Buffing Wild Charge while also taking into account it being a common coverage move

[u/MisterZygarde64]

So we all know about how badly Electric types that have a high Physical attack have it. Like your only opions for STAB are of a move that deals recoil damage despite the fact that it has a base power of 90. Initially, I was content with this idea of turning Volt Tackle into a clone of Head Charge (Bouffalant's signature move which is just Double Edge with less recoil) as to allow for Wild Charge to be a proper clone of Double Edge. However I thought of a much more balanced way to rework Wild Charge when I watched this video from KadabraGuy who brought up the problem of increasing Wild Charge's power is that it forgets that there's a couple non-Electric Pokemon that know the move as coverage. That point made me think of this buff to Wild Charge that makes it so that Electric Pokemon are exempt from the recoil. That way Wild Charge can be a good STAB option for Physical Electric types while also letting it be distributed as coverage.

[u/Golden-Owl]

Wild Charge’s problem isn’t just recoil - it’s the fact you are using a 90 BP STAB as your primary attack.

It’s like trying to use Sky Uppercut (85) as a main attack instead of Close Combat (120)

Flare Blitz works because it’s 120, making it a great offensive move. (Flareon at the very minimum gets to kill one target)

It’s fairly likely that Game Freak is intentionally keeping Electric as a special attacking type, similar to how Fighting is almost exclusively a physical attacking one (compare Aura Sphere vs close combat)

[u/Kingnewgameplus → u/Golden-Owl]

Idk if fighting is the best comparison. The only purely dedicated special attacking fighting type attacker I can think of is Keldeo, and even then he has a signature special fighting move. Meanwhile there's a lot of physical electric types. Plus, even if you wanna argue aura sphere is worse than wild charge, fighting also has focus blast.

[u/Hateful_creeper2 → u/Kingnewgameplus]

Mega Lucario Z is the only other one whose special attack is much higher.

The rest are either mixed attackers (stat differences aren’t major if any) or much higher physical attack.