@@JumblyRumblyGooseif you watched the video, it was given Wind Power. The comment that started this chain is just expanding on that fact for the other 4 forms aside from base Rotom.
I know this is probably just a coincidence but it’s funny how you seem to have a vendetta against Levitate and it makes sense because you’re a ground type user XD
Thermal Exchange would make sense on the Galarian Darmanitan, since it's already an interplay of fire and ice. Could also imagine some of the kindly Pokemon like Audino making use of Hospitality. Could give Solrock and Lunatone Purifying Salty; granted these critters aren't salt blocks, but it could reference their seemingly celestial origins and how their heavenly powers defy ghosts.
At some point it feels like Levitate should stop being an ability and just be an attribute added to Pokemon that can be seen levitating Is the Pokemon visually floating? Then you can’t hit it with a ground type move on top of whatever ability it has
You know, sometimes I wish that, at least for one game, Pokémon had all their abilities at once like in the Mystery Dungeon series just to see how badly competitive players freak out. It would also be a good way of allowing Pokémon like Aegislash to have more than one ability
If you mean Weezing... it still has Levitate. It never lost it, just gained Neutralizing Gas as a second normal ability. Why EC brought it up when talking about Levitate idk, because even in Gen 8 it never lost the ability. If you meant Gengar, then yeah he lost it 100%.
Aegislash could TOTALLY work if they gave it three abilities... One ability for its defense form, one for its attack form, and its hidden ability as Stance Change. The abilities could make it only stay in that form (i.e. you could actually attack with defense form if you have the defensive ability, instead of switching to attack form). - No Guard (or alternatively Sharpness) for attack form. - Battle Armor for defense form (though Heatproof would be a SICK ability for an Aegislash). - Stance Change as its hidden ability.
I feel like the biggest fix for Levitate would be if when a Pokemon gets sent out the ability would pop up and say “____ is levitating in the air”. That way A) Game freak would feel less bad about giving levitate mons other abilities (so that way the player doesn’t have to do the guessing game on if each Pokemon has levitate). And B) This helps GameFreak differentiate from those hovering mons like magnezone and venomoth that ARENT immune to ground, showing the difference in game between levitation and just hovering
@@samachu09 I mean for open team sheets you’d see it anyways. Plus a lot of the times you switch in your levitate mons on incoming ground moves anyways, meaning levitate would get revealed regardless and you’d still get the use out of it!
Thank you for talking about the Levitate menace, so many pokemon, so much potential for cool or interesting ability options, all wasted by someone at gamefreak going "It floats right? Just make all it's abilities levitate, boom done, let's move on to the next one" Every single pokemon with only levitate as an ability NEEDS to be set free
1. Dig & Fly Leftovers Archeops is amazing & I love it. 2. All Rotom forms should get new Abilities, keeping Levitate as their HA. This does include Basic Rotom. 3. Ghost-type pkmn should resist Ground or be outright immune to it. 4. Levitate shouldn't exist as an Ability, it should be either an extra characteristic of some pkmn or be part of new Abilities, such as Magnet Rise (Magnet Pull + Levitate) or Smoke Body (Levitate + immunity to SmokeScreen). 5. Levitate Carnivine would have made sense if it had the Grass/Poison typing. I still don't know why it isn't Bellsprout counterpart to Bellossom.
My man Vikavolt needs the speed boost ability if they are gonna commit to it being slower than Celesteela. Grubbin can get the hidden ability sap sipper while Charjabug can get the hidden ability volt absorb
Archeops with Rattled would be really good in VGC, since Rattled also activates from Intimidate. Archeops's special attack is also pretty decent, so it could still deal damage, but would probably be better as a tailwind setter that gets better against Incineroar, attacking it with a super effective move and stuff like that.
I think volt absorb should be given to the entire rotom roster. Makes sense thematically and then fan form can at least have something useful without being singled out. Also, it's hilarious that a few years back, when playing random battles on Showdown, rotom fan always had an air balloon as it's item just for the joke of it lol
12:20 I wish Levitate was a mechanic (like Sound or Contact) rather than an Ability. Although maybe that would make the Flying Type redundant? Imagine if there was an "Airborne" mechanic which included Ground immunity, and the Flying Type itself didn't have Ground immunity. So Flying Types that aren't airborne (like Gyarados and Doduo) would get hit by Ground moves, while airborne mons (like Butterfree and Gastly) would have Ground immunity.
