Enatsyrte Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Hello people ! I was checking some information about Furfrou and I found out it could be a very cool Pokémon to use if it has had a crest while being lore accurate. It's a ZU Pokémon we haven't seen in game since Gen 7 ! It's a Pokémon with a nice design with the possibility to change its trim. It's more a company Pokémon than a fighter, but come on ! Let's make it better ! It's even possible to do it by adding a new side quest linked to its trims. My idea is to create a new quest in Neo East Gearen City with the hairdresser family. It's a family the player can help at the beginning of the game and offer the possibility to groom their Pokémon. Plus we know the mother is runnning a second hairdressing salon for the helpless people from GDC. Adrien could have learnt of this activity and offers us via the Help Center to help them (During Karma Files or when Neo East Gearen City is available). The goal of this quest could be helping the hairdresser family to make official the second hairdressing salon by donating funds, Pokémon and/or volunteers and a new site inside the city. At the end of the quest, a volunteer working for the second site could offer grooming sessions for Furfrou. Then its other trim forms would be available. Finally, the player could receive at the Help Center the Furfrou Crest. I've said enough about this quest, now let's talk about the crest. Since Furfrou is a very weak Pokémon with a very poor movepool, I've got the idea to give several effects to its crests. 1) New Haircut = a second STAB The first main issue of Furfrou is its lack of offensive coverage on the physical side. Just imagine, the only coverage moves it has to beat Steel Types are Dig and Rock Smash ! Plus, the other coverage moves are pretty limited and lack power : Wild Charge, Iron Tail, Zen Headbutt, U-Turn and Sucker Punch. On top of that, Furfrou didn't benefit from the lastedt generations moves since it isn't available since 2019. With its pure Normal typing, Furfrou is having a bad time to find its place in any team and then it lacks offensive presence. Add to the mix its support movepool is extremely limited and you have a Pokémon easily outperformed by a huge part of the Pokémon available. To help Furfrou to become a more useful Pokémon, we need to give it a second typing according to its 9 trims available : Normal trim : Fighting Heart Trim : Fairy Star Trim : Rock Diamond Trim : Steel Debutante Trim : Electric Matron Trim : Psychic Dandy Trim : Grass La Reine Trim : Water Kabuki Trim : Fire Pharaoh Trim : Ground To keep access to its normal type STAB, not all its Normal type moves will be converted. Only "Hapiness moves" such as Return & Frustration will get the second dual type of Furfrou. Note : the type gained by Furfrou also adds the types' weakeness ! Otherwise Furfou would have 0 weakness with its Heart and Psychic trims, which would destabilize the strategic choice of the trim (for the defensive part). Moreover, having a dual typing is always wanted when you want to be offensive. The different dual typing would allow Furfrou to expand a lot its coverage, here are the different coverage combo we have here : Normal trim : Fighting Heart Trim : Fairy Star Trim : Rock Diamond Trim : Steel Debutante Trim : Electric Matron Trim : Psychic Dandy Trim : Grass La Reine Trim : Water Kabuki Trim : Fire Pharaoh Trim : Ground These screenshots only take into account the dual STABs of each trim, so there is no moves like Dig or Rock Smash taken into account. Anyway, its poor movepool won't be useful enough to fit in many sets, so consider to keep the dual STABs to expand the coverage and nothing else. 2) Increasing the firepower of the Pokémon The lack of a second STAB is not the only Furfrou's problem to inflict damage. Indeed, it only has a 80 Attack Base Stat ! It's very weak compared with other Pokémon like Rapidash or Infernape while they struggle themselves to deal consistent damage. Having a second STAB helps, but as I've said before, the current physical moves of Furfrou lack base power except for Return, Frustration and Iron Tail which are 100 BP moves. Plus, the better Normal STAB of Furfrou will be Body Slam with a 80 BP (new move for Furfrou in Pokémon Rejuvenation, may Arceus bless you Jan's Team). So we need to add a second effect to increase the firepower of Furfrou : using its defense stat to deal physical damage. To make this effect consistent for Furfrou, the Fur Coat ability should be taken into account for calculating the new attack stat of Furfrou. However, the attack stat boost will be the only one taken into account to deal damage with its Physical Attacks. The only set up move available for Furfrou would be Work Up. 3) Summary of the Crest and possible sets Description of the crest : Furfrou's physical attacks use its Defense stat. Gains a second type according to its trim. Hapiness moves become the trim type. It's already the end of the presentation ! I know I've added 3 effects for the Furfrou Crest, but yeah ! It's a ZU Pokémon we want to be viable for the end game ! Even if it has a better Pokémon like this, it still has weaknesses. Furfrou still has a limited offensive, set up and support movepool. Let's show you that : Furfrou @ Crest Ability: Fur Coat EVs: 252 Def / 4 SpD / 252 Spe Jolly Nature - Return - Body Slam - U-turn / Work Up - Sucker Punch With this spread stat, it's like ith has a 201 BS attack stat without investment. But you could run a bulkier set too : Furfrou @ Crest Ability: Fur Coat EVs: 96 HP / 252 Def / 160 Spe Impish Nature - Return - Body Slam / Sleep Talk - Work Up - Rest Finally, Furfrou is a very good Pokémon to tank physical attack and deal huge damage quickly even if it needs a 252 EVs investment in Defense. It still can set up some Work Up but lacks effective healing tools. Without the Leftovers, the only way to heal itself is using Rest. Plus, Furfrou remains vulnerable against strong attackers : 252 SpA Life Orb Lucario Aura Sphere vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Furfrou: 338-400 (95.4 - 112.9%) -- 75% chance to OHKO a full HP Furfrou 252+ Atk Guts Conkeldurr Close Combat vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Fur Coat Furfrou: 338-398 (95.4 - 112.4%) -- 75% chance to OHKO (With the Fighting Type weakness) 252+ SpA Primarina Moonblast vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Furfrou: 181-214 (51.1 - 60.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO (neutral damage) 252 SpA Charizard-Mega-Y Weather Ball (100 BP Fire) vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Furfrou in Sun: 310-366 (87.5 - 103.3%) -- 25% chance to OHKO (neutral damage) 252 SpA Manectric-Mega Thunderbolt vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Furfrou: 165-195 (46.6 - 55%) -- 66.4% chance to 2HKO (neutral damage) Let's remember Furfrou really needs a huge power up to compete with other Pokémon, since it lacks utility without the crest. The crest allows Furfrou to be used of an Offensive Utility Pokémon whose the second type can be adapted to the needs of your Team. Need an Electric Type Immunity, let's take the ground type ! You've understand, Furfrou will be the super ugly dog we wanted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.A.M CXZ 007 Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 Weird to say it this late ,but shouldn't you give it stab on those types so to make it better Edit:Sorry I see it now good idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enatsyrte Posted March 15 Author Share Posted March 15 In both cases, thanks for the comment ahah. Yeah one of the main problem of Furfrou is its lack of offensive coverage. With Dig and Rock Smash to deal with Steel Types, you won't go far, and the other few moves are good at most, but 0 coverage move >100. To be honest, I was so despised back in the day to see how Furfrou is so limited in its options. With my idea, it's still limited, but now it can perform as a bulky sweeper or a tank with more flexibilty. I think this Pokémon needs to be loved by the community Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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