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Anonymous Sun 02 May 2021 02:03:04 No.46986730 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>46986821 >>46986952 >>46986984 >>46986987 >>46986996 >>46987023 >>46988136 >>46988168 >>46988246 >>46989220 >>46989250

Why do half of all new pokemon get their own signature moves and abilities? Is there no other way to make them interesting to use?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 May 2021 02:11:50 No.46986821 Report

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>>46986730
It's based
Unique abilities/moves should be handed out to old Pokemon too. It's literally the only thing making them unique at this point, considering GF is allergic to giving them any kind of personality or behaviours in the overworld

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 May 2021 02:28:33 No.46986952 Report

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>>46986730
It's too give each one a way to stand out without just resorting to minmaxed stats or something. How else would you do it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 May 2021 02:32:02 No.46986984 Report

Quoted By: >>46987294 >>46987299 >>46989770

>>46986730
The problem isn't that new one gets signature moves. The problem is that old ones are given nothing and left to rot because Game Freak only cares about KANTOO starters, a handful of personal favs, and a couple of mons TPC makes them shill.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 May 2021 02:32:40 No.46986987 Report

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>>46986730
it’s to not gimp any other mon once those new mons and move get cut the next game.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 May 2021 02:33:56 No.46986996 Report

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>>46986730
That's all in the original spirit of pokemon though. There were tons of mons in gen 1 with unique moves

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 May 2021 02:36:32 No.46987023 Report

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>>46986730
I don't mind the signature moves but I don't like the signature abilities like Hunger Switch or Ice Face which will be those pokemon's only abilities forever. I don't like stuff like that, they should have more options in ability.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 May 2021 03:12:14 No.46987294 Report

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>>46986984
They gave Ariados and Heatmor of all things signature moves in gen 7. It happens, just not often.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 May 2021 03:13:29 No.46987299 Report

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>>46986984
>The problem is that old ones are given nothing
Old ones have been getting moves as early as Gen 5 with Mewtwo getting Psystrike

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 May 2021 03:15:36 No.46987313 Report

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>>46987299
you didn't read the rest of that sentence, did you?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 May 2021 03:16:50 No.46987322 Report

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>>46987313
I did. It’s not just the KANTOO boogeyman that gets buff. I’m just saying they’ve made an effort to give old Pokémon as early as Gen 5.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 May 2021 03:19:16 No.46987340 Report

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>>46987322
>I did.
not very well apparently

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 May 2021 03:23:07 No.46987363 Report

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>>46987340
you didn't read the rest of that sentence, did you?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 May 2021 03:24:33 No.46987373 Report

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>>46987363
>I did.
I did.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 May 2021 05:20:34 No.46988099 Report

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List of all fighting type moves in gen 1:
>Counter: Exclusive to Hitmonchan
>High Jump Kick: Exclusive to Hitmonlee
>Jump Kick: Exclusive to Hitmonlee
>Rolling Kick: Exclusive to Hitmonlee
>Karate Chop: Learned by both Mankey and Machop
>Low Kick: Learned by most fighting types
>Submission: Learned by a few fighting types and Pinsir
>Double Kick: A couple of random Pokemon learned this
>Seismic Toss: The only fighting move to have decent distrobution
Hitmonlee had three fucking signature moves.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 May 2021 05:25:49 No.46988136 Report

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>>46986730
Signature moves should've been a bigger part of the series to begin with. It solves several of the series problems:
>Pokemon have overly bloated movepools, leading to poor balance
>too many utterly useless moves
>gives each individual Pokemon species more of its own unique identity
>they can tailor make the move animation to a specific Pokemon and not be restricted to "generic move animation that has to make sense for a Pokemon that would shoot the beam out of its mouth, an arm-cannon, or a special cannon on its back"

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 May 2021 05:31:14 No.46988168 Report

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>>46986730
>NOOOOO WHY ARE THEY MAKING EACH POKEMON DISTINCT INSTEAD OF PADDING THE DEX WITH FORGETTABLE SHITMONS LIKE GEN 5

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 May 2021 05:47:24 No.46988246 Report

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>>46986730
What do you mean half? All the new ones get signature moves and abilities. They just distribute many of those moves and abilities out when the gen is over.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 May 2021 05:49:29 No.46988254 Report

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>>46988136
Signature attacks are great, but every other monster capture series of the time was "your monster does one thing (maybe it's unique, maybe it's not.)" Pokemon having a movepool that could change and be shared across monsters was absolutely a boon, and only helped the JRPG party experience.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 May 2021 08:59:28 No.46989108 Report

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>>46988099
>>Counter: Exclusive to Hitmonchan
It was a TM that most could learn

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 May 2021 09:27:28 No.46989220 Report

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>>46986730
I love the idea of every (or nearly every) line getting a signature move and/or ability.
It means that they can all have a niche, even if it's a small one. They get at least one thing that no other mon can do, which means they can never be 100% outclassed.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 02 May 2021 09:33:32 No.46989250 Report

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>>46986730
every new pokemon got something unique except this shithead that's a waste of dex space.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 May 2021 11:50:15 No.46989770 Report

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>>46986984
>Game Freak only cares about KANTOO starters,
>galar forms of multiple different region pokemon
>garbodor of all things gets a gmax evo
>ash-greninja
>first mega you get is literally lucario
Kanto is the most popular region, dex etc. You are stupid for them not to do shit like this.
Yes it's annoying, but stop beeing retarded please.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 May 2021 12:45:42 No.46990040 Report

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>>46989250
He got to be exceptionally bad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 May 2021 12:58:54 No.46990093 Report

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>>46989250
Since Gumshoos was deleted from existence, Stakeout is now Thievul's signature abilty.

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