zimvader42

This thread is starting to look more like a wasteland thread rather than a pokemon fan club one lol. I think after the last few abilities of page 1, there's really no way to top it while also being realistic. I mean you people have pretty much trascended metaphysics in the last ones

So Masquerain's worse fear is actually becoming true? man, I really hope not, because that kind of evolution (check Az's link if you want spoilers) is kinda meh to me. I mean I already find Ash-greninja cringey, so if that's a thing that we're gonna be doing now.... well.... lol?

If this ability counts serene grace into calculations then it basically means the mon with this ability is virtually anihilated by any iron head jirachi or air slash togekiss. As long as said mon is slower than both of them, that is. That's mean af and I love it.

There's an explanation as to why solgaleo is not a fire type literally 3 posts above yours. I wished it was a fire/steel or fire/electric type? sure. But the reasons as to why it wasn't made into one come together when you think about it. After all, they did release a fire lion LITERALLY the last gen. Gamefreak is dumb, but there are rare occasions in which they don't want to copy themselves in consecutive gens.

I put my answer in a spoiler just because.

The first item sounds pretty cool, and I could go as far as to say that even immunity to fire attacks would be acceptable, as the item will disappear after use. It would be a rather awesome surprise item in mons like ferrothorn, scizor or forretress. Divine sphere is pretty much made just for the following mons: Kyurem black, Kyurem White, Arceus, Rayquaza, and... Mega Rayquaza. Luckily, mega rayquaza with 20% more health should not be as terrifying as it sounds in paper. Arceus on the other hand, with already base 120 HP.... Still, would only be seen in ubers since basically nothing under ubers can use it.

Well yeah that's technically something you can do with it. As long as you don't curse the magnemite, burn it, make it hurt itself in confusion, die to hail or recoil, it's all yours after the EQ, no matter the level of your mon with the pacifist ability.

So basically, and unless the kind of hax that makes double protect is involved, this item takes out the pokemon's item slot just to guarantee a first turn of not being hit by status, and then who knows what might happen on the next turn. Plus once the holder gets statused (which, again, can happen right in the second turn of battle), the item stops working completely. Dunno what to say. You a madman. But I like it. Empoleon should have gotten the competitive ability, not defiant, but with this item it might actually make some sort of sense for him to have it. As someone else said, life orb is better if you don't care about the little recoil each turn. The only infernape variants I can see being better with this item are iron fist mach punch/fire punch, since those are weaker moves, and infernape running those generally doesn't have the bulk to stand losing HP each turn. This item's brokeness depends on how much it decreases damage. 50% less damage from neutral attacks? 25%? mind you, that if the item reduces neutral attacks by 50%, it actually means the pokemon holding this RESISTS all the types that previously damaged it normally. Give it to a bulky normal type like blissey, snorlax or audino, and suddenly they got 16 resistances, 1 immunity and only a single weakness to fighting. Give it to eelektross. With levitate, ALL moves will be not very effective on this thing. The only attack that hits it SE is mold breaker earthquake. So, scrappy/foresight/odor sleuth as item huh? I like it. Kinda redundant if you can get a strong scrappy user, but so far for all practical purposes I like it. Choice shield is....kinda cool. I could see it helping blissey a lot, but... it would lock her into a single move. Generally, defensive pokemon rely on their wholeset of 4 moves to do their work, and they fail if they get locked into one: that's why choice scarf trick is a thing that works. Here, an item that boosts defense sounds cool, but it generally won't get good use since the things that need it also need their moveslots free. Could be wrong tho, but that's the impression I get. Death orb. I see where you come from, and its pretty clever on paper, but the item as you describe it sucks very hard. Heals you by mere 10% of your health ONLY when you attack (this item exists already, is called a shell bell), but in top of that, it reduces attacks' power by 30%? So basically when you have to use a status move, this item does nothing for you, but if you attack, you can get walled by mons you should be able to take on. Leftovers outclasses this item. Speed gem. Now, this one is a good one. Basically gives you a free, first turn choice scarf, and if you give this item to a mon with recycle, you're super fast every 2 turns. Very good item in my opinion

Splasher: the ability activated! but nothing happened.... Pacifist: the user's attacks will always leave the target with at least 1 HP. ((the only way for this mon to kill something is to use toxic and wait)) Sleepy: each turn, the user has a 30% chance of falling asleep. Obliging: the foes' attacks never miss the pokémon with this ability.

So, a bit of spoiler-based speculation:

If it where in balanced hackmons no it wouldn't. Actually double LO would be scary as hell in hackmons.

Is like Jan said. Pikachu suffers from being the mascot, so it's the mon everyone knows and sadly gamefreak pushes it and throws it into everyone's faces. It harvests the hatred of the most....passionate fans, the same way ANY other pokemon would have if they were picked up as mascot in due time. The fact it is pikachu and not, say, clefable, rhydon or charmander, is irrelevant. In a parallel universe, charizard has been the official pokemon mascot since gen 1 and fans could not be more tired of it by now (#speculation). Still, this is a reason as valid as any other to hate a mon. Pikachu is literally everywhere, but I personally don't care about it. What I DO wish tho, is that raichu could actually use the light ball, or at least get some screen time.

