Is Tyranitar good for battling Red?

So I have been wanting to use Tyranitar on my playthrough of Silver, but you can’t get Larvitar until Mt. Silver. Still, I’ve been wanting to use it for Red since Tyranitar is just SO good. Is it good for Red though?

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Yes. It’ll take a while to get it up to level with the rest of your team, but it’s worth it. It has phenomenal Attack and solid Special Attack, meaning it can use both STABs well. Its STAB attacks cover Red’s Espeon and Charizard, Earthquake takes down Pikachu, and Fire Punch can easily beat his Venusaur. It’s completely immune to Espeon’s STAB, resists both of Charizard’s, Venusaur’s Poison STAB, and Snorlax’s STAB. The only Pokemon it would really have trouble against would be Blastoise and maybe Venusaur, making it well worth it. I’d use this set:

Tyranitar @ anything- Crunch- Rock Slide- Earthquake- Fire Punch

Hope I helped!

Tyranitar is good against Red’s Pikachu, Charizard and Espeon but Larvitar comes at level 20 and it will take very long to train because it’s in the slow leveling rate.

If you care about your own time, then Tyranitar is definitely not worth using. Even though Tyranitar has close to the best stats in the game, those stats do not make up for the fact that you have to grind it all the way from level 20 to around level 70. It’s almost certainly several times faster to defeat Red by leveling up the highest level Pokemon you have now.

If you don’t care about your own time, then you can defeat Red by using almost any 6 Pokemon and raising all of them to level 100.