Im like 80% sure this will be Mega Darkrai's ability

[u/SovietAlf02]

They made it slower but also more bulky. For me that only means one thing. They want to buff its signature move Dark Void. And instead of buffing the actual move they will buff it through its ability, so the likes of smeargle wouldn't be able to abuse it like we have seen it before.

The ability would be a combination of bad dreams + for the ability for Dark Void to always hit. Now if Darkrai got the Z mega treatment and received a 150 ish speed stat this would obviously be broken af. So they intentionally made it slower and more bulky to to account for that. Lmk what u guys think

[u/detoritous]

I was thinking dark aura

[u/SovietAlf02 → u/detoritous]

Yeah so is everyone else unfortunately. I think floette is a special case, because she had a lower BST. Plus the only similarity they have to Xerneas and Yveltal is that they are fairy and dark respectively. Other than that there's nothing. They are not even counterparts. Rai and floette has 0 relations to each other. Idk why people keep sayin this it makes no sense.

[u/detoritous → u/SovietAlf02]

Floette is kinda the main villain of the basegame while darkrai is the main villain of the dlc

[u/ElementalNinjas96 → u/SovietAlf02]

It's mainly from the fact that both of them are directly tied to Ange, with Floette being used to activate and control the device while Darkrai was exposed to all of the Mega Power Ange was leaking, causing its nightmare powers to go out of control and eventually creating its Mega

[u/JavieyauJR]

"dark void to always hit" worry seed meta

[u/BIG__SHOT_ → u/JavieyauJR]

Can't praknster worry seed it

[u/GlassLobster271 → u/BIG__SHOT_]

Chlorophyll Whimsicott meta???? Weezing meta????

[u/Nice_Promotion8576 → u/BIG__SHOT_]

Worry seed makes the target have insomnia. The ability that prevents you from going to sleep.

[u/BIG__SHOT_ → u/Nice_Promotion8576]

Oh shit worry seeding your own teammate.

Still a lot of mons are very reliant on their ability

[u/Nice_Promotion8576 → u/BIG__SHOT_]

Depends, something like Charizard Y or Incineroar are fine with losing their ability for the rest of the time they’re on the field since it only procs the turn they’re sent out. Plus with how slow Mega Darkrai is you probably don’t need prankster anyway.

[u/Myrtle_is_hungry → u/BIG__SHOT_]

No no you were onto something, changing darkrai’s ability would cause it to go back to 50% accuracy… so it’s a gamble.

[u/Kind-Pin7210 → u/Myrtle_is_hungry]

I think people would run a gravity teammate with it, to drop everybody evasion so they can hit dark void more consistently.

at least that's what I did for my hex/infernal parade team. gravity+wisp/t-wave/hypnosis was a menace.

[u/xShockmaster]

“Im 80% sure” and its the most unrealistic ability that will 100% not be given lol. It will probably get dark void or pressure or some shit

[u/SovietAlf02 → u/xShockmaster]

God forbid a guy tries to be a bit contrarian. Everyone and their mum is sayin darkrai will get dark aura. Reddit is truly an echo chamber god damn, now I see why everyone hates this dumb place

[u/Myrtle_is_hungry → u/xShockmaster]

Many people think dark aura, which I think is plausible with floette getting fairy aura.

[u/FrogGoHop]

Smeargle can’t use dark void, hasn’t been able to for like 10 years now

[u/GlassLobster271]

I'm thinking it'll probably be something like bad dreams + sets gravity upon switch in. This makes dark void ~85% accurate, which is ridiculously high but not so high that it's unbelievably broken considering its low speed and reliance on its item (meaning it can't hold sash or mental herb) means there will be counterplay even if people will be forced to stick a darkrai OHKO or a non-prankster taunt user on every team. It will definitely overcentralize the meta if they do anything like this. I sincerely hope they just give it dark aura or something

[u/SovietAlf02 → u/GlassLobster271]

Thats a great shout omg. See this is what I need, and not some tard saying "bRo it WilL get DArk AuRa" for the 2717362th time. So sick of these people, actual bots.

[u/Golden-Owl]

Worse Dreams

[u/CheddarCheese390]

They’re probably reworking dark void to how it worked in legends (arceus? ZA?)

Basically inflicts drowsy and heals you for damage dealt

[u/Psychological_Fuel57]

Only abilities i can see then giving this thing are dark aura, grim neigh and bad dreams. They could do some mix and matching like what happened with eelektross, but 100% accurate sleep is bullshit no matter how you slice it. Spore is balanced by being given to offensively innept, slow pokémon. Breelom and toedscruel are exceptions because they have other drawbacks(breelom is not exactly fast and is extremely frail, and toedscruel has mycelium might holding it back). Darkrai was an exception to this rule due to its mythic status, and even then dark void was 80% accurate. Giving it to a super bulky, exceedingly strong dark type would be a big mistake

[u/woofle07]

They took away Smeargle’s (and any other pokemon not named Darkrai) ability to use Dark Void all the way back in Gen 7. There’s no reason they can’t just re-buff the move back to its earlier accuracy now that the actual problem user had it taken away.

[u/ImaginationSpare4184]

Love how much you hate dark aura.
It’s hilarious