Greenlit: Dracovish Gameplay Analysis

Hey! I wanted to press stuff more on the game design and tangentially into fan-game territory this time. I wanted to go over some of the design choices that went into Dracovish specifically, mostly because there's a lot I want to talk about with it. There's lot of ideas and concepts that can be built onto all coming from this one mon.

- Going over Dracovish how works

- Dracovish's climb to glory in practice

- The benefits/consequences to Dracovish's design

- How to reverse engineer these factors into possible fanworks and enable additional Pokemon designs of the same creativity

-etc idk anything else i can think about

Ranko said:

Hey! I wanted to press stuff more on the game design and tangentially into fan-game territory this time. I wanted to go over some of the design choices that went into Dracovish specifically, mostly because there's a lot I want to talk about with it. There's lot of ideas and concepts that can be built onto all coming from this one mon.

- Going over Dracovish how works

- Dracovish's climb to glory in practice

- The benefits/consequences to Dracovish's design

- How to reverse engineer these factors into possible fanworks and enable additional Pokemon designs of the same creativity

-etc idk anything else i can think about

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I like the idea and thought it would be a neat article idea myself (at least in the basis of horribly matched fossils irl), but was way too busy. You should definitely do it!

Benefits/consequences - could you elaborate a bit more on this, please?

Possible fanworks angle sounds neat. I guess a link to the pokemon fusion creation site/s may be relevant for this too.

bobandbill said:

I like the idea and thought it would be a neat article idea myself (at least in the basis of horribly matched fossils irl), but was way too busy. You should definitely do it!

Benefits/consequences - could you elaborate a bit more on this, please?

Possible fanworks angle sounds neat. I guess a link to the pokemon fusion creation site/s may be relevant for this too.

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Basically nailing down the pros and cons of it being designed with the set up it was given! For example:

Extremely straightforward. All Dracovish can really only use the same attacks, mostly because it can't do much else better.

When it comes Fakemon for example, i think its important to have the actual designed mon have its strengths and limitations, much like Gamefreak does

+ 1 from me

The gen 8 Fossils are very interesting in concept.
Dracovish is ludicrously strong though :')

I'd like to point out that, while Dracovish is famous for having the most powerful move ever - Fishious Rend (85 base power) before the target (double power) in rain (50% stronger) with Strong Jaw (50% stronger), STAB (50% stronger) and a Muscle Band (50% higher Attack, same effect as 50% stronger), all together equivalent to a regular 85x2x1.5x1.5x1.5x1.5=860.625 base power move - I think we all overlook the fact that Dracozolt achieves pretty much the same effect with Bolt Beak (85 base power) before the target (double power) in Electric Terrain (50% stronger) with Hustle (50% higher Attack, same effect as 50% stronger), STAB (50% stronger) and a Muscle Band (50% higher Attack, same effect as 50% stronger), which also comes together to a 860.625 base power move.

Dracozolt even has a higher base Attack stat than Dracovish, making it capable of even more mass destruction (if it would just manage to hit the mark in all the Hustle).