To top it all off, Coal even gets an ability based off of steam engines (which it doesn't even resemble anymore), which ends up being completely useless on it because it's typing is 4x weak to Water! Only saving grace for it is that the GMax is admittedly pretty badass.
Nah, the ability is good for a (very predictable) strat in doubles. You run Coalossal and then a low-power water move+Weakness Policy.
Koraidon and Miraidon say hello.
A McGuffin is something (object, person, event) that is necessary to the plot and the motivation of the characters, but insignificant, unimportant, or irrelevant in itself. This fits Cosmog/Cosmoem and the Zygarde Cores/Cells as, on their own, they're useless; Cosmog/em has no attacking Moves and Z-Cores/Cells are just collected in an Item which you can't use until you got a significant amount of them. However, both have importance in the story or at least in-lore. Note that just because Cosmog eventually evolves into Solgaleo/Lunala and the Z-Cores/Cells eventually create a Battleable Zygarde does not rid them of the label, Solgaleo/Lunala & Battleable Zygarde at this point are their own beings. If anything, Cosmog/em and the Z-Cores/Cells are a challenge/obstacle you need to overcome to get their battling forms, otherwise they just do nothing (infact, in this case Cosmog/em could be considered worse than the Z-Cores/Cells because it needs to take up a Party space and get Experience which could have gone to another Pokemon).
That has to be doctored. There's no way that's real.
Also, let's be very clear. Because yes, this is a game for children, but that ball is not "sand and psychic energy". It's based on a very specific beetle and in-game the ball grows into a living thing. You don't grow anything on sand, you grow it with...fertilizer. That's fertilizer it's carrying around everywhere, which means if you catch it, you're carrying that everywhere and having it at the table during picnics etc.
If you know what the common wordplay is around the Nugget items this might make it worseRellor is ugly AF, but it has easily the slickest shiny in Scarlet and Violet.
Pokemon developers: QUICK WE NEED AN ARBITRAILY DIFFICULT POKEMON INSTEAD OF ACTUALLY MAKING SOMETHING REASONABLY DIFFICULT
The biggest problem comes from either Smoke Screen or Double Team on each Kingdra for each important boss trainer. As such, I doubt that Fairy would change much if it were introduced alongside Steel and Dark, because Super Effective moves may not manner if you can’t hit it at all.I am genuinely shocked to be reading up on some of these threads again only to find that I haven’t talked about Kingdra yet.
…wait a second. Not those ones. These Kingdra.
That’s better. Two generations before the resident space deity Palkia was introduced, Kanto’s Horsea and Seadra had received a second evolution bearing a new type combination and a balanced base stat distribution. The lower power level of older generations in tandem with the lack of the Fairy-Type quickly presented itself as an issue, as eighth-tier Gym Leaders and other important Trainers started spamming the daylights out of what I still, after all these years, consider to be my least favorite and most annoying Pokémon to fight against.
In recent years, my annoyance with Kingdra has only ever gotten worse. It’s bad enough that prior to Gen 6 it only had one weakness that was also one of its own types that beats it. But it wasn’t just the famous Kingdra used by the Gym Leader combination of Clair and Juan that I find annoying. It also made itself annoying to me in the Pokémon Ranger series, as well as in the Pokémon World Tournament in Black & White 2 and in Pokémon Go’s battle leagues on occasion. I’ve even lost to some Kingdra teams on Pokémon Showdown before whenever I felt like hopping on and grinding out some games on ladder. No matter where I went, no matter what happened, this little brat was always there to ruin my day.
Also Kingdra matches my height at 5’11”, and the idea of finding a draconic sea creature this tall that I already hate going up against in fictional video games is genuinely terrifying to think about
Bonus Fun Fact: I’ve had opportunities to play through Pokémon Emerald before but never decided to finish any of those attempts- solely because I didn’t want to fight Juan and Drake’s Kingdra in Gen 3.
I almost feel like Feebas being effectively impossible to stumble upon ends up rendering its actual unevolved stats moot. You can reasonably encounter Magikarp at ~level 8, when you might not even have an Exp share to passively get it to where it learns an attacking move. Meanwhile, you will almost certainly have all the things needed to evolve Feebas by the time you start the odyssey required to catch one.
Wugtrio is so bad it merits a higher BST than Dugtrio.
fucking wugtrio. convergent species are already super lazy and lame (rip regional variants) but at least toedscool and its evo have neat designs. i cannot say the same thing about bwc and 3 hot dogs. its also horrendous competitively. sure gholdengo looks hideous but at least i can have fun using it, ig. this is the bottom of the barrel.
Just Arena Trap Ability would change it from bad to broken. It even fits for it I think.
dug is still better, it has sd, rocks, and stab eq.
Yes, but Water STAB allows to trap different things, namely Ground types. Maybe even some weak Ice types, since Warer resists Ice, unlike Ground.
kinda wish they made it like a special variant of dugtrio, having the stats be the exact same is just another level of lazy.
I don't think "lazy" is the right word, Toedscruel is the same way so it was clearly an intentional choice.
