Pokemon Analyzation #4: Emolga

Greetings to all of you, and welcome to Pokemon Analyzation, the series where I take a certain Pokemon or evolutionary line and review everything about it. Today, I will be reviewing Emolga. This is the first Pokemon I'm reviewing that isn't part of an evolutionary line, and the second electric type I'm reviewing. It doesn't behave the same as Ampharos does and the way you use Emolga and Ampharos in battle are completely different. How different? Well let's take an in-depth look at this static squirrel.



Name: Emolga





Description: It's a Pikachu clone, so it looks terrible. Okay, no, I really like Emolga's design. It's nice to finally see a flying squirrel Pokemon and I would say that Emolga does look a lot nicer than Pikachu does. There's just something about its small body shape, face, and ears that I really like. It might be a Pikachu clone, but it is a nice looking Pikachu clone.


Battle Style:

Generation 5: Emolga might be a nice looking Pikachu clone, but it plays exactly like what you would expect from a Pikachu clone. It's fast, very frail, and only really good for setting up strategies, like Tailwind. The only other major positive I can say about Emolga is that it learns Baton Pass, as well as moves that support it, like Double Team and Agility. It's ability is Static, which can be useful. You can also have Motor Drive as an ability, which can also help set up with Baton Pass.
     However, support is the best thing Emolga can really do. It won't OhKO a lot of Pokemon and it won't stay in battle for long, unless you spam Double Team and get lucky. As a basic support Pokemon, you could do worse. As anything else, there are better electric types in the Unova region.

Generation 6: It's pretty much the same deal as before. It does gain the move Nuzzle, which is a damage dealing move that guarantees paralysis, so that's pretty cool. Otherwise, there is nothing really new to say.


Personal Experience: I have personally never used Emolga that much prior to my competitive days. The first time I have officially used Emolga was during a Random Battle on Showdown, and I was actually pleasantly surprised on how versatile Emolga was when it came to support. After my pleasant time with it on that one battle, I tried making my own set, which looked like this:

Emolga @ Focus Sash
Ability: Motor Drive
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Baton Pass
- Agility
- Acrobatics
- Nuzzle

It's not a great set, but this was made in my early Smogon days. I haven't used it in VGC because I didn't see it really fitting in to the format. Emolga was a pleasant surprise for me at the time. I wouldn't highly recommend using it, but it will provide a bit of fun.


Overall Rating: Emolga, like I said a million times already, was one of the biggest pleasant surprises for me in Pokemon. I know people that greatly dislike this Pokemon, and I used to be one of those people. However, when I came across using one, I found it to be a good support Pokemon. I was originally going to give Emolga a low score saying it was inferior to Ampharos and every electric type in every way, shape, and form. However, as I kept writing this, I recalled how much fun I had using one. It isn't the best support Pokemon in the game, but it will do

 6.5 Bolt Badges out of 10


     Thank you so much for reading, and I will see you next time with my review on Finneon and Lumineon. BYE!