[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Dragonstrike]

Acid Spray is waaaayyyy too ridiculously good, regardless of whether it lowers Strength or Defense by 2.  Just the fact that it lowers an important stat by 2 guaranteed and with no drawbacks other than certain specific types, abilities, and items making pokemon immune to the move or effect is enough by itself to warrant using the move in almost every battle.  The only other 'drawback' is that it has a low distribution, being only available to some select Poison types and a handful of Non-Poison types

I'm already looking forward to when my Prankster-Meowstic has learned to allure the foe with his Charm.

That's gonna be a fun time for sure.  The shenanigans a Male Meowstic can cause before the foe can even act in Pokerole are definitely quite numerous...

Though at least Charm doesn't also do damage.  That's the biggest selling point of Acid Spray for sure.  But tons of pokemon get Charm by comparison (Ralts and Kirlia can learn it, actually, but it costs 43/50 exp :/ Probably not going to be learning that one)

And then there's Captivate, which is Charm for Special (and it hits all foes), but it only works on opposite gendered foes (Gardevoir can learn it, but again, it's expensive without the Gen 4 TM, and the restriction makes it hard to use despite it having the largest distribution of all the guaranteed -2 debuffing moves).  And then there's Fake Tears, Eerie Impulse, and Feather Dance, but those all have super low distributions as well...Charm's easily the most accessible and usable of the bunch by far.