>HP: 86>Attack: 102>Defense: 88>Sp. Atk: 98>Sp. Def: 120>Speed: 88Did they make it shit on purpose?
>>58401215Is 88 defense bad now?
>>58401215They had 100 points to add, and Malamar already had mediocre stats
>>58401220>now
>>58401220>is 88 defense bad after 10+ years of ridiculous power creep?
>>58401215>Flip it's HP and Sp. Att, the 1st and 4th stat, upside down and they turn into each other.>Swap the 2 and the 0 in Attack and Sp. Def, the 2nd and 5th stat, and you get the inverse of each other.>Defense and Speed, the 3rd and 6th stat, can do both of these.I wonder if that's a coincidence or if they made it shit on purpose just to have these patterns in it's stats.
>>58401220In a vacuum? Yes.There are mons with lower than 88 defense that are still good, but those mons need to be able to actually do something.I'm not sure what Mega Mal is supposed to do. None of its stats are great. Even the best one is just pretty good.
>>58401220It is when you don't have a single resistance and a 4x Bug weakness
>>58401215so it has wonder guard or something right? Set up with contrary superpower and it gets psycho boost now right and then you get wonder guard in your mega form now right rightotherwise this sucks way, way too much. Would arguably be WORSE than normal malamar because you'd be dedicating your mega to it for minimal gains.
I datamined it and it have contrary on mega
>>58401220It’s really bad when you have no resistances and have nothing else going for you.
>>58401409It has an exclusive ability, every end of turn it pierces its brain and hits the opponent with a 60bp psychic special attack. It feels like it will still suck monkey balls. Probably even with As One (New Ability + Contrary) with Psycho Boost added to its moveset it would still not be good enough
>>58401215>Invest nearly half BST boost into SpD, the least important stat and on a Pokemon with Psychic/Dark typing>Also invest more into SpA too but not enough to make Malamar hit well with special attacks>Invest almost nothing to Atk and Speed so you’re still hitting like a pool noodle and can barely outrun anythingEven with Contrary, is it even gonna be good then?You can’t Tera or use a Chesto Berry. You’re even weaker against U-Turn because you can’t Tera or hold some item.This honestly might be even worse than Mega Audino
