I Made Up 16 New Pokemon Abilities
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- čas přidán 26. 11. 2023
- There are over 300 abilities in the Pokemon series, but today we're going to make up some of our own. What if we did the exact opposite of Regigigas' Slow Start? What passive ability from the Smash Bros series do we think would work well in Pokemon as well? How would we balance two turn moves if they could always be executed in one turn? What if we made Talonflame's ability Gale Wings again but worse? All that and more in today's video.
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I love abilities and items that copy each other. Having the passive healing of leftovers combined with a berry or assault vest would be great
Just harvest in the sun
We do not need leftovers + leftovers on any pokemon except for delibird
A while back I came up with an ability called "Plague". It acts like mummy but poisons the user, regardless of type. The user starts out poisoned.
Ambipom should have Ambidextrous. Able to hold two items at the same time
Double choice items go brrr
@@natlus_ ikr
What about my version of Ambidextrious?
I came up with abilities that set up the "room" moves upon entering the battle. Trick Caster sets up Trick Room, Magic Caster sets up Magic Room, and Wonder Caster sets up Wonder Room.
How would trick room work on switch in? Would the slowest mon move instantly? Sounds broken if so
Use a Pokémon with Trick Caster to ruin VGC instantly.
You could give Trick caster to caterpie and he will have 100% usage in vgc
Magic caster and wonder caster sound really interesting and I’d love to see them. Trick caster however, with VGC’s dynamic speed, oh dear god
that’s so deadly!
I'd give Tropius an ability called Grafting that allows it to permanently gain the effect of any berry it is holding so stat berries would act like choice items without locking you in, super effective berries would permanently remove one of it's weaknesses, and healing berries would work as a better version of leftovers healing 1/8 of hp every turn instead of only 1/16 this wouldn't be too broken since Tropius isn't actually that good and it makes sense thematically because you're basically 'Grafting' different berries onto his little chin beard which would make them literally part of its body
i love this
@@borzoilover4156 There is already an ability called corrosion that allows poison to affect steel and poison types but not one that allows it to be super effective, sadly
@@genericcatgirl oh i didnt know what Pokémon is it
@@borzoilover4156 Salazzle
@@genericcatgirl oh right ok thanks nargacuga
Some of my ability ideas.
Sunburn: harsh sun burns pokemon.
Third degree: fire type pokemon can be burned.
Misdirection: triggers the secondary effect of any of the Pokèmon's moves.
Combo star: moves that hit multiple times increase in damage by 10% for each consecutive each hit.
Envenom: all biting moves have a chance to Poison.
Sun shower: water type moves are boosted in sunlight and fire type moves are boosted in rain.
Steam cloud: raises evasiveness when hit by a water type move.
Here's one I thought of.
Ambidextrous
Pokemon with more than 2 hands can make any physical move with either 60 or less base power, or 80% or less accuracy, a 30% chance to hit 2 to 5 times.
Thoughts?
Also some others.
Stuncoat: 2/3 chance to either poison or paralyze when hit by physical move.
Psychocoat: 2/3 change to either confuse or poison when hit by a physical move.
Contaminate: Water attacks gain a 1/3 chance to poison.
Specialty Tactics: Same type status moves that target your opponent deal damage equal to the user's level
@shawntross6104 maybe just make it hit twice. It sounds a bit op if a move with 60 base power can it up to 5 times
Misdirection looks like a better serene grace as of now, I would make it so that if a pokemon with misdirection is hit with a move and the secondary effect activates, the pokemon with misdirection gets the benefits, or penalties, instead
Combo star on maushold would be insanely broken
second wind is literally just anger shell
Y'know how there's an ability for every wether and terrain? What about a trio of abilities that set up the feild states related to the pledge moves?
A trick room setting ability would be super cool too.
Y'know I kinda dig the pledge ones
An auto-Trick Room ability would be absolutely broken, even if it only lasted for 3-5 turns like weather does. It would become the only viable play style for serious competitive play due to how many mons it would enable.
It would be broken. Switching is first performer action in battle before any attacks. Trick room has the lowest priority to make sure it doesn't mess up with speed order mid turn. And what about Magic room and Wonder room setting abbility? Could even two different rooms exists at the same time? So many questions...
