that haircut sure is metal lol
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For what its worth, Spirit Shackle is still the best special ghost type move in the game. It has the same power as Shadow Ball, but also has the added effect of trapping which can be useful in a myriad of situation as Magma Storm heatran has shown us.
EDIT: My bad, Spirit Shackle is physical. Point still stands about it being the best physical ghost type move though
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Both, lol. That typing just doesn't really work defensively.
105 is ok, but the power creep was real last Gen, so we'll see how that holds up in this one.
Feel like we're kinda going off topic now tho :x
And even mentioning that it's not Ground/Fire?
Damn, GameFreak. In just one month you completely destroyed all my hype.
Being competitively viable takes a lot of things into account. Typing, BST, movepool, ability and perhaps most importantly what else is strong in the meta. People are hoping for a broken HA at this point because it's the only thing that could stop Decidueye from joining Trevenant in NU.
So, for those wanting context on a certain character:
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colress was there for like 3 minutes, he mentioned that Z power was interesting and gave me the TM for flame charge.
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There hasn't been a second rival using the third Starter thus far. Lurantis also says that Aether Paradise is smelling awful fishy.
Spirit Shackle is physical, though yeah, I do see the utility, but not on something like Decidueye unless it gets Ghastly Wings for ghost move priority.
Now that would be a damn fine Ability
Well, Sceptile gets unburden and Venusaur gets chlorophyll.... Decidueye can get either one and be back in the game.
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I like the reason for a-dugtrios hair. I expected them to yak on about genetics but the reasoning is creative ,yet it is also an actual, believable reason.
Chill out with the strawman please.
No, specialists are not the only archetypes that can do well in competitive games, and I have absolutely nothing against mixed attackers when they're done right. In fact, it's my probably my favorite archetype in Pokemon. When they're done poorly however, they're pretty bad. Decidueye's stat spread just screams wasteful. It does not need to be merely good at 2 attacking stats. There's no good reason for it and it's going to suffer pretty badly as a result (barring a hail mary from hidden ability).
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With the brief exception of Sceptile, no Grass-type starter has ever been good enough for OU in singles IIRC, Hidden Abilities or Mega Evolutions notwithstanding.
We have yet to see Decidueye's Hidden Ability and entire movepool. Getting Agility, Tailwind or something similar may make offensive sets viable (Life Orb with Tailwind/Leaf Storm or Energy Ball or Giga Drain/Shadow Ball/Filler is the first thing that comes to my mind), but again, not OU-good, unless the Hidden Ability is that good.
We have yet to see Decidueye's Hidden Ability and entire movepool. Getting Agility, Tailwind or something similar may make offensive sets viable (Life Orb with Tailwind/Leaf Storm or Energy Ball or Giga Drain/Shadow Ball/Filler is the first thing that comes to my mind), but again, not OU-good, unless the Hidden Ability is that good.
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Alright, to answer a question a lot of people have had:
professor not oak has given me some apricorn balls when Ive found him, got moon ball near observatory.
Friend ball and heavy ball are arguably the best balls of the bunch. The others.... Not so much...
Yoooo, we can finally get the apricorn balls again?! 10/10 games.
bear in mind, we could get exclusive HA's for starters again this gen, much like Greninja's Protean. I mean Decidueye would need a speed equivalent of that to be relevant, but nonetheless
And a Story Spoiler. Strange things are afoot on Ula'Ula Island.
UPDATE:
while I raided po town, city team skull took over, plumeria stole cosmog from lillie and gladion has taken hau and I to the aether base to try to recover it
Muwahahaha!
UPDATE:
all the way on Ula'Ula, and no UB-02 yet, just UB-01
"DUDE GET ONLINE THE GAME LEAKED"
"OH MAN DID THAT ONE GUY ACUTALLY CRACK THE ENCRYPTION!?!?!"
"W, who? No, someone got the game early."
"... So no datamines, just vague stat calculations. Not much to learn form that. I was hoping for mo..."
"Decidueye is slow."
"WE KNOW TOO MUCH. WHO WERE WE TO THINK THAT MAN COULD SEE POKEMON EARLY AND NOT SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES!"
"Maybe gengar doesn't have levitate?"
"Good night sweet prince."
*tears intensify*
"OH MAN DID THAT ONE GUY ACUTALLY CRACK THE ENCRYPTION!?!?!"
"W, who? No, someone got the game early."
"... So no datamines, just vague stat calculations. Not much to learn form that. I was hoping for mo..."
"Decidueye is slow."
"WE KNOW TOO MUCH. WHO WERE WE TO THINK THAT MAN COULD SEE POKEMON EARLY AND NOT SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES!"
"Maybe gengar doesn't have levitate?"
"Good night sweet prince."
*tears intensify*
it's probably like combee. male salandits just dont evolve
Well, Dugtrio's type was unexpected. Same with UB-01, although I think it really is Water/Steel and not Electric
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