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Which stat spread should we give Mega Beartic?

gimmepie

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Make-a-Mega



Make-a-Mega is back at last! Alternating months with the new Alolan Mix-Up series, we'll once again embark upon the task of creating new and exciting Mega Evolutions for the Pokemon that missed out on one in the Sixth Generation.

How This Works


Over a number of weeks we'll work together as a community to create a Mega Evolved form for a Pokemon that doesn't have one yet. Here in Battling & Team Building, we'll decide on changes to our Mega Pokemon's Type, Ability and Stats. Meanwhile, once our Pokemon is selected, a partner thread in Art & Design will go up where the appearance of our Pokemon will be designed.

Decisions here will be made through a series of quick polls. Each week we will have three days of submissions and then four days with the poll up to make our decisions. The poll topics will be as follows

Week One: Pokemon Selection
Week Two: Type Selection
Week Three: Ability Selection
Week Four: Stat Distribution (+100 total)

Rules


To keep things fair and make sure we don't break the games' lore, we'll have some rules to follow.

1. No Legendary Pokemon
2. You may only submit one suggestion for each poll.
3. Don't submit Pokemon that have a Mega Evolution, including ones we've made a mega for already. Let's not give them to Alola forms either.
5. Increase the BST of the base form by 100, no more and no less (don't mention Alakazam, shhh).
6. Try to give some reasoning for your suggestions and feel free to discuss those of other participants.
7. Pokemon submitted must be UU tier or below. The OU Pokemon are good enough already.
8. Have fun. Or else.

With all that out of the way, feel free to start putting some ideas forward!

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gimmepie

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Flygon!!
Let's do this already. :')
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wolf

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Butterfree /s

How about Togekiss. o7
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faf

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My vote goes to Scrafty. It really fell from grace after the 5th generation due to Fairies and from huge power creeps, which is a shame because it has a colourful movepool, three great abilities (it could even use Intimidate being Mega-evolving), and a good offensive typing. If it had the stats, I feel it can be more successful.
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gimmepie

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Whoops, gave you all an extra day. the first poll is now open.
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wolf

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Voted for Beartic, Togekiss, and Scrafty. Ice-types are rare in OU, so Mega Beartic would make a nice addition. Togekiss is a very unique Pokemon that would be interesting to see more of in OU, though it might be best to give it a different ability for its Mega... Scrafty is interesting too. It might be fun trying to make a Dark/Fighting Pokemon usable in OU.
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I voted for Beartic, Crawdaunt, and Togekiss. Like wolf, I think having a good Ice type in OU could be really useful due to how good that type is offensively. Most Ice types are extremely underwhelming so Ice Beam coverage is just used. Having a fast physical Ice type could really shake things up. Crawdaunt is also interesting. It's extremely powerful but held back due to it's pitiful speed. It has a good boosting move in DD so maybe just a slight boost in speed, some extra bulk, and a small tune up to it's attack could really make it a viable mega. Togekiss just seems fun and has a load of possibilities. I'd rather change up it's ability though.

gimmepie

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I'm really starting to get behind Mega-Beartic here ngl. An additional type wouldn't be a bad idea, but I feel like the Ice-type definitely needs more representation since Weavile and (maybe) Alolan-Ninetales are the only Ice mon worth a damn in OU.

It's got access to some pretty good/powerful moves too Icicle Crash, Thrash, Superpower, Swords Dance, Bulk Up, Play Rough, Stone Edge, Surf etc.
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gimmepie

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So, thankfully Beartic won the coin toss against Togekiss. What shall we do with its typing?
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wolf

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Ice/Water could work well with Aqua Jet. Beartic doesn't learn Waterfall, but it might not need it. Icicle Crash / Superpower / Aqua Jet / Swords Dance. It also fits with Beartic's design since it's a polar bear, has Swift Swim, learns Water moves, etc. Ice/Fighting is more unique. However, none of the Ice/Water Pokemon are viable in OU anyway.
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gimmepie

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Honestly, Ice/Fighting and Ice/Water were my preferred options anyway so I'm not throwing anything else in as a suggestion :')
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gimmepie

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Those are the only two combinations that make sense. It gets Fairy and Dark type coverage, but Ice/Dark is would just be a worse Weavile and Ice/Fairy would stack the same weaknesses and Ninetales and just doesn't make sense for Beartic.
Before I forget, could you archive the current poll.
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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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Did you know that polar bear liver is actually poisonous and eating one will likely cause you to contract Hypervitaminosis A? It used to be a major problem for Inuits who tried it for the first time. Bear meat when improperly cooked can also cause humans to contract trichinella, which requires an expensive and highly specialized treatment regimen of either thiabendazole or mebendazole. A man named Gerrit de Veer once wrote that during his travels to Nova Zemlya that his crew had become extremely ill after consuming the meat and liver of a polar bear.

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.

Kostas

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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