Plus just bring back Ultra Necrozma already you silly GF people.
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Plus just bring back Ultra Necrozma already you silly GF people.
You almost had me you wascally wabbit.
The best way to do Legends Unova would be to do it Hisui-style with one hub town and a few settlements scattered around, and have everyone think they just made up a past Unova decoupled from the actual history of the NY region. Then, near the climax of the game, the player comes across a large decrepit statue of Pikachu buried in the sand...
About types, if one type desperately needs a buff right now... other than Bug, I would pick Psychic. I swear, it needs to hit more than two types super-effectively and have at least one more resistance.
Stats do matter.
Mawile has a great defensive type (Steel/Fairy) and Intimidate, yet it is considered a shitmon outside of Mega. 
Why? Because of its stats. Same with a lot of less viable Intimidate users. 
Some have good typings, some have good movepools, but all have not-so-great stats that make these hard to use well in higher tiers.
Iron Hands, meanwhile, is an example of a strong Pokémon who's great because of its stats more than its Ability, as pointed out by Samtendo09:
Immunity to hazards is useful to several Pokémon, and it also has a drawback of, get this, using the item slot, so you have to choose between something like a damage boost versus damage prevention.
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Nailed it.
Stats do matter.
Mawile has a great defensive type (Steel/Fairy) and Intimidate, yet it is considered a shitmon outside of Mega. Why? Because of its stats. Same with a lot of less viable Intimidate users. Some have good typings, some have good movepools, but all have not-so-great stats that make these hard to use well in higher tiers.Iron Hands, meanwhile, is an example of a strong Pokémon who's great because of its stats more than its Ability, as pointed out by Samtendo09:------
I don't mind the Heavy-Duty Boots at all.
Immunity to hazards is useful to several Pokémon, and it also has a drawback of, get this, using the item slot, so you have to choose between something like a damage boost versus damage prevention.------
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Ultra Space's blue-skinned folks made me ask soooooooo many questions. To start with the basics:
- What is their culture, their society? How is life in these buildings you can't enter?
- How do they raise Pokémon?
- How did they discover Ultra Beasts, like the Cosmog line, or Necrozma?
- When did they first meet us, if ever?
- Do they regularly check alternate universes?
- Were they related biologically to humans?
Can they mate humans?
i agree with psychic needing one more resistance (i vote fairy), but alternatively to another type being weak to it, i think steel should lose the psychic resistance, which would put psychic on the same level of ghost and dark. it's ironic because steel was created partly to balance psychic in gen 2 and now psychic is too undertuned.
No, that would just make offensive Psychics ridiculous, since most have Fairy coverage for the Dark types. If Steel lost its resistance to Psychic, the only combos that resist Psychic/Fairy coverage would be Steel/Psychic and Fire/Psychic, not a lot of mons for a coverage combo that is so common on fast Pokémon. If anything, Dark and Ghost have become a bit too powerful without the Steel resistance, having Steel keep the Psychic resistance is fine. Psychic is pretty balanced for now, most Psychic types have good coverage and they benefit from most Steel types lacking reliable recovery so they can be worn down; remember PsySpam is/was a viable strategy. The only real problem is that Ghost has nearly the same place in the typechart but is just more overtuned
well, if they took the offensive AND the defensive suggestion i mentioned, psychic/fairy coverage would be handily resisted by... psychic-types, much like psychic/fighting is right now. i do agree that, without that, it does make the combination too good for how accessible it is for mons of both types
Dark feels like it's a bit torn as to whether it should be resisted by more. It has a lot of moves that have conditional damage (e.g. Pursuit, Assurance, Lash Out, Power Trip, to an extent Sucker Punch), where it makes sense to have a lot of neutral hits because they have a separate 'minigame' going on to determine if they hit hard. On the other hand, there's nothing stopping an offensive mon from just using Dark Pulse, Crunch, or a (former) signature move like Darkest Lariat or Kowtow Cleave.
Don’t forget Knock Off during Gen 6-8 for “just use this move instead”, and the cass is for Dark-type Pokémon that still have it.
