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it is and i will die on that hill.

tough claws, sharpness, defiant are all very logical abilities that would be good for it, albeit defiant more in doubles than singles tbf. technician for it is largely just for shadow sneak purposes aha, and its a pokemon that is already so fast that it is less return on investment than it is on...

i feel like all 3 are ironically limited by the fact that the devs here decided to give them ok abilities for what they are instead of insane ones(like earth eater heatran/regenerator golisopod), which is probably fine for now tbh

realistically this is a fault of the game's framing because it completely drops the 'hey maybe wild zones aren't so great' line after this scene and these people don't appear again outside of the dlc so it just comes off as ???

they're really just a very underbaked character the more I think about them. And like, that goes for a lot of them -- its pokemon -- but Urbain/Taunie are almost uniquely so given that they're the rival character and given a lot of screentime that most others barring like, Corbeau, lack. Their...

lowkey this is why volo is so memorable because, in a game/series that is almost to a fault fair to the player(which is kinda unusual for a jrpg lol), he just fucking cheats like crazy

I feel like Garchomp is actually interesting to talk about in this context because it's pretty much hand-designed to counter the 6 Pokemon the devs expect the player to bring; the 3 starters, and Dialga/Palkia/Giratina. Its faster than basically all of them, and either tanks their hits or...

I mean the way to do it is to just make Glimmora higher level but have Kingambit sent out last lol. Turn it into a 'sometimes it is best to send in your best at the start' kind of deal.

i think this also has a lot to do with game pricing tbf; which is contentious since value for money when it comes to a game is subjective to some degree, but between Gens 1-7, Pokemon games only went up in price by about $10 over the course of 20~ odd years, and were always primarily handheld...

it's not really because most pokemon games are really bad jrpgs when compared to anything but themselves. i'd actually give more credence to the earlier entries in this regard ironically because for all their jank, they didn't yet erase basically all gameplay friction.

I hope it gets an ability that superboosts its Dragon type attacks then, just for old time's sake.

I feel like you could reasonably give Golisopod Heatproof or Water Veil or something and it'd thematically work while making it still pretty solid tbh. Scald immunity or just soaking up the fire coverage Chomp and co use for it would make it standout well enough.

Having played VGC cursorily during Gen 8, I think Dynamax was frankly stupid even in a Doubles context. Certainly more bearable but so horrifically overpowered that it combined the worst aspects of Mega Evolution and Z-Moves both. I'm curious what you have to say on these actually! I've got a...