>>34340607Going for a twofer.
Fennekin line
>New HA: Archmage>User's attacks ignore defense and special defenseThis should give delphox some decent potential in competitive. While it doesn't change their crippling weaknesses or quite deal with their lack of decent type coverage, it does bring up their overall effectiveness against everything because... Well, "Hope you got a lot of HP because my stick goes in dry"
Chespin line
>new HA: Soul of Steel>User's is counted as pure Steel Type against attacks while over 50% HPThe funny thing is, this does mean that Chespin would still be weak to fennekin's fire and resistent to froakie's water, but the added bonus is dealing with chesnaut's x4 weakness to flying, also basically gooses the minds of anyone expecting him to be weak to many of grass' usual weak points.
All in all, I think these help fit with the way Greninja mixes things up with Protean in it's offense and defense by giving Delphox and Chesnaut some unexpected abilities that can bypass usual obstacles.
For Delphox, archmage is meant to emphasis they're fires and psychic attacks might not be from a normal source (implications of legit magical power)
Meanwhile, Chespin's Soul of Steel emphasises... Well, being a knight in armor, and possibly shedding the armor as the battle gets tough.