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Has anyone tested mega venusaur? I know we love the new toys like Meganium, but with all the fairies and water around maybe he has a niche as a defensive mega? Especially with leech side not actually being nerfed
I will say the game feels good to play, the animations are quick but they feel natural, I also like how each Pokémon has a different hit animation. For example, a light hit animation vs a big hit where the Pokémon falls back further before moving back. Currently my only complaint is I wish we...
Ugh I hate if you predict the set wrong you just auto lose in 3v3. Mega lucario clicking swords dance or nasty plot can be gg, or aegislash hitting SD when you expect the flash cannon oof
Venusaur sad to see his fellow grass/poison kanto buddy treated this way. Like yeah he took sun sweeper and tanky mega options but you could have given it so many poison abilities, like poison steels.
The 10 years backwards japanese dev way of thinking strikes again. No freedom allowed for...
Mega Emboar heard all the laughing and decided to drag other ZA megas down with him. I really hope changing abilities are in the cards for this game. At least megas from XY/ORAS had thought with their Abilities, and no, listening to the casuals who play pokemon once and put it down should not be...
The mega Latis are an example of good concept but horrible execution. Big giant plane wings and the colors being mixed together makes even the shiny colors look bad. Why would I mega evolve my beautiful gold latias to this weird washed out green.
I wish more levitate mons got other abilities and follow weezing. The latis could get something for doubles like “Eon Duo: when the opposite gender is also on the field gain a % increase in special attack, special defense and speed. Nice upside to having two of the same type, always thought they...
In that scenario the tank did its job by causing high recoil damage to your only mega, then just need a faster revenge to deny the drain punch and force out your buffs.
Mold breaker beats some unaware mons but the most popular ones emboar struggles against anyway, skeledirge, dozo, quagsire. Although clodsire would struggle on the physical side. You gain the assault vest with the spd bulk and access to bulk up+sd alongside the bulk. In the ZA mod Access to...
Plus they’ve even said they want to preserve champions and home even when it comes up to 10,000 total Pokémon and their other forms. The hope is switch keeps growing more powerful and successful and the future successors will allow data transfers so that a bank and then home situation doesn’t...
I wonder how nerfs buffs will work, if public outcry will only be heard from American champs like Wolfe and then the rest be Japanese views/comments. If it’ll be % changes, or even full ability swaps like mega emboar, and giving it mold breaker was to show the public “hey we hear you and can...
I think some value that not many of us thought initially are teams that take advantage of status, the biggest examples are things like hex/infernal parade. Spreading burns reliably, especially against special attackers works out, and then your scarf or specs ghost goes ham with full powered hex...