I'm all for new types. Removing a ton of the dex is already gonna mess with the meta to an insane degree, might as well go full cuckoo
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The electric type could still be justified by the pure fact that it's a pikaclone. Pachirisu isn't yellow yet it still looks like an electric type.
It doesn't need to look like a xerox of pikachu to be a pikaclone. Changing the body color would've made Morpeko more recognizable, and more interesting.
edit: why did I quote so many people lol
It really didnt help steel that much and its not like Steel needed helping. Sure, it gave some more utility to poison, but by the counterpoint of making dragon useless and ice even more useless. It wasn't a good trade in the end at all. If all they wanted was to nerf dragon they could easily.... just improved ice.
stop giving stupid-ass stats to dragons. I get the point of pseudos, but they ain't always gotta be dragon. shit, that's why they had the problem in the first damn place. how about an ice-type pseudo with 100+ speed and attack/special attack?
The idea that Fairy type was necessary to "balance" the game goes out the window when the best type in the game has been Steel for over a decade and the second best is probably now Fairy.
Fairy is such a ridiculous type that just switching from Normal to Fairy turned Clefable into an absolute monster.
Fairy is such a ridiculous type that just switching from Normal to Fairy turned Clefable into an absolute monster.
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So what your saying is...
...We make another Ice/Dragon?
(Even Kyurem was only base 95 speed, hehe).
Dragons did rule the roost until Fairy came along though by a significant margin.
Why give Steel the super effective though when it was the second best type in the game is questionable though.
I would say there's a solid argument that Water type is either third or fourth in the best type list.
And Ice is the worst, that's unquestionable.
Ice type full legends can't even keep up, a psuedo wouldn't help.
there's only two at that (or 4, I guess?). I'm sure they can carve out a decent pokemon that doesn't much coddling. I'm still a believer
speaking of which, Worlds would also be a good place to talk about balance changes to typings
Finally a way to finally bring Digimon to the Pokémon universe
we're in the endgame now folks
Most of what makes a type "good" or "bad" is that type's weaknesses and resistances. Steel is the best type because it resists everything, even though Steel type move coverage is mediocre. Ice is the worst type because it resists nothing, even though Ice type move coverage is fantastic.
It also helps when your weaknesses and resistances don't overlap with other types. Oh Fairy's weak to Poison and Steel? No problem, half the time Fairy types get a secondary typing that resists or is flat-out immune to one or both those attack types. Yeah that Mega Mawile is really fearing Sludge Bomb LOL
It also helps when your weaknesses and resistances don't overlap with other types. Oh Fairy's weak to Poison and Steel? No problem, half the time Fairy types get a secondary typing that resists or is flat-out immune to one or both those attack types. Yeah that Mega Mawile is really fearing Sludge Bomb LOL
Ice just does not synergize with other types.
Ice/Fighting or Ice/Electric or Ice/Poison would be kinda neat tho
Ice/Fighting or Ice/Electric or Ice/Poison would be kinda neat tho
Forgot about him.
In my defense all the SuMo Pokémon are mostly super forgettable
If Crabominable got access to Ice Shard and Mach Punch, I think it would be a very interesting pokemon to watch. Give it Technician, could be terrifying.
Don't worry though, instead of those things, it's signature move Ice Hammer makes it even slower.
Fairy type didn't even end up buffing Poison since it just made Steel even better. You see as many Poison types now as you did before Gen 6... Actually, probably less than you did before Gen 6.
It also basically had no effect on the Dragon-type pseudos other than colossally fucking over Hydreigon and Kommo'o.
It also basically had no effect on the Dragon-type pseudos other than colossally fucking over Hydreigon and Kommo'o.
Alola Mons are great!
but boy are they fuckin unusable. they need a lot of work
Can't agree there. Not my favorite dex overall, but they are good for the small number.
There's a bunch of competitively viable Alolan pokemon
The Tabus, a few Ultra beasts and Mimikyu. Incineroar was the most picked Pokémon at the last Worlds.
