Skeledirge is a Fire & Ghost type, is the final evolution of the Fire starter Fuecoco, and has a great design, but is still one I like least of the starter final evolutions for Paldea. Skeledirge is definitely great in playthroughs though, with it having pretty good stats, good abilities, and a great movepool. Torch Song is absolutely great for in game getting special attack boosts each time you use it, which can make it fairly easy to sweep teams with Skeledirge later game in a Paldea playthrough, and I think it's because of that one move that makes Skeledirge best to use in a Paldea playthrough, as well as it also doing not half bad competitively. Overall, I definitely love Skeledirge greatly, and it's the next starter I plan on using when I play through the Paldea region again, but it's just not a top 10 pokemon to me, which is why it got the spot right outside my top 10.
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