My understanding is that Pursuit does (I'm a Natdex player, I'm going to use present tense rather than past) work on pivot moves provided the pivot occurs before the Pursuit user normally acts. I could see having it delay for switching moves should it ever get updated since it otherwise can't trigger on Teleport's negative priority.
No, no, I'm talking trigger as in trigger the double damage + priority if the target selects a pivot move.
That was never the case in older gens.
you just really felt like using any number of underrated Pokémon most Sinnoh teams don’t commonly feature
Which is perfectly valid.
Sinnoh's early game has a lot of strong mons, but it's not like the rest of it is a wash.
Nobody is stopping people from picking up Ralts, Porygon, Croagunk, Hippopotas, and Magnemite to fill up their team mid-game. Hell, that's probably a decent team itself.
The idea of Sinnoh's canon event team being the only option available is cap. There's nothing wrong with it.
Pokémon “Try and create a character that doesn’t just feel like a clone of something that came before it” Challenge (IMPOSSIBLE!!!)
See kids, the joke here is that everything that was about Cynthia can be applied to Steven and to a lesser extent Wallace. I want to like Cynthia as much as everyone else does, but I just can’t in good faith. Her in-game iteration lacks any of the emotional depth of Blue or the “Wow Factor” of Lance and his bird Pokémon, and the idea of an ally character that you meet around the location of Gym #2, uses the region’s psuedo-legendary, and doesn’t actually help out that much against the evil team was done literally last generation. Heck, at least Steven had that Multi Battle in Emerald.
Actually, you know what? Let’s take this one step further. I think all of Cynthia’s appeal comes specifically from people that are still wearing their nostalgia glasses. She wouldn’t be anywhere near as popular if she wasn’t the first female Champion, either, and I say that because we basically have Male Cynthia in all but name now in the form of Volo and his novelty wore off just as quickly, if not even faster.
Cynthia's allure has always been hands.
Namely the fact that she was the first champ since Blue to have more than one type, and we all knew Blue's team because of him being the main rival of RBY, Garchomp, and especially the wtf factor of Spiritomb having no weakness at all.
Of course, to us, that's nothing special now.
I'll actually take this a bit further and say that I don't know if there's a single champion that I like as a "character."
Some are decently designed boss battles, but hardly any of them have an interesting impact on the story.
Leon is probably the only champ I'd say is a good character. Emerald Steven would definitely count, but he got hoed.
Lets not beat around the bush, many just care about cynthia because shes hot. shes a blonde woman the thickness of a stick whos got a slight goth touch without actually going fully in and keeping the more normie accepted aesthetics, all wrapped up and delivered in the late 2000s. And the other reason is that shes got a garchomp in a game with awful ice options. Which is why 90% of cynthia stuff is Look At How Hot She Is or Look At Her Cool Garchomp. The main exceptions being when they remember she had other pokémon or was supposed to be into mythology
To be fair, Cynthia always had that presence, but she's not thicc enough.
That's why all of her art is off-model.
