Why is Primarina OU. Its abilities are useless. It has mediocre stats. And it has no special or unique moves.
Sex appeal
Why don't you read the walls of text beneath the area you just screenshotted
it has the highest single stat of any starter what the fuck do you mean mediocre
>>58547128water/fairy is genuinely one of the top 3 best typings in the gamedefensively it resists numerous important types with only three weaknesses, two of which are rarely carried as coverageoffensively it also has incredible neutral STAB coverage, there are very few pokemon that resist both water and fairy and most of them are shitboth types also get really good moves
>>58547128You see if you scroll down you usually get a good breakdown of why a pokemon is popular in a particular meta game. The tl;dr is that Prima is much better in gen 9 singles than gen 8 because while the general metagame is much more favorable for it, Psychic Voice is absolutely cracked by liquid voice which makes it a water move and boosts its power.
>>58547173liquid voice doesn't actually boost power like the -ate abilities do, it just makes them water. still, having a water psychic noise is pretty damn good.
>>58547128Because water and fairy are very good offensive types and it's tanky enough to swoop in at any moment and start shooting away
>>58547128i saw a primarina 1v1 a blissey one time. liquid voice psychic noise is crazy
>>58547128assvest primarina blanket checks a lot of special attackers while also being pretty hard to switch into since none of the pokemon that resist its dual stab are seen much in OU and it has solid special attackit also has flip turn so you have to watch out for that too
>>58547192>>58547211It's funny how liquid voice went from "bad gimmick that people would occasionally pretend had any real value out of pure cope" to "meta defining ability" with the addition of a single move. Also shows just how bad Psychic is as an attacking type when changing the type makes it so much better.>>58547162>offensively it also has incredible neutral STAB coverage, there are very few pokemon that resist both water and fairy and most of them are shittbf Water Absorb Clodsire completely walls most popular sets and is genuinely a solid mon even in OU. Gets fucked if Prim decides to run Psychic though.
>>58547128Give a Pokemon 2 of the best types in the game, a fantastic special attack and great special bulk, as well as great coverage and utility moves and it becomes amazing, shocker.
>>58547128Primarina doesn't need a physical attack that high what a waste of stats
>>58547128Why is /vp/ so bad at competitive?
>>58547257it was always an ability with potential just bad at the time because there was nothing you could do with itthe only offensive utility sound moves when it was released were chatter and snarl, neither of which were given to primarina, and changing the type of something like sing did nothing except make it fail into water absorb/storm drain for no benefitthe ability was basically just a shitty infiltrator since all it did was let primarina run hyper voice over surf, but even then you had sparkling aria to do the exact same thingall it took to be good was an actually fucking useful sound move that primarina would benefit from getting stab on
i still think primarina deserved boomburst btw
>>58547128Because Tapu Fini isn't in the game. A bulky water/fairy with draining kiss is very useful in modern pokemon.
>>58547306Starters aren't min-maxed
>>58547128Fini doesn't exist.
>>58547306well it's OU anyways so clearly that's not a problem
>>58547373Boomburst description implies a destructive, terrible screeching sound. It'll be absolutely insane if Prima got it but they didn't give because Primarina is sings gracefully instead of terribly
>>58547373that might be a balance decision. 140 stab water move is a bit crazy
>>58547257throat spray, psychic noise, sharpness and other items/abilities like that are great to give some mons niche uses
>>58547306mehit helps with flip turn damage at least
>>58547727Maybe Mega Primarina will get it if it becomes punk rock/covered in grody seaweed.
>>58547740As if GameFreak cares about balance now>super tanky pure Rock type that can recover, is immune to status effects, resists Ghost type moves, and deals super effective damage to Water types with STAB>evolution to Bisharp that gets stronger if you lower its stats, or if you KO its teammates (the whole point of the game)>evolution to Primeape that gets unresisted STAB, is decently bulky, and gets stronger every time you touch it>here's this ghost move that gets stronger for every Pokemon you KO>dolphin that turns legendary after a single switch
>>58547801They still pretend to care given some mega’s stat spreads
>>58547727The opera singer singing so hard her screech breaks glasses is a common tropebut yeah that would be too overpowered
>>58547128So you don't get 6-0 by walking wake
>>58547306Starters can't be too minmaxed in the offense department because there's always a risk that Little Timmy will give his Primarina 4 physical moves.
