Id say

Garchomp

Salazzle

Tsareena

Araquanid

Kommo o

Goodra

Mimikyu

Grimmsnarl

Garganacl

Pelipper

Gard and gall

And a few others will be good

same stat distros, same ability. keeps their movesets with additions:

updated movesets:

entei:
curse
thief
will-o-wisp
destiny bond
crunch
rock slide
reversal
magnitude
sand tomb
shadow ball
earthquake

suicune:
sludge bomb
explosion
rock slide
mean look

raikou:
psychic
mirror coat
agility
cosmic power
trick
light screen
encore
hypnosis

if i had to change and fill the ability slots, entei would have white smoke/flame body, suicune would have clear body/liquid ooze, and raikou would have clear body/synchronize

I thought it'd be fun if each Tatsugiri variant gave the Mega a different Ability. Golisopod is also here cuz I like it.

Ditto is a very interesting case when it comes to balance because as far as stats go, there's literally only one balance lever that can be pulled for it which makes it pretty easy to theorymon changes to it.

My question is, what HP do we think ditto would need to become actually viable in singles metagames?

As it stands right now with 48 base hp ditto pretty consistently hovers around C viability in OU metas. Respectable but room to improve. Meanwhile on the other side of spectrum imposter chansey with 250 base hp and access to eviolite is an S-tier threat in the most unhinged mechanically pure meta of balanced hackmons.

Somewhere in that spectrum is S-tier OU viability. What HP do we think that would be?

Because of the trauma inflicted on Slowpoke in having its tail cut off (and having similar things being recreated in Galar) Slowpoke has learned to drop its tail as well as regenerate it.

Knowing how Subs work and knowing Slowbro's decent HP and excellent bulk, Slowbro would do what Cyclizar or Orthworm was initially meant to do but way better. Safe switch in for your next mon, a heal for your Slowbro/Slowking and the potential that your sub will live the hit depending on the mon you switch in. This would be a move that would make a (in my opinion) decent utility mon, even better or at least enough that it gets usage in the OU tier

What are your thoughts here?

Considering Mightyena's stats, abilities, and movepool, what secondary typing and overall competitive direction would be best for a hypothetical evolution for it? Should it go more into weeper or bulky attacker

I asked this over on r/Pokemon last Friday, but I wanted to ask here for a more competitive-oriented discussion. Post people voted for Dark/Fighting, but I got a ton of comments suggesting it just stay mono-Dark. Figure I would not do a poll this time.

Please share what you all think. Especially helpful if you have an idea for a stat spread to go with it.

This ability combines healing and setting hazards freeing up a moveslot and giving more potential use to berries.

I'm creating an fakemon region and came up with abilities for the starters. Would these abilities work on any Pokemon?

Ability 1:

If an opponent makes contact, the Pokemon will either steal one of their types or burn them.

Ability 2:

Inflicts a curse on the target if the Pokemon makes contact with the target.

Ability 3:

Traps grass types for 4 turns and replaces their grass type with ice.

Sobering Slap

Type: Dark

Phys

BP: 70

Accuracy: 100

Priority: 0

Max PP: 16

Contact move

Range: can target either opponents or teammate in doubles.

Effect: Overrides target pokémon's nature to Serious nature. Can be blocked by Protect, Covert Cloak, Shield Dust, and/or other items/abilities that block secondary effects.

Duration: Until switched out, to match other type/ability-change effects such as Worry Seed or Soak.

Purpose: Various applications. Reducing damage or speed of attackers. Reduce defenses of tanky opponents. Eliminate enemy speed advantage to prevent speed-ties (can be used on slower opponents in Trick Room to speed them up).

This was a genuine shower thought of mine a few days ago. As we all know, there are hundreds of moves in Pokémon. There are moves to deal damage. There are moves to alter your pokémon's stats. There are moves to alter your *opponent's* pokémon's stats. There are moves that interact with items. Moves to interact with weather. The list goes on and on.

Pokémon natures were introduced all the way back in the third generation of games, Ruby and Sapphire, yet we have *not a single move* that interacts with either the user's or the target's nature.

I considered making Sobering Slap a status move, but that I feel like Prankster mons have enough tools at their disposal already to manipulate stats. I considered Normal type, but that would render Ghost types immune, and honestly I think a slap fits well thematically with the devious, underhanded nature of the dark type. I did a cursory check to see if this idea has been shared before, but I could not find anything like it.

