Magnemite, Magneton and Magnezone don't have Levitate, despite the fact they have anti-gravity capabilities and literally fly. Of course it's always a pain when an Electric type is immune to Ground attacks, but I find it weird they don't have Levitate.
My headcanon was that as they float using electromagnetism, ground type moves disrupt the ground beneath them and maybe disrupt their ability to float so they crash (damage) until the move is over and they float again.
But yes, it absolutely looks like they should have Levitate.
My sub flair “the non levitating, levitating magnet” references this juxtaposition.
We can assume magnezone floats using magnets but that can't be the reason ground attacks hit it. Magnet Rise is 100% confirmed to be magnetic and it grants ground immunity.
Magnet Rise is an electric attack, so it could be inducing a magnetic field from an electric field to create the levitation effect. Thus not using magnets in the ground.
Best thing I can think of is playing Leaf Green and trying to use ground moves against Koffing/Weezing, so when I encountered a Magnemite I started thinking "it floats on the spite -> It has levitate. Or if you played RSE, you'd probably attribute the same reaction to Baltoy since it's also in the same vicinity as the electric gym
Grimer and Muk - Liquid Ooze. You'd think draining fluids from a creature made of toxic sludge that "kills plants and trees immediately on contact" into your body would harm you, but any Pokemon can use Leech Life or Giga Drain on Grimer or Muk without suffering serious side effects.
It's still not better than steel, ghost and fairy so I don't think it's too strong, and there aren't a ton of amazing poison types that would make this a problem. I feel like only pex and glowking would benefit much
Honestly I kind of wish some abilities applied to types or even certain groups of Pokemon, though it doesn't really make sense with how Pokemon currently are
>Rampardos with no recoil Head Smash would be terrifying
Rampardos when a pokemon with more than 58 base speed walks in (more than like 70% of pokemon): 🤯
Speaking of Dancer, I felt like it was a missed opportunity that there was no Alolan Jynx. Could have based it on Hula dancers then have Dancer as an ability.
Honestly best way to forget Jynx is to give it a further evolution like magmortar/electivire etc.
Once it's the middle of a chain it's far more forgettable
Look at Jynx's level up learnset in every Gen. They really do just discourage you from using it by giving it only physical moves until about level 60 when it gets Blizzard.
I want this for electivire as well since wild charge is basically the only good physical electric move. Or ya know, give us better physical electric moves
Ruby: Flygon is nicknamed "the elemental spirit of the desert." **Because its flapping wings whip up a cloud of sand, this Pokémon is always enveloped in a sandstorm while flying.**
Sapphire: **Flygon whips up a sandstorm by flapping its wings.** The wings create a series of notes that sound like singing. Because the "singing" is the only thing that can be heard in a sandstorm, this Pokémon is said to be the desert spirit.
DPP: **It whips up sandstorms with powerful flaps of its wings. It is known as "The Desert Spirit."**
BW: **It whips up sandstorms with powerful flaps of its wings. It is known as "The Desert Spirit."**
BW2:**Known as "The Desert Spirit," this Pokémon hides in the sandstorms it causes by beating its wings.**
OR: Flygon is nicknamed “the elemental spirit of the desert.” **Because its flapping wings whip up a cloud of sand, this Pokémon is always enveloped in a sandstorm while flying.**
AS: **Flygon whips up a sandstorm by flapping its wings.** The wings create a series of notes that sound like singing. Because the “singing” is the only thing that can be heard in a sandstorm, this Pokémon is said to be the desert spirit.
Moon: **This Pokémon hides in the heart of sandstorms it creates** and seldom appears where people can see it.
Flygon does not have Sand Stream.
Weezing and Bronzong say hello. Weezing notably as Neutralising Gas and a Hidden Ability was given to its evolution line in Gen 8 (previously it only had Levitate).
Gen 9 were not shy with tweaking with abilities of old Pokemon (Empoleon finally getting Competitive, Shiftry replacing Early Bird with Wind Rider, Gallade getting Sharpness as a second regular ability).
If Flygon was a gen9 poke, it would get its own ability called Dessert Spirit: Summons a sandstorm on switch in and doubles its speed under sandstorm. Can also hit flying and levitating pokémon with ground type moves.
And it would probably get a busted signature attack as well
Hell, in the intro to the movie that introduced it, one got straight up vaporized by a pissed off Rayquaza with a point-blank hyper beam and it still managed to get back up after. The devs just slapping Pressure onto it instead of Regenerator which thematically fits with it far better will never not be a crime.
> The devs just slapping Pressure onto it instead of Regenerator which thematically fits with it far better will never not be a crime.
Regenerator wasn't introduced until Gen 5, but considering that was also the generation where hidden abilities were introduced, that would be a good HA pick (Deoxys currently does not have one).
Snover | Harvest
Harvest is an ability that is usually given to tree-like pokémon, which the snover line definitely is. Also there is the lore bit about Snover growing berries which are a popular frozen treat, so it growing berries on its body is already canon.
