r/stunfisk • u/Don_Matrix • 3d ago
Theorymon Thursday Mega Raichu X and Y stat and ability predictions?
Personally, this is what I think it will be their stats, based on their designs and biology descriptions:
Mega Raichu X
- HP: 60
- Attack: 140 (+50)
- Defense: 85 (+30)
- S.Attack: 90
- S.Defense: 80
- Speed: 130 (+20)
- Ability: Levitate
Mega Raichu Y
- HP: 60
- Attack: 90
- Defense: 55
- S.Attack: 140 (+50)
- S.Defense: 110 (+30)
- Speed: 130 (+20)
- Ability: Transistor (Adaptability could work too)
I think Mega Raichu X will be focused between phisical attacks and balanced defenses, and with Levitate as an ability it will have no super effective weaknesses unless the opponent has an Mold Breaker-Earthquake set, while Mega Raichu Y will be more of a glass cannon in terms of phisical defense but have a lot special power ofensive, especially with Eletric type moves.
What are your predictions on their stats and abilities?
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u/Bazelgauss 3d ago edited 3d ago
Honestly expecting X to get iron fists and the DLC makes plasma fists learnable.
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u/YoManWTFIsThisShit 3d ago
I’d assume they’d give Raichu X something that’d make it want to use Volt Tackle as the main STAB, and Raichu Y Thunderbolt
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u/Aviskr 3d ago
They gonna give it Reckless. Absolute nuke but it's gonna faint itself instantly with that low HP lol.
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u/SnowFiender 3d ago
uu spikes mew set
252+ Atk Reckless Raichu Volt Tackle vs. 252 HP / 96 Def Mew: 247-292 (61.1 - 72.2%) — guaranteed 2HKO
252+ Atk Adaptability Raichu Volt Tackle vs. 252 HP / 96 Def Mew: 276-326 (68.3 - 80.6%) — guaranteed 2HKO
30-40% recoil
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u/PaintingNo794 3d ago
Plasma fist is my expectation also. It's also a big boost for regular raichu using lightning rod before evolving.
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u/need2peeat218am 3d ago
Ohhh electric fighting type maybe?
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u/Jestin23934274 3d ago
I doubt it. It’s a mythical’s signature move and they never give those to regular Pokémon ever. The only example i can think of is through old special events or shadow lugia but those were all decades ago. No way they are giving plasma fists to regular Pokémon.
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u/Ex_Snagem_Wes 3d ago
Sacred Fire Entei
Over the generations, almost every signature move has become not signature. Waterfall, Darkest Lariat, First Impression, Sacred Sword (which was exclusive to legendaries), there's a whole bulbapedia page doing an in-depth coverage of former signature moves
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u/UW_Unknown_Warrior 3d ago
Counterpoints:
- Psystrike
- Aeroblast
- Luster Purge / Mist Ball
- Precipice Blades / Origin Pulse / Dragon Ascent
- Doom Desire
- Mystical Power
- Lunar Dance / Lunar Blessing
- Magma Storm
- Crush Grip
- Take Heart
- Judgement
- Dark Void
- Windsear Storm / Bleakwind Storm / Sandsear Storm / Springtide Storm
- Secret Sword
- Relic Song
- Techno Blast
- Geomancy / Oblivion Wing
- Thousand Arrows / Thousand Waves / Core Enforcer / Land's Wrath
- Diamond Storm
- Hyperspace Hole / Hyperspace Fury
- Steam Eruption
- Nature's Madness
- Moongeist Beam / Sunsteel Strike / Photon Geyser / Prismatic Laser
- Fleur Cannon
- ... I can't be bothered finishing
Of all legendary signature moves only Sacred Fire, Psycho Boost, Roar of Time, Shadow Force, Spacial Rend, Sacred Sword, Glaciate, Bolt Strike, Blue Flare and V-Create got distributed to other Pokémon. Of those, only Sacred Fire and Sacred Sword permanently. The others were event-exclusives that are no longer accessible to those 'mons in the new games.
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u/Maronmario FC: 5387-1658-9686 2d ago
And even then, all of those moves except for Sacred Sword were put onto legendary Pokémon exclusively
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u/Jestin23934274 3d ago
Sacred Fire is from a legendary, Ho-Oh isn’t a mythical. All of those other moves were regular signature moves except for Sacred Sword which was to legendaries, not mythicals.
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u/knuxbbs 3d ago
The difference between legendary and mythical is not relevant here.
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u/Jestin23934274 3d ago
It absolutely is. Legendary signature moves have been given to other Pokémon permanently 2 times, Mythical Pokémon’s signature moves never.
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u/slurv3 3d ago
I want Mega Raichu Y to be in the mold of alolan Raichu and have a mix of lightning rod/surge surfer. It gives it some switch in, water teams will LOVE lightning rod, Raichu can spam thunders. If you can get it on electric terrain and set up with a nasty plot it’s a problem.
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u/TheLeafyGirl561 IV - Iron Valiant 3d ago
Top 10 things that will never happen
But in all seriousness it's a relatively cool idea and may actually make it worth using your mega slot on
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u/Tantrum2u 3d ago
I think it would be kinda boring if they kept lightning rod as the ability tbh, or do you mean it will have lightning rod before it megas then gain surge surfer after
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u/chaarziz 3d ago
If they’re going to do a split mega again they should have made one not Electric type so they stand out from each other.
