10/06/06 Things Have Happened
They have indeed.
Let's take a look at Serebii.net, as we so often do. Highlight the Pokémon spoiler in today's update.
Major stuff below, its not 100% confirmed but the source its from has the game and hasn't been wrong yet at all
When you have completed the National Dex (Bar the Special Event Pokémon of course) and talk to Professor Oak, he will give you an item that activates a special rock. This rock will allow you to get [Aruseusu], the creation Pokémon. Remember this is not confirmed and we're looking into it
Just WHOA. The god Pokémon, obtainable in-game? That is pretty damn freaky. Is every kid and their mom going to have one on Wi-Fi? That sounds scary. I actually can't help thinking they'll probably have restrictions from using it on Wi-Fi, or do a twisty "if you have Aruseusu it takes up two Pokémon slots" thing or something. Or they'd only let you use it against somebody else who also has it...
Well, either that or they play with its godly classification. Make it permanently disobedient to its trainer, perhaps? That would be kind of interesting, actually; a major trade-off to make for its godly powers would perhaps hinder people from using it.
Well, that's not confirmed, anyhow. If you click the Aruseusu screenshot you will see a section on its ability, Multi-Type. People had some scary theories about it giving STAB for all attacks (even going as far as asserting it was confirmed, which I find rather funny - this is how urban legends begin), but it is thankfully not so. Instead, the ability allows you to attach a hold item (a "Plate") to Aruseusu which will change its type (and color palette, neatly enough) to the type specified by the Plate. Serebii technically claims it can only be 17 different forms (i.e. one per type), but a certain LonX who has posted in comments to a news item on Pokéguide insists that there is one more form - a "type unknown" kind of thing (which looks like this - his image). The interesting thing is that there are only 16 plates, so one must wonder how to change it to that last form. I had this fun idea that perhaps any other hold item will change it to that type, meaning that you'd always have to choose between hold item or STAB...
Speaking of abilities, Serebii has a page on them, too, and they are pretty interesting. Some comments on them:
- Acrobatic: I guess it makes sense. Another "Hold item or trade-off" thing.
- Anger Pot: That is the sort of ability that I would have if I were a Pokémon, given how much I hate it when my Pokémon is hit by a critical hit.
- Bad Luck: OUCH. Just... ouch. That's a very, very nasty ability. I'm actually hoping they translated it wrong and it actually gives the opponent bad luck, i.e. makes the opponent more vulnerable to critical hits. I mean, bad omens usually give bad luck to the one who sees them, not to themselves.
- Beligerence: Pretty neat, I guess. Not much to say about it.
- Body Risk: Okay, the description is pretty vague, but I'm guessing that by "retaliatory moves" it means stuff like Counter and Revenge, in which case it sounds pretty nice, but perhaps a little broken...
- Color Glasses: Another vague description; does it somehow power up non-damaging moves, and if not, does it just not do anything if it happens to randommly pick a non-damage attack, or does it only pick a damaging attack randomly? Nonetheless, it looks fairly cool and on some underused Pokémon, so it will be nice.
- Danger Anticipate: ...Okay, that one's the king of vague descriptions. I have no clue what the heck "predicting dangerous attacks from the foe" is supposed to mean.
- Detonate: Makes a lot of sense indeed.
- Download: Heh, neat one for Porygon. Much more fitting than Trace, although I suppose one could say Porygon was really "downloading" the opponent's ability when it had Trace.
- Electric Engine: Another one that makes sense. It would be nicer if more Pokémon had it, though.
- Far Sight: Neat one, although I don't get why Stantler, Shuppet and Banette of all Pokémon have it.
- Filter: Wait, does this mean super effective attacks do normal damage (half of what they normally do) or not very effective damage (half of ordinary attack power)? Either way, it sort of defeats the point of weaknesses.
- Flower Head: Not much to say about it, since it's just a necessary ability for Cherimu.
- Hard Rock: Yay for vagueness. How much is the damage lowered exactly? Either way, it will be a real help for Camerupt and the Dosaidon, what with their extreme weakness to Water (and in Dosaidon's case, also Grass).
- Heat Proof: Kinda similar to Thick Fat, except obviously Doomiraa and Dootakun wouldn't make a lot of sense with Thick Fat so they had to make a new one, and removed the Ice resistance.
- Honey Collect: Looks like a Mitsuhanii version of Pickup.
- Humble Heart: Doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but okay.
- Leaf Guard/Moist Body: Nice to have.
- Magic Coat: Heh, nice idea. Too bad only the Clefairy family has it.
