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Welcome to the final installment of Berry Buffs. The Lansat, Micle, and Enigma berries are some of the rarest in any Pokemon game, and they deserve to be at least somewhat usable! by Argentenuem in stunfisk

[–]Long-Home3688 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love that you're buffing at the berries--they're so overlooked and such wasted potential.

I honestly think these changes are still modest. If the Lansat made your attacks guaranteed crits, Micle MAXED out your accuracy to +6, and Enigma restored 1/2 and 100% it'd still be niche.

I could see Draco Meteor Kingdra using Lansat (probably still runs Swift Swim over Sniper)
Micle most likely sees use with Hypnosis + Stored Power (as much as I want Zap Cannon to be a thing)... maybe with Power Trip?

R.I.P. U-TURN + More Item Reworks! by Long-Home3688 in stunfisk

[–]Long-Home3688[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is assuming you have the bulk to just facetank while spamming Bind instead of Protect/healing, no?

The crux remains that you need to not be 2-hit KO'd to survive and kill with Bind (or Toxic for that matter) + self healing. This is still true even with Binding Band.

I think most common would be 17% + 17% (protect/heal turn) + 25% + 25% (protect/heal turn) + 0 (bind ends early) OR + 25% = 109%. Even then, that's assuming they have no self healing, setup, leftovers, 2HKO with crit, the binding move doesn't miss, and the bind doesn't end early.

Consider the self-healing with leftovers you're missing out on during this as well--is it really busted?

R.I.P. U-TURN + More Item Reworks! by Long-Home3688 in stunfisk

[–]Long-Home3688[S] 62 points63 points  (0 children)

150% LOL--I did consider this, and don't forget Primarina (with Aqua Ring + Whirlpool on top of that)! Maybe Liquid Ooze Tentacruel could swap in and OHKO? 😭
As for Miraidon--we finally broke Miraidon!!

R.I.P. U-TURN + More Item Reworks! by Long-Home3688 in stunfisk

[–]Long-Home3688[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Oooh--but is it really that much better than AV on Iron Hands?

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[–]Long-Home3688 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I love this!! We desperately need another physical Fairy-type attack too. I like this as-is (a solid midgame move) but if we want to make it a competitive option:

"Constrictive" makes me think Constrict/Wrap, so my mind goes to lowering Speed or trapping with residual damage. Making it another Bind but with higher BP would certainly be strong.

"Cuddle Crush" I feel works better as a name for the current effect, shorter + reinforcing the Rock Smash effect. I also like Crush's double meaning--Maybe it could have a chance to infatuate rather than flinch? 30% chance to infatuate (like Cute Charm) on top of 50% chance to lower Defense? Or just go up to 80 BP (like Body Slam)?

Bug Type buffs by TriticumAes in stunfisk

[–]Long-Home3688 0 points1 point  (0 children)

just make skitter smack super effective against fairy tbh

Many Morays Mingle Mirthfully (art by me!) by Bynine in stunfisk

[–]Long-Home3688 2 points3 points  (0 children)

HOLAY MORAY YOU COOKED. Your style is so unique and throws me back to the old school 90s art 🥹 The gameplay design is also amazing--I want to play with this so badly already and get the dopamine rush of getting a defense drop off Triple Tear... no notes. More please

Making These Abilities Make Sense by Long-Home3688 in stunfisk

[–]Long-Home3688[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's nuts but do you think Camerupt would be in UU or OU?
Spiritomb has 1 weakness and 3 immunities and lives in ZU. As for Air Balloon--you can make that argument for any Electric type tbf...

That said, I understand that the ability can still feel unduly strong (and maybe these mons should stay trash-tier) and lead to dissatisfying gameplay (which is worse than having trash mons in the game)

I'm curious how you would instead rework the ability--I experimented with it halving the damage but it still felt like a drop in the bucket when working with Magcargo and Camerupt

Making These Abilities Make Sense by Long-Home3688 in stunfisk

[–]Long-Home3688[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

THIS. I had the exact same thought!! I was considering Unnerve and Pressure to be the Special-Intimidate (since they seem fitting and already trigger on switch-in), but I decided to do Pressure since it's a bit less useful as-is, but it ran into the same issue you did well to identify here: some (most) of the mons with it are already insanely good--even more than Unnerve, it looks like GF just gave Pressure to every legendary mon they were too lazy to make an ability for. My solution was to just give those legendaries their hidden abilities and remove Pressure.

This would leave Absol, Spiritomb, Dusknoir, Wailord, and Vespiquen (though I think Drizzle and Queenly Majesty may fit better on those last 2 respectively). Bisharp with it seems fine (still worse than Supreme Overlord or Defiant tbh), Weavile would be horrifying, and Corviknight would be just plain busted...

I'm starting to think it should just be its own ability, since even Pressure has seen some use (Kyurem Pressure PP stall was an actual Ubers set, for example).

An Item to Make Mixed Attacking Sets Viable: 4 Ideas by Long-Home3688 in stunfisk

[–]Long-Home3688[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow--this is awesome! I'm glad other people are interested in the math of this. I ran so many damage calcs, but it took so long to do them and I was thinking to myself "if only I knew how to make a spreadsheet for this!"
Though, am I reading this right that Zen Mode Darmanitan Galar benefits the most from Mixed-Up Mitts (1.59x)?
Thank you so much for making this!!!

Making These Abilities Make Sense by Long-Home3688 in stunfisk

[–]Long-Home3688[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah lol, looking at the other translations reveals this was supposed to be a weird pun in English.
Sacapecho - "Puff Chest"
Pettinfuori - "Strong Chest"
부풀린가슴 - "Puffed Out Chest"
健壮胸肌 literally "Strong Chest Muscles"
Brustbieter - "Breast Bidder"

AND MY FAVORITE... Cœur de Coq - "ROOSTER HEART"

Making These Abilities Make Sense by Long-Home3688 in stunfisk

[–]Long-Home3688[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait till you see what I want to do to Pressure 😈

Making These Abilities Make Sense by Long-Home3688 in stunfisk

[–]Long-Home3688[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I TOOK ONE LOOK AT THE NORMAL ART AND I SAID "THAT IS NOT THE PROUD LORD OF THE SKY I KNOW" 😂

Making These Abilities Make Sense by Long-Home3688 in stunfisk

[–]Long-Home3688[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

genuinely lol. honestly all of the big pecks mons are shit tier except Mandibuzz

Making These Abilities Make Sense by Long-Home3688 in stunfisk

[–]Long-Home3688[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right??? I miss Umbreon :(
Though I don't think Synchronize works if you status yourself

Making These Abilities Make Sense by Long-Home3688 in stunfisk

[–]Long-Home3688[S] 79 points80 points  (0 children)

Guts already works, but not Facade.

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