How about at the end of the turn the user switched onto the field trick room is set up to make it balanced
@@mrstylesaqua Then you might as well just use the move Trick Room. Or better yet, a Pokemon that can use the move with priority.
Ability: Glock 19. You instantly win but you get arrested.
“Hasty is already the name of a nature”
Psychic the type and Psychic the special attack: 😐
Anyway have some ability ideas:
- Overchill: Ice-types can be frozen
- Anti-Hero: Dark-type moves are super effective against Fighting-types
- Rebellious: Boosts attack by one stage if hit by a Fighting-type move
- Arms Expert: Boosts the power of ball and bomb moves
- Cauterize: Burn heals 1/8 HP, attack drop from burn is removed
- Mana Block: Immunity to Fairy-type moves
- Toxic Partner: Badly poisons infatuated Pokémon
- Conformist: Ignores attacking abilities
- Mystic Power: Doubles Special Attack
- Aqua Affinity: Increases the power of Water-type moves by 50%
- Snakeskin: Halves damage from non-contact moves, but doubles that of Steel-type moves
At least two of these are stolen from Pokémon Clover, but under a different name.
Toxic partner is my favourite
Seeing quickstart
I now understand the design decision behind defeatist
I came up with 3 cool ideas for abilities:
1) Weird Guard - All damage dealt to and from you deal neutral damage
2) Speedster - When the Pokemon is first sent out to battle, it's speed, evasion and accuracy all raise by one stage, but evasion can no longer be changed
3) Focus Pressure - Moves deal 50% more damage but take 2 pp instead of 1
All of these except maybe speedster are gamebreakingly overpowered my guy
@@Nihilismatic Weird Guard is a worse version of a ability
@@topmega2533 I know, but the BETTER VERSION of the ability is tied to a Pokémon with exactly one hp. If you give this to any moderately bulky mon that gets Toxic, it’d be one of the best walls in the game since it isn’t threatened by anything that hasn’t set up.
@@Nihilismaticweird guard isn’t OP as he stated it affects both Pokémon attacking. So the weird guard Pokémon and the enemy Pokémon both just do normal damage to each other which isn’t op at all. It actually can happen normally if both of you don’t have super effective moves in the first place
@@Blackstarrkhalis Yeah, but the fact that you don’t do supereffective damage doesn’t matter. It’s clearly a defensive ability, as your main damage source will probably come from residual damage. Can you imagine trying to stop a Toxapex without a super-effective move? A Gyarados that’s dragon-dancing without any? It guarantees that whatever role the assigned Pokémon gets, it’ll excel at it. Even a follow me Pokémon with this would be hella good, since there’s actually no reason not to bring it with it having zero bad matchups. If the mons highest stat is bulk, it’ll be an amazing wall. If it’s highest stat is attack/special attack, it’ll be an amazing set up-sweeper. If it’s highest stat is speed, it’ll be an amazing support Pokémon. Wonder guard is balanced around one HP, but this ability *isn’t* balanced around anything. If put on around 50% of the dex would make them a competitively viable Pokémon immediately.
I had the idea for an ability called "perfect memory" where a pokemon keeps all its stat changes even after switching and being sent out again.
The drawback being that it also keeps stat drops, so switching when something like sticky web is on the field would keep lowering its speed stat.
ting lu has a skill that's like a special atk intimidate just wish other mons had something like it
9:49 About this, I think it's unfair that the Electric type doesn't have an equivalent ability to this. So introducing Surge, an ability that powers up Electric-type moves by 50% when the Pokemon that has it falls to 1/3 of its max HP. I could see this as a hidden ability for the Pikachu line, as well as select Pikaclones and Electric-types with stats about on par with a fully-evolved starter Pokemon(since all standard starters get Blaze, Torrent, or Overgrow as a hidden ability).
Also, I could see Sweet Dreams as a PERFECT signature ability for Cresselia!
As a Berry fan, I wasn't aware of the existence of the Max Berries format.
Detonate can be a fun Ability for the Voltorb line.
