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It's a shame Simple will be relegated to Pokemon like Bibarel. I mean, I love Bibarel, but a better Pokemon could make use of it...
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It's a shame Simple will be relegated to Pokemon like Bibarel. I mean, I love Bibarel, but a better Pokemon could make use of it...
I'd like to see oblivious make the pokemon immune to moves like taunt, trick, torment, etc.
Give snorlax an ability that allows him to attack normally while asleep :P
Yo dawg I heard you like Sleep Talk so we gave you Sleep Talk so you can Sleep Talk while you Sleep Talk while you sleep so you can Sleep Talk your Sleep Talk
But then we can't say things like "Sleep Talk while you Sleep Talk" and that clearly takes priority over common sense.
Clearly.
Seriously? I'd prefer Nasty Plot. Starmie wants as much immediate power as it can get before it faints.
Infernape can pull off a Nasty Plot set that can beat Blissey. I can hardly call a Nasty Plot Starmie cheap, considering it has to remain all-special. Besides, both of them are frail little things anyway. Starmie'd still get destroyed by anything faster like a Scarf User.
Here's an idea for the abilities Effect Spore, Flame Body, Poison Point, Rough Skin, and Static: Like how there's a 30% for the offender of getting inflicted by a certain status from these abilities if the defender is hit by a contact move (besides Rough Skin), if a Pokemon with any of these abilities uses a contact like Body Slam, they have a chance of inflicting the status they threaten as if they were hit, by either a 20% chance. For Rough Skin, contact moves would have their power increased by 12.5%. And with that, let's say a Static Pokemon uses a contact move that has a similar effect, such as Thunderpunch, the chance increases to 30%, and if that static user uses another contact move with a different effect, such as Ice Punch, then the possible effects would be 20% paralysis, and 10% freeze. For Effect Spore, its effect will be like the move Tri Attack. One-third of the chance will go to each of its effects, and should the user use the move ThunderPunch, its effects will look like: 16.66% paralysis, 6.66% sleep, and 6.66% poison.
Here's a pretty over the top idea with the ability Stench: Contact moves have a 30% chance of failing, due to the offending Pokemon refusing to get anywhere near that awful smell. Only Poison types are unaware of this ability so they are not affect by this ability.
Here's a pretty over the top idea with the ability Stench: Contact moves have a 30% chance of failing, due to the offending Pokemon refusing to get anywhere near that awful smell. Only Poison types are unaware of this ability so they are not affect by this ability.
You just made Battle Armor complete trash, whilst making Pick Up crazy good. Battle Armor doesn't need to be changed IMO, but I think Pick Up should work like this:
Pick Up: a 1-in-3 chance of picking up a dropped / discarded item (from either side) in battle at the end of every turn if not already holding anything.
Keen Eye also seems too similar to Compoundeyes for my liking. I would do them like this:
Keen Eye: accuracy cannot be lowered by opponent, whilst opponent's Evasion boosts are temporarily ignored when the user attacks.
Hyper Cutter: attack cannot be lowered by opponent, whilst opponent's Defense boosts are temporarily ignored when the user attacks.
This way, they have their own unique use without being completely outclassed by Clear Body or too similar to another ability. I also think your version of Stench is a bit outclassed by Serene Grace, which I would personally like to see avoided. Something along the lines of vcg's idea seems more appealing.
I agree with this 100%. It would be an interesting 'flavor' ability then for the way move immunities are selected. immune to Trick but not Switcheroo, immune to Hypnosis / Lovely Kiss / Yawn but not Sleep Powder / Spore, immune to Swagger / Flatter but not Confuse Ray etc etc. Of course the main perks competitively would be immunity to Taunt and Encore.
30% chance of failing is really not that much, considering it is only affecting contact moves, and not moves like Earthquake, Rock Slide, Status, every Special Attack, etc.
I don't understand the paralysis and confusion bit. They are factored. Should a Pokemon be confused, it has a 50% of hitting itself, 35% of attacking, and 15% chance of the move failing.
Sure, but what I wanted to say with that is, that
1. every contact move(that being every physical fighting type, most physical normal type and a bunch of other moves would practically be a 70 accuracy move when used against Stench pokemon. Moves with lower accuracy than 100 are almost at Hypnosis accuracy. Maybe it´s just a matter of personal opinion, but I think that´s a pretty strong ability.
2. Para support and confusion would make Stench pokemon pretty haxy, don´t you think?
Sticky hold is a ability that makes you immune to trick and switcheroo.
1. Well that is just if a large percent of Pokemon only use contact moves as attacks, which isn't really the case. Against Special attackers like Gengar, the ability doesn't help at all. Many physical attackers would carry a move that does not involve contact. Let me list Pokemon in OU that would normally use physical contact moves but can get around it.
Breloom- Spore, Stone Edge
Dragonite- DM or Fire Blast, EQ
Gyarados- EdgeQuake
Heracross- Stone Edge
Infernape- Stone Edge, Overheat
Jirachi- look who's getting haxxed now
Lucario- Stone Edge
Machamp- 100% acc Stone Edge
Scizor- ok nothing
Snorlax- Earthquake
Weavile- nothing
So there are just about two Pokemon in OU who are primarily based on contact moves. Even then, it's not like they are guaranteed to fail all their hits, they should hit most of the time.
2. Parafusion in itself is haxxy and makes up most of the hax. And that takes two turns of setup.
Look at the Pokemon that actually get Stench, Muk and Skuntank. They aren't very formiddable at all, and my idea probably wouldn't even be enough for them to be used much more. They hate Earthquake.
yes, but not taunt, nor does sticky hold make the pokemon with immume to whatever else he listed besides trick
"Hey, let's have Ash FINALLY get a chance to win... But then we bring in a totally random character who destroys him and wins the league!"
Probably the most anti-climactic thing to ever happen. Even more than Naruto VS Pain, where everyone had to sit through countless months of a lame, grueling battle that only ended with a Deus Ex Machina.
Aaaanyway, does anyone know what the pre-order bonus for the games is (In Japan, obviously)? I'm hoping it isn't just some stylus stuff. My dog chewed up my Dialga stylus, and I couldn't glue it back together.
Speaking of abilites, there must the an auto-Torment inducer. The ban of all Choice users
Ex.: Wigglytuff (something to put him apart from Bliss and Clefable)
@ Leftovers
Impish Nature
EVs:32 HP/224 Def/252 Sp.Def
Ability: The auto-Torment
~ Wish
~ Protect
~ Toxic/ T-Wave/ Counter
~ Seismic Toss/ Focus Punch/ Return
Walled by Ghosts, but that is why Gengar, Tomb and fellows exist.
Ex.: Wigglytuff (something to put him apart from Bliss and Clefable)
@ Leftovers
Impish Nature
EVs:32 HP/224 Def/252 Sp.Def
Ability: The auto-Torment
~ Wish
~ Protect
~ Toxic/ T-Wave/ Counter
~ Seismic Toss/ Focus Punch/ Return
Walled by Ghosts, but that is why Gengar, Tomb and fellows exist.
Um...perhaps I'm missing something, but aren't EQ and SE physical (and thus considered contact) moves?
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