The specific jump in Palafin's base stats going to Hero form.
I don't mind the concept even if the Pokemon's questionably balanced. It's a neat reference to Superman and I think in faster paced formats like Doubles VGC there is legitimate consideration in getting Palafin transformed without sacrificing a big opening or momentum.
The thing that irks me is how much its stats are increased. Almost everything has some discernible and simple idea to it: HP and Speed don't change, Defenses each go up by a round +25, and Special Attack doubles. What irks me then is the Attack increase from 70 -> 160 (+90), which doesn't double like SpA and isn't really a nice round value either. It feels arbitrary among all the other relatively reasonable choices, and it's not like a Base 140 ATK is anything to sneeze at to match the SpA doubling.
Also this one is less irksome to me in light of the above patterns, but the BST being 457 and 650. Besides 457 being such a weird number (456 I think is still unique and would at least have a funny count-up joke to it), it means the jump to Hero BST is +193, when most other form based stat increases tend to stick to round numbers, and Palafin doesn't have any "weird number" themeing going on like the all-Prime stats for the UB's or the "Odds vs Evens" for the Paradox Pokemon.
I don't mind the concept even if the Pokemon's questionably balanced. It's a neat reference to Superman and I think in faster paced formats like Doubles VGC there is legitimate consideration in getting Palafin transformed without sacrificing a big opening or momentum.
The thing that irks me is how much its stats are increased. Almost everything has some discernible and simple idea to it: HP and Speed don't change, Defenses each go up by a round +25, and Special Attack doubles. What irks me then is the Attack increase from 70 -> 160 (+90), which doesn't double like SpA and isn't really a nice round value either. It feels arbitrary among all the other relatively reasonable choices, and it's not like a Base 140 ATK is anything to sneeze at to match the SpA doubling.
Also this one is less irksome to me in light of the above patterns, but the BST being 457 and 650. Besides 457 being such a weird number (456 I think is still unique and would at least have a funny count-up joke to it), it means the jump to Hero BST is +193, when most other form based stat increases tend to stick to round numbers, and Palafin doesn't have any "weird number" themeing going on like the all-Prime stats for the UB's or the "Odds vs Evens" for the Paradox Pokemon.