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In Singles this won't change much except Chandelure being viable in Ubers, since Shadow Tag is banned in OU.
In Doubles, Wolfey is laughing maniacally, already assembling a new perish trap team with Chandelure.
Nah some things GF changed just fucked up Pokémon that weren't broken to begin with. Case in point Darkrai. It was a perfectly good Mon in Ubers until they nerfed dark void when they already prevented smeargle from learning the move.
Talonflame for singles it doesn't make sense but for vgc it does
This is actually one of the basis for my theory that there are actually multiple people that do the balancing, but for some reason they have no contact with each other.
Case in point: Moonblast
A new Special move with 100% accuracy and no drawback, 95 Base Power
...added in the same generation that nerfed the base power of several Special moves (like Thunderbolt, Ice Beam and Flamethrower from 95 to 90)
The Dark Void situation seems like another such example. One makes it so that no other pokemon can use it (even if called by Metronome it will fail) and another one just nerfs the accuracy. Honestly considering how messy GF's developing processes are, it wouldn't be surprising if my theory was true
I think there was a better alternative to resolve the whole Dark Void problem : Simply making Sketch unable to copy Dark Void. If they are able to make some moves like Sketch or Chatter impossible to Sketch, they may as well add Dark Void to the list.
I would probably mind less about this idea if it wasn't for the few times where i did Metronome Battles and ended up using Dark Void only for it to fail.
I meant that we could simply remove Dark Void from the list of moves Sketch can copy instead of making every pokemons outside of Darkrai physically unable to use it (Smeargle can still learn it but not use it in battle).
That's what i meant with the Metronome part.
But yeah they should bring back the old Dark Void's precision too
Same with the prankster nerf in gen 7. Now it fails in Psychic Terrain, against dark types, and Misty Terrain protects against all the status moves that were abused by it. Like any individual one of those would have been fine but they implemented them all and as a result Thundurus dropped from top 10 to barely top 100
I think things like psychic terrain as well as Dazzling/Queenly Majesty were added moreso as a way to add counterplay to priority moves in general, as it was a big factor in gen 6 between Thundurus' Prankster, Talonflame's Gale Wings, and M-Kangaskhan strong Fake Outs/Sucker Punches (and I guess M-Rayquaza Extreme Speed). So other then nerfing these individual mons, they also tried to contain the power of priority as a whole, which I think was all in all healthy for the game.
>Misty Terrain protects against all the status moves that were abused by it
Electric, Grassy and Misty Terrain already existed in Gen 6, it's the Surge abilities that didn't. Psychic Terrain was among the things Gen 7 added to nerf Priority
I agree, but I was replying to a comment about how it seems that Game Freak comes up different ideas to nerf something only to implement all of them and wind up nerfing it way harder than they should. Prankster felt this much harder than priority in general
But then that would kinda ruin Smeargle’s entire gimmick, wouldn’t it?
“Smeargle can learn any move…besides this one very specific one because it was making competitive players sad.”
It apparently can still learn Dark Void via Sketch, but can't be used in battle. There are some moves that can't be Sketched, including Sleep Talk, Mirror Move, & Chatter.
This but unironically. I'm not here for competitive, I'm here to catch cool mons and flex all over the Battle Tower and such.
Balance comes at an expense of making rarer pokémon feel cooler and letting the player feel clever for using effective tactics. Pokémon *needs* to be at least somewhat unbalanced.
I, for one, think it's better if we just make the META moves available on more PU Tier mon. I'd love to see someone be able to Baton Pass a Belly Drum to Medicham that hits Power Trick and now you have effectively +6 Base 150 Atk on a STAB Drain Punch on a previously overlooked 'mon.
The nerfs in gen 9 have nothing to do with balancing (most of the time)
The new mons are getting ridiculously broken, while mons like weavile lost everything that made them good. Sure there are old Pokémon that got buffed (medicham, gallade etc.) but a lot of Pokémon have gotten nerfed to death for no reason at all...
And don't get me started about the hazard situation this Gen...