“Royal” ability: Causes the enemy to flinch on their first attack: Serperior, Aegislash, Arcanine, Bisharp
How about a chef type pokemon with an ability known as "Gourmet" that improves the effects of held food. So all berries except health healing berries would also raise a random stat by 1 and all healing berries and leftover would become 50% better
The point of the name “gorilla tactics” is that, while it sounds like “guerilla tactics,” an actual _gorilla’s_ tactics would be much simpler, but have brute force behind them. With that in mind, calling its special equivalent “mind games” doesn’t really make sense. Something like “repetitive thought” would make more sense I think
Ability ideas
Conductivity: Boosts the power of all electric type moves by 2x in rain.
Warmonger: boosts attack stats of allies by 1 stage, once per switch in.
Spellsword: all special attacking moves use the physical attack stat and do 1.3x damage
Illusionary Fist: all physical moves use the special attack stat and do 1.3x damage
Calcustriker: all moves crit, but this pokemon will always move last.
New regional shuckle's ability Fumigate: Resets entire field when switched in. Eliminates hazards, screens, volatile status, weather and terrain ALL gone!
Distracting: Chance to redirect attacks made on your partner in a double battle to the pokemon with the ability.
Jealous: When an opponent uses an item, this pokemon uses it as well.
Apologetic: When the Pokemon with this ability attacks an ally with a damaging move, it will also heal them a small percentage of HP after.
Edit: Just watched the vid, you guys had a lot of the same ideas as me lol
Elementalist - This Pokemon has its stats raised when hit by an elemental attack. Immune to elemental attacks. (Fire boosts attack, Grass boosts defense, Electric boosts special attack, water boosts special defense.)
Hollow Ear - This Pokémon is immune to sound based moves. It cannot be confused
Evasion Stance - When at full HP, this pokemon will dodge all moves without 100% accuracy.
Critical Stance - When at full HP, all of the user’s moves will Crit.
Vexing Spirits - The Pokemon directly across from this Pokemon is unable to switch out naturally. At the end of each turn, that Pokemon has a 50% chance to become confused.
Careful Guard - This Pokemon will be protected from all contact moves before it moves each turn. Doesn’t work on switch in.
Caged Reality - After being hit, this Pokemon summons a reality cage, trapping itself and the attacker inside. Once inside, they can only target and be targeted by each other. The cage lasts 3 turns. Not triggered when hit by a partner.
Charge Time - This Pokemon’s attacks have 1.5x power if they are the last on the field to move.
Psyche Out - On switch in, opposing Pokemon’s special attack stats are lowered by one stage.
Preparation - This Pokemon is immune to multi turn attacks. (Solar Beam, Fly, Phantom Force) Not immune if the move is charged early.
Versatility - This Pokemon will always have equal attack and special attack stats when it switches in. Its stats will default to whichever stat is higher. (EVs effect both)
Lagging Illusion - On switch-in this Pokémon sets up trick room.
Toxic Blood - If this Pokemon is hit by a draining move, the attacker will faint.
Demotivated - This Pokemon will always move last in its priority bracket.
Knowledge Over All - This Pokemon always has access to protect and recover, along with 4 other moves.
Royal Command - Each turn, this Pokemon(commander) will summon a member of its family. Each member acts independently of the commander. Maximum of three members active at one time. (Each member acts as a new Pokemon that can be targeted by the opponent. Every member attacks a random opponent each turn with an attack stat of 50, with a 50 power typeless move every turn.) Members have 1 HP and the same speed stat as the commander. If the commander faints, all members do as well.
Strong Armor - This Pokemon is immune to damage from all damaging moves under 80 base power. (Secondary effects still apply)
Pure Rage - If this pokemon attacks and does no damage, its attack is raised by 1 stage.
Photosynthesis - This Pokémon is immune to Light Based Moves. It heals 50% of its maximum HP if hit by a Light Based Move.
Veiled Eyes - This Pokémon is immune to Light based moves.
Radiant Glow - The power of Light Based Moves is increased by 1.5x.
Blazing Glare - All Light Based Moves are converted to Fire type.
Smoke Bomb - Whenever this Pokémon switches out, it sets up Fog.
Trickster - All supereffective hits are now resisted, all resisted hits are supereffective, all immune hits OHKO, and all OHKO moves do no damage. Only works on defense.
