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Anonymous Mon 20 Jan 2020 03:04:29 No.42475899 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>42475964 >>42477103 >>42477112 >>42478922

How come Dragon Breath is 60 power with a 30% chance to paralyze but Scald gets to be 80 power with a 30% chance to burn?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jan 2020 03:05:42 No.42475912 Report

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Haha, I don't really know.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jan 2020 03:08:46 No.42475957 Report

Quoted By: >>42476042 >>42477077 >>42478923

Lava Llume is 80 power with a 30% chance to burn.
Discharge is 80 power with a 30% chance to paralyze.
You just cherry picked dragon breath to make this trash thread.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jan 2020 03:08:58 No.42475961 Report

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Because the game developers play blatant favorites with types instead of balancing them

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jan 2020 03:09:02 No.42475964 Report

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>>42475899
Because Breath came multiple gens before Scald. It's definitely due for a buff in Gen 9.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jan 2020 03:15:27 No.42476042 Report

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>>42475957
Are you dumb?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jan 2020 05:13:25 No.42477077 Report

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>>42475957
I don't think I've ever seen someone understand less

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jan 2020 05:18:15 No.42477103 Report

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>>42475899
Remove scald as a TM and take it out lots of movepools

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jan 2020 05:19:21 No.42477112 Report

Quoted By: >>42477195

>>42475899
Because Dragonbreath is meant to be a middling move that a selection of mostly Dragon-type monsters learn in the lv30-40 range, meaning you're supposed to upgrade it to better moves like Dragon Pulse down the line. Meanwhile Scald is meant as a lategame Technical Machine that you can teach as an alternative to moves like Surf, and has happened to find metagame use thanks to the burn proc chance.

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jan 2020 05:29:45 No.42477195 Report

Quoted By: >>42477201

>>42477112
>lategame
>get it by the second totem fight in SM

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jan 2020 05:30:51 No.42477201 Report

Quoted By: >>42478908

>>42477195
>Using S/M as a measure of game balance

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jan 2020 10:45:10 No.42478908 Report

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>>42477201
>You get surf after the third gym in (H)G/(S)S

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jan 2020 10:50:06 No.42478922 Report

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>>42475899
They're not equivalent moves. Dragonbreath is more like Bite

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jan 2020 10:50:17 No.42478923 Report

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>>42475957
Lava Plume is resisted by the type it can't burn.
Discharge is resisted and ineffective against the two types it can't paralyze.
Scald HITS SUPER EFFECTIVE the only type it can't burn, and gets ludicrous distribution that makes no thematic sense given the non-Water types that learn it all have obvious ways to generate great amounts of heat.

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