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WIP 1
Flaries
Flare + Aries (Zodiac sign of the ram)
Pronounced: FLAIR-ees
WIP 2
Infernovis
Inferno (our central move!) + Ovis (scientific family name for bighorn sheep)
Pronounced: In-fer-NOH-viss
Gonna chime in to say that I think having Freeze as our secondary effect is absolutely fine. Freeze is one of those effects where it’s absolutely broken on paper, but in practice is balanced by it always being a low chance on certain moves and otherwise circumvented by a common move Type. The...
Going to echo the above posts and argue in favor of Magic Bounce over Purifying Salt. dex pretty much said it best so I’ll just keep it simple here: Magic Bounce provides us a near-permanent niche while Purifying Salt overcorrects a weakness and excessively targets Mons we already match up...
Gonna crawl out of the woodwork here to also throw in my hat on No Guard and Magic Bounce.
No Guard presents a really interesting marriage of offensive potential with defensive utility, that also helps to consolidate some moveslots for 36. Inferno is obviously the big draw here; though I...