Headshot-Jackal465
The Kwisatz Haderach
This thread is for attack changes and such. Also point-out weird things of attacks that make no sense.
It is my list of attack heresies--ideas I have to change attack movesets, type, the works. It may be herecy to publish them, but I have my opinions. If you disagree, that's fine. Just post here and explain. Also, post your own herecies here as they pwertain to attacks.
First of all, why is there no attack called "Punch" or "Kick"? Its basic! First you can punch, later you learn how to mega punch or fire punch, but punch is a basic thing that anything with fists should be able to know how to do. I mean, Bite eventually is 1-upped by Crunch, but there is no building block for mega punch. Same with Mega Kick. "kick" and "punch" are basic attacks just like scratch and tackle. How come they were never created? You have karate chop and a billion other kinds of punches, but no "punch".
And what about the total lack of bug attacks? There are, like, 3 good ones and fury cutter. Fury cutter isn't something to say "wow" at. Silver wind is great, signal beam and megahorn are too, but very few pokemon can learn any of these moves naturally. If the bug type is to be given any credibility at all, there must be additions. The ability, "Swarm" is useless if there aren't any bug techniques to support it.
I once said before that one of these additions to the bug-type should be cut. The reasoning behind this is clear. First of all, it destroys plants outside of battle, the only types which are super-effective against plants are flying, fire, bug, ice types. Bug is the only type of these which makes sense to change the tyope to. Normal type is for attacks and pokemon which do not fit into any other category better. Bug is a better fit for bug than anything else. Secondly, Fury cutter is bug, why can't cut be bug? There is a drought of bug attacks now and adding cut to the list would be a big help to the entire bug-catching community. Right now, Bug pokemon are being dominated by the fact that they have a limited attack base. They may be super-effective towards psy, grass, and dark, but without the moves to support this, they are sunk. Cut being a bug technique like fury cutter could greatly increase its chances of being a contending type for battlers.
And the lack of powerful poison techniques continues to be a hinderence to poison types. There is sludge and sludgebomb--poison fang is descent also, but pokemon like arbok and seviper cannot naturally learn sludge, which is more of an attack for the gaseous weezing and fluid grimer. More powerful poison attacks for the snake and plant (victreebell) pokemon would greatly increase the credibility of carrying poison pokemon, Currently, poison types are overlooked due to their general weaknesses. Having better, more powerful attacks would greatly aid them.
Ghost as a physical attack. Not a bad concept, but hear me out. Gengar has a huge potential as a special attack sweeper due to its big sp atk. My own Haunter level 51, adamant nature has a sp attack of over 170 currently and Im proud of it. However, its attack power is very small, so its ghost attacks are weak. I don't know how to fix this, but something should be done--Gengar gets no STAB at all if you use attacks that take advantage of its high sp atk. Filling it up with Psychic and Thunderbolt and such does not fill the void left by its inability to wield ghost attacks or even poison attacks as it rightfully should. However, it should not stop being so powerful as a sp atk sweeper. It truly is a paradox.
Hypno should learn Dream Eater by leveling-up. 'Nuf said.
Dream Eater as a psychic attack. It should be ghost since the first pokemon to utilize the move were the gastly line. It also has a more spiritual base since its about sucking the foe's "soul" (dream, whatever) out. It is the attack described when dex entries talk about stealing foe's souls. It is better suited towards the nightly presence of ghost pokemon than the intellectual, spoon bending psychics.
The inaccuracy of rock attacks. There is currently one 100% accurate rock attack, ancient power. That is one out of 6 (not counting sandstorm). Clearly, the rock-wielders are being short-changed just like the bug-wielders in that the reliable move base is slim. Inaccuracy is what makes attacks like Fireblast less effective than flamethrower--an attack with more PP, 100 accuracy and still high damage. Even "Rock throw" has a 90% accuracy and its a weaker attack. Rock types are being gypped.
Heat Wave is a useless attack. Lets compare Heat Wave with Flamethrower:
Format:ATTACK-power-accuracy-PP-effect-TYPE
HEAT WAVE-100-90-10-10% burn-FIRE
FLAMETHROWER-95-100-15-10% burn-FIRE
Heat wave adds 5 to attack power, but subtracts 10 from accuracy and 5 from PP. Such detriment with such a small increase is useless in my book. Flamethrower is undoubtedly the better move as its 10% more accurate and you may use it 50% more often than heat wave with only a 5.263% increase in power. Heat Wave should be removed from the list of attacks.
