THE NEW META | THE GOOD vs THE BAD! Barry (Special Costume) & Heracross | Pokemon Masters EX

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   @srivathsan8324 2 years ago

   Spl do you think poma will release Volo with origin form girantina

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   @capadam1440 2 years ago

   Surely all good no bad

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   @antoniosaesthetic9045 2 years ago

   Will probably wait for May before deciding. Wish it was a Barry sygna suit instead of SC.

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   @zinniaq3020 2 years ago

   Hi SPL. If I only have enough resources for one, who should I prioritise?

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   @emerfirek 2 years ago

   Oh ya, you were thinking of Bellelba, btw, Sabrina's movie character. I kinda wish she gets Swoobat in that case, but I guess they can do w/e for her as an SC unit. I don't really care what they do w/ Brycen, though. I was never really a fan of him.

   I like Barry, and I want this unit just b/c it's Barry, but there are so many problems I have w/ his kit, and I kinda want to just get all this off my chest, lol.

   Close Combat really doesn't need to exist on his kit at all. It's not breaking any records on the Fighting table. Heracross learned Arm Thrust in gen 6 for a reason: to activate his B move w/o losing the SEUN from his tm in this spinoff game a decade later, lol. If he got Arm Thrust, the Supreme Entry lucky skill would've been amazing on him b/c it would've given both his Sync and subsequent B move SEUN w/o the need for any tm: Super Prep.

   But b/c of that lack of Arm Thrust (Bullet Seed, Rock Blast, or Fury Attack would've also done), as well as not having No Quarter from the start, he has to use Pin Missile twice (on average) before using his tm if you want SEUN on either his Sync or his B move (if you Sync w/ a Support instead), so you can't stack large numbers of PMUNs on him like you can w/ Rei, NC Silver, etc. It also means he doesn't really benefit from his 2nd HS1 in his Grid or a 3rd HS1 as a lucky skill… unless you reset for 5 hits on his 1st Pin Missile.

   Speaking of which, I also really dislike his B move activation condition. If allies could help him w/ it (like w/ V.Falkner, NC Serena, and NC Calem's B moves), that would've been another solution, so he wouldn't need to alternate btwn a weak attack and a strong attack.

   Another issue (prob the least problematic, though) is that he won't reach +6 Atk and +4 Spe until after he deals the damage from his Sync (just like how SS Red/Wally/P.Marnie only gets a 3rd crit stage after they deal their Sync damage), so he'll still want +2 Atk for Haymaker. He'll also want at least +2 Spe for Ramming Speed (as long as you decide to Sync w/ him anyway, even if he's only at 2/3 Haymaker). SC Ingo will be a nice Spe buffer for him in that case, though.

   About his roles, since his setup isn't complete until after he Syncs anyway, EX-R Support would've made some sense (I kinda feel the same way w/ SC Selene). And since he already has a strong aoe non-split B move, his base role didn't even need to be Strike. Sprint would've worked great thematically b/c of who Barry is, while also giving him an innate Sync multiplier.

   …But he's still a Barry alt, so I still want him anyway, lol. I'm thinking of teaming him up w/ SC Ingo + either NY Clair (for Atk+the WTZ 20% dps boost) or P.Victor (for Atk+Dashing Team 5 chance). I was considering Riley as the +2 Atk provider, but… Barry needs three actions (on average). I don't want to choose btwn resetting for 5 hits and wasting countdown, lol.

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   @HLRxxKarl 2 years ago

   Why did you compare his damage to Bug type techs instead of other strikers? I'd much rather compare him to Alder and SC Emmet who are more similar to him than pairs that I'd never even consider as damage dealers such as Ingo or Viola.