I had an idea! So I’ve been wanting to play a Linoone for a while but its ability Gluttony is problematic in dungeons as it requires you to have a ton of food on hand, something that can be expensive and occasionally painstaking to accomplish. And then I thought of all the other gross abilities like Klutz and Defeatist.
That kind of spurned my idea of an item that nullifies the all of holder’s abilities. It would be nice to have if you wanted to use a favorite Pokemon but disliked its ability, like me, or for diverse arena fights, and probably could have other uses or reasons of use that I can’t think of right now?
I was thinking they can only hold it if they don’t have an ability that prevents them from doing so- Klutz is not solved, in other words, because there’s not really a a point to that and I would imagine that’d be more effort than it’s worth to code in.
Maybe it could be called something like Void Band and it could use the Purple Ribbon picture? Or another one of the scarf pictures. This isn’t really my choice actually but just a suggestion. I was thinking void because it’s a synonym of nullify and it actually sounds cool so! Void Band, Void Scarf, Void Ribbon, whatever. I’m bad at Item names
I’m not sure, if you’re suggesting an item that nulifies a pokemon’s ability then I don’t agree with this. Some pokemon could be over powered with that item. Taking Slaking as example.
The solution I suggest is that Pokemon with Gluttony as ability should not lose belly that FAST, I can relate to this because I trained a Snorlax to lvl 100, I used to spend 2 big apples on the same floor when I was training it at low lvl, since using Rest had my Pokemon getting killed.
Personally, I"ve never used a pokemon so far that has the ability gluttony, but one of my favorite fossils, Archeops in particular has a VERY HORRIBLE ability. This item could encourage people to actually use the darned thing.
Since this item could be used as a possible “destroyer of worlds” in PVP, if it were to be added to the game that is, I think the item should be more rarer than most items. I don"t know any rare items at the moment that I can think of. >.< Haven"t played for so long…
Then again, how fast does a pokemon with the ability gluttony hunger go down while making it hold a Stamina band?
Why those mons in particular? I mean Slaking I get, but Braviary has some very useful abilities. Run Away can also be found useful as, unlike the PMD series, in PMU you can’t be trapped by moves like Whirlpool or abilites like Arena Trap. Heavy Metal has the dowside of taking more damage from Grass Knot and Low Kick (who uses those anyway?), but has the added power on Heavy Slam, which most Pokémon with that ability get. As for Weak Armor… stat drops can’t go below 0 so you’ll actually only get the speed buff so it’s kind of a useful ability if you get hitstunned a lot on a slow Pokémon.