![]() ![]() Ninetails can set Sunny Day upon switching in. If you can set the weather by switching in, you’re a valuable member of the team. It doesn’t matter what your other stats and abilities are, as long as they’re not complete garbage. Here’s the thing about Drought, Snow Warning, Drizzle, and Sand Stream: If you have them, you’re a good pokemon. Snow Cloak gives Alolan Ninetails 20% evasion during Hail, which requires something to set up hail, and even then only has a chance of working, and it’s an unreliable defensive ability on a pokemon that’s not exactly ‘tank’ material.īut their Hidden Abilities are Drought and Snow Warning. Flash Fire changes Ninetails’ Fire Resistance into Fire Immunity and makes it do additional damage after being hit by a fire attack… But if something’s hitting you with a fire attack, there’s a reasonable chance its fire type and thus also resistant to your fire attacks. Ninetails and Alolan Ninetails have garbage regular abilities. Still… neither attack stat is very strong. Alolan Ninetails is the faster of the two, but Ninetails has a Physical attack comparable to its special attack, while Alolan Ninetails has a much weaker Physical Attack. Offensively, it hits six types with super effective moves, though Fire and Steel resist both of its types.īoth Ninetails and Alolan Ninetails have 505 total stats, with their best stats being Speed and Special Defense. Also, weakness to Ground and Rock can be problematic, as Earthquake and Stealth Rock are major players in tournaments.Īlolan Ninetails, as a Fairy/Ice type, has four weaknesses (including a double weakness to Steel), three resistances, and an immunity to Dragon type. Then evolve early at like level 16.īeing pure fire type is fine, with six resistances and only three weaknesses, but offensive coverage is only four types. ![]() They’d probably do something stupid with incense, though, wheras what I’d like them to do is just drop Trifox down on Route 1 or whatever so it can Ember its way through all the bug catchers if you decided to start with the Grass Type. Here’s an idea: a Mega form that’s Fire/Ice type and can come from either Ninetails.Īnd Trifox could still show up in a later game. ![]() The door’s not really open for an evolved Ninetails, as that’d be too weird with it’s Kitsune theme, but Mega or G-Max Ninetails is on the table. Well, without Trifox in the mix, Vulpix is a two-stage pokemon that evolves with the Fire or Ice stone, depending. It’s just as beautiful and elegant, but looks even more mysterious, like something you’d see and then question if you actually saw it. You can still clearly see the Kitsune influences, but it has this whispy, ethereal nature and a soft blue coloration suggesting its elemental affinity. Now, Alolan Ninetails is along the lines of what I wish Ninetails was. I don’t know why it lives in Alola (There are no Foxes in Hawaii) but it’s still cute, it’s still Vulpix, but it’s clearly a variant. Overall it just looks like a white Vulpix but, well, some foxes are Arctic Foxes and are white. There’s a few pokemon that are just ‘it’s the mythical creature but a pokemon,’ and Ninetails is probably the worst offender here.Īlolan Vulpix is interesting in that its six tails sort of blend into one puffy one. Having a Kitsune Pokemon is great, but I do wish they’d done something to its appearance to distinguish it as they did with Vulpix. Ninetails is more traditional Kitsune, and frankly, googling “Kitsune” finds a lot of pictures that just look like Ninetails with red stripes. It’s very clearly doing a Kitsune thing with its six tails, and while it really is just ‘a kitsune,’ the curls in its tail and on its head really set it apart from other depictions. But Brock’s a rock type and Misty’s water, so… yeah, by the time you’d want it, it’s time for Vulpix already. It would’ve probably had base stats in the 200 range and only be interesting if you could catch it before fighting Brock. Okay, moving on, Vulpix is adorable, Trifox would’ve been even more adorable, but considering I’ve ranted about Pichu and Cleffa already, I probably wouldn’t actually appreciate it being added in later. Trifox was cut from the original game, presumably because they felt they didn’t need an early game version of Vulpix and that mechanically it’d be fine where it was…īut look at this little ball of fiery snuggles! Okay, this is the beta sprite from the original game, so it’s obviously not the best depiction, but you can imagine. ![]() Wook at da fwuffy widdle foxxy woxxy! Is so cuuuuuute!įirst, I want to talk about Trifox. ![]()
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