No info yet. Rooting for Ice/Fighting. This and Stonjourner needs confirmation for a possible dual type.
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Yung Dramps
awesome gaming
TRs do not cost Battle Points. They are obtained with Watts, a currency specific to Wild Area stuff from what we know
Does that affect the highlighting on the stats screen?
In other words, are all of the battle tower rentals actually neutral natured or have they been minted to be useful natured?
why do they keep making cover legends weak to ground type...
does GF have some type of groudon fetish??
does GF have some type of groudon fetish??
who's groudon? never heard of that pokemon in glorious galar.
This is only the sixth and seventh time there's a Ground-weak cover legend (Dialga, Zekrom, Reshiram, Primal Groudon itself, Dusk Mane Necrozma, and now these two ugly things)
Solgaleo too, although it kinda belongs in the same grouping as Necrozma-DM.
Don't forget Eternatus is also weak to Ground. So that's nine of them. That's quite a lot.
Lunala, Yveltal, Xerneas, Palkia, and Giratina are not weak to Ground
Okay so commenting on Dragapult, I think that's a really, really cool stat spread for our new pseudo legendary. It's hella fast, has Clear Body as an ability which makes it immune to both Intimidate AND potentially Sticky Web which is HELLA good for a Dragon Dance sweeper, plus solid Attack and a very strong type combo. Dragon Darts is a super good signature move and is essentially a 100 BP STAB, stronger than Dragon Claw and lacks the lock-in drawback of Outrage, and hits twice meaning Dragapult is a great Substitute breaker. Not sure what physical Ghost STAB it will have, but Phantom Force is decently usable and if it gets something strong and reliable that may be even better. Perhaps a special set with Draco Meteor and Shadow Ball miiiight be usable depending on if it gets something good there, with its high Speed giving it something distinct to stand out from Hydreigon and Goodra (former's a nuke/wallbreaker, the latter is a tank so they function a lot differently)
My only concern though is its potential coverage. I hope it gets access to strong coverage moves to cover potential answers such as Bisharp and other Steel-types. I hope it learns something like Earthquake or Superpower to serve as a coverage move, because I think if it lacks coverage that may be something that brings it down. It's a pseudo-legendary, and the past ones have had relatively wide movepools so I hope Dragapult is granted some great coverage moves to help it. Other than that though, Dragapult looks super promising and a great pseudo legendary, both battle wise and design wise! Can't wait to use it.
On the flipside though, from an in-game point of view it has to reach Level 60 to fully evolve. That is the highest we've seen since Hydreigon. I don't know what level Dreepy needs to reach to evolve into Drakloak, but Level 60 for Dragapult is ridiculously high. Hoo boy, this thing is gonna need a good long grinding to evolve, another Hydreigon situation. (though I guess I don't know what's more painful, stupidly high evo level like Dragapult/Hydreigon, or a Goodra situation where it needs to be raining in the overworld and Level 50 minimum to evolve haha).
My only concern though is its potential coverage. I hope it gets access to strong coverage moves to cover potential answers such as Bisharp and other Steel-types. I hope it learns something like Earthquake or Superpower to serve as a coverage move, because I think if it lacks coverage that may be something that brings it down. It's a pseudo-legendary, and the past ones have had relatively wide movepools so I hope Dragapult is granted some great coverage moves to help it. Other than that though, Dragapult looks super promising and a great pseudo legendary, both battle wise and design wise! Can't wait to use it.
On the flipside though, from an in-game point of view it has to reach Level 60 to fully evolve. That is the highest we've seen since Hydreigon. I don't know what level Dreepy needs to reach to evolve into Drakloak, but Level 60 for Dragapult is ridiculously high. Hoo boy, this thing is gonna need a good long grinding to evolve, another Hydreigon situation. (though I guess I don't know what's more painful, stupidly high evo level like Dragapult/Hydreigon, or a Goodra situation where it needs to be raining in the overworld and Level 50 minimum to evolve haha).
Also has it been confirmed if Mr. Mime and Mr. Rime have the correct typings. and plus the same with Eiscue and the Sizzlipede line.
Yung Dramps
awesome gaming
regular galarian forms will probably have similar stats to their vanilla versions outside of potentially some very minor re-arrangements.. evos are a different matter entirely tho
Do we know if Falinks's No Retreat move can be used multiple times? And if it makes it immune to Roar or Whirlwind?
Because if it can, it could make for a noob killer moveset a la early-BW Bulk Up Conkeldurr:
Also, while Dragapult is already threatening for singles, it's fairly well designed for doubles as well as it's immune to Intimidate (unless it gets an ability swap) and speed control not called Trick Room and Tailwind.
Because if it can, it could make for a noob killer moveset a la early-BW Bulk Up Conkeldurr:
Falinks @ Leftovers
Ability: Battle Armor
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
(+Atk, -SpA) Nature
- Substitute
- No Retreat
- Leech Life
- ???
Cannot be critted, cannot be statused, and if it can get multiple boosts then Leech Life would eventually break through resists and recover all damage taken from Substitute
Ability: Battle Armor
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
(+Atk, -SpA) Nature
- Substitute
- No Retreat
- Leech Life
- ???
Cannot be critted, cannot be statused, and if it can get multiple boosts then Leech Life would eventually break through resists and recover all damage taken from Substitute
Also, while Dragapult is already threatening for singles, it's fairly well designed for doubles as well as it's immune to Intimidate (unless it gets an ability swap) and speed control not called Trick Room and Tailwind.
Is it Bolthund or Boltund? Is it Rookiedee or Rookidee? Please for my sanity!
Tried my hand at calcing base stat ranges for Low Key Toxtricity based on the screen posted. I didn't account for EVs in this range.
Toxtricity Low Key Form:
HP: 61-76
Atk: 91-106
Def: 59-75
SpAtk: 107-123
SpDef: 64-80
Spd: 74-90
Sort of curious about Amped Form. Ability doesn't seem to mention form change so...
Toxtricity Low Key Form:
HP: 61-76
Atk: 91-106
Def: 59-75
SpAtk: 107-123
SpDef: 64-80
Spd: 74-90
Sort of curious about Amped Form. Ability doesn't seem to mention form change so...
PRAISE THE LORD, THEY FINALLY FOUND A WAY TO LET YOU NICKNAME EVENT POKEMON.
some of your typings are off -- you list togedemaru as elec/fairy and dhelmise as water/ghost for example
Wasn't Egg moves getting passed onto offsprings already possible a long time ago? I remember doing that all the time while breeding for stuff like Popplio
Plus two separate rolls for criting.
What they mean is that two Pokémon of the same species while in the Nursery can now pass Egg Moves into each other, not just potential offspring.
The Tox can handle anything, that's why its the Tox.