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They made two new items you can get from the special auction in Porto Marinada, the Scroll of Darkness and the Scroll of Waters. They act like infinite use evolution stones for Kubfu
As for if they'll add another method, it isn't impossible, but the likeliness is up in the air
Joe mentioned Hard Press was Steel, and seemingly a Wring Out clone (even though Wring Out was nicked in SWSH?)
E: I suppose that isn't too surprising given that Psychic Noise has a Heal Block effect, and Heal Block was also cut in SWSH
I realized something earlier
Surely it's no coincidence that they stealth snuck in Jirachi with the Sinnoh mythicals what with the speculation we've had that Terapagos is able to grant wishes, yeah? (then again it probably is just coincidence)
I meant to move all my transfer mons into Home before the maintenance so that I would have box space for the new mons, but I failed to realize when 0 UTC was like a dummy
Oh well, can't wait to see all the returnees and new lads in-game soon!
IIRC (and I may be wrong), that's what happened with IoA and CT, so more likely than not yes, also considering that it's simply a patch rather than a full new release that someone might get their hands on early
Oh jeez, that's what was up about Zangoose's weird moves from this thread forever ago. I was wondering what that was about but never looked into it
I wonder if any of the egg move oddities will ever get fixed (ideally with Teal Mask?). Hopefully the treatment of them this Gen isn't a standard...
Hell, it even had Throat Chop as an egg move in BDSP, where the only way to get it was Sketch it off a Heracross and breed from Smeargle
Surely at that point it's deliberate, yeah?
Surprised you didn't dismiss it seeing they also had different abilities based on being Masterpiece or not
I suppose that isn't as farfetched as randomly getting event exclusive moves, though