>>19815261Magcargo has the base stat total of a lot of NFE's. Evo means more stats. That's always nice. Plus, Eviolite.
See, I don't think Magcargo is really that terrible the way it is. Lots of defense with Flame Body is okay. The real problem with it is just how easy it can be OHKO'd, either with special or just SE moves.
I don't really have any ideas for it, I mean, you can change Magcargo as it is right now but the fact remains that it has a meh typing with meh stats.
If you were to do that, though, I'd buff Magma Armor first. It's such a shitty ability, but it can have a lot of potential.
Imagine: Magma Armor now makes the Pokémon neutral to Water type moves if it has a secondary type besides Fire. My logic here is that if you have a dude that's both part magma but part rock/ground as well, if you throw water into it you're not really weakening it, you're just making the rock/ground part bigger and the fire part smaller. That's it, really.
Or maybe: contact attacker get hurt while at the same time the contact move does 1/2 damage to you. You have an armor of magma, cmon, that's gotta hurt the dude attacking you much more than it must hurt you.
>>19815305muy bien, chico, arriba arriba, andalé andalé, doraemon el gato cosmicó!