come on make toxapex water/psychic PLEASE
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I'm actually not sure if it replaces any of your original typings. The logic behind the whole "you get an extra boost if your Terra typing matches one of your original typings" seems to be "your Lilligant is now Grass/Grass so it gets two STAB boosts" and since it specifically says you get this boost if your Terra type matches at least one of your original types, it means it doesn't matter which type is the primary and which is the secondary, so they both must still be there.
About this, the second image says "when a Pokémon uses a move that matches its Tera Type and one of its original types", but we've seen a Gardevoir terracrystalized on water. Does this mean any Pokémon can terracrystalize in any existint type, even if said type doesnt match with their original typing, but if said type also coincides with the originals the boost is even greater?
The way I read tera typing is you become a mono type but your stabs are some X amount stronger
so Flying Pikachu is now Flying Pikachu, without the electric typing.
I guess that confirms that there's only school uniforms, with the primary customization likely being colors and more importantly accessories
That's what it seems like. You gotta choose between getting a new type or powering up one of your regular types.
not surprised, it might mean that this game will continue to have freeze instead of frostbite which is kind of expected but is nonetheless a huge tragedy. ive maintained this belief that ice types are often rare and reserved for lategame because of how broken freeze is as a status, and so when i saw frostbite replace freeze in legend, it presented a possibility that it might carry over into the next games and enable ice types to be available much earlier on.
however, the first gym leader they showed off is ice type and they also showed off an ice type mon (who looks extremely cool btw especially with slush rush), and with the game being nonlinear and open world, perhaps some ice types are placed more in the early game and possibly still with frostbite in the game? i can only hope
Kalos's map doesn't comprise all of France (a large chunk of southern France is missing) so there's no reason to expect Paldea's geography to match Spain's perfectly, or at least to stretch all the way to the border. If we get an Andorra analogue at all, it'll probably be an isolated location like Kiloude City or Anville Town, but in the official artwork the ever-present clouds are covering where it should be.
This Pokedex UI is genuinely so good
Riffing off that: Pawmi being #22 and Houndour being #25 raises the intriguing possibility that Pawmi is a three-stage line
I don't think it replaces the Pokémon typing and its only considered towards the offensive.
For example. For a Pokémon like DDNite with Roost + 2 attacks, you can either reinforce your STABs (like, this is a horrible nite set, but im using it as an example) via crystalization, or augment one of your non-stab moves (like EQ).
This is interesting as a competitive option, since you have to choose between reinforcing your already solid dual stab combination to even higher levels of damage (im thinking about setup sweepers with 2 offensive moves that are unresisted by a majority of the meta and a third that doesnt need the crystalization boost), or you can keep your stab moves at x1.5 and gain a third stab on something, but i doubt this crystalization type will be counted on the defensive side.
Seems like many rumours ended up paying off here. Glad to see Azumarill and Lumineon confirmed. The 3 parallel storylines reminded me of what they did with the Crown Tundra. On first impression of the gimmick I like that they added Kirby hats to pokemon, not sure how I feel about the type boost + change gimmick but we'll see how flexible it is to get the rarer types ingame. I expect most pokemon to stay the same and just get the double STAB like the Sprigatito being Grass naturally, since the trailer mentioned only some pokemon will change type that you probably get via raids, but it'll be funny to see how showdown handles the theoretical range of types. The recharge reminds me of the beta Z-ring and makes sense you can't just spam it everywhere. Also raids being in actual real time is nice after people kept calling Legends combat ATB because of the leaks.
I noticed the battle UI looks very transparent this time. The pokedex being arranged as books is nice flavour and reminds me of how Legends made it into research notes. Changing "seen" to "battled" does make sense and brings some focus on both parts of the game, catching and fighting. The tera raids have a cool reflective environment and I hope they took notes from ILCA on battle environments.
I noticed the battle UI looks very transparent this time. The pokedex being arranged as books is nice flavour and reminds me of how Legends made it into research notes. Changing "seen" to "battled" does make sense and brings some focus on both parts of the game, catching and fighting. The tera raids have a cool reflective environment and I hope they took notes from ILCA on battle environments.
- Fidough is cute I guess, not a fan of its ears though.
- Cetitan is fugly, and it looks like it'll be another slow bulky Ice-type so it'll probably suck unless you Terastallize it. Not a fan.
- Paldean Wooper is cute, and I like that it keeps Water Absorb.
- Clavell is evil, calling it now
- Jacq is a himbo
- Grusha's a guy? huh
- No comment on Arven or Penny, they're alright
- Still not sure how the open world or Terastal is going to work but I'm intrigued regardless
- Houndoom, Sawsbuck and Eelektross are back, let's fucking go
- You can tweak your character's eye and mouth shape, neato
- Flying Pikachu is a neat early-purchase bonus
- Cetitan is fugly, and it looks like it'll be another slow bulky Ice-type so it'll probably suck unless you Terastallize it. Not a fan.