With the existence of the Ability Patch I think mythicals, Ultra Beasts and Paradox Pokemon should be allowed to have Hidden Abilities so long as their current ability isn't too central to their identity (so I wouldn't suggest Arceus get one but Celebi should). After all, a bunch of legendaries have hidden abilities and not just the ones with Pressure. For instance Grassy Surge would be a great Hidden Ability for Celebi, or Gluttony a really obvious Guzzlord Hidden Ability
Thematic as it would be, ComatoseLax would be weird in competitive play. It would basically be a better version of Lax’s Immunity ability. ComaLax would be immune to not only poison, but all status conditions. The trade-off is that Comatose Pokémon cannot use Rest, and therefore ComaLax has to rely on Leftovers alone for recovery.
The big issue, though, is that they would have to remove Sleep Talk from its moveset to give Snorlax Comatose, else it could make use of otherwise low priority moves in its moveset at +0 priority, which could be a problem if Snorlax was in Trick Room
I had this cool idea of Emergency Exit not only boosting the power of Switch Out moves but also giving them +1 Priority at low health with Golisopod getting U-Turn and Flip Turn along with Archeops having it replace Defeatist. I also thought of having Spiritomb and Cryogonal get Intimidate since I think they look the part.
Hydreigon being the only pseudo without a hidden ability always seemed unfair to me 😅. I would give it Sheer Force, maybe it's not too balanced but it fits its lore so well as the "brutal pokemon" lol
It honestly deserves Sheer Force, especially with it being so weak to Fairy. That or Berserk, to make it thematic and lean more towards its special attacking ways.
I kinda wish slaking had stall for a hidden ability, while still bad I feel like it makes you choose which nerf you wanted slaking to have either wait every other turn to attack but be speedy or be forced to move last but can use slack off more effectively
There are several Levitating Pokemon that should just get brand new ability: - Rotom-A: Inner Ghost: Boosts Ghost attacks by 50%. (Base Rotom should get Prankster) - Solrock/Lunatone: Asteroid: A combination of Levitate and Solid Rock. - Unown: Symbolic Aid: Grants a buff to the entire team for including Unown. What buff depends on the form. - Chimecho: Chime: Performs a Heal Bell when hit by a move.
I would say we should give Golisopod shell armor as an ability. If we need to give emergency exit to Golisopod then I’d recommend reworking the ability so when Golisopod gets switched out his stat changes don’t go away. This would make Golisopod more balanced
I'd say make it a combo ability like Bloodmoon Ursaluna's Mind's Eye, where it still forces a swap like Wimp Out but also comes with the effect of Regenerator to get back 1/3 of it HP. Gives it more survivability and would improve people's outlook on the pokemon itself.
@@emperorcubone Yeh sure. Big fan of starters being competitively viable, starters are cool and very iconic. Incineroar has already has Intimidate, which only lowers opposing pokemons attack stat, Wonder Guard Provides a different defense approach as it protects both physical and special damage. In singles Incineroar is Never Used, which i think is lame. Wonder Guard would leave it with weaknesses to Water, Rock, Ground and Fighting which are really common attacking types, so it would definately be 100% fine. I think Wonder Guard would improve incineroar, but as Wonder Guard Pokemon are barely ever used, like zero use, Wonder Guard basically would just act like a slightly buffed levitate without the ground immunity. Now I'm not too sure about VGC as i'm not involved in the format discussion so i wouldnt hear any complaints about it unless Wolfe decides to mention it which he rarely does. Love ur vids btw, idk why i actually wrote a full explanation Im very aware it would be the most overpowered thing to hit pokemon for at least the next 2 generations.
I hate how most pokemon with levitate don't have another ability, which I see as detrimental to the pokemon and stupid since many of them are seen being on the ground on their own volition many times.
Honestly I think the rotom forms need a set of abilities unique to each form for variety and that gengar should have levitate again somehow for lore sake
Video idea: How good is every Legendary Pokémon at the most natural level. No held items, no EVs, no TM moves, nothing. Just neutral natures and level up moves. Which legendary is NATURALLY the best?
7:29 I mean he's not wrong... Archeops Identity is literally based on it's national dex number... It's number 567, which is also the dewy decimal number for dinosaurs... Also if we're giving stuff to cryoganal, how about a spinda-like gimmick?
