This probably belongs more in unpopular opinions? But the Regigigas talk is happening here, which makes it relevant.
I think Regigigas having Slow Start is fine. Good, even. That's not to say I don't understand why people are frustrated with it - admittedly I'd be annoyed too if my favorite Pokemon was crippled by a detrimental ability - but I really do feel like Slow Start is a pretty core aspect of Regigigas' identity at this point. I'm of the opinion that not every Pokemon needs to be viable in battles to be worthwhile, and I think it's interesting that this powerful titan is held back by its years of slumber. That accentuates the power that it used to hold in my mind more than if it was another straightforwardly good Pokemon.
That said, Regigigas was never really strong enough to warrant such a crippling ability, and the measures they used to take to prevent you from stalling out Slow Start as much as possible were silly. 670 BST is still shy of cover legendaries, and they get stacked abilities on top of all that. Taking away Protect until Gen 8 is comically absurd, and just invalidates any attempts to play around its ability. That is the real problem, if you ask me. So I'm kind of at an impasse: I think Slow Start is funny and does a lot for Regigigas in terms of flavor, but in terms of gameplay, it's complete overkill. I don't think Slow Start should ever be removed (unless Regigigas gets some kind of new form, someday - even though it keeps missing every single opportunity), but I do think that Regigigas' BST should be raised and that Slow Start should have more options to be played around - make it shorter, don't reset the counter whenever it switches, make sure no one from GF tries to take away Protect from its learnset when no one's looking, anything really.
What I do agree on is that ORAS or PLA should have added some kind of Primal Regigigas. Regigigas feels like another casualty of PLA's decision to set the game in the Meiji Restoration era and not the distant past (but that's a conversation for another day and another thread) - any promise of seeing Regigigas in its full glory wouldn't really make sense if it had woken up just 200 years before the modern day.
I think Regigigas having Slow Start is fine. Good, even. That's not to say I don't understand why people are frustrated with it - admittedly I'd be annoyed too if my favorite Pokemon was crippled by a detrimental ability - but I really do feel like Slow Start is a pretty core aspect of Regigigas' identity at this point. I'm of the opinion that not every Pokemon needs to be viable in battles to be worthwhile, and I think it's interesting that this powerful titan is held back by its years of slumber. That accentuates the power that it used to hold in my mind more than if it was another straightforwardly good Pokemon.
That said, Regigigas was never really strong enough to warrant such a crippling ability, and the measures they used to take to prevent you from stalling out Slow Start as much as possible were silly. 670 BST is still shy of cover legendaries, and they get stacked abilities on top of all that. Taking away Protect until Gen 8 is comically absurd, and just invalidates any attempts to play around its ability. That is the real problem, if you ask me. So I'm kind of at an impasse: I think Slow Start is funny and does a lot for Regigigas in terms of flavor, but in terms of gameplay, it's complete overkill. I don't think Slow Start should ever be removed (unless Regigigas gets some kind of new form, someday - even though it keeps missing every single opportunity), but I do think that Regigigas' BST should be raised and that Slow Start should have more options to be played around - make it shorter, don't reset the counter whenever it switches, make sure no one from GF tries to take away Protect from its learnset when no one's looking, anything really.
What I do agree on is that ORAS or PLA should have added some kind of Primal Regigigas. Regigigas feels like another casualty of PLA's decision to set the game in the Meiji Restoration era and not the distant past (but that's a conversation for another day and another thread) - any promise of seeing Regigigas in its full glory wouldn't really make sense if it had woken up just 200 years before the modern day.