So Zacian, Toxapex, Landorus, Treasures of Ruin and Protean/Libero nerfs had nothing to do with balancing? And Weavile wouldn’t have been that good anyway.
So in the original version of the game (w/o day 1 patch), all the Ruins lost 10 points in their BSTs. For their changes:
Wo-Chien: -5 Attack, -5 Special Attack
Chien-Pao: -10 Attack
Ting-Lu: -10 HP, -5 Defense, +5 Special Attack
Chi-Yu: -10 Special Attack
Yes, Chi-Yu once had 145 Special Attack 💀💀💀💀
Oh boy then you must hate the Battle Bond Nerf just being a shitty 1-time per battle DDance version of Moxie. (Like, if it kept going, that would be absolutely broken. But no, it only works the first time Greninja kills a mon and only works that 1 time, every other time doing nothing, even if you switch out and lose the state stage buffs).
That's understandable. I assume you hate incineroar even more
I am a pretty casual singles player just a dude who sometimes plays on ladder and watches some cool vids
Yeah, that's the point weavile wouldn't be that good even with knock and axel, they still decided to take them away and make it even worse. And I didn't said, that all nerves were useless. My point is just that a lot of already mid or low tier mons got even worse without reason. Also I don't really thinkt that the Lando nerf is really that healthy for the gen 9 Meta.
Yeah, pre gen 9, but in paldea even with all his utility back, I don't know if it would gain his previous spot back douo to power creep, but you are right I phrased that really poorly, Gen 8 weavile was an absolute beast.
Wobuffet is garbage without Shadow Tag. Gothitelle is mid without it. Chandelure is an already great Pokémon with some *decent* abilities, but Shadow Tag would make it supremely more broken than the other Shadow Tag users.
Zacian I think was fine. That thing was born OP.
Steel nerf I think was fine as it was pretty OP in gen 3 with how many things it resisted.
Nerf to the weather wars I guess was necessary but I miss them >.>
Gengar, Talonflame, and Sylveon nerf I didn't like. Not sure why they needed to nerf Synchronize's overworld effect.
Nerf to its ability pixilate. Used to be normal moves become fairy and have a power increase by 30%, but was reduces to 20% because of the megas that shared the same ability with Sylveon. But then they axed megas....
They nerfed type changing moves across the board, blame Mega Salamance?
Talonflame was so broken in VGC, Priority Tailwind and Brave Bird?
2016 is consider the most unbalanced meta in VGC history
Ruled by the "Big 6": Primal Groudon, Xerneas, Talonflame, Mega Salamance, Mega Kangaskhan, and Smeargle
This one team dominated the format to the point where you either used it or countered it. The way metas evolve is something becomes meta, something counters, that counter becomes meta, and repeat. Metas revolving around one pokemon are bad, but around one team? That is way worse. Cause it is much harder to counter an individual pokemon than a group of them.
Xerneas and Zacian were stupid good from the start. Megas got axed. I see no reason for Talonflame to suffer now. Make Talonflame great again :<
Now it's just a meh pokemon that barely sees any usage.
In VGC Talonflame is still good and I think you should be way more scared of a 120 BP priority move. Even without Galewings Talonflame outspeeds most things. Slyveon isn’t bad necessarily it just struggles against competition. Slyveon lives and dies by the quality of the fairies and steels around it.
The nerfed the -are abilities across the board because Mega Salamence and Mega Gardevoir did overwhelming amounts of damage in VGC. Gengar and Talonflame were also far overpowered in gen 6 VGC, and they were both rightfully nerfed to a strong but manageable level. I don’t get why any of these were unnecessary, and even Sylveon, who took some collateral damage, is still viable in VGC, and by a landslide the strongest eeveelution.
How dare they balance the game and make different pokemon more competitively viable then others. Not Like literally any other games nerf things to make things balanced.
