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HGSS Megaspeculation Thread
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I highly doubt they would give Ho-oh Serene Grace... 95% burn rate, 100 base damage, physical fire move. That would be ridiculous.
I think baby Ho-oh/Lugia with Drought/Drizzle respectively would be very cool.
Maybe, that may be why some people think Feraligatr looks "bad".
But then we remember Ho-Oh loses 50% of it's health when switching into Stealth Rock. We remember it has a 4x weakness to Rock and a weakness to Water and Electric. We remember that Fire is eaten up by the dragons/Kyogre/Manaphy in Ubers. We remember Sacred Fire's hideous PP and the plethora of Pressure in Ubers. Suddenly, the world seems more fair.
Drizzle Lugia makes sense because of its Pokedex entries. But when I think Ho-Oh, I think of a fiery Pheonix that burns everything.
Maybe their hidden ability is some ingame event that allows you to access Celebi?
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Traps in the Gyms? Sounds cool, hope they're better than the dumb puzzles of Ecruteak, Mahogany, Cianwood, and Blackthorn (especially the last two, the "use Strength to reach destination" puzzles are fucking annoying and stupid.)
The dogs as runners is expected, they have been in every game so far. I'm happy they're keeping that in, but it's still expected since these are G/S remakes. Not sure what to think of Eusine, he annoyed me when I played through Crystal a few days ago.
Kimono girls: YAY! I wonder if there's going to be two others after the Nat'l Dex is unlocked - Leafeon and Glaceon.
I think it's 95% Accuracy - isn't Sacred's Burn Rate 50%? Unless my math is off, Serene would make it a Burn that doesn't miss. Ho-Oh usage would DEFINITELY shoot up if it had that.
Ray is fine with Air Lock. Swift Swim and Chlorophyll are quite annoying in Ubers, and if you don't have another Auto-Weather, Rayquaza's the only thing you can use to revenge kill stuff like Ludicolo, Kingdra, and, to a lesser extent, Jumpluff.
Besides, I'm not sure what ability you could even give it as a replacement.
Kimono cousins from a distant land :D
Yes, Sacred Fire is 95% accurate, which means that it will burn the opponent 95% of the time(since after Serene Grace, it is 100%, you must then use the move's accuracy).
Why the hell does Ho-oh want Air Lock? Thats possibly the last thing it wants. With Air Lock it can't use drought to boost its sacred fire or fire blasts. Yeah Ogre is annoying as hell but a fire attack in normal conditions isn't doing much to something with 100/100 defenses that is water. It can also use drizzle to hit Ogre with thunder.
Also who is Eusine, was he/she in GS or only Crystal
He was only in Crystal. He was involved in the Suicune storyline.
Nintendo couldn't care less about what competitive Ho-Oh wants.
Umm, you know Chlorophyll only exists in plants right? And Lugia isn't made to be a sweeper and doesn't benifit much from Rain.
I COULD however see Ho-Oh getting Solar Power. It's basically like giving it a Choice boost, but with recoil like life orb and the ability to switch attack AND hold another item. Choice Scarf + Solar Power, and LO+ Solar Power( 80% power boost, 22% recoil 0_o), CB/Specs + Solar Power( 2x damage output) could be dangerous combinations
I COULD however see Ho-Oh getting Solar Power. It's basically like giving it a Choice boost, but with recoil like life orb and the ability to switch attack AND hold another item. Choice Scarf + Solar Power, and LO+ Solar Power( 80% power boost, 22% recoil 0_o), CB/Specs + Solar Power( 2x damage output) could be dangerous combinations
This game is gonna be so awesome, I especially like Ecruteak City with the orange ground (fallen leaves from the forest?) And I think that the special ability that Lugia and Ho-oh would get are Drizzle and Drought respectively because it will be the opposite ability of the weather Legends in the respective games. Only time will tell.
My expectations on HG SS:
-Ho-oh and Lugia got unique items
-Ho-oh gets Swords dance and Brave Bird
-Entei gets AT LEAST EQ, Howl/Bulk Up (last one preffered), Superpower and maybe Zen Headbutt somehow lol
-Flareon gets Flare blitz, Stone Edge, Iron Head, Crunch, Sucker Punch, Pursuit.
-Arcanine Stone Edge and maybe Earthquake
-Rapidash Drill peck, Earthquake, Stone Edge
-Special dratini from dragon den (or dratini in general) got a 2nd trait, when evolved to Dragonite it becomes Thick Fat :]
As you see IMO many fire pokemon physical moveset it's screwed up lol
-Ho-oh and Lugia got unique items
-Ho-oh gets Swords dance and Brave Bird
-Entei gets AT LEAST EQ, Howl/Bulk Up (last one preffered), Superpower and maybe Zen Headbutt somehow lol
-Flareon gets Flare blitz, Stone Edge, Iron Head, Crunch, Sucker Punch, Pursuit.
-Arcanine Stone Edge and maybe Earthquake
-Rapidash Drill peck, Earthquake, Stone Edge
-Special dratini from dragon den (or dratini in general) got a 2nd trait, when evolved to Dragonite it becomes Thick Fat :]
As you see IMO many fire pokemon physical moveset it's screwed up lol
lol that'd be funny. But that glitch has been fixed since Emerald, so there shouldn't be any worry.
However it's gonna be a real pain to get good Dogs anyway, assuming that they are all released at the same time. For example, you get a Timid Raikou with good IVs but a Suicune with an undesirable nature and horrible IVs...what would you do? Soft reset? It seems the only way to get all three Dogs with desirable natures and good IVs is to play the game 3 times and focus on one particular Dog in each adventure...
My bad FamiliarTrainer, thought i read what Ho-oh would want, not what feasilbe, and seriously they're not getting new abilities unless they get new forms and having 2 previous gens to get new forms i doubt that will happen. I bet it's special moves, something with the storyline, or a new area or event(an event in the game, not one where you get a pokemon)
Why would there be new abilities? This isn't a completely brand new generation.... it's only a remake. Changes in movepools are possible, but complete shifts of pokemon such as new abilities, using stat EXP. and other things are NOT going to happen.
EDIT=Also, aren't the 3 dragons in eggs?
EDIT=Also, aren't the 3 dragons in eggs?
Rapidash doesn't have a typical beak, so I doubt it would get Drill Peck. Fire types with Stone Edge is rare. Special Dratini with Thick Fat would be amazing, Dragonite would again have a niche in OU over Salamence(this time, even better than DD + Outrage, since Thick Fat helps way more than Intimidate).
Exactly what I meant, the game does let your pokémon have different abilities (like Wonder Guard Spiritomb). Not even that was possible in RSE.
And on a completely unrelated note,
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