@@emperorcubone I guess I assumed that the flytraps only catch flying insects, but bugs could make as much sense. I just want more ways to trap Skarmory.
I wish there was a way to change a Pokémon’s ability without having to catch a different Pokémon just for said ability (kind of like the move reminder/deleter).
There are, the Ability Capsule and the Ability Patch, though I'm pretty sure they've been locked to the post-game ever since their introductions in Gens 6 and 8 respectively. I can understand wanting to closely guard hidden abilities, but I wish the Capsule was available in the main game since it'd make team building a lot easier.
In the recent games, you can actually do this with the Ability Capsule/Ability Patch! (The capsule was introduced in X/Y, and the patch was added in Sword/Shield) They change the Pokemon's ability to either their other standard ability or from their standard ability to their hidden ability (and vice versa), respectively. (...I did not see the other two comments replying about the exact same thing, that's on me for not refreshing the page first.)
Maybe it could have a message pop up like it does when a Pokemon holds an Air Balloon? Something along the lines of '[Pokemon] levitates off the ground!' to let the player know that the Pokemon can levitate, perhaps?
@@tidalshores perhaps. Idk it's kinda like HMs. Why does my pokemon need to learn a specific move to do what it does naturally? Especially cut. Slash, X-scissor etc. should be better at cutting things since they are more powerful moves. Heck why can't I burn a small bush with any fire type? I kinda get why they want it tied to abilities but in a way it's also less intuitive. Though a general system of Land and Aerial creatures could work. Like a little L of A to tell you as just a mechanic. But then the flying type itself becomes really odd, and there's a whole question of Ground moves that don't actually make sense to be immune to just because you're in the air like drill run. What makes Drill Run different from Drill Peck when Fearrow can do both? Game mechanics aren't always logical I suppose.
Simple isn't actually a detrimental ability like how Klutz is and it's not useless either like Run Away. It's actually one of the best in the game for set-up sweepers since it doubles stat increases.
This video seemed a lot less focused than your normal videos. I personally feel they need to get rid of the levitate ability as it stands. It stopped being necessary once we moved away from sprites. We can now see what Pokemon aren't touching the ground. What I'd replace it with is a classification system whereby Pokemon are classed as Airborne or Grounded with Airborne Pokemon getting a little wing next to their name to make it clear. The Airborne classification would be what confers the Ground immunity rather than Levitate or even the Flying Type. For example Venomoth would be classed as Airborne and gain a Ground immunity while Dodrio would be classed as Grounded and lose its immunity. If a free immunity on a case by case basis rather than tying it to Ability or Type is too overpowered then maybe give Airborne Pokemon an additional Flying Weakness to represent their increased vulnerability to being blown about by the wind.
Here’s how imma remove levitate… 1. It doesn’t exist, and levitating works more like attacks where there’s other factors like “Sound Based Moves”, “Physical” & “Physical Contact” moves. If a pokemon can float/fly above the ground, it’s immune to moves like EQ & Bulldoze 2. They would however be susceptible to moves like Mud Bomb, Bone Rush, etc as it’s dumb for a bird to be capable of getting punched by fire or slashed by swords, but BONES… NAH, can’t happen 3. Pokemon will now get regular abilities, Gengar now gets Shadow Tag & Cursed Body, but can levitate above the ground. Flygon gets Sand Veil & Sand Stream, and best of all… Now is that like too much work to do for GF? Maybe… nah very likely, but hey a man can dream
It's like those guys who try to play Pure Hackmons with Slaking and Huge Power but legalized. That sounds like WAY too much of a mess, unless Gorrila Tactics becomes a mixture of both itself and Truant, which could actually make it interesting.
I lowkey dislike your assessment about Archeops. For any pokemon with a crippling ability, they should buff the mon so it can function in spite of having such ability. In Archeops' case, the stat distribution should be more efficient: HP: 75 -> 85 Atk: 140 -> 160 Def: 65 -> 75 Satk: 112 -> 50 Sdef: 65 -> 75 Spd: 110 -> 122 And Regigigas should have a stat buff too. He should have the highest BST in the game by virtue of it being the only legendary with a crippling ability: HP: 110 -> 130 Atk: 160 -> 230 Def: 110 Satk: 80 -> 90 Sdef: 110 Spd: 100 -> 130
I literally said to just change its stats around to make them better, so I agree with you! But short of that they could at least give it a USEful ability in the meantime...