Clear Focus - This Pokemon can know 5 moves at any one time.
Hazy Figure - This Pokemon gains a 25% evasion boost in the fog.
Ice Eater - This Pokemon is immune to Ice type attacks. Heals 25% when hit by a ice type attack.
Sound Sleeper - This Pokemon always sleeps for 3 turns. Each turn asleep, this Pokémon heals 25% health.
Sluggish Scent - All Pokemon on the field besides the user have their evasion cut in half.
Alter of Ruin - All Pokemon on the field besides the user have their speed reduced by 25%.
Risky Stance - All users moves will crit, and the user will always be crit.
Sore Loser/Auto-Bomb - When this Pokémon would faint, it instead uses self destruct
Magic Guard - This Pokémon takes 50% less damage from fairy and dragon attacks.
Bad Sport - When this Pokemon attacks, the target becomes taunted
Vampiric - This Pokemon’s biting moves heal the user for 50% of the damage dealt.
The stronger ones of these are signature abilities on mons that have other limitations
These are some pretty cool ideas, but some of them already kind of exist
Charge Time is very similar to Analytic, maybe the power boost is different but I can't remember
Toxic Blood is similar to Liquid Ooze, but it instantly kills instead of converting the healing into damage
Demotivated is the same as Stall iirc
Magic Guard already exists and makes you take no indirect damage (status, weather, hazards, etc), but your idea is completely original, just the name is the same
you might be a bit of a GameFreak designer yourself lol
@@elfabrip thanks g ye demotivated is for a specific mon that stall wouldn’t have made sense on
I hope no critical stance pokemon get eruption or water spout
@@DrevikkDrevik it was exclusive for a regional form of sawk
Maybe in part 2, I'm guessing that there is going to be an alternative Ability for Arceus that would work like the Legend Plate, essentially freeing up Arceus's held item.
I agree with the Tought guy ability but make so that the secondary effects of moves still happen. So, for example, if you used nuzzle a pokemon with that ability would take no damage but would still get paralyzed
Ideas for New Abilities
Round Break; Recovers 1/16 HP when using a Status Move. (It acts as a nerfed version of Forager and would be given mostly to Fighting Type Pokémon.)
Perfect Accuracy; offensive moves go last in its priority slot, but bypass accuracy checks to always hit. (Like Mycelium Might + No Guard)
Waterjet Cutter; increases the critical hit ratio by two stages.
Recompence; is immune to Ghost-type moves and will increase the power of Ghost-type moves by 50% when hit by one. (Like Flash Fire)
Puppeteer; Deals 50% more damage against a trapped target
, takes 50% less damage from a trapped target.
Cacophony; Doubles the power of Sound based moves.
Opportunist; Increases the power of priority moves by 30%.
Combative; Turns Normal type moves into Fighting type moves
. (Like Galvanize or Pixilate)
Ensnare; Trapping moves deal 1/8 damage per turn instead of 1/16
Event Horizon; Gravity intensifies for five turns. (Gravity)
Chronal Distortion; Twists dimensions on the field for five turns. (Trick Room)
Quantum Flux; Causes any active battle effects to swap sides. (Court Change)
Paradigm Shift; Reverses type effectiveness for five turns.
I had an idea similar to the Hasty ability mentioned, essentially being the signature ability for the Steel/Dragon pseudo legend, whose body is essentially a shape shifting cannon.
"Blind-Fire" allows the user to use charging or recharging moves in one turn, but ONLY on the first turn they're on the field. This effect resets after it switches out.
The drawback of overripen should be that it makes you confused, since overripe foods tend to ferment
One I made for a weak pigeon fakemon was something like Arson. If the pokemon makes contact with another pokemon, the ability partially activates and text says that pokemon feels oily. If the oiled up one is hit by a fire type move it WILL be burned. Being oily acts as a non-volatile status condition, so moves and whatnot affecting that would come into play.
