protean always felt really strong because of how unpredictable it was. Remember that spikes greninja set where you use spikes to become immune to electric on their electric type switch in? Those options are all dead. Now it’s pretty obvious what you’re going to be doing: Choicing into the most optimal damage move or you lose momentum.
Maybe, but last I checked Cinderace didn't do any of this, and all it did was (if even) click Bulk Up, and then either click highest damage or click U-turn and say bye, with very very rarely Court Change being used.
With Greninja's main perk in gen 7-8natdex not being Protean shenenigan themselves, but rather the fact you'd not know if it's Protean or BattleBond (also nerfed), as both had different checks, and a mispredict could cost you the game.
Ofc the protean nerf takes out a chunk of the utility of the Protean skill to begin with, but it doesn't change the fact that you do get the juicy stab-uturn and stab-insertcoverage damage.
I don't quite recall any real case in singles (or even doubles) where you'd use protean defensively to tank hits at all.
Oh I hadn't even begun to think that the reason we get a "second copy" of the legendary was because they need you to keep the one you ride around on without worrying about the logistics of it "flying in" from elsewhere every time
Smh, Lati@s could easily come from the other side of the planet at the sound of a flute, the new dragons are really weak.