Recent content by DrPumpkinz

I don't trust early ladder impressions for a damn second.

Inverse battle Malamar honestly wouldn't be that impressive, at least from a defensive side. Having only two resistences to Bug and Fairy isn't anything to write home about. Offensively, there's some more potential, since you can do stuff like hit Fairies with super effective Knock Offs.

It's not an invitation to be accepted lightly. If the opponent ignores it expecting a Protect, they can very easily find themselves being hit with Leech Seed or Overheat. Almost nothing likes getting Leech Seeded, and the few things that do really don't like getting hit with an Overheat that...

Turbo Flame Body on a properly defensive Pokemon would have been fucking disgusting.

Chesnaught seems like it fits the typing to me. It learns Leech Seed very early, its signature move is a special Protect, and it didn't actually get Close Combat until Gen 9, which is also when it got Body Press which it vastly prefers. I'd argue it's at least a better Grass-type than...

Interesting. Looking specifically at attacks that can lower the enemy's stats, all the ones in Gen 1 (Aurora Beam, Psychic, Bubble, Bubble Beam, Acid) have the 25% chance to fail. However, come Gen 2, the newly introduced moves like Icy Wind and Iron Tail don't have this fail chance, but the...

Maybe Aurora Beam is somehow flagged as a status move? I know at least Gen 1 has that same behavior on I think all offensive status moves.

Even if they don't do Mythologize specifically, the English names of the other Skin abilities (besides Normalize) aren't just the fucking name of the type with a suffix slapped onto it. And all of them, including Normalize, are actual words. Dragonize is nothing. Even something basic like...

Mythologize

Supremely disappointed by Feraligatr, both because Dragonize is a bad name and because Feraligatr doesn't get much out of the effect. It already has strong Dragon moves and it doesn't get any interesting Normal moves. I guess if it ends up running defensive sets then Body Slam could be cool...

And that movepool. Nasty Plot Boomburst is disgusting.

... I really don't think this is something they're all that fussed about.

I want default set mode solely so that the devs stop giving every Dugtrio the same awful Sand Veil set. Let the moles trap your Pokemon in an arena.

Nah that set's not too bad. I mean it is, mainly because Aqua Ring is bad. But the idea behind it is fine, and if Aqua Ring wasn't shit it would be pretty strong. Of all the types to run mono-STAB, Water is one of the better ones.

...wait does it not have a dragon move? -rain dance -surf -thunder -muddy water bro what the fuck is this set