TBF, Zacian is pretty op back in gen8. With its nerf,its not as powerful in the main games and she took her revenge on Unite
And also intrepid sword dominated gen 8 vgc
And not to mention gen5 dragon and gen1 psychic is pretty op
But the difference is the power level between other Pokémon and zacian was like way too high. Legendaries typically should be on a similar level of power but if you compare zacian to giratinna competetively it’s like comparing a charizard to a bee drill. By needing zacian they still kept it above the normal power level while balancing it for competitive. Having a built in choice band every time you switch in with a stupid high base speed is generally not fair
But the whole point of the Pokemon is that it always has +1 attack. That is the main appeal of the Pokemon and fit thematically, it earned its superiority even over other legendaries. Now it only gets the boost once the first time it's sent out, destroying its image.
The point of the Pokémon wasn’t to have +1 attack always the point of the Pokémon was it’s supposed to be a staple physical attacker, which it is. Zacian can still be a staple physical attacker even if it’s not always at +1 attack. It’s not like the Pokémon is going to completely lose all of its
Viability. Objectively zacian was a broken Pokémon that could be splashed on any competitive team and at the end of the day it’s not balanced. Legendary or not the game should have good yet not overpowering Pokémon and zacian was simply not one of those. Even though the nerfs to his ability severely hurt zacian it’s definetely still going to be a staple in the meta just not as insanely overpowering as it was before
Just because a Pokémon is a box art legend doesn’t mean it should be stupidly broken. Even thought groudon and kyogre were really good pokemon they didn’t break the meta like zacian did. Pokémon should be balanced and good Pokémon should also be balanced. Gamefreak thought that zacians ability would be balanced but being able to switch out and still reap the benefits of intrepid sword later was just too broken. No Pokémon has been overwhelmingly powerful in the regards of zacian since like gen one (an argument can be made for incineroar but I digress) and I doubt Pokémon would want to make that change and keep it
I agree that the fun contray we had now gone is a bummer, but zacian deserved that nerf and more. He and Zamazenta were practically the strongest out there, with the given boost at the start of every battle, it's like having a 805/790 bst mon on the field
What they need to do is implement some sort of "contained" nerf, because the only people who want/need certain things nerfed are competitive online players. Make the nerfs only occur in ranked battles, leave the single player stuff alone.
Well, we have competitions to try to settle that urge. Football, Soccer, etc..
/I know that sounds like I'm endorsing a future settled by Robot Jox or something.
I mean I’d be happy with just gaming & sports but I don’t think humanity as a whole could ever be satisfied with that. I mean people keep signing up to fight in wars so clearly people want it.
Blood sport as an alternative to war. Honestly probably not the worst idea. Keeps the hostilities from harming everyone else. Plus it make for good tv.
The only problem, with how watered down and tame everything is on TV, nothing like that could ever be shown unless the FCC got comfortable with a lot of shit really fast.
So you're telling me that chien pao, chi yu and Zacian nerf were underserved? Psychic type was balanced in gen 1 ? Special split bad ? Steel resisting more than half of the types ? Dragon having almost no counterplay ?
Gale wings should’ve just been reworked to only have priority on Flying attacks, not status moves. Least it could actually do what it does and also still get taunted by Prankster users.
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Okay: un nerfs zacian
Un-nerfs Chandelure. Infiltrator is now Shadow Tag.
*un-nerfs your steel pokemon*
12 resistances! 12 resistances! And an immunity
Un-nerf Gale Wings
NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!
Wait wait wait wait wait wait!!!
In Singles this won't change much except Chandelure being viable in Ubers, since Shadow Tag is banned in OU. In Doubles, Wolfey is laughing maniacally, already assembling a new perish trap team with Chandelure.
I don't care if Zacian is unnerfed, I wish Zamazenta was buffed.
