My Biggest Pet Peeve in Pokémon (The ability Pressure)

TheSnoom

TheSnoom

Now I am a defender of Gamefreak when it comes to modern Pokémon games. I don’t think that they are lazy, maybe not the best, but I think that they are still really good games that I love. One thing that I will not defend however is the ability Pressure. This ability is near useless, and of course they stick it on almost every legendary Pokémon. Down below is a list of all legendary or mythic Pokémon that have the ability Pressure.
  • Articuno
  • Zapdos
  • Moltres
  • Mewtwo
  • Entei
  • Suicune
  • Raiku
  • Lugia
  • Ho-oh
  • Deoxys
  • Dialga
  • Palkia
  • Both Giratina forms
  • Kyreum
  • Both Eternatus forms
This is just blatantly lazy to me, like why not give these Pokémon interesting and unique abilities that help them stand out. When box legendaries that literally rule over time and space have the same ability as wailord, something is wrong. That is why in this thread I will be attempting to make new abilities for these legendaries. However if an ability another Pokémon has fits better than anything I could think of than I will use that. I’ll give an example of that right now.
Mewtwo should have Neuroforce. Neuroforce is the ability of my favorite Pokémon of all time, UltraNecrozma. It increases the power of super effective moves it uses by 20%. Maybe not the most powerful ability but I think it works well for Mewtwo.
However a signature ability for Mewtwo could be this: Psychodrive. When Mewtwo knocks out a Pokémon ( this includes allies) it boosts its strongest attack stat by 1 stage.
Feel free to contribute your own ideas
(I know most of these Pokémon have hidden abilities that make more sense but still I think most legendary Pokémon especially box legendaries should have their own signature abilities)
 
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Albatr0ss said:
I think they should give Lugia a gun
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This made me think of those for some reason
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TheSnoom said:
When box legendaries that literally rule over time and space have the same ability as wailord, something is wrong.
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If this is wrong then I don't want to be right.

I like Pressure as a flavour ability and I think it has lots of use and could even be buffed. I think giving every legendary a signature ability would be funny on paper but I wouldn't want to see all of that happen in an actual game. For my money at least Articuno deserves better than Snow Cloak, give it perfect accuracy in hail.
 
I think that if in the diamond and pearl remakes, they give Dialga and Palkia new forms that they be given new abilities. For Dialga i think it should be something like this.
Temporal Shift: any damage dealing move made against this Pokémon has its priority reduced by one. This would probably break some things, and would definitely be busted, but I think it makes sense.
Palkia is a bit harder but I think something that lowers the accuracy of attacking moves against it by 10%, call it something like Spacial Distortion.
Giratina’s altered form (or both forms idk) should get something else as well: Distortion Cloak, (name pending) it nullifies the secondary effects of any attacking moves made against it.
All of these are OP but I really like these ideas
 
Now for the legendary beasts, and you know what? I’m gonna give them their own signature moves because why the hell not? Feel free to do this as well.
Entei- Flaming Passion: Boosts this Pokémon’s speed and attack stat by 1.66% when using a fire type move or a permanent increase after knocking out an opposing Pokémon (1 stage increase in that case)
Signature move: Flame Pillar: Physical Fire Type attack
120 BP, 90 Accuracy5 PP: the user erupts a pillar of lava and flames, (doing special damage) destroying screens and substitutes, however the user must recharge for a turn.

Suicune- Flowing Grace: This Pokémon has its defense and special defense raised by 1 stage whenever it heals via a move ( like aqua ring and it’s new signature move!)
Signature Move: Mystical Rapids: Special Water Type attack
100 BP, 95% Accuracy, 20 PP
The user summons a torrential downpour of mystical healing water that damages all foes and heals all allies by 1/4 of their max hp.

Raiku: Surging Speed: This Pokémon has its speed and special attack increased by one stage whenever it uses an electric type move,up to 3 stages.
Signature Move: Volt Crash
90 BP, 85% Accuracy, 10 PP.
Special Electric Type Attack
The user calls down a series of lightning strikes bolts on its enemy, up to three times, each hit has a 30% chance to paralyze the target.
 
CaffeineBoost said:
If Articuno and Kyurem have Pressure, does that make them Vanilla Ice types?
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....... I have no words
SlowAndBruh said:
this man be ranting about stall like it's a thing that should be gotten rid of on the internet
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and yeah I am, I think that pressure has its place. I just don’t like that a lot of legendaries have it as their main abilities, and this was kinda just me expressing some ideas I had for new abilities
 
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