Another balance patch...

BSDuck · July 15

It's that time again, so here are my thoughts on the latest balance patch.

So, the elephant in the room, move delay reductions have finally appeared in balance patches. And for months I have been wanting Falinks to be less horribly laggy to play. And this is literally supposed to be THE buffing Falinks patch. It all lines up, right? Well unfortunately their signatue dish of Falinks hate has been perepared once more. One day they'll finally give some meaningful buffs to my unviable boi.

Why exactly do they hate Aegislash's iron head move? It's totally unviable and has never been buffed at all. The only option is wide guard, and I don't like when a Pokemon has a useless move that adds nothing to its kit.

And Sirfetch'd… begs for detect cooldown to be unnerfed, and brutal swing to be semi-decent, it's like the leek version of iron head in that it's totally useless compared to the other option :(

Momoscarada · July 15

Anything about Yveltal? Did it get nerfed into the ground like I expected?

Dragonfly102024 · July 15

Yeah, I was bummed that they only buffed a move I don't use for Aegislash, seems like that happens a lot to the pokemon I play....

I like Iron Head and still find some benefit from that quick shield and small dash that I can throw up as I jump into others' faces while my other move cools down or when I know they're about to hit me with something big and unavoidable......