sunny phoenix
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what rivalry between killer whales and dolphins?
also killer whales are dolphins....
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what rivalry between killer whales and dolphins?
also killer whales are dolphins....
RioluEeveeZorua fan
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What about MegaSharpedo vs. MegaTyranitar? In fact, I'm surprised I haven't seen more things about T-tar becoming full-on Godzilla.
Speaking of MegaTyranitar...
Belleflora
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This. In fact, dolphins are one of the few aquatic animals killer whales don't kill/eat.
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That would be unappealing or at leastt unimpressive for a Mega forme for T-Tar. It would get a much more detailed look than just mtallic body parts. It's a great idea, but please discuss Mega formes here because your ideas would be much more discussed there.
I don't know if dark/psychic will make a good defensive Pokemon after all in the competitive circle isn't a neutral stab what makes dragons so deadly in the current metagame? Defensively I think they want to get as many resistances as possible.
Oh really?
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Yes, and technically all dolphins are whales.
Yeah, the lack of resistances would make pretty difficult to be defensive since the only type that it is able to switch into safely is Psychic. Think of it this way: the difference between receiving a neutral hit and a resisted can be the difference between getting hit with a 120 base power move and a 60 base power move.
That's not entirely true. Both dolphins and whales are in the same order, Cetacea, but they are in different families. Oceanic dolphins are in the Delphinidae family, in which there are no whales, and the few river dolphins belong to the Platanistoidea family. Whales are in different families, even different suborders if they are baleen whales. Whales and dolphins are as closely related as we are to all other primates.
We can consider Malamar like a Normal-type, as I and oarfish came to the epiphany that Dark/Psychic will be like Normal-type (assuming Fairy SE on Dark and NVE on Psychic are true), with 1 weakness, 1 immunity and no resistances. Blissey can take hits all day in the Sp.Def department, and Snorlax can take quite a few as well. So there a couple of decent defensive Normal-types out there. I don't think Lickilicky is too bad in the defensive department either. If they have big enough bulk, they could do alright, but a couple of resistances would've been handy yes, I agree.
The difference being that Malamar's weakness is a 4x weakness. They also have high HP to help them absorb hits. Because of the lack of resistances and its only weakness being a 4x weakness, it will need something else to make it defensive. Here's a quote from Smogon's Normal analysis:
http://www.smogon.com/smog/issue6/type_analysis_normal said:
Probably so people read it as Fla-bay-bay instead of Fla-bee-bee.
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Yes, I just read what you posted, and perhaps a Cursing Malamar could do well if it had access to it. Calm Mind would make a decent alternative I think, as Malamar seems a little more Special-orientated to me and as it is a Psychic-type, it would be more appropriate move. From the looks of Malamar, I think it is going to be pretty slow, so its other stats need to make up the difference. Maybe it might even get a MegaEvolution to help it along, who knows?
But you are right, life could be difficult for Malamar without resistances, just like it is so for many Normal and Ice-type Pokemon....
If it had a respectable 495 BST for example - perhaps it could go a little like this:-
HP:- 100
Attack:- 60
Defense:- 115
Sp. Attack:- 70
Sp. Defense:- 110
Speed:- 40
Total:- 495
EDIT:- Forgot about Contrary, forget about what I said about Curse and Calm Mind!!
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I have always seen Wailord as torpedo-like, especially in its Sugimori artwork.
At least it looks more torpedo-like than Sharpedo, where the only connection I see is by English name.
Sharpedo. It's supposed to be a shark torpedo, which is why it doesn't have a tail, just an awkward butt jet.
I just thought that it might have aggressive options instead utilising the move Topsy-Turvy. Psycho Boost or something along those concepts would obviously work well for Malamar with Contrary. I am getting very mixed up with Contrary and Topsy-Turvy as they both basically cancel each other out, and so I am getting quite tangled up here! It might get difficult trying to use Topsy-Turvy when Contrary is Lready in place. I suppose its advantageous being able to invert any stat changes at will, but if you want to increase your own stat changes it will take two turns rather than one. Most opponents' side-effects of moves will be stat-lowering, which will be stat-elevating with Contrary, so why the need of Topsy-Turvy when it will only change it back to stat-lowering? Suction Cups isn't that useful...
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Spirit Kitsune
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I see that some people were talking about dolphins. I'd like to see a pink river dolphin.
Doesn't Topsy-Turvy just reverse all the stat changes on the opponents Pokemon?
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