Recent content by Lucida

Why Fury Cutter? Secret Power has the same amount of PP, doesn't make contact, and has a 30% chance to paralyze. (Unless it's Misty/Psychic/Grassy Terrain) Also, remove the DEF EVs and set your DEF and SPD IVs to 0. You're dead if something's able to hit your substitute. Here's a Pokémon I...

Why is Smeargle able to learn Double Iron Bash? Well, and every other Gen 8/9 move that isn't Life Dew or Body Press, since those can be learned in BDSP which Smeargle is in fact in. It's not fair that Smeargle gets to have moves that it's never been able to learn in any game just because...

the mechanic's called terastal

Ability Patches now allow for Hidden Abilities to be reverted to Standard Abilities, which allows for VC-exclusive moves to be on gen 1/2 mons who have their standard abilities, but this isn't acknowledged in the teambuilder. BUG STATUS: FIXED by Karthik

Will natdex accept the changes to ability patch (i.e. mons with hidden ability can now have their standard ability)? This means that mons from gen 1/2 can now have transfer-only moves and their standard ability (but still can't have gen 3, 4, 5, or 6 transfer moves at the same time).

So. Ability Patches now allow for a Pokémon with its hidden ability to go back to having its regular ability (and from there, an ability capsule can be used to make their ability become the second one.) This means that a Pokémon from generation 1 (or 2) can now have transfer-only moves while...