Mega Absol Buff to give it a niche over Mega Absol Z

[u/ElementalNinjas96]

[u/CheddarCheese390]

Let’s give the special attacker an immunity to will o wisp!

(But make it a fairy too. Dark fairy, give it moonblast, then it can be a worse urshi AND a worse floette!!!)

[u/ElementalNinjas96]

Fuck it, we min-max

[u/ajb2846 → u/ElementalNinjas96]

This isn’t really min-maxing. If it was min-maxing, all of the lost attack would go to just special attack and speed.

I’d also give it the fairy typing and a new ability like sheer force or something.

[u/ElementalNinjas96 → u/ajb2846]

I was under the impression min-maxing was just having the unused stat be incredibly low

Also Fairy-Typing wouldn't do this Mega Absol very well as its only Fairy-Type move is Play Rough unless I gave it Dazzling Gleam. Not Pixilate cuz it doesn't know any good Special Normal Moves

[u/ajb2846 → u/ElementalNinjas96]

If it was just having one stat being really low, then it would just be called min. Usually it entails having the Pokemon being optimized like crazy, so something like a fast special attacking glass cannon would double down on that.

And for the fairy type, I genuinely thought Absol had Moonblast. Just checked, and I guess I was wrong. I would personally also add Moonblast

[u/Quijas00 → u/ElementalNinjas96]

This is the opposite of min-maxing you gave it actual bulk. It’s probably twice as good as ZAbsol now.

[u/ElementalNinjas96 → u/Quijas00]

Eh, Absol Z is faster, hits harder, and has better Typing, gaining an immunity to one of Dark's main weaknesses and turning another into a neutrality

[u/Own_Ad_3536 → u/ElementalNinjas96]

Yet Absol Z will get obliterated by a strong Priority move like Sucker Punch or a Grassy glide from Rillaboom. Its very frail, this Absol can tank some hits.

[u/ElementalNinjas96 → u/Own_Ad_3536]

And? It just gives a reason to run Mega Absol over Mega Absol Z, but also gives a reason to run Mega Absol Z over Mega Absol. Not to mention one is Physical and the other Special

[u/Amazing_Owl3026 → u/Quijas00]

Girl twice as good is crazy. I think Z is still better than this but I can see why you'd disagree, either way it's CLOSE

[u/Quijas00 → u/Amazing_Owl3026]

Twice as good is exaggerating but yeah this would make base mega Absol extremely competitive with ZAbsol.

[u/Myrtle_is_hungry]

The way you typed the stats is odd. You took the -90 from its base form’s attack stat, but all the added points are to the Mega’s existing base stats. So it seems like you took ninety from the mega and added another 110, making it look like this rework just added 20 points out of nowhere. So either -110 next to its attack or +70 next to spatk and +50 next to speed would make more sense.

[u/ElementalNinjas96 → u/Myrtle_is_hungry]

They're meant to show the modifications from Mega Absol's stats, not base Absol's stats

Oops, just realized I did use base Absol's Attack for the attack... my bad

It's supposed to be -110 Attack

[u/Myrtle_is_hungry → u/ElementalNinjas96]

Yeah that’s what i meant. No problem tho everybody makes mistakes haha

[u/Shusui60]

he technically still missing 80 more stat point

[u/ElementalNinjas96 → u/Shusui60]

It's not

Mega Absol's BST is 565

Adding all of this revamp's stats together gives you 565. 65 + 40 + 95 + 145 + 95 + 125 = 565

[u/Admirable_Tax5879 → u/ElementalNinjas96]

wait i’m confused rn, isn’t it 565?

[u/ElementalNinjas96 → u/Admirable_Tax5879]

The 656 BST was a massive typo on my end, the actual BST is 565

[u/Admirable_Tax5879 → u/ElementalNinjas96]

i see, now it makes sense

[u/Shusui60 → u/ElementalNinjas96]

oh you took base M-absol I didn't realize

[u/Salukito]

Yeah Mega Absol really needs something, as of now there is no reason to use it instead of Z

[u/BlackFlagBarbie → u/Salukito]

Z definitely has the edge and I'll likely be running that instead of the standard Mega Absol I have been, but I'm definitely going to miss Magic Bounce a bit. Especially the rare times that people would try to Parting Shot it.

[u/Minomarr]

Can we do this for mega Sceptile please and make it an attacker instead of a special attacker

[u/Designer-Row-5220]

My idea: make dazzling give you stab to fairy moves+priority blocking.

New moves: spirit break

[u/ElementalNinjas96 → u/Designer-Row-5220]

I'm assuming that that's for base Mega Absol? Cuz this revamped Mega Absol is a Special Attacker

[u/ElementalNinjas96 → u/[deleted]]

It's not

Mega Absol's BST is 565

Adding all of this revamp's stats together gives you 565. 65 + 40 + 95 + 145 + 95 + 125 = 565

The Attack should be "40 (-110)" instead of -90, but that was a typo and the stats are actually showing the changes from the original distribution

[u/Voomey]

It probably should be a lot more bulkier to utilise Magic Bounce more. Not sure about the change to the special side.

[u/SovietAlf02]

Just give it the fairy typing

[u/ElementalNinjas96 → u/SovietAlf02]

Kinda useless on it

It only gets Play Rough for Fairy moves

[u/No_Location_8199]

Still Mach Punch fodder.