Post Pokémon, moves, abilities, whatever that got unfairly nerfed for no good reason.
Post Pokmon, moves, abilities, whatever that got unfairly nerfed for no good reason.
Post Pokémon, moves, abilities, whatever that got unfairly nerfed for no good reason.
I miss tankoflame
>Gen 6
Who gave a shit about Megas when half the new abilities turned mons from okay to busted w/o a mega stone
50 power was just gamebreaking.
I have a little issue with Tackle nerf but it's part of a bigger issue with how starters and early game have been handled starting in Gen 5 (but not in Gen 6, probably because the negative initial reception of Gen 5) and going on the later generations.
In the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter because you'd only ever use it until your starter got STAB, but it's such a baffling thing to nerf.
Overall yeah but in certain challenge runs that restrict the use of TMs it might matter. Lillipup in Gen 5 for example hits like a truck using Tackle and neither the starters or any other early route mon will be able to outpace it when it comes to damage until 10's.
The dog also gets Return later, which is better than everything the starters can do, and Crunch in case of ghosts.
why did they take belly drum from my boy
its not even like he was that OP with it before
im mad, also Komala with Last Resort/sleep talk
>Sword and Shield Pokemon
>Nerfed in Sword and Shield
>First pokemon directly nerfed through stats since gen 2
>Signaute move also nerfed
>Not even a legendary
>Nerfed in the same generation that monsters like Zacian, G-Darmanitan, Dracovish, Calyrex were introduced
>Didn't even perform well in dynamax metas
Good, frick objectmons.
how assmad do you have to be to make that pic
Because people whined about them being broken
and yet they leave incelneroar
pokemon directly nerfed through stats since gen 2
Wait for real? I missed that. What was the change?
-10 in both defenses in its shield forme and -10 in both offenses in its sword forme
Oh so really hardly anything at all.
Effectively 40 BST is a lot
OP specified "unfairly nerfed for no good reason"
Megamence causing a blanket nerf for aerilate, pixilate and refrigerate, and now that megas are gone there's only shitmons left in an even worse state.
any ability that boosts the power of attacking moves should be nerfed
this was a good change
Rock Polish being taken away from Aurorus in gen 8.
It's not like a Pokemon with 58 Speed spending a turn for +2 in Speed in a game infested with Steel and Fighting-type moves out the ass would be OP.
Gengar losing levitate.
I understand it was because it made mega Gengar a terrorist, but that isn't in the game anymore so there's no excuse.
>protean/libero
>being able to be whatever of 14 types you like
>guaranteed STAB
i don't think it's an unfair nerf at all actually considering the pokemon who had it
>don't think it's an unfair nerf at all actually considering the pokemon who had it
He isn't even in SV.
Doesn't matter.
What does is that Kecleon will have Protean nerfed thanks to Greninja.
Weaker Pokemon being nerfed because of strong Pokemon is bullshit.
Kecleon did not deserve a nerf.
Whiffing fake out to dodge ghost moves was also hilarious and I'm sad it's gone.
Kecleon didn't deserve a nerf sure but no one thinks of Kecleon as a premier Protean user when Greninja and Cinderace, and now Meowscarada exist with >115 speed stats
Speaking of Kecleon though I'm actually surprised they didn't give it Mimicry as a secondary
Yeah and I guarantee it only happened because of terastalization.
>Submission was already a piece of shit move
>it got a PP nerf
Nerfing what doesn't need to be nerfed is what Game Freak does best.
why'd they have to do it to 'em
Because frick you he has legs, stop cheatin Billy!
100% justified
pokemon with 100+ on both attack/special and speed need to be nerfed
thoughts on pyroar? needs a nerf?
Ban him
Because they know Haunter is superior
Taking Mystical Fire from Sylveon.
Mystical Fire is interesting in how it started as a starter signature move and it became one of most used and important fire moves from the series. Maybe Sylveon will recover it once the DLC comes.
Mystical Fire should stay reserved for fire types and psychic types.
They have a lot of reason to nerf Protean though
I'm sure there has to be a better way to nerf Scald than taking it away from almost everyone. I thought the concept of that move was cool
The concept of the move was stupid. It inflicts a potentially crippling status where the only type immune to said status is weak to the move itself. Let alone water being a great defensive type already.
Taking away Scald from most pokemon is justified because logically, not all pokemon have the ability to heat water to boiling point in their body in the first place. Giving Scald to most water types were the actual weird move and I'm sure they regretted doing it enough to backtrack a few gens later.
Scald should have remained on select mons.
>Gyarados/Milotic/Dragonair/Lapras (water dragons)
>Vaporeon (they hit it hard with the nerf)
>Octillery
>Torkoal (hotsprings)
>Tepig line (let it have at least something decent)
Umbreon loosing Toxic and Payback because someone at GF wants it to be a special attacker is dogshiet.