Oh, that one. Well it is a fact it was created just to supply the lack of fish pokemon in gen V, but basculin is different from magikarp. At best, I'd compare it to goldeen from gen 1, but still that's a stretch imo.

You mean feebas? which evolves into what is currently half of your avatar? o.o ? Also, I respect your hatred for woobat/swoobat (although it is a bit exaggerated imo), but you bought a 30 dollar game and you didn't play it because of a bat pokemon? a bat pokemon you can ignore or, even better, use repel to avoid? and you say you have white version rotting in your house and you have never finished it past woobat? that's....something.

Good luck getting rid of something you can hardly damage. I dislike many pokemon for one reason or another. Reasons like: Playstyle: I love umbreon, but completely despise the way it works in terms of playstyle. I love gliscor, yet it specializes in that kind of stall that is of the worst kind: hardly counterable. Mega slowbro with calm mind and slack off, mega sableye with w-o-w and calm mind..... all these things play disgustingly, but are all around cool looking mons. Design: mons like Aromatisse, Wormadam or Hippopotas, but they have a potential I can see and find interesting. Hippopotas evolves into Hippowdon after all, which is a cool ground type. Aromatisse could enjoy a cool mega if Gamefreak had any heart, and same applies to Wormadam. Jynx and Mr Mime are so disliked by players is not even funny. Wasted potential: Bayleef is among my fav 2nd stage starters, and I was thrilled about meganium but it never plaid well for me in game. Unown is supposed to be this super cool parallel force of nature when they come together, bun in reality it is as weak as non-imposter ditto and only learns hidden power. Alomomola STILL doesn't evolve from luvdisc. Entei's attack is lower than flareon's. All tiny little details that never really made sense for me personally, and that I can't help but to see as wasted opportunities. Despite that, all the pokémon I just listed might (and surely are) someone else's favorite, somewhere. If it was in my power to erase someone else's fav pokemon just because I dislike it, I would have a hard time doing so, because the same way others could say Gourgeist is garbage and needs to go, and I would kindly but firmly disagree. I myself have made some fakemon that I consider cool yet others can't really stand the sights of them. Who am I to say "this other mon is shit it needs to go" then? I think is not as much about wishing for things to get banned from existance as much as I would preffer to revamp them. Like, give unown an evolution, or better stats, or actual moves. Improve wormadam's stats, or give it better abilities. Mega evolve aromatisse. I would have made primals a little less broken, I would have made mega rayquaza not mega but a primal, I would have kept hoopa unbond a ghost/psychic type, I would raise the stats of Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, Hitmontop, Liepard, Pangoro, Malamar, Persian, ..... so many things I would do, but wishing mons to never exist is not really one of them, at least for me.

Actually, in terms of type advantage only, they're not that well countered. Empoleon's steel is weak against torterra's earthquake but also against infernape's close combat (physical infernape can OHKO max defense empoleon), while it can only hit infernape for SE damage with a water move. Offensively, Empoleon's steel is neutral on torterra and resisted by infernape. Empoleon depends on ice beam to OHKO torterra, while it can scald or hydro pump infernape... only if it survives the close combat. Lastly, Infernape is faster than the other two and can potentially OHKO any of them with the right move, meaning based on type only, infernape is the most benefited of this trio. They're great starters with cool typings, but said typings are far from a perfect rock-paper-scissor system. The closest thing to a good secondary type equuilibrium is in gen VI, with fighting-psychic-dark, the only inconsistency being dark's immunity to psychic instead of just resisting it.

Maybe they meant machop? is the only one in this evolutionary line that has a tail, that I know of.

Delphox, my first starter ever, in reborn, my first pokemon game ever. I didn't even know about gen 6 when I picked it, but just looked cute at the time. It proceeded to destroy most gyms with a combination of calm mind, psychic, shadow ball and flamethrower. Delphox is also very cool and beautiful looking imo, never understood why is it that people have something for braixen that they lose for delphox. The whole line looks super cool and is powerful in game. Second place goes to Serperior, with that super useful contrary and that elegant design. Third place for me is a tie between chesnaught, cool looking and bulky, and typhlosion, fast and with dat eruption. Honorable mentions to: bulbasaur, always my pick in all games that go with gen 1 starters, and feraligator, because I love sheer force. I love all eeveelutions, but if I'm forced to pick, Vaporeon. Always found it very elegant, and I like my mons fat. Vaporeon sets up an acid armor and is the fattest thing ever. Honorable mentions to: sylveon, espeon, umbreon, flareon, jolteon, glaceon and leafeon, in that order. As for gen 7's, I like the 3 of them but litten is the superior one to me. Popplio will depend on what its final form looks like, and rowlett is cute but the whole internet seems to be obsessed with it, kinda ruins it for me. I don't think anyone would pick it since most people hate it but, shouldn't pokemon yellow's pikachu count as a starter too?