Does Eevee get DD as an Egg Move? (I don't see Flareon learning it by Level...)For legendary signature moves, I could always replace them with other moves that have similar effects and then buff said moves, but for now flavor is the least of my worries.
The only reason Flareon got Dragon Dance is to differentiate it from Arcanine.
I haven't had enough playtesting with these 3 to say if they're OP or not, but they haven't been that overpowered.Blastoise:
Stats: 92/74/110/94/110/60 BST = 540
Ability: Torrent / Rain Dish / Shell Armor
Movepool: +Shell Smash
Kingler:
Stats: 70/130/110/27/68/82 BST = 487
Ability: Shell Armor
Movepool: +Shell Smash
Omastar:
Ability: Shell Armor/Swift Swim
Movepool: +Paleo Wave
Shell Armor: Shell Smash is altered: +1atk, +1spa, +2spe. Def and spd do not get reduced.
Oh Jesus Christ. Aren't these things gonna be broken like hell?
Pinsir doesn't have moxie because I wanted to differentiate it from heracross. Also, there are a LOT of moxie users, so I didn't want to add more.Pinsir
Type: Bug/Dark
Stats: 80/140/100/55/90/75 BST =
Ability: Shed Skin/Intimidate
Movepool: +Poison Jab, +Sucker Punch, +Night Slash, +Stone Edge, +Quick Attack (Level up)
I got excited when i saw the typing and the moves added. But why did Moxie get removed?
It's actually very powerful, and not a gimmick - the combo of thunder and hurricane is great, and although 3 turns doesn't sound like a lot it can help pokemon like venusaur and kabutops revenge kill after the weather-bird dies.Zapdos:
Stats: 90/90/85/125/90/100
Ability: Volt Absorb
If Zapdos holds the Damp Rock, rain is automatically summoned for 3 turns
Movepool: +Hurricane
This might be good. But I think it will be a gimmick.
Actually, bisharp can sweep even outside of trick room using sucker punch+moxie.Bisharp:
Ability: Moxie/Analytic
Stats: 70/125/115/60/70/70
This seems like an excellent TR sweeper.
I'm actually considering giving it download again and nerfing it in terms of movepool. At the moment, Genesect is very overshadowed by the new threats.Genesect:
Ability: Motor Drive
Movepool: -Explosion, +Self Destruct
Yes! Thank god Download is gone.
The problem with freeze is that it, unlike sleep, can last as long as the RNG wants it to. This turns it into the kind of thing that ruins matches and pisses everyone off. Also, not every pokemon runs a thawing move, and to be honest, a LOT of people don't even know that mechanic exists. Freeze as a concept is pointless and frustrating, especially when nobody intends to inflict it in the first place - they just want to hit you with an ice attack.About freeze: not sure how I feel about its removal. It has a bad reputation for being "haxy" because there is no reliable way to inflict it.
However, compared to Gen 5 Sleep, I'd say it is not as powerful.
The new Sleep mechanics can cause a pokemon to be permanently out of commission for the rest of the match unless it stays in (becoming setup fodder), while freeze can potentially be cured on the same turn it was inflicted.
On top of it, anything that knows Scald, Flare Blitz, Fusion Flare, Sacred Fire or Flame Wheel is essentially immune to freeze. Of these moves only Flame Wheel is useless, while two are extremely common (especially on water and fire types, both of which have little trouble against ice types) and two are given to powerful legendaries and see a lot of use regardless, so they can act as freeze absorbers in ubers.
Implementing a freeze status move would allow players to bypass the sleep clause. Unless of course, I code in a "Sleep / Freeze Clause," but that would be just silly.Which leads me to the next point: how about turning Sheer Cold into a freeze move? It doesn't have to be 100% accurate - after all moves like Sing and Sleep Powder are still implemented in this mod and they can potentially make or break a battle.
It would give ice types a useful niche, while still being kept in check by the aformentioned fire and water types (and other ice types, since they're immune to freeze).
Kyogre would admittedly be broken, but in that case you could just remove Sheer Cold from it.
The next point is about ice types themselves - an extra resistance would be nice. I'd dare say Dragon would be the most appropriate. In theory they're supposed to be dragon "counters", in practice they're destroyed by STAB Outrages and Draco Meteors.
They would certainly not replace steel types because their defensive type would still be bad.
These ideas could work, although I don't like changing the type chart too much - I only did it for poison because it was arguably the worst type ever.actually, i would think that a resistance to water and grass would be more appropriate on ice, due to flavor
Mostly because it needed a better STAB than seed bomb, and because I think more about gameplay than I do about flavor.How does Paraect get Horn Leech when it has no horns?
Beedrill did get a big buff:I bet Beedrill got Anger Point cause he's mad since he got almost no additional moves and Butterfree got tons of stuff
... Moves, abilities, pokemon abilities, movesets and items are also changed. What else would you want him to change? How algebra is performed?How would you compare this project to genNext?
Are your goals different?
Why use this mod rather than that?
Why do you change stats instead of other things?
Pardon the ignorance, what's GenNext?How would you compare this project to genNext?
Are your goals different?
Why use this mod rather than that?
Why do you change stats instead of other things?
A different person made different changes to an incredibly complex system.GenNext also changes all of the above. Why is this better?
Also, some more huge differences between gen next and this:Q: Isn't this just a ripoff of Zarel's Gen NEXT project?
A: I'd like to believe that both my project and Zarel's have widely differing goals in mind - while Zarel is looking to make the OU metagame diverse and fresh, I look to increase competitiveness, raise the skill ceiling, and put a heavy emphasis on balance. Also, I don't intend for DuskMod to be "better" than Gen NEXT. I love Gen NEXT just as much as the next guy.