>Huge Power Mega Starmie in Rain>Sword Dance Mach Punch Mega Lopunny>Parting Shot Sableye>Nasty Plot Mega Froslass and Mega Greninja>Hazard stacking Meowstic>Shell Smash Barbaracle with STAB Close CombatMost of these Megas are ass, but jesus christ.
Starmie switching specialties feels weird. It has been about the same forever.
But theres no abilities in Z-A ?
>>58405196Talking about when the Megas transfer over to Champions.Mega Starmie has +140 BST like Mega Mawile and Medicham for ZA, so it's more than likely Mega Starmie gets a Huge Power clone.
>>58405187lots of megas do this to some extent. Mewtwo x, charizard x, gyarados, pinsir in a sense, aggron, swampert, banette, sableye, etc. Even though the new starmie design is awful, it's going to enjoy the benefit of unpredictability.
>People have gotten the game early>Meanwhile I am lucky if my copy gets sent in time to arrive on the actual release dayIf only I lived in the 3rd world...
>>58405158>meowsticDo you know something we don't?
>>58405311just pirate it vro
>>58405326he never said mega meowstic, just hazard stacking.
>>58405326Meowstic got a movepool buff and now gets Spikes, Toxic Spikes, Stealth Rock, and Taunt.You can look at the movepool buffs in the doc and Mega Lopunny got stacked for some reason. It’s not only part of the 135 spe crowd, not only is it immune to intimidate and gets perfect STAB coverage, but now it gets Mach Punch and Sword Dance.
>>58405294>aggron???
>>58405424aggron was always offensive and not defensive, but the mega changes that.
>>58405294mega pidgeot too, it becoming a special attacker with no guard was so cool. Sometimes I wonder if I dreamed it because nobody ever talks about it.
>>58405187It works thematically. Starmie is trying to supplant humanity by being more like it. Humans don't shoot lasers or have psychic powers, they use fisticuffs and kicks.
>>58405226How does ZA handle Aegislash?
>>58405455Ah, thought you were talking about spatk>atk for a sec.
>>58405465Huge Power is also a canonical human ability.
>>58405460Probably because Pidgeot only learns 1 decent special move with low accuracy.It's a cool idea, but you can't really play it out like you hope.
>>58405158is there a doc or smth with all these info?
>>58405226It could just have a new ability that boosts another stat. Like Frosmoth
>>58405465...except in the Pokemon world where humans have actual ESP
>>58405737>a black belt is as strong as a Mega MedichamJesus christ
Why are people so sure that Starmie will get huge power
>>58405294The concept of Mega Diancie being a literal Sailor Moon/Pretty Cure transformation and thus going from defensive to offensive was insanely cool
>>58406706Because it has a 140 bst increase in za just like medicham and mawhile
>>58405500The same way Arceus handles Slow Start. The ability is still there and functional, in the way you'd expect, it just isn't labeled beyond associated flavor text.
>>58405158All of these moveset changes may not make it into Champions, in a number of cases the new moves are replacing a move they don't have access to in ZA, eg. Malamar learns Close Combat instead of Superpower.
>>58406737That feels like very weak evidence
>>58405158Powercrept
>>58407041Then why else would it get it? Not like the worser megas got +140 for “no reason.” It’s clearly compensating for something.
>>58407041>every mega gets +100 bst as a flat rule>but in this game, where abilities don't exist, they gave medicham and mawile, pokemon with pure power and huge power as their abilities, +140 to compensate for the lack of abilities.>with the extra 40 going to attack>they gave mega starmie +140 as well, including putting its attack in the same bracket as mawile and medicham>but this is weak evidence of it getting pure power somehowpoor pattern recognition and lack of critical thinking skills are signs of low iq and even mental illness
>>58405387So...what's the lore behind Meowstic suddenly setting all the hazards but steel spikes and sticky web?