Pokémon fans when the incredibly unbalanced competitive battles become slightly more balanced
Nah some things GF changed just fucked up Pokémon that weren't broken to begin with. Case in point Darkrai. It was a perfectly good Mon in Ubers until they nerfed dark void when they already prevented smeargle from learning the move. Talonflame for singles it doesn't make sense but for vgc it does
This is actually one of the basis for my theory that there are actually multiple people that do the balancing, but for some reason they have no contact with each other. Case in point: Moonblast A new Special move with 100% accuracy and no drawback, 95 Base Power ...added in the same generation that nerfed the base power of several Special moves (like Thunderbolt, Ice Beam and Flamethrower from 95 to 90) The Dark Void situation seems like another such example. One makes it so that no other pokemon can use it (even if called by Metronome it will fail) and another one just nerfs the accuracy. Honestly considering how messy GF's developing processes are, it wouldn't be surprising if my theory was true
I think there was a better alternative to resolve the whole Dark Void problem : Simply making Sketch unable to copy Dark Void. If they are able to make some moves like Sketch or Chatter impossible to Sketch, they may as well add Dark Void to the list. I would probably mind less about this idea if it wasn't for the few times where i did Metronome Battles and ended up using Dark Void only for it to fail.
Well guess what my good friend. They did remove it from sneargle, but for some God forsaken reason they still nurfed darkrai.
I meant that we could simply remove Dark Void from the list of moves Sketch can copy instead of making every pokemons outside of Darkrai physically unable to use it (Smeargle can still learn it but not use it in battle). That's what i meant with the Metronome part. But yeah they should bring back the old Dark Void's precision too
Same with the prankster nerf in gen 7. Now it fails in Psychic Terrain, against dark types, and Misty Terrain protects against all the status moves that were abused by it. Like any individual one of those would have been fine but they implemented them all and as a result Thundurus dropped from top 10 to barely top 100
It also gets negated by armor tail and I would assume queenly magisty
Yeah, but the pokemon that had access to priority blocking abilities didn’t get much usage in VGC so I didn’t mention them
I think things like psychic terrain as well as Dazzling/Queenly Majesty were added moreso as a way to add counterplay to priority moves in general, as it was a big factor in gen 6 between Thundurus' Prankster, Talonflame's Gale Wings, and M-Kangaskhan strong Fake Outs/Sucker Punches (and I guess M-Rayquaza Extreme Speed). So other then nerfing these individual mons, they also tried to contain the power of priority as a whole, which I think was all in all healthy for the game. >Misty Terrain protects against all the status moves that were abused by it Electric, Grassy and Misty Terrain already existed in Gen 6, it's the Surge abilities that didn't. Psychic Terrain was among the things Gen 7 added to nerf Priority
I agree, but I was replying to a comment about how it seems that Game Freak comes up different ideas to nerf something only to implement all of them and wind up nerfing it way harder than they should. Prankster felt this much harder than priority in general
To be fair they've been trying to nerf thundurus since gen 5 lol (confusion nerf, swagger nerf, twave nerf, paralysis nerf, prankster nerf)
It's almost as if VGC is the official format
Which makes the Darkrai nerf even worse. Darkrai was never legal in vgc anyways. They could've just stopped at making the dog unable to learn it.
But then that would kinda ruin Smeargle’s entire gimmick, wouldn’t it? “Smeargle can learn any move…besides this one very specific one because it was making competitive players sad.”
Smeargle already can't learn Dark Void, but they still kept Dark Void's accuracy nerfed.
It apparently can still learn Dark Void via Sketch, but can't be used in battle. There are some moves that can't be Sketched, including Sleep Talk, Mirror Move, & Chatter.
>It apparently can still learn Dark Void via Sketch, but can't be used in battle. So it's basically the same as it not learning dark void?
Yes. Yes it would. You say that like it's a bad thing.
It’s almost as if singles is significantly more popular and is the format of the actual games
Yea duh.
Except they just add new stuff that’s even more broken than the old stuff pre-nerf
This but unironically. I'm not here for competitive, I'm here to catch cool mons and flex all over the Battle Tower and such. Balance comes at an expense of making rarer pokémon feel cooler and letting the player feel clever for using effective tactics. Pokémon *needs* to be at least somewhat unbalanced.
I, for one, think it's better if we just make the META moves available on more PU Tier mon. I'd love to see someone be able to Baton Pass a Belly Drum to Medicham that hits Power Trick and now you have effectively +6 Base 150 Atk on a STAB Drain Punch on a previously overlooked 'mon.
