Thread: New Moves/Abilities

Originally Posted by Cerony

Originally Posted by Solacen

Originally Posted by Roosterman

i think there aren't enough offensive dark type moves. how about one kind of like solar beam or hyper beam or hydro canon? we could call it "dark canon" real creative, huh? perhaps if they make a new weather type that makes it night, it could have the same effect as solar beam.

Something along the lines of "Eclipse" as a dark based weather effect. It would also increase the healing done by moonlight. I never got why sunny weather gives the greatest boost when its the time you can least see the moon.

Sunny Day's Japanese name translates to "Clear Skies", which is when the moon would be most visible. For English speakers the explanation could be that Moonlight's effect is strengthened because the moon's light is actually the sun's.

so why not make the japanese one called "darkened skies" or something like that? unless that's what rain dance is called in japanese of course. or like solacen said, eclipse, eclipses happen when the moon passes between us and the sun making it dark. seems plausible.

Originally Posted by Roosterman

Originally Posted by Cerony

Originally Posted by Solacen

Originally Posted by Roosterman

i think there aren't enough offensive dark type moves. how about one kind of like solar beam or hyper beam or hydro canon? we could call it "dark canon" real creative, huh? perhaps if they make a new weather type that makes it night, it could have the same effect as solar beam.

Something along the lines of "Eclipse" as a dark based weather effect. It would also increase the healing done by moonlight. I never got why sunny weather gives the greatest boost when its the time you can least see the moon.

Sunny Day's Japanese name translates to "Clear Skies", which is when the moon would be most visible. For English speakers the explanation could be that Moonlight's effect is strengthened because the moon's light is actually the sun's.

so why not make the japanese one called "darkened skies" or something like that? unless that's what rain dance is called in japanese of course. or like solacen said, eclipse, eclipses happen when the moon passes between us and the sun making it dark. seems plausible.

Rain Dance is actually called Rain Prayer IIRC, but Eclipse sounds cool, but I'd prefer Blackout.

On the subject of a powerful Dark-type move, I'd love to see one called Crescent Blade, with 100 power and 90 accuracy. It has no additional effect. As for new abilities, I have a few in mind:

Snow Scope: All attacks from the user will hit the opponent in Hail, regardless of increases in the opponent's evasion.
Mastermind: Doubles power of all moves when your HP is in the red, but secondary effects will not appear.
Fragrance: Lowers the opponent's Special Defense upon entering battle (an equivalent to Intimidate).
Last Thoughts: Doubles a random stat when your HP is in the red.
Underhand: Lowers the opponent's chance of a secondary effect of their moves appearing.

Originally Posted by Purazuma

On the subject of a powerful Dark-type move, I'd love to see one called Crescent Blade, with 100 power and 90 accuracy. It has no additional effect. As for new abilities, I have a few in mind:

Snow Scope: All attacks from the user will hit the opponent in Hail, regardless of increases in the opponent's evasion.

Won't that allow for 100% accurate One hit-KO's?

Alterations of Wake-up slap:
Paralysis: Chiropractory
Burn: Body Chill
Poison: Inject
Confusion: Attention Shout

Originally Posted by Corrupted Paradise

Does anyone have any ideas on what Yveltal's and Xerneas' signature moves (assuming they get one) will be?

Yveltal:Y blast

Xerneas:X ram

Its worth a shot.

So, thinking up abilities for the new mascots, I think I've reached a great one, hopefully I'll be able to come up with a not-totally disgruntled explanation of it, so, bear with me:

So, by their designs only, you can clearly tell that Xerneas and Yveltal are really majestic and badass looking Pokémon, and I think they both have that air thta commands respect, they're charismatic, or better, awe-inspiring, and I'd like that to transcend into an ability, that inspires even their foes, so I've come up with...

Thrall
When brought into the battle, there's a small (10-15%) chance of causing infatuation on the opposing pokémon, regardless of gender or even if they can breed to beging with.

Yeah yeah, I know infatuation might not translate well into awe-strucking their enemies, so maybe we could have a message come up, like: X Pokémon refuses to attack Yveltal/Xerneas!

