Why does Delphox have higher total stats than greninja and chesnaught?
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I have my doubts on this one but I’ll try:My Illogical TheoryThe Gen 6 starter types have been following a particular order:every starter is very powerful against another one.This means that each starter has two STAB moves that will hit another one super-effectively. Like Chesnaught’s Grass/Fighting combo, both STABs would hit the Water/Dark Greninja super-effectively, and the same applies for the rest.Getting to the question,while Chesnaught can knock out a Greninja with any item (yes even Focus Sash), Greninja can take out Delphox with any item,Delphox cannot take out a Chesnaught that holds the new item called Assault Vest.
Also the fact that all the other starters have atleast one stat at 122 (Greninja has speed, Chesnaught has defense), Delphox alone does not reach that limit.
Long in short: Delphos has a better BST than the other starters mostly because Gamefreak wanted to equally balance out the starters.
Hope I helped!
It does have slightly higher stat total, but 4 stat points isn’t much and past starter Pokemon don’t have same stat totals either, and Delphox is by no means better than Greninja and Chesnaught. Greninja is frail but has a very high speed stat, and provides great coverage and is a threat in OU because of that . Chesnaught is less used because Talonflame destroys it in OU, but it is still a very good defensive Pokemon. Delphox is probably inferior to both of them.Only Game Freak can tell you the real answer.
Source: Experience
*BST stands for Base Stat TotalWell, first off, Delphox only has a 4 BST difference, which isn’t very much. In previous generations, the starter Pokemon have had a slight difference in BST as well. For example, Swampert has a BST of 535 while the others have 530.
There is no true explanation to this. However, it doesn’t make much of a difference at all. My theory would be that the developers thought it wasn’t good enough therefor it needed a little boost?