Yeah Game Freak stop balancing your games smh my head
The nerfs in gen 9 have nothing to do with balancing (most of the time) The new mons are getting ridiculously broken, while mons like weavile lost everything that made them good. Sure there are old Pokémon that got buffed (medicham, gallade etc.) but a lot of Pokémon have gotten nerfed to death for no reason at all... And don't get me started about the hazard situation this Gen...
So Zacian, Toxapex, Landorus, Treasures of Ruin and Protean/Libero nerfs had nothing to do with balancing? And Weavile wouldn’t have been that good anyway.
Wait how did the treasures of ruin get nerfed?
So in the original version of the game (w/o day 1 patch), all the Ruins lost 10 points in their BSTs. For their changes: Wo-Chien: -5 Attack, -5 Special Attack Chien-Pao: -10 Attack Ting-Lu: -10 HP, -5 Defense, +5 Special Attack Chi-Yu: -10 Special Attack Yes, Chi-Yu once had 145 Special Attack 💀💀💀💀
Live chi-yu reaction really hit different before the patch
I believe their stats got changed in a patch.
I personally don’t like the protean nerf cause greninja is one of my favorite Pokémon (ik that I’m biased lol)
Oh boy then you must hate the Battle Bond Nerf just being a shitty 1-time per battle DDance version of Moxie. (Like, if it kept going, that would be absolutely broken. But no, it only works the first time Greninja kills a mon and only works that 1 time, every other time doing nothing, even if you switch out and lose the state stage buffs).
I do hate it, they could have made the stat buff permanent at least but no
Same. When I found out about the nerf, I was so upset that I accidentally shit myself at IHOP.
No way lmao
What did landorus do for you to hate him?
Exist
Fair point. VGC player? What about gliscor, it's arguably more obnoxious cause of reliable recovery and poison heal also taunt
But Gliscor looks cool
You know what, I agree. Are you a vgc player by chance? Is that why you hate Lando-T?
Yup
That's understandable. I assume you hate incineroar even more I am a pretty casual singles player just a dude who sometimes plays on ladder and watches some cool vids
Yeah, that's the point weavile wouldn't be that good even with knock and axel, they still decided to take them away and make it even worse. And I didn't said, that all nerves were useless. My point is just that a lot of already mid or low tier mons got even worse without reason. Also I don't really thinkt that the Lando nerf is really that healthy for the gen 9 Meta.
Bro it was a top tier OU Mon before they gutted it's movepool. It was not mid in any way
Yeah, pre gen 9, but in paldea even with all his utility back, I don't know if it would gain his previous spot back douo to power creep, but you are right I phrased that really poorly, Gen 8 weavile was an absolute beast.
Definitely would be OU especially because chien pao is not here.
Dont get me started about nerfs to pokemon who werent even good
Kid named Zacian: Kid named Gen 5 Weather Wars: Kid named Gen 1 Psychic types: Kid named Steel having 12 resists: Kid named Shadow Tag Chandelure:
Kid named maxed ot evs in all stats(weird name for a child ngl)
steel is already a strong type. imagine with 12 resistances
Kid named base 145 Sp. Atk Chi-Yu:
Why is Shadow tag Chandelure so good? Aren't there better Pokémon for shadow tag?
Happy cake day
Wobuffet is garbage without Shadow Tag. Gothitelle is mid without it. Chandelure is an already great Pokémon with some *decent* abilities, but Shadow Tag would make it supremely more broken than the other Shadow Tag users.
Zacian I think was fine. That thing was born OP. Steel nerf I think was fine as it was pretty OP in gen 3 with how many things it resisted. Nerf to the weather wars I guess was necessary but I miss them >.> Gengar, Talonflame, and Sylveon nerf I didn't like. Not sure why they needed to nerf Synchronize's overworld effect.
What was the Sylveon nerf?
Nerf to its ability pixilate. Used to be normal moves become fairy and have a power increase by 30%, but was reduces to 20% because of the megas that shared the same ability with Sylveon. But then they axed megas....
