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ORAS General Discussion - Mark 2 - Spoilers Inside
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shh, no doubt, just hype
I am pretty suspicious though. That tiny boost to attack on Mega Metagross after they said it was getting a big boost is so suspect.
sweet baby jesus yes
This thing is going to wreck so hard in Rain my lord
It's real, and I'm not going to entertain your conspiracy theories. It's possible that not all data is in the demo. End of discussion.
Kaphotics has data mined every game for us.
Does anyone else find it weird that Precipice Blades has 10 more power than Origin Pulse? I thought they generally tried to balance the moves of the counterparts, and Origin Pulse doesn't have any other kind of effect to balance it out. (I guess there was RoT/Spacial Rend, but they had drastically different effects that warranted the power difference.) To tell the truth, Precipice Blades and Origin Pulse kind of disappoint me – after Geomancy and Oblivion Wing, I thought that GF was moving toward more creative legendary signatures than 'high power, low accuracy.'
They were probably referring to HP.
... alright then.
Seems really arrogant but uh.
Okay then.
Then why did they say all of Mega Sharpedo's stats would be boosted instead of almost all?
There's a thread literally right below this one that the data miner is updating.
Why would you doubt Kaphotics :( I wouldn't find it weird of GF to mess about when they say what stats would rise or fall tbh.
Thank you kind sir. May Arceus be with you.
flargananddingle
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hoopa only gets +80 stats..maybe a forme? although a mega would be better for knock off
I'm super surprised that nearly all of these new Megas seem OU viable and likely to be tiered at OU/UU. I shouldn't be so surprised considering that is the case for the original Megas (only M-Banette and M-Abomasnow are RU last I checked), but goodness I never thought I'd say Pigeot and Beedrill seem usable/viable in OU.
The fact that it only gets +80 and Magician seems to imply to me that Mega Hoopa is unfinished in its current state, considering the game may not be 100% finalized right now. I don't doubt its legitimacy of course, but maybe there will be changes before the full game comes out.
Pidgeot finally got a form of redemption, a Mega Evolution should definitely be useful and pull it out of the bottom of PU. These were much needed Megas for almost all of them to redeem a lot of these mons imo.
On another note, did they really modify the catch rate values of the weather trio? Because assuming Kaphotics's data is correct, Rayquaza now seems to have a catch rate equivalent to that of the average three stage fully evolved Pokemon. Kyogre and Groudon also have typically had a catch rate of 5 afaik, so lowering it seems kind of weird imo.
On another note, did they really modify the catch rate values of the weather trio? Because assuming Kaphotics's data is correct, Rayquaza now seems to have a catch rate equivalent to that of the average three stage fully evolved Pokemon. Kyogre and Groudon also have typically had a catch rate of 5 afaik, so lowering it seems kind of weird imo.
Design wise? No, but the fact that it only gets a +80 boost and a useless ability seems weird to me.
boxofkangaroos
this is the day of the expanding man
Has anyone else noticed that they said Dragon Ascent was the most powerful Flying-type move, yet it is only 120 power?
lats
formerly lockiegengar12
LOL. With 150 Atk and 145 Speed. Definitely UU-BL-OU. Adapatability U-turn, Poison Jab, X-Scissor (Fell-Stinger) too strongk.
Doubt it'll be OU, it still has shitty defenses, 75 speed before it mega evolves, and it's hard countered by Mega Pinsir and Talonflame
My brain is about to explode. With those stats leaking, I'm absolutely in love with M-Beedrill, M-Pidgeot, M-Metagross, M-Lopunny, M-Sceptile, M-Swampert, M-Gallade, M-Sharpedo, and M-Sableye! I want to use them all at once!
Fury Cutter MBeedrill, who ready
kyogre got a huge buff to its physical attack while groudon got a huge buff to its special attack.
kyogre has base 150 attack while groudon has base 150 spattk. they could easily run mixed and destroy any dedicated physical or special walls that switch in with a coverage move. the only pokemon that i could really see walling these 2 if they were to run mixed would be giratina-A.
kyogre has base 150 attack while groudon has base 150 spattk. they could easily run mixed and destroy any dedicated physical or special walls that switch in with a coverage move. the only pokemon that i could really see walling these 2 if they were to run mixed would be giratina-A.
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