In game related discussion, does anybody here try to have their starter be the Pokemon that faces the Champions ace?
I didn't do it in Pokemon Shield because I was bad and dumb and Cinderace kept dying to anything Leon's Charizard did, so I gave him a panic attack with Eternatus.
Sometimes. Like I know I at least defeated Blue & Hau with my Starter. I also defeated Leon with my Starter which was also a Cinderace, I just kept kicking Pyro Balls into its face until it fainted if I recall correctly.
Wish we could go back to HGSS berry farm, but the classic RSE/DPP system is still much better than SWSH rng trees.
Honestly I'm okay with the XY style of just having one farm/greenhouse you can plant a bunch of Berries on. No running around the region remembering where they are so you can water them & which is what Berry, they're all in one spot making watering them easier and can plan out which ones you want to grow a lot of more easily.
Idk, I like that Flint's team is "heat / hot" themed instead of just being Fire. Means I might actually have to switch Pokémon instead of bulldozing his entire party with Surf like I would Blaine. Also Lopunny being "hot" is hilarious and I can't imagine that not being an intentional choice.
If I had to guess a reason for the non-Fire-types they picked:
Steelix: Says to have formed under intense HEAT and pressure.
Drifblim: Is based on a HOT air balloon.
Lopunny: Lopunny's fur is said to provide excellent WARMTH.
Though, oddly, while his Rapidash and Infernape has Water & Rock counters, his other Pokemon don't. Infact they don't really provide much coverage at all outside of their STAB. If they didn't want to give it Thunder Punch since it already had Fire Punch, they could have taught Lopunny Thunderbolt or Grass Knot as a surprise; maybe Drain Punch or Rock Smash. Steelix could have also been given Thunder Fang and Earthquake. Finally Drifblim learned Thunderbolt, maybe throw on a Psychic for good measure.
I'm sure there's a fan game or mod or whatever out there that has a champion like this. Maybe they even use a >600 Legendary as their ace
Not a Champion but
certainly a final boss.
it's a (moderately) safe assumption to think that SwSh will eventually get compatibility for gen 4 pokemon when Home compatibility launches
Hm, I wouldn't be too sure on that. If there's going to be no direct trading or no official competitions using BDSP then GF have no reason to add the missing BDSP Pokemon to SwSh. Like, I doubt we'll have the new Legends: Arceus added to SwSh. After Legends: Arcues (heck, probably even when now developing it) there eyes are focused on setting up to do Gen 9.
Also Volkner's team is more egregious to me than Flint's. Ambipom and Octillery... What am I missing?
If I had to guess:
Octillery: Based on a cannon. Like with the previous two Electric-type Gym Leaders, for some reason GF kept having them dressed in military clothes. Also could do with Volkner's interest in engineering. It also has the Ability Sniper.
Ambipom: This is a hard one. Maybe going back to the engineering hobby Ambipom helps him out with construction having not only a normal pair of hands but also a pair of hand tails? It also has the Ability Technician.
Garchomp gets 2HKO by random shit like stab EQ and stab Surf ingame. It also cant do anything to Torterra but Outrage/Fire Fang (dont even remember if it had firefang) and gets stalled by leech seed, also ice shard does a fuck ton of damage
I defeated Cynthia's Garchomp via Ice Beam Manaphy, so that's an option too.
I call dibs on Shell Smash Torterra. Set up on Cynthia's Spiritomb and watch out.
Spiritomb used Double Team. Can't OHKO if you can't hit it.
So what are the chances of evolutions like Sylveon (evolution of gen 1 but introduced post gen 4)? Or Alola regional variants? The different move sets make it seem like this will be its own thing. Considering the move changes, I'm not seeing post gen 4 Pokes being present. I can't see them doing all Pokemon while Sword and Shield doesn't get them all. Seems like they're going almost exactly for the original experience, which is probably why the graphic design looks more classical. With some updates move sets, I assume to make the battles more interesting due to a relative lack of Pokemon.
I know you're excited, but here's the problem: unless they specifically state it, the answer is
we don't know. These games are an enigma at the moment. They are 99% 1:1 remakes... but they also have some new stuff thrown in here and there. However the new stuff don't really seem to effect anything concerning the story and the one which affects main game the most is just providing a wider range of Pokemon, all of whom are from Gen I through IV.
So unless they make an announcement which is doubtful at this point, you're just going to have to wait until the games come out.
I mean it makes sense for Legends, cause there's a small chance of new forms for the starters there, but there's essentially nothing new relating to the Sinnoh starters. Why not show them off?
Same reason they just don't say Cynthia is the Champion or why they are only showing two Gym Leaders at a time instead of all of them in one video. They're treating this like they treated previous core game titles, I guess following the idea that this would be a batch of players first time playing Gen IV (completely ignoring all the other instances these trainers appeared such as in B2W2 and Masters)?
Kinda? For remakes they showed off the hoenn starters final evo, and they also did it with gen 7. It used to be tradition, they tried something new in the marketing of oras and sumo and seen to have gone back to the traditions
It's easy to fall back to tradition when you got nothing new to show.
