History Characters / PokemonGenerationIIITreeckoToSharpedo

** Thanks to the new formula for critical hits, if Blaziken holds a Scope Lens while using Focus Energy, all of its attacks become critical hits. That means it can use Overheat until it runs out of PP.

** Thanks to the new formula for critical hits, if Blaziken holds a Scope Lens while using Focus Energy, all of its attacks become critical hits. That means it can use Overheat indefinitely.

* TookALevelInBadass: Blaziken. Blaziken ''oh so much''. Upon getting not only Speed Boost but also the drastically buffed Hi Jump Kick, Blaziken went right from being an "inferior Infernape" of sorts to being the first starter Pokémon to ever be put in the Uber tiers (two generations in a row!), pitting it against the likes of Mewtwo, Lugia, Rayquaza, and even ''[[{{God}} Arceus]]'' (who, depending on the type of Plate it's holding, Blaziken ''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu actually has an advantage over]]''). If that isn't a level in badass being taken, I don't know what is.
** [[UpToEleven And now it is one of the few known mons to have access to a Mega Evolution form.]]

* [[ThreateningShark Everything's Even Worse With Sharks]]: Sharpedo is said to be so destructive that it only takes one of these creatures to sink and destroy a supertanker.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Mega Gardevoir's ability to make normal attacks into Fairy type, therefore gaining STAB, combined with it's high special attack makes Hyper Beam incredibly powerful. Unfortunately as Gardevoir needs to hold a Mega Stone to Mega-Evolve, it cannot hold a Power Herb to cancel out the cooldown, leaving it vulnerable.

* NotCompletelyUseless: Mega Gardevoir's Ability Pixilate, which turns Normal type moves into Fairy type and boosts them by 30%. The majority of the Normal-type abilities they have access to gain no benefit from the change, are physical, or are weaker than the Psychic and Fairy type moves it can learn. However, it does gets Hyper Voice (its second strongest Normal move after [[AwesomeButImpractical Hyper Beam]]) through past generation tutors. After the Pixilate boost, Hyper Voice has an extremely strong 117 base power ''before'' accounting for STAB, and has the benefit of passing through substitutes.

* WhosLaughingNow: While extremely convoluted, there is a technique to change a Shedinja's ability to [[LastChanceHitPoint Sturdy]] in Triples play, [[NighInvulnerable thus keeping it at a perpetual "last" chance]]. Outside of status ailments, weather conditions, or the various NoSell moves/abilities (all of which are mentioned above), this makes it even more difficult to take out (as the most common ways, attacks of its weakness elements, no longer do the job).

A Hyena that inhabits the first few routes in ''Ruby'' and ''Sapphire'' but graduates to {{Com Mon|s}} in ''Emerald''. Poochyena is somewhat cowardly, running away from foes with its Quick Feet, but Mightyena's fearsome appearance intimidates the opponent, lowering its attack. They are loyal to their Trainers and are popular pets. It should be noted that Poocheyna and Mightyena are the first pure Dark-types to have an evolutionary line (prior to this, the only Dark-types that could evolve were ones that were mixed with another type).

** TookALevelInBadass: Aggron has a massive movepool, great Attack, and monstrous Defense... that it can't use at all because Steel/Rock is a ''horrible'' defensive typing that leaves it with two cripplingly ubiquitous 4X weaknesses to Fighting and Ground, making it virtually worthless. Mega Aggron, on the other hand, is pure Steel and is tied with Shuckle for the highest Defense in the entire series; coupled with the Filter ability, which reduces all super-effective damage by 25%, Mega Aggron is virtually NighInvulnerable to ''anything'' physical and still frustratingly durable versus Special as well (and this isn't counting Reflect). Its 140 base Attack only makes matters worse, as it still has its alarmingly diverse movepool and wealth of offensive options.

* HumanoidAbomination: The fact that they are in the Amorphous egg group[[note]]usually reserved for ghosts and [[BlobMonster Blob Monsters]][[/note]] instead of the Human-Like group suggests this.

* DiscOneNuke: In ''X'' and ''Y'', if you get the game new in the first three months of release, you can get a free Torchic with the Hidden Ability Speed Boost. Plus, you can get it at the very first Pokecenter, where it's likely at least the same level as most of your Pokemon. It manages to stay powerful thanks to its useful ability, and the fact that as a trade Pokemon, it gains extra EXP, thus leveling up faster than most. Not to mention it comes with Mega-Blazikenite, an item that unlocks Blaziken's SuperMode.

* DiscOneNuke: In ''X'' and ''Y'', if you get the game new in the first three months of release, you can get a free Torchic with the Hidden Ability Speed Boost. Plus, you can get it at the very first Pokecenter, where it's likely at least the same level as most of your Pokemon. It manages to stay powerful thanks to its useful ability, and the fact that as a trade Pokemon, it gains extra EXP, thus leveling up faster than most. Not to mention it comes with Mega-Blazikenite.