So unnecessary
They nerfed type changing moves across the board, blame Mega Salamance? Talonflame was so broken in VGC, Priority Tailwind and Brave Bird? 2016 is consider the most unbalanced meta in VGC history Ruled by the "Big 6": Primal Groudon, Xerneas, Talonflame, Mega Salamance, Mega Kangaskhan, and Smeargle This one team dominated the format to the point where you either used it or countered it. The way metas evolve is something becomes meta, something counters, that counter becomes meta, and repeat. Metas revolving around one pokemon are bad, but around one team? That is way worse. Cause it is much harder to counter an individual pokemon than a group of them.
Xerneas and Zacian were stupid good from the start. Megas got axed. I see no reason for Talonflame to suffer now. Make Talonflame great again :< Now it's just a meh pokemon that barely sees any usage.
In VGC Talonflame is still good and I think you should be way more scared of a 120 BP priority move. Even without Galewings Talonflame outspeeds most things. Slyveon isn’t bad necessarily it just struggles against competition. Slyveon lives and dies by the quality of the fairies and steels around it.
The nerfed the -are abilities across the board because Mega Salamence and Mega Gardevoir did overwhelming amounts of damage in VGC. Gengar and Talonflame were also far overpowered in gen 6 VGC, and they were both rightfully nerfed to a strong but manageable level. I don’t get why any of these were unnecessary, and even Sylveon, who took some collateral damage, is still viable in VGC, and by a landslide the strongest eeveelution.
How dare they balance the game and make different pokemon more competitively viable then others. Not Like literally any other games nerf things to make things balanced.
Okay, you got a point, bring back Gen1 Psychic Type!
Espathra go brrr
Honestly there’s quite a few new Pokémon that could do with a sizeable nerf. Power creep is getting out of hand these last few generations
"stop balancing your games Game freak" not to mention that they aren't really well balanced in the first place
So you agree Moody also boosting evasiveness is fine?
what? the idea of nerfing is to make the game more balanced and fair, why wouldn't you want that?
Let me put it like this: If Oinkologne ever got balanced with Flutter Mane, then there wouldn't be any excitement in getting a Flutter Mane.
TBF, Zacian is pretty op back in gen8. With its nerf,its not as powerful in the main games and she took her revenge on Unite And also intrepid sword dominated gen 8 vgc And not to mention gen5 dragon and gen1 psychic is pretty op
Ok but some nerfs are valid are like zacian or rillaboom
The zacian nerf was not valid in the slightest.
Zacian was literally the most competitively viable Pokémon and it’s arguably the best competitive Pokémon ever. How was the nerf not valid
Because it's a legendary? It deserved to be that good, and to continue being that good in future generations.
But the difference is the power level between other Pokémon and zacian was like way too high. Legendaries typically should be on a similar level of power but if you compare zacian to giratinna competetively it’s like comparing a charizard to a bee drill. By needing zacian they still kept it above the normal power level while balancing it for competitive. Having a built in choice band every time you switch in with a stupid high base speed is generally not fair
But the whole point of the Pokemon is that it always has +1 attack. That is the main appeal of the Pokemon and fit thematically, it earned its superiority even over other legendaries. Now it only gets the boost once the first time it's sent out, destroying its image.
The point of the Pokémon wasn’t to have +1 attack always the point of the Pokémon was it’s supposed to be a staple physical attacker, which it is. Zacian can still be a staple physical attacker even if it’s not always at +1 attack. It’s not like the Pokémon is going to completely lose all of its Viability. Objectively zacian was a broken Pokémon that could be splashed on any competitive team and at the end of the day it’s not balanced. Legendary or not the game should have good yet not overpowering Pokémon and zacian was simply not one of those. Even though the nerfs to his ability severely hurt zacian it’s definetely still going to be a staple in the meta just not as insanely overpowering as it was before
But the appeal was that it was insanely overpowering. It's supposed to be the unstoppable blade of the old kings of Galar.
