Delete an Ability

Started by Palamon June 19th, 2019 8:53 PM
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Palamon

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If there were Abilities in Pokemon you'd remove, which ones would you remove, and why? Personally, Defeatist sucks, honestly, so I'd get rid of that one. Who'd want to have an ability that LOWERS the stats when your HP is low? That's garbage.

I'd also get rid of Klutz, I've never liked that ability.

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I'd just delete Water Compaction because Sandygast/Palossand can do just fine with Water Absorb if we're going with the thematic route.

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Truant! Poor Slaking *sniffle*

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Wonder Guard, probably. Not necessarily because of the ability itself, but rather because of the thematic inconsistency created by the type system itself. Being immune to Slash, but weak to Peck just seems weird to me.
i literally hate the starters default ability. like literally are blaze/overgrow/torrent useful. i just. ugh
Starters are kind of like generic shonen heroes. They are decent in most situations, but only able to resort to their true strength in a pinch.

Makes me wonder if starter Pokemon are supposed to be the "protagonist" of the games and the other party members just being support of some sort...
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i've always hated regigigas' ability. slow start is so dumb that it just hurts. but I guess they need to nerf 'em :( that goes for truant too \\

i also love bewear but I caught one with klutz and I can't be bothered to catch one with fluffy. would've run bewear with a z-crystal or something :/
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Arena Trap and Shadow Tag are annoying when I want to get from point A to point B without fighting wild Pokémon.
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Klutz, an awful ablility, especially for Pokémon like Golurk who can't even learn Skill Swap to pass the ability on to an opponent for tactical advantage.
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Truant! Poor Slaking *sniffle*
Lol I was just going to say this. Although after using one in ORAS, he's still pretty broken even with Truant. Giga Impact destroys absolutely everything in it's path. I can't even imagine how more broken he'd be without Truant. 😂

Slakoth on the other hand....

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Honey Gather seems fairly pointless. Why not just add Honey to the Pickup chart?

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One of Vital Spirit or Insomnia. They do the same thing. Delibird has both of those abilities, one as hidden (the other choice is Hustle...). We don't need effectively the same thing twice!

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If there were Abilities in Pokemon you'd remove, which ones would you remove, and why? Personally, Defeatist sucks, honestly, so I'd get rid of that one. Who'd want to have an ability that LOWERS the stats when your HP is low? That's garbage.

I'd also get rid of Klutz, I've never liked that ability.
I agree with you that both Defeatist and Klutz suck, so they'd be two good candidates.

Stall is also not very good, is it? I suppose its main reason of existance is to counter Trace? (Probably the case with Klutz too) But it doesn't do a good job, I'd throw it into the garbage.

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I don't get why is Normalize a thing, tbh
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really never liked Hustle or Rivalry, every time I catch a Pokémon I want to use on my team and it ends up with that ability (assuming it has two) I keep going until I get the better alternative. I don't like the lower accuracy from Hustle, and Rivalry making me weaker if I battle something with the same gender is just blehh.

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clone abilities are dumb too like arena trap and shadow tag are the same right????? except i think maybe one can trap indefinitely and the other can't like. idk. i don't......who. Why
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I don't get why is Normalize a thing, tbh
It's a good ability, actually, all of Skitty's moves will get a Same Type Attack Bonus since it turns everything into a normal type attack.