Since we have the weather element abilities around. Do you think its possible that there is a Trick Room ability. Perhaps calling it Wonder Room or something like that. How much would it change your game style if there is?
(Just dumping this here for reference. IIRC...)
Trick Room: reverses the Speed order of active Pokemon for 5 turns
Magic Room: nullifies all Pokemon's items during battle for 5 turns
Wonder Room: reverses base Defense and Special Defense stats for 5 turns
I would
love for Trick Room to manifest in the form of an Ability, as it serves as a counterpart of sorts to the numerous weather-related moves... {:3} I've actually been wishing for such an Ability ever since I heard of it since its introduction in Generation 4. Although, now that I think about it, it does have the potential of being a "broken" Ability, as a lot of powerful Pokemon are balanced by their slow Speed stats (then again, you have a few Pokemon that are powerful
and fast, such as Aerodactyl and Salamence...usually, they have brittle defensive stats to compensate, but sometimes that hardly factors in battle)
As for balance, maybe the Trick Room Ability could still be limited to somewhere between 5-8 (either a set value between 5-8, or the value is randomly chosen from the range of 5-8 each battle or each time the Pokemon in question is sent out) turns, as opposed to being permanent like other weather-related Abilities such as Drought, Drizzle, Sand Stream, Snow Warning, and Cloud Nine/Air Lock...? Alternatively, the Pokemon given such an Ability could have mediocre offenses and defenses (slow Speed is already a given in order to take full advantage of a Trick Room-based Ability)... I'd also prefer it if such an Ability were given to a legendary Pokemon (either a legendary mascot Pokemon, a Lati@s-esque Pokemon, or a member of a Pokemon trio); although I like the increased usefulness of weather-related Abilities on non-Uber-tiered/non-Legendary Pokemon, I feel like weather-related Abilities are more fitting to Legendaries, as their stories often invoke such weather-related events (i.e., how Groudon and Kyogre exclusively wreaked havoc in Generation 3 with Drought and Drizzle, respectively, before Vulpix/Ninetales and Politoed came along with new Hidden Abilities).
Moreover, I'd like it if there were a
Magic Room Ability (sigh...Embargo would've worked great for a "Magic Room Ability" name if the move Embargo didn't already exist...) and
Wonder Room Ability, in order to complement a potential Trick Room Ability (just like how sunlight, rain, sandstorm, and hail have respective moves and Abilities). However, I'd prefer it if the Magic Room Ability affected foe Pokemon only and excluded the user's held item (essentially a reversed "Klutz" Ability)...
Consequently, it would make for an interesting/great legendary Pokemon trio, IMO, if Trick Room, Magic Room, and Wonder Room were each bestowed in the form of Abilities upon one member of said trio in a future
Pokemon game... :) This would probably make Magic Room and Wonder Room see increased use (in their Ability variants), as Trick Room seems to be the only move used most often in its move variant form.