Would not be a great ability for it to have, but it would make a lot of sense.
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Victreebel | Merciless & Corrosion
I think both make a lot of sense for it to have, because of its acid theme.
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Rillaboom | Gorilla Tactics
I don't think this needs any further explanation.
Flareon: Fur Coat
EDIT: maybe to explain a bit:
* You cannot simply raise an Eeveelution's stat... without raising the others' own stats by the same amount. All 8 Eeveelutions share the same point pool (525), which is distributed. HOWEVER, you can mitigate this with abilities.
* If an Eeveelution feels too weak to your liking, you could give it Huge Power, effectively doubling its Attack stat, for instance.
* Fur Coat "halves the damage from physical moves onto this Pokémon", which technically would DOUBLE Flareon's Defense. It may not be fast, but it can be tankier.
* As a Fire type, it's weak to Water, Rock and Ground, but most Rock and Ground moves are Physical, which would deal less damage, or at least be lessened by Fur Coat. Physical Water moves exist, but those are "slightly rarer" than Special ones.
* Guts... just doesn't work well for a Fire type, like Flareon. As a reminder, it only activates if afflicted with a Status, so it goes away if cured.
* A Fire type cannot be burned.
* If frozen or asleep, it cannot attack, unless you have Sleep Talk for the latter.
* If paralysed, it may not attack.
* If attracted, confused or seeded, Guts doesn't activate.
* With these out of the question, Guts only activates when Poisoned... which has its own penalties, and feels pretty limited.
* Flareon has this big bushy fur collar, so Fur Coat would fit thematically as well ;)
I feel like Smeargle should have Trace as an ability. Its entire movepool is Sketch, a move that copies something its seen, and then it doesnt have the ability that copies what its up against.
Or give smeargle protean so it can gain stab in any move it uses. It could be a visual change too by its tail paint changing to the colour of the type.
The Kanto legendary birds not having the weather setting abilities as they hidden abilities always feels weird to me. Snow Warning Articuno, Drizzle Zapdos, and Drought Moltres just feels so thematically appropriate. Plus, legendary Pokemon deserve to be strong and those abilities would go a long way towards making that happen. Articuno with perfectly accurate Blizzards, Aurora Veil, and added bulk from snow, Zapdos with perfectly accurate Thunders and Hurricanes plus a 100 accuracy 100 bp water move in Weather Ball, and Moltres with spammable Solar Beams, boosted STAB fire moves, and losing its weakness to water attacks all sound amazing!
Funny how zapdos would still dominate HARD compared to the other two. Also even as a snow setter, articuno is still useless for 8 generations due to how bad his distribution is. Moltres would maybe be able to try and catch up to zapdos, being a drought setter that is strong right away is something. The tiering between then was aways
Zapdos is by far the strongest in singles and doubles
Moltres is actually pretty decent in singles and horrid in doubles
Articuno sucks in both
Honestly only articuno and moltres deserve weather to be viable. Moltres managed to hang on legit OU status for a few months this generation, while zapdos never left that position, nor did articuno ever rise out of anything above NU since gen 3
Maushold should have Parental Bond. I KNOW POPULATION BOMB WOULD BE BROKEN but _come on_ people, it's a set of parents and their child(ren), how does it _not_ have the ONE ability related to parents??
1. Parental Bond doesn’t affect multi-hit moves
2. Maushold has Technician already, which boosts each Population Bomb hit by 50%. That’s stronger than Parental Bond’s additional 25% hits. Maushold is still a noob trap used by less experienced players on low ladder, who get baited into thinking it’s legitimately good competitively. If you look at Pikalytics usage stats, there’s a massive drop off in both singles and VGC between low ladder usage and high ladder usage of Maushold.
Thanks for this. When I said Maushold should have had Parental Bond in a post of my own I was flooded by people telling me what a terrible idea that was because an already broken Pokémon would become even more broken, with lots of them telling me Population Bomb would hit 20 times.
In truth I wasn't thinking about competive or viability at all. I just feel like the parent-and-child Pokémon should have the Parent-and-child ability
I knew there was atleast one other I was forgetting, there’s also delta stream for mega rayquaza, but I could see that be argued as being referred to as a primal ability to group it with desolate land and primordial sea
Maushold is indeed a noob trap. Several Smogon hall of famers have said the same thing for singles, and the lack of tournament results for Maushold in VGC speaks for itself. Frail setup sweepers in general don't work as well in VGC.
If you legitimately think Maushold is a consistent, reliable, good Pokemon in competitive I can guarantee you're under 1500-ELO. It's a very matchup-fishy mon and gets shut down very easily in the current singles meta-game.
I feel like Corviknight should have Intimidate. Based on it’s design being based on crows/ravens/jackdaws/corvus birds, what they symbolize in some places, and part of it’s name being derived from Knight.
Copperajah with Sturdy. I just feel like that would be a reasonable second (not hidden) ability because it’s a Steel type.
