- Joined
- Sep 27, 2023
kek, that's Firebrand by Progeny I talked about earlier today. I wonder if anyone can find the Monster Hunter music
Someone on 4chan made these wallpapers yesterday. They used the high res resources within the leaks, yes.
Here are my thoughts on the Gen 3 Pokemon stat changes(Gen 1-2 Pokemon untouched):
*Grovyle, which we now know was a separate Pokemon, had it's stats nerfed to fit in as a second stage evolution.
*Both Combusken and Blaziken were nerfed. Blaziken was given a lot of Speed, not nearly enough as it still gets gimped by Infernape a generation later and needs Speed Boost to compete in the future.
*Marshtomp and Swamper nerfed. Note that all of these Starters only nerf their second or third stage evos. Swamper is genederless for some reason.
*Poochyena given a massive Speedboost, however Mightyena was HEAVILY nerfed. No wonder it is so useless in the final game. - 20 in Attack is going to kill any Pokemon's viability.
*On the other hand, Zigzagoon got a massive buff to HP and Physical stats meanwhile it's Special stats were nerfed to oblivion. Linoone has a whopping -25 to Speed for some reason
*Beautifly gets a -30 in Special Attack. No wonder it is a laughing stock now, it was meant to be at least somewhat useful. Who the fuck approved this?
*Ludicolo got a nerf to it's Special stats and is also genderless
*Nuzleaf gets a +10 boost to both of it's Attack stats while it gets a debuff to everything else. Shiftry gets a further +10 Special Attack at the cost of lowering it's defenses even more. Not genderless, weirdly enough.
*All three Ninjask line Pokemon had their Speed nerfed. Shedinja gets a massive boost to Special Attack and a colossal boost to it's Defenses...which is worthless, as it only has one health point.
*Massive nerf to Swellow an a lesser one to Taillow. Swellow has a -25 Attack and -65 to Speed. What the hell were they thinking with this Pokemon? Reminder, this is a route 1 bird, well not route 1 but an early one never the less. Maybe Wingull was supposed to take that place and Taillow was supposed to be encountered later on.
*Breloom gets a debuff on everything but HP and Special Defense, where it got a buff. Frankly, I wouldn't mind it being a bit stronger, but whatever.
*Spinda got a Physical debuff and less Health and Speed. It originally also had more Special Attack, however we got extra Special Defense as a compensation. What?
*Wingull gets a buff in everything but Special Attack, meanwhile Pelliper gets a lot of Attack at the cost of a ton of Defense. Not sure why since it's still useless, should have given it more Special Attack and maybe it wouldn't have been a useless jobmon until Gen 7 when Dux strategy with Drizzle came about.
*Masquerain is yet another Pokemon that caught a ton of debuffs. -20 to Special stats could have gone a long way, now it's useless just like Beautifly. Who at Gamefreak hates bugs? Can't be Masuda.
*Random -20 to Attack for Kecleon. Thanks, Gamefreak!
*Torkoal got a massive +40 in Special Attack and a colossal hit in everything else, especially Speed where it lost 80 points. I guess this confirms that the present turtle was the original Torkoal.
*Sableye got extra Health and Attacking stats but lost on everything else. Not a big loss, if you ask me, taking this one down is enough of a pain as is(especially without fairies).
*Debuff to Whiscash on everything, including a whopping -50HP. Whiscash is yet another useless Pokemon that could have been good with just a smidge better stats. I am seeing a pattern here.
*Crawdaunt lost 25 Speed, 30 Special Attack and a ridiculous 60 in Attack. What? If you're going to make it slow, frail and useless on the Special side(where both of it's STABs are in Gen 3 btw), at least let it keep it's Attack stat!
*Minor hits of HP for Makuhita line. Why? We're talking -2 and -4 respectively.
*Numel line got a -5 in both Special stats, each. Thanks, Gamefreak?
*Sealo, and only Sealo, got a one way ticket to Nerf City on everything but it's Speed. I guess Walrein was a late addition and they needed to make Sealo weaker artificially.
*Cacturne got hit with a -55 to both of it's Attacking stats and it is still ridiculously powerful in the base game. What the fuck were they thinking? How about some Defenses or Speed instead?
*Glalie gets a -20 to everything, confirming it originally had 100 stats across the board. Fuck you too, Gamefreak, that's only one of two Ice Types in the Hoenn dex.
