How would the meta game change if the special physical split

Congratulations Azumarill is worthless again

>>33512223
As is Sharpedo and Darmanitan. Like I said I expect a few things to suffer but a few still get good (superpower regirock for example)

Smogon actually has a post dedicated to this so I'll link it to see what they think (grains of salt given, of course) http://www.smogon.com/articles/physical-special-split

>>33512203
Feraligatr becomes ass again. Typhlosion benefits. Sceptile benefits.

>the state of gyarados

>>33512203

Let's swap Ghost and Dark while we're at it; it makes no sense that Ghost was physical and Dark was special

>>33512401
I always disliked how sceptiles special attack is higher but it's signature move is fucking leaf blade.

Steel types that aren't weak to electric attacks could wall Magearnea, Mimikyu/Bannete would hit a bit harder with shadow ball as main stab move, Knock off and sucker puch users would be trash now, Zoroark could work as pursuit trapper I guess, Fairies would be even better because the lack of poison corverage in physical attackers, Bulu is now NU. Also
>Serperior with leaf strom, special knock off, special outrage and hp fire

Garchomp's Outrages go from using 130 Attack to an embarrassing 80 Sp Attack

>>33512410
>the city of Crawdaunt

>>33512418
grass was special in gen 3
also now shadow ball once again becomes a physical move that lowers special defense

>dark becomes physical
>ghost becomes special
There, gen 3 dark-shitmons are fixed

For real though, why the hell wasn't it like that from day one?

>>33512433
>the country of weavile

>>33512439
You'd think they'd make Mega Sceptile more physically based to accommodate the changes, but nope.

But here's the real question

Would it dethrone mega-fug?

Probably not

>>33512456
>the third world shithole of Haxorus

Gengar gets even better with the elemental punches. Alakazam loses out on Focus Blast, but regains the punches too

Can't decide whether Alakazam gets buffed or not

>gains the elemental punches and Knock Off
>loses Focus Blast and Shadow Ball

>>33512509
When you can bolt/beam punch your way through life, go with it.

>>33512203
>Let's make Fairy special for the majority's sake

M-Mawile gets absolutely fucking crippled.

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>>33512358
Sharpedo might actually be ok. Its special attack is passable and crunch, ice fang, and psychic fangs are all special following gen III logic, and would still be boosted by strong jaw.
>>33512418
>>33512439
>>33512465
Fucking seed flare would actually make sense flavor wise, but no, let's only give it to a legendary who doesn't even have seeds on its body.

>>33512422
makes me interested in how it would actually feel to play, and how the meta might develop
would totally give it a try, anyways

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Sounds like my boy is back in business!

>>33512518
So?

>>33512203
More pokemon run hidden power since it can now be physical.

Special attackers like Gengar and Alakazam carry elemental punches for coverage, the former of whom can't rely on its STAB as well.

Earthquake becomes even more centralizing as a coverage move on physical attackers due to decreased options.

Fairy would most likely be special since there's only one physical fairy move.

Focus Blast becomes even more worthless than it already is by nature of competing with Close Combat and Superpower as physical fighting moves.

All of the butterfly pokemon become worthless because bug and flying are physical, reducing bug type's usage to physical powerhouses like Scizor and Heracross.

Most Dragon types stick to special sets if they have them, or in cases where they rely on a physical move like Extremespeed for Dragonite.

Psyshock becomes god-tier while Secret Sword just becomes another physical fighting move.

Metagross and Jirachi run mixed sets, while Bronzong foregoes psychic STAB for utility moves and physical attacks.

Special Aegislash is no more, meaning it fears burns much more now. However, its physical movepool remains uncompromised.

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>>33512548
>More pokemon run hidden power since it can now be physical.
>gyarados running HP Flying for physical stab

Nihilego goes from using 127 Sp Attack for stab attacks to 53 Attack

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>DD aerielate physical hyper voice Mega-mence

>>33512478
>the hemisphere of Kingler

>>33512595
>guts boomburst swellow
flying types have it good

>252 Atk Life Orb Toucannon Boomburst vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Mew: 203-239 (50.2 - 59.1%) -- 76.6% chance to 2HKO after Leftovers recovery