Which/Do Pokemon gain/lose an advantage from Fire type Extreme Speed, Psychic type Snore and Flying type (by default) Weather Ball?
Weather Ball is
mostly irrelevant, except wait! Roserade has Technician, and can use it as
Flying coverage! Of course Hidden Power Flying is already available, but this also means that a Sun team Roserade can still hit Bugs and to a lesser extent (Just use Sludge Bomb against a lot of them) other Grass types for super effective damage that's actually fairly competent! Plus if Roserade wants
another Hidden Power for some reason -Hidden Power Ground for Heatran say- than Weather Ball acting as Flying coverage is still valuable.
Snore has been buffed for the various Special Psychic walls that occasionally employ Rest Talk -it's
marginally conceivable they might replace the random Sleep Talk for the STAB Snore. Maybe. Unfortunately every Pokemon that learns Snore learns Sleep Talk except several unevolved crap Bugs (I'm talking like Weedle here, not LC viable Pokemon) and for reasons that mystify me the ORAS variant Pikachu. So realistically speaking it probably doesn't matter.
Extreme Speed being Fire is bad for Arcanine and
especially Entei since they'd still rather run their proper Fire STABs so it's not freeing up movepool slots and in fact it just exaggerates their existing problems with having narrow, unappealing movepools. (This should be less true because of changes to other moves, though) The STAB gain isn't really that great, I suspect. Arceus resents having to run a Fire Plate to pull off Espeed Killer Arceus and also resents that it's a much easier type to meaningfully wall, though maybe the coverage utility for its other Formes will outweigh that. Deoxys is perfectly happy to have Fire coverage and more specifically the ability to murder Steel types super effectively without having to fall back on Superpower. (Which lowers its Attack and makes it less effective) Dragonite appreciates replacing Fire Punch with the stronger and super-priority Extreme Speed as coverage against Skarmory, Ferrothorn, etc. Genesect appreciates replacing Blaze Kick with the slightly weaker no Burn chance but no miss chance super-priority Extreme Speed, though it would've better appreciated an answer to Heatran and other Fire types generally. For Linoone this is basically a straight upgrade -it kept its STAB and now it can hit super effectively on stuff, amping up its damage potential. Lucario appreciates having Fire coverage, I guess? Pikachu and Raichu appreciate having more coverage generally, and in fact Grass is vulnerable to it vs resisting their STAB, so that's something. Raikou can already run Weather Ball in Sun teams, so being able to run Extreme Speed in Sun teams is either sort of pointless or pretty appealing, I'm not sure which. Rayquaza is now an unstoppable god, with not even Steel types able to meaningfully wall it nor Abomasnow able to Ice Shard it etc. Hooray for making
the Pokemon that broke Ubers better! (That's sarcasm btw) Suicune appreciates getting Fire coverage at last, even if it's on its weaker attacking stat it never ever uses. Togekiss... well, it affects it
somehow anyway. Zygarde loves this for allowing it to murder those frickin' Ice types reliably and finish off faster Steel types and so on.
Do you think any of last week's retyped Pokemon will get more usage because of these retypes?
Castform was never used more because it's stats are low and its gimmick dubious than anything else. At best it might see marginally more use from being able to switch, in neutral weather, on both Ground and Fighting moves.
Linoone has access to two of the best offensive types in the game, Belly Drum, STAB Extreme Speed, and good enough Speed to outrun things that might hope to counter it (eg Water types) and straight up murder them. And
now it has Flame Charge to raise its Speed off a STAB attack. Oh god it might be broken.
Delcatty strikes me as likely being a bad Slurpuff with a somewhat less awful movepool. But think about that: bad Slurpuff.
Swellow I think will mostly see more use from gaining Roost and especially Brave Bird. Also from Facade's re-typing -it doesn't matter whether it becomes Fighting or Dark,
both of those help Guts Swellow a lot.
What type should a Pokemon using Camouflage transform into? It used to be Normal type, so what should it be now? Same type as Camouflage or something else?
Ground, as per blending into the
ground.
Which entries for this week do you agree/disagree with? [Remember: Be to the point and decisive, no hate]
Mostly the pure Fairy Purugly submission bugs me. Here we have a Pokemon whose every personality trait given to us by the Pokedex, for both its stages, is "is a jerk", and there's a pure Fairy submission? I don't hold with the idea that Fairy is "sweetness and light" like some people think, but it's certainly not the "jerk" type: that's Dark if anything.
Is there a Sawkulator37?
