Could have been if they did more research, but the bird uses samba moves as an idle battle animation and the setup fits brazilian dancers more than iberians. This bird is not spanish, it's (unfortunately) brazilian
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SPOILERS! Scarlet & Violet Leaks Thread - Data/Mechanics
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Things are winding down a little, but this catalog of archetypes has been updated with today's leak season.
The updates: Kilowattrel as the bird, and Baxcalibur as the new pseudo-legendary. Had to do some digging on the latter's name but we've got two of these down.
I got Arbolovia as the name, did I miss something ?
Haven't seen anyone mention this, but this leaked theme absolutely slaps.
Apparently written by toby fox, maybe for the seven star tera raids.
Arbolovia is the name of the first unevolved form. The middle form is named Arctibax.
The Dragon/Ice pseudo-legendary family's name by stage is Arbolovia->Arctibax->Baxcalibur. Baxcalibur is the final form and the formal pseudo-legendary.
Before I call it a night here are some Iono dialogue moments to immortalize. Shame about the music though.
Also Skuntank and Shuppet were spotted which were missed in the leaked dex pixel theory. Also a look at the stat page inside the box, which does show the tera type as a third type funnily enough.
Lastly here's the Meowscarada sig. It is pretty big.
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The gameplay seems very self directed to me for better and for worse. It's like Legends Arceus where you can spend your time run around the map fighting and catching stuff, but just from the gameplay it doesn't feel like there's a downtime spot with sidequests like Jubilife Village, though that could be just because they don't revisit the school and are mostly just going to each plot progression point in general, which the plots seem interesting enough at least.
Also Skuntank and Shuppet were spotted which were missed in the leaked dex pixel theory. Also a look at the stat page inside the box, which does show the tera type as a third type funnily enough.
Lastly here's the Meowscarada sig. It is pretty big.
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The gameplay seems very self directed to me for better and for worse. It's like Legends Arceus where you can spend your time run around the map fighting and catching stuff, but just from the gameplay it doesn't feel like there's a downtime spot with sidequests like Jubilife Village, though that could be just because they don't revisit the school and are mostly just going to each plot progression point in general, which the plots seem interesting enough at least.
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Cute, little form or evolved ?
Glimmet's actual model! Looks much better than the weird angle we saw it at before, if I say so myself.
Thanks, cutiepie.
Anyone else reminded of the Gangster's Paradise choir meme from the opening?
these leaks just kinda made me notice how big the gap of care and quality the japanese inspired mons vs everything else is. yeah yeah japanese company but if you're going out of your way to use another country for your game, could at least pretend to care a bit beyond "went to spain for 2 weeks and used the most tourist bait things as only research" and "latam and spain are close enough, right?"
Yup Meowscarada is the strongest starter and its not even close. It was wise of me to choose the weed cat.
Cool so the list at OP isn't complete. Wonder who else is missing
So what? Hawaii's not known for tigers or wrestling and there sure as shit aren't any koalas. Not every Pokémon is based on the culture of the real world place the region is, in fact most aren't.
man why is it everytime someone comes in with the "well not all of them need to be based on culture!!" thats great bro. would love to see where I said that. Not everything needs to be about the country but 1. it's a waste of a design opportunity when you just use japanese concepts over and over again and don't care to challenge yourself to read a book or learn the history of a country. 2. it's lazy
Multiplicity from the smogon discord posted these pictures of the hammer fairy's signature move, Gigaton Hammer.
link to discord?
First time I've OMG'd in a long while. They actually did the snail good.
On the other hand, cool duck.
Because Paldea isn't Spain, it's Paldea. It's Spain inspired, but it's not meant to be literally Spain but with Pokémon. They've never done that even when the regions were literally based on Japanese prefectures. Pokémon games aren't meant to be about the culture of the place they're based on, they never have been, even the Japan based ones only take elements from the places their based on.
"Can't be used twice in a row"...interesting. Is that the nerf they gave Gimmighoul2's move?
(Current bet is that Choiced hammer fey locked into Gigaton Hammer is forced to Struggle every other turn.)
You can finally use two different moves with a Choice Band! You can now alternate between Gigaton Hammer and Struggle! Amazing
That snail is really really cool looking. Vibing so hard.
this, on the other hand, is hella messed up.