lol I literally mentioned everything you stated a dozen pages back. Been saying this for years. The solution is so obvious it hurts…
It has no good physical fire moves to take advantage of its high attack with. The best it has is fire fang.
Also low HP, low defense, low speed, and STEALTH RAWKZ.
I always thought Steel should hit Dragons super-effectively.
One of the higher Attack Pokes around. And has an absolutely anemic physical movepool, especially when it comes to STAB.
ALL Flareon needs to be even mildly relevant is the ability to learn Flare Blitz. That’s it.
Flareon will get a buff when they give one to Farfetch’d, or when whoever apparently has it in for them at Game Freak leaves or dies. “Dux” has been begging them for some respect for years, and they gave him a stick.
Screw that bird, I need my Pinsir and Jynx Evos.
I always thought Farfetch’d could evolve into a pretty beastly Flying/Fighting Pokemon with a traveling monk motive… Farmonk? Wandetch?
I suck at naming.
@Bious: Lord no. I haven’t battled seriously since the Advance/Netbattle days–I’m too obsessed with gimmick sets/trolling to battle for realz. Also, much like Skullgirls, certain elements within the community really put me off. (To this day, I have sworn an intifada against the Smogon community and its supporters for banning me from their Netbattle servers for being too good[63-0!] against some of their “gods” of battling-fuck a Skarm and a Chaos)
@Lord_Raptor: Everyone else already covered it, but yeah, there’s an unwritten rule at Game Freak that Flareon must always be ass. All it needs is Flare Blitz(or my theorized Fire priority move) and it becomes instantly useable. Look what happened when they finally gave it to Entei…
@Farfetch’d: Another cult favorite poke that never gets any love and is desperately in need of an evolution. Everyone wants Fighting/Flying, which is why GF will never do it. Has a great movepool, a unique item and Defiant from the Dream World allows it too get boosts from Intimidates/random effects of moves. So of course it has to have subpar attacking stats and shitty speed/defenses…
Funny thing is I’m actually working on a Triples/Doubles team featuring Stick Farfetch’d fishing for crits… Having shitty attacking stats doesn’t hurt too much when you’re crit haxing everything in sight.
^that was my last match lol, I haven’t been online going on almost two years.
Flareon is just a screwed Pokemon. Even if it got Flare Blitz (which would rock), he doesn’t have the HP base to utilize it well.
I think with Steel being a naturally defensive type, it’s pretty good where it’s at. Poison on the other hand…
Pinsir is a prime target for an evo-upgrade. He needs more ornate Pinsirs man. Bug/ Ground (or Dragon if they really wanted to take a risk) typing would bode well too.
New Pokemon got revealed today.
A fighting panda, an electric lizard, a normal/flying bird (surprise), and a grass goat you can ride on in-game.
Also a new fighting move called Parting Remark. I hope it’s fighting-type pursuit.
The region is named Karos, and you can customize your trainer!
Courtesy of Serebii.
Edit: Finally found a scan.
http://www.serebii.net/index2.shtml
According to the 'bii:
Bird - Yayakoma (Normal/Flying) - Probably the rt. 1 bird.
Yellow Lizard thing = Elikiteru (Electric/Normal) - New move called “Parabola Change” that heals it and damages the opponent.
Panda = Yancham (Fighting) - Has a new move called “Parting Remark”.
Goat = Gogoat (Grass) - You can ride it on the world map.
Serebii also says he’s not 100% sure this leak is legit yet (actual issue releases on the 15th), but it looks way too legit to be fake.
Also: Character customization! Looks like you can pick from three preset hair/skin colors (possibly more?):
Pic2
All the Pokemon that’s capable of crit haxing have suck ass movepools and speed…
Yo. I liking these new Pokemon designs. KUNG-FU PANDA! A fucking riding goat? The Japanese must think Europe is still in the Middle Ages or something, lol.
They’re finally giving (slight) character customization a go… now everyone that’s been demanding it can be satisfied a little bit.
Hopefully GF gives us the typings of Xerneas, Yveltal, and Sylveon as well. Really interested to see if this Fairy-type rumor turns out to be true.
Goddamn, that little badass panda might be my new Heracross. If that fucker evolves into a big ass panda I will buy 20 copies.
Until you find out GF gave his final evo 199 max speed, 176 Special Def and Truant as a trait.
I just saw the custom trainer looks and thought… Finally I don’t have to be white/asian anymore!
Please don’t joke about that sorta thing, it would be just my luck.
RUMOR TIME!!!
[details=Spoiler]Fairy will be a new type. It is weak to Poison and Steel, immune to Dragon, and super effective against Dragon, Dark, and Fighting-type Pokemon.
Sylveon is Fairy-type. Some older Pokemon will be reclassified to Fairy, such as Mawile (Steel/Fairy).
Mewtwo has two new formes, not just one. Both are activated via items.
The professor’s English name is Patrice.
The Starter final evolutions are, as many people predicted, Fire/Psychic, Grass/Fighting, and Water/Dark.
The first Gym is Bug, the second is Fairy, and the fourth is Fighting.
A few attacks will be dual-typed.
There will be a new type of battling style that Flying-type Pokemon and Pokemon with Levitate can participate in.
You will be able to see a Pokemon’s EVs at a certain in-game facility. You will be able to boost the EVs through mini-games. It will take about two hours to get one stat to max EVs.
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From Pokebeach.
White Shadow, get in here!
JUST GET RID OF IVs. AHHHHHHHHHH.
NEVER!
Well this is nice step in the right direction. Dual type attacks have been something I’ve pondered about since RSE, but implementing it will be tricky.
As for the final forms of the starters (which I’m guessing are guinea pigs for dual type attacks), dual stab weaknesses for the 3 types is overkill imo. Fire/Psychic, Grass/Dark, Water/Fighting would’ve been far more interesting.
Hurray if these rumors are true Poison Pokemon and Attacks might actually have a purpose!