What mons did we think were good/broken pre release but

>>30497663
Lots of people thought Vikavolt would have a higher BST based on it not appearing to evolve until late from early footage. At 500 they were technically right, but nobody expected its speed to be that low.

>>30497663
>"omg kartana is instant ubers 181 attack"
>gets walled by a fuckton of mons due to its shit coverage and dies to any special hit

>"silvally is gonna be the arceus of OU"
>shit movepool and underwhelming stats

>"holy shit, triple STAB anchor"
>irrelevant shitmon

>"woah, Golisopod's ability is a free switch-out. that's super useful"
>ends up being forced out before attacking and never amounts to shit

>"sandslash has such a good typing, muh bro will finally be good!"
>lol

>"araquanid's ability gives it double the power on water attacks? it's actually going to be good!"
>meme that has fallen into obscurity already

>bork.jpgposter moved over to phoneposting

>>30497762
Half of these were post-release.

>>30497663
I can only think of really ancient examples like Electivire, Rhyperior, Cresselia and Weavile in gen 4.

People got a little better at competitive since then.

>>30497762
>sandslash has such a good typing
Said no one ever

Araquanid is good in doubles

>>30497806
weavile was never bad though

>>30497663
Umm Tsareena, Lurantis, Primarina, Marowak and some crap that I don't care but they share the same flaw: Incineroar, Decidueye, Golisopod...
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>>30497663
Lot of people thought the starters would be better than they are. Thought the owl would be greniggerfast, thought litten would be 100 or above base speed, thought primarina would actually have a HP stat and some serious bulk, calm mind too.
Thought tapu bulu would be the worst tapu because
>grass
Thought lunala would be OU or worse instead of excellent in ubers.
Thought redditpod wouldn't have wimp out.
Thought UBs would be uncatchable, and have stupid stats as a result.

That's about it I guess. Most of >>30497762 are just first month new toy syndrome which always happens, not really relevant to pre-release.

>>30497869
Marowak is probably the most used mon this gen . . .

>>30497869
Marowak is good