** TookALevelInBadass: Aggron has a massive movepool, great Attack, and monstrous Defense... that it can't use at all because Steel/Rock is a ''horrible'' defensive typing that leaves it with two cripplingly ubiquitous 4X weaknesses to Fighting and Ground, making it virtually worthless. Mega Aggron, on the other hand, is pure Steel and is tied with Shuckle for the highest Defense in the entire series; coupled with the Filter ability, which reduces all super-effective damage by 25%, Mega Aggron is virtually NighInvulnerable to ''anything'' physical and still frustratingly durable versus Special as well (and this isn't counting Reflect). Its 140 base Attack only makes matters worse, as it still has its alarmingly diverse movepool and wealth of offensive options. With all this factored in, Mega Aggron is already being looked at for Ubers, which is pretty amazing for something that used to do nothing but constantly jump between RU and NU.

** BadassNormal: It's actually able to go toe to toe with anything in [[PurposelyOverpowered Smogon's Uber tier]].[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu And win]]. [[TotalPartyKill Repeatedly]]. To quote Serebii.net on Blaziken's analysis for Gen VI when discussing counters for the kickboxing chicken:
-> ''Such a thing does not exist. High Jump Kick / Flare Blitz / Knock Off alone OHKOs literally every Pokemon you will likely see except the absolutely most defensive Tentacruel, Gyarados, Salamence, and Dragonite.''

** BadassNormal: It's actually able to go toe to toe with anything in [[PurposelyOverpowered Smogon's Uber tier]]. [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu And win]]. [[TotalPartyKill Repeatedly]].

The page for the Generation III Pokemon grew so large that it had to be split. This page has the tropes for numbers 252-319. For the rest, go [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIIIWailmerToDeoxys here]].

* Tsundere: Kirlia in Pokemon-Amie. Surprisingly, while its design and expression suggests it to be a Type-A, it's actually a Type-B, being very friendly and affectionate towards its trainer. Upsetting it, however, will cause it to react by either putting its hands on its hips and looking away with a "Humph!", or throwing its hands down and opening its mouth at you as if to say "Stop that!". It grows out of this behavior after evolving into Gardevoir/Gallade.

* Tsundere: Kirlia in Pokemon-Amie. Surprisingly, while its design and expression suggests it to be a Type A, it's actually a Type-B, being very friendly and affectionate towards its trainer. Upsetting it, however, will cause it to react by either putting its hands on its hips and looking away with a "Humph!", or throwing its hands down and opening its mouth at you as if to say "Stop that!". It grows out of this behavior after evolving into Gardevoir/Gallade.

** UnfortunateImplications: However, this combined with Gardevoir's feminine appearance, UndyingLoyalty to its Trainer, and the statement that Mega Evolution takes the bond between Trainer and Pokemon to the "next level" makes one wonder just what Game Freak was [[InterspeciesRomance going for]] [[WifeHusbandry with this.]]

** UnfortunateImplications: However, this combined with Gardevoir's feminine appearance and UndyingLoyalty to its Trainer makes one wonder what Game Freak was [[InterspeciesRomance going for...]]

* {{Synchronization}}: 2 out of 3 of this family's abilities (save Gallade and Mega Gardevoir); Trace copies the opponent's own ability, and the other is actually '''called''' Synchronize, which afflicts opponents with StandardStatusEffects that the user takes.

* BlowYouAway: Whirlwind makes Hariyama a pain in the ass to catch in [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY Kalos]].

** Which is to say nothing of its Mega Evolution. In addition to the regular stat boost, it also features its trump card, the ability Huge Power, which outright ''doubles'' its already-raised Attack. To show how incredibly powerful that could be, its 105 base Attack maxes out at '''''678.''''' For comparison, this is higher than Attack Forme Deoxys' max Attack of ''504'', the highest non-boosted Attack in the game, Thick Club Marowak's max Attack of ''568'', and beats out Mega Medicham's attack of ''656''. [[ExaggeratedTrope And it even gets Swords Dance to double this attack further!]] If you can find a way to work around its [[MightyGlacier horrible Speed stat]] and avoid the [[StandardStatusEffects Burn status]], Mega Mawile is nigh-unstoppable.

* NoSell: Against Poison-type attacks. While not immune, it also takes quadruple reduced damage from Normal- and Flying-type attacks.

** OxymoronicBeing: It still has its original Steel typing (read: [[ColdIron what Fairy-types are most notably weak to]]) in conjunction with Fairy.
*** TakesOneToKillOne: Because of its Steel-type, it's better suited for countering other fairies rather than dragons, who often carry Fire or Ground moves.