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Simply put, Pincurchin does not represent much of a niche because the benefits of Electric Terrain being provided to the Future Paradox Mons (of which 4 appear in B+ or higher viability), while by no means insignificant, has to essentially compensate for Pincurchin itself being a slot that...

What's proving the most consistent Support so far? I'm thinking about if Slowking could work with Skill Swap + Snarl to debuff the Boombursts, since I imagine other supports focus in on tanking the Physical hits (or you could use Chilling Water). Trying to think of options that cover stuff...

Skill Swap is surprisingly useful for a Solo, since you can steal Soundproof to block Boomburst + Clangorus Scales and basically ignore the SpA aspect. Much easier then in tandem with the usual Intimidate Partners (unless you give Oblivious with a Slowbro or such)

That moveset really making me wish Gholdengo has a debuff move. As it stands, Stored Power with Slowbro or King looks like a simple option most people probably have one of lying around. They also could make pretty decent Supports with Slack Off/Heal Pulse for healing purposes, Chilling Water to...

An idea I had was to make the Raids ALSO include DMax eligible Pokemon (5*'s can be Zacian and Zamazenta if Eternatus is a one-off and thus won't be in them), show the Max stuff is running rampant and not even restricted to the usual spots for a bit. So like 1* raids could have Beldum, Drilbur...

I don't get how Go is incapable of changing them back to their base forms on transfer. It's not even like the Fusion mons where they have to finagle separation or something.

My mundane answer is this is simply something they put on the mon because they can't figure out Spaghetti Code to send it to Home, much like Spinda, the Origin Formes of Palkia/Dialga, and Gigantamax Pokemon. It could be that Eternamax in MSG isn't keyed to any trait actually on the...

Dragon Quest player here to throw my experience on the pile. Generally in DQ games, money is a limited resource on the front of maintaining your equipment moreso than consumables. MP restoration items and Revives are actually rarely something you can buy, being limited to loot finds or very out...

I think this is missing the forest for the trees on the Potion example, for a similar reason to the Pokeballs which you do acknowledge: Action Economy. I'll also make the disclaimer that everything I say to follow is about design concepts, as I find most Pokemon MSG's are not difficult enough...

It could also just be a "why this move but not this one?" thing. I'm sure more than 2/3 of the move oddities noted in this thread are for moves the Mon would never really benefit from using, but are odd exclusions in concept. Also this one isn't QUITE an oddity specific to the Pokemon but it...

Actually kind of a fan of how Pokemon Home handles Generation transfer movesets now, since it gives GF and co. room to actually experiment with giving tools to a Mon and not have to worry about being "saddled" with it should it prove detrimental. Draining Kiss a bad idea on Calyrex? Just don't...

I might argue that Weavile, Chien-Pao, and Baxcalibur are equally strong candidates depending on how one judges this point. The former two are for the obvious point of "Ice works best as a sweeper type" and they're designed so frail that Ice's weaknesses almost fail to change most of their bad...

So the tricky part is that unlike Morpeko, Aegislash's form change affects its stats and thus its CP (Shield form needs to be high 40's to hit 1500-ish, Sword is in the 20's), which might make for some funky code if it's an in-battle change. Aegislash will be interesting, because its current...

The Simplest solution would be Eternatus turning into Eternamax during the "Dynamax Attack" phase and no other time under player control. Which is also how you know it won't be what the Dev team goes with.

I continue to feel like a lack of Physical Electric options is beginning to stick out (not necessarily as an issue, but just as something that can be noticed), because Thundurus actually has a couple decent Physical options if its STAB wasn't stuck with Wild Charge or Supercell Slam being a...

The irony to this is unless they bend some rules, Zacian and Zama are better as tanks than attackers into Eternatus (best DPS being Metagross or Excadrill pending any additional releases before it) since it's not weak to Steel and Behemoth Blade/Bash are otherwise just standard DMax power.

SMT also sticks out in this respect because Monsters/Demons were a resource in the game to the point that fusing them together and having them functionally disappear in favor of the new upgrade was part and parcel to the idea, as was also the case in DQ Monsters in 1998 (DQ5 they were basically...

Don't hit me with the Thermian Argument nonsense, I'm sick of that one because so often I see it used in exactly this manner: ignoring what the text is actually saying to apply a read or theme to it that its written material blatantly does not align with or support. The conflict is essentially...

So not sure how unpopular this opinion is, but I really really enjoy the Alola anime despite not vibing at all with Journeys. On paper I feel like I should regard them similarly, being significantly more episodic in focus and trying to give a more even cast focus thanks to having a smaller...

I assume Gimmighoul normal can be shiny since it's a distinct form from the Chest in MSG, so there is a "unique" collector nature to it without infringing on existing ones there. Plus Gamefreak probably makes more money from the cross pollination sales for the Coin Bag and/or transfer than they...