This is why competitive is kind of a joke, Pokemon has two modes that are of focus (doubles and singles) and even with the cuts game freak can barely balance the one they focus on, that being doubles and even then not that well.
When did digimon peak anyway? I don't remember ever seeing it back in the late 2000's, shit like bakugan, bayblade or yugioh had more of a presence back then. digimon seems back now but seemed like there was a period where it was more or less dead in the west
That phenomenon is nothing new really. Every new generation temporarily "resets" movelists like that until tutors/transfers come about, and even to this day there's still combinations that are (legally) impossible, like Unaware Clefable with Soft-Boiled.
And then there's Unown, who can't currently come back because they deleted its only move.
Unown is what makes this whole thing interesting if Sinnoh remakes happen, considering they have just as much of a presence there as they do in Johto. Either Hidden Power is reinstated and hopefully revamped, or it finally gets an actual moveset (though knowing GF they'd probably just slap Psychic on it and call it a day).
It's the same as the TemTems people from a few pages back. They're not there because of straight-up interest, they're trying to 'spite' game freak.
that hurt me. I know Aegislash is (or was) a bit of a cancer in the competitive meta, but I'm in the group of people that likes it because he has a cool design and concept.
That one was a shock to me. Don't get me wrong, I'm with them nerfing the accuracy (it was annoying as shit to deal with one in online battles), but why 50%? Why not 90% like thunder wave or having the accuracy be 75-85%? At least in that case the move will still have some viability. At this point, it's no better than using hypnosis. In fact, it's more viable to have Darkrai use hypnosis.
That's considered a nerf? Are you sure?
Dark Void was 80% accuracy before Gen 7, so they nerfed it to be even worse than before. All they had to do was make it so only Darkrai can use it, because the problem was SMEARGLE being able to use it, when Darkrai is always banned. In the end they did both nerfs, which was overkill.
How is that not a nerf? The speed drop was absolutely crippling before, but now if you're at +2 Speed it's at least nullified, similar to Swords Dancing with a burn. Though if they truly wanted to nerf it they should've halved the chance of wasting your turn like they did with confusion since that's what people really hate about it.
Hey, I like Aegislash too. I had him in my story team in X, and he has a super badass shiny. But his mechanics is where he went from 'cool and fun' to 'brokefuck'.
Like I said, heart went into this game. A lot of people clearly gave quite a few fucks. But a heart alone isn't enough, if time and money don't back it up.