0:24 Now that I think about it, why does the marowack even have Lightning Rod? Sure it's a nice electric immunity but considering the original is ground type so that's pointless and the fact that both of them are physical attackers which makes the special attack boost useless. Alolan Marowack should've been a special attacker to take advantage of the spatk boost and have different abilities to boot. 1:24 I mean Aegislash could work as a really good defensive pokemon without stance change. Maybe magic guard? 5:50 The only thing I can think of as to what makes Levitate work on Fan form is that it avoids hazard damage when switching in. 7:00 I always thought Defeatist became redundant when later gens came in with major power creep. 10:29 I mean considering the fact Dhelmise has a massive 131 attack compared to it's mediocre 86 special attack? Maybe Water Absorb would be better since it restores health instead of giving it a pointless special attack buff. Levitate should be given to Magnezone and Probopass to help with their quad weakness to Ground.
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I feel if we gave rotom fan a new ability then maybe the other forms too.
Oven - flame body
Mower - sap sipper
Wash - hydration
Fridge - refrigerate
I always liked the idea of rotom getting motor drive
Sap sipper on the mower is too perfect.
Bro what happened to fan 😭
@@JumblyRumblyGooseif you watched the video, it was given Wind Power. The comment that started this chain is just expanding on that fact for the other 4 forms aside from base Rotom.
Personally I'm partial to giving them all Battery, because let's be real, that's basically what they are
Flygon should get Tinted Lens!
Maybe not as hidden, but as a secondary one.
That's pretty great! It'd finally have a reason to wear those Go-Goggles!
@@emperorcubone Besides looking cool
@@vaalalves I always wanted Sand Stream as its HA and then it’s Mega would gain Sand Rush/Force/Veil
Tinted Lens + Draco sounds OP af until you remember that Flygon only has 80 base SpA
I know this is probably just a coincidence but it’s funny how you seem to have a vendetta against Levitate and it makes sense because you’re a ground type user XD
Is it a coincidence though...?
Thermal Exchange would make sense on the Galarian Darmanitan, since it's already an interplay of fire and ice. Could also imagine some of the kindly Pokemon like Audino making use of Hospitality. Could give Solrock and Lunatone Purifying Salty; granted these critters aren't salt blocks, but it could reference their seemingly celestial origins and how their heavenly powers defy ghosts.
That would work well! Thermal Exchange is a good ability so I'd like to see it have wider distribution.
At some point it feels like Levitate should stop being an ability and just be an attribute added to Pokemon that can be seen levitating
Is the Pokemon visually floating? Then you can’t hit it with a ground type move on top of whatever ability it has
That broken and unfair
@@Watch-0w1 true but GameFreak has dabbled in unfair design before with Urshifu
Ah yes, palafin zero form, better known as w i s h i w a s h i
This is why Emperor Cubone needs to be hired hired by Nintendo
Hmm, maybe that could be a video; "If I Ran Gamefreak..."
😂@@emperorcubone
@@emperorcuboneI'd adore that, bro
what I got from this video: get rid of Levitate and stay grounded
A groudon sympathize found!
I don’t think the ability is the issue but rather how game freak handles it
Happy 500th video! I remember watching you back when I was younger, glad to see you still producing great videos.
Oh wow! I didn't even realize that we were already at 500, thank you for pointing it out!
If all of the Rotom Forms had the same alternative ability, Motor Drive would be perfect, especially for Fan and Wash.
You know, sometimes I wish that, at least for one game, Pokémon had all their abilities at once like in the Mystery Dungeon series just to see how badly competitive players freak out. It would also be a good way of allowing Pokémon like Aegislash to have more than one ability
Maybe that could be a gimmick of a new generation one day?
Give castform drizzle/drought/snow warning depending on which stone it’s holding. To make it better similar to rotom. Let it be a weather setter
For some reason I feel like a "convergent" form of Castform will be coming to do just that in the next generation...
I thought castform could get some fun evolutions that all involve the weather and what stone you used on it
Seriously, all these Pokémon with levitate and Gamefreak took it away from the Pokemon WEAK to ground. Nintendo logic, I suppose. Great video btw!
If you mean Weezing... it still has Levitate. It never lost it, just gained Neutralizing Gas as a second normal ability. Why EC brought it up when talking about Levitate idk, because even in Gen 8 it never lost the ability.
If you meant Gengar, then yeah he lost it 100%.
