Ferroseed with invalid Ability

[Endinion]

Just got a Ferroseed with the ability Anticipation, that ability is, as far as I know, invalid for this pokemon. Only wild Ferrothorn should have it, but never Ferroseed.

What's going on and can it be fixed? Finding Ferroseeds is hard enough, having an invalid and wrong ability fells kind of bad. :/

[Chameleon]

Ferroseed's hidden ability is Anticipation. Every wild encounter has a 5% chance of having a hidden ability. Nothing wrong there.

[Enoch]

Just got a Ferroseed with the ability Anticipation, that ability is, as far as I know, invalid for this pokemon. Only wild Ferrothorn should have it, but never Ferroseed.

What's going on and can it be fixed? Finding Ferroseeds is hard enough, having an invalid and wrong ability fells kind of bad. :/

 

This is normal, ferroseed's hidden ability is Anticipation and you have only 5% chance to encounter one with such ability like Chameleon mentioned, also the said ability is still not coded in PRO.

 

Source: Click

 

Locked, as solved.

[Enoch]

Unlocked

FYI PRO has its own rules, and ferroseed is based on 5th generation. This is why it does have the hidden ability Anticipation.

[Endinion]

He had no such thing in 5th gen. Ferrothorn had. Also the game has gen 5+ skills, so you can not stat that it follows gen 5 rules. In no generation has ferroseed had that ability according to somog on or serebii.

 

"FYI PRO has its own rules" now that is an answer I can understand and accept. Being it out of laziness, carelessness, or necessity.

 

A shame as it hinders the game.

 

ps.: images regarding my statement are in ferroseed pt2 post, one that I opened because you closed this one without having the matter properly solved. I hereby apologize for the inconveniente of having now the issue split in 2 posts.

[Enoch]

Locked, as the answer was given.

[Shamac]

He had no such thing in 5th gen. Ferrothorn had. Also the game has gen 5+ skills, so you can not stat that it follows gen 5 rules. In no generation has ferroseed had that ability according to somog on or serebii.

 

"FYI PRO has its own rules" now that is an answer I can understand and accept. Being it out of laziness, carelessness, or necessity.

 

A shame as it hinders the game.

 

ps.: images regarding my statement are in ferroseed pt2 post, one that I opened because you closed this one without having the matter properly solved. I hereby apologize for the inconveniente of having now the issue split in 2 posts.

 

He gave you a brief explanation on how PRO was built, it has a hidden ability to evolve and continue with a hidden ability, thats it. He also gave you extra information regarding Ferroseed in PRO, to explain further doubts about movesets.

 

I am sorry for the inconvenience of you finding a hidden ability pokemon that is on the rarest spawn lists, but you are taking a bit far and insulting the game just regarding a pokemon. We never claimed to be "Exatly precisely like Game Freak published the pokemons", it was made a game mostly based on it, but has several restrictions as it was built ground up and by fans, not by copying work from other companies. There are several things around PRO that aren't like the original games due to technical restrictions, for example, in PRO you do not need to turn your device upside down in order to evolve Inkays, or Sliggoo that doesn't need the "Rain" to evolve into Goodra.

The game is adapted to what it can be and keeps growing. Also, if it was in the original games, you would end up having a Hidden Ability Ferrothorn after evolving (putting aside saving tricks).

 

So here is a more extended answer for your bug report. I will also inform you that also I do admit Iron Barbs is better than Antecipation in Ferrothorn in a PvP enviropment, it doesn't mean we will remove the ability.