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ITT Buff garbage abilities

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For a few games now, GF has been buffing some of the lamer abilities. Like giving a lot of the crappy Gen 3 ones that just blocked Confusion/Attrraction or whatever the additional ability to block Intimidate, as an example. So what other ones would you tweak?

>Magma Armor
Becomes more like a defensive Water Bubble. Still blocks Freeze but also heavily reduces damage from Water and Ice moves (taking them to 0.25x damage, treating them as a double resist)
Why?: Only two lines get it and both are kind of garbage right now. This gives them an opportunity to mitigate a 4x weakness by cutting it by a quarter, making it a neutral hit, and then making Ice attacks deal 1/8 damage, as they naturally resist already. It doesn't radically change Magcargo into a good Pokémon, but it does have more chances to do something. Camerupt may benefit a lot more actually becoming more viable on different types of teams as a "Snow" counter or a good utility mon on Sun and Sand teams

>Corrosion
Still let's you poison Poison and Steel types, but now also works like Scrappy to let you ingore Steel's immunity to Poison moves altogether
Why?: It's kind of weird it doesn't work like this already. The Salazzle line doesn't really need this buff, but a special attacking Glimmora (rather than a suicide lead) becomes a lot more viable.

>Mycelium Might
Additionally lets your spore and powder moves hit Grass types
Why?: Another one that should probably just work like this anyway. Currently this ability is kind of garbage since it forces you to go last and the most frequent move you would be using, Spore, is already going to hit 90% of the things you're using it on. Might as well let it hit Grass types too