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lurantis is so screwed up. It looks like it would be fast, but in reality is slower than a purple mass of gunk. I'd be more okay with this if its other stats made up for this, but its defenses and special attack are only average. Its physical attack is fairly good and it has an okayish physical movepool for a grass type, but of course, these go to waste due to the fact that all it wants to do offensively is spam contrary leaf storm alongside what's literally its only special coverage move, hp fire/fighting/ground. I'll admit contrary is a great ability, even on a defensive mon such as lurantis, it's just irritating how badly it meshes with its movepool and stats, hopefully it at least gets superpower or something in the future. The only thing besides contrary it has going for it is access to defog. This isn't even mentioning in game, where you're forced to use a mon with a bst on par with spinarak's (which has better stat distribution than fomantis) until level 34. There's not even a reward for that, I feel like my ariados with an hp IV of 0 put in more work than my lurantis.
Guzzlord is another pokemon I like, though not as much as lurantis. All the other ultra beasts are raising hell in ou or are at least decent there, yet guzzlord's already dropped to bloody nu. It wouldn't have been hard to make it decent. Give it slightly better stat distribution, for one. 53 defenses are a bit cruel even with that hp supporting it, up those to like 67 or something. And base 101 attack on an 18 foot dragon with a gaping mouth filled with metallic looking teeth, scizor-like claws that are about as big as said pokemon's entire body, and a mace tail? Yeah, no, gamefreak, up that to like 113 or 127. And the most obvious solution, give it recovery. Slack off, recover, moonlight, just something.
Silvally is really similar to guzzlord in that it would have been very easy to make it decent. And it's a shame it's not, because I was looking forward to ou and uu having their own arceus. I'm not even bothered by the stats, 95 all around isn't really that impressive but it's workable enough. The two problems I have in mind are two things it lacks that the pokemon it's inspired by -- arceus -- gets and takes great advantage of. The first thing is how memory works. For some stupid reason, while plates boost arceus' stab by 20%, memory gives absolutely no boost whatsoever. So for all of its forms besides normal, we're left with a 90 bp stab attack off of base 95 attack. Yeah, that's not impressive at all. If memory gave the 20% boost like it should, it would at least pack a little punch. And the second problem is somefin I already mentioned with guzzlord -- recovery. I swear, if a mon's not grass, flying, or psychic type, they'll avoid giving it recovery like the plague. Arceus gets recover, why not silvally?
I really could go on, gamefreak failed miserably with how they handled a lot of the mons this gen.
I don't see how bulu's fairy type goes "unused" just because of not having play rough, it still gives it various useful resists. And it hits a lot harder than kartana
252 Atk Kartana Leaf Blade vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Mew: 189-223 (55.4 - 65.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Tapu Bulu Wood Hammer vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Mew in Grassy Terrain: 295-348 (86.5 - 102%) -- 12.5% chance to OHKO
252 Atk Tapu Bulu Horn Leech vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Mew in Grassy Terrain: 184-217 (53.9 - 63.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Grassy Terrain recovery
that's in addition to having a sp. defense stat you can see without a microscope
Guzzlord is another pokemon I like, though not as much as lurantis. All the other ultra beasts are raising hell in ou or are at least decent there, yet guzzlord's already dropped to bloody nu. It wouldn't have been hard to make it decent. Give it slightly better stat distribution, for one. 53 defenses are a bit cruel even with that hp supporting it, up those to like 67 or something. And base 101 attack on an 18 foot dragon with a gaping mouth filled with metallic looking teeth, scizor-like claws that are about as big as said pokemon's entire body, and a mace tail? Yeah, no, gamefreak, up that to like 113 or 127. And the most obvious solution, give it recovery. Slack off, recover, moonlight, just something.
Silvally is really similar to guzzlord in that it would have been very easy to make it decent. And it's a shame it's not, because I was looking forward to ou and uu having their own arceus. I'm not even bothered by the stats, 95 all around isn't really that impressive but it's workable enough. The two problems I have in mind are two things it lacks that the pokemon it's inspired by -- arceus -- gets and takes great advantage of. The first thing is how memory works. For some stupid reason, while plates boost arceus' stab by 20%, memory gives absolutely no boost whatsoever. So for all of its forms besides normal, we're left with a 90 bp stab attack off of base 95 attack. Yeah, that's not impressive at all. If memory gave the 20% boost like it should, it would at least pack a little punch. And the second problem is somefin I already mentioned with guzzlord -- recovery. I swear, if a mon's not grass, flying, or psychic type, they'll avoid giving it recovery like the plague. Arceus gets recover, why not silvally?
I really could go on, gamefreak failed miserably with how they handled a lot of the mons this gen.
water bubble doubles the power of its water attacks, which for some reason the ability description doesn't mentionDoes anyone here even bother with Dewpider or its evolution? I thought it might at least be a good new water type, but the slow speed and low stats generally kill it.
scarf crabominable with a jolly nature only hits the equivalent of base 89 speed, 90 at lv. 50. In addition, its most powerful ice STAB (which you basically have to use, considering you're running a speed boosting nature with no boosting item) lowers its speed by one every time it uses it. It's not a good choice scarf user imo.That’s why you run it with a Choice Scarf.
I hate Tapu Bulu. The Taup I use the least, it’s design, typing, and movepool are the worst of the Tapu. If you want an offensive grass Pokemon, you should just use Kartana. It’s Fairy type goes unused because it can’t use Play Rough. A Poison move like Sludge Wave will 1HKO it because it’s 4x weak to it. It’s weak to 5 types and has no good counters to any, besides Poison, Steel and Ice, but Poison and Ice moves are common on other Pokemon besides those types.
I don't see how bulu's fairy type goes "unused" just because of not having play rough, it still gives it various useful resists. And it hits a lot harder than kartana
252 Atk Kartana Leaf Blade vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Mew: 189-223 (55.4 - 65.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Tapu Bulu Wood Hammer vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Mew in Grassy Terrain: 295-348 (86.5 - 102%) -- 12.5% chance to OHKO
252 Atk Tapu Bulu Horn Leech vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Mew in Grassy Terrain: 184-217 (53.9 - 63.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Grassy Terrain recovery
that's in addition to having a sp. defense stat you can see without a microscope
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