Tag: speed boost

Anonymous asks:

I think that Game Freak should have made an Ability that’s Chlorophyll but with a different name (a la Insomnia/Vital Spirit), and made THAT Blaziken’s Hidden Ability instead of Speed Boost. Something like ‘Blazing Legs’. This would address Blaziken’s big weakness (Speed) and encourage players to use it in sunlight, which strengthens its Fire attacks, thus powering it up in competitive without making it crazy broken like Speed Boost does. What do you think?

I kinda want it to be something more unique… I don’t know that it particularly fits Blaziken to be especially dependent on sun.  Maybe something Technician-esque that gives priority to low-power moves, so she gets, like, priority Aerial Ace and priority Double Kick?  Or something Motor Drive-esque that absorbs Fire attacks to gain speed (it worked for Electivire in his day, after all)?

Anonymous asks:

How do you envisage the ability Speed Boost working? Most other boosting moves and abilities have a description of how they work; Agility’s move description states that the user relaxes to lighten itself; Calm Mind is a meditation; Autotomize has the user shed body parts to reduce its weight. But Speed Boost just… happens, without the user doing anything? Any theories?

I suppose it just takes them a while to get “warmed up,” as it were.  It could also vary between species – Blaziken perhaps entering a sort of martial trance that rapidly improves her reflexes, Sharpedo going into a battle frenzy, Scolipede gathering momentum as he rolls around the battlefield (not unlike the logic behind Rollout).