What is a Gimmick Pokemon?

We'll be looking into what it means for a Pokemon to be considered a Gimmick Pokemon before sharing a uniquely played creature of my own for my Stema project.

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[AeonKnigh]

I love gimmick pokemon. It totally makes sense in-world that a handful of pokemon would just randomly evolve to have these super niche and strange roles that only they fill

[lipika]

As somebody once said, Chansey is not weak to Fighting type, it's weak to physical hitting moves.

[thanatoast]

My favorite gimmick is still Zoroark's Illusion ability. You wouldn't believe how easy it is to trick "serious" players into misplays with an ability they’re not used to seeing or dealing with.

[SeriousGamingSG]

Dropert: *Exists*
Meowscarada with Flower Trick: "I'm gonna end this man's whole career"

[jubisisters]

Surprised you didn't mention Unown, as it has both a visual gimmick as a mon with 28 unique forms to collect (and often some kind of puzzle to solve in order to do so, such as the Ruins of Alph puzzles in Gen 2 or the scavenger hunt in Legends Arceus) and a moveset gimmick, only being able to learn Hidden Power.

[CoralReaper]

I've always had a soft spot for gimmick Pokémon (when they're interesting, of course.)

[Missiletainn]

Regieleki is also so fast it's speed can overflow specifically in trickroom, meaning it can outspeed in trickroom.

[pokepress]

What’s really interesting is how these things are integrated into other parts of the franchise, such as the TCG, side games, or the anime. In the case of the TCG, it tends to make them appear less often (Arceus), or have them deviate from their game versions (Wobbuffet).

[rafaelcostapacheco]

I love the custom Pokémon art that you make for these videos, are you making them accessible for the public anywhere? The moment I saw the Shedinja art I wanted to take a screenshot and make it my profile picture, but I'd rather know if you intend on making them available first

[Quartings]

It would be even funnier if Dropert getting crit made it instantly explode and faint, hurting all surrounding Pokemon on the field

[A-Ren-a]

I am so glad there’s a new video out!!!

[lolidk]

This will probably not happen but can you do an evolutionary line based of Dopamine and Epinephrine (aka adrenaline) . Maybe it can be a split evolution and if you have a friendship mechanic it can determine which evo you get by a certain level. Not sure how that would work or what the prevo would represent but i think it would be a fun concept to do.

[haddy]

Shiny pokemon are just signs of dedication, a statement rather than a reward

[LordOfPais]

I love that you mentioned Regieleki outspeeding scarfed speedsters, but I think my favourite way to show just how fast Regieleki is is that if you were to max out its speed and then give it a choice scarf, it would outspeed Trick Room, the move that reverses how speed affects turn order for several turns. It would literally become so fast that the game cannot comprehend how fast it is and it would simply be unaffected by the condition.

[Koc]

We all need a gimmick pokemon in our lives...

[azuquirtle]

Dropert is such a cool concept, I love the idea of a crazy wall that has one obvious weakness, however I feel like it is busted. I know using crits as the weakness is to differentiate it from something like chansey's lack of defense, but crits are way too uncommon to have a weakness to (in pokemon at least, I don't know if crits would work differently in Stema). Every pokemon is "weak" to crits, if a move crits then that pokemon basically dies anyway, and crits already ignore all stat changes. You might get a crit once per match on average, so having to fish for one to break through dropert sucks. Chansey has amazing hp and a decent special defense stat, but it is balanced by being super weak to physical attacks and not having the attacking stats to deal any damage. Shuckle has ridiculous defense and special defense stats, but is balanced by having absolutely nothing in all of it's other stats, including hp. Looking at dropert's stats, it looks like it has high special defense, good speed, decent attack and special attack, and relatively low hp and defense, but with it's ability that defense stat is probably more than even Shuckle. And to anyone thinking it's defense won't be that bad because it has a low base stat, Azumarill has the ability huge power, which doubles it's attack stat, and it only has 50 base attack. Resilient is effectively huge power x2 but it buffs defense. Also, Shuckle only has 20 base hp and can still tank hits, so the low hp doesn't matter that much either. Dropert is an basically an automatic switch out to any physical attacker other than those with guaranteed crit moves, and is still relatively specially defensive against special attackers. It also has the ability to deal damage to both specially and physically defensive opponents because it is a mixed attacker. I absolutely love the concept, but I think it would need some base stat changes or an ability rework to make moves more likely to crit against it or something, otherwise it would be the best "theoretical pokemon" ever created.

[Topodic]

Just stumbled on this by chance and I'm glad I did. Your art style and presentation are top notch, and I am already extremely interested in Stema, very excited to learn more!

[mallowtonmouse]

For your droplet pokemon; I would say just give the pokemon ridiculous defenses in their base stats BUT give it a balancing ability where critical hits are 2x more common into it (or 5x, whichever works better for balance). If there was any ability swapping pokemon in the future, that could be fun to play with

[Starlightnova]

DUDE I LOVE HOW THE BACKGROUND MUSIC CHANGES BASED ON THE FOOTAGE PLAYING THAT'S SO COOL.

[CVison]

I can't wait to play this game you're making!