Why doesn't anyone use Charge Beam?
Sep. 2, 2014Charge Beam is good isn’t it? it has a 70% chance of boosting Sp.Atk by one stage and it does get a little more powerful if you keep useing it to raise your Sp.Atk. Why doesn’t anyone use it except people in the games?
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These are the chief reasons Charge Beam is underutilised.
Hope I helped!
Mainly because even if it does boost itself, Charge Beam does less damage than Thunderbolt. Also, with all the switching in competitive battling, you’re rarely going to hang on to a boost that long. Futhermore, Charge Beam has a 10% chance of missing. Thunderbolt is 100% accurate and is much stronger, Discharge is somewhat stronger and is 100% accurate, as well as having a 30% paralysis chance, and finally Volt Switch is slightly stronger, and allows you to gain switch priority.
Tl;DR: Thunderbolt, Discharge and Volt Switch are more accurate, stronger alternatives with better effects, or they do so much more damage that the +1 doesn’t matter.
