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SPOILERS! Pokemon Sword and Shield Datamine Thread
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You cannot reverse a hidden ability to a normal one
It would make so much more sense to just make No Guard not work with OHKO moves, like every other accuracy check in the game, than for GF to go to these absurd lengths to prevent No Guard Fissure Machamp ever becoming legal.
Somehow I doubt they are even thinking of the fissure no guard machamp (which reminder, isnt legal in vgc anyway). I am confident they just dont consider necessary to be able to go back, in same way they never gave a way to reverse hyper train or have 0 IV caps.
"Why would you want to go back to a normal ability? You've got a hidden ability now! It's special! It's better!"
Something that surprises me is that with Gigamax they actually allow you to go back, which is unique in this regard.
Hey man, that Entrainment Truant Durant got me thousands of battle points by cheesing Protect + Acupressure Tentacruel. That lazy ant is a hero!
.... hhhuh. So I was right. They’re bringing back every fossil, even including relicanth; except specifically the sinnoh ones. Interesting! Very interesting!
Honestly if Relicanth and Wailord don't have some sort of connection to the Regis I'll be sincerely disappointed.
Given that they very explicitly showed the player character using one against a Regi in its tomb, I would be EXTREMELY surprised if there wasn’t. Definitely expecting very explicit versions of some braille riddles!
Maybe 15 years ago, but I expect now they'll just be hand delivered to us after three rounds of hand holding fetch quests
So going back to this real quick, it seems the stars tournament listing was probably either a place holder or a "before beating the dlc" set of trainers with the DREAMMATCHES likely being the "real" set. The latest trailer showed Klara, Avery, Mustard and Opal (the only base-game leader excluded) participating in the tournament, and presumably Peony & his daughter will join in too.
With that in mind...
- Hop (Starter 1, Wolf 1)
- Marnie
- Bede
- Milo
- Nessa
- Kabu
- Bea
- Allister
- Opal
- Gordie
- Melony
- Piers
- Raihan
- Leon (Starter 1)
- Klara
- Avery
- Mustard (Urshifu 1)
- Peony
- Peony's daughter
- Hop (Starter 2, Wolf 1)
- Hop (Starter 3, Wolf 1)
- Hop (Starter 1, Wolf 2)
- Hop (Starter 2, Wolf 2)
- Hop (Starter 3, Wolf 2)
- Leon (Starter 2)
- Leon (Starter 3)
- Mustard (Urshifu 2)
That seems to work out neatly, and would equally suggest that Hop's team will be Dubwool, Starter, Wolf while Leon will always have Starter and Charizard.
Hop in the normal version of the tournament, where he'll also bring his wolf, is already kind of scary. Gutting the cruft and putting him in a multi battle with another character who ALSO probably gutted the cruft? Horrifying.
Also double checking the trailer, Leon brings Aegislash as his lead. So that should be his squad: Aegislash, Starter, Charizard.
A slight twist to all this is Milo. I forgot that his team also changes between versions. In both versions he has Eldegoss, Bellossom and Cherrim but in Sword he has Shiftry & Flapple while Shield has Ludicolo (who we do see in the footage) and Appletun
That does throw the numbering off. Mysterious!
The easiest explanation is there's more than 27, but the number works so closely that I wonder if they might simplify (ie maybe one of Hop or Leo ndoesnt bring the starter at all, which would also open up for someone else to come in) or cut out someone. We know you fight Peony's daughter at least once and she'll help you out in Raids just like Avery, Klara & Peony, but maybe she's expendable like Honey might be?
Or they throw a curve ball and do something like "Have a nicknamed Regice holding a Snowball" thing again.
Would be hilarious, but odds are if they are gonna do "puzzles" it'll involve types or something
Oh when I say that I mean I straight up expect Peony to tell you “looks like ancient pokemon resonate well with this place... perhaps Relicanth would do the trick?”
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Banned deucer.
no that ain’t handholdey enough
he’ll give you a free relicanth because the door needs the power of friendship
Honestly considering the amount of work needed for that one, I'm fine with not going back to that level of effort for puzzles. There's a happy medium between "I'm handing you everything, go into this room and have fun" and "Read braille, put hard to find Pokemon in your party in a specific order, follow very specific commands, and then here are Regis".
I wouldn't mind a Seafoam Islands or Victory Road-type puzzle you needed to solve to get Articuno and Moltres to get brought back, I feel like there really hasn't been a good one of those in years and I actually still found them challenging in a replay of Fire Red recently.
I really wonder what the Armorite Ore-esque item introduced in the Crown Tundra will be used for.
I hope it will be used as currency for another move tutor, but for some old moves instead i.e. Knock Off. Other than that, maybe that's how you get Ability Patches?
I hope it will be used as currency for another move tutor, but for some old moves instead i.e. Knock Off. Other than that, maybe that's how you get Ability Patches?
It will be the entry fee for Dynamax Adventures.
