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View attachment 314141Mega Delphox [and Delphoxite]
Ability:
Hocus-pocus: This Pokémon's moves have their secondary effect chance doubled, and moves deal double damage to foes with status ailments (including confusion).
Stats:
HP:
75
Attack:
75 (+
6)
Defense:
66 (-
6)
Sp. Atk:
166 (+
52)
Sp. Def:
132 (+
32)
Speed:
120 (+
16)
Added moves: Hex, Sacred Fire (or/and Searing Shot if Sacred Fire sounds too strong), Strange Beam, and Thunderbolt.
If these aren't flavorful enough to go over the move limit, preference of moves starts at the beginning of the list and descends.
Notes: First of all, hi! I'm new, just found this community, and I think M4A is amazing — I wish I knew about it sooner. My idea for Mega Delphox centers around how witches use hexes, and how the move hex functions in Pokémon. Spamming Sacred Fire/Searing Shot to cause burns and deal big damages to burnt targets would be this fox's bread and butter. Psybeam/Strange Beam would be weaker, confusion-based options to mildly help with coverage. Thunderbolt is there because witches and sorcerers often use elemental spells, and Delphox's debut in Pokémon X and Y was very much an RPG theme with the tank/mage/rogue archetypes in Chesnaught/Delphox/Greninja. Though, fishing for paralysis could definitely be viable at a 20% chance, and the coverage is awesome.
Balance: I wanted to make Mega Delphox a glass cannon like the witch/sorcerer archetype usually is. So, its Sp. Atk is pretty nasty (just over M Gardevoir and M Ampharos, since the 166 and 66 Def are supposed to be a nod to 666 and witch's devilish connections). Its speed, though, is a bit lower. 120 is definitely fast, but things like Weavile, base form Greninja, Aerodactyl, many choice scarfers easily out-speed it, and there are also priority moves. Physical moves would tear through 75/66 physical bulk. That said, burning foes definitely offsets its physical weakness, so I could see a need to drop this Mega Delphox's speed a bit, potentially raising Sp. Def more instead, and/or dropping its defenses even lower regardless. Idk, I'm new to this sorry. Thanks for reading!