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Absolutely agreed. There's Electric types like Luxray and Electivire who could do way better than simply Wild Charge. I never actually see a lot of Pikachu or Raichu put Volt Tackle to significant use anyway; most of the ones I've seen were Nasty Plot + Lightning Rod attackers.Probably an unpopular opinion, but I feel that we are at a point in time where we should make Volt Tackle available for Electric-types that can learn Wild Charge.
It's just straight up ridiculous that the Electric-type version of Flare Blitz/Double-Edge isn't being distributed because they want to have the franchise's mascot to have an actual signature move no other mon has, while other mons already lose their signature moves to other mons the next game.
I never actually see a lot of Pikachu or Raichu put Volt Tackle to significant use anyway; most of the ones I've seen were Nasty Plot + Lightning Rod attackers.
In fairness though, it was a special move at the time of creation. Electric type moves did fall on that side of the physical/special grouping. Nowadays... yeah.Giving a primarily special Pokémon a physical signature move was also a strange choice.
Volt Tackle could have a wider distribution with Pichu/Pikachu/Raichu getting a new special signature move.
Pikachu actually has slightly higher attack.
It does get Confusion from Smoochum's level up movepool, at least. Not like this changes anything though because that's a rather weak move.Was just looking through Jynx's moveset for a Crystal team. Why the hell doesn't it learn Psychic through level up? Or any Psychic type move period until Heart Stamp in 5th gen? It's Ice/Psychic type and you can't even take advantage of its Psychic type without using TMs (which again, its Crystal, so no infinite TMs and I'm a lot more stingy on using them) or breeding. Brilliant moveset design there Game Freak.
This is a problem I do have with the Midday and Midnight forms. Dusk though... it gets Drill Run by tutoring and Tough Claws makes the move stronger than Earthquake, so I wouldn't really say it's something that form urgently needs. You're still right however, it definitely should get Earthquake anyway. There's not really a good reason against it when Pineco of all things can.But, something else that's bothered me (sorry if anyone has already mentioned it, I didn't go through everything): Why can't any of the Lycanroc forms use Earthquake, and yet Earth Power can be tutored despite all Lycanroc forms having way crappier Special Attack?
It does, but only by tutoring. Why it isn't a level-up move is beyond me too.Blaziken is stated to have amazing jumping abilities, I feel it should be able to learn Bounce.
Normally I don't have a lot of beef with IVs. Call me a weirdo with way too much time on his hands but I actually like being able to combine all the best parts/genes/traits of both parents into one child and so on; I happen to find it an engaging exercise and do take some pride in a successful attempt. It's really just the relation between IVs and Hidden Power that I'm growing to dislike.It's especially weird given Game Freak's approach to IVs -someone said they wanted to keep them hidden to keep players from viewing Pokemon as numbers, and Masuda has his recent quote about not wanting Pokemon to be about breeding. I think it's weird to have IVs at all, but especially in the case of Hidden Power.