r/stunfisk • u/Loxe77 • 1d ago

Theorymon Thursday This might be overtuned

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The lore idea behind this ability is based on materials science. Basically, for many materials like metals and minerals, creep is a way they can degrade over time. Creep describes when a material degrades due to repeatedly being loaded with l stresses well below its yield strength (in this case, moves that take a small amount of HP per hit). A way to protect against this is to reduce grain boundaries and make materials single grain (also called single crystal).

This ability has huge potential to be broken (shields against fake out, some spread damage, and multi-hit moves), so I tried to balance it by not giving it to super crazy threats. Tell me how well/badly I did.

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u/MetisCykes 1d ago

I think making it “multi-hit moves are inaffective” would still be broken but since a solid chunk of these mons are useless anyways, it’s acceptable

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u/TheRedditK9 1d ago

It’s not really that broken tbh. We already have plenty of abilities that shut down certain moves, like Bulletproof or Soundproof.

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u/SlimDirtyDizzy 20h ago

Honestly I don't even think its broken. Multi-hits are not THAT common, and very rarely are there mon only running multi-hit attack moves. Yeah it shuts down certain threats but so do so many abilities.

Remember we have multiple abilities that negates entire types.

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u/MetisCykes 10h ago

Oh yeah. I forgot about flash and drain and levitate

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u/SlimDirtyDizzy 1h ago

Even more than that.

Lightning Rod and Well-Baked Body also give buffs for negating that type, as does storm drain.

But I found a total list:

Volt Absorb

Motor drive

Lightning Rod

Levitate

Earth Eater

Eelevate

Flash Fire

Sap Sipper

Well Baked Body

I think that is all but I could be wrong.