I was thinking about a way to make articuno good and came with the ability “Northen Lights”, since articuno is know for summon auroras AND hail, this ability would make him summon snow and Aurora Veil while in the field. You combo this with Blizzard, Freezy Dry, Hurricane and Tera Blast Ground and equipe with Assault Vest and he became really good
I made a new ability called "riskless". It is basically sheer force for negative effect moves. It decreases the power of attacking moves by 20%. But in exchange, it removes the negative effects of those moves. For example, if Pokemon with this ability uses brave bird, the power reduces to 96 (120 * 0.8 = 96), but the user will not take recoil damage (does not affect moves with posirive effects, two turn moves, or the accuracy of the move).
Will this affect moves that hurt you when you miss? (Reckless treats that as recoil)
Death stare might as well be called Stinkeye. Rush Hour can be called Hyperactive.
I think the Rush Hour ability would work better if instead of nerfing the move's damage, it would consume more PP at the cost of bypassing the charge/recharge turn
One custom ability idea I have is for an ability called “thunderstorm.” This ability will set up both rain and electric terrain for 5 turns on switch in
Probably too strong idk
Very powerful, BUT on a Pokemon like Lanturn; who is both Water/ Electric AND not very strong for modern standards then it could potentially counterbalance things.
Ability idea: Indestructible. Leaves Pokemon who use self-destructive moves with 1 HP remaining instead of knocking themselves out
My creation, Explosive Body: Survives self-destructive moves by taking recoil damage instead, at the cost of some power.
One thing I remember is that in one of the Pokemon fangames they made Mega Haxorus a real thing, and it's ability was Fearmonger, which was intimidate that works for both attacking stats.
Detonate might be my favorite here. So chaotic. I'm honestly surprised they still haven't made Special attack version of Itimidate.
Turtonator with Detonate
A new ability for Victreebel
"Devour": At the end of a turn, if an opposing Pokémon is at critical health, it will faint through this ability, then, the Pokémon with this ability gains 1,5 HP of what the opponent had left before.
One of the two of you talks a little too fast when you're reading a script but the banter between you two when you're off the script is fun.
A pokemon with detonate would be a nightmare for nuzlockers. Both using one and fighting one
Also what about an ability that reverses all type matchups on the field for the next 5 turns basically creating an inverse battle for a short bit.
"When this pokemon faints from a superffective move, it swaps the dimensions inversing all type matchups"
I would NOT want to face a Pokemon with Detonate in a Nuzlocke.
I think Tough Guy should just reduce the damage of all moves 60 base power by 50%. It seems like it would be useful and good for balance.
I came up with an ability called “No Pain No Gain” where it’s basically just a life orb, 1.3x dmg on attacking moves but lose 1/10 hp
6:13 add a side effect that means it only works if the user isn’t holding Clear Amulet, or just lowers the move’s base power.
Here’s mine:
*Echoing Blows*
“The Pokémon deals more damage if it uses the same move multiple times in succession.”
The user’s moves will deal 1.1x damage per time used repeatedly, similar to the Metronome item. Similar to the item, the damage boost caps at 2x and fades if you use a different move. This ability stacks with Metronome.
I imagine a cool one could be like power napper which boosts attack and special attack when affected by sleep, or restful sleeper which gives a large heal every turn while asleep would probably shake up the competitive scene a bit
I think it'd be fun to have an ability that's like moody, but for other abilities. So change abilities to a random one once per turn
I think another cool concept for the opposite of slow start would be "warm-up" an ability that if a pokemon spends 5 turns on the field without switching out then it would get a 30% boost on all stats. To balance this if the pokemon switches out it would have to spend the 5 turns all over again for the boosts
One really cool ability i once saw in a ROM hack (idk if it ever actually released) was an ability called Quickdraw on a bandito Pokémon. It made the priority of all moves for all Pokémon be 0 while the Pokémon was on the field, except for Protect, Detect, Wide Guard, and Quick Guard (tho I guess the move Quick Guard would be useless in this situstion anyway). All other moves would go based on a Speed check alone, including negative priority moves like Trick Room and Roar.
Might as well share some abilities that I have planned for my own region!
Ambidextrous: This Pokémon can hold two different held items at once.
Big Beatdown: Sound based moves from this Pokémon or allies have an increased critical hit ratio.
Cuteness Overload: This Pokémon inflicts infatuation after taking or dealing damage, regardless of gender.