I know. I was just commenting that the first two I thought of were slow as molasses. Incineroar's pretty slow too.
Steel traded some defense for more offensive when Fairy was introduced. Losing the resistance to Ghost alone was pretty big.
All of the psuedos see far less use than they did pre-Fairy.
Gen 7 as a whole were slow as molasses. Loved the designs though
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I mean Gen 5 is easily my favorite, but I really like the gen 7 variety for what's there. The designs feel more "gen5ish" than 6 did.
btw, would it have helped at all if Ice-type was super effective against Fairy?
also, I think Poison should be super effective against Bug again
Problem about that is that people would just use ice moves on other types because ice would still be trash. Ice resisting fairy though, could work
Ice is supposed to be the glass cannon but everyone can drop by and use their cannon without being as weak, so ice is mostly just glass . Hell ice doesn't even fit it's only niche of "killing dragons" anymore now that fairy is a thing.
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Aren't metagross and Tyranitar the only non dragon pseudos? They need more non dragon pseudos.
Your argument disregards that Dragon-types are pretty small in sample size when you factor in what we had before Gen VI, and of that small sample size, we had quite a few overpowered Pokemon because of poorly thought out BSTs and ability choices, and sometimes even movepools being diverse and leading to multiple viable sets. The ones that really stand out and show their poor design:
Dragonite: Multiscale (allowing it to tank a hit for significantly less damage than otherwise, which made Dragon Dance setup)
Salamence: Intimidate/Moxie (both abilities allowing for set-up for a sweep under aggressive or passive tactics)
Garchomp: Sand Veil/Rough Skin (there's a reason why Sand Veil was banned under smogon rules, and Garchomp was almost always the main attacker in a sand team. Rough Skin was hilarious for adding chip damage)
And of course, those three in particular were used way more often than one of the "lesser dragons." Even then, those lesser Dragons were powerful in their own way. Flygon was basically dollar store Garchomp but with mediocre attack power, Kingdra requires set-up and its movepool is limited, Druddigon is slow but hits hard, etc. Historically, BST averages were also incredibly high in attacking stats because of the limited sample size. The bigger problem I see is the fact that Ice moves usually came from other Pokemon typings as Ice is terrible as a defensive type, so why not buff Ice first? It's already a strong attacking type that isn't used enough because the defensive side is too punishing (unless you're Kyurem and people still use you because the forms have some incredible attack power).
What Fairies did was introduce another powerful attacking type, while not really doing enough to mitigate the high dragon usage, and ironically enough, some Dragons had access to SE moves against Fairies if needed to go that route. And this was further compounded by stupid decisions GF made in Gen VI and VII to give Dragons more toys (M-Salamence, M-Lati twins, M-Charizard X, etc). I would rather have buffed the other types, and nerfed BSTs than introduce a type that didn't really change all that much. All this to say, oftentimes a Pokemon's design matters a lot more than simply introducing a type to counter it. Especially when you're talking about GF's tendency to overcorrect their design habits (look no further than Gen VII to see how GF overcorrected by reducing the speed of all new Pokemon when compared to previous generations), or flatout design some hilariously overpowered Pokemon.
Dragon was stupidly broken up until Gen 6, to the point where Dragon spam was a valid (and often very effective) strategy in the Gen 5 metagame.
wouldn't chansey be better with evolite?
Azumarill was the MVP of XY
Is this some type of reverse monkey's paw where they remove some pokemon but add the entire digimon universe?
I sincerely hope Duraludon is not the pseudo-legendary of this Gen. While I think it has a neat design, it just doesn't give off pseudo vibes.
Also following all the mechanic/variation talk, wouldn't it be interesting to have some sort of hot/cold water type Pokémon that can change its type from water/fire to water/icen depending on which variation...
We need a pseudo that isn't dragon type. And while we're at it, a pseudo that doesn't look like it could be dragon type either, like Tyranitar.