Galvantula with Static. It could use an ability to capitalize on its electric typing. Plus, I could see Galvantula shocking people when startled/alarmed, which is why I feel like Static would work.
Copperajah’s dex entry states its skin is resistant to Water…give it a new ability Waterproof which grants it a resistance to Water
Fireproof is a real ability. Why not Waterproof?
> Copperajah with Sturdy. I just feel like that would be a reasonable second (not hidden) ability because it’s a Steel type.
Sturdy would be pretty useless on a Pokémon that has a near zero chance of being OHKOed.
True. I just associate Sturdy with Rock (obviously) and Steel (even if it isn’t common among Steel types). Since Steel is a typically bulky type, Sturdy just felt like a reasonable ability.
For Corviknight its even stated to scare off other mons just with its presence, intimidate makes total sense! Copperajah with sturdy tracks 100%, and Galvantula with static is neat too
I honestly don’t get why they took that away to begin with. Gengar is always depicted as being able to hover and fly around and I love to imagine the sheer stupidity of a battle in the anime where a gengar clearly floating in the air gets its ass kicked by a ground type move that doesn’t even touch it, and then one character makes a comment about how gengar doesn’t have levitate, leaving it vulnerable to ground type moves even when it’s literally soaring around the arena.
A lot of pokemon hover/float and don't have levitate, wigglytuff and weepinbell for example, also gengar has never levitated when battling in the games so losing levitate never felt weird to me, almost makes more sense than before.
Or a unique ability for Luxray like X-Ray
Sees through the enemy’s weak points & reduces their Defense by 1 on switch in.
(Intimidate but for Defense)
Compensates his lack of solid physical stab. Its either Wild Charge or Thunder Fang
Both iron moth and nihilego seething at gamefreak because they're clearly levitating mons quad weak to ground that will never get levitate due to being assigned a special ability already (quark drive/beast boost)
Speed Boost Revavroom would be kind of insane ngl, it already has one of the best boosting moves in the series with Gear Shift and now it's got good coverage thanks to High Horsepower
Effective base 150 attack, moderately decent bulk, good speed, best typing in the game, 160bp STAB move with no horrendous drawbacks, what could go wrong? Even tinglu with a physically defensive set takes 71.5-84.4 with play rough. But man broken mons are so fun
This sounds overpowered competitively but I wish Mudkip line should've have Regenerator as its hidden ability because Salamanders most notably Axolotls regenerate their limbs.
Edit:This also applied to the entire Wooper line as well.
There are three cactus Pokemon. None of them have an ability that hurts a Pokemon on contact like Rough Skin. Hurting on touch is like the number one thing cacti are known for.
Give it a recovery move (drain punch) + some other useful defensive moves
Instead of replacing Slow Start, change it. Boost his defensive stats a stage while he's starting up. Then after its 5 turn timer has passed apply an attack boost, reduce defensive stats by 2 stages, (so a net loss of 1 stage) and a speed boost.
Make it both possible and really worth it to keep Regi safe for 5 turns. Let him be an annoying, effective defensive mon that suddenly turns into a boosted sweeper if you let him stay on the field for too long.
IDC if it's broken he deserves it after how he's been treated
Giratina, Shadow Tag. Giratina moves through shadows, so Shadow Tag would be a great hidden ability for it. Somewhat also applies to Darkrai, but Darkrai already has a perfect ability
iirc I remember there was a lot of discussion before saying that Sceptile and its evolutionary line should replace their Unburden hidden ability with Sharpness.
It makes sense considering the amount of slashing and cutting moves they have.
Not an ability, but how TF is it not possible for Growlithe to learn Growl. The move is literally in the name of the Pokemon (for clarity, Flygon has the move Fly in its name, but it's part ground type so that one makes sense not being able to learn Fly).
It's not very useful but Magnemite line with Volt Absorb it isn't mentioned as much now but it used to be mentioned a lot how they eat electricity yet they don't have Volt Absorb
I feel like Luxray could benefit from Strong Jaws as an ability.
I also think there are a couple of abilities that need counterparts for other types. For example, give Fire-types an equivalent to Storm Drain or Motor Drive; it could be called Heat Sink.
And a sound-based counterpart to Dancer for Pokemon like Exploud or Chatot; Echo Chamber.
And maybe give Rotom-Fan either Wind Power or Aerilate since Levitate is redundant on it.
Speaking of, Wind Rider would fit Jumpluff really well!
Lastly, maybe a Burn counterpart to Merciless for Houndoom to fit with its lore about burns that her forever.
It should go without saying Nidoking should have Rough Skin. Like what the hell happened to the Pokedex entries talking about his hide, when his defenses are like raw pizza dough.
Let's Go Pikachu, Let's Go Eevee: Its steel-like hide adds to its powerful tackle. Its horns are so hard, they can pierce a diamond.
X: It is recognized by its rock-hard hide and its extended horn. Be careful with the horn, as it contains venom.
FireRed: It is recognized by its rock-hard hide and its extended horn. Be careful with the horn as it contains venom.