Entomophobia: Dealing or taking contact damage has a 30% chance to inflict Infestation on the target.
Firepower: This Pokémon gains STAB damage from Fire Type moves.
Groove Jam: This Pokémon heals itself and allies for 1/10th of their max HP after a sound based move is used.
Insulation: This Pokémon is immune to the negative effects of weather conditions, and ignores opposing Pokemon's damage boosts from weather conditions.
Radiation: Badly poisons any other Pokémon on the field after that Pokémon spends one turn in battle.
Reunion: While on the field with another ally that has Reunion in a double battle, both Pokémon will gain a boost in every stat by 1 stage.
Seasickness: This Pokémon gradually drains 10% of the health of aquatic Pokémon every turn, and takes less damage from Water type moves.
Trip Like I Do: Dealing or taking contact damage has a 30% chance to confuse the target.
Unstable Mutation: This Pokémon transforms into a random Pokémon every turn (complete with a different moveset and temporary new ability while transformed).
Controlled Mutation: This Pokémon transforms into a random fully evolved Pokémon every turn (Unstable Mutation changes into this ability after evolution).
My version of Ambidextrous would be absolutely broken.
Friendly: increases the chances of catching wild Pokémon. It could also give a slight defense boost to give it some competitive use
Just thought of an ability- Last Hurrah. What it does, is if you're going to faint before you get to make your move that turn, you don't faint until after you move, but you auto faint after it. Power of move is reduced by 10% and Status moves lose 10 accuracy. So it could be clutch or could amount to nothing
I've come up with some wack-ass abilities of varying levels of overpoweredness before, here's a few
Perfect Strikes: Every time you land a critical hit, your crit damage multiplier increases. (This got paired with a fakemon whose signature move boosts its crit ratio by 1 every time it lands)
Muscle Memory: Spamming a move makes it stronger
Mind Over Matter: You take no damage from burn and poison, also your Special Attack is multiplied by 1.5 while burned, poisoned or paralyzed
Dead Magic: While you're on the field, Dark is resistant to, and strong against Fairy
Magic Knight: If you use an attacking move, you will always use your higher Attacking stat for damage calculation (does not apply to Body Press or Foul Play)
Ultimate Guard: When hit by an attacking move, you will always apply your higher Defending stat (does not apply to Psyshock or Secret Sword)
Unyielding Fist: Your contact moves never miss.
Fancy Footwork: Multiplies the power of your kicking koves by 1.2
Radiation: Your super-effective moves deal 2.5x damage instead of 2x, also your Electric-type attacks ignore abilities
Plasma Buster: While you're on the field, Electric is resistant to, and strong against Ground
Power plant: Moves that cause recoil after use heals the user hp instead. Moves that require charging are ignored.
Another one in a similar vein to Rock Hard is Bladeproof, which makes you immune to slashing moves (anything effected by Sharpness.)
False Start could also be balanced by only increasing priority of moves with 60bp or lower.
An ability I just thought of today, is one called "Heckle". Basically, it's like Intimidate, but with Physical Defense. 😜
I've always had an ability idea that I thought would be sick as hell.
Parasite
Prevent all other Pokemon on the field from healing. If they would've healed, then heal for 50% of what they would've, percentage-wise. Also applies to allied Pokemon.
I feel like Parasite would indicate that the Pokemon would steal the healing effect- or at least part of it
@@shoot4thestars176 That... Is what it does. Did you not click Read More?
I'd love an ability that assists in catching, a parasect or breloom only get you so far, are worthelss against ghost or even rock and steel types, and aren't super helpful outside of catching, especially late game. Maybe an ability that makes every move under 60 power have the same effect as false swipe, so you have other elemental options without the risk of knocking them out. Call it "Held Back" or something and make it only 2nd or 3rd stage so you aren't completely helpless early game
I had an idea for a new ability for Kricketune: Conductor- gives all sound moves used by it and doubles partner perfect accuracy and +1 priority, maybe with chance to boost random stat. I feel that Fast Learner would be too broken, would mess up balanced move pools.
