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Pokémon XY General Discussion
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These leaks are making my team choices super difficult. Originally, my plan was to use Blaziken as my starter in Y and the three Kalos starters in X, but now I'm thinking I should just use one starter in X and roll with it. Froakie / Pyroar / Orot seem like they'd make a good team together.
@Magnemite according to Serebii, the ability reduces physical damage, not just contact. So Earthquake would be halved as well.
@Magnemite according to Serebii, the ability reduces physical damage, not just contact. So Earthquake would be halved as well.
Yeah, it pretty much removes the poodles fighting weakness aside from aura sphere/focus miss/ vaccum wave/ and any new special fighting moves since most physical moves make contact.
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This would make a great ability for good ol' Bouffalant. His huge Afro qualifies him, I think.
Bulbapedia says contact moves though.
Teeruna's arms...teehee...I don't think they'll ever grow back...
I'm a little bugged that we didn't get to learn about Orotto! All that official leaking still hasn't amounted to anything. If I wasn't such a sensible person, I'd be legitimately upset at this one little thing.
For Torimian, I have to wonder how useful having a defensive ability will be if the speculation proves true and the metagame becomes hyper offensive. It must be great in-game if it has viable stats.
I'm a little bugged that we didn't get to learn about Orotto! All that official leaking still hasn't amounted to anything. If I wasn't such a sensible person, I'd be legitimately upset at this one little thing.
For Torimian, I have to wonder how useful having a defensive ability will be if the speculation proves true and the metagame becomes hyper offensive. It must be great in-game if it has viable stats.
Cresselia~~
Junichi Masuda likes this!!
I think this is more likely.
Seeing that it's tilted upwards and separated by the head.
And it's a fire type.
Unless it's the master of Fire Blast, in which the shape of the fire is really really the character "大".
I remember when Ash battled Blaine, the missed Fire Blast actually changed from 大 to 中 to 小 as it flew across the sky.
Don't think Ghost needed a buff. The smarter thing for Gamefreak to do would be to just take away Steel resistance to Dark to balance its extra weakness, and keep its resistance to Ghost.
I also dislike the idea of a Jigglypuff tanking an Outrage from a Rayquaza like a boss. I'm mixed about it for balance, but I hate it because of flavour.
And I'm really hoping for a Normal/Ghost type. Would make for a really interesting pokemon, designwise and playwise. Defensively, it would be immune to the current holy grail typing pair Ghost/Fighting, have one more immunity and two more resistances. Pretty decent neutral STAB coverage too, only resisted by itself, Bisharp and Tyranitar. No idea what it would look like though.
EDIT: Also, secondary normal type is going to be actually really good this generation, what with Fighting neutered and Ghost's buff. Litleo/Helioptile/Sawsbuck/Bibarel are in for a good time, methinks.
I also dislike the idea of a Jigglypuff tanking an Outrage from a Rayquaza like a boss. I'm mixed about it for balance, but I hate it because of flavour.
And I'm really hoping for a Normal/Ghost type. Would make for a really interesting pokemon, designwise and playwise. Defensively, it would be immune to the current holy grail typing pair Ghost/Fighting, have one more immunity and two more resistances. Pretty decent neutral STAB coverage too, only resisted by itself, Bisharp and Tyranitar. No idea what it would look like though.
EDIT: Also, secondary normal type is going to be actually really good this generation, what with Fighting neutered and Ghost's buff. Litleo/Helioptile/Sawsbuck/Bibarel are in for a good time, methinks.
It would be very predictable, so free setup galore in the case of Protect. I don't think it has anything to do with speed, though. A ghost/normal type would balance out Ghosts, especially Gengar, but it would still be neutral to Hidden Power Fairy, which most Ghosts would have for coverage. Also, if Metagross somehow stays OU sixth gen that would be pathetic, considering how much it has been nerfed.
I'm talking about speed-baiting with mega transform. You start out with a pokemon like Mawile which is really slow. Your opponent can try to OKO mawile on the first turn. Mawile uses protect, M-evolves on the same turn and gains an additional speed bonus allowing it to outspeed and OKO the opponent on their next turn if they don't switch (or if they didn't speed boost themselves)
Likewise Mega Charizard using potect to m.evolve and trigger Drought safely.
Likewise Mega Charizard using potect to m.evolve and trigger Drought safely.
wait really holy shit I could not have imagined it would haave looked that fucking awesome wow.
http://puu.sh/4paJu.jpgI wonder where Serebii's finding these... they're definitely nowhere to be found. Maybe they were cached before they were taken down?
Hmm.
he's/others are digging through the site, i believe.
If only I could be so grossly incandescent...
Hmm.
I think youre gonna have to let that dream go
It's still based off a Manticore. It's tail still has that 'stinger'. It will probably be Fire/Poison. A levitate would have mitigated the Earthquake scare. But sure, Fire/Poison would be fine.
It really doesnt. Liteo just has a cartoony lion tail.
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