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Here's my simple take: SV's Open World elements neither add nor take away anything significant for me in terms of progression. Being able to just quick travel and roam around to catch Pokemon is cool, but only insofar as it lets me play with certain Pokemon sooner in the adventure than more...

I've never seen this substantiated or the interview/dev note where this was cited, only hearsay from some old Playthrough video coverage that did not itself provide the source and instead is usually what was cited by others.

Any clue how many are left for the Go Dex (not sure if it tracks everything including currently-unobtainable species).

As an English speaker not fluent in Japanese, I think it's just not being as familiar with the sound. Like in a lot of Anime and games I see things like Cat/Cat-related characters appending "nyas" to the end of their sentences, and the closest approximation English gets that sounds "readable" or...

Rookidee is great news for PvP experimenters to stock up for Corv candy or a good IV candidate (it's mid atm but move changes could do wonders), and I have a Hundo Wimpod so Shiny odds to hunt Shundos of it is cool for me too. Toxel is whatever since I have a bunch of GMax Toxtricity but...

Yeah these were first datamined a while ago. I assume they'll be in a similar place to the mentioned Lucky Trinkets as "Rarely available, less rare if you spend on the Battle Passes" This will go a long way to stuff like Master League, where a lot of players (myself included) have a lot of mons...

The general consensus seems to be Zacian for Raids, Zamazenta for Max Battles (where bulk matters mroe to survive to Max Phase). I have a good Zacian ready, not a great Zamazenta yet, so might have to raid that one harder and just leave Zacian as "get energy and move along" tier.

It's funny you mention it like this, because Roserade always struck me personally as a "stylish-flamboyant Masculine" type of design, akin to Tuxedo Mask or Zorro. I'd also argue the same criticism applies to Lucario in that it's Maylene's Ace on top of being a prominent Pokemon for Riley. I do...

For the record I should clarify the first idea was Rilla not carrying Knock Off, which obviously comes with its own caveats. I trust you know this better than I, but wanted to be clear what I was thinking since Knock/Seed Serp sounded like both moves on the same mon, which I thought of but...

A small peeve I had while looking at Rillaboom's coverage options for OU talk: You telling me this thing can't lob (sharp) rocks like the Mankey/Timburr lines, Alolan Grimer/Muk, Tauros, etc. among the non-Rock users that learn Stone Edge by TM/Breeding? Normally I don't call out moves here on...

It's so bizarre to me that of all the "big muscular physicals with Ground type access" that Rillaboom doesn't have Rock Slide or Stone Edge in some capacity. Looking at Rillaboom's movepool reminded me it had Leech Seed and how few good users of that move seem to exist in OU among its limited...

In this regard, I actually think Water is the mis-accounted for type in teaching with the Starters, because it lacks a real "flip" of the dynamic to show you type match-up importance. Fire has it easy on the Bugs and struggles on the Rock boss, while Grass has the reverse, so you have a clear...

Kieran for Teal Mask looks fine to me considering he's supposed to be a really soft-spoken wimp with no social skills, which definitely tracks with L as an anime reference. It was pretty blunt with the "shift" being marked by him tying his hair up for Indigo Disk. Carmine is a bit more out of...

So what do we call the odds on Pokemon Home compatibility for the Orre games? The moveset flattening introduced with SV means anything Gen 3 or earlier is feasible to get in or out, and unlike Stadium as a battle sim, these games did have selling points in collecting and eventually trading...

Weavile and Tinkaton rising to save us from Roaring Moon just as it gets banned. Time to annoy the rest of OU instead.

I wonder if maybe this was supposed to be a versatility/choose your style thing. Run a very wide Physical coverage pool vs a narrower option set with Geomancy for monster boosts. Yveltal mostly gets Special moves to contrast this despite not really mirroring the "small but buff vs...

So I can't comment on VGC, but in Singles formats, honestly the dominance of the Paradoxes is overblown. The most prominent ones in OU are Tusk (who's moreso a glue to cover bases than a Meta Warper), followed by Raging Bolt (who's an alternate take on Kingambit's heavily centralizing style)...

You know what annoys me? People who only join in a topic to "um ACKSHUALLY" other statements rather than having anything to contribute to the topic at hand. In the anime itself this always felt like a major reason I didn't care for Misty or Max in earlier seasons. The snarking/know-it-all...

My guess is they just didn't want the Starters having their Pinch Abilities since depending on the Lobby and Shield, they could spend significant time in said phase nuking hard with their Elemental moves and ruining a run halfway through if they also did things like a 50% HP Stat buff or...

There's also the argument to be made they would start with some dubs and it'd come down to how high the demand for specific languages to receive them once the prospect of Voice Acting itself is even on the table. It's possible the relevant territories would only be concerned with LatAM Spanish...