All posts by Ohitashi

• Smelling salts which Hariyama learned. It’s a pretty bad move too. It only works on paralyzed pokemon and cures their paralysis but deals damage. Only 70 though.

• Rototiller— some strats in doubles used it. Basically it raises the ATK and SPA of all grass type pokemon I think. I don’t see why not just run a sun + growth team bc it’s more useful and viable.

• Kinesis— Abra line’s signature I think, it has 80% accuracy and lowers the target’s accuracy. No damage and essentially useless as Flash does the same with 100 accuracy (to be fair it used to be 70)

• Night daze— Zoroark’s signature. Unfortunately people usually run Dark Pulse over Night Daze as night daze would reveal that its zoroark. It has a chance of lowering the target’s accuracy and a good BP. The move was later given to Lunala, but I never saw anyone run it before even on Lunala. Running dark pulse on Lunala is already less common but still 😔

• Belch— a 120 BP poison move and if im not correct the highest BP poison move so far. I think this is a decently underrated move. It can happen any given time after you’ve even a berry, even if you’ve switched in and back out. I think it’ll be good paired with pokemon with gluttony, but I can understand why pokemon would much rather just run moves like sludge bomb/wave.

• Barrage— 15 BP multi hit move with 85% accuracy. Basically a tail slap clone, but it’s learned by exeggutor. Both forms are special attackers and it’s essentially useless on them

• Flower shield— rototiller but only raises defense. Only defense, not special defense, 1 stage and pretty useless. At least rototiller had viability, especially in double and the removed triple battles. I can’t see a case where flower shield would help , maybe in some very situational cases.

• Mat block: it’s like protect but only works on the first turn and has no priority. Essentially useless. Greninja can learn it and it’s a fast Pokemon, but it can just run protect instead with priority and basically the same effect. Other pokemon are like throh who are too slow and it often ends up going last anyway

• Hold hands— it’s just an event move that lets your pokemon hold hands. Completely useless (well it raised happiness) but it was funny. Unlike other useless moves like celebrate, hold hands can’t even be selected in battle in many generations, while celebrate can be used as an op z move. Hold hands z move does the same but usually can’t be used.

• Crafty shield— it’s like protect but only protects the user from status moves. Protect or detect mostly cover for this already. Not to mention it’s never used.

• Mud sport/water sport— incredibly situational early game move. I doubt even running it early game would be useful and only npcs use it at this rate.

• Quash— no BP dark move that causes the target to go last. It can be good with sableye or murkrow but I’ve never actually seen anyone run it.

• Magnetic flux— raises the defense and special def of all allies … with the ability plus or minus. The abilities are pretty useless even in double battles. Minun and Plusle aren’t very viable and toxitricity would prefer to run punk rock. Base form manectric isn’t that good and mega manectric can’t run it. Nor does it boost any good stats like speed or atk, only defenses and only by 1 stage

• Sky uppercut— cool sounding name. 85 BP and can hit pokemon using fly etc when they normally would be invulnerable. However this is really situational as most pokemon don’t even run those moves. Most pokemon with access to this also have access to better moves too.

• Water, fire and grass pledge. It had such a cool concept and the only way to create insane terrains like rainbow (which looked AMAZING). It is only 80 BP and can only be learned by fully evolved starters of their respective types if I remember correctly. It only works in double battles and no offense but the terrains’ buffs are not that useful and it’s too hard to activate those effects. If there were other moves that can trigger rainbow, swamp or sea of fire, that’ll be a cool concept but it’s pretty useless as starters usually get better moves of their type of higher BP.

I’ll go first

• Vanilluxe and Chesnaught should get shell smash. It would help them a lot and it makes sense. Terapagos appearance wise should but that’ll make it way too OP competitively.

• Tapu Bulu should learn Grassy Glide

• Although it is a recent one, all Tapus should learn Terrain Pulse as it’ll be a great strat with their respective terrains

• The most common one: Aerodactyl should learn Head Smash.

Honestly I know there’s probably a billion posts like this but I’m genuinely curious

If you can’t think of it off the top of your mind, you don’t need to order them or do precisely 10

I honestly can’t order them so I’ll just share them in a random order

• Cursola (it just looks cool I LOVE its design. The concept for perish body is so good too! It also gets whirlpool so it can be a pain to deal with. I get why it’s not that good competitively as it’s pretty situational but still, I just love its design)

• Serperior. I love its design too, and it’s been my favourite before I even started getting invested into Pokemon. I remember getting a card of it when I was a kid and i loved it so much. I remember playing those pokemon games on Roblox and picking snivy every time!

• Necrozma!! I think necrozma is my #1 fav pokemon. I remember seeing it somewhere (don’t remember where) in its dawn wings form and I didn’t know what it was but I thought it looked absolutely awesome. Searched everywhere to find it, it just has such a cool looking design like they did not have to cook that hard. And its moves are cool too! Photon geyser, prismatic laser and don’t even get me started on light that burns the sky. Heard in another language it translates to something like heaven piercing light like ok..

• Sentret: it’s just silly 😭

• Floatzel: yeah this is so random but I like otters and it looks so silly w the floating tube and its two tails.. I wish it was better competitively.

• Arceus: ok I know this sounds like an NPC option but if you think about it I never actually saw someone say arceus is their fav sooo.. and it looks awesome, competitively awesome too.

• Dialga Origin: aside from its legs, I think the design is amazing.

• Furfrou star trim: I got a card of it like manyy years ago and I don’t know why I loved the design of the card so much

• Appletun: I’m a big back and as soon as I saw it I knew I liked it

• Glaceon: idk what they are but the long flaps of things near its head looks so cute. And idk why but the concept of it being to tell weather with its tail is just adorable to me.

I saw the silhouette and I didn’t recognize it. It’s probably smth super obvious that I forgot existed but it looked cute and strange so if anyone knows i appreciate it.

I tried downloading it but it broke my entire computer so I screenshotted it (bad quality)

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Would also like to hear/see your favourites!