Fair.
While waiting for that, okay if I try & check for anything in it to further revise?
Nincada:
| Ruby | Nincada lives underground for many years in complete darkness. This Pokémon absorbs nutrients from the roots of trees. It stays motionless as it waits for evolution. |
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| Sapphire | Nincada lives underground. It uses its sharp claws to carve the roots of trees and absorb moisture and nutrients. This Pokémon can't withstand bright sunlight so avoids it. |
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| Emerald | It makes its nest at the roots of a mighty tree. Using its whiskerlike antennae, it probes its surroundings in the pitch-black darkness of soil. |
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| Diamond/Pearl/Platinum | It grows underground, sensing its surroundings using antennae instead of its virtually blind eyes. |
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| Shield | It can sometimes live underground for more than 10 years. It absorbs nutrients from the roots of trees. |
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Weaknesses section for Nincada: Can't withstand bright sunlight & avoids it, & is virtually blind as it usually lives in pitch-black darkness underground, sometimes for over 10 years.
This is a little weird considering it has the ability Compound Eyes to give it better accuracy, but it could be possible its near-blindness is limited & its very good at certain types of vision. Some animals can detect motion very well but don't have full colour vision or can't see very fat, for example.
Enhanced Senses in Nincada's Key needs a justification.
On that note, Nincada using its "whiskerlike antennae" to "probe its surroundings" may qualify as Enhanced Senses or such. (So would it have both Enhanced & Hindered Senses, lol?)
Arguable missing Notable Attack/Technique for Level-Up Moves section: Leech Life
Notable Attacks/Techniques Section is missing an Egg Moves section.
Egg Moves include: Bug Bite, Bug Buzz, Endure, Feint Attack, Final Gambit, Flail, Gust, Night Slash, Silver Wind
Nincada's Notable Attacks/Techniques Section missing move(s):
Bide
Nincada's Powers & Abilities mention Bug Buzz (An Egg Move) & Dig, which is a Level-Up move, but they aren't listed in Nincada's Notable Attacks/Techniques section.
Why list the Resistance like this?:
Earth Manipulation (soft soils)
As opposed to "Ground-type moves" or such? (To say nothing of all the quake-like moves, & the oddity that is Earth Power.) But maybe that's a topic for another revision....
Is Mind Reader Precognition?
Its most recent description is:
"The user senses the target's movements with its mind to ensure its next attack does not miss the target."
I think this seems like Analytical Prediction or something.
FWIW, there is descriptions like in Stadium 2:
| Stad2 | It predicts the opponent's movement. The user's next attack will never miss. |
Ninjask:
Ninjask's Notable Attacks/Techniques Section missing move(s): Baton Pass
| Emerald | Because it darts about vigorously at high speed, it is very difficult to see. Hearing its distinctive cries for too long induces a headache. |
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Possible Pain Manipulation Justification? Also, further Sound Manipulation justification?
| Shield | This Pokémon is so quick, it is said to be able to avoid any attack. It loves to feed on tree sap. |
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Relevant for Speed Justification?
From the sandbox:
- Infiltrator: Ninjask is able to bypass forcefields that would otherwise weaken or negate its attacks.
Questioning of the word "forcefield" here.
The official flavor texts/descriptions for the "Infiltrator" ability are:
| Generation VI | |
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| Passes through the opposing Pokémon's barrier and strikes. | |
| Generation VII | |
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| Passes through the opposing Pokémon's barrier, substitute, and the like and strikes. | |
| Generation VIII | |
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| Passes through the opposing Pokémon's barrier, substitute, and the like and strikes. | |
| Generation IX | |
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| The Pokémon's moves are unaffected by the target's barriers, substitutes, and the like. | |
Although Protect is depicted as such, Infiltrator passes many other barriers from moves that aren't Forcefields (Although not the effect of Barrier, funnily enough, lol.) themselves.
However, it also ignores the effects of moves such as Reflect, Light Screen, Safeguard, and Mist, & Aurora Veil.
This may also be notable, IDK:
In
Pokémon Sword and Shield, if a Pokémon with Infiltrator is in the first place in the
party (even if
fainted), the chance of generating a
random encounter is decreased by 87.5%.
Resistance to
Plant Manipulation (via innate type combination)
I think this should be rephrased; Ninjask would still resist Grass-type moves even if it was only one of its two types of Bug or Flying; It's resistance isn't because it has those two types specifically, it's because both resist it & compound the resistance together.
Maybe "via innate typing"? That seems like it fits whether it's for single or dual typed. Does that seem reasonable?
I'll do Shedinja in a separate post.
I don't expect very much controversy, but just Nincada & Ninjask alone may be a lot so far.
Hopefully this is appreciable!
