Lmao at that Pokédex entry
Honestly, despite my doubts, I kinda hope Stereo Rotom does become an official, main series form. It’s a good design.
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Lmao at that Pokédex entry
Honestly, despite my doubts, I kinda hope Stereo Rotom does become an official, main series form. It’s a good design.
Same, especially because Rotom hasn’t gotten a new battle form in such a long time.
Plus unlike the Rotom Phones/Dex, Stereo Rotom has the outline the other battle forms share so there’s a chance
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also pls game freak if you are adding in a new form pls pls pls update rotom-fan
it should have hurricane instead of air slash, it most likely would've if hurricane existed when they made it
it also should have an ability like wind power instead of the incredibly redundant levitate. all the rotom forms get levitate but this is the one that effectively has no ability so it isn't fair.
anyway, rotom-stereo most definitely has boomburst since rotom already learns hyper voice and all the form moves are moves it does not already learn. electric/normal levitate + boomburst is going to go crazy, lol.
all the other new variants of old pokemon seem to be their regular typing even mosslax and peakychu...
so a lot less likely they will be added, might just be the rotom
all the other new variants of old pokemon seem to be their regular typing even mosslax and peakychu...
so a lot less likely they will be added, might just be the rotom
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Electric / Normal doesn't sound too appealing tbh, but it would be cool if this rotom form became usable in the main line games.
Rotom-Stereo changing the battle theme would be a cool but impractical gimmick.
Make sure you have Magnet Rise on that. Just in case. Need to make sure it can't be hit by ground moves
I would presume that this is very likely making it into Winds and Waves, especially since it's an actual design and Game Freak was involved in this game.
And yeah, my guess in such a case is its unique move will be Boomburst. It would fit with what the other Rotom forms except Fan have as a high powered second STAB (Hydro Pump, Overheat, Leaf Storm, Blizzard).
And yeah, my guess in such a case is its unique move will be Boomburst. It would fit with what the other Rotom forms except Fan have as a high powered second STAB (Hydro Pump, Overheat, Leaf Storm, Blizzard).
I think the chances are very high now that it will be included in Winds/Waves. I think it could even be added to Champions before the release of those games (perhaps as a save file bonus for Pokopia?).
Do we yet know if any of the other special NPC Pokémon in Pokopia have their own Dex entries? It would be nice to see if they were also given a unique typing.
Do we yet know if any of the other special NPC Pokémon in Pokopia have their own Dex entries? It would be nice to see if they were also given a unique typing.
Or heck, give the Rotom forms two new attacks each, one weaker option for the accuracy (Scald, Flamethrower, Freeze Dry, Leaf Tornado (?), Air Slash, Round (or Perish Song?) because it already learns Hyper Voice) and one Strong one (Hydro Pump, Overheat, Blizzard, Leaf Storm, Hurricane, Boomburst)
And In a similar vein, I hope, I hope they give Fan Rotom the Wind Power ability. I know the 8X immunity to Ground is hilarious but my Fan needs something really good, please.
Rotom already learns Round, everything learns Round except the mons that don't learn anything and Pokémon introduced in gen 9 or PLA.
I mean it already learns every other damaging Normal type sound move besides Relic Song and Echoed Voice. And one of those is a legendary signature move and the other is really weak.
STAB Boomburst from a Levitate mon with those stats is gonna be annoying lmao.
And that movepool. Nasty Plot Boomburst is disgusting.
Or give Levitate an additional effect if on a Flying-type Pokemon, like 33% Power boost to Flying-type Moves.
Which is why I'm kind of doubtful that's the Move it's going to get. Because look at the other Form Moves it gets:
Heat: Overheat (130 Power, 90% Accuracy, 5 PP, User loses 2 stages in SpA)
Wash: Hydro Pump (110 Power, 80% Accuracy, 5 PP)
Frost: Blizzard (110 Power, 70% Accuracy, 5 PP, 10% Freeze)
Fan: Air Slash (75 Power, 95% Accuracy, 15 PP, 30% Flinch)
Mow: Leaf Storm (130 Power, 90% Accuracy, 5 PP, User loses 2 stages in SpA)
Sure most of them get a Move with high power, but it often comes with a major setback (either lowering its Special stat or having low Accuracy; also having low PP). Air Slash is the odd exception though I'd argue, in consistency, may be the best; 75 Power may not be much but with a high Accuracy of 95% it's at least guaranteed to hit each time, not to mention I don't have to worry about its stats lowering and have a good chance to making my opponent miss their turn if I outspeed them.