More moves and/or abilities that can negate Stealth Rock, that would be great for me. Currently only a small fraction of psychic and ghost pokemon can effectively defend against it. Don't even try to tell me about Rapid Spin And Defog, those are useless, as SR has PP of even 32 times and that's IF you manage to guess that opponents will use it. Stealth Rock even goes against law of logic imo, seeing how it affects flying and levitating pokemon, whereas Spikes don't. Oh well I guess that I forgot Taunt, but that's sometimes not a really good solution either.

Other than that I don't really see what else could be done but as a suggestion I think that Outrage should always cause confusion and not cease attacking even if opponent uses protect etc.

It would be great imo if Nintendo would learn a way to deny the cheating, seeing how the strongest, rarest kind of pokemon can be produced without much effort is really annoying if you would think what hardship it is to get a pokemon like that using traditional methods. That's just my personal point of view though.

Trading was very weird and stupid sometimes STILL in 5th gen, I spent hundreds of hours playing my white and I never got to even see a Pikachu ;/

Originally Posted by Infinity Edge

Stealth Rock even goes against law of logic imo, seeing how it affects flying and levitating pokemon, whereas Spikes don't.

In-game description of Stealth Rock:The user lays a trap of levitating stones around the opponent's team. The trap hurts opponents that switch into battle.

Originally Posted by Cerony

Originally Posted by Infinity Edge

Stealth Rock even goes against law of logic imo, seeing how it affects flying and levitating pokemon, whereas Spikes don't.

In-game description of Stealth Rock:The user lays a trap of levitating stones around the opponent's team. The trap hurts opponents that switch into battle.

And how can exactly rock pokemon make them levitate? They're not psychic users. Flying pokemon should still have no problem avoiding even those.

Originally Posted by Incoming Mortar

Alterations of Wake-up slap:
Paralysis: Chiropractory
Burn: Body Chill
Poison: Inject
Confusion: Attention Shout

Wake-up Slap is itself an variation of the move SmellingSalt, the signature move of Makuhita and Hariyama that will cure paralysis and double in power when used on a paralyzed opponent.

Anyway, I feel like Run Away could be made a whole lot less useless. I mean, most of the Pokemon who can currently have it have another, better ability anyway, but being able to escape from Pokemon like Shadow Tag Chandelure and Wobbuffet, Arena Trap Dugrtrio, Magnet Pull Magnezone as well as any Pokemon that can use Mean Look, Wrap, Fire Spin, Block, etc. could be incredibly useful under the right circumstances. Also, the potential duality present in a new Pokemon with Run Away and either Filter or Solid Rock would be so cool and revealing about how their trainer chooses to fight.

I really think that all moves and abilities should have some use in Trainer battles. Including stuff like Teleport and Run Away.

Teleport - Altered into a Psychic-type version of U-Turn/Volt Switch.

Run Away - (Wild) Enables guaranteed fleeing and switch-outs. This Pokémon is immune to Pursuit's damage bonus.

Illuminate - Raises the likelihood of meeting wild Pokémon and enables moves to hit Ghost-type Pokémon.


Etc.

Web hammer : pokemon entagles the foe with web/vines and throws them up into the air before crashing them back into the ground. 30% flinch

damage 75
accuracy 90

Swarm : pokemon calls in reinforements to the battle to protect it.

raises defence by 2 stages.

Hover : pokemon uses wings to flot in the air for a prolonged period of time

effect lasts 4 turns.
pokemon is immune to all ground type moves while its in effect.
pokemon loses its flying type characteristic while this move is in effect(if the pokemon is not flying type all other affects apply)

claw dash : user attacks the foe in a last ditch attempt to win the battle

power 40
accuracy ----

move hits without fail. ignoring evasion modifiers
power doubles if pokemons health is in the red bar.

inner strength : pokemon summons power deep within to perform previously impossible feats.

damage 50
accuracy 100

damage is increased depending on the weight of the oppnent. max power 150
weight modifers do not apply. 50 base damage always applys.








pokemon is immune to ground type moves while this move is in effect

I had an idea of an ability called Lie In, which adds 50% on to sleep time but allows Pokémon to gain, say 10% HP per turn while asleep.

If Fennekin is indeed fire / psychic it got me thinking for a move that could be influenced by both of those. I came up with a fire type attack that was usuable by psychic pokemon. Like Will o wisp but for psychic types. It would involve manipulating fire towards the target (with psychic powers) in same fashion.