- Natural: Okay, that one makes no sense at all (what has that got to do with naturality?) but it's neat.
- Nightmare: Heh, auto-Nightmare. Daakurai's coolness points just went up. :D
- No Guard: Whoa. The Machop family now officially owns everybody.
- Normal Skin: Ouch. Delcatty was poor enough before; while getting extra STAB is nice, this means a Delcatty is forever incapable of damaging a Ghost-type. Not a good idea.
- Poison Heal: Hmm, a sort of weaker version of Natural Cure. Seems a little pointless, but meh.
- Simplicity: "Hi!" said the Bippa family. "My abilities make no sense at all!" And thus, Bippa proceeded to use its bizarre broken abilities.
- Slow Start: Nice. De-00berizes Rejigigasu.
- Snipe: ...don't tell me KINGDRA of all things just got that. *headdesks* It's lucky enough already without an ability to make its critical hits even cheaper. <.<;;
- Snow Hide: Hail version of Sand Veil, basically. Not much to say about it.
- Snow Storm: Hail version of Sand Stream...
- Stupid: ...OUCH. If I were a Mimiroru/Mimiroppu, I'd be sorely offended. Game Freak really want to prevent people from using hold items this generation, don't they?
- Unconventional: We have Trace which copies the opponent's ability so that both have it, and then we have Unconventional which basically leads to a battle without abilities.
- Water Lure: Um, Water version of Lightningrod. Yay?
Anyway, the last thing worth mentioning is that according to Serebii's Elite Four section, we now have the first female Champion. :3 She has a nicely powerful team as well; those are the highest-leveled Pokémon ever in the Elite Four, of course not counting FR/LG second round. (Gary's starter was level 65 in R/B/Y; she has two at level 66.)
Oh, and they clearly got into transformation before making D/P. Go figure.
Comments
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Larissa (Website)
When I was reading about the abilities, the first thing I thought was "they either suck or they're uber." --; I'm not a happy Larissa about it.
Negrek (Website)
"The interesting thing is that there are only 16 plates, so one must wonder how to change it to that last form."
If there are no plates attached to Arseus, it's a normal-type. Thus, the sixteen plates give the sixteen non-normal types--the hidden power types, and normal is given if there is no plate held, so all types are represented.
I seriously hope they mistranslated Bad Luck as well. I mean... seriously? That's terrible, what with all the apparent crit-hit-raising stuff that seems to be appearing in this gen (witness "Snipe").
Butterfree (Website)
No, what I mean is that there are eighteen forms - one corresponding to each of the ordinary types, which are represented by the sixteen plates plus Normal, and then one that appears to be a ??? type or something.
Negrek (Website)
Ah, I see. It would be interesting to have a ??? type; I wonder what the weaknesses/resistances would be, if any.
Butterfree (Website)
For some reason I like the idea of that form having no weaknesses and no resistances, but that's just me...
KorwatisRicky (Website)
I believe a Pokémon with Filter receives 1/2 damage of the normal amount of power from a super effective move. :O I had a reason for that, but I forgot it. XD
I think Aruseusu's unknown type is the Nintendo event part of Aruseusu, which makes 00berly 00ber. P:
HAHA, AND IT DOESN'T LEARN ALL TMs/HMs. Mew still pwns. <3
Crystylla (Website)
Something I personally wondered about Aruseusu... it has a shiny form, like any other Pokémon, right? Well, will it change colours in exactly the way a normal Aruseusu would, or would the alternate forms have "shiny" tones as well? Unimportant, and the former is probably the answer, but the thought just struck me. o.o
Blazepert
...I SERIOUSLY hope Bad Luck is a mistranslation. Otherwise, Absol and Murcrow evo just got harder to use.
I'm pretty sure I saw a picture of shiny Aruseusu...his fur's the only things that's changed, he still has different graphics for different forms.
MoonlitUmbreon
I really, really, really hope they mistranslated Bad Luck. If they didn't, I'm getting all my Absols and Murkrows from the Pal Park.
Skam'ry
Personally, I think the addition of Bad Luck will make it more challenging, which is good for some, but bad for others.
Me? I personally like it. :) Sure, it will make some battles a bit harder, but hey.
YamiiDenryuu
Looking at the "???" type button they have on Serebii.net's atackdex, that Aruseusu does look like it's the right color.... But it's also posible that it's fake. .... I mean, it's posible, right? *has no clue*
By the way, please get an easier-to-spell Pokemon name for the spam verification thing. *shot*
Piika
The Stupid ability is weird. Wonder what it's name in the Ameican version will be....