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SPOILERS! Scarlet & Violet Leaks Thread - Data/Mechanics
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Actually in PvP individual battles really aren't supposed to go by fast. Most of the best tournament matches on Smogon take hundreds of turns. Recovery PP isn't going to necessarily change that a great deal thanks to things like Regenerator (which are already very good), but it's also not something that's considered a problem. People hate stall but stall isn't the only archetype that uses recovery, so this really only buffs HO. And if one archetype didn't need a buff, it's HO.
Also Worldie is a good user and contributor to Orange Islands, don't try and start a fight with them lol
I made a comment in just a joking way and got hit with a direct message that reeks of the Holier than thou attitude that divides the older demographics of this fandom. I don't really care, just let people enjoy things the way they do.
Still, got your point, I've always been a bit biased towards HO anyway.
Still, got your point, I've always been a bit biased towards HO anyway.
Can we not take the funny monster game so seriously please
gf don't know that word, they see balance and think "ah that must mean chlorophyll but for offensive stats on a Pokémon that has 139 base attack and 119 base speed, or giving 135 base speed/special attack to a solid offensive typing (ghost/fairy) and then allowing it to either gain a boost to one of them for simply coming onto the field"
balance is not in their vocabulary i'm afraid
roost nerfed, regional birb has volt absorb
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Time for GF to embrace new time formats for pvp. Bullet Pokemon, 1 min each player. What could go wrong?
We are already have Genesect hahahaha
Reshiram and Zekrom as well, they have red and blue lighting up on their tails
You can’t really blame them for this imo. Legendary Pokémon are meant to be absurdly strong.gf don't know that word, they see balance and think "ah that must mean chlorophyll but for offensive stats on a Pokémon that has 139 base attack and 119 base speed, or giving 135 base speed/special attack to a solid offensive typing (ghost/fairy) and then allowing it to either gain a boost to one of them for simply coming onto the field"
balance is not in their vocabulary i'm afraid
Hail setters found face down in pool of their own blood. Long may the Snowstorm reign. Also I'm gonna say dollars to donuts that the new pseudo sets the snowstorm.
if this was just the ability of the legends, i'd kinda be fine but it also got given to all of the paradox Pokémon who aren't legendary (maybe in lore, sorta) but in the game they are very much regular, strong, Pokémon - seems like drought/e-surge is going to be everywhere with teams of these Pokémon (potential paradox clause of one per team?)
I dont like this, for one reason: it actually fucks one of the cover leges but not the other.
Ice-Type Steel Roller clone is the TM for the Ice Gym.
Unless there's also a new "antiweather" move.
Thinking of it... i wonder how Cloud 9 will interact with the legendary and paradox abilities
The paradox Pokémon are legendary, like how the UBs are. But anyway I see your point about the issue of teams just being setter + 5 paradoxes. Who knows how it’ll turn out in that respect.
Speaking of PP, if any of the streams / bad boys playing on emus find a PP Up, can someone post photo evidence of it here? PLA lacked them and PLA is weird, but I think there might be a non-zero chance they might be not be in SV. It's certainly a small chance, given it goes against 25 years of precedent, but it would be nice to dispel that possibility if at all possible.
Ice Types get a new weather called ''Snowstorm'' which boosts their defenses for 5 turns.
Wowwwwwwww
Wowwwwwwww
Hail's effect should have been this from the get go.
Anyways, this could be the Ice-type TM from Grusha. Which would be basically a Defense boost. Meaning if my theory is correct, all that's left is Defense decrease, Special Attack decrease, Special Defense increase, and Special Defense decrease for the Gym Leader TMs.
Avalugg to physical attackers, "Where is your Arceus now?!"
Hail setters that do their job thanks to the the ability Snow warning. They might still live, but not as hail setters.
From what I saw, snowstorm act as a non-damaging hail (plus the def boost for ice). It allows for the use of aurora veil and the activation of snow body like hail. Not having to deal with hail chipping at your own poke is nice.
FTR we haven't seen Hail yet. The probability is that Snowstorm replaced, or rather buffed, it.
It might still do residual damage and proc the relevant abils, they just fully renamed it fwr.
There was a bizarre bit of misinformation that Gigaton Hammer was actually for Gimmeghoul's evo. It's not, obviously. Also Mold Breaker.
It might still do residual damage and proc the relevant abils, they just fully renamed it fwr.
There was a bizarre bit of misinformation that Gigaton Hammer was actually for Gimmeghoul's evo. It's not, obviously. Also Mold Breaker.
Vanilla hail boosting the defense of Ice types is something that should had been a thing 16 years ago, when Tyranitar got an incorporated Special Defense boost to the perpetual weather that shaped Advance high level play.
Unless Sand is getting nerfed and getting a powered up form that does what vanilla sand has done since gen 4.
Unless Sand is getting nerfed and getting a powered up form that does what vanilla sand has done since gen 4.