That "how would you get rid of levitate" at the end really got me
I really want to know!
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Haha, yeah poor Earthquake never catches a break!
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Aegislash could TOTALLY work if they gave it three abilities... One ability for its defense form, one for its attack form, and its hidden ability as Stance Change. The abilities could make it only stay in that form (i.e. you could actually attack with defense form if you have the defensive ability, instead of switching to attack form).
- No Guard (or alternatively Sharpness) for attack form.
- Battle Armor for defense form (though Heatproof would be a SICK ability for an Aegislash).
- Stance Change as its hidden ability.
I feel like the biggest fix for Levitate would be if when a Pokemon gets sent out the ability would pop up and say “____ is levitating in the air”. That way A) Game freak would feel less bad about giving levitate mons other abilities (so that way the player doesn’t have to do the guessing game on if each Pokemon has levitate). And B) This helps GameFreak differentiate from those hovering mons like magnezone and venomoth that ARENT immune to ground, showing the difference in game between levitation and just hovering
Then give away the strategy?
@@samachu09 I mean for open team sheets you’d see it anyways. Plus a lot of the times you switch in your levitate mons on incoming ground moves anyways, meaning levitate would get revealed regardless and you’d still get the use out of it!
If this doesn't give my boi Carnivine Grassy Surge, I'm out
I ALMOST included that actually! But I had already done so many other Levitate replacements...
@@emperorcubone at least we agree!
Golisopod having Tough Claws/Shell Armor
Thank you for talking about the Levitate menace, so many pokemon, so much potential for cool or interesting ability options, all wasted by someone at gamefreak going "It floats right? Just make all it's abilities levitate, boom done, let's move on to the next one" Every single pokemon with only levitate as an ability NEEDS to be set free
Male combee could get schooling/ rework to swarming
That'd be pretty sweet, and we've seen it happen before too!
Only in Pokemon can we say “a living or undead sword” and not bat an eye.
It's just the facts!
@@emperorcubone oh 100% and i love it. Another awesome Emperor!
Love your videos my Emperor 😁
I think Cryogonal should have Rivalry
If you know you know
If Paradox Pokemon had hidden abilities then I think it would be funny if Sandy Shocks got Electric Surge and Iron Moth got Drought
I could see those working!
Unown should have the schooling ability lol
1. Dig & Fly Leftovers Archeops is amazing & I love it.
2. All Rotom forms should get new Abilities, keeping Levitate as their HA. This does include Basic Rotom.
3. Ghost-type pkmn should resist Ground or be outright immune to it.
4. Levitate shouldn't exist as an Ability, it should be either an extra characteristic of some pkmn or be part of new Abilities, such as Magnet Rise (Magnet Pull + Levitate) or Smoke Body (Levitate + immunity to SmokeScreen).
5. Levitate Carnivine would have made sense if it had the Grass/Poison typing. I still don't know why it isn't Bellsprout counterpart to Bellossom.
That'd actually be pretty cool if it WAS the Bellossom of the Bellsprout line because it's Also pure Grass!
My man Vikavolt needs the speed boost ability if they are gonna commit to it being slower than Celesteela. Grubbin can get the hidden ability sap sipper while Charjabug can get the hidden ability volt absorb
Oh man, I would LOVE a faster Vikavolt, that'd be great!
I would love if all of the Rotom forms also got Motor Drive. Always cool to add an extra immunity- and fits thematically.
Archeops with Rattled would be really good in VGC, since Rattled also activates from Intimidate. Archeops's special attack is also pretty decent, so it could still deal damage, but would probably be better as a tailwind setter that gets better against Incineroar, attacking it with a super effective move and stuff like that.
I think volt absorb should be given to the entire rotom roster. Makes sense thematically and then fan form can at least have something useful without being singled out. Also, it's hilarious that a few years back, when playing random battles on Showdown, rotom fan always had an air balloon as it's item just for the joke of it lol
You never know when your ability will get swapped and someone might use Gravity!
12:20 I wish Levitate was a mechanic (like Sound or Contact) rather than an Ability. Although maybe that would make the Flying Type redundant? Imagine if there was an "Airborne" mechanic which included Ground immunity, and the Flying Type itself didn't have Ground immunity. So Flying Types that aren't airborne (like Gyarados and Doduo) would get hit by Ground moves, while airborne mons (like Butterfree and Gastly) would have Ground immunity.
