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Sword & Shield **Official news only** DLC Crown Tundra 22nd October
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I actually don't remember them talking about the size of the wild area in relation to BOTW
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2..._in_zelda_breath_of_the_wild_says_pokemon_rep
A lot of little things in Crown Tundra remind me of BOTW, and that made me think of it.
Oh pokemon reps, you really know how to do an upsell huh.
Something random but that I thought interesting is that according to the posts from Victory Road
Calyrex is classified as Restricted, but the two horsies are classified as regular Legendaries.
It's a first, since for all other ""fusion"" Pokemon, both components were classified as Restricted.
Calyrex is classified as Restricted, but the two horsies are classified as regular Legendaries.
It's a first, since for all other ""fusion"" Pokemon, both components were classified as Restricted.
The sad part is that Keldeo is banned. They let you obtain it in game normally, and you still can’t use it. Really TPC?
I don't think they plan to ever "de-mythicalize" him or Deoxys, even if they are obtainable in game.
Pretty sad as I love Keldeo, but I can't think of any case where they actually "changed" the category of a Pokemon :\
He can join Cosmog and Cosmoem :P
Or they could just make it legal despite being a Mythical Pokemon.
They don't really want this sort of inconsistency.
It's understandable as it would raise questions of "why this mythical and not that mythical".
I don't think it's too unusual. Glastrier and Spectrier have stats on par with "minor" legendaries unlike Reshiram, Zekrom, Solgaleo, and Lunala, and normal Necrozma and Kyurem are left out because Pokémon seem to be banned on a species basis, so they can't ban some forms but not others.
With the exception of Ash Greninja.
Odd you mention that, because Ash-Greninja was avalible as a free download from a Demo that it is still obtainable today. Yet, it was banned from Battlespot formats all together.
On the flipnote, Gigantamax Eevee and Pikachu were obtainable only from Let’s Go Pikachu/Eevee, 120$ paywall for both prior to Wild Area events that made them free. Yet, both were allowed in Battle Stadium despite being behind a paywall initially.
Part of me wonders if Ash-Greninja was banned specifically because it'd basically be adding another mega to your competitive party.
Was Ultra Necrozma allowed in the final years of gen 7 vgc? I watched some videos of the tournament but I don't remember anyone opting to use it and I'm not sure if htat was just because of z crystal being better off on someone else, not being worth the set up in general compared to the other necrozmas/restricted pokemon or not being allowed.
Ash-Greninja had a BST of 640 with 145 Attack, 153 Special Attack, 132 Speed.
If you're using G-Pikachu & G-Eevee you're giving yourself a handicap.
But it’s not like Mega where you can change form at will, you have to actually KO a Pokémon before picking up a knockout. Your a basically a worse Greninja without a KO.
And speaking of Ultra Necrozma, yes it was allowed in VGC in the Ultra Series and it was very popular. I don’t think being a second mega is Ash Greninja’s ban reason, otherwise Ultra Necrozma should be banned as well.
Then Cosmog, Cosmoem, and Calyrex should be allowed through your logic. And besides, Arash Ommati placed 1st online using Gmax Pikachu, so it’s not like their are completely usable.
So, going after the Regi now, and just discovered you can only pick one *sigh*.
So, like with Glastrier, going to pick the less popular one, which one is that?
So, like with Glastrier, going to pick the less popular one, which one is that?
Probably Regidrago. Regieleki is shockingly (heh) good competitively thanks to its ridiculous speed and Transistor, and that speed is just so comically high that I'm pretty sure people who don't care about competitive will still prefer it because
Regidrago doesn't do much in comparison.
The lack of possibility to have 2 horses and 2 new regi in the same game is really disappointed :(
Ultra necro was allowed. Though funnily enough
1) If you were streaming or recording for youtube, you had to actually obscure the Z move animation as that one would get copyright claimed for some godforsaken reason
2) Overally it was worse than just flat out running Duskmane due to omnipresence of fairies (tapu/xern) and requiring the double investment of restricted + Z-move
Thus it ended up having low usage.
As for Ash-Gren, it was banned purely cause it's essentially an event mon.
If i'm not wrong, Lycandusk was also banned in gen 7 for comparable reason, though it's now allowed in gen 8 as it's regularly catchable in game without requiring to breed from the event one.
As soon as you got access to it, take this into consideration:
the Slowpoke you have to catch is level 12
both your rival and Mustard have 2 pokemon, both unevolved, making them weaker than Milo
the pokemon you get access during the fields of honor are unevoved except for the roamers
do keep in mind that as you advance in the story the challenges go up in level, but even the Urshifu quest is recommended to be taken at level 30, recommended I did mine at level 25
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If you can buff up the Kubfu with some TR / TMs, it's doable earlier (plus, he'll also have access to EVs). I think someone made it at 24 back when IoA was released.
From the levels involved, I believe that the "intended" route of Isle of Armor is akin to:
-go there as soon as you hit the wild area
-Do the first trial
-Go back and mess with Milo & Nessa
-Second trial
-Go back and do Kabu
-Third trial, get kubfu
-Go to hammerlocke, maybe start going to bea?
-Go back, do the Tower
-finish the game
-finish the postgame
-G-Max Urshifu Quest
-bonus round: go start crown tundra now
-Final battle at the IoA
-bonus round: now you're all tundra
note that this is probably really optimistic considering you get the exp charm
Ha-ha....that's really funny. I wonder why Light That Burns The Sky of all possible things gets the copyright claim and nothing else.
This actualy feels like a conversation we had before and I think we determined that Dusk was, in fact, legal?