If that were the concern, they could have made it so Alphas and Nobles can't be frozen or put to sleep and called it a day. There would especially have been no need for Frostbite's additional effect of reducing Sp. Atk (suggesting that it is clearly a counterpart to Burn). I suspect Frostbite will stay even if the others don't.
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SPOILERS! Pokemon Legends: Arceus *Leak Thread*
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Frostbite staying is very different from completely replacing Freeze, one of the OG status effects.
I can see the new stats staying tbh.
Sleep and Freeze are really strong, and I'd guess it's a serious problem in VGC because of smaller team sizes and 2v1 being a huge advantage.
I'm not sure how the new sleep thing works tbh, but I can definitely see Frostbite staying.
Isn't drowsy not actually a new status? It's what Yawn inflicts.
thats right, so if drowsy was kept the way it is in PLA, yawn would be a more viable option on some mons.
From what I've heard, drowsy is actually a full replacement for sleep, at least in this game. Any moves that would've inflicted sleep now inflict drowsy instead.
They nerfed Dark Void into the ground because of Smeargle, not Darkrai.
Which was really dumb, all they needed to do was the "Only Darkrai can use this move" flag, they didn't need to nerf it's accuracy as well.
drowsy isnt exactly a status, its just the name of the turn before your pokemon falls asleep iirc. a bit like perish song counter turns. Its called sleepwalking in japanese
Drowsy in legends is a replacement of sleep: It's paralysis without the speed drop
Oh I didn't realize the Noble one was that much larger. A shame, I wanted it to be gargantuan, but it looks much smaller here.
In-game picture from the Reddit post Imperial Magala linked earlier. Assuming the head is the same size the normal form, it's less than half the height and about two-thirds the length.
I guess that's where its AMAZING new speed stat came from.
Drops defense instead.
Given that Rest has funky interactions with sleep turns, it would be fairly easy to make it a special kind of drowsy where you're guaranteed to not move for the first two turns, and make Sleep Talk guarantee you a turn while drowsy at the cost of not being able to select a move.
Yes, it might also heal 75% now based on the data's RawHealing column, though I haven't seen it ingame. Also it's still Psychic type, I don't think all of the type changes from that other move sheet are confirmed and could just be misremembered/human error. Also if TurnMin/Max still represents temporary status duration, then Rest drowsy lasts for 4 turns while other sleep moves last for 5 turns and Dark Void is 3. I wonder if stat debuffs are temporary as well or are represented as a status or not.
Look, Gary, there I am!
Hyper Voice is not in the game. It’ll get Slash, Hyper Beam, and maaaybe if it’s lucky Tri Attack. Note also that Tri Attack has more synergy with Bitter Malice than does Hyper Voice.
No Leech Seed either. This thing exists to spam Energy Ball at an overwhelming action speed. Honestly, for the kind of game PLA is, that may work out just fine.
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I mean, with a very high speed stat, that would actually probably make spamming Strong attacks a solid strategy
If they do not give Hisuian Zoroark a single Normal special attack I'm frankly going to be rather upset.
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There has to be some drawback, right? I know the game says nothing about it, but it has to make you take longer until your next attack, like the opposite of Quick Attack, because of the main series recharge, right? Why do I have the glorious feeling that I might be wrong?
So based on current information what a possible best Team of only New Pokemon/Hisuian forms can be created?
Or do we need info on Learnsets, all Boss Battles etc to create one?
Or do we need info on Learnsets, all Boss Battles etc to create one?
Imagine something like Wailord max sized properly scaled with this...