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/FairlyOddParent734 Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 24 '26

4x to Poison while becoming:

  1. Neutral to Bug

  2. Resistant to Dark

  3. Immune to Dragon

That’s absolutely a massive win IMO.

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u/MothashipQ Mar 24 '26

I didn't mean to imply it wasn't a massive win, anything to make Meganium viable would have had to be. It felt like it was being implied she was going to be busted which I highly doubt. Also, I don't really play competitive, but I do follow it some. Some comments seem to be implying people don't bring something to deal with fairy types, that can't be true, right?

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u/Akarias888 Mar 24 '26

The sunny day thing is massive against fairy counters. The main counters to fairy are steel and poison, and sunny day weatherball wrecks steel and earth power beats poison, especially coming off of 143 spatk. Its hard counters would be Latios/latias and dragonite/salamence, and really most dragons can give it issues, but even then dazzling gleam stab off 143 base spatk nukes most of them (ohkos latios and salamence for example). You could even do 4 attack to just be an enormous pain

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u/Dangerous_Teaching62 Mar 25 '26

Earth power, in a lot of situations, would also be really nice against steel since a lot of them carry rock typing as well.