Gholdengos ability is not broken. Its just a much weaker version of magic bounce which bounces status moves back as well as stops entry hazards unlike good as gold.
>>58521768It's the combination of Gholdengo's stats, typing, and ability creating something greater than the sum of its parts.
>>58521768What makes Gholdengo controversial is that GoG blocks Defog. Combined with its typing, it blocks all hazard removal besides Mold Breaker/Nuetralizing Gas Defog and Scrappy Rapid Spin.
Is Mega Skarmory going to have this shit
dude looks like a cheese string
>>58521827Seems more like a Tough Claws user
>>58521814ENTER
>>58521768Magic bounce is broken too thats why its only given to a very tiny amount of pokemon who are all OU or Mega Pokemon.
>>58521768Nigga, that shit is more than just Magic BounceMuch much more
>>58521877nta but it's effectively a WORSE Magic Bounce in every way that matters sans completely nullifying Defog rather than just deflecting the Evasion drop, which is the single thing that marks the ability as outright better in the context of Gen 9 OU.
>>58521864You just gave Gholdengo a free turn to Nasty Plot, Recover, Trick a Scarf/Specs onto you, or just nuke you with Make It Rain.That's the real issue with hazards IMO. Even their "counterplay" gives the user free turns
>>58521895Or, you can just run boots
So, /vp/, which one is Gholdengo?
>>58521907Before the game has even started, you're giving up your item slot for hazard immunity
>>58521910I wonder how many people would even get the original comic this is referring to (not Calvin and Hobbes, the Knives vs Horrible Bioweapon part)
>>58521768Magic Bounce is objectively better in every way except one, which is that Magic Bounce can't block Defog. But that one way is enough.That, combined with Gholdengo being a Ghost-type that can block Rapid Spin, is what makes it busted.But yeah, you couldn't just slap the ability on any mon and expect it to warp the game the same way Ghold does.
>>58521910Gholdengo is an extremely good sheath for your knife. One that keeps it from ever rusting or going dull indefinitely. And also somehow stops you from ever dropping your knife.
>>58521943I saw someone make a thread with it the other day
>>58521943>>58523475
>>58521910Depends on whether you consider hazards to be knives or horrible bioweapons.Gholdengo really just enhances hazards, so it would fall in the same category.
>>58521835Then why is he gold
>>58521827No, because it isn't gold as a shiny, Gholdengo explicitly remains gold when it's shiny.
>>58521768I assumed, before getting back into the series proper, that it was an ability that made all moves that would or could drop stats fail. That would have been more interesting and fun imo.
>>58523932the left cant meme
