The pseudo looks atrocious. The most palatable is probably its 2nd stage. Better compensate with an optimal, offensive stat distribution for its typing.
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SPOILERS! Scarlet & Violet Leaks Thread - Data/Mechanics
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"Booster Energy" sounds generic enough that's it's probably the same held item for both versions.
With that said, Iron Moth will probably get filtered by Unaware Skeledirge the moment it becomes available (possibly now for all we know).
It's the Grass-type lovechild of Smart Strike and Wicked Blow. 70BP, 10PP, --- accuracy, auto-crit.
oh it's dark/flying...i stand corrected - irondreigon wouldn't be affected by the terrain :/
Irondreigon's ability isn't levitate but it is a flying type, no? So it doesn't get the effects of terrain.
Abilities and Items activate regardless of if the Pokémon actually gets the terrain effects. It's why Hawlucha runs the Seeds.
Scovillain move:
Someone here already posted it. While Skeledirge and the duck get an 80BP move that boosts atk / spd, the resident shillstarter Meowscarada gets a move that always crits.
Hydreigon's ability is still activated by Electric Terrain. The only thing being a flying type does it prevent its Electric moves from being boosted and prevent falling asleep.
Interesting! So it's essentially a 140 BP move that ignores intimidate and burn, whose "balancing" would be that it's a shit offensive typing.Someone here already posted it. While Skeledirge and the duck get an 80BP move that boosts atk / spd, the resident shillstarter Meowscarada gets a move that always crits.
Hey, it works on lando-T I guess.
*prevents the prevention of sleep.
(I assume you knew what you meant, I just want to clarify because the wording was inconsistent.)
oh this thing is sooo meant to have a focus sash in the sun
also, that confirms it's a mixed attacker with an emphasis on physical attacks with that signature move:
105 BP, crits are only 1.5x since XYInteresting! So it's essentially a 140 BP move that ignores intimidate and burn, whose "balancing" would be that it's a shit offensive typing.
Hey, it works on lando-T I guess.
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I can see the usage for this actually.
It's a clorophyl mon, so in theory you can use it in the same way you would be using prankster Fake Tears in this gen: debuff opposing mon for your partner to kill right after in doubles.
Can obviously also be used a-la Swagger to buff the partner or yourself if you don't care for the defense drop ofc.
Not exactly something amazing, but I can see the intended use cases.
Sure, but if the 1.5x boost from the ability is legit, it'll murder just about everything else. 140/110 offenses on a Pokemon that gets QD is insane even if there's a couple of Pokemon that can switch into it.
On a related note: What about using Quark Drive/etc to boost speed? The viability will depend on what the most "proficient stat" means--if it's just the highest, that'll heavily limit things, but if it's the most heavily-invested stat or something like that instead, I could see a 1.5x drawback-less speed boost being pretty useful.
Hail with Ninetales and Arctizolt was probably the best weather in gen 8. It's legit in a great place right now
I know there's been self-aim moves that do this, but have we had a target-able move that raises one stat and lowers another?
It could also be an interesting combo with Defiant in doubles. That's a free +4 attack...although it comes at the cost of letting your sweeper get nuked by any physical move, so I'm not sure whether it'll see much use in practice.
There's the herb that copies the opponent's stat changes. Funny gimmick would be to use the pepper on an opposing special attacker I guess
Shell Smash, and sort of Belly Drum if HP counts as a stat!
EDIT: Those are self-aim, I can't read lol. I don't think we have had targetable ones before, no.
It's going to likely be on a per-pokemon basis, but as I said above, I can definitely see Timid Kartana-tier spreads happening for certain mons.
Though, more in doubles honestly. This boost still comes at cost of holding a item in singles or running a potentially terrible pokemon (in non-uber format, anyway).
To be fair... it's not that Hail was good, Hail itself still sucks, realistically speaking it was never actual hail teams, it was "Aurora Veil + sometimes Arctozolt".
If Aurora Veil wasnt THAT good, and Arctozolt didn't have a busted move, you'd hardly see any actual hail around.
Kinda like Sand which isn't really "sand" anymore, it's just "Tyranitar + occasionally Excadrill"
Much different from rain and sun who run dedicated teamcomps with multiple abusers
Eh, if the sweeper is already squishy a f, why not. After all, Shell Smash pokemon were a thing for a while.
Do we know if Scovillain only gets Chlorophyll? It's not bad, but I would have hoped for defensive immunities, Flash Fire and/or Water Absorb. The former is possibly unlikely since Armarouge and Ceruledge already gets it, but the latter would be nice for a "fire plant".
Technically Scale Shot, but that does the stat changes on the user not the target. Otherwise no, the only other moves that raise and lower stats on the same target at the same time are Shell Smash and the non-Ghost effect of Curse.
Why would a completely unrelated Pokémon getting an ability have any effect on Scovillain's ability to have that ability?
Also here's hoping the next pseudo isn't a dragon. Gimme a fire/fairy Manticore or something