Many Pokemon simply cannot shine at all despite their excellent attributes. Terrakion, Toxtricity, Cinderace etc. lose so much viability simply because they're weak to Earthquake. It's ridiculously centralising.
So before we got started with the games, I wanted to mourn a couple of 3DS games we never got. One was Japan only, and one was cancelled entirely, and I was excited so much for both of them! The one that stayed in Japan was a sequel to Rocket Slime. This was a Dragon Quest spi...