Unpopular opinions

[Eriorguez]

I'll likely be reinstating it, but, Dynamax and Terastal should require specific held items.

Terastal either adding an additional type ala Trick or Treat, or outright removing the STAB of the old moves like every other type changing feature, would had been better.

Tera Blast should had worked more explicity like Hidden Power; 65 BP attack of your Tera type, either physical or special depending on your higher stat. Terastalizing should instead bring it up to something like 80-85 BP in addition to STAB.

Stellar type, Dynamax Cannon and the Behemoth moves. should be SE versus the entire gauntlet of gimmicks: Megas, Primals, Ultra Necrozma and Max.

 

[not a very W D:]

Water/Ground type Pokemon are some of the best Pokemon ever designed. We got my boy Swampert, we got my silly boys Gastrodon and Quagsire, and we got my sinnoh hoenn boy Whiscash. There is only one outlier, and even then, it's pre evolutions are AMAZING. It's Seismitoad. That guy has WARTS. But Palpitoad and Tympole? S-Tier Pre Evolutions.

Vikavolt is perfectly fine in terms of stats. So, battle-wise, it needs to use Agility to get moving with that Special Attack stat. However, if we increased the Speed to be relevant, we would have to lower other stats. Example: 77/70/90/115/75/73 (we exchange 30 special attack for speed.) It's now weaker on the special side, and its speed RUINS it entirely, especially for trick room teams. You can change the stats however, but it's not gonna be worth it. The only reason Vikavolt is thought to be faster is due to its Pokedex, but if we went by that rule, you would give Skarmory MORE Speed due to its Pokedex as well. Gardevoir would get a signature move that killed EVERYTHING on the field, including itself, and ignoring protect/detect/protect clones. In short, take the Pokedex with a grain of salt.

lemme know what you think my guys

 

[tentaghost]

The only reason Vikavolt is thought to be faster is due to its Pokedex, but if we went by that rule, you would give Skarmory MORE Speed due to its Pokedex as well. Gardevoir would get a signature move that killed EVERYTHING on the field, including itself, and ignoring protect/detect/protect clones. In short, take the Pokedex with a grain of salt.

I can't really confirm this is true but i have heard that the folks who code in the data for the mon and the folks who write the pokedex entries rarely communticate with each other.

(I hope thats not true because good lord...)

 

[QuentinQuonce]

I can't really confirm this is true but i have heard that the folks who code in the data for the mon and the folks who write the pokedex entries rarely communticate with each other.

(I hope thats not true because good lord...)

An alternate take would be that Speed the stat =/= speed the physical quality, and is more descriptive of reaction time/dexterity than how fast a Pokemon can run.

 

[LPBvgc]

The backlash Legends Z-A got is proof "certain" Pokémon fans just love to complain.

We got new Megas after a decade of waiting, Eternal Floette is FINALLY obtainable, some of the best characters, the best final boss in the entire series, and a redemption ark for one of Pokémon's weakest villains, yet they hate the game because of THE FUCKING BALCONIES?!

Those balconies are a thing in real life, they are called Juliet Balconies, look it up.

 

[Toxtection]

I like the Gen 1 miss for roughly the same reason explained here, it gives the losing side a reason to not forfeit early without actually stealing games very often