That would be a funny Easter Egg for if a move is x0.125. (It's possible with Forest's Curse or Trick-or-Treat adding the Grass or Ghost type respectively.) What would be the message for x8? "It's probably lethal!"? "It's (probably) a OHKO!"?
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Pokémon Presents - Pokémon Day 2025 - Pokemon ZA Info & Pokemon Champions Announced
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That would be nice, immune to Icy Wind and Blizzard and a free +1 in Tailwind
Immunity to icy wind would actually be absolutely ridicolous in vgc settings honestly.
But tbh I am myself on club aerilate. They won't miss the chance to make stab extreme speed after seeing it already so successful in vgc with tera normal.
"Not my fault. Someone put a wall in my way."
If anything I think this makes it less likely to have Aerilate, specially considering the first time we will see these megas in a competitive setting will likely be on Champions, which the trailer implies will have Megas alongside Tera. It feels really pointless to give Dragonite a Mega just so it can click the same buttons as Tera Normal Dragonite (except now 96 BP and can be super-effective and is coming off of a mon with 100 extra BST)
Personally the suggestion I like most so far is Drizzle - fits with Dragonite lorewise, is the one weather without a mega and would give Mega Dnite something unique to do instead of being a strict upgrade
I am unsure. I do not dig the idea that Champions will have all mechanics at same time. If Natdex taught is anything is that it's a recipe for disaster
I would love watching the mess of such VGC, though.
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Like yes yes I'm sure you can try to spin it into anything else but, like, it's really easy to look at these two things being shown co-existing because they are going to co-exist for realsies.
Can'ts ay I see much point in showing off Megas vs Tera and then.... Not having mega vs tera
Like yes yes I'm sure you can try to spin it into anything else but, like, it's really easy to look at these two things being shown co-existing because they are going to co-exist for realsies.
I don't necessarily expect all mechanics at once. I do expect the two mechanics they explicitly showed off in the first trailer tho
I feel fairly confident that Champions will have every Pokémon in the National Dex within 3 years of its release.
Mark me down as someone who thinks Inner Focus Mega-Dnite would actually be very fun. Because you only need Multiscale once. So tank one attack with it and THEN mega and sweep. And this leads to all sorts of mindgames and 50/50s with using Inner Focus to dodge Flinch/Intimidate, or Multiscale to dodge OHKOs, and needing everything to work just right to pull it off. That's just fun.
Lida seems to use Dive Balls, which could imply she is a Water specialist
On a similar note, we see Naveen with Krookodile on the Mega Tyranitar battle. Combined with Scraggy, its possible that he is a Dark specialist
I was on similar line of thought.
Both Dragonite abilities to me look like they can easily work similarly to Scrappy for mega kangaskhan or intimidate for mega mawile/salemence/gyarados.
You get their use off, then can easily swap out of them since they served their purpose.
Losing multiscale after megaevolving would only be problematic for singles (since in vgc dragonite doesnt really run Roost so any damage taken sticks), and even in smogon formats, losing boots would simply means it'd act similarly to booster pokemon, where you can only swap in once but that once can be so devastating it's worth the tradeoff.
(Plus I mean, the mega existing doesnt exactly erase regular dragonite. If in future one still wants the utility of regular boots dnite, it's still there)
Give this girl a Ludicolo or we riot
Tierno was introduced one gen before Oricorio. Lida was introduced one gen after Quaquaval (and probably won't have one because I doubt the Paldea starters will be in this game).
This family keeps narrowly missing their perfect bird partners.
This family keeps narrowly missing their perfect bird partners.
If they really wanted to go with Petal Dance then Bellossom was right there. Oddish is native to Kalos, too.
Tierno is not a serious rival and X and Y is a laughably easy entry anyway, just commit to giving him a themed team that's actually coherent with its theming.
Tierno is not a serious rival and X and Y is a laughably easy entry anyway, just commit to giving him a themed team that's actually coherent with its theming.
I think Miror B. might be why they didn't give him Ludicolo, they didn't want to have two different dancers have the same ace.And that's why he'll always be the inferior dancer.
Bold of you to assume GF ever thinks about Colosseum
I really wish these old region revisits would just add unaltered Pokemon that didn't exist before outside the context of new forms and evos. Like, imagine Alpha Golurk at the Celestica Ruins
It is a little funny you specify a would-be Legends Arceus since it had the Paras line terrorizing the forests, Vulpix at the volcano, Spheals rolling along the beach (& alpha Walrein terrorizing the beach, also), so it wasn't completely off their minds
Considering the size of the dex and their other wants, it does make sense to be somewhat economical about these "other" Pokemon brought in primarily focusing on stuff that's getting something new or remixed. Still pretty curious how big this dex winds up being. With all the existing mega families and the Gen 6 families and new mega families it'll be pretty tight depending on their size goals; and Kalos also already has a huge amount of Pokemon to naturally draw on for "filler".
Some dex sets for earlier SV VGC formats suggest that Inner Focus is preferred over Multiscale, so the usage of the latter ability in VGC seems to depend on metagame development.
Fwiw both Multiscale and Inner Focus are viable in VGC at this time. One lets you set up in front of anything at the cost of the itemslot to run Clear Amulet or be neutered by Intimidate, the other makes Dragonite a bit more of a tera hog but enables it to completely ignore both Intimidate and Fake Out while running options like Loaded Dice Scale Shot or Choice items.