It is my list of attack heresies--ideas I have to change attack movesets, type, the works. It may be herecy to publish them, but I have my opinions. If you disagree, that's fine. Just post here and explain. Also, post your own herecies here as they pwertain to attacks.
First of all, why is there no attack called "Punch" or "Kick"? Its basic! First you can punch, later you learn how to mega punch or fire punch, but punch is a basic thing that anything with fists should be able to know how to do. I mean, Bite eventually is 1-upped by Crunch, but there is no building block for mega punch. Same with Mega Kick. "kick" and "punch" are basic attacks just like scratch and tackle. How come they were never created? You have karate chop and a billion other kinds of punches, but no "punch".
And what about the total lack of bug attacks? There are, like, 3 good ones and fury cutter. Fury cutter isn't something to say "wow" at. Silver wind is great, signal beam and megahorn are too, but very few pokemon can learn any of these moves naturally. If the bug type is to be given any credibility at all, there must be additions. The ability, "Swarm" is useless if there aren't any bug techniques to support it.
I once said before that one of these additions to the bug-type should be cut. The reasoning behind this is clear. First of all, it destroys plants outside of battle, the only types which are super-effective against plants are flying, fire, bug, ice types. Bug is the only type of these which makes sense to change the tyope to. Normal type is for attacks and pokemon which do not fit into any other category better. Bug is a better fit for bug than anything else. Secondly, Fury cutter is bug, why can't cut be bug? There is a drought of bug attacks now and adding cut to the list would be a big help to the entire bug-catching community. Right now, Bug pokemon are being dominated by the fact that they have a limited attack base. They may be super-effective towards psy, grass, and dark, but without the moves to support this, they are sunk. Cut being a bug technique like fury cutter could greatly increase its chances of being a contending type for battlers.
And the lack of powerful poison techniques continues to be a hinderence to poison types. There is sludge and sludgebomb--poison fang is descent also, but pokemon like arbok and seviper cannot naturally learn sludge, which is more of an attack for the gaseous weezing and fluid grimer. More powerful poison attacks for the snake and plant (victreebell) pokemon would greatly increase the credibility of carrying poison pokemon, Currently, poison types are overlooked due to their general weaknesses. Having better, more powerful attacks would greatly aid them.
Ghost as a physical attack. Not a bad concept, but hear me out. Gengar has a huge potential as a special attack sweeper due to its big sp atk. My own Haunter level 51, adamant nature has a sp attack of over 170 currently and Im proud of it. However, its attack power is very small, so its ghost attacks are weak. I don't know how to fix this, but something should be done--Gengar gets no STAB at all if you use attacks that take advantage of its high sp atk. Filling it up with Psychic and Thunderbolt and such does not fill the void left by its inability to wield ghost attacks or even poison attacks as it rightfully should. However, it should not stop being so powerful as a sp atk sweeper. It truly is a paradox.
Hypno should learn Dream Eater by leveling-up. 'Nuf said.
Dream Eater as a psychic attack. It should be ghost since the first pokemon to utilize the move were the gastly line. It also has a more spiritual base since its about sucking the foe's "soul" (dream, whatever) out. It is the attack described when dex entries talk about stealing foe's souls. It is better suited towards the nightly presence of ghost pokemon than the intellectual, spoon bending psychics.
The inaccuracy of rock attacks. There is currently one 100% accurate rock attack, ancient power. That is one out of 6 (not counting sandstorm). Clearly, the rock-wielders are being short-changed just like the bug-wielders in that the reliable move base is slim. Inaccuracy is what makes attacks like Fireblast less effective than flamethrower--an attack with more PP, 100 accuracy and still high damage. Even "Rock throw" has a 90% accuracy and its a weaker attack. Rock types are being gypped.
Heat Wave is a useless attack. Lets compare Heat Wave with Flamethrower:
Format:ATTACK-power-accuracy-PP-effect-TYPE
HEAT WAVE-100-90-10-10% burn-FIRE
FLAMETHROWER-95-100-15-10% burn-FIRE
Heat wave adds 5 to attack power, but subtracts 10 from accuracy and 5 from PP. Such detriment with such a small increase is useless in my book. Flamethrower is undoubtedly the better move as its 10% more accurate and you may use it 50% more often than heat wave with only a 5.263% increase in power. Heat Wave should be removed from the list of attacks.
