Nuclear Pokemon Breeding: nuclear offspring

[CooltrainerHerb]

I believe I've seen this suggestion on the Uranium subreddit, but just for posterity's sake I'mma post it here:

Would the devs consider allowing corrupted mons to breed and produce corrupted offspring? It would add a very unique element to Uranium's meta and provide an excellent way to combat those screaming Nucleons. Thoughts?

[Lord Windos]

Two words: Heck no. The only thing keeping that is keeping things like N-Jerbolta, N-Mega Baariette, N-Turbjaw etc from becoming ungodly menaces is that you have to pray to RNG God to get a good spread of IV's. Breeding them would be opening Pandora's box, only with deadly radiation instead of all the world's evil's.

That, and the idea the radiation corruption is inheritable.... not liking that idea on a whole number of levels.

[Paperboy012305]

Two words: Heck no. The only thing keeping that is keeping things like N-Jerbolta, N-Mega Baariette, N-Turbjaw etc from becoming ungodly menaces is that you have to pray to RNG God to get a good spread of IV's. Breeding them would be opening Pandora's box, only with deadly radiation instead of all the world's evil's.

That, and the idea the radiation corruption is inheritable.... not liking that idea on a whole number of levels.

And speaking of which about that Nuclear Jerbolta.


It didn't take long at all to get this. 31 IV's in Sp. Attack and Speed are all it really needs. And its nature is Serious. But does a corrupted nuke mon even need natures to begin with? You can use choice specs on it and sweep using Radioacid. I find this corrupted nuke mon to have some use in the NU tier. (Would UU work too?)

[Lord Windos]

Two words: Heck no. The only thing keeping that is keeping things like N-Jerbolta, N-Mega Baariette, N-Turbjaw etc from becoming ungodly menaces is that you have to pray to RNG God to get a good spread of IV's. Breeding them would be opening Pandora's box, only with deadly radiation instead of all the world's evil's.

That, and the idea the radiation corruption is inheritable.... not liking that idea on a whole number of levels.

And speaking of which about that Nuclear Jerbolta.


It didn't take long at all to get this. 31 IV's in Sp. Attack and Speed are all it really needs. And its nature is Serious. But does a corrupted nuke mon even need natures to begin with? You can use choice specs on it and sweep using Radioacid. I find this corrupted nuke mon to have some use in the NU tier. (Would UU work too?)

More Like Ubers, mate. Priority Radio Acid plus prediction make this a mean revenge killer and/or Special Sweeper. Its fragile as hell, but if gets the chance, it will make enemies rethink their choices in competitive...

[Paperboy012305]

Two words: Heck no. The only thing keeping that is keeping things like N-Jerbolta, N-Mega Baariette, N-Turbjaw etc from becoming ungodly menaces is that you have to pray to RNG God to get a good spread of IV's. Breeding them would be opening Pandora's box, only with deadly radiation instead of all the world's evil's.

That, and the idea the radiation corruption is inheritable.... not liking that idea on a whole number of levels.

And speaking of which about that Nuclear Jerbolta.


It didn't take long at all to get this. 31 IV's in Sp. Attack and Speed are all it really needs. And its nature is Serious. But does a corrupted nuke mon even need natures to begin with? You can use choice specs on it and sweep using Radioacid. I find this corrupted nuke mon to have some use in the NU tier. (Would UU work too?)

More Like Ubers, mate. Priority Radio Acid plus prediction make this a mean revenge killer and/or Special Sweeper. Its fragile as hell, but if gets the chance, it will make enemies rethink their choices in competitive...

Really? But. Nucleon might be the Ubers, not Jerbolta. I'd say OU to balance the OU metagame with the Nuclear type. Its defenses are weak and there are some Pokemon that can outspeed it. (Think of Alpico, not Inflagetah though. He might be going to Ubers)

[Lord Windos]

@Paperboy012305 Fair enough assessment, I suppose. Inflageth's M form definitely goes to ubers, but I am not so sure about its base form...

[Paperboy012305]

@Paperboy012305 Fair enough assessment, I suppose. Inflageth's M form definitely goes to ubers, but I am not so sure about its base form...

Belly Drum with Sitrus Berry would be interesting. But it might be too frail to begin.

[Dragonstrike]

Two words: Heck no. The only thing keeping that is keeping things like N-Jerbolta, N-Mega Baariette, N-Turbjaw etc from becoming ungodly menaces is that you have to pray to RNG God to get a good spread of IV's. Breeding them would be opening Pandora's box, only with deadly radiation instead of all the world's evil's.

That, and the idea the radiation corruption is inheritable.... not liking that idea on a whole number of levels.

And speaking of which about that Nuclear Jerbolta.


It didn't take long at all to get this. 31 IV's in Sp. Attack and Speed are all it really needs. And its nature is Serious. But does a corrupted nuke mon even need natures to begin with? You can use choice specs on it and sweep using Radioacid. I find this corrupted nuke mon to have some use in the NU tier. (Would UU work too?)

Let me just say that getting proper natures on those corrupted nuclears is actually easier than you might think.  As of Pokemon Emerald, when you put a pokemon with Synchronize in the front of your party, there's a 50% chance that encountered wild pokemon will have the same nature.  Makes it way easier to get competitive versions of unbreedable pokemon.

If we're going off of gen 6 mechanics as well, Synchronize could also be used on gift pokemon in the Undiscovered egg group to guarantee they have the same nature (Mystery Gifts and fossil revivals don't count though).  This would work on Urayne, for example.  Its IVs will still likely be nothing usable though...and there's nothing you can do about that except plead with the devs to also add in the 3+ perfect IVs mechanic from gen 6 for obtained pokemon in the Undiscovered egg group (or maybe even for unbreedable pokemon as a whole if the corrupted nuclears never become breedable).

[Lord Windos]

That would make the Legendaries actually usable by most competitive minded players, and just improve the Legendaries in general. On that note, I was kinda disappointed that I didn't get the chance to catch a Legend before the main story's end. I always like saving a spot on my team for a version defacto legendary, so seeing all of them reserved for late game is somewhat disappointing.

[Pokemonerd25]

That would make the Legendaries actually usable by most competitive minded players, and just improve the Legendaries in general. On that note, I was kinda disappointed that I didn't get the chance to catch a Legend before the main story's end. I always like saving a spot on my team for a version defacto legendary, so seeing all of them reserved for late game is somewhat disappointing.

Me too. I like just leaving a spot open and planning my team around the legendary.