How do we make him a good mega?

Give him an ability that works outside of niche sand teams

>shore up
>magnet pull
>arena trap
pick one

>>33047294
>him

>>33047345
>shore up
This so much. It's already designed for sand teams. All it needs is reliable recovery.

>>33047294
Auto Gravity?

>>33047294
Regenerator

>>33047294
>him
>not understanding how personal pronouns work
>>33047345
>shoving sand into a metal snake will make it feel better

>>33047623

Using your logic Rest shouldn't heal you.

Because sleeping doesn't cure Paralysis, Poison or anything.

>>33047623
Steelix is m.ale only

Coil and some sort of recovery move

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>>33047745
>Species with sexual dimorphism is always male

>>33047345
>>33047392
>>33047660
"Shore" is right there in the name, you know. I'm pretty sure Steelix don't live near beaches, and I'm also pretty sure tossing sand at a ten meter-tall metal earthworm would just annoy it.

How would you feel, if I buried you beneath a small hill of sand, and shouted, "YOUR IMPURITIES HAVE BEEN HEALED! CAST AWAY ARE THE INJURIES, ACCEPTED IN THEIR PLACE IS THE IMMORTAL LIGHT!, MAY YOU LIVE TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY," while you are suffocating and clearly can't hear anything beyond all the sand anyway. Would that be rude of me?

That's right. So don't be rude to poor Steelix, by telling it that what it really needs is to have sand kicked in its face. It's not nice.

>>33048821
Japanese name is just "Sand Gather". It'd collect sand.

>>33048835
And do what with it? Build a sand castle?

To be fair I could see something like Cradily or even Hippowdon get it. But Steelix just.... It needs to make sense, that gathering sand and covering it over your body is in itself going to heal you.

>>33048821
Ur right and cute anon. Made me chuckle.

>>33047294
replace Sand Force with Regenerator.

Heatproof would be pretty neat on it

Burns would only do ~3% and taking neutral from Fire would go a long way defensively

>>33047294
>him
Don't you mean xir?

>>33048994
Yeah, a little weird Durant doesn't get that, considering it's supposed to have donned metal armor to ward off Heatmor....

Magnet Pull would be fine for Steelix, it makes sense given its flavor. A little unfair that you as a Ground type could trap Steel and they can't do anything about it, but Steelix has always needed to be stronger anyway.

>Shore Up
>New move: Alleviate- Super-effective moves receive do half damage for three turns, at the cost of half the HP

Broken?

>>33047294
Recover and Sandstream

>>33048821
Faggot retard

>>33047348
>>33047623
>>33049024
It's a male Steelix. Learn gender diffrences

>him
kill yourself

>>33049090
Yes and debatably no.

>>33048525
The dysmorphism is only between tops and bottoms, they're all males

Honestly shore up fits well enough and it would literally be all mlix needs.

Coil too

>>33048821
1) stop being reddit
2) learn the Japanese names
3) steelix seems to like sand, considering it learns sandstorm and it's mega's ability is sand force.

>>33047294
Dump Sand Force for a trapping ability. Boom, it's top tier.

>>33049091
Megas don't have gender differences.

>>33049169
>Coil, Shore, Heavy Slam Mega-Steelix
Don't step on me bro.