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I'm curious as to how both Helioptile and Heliolisk can learn Surf. This is something that's confused me for quite a while now.
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They are basilisks. They run on top of the water.I'm curious as to how both Helioptile and Heliolisk can learn Surf. This is something that's confused me for quite a while now.
I learned something new. Thank you.They are basilisks. They run on top of the water.
Well, weirdly enough, kicking moves aren't classified as such. I don't think there's a programming tag on kicking moves that says that they are kicking moves. It is kinda strange, though.Okay, so this is an ability that a Pokemon should have rather than a move, and also it's an ability that doesn't really exist, but:
Hitmonchan: Learns a bunch of punching moves, has Iron Fist, an ability to power up punching moves
Hitmonlee: Learns a bunch of kicking moves, does not have any ability referencing this????
kinda weird when you consider how many kicking moves there are
- high jump kick
- rolling kick
- jump kick
- mega kick
- low kick
- triple kick
- blaze kick
although tbf i think the reason for no kicking ability, if i had to take a wild guess, is because of the ridiculously low distribution of any kicking move beyond high jump kick, low kick, and mega kick. punch moves have a lot more distribution among them because of elemental punches along with mega punch, power up punch, mach punch, drain punch, etc.
Which, with Blaze kick being alive, I feel we need more elemental kicks as well. There are enough mons that don't have hands or fists but have legs they can use to attack.
And Cinderace should have had a HA that boosted Kick moves. Just putting that out there.
Agreed, and there is also Double Kick.kinda weird when you consider how many kicking moves there are
- high jump kick
- rolling kick
- jump kick
- mega kick
- low kick
- triple kick
- blaze kick
although tbf i think the reason for no kicking ability, if i had to take a wild guess, is because of the ridiculously low distribution of any kicking move beyond high jump kick, low kick, and mega kick. punch moves have a lot more distribution among them because of elemental punches along with mega punch, power up punch, mach punch, drain punch, etc.
There's also Poison Tail and Dragon Tail, and Tail Slap, Tail Glow, and Tail Whip if we stretch it a bit. Counting the big four, that's almost as many Tail moves as Pulse moves, maybe there could be a cool tail-based ability some time in the future?I'd also like to see more Tail based attacks like Aqua Tail and Iron Tail. So many Pokémon have tails and use them in combat but there's not a lot of attacks that specifically use them.
I dunno, it seems to me like they could've just done like they did with Dancer and kept it as a signature ability for Lee.although tbf i think the reason for no kicking ability, if i had to take a wild guess, is because of the ridiculously low distribution of any kicking move beyond high jump kick, low kick, and mega kick. punch moves have a lot more distribution among them because of elemental punches along with mega punch, power up punch, mach punch, drain punch, etc.
It does have minor use in double battles, in the incredible minor sense that you could switch places with your teammate and benefit from changing the target of an attack, if you could accurately predict your opponent's move and also happen to have a Pokemon who could take the blow, and it would somehow be better than if you attacked yourself. Which is apparently so gosh darn useful Game Freak decided it should come back as a TR for SwSh.Wait Ally Switch still exists!? Why? The move's only use was in triple battles and those stopped existing in Gen 7! And you're telling me not only that it still exists, but that Pokemon are actively learning it?!
Wait it actually does that? I thought it did literally nothing besides putting the far-left Pokemon over to the far-right in a triple battle if you wanted to get over there for targeting reasons. I guess it does have some potential utility then, but definitely not enough to deserve a TR slot.It does have minor use in double battles, in the incredible minor sense that you could switch places with your teammate and benefit from changing the target of an attack, if you could accurately predict your opponent's move and also happen to have a Pokemon who could take the blow, and it would somehow be better than if you attacked yourself. Which is apparently so gosh darn useful Game Freak decided it should come back as a TR for SwSh.
Oh, I'm not sure I'm being clear enough- I don't mean switch places with anyone in your party like with Volt Switch, I mean switch the left and right Pokemon in a Double Battle- exactly like it is in Triple Battles, it's just that there's no center Pokemon anymore.Wait it actually does that? I thought it did literally nothing besides putting the far-left Pokemon over to the far-right in a triple battle if you wanted to get over there for targeting reasons. I guess it does have some potential utility then, but definitely not enough to deserve a TR slot.