It could just be the standard procedure of tweaking stuff during developement. In DP Beta, for example, Flare Blitz did not have recoil, but this got changed when game was released.
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SPOILERS! Scarlet & Violet Leaks Thread - Data/Mechanics
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Y-you do realize these are leaks, right? The reason you never hear about it is because no one is supposed to know this info in the first place, and past leakers only cared about new mons and story content
YES! We FINALLY have a leak thread! Now I can ask the thing I've been wanting to for so long.
What do you think Sprigatito 3's "overpowered hidden ability" is? Khu says its not a new ability, and that Sprigatito3 will be a Jester/Magician/Thief.
Some people on /vp/ have suggested it could be prankster but I don't know if that qualifies as "overpowered".
What do you think Sprigatito 3's "overpowered hidden ability" is? Khu says its not a new ability, and that Sprigatito3 will be a Jester/Magician/Thief.
Some people on /vp/ have suggested it could be prankster but I don't know if that qualifies as "overpowered".
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I'm convinced the Dragon/Ice pseudo is gonna be UU at best. Unless it has the perfect ability, moveset, and stat distrubution. That ice type is not doing it any favors.
I think @PalkiaOrigin on twitter is more reliable for fast leak updates
Wait until it have low Speed, low attacking stats and high Defenses. :p
At this point, "UU at best unless it's perfect across the board" is a good rule of thumb. Nature of power creep. Every new gen, there's new mons. Unless they all suck(which they won't), the most busted S-tier of those mons will end up in OU, which means the weakest part of OU drops. Go on long enough, and even gold standard mons won't be OU. Think about current UU. Mence, RotomW, Keldeo, Excadrill...if the standard for a mon is that it has to be better than those to even think about OU, then there's not much that can do it.
Fun fact, less than half the pseudolegends are OU. Dragonite, Tyranitar, Garchomp, Dragapult make it. Metagross(RU), Salamence(UU), Hydreigon(UU), Goodra(NUBL), Kommo-o(UUBL) do not.
Are you guys forgetting base Kyurem got banned from OU, the pseudo can easily have similar stats and movepool, may it could lose some Atk to get to 600 BST, but as long as it has the movepool it can easily be good as long as GF don't make a big fuck up.
Being Ice-Type isn't a bad thing as long as you are an offensive mon with at least a decent speed, and Kyurem only had 95.
Being Ice-Type isn't a bad thing as long as you are an offensive mon with at least a decent speed, and Kyurem only had 95.
It could also have just been stuff that had changes a bit ago, but that Khu didn't get access to until now.
Kyurem is a interesting case because it was a typical example of the problem most Ice types have: their type is SO bad defensively that it needs to compensate somewhere else. Before gen 8, it was barely even relevant as far as OU goes... until it got Freeze Dry and boots.
Kyurem-Black similarly was perfectly fine in the normal tiers... until it actually got a real ice Stab and suddently it became gamebreaking enough to get kicked out.
And do not forget what I said earlier: That Ice-type pseudo-legend could be slow and defensive.
I mean, it’s distinguishable from Kyurem that way. :P
I mean, it’s distinguishable from Kyurem that way. :P
Another thing to remember is that we don't truly know how good a pokemon is until we actually play the meta. A pokemon that might look average might have some important tools that gives it a place in the OU metagame.
Spectrier and Regieleki flashbacks
Spectrier prerelease: "Lol shit movepool noone gonna use this thing"
Spectrier facts: banned from OU for being too restrictive
Regieleki prerelease: "Wtf super fast high damage gonna be broken"
Regieleki facts: so easy to stop that it dropped to UU
Nope. The difference is that now we're getting more info out of leaks.
It's been so long since I last played comp that this is wild af to me.
Salamence was in Ubers a couple gens ago and now it's in UU.
*coughs in False Swipe voice*Salamence was in Ubers a couple gens ago and now it's in UU.
UNFORTUNATELY, the power creep was not kind to our friend
That is really kinda the thing, Dragon/Flying is actually a pretty bad type and Salamence similarly to Dragonite doesn't exactly have a stab to use it... It's basically carried by its BST more than anything else.
If we consider what we saw previously at trailers, we might have status changes of SLEEP turning into DROWZY status, a new mechanic from PLA. It may be fair to assume we will also have FROZEN replaced by FROSTBITE, wich is basically a special version or burn.
It may be favorable for ice types being more effective as special defenders, but we know the list of mon who learns boltbeam so it may not be necessarily good news for the ice chunks.
It may be favorable for ice types being more effective as special defenders, but we know the list of mon who learns boltbeam so it may not be necessarily good news for the ice chunks.
...GF absolutely won't do it, but with the themes of time travel, variants of existing mons from different time periods, real-world evolution, etc...the pseudolegend could easily be a descendant of Kyurem, evolved to survive. They won't, they don't want to add that much to an existing Legend's lore, but they could.
Here's a doompill: ever since gen 5, pseudolegends have been specializing in stats other than Attack.
Hydreigon- Special Attack
Goodra- Special Defense
Kommo-o- Defense
Dragapult- Speed
Ice/Dragon-
Hydreigon- Special Attack
Goodra- Special Defense
Kommo-o- Defense
Dragapult- Speed
Ice/Dragon-
HP + Solid Rock as ability time!Here's a doompill: ever since gen 5, pseudolegends have been specializing in stats other than Attack.
Hydreigon- Special Attack
Goodra- Special Defense
Kommo-o- Defense
Dragapult- Speed
Ice/Dragon-
Hidden Power's dead.HP + Solid Rock as ability time!
I think they meant Hit Points ( HP ).
I am really, really hoping the Gen 9 anime makes Ash accidentally catch 30 of each of the new Tauros forms
would be an amazing callback and would be hysterical for Ash to have a grand total of 120 Tauros
would be an amazing callback and would be hysterical for Ash to have a grand total of 120 Tauros
Yung Dramps
awesome gaming
Also on the note of referencing original series gags, Paradox Jigglypuff bringing out a comically large organ instead of singing because vampire