Why does the bug leader look like a baker?
I swear, if I find any weevils in my hardtack...
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SPOILERS! Scarlet & Violet Leaks Thread - Data/Mechanics
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I swear, if I find any weevils in my hardtack...
Oh, like katydid. That’s cute
Jesus Christ, this one caught me by surprise. I've been asking for a giant filthy quadrupedal frog for a long time now, but a soulless newt that covers all the same bases is fine by me. I mean that in a flattering way. It's refreshing to have a more bestial amphibian for once.
yknow if these are fake the faker is excellent ngl.
Thank you. It's always agony when move data is one of the last things to dump.
It requires that the player burn his gimmick for the battle, after which it just becomes a reliable STAB move.
It is not the second coming of HP Ice Koko, unless it can somehow reset to its original type after popping off.
Pretty sure.
Also the ghost gym leader is this woman who is apparently a rapper, but I'm not sure where I heard that at the moment.
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Khu on the ghost rapper leader.
Also looking back I found out he mentioned Katy's "tear mole" (khu warning) before and said she was teased in trailer 1 with the spiderweb.
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Also i'd point that if he's speaking of VGC... Cinderace saw virtually no use in high tier competition despite having a OP ability for singles.
Conception of "op" varies a lot between VGC and smogon, and even between regions sometimes.
Conception of "op" varies a lot between VGC and smogon, and even between regions sometimes.
I mean, it can be the secondcoming of HP ice Koko, just you'll have a Ice type Koko in first place...
Prankster is somewhat movepool-reliant, but not as movepool-reliant as even more broken ability Contrary.
...Which I can sanely see Meowscarada getting. ...Despite Serperior already getting it.
Khu's knee-jerk reaction and then realizing the movepool could doom it is precisely why I think that, given Khu's reaction alone, it is more likely to be Prankster or Contrary than Magic Guard or Magic Bounce. (I guess Shadow Tag is more movepool-dependent. In the meantime, Magic Bounce is so movepool-independent that RMTs explicitly mention switching Magic Bouncers in to bounce Stealth Rock instead of devoting that text space to moves or EVs.)
Its normal until you Terastalize so not really. Even if Tera stays legal, its limited to one per team compared to 2-3 mons running HP back when it existed
Aww cool it's Tupac as a gym leader.
She also has antennae in the folds of her hat
What are you talking about it's a very big normal type dog obviously it got body--what do you mean it didn't get body slam??
Strength(Via Transfer). No one used it over Facade, so I can't imagine non-Terastaling Tera Blast would see much use on it either, assuming it gets added to SV in future DLC.
Did she just came down from killing people in the spanish civil war?
See: Typhlosion
These are quadrupeds that can do the Tripod stance for extra visibility or intimidation
I'ma let you try to wall this
Kartana
Swords dance
Leaf blade
Smart Strike
Tera blast electric
I would even start at BW the trend. In that Gen they realized the majority of previous Bug types were bad and repetitive (4 similar bad Bug Flying Mons, 4 more diverse Bug Flying Mons, one of which is also terrible) and started to design them way better and more diverse. Like, in BW the worst is Leavanny, which at least in game isn't that bad, everything else is really good both in competitive and design wise. In XY the only one was Vivillon, but that thing is a badass Mon that was usable in AG (and also had the 36336726 forms gimmick and an exclusive move), also 4 badass broken Megas.
What I'm saying is that tera blast is not the return of hidden power. For the most part it will have different use cases.
For reasons ive already stated before its not that simply rossed out, but i dont feel like dying on the hill tonight
Ferrothorn
"1hp is all i need"
Arcanine also works, because Arcanine is one of those trashy mons that somehow always ends up walling those things nobody else can.
All you've really done then is make a physical Xurkitree... with the same checks and counters for the most part.
Kommo-o and Tangrowth eat this thing.
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The main "problem" with Tera Blast is that it takes a move slot.
Most of the pokemon you'd use Hidden Power on that weren't using it "just because shit moveset", usually already struggled with 4MSS to hit this or that check.
Running Tera Blast means you're actually saying "I *need* to Teralyze this". I mean, ofc there are exceptions who only really need stabs and maybe a setup move, but generally you're not willing to commit 1/4th of your moveset to a extremely conditional one unless that pokemon is your wincon. Think of Power Herb Meteor Beam, or Acrobatics, but much worse.