Why isn't it a special attacker?

>>28993055
Kind of a good point. Would have made it less of a Golem clone

>>28993055
Like ground types all rock types must be physical because reasons. At least Rock has Omastar.

>>28993055
should've also been electric type desu senpai

>>28993055
You can still play him as a special attacker, though.

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>Using Gigalith in an XY hack that swaps his Attack/Special Attack stats and gives him more coverage with Thunderbolt and Dazzling Gleam.
>Tfw it will never be a reality outside of fan works.

>>28993258
>60 sp atk

Really anon? Really?

>>28993055
Yeah, it pisses me off. It'd be a perfect fucking turret-esque pokemon. Give it some more beam moves, maybe Thunderbolt, and swap it's attacking stats, and bam. Solid mon.

And hell, if you're feeling fat and sassy, maybe toss Calm Mind on it nevermind that it doesn't fit flavor text wise, it'd be a nice option.

>>28993055
>No special rock type move made for Gigalith

it hurts

>>28993369
Power Gem

>>28993055
because the game designers were too focused on making a gen 1 analogue to bother with an original pokemon

>>28993303
>not making your fav mons work

>>28993341
If Camerupt can learn Growth, I wouldn't mind Gigalith learning it too.

>>28993395
>Camerupt can learn Growth

Wut.

To be honest, that wouldn't be the craziest move for Gigalith though, given that it does absorb solar rays.

>>28993393
>how to tell when someone's never played pokemon competitvely their entire life

Stop talking about stuff you know nothing about. Pro tip, it makes you look stupid.

>>28993393
"making your favorite Pokemon work" is about outlining their strengths and working to make the most of them. You don't make Pachirisu a sweeper, you make it a follow me tank. You don't take your favorite Pokemon and make it suffer by completely ignoring its best traits and making it focus on its worse traits it can't do anything about.

That's like shoving your dog's nose in its pee because your roomate forgot to walk it today.

>>28993395
>>28993409
Crystals tend to "grow" under certain conditions

>>28993409
Numel gets it as an egg move in Gen 6.

Apparently Illumise has gotten it since Gen 3, which makes no sense to me.

>>28993467
And there is always work up.

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>There are only four mons that get STAB Power Gem
>the one with the highest special attack is Probopass at a base 75

How can a move be so good but so bad at the same time?

>>28993536
Thing that makes Growth good is that it's +2 to both stats if you have weather. Vanilla growth without that is absolute shit, and work up is a worse version of that.

>>28993443
>Assuming he plays competitively

>>28993567
Any weather or just sun?

>>28993223
Diancie as well.

>>28993393
I make my favorite mons work by training them wrong on purpose. As a joke.

>>28993554
The best use I got out of Power Gem is on Mismagius in early BW when everyone in their mother had Volcarona and LO 2 shotted it

>>28993384
This. Plenty of the original mons in BW were great. But almost all of the ones meant to parallel RBY mons were just ok

>>28993460
>Sturdy
>Autotomize
>Weakness Policy

Try to think outside of smogon's website, okay?

>>28993460
> The pachirisu meme
>60 SpA.

>>28993810
But literally why not do that as a physical attacker? Better in every way.

>>28993810
>Try to think outside of smogon's website, okay?

Name one reason to use these on a special set over a physical one.

>>28994119
Coverage maybe? Just playing devil's advocate here. I agree that physical is better tho

>>28993055
They fucked up.

I'm still mad about this. Sometimes GF has zero fucking creativity.

>>28993810
>Quick Attack
>E-Speed
>Sucker Punch
>Shadow Sneak

>>28994288
You'd do more damage using resisted physical moves.

>>28994119
Element of surprise.

>>28994459
You'd do more damage with physical moves, even if resisted. You'd gain surprise, and theyd do nothing different, becaus ethey wouldn't need to.

>>28994503
>Implying unboosted, resisted physical hit hits stronger than weakness policy special gigalith

>>28994513
Not using Gigalith in a sand team

Alright guys. Give us some in game Special sets to run.

>>28993303
This reminds me that Smogon's number one set for Swellow is a special set with Specs.

>>28994580
>>28993810
Fill up with coverage moves. Hopefully you can set up sun too for solar beam.

>>28993055
The guy in charge of stat and move distribution wanted to be a dick.

That's the sad-part, they mess up typings and stat distributions on mons that make no sense. And do not give me started on how crappy they are with typings.

Pressure, on a WEAVILE?!, Seriously not like Snow Rush where there's some actual reason to use a Ambomasnow? I mean they can even let Weavile keep Pressure as long as they gave it something else. Tough Claws or whatever. SOMETHING.