Its pretty obvious that gamefreak was power creeping the pseudo legends and peaked at Garchomp.
Since then, they've been tuning them much tigher, and none of the Pseudo legends since has seen as much play and as much dominance as Garchomp.
This has culminated in Gen 7, with Kommo-o, just being shit overall, with very few if any good traits.
I'm just wondering, is there anything that GF can do to make the next pseudo-legends just as strong as garchomp without being overbreaing on the metagame?
>>30548341
I mean Gen 5 Hydregion was terrifying
Make it a fairy type.
The only reason fairies weren't completely dominant in gen 6 was because most of them didn't have any good stats. The few that did were all amazing.
most overpowered type ever
>>30548341
Garchomp has serviceable bulk, a weird speed tier, god tier offensive typing which is also solid defensively, a movepool with literally everything it could want aside from DD and fucking retard tier attack. Oh it also has a god tier HA.
Goodra and Jojo dragon got literally none of that, their stat distros and movepools are just not really synergistic. Hydreigon was good in gen 5 but fell off severely when fairies were introduced. Let's show GF how to make some garchomp/tyranitar tier broken pseudos again:
Steel/Dragon
HP 114
ATK 104
DEF 140
SPA 66
SPD 112
SPE 64
Abilities: Lightningrod/Steelworker
Notable moves: Dragon Dance, Outrage, Dragon Claw, EQ, Heavy Slam, Fire Punch
>>30548341
Give them better abilities and not have ass stat distributions.
Seriously. Although Levitate, Sap Sipper, and Bullet/Sound Proof are decent, why is it that Dragonite, Tyranitar, and Salamence are to only Pseudos with really good abilities? And why do the newest 3 have such shit distribution?
Give use a fast Stakeout users, Glass Cannon Dazzling users, bulky regenerator users, etc.
>>30548958
What's the point of Steelworker on a Steel-type?
>>30549829
EVEN MORE STAB
>>30549829
It stacks with STAB, but then I guess you might as well give it Adaptability.
>>30549873
Adaptability would be too busted on a pokemon that doesn't have serious weaknesses elsewhere.
>>30548341
I feel like Gamefreak was afraid of making broken Pokemon. It is not just Kommo-O, most alola Pokemon suffer from this
>>30548958
weak armor
>>30548341
Post more cute dragon girls
>>30550818
well they kinda failed miserably with the Tapus and UBs though.
>>30548341
Well, for one maybe stop the fucking dragon type trend. Seriously what the fuck gives? Tyranitar and metagross were such cool pseudo legendary pokemon and did fairly well in and out of the competitive scene but fuck I agree no pseudo has been a dominant as garchomp
>>30551913
it basically boils down to Garchomp being the fastest Pseudo.
>>30551927
Give hydregion 5 more speed. We now have a superior pseudo.Srs.
>>30551960
pretty much.
Although Hydreigon has still got to compete with Latios.