>special attacker
The only move you should be using is foul play tho?
Curse sets, people love them so they want payback for synergy with being slow
It doesn't matter if it's bad, they want their eevee to be good at attacking, even if it's umbreon
Hell this is true for no moves Jolteon, at least Leafeon and Flareon got a bit better with age
All Eevees need their movepools updated.
>Eevee and all its evolutions
Wish, Healbell, Light Screen/Reflect/Cosmic power/Crunch
>Flareon
Flame charge, Cotton guard, Fire lash, Morning sun.
>Vaporeon
Scald, Chilly reception, Sludge wave
>Jolteon
Energy ball, Spiky shield
>Espeon
Mystical fire
>Umbreon
Payback, Pooson fang, Poison tail, Gunk shot, Hone claws
>Leafeon
Night slash, Aqua cutter, Focus energy
>Glaceon
Aurora veil, Frostbreath
Don't forget toxic, that move made or break some eevee sets, jolteon lost signal beam and toxic making him a sitting duck on a lot of stuff, Vaporeon and Umbreon lost utility without it too
The idea of vaporeon saying shitty jokes is hilarious but I find it dumb that the move isn't learn by ice typed, and not even glaceon was suggested as a recipient here
Just give them Veevee strike that has effects from Lets go eevee.
Not only that would make EVERY Eeveelution viable it would make them.more unique.
>t. closet tepig enjoyer
>Umbreon loosing Toxic and Payback because someone at GF wants it to be a special attacker is dogshiet.
Because they decided Eevee was the secondary mascot so now it has to be braindead easy to use. Some dumb kid isn't going to realize that Umbreon was built to be support/defense, they're going to just spam attacking moves and then be mad their precious Eevee evolved into "the cool dark type" but can't do jack shit. Surprised they didn't just copy Espeon's stats onto Umbreon at this point to be honest. Says a lot about what kids were capable of 20+ years ago tho to recognize what was a defensive vs an offensive mon
Just allow Umbreon to learn toxic while evolving.
There are many ways to nerf it. Decrease its power, lower the chance for burn to 20%, buff Chilling Water's damage to 80, or hell actually fricking commit to how statuses worked in Legends Arceus. It's so crazy how they do the worst of both worlds approach and then say "oops, we're bringing it back!" so the whole problem is left untouched. Scald needed a nerf, and they botched it then said "nvm lol"
Litteraly give mon Icebeam OR Scald.
Fire moves dont even have a 30% burn chance with 100 accuracy
Lava Plume does, but Lava Plume had really poor distribution when Scald was added and given to every water-type.
* Gale Wings
* Mimikyu's Disguise
* Protean
* Aegislash's stats and King's Shield
But then they introduce these BUSTED Pokemon:
* Dracovish
* Darmanitan-G
* Calyrex
* Zacian
* Regieleki
* Miraidon
* Flutter Mane
>Gale Wings
Because no shillmon have it
>Disguise
They don't want Mimikyu fo replace Pikachu
>Protean
They don't want GreBlack person to outshine CHARIZARD
>Aegislash
Not a shillmon
>Dracovish
Honorary shillmon because of TrAshnime
>Darmanitan
Overlooked
>Calyrex
He is King Arthur
>Zacian
He is the King Arthur's Excalibur
>Regieleki
He is Regigigas' favorite bastard son
>Miraidon
Agias
>Flutter Mane
MLP
Where's Landorus At Home posterboy, moron? If you want to talk about busted pokemon, Great Tusk is a must.
>Mimikyu's Disguise
Sash Mimikyu was idiot, that's why.
>* Gale Wings
>* Mimikyu's Disguise
>* Protean
>* Aegislash's stats and King's Shield
all of those things deserved to be nerfed
Scald shouldn't be nerfed
it was fine the way it was
>It inflicts a potentially crippling status where the only type immune to said status is weak to the move itself
this doesn't break the game
there are plenty of pokemon with good special defense that also don't care about burns
Magic Gaurd is also a thing
>this doesn't break the game
Maybe not, but it's still unbalanced and pretty stupid. It would be like if there was a ground-type paralysis move.
>Magic Gaurd is also a thing
Not anymore.
>Maybe not, but it's still unbalanced and pretty stupid
no it really isn't. you can't just look at the type chart and go "it's unbalanced"
look at Blissey for example. it doesn't resist Water and it's not immune to burns, but it's Special Defense is so high that it doesn't care about Scald damage and it also has Natural Cure. you have to also look at a pokemon's stats and abilities and not just the type chart
>It would be like if there was a ground-type paralysis move
Flying types and Levitate exist so this is balanced
>Not anymore
dexcut shouldn;t be a thing anyways
>no it really isn't
Yes, it really is. It's 10BP weaker than Surf and has a better chance than most Fire moves to completely shut down a physical attacker.
