>Makes a Pokémon based on a doll of the founder of Chan (Zen) Buddhism>The dolls bounce back when pushed to symbolize preseverence so they give the pokemon an ability to meditate when it reaches low health>Locks this form to the post game>Gives it a great standard ability so no one cares anywayI see what they were trying to do but has anyone ever used Zen Darmanitan for anything?
>>58825235It’s shit, man.
>>58825235He cute
>>58825235>has anyone ever used Zen Darmanitan for anything?It's a completely disfunctional gimmick. I'd go so far as to say Zen Mode Darmanitan is one of the worst Pokemon in the game.
>take a fat hit>turn into Zen Mode>get instantly outsped next turn because it loses speedconceptually a failed ability, what were they thinking? Zen Mode on normal Darm is effectively -1 turn
>campaignshitters once again can't figure out how to make a perfectly good mon worklol
>>58825235The only problem it is is that it looses speed but has not enough defence boosts to be used propperly.
>>58825235They should just make it a proper alt. form you can turn Darmanitan into by talking to some monks.
>>58825352That just makes it into a regular bulky mon. It really needs an overhaul to work as designed. They could at least give it curse or a special version of belly drum.
>>58825235It should activate under Trick Room.
>>58825304No need to out yourself
zen mode should heal darmanitan a little every turn
fuck zen modefuck power constructfuck schoolingfuck defeatistfuck slow start
>Hmmmm what should this shitmon get as a hidden ability?>Oh I got it!>give it Defeatist, but the stat drops are even harsher
>>58825415Yeah, but it would free up its Ability slot and allow it to lean different moves to fully utilise its stats and typing.
>>58825235I've used Zen Darmanitan in a few fangames that introduced ways, typically with items, to access this form far easier, and it's a fantastic Pokemon, incredibly bulky, hits extremely fucking hard, the defensive typing is surprisingly useful sometimes due to the fangame devs loving to throw Blaziken on boss teams. It's genuinely a fantastic Pokemon, which makes it even sadder that it alongside Pirouette Meloetta are borderline impossible to use.
>>58826125What fan games are those?
>>58825304please do post the tournament results
I think it should at least deactivate only when Darmanitan goes to full health. No "takes less damage at low health" in the history of video games has ever been good.
>>58825235Well, the Galarian variant actually makes the gimmick work for it, shame it's currently stuck in such shit games, though.
