Why does she get Anticipation as a hidden ability again?
What the fuck even is Ferrothorn
>>58805884Ambiguous thorn monster
>>58805640The same reason that the Burmy line had it
>>58805884>What the fuck even is Ferrothorncool as fuck, that's what
>>58805898I wasn't really asking for lore reasons, I meant more so in the sense of why does it have an hidden ability when Ferroseed doesn't.Though, if we are talking about lore reasons, it's weird Absol doesn't have Anticipation and/or Forewarn, given its whole thing is sensing disasters.
>she
>>58805884I think Ferroseed (and by extension itself) are supposed to be vaguely based on those burrs that get stuck to your clothes when you go hiking, except made of metal.
>>58805640>sheBro wants to fuck a cactus
>>58805884From the natural lore and species it's definitely a bunya pine nut, they are huge and their tall trees often have danger signs next to them because the falling pines are deadly threats, I don't know what other themes it got in its design, perhaps a thorned mace and some tripod alien.
>>58805640she looks like a Hollow Knight enemy
omg OP you're so rightshe got this ability specifically so there must be some special reason
>>58805640its only real weakness was fire right? it was super strong deffensely and anticipation lets you know if it could be OHKO'ed so you'd know to pivot, making it even harder to kill. one flamethrower was deadly to it. fighting wasnt an issue because they are 99% physical and risk getting barbs+helmet'ed to death.
>Rapidash/Hetterene/Flittlepsychic type can predict future>Eeveebecuase it anticipates evolution?>Whiscash/Toxicroakcatfish are thought to be able to predict earthquakes that's why it also learns foture sight, toxicroak is probably similar thing>Wormadam>Ferrothornidk but wormadam insterestingly has some psychic movesmaybe it's about them being pupa/cocoon things so they just dangle there and wait so they need to be aware of the danger?
>>58805640As a joke, because it already has the absurdly good Iron Barbs ability, just like how they made Delibird's HA Insomnia despite already having Vital Spirit.
>>58807189anticipation is the anti-meta to iron barbs. barbs is so good its the meta, but then everyone plans for the meta, and they get bamboozled when its actually anticipation and their HP:fire coverage gets eaten by flash fire heatran
>>58805884bootleg metagross
>>58807181>idk but wormadam insterestingly has some psychic movesMost butterfly/moth Pokémon learn a lot of Psychic moves by level-up for some reason. idk if it's like a Japanese thing like how Whiscash can learn Dragon Dance due to being based on the Namazu.
>>58807312>metagross>lavagross>metagrassWe need more like this
>>58805884>>58805888>>58805905>>58806952>>58807312Looks like I (>>58806909) am right, no need for Bulbapedo-style weasel words on this one:https://lavacutcontent.com/ken-sugimori-nintendo-dream/