I always hoped they would add a unique ability for the ambipom line called ambidextrous allowing it to hold 2 items at once and could double power of fling
Tough guy blocking fake out and spin is...
also called being a ghost type
With "Fast Learner", every pokemon will just be smeargle on steroids
My concept (for some fighting or ghost types ig)
Loyal Soul - If this pokemon was to be knocked out before it performed its move, it does it and then faints.
“Sloppy Seconds”
When this Pokémon is hit by a contact move it induces the encore mechanic
How am I supposed to use swallow after lick?
Better name for Rush Hour, how about "Efficiency"? The idea is that they don't waste time with their moves (making it the opposite of Truant in a sense) allowing them to be used quicker, but they aren't as strong
Quick start sounds like a dokkan entrance animation effect
Here's an idea: malware a porygon Z ability-installs one of these 3 on the enemy klutz,a new ability called lag where user has 50% chance to use it's last move and the last one is also a new one glitchy this one makes the user have 50% chance to get a random status at the end of the turn(charm,confusion etc)
My ideas:
Sheer Determination: pokemon gets boost in attack stats when health is below 1/3
Auto gravity
Auto room settings (trick room, wonder room, etc)
Something with a name like solar power but skips all charging turns for hyper beam type attacks in the sun only.
An ability that is a built in life orb
Some fun ideas here XD personally i would go with the name ‘Unsettle’ instead of death stare for a special attack Intimidate
Great or at least interesting ideas overall, instead of lowering stats, I'd change false start to only give prio to low dmg moves just like technician or your invented Tough Guy, I'm surprised you didn't think about aplying that same base power rule to this ability. Also I'd change death stare's name to paranoia, since being paranoid is related to the mind and therefore to SpA. Just some random thoughts I had while watching this, really enjoyed it
Shared Care: The user benefits from its ally's healing effects and receives 50% of that healing
Lead Feet: Reduces Speed but ignores grounded hazards and terrains
Wary: The user's attacks don't trigger abilities, but the power of moves is sightly reduced
I really like that wary ability
More type changing abilities for the unused types:
Propagate -Grass
Hydrate-water
Cauterize -Fire
Athleticize-Fighting
Irradiate-Poison
Parasitize -bug
Aggregate-Rock
Habituate -ghost
Sedimize-ground
Metalize-steel
Mythologize-dragon
Physiologize-psychic
Evilize-dark
Tough guy is an interesting one... When a Pokémon is burned the power of its physical moves gets divided by 2... This would make the combo Tough Guy + Burn really op. Imagine threats like Dragon Dance mons getting burned and completely neutralized by a Tough Guy user
The way I laid it out, Tough Guy wouldn't quite work like that. Burn cuts the final damage in half, not the base power of the move itself. So the same way Technician doesn't start boosting moves if the user is burned, Tough Guy wouldn't start blocking them if the target is burned
Forager balance idea: ability doesn't activate if the Pokemon has any defense/evasiveness star boosts or on turns where they use status moves
I’d say Tough Guy should be based on how much damage the move would deal to you instead of being based on base power. Probably hits that do less than x% to you are nullified. Would probably still block rapid spin.
Ambidextrous (the ability to hold two items) for stuff like ambipom would be fun. It would be kinda busted, but come on. It’s on fucking ambipom.
Fast Learner for all Baby Pokemon would give them a unique feature, and make them worthwhile to use. I imagine it would be more based on their learnset rather than type. That way if they see or get hit by a move they can learn (say Egg Moves they weren't born with) they could adopt those moves. Would give TPCi incentive to introduce more Baby pokemon as well since they'd then have a usage. Also if games keep Legends Arceus's ability to just readjust the move set on the fly it would become super powerful in a playthough, you hatch a Baby Pokemon and keep it as a Baby to teach it every move it can learn for free.
Rush Hour could instead of nerfing, either use 2 PP per move, or reduce accuracy (since you’re “shooting from the hip” basically).
I had plenty of ideas for abilities that do surround some of my favorite Pokémon.
Lullaby: This ability slightly boosts sound based moves, but it's better aligned with Sing, which makes it hit no matter what and goes through Soundproof.
Adaptive: This ability is a bit overpowered but meh meh. Everytime it's hit by a move, it's starts to get more and more resistant to the move/type. It also will slowly get more and more stronger with moves.