Sure, Boomburst makes sense on principle, but when you compare it to the other Moves its as everyone says it is: overpowered. Boomburst's two downsides is that it can't hit anything Super Effectively (though aside from Rock, Steel & Ghost that 140 Power is still gonna hurt; heck Rock & Steel-types may even still feel it as they're usually physically defensive not special) and it hits all Pokemon on the field (so if it's a Double Battle you better have a partner Pokemon that's either Ghost, has Soundproof, has Protect, or is able to take Special hits); Also I feel GF tends to be more Singles focus when it comes to Pokemon designs.
So, if not Boomburst, what? Well, assuming it'll be a Sound Move, we can start there.
As pointed out by AztecCroc, the only Normal-type Sound Moves it doesn't learn is the Signature Relic Song and Echoed Voice:
* Echoed Voice is just too weak in too many aspects so I don't think it'll be used, otherwise would be pretty dissapointing.
* Now, some have already turned down Relic Song, but hear me out. Sure, Relic Song is a Signature Move for the Mythical Pokemon Meloetta, the context being that its voice has this primordial/ethereal power which "appeals/strikes the heart", not just causing (emotional/spirtual?) damage but also potentially lulls its target to sleep; its also the trigger for its form change via bringing itself to a mental & emotional high. So, seems like something no othe Pokemon can just casually do. Except, Stereo Rotom isn't singing, now is it? It's just playing back music, and if we're to take the setting of Poketopia into consideration the music it would be playing would be old... you may even say a relic of the past civiliation that was there. And even without the Poketopia influence, there is still the concept that old radio waves still exist (via speeding through space), or there are mysterious music, songs, or broadcasts which one can stumble upon flipping through their radio channels (and most stereos have a radio feature). And it would just be so fitting for a Ghost-type to be able to pick up these old and mysterious radio signals... music of the past... Relic Songs. Relic Song would also fit alongside Air Slash with being a lower Power by reliable Move with no downsides and a useful secondary effect.
HOWEVER, is that truly the only options for it? What about Status Moves? Of the Normal-type Status Sound Moves, the one which stands out to me is Perish Song.
That all said, if it were up to me, honestly I'd actually do something more drastic: I'd get rid of the Form Move gimmick and instead replace it with a new Signature Move which changed Type & Effect (aka the Revelation Dance/Ivy Cudgel/Raging Bull approach):
Power 90, Special Category, Accuracy 95%, 10 PP.
Form: Type - Effect:
Normal: Electric - Increases user's Special Attack by 1 stage.
Heat: Fire - Decreases target's Attack & Special Attack by 1 stage each.
Wash: Water - Increases user's Special Defense by 1 stage.
Frost: Ice - Decreases target's Attack & Speed by 1 stage each.
Fan: Flying - Increases user's Speed by 1 stage.
Mow: Grass - Decreases target's Special Defense & Speed by 1 stage each.
Stereo: Normal - Decreases target's Attack & Special Defense by 1 stage each.
Form: Type - Effect:
Normal: Electric - Increases user's Special Attack by 1 stage.
Heat: Fire - Decreases target's Attack & Special Attack by 1 stage each.
Wash: Water - Increases user's Special Defense by 1 stage.
Frost: Ice - Decreases target's Attack & Speed by 1 stage each.
Fan: Flying - Increases user's Speed by 1 stage.
Mow: Grass - Decreases target's Special Defense & Speed by 1 stage each.
Stereo: Normal - Decreases target's Attack & Special Defense by 1 stage each.
Well, here’s Peakychu’s Dex entry:
Has its own entry. Still mono-Electric (which seems odd, if it can no longer generate electricity). The form name seems to be “Pale.” So I suppose Peakychu is just its individual character name, like “DJ Rotom” as opposed to “Stereo Form.”
Edited to add: Mosslax, Smearguru, Prof. Tangrowth
One more edit: Chef Dente, plus some mild spoilers
The yellow Shellos appears to just be a bit of background lore rather than something that’s actually in the game, but I figured it was worth mentioning.
