Everybody thank pyuk for being fast af, looks like it's already up?
Next what I want to bring up: what are the thoughts on some of the new Items/Abilities that are a bit wacky, to say the least? This is not at all a "I think this Ability/Item should be banned" post, more just shouting out some new Abilities/Items that I think could be interesting.
Here's what I see immediately that interests me:
Abilities
- Ruin Abilities: Lowers either Atk, Def, SpA, or SpD of ALL other Pokemon on the field (even allies, I'd guess). Definitely worth messing around with for at least a little bit.
- Orichalcum Pulse/Hadron Engine: Better Drought/Electric Surge respectively, boosting the user's Atk/SpA by 30% respectively while in that battle condition. This goes nicely with Protosynthesis/Quark Drive, which makes the user's highest stat 1.3x what it normally is, or 1.5x if Speed is the highest stat (worth it!!!) on the respective battle conditions, or when holding Booster Energy.
- Good as Gold: Pokemon is immune to Status moves. Yeah, OK. On paper this might warrant a ban, let's find out
- Mycelium Might: User's status moves always go last, but the moves are unaffected by Abilities. Wonder how this works with Metronome, but if I had to guess, it won't work how I wish it would.
- Opportunist: When an opponent receives stat boosts, the user copies them. The held Item Mirror Herb shares this effect with it, but Mirror Herb is one-use.
- Purifying Salt: Pokemon can't be given status effects. Also it takes half damage from Ghost moves because ?????
- Thermal Exchange: +1 Atk when it by a Fire move, can't be burned.
- Well-Baked Body: +2 Def when hit by a Fire move, immune to Fire moves.
Items
- Mirror Herb (see Opportunist)
- Clear Amulet: Prevents other Pokemon from lowering the holder's stat stages. Clear Body, the item.
- Covert Cloak: Holder doesn't get affected by the secondary effects of other Pokemon's attacks. Shield Dust, the item.
Yup that's it for now, I'll update this post later after I've tested and had my fun. Have fun!
oh yeah, and
Commander (Ability): If the ally of this Pokemon is Dondozo, the user (Tatsugiri) cannot use or be hit by moves; it can be targeted by moves selected by Metronome. Dondozo gets a +2 omniboost. (my preferred tatsu set has mirror herb since it can mirror opposing donzo's boosts, please can we get rid of this)