- Paldean Wooper is cute, and I like that it keeps Water Absorb.
- Clavell is evil, calling it now
- Jacq is a himbo
- Grusha's a guy? huh
- No comment on Arven or Penny, they're alright
- Still not sure how the open world or Terastal is going to work but I'm intrigued regardless
- Houndoom, Sawsbuck and Eelektross are back, let's fucking go
- You can tweak your character's eye and mouth shape, neato
- Flying Pikachu is a neat early-purchase bonus
hm, so if you terastallize a pokemon to one of its original types it gets 2 stab boosts? maybe? we dont know what the actual boost will be but considering that it "changes your type" it would make sense
i suppose monoattackers or mons that mostly only care about one of its stabs (spectrier, rillaboom, bh groudon) would be completely elated. not to mention offensive mons can take advantage of its changed typing to beat stuff they wouldn't normally be able to (dd rayquaza just turned into a fire-type and v-created whoever that's in front of it off the planet)
also, every fat mon can now be a fat steel/fairy/etc...that can actually heal. on mons like uhh toxapex who isn't super dependent on its item slot can basically pick and choose who you want to wall. so while they know you'll be a steel for the rest of the battle you are still a steel with regenerator, titanic bulk and reliable healing plus a bunch of tools that your average steel won't have
and we can actually make our own fast powerful ice types lets gooooo
The Spanish Civil War lasted longer in this timeline.
Imo this is a good thing. It gives it defensive utility too, which is something Z-Moves and Gigantamazing sorely lacked. Being able to change Avalugg to a pure-steel type for a whole battle is kind of a cool concept.
With this trailer, it seems like they might be making a decet effort to include any Pokemon that hasn't yet appeared in an HD game. We're down to 49 of the 59 Pokemon that weren't in Gen 8 (excluding some forms, IE unovan samurott) have now been confirmed, changing the list to:
Of note, Gogoat is available for the first time since it's debut in XY and different seasonal forms of deerling are in the wild again for the first time since Gen 5! Hooray!
- Snivy
- Servine
- Serperior
- Tepig
- Pignite
- Emboar
- Patrat
- Watchog
- Pansage
- Simisage
- Pansear
- Simisear
- Panpour
- Simipour
- Blitzle
- Zebstrika
- Sewaddle
- Swadloon
- Leavanny
- Ducklett
- Swanna
- Alomomola
- Meloetta
- Chespin
- Quilladin
- Fennekin
- Braixen
- Delphox
- Froakie
- Frogadier
- Greninja
- Scatterbug
- Spewpa
- Vivillon
- Litleo
- Pyroar
- Furfrou
- Hoopa
- Pikipek
- Trumbeak
- Toucannon
- Yungoos
- Gumshoos
- Crabrawler
- Crabominable
- Oricorio
- Minior
- Komala
- Bruxish
Of note, Gogoat is available for the first time since it's debut in XY and different seasonal forms of deerling are in the wild again for the first time since Gen 5! Hooray!
Chances are the Tera type will just make the pokemon's moves more powerful and won't change the pokemons defensive type chart. That's what the leaks indicated anyways.
Also pog Eelektross is back. I missed him so much in SS. I think new mechanic will work well for it since it'll let it use terra flamethrower or knock off as strong offensive options.
The leaks were either misinterpreted or misremembered (neither are especially surprising, we've had legit leaks that do both) if this little blurb is anything to go by
This is definitely interesting.
Will the Pokémon have 3 types? (one of them a virtual typing, as in trick or treat) If the Pokémon is already a dual typed one, will a third be added or will the third replace its first or second type? And if it only has one, will a second type be added or will it replace the typing entirely?
Not feeling this generation yet. None of the revealed Pokemon grab me. The new gimmick is alright.
Hopefully, they are holding back some great stuff.
Hopefully, they are holding back some great stuff.
my thought is it will fully replace the typing
so Water Tera Gardevoir goes from Psychic/Fairy -> Water rather than Water/Fairy or Psychic/Water or Psychic/Fairy/Water
It's a very cool concept, but the "once per battle" clause also comes with the opportunity cost with it.
Is it better to make your Avalugg steel type so it can wall something, but lose the opportunity to make your Spectrier Dark Type and no longer walled by Blissey? Or make your Toxapex flying type so it can now wall Landorus, but suddently it's now vulnerable to Tyranitar and Weavile running it over.
I don't think it's a mechanic that will be used defensively. It's definitely aimed mainly at offensive usage.
Edit: one thing is sure, Smogon will hate it, because it looks like it can be used at any given moment with no held item requirement and smogon hates
My understanding is that "regular" Tera doesn't change type and boosts your pokemon's stab (potentially both, or maybe its first type).
If you do use a Tera that's not your poke's regular type, it'll swap its type to it on top of boosting the new type's stab.