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Thinking on it, I wonder if Project Voltage had some influence on Stereo Rotoms existence.
Like out of all of the project Voltage Mons Rotom was admittedly one of the weaker links, still an excellent choice because Miku is a digital music program, but even still was very loose.
But Stereo Rotom has retroactively made that choice even better than it was before, now being a literal Music player that Miku would use for her performances.
Now I can’t help but imagine like a Rotom controlling those giant speakers during a concert in its Stereo form. I’d love to see fan art of something like that
Like out of all of the project Voltage Mons Rotom was admittedly one of the weaker links, still an excellent choice because Miku is a digital music program, but even still was very loose.
But Stereo Rotom has retroactively made that choice even better than it was before, now being a literal Music player that Miku would use for her performances.
Now I can’t help but imagine like a Rotom controlling those giant speakers during a concert in its Stereo form. I’d love to see fan art of something like that
Considering power creep (Gen 9 is whack), giving Boomburst to the new Rotom form is fairy realistic. Plus alt forme Rotom isn't that much stronger than Chatot, which has (or had RIP Dexit) the highest Special Attack of all the Pokémon that learn Boomburst and get STAB on it.
They don't swing one way or the other that consistently tbh. I can think of several Pokémon that are very clearly oriented for either Singles or Doubles.
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It may have been overpowered in past generations, when Flygon was the standard of an offensive, momentum-generator mon or straight cleaner, it isn't in nowadays generations where it's pretty normal for mons to adquire inmediate burst power in the form of 400-500 points in a particular stat from the get go or incredibly bulky + regenerator mons + items that make those Pokémon even bulkier (AV, HDB).
In the current paradigm that defines a competitive Pokémon, we are talking about mons that the very moment they enter the field, without even wasting 1 turn on setup, they are already porting 546 Speed, 339 SpA and almost 300 (297) Atk uninvested. Said Pokémon, again, isn't even the most dangerous threat in the format. Let that sink in.
You've to also take into consideration that not all types are equally spammable, and altho this is objectively subjective -lol- since a certain metagame could've been dominated by poison, fire and steel types, making fairy stab almost unviable, the truth is types like water or fire are inherently spammable and one way or the other will always be prevalent against dominating pressences in the meta. May I remind us all that there are types so inherently dangerous/spammable, that they define every single metagame independently of the mons that conform such metagame, as a primordial infraestructure that defines everything. For example, we don't know anything about Gen 10 competitive yet, but we can be at this moment 100% sure that resistances to both electric and ground will be needed. Ground types existing in competitive just because the pressence of the electric type as a potential offensive menace is as old as almost every team having a hard ground resist either in the form of levitate, flying type or pretty bulky grass/bug/whatever type. Obviously, an hypothetical 140 bp, 100 acc ground or electric boomburst would've much, much more problematic than the actual normal one.
So Stereo Rotom is absolutely the only one that even has a chance of coming to mainline then.
Electric/Normal is pretty decent with Levitate.
Defensively, you have only 1 weakness (excluding Mold Breaker and being grounded), 3 resistances, and an immunity.
The main draw would be Boomburst. It’d be both the strongest and most accurate of the Rotom form’s moves. You also have Shadow Ball and Thunderbolt to deal with Normal resistances at least neutrally, and you can use Will-O-Wisp to burn the Steel and Rock types that normally are physically based.
yeah Boomburst on Rotom-Stereo, assuming it would have the same stats as all the Rotom forms, is not that much stronger than Toxtricity using Boomburst
I don't think it would be overpowered, especially considering none of the current rotom forms are particularly good right now anyway
Maybe it's bc I'm a zoology nerd, but I totally agree! Also seeing people compare Gecqua to Sobble and...ugh. Gucque is a gecko, and Sobble is a chameleon. These two animals are not related in any way besides being in the class Reptilia! They don't even look similar besides both being blue (which all water starters are, lol)
Foxes and Domestic dogs are more closely related than a Gecko and a Chameleon. I think people just group Reptiles into one thing? While Foxes and Dogs are totally different ig even tho they're both in the Family of Canidae. Ok I'm getting too pressed over people's comments, apologies.
sooo when does everyone think were getting the next trailer, is worlds realistic or am i coping?