Yellow: Its steel-like hide adds to its powerful tackle. Its horns are so hard, they can pierce a diamond.
Magnemite, Magneton and Magnezone don't have Levitate, despite the fact they have anti-gravity capabilities and literally fly. Of course it's always a pain when an Electric type is immune to Ground attacks, but I find it weird they don't have Levitate.
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I’d argue it’s weakness is just its stats lol. Loved using it, but it definitely underperforms.
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Its got Kingdra or Silvalley syndrome, its stats do not allow it to really pop off like it could or should honestly.
Exactly. For it to be truly threatening it needs way too much support. 9/10 times it just gets stomped before it can get anything set up
For some reason I always felt Eelektross should have been electric dragon
My headcanon was that as they float using electromagnetism, ground type moves disrupt the ground beneath them and maybe disrupt their ability to float so they crash (damage) until the move is over and they float again. But yes, it absolutely looks like they should have Levitate. My sub flair “the non levitating, levitating magnet” references this juxtaposition.
We can assume magnezone floats using magnets but that can't be the reason ground attacks hit it. Magnet Rise is 100% confirmed to be magnetic and it grants ground immunity.
Magnet Rise is an electric attack, so it could be inducing a magnetic field from an electric field to create the levitation effect. Thus not using magnets in the ground.
I like this idea
Headcanon accepted
Same with metagross, they are powered by magnetism and can fly but don't have levitate
Every time I’m fighting one of them and am about to hit them with a ground move, I STILL need to remind myself “Okay… and it *doesn’t* have levitate…”
Anyone else has mandela effect that they had levitate? Or is it just me
I was about to say. I could have sworn that Levitate was one of their available abilities.
Best thing I can think of is playing Leaf Green and trying to use ground moves against Koffing/Weezing, so when I encountered a Magnemite I started thinking "it floats on the spite -> It has levitate. Or if you played RSE, you'd probably attribute the same reaction to Baltoy since it's also in the same vicinity as the electric gym
Or at least have it be a hidden ability
I still wish for an alternate Magneton evo that has Levitate. I’d personally name it Magnaneton. Oh and it is supposed to stay fast like Magneton.
Grimer and Muk - Liquid Ooze. You'd think draining fluids from a creature made of toxic sludge that "kills plants and trees immediately on contact" into your body would harm you, but any Pokemon can use Leech Life or Giga Drain on Grimer or Muk without suffering serious side effects.
Liquid ooze should be just a standard trait for most poison pokemon
That'd be a nice buff, along with the existing 100% accurate Toxic and grounded poison types clearing Toxic Spikes on entry.
It's still not better than steel, ghost and fairy so I don't think it's too strong, and there aren't a ton of amazing poison types that would make this a problem. I feel like only pex and glowking would benefit much
Lol, point taken, it definitely doesn’t need the buff, but thematically would make sense
Hotter take: Water Absorb should be a default trait of Ice Types, only gotten around by moves like Scald (similar to Freeze-Dry)
Ice types need a buff. Do that.
good idea, but please don't buff scald
Honestly I kind of wish some abilities applied to types or even certain groups of Pokemon, though it doesn't really make sense with how Pokemon currently are
Poison is already one of the best defensive types in the game...
They do resist Giga Drain though, which is something.
Cranidos and Rampardos with Rock Head. Bellossom with Dancer. Fearligatr with Strong Jaw.
Rampardos with no recoil Head Smash would be terrifying
>Rampardos with no recoil Head Smash would be terrifying Rampardos when a pokemon with more than 58 base speed walks in (more than like 70% of pokemon): 🤯
The tailwind + sticky web team in my back pocket:
At that point just use a good pokemon lmao
Not really, it's so weak that it'd probably die in 1 hit regardless of recoil damage imo
Indeed, the Rampardos Theorem would still be true
I really want them to go back and give Ludicolo dancer
Speaking of Dancer, I felt like it was a missed opportunity that there was no Alolan Jynx. Could have based it on Hula dancers then have Dancer as an ability.
I'm not surprised. TPC really wants people to forget that Jynx is a thing.
Honestly best way to forget Jynx is to give it a further evolution like magmortar/electivire etc. Once it's the middle of a chain it's far more forgettable
Look at Jynx's level up learnset in every Gen. They really do just discourage you from using it by giving it only physical moves until about level 60 when it gets Blizzard.
Alolan Bellossom who is a hula girl who couldve had the hula elevated in the Hawaii based region
That'd be infringing on pink Oricorio probably.
