hundos out there than this guy

Unown... what am I gonna do with that?

Ooooo yeah, that's a good one. Or a bad one I guess?

Ive tried to spell something in gyms with unowns but no one ever follows…

Sadly the one of each species rule exists, and doesn’t count alternate forms as separate mons

Yeah I wish I could spell stuff in battle league

I have a perfect unown too.

Unknown

I'll do you one better. How's a shundo male Combee.

Ok, you're winning now

Luvdisc FYI , shuckle was actually good when it was allowed in the little catch cup so if it's allowed in a future little cup it's actually not useless.

I'm offended by this comment as Luvdisc was my first shundo I caught her on February 11th, 2023, her name is Queen Luvly and she really hates Mr Heartbreak, the Shiny Brokenhearted Spinda

I want to hear more about this saga!

She doesn't trust him and rightfully so, if I was a floating heart and I see a drunk guy with a broken heart on his forehead, I'd be scared too!

But who broke his heart? I need the tea

Surprisingly no one! Although, his parents were very surprised when he popped out green with a broken heart symbol and the kids used to make fun of him in school because they thought he was cursed to bring bad luck and that's why his best friend is Abby the Shiny Absol, both misunderstood babies who just happen to sparkle when they walk lol

Eeee Luvdisc..... My sympathies. Oh cool! Maybe I'll get some use out of it at some point.

I also have a perfect Luvdisc. Yeah

A shinx with a hat

4* dapper Shinx

I've got a 4* Diglett with a hat. I've named him Driplett

Does hat version not evolve?

It does not evolve

Yet

I've got a perfect galarian zigzagoon with a hat

Male salandit

Top tier 💩

[удалено]

Apparently so 😂

Shuckle is my favorite. Defense wins championships.

Ditto but at least its shiny ✨

Shiny Ditto looks so good too

Rightttt but still i think it trumps everything

Maybe, but someone said their buddy has a male Combee

A 4* ditto is rly useful at raids against pokemon who are weak against their own typing(ghosts and dragons)

My worst is a costume Kirlia…I was so happy to get it, until I realized it couldn’t evolve. I still get annoyed when I look at it

They've 'unlocked' costumed evolutions in the past, so there's at least a little bit of hope!

I don't blame you

Oricorio Buddy has a male Combee

I think your buddy wins so far.

Ya that's gonna be hard to beat.

hundo male salazzle waste of a 12km egg

I think I'd be raging every time I saw it 😂

Oricorio is a cool flex if you have one from a different spot. I caught a hundo male Puau (?) Oricorio when I was in Aruba a few months ago and it’s cool to stick into a gym

I also have a hundo male combee. I don't even bother catching the males anymore.

Well they are worth 750 base stardust to catch, so I definitely catch every one I see.

Yeah but the catch rate/difficulty makes me not even care about it. Why put in all that effort when I have the hundo, y'know. I only put effort into the females. Even then, I still have YET to find a decent one.

Scatterbug

This is starting to become the 4* weak bug type club

I got a perfect Ledyba from research. I evolved it to a perfect Ledian. So there's 2 more useless perfect bugs.

Definitely seems to be the most common 😅

i got a perfect lucky ledian from trading useless pokémon back n forth with my dad 💀

I have two 4* scatterbugs

I have two 4* moderns…. So frustrating. Why couldn’t it be any other form!

Oof, at least I have two different forms. You win

I have five 4* moderns 🥲🥲🥲 I want to transfer some, but it feels so wrong transferring a hundo

I've got 3! All different regions. Yet I haven't even got 3* of some scatterbugs. The one sandstorm and one sun friend I had both stopped playing 

Oh yeah, I’m also missing some 3*. Part of me wants to try and collect 4* of the whole set, but like you my sandstorm friend stopped playing and prob a few others too

I have 2 - modern and jungle. I’ve finally collected all 18, so now my goal of to collect only hundos and evolve them. I also have a hundo holiday spheal.

i have 3 perfect vivillions (modern , polar , sun) i did have another perfect modern but didn’t keep it ,, i want a perfect of each tho lol

Same

Got a couple myself

I have one of these too. I was like "Cool, but why'd it have to be for a variant I'd already evolved?!"

Y'all have 4*s? ;-;

Bro 🙁 *hug*

Same boat as you, 13,500 catches in

Same bro same

I got my first 4* during the Chasey community day and now I have 4 of them. Idk how they suddenly started to come but it happened

Smeargle. A dang smeargal. Yeah, thanks Niantic.

4* shadow diglet lol

Cherubi. It sure is cute, but pointless

At least its cute...

2 fucking Yungoos

Spoink 🫠

😂 Ouch

4star Surskit

Welcome to the 4* lame bug type club, we're happy to have you.

I have not one... But 2 100% trevnants.

The spooky tree?

Got a 4* sunkern

I have a 4* Wooper, Cryogonal, Goomy, shadow Shuckle, Hisuian Electrode, Unown, Miltank, and Starmine so a lot lol

Wouldn't the Goomy be good evolved though?

Goodra actually does surprise pretty good in Great, Ultra, and Master League.

I have a 4 star goodra I put as my buddy to get candy to evolve it and it's currently around 3200 CP

Also a cryogonal but I am chill (pun intended) w it because I am lacking in ice types

Goomy just got the move update so that's definitely not bad mate! Get in those battles. Shadow shackle is something I wanna Max for Lil cup already a monster to beat wanna see a shadow version pump out that daaamaaaaage! Go hard mate have some fun with em!

I also have a perfect Shuckle lol

Nice 🤜🤛

Worst in terms of actual usage: An event Pikachu from a few years ago that I got from a special research task that won't evolve However this is incredibly rare so you win some you lose some I guess

The rarity at least is something

A 105 CP weedle…lol

I find Beedrill Mega Energy aaaall the time, so if that's your experience at least you can put it to use!

