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Mega Rampardos

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Sorry again for the long hiatus, I had my hands full for a month or so with work, but here is another Mega, and this time, its Rampardos!

When exposed to the Rampardosite, Rampardos can Mega Evolve as well, becoming even more powerful and ferocious than before! It's signature thick skull becomes harder than any mineral or metal known, earning Mega Rampardos a new Ability, Thick Scalp *, making powerful moves like Double Edge, Skull Breaker** and Head Smash all the more devestating, without taking recoil!
Mega Rampardos gains the Fighting type, along with a great boost to it's defenses and Speed, and while it's Attack doesn't get a major boost, it doesn't really need any improvements. It's Special Attack, on the other hand, is lowered quite a bit, but with an Attack stat like that, it doesn't need it anyway!

-Mega Rampardos
-Rock/Fighting
-Ability: Thick  Scalp*
-BST:97/175/100/35/75/103
-Height:6'1"
-Weight:276.0 lbs

*"Thick Scalp": "Moves that have recoil are more powerful. Recoil is negated." (Boost is 20%)

-**Sig. Move:
-"Skull Breaker "
-Power:120
-Acc:100%
-Type: Fighting
-Physical
-PP:15
-"Charging head first at full strength, the user breaks through all of the foes defenses. The move ignores the opponents boosts, but deals damage to the user." (33%)


Oh Rampardos. What a little trainwreck you are. Literally. Rampardos has so much power backing it up, with a mind boggling base 165 Attack. Back in gen 4, this was the highest outside of Legendaries, and it still is in the top 10 highest Attack counting Legendaries AND Megas. However, a combination of low Speed and defenses, combined with a mediocre defensive typing in pure Rock gave it much trouble. And it's such a shame. All of this power could have been used perfectly on a faster pokemon. Enter Mega Rampardos! With a much higher Speed, a better typing and a second STAB, combined with the luxury of spamable recoil-less Head Smash and now Skull Breaker, Mega Rampardos is a much more menacing foe than before. 

The design was inspired by both Barbarian and a battering ram. Pretty simple actually.

Hope you like it!
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RedDemonInferno's avatar

The unique ability is a bit broken. Maybe you should just nerf it down to just taking 5% of the recoil damage instead of the entire thing. Negating recoil damage is way too broken.