>why is the best water starter ever in OUA question that puzzles even the philosophers.>>58548843Doesn't matter for playthroughs anon. And most "little timmys" go meta when they go online. Hazards of adults sperging about mogon and VGC all over youtube. Kids pick it up.
>>58548843Little Timmy sees that primarina can learn liquidation and ice spinner, then wonders why they do any damage
>>58547128>Assault Vest Primarina is a great special tank while being a remarkable offensive threat itself, capable of trading hits against offensive teams. It can check threats like Walking Wake, Dragapult, Darkrai, and Iron Valiant and stomach even strong super effective hits from foes like Iron Moth and Raging Bolt, all while having a decent matchup against common physical attackers like Zamazenta, Great Tusk, and Cinderace. Psychic Noise hits Toxapex super effectively and blocks healing from walls like Blissey, Clodsire, and Clefable, allowing Primarina to chip them down for itself and its partners. It also lets Primarina pick off Zamazenta and Iron Moth behind a Substitute.It’s just good matchups in this mega
>>58547137because, like you just said, they're walls of text
>>58547162>water/fairy is genuinely one of the top 3 best typingsWhat are the other 2 m8?
>>58548960Perhaps one of them is Steel/Fairy
>>58548843Maybe if the game actually explained to Little Timmy what physical and special moves are, he wouldn't get confused.
>>58547257>[Thing] Completely walls it!Wow damn. If only there were 5 other Pokemon and 2 extra moves you could use instead of being stuck with Moonblast and Surf.
>>58548960>>58549002I nominate Ghost/Steel for 2nd/3rd place3 immunities and a shitton of resistances, and no quad weaknesses
>>58548960Ghost/Fighting is pure unga bunga with zero resists and only hisuian Zoroark as a way to stop it
>>58547801>>evolution to Primeape that gets unresisted STABhave you thought about running Zorochad H like a smarty
>>58548960Ground/Flying & Steel/Fairy
>>58547211>liquid voice psychicIS that water or psychic now?
>>58549151If it's a sound-based move, it becomes Water type under Liquid Voice (I'll be honest, I don't give a shit for comp, but HAVE been travelling with my shiny Prima in my team since the ID update).
enslaved primarina
>>58547128literally none of those statements are true lole
>>58549376cum bottle
>>58547128Only because Tapu Fini is not in the gameThat’s it
>>58547801>here's this ghost move that gets stronger for every Pokemon you KOone of the funniest things I read on smogon was>Another example is how at the beginning of SV, people did not think that Houndstone was a very good Pokémon at all. Pure Ghost is lackluster so far as typings go, and from the outset, most people took note of Its Body Press and Iron Defense tools to hit Dark-types and wrote it off by placing it in the 3 or 4 point column. Then, we discovered what Last Respects did.from their articles on getting into draft formats
>>58549006Little Timmy mashed A through the dialogue.
>>58547257>Also shows just how bad Psychic is as an attacking type when changing the type makes it so much better.Water is one of the best attacking types, which is why they made Palkia Water/Dragon (as an offensive offset to defensive Dialga's Water/Steel). They also just made Kyogre and Groudon Water and Ground because those are arguably the best attacking types in the game.
>>58549803Mind posting the dialogue?
>>58549822Kyogre and Groudon are that typing because they're based on the behemoth and leviathan, the biblical monsters of the land and sea respectively.
>>58549838I'm saying it doesn't matter what dialogue you add explaining physical and special moves.Little Timmy will mash A through it and not retain it and put Earthquake on his Charizard because it sounds cool.
>>58548960i'd say steel/fairy and ground/fairy, personally. steel/fairy is pretty self-explanatory, and people don't understand how ridiculous ground/fairy is because it doesn't exist yet, but holy shit is that typing busted.
>>58549884>ground/fairy...doesn't exist
sex appeal
>>58549151psychic noise becomes water type, yes
>>58551003...yet.That's why you don't understand how good it is.
>>58547257Liquid Voice is not a meta defining ability. It's good but actually a minority of Primarina use it, even with Psychic Noise being ubiquitous.The main reason for this is Ogerpon btw, chipping it and preventing it from using Synthesis or Horn Leech is that important.>Torrent 57.131% >Liquid Voice 42.869% >Moonblast 82.405% >Psychic Noise 79.194% >Flip Turn 61.447% >Surf 52.219%
>>58551003anon... that's precisely what he said
>>58548960Steel/Fairy, Ghost/Steel, Ghost/Fairy? Out of the existing ones anyway. It’s like some combo of Ghost, Steel, or Fairy.
