Is Gastrodon or Gyarados better in Platinum?

Aug. 17, 2021

i’m doing an vanilla playthrough of Pokemon Platinum and decided upon a team but can’t make my mind up on which Pokemon to go for the Water-type.Here’s the team so far: Infernape, Luxray, Leafeon, Garchomp, Crobat/Togekiss (depending on what ability the Togepi is). Please help me out with the Water-type both are pretty strong so can’t figure out. Please help for the full team.

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You already have Garchomp, which is the best Pokemon sinnoh has to offer, barring legendaries of course especially that unkillable monster known as Giratina. As such, Gastrodon is out of the question as Garchomp is a ground type itself

Gyarados on the other hand, is the one of the best in game Pokemon of all time just because it can dragon dance and brute force its way through everything

Here’s a quick comparison

Gyarados

Gastrodon

Despite all these traits, offense is the most important thing in an in game play through and since Gastrodon has a type overlap with Garchomp, it should be obvious who the clear winner is