Is Heracross worth training for Gen 2 in-game teams?

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In asking this because Heracross can’t really learn any real Fighting type moves besides Rock Smash and we all know that sucks. So even though it does have really good Attack, does it have a good reason to be on my team which needs a Fighting type?

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All of Heracross’s STAB moves are either weak or unreliable, so the best it can do is spamming return. There are a few return users that are much stronger than Heracross, such as Fearow, Ursaring (in Crystal), and Gyarados. Fearow and Ursaring get STAB from return, and Gyarados comes at a much higher level and learns some useful coverage moves.

Machamp is a pretty useful Pokemon, but I don’t think any of the other fighting Pokemon are worth using. Machoke has worse physical attack compared to the return users I mentioned earlier. This, combined with cross chop’s late arrival and low accuracy, means that Machoke usually does significantly less damage against most opponents and only a little more when the opponent is weak to fighting. Tyrogue comes at a very low level. If you have the patience to level grind it, then you can do the exact same level grind with almost any other Pokemon and get better results.source

I was playing further in the game in realized you can get aMachopearly in Crystal for an Abra in goldenrod MartAnd even if other can’t trade machoke is still a good fighting type untill you able to getHitmonlee or hitmonchanI would prefer Lee but in gen 4 onward I would use chan for elemental punches at least they are physical know

Heracross has a monterous attack stat along with some of its other stats however its movepool is so bad I wouldn’t consider using it for G/S/C, I recommend the in-game trade machop instead as it has fighting type stab and machoke is still a decent Pokemon even if you can’t trade to get machamp with access to cross chop and dynamic punch where as Heracross only has access to Counter and Reversal which isn’t obtained until way later in the game. Hopefully, this helps :)