So for the sake of talking about pokemon no one else is, lets take a quick look at Sandaconda's ability. At first, Sand Spit seems like a worse sand stream, but then I realized that it will always win the weather war this way. If a hail, sun, or rain team tries to sweep, one touch and suddenly their weather timer has run out, leaving their set up mon high and dry. Combine with new sand rush users of dracovish and dracozolt, and you can easily turn the tides. 72/125/70 aint bad either, and while it may long for recovery, between this, ttar and hippowdon, there is no end to ways to keep your sand teams from dominating
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SPOILERS! Pokemon Sword and Shield Datamine Thread
- Thread starter DHR-107
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I'm not sure if this posted, but Bulbagarden has a full list of exclusives:
Sword:
Seedot line
Swirlix line
Scraggy line
Sawk
Passimian
Rufflet line
Solrock
Mawile
Gothita line
Deino line
Jangmo-o line
Stonjourner
Farfetch'd line
Darumaka line
Shield:
Lotad line
Spritzee line
Croagunk line
Throh
Oranguru
Vullaby line
Lunatone
Sableye
Solosis line
Larvitar line
Goomy line
Eiscue
Ponyta line
Corsola line
Sword:
Seedot line
Swirlix line
Scraggy line
Sawk
Passimian
Rufflet line
Solrock
Mawile
Gothita line
Deino line
Jangmo-o line
Stonjourner
Farfetch'd line
Darumaka line
Shield:
Lotad line
Spritzee line
Croagunk line
Throh
Oranguru
Vullaby line
Lunatone
Sableye
Solosis line
Larvitar line
Goomy line
Eiscue
Ponyta line
Corsola line
Unfortunately, for a mon with an ability designed around powering up its allies, having that bad of a special defense stat hurts it.
Woah, woah, woah...
Drampa ISN'T Shield exclusive? I CAN CATCH HIM, SIRFETCH'D AND KOMMO-O IN THE SAME GAME?!
Me running an team of sirfetched darmanitan hydreigon scrafty while you have only drampa and reuniclus
I'm pretty sure they got it from Kaphotics. It might be incomplete then.
Oh yeah, sick haha
I find it really strange that Steelix/Onix got Dragon Dance before they got Coil.
Do you think they’ll have any impact on how they’re played at all? Is a DD set viable for either one?
Curse is probably better as it all but guarantees 150 bp Gyro Ball. Steelix needs two dragon dances to outrun anything lol and Onix uhh... has less attack than Spearow.
Dragon Dance alongside Rock Head+Head Smash Onix could see use in LC, Onix is already an A+ ranked mon there
Doubtful if it would be "viable", but you can have a dumb gimmick set with Eviolite DD Onix with Body Press.
But Onix gets Rock Polish anyway so that would be better.
I wanted so much to use Centiskorch outside of a gym collecting team, but like others I am having trouble figuring out a set to even use for the in-game battle tower. I certainly never expected to have more ideas for Rapidash than for Centiskorch, I can't believe that the fire centipede doesn't get Swords Dance or Agility or any form of priority. Coil would be nice if it was faster, but as it is it seems like unless I can set up on something slow that doesn't threaten it, it won't get much use out of the move.
I mean I guess one could get some mileage out of a Coil, Fire Lash/Flare Blitz, Leech Life, Power Whip defensive set, but I just don't know if it would pack enough power after a Coil to accomplish much. I guess there's always Trick Room, but I've never been good at using it, and Centiskorch would still probably need a turn or two to set up even then.
I'm curious too just what Dubwool is supposed to do in battle. It seems built to be fairly bulky, but its moves don't enable it to accomplish much itself while on the field, i.e. no hazard setting moves or moves or status inflicting moves. I guess it could Baton Pass a Cotton Guard or Swords Dance boost to something. And dang it has a small movepool, makes me wish it not using its horns for battle wasn't part of its lore.
I mean I guess one could get some mileage out of a Coil, Fire Lash/Flare Blitz, Leech Life, Power Whip defensive set, but I just don't know if it would pack enough power after a Coil to accomplish much. I guess there's always Trick Room, but I've never been good at using it, and Centiskorch would still probably need a turn or two to set up even then.
I'm curious too just what Dubwool is supposed to do in battle. It seems built to be fairly bulky, but its moves don't enable it to accomplish much itself while on the field, i.e. no hazard setting moves or moves or status inflicting moves. I guess it could Baton Pass a Cotton Guard or Swords Dance boost to something. And dang it has a small movepool, makes me wish it not using its horns for battle wasn't part of its lore.
So many Raid Battles
Do we know if there are limitations to how many Raid battles you can do in one day? Or do you have to use a raid pass like in PoGo? It’d be nice if I could do raid after raid because that looks like a good way to farm TRs and hidden ability mons
Are there any known differences of raid battles other than difficulty? And Pokemon can drop TRs 100% of the time. I thought TRs were single use?
They are single use yes. But just like old tms u can get more of them
Ahh good. I was worried they were one per save file.
flapple is underrated but i'll give calcs
can't hit steels? pff
+1 252 Atk Draco Plate Hustle Flapple Outrage (140BP) vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Copperajah: 382-450 (85.2 - 100.4%) -- 43.8% chance to OHKO after Stealth Rock
+1 252 Atk Draco Plate Hustle Flapple Outrage (140BP) vs. 252 HP / 252 Def Ferrothorn: 184-217 (52.2 - 61.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock and Leftovers recovery
ferrothorn can't do much against an already dynamaxed Flapple:
0 Atk Ferrothorn Gyro Ball (150 BP) vs. +2 0 HP / 0 Def Zweilous: 103-123 (36.1 - 43.1%) -- guaranteed 3HKO (i'm too lazy to look up Flapple's stats but Zwilious is close enough)
sure it just 2kos melmetal but melmetal is potentially banworthy, also can recieve team support on taking out Doublade and the other steels
this is also before a potential grav apple, which lowers defense
and it can set up on... um... specs keldeo? more passive mons hate it
can't hit steels? pff
+1 252 Atk Draco Plate Hustle Flapple Outrage (140BP) vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Copperajah: 382-450 (85.2 - 100.4%) -- 43.8% chance to OHKO after Stealth Rock
+1 252 Atk Draco Plate Hustle Flapple Outrage (140BP) vs. 252 HP / 252 Def Ferrothorn: 184-217 (52.2 - 61.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock and Leftovers recovery
ferrothorn can't do much against an already dynamaxed Flapple:
0 Atk Ferrothorn Gyro Ball (150 BP) vs. +2 0 HP / 0 Def Zweilous: 103-123 (36.1 - 43.1%) -- guaranteed 3HKO (i'm too lazy to look up Flapple's stats but Zwilious is close enough)
sure it just 2kos melmetal but melmetal is potentially banworthy, also can recieve team support on taking out Doublade and the other steels
this is also before a potential grav apple, which lowers defense
and it can set up on... um... specs keldeo? more passive mons hate it
So is there a way I can get a gist of what the story is like? Is it a more basic plot like with Kalos or Kanto? Is it a plot that tries to be deeper like with Sinnoh or Unova?
