SPOILERS! Scarlet & Violet Leaks Thread - Data/Mechanics

[A_Wild_Noob_Appeared!]

I dunno does Mold Breaker Spore necessarily accomplish a lot? That's an honest question, because when I think Spore being thrown around I think of Grass types that just absorb it. but that's not by ability, that's by typing.
I know there's some relevant abilities, Magic Guard and Overcoat and so forth, but I don't know how much those come up these days.

Yeah, Mold Breaker status moves are interesting but are relatively niche. Spore/Toxic + hazards that can't be blocked by abilities is not that much.

If anything, it's silly that the new ability is weaker than Mold Breaker for no reason. On a presumably defensively-oriented Pokemon, ignoring abilities on attacks does not make that much of a difference. There are not many useful applications of negative priority status (safe Baton Pass and PP stalling Defog/Heal Bell are all I can think of), so it mostly just slightly worsens the ability. Even if Mold Breaker is considered thematically inappropriate, it's still better to just make a direct clone than it is to tack on the pointless changes. It's just more bloat.

 

[Yung Dramps]

LOOK AT HIM GO

 

[doipy hooves]

It is NOT frostbite

EDIT: It's still frozen. Also have rock tera hat toxel.

 

[Breadboy]

Actually, aside from the paradox mons, how many "titanic gnarly" pokemon do we have in this gen? I'm talking mons like Aggron, Exploud, Walrein, Shiftry, Salamence, Metagross, Gigalith, Krookodile, just the big beefy nasty mons.

 

[R_N]

Aqua Cutter doesn't feel like a signature move. The quaxly line's entire shtick is dancing and kicks, which I figured would be part of the name of its move

 

[carlucio7]

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Quaxwell learned a new move, Aqua Cutter. It is a Water type Slash.

Looking forward to the other starters signature move.

 

[Ironmage]

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It is NOT frostbite

Is that also a new crown on toxel?

 

[Jaetheho]

I'm hoping this isn't Quaxwell's signature move. This is basically just a worse version of Inteleon's signature move, which had higher base power and more effects. At least it says it has a higher critical hit ratio, which Snipe Shot failed to mention.

Definitely doesn't sound like it's the signature move.

The signature move probably leans into the dancer aesthetic.

I think this is just supposed to be water coverage for blade based mons or an intermediate move for physical water mons

 

[The Crusade]

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It is NOT frostbite

Yet Toxel got off a Nuzzle while frozen.

Something smells.

 

[R_N]

Is that also a new crown on toxel?

looks like a minecart so probably Rock

 

[Celever]

Is that also a new crown on toxel?

It's the Rock-Type terra

 

[R_N]

Yet Toxel got off a Nuzzle while frozen.

Something smells.

Raids already work differently because it's like 4 separate battles at once so that's probably what you're smelling.

 

[RoyalDispenser]

 

[Shujinkō]

Double Kick was animated

 

[TheMantyke]

Every single picture of quaxly's evolution from behind I just can't help but immediately think of:

 

[The Crusade]

Raids already work differently because it's like 4 separate battles at once so that's probably what you're smelling.

I mean, probably, but we don't actually know how that relates to status. It's too soon to say freeze is unchanged when our only evidence is a raid.

 

[GeneralNameless]

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Man, Pokemon like the Kingler, Golduck, and Kabutops lines have been waiting for this move since Gen 1

 

[Yung Dramps]

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Biggest improvement via evolution by far. I was so lukewarm on Fidough but Dachsbun is a certified GOOD BOY

 

[doipy hooves]

Yet Toxel got off a Nuzzle while frozen.

Something smells.

Toxel was not frozen after it moved, so it probably thawed out to use the move.

Also from the smogon discord, here's TM21 Pounce which we saw from an official site without context and seems like the Bug gym's reward.

 

[Eriorguez]

Love this boi

 

[R_N]

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i liked fidough but wow! What an improvement. Great dog.

 

[The Crusade]

Toxel was not frozen after it moved, so it probably thawed out to use the move.

Then it went back to being frozen and unable to act. Unless Snorunt or whatever it was froze it twice...?
God, those raids are chaotic to behold.

 

[Prof. Almeida]

I doubt they're related to the megas in any way

BUT

Megas are stated to cause the pokemon to often go feral due to the massive stress and potentially pain of the induced mega evolution.
These Paradox pokemon do seem like feral pokemon who got unnaturally altered due to <plot reasons we don't know>

So the concept isnt too dissimilar, and I can definitely see valid reasoning for using megas as inspiration for their design

Specially considering future Pokémon can be man-made in a way, they might as well have been made based in megas on purpose, like lorewise

 

[Breadboy]

Toxel was not frozen after it moved, so it probably thawed out to use the move.

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Also from the smogon discord, here's TM21 Pounce which we saw from an official site without context and seems like the Bug gym's reward.

....

*narrows eyes*

Why is my boi Dunsparce being featured using this move when it's a bug type...

....

WAIT-

 

[Celever]

Fun design TBH. I like a Dark-Type tapping into the mischief side of things more, especially in the age of Fairy-Type.