Day 9 of
Navi's (The Daily Frostwolf - Druid Edition) 10 days of pet battles Topic.
What is your favourite pet ability? If you could have a pet with your favourite abilities, what would they be?
What is your favourite pet ability? Any pet ability that is different to it's Type.
For example my
Feline Familiar. The move
Onyx Bite are strong against the Flying Family since it is a Magic Type move.
Feline Familiar is in the Beast Family, and Beast moves are Weak against the Flying Family. Having
Onyx Bite gives
Feline Familiar an edge over the Flying Family that a member of the Beast Family usually wouldn't have.
But
Feline Familiar is clearly a magic cat, so there is a reason for it's Magic Type move while being a member of the Beast Family like other cats.
It is similar to my prized Plankerchu. A
Pikachu with
Surf Move.
Pikachu is Electric Type Pokémon. It's Electric Attacks cannot damage Ground Type. But I obtained with Pokéwalker a
Pikachu with
Surf, a Water Type Move. Water does double damage to Ground Type. But Pokémon has STAB (same-type-attack-bonus) gives a type a 50% boost to attacks of the same type, so it isn't quite the same thing.
With World of Warcraft Pet Battles without STAB, there is no incentive to stick with moves from that class. If you go just adding moves that are from another class it robs that battle pet of its identity. There has to be a reason for Pet X to have Move Y.
If you could have a pet with your favourite abilities, what would they be?
Feline Familiar is clearly has a magic broom, you could also justify adding a flying type move as well. So I would replace
Pounce with
Alpha Strike. The two moves work fairly similar already, it is only a Type Change mostly. (Side Note: you can also get a
Pikachu that knows the
Fly Move, I would call it Pikachute).
The Magic Attack (
Onyx Bite), Beast Attack (
Devour) & Boost Attack (
Prowl) would remain unchanged.
Now for the other two skills:
Stoneskin &
Call Darkness. Not replacing any of these with a heal because
Feline Familiar is clearly Arcane not Holy Caster. You can get some health back with
Devour and you can boost defence with
Stoneskin. Keeping
Call Darkness for synergy reasons and nerfing the enemy's ability to heal.
In the end after considering all the balance and placement issues, I ended up only changed one move.
Pounce to
Alpha Strike. I decided to design it so you couldn't have both the Flying & Magic Attack on your set list at the same time. It would be not balanced otherwise.
Also went with
Alpha Strike not
Nocturnal Strike. Having both
Nocturnal Strike &
Call Darkness would be unbalanced for this
Feline Familiar with this much Type diversity. The
Gilnean Raven and
Crow ONLY have Flying Moves +
Call Darkness &
Nocturnal Strike so they have a clear weakness and can be dealt with.
Everything else, by coincidence, remained in their same spots. It has become clear to me during this article that some real thought into move composition has already been done by the Blizzard Development Team.
Thunderbolt: Deals 15 Elemental damage; 10% chance of stunning the target.
Light Screen: Reduces up to 5 damage from each attack against you. Last 5 turns
Double Team: Increases your team's speed by 25% for 9 rounds.
Quick Attack: Deals 15 Critter damage. This ability always goes first.
Agility: Increases your chance to dodge an attack by 100%. 4 Turn Cooldown. Lasts 1 rounds.
Volt Tackle: Deals 30 Elemental damage against the target; Deals 45% of that Elemental damage back against itself. 10% chance of stunning the target. 1 Turn Cooldown.