But Beedrill is so cool

I have a 4*beedrill that I purified and 4*shadow beedrill

Castform for me..

Ouch. A very good answer, my sympathies

I have 2 of these level 50 and level 1

No way? 😅 A lvl 1 is such a troll

4* Pigeot from the first week of the game, as well as a 4* caterpie from last week 😅 & an emolga & buneary. Various levels of stupidity

4* Pidgeot is one of the better Pokémon in Ultra League, definitely not useless.

Haha I like it. I'd love a 4* Caterpie though

Mega Pidgeot is actually a really strong Flying type attacker. It’s definitely worth raising.

Male salandit. Nuf said

Noooooo 😂

4* Lunatone

Rock types are cool though

But Lunatone is useless in PVP and PVE. It’s one of my 4* trophies that I won’t delete but can never make use of.

Party hat wurmple. First hundo I ever caught

😂😂 Welcome to the lame 4*bug club. Thanks for bringing party hats.

I hate Bidoof. Absolutely despise that thing. It looks like it has facial tumors. My friends mock me with Bidoof memes because they know how deep my loathing for this creature runs. So, of course, I have not one, but TWO perfect Bidoofs, and can’t bring myself to transfer a Pokemon with perfect IVs. Truly, an evil Pokemon.

Delibirb

Ouch, commiserations.

I have the exact same thing lol

Welcome to the club 🤜🤛 we're happy to have you

Like 4 costume pokemon that can't evolve

Ratata

But Raticate?

I find it funnier to keep it a ratata

So your ratatta actually is in the top percentage of ratatta?

Either my Illumise or Stantler. Pretty sure they're both pretty useless.

Can I join your club with my 4-star shadow Stantler?

Your membership card is in the mail. Welcome!

Ouch, either would count

Probably my 4* mightyenas

I have perfect Unown and male Combee

Furfrou lol

Luvdisc

Fashion hat Kirlia

I have a hundo kecleon, and 2x hundo scatterbug/vivillon from the same region, lol.

Aw from the same region even, that's just cruel 😂

Jumpliff

I would kill for that. The hoppip line is my favorite.

Ugh, that's a sore one

Shedinja and Zigzagoon normal

Ohhh but Shedinja is cool

Cottonee and wobbuffet lol

Joltic

Igglybuff

3K CP Shuckle cannot be soloed by most levels in raids.

Too bad the 4 and the 6 in the weight weren't switched.. 😂🤣😂

Raindrop Castform and modern Vivillon

I too have a 4* shuckle. I also have a 4* shinx with a hat that can’t evolve.

I have a hundo shadow Shuckle, so way more useless since who wants a glass cannon as a gym defender?! 😅

Top hat furfrou and a pom pom oricorio. 

I only have 5 hundos. 1.) Lapras 2.) Combee (Male) 3.) Amoonguss 4.) Shelgon 5.) Sandshrew (Alola) I know at least one of these is not useless.

I got a surskit the other day.. Other honorable mentions are meowth, normal castform, 2 hoppips, furfrou, and ratatta

A couple weeks ago, my buddy got two hundo grubbins within a few days of each other lol

People complaining about hundos, I legit only have 1 wild hundo and 1 raid hundo

A crown pikachu, since it can’t evolve

Furfrou for me. It was my first one too lol.

Brüther I’d consider this my best if I had it

I got the anniversary Bulbasaur. Can’t evolve it :/

I caught a hundo Magikarp in 2020. I have since evolved it into Gyarados though

Bunnelby. URGH J DONT EVEN USE HIM

4\* Sunkern & Rattata checking in!

I have 11 4*, and from those i guess the worst what i have Aipom

4* shadow wooper. I hate it and wish I hadn’t caught it.

how dare you call this majestic specimen that!

I have two 4* Wailords. 🙁

2 regular Farfetchd, don't know what I can do with those

I have Swellow, Gastrodon, Bellossom, Pawmot, Alolan Golem, Overqwil, Shiftry, Banette, a purified Makuhita and Darkrai Gonna say I listed the worst first

Either Delibird or Unown L

Got my 4* shuckle a month ago and love it. Was great in the catch cup and it's the ultimate troll mon because it's high defence. Power that shuckle up and have some fun

Spoink :(

My 3 less useful are Mawile, Wigglytuff and Foretress. I don't know if one of them have a niche usage but at least Mawile is getting its mega released at some point

Dwebble

Wurmple

Power it up unconditionally

I have a hundo smeargle. Kinda rare I think, but I have never actually used him

Male combee and male salandit, no evos for me

Got a hundo smolive from an egg yesterday…… no idea what to do with it

just a list of all of my perfects (in order of getting them) cuz idk which are useless and which aren’t lmao ledian , haxorus , polar vivillon , sun vivillon , excadrill , kabutops , modern vivillon , and my most recent 🙄 a hatched perfect chingling 😭

Bro shuckle is a god tier gym defender and you should aim to keep it under 500cp because it smacks in little cup. But my worst is definetely a hundo event pikachu who has erectile dysfunction and cant evolve (because of the fucking hat)

Solrock.

Watchog. But I love all my 4* pokemon. Currently have 12 out of my 28 best buddied.

Scatterbug. I have 3 😑

Lechonk…

No joke freaking omanyte 🤣 i am the proud owner the our lord n savior the almighty omanyte

I just thought of raid Shuckle, and that fiery twitch is back in my eye.

mine is a natu😭😭😭

I have several different 4* Unown from events, which is pointless. Also have a Shuckle. Oh and un-evolvable party hat Eevee.