We all know May wanted to be the star of Pokémon Contests, but did she even have a choice in the first place? Zack Flavin looks at one of Pokémon’s gender stereotypes.
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Calm Mind Mega Sableye on the other hand…. :3 Maybe it’s not THAT bad afterall…
Meh. Who knows, we all said the same thing when mega sceptile came out. Than we realized how good it’s ability is ( no para, and rotom wash counter)
Calm Mind, Recover, Power Gem, Dark Pulse/Will-o-Wisp? XD I’m only thinking Power Gem cause Talonflame/Mega Char XD Could tank both and possibly retaliate
Congrats Game Freak. Once again, you threw a curve ball at us. Here we were, thinking it’d be a defensive Huge Power, protean, or Prankster.
Still alright though.
That’s the thing, it’s just alright 🙁
I don’t do competitive so…
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Oh well. Looks like we can speculate its stats more clearly now. 🙂
One mystery is over.
A million more still remain… :3
Praise be to Arceus, Messiah Xatu, and Trick House!!!
WE SHALL HONOR OUR MESSIAHS! 😀
good night everyone! see you in four days.
Night! :3
Night night! 😀
Well if Mega Sableye only gets +100 BST, and Magic Bounce is its ability, then I’m afraid to say it’s a poor Pokemon. But we’ll see, maybe they’ll change the mega evo formula just for Mega Sableye.
People (like me!) used Sableye in spite of it’s utter garbage 380 BST because of Prankster. A 480 BST Pokemon with no other enhancing item allowed is trash! Compare Espeon (BST 525) or Mega Absol (BST 565 after Mega Evo).
The only viable thing I can think of is Prankster Calm Mind before Mega Evolving ;~; But they really screwed the pooch on this one it seems =/
Well I think the strategy is viable along with Recover, however, when Sableye reveals Calm Mind, the opponent should already be keyed it on what it’s attempting. And I don’t think it’s viable to run Taunt (a third move slot!) on this strategy just to stop the inevitable Haze/Whirlwind user incoming.
It’s still the end of them if they don’t have Haze/Whirlwind/Play Rough to beat Sableye once the Calm Minds begin. So I can see it working now as an end-game sweeper.
It’s been confirmed that its already low speed will be even lower. It’ll probably have 30 Speed. This means that more points will be added to Defense or Special Attack.
But it’s not gonna be sweeping anybody because it’s so slow. You’re vulnerable to Attack if you’re setting up, 50 base HP really downplays any defensive boosts you wanna give it, and it loses that priority recovery =/ Prankster made Sableye into what it was, this Mega doesn’t seem to improve Sableye in the slightest and I’m sure Mega Sableye will be very uncommon because of that.
Darn that’s right. Umm…hopefully it’s defenses will be high enough to take a hit and attack? Hopefully its Sp. Atk. stat will be high enough to deal a lot of damage?
*sigh*
I always wanted a Mega Sableye to be offensive, but not like this…not like this.
It could still be useful in Doubles and on those unique teams that run Trick Room 🙂 So there’s always a bright side…except for Sunflora ;~;
Aside from Trick Room strategies, Calm Mind sweepers’ gimmick is to sweep after the rest of the team helps eliminate the enemy’s physical attackers.
Giving Sableye 252 HP EV’s is a must anyway, so the additional defensive stats of the mega might make those EV investments more valuable.
Granted, Mega Absol isn’t common; however, Sableye’s advantage is the immunity to Fighting and the neutral to Bug.
I always thought that all this buildup of having Mawile get a Mega but not Sableye was just a test to see how Game Freak could drastically improve it. 10 months of hype…FOR THIS?!?!
I can’t facepalm any harder than I can right now.
I wanted a super fast glass cannon (high attack stats but low defense stats) with Protean!
I…no…WE SHOULD ALL RUN GAME FREAK!!!
I guess they thought they already had Greninja for that.
LOL that is messed up.
I always hated contests in the games but they were nice to watch on the show I suppose.
Although what happened in the comic was mean, it’s clear that the writer’s message was against it. So good job. I really liked this. Also I am a boy in real life and I play as a girl. I entered my groudon in contests and it won a master rank cuteness ribbon <3
my point being that groudon is not a pokemon one would typically consider cute, but it still can be anyway. down with stereotypes!
the heck? there was no sexism in May being a coordinator, it was because it was a new mechanic and they used the second protagonist to explore that :L