This was a very good video
With the existence of the Ability Patch I think mythicals, Ultra Beasts and Paradox Pokemon should be allowed to have Hidden Abilities so long as their current ability isn't too central to their identity (so I wouldn't suggest Arceus get one but Celebi should). After all, a bunch of legendaries have hidden abilities and not just the ones with Pressure. For instance Grassy Surge would be a great Hidden Ability for Celebi, or Gluttony a really obvious Guzzlord Hidden Ability
I agree; I actually looked at Celebi specifically, but honestly Natural Cure fits really well...
Just got here but I can already tell it's going to be a banger
I know this sounds weird but I think Snorlax should have Komala ability as well
Makes sense.
That'd be pretty great! I'd say it would work on Musharna too!
Thematic as it would be, ComatoseLax would be weird in competitive play. It would basically be a better version of Lax’s Immunity ability. ComaLax would be immune to not only poison, but all status conditions. The trade-off is that Comatose Pokémon cannot use Rest, and therefore ComaLax has to rely on Leftovers alone for recovery.
The big issue, though, is that they would have to remove Sleep Talk from its moveset to give Snorlax Comatose, else it could make use of otherwise low priority moves in its moveset at +0 priority, which could be a problem if Snorlax was in Trick Room
I had this cool idea of Emergency Exit not only boosting the power of Switch Out moves but also giving them +1 Priority at low health with Golisopod getting U-Turn and Flip Turn along with Archeops having it replace Defeatist.
I also thought of having Spiritomb and Cryogonal get Intimidate since I think they look the part.
A snowflake is intimidating… Ok 😂
Hydreigon being the only pseudo without a hidden ability always seemed unfair to me 😅. I would give it Sheer Force, maybe it's not too balanced but it fits its lore so well as the "brutal pokemon" lol
It honestly deserves Sheer Force, especially with it being so weak to Fairy. That or Berserk, to make it thematic and lean more towards its special attacking ways.
cryogonal should have snow warning its LITERALLY A SNOWFLAKE
I kinda wish slaking had stall for a hidden ability, while still bad I feel like it makes you choose which nerf you wanted slaking to have either wait every other turn to attack but be speedy or be forced to move last but can use slack off more effectively
There are several Levitating Pokemon that should just get brand new ability:
- Rotom-A: Inner Ghost: Boosts Ghost attacks by 50%. (Base Rotom should get Prankster)
- Solrock/Lunatone: Asteroid: A combination of Levitate and Solid Rock.
- Unown: Symbolic Aid: Grants a buff to the entire team for including Unown. What buff depends on the form.
- Chimecho: Chime: Performs a Heal Bell when hit by a move.
Maybe it's just me but Wind Power is just a weird offspring of Wind Rider and Electromorphosis. It should've power up wind moves instead
You're not wrong, but since both of those abilities were introduced at the same time it's hard to say which one one was inspired by the others!
@@emperorcubone I meant in a way how they work. Probably they were inspired by pokemon they were given to
Levitate on my Hydreigon and especially Eelektross were saviors.
I would say we should give Golisopod shell armor as an ability. If we need to give emergency exit to Golisopod then I’d recommend reworking the ability so when Golisopod gets switched out his stat changes don’t go away. This would make Golisopod more balanced
I'd say make it a combo ability like Bloodmoon Ursaluna's Mind's Eye, where it still forces a swap like Wimp Out but also comes with the effect of Regenerator to get back 1/3 of it HP. Gives it more survivability and would improve people's outlook on the pokemon itself.
Giving incineroar wonder guard
Hmm, could you explain the reasoning behind it?
@@emperorcubone Yeh sure. Big fan of starters being competitively viable, starters are cool and very iconic. Incineroar has already has Intimidate, which only lowers opposing pokemons attack stat, Wonder Guard Provides a different defense approach as it protects both physical and special damage. In singles Incineroar is Never Used, which i think is lame. Wonder Guard would leave it with weaknesses to Water, Rock, Ground and Fighting which are really common attacking types, so it would definately be 100% fine. I think Wonder Guard would improve incineroar, but as Wonder Guard Pokemon are barely ever used, like zero use, Wonder Guard basically would just act like a slightly buffed levitate without the ground immunity. Now I'm not too sure about VGC as i'm not involved in the format discussion so i wouldnt hear any complaints about it unless Wolfe decides to mention it which he rarely does.
