This is actually a really cool combo, and it makes me hope Leon's Charizard has its Hidden Ability.
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Sword & Shield **Official news only** DLC Crown Tundra 22nd October
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I have a feeling one of the things with Dyn/Gigant-amaxing is players finding the most OP combinations they can do. You only got three turns so might as well make a big of a flash as you can.
Setting up vs. Instant OHKOes matters a lot tho in a match, the initial attack will be weaker than Y. Plus Dynamax's power will likely need to be compared against Dynamax bulk, as one player popping their Dynamax will likely be followed by the opponent dynamaxing their check. Sounds kind of unhealthy but it could lead to fun mindgames with the whole "will they/won't they" aspect of the mechanic
One of them is a Ingredients Pocket, the other is a pocket for the meals that are ready maybe
This is the bag UI, taken right from the website.
The tabs look like:
* medicine
* pokeballs
* in-battle items (X attack etc)
* berries
* Other Items (you can see this on the top)
* TMs
* ???
* ???
* key items
What are the two new tabs?
The first looks like some sort of shiny sphere (maybe items that are only good for selling? Kinda looks like a nugget) and the second looks like some sort of art palette with a paintbrush.
Yung Dramps
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Yup! In the speculatory meta, Charizard is a B-tier threat due to how potent it can be on sun teams with Ninetales. While it has recently come into competition with Heliolisk, it stands apart with its nuclear Fire attacks and Max Airstream raising its speed. Right now we haven't seen cases of weather abusers solely relying on Dynamax setting the weather they need, it's possible and can be useful in a pinch but you'll want regular setters like Pelipper on standby anyway.
I think Charizard is still crying in a corner at his 100 base speed...
Oh I just reminded Max Flying moves increase speed and charizard would finally get an actual stab to use (since it learns Air Slash AND Wing attack which both would boost up to the 130ish BP territory)
It's not as monodimensional as Z-moves or megas, it's flexible and can create some pretty cool combos.
If anything, the only underwhelming Max Moves are going to likely be the ones that debuff the enemy...
Also, special fighting types (and phisical for whatever the type that will buff special is) are crying in a corner. I was kinda hoping the "+ attack" buff would have been adaptive to the highest stat of the user :(
Oh I just reminded Max Flying moves increase speed and charizard would finally get an actual stab to use (since it learns Air Slash AND Wing attack which both would boost up to the 130ish BP territory)
I consider it part of the potential of the mechanic.
It's not as monodimensional as Z-moves or megas, it's flexible and can create some pretty cool combos.
If anything, the only underwhelming Max Moves are going to likely be the ones that debuff the enemy...
Also, special fighting types (and phisical for whatever the type that will buff special is) are crying in a corner. I was kinda hoping the "+ attack" buff would have been adaptive to the highest stat of the user :(
I'd prefer it that way, too, but there aren't really a lot of special-attacking Fighting-types in the game that aren't megas or legendaries. The confirmed highest SpA Fighting is Lucario which can easily fall back to physical sets if it plans to Dynamax thanks to a nearly-good Attack stat and Swords Dance (110 Atk vs 115 SpA).
Yung Dramps
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Yeah, there's not really a whole lot of specially-oriented Fighting types, and the ones that do exist typically have superior physical sets. Closest thing to a good special Fighting in SWSH OU rn is Mixed Kommo-o, and even that uses CC for fighting STAB
I wouldn't call that "to be fair". Datamining SM reveals that all the models are stored at their proper, scaled sizes. In battle, the scaling is deliberately changed after-the-fact to be 'incorrect' just so that a small Pokemon next to a large Pokemon doesn't look like a crappy pixelated blob on a 240p screen. One could argue the merits of this decision only because the game is still on 3DS hardware. After Let's Go fixed it thanks to being on the Switch, to see SwSh move backwards from Let's Go when the hardware limitation is already gone is a large disappointment even without the [redacted].