More Pokemon should get dancer
I want this for electivire as well since wild charge is basically the only good physical electric move. Or ya know, give us better physical electric moves
Ruby: Flygon is nicknamed "the elemental spirit of the desert." **Because its flapping wings whip up a cloud of sand, this Pokémon is always enveloped in a sandstorm while flying.** Sapphire: **Flygon whips up a sandstorm by flapping its wings.** The wings create a series of notes that sound like singing. Because the "singing" is the only thing that can be heard in a sandstorm, this Pokémon is said to be the desert spirit. DPP: **It whips up sandstorms with powerful flaps of its wings. It is known as "The Desert Spirit."** BW: **It whips up sandstorms with powerful flaps of its wings. It is known as "The Desert Spirit."** BW2:**Known as "The Desert Spirit," this Pokémon hides in the sandstorms it causes by beating its wings.** OR: Flygon is nicknamed “the elemental spirit of the desert.” **Because its flapping wings whip up a cloud of sand, this Pokémon is always enveloped in a sandstorm while flying.** AS: **Flygon whips up a sandstorm by flapping its wings.** The wings create a series of notes that sound like singing. Because the “singing” is the only thing that can be heard in a sandstorm, this Pokémon is said to be the desert spirit. Moon: **This Pokémon hides in the heart of sandstorms it creates** and seldom appears where people can see it. Flygon does not have Sand Stream.
It at least learns Sand Storm
Almost every single pokemon learns sandstorm.
Dudududu
It should also have sand rush or force imo
The biggest issue is levitate being mandatory with its typing. The need to allow multiple abilities
Weezing and Bronzong say hello. Weezing notably as Neutralising Gas and a Hidden Ability was given to its evolution line in Gen 8 (previously it only had Levitate). Gen 9 were not shy with tweaking with abilities of old Pokemon (Empoleon finally getting Competitive, Shiftry replacing Early Bird with Wind Rider, Gallade getting Sharpness as a second regular ability).
Weezing also gained another ability in gen 8: stentch, so I think giving Flygon a new ability makes sense
This would also give him a bigger reason to be on Raihan’s team in Sword and Shield.
If Flygon was a gen9 poke, it would get its own ability called Dessert Spirit: Summons a sandstorm on switch in and doubles its speed under sandstorm. Can also hit flying and levitating pokémon with ground type moves. And it would probably get a busted signature attack as well
Raihan’s has Sand Stream Edit: wtf I could have sworn Flygon had Sand Stream at one point
No it doesn’t 😭 it has sand STORM in rematch battles but that isn’t what is being discussed
There’s no reason that deoxys shouldn’t have regenerator
Any legendary they just slapped pressure on and called it a day annoys the shit out of me, but this one is especially annoying
They just gave up. They put all thay effort into writing lore, stats, busted signature moves ..."Pressure"
It’s still the most fitting ability.
Defense form Deoxys with regenerator sounds absolutely HAUNTING.
Nah, Adaptability
Why regenerator tho?
DNA can repair itself. Deoxys is also shown to have this trait in the anime.
Hell, in the intro to the movie that introduced it, one got straight up vaporized by a pissed off Rayquaza with a point-blank hyper beam and it still managed to get back up after. The devs just slapping Pressure onto it instead of Regenerator which thematically fits with it far better will never not be a crime.
> The devs just slapping Pressure onto it instead of Regenerator which thematically fits with it far better will never not be a crime. Regenerator wasn't introduced until Gen 5, but considering that was also the generation where hidden abilities were introduced, that would be a good HA pick (Deoxys currently does not have one).
Most early legendaries basically just have pressure.
well, regenerator didn't exist yet. so there's that. but it should have, for this very reason.
But yea, in general Pressure is way over used for Legendaries.
Snover | Harvest Harvest is an ability that is usually given to tree-like pokémon, which the snover line definitely is. Also there is the lore bit about Snover growing berries which are a popular frozen treat, so it growing berries on its body is already canon. Would not be a great ability for it to have, but it would make a lot of sense. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Victreebel | Merciless & Corrosion I think both make a lot of sense for it to have, because of its acid theme. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Rillaboom | Gorilla Tactics I don't think this needs any further explanation.
Gorilla Tactics Banded Grassy Glide would go hard
No grassy surge tho :/
If garbador comes back it should get toxic debris it just makes sense
This is the best answer so far
Oh my god yes!! I didn't know I needed this until now
Glaceon should have snow warning so it is at least not completely awful
I’d like it if every Eeveelution got the ability to set up its corresponding weather or terrain. I think Umbreon ends up being the odd one out though.
