Yeah, Silvally was man’s flawed attempt at recreating god. But hopefully they can teach this dog/fish/bug-thing some new tricks, cus I kind of like the stats where they are oddly enough.
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I agree with this but I’m hesistant about Mawile and Sableye. In the event that their Mega Evolutions do come back one day (perhaps in a future main series or some spinoff battle simulator game or whatever [please let Home have this]) the buffed BST will make their Megas that much stronger than before, and idk how I feel about that tbh. I do feel they could use some stat buffs, but it should be no more than 25 points. 40-60 BST might be overdoing it.
Other than that, again, I agree and I hope Silvally gets some good shit this gen. Honestly one of my biggest Gen 7 disappointments.
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Some of these Galar mons have some deep-ass lore god damn. I really wish we got art books which gave more insight into the basis for designs when I see stuff like this
Also, Galarian Darmanitan is giving me some serious Yeti from Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer vibes.
Well, if we are talking about origins, Barraskewda isn't based on the barracuda but the pike.
Barracudas are a tropical ocean fish with silver-blue coloring, but pikes are brown and green in color and have fins closer to Barraskewda's. Pikes are a freshwater fish found in the northern hemisphere, primarily around Canada and (you guessed it) England. Both are toothy predators though, just barracudas are more likely to kill Nemo's family while a pike is more likely to be an antagonist in a Redwall novel.
(from top down, Barraskewda, a pike, and a barracuda).
Looking at them all lined up like this, the only thing Barraskewda has in common with it's namesake is the stripes. The rest of it is definitely a pike. And now I've satisfied my wish, to lecture you on fish.
Barracudas are a tropical ocean fish with silver-blue coloring, but pikes are brown and green in color and have fins closer to Barraskewda's. Pikes are a freshwater fish found in the northern hemisphere, primarily around Canada and (you guessed it) England. Both are toothy predators though, just barracudas are more likely to kill Nemo's family while a pike is more likely to be an antagonist in a Redwall novel.
(from top down, Barraskewda, a pike, and a barracuda).
Looking at them all lined up like this, the only thing Barraskewda has in common with it's namesake is the stripes. The rest of it is definitely a pike. And now I've satisfied my wish, to lecture you on fish.
Mawile probably won't get anything new but eh it got two generations with a super strong Mega so I can't complain too much.
Sableye might still see some use... somewhere. I know the new Fairy / Dark gives it competition but that probably won't get Recover.
Please yes, Dusknoir deserves better. So cool looking yet it has to rely on Shadow Punch for STAB. Its strongest non-gimmick move is Earthquake lol.
Imo Silvally only needs Recover to see OU use. Defog + Parting Shot + Multi-attack is really good. 95 base stats around the board is also great defensively. It's also immune to Knock Off. Silvally is so close to being really good but without recovery it just blows.
I'm against BST changes for pokes that previously had megas. It would signal the nail in the coffin for that feature ever returning, and I'd wager most people would rather see megas come back
Amoonguss came to my mind as the #1 defensive mushroom. Frankly, I never knew Parasect had similar stats to Shiinotic. Thought that only the awful typing made it not stand out, and its BST would be around 450 or so. But 405 BST really makes it Shiinotic's best buddy.
As for the question, Parasect is out.
Pretty sure them not adding any in gen 7 and removing them entirely in gen 8 is about as much of a nail in the coffin as you need.
Ubers is gonna be a scary metagame, bruh...
Christ, look at Zamazenta's stats: 100/127/140/85/140/135
Plus its ability that increases its defenses and the fact that it'll probably get great Fighting and Steel STAB.
Assuming Zacian will be the same thing with defenses and attacks swapped, it'll be even scarier:
140 base attack with an ability that raises attack, swords dance, 135 speed and STAB Play Rough and Iron Head(probably).
I'm in a state of fear.
Christ, look at Zamazenta's stats: 100/127/140/85/140/135
Plus its ability that increases its defenses and the fact that it'll probably get great Fighting and Steel STAB.
Assuming Zacian will be the same thing with defenses and attacks swapped, it'll be even scarier:
140 base attack with an ability that raises attack, swords dance, 135 speed and STAB Play Rough and Iron Head(probably).
I'm in a state of fear.
If the rumoured Gen IV remakes are real, Megas *could* make a comeback in those games. This is probably just wishful thinking on my part, but the last time we got new Megas was in a remake. Equally, they could make Gigantamax versions of Gen IV mons instead. (and the Gen IV remakes are just rumours and speculation at this point so there's no point in worrying about what they do or don't add)
I'm definitely hoping Tyranitar gets one, and it would be nice for Kommo-o to get one as well as that'd be our first Alolan GMax.
However, if there's anyone more deserving of a GMax form, it's the King of the Pocket Monsters.
What if all thr pre order pseudos got a gigantimax form? King Ghidorah Hydreigon, Godzilla ttar, Mo-o Kommo-o, and uh...something original for Goodra i guess. (Sorry, apparently not many slug kaijus are in the market)
Are this stats confirmed?
Even gamefreaks isnt stupid enough to make their games p2w yet
It's been done in the series countless times. VGC '10, VGC '16, and VGC '19 featured box legendaries that were mostly version-exclusives.
They could and nothing will happen
That's not what i meant and you know it. I'm talking of gating potentially competitive pokemon behind non-free non-global events.
Have you ever wondered why mythicals and ash-greninja are not allowed in VGC format? ...
In gen 7 they went as far as give all "other version" exlusive via free wifi event.
Nintendo policies will never allow them, even if they wanted.
Oh, misunderstood then. They shouldn't do that, then.
Calling box legendaries "pay to win" doesn't even makes sense when one of the main features of the games is trading and they do a lot of distributions for those legendaries too.
They have always done something like this in a way. Wasn't Jirachi obtainable by having a save in Colosseum/XD (or was it Pokémon Box)? And I believe Manaphy was also obtainable by having a certain ammount of Pokémon deposited in Pokémon Ranch. And as a more recent example, we have Mew being obtainable by that weird Pokéball Joy Con thing in Let's Go, and Pikachu/Eevee's Gigantamax forms in Sword/Shield.
And those are the most notable examples, there's also stuff like some moves only being obtainable in certain Pokémon by having Stadium 2, such as Earthquake Gligar, and move-relearner exclusive moves.
All the ones you mentioned are not legal in competitive formats. So no.
Unless we're really nitpicking on eartquake gligar which it can learn via tm anyway.
The same can probably be said for GMax version exclusives, then. Nothing stopping someone from trading over a Sword-exclusive GMax into Shield.