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How would you feel about this change to Z-Moves?
>If the Z-Crystal held by a Pokemon that has STAB for that type, the Z-Move gains a secondary effect.
>Z-Moves in general are debuffed if this ends up making them too broken.
For instance:
>Fire Z-move has a chance of burn
>Psychic Z-move decreases Sp. Def
>Grass Z-move replenishes 1/8 or 1/4, whichever works best, of total health
>Ground Z-move decreases Speed
>Electric Z-move increases Speed
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Sounds cool in paper. Xurkitree could drop z-hypnosis/rain and start packing z-thunderbolt.
It would probably end up the same as any other gimmicky mechanic: meh pokemon become good, but good pokemon become better, so nothing really changes at all. Pokemon has this tendency of hitting red queen hypothesis levels of irony with every new thing they introduce.
I wonder how It'd be like if attacking z-moves kept the secondary effects and priority of their base move. For example, breakneck blitz from fake out still flinches, inferno overdrive from inferno always burns, etc.
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____ium A that instead of boosting power makes secondary effects either stronger or always occuring
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