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Abilities that are good but have drawbacks

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What about an ability that boosted all attacks 1.1x, but critical hits were impossible?

What about 1.2x?
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>>32213098
1.1 sounds good enough, crits are janks anyways, most people don't rely on them so it's still essentially a free 10% damage boost
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>>32213131
Crits are needed to balance the metagame. Many 1850+ ELO OU competitive players rely on critical hits to get them out of stall battles.
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Depending on the Pokemon it could them a better sweeper. But being able to crit kill things is a big deal, it changes a bunch of 2HKOs into 1HKOs on almost every offensive Pokemon, which is arguably better then more consistent power. It'd be a neat ability with either number, but I doubt the trade off would be worth it in the long run, at least at 1.1. I'm way to lazy to confirm that with a damage calculator however.
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>>32213098
This only would work on Pokemon with already high attack/spa stat.

Too low and it's not worth it. Crits are necessary
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>>32213152
I guess I'm ignorant then
Still, a 20% boost is huge, you'd have to balance the pokemon around that ability, not just give it to anything
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Sounds like a worse sheer force ability.
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>>32213190
Not really. You still get secondary effects.
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