>new pokemon with wacky abilities being pumped out
>the possibilities
Is Gen VII the best metagame yet?
>>27013524
only if they distribute these and xy's new abilities (such as bulletproof) to some older pokemon.
>>27013524
get a life
>>27013524
What is Drampa doing there? Its ability a shit
>>27013552
Summerfag gets angry at competitive talk on a pokemon board. I hate this place.
>new pokemon get cool and unique abilities
>old pokemon doomed to swarm and keen eye forever
I was thinking the same!
They're all such new possibilities. It's amazing. Comatose is my favorite yet, but Corrosion and Stakeout are incredible as well.
Dazzling will prove to be a pain in the ass of plenty Pokemon, Bruxish has a nice coverage as well.
>>27013524
Feels bad that none of the wacky abilities will be a surprise
>>27013554
It could work if it's bulky and has a reliable recovery move
>>27013524
Probably not, but we know next to nothing about it, so fuck off, baitfag.
>>27013554
>implying Sub Salac won't be dope af
Assuming Pokemon like Bruxish and Salandit are fully one-stage with middling stats, it's gonna be interesting to see if people are gonna overlook them for their abilities
>>27014696
Or weakness policy if Drampa has ok bulk and Dragon Dance, doesn't even need overwhelming offensive stat's at that point.
Even something like 110/95/95/105/85/60 would be pretty okay, and do some serious damage with +3 to both attacking stats and +1 to speed. Even if a few mons will still have revenge killing opportunities.
Fuck off back to Smogon sheep
>>27013554
but it's still new
>>27013524
>Is Gen VII the best metagame yet?
no, it isn't.
Pokemon's "metagame" is nothing more but a glorified rock-paper-scissor game with luck factors added to it.
Stop trying to make it competitive. It's just not possible and also autistic as shit.
>>27014765
It already has potential to do a lot with Return if it's a physical attacker.
>>27013627
P R E S S U R E
Truly this is the greatest generation.
>>27013524
Wow, someone forgot we had:
Aerilate
Aroma Veil
Aura Break
Bulletproof
Cheek Pouch
Competitive
Dark Aura
Fairy Aura
Flower Veil
Fur Coat
Gale Wings
Gooey
Grass Pelt
Magician
Mega Launcher
Parental Bond
Pixilate
Protean
Refrigerate
Stance Change
Strong Jaw
Sweet Veil
Symbiosis
Tough Claws
last gen, and the meta still sucked.
Anything is better than the fucking Gen 5 meta, at least.
It has the unfortunate side effect that standards for abilities are becomming higher and higher. When abilities were first introduced, only a few were fantastic/gimmicky (given to shitty pokemon like shedinja/ninjask) and there were plenty of abiities like "raise encounter rate" "prevent sp defense from dropping."
Now people kick and scream if every single new ability isn't metagame defining, or if it doesn't amazingly syngergize with a movepool, like compound eyes+hurricane+sleep powder. If a pokemon comes with a nice little ability like flinch immunity, it gets green texted into oblivion
