Pokémon that DON'T Use Their Signature Move

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• HU

  @HuneeBruh · 1 year ago

  Kinda crazy how signature moves went from strong, pretty reliable with a good secondary effect sometimes to completely overpowered

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• AL

  @altariamotives16 · 1 year ago

  &quot;say the line!&quot;<br>&quot;*sigh* Dark Void&apos;s accuracy got dropped to 50%&quot;

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• TR

  @trumpeterjen · 1 year ago

  The fact that Zoroark has a signature move at all is hilarious to me. The second you use Night Daze, it immediately gives you away, and it&apos;s not even that great of a move. At 85 bp and 95% accuracy, it&apos;s almost exactly the same as Dark Pulse, which has very wide distribution to preserve the illusion, and Zoroark benefits much more from Dark Pulse&apos;s flinch chance than from Night Daze&apos;s potential accuracy drop. I bet a lot of people have never even heard of Night Daze.

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• SE

  @sephikong8323 · 1 year ago

  I&apos;m still baffled by them introducing Body Press in Gen 8 and having a Box legendary that is a Fighting type that boosts its Defense on entry, and not only did they not give it Body Press, but its own Signature move doesn&apos;t even use its Defense to calculate damage. <br>I am just perplexed by GF&apos;s design decisions with Zamazenta in Gen 8, some of it has been fixed, but I really wish Behemoth Bash used its Defense for damages, that would fit so much better and make the mon a lot less awkward to use

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• TI

  @timmyreobed5043 · 1 year ago

  The funniest unused Signature Move IMO is Regigigas&apos;s Crush Grip. A move that does more damage the more health the opponent has. In other words, it&apos;s a move that benefits from being used as soon as possible on a Pokemon that can&apos;t do anything worth a damn until Turn 6.

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• SO

  @sonicrunn3r895 · 1 year ago

  Imagine using your once per battle power herb 1 turn ice burn or freeze shock and MISSING because they’re also not even 100% accurate 😭<br><br>I think I’d straight up click forfeit right there and then

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• DR

  @driftdc121 · 1 year ago

  Imagine if Dialga got a decent Hidden Ability related to it&apos;s &quot;God of Time&quot; lore, and would say something like: &quot;This Pokemon ignores recharges&quot;, making Roar of Time and Hyper Beam actually viable.

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• NA

  @nacl4988 · 1 year ago (edited)

  You forgot Alakazam. &nbsp; He has a Signiture move.<br>Kenisis.<br><br>80% accuracy, &nbsp; Reduce enemy Accuracy by 1 stage.<br>Directly worse than Flash.

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• AI

  @airtempest8945 · 1 year ago

  You know Freeze Shock and Ice Burn are bad when the only reason you ran Freeze Shock back in Gen 7 was just to have Subzero Slammer available for one hit with Icium Z because Kyurem Black did not get a single other physical ice move until it finally got Icicle Spear.

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• LU

  @LuaemLucas · 1 year ago

  The way the time based pokemon&apos;s signature time based move makes it lose time.

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• OU

  @outrageouslamp4539 · 1 year ago

  IMO for the genies signature moves. Bleakwind should get an accuracy boost in snow, wildbolt in rain, sandsear in sandstorm and springtide in sun. It would sorta match with where they are caught in PLA

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• AL

  @alexboudrie4998 · 1 year ago

  For Roar of Time, they could&apos;ve made it similar to moves like Doom Desire and Future Sight but split the damage between the turn it&apos;s used, and the turn it hits later. Like, a Roar that does damage, through Time... would&apos;ve been cool imo

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