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SPOILERS! Scarlet & Violet Leaks Thread - Data/Mechanics
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with how phat "catch these hands" is, he can use it
It took nat dex having a bazillion removal options being shut down to ban it and that was by one vote. OU has less removal and has a much worse stacker/removal ratio so ghold does less of the heavy lifting. I could be wrong and it may be banned but right now it's looking unlikely.
Real Galarian Dustox hours
feel like people are massively overhyping supercell. marginally stronger than wild charge but with a drawback that means you can't even think of clicking it in the same zip code as a ground if it indeed works similarly to HJK. also 95 acc is wack, I'll take wild charge any day.
My honest reaction
Bro is celebrating worse Wild Charge
If the entire Pawniard line gets Throat Chop
That means good ol' Bisharp is finally free of lack of good STAB curse it had most of this gen
Electro Shot
PP: 10
Power: 130
Accuracy: 100
Type: Electric
Category: Special
Description: The user gathers electricity on the first turn, boosting its Sp. Atk stat, then fires a high-voltage shot on the next turn. The shot will be fired immediately in rain.
Cool an electric type meteor beam, and it also even better too.
Tera Starstorm
PP: 5
Power: 120
Accuracy: 100
Type: Normal
Category: Special
Description: With the power of its crystals, the user bombards and eliminates the target. When used by Terapagos in its Stellar Form, this move damages all opposing Pokémon.
So unless this move also changes type like Tera Blast, this just seems like boomburst with extra steps.
Fickle Beam
PP: 5
Power: 80
Accuracy: 100
Type: Dragon
Category: Special
Description: The user shoots a beam of light to inflict damage. Sometimes all the user’s heads shoot beams in unison, doubling the move’s power.
Ok how exactly does this double power mechanic work?
Burning Bulwark
PP: 10
Power: 0
Accuracy: 101
Type: Fire
Category: Status
Description: The user’s intensely hot fur protects it from attacks and also burns any attacker that makes direct contact with it.
I like this move somewhat as burning Pokemon makes it better than Baneful Bunker.
Thunderclap
PP: 5
Power: 70
Accuracy: 100
Type: Electric
Category: Special
Description: This move enables the user to attack first with a jolt of electricity. This move fails if the target is not readying an attack.
Seems like Paradox Raikou will be pretty decent in competitive here
Mighty Cleave
PP: 5
Power: 95
Accuracy: 100
Type: Rock
Category: Physical
Description: The user wields the light that has accumulated atop its head to cleave the target. This move hits even if the target protects itself.
So yeah confirms Ugly Terrakion is a physical attacker and seems pretty dumb in doubles.
Tachyon Cutter
PP: 10
Power: 50
Accuracy: 101
Type: Steel
Category: Special
Description: The user attacks by launching particle blades at the target twice in a row. This attack never misses.
So will it work like Dragon Darts and hit both opponents once in doubles, or like DWB?
Hard Press
PP: 10
Power: 1
Accuracy: 100
Type: Steel
Category: Physical
Description: The target is crushed with an arm, a claw, or the like to inflict damage. The more HP the target has left, the greater the move’s power.
Interesting to see Water Spout getting a physical clone now.
Dragon Cheer
PP: 15
Power: 0
Accuracy: 101
Type: Dragon
Category: Status
Description: The user raises its allies’ morale with a draconic cry so that their future attacks have a heightened chance of landing critical hits. This rouses Dragon types more.
So better version of Inner Focus or what?
Alluring Voice
PP: 10
Power: 80
Accuracy: 100
Type: Fairy
Category: Special
Description: The user attacks the target using its angelic voice. This also confuses the target if its stats have been boosted during the turn.
Pretty boring honestly.
Temper Flare
PP: 10
Power: 75
Accuracy: 100
Type: Fire
Category: Physical
Description: Spurred by desperation, the user attacks the target. This move’s power is doubled if the user’s previous move failed.
Stomping Tantrum reskin
Supercell Slam
PP: 15
Power: 100
Accuracy: 95
Type: Electric
Category: Physical
Description: The user electrifies its body and drops onto the target to inflict damage. If this move misses, the user takes damage instead.
Jump Kick reskin
Psychic Noise
PP: 10
Power: 75
Accuracy: 100
Type: Psychic
Category: Special
Description: The user attacks the target with unpleasant sound waves. For two turns, the target is prevented from recovering HP through moves, Abilities, or held items.
HMMMM I wonder how this interacts with Poison Heal? And Regenerator?
Upper Hand
PP: 15
Power: 65
Accuracy: 100
Type: Fighting
Category: Physical
Description: The user reacts to the target’s movement and strikes with the heel of its palm, making the target flinch. This move fails if the target is not readying a priority move.
Seems alright in Singles and very good in Doubles
Malignant Chain
PP: 5
Power: 100
Accuracy: 100
Type: Poison
Category: Special
Description: The user pours toxins into the target by wrapping them in a toxic, corrosive chain. This may also leave the target badly poisoned.
wow that's incredibly strong. If it wasn't for the PP it'd be a direct upgrade from Sludge Bomb.
This is what im waiting for
now I can ruin stall extra hard
We don't need HOME to know if a species is not in the game.
Magcargo has found an Elekid.
Is it time, Elebros?
Is it time, Elebros?
Mola has Pain Split...
Nah having things like Lando and Moltres that can reasonably 1v1 it would have made Ghold worse. On a similar note I feel like Gliscor's brokenness in dlc2 also kinda hinged on whether Defog returned, so I don't have hope for that either
Does anybody have a list of the abilities of the new pokemon/any changed abilities (a la Wind Rider Shiftry)?
That’s what I thought. People seem to be talking about Electro Shot and Fickle Beam while forgetting they’re signature moves
Does Blaziken get this? Seems like it could be exactly what it needs
with even a passable SpA stat it's still doing insane damage on fire moves under sun
some of the smarter guys in monotype a while ago predicted entei was going to have a defensive spread mirroring that of suicune and this move seems to check out on that hypothesis
It had Pain Split as an egg move back in gen 5 lol
We have way more triple axel abusers now so we should be set to deal with Gliscor so it can be scared of dealing with offense for once, Ghold has to go so spinners can function though.
Who would have thought meowscarada of all things can now beat Gliscor?
