Least Favorite Abilities...

[JustPassingThru536]

...as well as any possible tips on how to handle them. To start off:

Flash Fire: Who in their right minds would hit a Fire-type Pokemon with a Fire-type move?
Sturdy: 1-hit KO moves are generally effective against lower-level opponents; not so much higher-level, in which they're constantly missing

 

[FelipePR]

Truant and Slow Start, Game Freak could have been more discerning when trying to nerf Slaking and Regigigas respectively. Furthermore, the colossal legendary Regi certainly doesn't deserve such a punishing ability.

 

[mastermind lissi]

Slow start. why’d game freak have to do regigas like that?

 

[guzmania]

i agree with all of the ones mentioned but im still trying to figure out the significance of heavy/light metal
imo those are peak "abilities that are not hindering but dont exactly do anything cool either"

 

[FelipePR]

Another ability is Klutz. I can't see any use or reasonableness in this ability which only serves to give GameFreak a headache as they had to code several exceptions and deal with glitches. Either way, it's their own fault.

 

[Kanjouhi]

For Truant in particular, I honestly think it's a bit... extreme? Like, they could easily have made it, like, the mon with the ability can hit through things like Protect, which gives it an easy explanation/handwave for the drawback (the mon's attacking at its full power, syo it has to recharge every other turn). But nyo, it just makes a mon that's totally walled by anything with a protecting move.
And for Slow Start, it could be, like, any super-effective move that doesn't OHKO immediately snaps the mon out of its effect? Which would incentivise players to nyot just spam super-effective moves on it. (And would alsyo probably make for a decent strategy in Doubles of using an otherwise weak move that's super-effective to immediately snap your ally out of it.)
Idk what to do to buff Klutz though.

 

[guzmania]

see, i absolutely get where klutz complaints r coming from especially in like casual playthroughs
but tbh i do think it has a pretty neat niche when paired with switcheroo
that way u can pass stuff like toxic/flame orbs onto your opponents without fear of your own mon getting poisoned or burned
though its usefulness ends there really

 

[Pasio]

As one of the people directly responsible for this, I think you can easily guess what my least favorite ability is off this video and why.

 

[JustPassingThru536]

As one of the people directly responsible for this, I think you can easily guess what my least favorite ability is off this video and why.

Neutralizing Gas.

 

[colours]

my hot take is that the more i see the ability "pressure" on a rare pokemon, the more i tire of seeing it, because i feel like that ability likely could've been replaced by something more creative. it feels like such a generic fill-in ability for rare/legendary pokemon if you have nothing else for them to have, and not even all of them would even serve good roles in pressure stalling. @_@

 

[Kirumi]

I dislike every grass type ability which activates through the sunny day (chlorophyll, leaf guard, etc...): freaking flamethrower and freaking fire blast say hi...!
Just make them work with grassy terrain instead of sunny day, now... or give the ability a secondary effect which makes these Pokémon resist fire type by one stage.

 

[Sheep]

Sturdy and Intimidate.

I'm so tired of Intimidate preventing me from OHKOing things?! Using physical attackers in SV DLC is a pain with that and other things lol