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Todayâs Question: QotD: What Pokemon needs power creep to happen?
Helpful considerations: Does you favorite deserve a bit more attention in modern? Maybe a long forgotten âmon can be made relevant? What if a furret had 300hp?
Id like to see more ancient Pokemon get some good power creep to be more relevant. These are supposed to be amazing prehistoric pokemon so give me an Aurorus with 350hp, a tyrantrum that does 200+ in its attack, or even an omastar that is relevant.
Definitely onix, a huge badass rock snake that must be able to destroy everything if it wants, main pokemon of brock and a beast in anime âŚand it has a base attack smaller than oddish
Flygon and Altaria. Flygon got robbed of a mega evolution. But in general it should get some amazing signature move or just a stat buff. Altaria is similar, just lost out to time. I think pokemon wanted to see if they could make non-psuedo legendary dragon types, but they didnât give them much of a niche, very spread stat distributions with nothing that special about them, and yet still being 4x weak to ice, and being weak to the existing dragon types which have higher stats means they have no place on a team when everyone and their mom will use salamance and dragon claw ohko you. They just need some help.
lets make a bunch of tanky pokemon with a bunch of weaknesses and more than 1 4x weakness, but give them absolutely no utility and absolutely no damage output, and even not give them any speed. Oh onix? Lets also give you no hp too. lul. even mega steelix wasnât that amazing. Onix and steelix just have too many downsides. Onix should be mono rock type, double its hp, and give it a rock type wrap, coil, head smash, scorching sands, and some other useful moves. Steelix should just have the ability Filter and a higher attack stat with some more moves too. Then maybe you could run an assault vest bruiser set on it and not just melt to every attack under the sun.
I wonât bump the thread so Iâll edit in this reply to @c0ll3ct0r
what about
hp60/atk20/def100/sp.atk110/sp.def140/spd65
or
hp60/atk20/def70/sp.atk130/sp.def150/spd65
Why? I kind of like to look at how other pokemon are made. And Iâm basing this off mega beedrill, a similar early route bug type mega form. It has a Bast stat total of 495. The first stat spread I tried to keep more along the lines of what I see you trying to do. But the second one I took explicit notes from beedrills stat redistribution. Beedrill lost 30 from sp attack, dustox gets 30 taken from attack. Beedrill had only 2 stats buffed, same for dustox.
Fur coat, good choice!
This way dustox can tank a hit, quiver dance once or twice, and sweep. Or be a tanky special bruiser. Similar to gardevoir.
The Speed bump to roughly 85 is necessary if itâs going to have any viability as a mid- level sweeper (which, without Hidden Power or some wildly expanded movepool it wonât really but Iâm pretending like this got introduced in XY.) That way you can run modest 252 speed and still outspeed key 121+ Speed revenge killers and scarfers at +1. 100 Sp Atk is a deliberate handicap as the effective 249(!) Defense stat with 140-ish Special Defense would be extreme (though a -30 atk and bump to 110 sp atk was a consideration,) and the speed needs no further boost because it will only ever Quiver Dance (in which case it needs to be somewhat deadly at +1) or stall with Whirlwind/Roost. The speed boost certainly doesnât hurt the stalling capabilities either.
I know. I know why you set the speed higher. But I was looking at other aspects. considering quiver dance is a centralizing move that youâd run no matter what certainly implies how you might shuffle and buff stats on it. But plenty of megas arenât all that viable, so I was curious to try and keep the âflavorâ. Though at the bare minimum I think you should at least give it a 495 BST. So if you kept your stat spread, where would you put that exta 10?
and yeah I still canât describe how genius it is to give it fur coat! Its thematic to floofy moths, AND is an amazing ability, which megas often are given such amazing abilities that normally given to otherwise weak pokemon.
