Eek yeah I was looking at this thread hoping to find some interesting tidbits or experiences or ingame stuff in general but 95% of the posts seem to be “X has this move, HOW WILL THIS AFFECT COMPETITIVE” or just theorymoning competitive sets =/
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Eek yeah I was looking at this thread hoping to find some interesting tidbits or experiences or ingame stuff in general but 95% of the posts seem to be “X has this move, HOW WILL THIS AFFECT COMPETITIVE” or just theorymoning competitive sets =/
Have to say, I find lowkey funny how Gamefreak is trying to include more competitive-based teams for enemies in games, and yet the strongest boss in Kitakami has a Crawdaunt with Swift.
What sets of teams do you guys have in mind because this new meta seems like it's going to be crazy and a lot of fun. I probably have like 7 teams that I want to try out with new and old mons so far and maybe more. I love mixing up returns mons and new mons. I believe the meta is going to be more enjoyable this time especially since now we have options to shut down set up sweepers. I'm so excited:)
I sold every treasure i had a went from 1.2k to 1.2 mil
post game its level 70, pre post game its level 20
Okidogi with High Horsepower and Fire Punch
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Even for the Loyal 3? Just would be really weird to me - Munkidori in the non-Titan battle was already Lv. 30. (unless I’m somehow misremembering).
Guess this means Okidogi is the defacto leader of the Loyal Trio then. It’s in the middle here, which indicates that it’s the leader.
Does Expanding Force get boosted if used by the Lake Trio?
Gholdengo. It resists all their STABs or is flat out immune to them, can’t be Poisoned, and Make it Rain is super effective to the specially defensive one.
to be fair, there are a million new things with a million new moves, of course everyone's first reactions are going to be "holy shit, thing gets move"
Yeah. And major kit buffs, as seen with the likes of Shiftry, Amamola, Empoleon, Torterra, and Gliscor are always exciting.
I probably will on the off hand chance I get the game and its dlc. Never liked restrictive final fights.
shiftry is actually a solid check to zapdos now because it's immune to heat wave and hurricane. imagine a world where zapdos has to start running u-turn because of fucking shiftry (and, for that matter, poltergeist brambleghast)
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Most of it's just stuff it inherited from Ursaring and regular Ursaluna.
wdym 8 pp recovery has always been servicable even before gen 8 and now its just the standard
Zapdos already uses U-turn pretty often. Between using U-turn and Volt Switch, U-turn is almost always superior because nothing is immune to it.
This is lowkey big. Can monkidori toxic me with parting shot?
Reliable recovery as in not nerfed to hell because of other weather that isn't sun. A-ninetales or ttar rising from knock off bye bye recovery.
On offensive Zapdos, Volt Switch is over thrice as strong, and doesn't proc Rocky Helmet damage & other contact effects. If you want to switch with certainty, it's plenty fair to do it normally rather than take up a whole move slot for that.
Not saying U-Turn is bad, of course, far from it, but Volt Switch is more appealing from my perspective.
(and yeah as the Smogon analysis from last page pointed, Volt Switch can also serve as coverage when you need it, pretty convenient for mons suffering from 4MSS - like Zapdos kinda does and really did when it had Defog
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