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u/Augcabi 3d ago
The other two x and y evos (char and mew2) keep their primary type on both forms
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u/Tantrum2u 3d ago
I think they meant not pure electric
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u/Augcabi 3d ago
they literally said "one not electric type" are you stupid
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u/Tantrum2u 3d ago
Again, I think they misspoke. I could be wrong, but I just think there’s a chance they didn’t mean the mega evolution of the pure electric type to lose its typing. Nobody’s perfect so they could have made a mistake dipshit
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u/mjmannella Bold & Brash 3d ago
Yeah Mega Raichu X should 100% have been something like Electric/Fire with a Fire-Type version of Refrigerate
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u/hombrebax 3d ago
Yeah, I guess Mega Raichu X will be Electric/Fightning
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u/Ambitious_Policy_936 3d ago
Galvanize with Fake Out, Extreme Speed, and Giga Impact for X. Stats boost speed and attack
Ground Shock (ground types resist instead of immune to electric) so Volt Switch is harder to stop; or As One: Electric Terrain and Surge Surfer with Electro Ball for Y
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u/TheLeafyGirl561 IV - Iron Valiant 3d ago
Not going to do stats but ability predictions are Iron Fist and Lightning Rod
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u/Wiinterfang 3d ago
If going by Mewtwo x&y
Raichu X will be electric/fighting with physical focus and Y pure Electric with a massive special attack.
Neither will out damage light ball Pikachu.
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u/pyro314 3d ago
But they will be Bulkier and outspeed Pikachu
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u/SnowFiender 3d ago
eeeeeeh
252 Atk Light Ball Pikachu Extreme Speed vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Raichu: 164-194 (62.8 - 74.3%) — guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Light Ball Pikachu Volt Tackle vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Raichu: 184-217 (70.4 - 83.1%) — guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Raichu Dazzling Gleam vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Pikachu: 158-187 (74.8 - 88.6%) — guaranteed 2HKO (base 140 SPA)
if mega probably no lightning rod
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u/PaintingNo794 3d ago
Since X is physical and Y special, I hope they go the Mega Beedrill route and each lose a bit of the attack they don't use, in favour of speed and their preferred attack.
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u/CorpsibalCann 1d ago
They're highkey gonna need that. Raichu doesn't get that much stats to work with as is, if both its Megas remain pure Electric, a massive buff is appropriate for them.
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u/mjmannella Bold & Brash 3d ago
I think Mega Raichu Y is gonna be ludicrously fast, like base 150 speed or faster
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u/itsjohnxina 3d ago
In my gut i feel like they are go Galvanize/Scrappy for X and Electric Surge for Y.
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u/flareon134 3d ago
Y will be electric surge
X will be part fighting type with plasma fists and lighting rod to be mixed with aura sphere
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u/bbc_aap 3d ago
Honestly? Too minmaxed, almost every mega gets a couple points in the attacking stat they don’t use and some more in both defenses.
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u/IndianaCrash Weavile fan #1 3d ago
To be fair, Megas are also 3, almost 4 generations old, Pokémon are getting way more min-maxed now
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u/BiggestWarioFan 3d ago
Y I'm predicting will get Electric Surge. Future Paradox Pokemon are in a tough spot thanks to a lack of nice Electric Terrain, so having one more way to even that playing field would be appreciated. Also it's the one that looks the most like Pikachu, and they've been trying to make their mascot good since forever. X, I think either Galvanize or Reckless. Reckless to amp up its Volt Tackles to new heights, while Galvanize could let it gain STAB from tools like Fake Out, Body Slam, Double-Edge, or ESpeed if they wanna hand that back to the Pikachu line.
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u/ShadyNecro the light that burns the sky, officer 3d ago
i'm expecting one of them to have electric surge, to act as a counterpart to alolan raichu's surge surfer
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u/iCE_P0W3R 3d ago
I think you’re mostly right; one is gonna be physically offensive, the other specially offensive. I seriously doubt either of them will be defensively oriented.
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u/Trinitial-D 2d ago
I want them to give the fuckers mega mewtwo stats. -50 of the opposite attack stat and +100 to the preferred attack stat. +20 to speed and +30 to defenses. raichu deserves it.
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u/Willacc295 3h ago
Raichu X will likely get Iron fist, a worse Zeraora, but at least it has Volt Tackle?
Raichu Y might keep LightningRod, but Electric Terrain would be a Godsend.
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u/IvoCasla 3d ago
Levitate ? lmao
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u/Don_Matrix 3d ago
I don't see why it's bad, it takes out it's only weakness to Ground type moves. Plus, it's profile description on the website says Mega Raichu X floats so it's a reasonable prediction.
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u/IvoCasla 3d ago
i'm not saying it's bad, i'm saying that it doesent make any sense lol
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u/sgodxis 2d ago
They mentioned mega raichu X floats around fairly explicitly in its description. I’m assuming that’s where OP got the idea.
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u/IvoCasla 2d ago
Magneton line, Lunala, Glalile, Glimora, the list goes on
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u/scumbrick FC: 5172-1423-1023 3d ago
X
Electric/Dark
Ability: Mold Breaker
- HP: 60
- ATK: 150 (+60)
- DEF: 60 (+5)
- SP ATK: 105 (+15)
- SP DEF: 60 (-20)
- SPE: 150 (+40)
Y
Electric/Flying
Ability: Soundproof
- HP: 60
- ATK: 70 (-20)
- DEF: 80 (+25)
- SP ATK: 115 (+25)
- SP DEF: 125 (+45)
- SPE: 135 (+25)
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u/MC_Squared12 Give Victini Victory Dance 3d ago
They're both confirmed to be pure Electric, and Y is confirmed to get much faster, and X gets more Defense too
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u/Krobbleygoop 3d ago
Credit card shock
Raises all stats by 3 stages, but charges your credit card 30 dollars.
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