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PokéCommunity Daily: Make-a-Mega Returns: Vote on stats for Mega Beartic!

Which stat spread should we give Mega Beartic?

  • [url="https://www.pokecommunity.com/showpost.php?p=9712872&postcount=59"]Option One[/url]

    Votes: 2 28.6%
  • [url="https://www.pokecommunity.com/showpost.php?p=9713019&postcount=60"]Option Two[/url]

    Votes: 4 57.1%
  • [url="https://www.pokecommunity.com/showpost.php?p=9713120&postcount=61"]Option Three[/url]

    Votes: 1 14.3%
  • [url="https://www.pokecommunity.com/showpost.php?p=9716078&postcount=64"]Option Four[/url]

    Votes: 1 14.3%
  • [url="https://www.pokecommunity.com/showpost.php?p=9716129&postcount=65"]Option Five[/url]

    Votes: 2 28.6%

  • Total voters
    7
  • Poll closed .

jombii

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I could get behind Ice/Fighting. STAB Superpower is needed in the moveset lol.

Ice/Water for me is pretty boring, concept-wise. We already had a lot of those, canon.
 
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You see, we really have an opportunity with this thread to try out new type combinations and interesting designs. Ice/Fighting is a been there, done that kinda thing. It's not particularly interesting when we already have not only Fighting-type Pokemon based on bears, but also another Ice/Fighting type introduced this past generation. Ice/Dark and Ice/Fairy are a bit more interesting to me. But you know what would be really interesting to me? Ice/Poison

Beartic is a good weather nuke, being able to function in either rain or hail. However, while its offensive typing is quite good, its defensive typing is terrible. Adding Poison type gives it some sorely needed resistances to Bug, Grass, Poison and Fairy, while also removing Beartic's Fighting weakness. This greatly increases the chance that Beartic can survive, say, a Mach Punch from a revenge killer. Also gives Beartic immunity to Toxic, which can otherwise greatly reduce the length of its sweep.

So there's my idea. Anyway, it's just a suggestion, and a crazy one at that. Thank you and good bye.
 
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I agree with the Ice/Water but I disagree with Ice/Poison. I also agree that this would give many resistances however it's weak to psychic, like Rabi said to Ice/Fighting. Also another reason I don't like this idea very much is because Beartic can't learn any poison type move except Toxic so that means no STAB move for the poison type. I don't know if Ice/Poison could workk
 

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fwiw, we could give it a Poison type Pixilate should we go with Ice/Poison, which I think is an incredibly unique and fun type. Sure we'd lose out on Slush Rush, but we could adjust the stats a bit to still make it viable. Slow bulky physical attacker could be a route we explore.
 
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fwiw, we could give it a Poison type Pixilate should we go with Ice/Poison, which I think is an incredibly unique and fun type. Sure we'd lose out on Slush Rush, but we could adjust the stats a bit to still make it viable. Slow bulky physical attacker could be a route we explore.

That is actually a great idea as giving it a powerful Poison-type nuke would give it a way to nail stuff that would otherwise give it a ton of trouble, including Azumarill, Unaware Clefable, Abomasnow, etc. It also gives Beartic a strong option against Fire-type switch-ins like Infernape, Entei, Torkoal and Victini. While most of these Pokemon wouldn't really want to stomach a Superpower, a Poison-type Return would receive STAB and come without any drawbacks.
 

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I voted for Fighting and Poison as secondary typings. As much sense as Water makes, I don't know if it could ever really make use of Aqua Jet enough as STAB. At least with Poison we could do a Poison type Pixilate which would make sense.
 
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I voted for Fighting and Poison as secondary typings. As much sense as Water makes, I don't know if it could ever really make use of Aqua Jet enough as STAB. At least with Poison we could do a Poison type Pixilate which would make sense.
Pretty much every Swords Dance user runs STAB priority if they have it, though. Aqua Jet is even more relevant if it keeps Swift Swim, which gives rain teams an alternative to Mega Swampert. It also beats Grass-types for rain teams.
Doesn't even really need a Poison-type Pixilate, to be honest. If we're going to give it something, I reckon a move in Poison Jab/Gunk Shot would suffice. That way we also get to keep Slush Rush :D.
I don't think we're allowed to give it new moves, since Pokemon only get new moves as a result of a new generation, new move tutors, etc. and not because of their Mega. It's up to gimmepie. If we can't add new moves, an -ate ability is required unless we think that Poison-type's defensive uses are worth it, which is debatable. Poison Mega Beartic still loses to most Fairy-types aside from Tapu Bulu and Tapu Lele. Poison is useful for Grass-types at least, and it removes Beartic's weakness to Fighting.
 
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Merciless could work.

Can we suggest new abilities?

Acid Snow: Upon being effected by a fire type move(being hit by a fire move/status or impacted by sunny day), acid snow melts and releases harsh toxins to the battle field inflicting poison statuses on all other pokemon. [ability only activates once per battle]


Acid snow is produced in exactly the same way as acid rain. It all starts when sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are emitted into the atmosphere, typically by power stations burning fossil fuels. Inside clouds, these molecules react with tiny droplets of water to form sulphuric and nitric acids. The water eventually falls as drops of acid rain, or, if it is cold enough, ice crystals form and fall as acid snow. Acid snow can be particularly damaging since it can accumulate on the ground, before abruptly releasing a large quantity of acidic water into the environment when it melts.
 
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So, considering Beartic's lack of Poison moves, obviously we need a Poison-typed Pixielate or something I'd say. But how about instead of increasing the power of moves affected by the ability, we give them a good chance of poisoning the target?
 
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So something like poison touch? I'm not sure, i think i prefer a poison type pixielate tbh but I wouldn't mind the other ability
 

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Acid Snow is way too convoluted as a Pokemon ability IMO. Fun yes, but not practical at all. I'd much prefer a Poison type Pixilate so that it can make use of it's powerful Return as a STAB.
 
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So something like poison touch? I'm not sure, i think i prefer a poison type pixielate tbh but I wouldn't mind the other ability

Sort of. Basically something like Return would become Poison-typed to get the STAB, but also gain like a 30% chance to Poison or something.
 
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