Bellibolt was seen using Mud Bomb which was unusable in SWSH and BDSP though added back in PLA if you count that.
Personally I took his comments in a different way based on
this post by soulsilverart and I'll link the relevant images/tweets here.
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Specifically he points out that the nobles will get buffs from their "leaders", which has been said to be the box legendaries among the classes of paradoxes. This may be related to how
"some of the new concept mons share a new mutual ability" and maybe involves an interaction with the box legendary abilities.
For context, randomly saying
"Drought Electric Surge" is what some people think is a hint to the box legend abilities setting something on top of his recent tweet relating them to Groudon and Kyogre, and Khu has said he has
told the box legend abilities 5 days after that post. Speaking of which, based on
Kaka's hints, their Japanese names are along the lines of "Scarlet Beat" and "Halogen Engine".
Also on the power of paradoxes, he called them "
very powerful in battles" and "
op mons".
Sounds relatively easy to guess that the Paradox mons will interact with the cover legends in some way that they will get buffed.
The obvious way to have that happen is to tie them together with Abilities, especially if the whole "Scarlet Beat/Halogen Engine" ability leak for the cover legends is correct.
This likely means that the "Noble Paradoxes" will have it, and the shitmons will have regular stuff.
I can't say I'm well-informed about them BST-wise. Maybe one of the leakers has already talked about it and I missed it.
As for who are the big winners... Let's be real, there are very obvious suspects for each group. Especially with Khu straight up mentioning "Shillmons".
(Reminder that all art in the MakioDex is fanart.)
Source:
https://www.makio.it/pokemon/sv-dex/paradox
Suicune and Virizion, as legendaries and likely DLC mons, are obviously going to have that "noble thing".
With the idea of "Shillmons and shitmons" in mind, it's a pretty decent guess that Volcarona, Salamence/TTar and Hydreigon will have it. On the Ancient Side, I can only guess that Amoonguss, as the only fully evolved mon of the bunch, is the counterpart to Hydreigon on that front.
Donphan might be a toss-up. It could have it or not based on the same reason, the fact that it has both an Ancient and Future Paradox form.
It could be elevated to "Noble" status because of that and the other case, Volcarona, being an obvious pick for it. Not to mention it shares a typing and potentially some design choice with the cover legends.
On the other hand, it might not happen to set them apart more and to even out the number of "Commoners" and "Nobles". I'd guess Donphan is a "Noble" tho.
And then there were the mooks...
The key to figuring them out is the Ancient mons. Puff, Missy and Magneton aren't even in their final form. That means a remix and potentially a BST buff (Or not) is what they're getting. This also helps the Paradox group as a whole to not feel as homogeneous as the UBs did in a way.
Taking that into consideration, Future Delibird will probably not be delivering cans of whoop-ass and Future Gallade and Hariyama are likely on the same boat as Magneton as solid, potentially cool mons with a unique ability compared to the rest of the paradoxes.