Love ur vids btw, idk why i actually wrote a full explanation Im very aware it would be the most overpowered thing to hit pokemon for at least the next 2 generations.
I would love to see a video where you assign a hidden ability to each ultra beast and paradox Pokemon. I feel like that could be cool
Most Legendary Pokemon don't really have them either!
Snowflake should get ice face.
Maybe, but when it breaks what would be left?
A ghost girl🤣
i think for rotom, all forms get the same hidden ability, and an ability that is very fitting for rotom is motor drive.
I think Mismagius, Delphox and other magician Pokémon should have Asher force clone (perhaps called witchcraft or something)
eelektross should get static
I think Adaptability on Rotom would make sense.
I hate how most pokemon with levitate don't have another ability, which I see as detrimental to the pokemon and stupid since many of them are seen being on the ground on their own volition many times.
It's also horribly inconsistent; like Gastly only has Levitate, yet Shuppet who is ALSO a floating Ghost has 3 abilities, none of them being Levitate!
Aegeslash could keep the sharpness hidden ability as like another form that is only a sword with no shield
Honestly I think the rotom forms need a set of abilities unique to each form for variety and that gengar should have levitate again somehow for lore sake
That'd be neat; maybe it is like Motor Drive but it powers up the other Elements instead?
Another Pokemon which should have Levitate as hidden ability is Alolan Raichu. It's outrageous that it doesn't have looking at its design.
Video idea: How good is every Legendary Pokémon at the most natural level. No held items, no EVs, no TM moves, nothing. Just neutral natures and level up moves. Which legendary is NATURALLY the best?
Hmm, I want to say Arceus from a lore perspective, but probably not gameplay-wise...
give shedinja magic guard to force a guess
Either wind or solar power I think would be good for rotom
7:29 I mean he's not wrong... Archeops Identity is literally based on it's national dex number...
It's number 567, which is also the dewy decimal number for dinosaurs...
Also if we're giving stuff to cryoganal, how about a spinda-like gimmick?
Carnivine should get a variant of Magnet Pull that traps Flying types instead.
Shouldn't that be Bug types instead?
@@emperorcubone I guess I assumed that the flytraps only catch flying insects, but bugs could make as much sense. I just want more ways to trap Skarmory.
Would someone PLz think of baby groudon!
Honestly, I kinda assumed everyone had hidden abilities now. Aside from stiff like mimikyu anyway
Nope! It is mostly Legendary Pokemon but some regular ones are still left out!
I wish there was a way to change a Pokémon’s ability without having to catch a different Pokémon just for said ability (kind of like the move reminder/deleter).
There are, the Ability Capsule and the Ability Patch, though I'm pretty sure they've been locked to the post-game ever since their introductions in Gens 6 and 8 respectively. I can understand wanting to closely guard hidden abilities, but I wish the Capsule was available in the main game since it'd make team building a lot easier.
Well they do have the Ability Patches and Capsules now; you do have to gain a lot of BP to get them usually but it's worth it!
In the recent games, you can actually do this with the Ability Capsule/Ability Patch! (The capsule was introduced in X/Y, and the patch was added in Sword/Shield)
They change the Pokemon's ability to either their other standard ability or from their standard ability to their hidden ability (and vice versa), respectively.
(...I did not see the other two comments replying about the exact same thing, that's on me for not refreshing the page first.)
Wouldn’t Slow start be good for Slaking
I feel like levitating should become a trait not tied to abilities. Might get confusing though.
Maybe it could have a message pop up like it does when a Pokemon holds an Air Balloon?
Something along the lines of '[Pokemon] levitates off the ground!' to let the player know that the Pokemon can levitate, perhaps?
@@tidalshores perhaps. Idk it's kinda like HMs. Why does my pokemon need to learn a specific move to do what it does naturally?
Especially cut.
Slash, X-scissor etc. should be better at cutting things since they are more powerful moves. Heck why can't I burn a small bush with any fire type?
I kinda get why they want it tied to abilities but in a way it's also less intuitive. Though a general system of Land and Aerial creatures could work. Like a little L of A to tell you as just a mechanic. But then the flying type itself becomes really odd, and there's a whole question of Ground moves that don't actually make sense to be immune to just because you're in the air like drill run.
What makes Drill Run different from Drill Peck when Fearrow can do both?
Game mechanics aren't always logical I suppose.
