I’m not saying it’s OP, I’m just saying it doesn’t make sense.
Instant Distraction makes sense kit-wise on counter-attackers in general, but yes, Ludia took some creative liberty with that one.
It’s still encouraged to stick to the parents’ abilities, with as few deviations as possible. An automatic-swap move on Carnoraptor isn’t prohibited, but it just doesn’t make any sense. It doesn’t help with the kit, and it doesn’t have any lore or real reason behind it.
I think it should have short defense or some shielding move instead of impact and run.
Impact and Run doesn’t really make any sense, and since it’s coming from carno, it should probably have a shield move.
Also isn’t immune to decel a little OP if it already has cleansing strike? Imo raptors should still be able to be countered by tanks, unless they are specifically chomper raptors like alloraptor.
Alloraptor is like the special raptor, but Carnoraptor is more like the good one. I just wish they stopped just randomly mixing moves for hybrids, and instead actually gave moves that complimented each other, like with Spinoconstrictor.
Honestly, Carnoraptor could always be a superhybrid for Alloraptor and Carnotaurus, or they could make Carnoraptor, then make a hybrid that looks like Alloraptor, but instead of Allosaurus gen 2, they use Carnoraptor.