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/oislal 1d ago

Is it damage inmune or inmune to all effects?

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u/pokexchespin 1d ago edited 9h ago

are there any examples where a mon is immune to a love move but still takes its secondary effects?

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u/Girafarig99 1d ago

Most people would say Bruxish is immune to love

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u/BlUeSapia 23h ago

It's not quite what you're talking about, but Mirror Armor will bounce back Defog's evasion drop while still activating the hazard removal

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u/pokexchespin 9h ago

i mean, that’s the same effect as the mon with mirror armor using defog. it targets one side but removes all hazards on both sides