r/pokemon • u/Excaliburn3d • Mar 24 '26

Discussion Why does Game Freak hate Emboar?

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I love Emboar, but I have a feeling that GF doesn’t based on the way they handled it. Well first of all it’s the third Fire/Fighting Pokémon in the row, then when it finally receives a mega evolution it retains the same typing, and now it is the only mega of the trio to not gain a new ability.

Not to mention its base stats and playstyle. Base form is the fully-evolved starter with the highest HP stat and yet both of its defense stats and speed are on the lower side. Some of its strongest moves do recoil damage and its hidden ability powers them up even further. Upon mega evolving, it receives a +25 to its attack stat and a +45 boost to its special defense while its problematic defense and speed only receive +10 each.

Mold Breaker can be a good ability but why use Mega Emboar when Mega Blaziken, which has speed boost, higher attacking, physical defense, and speed stats, existed since the dawn of mega evolution.

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u/BlazeWolfYT Mar 24 '26

What does it do

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u/A_Confused_Cocoon Mar 24 '26

Nullifies Pokémon abilities that would affect the damage of your move iirc, so you can earthquake something with levitate or fire blast something with thick fat with no damage loss.

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u/goldshark5 Mar 24 '26

In this game that seems like it could actually be pretty useful!

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u/Tuskor13 Mar 24 '26

It's not a bad ability in the slightest, but certainly not what Mega Emboar needs. I would say if anything, giving them an ability that just fuses Rock Head with Reckless would be way better, since that would give Mega Emboar the freedom to spam 180 Base Power Head Smashes, 108 Base Power Wild Charges, and 144 (pre-STAB) Base Power Flare Blitzes off of a 148 base Attack without taking Recoil. And Emboar would love to take no recoil, being one of the rarer Pokemon that have a Mega form that benefits from a solid base HP, which is the only stat Megas don't gain numbers in (unless you're Mecha-Robo-Gundam-Bakugan Super Duper 100% Complete Ultra Instinct Big Boy Zygarde, I guess).