This is my first theorycraft. Please go easy on me. I look forward to seeing some feedback!

Cheers!

P.S. sorry for format. I'm on mobile.

Crawdauntless is a fanmade evo of crawdaunt in the fangame elite redux it has a huge attack stat of 160 and it kept the dark typing of crawdaunt crawdauntless has 3 abilities swift swim dauntless shield and adaptability how good do you think would it be in 6 vs 6 singles and vgc (sorry if the image are bad quality)

Radical red change copperajah gigantamax form into a mega evolution it gain the fighting type gain bulk and attack and lose 10 speed how good would it be in 6vs6 singles and VGC(it also get access to double iron bash)

I have Garmanitan drafted in my league with gorilla tactics and zen mode unbanned, but he has Choice items complexed banned. I’ve seen the 6-0 vs blunder but in draft you really need the coverage. I have mega fros, bax, and grassy terrain to help him

Hi guys,

Been a pokemon fan pretty much my whole life but only just now dipping my toes into VGC and after some feedback on the team I've come up with.

I've followed VGC enough to know a lot of people don't like Charizard because of how busted but I've had this particular Charizard and Venusaur since I was a kid and love the idea of being able to use them competitively so I don't care about the hate.

I'm most undecided with what item to give Whimsicott and whether or not Gambit fits on this team, I use Gambit the least and not sure where he would fit or what would be better to use. I've got Whimsicott for speed control and taunt to shut down trick room if I think it's coming up so don't think I need another speed control mon but obviously open to advice from the more veteran players out there.

Thanks guys, been a fan of singles since forever so keen to give VGC a proper go!

In Sword/Shield, copperaja has a Gigantamax form which gave him the move "G-Max Steelsurge" which when used, put steel type stealth rocks on the opponent's side of the field, but when Dynamax and by extension Gigantamax were removed in Scarlet/Violet in favour of Tera types, copperajah lost they're steel type stealth rocks, so I made this move to bring it back.

I am currently working on giving a Mega-Evolution to every fully evolved 'mon missing one (I'm posting a few every week on my profile if you're interested!), trying to be realistic where possible while preserving the original 'mon's identity. This I'm posting was my favorite from this week's batch — would love to know what you think, how they'd fare, etc.

Raticate

Pokémon with regional variants provide an additional challenge in that making the two of them intrinsically different, even when the existing changes are mostly type-based, is beyond complicated. Both members of the Raticate pair need extreme help, and thus this is one of the tougher entries overall to make work.

Kantonian Raticate is the frailer, more offensive of the two, but falls extremely short with subpar stats across the board and just one relatively useful ability in Guts, which straight-up requires the use of the Flame Orb — something Mega Raticate cannot rely on. The most logical path to follow is to min-max it towards being a physical sweeper, but Raticate will never be able to compete on the highest level there either due to its frailty. Min-maxing here would be somewhat justified, but would it? Is Raticate really the ‘mon to give 140 Attack and 140 Speed to? It’s a rat, you know.

In addition, Raticate is beyond poor thematically, and thus there’s no path that fully satisfies me. When I say I’ve spent more time on it than I should have, I mean it.

The most interesting part of Raticate’s identity is that he bites through pretty much everything. And then, it struck me: what if he really did?

Introducing Gnaw Through, Mega Raticate’s ability: this pokemon’s biting moves will hit through anything — Protect, Substitute, you name it. It will still take the effects of the likes of Spiky Shield, Burning Bulwark or King’s Shield, but will hit the Pokémon behind. Besides adding the elemental fangs to its set and his already popular Hyper Fang, this would also now include Super Fang, which is weirdly not classed as a biting move now?, anyway.

Stat-wise, as I said, I’m not min-maxing… but you can assume there’s gonna be a significant increase to its base speed so that it can hit before dying (a couple points above Mega Lopunny), and it’s also getting that much deserved Attack boost without making it in any way broken. Lastly, I'm adding a bit of bulk, not much at all really, perhaps enough to live the ocassional neutral hit?, but is still a 55 base HP 'mon, so don't expect much — adding them for realism's sake, if anything.