Tough guy would be an absolutely broken ability in competitive. A complete tier shifter
How about an ability version of Stomping Tantrum's effect? It doubles the power of your next move if your previous move failed.
Imagine if it stacked with Stomping Tantrum. It'd become a base 300 power move.
I had an idea for an ability called "siphon" basically if a Pokemon poisons a target it acts like leach seed the Pokemon gains the health the poisoned Pokemon lost
Overeater: Each time during a turn that a held berry could activate, it will
Very niche, basically only works against multi-hit moves, but the idea is that if you eat a berry, you still have the berry until the end of the turn. So if you're hit by a population bomb while holding a sitrus berry, you always heal back each time you drop below 50% for one turn. Alternatively, you could activate something like a kee berry for each of the up to 5 hits of something like scale shot
IMO Dialga and Palkia should've gotten doper abilities than Pressure. I always imagined Dialga basically having Drizzle but with Trick Room instead of rain. Maybe they could've redistributed its stats so it would have much lower speed but when it enters the field time itself gets warped allowing Dialga to move first. Same thing with Palkia and Gravity I guess, just something that lets it warp space
Fun fact: Regigigas’s special attack stat is exactly half of its attack stat, which means that if someone just so happened to think that special Regigigas could work, if anything it’s somehow worse since your speed is still halved and the fact that Regigigas has a terrible special movepool with only 12 special attacks (13 if you include Hidden Power) that it can legitimately learn. Just more reason to wonder if someone had a vendetta against Regigigas.
If anything Regigigas should’ve been made a Fighting-type Mythical Pokémon and literally ALL the possible reasons for it being nerfed would be null and void, but I guess someone just really REALLY wanted to screw it over.
Bonus Fun Fact: If Regigigas was a Mythical and needed a base stat total of 600, it’s original stats are weirdly perfect, since it had a base total of 670, meaning you can remove 70 points from its special attack, leaving it with base 10 and leave the rest of its stats COMPLETELY unchanged.
Had a great idea for an ability where moves with less than 100 accuracy always hit and moves with 100 and over always land critically. I don't know about a name. Maybe something like Overachiever or Overclock.
I’ve had a ton of ideas but here’s a few of the better ones:
Clogged toilet: if a stat is lowered by the opponent it goes down the first turn but then goes up twice the second turn.
Flip trick: kick and spin moves boost speed if they hit, lose health if miss. (I made this before rapid spin increases speed)
Biofuel: every time a berry is consumed the pokemon gets a speed increase.
Low ground: if pokemon is shorter def goes up, goes down if pokemon is taller. (Same height nothing.)
Walk tall: if pokemon is taller than opponent attack goes up, goes down if pokemon is shorter (same height nothing.)
Resolve: accuracy is guaranteed to hit after second consecutive use of move that missed the last turn, EXCLUDING ohko moves.
These all more or less exist in Pokemon Elite Redux, highly recommend that mod
I had an idea of an ability that let's the user use "man made items" either on them or their allies, potions, x items, through pokeballs in the adventure
One idea for ability.
Remix: At the end of every turn, a random stat increases sharply and another stat lowers slightly. Could make for some interesting strats.
That's just Moody
When you said Rush Hour I knew you were gonna make a Jackie Chan/ The Movie Reference
It'd make more sense if Tough Guy negated all damage that does less than say 1/10th of their max HP. So hail, standstorm, trapping moves, burns, and poison wouldnt do damage
Effigy: the effects of the move snatch
Death Stare ability goes hard to be real
I have one called intense gaze, it’s intimidate but special
"Stunt Double"
The ability only activates while the Pokemon with Stunt Double is not on the field in the case of a single battle or is on the field with another pokemon in the case of a double battle. When another Pokemon uses a move with over 80 Base Power and under 95 Base Accuracy and then misses, any damage taken during that turn is redirected to the Pokemon with Stunt Double. After the Stunt Double Pokemon faints, any Pokemon that transferred damage is disabled from using moves that caused Stunt Double to activate
I came up with abilities for my fakemon region for each box legendary to set up tailwind or trick room upon switch in