As someone who falls into Lou's category of "fuck your Steelix, fuck actual thinking, fuck strategy, I have a Ditto," I also approve of that proposal, and think that the nerf of adding only 2 ranks to each Def stat is the better way to go.
But anything could work. I just think we should include it somehow for the sale of completeness.Everstone: Increases the attack and special attack of an NFE by 1 rank each, and it's speed by ten points.
Cost: 20 CC
this would make everstone more like its ingame functionGrants a Pokemon 2 extra MC per battle, but only if it is not at its full stage of evolution (it can have full EC as long as it isn't evolved)
The Pokemon holding this item gains an extra 2 mc; however, it does not gain EC for the match. A pokemon with full EC does not gain any extra MC from holding this item
Of course one other thing I could do with Ditto is make phazing moves in Switch=KO revert it back to Ditto until it could transform again, except that'd make Sub + Phaze a Ditto slaughterer.Metal Powder said:
Metal Powder: Increases the Defense and Special Defense of the Pokemon by half (1.5x) of its current ranks, rounded up. Effect remains even while transformed.
Cost: 6 | Affected Pokemon: Ditto
If ya'all are complaining about a Pokemon with one weakness (and the means to crush exploiters of that weakness six ways to Sunday) you have bigger issues than screwing with stats or items. Kingra barely needs a buff at all, and Dragon Scale is plenty good as it stands.Oooh I like this idea.
It almost makes Kingdra useable.