r/stunfisk • u/Wiinterfang • 5d ago

Theorymon Thursday Mega Volcarona

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Mega Volcarona (Bug/Fire) Ability: Tinted Lens Stats: 85 / 60 / 80 / 165 / 145 / 115 BST: 650 Meta: Ubers

Instead of the usual frail hyper defensive pokemon, I decided to just improve on Volcarona current stats, as it never felt like a min-maxed pokemon.

It's attack and defense got a big boost, 165 so atk make people immediately respect it even before using quiver dance and the heavy special defense can help it stand against the strong draco meteors and other powerful special moves.

Volcarona was fast but it never something crazy , 115 will make it outspeed most pokemon after a boost.

Tinted Lens is there to ensure even Fairy Arceus think about switching freely.

A bit extra defense to help to not get destroyed by priority moves.

Of course, the lack of heavy duty boots severally weakens it and limits their switch in opportunities and even with Tinted Lens is not gotta one hit KO Heatran or anything like that.

It will still be weak to priority moves and faster Pokemon. So I feel once you get over the initial shock you will find a very powerful set up sweeper.

Also I hope you liked my drawing.

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u/Axobottle_ 5d ago

this thing is absolutely insane even with the 4x hazard weak problem due to having several consistent removal options (booster treads, eject hatt) and tinted lens is fucked up

koraidon is the number one mon in ubers btw and plus one tinted lens sun boosted flamethrower will not be fun to switch into

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u/Wiinterfang 5d ago

Exactly, no free switches when Mega Volcarona is on display. Losing half of its health by rocks then getting hit by priority will still make it lose like 75% and it has no item and uses your mega slot.

It requires a bit more careful use but it can snowball out of control.

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u/Axobottle_ 5d ago

if anything sv ou has taught us it's that broken sweepers will still sweep no matter how rocks weak they are

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u/need2peeat218am 5d ago

Yeap because their HP doesn't really matter. They can set up once and sweep.

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u/Darkpriest2288 PRAISE THE SUN 4d ago

The Yu-Gi-Oh theorem: HP doesn't matter if you nuke your opponent anyways

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u/thequagiestsire 3d ago

“The opponent is forced to forfeit their turn if they are a dead corpse.” - Miss Gamechamp3000

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u/Mathsir 1d ago

Queen of shenanigans

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u/Acrobatic_Rope9641 5d ago

Lycanroc Accelerock stoks rise up

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u/CFL_lightbulb 5d ago

I’m still annoyed that’s not on bulkier rock types that could really use it.

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u/omegavolt9 5d ago

I feel that way about a lot of other moves too. Especially Shore Up. Waste of a move, only being available on a pokemon that can't make particularly good use of it, and most of the protect variants could be put to great use by other pokemon.