That is unfortunately inherited directly from the Japanese version where they're "Ice Face" and "Nice Face". "Noice Face" was an attempt by the translators to make it less stupid, not more.
Giratina was banished there, but all the exposition from Cyrus in Platinum suggests that the Distortion World itself exists simply to keep the material world in balance. The analogy used in the game is that of two opposing strands of DNA. Time and space make up matter, according to the mythology of Sinnoh, and are counterbalanced by antimatter, in a world where time doesn’t flow and space isn’t stable.
“Nice Face” feels far less tryhard. It’s ever so slightly sarcastic, but it isn’t forcing everyone to feign a bad accent whenever they speak about the form.
I wouldn't choose "distorted world" for it if it were up to me; as I said, I prefer the original Japanese name. "Distorted world" is just more straightforward in what it's saying.
It's pretty clearly basically the same thing, the game and the anime just portray it differently and give it different names.
That's not confirmed. It's deliberately unclear whether Giratina itself created the Distortion World (Cyrus seems to think it did) or whether it simply happens to live there (which Cynthia seems to believe). Whether it was created specifically to be Giratina's prison or already existed isn't clarified.
It's a Titan pokemon. Which means it's catchable with the Titan's ability after you beat it. IDK why they specifically wanted the Titan version to have STAB-Rock and none of the other wild Bombirdier do, but they clearly thought it mattered. They didn't do that with any of the other Titans either(even the Loyal 3).
Up until right now I assumed Stall was introduced to make Metal Burst strategies work, but it turns out Sableye only got Metal Burst in Gen V and got Stall in IV when everything else was getting Metal Burst. So now I'm just confused. It's not even a joke involving Prankster, since it didn't get Prankster until Gen V. Why does that exist? Were they afraid Keen Eye was too good?
I guess maybe the thought process was all the other bombirdier tend to drop "various things" where as this one just pops out rocks constantly (we will ignore that Bombirdier learns Rock Tomb, Rock Throw and Rock Slide by level up anyway) to such a comically cheap looking degree, so it's meant to stand out and be more unusual and thus Hidden?
Yeah Stall might be the most baffling ability in the series. It only barely has a use case these days (did you know Sableye only get Skill Swap this gen??). It's not really thematic for Sableye at all; you could probably spin up a reason but it's one where the end result is still going "I Guess?" follow by "but giving it as a signature ability for THAT a generation later?". It's already slow and all around "not that great". But it's also not so bad to deserve a "be bad" ability. It's not really a joke ability like Truant on Durant or Slow Start on Varoom (who loses it on evolution anyway).
Plus and Minus at least have the excuse of being introduced in the same gen as Double Battles, so Plusle and Minun get them by default to show off the new mechanics. Still dumb, though.
It has achieved peak sleepiness such that it's too tired to learn the move.
Gigas should've gotten Sheer Force as a Hidden Ability tbh.
You mean TruantGigas should've gotten Sheer Force as a Hidden Ability tbh.
I don’t remember where i got this from but i remember someone saying that Regigigas should get an ability that increases the damage of moves with varying power so it actually has a reason to use Crush Grip (probably one of the worst signature moves in all of pokemon, even the animation is bad)Gigas should've gotten Sheer Force as a Hidden Ability tbh.
My understanding is that Vikavolt at least performed decently at its intended role. Said role however is an extremely specific "ground-immune Electroweb user for a Doubles format that does not allow Rotom."
In the earlier gens, if you pause and enter a menu (e.g. Bag or Pokemon) then unpause, any spinner on screen will briefly stay facing their current direction, giving you just enough time to walk past without fear. Gen 3/4 (and I think 5?) speedrunners use this technique to safely get past spinners.
Lucario? Covers Fire and Ground types. If we include Platinum mons, then Glaceon can also use it.
Also the Togepi line, the Aipom line, the Snover line, Absol, and Spiritomb. Debatable if most of them would want to use it, but both Cynthia's Togekiss and Candice's Abomasnow know Water Pulse in Platinum. Ambipom's Technician and Togekiss's Serene Grace definitely make it more useful (although Cynthia's Togekiss has Hustle lol).
Sadly Vikavolt belongs to that section of Pokemon that is optimized for Trick Room usage. That is a very specific niche, due to requiring to basically play 3v4 (TR setters are basically always passive and can really just provide utility after setting TR) AND put you on a timer, thus the abusers have to be REALLY busted in order to make it worth, see Ursaluna this gen.
I feel like they tried to do that with Nidoking and Nidoqueen and then it just ended up with them shifting to being special attackers, which is interesting in its own right but obviously not mixed.
Curious, there's a Mixed attacker tearing up OU with basically no ability nowadays, imagine if they actually had one.
I’m sorry, do you forget Dragapult, Kommo-o, Greninja, Hoopa, etc, all exist
Tbh I don't think Dragapult counts as mixed attacker. It's clearly designed as phisical attacker, with the intentional design of not having a reliable ghost stab for balance reasons. Just people value a fast special attacker more due to the nuclear power of Draco Meteor and spammability of Shadow ball.
