Better yet, what if it's ability swapped weaknesses and resistances. That way, it resists those rocks with quadruple safety, and laughs at fire. Of course, a weakness to ice and ground in return isn't nice to have.To minimize the rock weakness, and to stem the tide of rampant SR/Spikes/TSpikes abuse -- what if it had an ability that acted like an automatic Rapid Spin whenever it was switched in? Imagine a pokemon that vibrated constantly, hence the rapin spin-like effect. On this bug/ice pokemon the ability could be called...
"Shiver".
No, because we have to figure out what we want this thing to do.Needs more Special Sweepers, honestly.
I like the thought of this thing being able to rip through Blissey, but that may be asking for too much. Has anyone came up with any ideas for its base stats yet?
LOL, Mario with Lasers idea XDNo, because we have to figure out what we want this thing to do.
I asked my little sister to draw how she visualised this thing, and she came up with a butterfly-ish creature that has antennae with little ice crystals at the tips, and a tail that looks like a third antenna apart from placing. I then suggested snowflake wings, and she added those, and it's ADORABLE. Just saying this, but I don't think we're up to the design phase yet. We don't see much shivering in this design though.
Huh? My sister's drawing more pictures of this thing, and it is seriously the cutest little thing. lol I sound like some kind of new parent or something.LOL, Mario with Lasers idea XD
Placd that thing on photobucket and post it on the Smeagle art board or something.
Physical sweeper: Heracross, Weavile
Special sweeper: Azelf, Jolteon (joltion can be used as a suporter)
Mixed sweeper: Lucario, Garchomp (chomp is not a mixed sweeper, change it for salamence)
Physical tank: Rhyperior, Snorlax (lax is odd because it has high sp.def and attck, its more lightly to be tanking sp hits than physical, replace it with urm... metagross?)
Special tank: Regice, Blissey (blissey is a wall not a tank, replace it with snorlax)
Physical wall: Bronzong (bronzong is a mixed wall, replace it with steelix, or foretress)
Special wall: Cresselia (cresselia is a mixed wall replace it with blissey)
Supporter: Umbreon (add some stuff like batton passers, rapid spiners, trick roomers, stelth rockers, toxi spikers, tenticruel)
An automatic rapid spin-like ability would not be broken as you suggest. It would be an ability that automatically invokes the effect of a move already in the game. This is no different than Intimidate, Sandstream, Arena Trap, Huge Power and TONS of other abilities in the game. All those abilities are basically the automatic invocation of a move -- Growl, Sandstorm, Mean Look, and Howl, respectively.can people stop sugesting anti SR abilitys i mean there are loads of OU pokes with 4x SR weak they just need team suport, with magic gard (and don't sugest a atomatic rapid spin unless you want it to have base 20 in every stat or want it to be Uber)as an ability, it would be overpowerd
Actually, it is. Rapid spin is the reason why anti-Spin teams even bother running things like Dusknoir. If we create a pokemon that can blow away three layers of spikes just by coming in, and not take any damage doing so, Dusknoir and friends are worthless. Not saying that's a bad thing....As a move, Rapid Spin is by no means "game breaking".
It's going to start as soon as this poll is over. I'm post all the details in Smeargle's studio and let the artists go to work on preliminary sketches.cooper: can the sprite compatition in smergles studio start soon pleese before the abality and movepool are decided or they will not match up with the sprite.
I've been thinking more and more about Magic Guard on this pokemon, since it appears that it will be a mixed sweeper. Someone in the last poll suggested an ability that prevents damage upon switching in, which seems like the more viable option to prevent Life Orb abuse. We could call it Ice Shell or something, playing with the bug's natural ability to freeze itself in the winter.giving it magic guard seems reasonable since bug ice lends itself to a "fairy" type imagery