For me it's Iceslash
Give tough claws
pretty hot for an ice type
>>57153655Don't separate him away from his hail setting gf
>>57153679but what if i want to use him before i get access to alolan ninetalesor in a tier where alolan ninetales isn't usable because it's in a higher usage based tierbesides it's not like you're losing anything by replacing snow cloak (shit and inconsistent) with an actually useful and fitting abilityit has huge claws, thus it should have tough claws
fuck off musk
>>57153636It bothers me how his arms look attached to the spikes not the body. Guess they are meant to be poking through but it just looks bad
>>57153713they could have just made the shoulder icicles/scales have a concave section to allow the arms to move freely (see highlighted part of attachment)or just made those scales above its shoulders in the first place
>>57153713I never noticed that until just now and I hate you for it.
>>57153713>>57153730>>57153734There fixed, GameFreak artists in shambles.
>>57153763peak
>>57153713According to the Scarlet Pokedex, the spikes are made of steel with an outer layer of ice>This Pokémon's steel spikes are sheathed in ice. Stabs from these spikes cause deep wounds and severe frostbite as well.
so what did you guys get for Christmas
>>57153784>tfw all you have to do is melt the ice and we have steel sandslash
>>57153784Give spiky shield and refrigerate
>>57153785i got one of those automatic toothbrushes, some clothes, a head lamp, some plain t-shirts, a pack of socks, and a whiteboard for my wall
>>57153636Based Coldsteel
>>57153636Him and base Sandslash should have Rough Skin as an ability when evolved, and their base stats should get a +25 boost to make it seriously competitive. It doesn't need a new evolution or gimmick, but that would go a long way making him seriously usable
>>57153636Why steel?
>>57156488>and their base stats should get a +25 boost to make it seriously competitivemaybe by early gen standards475 BST won’t be enough to crawl out of NU
>>57153636Iceslash is for superpower and flamethrower!
>>57157499*your mom
>>57157558your mom is the town bicycle, bitch. And iceslash is for the incinerator.
What the FUCK were they thinking
>>57157620The Snowshrew line can't roll because their shells/spikes are made of hard ice and metal>It lives on snowy mountains. Its steel shell is very hard—so much so, it can’t roll its body up into a ball.>An ancient tradition of Alolan festivals, still carried on to this day, is a competition to slide Sandshrew across ice as far as one can.
>>57157624They literally learn rollout
>>57157624apparently these icy pangolins like being slid across the ice during these festivals>>57157628they probably just spin instead of rollfor some reason they learn some biting moves like leech life and super fang despite pangolins not having teeth (they use pebbles in their stomach to chew the insects they prey on instead)i just headcanon the former move as them using their claws for the attack
>>57155407hey wait a moment
>>57155407>what if arcanine was shitty
>>57157628I feel like moves aren't an actual part of Pokemon lore, at least not entirely. There are Pokemon with wings that can't learn fly, others who can fly with no real wings, etc. Not a lot of them make sense and some are probably just given to Pokemon for balance purposes or to round them out a bit more, or just because other forms of them have it.
>>57153636>sandslash but blueregional variants were still a mistake
>>57159088>t.biologylet
>>57159110pokemon is a fictional universe. it does not need to work exactly how real life does
>>57159169yet it can model real life when the creators (ie not you mutt) want
>>57157628>Snowshrew Rollout
>>57159178they shouldn't when it comes at the cost of enabling their laziness because fans lap up designs that just older mons with slight differences
i wish we got more convergent mons fitting the sandslash/excadrill archetype
>>57159312>slight differencesIts a whole other typing, color, and from a different region. How could it even be more different randeep
>>57153636Give shell smash
>>57159822>How could it even be more different randeepby actually making something brand new from the ground up instead of using sandslash as a crutch. chaing the colour scheme and slapping a new type on it takes zero effort. stop defending gayfreak's laziness
It's dumb how it's still called Sand when it has nothing to do with sand
>>57162431We have the galarian forms of the legendary birds with barely anything to do with the elements they're named afteralso by the way there's IRL animals named after that trio, guess what type of animal they are
happy shrew year
>>57163709he's so cool
>>57164426i know right