>It's 10BP weaker than Surf and has a better chance than most Fire moves to completely shut down a physical attacker
who says Fire needs to be the dedicated type for countering physical attackers?
It's not even close to the dedicated type for that because Scald is a better burning move.
The only Fire type attack that has a similar burn chance to Scald is Flame whell a 60 bp move.
Honestly i hope they bump Flame wheel to 80bp and distribute Fire Lash more widely.
Doesn't lava plume also get a 30% chance?
I could have sworn that fire blast has a 30% chance with how often I luck out with it but it seems to be 10%
Lava Plume isn't widely distributed.
Only Torkoal, Cammerupt, Flareon and the Cyndaquill line get it.
Flame wheel becoming a Fire type body slam equivalent would be better.
Flame wheel only has 10%,
>Galewings
Should have nerfed it by it not affecting status moves or at least given Talonflame a stat boost of 20 Atk.
>Protean
Should have made the STAB boost only 1.3 instead of 1.5 whenever the user doean't use their regular type.
to this day I still have no idea why they did it. I would not be surprised if it was a programming error they never bothered to fix because of their pride of something
Do what?
Never releasing their HAs (Flash Fire, Volt Absorb, and Water Absorb), and then changing them all to Inner Focus once Gen VII came and Ability Capsules were introduced.
Raikou and Entei were way too similar with Jolteon and Arcanine
To make them (Entei) more Doubles Viable
honestly just any mon losing moves from older gens like if the move no longer exists fine but if you have a old game then you should still have access to those moves if they're still in the game(except toxic that made sense to remove from a few mons)
like i get scaled was strong but why not nerf it instead of removing it from everyone except a mon that already has a better move making it pointless
>except toxic
no that was the worst possible move to have been cut
i get its a essential tool for some mons but it doesn't make sense that nearly every mon gets it
and i dont think nerfing toxic even after the healing nerfs makes sense either
toxic didn't need to be nerfed becuase there are a frickton of Poison and Steel types to counter it as well and Heal Bell, Rest, etc.
>it doesn't make sense that nearly every mon gets it
why not? an attacking pokemon could use Toxic to wear down a bulky pokemon that has no way of curing the status
>healing nerfs
those moves should have never been nerfed
never said it did
toxic its fine to put a timer on bulk just not every mon should have it yet a few more should rn
scald is different either nerf the bp or nerf the burn chance
i think the best option is to lower the bp to 70
to make it a utility move
65 or 40 is a better number to dodge technician or other abilities buffing it
It and Scald should be cut back even more. If it isnt a poison type it shouldnt know toxic, and if it isnt emboar/volcanion/walking wake it shouldnt know scald.
Yea because Walking Wake needs a buff in Scald, and Volcanion already has a better Scald. Nice try, dipshit. Maybe just balance the move properly or make Chilling Water not dogshit.
As for Toxic, I'm still not a believer in the cut. I get Toxic + Protect sets can be hyper aids but all this does is buff stall by limiting who can apply a timer to walls. T-Spikes are so piss easy to remove/avoid it's almost pointless unless they're a low elo shitter who doesn't run HDB on stall teams. I mean honestly, I'd bet money they only nerfed Toxic because they're autistically set on the 20 minute timer.
You wanna know how to nerf stall?
STOP BANNING OFFENSE
its that simple. Strong offense breaks through stall. Im not saying OHKO should be everywhere, but a good chunk of mons should be able to 2hko most stallmons. Really burn through those limited (a good thing btw) recovers.
This. Removing moves altogether instead of just reinvigorating them with revamps is the biggest crime. The best approach is always to just constantly tweak everything rather than just erase it from existence. It helps with variety, keeps things feeling fresh without feeling cluttered, and old Pokemon don't get screwed over by way of being unintended victims
Scald and Toxic should have been removed from most pokemon since the beginning. Masuda was just too pussy to do it because if he did it, he will only brand himself as a flip-flop moron.
Smoggays and compgays are mistakes
Bug attacks being resisted by fairy is easily one of the most moronic decisions in Game Freak history. Like being resisted on SIX fricking types already wasn't enough?
in what fricking world would they take eruption away from this guy
for some reason it can only get Eruption if you link a Gen 4 game to Pokémon Ranger Guardian Signs
It only ever had Eruption as an event move.
Protean was nerfed because at that point they gave it to too many Pokemon in a Gen that has Tera.
Yeah, instead of giving Meowscarada a hidden ability that makes sense, I don’t know like Magic Bounce or something to fit the whole magician theme, they give it Protean and figure it’s be too broken with old Protean so they nerfed it in the ground to the point where it legitimately uses Overgrowt on some sets.