Another glimpse at Galar referencing the tweet explaining we will have some dribble of info over the next week or so. This one looks at the first major town we visit, and highlights the Train Station, the Boutique and the Grocer Shops. It also shows us the Pokemon Research lab.
It could be.
That said, I do suspect this area was also edited to hide parts of it (similarly to how they edited the Nessa Gym for the demo), as there's absolutely no Pokemon at all except that Wooloo, and while it's definitely not impossible, it's been very rare to have an almost entire town + all of its buildings completely devoid of human-belonging pokemon doing stuff around in the latest entries.
I find it really strange that they didn't reveal the name of the town. One wouldn't think that would be much of a spoiler.
Unpopular opinion, but...
I actually like this game's graphics. It's not as good as BoTW or Odyseey but I think this will look a lot better in handheld mode than they do (although they look much better on a big screen) which is how I play my Switch most of the time.
I actually like this game's graphics. It's not as good as BoTW or Odyseey but I think this will look a lot better in handheld mode than they do (although they look much better on a big screen) which is how I play my Switch most of the time.
Interesting that it's just a straight up bag of potatoes and not "bag of opatato berries" since every other human food item previously got turned into a berry.One of them is a Ingredients Pocket, the other is a pocket for the meals that are ready maybe
An interesting note was added by serebii following some clarifications from GF:
Game Sync is also gone, which was another major source of issue expecially if you didn't have a perfectly stable connection (on top of the 3DS internet being questionable far too often)
I find pretty interesting that everything will be checked via Pokemon HOME. Looks like it won't just be Pokemon bank v2 at all, but will have more features, first one being indeed being able to check the status of online ranking.
Firstly, I am glad for Global Link to not support SwSh as honestly the site has been a messy pile of bugs for far too long.
Game Sync is also gone, which was another major source of issue expecially if you didn't have a perfectly stable connection (on top of the 3DS internet being questionable far too often)
I find pretty interesting that everything will be checked via Pokemon HOME. Looks like it won't just be Pokemon bank v2 at all, but will have more features, first one being indeed being able to check the status of online ranking.
The games are looking more and more solid with every passing reveal, really hope we will get *the* announcement after release
Frankly, so far the reduced roster is the only thing I'm not satisfied at (and even then, it depends on how reduced it is - we could very well get as many mons as the first seven generations combined). Still, I'll wait until the inevitable ROM leak to spoil myself and see with conclusive evidence if it's worth buying.
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That's what I thought as well. With a phone app where we can trade Pokémon, register in tournaments and so on, I'm really happy we won't need to use PGL ever again. I lost my shiny Fini because PGL is bad at showing where things are. Online services used to have interesting things to do, like Pokémiles shop, Dream World and even the silly berry minigames, but now, it's a vast wasteland. I'm hoping Home fixes that.
- Sitting on chairs confirmed :P (I think Gen 7 removed this feature after Gen 6 introduced it?)
- That view from the top of the town over the lake and the "2nd lab" does look pretty neat
- Bank needed a subscription for non-storage functions, so if Home requires the same then needing to buy a Home subscription for previously free functionalities sounds like bad news. Unless I'm misunderstanding something?
- That view from the top of the town over the lake and the "2nd lab" does look pretty neat
- Bank needed a subscription for non-storage functions, so if Home requires the same then needing to buy a Home subscription for previously free functionalities sounds like bad news. Unless I'm misunderstanding something?
Home requires a sub in the sense you're going to need the Switch online to be able to use it, which is a subscription itself.
While I'm worried about other aspects of the game, at the very least the stuff we've heard on the online front has been mostly good news. The ladder taking a more Splatoon 2 like approach instead of just resetting every season, PGL not being needed for anything, and QR codes being replaced by simple IDs for team rentals are pretty great imporvements over what gen 7 offered. I'll miss Battle Spot Special, but otherwise, Battle Stadium has gotten me excited about this game again!
Battle Spot special modes don't necessarly need to be gone though. They could very well still happen albeith in different ways (as the amount of usually-not-available pokemon obviously diminished)