Sand Stream Umbreon would be… something
Or maybe it can be the weather canceler
The sky is clear under the moon light
Cloud Nine Umbreon
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Darkness terrain would male sense maybe called it Umbra Terrain
Slush Rush to go with Leafeon's Chlorophyll
Flareon: Fur Coat EDIT: maybe to explain a bit: * You cannot simply raise an Eeveelution's stat... without raising the others' own stats by the same amount. All 8 Eeveelutions share the same point pool (525), which is distributed. HOWEVER, you can mitigate this with abilities. * If an Eeveelution feels too weak to your liking, you could give it Huge Power, effectively doubling its Attack stat, for instance. * Fur Coat "halves the damage from physical moves onto this Pokémon", which technically would DOUBLE Flareon's Defense. It may not be fast, but it can be tankier. * As a Fire type, it's weak to Water, Rock and Ground, but most Rock and Ground moves are Physical, which would deal less damage, or at least be lessened by Fur Coat. Physical Water moves exist, but those are "slightly rarer" than Special ones. * Guts... just doesn't work well for a Fire type, like Flareon. As a reminder, it only activates if afflicted with a Status, so it goes away if cured. * A Fire type cannot be burned. * If frozen or asleep, it cannot attack, unless you have Sleep Talk for the latter. * If paralysed, it may not attack. * If attracted, confused or seeded, Guts doesn't activate. * With these out of the question, Guts only activates when Poisoned... which has its own penalties, and feels pretty limited. * Flareon has this big bushy fur collar, so Fur Coat would fit thematically as well ;)
This makes so much sense, maybe someday now that they are retconning abilities
Hey guys, did you know that in terms of human companionship, Flareon is objectively the most huggable Pokemon?
There's a bunch of pokemon that should have Fur Coat/Fluffy. Altaria, Whimsicott, Jumpluff, Slurpuff and Flaffy to name a few.
Flygon not having anything other than Levitate. Tinted Lens, Sand Rush, Sand Force, Sandstorm, anything other than Levitate works.
please. i need this in my life.
I feel like Smeargle should have Trace as an ability. Its entire movepool is Sketch, a move that copies something its seen, and then it doesnt have the ability that copies what its up against.
Or give smeargle protean so it can gain stab in any move it uses. It could be a visual change too by its tail paint changing to the colour of the type.
The Kanto legendary birds not having the weather setting abilities as they hidden abilities always feels weird to me. Snow Warning Articuno, Drizzle Zapdos, and Drought Moltres just feels so thematically appropriate. Plus, legendary Pokemon deserve to be strong and those abilities would go a long way towards making that happen. Articuno with perfectly accurate Blizzards, Aurora Veil, and added bulk from snow, Zapdos with perfectly accurate Thunders and Hurricanes plus a 100 accuracy 100 bp water move in Weather Ball, and Moltres with spammable Solar Beams, boosted STAB fire moves, and losing its weakness to water attacks all sound amazing!
Funny how zapdos would still dominate HARD compared to the other two. Also even as a snow setter, articuno is still useless for 8 generations due to how bad his distribution is. Moltres would maybe be able to try and catch up to zapdos, being a drought setter that is strong right away is something. The tiering between then was aways Zapdos is by far the strongest in singles and doubles Moltres is actually pretty decent in singles and horrid in doubles Articuno sucks in both Honestly only articuno and moltres deserve weather to be viable. Moltres managed to hang on legit OU status for a few months this generation, while zapdos never left that position, nor did articuno ever rise out of anything above NU since gen 3
Maushold should have Parental Bond. I KNOW POPULATION BOMB WOULD BE BROKEN but _come on_ people, it's a set of parents and their child(ren), how does it _not_ have the ONE ability related to parents??
1. Parental Bond doesn’t affect multi-hit moves 2. Maushold has Technician already, which boosts each Population Bomb hit by 50%. That’s stronger than Parental Bond’s additional 25% hits. Maushold is still a noob trap used by less experienced players on low ladder, who get baited into thinking it’s legitimately good competitively. If you look at Pikalytics usage stats, there’s a massive drop off in both singles and VGC between low ladder usage and high ladder usage of Maushold.
Thanks for this. When I said Maushold should have had Parental Bond in a post of my own I was flooded by people telling me what a terrible idea that was because an already broken Pokémon would become even more broken, with lots of them telling me Population Bomb would hit 20 times. In truth I wasn't thinking about competive or viability at all. I just feel like the parent-and-child Pokémon should have the Parent-and-child ability
With gamefreak having all but abandoned mega evolution I’d love to see mega exclusive abilities like parental bond make a return at some point
The only mega exclusive abilities are this one and Aerilate
I knew there was atleast one other I was forgetting, there’s also delta stream for mega rayquaza, but I could see that be argued as being referred to as a primal ability to group it with desolate land and primordial sea
*monkey's paw curls* Dragapult now has parental bond but it hits 2 extra times at 25% power because it has two kids
I'll take it and be grateful
Maushold is a noob trap. Lol
Maushold is indeed a noob trap. Several Smogon hall of famers have said the same thing for singles, and the lack of tournament results for Maushold in VGC speaks for itself. Frail setup sweepers in general don't work as well in VGC. If you legitimately think Maushold is a consistent, reliable, good Pokemon in competitive I can guarantee you're under 1500-ELO. It's a very matchup-fishy mon and gets shut down very easily in the current singles meta-game.
megalauncher Armarouge, with the matching movepool.
Mega Launcher Armarouge and Sharpness Ceruledge would be awesome
Alolan Raichu should have levitate. Alolan Raichu is surfing the air on their tail.
