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Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2013 00:20:07 No.13778897 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>13778941 >>13779420 >>13779710 >>13780232

What is the point in hindering abilities? If they thought the pokemon were OP, why create them at all or nerf their stats?

I mean, is archeops really going to be that strong? It would be like Salamence, at best. And Slaking?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2013 00:23:08 No.13778941 Report

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>>13778897
I think all pokemon should have BSTs of 300 and have Runaway as their abilities.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2013 00:47:04 No.13779339 Report

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Slaking would wreck shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2013 00:50:16 No.13779386 Report

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Regigigas without slow start.

Think about that for a sec.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2013 00:51:52 No.13779420 Report

Quoted By: >>13779608

>>13778897
Well Slaking and Regigigas are interesting designs flavor-wise at least. On the other hand Archeops ability isn't flavorful at all, and he certainly wouldn't be uber without it. I don't know what they were thinking there.

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Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2013 00:54:00 No.13779480 Report

Quoted By: >>13779630

OP you know nothing about game design. If you give every pokémon amazing stats, amazing ability and amazing everything, what does that even mean? The worth of any of a pokémon's attributes only has meaning relative to others in the metagame. Making an interesting game means give and take where everything has strong points and weaknesses. There's no reason that ability can't be a necessary weakness to make an interesting design.

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Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2013 00:59:15 No.13779608 Report

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>>13779420
All of the fossils that came in pairs had a BST of 495.
Archeops is based on the Archaeopteryx, which has the Dewey Decimal number 567.9.
Gamefreak gave Archeops the BST and national dex number of 567, and gave it an ability to compensate.

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Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2013 01:00:12 No.13779630 Report

Quoted By: >>13779685 >>13779698

>>13779480
>There's no reason that ability can't be a necessary weakness to make an interesting design.

That makes no sense considering they have nothing to do with each other. What does aesthetics have to do with the hindering ability?

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Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2013 01:03:13 No.13779685 Report

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>>13779630
Where did I mention aesthetics?

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Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2013 01:03:16 No.13779687 Report

Quoted By: >>13779697 >>13779831

Slaking with anything but Truant would be incredibly broken.
So would Regigigas.
Archeops I'm not too sure.

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Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2013 01:03:51 No.13779697 Report

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>>13779687
*so would Regigigas with anything but Slow Start or Truant

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Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2013 01:03:56 No.13779698 Report

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>>13779630
>implying design is solely aesthetics
Don't you see how Durant's Dream World ability adds flavor?

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Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2013 01:04:46 No.13779710 Report

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>>13778897
>Hasn't heard of the Slaking/Cofagrigus combo that gets rid of truant

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Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2013 01:08:55 No.13779789 Report

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>>13779698
>giving traunt to an ant, the hardest working animal on the planet

makes sense

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Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2013 01:11:23 No.13779831 Report

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>>13779687

Stall, Defeatist, or hell, Klutz Slaking wouldn't be that bad.

Regigigas wouldn't be broken, since it's a legendary and should be on the same playing field as them.

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Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2013 01:12:53 No.13779862 Report

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>>13779789
I guess you could say Durant is a true ant.

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Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2013 01:15:08 No.13779900 Report

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>>13779789
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic.
Durant DREAMS of it's day off, Lillipup dreams of fighting ghosts (and maybe of being Scrappy Doo), and Abomasnow dreams of falling in the forest and not making a sound.

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Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2013 01:28:17 No.13780157 Report

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>>13779862

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Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2013 01:32:31 No.13780232 Report

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>>13778897
Because Gamefreak is all about concepts.
Regigigas has slow start.
Why?
It's a legendary, it should be allowed to be OP.
Because it's part of the backstory, that's why.
Slaking has Truant.
Why?
Why not just make him weaker?
Because he's a fucking sloth that's why.
I don't know why Archeops has defeatist

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2013 02:52:12 No.13781684 Report

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>>13779862
Fuck you.

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