I like arechpoes ability but yeah 2nd ability could get kluzts simple or runaway
Anything but those 😭
Simple isn't actually a detrimental ability like how Klutz is and it's not useless either like Run Away. It's actually one of the best in the game for set-up sweepers since it doubles stat increases.
I never really got why the slakoth line can't get comatose, it's a sloth
At least for the first stage; I get why Slaking is forced to have Truant...
This video seemed a lot less focused than your normal videos.
I personally feel they need to get rid of the levitate ability as it stands. It stopped being necessary once we moved away from sprites. We can now see what Pokemon aren't touching the ground. What I'd replace it with is a classification system whereby Pokemon are classed as Airborne or Grounded with Airborne Pokemon getting a little wing next to their name to make it clear. The Airborne classification would be what confers the Ground immunity rather than Levitate or even the Flying Type. For example Venomoth would be classed as Airborne and gain a Ground immunity while Dodrio would be classed as Grounded and lose its immunity. If a free immunity on a case by case basis rather than tying it to Ability or Type is too overpowered then maybe give Airborne Pokemon an additional Flying Weakness to represent their increased vulnerability to being blown about by the wind.
Here’s how imma remove levitate…
1. It doesn’t exist, and levitating works more like attacks where there’s other factors like “Sound Based Moves”, “Physical” & “Physical Contact” moves. If a pokemon can float/fly above the ground, it’s immune to moves like EQ & Bulldoze
2. They would however be susceptible to moves like Mud Bomb, Bone Rush, etc as it’s dumb for a bird to be capable of getting punched by fire or slashed by swords, but BONES… NAH, can’t happen
3. Pokemon will now get regular abilities, Gengar now gets Shadow Tag & Cursed Body, but can levitate above the ground. Flygon gets Sand Veil & Sand Stream, and best of all…
Now is that like too much work to do for GF? Maybe… nah very likely, but hey a man can dream
Haha, the immunity to Bone attacks really gets me! It makes zero sense...
Slaking needs Gorilla Tactics
Objectively, no it does not. That would be terrifying....
It's like those guys who try to play Pure Hackmons with Slaking and Huge Power but legalized. That sounds like WAY too much of a mess, unless Gorrila Tactics becomes a mixture of both itself and Truant, which could actually make it interesting.
I don’t know why, but for some reason most mons that have Levitate as an ability don’t have any other ability
Team Sky members would be grateful to have a Genger.
Seriously what's with Pokemon and levitate?
Poor Ground types gettin' ignored left and right!
I lowkey dislike your assessment about Archeops. For any pokemon with a crippling ability, they should buff the mon so it can function in spite of having such ability. In Archeops' case, the stat distribution should be more efficient:
HP: 75 -> 85
Atk: 140 -> 160
Def: 65 -> 75
Satk: 112 -> 50
Sdef: 65 -> 75
Spd: 110 -> 122
And Regigigas should have a stat buff too. He should have the highest BST in the game by virtue of it being the only legendary with a crippling ability:
HP: 110 -> 130
Atk: 160 -> 230
Def: 110
Satk: 80 -> 90
Sdef: 110
Spd: 100 -> 130
I literally said to just change its stats around to make them better, so I agree with you! But short of that they could at least give it a USEful ability in the meantime...
0:24 Now that I think about it, why does the marowack even have Lightning Rod? Sure it's a nice electric immunity but considering the original is ground type so that's pointless and the fact that both of them are physical attackers which makes the special attack boost useless. Alolan Marowack should've been a special attacker to take advantage of the spatk boost and have different abilities to boot.
1:24 I mean Aegislash could work as a really good defensive pokemon without stance change. Maybe magic guard?
5:50 The only thing I can think of as to what makes Levitate work on Fan form is that it avoids hazard damage when switching in.
7:00 I always thought Defeatist became redundant when later gens came in with major power creep.
10:29 I mean considering the fact Dhelmise has a massive 131 attack compared to it's mediocre 86 special attack? Maybe Water Absorb would be better since it restores health instead of giving it a pointless special attack buff.
Levitate should be given to Magnezone and Probopass to help with their quad weakness to Ground.
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I would give all dual-typed Pokemon Adaptability
Hah, works for me!
That sounds...Very broken. Especially for those with glass cannon stats.
Aegeslash could keep the sharpness hidden ability as like another form that is only a sword with no shield
I'm never one to turn down more forms of Aegislash!