Water have a similar situation from Gen 5-8 with Scald, where despite a lot of options for Water-type special attackers like Brine, it quickly degenerates into “just spam Scald, lmao”, as too many Water Pokémon can use it despite 80 BP and 30% chance of burning combined.
Given that Dark's whole thing is underhanded tactics and cheating, it's interesting there aren't any Dark moves that work like Freeze-Dry and hit things they shouldn't super-effectively, or turn neutral hits into super-effective ones. It's not hard to imagine the flavour for that sort of move being "the user sneakily subverts expectations to always hit super-effectively" or something to that effect.
Now that you mention it, I'm surprised it took all the way until gen 9 for there to be a Dark-type with Tinted Lens.
I feel Bug and Steel should resist Dark.
Fighting resists dark and it's connected to the Kamen Rider cultural ref, yet Bug oddly doesn't despite being the more direct hero type for that connection. Bug is still SE too, yet most aren't really aware due to how poor move options were till later
Steel it's more due to how unfair how gimped Psychic is. It gets me cuz Fairy being SE on Dark was cuz Bisharp's presence Gen 5 comp, yet...they remove a resist? And then buff Knock Off? Baffling
Also Shadow Tag no longer tagging shadows (Ghost types) will forever be dumb to me
Fighting resists dark and it's connected to the Kamen Rider cultural ref, yet Bug oddly doesn't despite being the more direct hero type for that connection. Bug is still SE too, yet most aren't really aware due to how poor move options were till later
Steel it's more due to how unfair how gimped Psychic is. It gets me cuz Fairy being SE on Dark was cuz Bisharp's presence Gen 5 comp, yet...they remove a resist? And then buff Knock Off? Baffling
Also Shadow Tag no longer tagging shadows (Ghost types) will forever be dumb to me
At least in the case of Scald, the move played into Water's general theme of "offense and defense simultaneously". Post-buff Knock Off still sometimes plays into Dark's theme of "cool utility stuff" when used by defensive or special-attacking mons, but most physical-attacking mons (especially Dark- and Fighting-types) just use it as "big damage what remove items"
Thinking about it, Psychic sort of feels similar to how Dragon type is.
Where the type itself isn’t considered all that good because the focus of ghost & dark/fairy types respectively holding them back, but because they have so many strong Pokémon if you buff the type it could easily lead to things getting out of hand.
Like how removing Steels resistances to Ghost and Dark allowed their usage to increase heavily the past few gens with Mons like Dragapult, Calyrex, Kingambit and Flutter Mane. The same could easily happen with psychic types like Lele and Dusk Mane/Dawn wings if they removed an offensive resistance.
Where the type itself isn’t considered all that good because the focus of ghost & dark/fairy types respectively holding them back, but because they have so many strong Pokémon if you buff the type it could easily lead to things getting out of hand.
Like how removing Steels resistances to Ghost and Dark allowed their usage to increase heavily the past few gens with Mons like Dragapult, Calyrex, Kingambit and Flutter Mane. The same could easily happen with psychic types like Lele and Dusk Mane/Dawn wings if they removed an offensive resistance.
Chi-Yu would be an amazing goldfish
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Rock me grandma
If i were to do such list it's only have 2 rows, a "Fine game with flaws" with the latest release, and a "Why would I play this old game instead of the last one" with all the others.
Facinating,
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Pretty decent tier list, all things considered, even if you’re one of the few people I’ve seen who would rank Scarlet & Violet this highly. I think part of the issue with a lot of the games is how many of them tend to render other games useless by comparison. More specifically, the combination of third versions and remakes eventually makes it so there’s literally no reason to go back to an original pair of versions most of the time.
The reason I rank it highly is because I have played online games on a Chromebook at McDonald’s, those who complain about that merely adopted the bugs and lag, I was born in it, molded by it. Jokes aside, I have played Minecraft 1.17.1 with experiments on, it was something special lets just say that.
How I judge games is based on there story and there Pokémon selection.