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5th Gen Encourage Ability

Twilight Sky said:
But at the same time I can at least see where they're coming from. Utilizing technician as an example again, it raises all moves with a base 60 power or less by 1.5x. Combine that with swords dance and STAB and thats pretty deadly(heck, one of the reasons why Scizor is such a huge threat with Bullet Punch).

The apparent drawback is that it takes away secondary effects(which doesn't hurt priority moves in the slightest if they give Wooguru one) but it does boost the power of the select move(this is only assuming with moves that have a secondary effect. I doubt it affects all moves). Taking this into account, it's technician except sorta gimmicky and really risky.
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that is true but it depends on the pokemon utilising the abilty really. scizor is about the only good technician there is.

and technician boosts weak attacks by 50% but one person said a boost of 10% by encouragement would be broken
 
Twilight Sky said:
Yeah, 10% wouldn't really help that much. I mean, if you think about all the items like charcoal, nevermeltice, wise glasses, etc, they all boost moves by 10% and well...that is a pretty minor boost compared to Technician, really.
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ya 10& is far too little to make up for cancelling out the chance to status/ cut your opponents stats/ raise your stats.

i remember someone saying it would be broken to raise fire punch from 112.5 power to 123.75 power but tbh id be more scared of 112.5 and a chance of being burned
 
lets talk about earthquake spiral.
 
Thing is, we're DISCUSSING how the Encourage works.

What're we going to say for Earthquake Spiral?

"derpy this ability are cooooo.........megukuruo gonna get overpowered!!!11".
 
Twilight Sky said:
I'm quite lost, or maybe I haven't been keeping up like I should. Can someone fill me in quickly on what this Earthquake Spiral ability is supposed to do?
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Earthquake Spiral boosts the attack of a pokemon after it has defeated another pokemon in battle, so if it's a physical sweeper...well it will be deadly...
 
Kirbychu said:
I meant that a good Aqua Jet could probably take care of him once his has his high attack stat. He'll probably have slow speed anyways.
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Oh, yeah a good aqua jet could probably take care of it. Wonder if we will get a water version of Extreme speed...
If it has a evo with high defenses and attack then it will be hard to take down...
 
Maybe this Pokemon will get a crappy move-pool....
Like Entei, Voltorb, or Flareon.
 
Twilight Sky said:
Now if I'm understanding that right...that's...pretty broken. o_o;
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Not really considering +1 isn't that much and you'd have to fight a number of turns for a boost equal to Swords Dance. It's not really that broken.
 
Twilight Sky said:
Wait, it's only a +1, right? But I dunno, what I'm picturing in my head like, if you faint one Pokemon, you'll automatically get a boost in Attack or something? o.o; Like, wouldn't fainting that one Pokemon in itself give a boost equivalent to Bulk Up(minus the defense)? I would think that's pretty deadly...
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LETS GET BACK ON THE TOPIC!

I am looking forward to kicking asses and taking names with Hihidaruma and Wooguru!
 
Twilight Sky said:
Wait, it's only a +1, right? But I dunno, what I'm picturing in my head like, if you faint one Pokemon, you'll automatically get a boost in Attack or something? o.o; Like, wouldn't fainting that one Pokemon in itself give a boost equivalent to Bulk Up(minus the defense)? I would think that's pretty deadly...
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I don't think that they have said the amount actually but I see it as a 1 stage growth like with bulk up like you said which is still helpful :)...
 
Magmaruby and Aquasapphire said:
I don't think that they have said the amount actually but I see it as a 1 stage growth like with bulk up like you said which is still helpful :)...
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at first i hoped for a swords dance equivalent of a boost but maybe thats too much? im hoping meguruko is really fast though so it can be a good sweeper and i cant wait to see its evolved form
 
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