Which Pokemon do you hope will get better moves?
If there is another move re-balance in Gen 3, which Gen 1/2 Pokemon(s) do you guys hope will get better movesets?
Please include at least 1 non-legendary.
For me, it's Gyarados, Jolteon, Kabutops.
Answers
I hope they end up balancing some of the moves themselves. It is terrible that some moves are strictly better than others and there is no arguing either way. Examples:
Future Sight > Psychic
Overheat > Fire Blast
Solar Beam > Petal Blizzard
I'm sure there are others but doing something like give Fire Blast a faster cooldown and changing Psychic and Petal Blizzard back to 2 bar moves would be a big improvement.
With TMs now in the game it makes no sense to have moves that are always worse in every situation. I think the idea is to make every move useful in some situation so the player can actually use strategy. Currently, there is no reason to keep Psychic rather than Future Sight (no situation where it's better). Give us at least one situation where Psychic is better (either give it a faster cooldown or 2 bars).
It is Mud-Slap that needs to be buffed.
And looking ahead at future ground pokemon, we need another ground fast move. I'm in favor of retiring Sand Tomb as a charge move and making it into a new fast move around 1.1s long.
Onix: -Tackle, +Sand Tomb
Steelix: -Dragon Tail, +Sand Tomb
Gligar: -Fury Cutter, +Sand Tomb
Trapinch: Bite, Sand Tomb
Vibrava, Flygon: Dragon Breath, Sand Tomb
Different issue... but it sure would be nice if there was some use for the obviously weaker mons like there used to be with "prestige". OK, I understand it was not a part of other games. But there are going to be 386 mons in this game. We'll need about 50 maybe. There might be 6 we never see (Regionals etc.). The other 330 are going to be mostly junk.
I would argue from a powering up standpoint no more than 20 unique species are critical or vitally useful.
All the rest are self inspired projects. The number may be a few more in busier areas and a few less in less competitive areas.
In truth we are now searching for or using these few Pokes...to get the next few Pokes from raids....to get the next few Pokes from raids.
I like Kabutops' mud shot / ancient power combo. Pretty useful when I have suboptimal teams to deal with some raids, and useful for gyms when I'm cheaping on revives. Might be good to swap his bug-type move for a rock one though.
I am hoping Rhydon gets mud shot as an alternative to mud slap, because there's not much use for Rock Smash except maybe on Blissey/Snorlax. Or as others say, if they'd buff Mud Slap, that would be good too. Or they could at least give Rhydon the chance to also hold 2 rock moves instead of a fighting move and a rock move.
