What if it's Hidden Ability isStance Change?
>>26931966
Stance Change is Aegislash's signature ability. You can't justify giving this think King's Shield.
Also, Stance Change's formes are called "Shield Forme" and "Blade Forme." There's nothing "Blade Forme" about that.
For the last time, nothing beyond Aegislash will ever get Stance Change as an ability. Maybe a functionally similar ability, but never Stance Change.
I highly doubt it. It would make it too broken.
>>26931966
That... that'd be perfe-
>>26931990
Point taken. What'd be a good name for a similar ability?
>>26932031
Change of Stance
>>26931990
>For the last time, nothing beyond Aegislash will ever get Stance Change as an ability.
Thanks Masuda. Glad we have the confirmation here ladies and gentlemen.
>>26932031
Tiki Shuffle
>>26931966
The "it also appears to enter this form during other, special times..." makes it sound less like a "formE" and more like there will be some story element where the bird shaped shell thing will be important. Like Solgaleo and Lunala's "forms."
>>26931966
>these Pokemon will have to show up in other Pokemon regions at some point
>and they can't just blame it on Hoopa again
>>26932091
Deductive reasoning. Not confirmation.
Stance Change doesn't just mean changing from an offensive to a defensive form. It means having King's Shield in your movepool and changing from a Blade to a Shield Forme. Given that GF can create new abilities literally whenever they want, why would they force themselves into repeating this gimmick exactly when they can just make a new ability that's functionally similar, just without the Aegislash-specific terminology.
>>26932125
>blame it on hoopa
What?
>>26931990
>Stance Change's formes are called
nothing, aeigslash's formes are called blade forme and shield forme and stance change lets it switch between the two.
>You can't justify giving this think King's Shield
why not? theres nothing about the move that really makes it unique to aeigslash.
>>26932125
Bitch please, they've justified it by other means in earlier games.
Heck, sometimes they didn't justify it at all.
>>26932125
>I'm gonna worry about shit years in the future when the games they first show up in aren't even out yet
>>26932141
All the non-Hoenn, non-Kalos legends in ORAS, aside from Regigigas, are there because they pop out of Hoopa's rings. This is shown both on some of the overworld areas, and even in the opening battle animations, where instead of simply being on the field already, they drop down out of a Hoopa ring.
Unfortunately, this is all we got. Not even a minor Hoopa quest where you track it down to stop its mischief. Shame.
>>26932147
Forme change abilities are unique to each Pokémon, I think it's safe to assume that.
Take Flower Gift, Forecast for example. They are even more generic than Stance Change (and the King's Shield interaction) and yet, they haven't been reused since their introduction.
>Tapu Koko can store up electricity by enclosing itself in the shells on its arms. And it also appears to enter this form during other, special times...
What did they mean by this
>>26932031
ToteMagic