The only thing that I do feel should be a button similar to mega evolution in battle is Giratina's form change using Griesious Orb. It would be really cool if Giratina could change form mid battle without wasting a turn. And why stop at Giratina, Shaymin and Meloetta needs to be able change form in a similar way.
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Changing forms without wasting a turn would wind up being a quick route to a banlist. Forms and MEvos aren't the same thing.
For the role play aspect, Pokemon has always been about bonding with Pokemon. In that regard It gives the people who are proud of there Pokes that little bit extra in the heat of battle. Like if you need a crit in a battle to win, one of your guys pulls through.
To be honest I'm all for it, change is always good. On a side note, it looks like we all have to go back to breeding for IV's doing the Elite 4 to level up and grind to raise teams. This generation symbolises bonds and putting in hard work, as like with anything in life the more you put it, the more you get out.
Atleast im happy that fire resists fairy. Imo fire needs more pokemons in OU, atm there are few. But with rain everywhere thats gonna be hard with the fire dmg being halved, but it's a start tha fires got temselves something special. Also the fac tha time flair is all fire-ish looking, i guess there will be quite some more new fires this gen.
The pokemon I'm most interested in to know how it looks is Litleos evo. we'll have to wait and see for what gamefreak has done with rain for gen 6.
The pokemon I'm most interested in to know how it looks is Litleos evo. we'll have to wait and see for what gamefreak has done with rain for gen 6.
If Litleo evolves into a Fire/Poison Manticore, it will be the ultimate fairy slayer.
Here's to hoping.
I imagine his evo to be bulky offensive mon with very high atack and HP. And kinda not hopinh posion/fire because of the massive common earhtquake weakness (yet if partnered with levitating poke)
Anyway I'm doubting posion as second type. It does have the tail shape, but nothing in the color sceme kinda hins posion. Also considering he amount of normal type attack it has in the demo, I think it might stay these types. Yet none of this says anything yet. I'm just hoping for a lion that can make it too OU and fires kinda gain some usage. Atleast them resisting fairy is a good start.
Actually, the rumors started being sent to Pokebeach around Februrary.
iirc, this information comes from a person* who played the games at digipen around this time.
*I'm not sure if magelief himself played it or if he knew someone who did
Probably worth remembering that the Pokebeach rumours will have come from a Beta version of the game and therefore will have undergone iteration since then, perhaps one of those iterations was the type chart - and I think if Game Freak are balancing any competitive matchups, it's most likely the doubles format that sees the majority of the balance tweaking.
One of the standout rumours that make me believe this was the rumour that MewTwo had 2 formes, one that resembled Mewtwo (MEvo) but that it's second forme resembled Mew more - which to me sounds like a MEvo for Mew and the person was describing something that they may have seen but not understood as the game underwent further development and MEvos may not have been in the version of the game they were testing.
One of the standout rumours that make me believe this was the rumour that MewTwo had 2 formes, one that resembled Mewtwo (MEvo) but that it's second forme resembled Mew more - which to me sounds like a MEvo for Mew and the person was describing something that they may have seen but not understood as the game underwent further development and MEvos may not have been in the version of the game they were testing.
Personally, I'm hoping for Litleo to have a split evolution, so it can either become a Fire/Normal lion or a Fire/Poison manticore.
not completely disproven, between smash and the leak dark type effectiveness could still be true. In fact, it's already been proven that fairy is SE against dark so that put's the ball back in the leaker's court.
I don't even think that Fairy being resisted by Psychic has been disproved. For all we know (and I've watched a lot of playthroughs of the demo so this seems feasible), Exeggutor could've been retyped to Grass/Fairy, and according to WPM leaks, Fairy was neutral against itself. I know this is unlikely, but it does at least line up with what we know so far.
I think I'd be more willing to believe that the leaker was mistaken or misremembered this one aspect than assume that Exeggutor was randomly retyped into Fairy
But another Exeggutor in that video took not very effective damage from Fennekin's Psybeam. Unless I missed something, Fairy doesn't resist Psychic, right? Or does it?
Exeggutor resists Psybeam already...
Exactly, because it's part Psychic. The theory I was responding to was the notion that Exeggutor had been retyped to Grass/Fairy.
I disagree. That's like saying that megaevos will also be disallowed in wifi battles because they give too many benefits. Clearly GF wants all pokemon to have a chance to shine, and not be curbstomped by some hrpdrp outrage user
The end to competitive Pokemon?
You could probably make an argument for banning Pokemon-Amie under Evasion Clause.
no of course not. If the game changes we will adapt. simple as that
Why would it evolve to fire/poison? It's already a fire/normal type. I imagine it's evo will be based off Mufasa from the Lion King
Pokemon types rarely change upon evo, with the exceptions of Eevee and Skorupi. Any single-types gaining a type are also excluded, such as Togepi and the sinnoh starters. Besides, it's tail resembles a flame. Though I guess I could see a stinger.
Also, I believe Oorotto is a Rock-type, the final evolution of Sudowoodo
Don't get me wrong- I am all for Litleo having a Fire/Poison evolution. More than most, in fact. But still, I gotta point out a little flaw in that logic- if Pokémon don't just get extra Normal typings just cause, then what was the reasoning behind Deerling being Normal/Grass, as opposed to pure Grass, or Girafarig being Normal/Psychic instead of pure Psychic?
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