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Cay September 29th, 2016 9:06 AM

i'd be interested to see a fire/fighting, but i don't see anything wrong with pure fire. either sounds cool to me

gimmepie October 1st, 2016 9:13 PM

Type poll is up!

Ullion October 2nd, 2016 10:55 AM

Voted for fire/fighting. I liked the reasoning brought up earlier. Additionally, I agree with Volpe that tacking on dragon-types to older pokemon has been all too common recently.

gimmepie October 4th, 2016 9:12 PM

Looks like we might be having a tie on our hands!

Syndrome October 5th, 2016 11:05 AM

I really feel like adding another type just adds more unneeded weaknesses and nullifies some useful resistances. There's really not anything wrong with pure Fire imo.

Cay October 5th, 2016 11:29 AM

i voted pure fire. in my opinion, tacking another type on is kind of unnecessary. i agree with syn saying that itd just add a bunch of random weaknesses that we dont really need.

5qwerty October 5th, 2016 11:43 AM

pls don't let fire/fighting win

someone save the world

i was wrong, why did i suggest fire/electric forgive me

gimmepie October 6th, 2016 2:01 AM

Fire/fighting has won but it was very close xD
Time to talk abilities!

tzujm33 October 6th, 2016 4:11 AM

I think thsoe abilities (aside from the current ones) could fit:
Reckless
Adaptability
Fur coat
Flamebody
Moxie
Tough Claws
Sheer Force
Speed Boost

I like Moxie the most.

shubham2207 October 6th, 2016 5:44 AM

I ll go for 2 abilities because the design will matter in this case, offensive or bulky.

If the design is offensive then SHEER FORCE
If the design is defensive then INTIMIDATE

Earth Traveler October 6th, 2016 6:52 AM

Seconding Tough Claws since all of Arcanine's good moves make contact.

5qwerty October 6th, 2016 12:21 PM

Can't we just steal all the idea's from August Get-Together's improve-a-Pokémon thread, if it's still available?

give it water absorb

Ullion October 6th, 2016 2:27 PM

I like Sheer Force and Moxie from those listed above :)

Syndrome October 6th, 2016 5:35 PM

First off, some thoughts:

[20:23:52] @Syndrome: there's no reason to run crunch on it
[20:24:22] @Syndrome: flare blitz and wild charge take out every relevant psychic type and [email protected] doesnt want to keep switching into flare blitz
[20:24:43] @Syndrome: its like a 3HKO on defensive latias with jolly after rocks

In my opinion, that typing is rather unfortunate, and a bit overused. Had it been pure Fire I'd have suggested Magic Guard. It would've gotten rid of the Stealth Rock weakness and the recoil from Flare Blitz and Wild Charge. Actually, no. I'm still going to suggest Magic Guard. It works too well. It can even play off of the species being the 'Legendary' Pokémon.

I'd also like to suggest Contrary. We could go for a specially based stat build and have it abuse Overheat. You know, kinda like how Serperior does with Leaf Storm. It's special movepool isn't anything to write home about, but something along the lines of Overheat / Flamethrower / Dragon Pulse / Hidden Power [Type] could work pretty well.

If I have anything else I'll make a separate post.

5qwerty October 6th, 2016 7:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Syndrome (Post 9438934)
I'd also like to suggest Contrary. We could go for a specially based stat build and have it abuse Overheat. You know, kinda like how Serperior does with Leaf Storm. It's special movepool isn't anything to write home about, but something along the lines of Overheat / Flamethrower / Dragon Pulse / Hidden Power [Type] could work pretty well.

If I have anything else I'll make a separate post.

Doesn't it also get Close Combat? Run some RestTalk crap and you'll be near unstoppable.

gimmepie October 7th, 2016 8:55 PM

I like Contrary, Fur Coat and Moxie.

MrDollSteak October 7th, 2016 9:07 PM

I'd be a big fan of Fur Coat in particular. It's a really interesting ability in my opinion, and hasn't had a time to shine. Plus an extra floofy Arcanine is always welcome.

gimmepie October 9th, 2016 5:32 AM

The new poll is up!

Chemist Wooper October 9th, 2016 10:30 AM

Quagsire.
(Or Clefable)
(Or Togekiss...)

the rest of comments:

NOOOOOO WTF IS WRONG WITH U???!?!?

gimmepie October 10th, 2016 2:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chemist Wooper (Post 9442420)
Quagsire.
(Or Clefable)
(Or Togekiss...)

the rest of comments:

NOOOOOO WTF IS WRONG WITH U???!?!?

We've long since determined Arcanine as our choice and as OU Pokemon Clefable and Quagsire are ineligible anyway xD

If you want to submit ideas for Pokemon to work on, the next MaM starts in a few weeks.

5qwerty October 10th, 2016 5:28 PM

Holy crap, please don't let Fur Coat win. You literally have to decrease Mega-Arcanine's BST from Arcanine to make it balanced.

ShanWow October 10th, 2016 5:36 PM

Heh Touch Claws

gimmepie October 10th, 2016 10:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 5qwerty (Post 9444302)
Holy crap, please don't let Fur Coat win. You literally have to decrease Mega-Arcanine's BST from Arcanine to make it balanced.

I see this post and raise you one M-Slowbro.

Syndrome October 12th, 2016 8:27 PM

This Pokemon is going to end up being worse than normal Arcanine if Fur Coat wins.

I think it'd help if, in the future, participants were required to explain why they want these changes to happen. That way someone couldn't just unload a bunch of random abilities that don't make sense for the build. A limit of how many changes a person could nominate would also help.

Aurora October 12th, 2016 8:34 PM

I feel as if giving it Fur Coat departs from the whole concept of Make-A-Mega - that is, to make a Pokemon viable in OU, not broken. I didn't vote for it.

I voted Contrary because Mega Arcanine has the tools to use it, such as Overheat and Close Combat. It is not completely broken because you can phaze it out and because Fire / Fighting is a sufficiently mediocre defensive typing such that it is not downright impossible to stop. This might end up blowing up in my face if stat changes swing a certain way, but hey. We're not there yet.


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