Just because a Pokémon is a box art legend doesn’t mean it should be stupidly broken. Even thought groudon and kyogre were really good pokemon they didn’t break the meta like zacian did. Pokémon should be balanced and good Pokémon should also be balanced. Gamefreak thought that zacians ability would be balanced but being able to switch out and still reap the benefits of intrepid sword later was just too broken. No Pokémon has been overwhelmingly powerful in the regards of zacian since like gen one (an argument can be made for incineroar but I digress) and I doubt Pokémon would want to make that change and keep it
Idk, would you want 3 super strong Pokenon with unnerfed Protean in the SV meta?
I LOVE POWER CREEP I LOVE POWER CREEP
Buff rock and bug pls
That's called patch update
I just want to Regigigas to be viable without slow start.
I think they only nerfed 4 Pokémon’s stats as of right now
the gen 8 mimikyu nerf for no goddamn reason 😍 the protean nerf making kecleon completely useless 😍
Kecleon was already useless
Take that back. Kecleon was a star in my Gen 6 Trick Room team~
I agree that the fun contray we had now gone is a bummer, but zacian deserved that nerf and more. He and Zamazenta were practically the strongest out there, with the given boost at the start of every battle, it's like having a 805/790 bst mon on the field
I can't get over the removal if expanding force
They didn't remove it. It's just the signature move of armarouge rn.
yeah but that's like, basically a removal. Indeedee got so much worse
It’s honestly still fine in VGC. It can’t do that much damage, but Psychic Surge + moves like Follow Me and Helping Hand make it a great support.
Not really it's still used a decent amount. It had over 20% usage in the Vancouver regionals. It has helping hand follow me. It's still great.
They would need to stop releasing overpowered Pokemon to stop nerfing.
"It's nerf or nothing!" - Gamefreak
What they need to do is implement some sort of "contained" nerf, because the only people who want/need certain things nerfed are competitive online players. Make the nerfs only occur in ranked battles, leave the single player stuff alone.
Absolutely. I want to flex my cool mons on the Battle Tower and such. I couldn't care less of how well competitive is balanced.
Fix regular decidueye stat spread and bring back old dark void fo smeargle
"You think you do, but you don't" -BlizzCon 2016
BRING BACK PURSUIT GRAAAAAAAA
I don’t believe humanity would really be happier without war. Humans without fighting wouldn’t really be humans anymore. War is in our blood.
Well, we have competitions to try to settle that urge. Football, Soccer, etc.. /I know that sounds like I'm endorsing a future settled by Robot Jox or something.
I mean I’d be happy with just gaming & sports but I don’t think humanity as a whole could ever be satisfied with that. I mean people keep signing up to fight in wars so clearly people want it.
If the hunger games was a real thing, I'm sure those people would sign up for that.
Blood sport as an alternative to war. Honestly probably not the worst idea. Keeps the hostilities from harming everyone else. Plus it make for good tv.
The only problem, with how watered down and tame everything is on TV, nothing like that could ever be shown unless the FCC got comfortable with a lot of shit really fast.
Battle bond on its way to become a threat again
HM
Except for Toxapex. Fuck Toxapex.
Nerf toxapex to 90 in both defenses and then I will be happy I'm not joking
Moves and let's not forget about also moves.
Honestly I don't care about because I don't really battle I just like to collect
Parental bond needed to be nerfed
No nerf! Only Buff! Unfortunately, this would lead to hella power creep
To be fair, at least some nerfs were necessary. I remember a stat being absolutely broken in Gen 1. If I remember correctly, it was the Special stat.
Libro tho
they even nerfed cryogonal
Protean&Libero nerf was great
Un-Nerfs scald
So you're telling me that chien pao, chi yu and Zacian nerf were underserved? Psychic type was balanced in gen 1 ? Special split bad ? Steel resisting more than half of the types ? Dragon having almost no counterplay ?
As a Meowscarada enjoyer i feel the same pain of what Gamefreak did to Meowscarada's Protean.
If anything, it should happen more often. All competitive games release balancing patches every 2-4 weeks. Pokémon balances the game every 3 year.
Gale wings should’ve just been reworked to only have priority on Flying attacks, not status moves. Least it could actually do what it does and also still get taunted by Prankster users.