Pinchor

**Pinchor (Japanese: ガッツロス / Gutslios)** is a dual-type Bug/Ground Pokémon, and is one of the original Fakemon created for Pokémon Vega, Procyon, and Deneb. It is exclusive to Procyon.

It evolves from Pinsir starting at level 35.

## Overview

Pinsir has always been in Heracross's shadow prior to Mega Evolution since Generation 2. While Pinsir could make headway with its impressive 125 Attack and decent Speed to boot, Heracross has a much better Bug STAB option known as Megahorn and having STAB on its Fighting moves, unlike Pinsir. Heracross also has Guts, making it immune to Burn's main effect, while Pinsir has Hyper Cutter, which is ok in some instances, but not having any way of dealing with Burn outside of Lum Berry really hurts. In addition, being a pure Bug type is a liability, as it is weak to Rock and provides very middling resistances to play with, unlike Heracross and Scizor. Higher tiered Bug types need something very worthwhile to bring for teams when Stealth Rock is a common hazard in every game. And, Pinsir does not have anything noteworthy over the other Bug types. However, back in Vega, Pinsir did gain an evolution known as Pinchor, which would be perfectly fine to remove the Stealth Rock weakness via Ground typing. But alas.

Pinchor is a pretty potent upgrade for Pinsir. It has 135 Attack and 95 Speed at the cost of losing 10 Defense, which lets it compete with the 90s tier comfortably, unlike Pinsir. STAB on Ground moves is excellent and complements the Bug type very well, leaving it only resisted by Flying types. But, Pinchor has access to Grand Boulder to really let Fliers think twice on switching in, though it is walled by Skarmory without Swords Dance Close Combat, which it can afford to drop Raid, since Ground is way better than Bug offensively. Bug is mainly for the defense aspect of resisting both Fighting and Ground moves along with an Electric immunity thanks to its Ground typing.

In Procyon and Deneb, Pinchor got even better. Mold Breaker is now an option over Hyper Cutter to negate specific Abilities. Choice Scarf makes it very fast, though being Choice locked into a Ground move is risky. Knock Off got buffed, now using it as both an attacking move and item removal in one along with Dark not resisted by Steel anymore. Type Gems to really diversify its options in blasting a specific target, like Fighting Gem Close Combat to smash Skarmory after removing Eviolite or Bug/Ground Gem Raid/Earthquake to nuke a neutral target out of there.

However, Pinchor does have its issues. 95 Speed is pretty good, but very packed with many Pokemon speed tieing it. Weaknesses to Water, Fire, Ice, and Flying are pretty terrible, leaving it vulnerable to common Special Attacks from the former 3 types. It has a case of moveslot syndrome between a lot of moves it wants to use, like using Bug and Ground STAB, Grand Boulder, Knock Off, Close Combat, Swords Dance, and even Spikes as well. While the Thunder Wave immunity is valuable, it still fears Burn. While Pinchor is not gonna be as appealing as the new big threats, an upgrade to Pinsir is a very much needed thing, even if Eviolite Pinsir is an option now, making it more bulkier than Pinchor.

## Base Stats

 * Minimum stats are calculated with 0 EVs, IVs of 0, and a hindering nature, if applicable.
* Maximum stats are calculated with 252 EVs, IVs of 31, and a helpful nature, if applicable.

## Trivia

* Pinsir used to have an evolution from the 1997 Spaceworld Demo known as Plux or "Purakkusu" in Japanese before it got removed in favor of Heracross in the final version of Gold and Silver. Unlike Pinchor, Purakkusu was just Pure Bug type.
* To follow the trend of Scizor and Kleavor, Pinchor's BST is 500.
	+ Though, stat difference is not as significant as Scyther's upon evolving to either Scizor or Kleavor.