*Grumpig gets +15 useless Attack, debuffs to everything else. You know, I think he could have used extra +20 HP, +30 Special Attack and +50 Special Defense to keep him relevant, wouldn't you say? I guess Gamefreak disagrees! I am actually using this one in my Revelation playthru that is on hold, so it hurts me personally.
*Minun gets a boost in Physical stats and a debuff to Speed and Special stats. Plusle is unchanged. Why would you make one of these clearly worse than the other?
*Medicham got hit with debuffs to Special Attack, Defense and Special Defense. I guess they wanted to make him a physical glass canon by giving him Pure Power?
*Swablu got debuffed, Altaria got buffs.
*Duskull received +10 Attack where as Duskclops got that much Attack taken away. Why?
*Vigoroth got a debuff on everything aside from it's useless Special stats. Yet another Pokemon that could have been good, but was willingly nerfed. BTW Slakoth and only Slakoth is genderless, so are a bunch of other Pokemon I haven't mentioned. I think this is just an oversight, it's too random to be intentional.
*Swalot got absolutely raped, especially in the HP and Defenses. No wonder nobody uses it!
*Loudred, and only Loudred, got a buff to both Defenses and it's Special Attack. Why it's Physical Attack and Health were reduced is beyond me, the thing isn't overpowered.
*-55 to Attack and -23 Special Attack for Bannete. I guess we know where the idea for the Mega came from!
*Lairon and especially Aggron caught massive debuffs to Attack and Defense. It hurts, as I always loved this line. Yet another idea for the Mega?
*Debuffs across the line for Cradily, for everything except it's useless Speed stat. -47 to Special Defense has to be a winner here, this is literally the worst thing you could do to this Pokemon.
*-65 Attack and -40 Defense to Armaldo. As someone who uses this Pokemon in his current playthru, it's not as big of a hit as with Grumpig as lack of useful moves is the bigger issue, but I would definitely want those stats back.
*-35 to Attack and -40 to Defense for Shelgon. At first I thought the Attack debuff was done to make it something of a Caccon Pokemon, but why take away Defense as well? Oh, I guess +10 to Special Defense will make up for it, thanks Gamefreak!
*Metang gets -40 Defense/-20 Special Defense and -15 Attack but +10 Speed. Probably nerfed when Metagross was introduced, but why make it so bulky?
*Lati twins got +10 across the board
*Both Combusken and Blaziken were nerfed. Blaziken was given a lot of Speed, not nearly enough as it still gets gimped by Infernape a generation later and needs Speed Boost to compete in the future.
*Marshtomp and Swamper nerfed. Note that all of these Starters only nerf their second or third stage evos. Swamper is genederless for some reason.
*Poochyena given a massive Speedboost, however Mightyena was HEAVILY nerfed. No wonder it is so useless in the final game. - 20 in Attack is going to kill any Pokemon's viability.
*On the other hand, Zigzagoon got a massive buff to HP and Physical stats meanwhile it's Special stats were nerfed to oblivion. Linoone has a whopping -25 to Speed for some reason
*Beautifly gets a -30 in Special Attack. No wonder it is a laughing stock now, it was meant to be at least somewhat useful. Who the fuck approved this?
*Ludicolo got a nerf to it's Special stats and is also genderless
*Nuzleaf gets a +10 boost to both of it's Attack stats while it gets a debuff to everything else. Shiftry gets a further +10 Special Attack at the cost of lowering it's defenses even more. Not genderless, weirdly enough.
*All three Ninjask line Pokemon had their Speed nerfed. Shedinja gets a massive boost to Special Attack and a colossal boost to it's Defenses...which is worthless, as it only has one health point.
*Massive nerf to Swellow an a lesser one to Taillow. Swellow has a -25 Attack and -65 to Speed. What the hell were they thinking with this Pokemon? Reminder, this is a route 1 bird, well not route 1 but an early one never the less. Maybe Wingull was supposed to take that place and Taillow was supposed to be encountered later on.
*Breloom gets a debuff on everything but HP and Special Defense, where it got a buff. Frankly, I wouldn't mind it being a bit stronger, but whatever.
*Spinda got a Physical debuff and less Health and Speed. It originally also had more Special Attack, however we got extra Special Defense as a compensation. What?
