the thread that makes France look good

It reminds me of Lucario for some reason, except it's sorta on fire =/

Zoroa to me, looks like kinda a Shinx x Poochyena with some sort of fire thing.

gamer691 said:

I'm not too thrilled about it. Its cute and all, but I really wanted a Sandlsash evo.

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Noob. It's one pokemon of more to come. :3

Sandslash may get an evo, and if he does, I predict an Arbok evo as well.

...I just wish this new 'mon didn't have circles for eyebrows >.>

And yes, swalot evo is required xD needs moar whiskers lol

No more Rampardos-like pokemon please...Why bother giving something 160 base attack if it's not even usable =/

Aurafire said:

No more Rampardos-like pokemon please...Why bother giving something 160 base attack if it's not even usable =/

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Most likely because Gamefreak doesn't care about the metagame lol.

I'm sure that that evo will be usable. Usually those pre-announced pokemon are decent...except Sharpedo.

I suspect it will have ~110 Attack, ~120 Speed, ~90 Special Attack and ~60-70 defenses. And seeing it has pure Dark for its type, it will probably be used a revenge killer with Sucker Punch and Pursuit. Dark doesn't give a good amount of resists so a set up sweeper would be pretty mediocre imo unless you sacrifice a Pokemon to switch it in.

But we'll see.

That's an oddly specific prediction. I'm voting for amazing physical wall. 120/110/90 defenses. That sprite looks at BULKY AS HELL.

Aurafire said:

That sprite looks at BULKY AS HELL.

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That sprite looks about as bulky as a luvdisc with cancer >.<
Unless it has crazy-hair-shields or something... o.o

Just dropping by to express my deep loathing for the new pokemon, which is basically a dark vulpix with suspicious sexual tendencies and will most likely end with extremely bad stats.

Hi!

gamer691 said:

On a side note this thread makes me think that Deoxys-D might be up for a new suspect test to be dropped down from Ubers.

Discuss.

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It's obviously Uber because of Knock Off.

Agreeing with MM. Deoxys-D is probably the best user of Knock Off around, and can abuse Knock Off to take quite a bit of pressure off of a team if it comes across something like a Choice Sweeper and as a result weaken the power of said Sweeper.

Skip Shot said:

Agreeing with MM. Deoxys-D is probably the best user of Knock Off around, and can abuse Knock Off to take quite a bit of pressure off of a team if it comes across something like a Choice Sweeper and as a result weaken the power of said Sweeper.

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"Dont switch choice item pokemon into it then ?" lol

Skip Shot said:

Agreeing with MM. Deoxys-D is probably the best user of Knock Off around, and can abuse Knock Off to take quite a bit of pressure off of a team if it comes across something like a Choice Sweeper and as a result weaken the power of said Sweeper.

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Lern to sarcasm

Seriously, Deoxys-D really isn't that good, despite it having monstrous base stats =/ As presented in that thread at Smogon, the fact that it's entry hazard weak really does kill it =P

DARK_AZELF: knock off is a silly move anyway
DARK_AZELF: since their item can be used against them
DARK_AZELF: i.e life orb wears them down
DARK_AZELF: choice items lock them in so makes it easier to predict them
DARK_AZELF: only really helps with lefties lol