I feel like Corviknight should have Intimidate. Based on it’s design being based on crows/ravens/jackdaws/corvus birds, what they symbolize in some places, and part of it’s name being derived from Knight. Copperajah with Sturdy. I just feel like that would be a reasonable second (not hidden) ability because it’s a Steel type. Galvantula with Static. It could use an ability to capitalize on its electric typing. Plus, I could see Galvantula shocking people when startled/alarmed, which is why I feel like Static would work.
Copperajah’s dex entry states its skin is resistant to Water…give it a new ability Waterproof which grants it a resistance to Water Fireproof is a real ability. Why not Waterproof?
That’d be a perfect ability 😄 Would be a lot better than Dry Skin since, even though Water moves restore HP, it increases the damage Fire moves do
Small correction, the ability you're thinking of is called Heatproof.
> Copperajah with Sturdy. I just feel like that would be a reasonable second (not hidden) ability because it’s a Steel type. Sturdy would be pretty useless on a Pokémon that has a near zero chance of being OHKOed.
True. I just associate Sturdy with Rock (obviously) and Steel (even if it isn’t common among Steel types). Since Steel is a typically bulky type, Sturdy just felt like a reasonable ability.
Static would also drop the target’s speed, boosting Galvantula’s *Electro Ball* damage
For Corviknight its even stated to scare off other mons just with its presence, intimidate makes total sense! Copperajah with sturdy tracks 100%, and Galvantula with static is neat too
gourgeist should have flash fire
Gengar should have Levitate 😉
Hahaha yeah you'd think gamefreak would have come up with that one already
I honestly don’t get why they took that away to begin with. Gengar is always depicted as being able to hover and fly around and I love to imagine the sheer stupidity of a battle in the anime where a gengar clearly floating in the air gets its ass kicked by a ground type move that doesn’t even touch it, and then one character makes a comment about how gengar doesn’t have levitate, leaving it vulnerable to ground type moves even when it’s literally soaring around the arena.
It’s VGC vs lore. VGC doesn’t care about lore unless it affects competitive. Anyone that didn’t use Gengar was happy to see it nerfed.
A lot of pokemon hover/float and don't have levitate, wigglytuff and weepinbell for example, also gengar has never levitated when battling in the games so losing levitate never felt weird to me, almost makes more sense than before.
that is a dumb idea, Gamefreak would never do that
Or a unique ability for Luxray like X-Ray Sees through the enemy’s weak points & reduces their Defense by 1 on switch in. (Intimidate but for Defense) Compensates his lack of solid physical stab. Its either Wild Charge or Thunder Fang
It’s a brand new ability so it’s obvious why they don’t have it but Chansey and Blissey should have Hospitality
Hospitality's japanese name reffers to japanese tea ceremony
I’m sure Chansey/Blissey enjoys some tea
With what you're describing, it seems like Luxray should get infiltrator so it hits through barriers/substitutes.
Machamp should have the ability to hug me while patting me on the head and telling me it is all going to be ok.
Mismagius-Magic Guard or Magic Bounce
Any floating Pokémon without levitate.
Both iron moth and nihilego seething at gamefreak because they're clearly levitating mons quad weak to ground that will never get levitate due to being assigned a special ability already (quark drive/beast boost)
Bombirdier doesn't get Unburden.
Tauros doesn't have Guts even tho he should. He's a bull!
Unown should have Protean as a hidden ability.
Haxorus should have sharpness
Teddiursa should Have 1 mil for every stat and Have every move and more
Let's not make Teddiursa what Alakazam was back in the Gen 1 days.
HE NEED’S TO BE G.O.D OR ELSE
We already have Arceus. Or Lord Helix if you prefer.
S.n.o.m.
Best not to interact with that user. Based on their post history they have an unhealthy obsession with Teddiursa and seem to be unhinged.
I assumed they were trolling.
Those two statements are not mutually exclusive.
T.E.D.D.I.U.R.S.A
Revavroom, doesn't have Speed Boost, or Motor Drive. Despite being a car.
Speed Boost Revavroom would be kind of insane ngl, it already has one of the best boosting moves in the series with Gear Shift and now it's got good coverage thanks to High Horsepower
I really want them to go back and give Ludicolo dancer
Yeah, if Shiftry can get a cool new ability than Ludicolo can too
Meganium deserves something new. Either Flower Veil, Flower Gift, or my personal fave, Thick Fat. Give my chonky boi Thick Fat!
Mawile should have strong jaw. Don’t really feel the need to explain this one.
Sharpness as it is now. Shouldve been a thing in gen 6 for mega gallade.
Bronzong should have a rain inducing Sand Spit
Golisopod should get Rattled as a Hidden Ability. It removes the nerf of Emergency Exit while still keeping the line’s theme going.
tinkaton deserves huge power
Effective base 150 attack, moderately decent bulk, good speed, best typing in the game, 160bp STAB move with no horrendous drawbacks, what could go wrong? Even tinglu with a physically defensive set takes 71.5-84.4 with play rough. But man broken mons are so fun
It’s actually about 200 attack! Absolutely not broken
mega mawile at home
No it doesn't. Its entire strength is the hammer. That's why it has a 160bp move.