*Wingull gets a buff in everything but Special Attack, meanwhile Pelliper gets a lot of Attack at the cost of a ton of Defense. Not sure why since it's still useless, should have given it more Special Attack and maybe it wouldn't have been a useless jobmon until Gen 7 when Dux strategy with Drizzle came about.
*Masquerain is yet another Pokemon that caught a ton of debuffs. -20 to Special stats could have gone a long way, now it's useless just like Beautifly. Who at Gamefreak hates bugs? Can't be Masuda.
*Random -20 to Attack for Kecleon. Thanks, Gamefreak!
*Torkoal got a massive +40 in Special Attack and a colossal hit in everything else, especially Speed where it lost 80 points. I guess this confirms that the present turtle was the original Torkoal.
*Sableye got extra Health and Attacking stats but lost on everything else. Not a big loss, if you ask me, taking this one down is enough of a pain as is(especially without fairies).
*Debuff to Whiscash on everything, including a whopping -50HP. Whiscash is yet another useless Pokemon that could have been good with just a smidge better stats. I am seeing a pattern here.
*Crawdaunt lost 25 Speed, 30 Special Attack and a ridiculous 60 in Attack. What? If you're going to make it slow, frail and useless on the Special side(where both of it's STABs are in Gen 3 btw), at least let it keep it's Attack stat!
*Minor hits of HP for Makuhita line. Why? We're talking -2 and -4 respectively.
*Numel line got a -5 in both Special stats, each. Thanks, Gamefreak?
*Sealo, and only Sealo, got a one way ticket to Nerf City on everything but it's Speed. I guess Walrein was a late addition and they needed to make Sealo weaker artificially.
*Cacturne got hit with a -55 to both of it's Attacking stats and it is still ridiculously powerful in the base game. What the fuck were they thinking? How about some Defenses or Speed instead?
*Glalie gets a -20 to everything, confirming it originally had 100 stats across the board. Fuck you too, Gamefreak, that's only one of two Ice Types in the Hoenn dex.
*Grumpig gets +15 useless Attack, debuffs to everything else. You know, I think he could have used extra +20 HP, +30 Special Attack and +50 Special Defense to keep him relevant, wouldn't you say? I guess Gamefreak disagrees! I am actually using this one in my Revelation playthru that is on hold, so it hurts me personally.
*Minun gets a boost in Physical stats and a debuff to Speed and Special stats. Plusle is unchanged. Why would you make one of these clearly worse than the other?
*Medicham got hit with debuffs to Special Attack, Defense and Special Defense. I guess they wanted to make him a physical glass canon by giving him Pure Power?
*Swablu got debuffed, Altaria got buffs.
*Duskull received +10 Attack where as Duskclops got that much Attack taken away. Why?
*Vigoroth got a debuff on everything aside from it's useless Special stats. Yet another Pokemon that could have been good, but was willingly nerfed. BTW Slakoth and only Slakoth is genderless, so are a bunch of other Pokemon I haven't mentioned. I think this is just an oversight, it's too random to be intentional.
*Swalot got absolutely raped, especially in the HP and Defenses. No wonder nobody uses it!
*Loudred, and only Loudred, got a buff to both Defenses and it's Special Attack. Why it's Physical Attack and Health were reduced is beyond me, the thing isn't overpowered.
*-55 to Attack and -23 Special Attack for Bannete. I guess we know where the idea for the Mega came from!
*Lairon and especially Aggron caught massive debuffs to Attack and Defense. It hurts, as I always loved this line. Yet another idea for the Mega?
*Debuffs across the line for Cradily, for everything except it's useless Speed stat. -47 to Special Defense has to be a winner here, this is literally the worst thing you could do to this Pokemon.
*-65 Attack and -40 Defense to Armaldo. As someone who uses this Pokemon in his current playthru, it's not as big of a hit as with Grumpig as lack of useful moves is the bigger issue, but I would definitely want those stats back.
*-35 to Attack and -40 to Defense for Shelgon. At first I thought the Attack debuff was done to make it something of a Caccon Pokemon, but why take away Defense as well? Oh, I guess +10 to Special Defense will make up for it, thanks Gamefreak!
*Metang gets -40 Defense/-20 Special Defense and -15 Attack but +10 Speed. Probably nerfed when Metagross was introduced, but why make it so bulky?
*Lati twins got +10 across the board
There is still a matter of different abilities, so I will see if any of them changed much.
