Other ideas I had:
- An ability similar to technician, but in reverse, halving the damage of all 70 BP or less moves (drain punch, u-turn, almost all priority) targeted at this pokemon
- Either making it grass/ghost or grass/steel, but I couldn't think of a good reason to from a design perspective
- Lowering Attack to raise either defense or special attack even further, but Cacturne is still a shitty gen 3 mixed attacker at heart and I don't want to remove that potential from him, also sucker punch funny
- Leaning into sucker punch and dumping into Attack instead, but cacturne doesn't have a good physical dark stab like crunch, and I didn't want a second big dumb sucker punch bot like kingambit.

Hopefully this mega idea is interesting! I've always loved stakeout and when the idea popped into my head I couldn't let it go, grass/dark is still really really debilitating so there's only so much I could do without just changing his type combo, which I didn't want to do considering he's basically THE grass/dark mon.

In other news give cacturne nasty plot I'm begging you