How To BUFF Every Alola Form In Gen 9!

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Today we’re discussing how to buff every Alola form in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet in an effort to make all the alola pokemon stronger in VGC 2025!

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How To BUFF Every Alola Form In Gen 9

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28 thoughts on “How To BUFF Every Alola Form In Gen 9!”

  5. I'd never really but thought about it before, but nothing in the ability name Surge Surfer suggests what kind of terrain it should be boosted by and as a dual type there is no reason why one terrain should be prioritized over the other.

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  11. I have a great idea to improve competative battles. Pick two, random lock in the remainig 4 spots. This could be an official online competative format for regional tournaments. Give the meta reliants the task of proving their skill by using nearly every mon possible.

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  13. I might be biased since alolan ninetales is my favorite pokemon but I would love to see it (and by extension kantonian ninetales) get a buff to its special attack. It already has good speed (and bulk under snow/veil), but with base 80ish special attack it struggles to hit very hard even with a choice specs. If it had base 95 or 100 special attack, it would have more item variety and would really get to abuse blizzard for more than just chip and freeze chances. I also think they need to implement frostbite from legends Arceus and give ice types like A9 a frostbite version of will-o-wisp. That would be neat.

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  15. Personally I think focusing too much on reaching that 500 BST threshold is doing way too much for these Pokémon that it completely changes how they’re played. We have had Pokémon be good in VGC with a lower BST (Clefairy, Prinplup, Pikachu, Charjabug, Vivillon, Illumise/Volbeat, Qwilfish, Araquanid, even amoongus only has 464 BST). I think in general the route for improving Pokémon should be focusing on what moves they lack and thresholds they need to reach. Example:

    Prinplup is one of the best bulky water type support options for trick room teams as it is as slow as Ursaluna and has options like Helping Hand, Yawn, Roost, Pledge combos, and competitive, giving it a unique niche as one of the better trick room water types.

    As for Sandslash thing is that it already has the coverage and moves it wants, the issue is that it’s stuck in formats where it can never get a chance to shine. While fake out would be nice on it, it’s rarely going to use it as it’d rather have protect + 3 offensive coverage attacks as its job is to be a snow sweeper. The most it will do is give Ninetales a much safer lead as it would have the fastest fake out in snow, but fake out isn’t as helpful as you’re only going to be reliably outspeed Incineroar in terms of fake out priority. Rillaboom can outspeed outside of snow depending on set, and Sneasler can outspeed you regardless if unburden is active.

    Honestly if anyone deserves fake out it’s Raticate, it has more reason to use it as it has great utility in super fang allowing it to poke holes into sturdy Pokémon and has options like taunt, snarl, quash, icy wind, switcheroo, and knock off. What it lacks is any form of turn priority, fake out gives it a niche as a bulky support Pokémon that can’t be taunted/disrupted by prankster Pokémon. If it had a set like Fake Out, Super Fang/Taunt, Protect, Knock Off, it’d actually be pretty good into psychic and ghost type heavy metagames. If you replace Thick Fat for something like Intimidate then its bulk isn’t actually all that bad.

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  16. I would just make Surge surfer work in all terrains, that way it can be used in all teams. Grass knot is still decent though having Energy Ball would be better, AR has Play Rough but since it's a special attacker it only has draining kiss so a move like noonblast would make it more potent with that boosted special attack that you gave it.

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  17. Id give A Exeggutor Stored Power.
    In harsh sunlight it could use boosted Growths to get +2 in both offenses and boost stored power by 80 BP in one turn. Combined with Chlorophyl it would make an amazing sun sweeper.
    Also because it is a mixed attacker it could use both boosts from Growth. It could use Draco meteor and then switch to physical attacks to avoid the punishment of the special drop

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  18. I thought ditto was too weak so i gave it 150 points in attack, huge power and judgement. Hopefully this will make it more viable

    But seriously why the hell did you give Lunala's ability to A marrowack

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  23. I know this is VGC oriented video… but as an Alolan Golem fan myself

    I think we can go further…

    Alolan Golem has a perfect speed stat for singles

    It has a REALLY TINY BUT POWERFUL NICHE

    By being a Magnet Pull Pokémon that can one hit KO Heatran with Earthquake

    If you use a scarf and max speed it always out speeds Heatran unless it has a scarf itself

    It has the physical bulk to take on even Mega Mawile’s powerful sucker Punch and Ko it back with EQ

    Same with Magearna

    It packs Fire Punch for Ferrothorn and Kartana

    And Hit Hard on Celesteela

    Who can be forced out if it’s locked on the wrong move

    It can even take the Normalium Z Giga Impact variant

    So in order to match the buff that it gets with Galvanize Fake Out

    Let’s give it a different niche

    By being able to trap and kill Goldengo

    With enough special defense and the asault vest it can take one powerful Goldengo Make it Rain

    And KO it back with EQ

    Let’s give it back Rapid Spin

    Kantonian Golem had Rapid Spin in the past

    Let’s give it back the hazard clearing move

    This makes it so you can have Galvanize Golem to have powerful Galvanize Set alongside Magnet Pull

    Your opponent doesn’t know on the preview Wich one of them is

    So it needs to walk on eggshells otherwise it will be surprised by the wrong variant

    Let’s make a mental scenario

    You have a Goldengo on the field

    And Alolan Golen gets into the field with a U-turn

    Now what? If it’s Magnet Pull you can’t Switch

    And if it’s Galvamize it can probably take on a Make it Rain

    If you are locked in Shadow Ball it’s even worst

    Assuming we are on Nat Dex you can Tera Ghost to probably KO it

    But Tyranitar can Switch and Ko with Purssuit

    I even if you are Balloon 🎈 best case scenario you Ko Golem after loosing your ballon and now Goldengo is open for another Ground type move

    Golem can only have its rapid spin blocked by Ground Types

    Who any ways scare A-Golem Out

    So it can be a pretty good niche I’m pretty sure

    I can even see Air Balloon A-Golem just so it can rapid spin against non ground type Earthquake users

    Or even a Ursaluna that already used it’s Tera and can no longer Block Rapid Spin

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  25. i think golem could be a fantastic trick room sweeper, for buffs id keep where its at (maybe redistribution into hp, cut defense or speed for a higher hp stat and add a tad bit to attack maybe a 40 spd with 100 hp and 120 defense or a 90 hp with 130 attack and 120 d). For galvanize movesets i think having fake out would be insane, although idk how canon that is with its lil ole arms. but id also tweek galvanize to be a built in magnet and raise elec moves power by 20% instead of just normal moves. Basically the idea is making it a stronger, frailer iron hands
    But having no guard as an ability is quite a good buff bc all the inaccurate rock moves go brrrr
    But a more unique approach would be to simply switch spatk and atk to make it a spatker, and then give it access to hyper voice. So now u have a meteor beam, elec hyper voice spamming TR sweeper (still give it fake out tho, would be funny)

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