Give me the new Blissey, the new Skarmory. A bunch of strong bulk to get us back to a more balanced metagame.
Hoping for an even stronger Skarm/Bliss combo (I WANT MORE EVOLUTIONS!)
A Skarmory evolution with OU stats (I mean, he is good, but like Breloom he has low total base stats for OU). Something like 540 seems to be funny, especially giving it more life and a little bit more attack.
A Blissey evolution would be so cool though... I remember having think about a Ghost-Normal evolution (go to hell damn fight-type :D Even if now it would be the dark type), with obviously 5 (or 15 please) defense, HP, SpD and SpA more. :P
And Blissey would take Eviolite.
Eviolite Skarmory is going to be hilariously fun.
Was thinking about that a few months ago with friends, even if it's not an absolute wall if you do the calc. (Rain-boosted water/not rain-destruct fire/electric are all common)
It would be a little bit like Eviolite Chansey.
Air Lock -> Prevents the weather from being changed, opponent cannot benefit from the current weather (i.e. a "master of the skies" ability)
Would be cool to have this little up for the ability and to have more competitive pokemon with it. (So the wheather will not be so used)
[Later]Hey, and why not a newer ability which would nullify the wheather ?
Water/Bug - A viable one, not surskit! compound eyes hydro pump - hnnnnnnng
Totally agree
A new way of removing entry hazards would be appreciated.
I would like personally to don't see anymore spinblock but it's maybe too much (Miltank spinner :D:D). Having the entry hazard removed when your Foretress die by rapid spinning on a Ferrothorn would be at least cool. (I forgot which, but I think there is another case were the entry hazard should be removed)(Or it's PO/Showdown bug)
[Later]Reading the subject I have seen a certain number of people speaking about an effect move that would not attack (so be tauntable) but so would not be spinblockable. (The only perfect spinblocker will be Sableye) Wasn't thinking in this way first, but it would be so good.
I am literally praying for a BULKY FIRE TYPE WITH RELIABLE RECOVERY. Like, I want a pokemon like this so bad that it isn't even funny.
An evolve to Torkoal with recover ? Giving it seriously more HP, a little better SpD and a/spa could make something not bad.
I would also love pokemon with more balanced stats and possibly a fire type entry hazard
No more entry hazard !
Undoing the sleep mechanic changes.
Buffing Will-O-Wisp accuracy.
Reducing Scald burn chance.
Agree, especially for the first point. Now, a pokemon who sleep (from an opponent move) is nearly a dead pokemon. You can use it in some case, but it is also a free set-up in other.
A skamory evolution? Really guys? Skarmory is a good enough wall. Why are you people, so obsessed with stall walling everything to death? Believe it or not, stall turns away a shitload of new and aspiring players.
Skarmory with eviolite...just wow. Now the thing will be damn near impossible to kill phsyically and specially. 70 base defese boosted with evioloite and EV investments is a lot of special defense. Oh god. Please. NO.
Have you just made the calc before writing ? It would be 2HKO (or even OHKO on the special side with STAB move) by an important number of pokemon and cannot threat a lot of poke with its attack. It would be powerful, it would have the advantage of not being setup free thanks to whirlwind and could be a spike abuser, but it would probably not be broken. He will especially be always. totally destroyed by magnezone, and with eviolite no more possible shed shell.
Also, sandstorm gives rock types a special defense boost, why doesn't hail give ice types a defense boost
Agree, it would and up the hail and up the ice type, without complicate things. Even with this it will still not easy with SR.
A couple more magic bouncers is cool.
Please no.
BW without team preview could be horrible, but by other hand, it's not a good answer... "hey, I'm a horrible metagame, let's do something that broke part of what Pokémon is for fixing it at some degree", so, I could love to see team preview out from the game, and balance somewhat more the metagame.
I have the same opinion.
I was wondering if GameFreak or Nintendo has ever acknowledged the presence of competitive pokemon tiers or/and Smogon. So when they design the new Pokemon, are they actually conscious of the metagame, and take decisions accordingly? To put it in another way, would they actually want to benefit stall and reduce offense? Or let's say nerf Rain or boost Ice-types?
That is the question. :D
I hope no one mentioned this yet, but aren't Skarmory and Mantine linked together? Mantine evolves from the baby pokemon, Mantyke, so I think a baby form of Skarmory would be fair. I'm sure an eviolite-equipped baby Skarmory would still suck to face.
Yes, they're linked. But they just fail for Mantine with it's awful typing for a special wall. And no reliable recovery.
Honestly , if they're going to look at critical hits at all, I'd rather see them reduce the crit damage modifier from 2x damage to 1.5x damage.
Just a so good idea. Ignoring the modifiers is extremely powerfull too, but this would lesser a little the luck impact.
A thing about I think a lot is that with all the pokemon we have now, the pokemon that could be boosted, the new 6G pokemon with probably new typing (someone speak about a ghost-steel, which is juste psy-steel with immunity to fighting, double-resist to bug instead of neutral, normal immunity, a better stab, all this against a psy-resistance instead of an immunity), or we will have broken pokemon, or we will just be unable to check correctly all pokemon enough powerful to be played in a competitive team.
Why not a 8-pokemon team ? With more way to deal with the pokemon which boost themselves. I think it really could be interesting, even if I think it would not be the case.
