Spearow and Raticate I kinda understand but Furret is just as bad as Purrloin in BW. Spearow comes with bonus exp growth and has a secondary STAB (giving it better match-up against Morty and Chuck while worse against Pryce) while Raticate has the coverage with the TMs. Tauros is actually faster, bulkier and hits harder than Fearow. It can also make use of Iron Tail / Surf to hit Rocks. Icy Wind might be tempting but 40 SpA sucks unless it hits a 4x weak target. Tauros's real problem is it can rarely pull off a sweep ;Going to assume I'm in the minority here but if I was going to use a Normal-type on my team, I'd much rather use Spearow, Rattata or Sentret, not Tauros or Miltank.
1) Morty : Pursuit isn't doing shit to the Ghosts
2) Chuck : He hits you Super Effectively
3) Jasmine: Don't even think about it
4) Pryce : Neutral. Can take Dewgong or Piloswine but might struggle to beat both.
5) Claire : Neutral. But you can't OHKO and getting paralyzed by Dragonbreath or Thunder Wave sucks. Also, Kingdra OHKOes with Hyper Beam.
6) Elite Four: Win vs Will (except Slowbro), wins against Koga, lose to Bruno, can take some of Karen's mon
7) Lance : Can take either Dragonite, Charizard or Gyarados. Struggles to win against all of them though.
Oh yeah, is Corsola really that bad? You can grab one after Whitney (Lv20) and can teach it Surf + Rollout right away. It also comes with Recover. Then, at Lv37, it learns Mirror Coat which might be too late for Claire but cool for Will, Karen and Lance (especially when you have Recover)
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