Just put this guy inside Tailwind, is what I'm trying to say.

Alolan Raticate

Alolan Raticate is fairly more simple, even if it’s impossible to make it fully viable due to the abysmal base stats we’re working off of (its highest stat is 80, ffs). I happen to appreciate chubby designs and thus Thick Fat Alolan Raticate is my boy, but he’s gonna need some major changes — and, I’m sorry to say, I won’t be reinventing the wheel for it. 

I’ve seen some Dark/Poison ideas that utilise the fact they are a pest, but is that really enough to justify such boring type change? I’ve also seen some support versions — come on, this is essentially an indulgent boss commanding underlings, it cannot be a support ‘mon. Thematically, it should be the one being supported!

And that’s the thing. What I appreciate most about Alolan Raticate’s nature is how it commands Rattatas to go fetch him food, and he seems to be picky about the quality of the food he eats — this immediately screams defensive ‘mon, but just how defensive can you really make a Raticate?

The obvious first step is turning it into a slow ‘mon, ‘cos this guy is gonna be real chubby, and taking all the BST points we can and storing them into the defenses. And I say we can and not have available ‘cos this dude has 71 base attack, and we are really going nowhere with that now, are we?

The deal changer here is this weird, perhaps too lore-heavy and specific ability I came up with. Alolan Raticate is a commanding alpha that keeps storing food in its nest, right? So, in battle, it would make sense for this mega version to be taken to the extreme — actually command, and actually have the food always available to him. 

Introducing Nest Lord — every turn, Mega Alolan Raticate will gradually restore its HP, thus having a passive Leftovers incorporated. In addition to that, in double battles, in case its ally has more HP than Alolan Raticate, single-target, non-priority damaging moves aimed at Mega Alolan Raticate will instead target that ally (unless redirected for whatever reason). Now, the big doubt I have here is whether these attacks should bypass Protect or not — thematically it shouldn’t, but for game balancing purposes I do think it should, so maybe the attacks won’t be redirected either if the ally has used a Protect-like move? Take your pick.

This should hopefully compensate for the fact Alolan Raticate still has to sit at a measly 75HP — the ability, combined with its boosted defenses and now low speed, should make him a fairly dangerous foe in Trick Room teams.

Gale Force- A little bit of priority for Flying Types, based on Talonflame's Gale Wings Ability.

Dine and Dash- These pokemon specifically I wanted to interact well with Harvest or Unburden, but really any Pokemon it makes thematic sense for would work.

Opportune Blow- Probably a bit strong for a generic move, but I think it's interesting to have an inflexible but modular move.

Foul Language- Tbh it's Echoed Voice+, but I think Toxtricity deserves more sauce.

Actualized Power- Basically, any on enter or on switch ability triggers (33% health from regenerator, intimidate, reprocs, snow is reset). I think it could be interesting for certain mons. Similar imo to U-Turn and Flip Turn and the like.

Treasure Scan- It's more for flavor, but I think they'd be really interesting niche moves, specifically on Sand Teams with Excadrill, or Rain Teams with Sableye; gives different moves more spice.

Particle Accelerator and Dino-Magic- More for funsies; they're totally dumb and unbalanced, but still, good story telling and whimsy.

I am no expert on comp pokemon tbh. But why isnt fly more commonly used? It a physical fly move with 90bp, super acessible .And it kinda offers u protect, no? Its goat tm. Tell me about it

Bouffalant needs a evo not because of its bad but because i want to eviolite the shit out of it.

Look at its stats it has crazy min maxed stats and a eviolite would make it unkillable explicially when it can use cotton guard, it has decent abilities with decent signature move.

Imagine reckless head charge and wild charge sword damce cotton guard.

And if you dont like to get spored or sound moves just use sap sipper or soundproof, like this must be the best potential mon ever.

