Quote Originally Posted by TaiLiu View Post
Oh, cool. I didn't know that. It's fun in Gen IV but oh man do I wish I had more moves.
Intimidate is a really useful ability, it's got decent defensive stats and typing (just watch out for anything carrying an Electric move), and as you go through later generations they gain access to more and more moves that help cover for gaps in its moveset so it can attack with pretty good coverage from its better Attack stat (competitively, you're usually trying to get to switch it into a physical attacker that it threatens and then set up with Dragon Dance while the opponent is effectively forced to switch out their penalized 'mon.) It's never really like meta defining, but it's also never a bad pokemon. They're usually staples for in-game teams, too, since you can almost always get a Magikarp pretty early on and grind it up to a Gyarados at a relatively low level - it's often available much earlier than other similarly good pokemon.