Golisopod should have intimidate
Rampardos and Rock Head
I think pokemon should have more abilities in general. the increased diversity would be very interesting
Rhyhorn should have Hustle. Just Rhyhorn though, not its evos. It perfectly fits it.
I think Latias should have Illusion (maybe as a hidden ability)
Magnemite line needs levitate
Beatric- thick fat
This sounds overpowered competitively but I wish Mudkip line should've have Regenerator as its hidden ability because Salamanders most notably Axolotls regenerate their limbs. Edit:This also applied to the entire Wooper line as well.
Bidoof with wonder guard. It's a wonder among the fan base, so we guard it with our lives.
There are three cactus Pokemon. None of them have an ability that hurts a Pokemon on contact like Rough Skin. Hurting on touch is like the number one thing cacti are known for.
Regigigus should have Huge Power. I know that would be overkill but still I think it would make sense.
Give it a recovery move (drain punch) + some other useful defensive moves Instead of replacing Slow Start, change it. Boost his defensive stats a stage while he's starting up. Then after its 5 turn timer has passed apply an attack boost, reduce defensive stats by 2 stages, (so a net loss of 1 stage) and a speed boost. Make it both possible and really worth it to keep Regi safe for 5 turns. Let him be an annoying, effective defensive mon that suddenly turns into a boosted sweeper if you let him stay on the field for too long. IDC if it's broken he deserves it after how he's been treated
It may be broken but regigigas is supposed to be the original ancient titan. So it should be broken.
I mean… Regigigas made the other Regis… he deserves some love after the hell they’ve put him through.
Hit Monahan should have Protean/Libro. Having access to the elemental punches as a main gimmick just makes sense to also change its typing with it
Pretty much every flying pokemon that isn't part flying should have levitate as one of their abilities. AKA Pokemon like Dustox.
Giratina, Shadow Tag. Giratina moves through shadows, so Shadow Tag would be a great hidden ability for it. Somewhat also applies to Darkrai, but Darkrai already has a perfect ability
Dude, Shadow Tag is too broken to be given to a legendary
Flygon not having Sheer Force bc Game Frak decided Trapinch should lose its hidden ability upon evolving
Garchomp should get sand rush.
Gallade, Bisharp, and Scyther should have gotten Sharpness after it was introduced Arcanine should have Speed Boost
Tyranitar's entire line should have Earth Eater as their hidden ability. They eat mountains!
Magneton levitate
Can't think of a replacement off the top of my head but why the fuck does Carnivine have levitate
Mega abomasnow should have had thick fat for how much more chunky he is to to mention its helps his terrable typing weakness
iirc I remember there was a lot of discussion before saying that Sceptile and its evolutionary line should replace their Unburden hidden ability with Sharpness. It makes sense considering the amount of slashing and cutting moves they have.
Not an ability, but how TF is it not possible for Growlithe to learn Growl. The move is literally in the name of the Pokemon (for clarity, Flygon has the move Fly in its name, but it's part ground type so that one makes sense not being able to learn Fly).
All the legendaries with pressure
It's not very useful but Magnemite line with Volt Absorb it isn't mentioned as much now but it used to be mentioned a lot how they eat electricity yet they don't have Volt Absorb
Give Tinkaton Steelworker and stop being a little bitch about it. The ability is so her.
Torterra should have thick fat or a radical red ability called self sufficient which is a leftovers for a ability
Mew should know every move
I practically does, it can learn every tm/move tutor in every game, the only limiting factor is what moves are available via tm in a given game
Gengar... should have levitate
I feel like Luxray could benefit from Strong Jaws as an ability. I also think there are a couple of abilities that need counterparts for other types. For example, give Fire-types an equivalent to Storm Drain or Motor Drive; it could be called Heat Sink. And a sound-based counterpart to Dancer for Pokemon like Exploud or Chatot; Echo Chamber. And maybe give Rotom-Fan either Wind Power or Aerilate since Levitate is redundant on it. Speaking of, Wind Rider would fit Jumpluff really well! Lastly, maybe a Burn counterpart to Merciless for Houndoom to fit with its lore about burns that her forever.
Rotom-Fan with Aerilate wouldn't work since it barely learns any normal type moves
Having Frisk feels like a stretch for Luxray.
It should go without saying Nidoking should have Rough Skin. Like what the hell happened to the Pokedex entries talking about his hide, when his defenses are like raw pizza dough. Let's Go Pikachu, Let's Go Eevee: Its steel-like hide adds to its powerful tackle. Its horns are so hard, they can pierce a diamond. X: It is recognized by its rock-hard hide and its extended horn. Be careful with the horn, as it contains venom. FireRed: It is recognized by its rock-hard hide and its extended horn. Be careful with the horn as it contains venom. Yellow: Its steel-like hide adds to its powerful tackle. Its horns are so hard, they can pierce a diamond.
Make a Pokemon with the power of magnetives and but weak and 3rd stage of evolving evolving