The diancie event is diamond storm, reflect, moonblast, and return, holding a normal gem
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Pokémon Diancie
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Minor typo there, it should be Spe.
Wow that is incredibly lackluster :(
That sounds like a pun
But yeah it does sound preety bad, but atleast it doesnt have a set nature
I honestly wouldn't put it past Game Freak to do something like that. I'm sure that this is their mentallity: "We can't make Legendary Pokemon too powerful guys, we have to make Mewtwo and Kyogre living gods and waste Kyurem, Diancie, and Hoopa's potential with awful movepools, typing, and/or abilities."
Hahahah, that's so silly. It would be like forcing a Rash Nature if Raikou wanted to use Aura Sphere...
Wait.
Diancie doesn't look that bad. Yeah, she is not OU Material by any means (slow, no recovery, only average offensive presence, no useful coverage, nearly useless ability), but she does have the only reliable physical Rock move of the entire game, good bulk, a not-so-bad typing (she is pretty good at taking on FlySpam, even though she is nearly OHKOed by Pinsir at +2, and only if there are no SR), and decent movepool, with Toxic / SR / Walls / Calm Mind (and Skill Swap, hahah).
I think she has a niche in OU, with Dragon immunity alongside Fire / Flying resistance. I don't know how far she will be going with this (not far at all), but it's better than Hoopa imo.
But yeah, she got trolled hard.
Full_Korbe as much as it sounds like I hate Kyurem and Diancie; I actually love the both of them it's just a shame that Game Freak doesn't give them moves that they probably SHOULD have.
MEGA DIANCIE CONFIRMED
MEGA SCEPTILE CONFIRMED
MEGA SWAMPERT CONFIRMED
MEGA DIANCIES ABILITY IS CURRENTLY UNKNOWN
MEGA SCEPTILE IS GRASS/DRAGON AND HAS LIGHTNING ROD
MEGA SWAMPERT HAS SWIFT SWIM
Well that explains why Diancie is somewhat awful.
MOON CRYSTAL POWER, MAKE UP!
MEGA DIANCIE CONFIRMED
But seriously, awesome design. The one thing that kind of detracted away from its base form design was the bottom, rock part of its body. That has been taken care of quite nicely. I kind of wish it was an alternate form instead of a mega so it wouldn't take up a mega slot. Plus, an alternate form would have possibly meant that it would be able to learn new moves that it wouldn't have been able to otherwise (like the Shaymin forms). An expanded movepool is something that Diancie could really use. Hopefully, move tutors will help out with this issue.
TBH it wouldn't surprise me to have Mega Diance keep Clear Body. I can't think of what else Diamonds do besides be clear and not give a shit about the world around it. What interests me are where its stat points go.
It can't get an HP boost so that sucks. Currently it has comparable bulk to a Mew which I guess is okay.
Attack / SP Attack are base 100 but its offensive movepool is such utter crap that even if it got +100 to an offensive stat it would still get hard walled by a ton of things.
Def / Sp Def boost would be nice but even a +30 stat increase would only be a 17% improvement on 252 / 0 neutral nature which arguable is worse than just holding Leftovers. If Diance runs 252 / 252 + nature in a stat then +30 boost is even less, only 15% more.
It might get a boost to speed but lol that's just a waste.
So unless they suck its speed by -40 and slap +70 in both defenses or something stupid like that OR GIVE IT REGENERATOR / SANDSTREAM / OH GOD MAYBE MORE THAN TWO USABLE OFFENSIVE MOVES I don't see this thing being much of an improvement over its base form.
It can't get an HP boost so that sucks. Currently it has comparable bulk to a Mew which I guess is okay.
Attack / SP Attack are base 100 but its offensive movepool is such utter crap that even if it got +100 to an offensive stat it would still get hard walled by a ton of things.
Def / Sp Def boost would be nice but even a +30 stat increase would only be a 17% improvement on 252 / 0 neutral nature which arguable is worse than just holding Leftovers. If Diance runs 252 / 252 + nature in a stat then +30 boost is even less, only 15% more.
It might get a boost to speed but lol that's just a waste.
So unless they suck its speed by -40 and slap +70 in both defenses or something stupid like that OR GIVE IT REGENERATOR / SANDSTREAM / OH GOD MAYBE MORE THAN TWO USABLE OFFENSIVE MOVES I don't see this thing being much of an improvement over its base form.
they would not keep the ability a secret if it was the same ability. It will most likely be some new ability
They also said no Gen VI Pokemon were getting Megas.
This is TrollFreak we're talking about here.
they said no gen 6 pokemon would be getting megas in x and y. This is omega ruby and alpha sapphire.
Perhaps, since diamonds are the hardest material known to man, Mega Diancie's ability could be solid rock.
Keep in mind what could happen to its movepool if tutors return.
The thing is that Diancies biggest problems are its terrible base HP and its awful movepool, both of which can't change even if it gets a Mega Evolution. So sadly Mega Diancie is still going to be as useless as Carbink.
Hopefully Mega Diancie will save Diancie. We all know normal Diancie is a pretty mediocre Pokemon that has so much potential. Maybe they made Diancie mediocre on purpose so they could make mega Diancie a monster. Similar to how Khanga has no use outside of mega but when it is Mega it is one of the most broken Pokemon in game.
1) diancie will be probably uu. beating the shit out of darmanitan, victini and non steel move hydreigon is great
2) move tutors will most likely give diancie earth power and possibly some other moves as well
3) we don't even know what mega diancie's ability is yet
They didn't even give Keldeo Ice Beam. The most I'd say is Power Gem.
Now I'd like to see Xerneas with Earth Power.
the only gen 1-5 rock type to not learn earth power is crustle. they would have to REALLY hate diancie to not give it earth power
That's not true in the slightest. Diancie has actual offensive presence, so it can threaten the Pokemon it walls, such as Talonflame, Mega Charizard X, Scolipede, Gengar, Latios, Latias, Dragonite, Kyurem-B, and Thundurus. I am not saying it will be great in OU or anything like that, as without its MEvo it will be a really niche Pokemon. However, with the right bulk increase, and maybe a bit better ability, Mega Diancie will be perfectly viable in OU. For example, assuming its gets only a +20 increase in both defensive stats, it will be able to check Mega Pinsir, Terrakion, and Mega Gardevoir, in addition to checking all the previous Pokemon much more reliably. No matter what happens, Mega Diance will be a viable choice in OU imo.
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