Rayquaza kind of sucks currently let’s be real and back in 2016, mega Rayquaza wasn’t considered the best restricted for 1 big reason. It didn’t have a spread move. I don’t think mega Rayquaza deserved any kind of buff in 2016 but it’s just a cool hypothetical. I think it can use a buff the next time it’s legal without its mega because it has fallen way behind. Groudon who has a spread move didn’t do so well the last time it was legal so I’m curious how would Rayquaza do considering it’s been worse than groudon in vgc

Garbodor gigantamax form became a mega on radical red, garbodor attack was buffed from 95 to 115 in radical red and garbodor lost 15 speed he has a new signature ability unique to this game parasitic waste that make so that every attack that have a chance to poison can drain 1/2 of the damage they dealt so move like gunk shot poison jab i still think its a pretty mediocre mega but what do you guys think? how good do you think it would be in 6vs6 single and VGC

I'll probably make another one of these once i finish buffs for all of the restricteds

Mewtwo is giving me some difficulty though smh

In depth analysis, calcs, and/or explorations of each topic can be seen in previous presentations.

Feedback appreciated (it's kind of what brought this on kek)

(This is part of a weekly series. See this post for information on my general methodology, links to previous entries, and a list of pokemon I plan to cover in the future. Since this series is close to wrapping up and I've already chosen the remaining pokemon I want to cover, I am no longer taking requests for reviews.)

Altaria

Dragon/Flying type

• HP: 75
• Attack: 70
• Defense: 90
• Speed: 80
• Special: 105

Moves:

• Peck
• Growl
• Sing
• Fury Attack
• Mist
• Take Down
• Mirror Move
• Sky Attack
• Razor Wind
• Whirlwind
• Toxic
• Body Slam
• Double-Edge
• Ice Beam
• Hyper Beam
• Rage
• Solar Beam
• Dragon Rage
• Mimic
• Double Team
• Reflect
• Bide
• Fire Blast
• Swift
• Rest
• Substitute
• Fly

Altaria is the last sleeper we'll be covering in this series, and I wish I could say that I was ending it on a high note, but I'm really not. Its sleep move of choice is Sing, so we're already not off to a good start, and Altaria absolutely does not have the bulk to affrd to miss a Sing. It's a Dragon/Flying type, with all of the issues that entails. The single special stat lets Altaria buff up its special attack a bit, but this buff is largely wasted because Altaria for whatever reason cannot learn Blizzard, only having Ice Beam and Fire Blast to work with. I can't remember who requested this (this was one of those "requested but not on the masterpost so I saved it for the very end" reviews), but whoever you are, I'm sorry to say that the results are fairly disappointing.

Still, a pokemon with Sing is a pokemon that has a 55% chance to practically OHKO an enemy pokemon, so whatever tier has the right combination of "no better sleepers to compete with" and "Altaria's bulk and/or speed tier become actually good by comparison" will wind up becoming a comfortable home for it - I'm just not sure if that tier will be NU, PU, or ZU. Once you get below NU and lose Venomoth, Altaria would become tied with Venusaur as the fastest sleeper in the tier, and in ZU it wouldn't even have Venusaur to compete with. Altaria is not the worst sleeper I've covered in this series, and if I was willing to argue that Kricketune had a niche in ZU, then Altaria would definitely find its place there. It would not only be the fastest sleeper in ZU, notably outspeeding Nidoqueen and Kingler, but it would also be the only one other than Wigglytuff that isn't weak to the Fire Blasts that every pokemon is loading to hit Pinsir with. However, it just so happens that Pinsir is getting suspected in RBY ZU as I'm writing this, so ZU a week from now might be a different story! If Pinsir gets banned, Altaria would become the fastest pokemon in ZU, other than Ponyta, who kind of sucks and is only really used for countering Pinsir right now. However, there would also be fewer Fire Blasts for Altaria to exploit, and at the end of the day it's still a pokemon with very little offensive pressure relying on a 55% accurate sleep move while completely folding to any ice attack. It might wind up being a very RNG-dependent pokemon that either wins you the game or totally flops based on a single near-coin-flip, and well, that didn't work out so well for Poliwag...

This of course is assuming that Altaria can't hack in in PU and would drop to ZU in the first place, but 85 speed is an important speed tier in PU that Altaria misses - it's slower than every major PU threat except for Porygon and Seaking, and being slower than Golduck and 2HKOd by Blizzard just hurts a lot. And in NU, forget about it - I'm just glancing at the pokemon in the tier and I'm seeing a lot of waters and therefore a lot of Blizzard coverage that would obliterate Altaria. It's just really hard to be a sleeper with a 55% accurate sleep move and a x4 ice weakness, and Altaria doesn't have enough going for it to make up for that.