ITT: great in theory, poor in execution

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>>30863658
>has attack animation
>can't actually use it in battle

Its not great in theory either

>>30863692
Counter

Reggie gigas

His ability is shitty and doesn't work with his stats but he's a tank which can set up and baton pass as well as use annoying moves

>Pyukumuku
>Bad

Unaware Curse/Reco/Toxic/Soak is pretty great in both Battle Tree singles and has been doing me some niche good in VGC against Garchomp when paired with Tapu Koko

>>30863778
this

Why'd they have to make Zen Mode completely inferior to regular Darmanitan?

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>strength sap being the most broken move
>spore
>fairy typing
>effect spore for giggles
thread over OP, here is the true winner

>>30863777
>opponent used Substitute

>>30863777
>curse
Why not Baton Pass or Taunt? Seem more useful to me.

Pyukyuk seems a bit broken if its threats are removed or at least covered by alolan Marowak.

>>30863827
>lacks the bulk of grass and offensive capability of fairy

Pretty sure he was just thrown in for shits and giggles

>>30863859
Not all that common in VGC especially with Koko being able to threaten really well.

>>30863868
If you're going to baton pass you may as well use Z Purify and if you're a smogontard you must keep curse on there to take away the speed boost before passing it.

>>30863879
no
it has fucked up stats because its parasect's counterpart

>>30863868
I probably should run taunt but I'm 17/3 in the Battle of Alola so I'm not much to care, though I've used Pyukumuku six of those times and lost one.

>>30863793
It's not so much that it's inferior, it's that you get the defensive form when your HP is under half, which kinda defeats the point. Minior is Zen Mode done right.

>tfw Pyukumuku has great defenses rather than great HP/Attack

absolute waste

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>Was designed to fight ultra beasts apparently
>Nothing suggests it has anything to make it more qualified to do this than any other pokemon
>It's ability relies on 16 items that are like plates that aren't plates like Arceus
>It has a plate system even though this gen has Z-Crystals
>Rather than just making its ability rely on Z-Crystals, and thus giving it access to Z-Moves whilst simultaneously using them for special purposes, it just uses bootleg plates
>YOU LITERALLY COLLECT ITEMS THAT CORRESPOND TO EACH TYPE IN THE GAME, AND THEN THEY. DON'T. FUCKING. USE IT FOR SILVALLY
>It's design is meant to be a special evolution of Type: Null
>This cool concept is clearly ignored because at no point in the story does Type: Nulls evolution become a key scene that would develop both its own and Gladion's "friendship" story
>All of this plotline happens off screen
>It doesn't have any cool moves and its ability is designed to just be garbage
>Will always be a cheap clone of Arceus whilst worse in every way

>>30863658
fuck you, i've had it kill nearly 2 dozen celesteelas now

>>30863827
>hey guys this might actually be way too strong
>let's balance it with shit stats, making it completely useless
JUST

>>30863966
they just need to give it and arceus an ability that always makes it do super effective attacks

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>>30863908
>both evolve at level 24
>both have the same BST, shiinotic special oriented, parasesct physical oriented
>both of them have a *4 weakness
>both of them have 1 inmunity (dry skin parasect inmune to water)
>both of them are fucking mushroomes
shiinotic is literally alolan parasect, but at the end gamefreak just tweaked with the design a bit and changed the name

>>30863966
>no cutscene of Null evolving when Lusamine summons Lusamine

He literally says "I'll deal with the beast!", it's a perfect opportunity

>>30864021

No they need to give it an ability that allows it to multiple types at once, unfortunately Gamefreak blew this load already forcing their precious Gary Stu frog to have it for no reason.

>>30863727
nice counter anon!

>>30864031
Maybe shiinotic is the mushroom that infects parasect

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>>30863658

>>30863658
Pokefinder

>>30863658
At least Unaware-Pain Split-Curse is a thing.

But yes, Innards Out is absolute garbage.

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team preview heavily limits how tricky you can be with this thing

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>>30863658
I don't understand why they would design it with a big fist and then not do anything with it.

>>30863903
>if you're a smogontard you must keep curse on there to take away the speed boost before passing it

They still kept the no speed boost pass allowed? zzzzzzz

>>30866742
It's not too bad if it's 3v3s; you play the wildcard factor of it existing in your draft. Sucks ass for full party battles, though.

>>30863734
His ability is specifically designed to KO sweepers that boosted to the point to where they would otherwise sweep the rest of the team. So many of my Porygon-Z Conversion sweeps were ruined because of this bastard.

>>30863658
This thing soaks up non-super effective hits like it's no one's business.

I'm running Relaxed, 0 Atk/Speed IV's with max HP/defense. Light Clay for the item.

-Soak (removes STAB unless you're facing a water-type, which you wall completely; allows you to Toxic poisons and steels)
-Reflect (to make it un-killable vs 95% of physical attackers)
-Recover (shouldn't need explaining)
-Baton Pass (to soak up an attack and bring in another mon cleanly)

It's an amazing defensive pivot and pairs up well with specially defensive Tapu Fini since she prevents Pyukumuku from getting Toxic'd. Throw in Alolan Marowak to cover their electric and grass weaknesses.

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>Bug electric sp attacker with fucking levitate
>Fucking alola raichu is better than this fucker
>you can't even get it until right at the end of the game
>43 base speed with no bulk at all
Why give a pokemon a unique design if nobody's gonna fucking use it.

>>30863966
It's weird, they actually changed arceus so he can change typing when given z-crystals, so now there's that... I really expected him to be more important to the plot than he actually was, but then again I thought about that for zygarde too.

>>30863966
Fuck this piece of shit for adding 16 useless items in a huge list of useless items in these games.

>>30863966
Jesus Christ Sivally not just straight up using the Z-Crystals really is triggering as fuck.

>>30863966
I say Lusamine is retarded and since she didn't care at all about the Alola region in the first place, nobody thought of using Z-crystals.

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>>30869951
I mean jeez, who even uses a disc drive these days.

>>30868679
ikr? charjabug evolite would be better than this gar-mon

>>30863859
>poster used autism