That's actually incorrect. Primarina learns Hyper Voice, which differently from Sparkling aria, doesn't hit the partner, so makes it the preferred ability for doubles.
Not that you smogon players would understand that official formats exist
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SPOILERS! Scarlet & Violet Leaks Thread - Data/Mechanics
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Not that you smogon players would understand that official formats exist
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Never forget CM Rest Snore Primarina... and uh I guess Hyper Voice in Doubles.
“You smogon players”That's actually incorrect. Primarina learns Hyper Voice, which differently from Sparkling aria, doesn't hit the partner, so makes it the preferred ability for doubles.
Not that you smogon players would understand that official formats exist
What website is this
Apparently, due to an oversight, none of the legendaries from Snacksworth have guaranteed flawless IVs. This is great news for people wanting to catch them with 0 Atk/0 Spe IVs. It's easier when IVs are not guaranteed.
Beast Ball it is! Thank you so much!
Well water type psychic noise is so much better than psychic type version. Primarina can absolutely run a CM stallbreaker niche with this new tool.
Rest/CM/water type psychic noise/moonblast is that insane? Either way hatterene is the clear best user of psychic noise
Wait... this isn't https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/ ?
This is my hope now, that the missing gen 7 mythicals get shoehorned in to Legends Unova and that's why they weren't added in ID despite all of the alola connections.
(He says, knowing that not all mythicals were available in gen 8 and GameFreak more likely views the situation as "they're available in at least one game on the switch").The dex omissions have really thrown a wrench into my team building for ID. In addition to Marshadow, Zeraora and Genesect were considerations for team slots, and I would have liked to use Naganadel too.
Of the mons available in the new dex, while there are a bunch that I like and haven't used on a team before, I'm having trouble finding a combination that feels right. I'm glad to hear that the new paradoxes are an option if I grind catching, but I'm still not sure I want to use them - I wish they had changed up Raikou's head more. But maybe the in-game models will grow on me.
I’m kinda bummed not to see Silvally this time around generally. Could be majorly buffed with at least some recovery move, and lower tier Arceus is nice. Looking at the list of not included mons wish it and the Tapus were here, pretty fine not having the rest. With Quark Drive and other additions it seems like Terrain teams couldve been a more viable archetype than any other gen.
Yeah... the funny part about it is that its in the data for the game... just doesn't work when given to Arceus.
Here’s a slight tweak I noticed with Blaziken when I fought Crispin. The model itself is the same (albeit updated with textures and whatnot) but it has a new idle pose in battle. It’s a bit hard to tell because the image I got is blurry, so focus the slight difference in the arm and leg posing.
I will post more model/animation changes when I find them while playing!
Looking through the lists of data by @mattyoukhana_ on twitter and I noticed something strange:
- Terapagos has a 50/50 gender ratio for some reason?
- The one you can obtain is set to be male anyway??
- Actually, it seems like all the static encounters are set to be male when eligible
- ...Although this seems to include Gouging Fire and Raging Bolt???
Am I reading this right????
I'm not the expert, but neither are you the first I've seen reporting this exact same oddity. Either the data was transcribed incorrectly, or the game's spaghetti code is just so inconsistent as to make a gender-locked encounter out of a 50/50 species. I lean towards the latter interpretation because I recall there being some similar weirdness when Iron Leaves and Walking Wake first dropped—they were flagged male but proven genderless in practice.
The question then is what the hell GameFreak actually intended. Is Terapagos supposed to be strictly male or even genderless like the other static encounters whereas they overlooked their own species data? Or is it simply a gendered species whose unique spawn inherited some rotten copypaste from those same other encounters?
Whatever the case, you're not alone in sensing it doesn't add up. Even HOME is saying female Terapagos is supposed to be at least obtainable.
This is just a guess, but it wouldn't surprise me if the anime's Terapagos is meant to be a girl to go with Liko. Maybe we'll get a female "Liko's Terapagos" at some point.
perhaps, but i think a more likely option is that they just fucked it up. this wouldn't be the only mistake they made in this dlc—they accidentally coded it so that the ivs for the new static legendary encounters don't have the regular 3 guaranteed perfect ones, which is actually better for those of us who want 0 attack/speed ivs on something
Hi. I am mostly lurking this thread for info dumps. I just want to say as someone who has won money playing / housed and driven people for / ran big projects to help provide Pokémon for VGC official events that the animosity towards Smogon formats by someone who I’ve only only ever seen posting in the casual section of the site feels weird and snippy. Smogon smooths out a desire people have to play 6v6 Pokemon and with the whole Pokédex in the absence of rare to no official support. It makes use of the tools we have for an alternative gameplay format that the series itself formats 98% of its battle in. Having participated in and at times helped run a physical IRL officially supported Pokemon League for like a decade, kids jump at 6v6 for play initially because they just want to play like they did in game. They also got pretty confused in Gen 6 and 7 why they couldn’t use their older Pokemon for the official tournaments we sometimes held. People like playing 6v6 singles! Complaints about how the tools have changed any given generation aren’t some grand crack in the foundation that there’s no point in playing Pokemon the way that a lot of people want to play Pokemon.
Maybe a big post dragging this isn’t appropriate, but I’ve seen you posting like this for several release cycles now. As someone who’s big on in game mechanics and casual play, and plays the official 3v3 singles format almost exclusively as his preferred competitive Pokemon vector, I think this attitude is annoying! Leave this sort of thing back in 2012 when the wounds were fresh from the great schism. It’s time to move on and let people play how they want to play, and not chastise people for how you think the figment of them in your head treats others.
I wanted to come back to this in hindsight because a lot of people were thinking this was about Koraidon and Miraidon's tera forms because of Light's speculation, when battle states just refer to these messages for Pokemon actions that appear in battle. The more you know!
TyoudenkiHou is the state for Electro Shot charging up, which was actually noted early on but underlooked, and makes sense for the name.
KimaguLaser refers to Fickle Beam's all out attack, since it's just the move's Japanese name and kimagure can mean fickle. Of note is that it only has one text variant.
terasushell is just Tera Shell.
Because when you click most moves, it either crits or it doesn’t. It also got me thinking how strong a crit would be with All-out Attack version of the attack, with comes out as pretty high.
I wonder if Sceptile might have marginal viability as a Shed Tail user in UUbers. Not really speaking to any particular trait I can think of just wondering if there’s anything that would set it apart enough from Cyclizar to give it a niche. A kinda unexpected addition to its movepool.
Gender is a
My guess is that, as that value would be useless in Raging Bolt and Gouging Fire anyway (because their species' ratio is 255), the dev responsible for the static encounters just gave the specimen's gender a value of 0 without giving a second thought, and the script the dataminers used for DLC2 caught the data and interpreted it as "gender: male".
...but then there's Terapagos lmao. It's also possible that they gender-locked it for lore reasons (so a potential "Liko's Terapagos" eventmon could be female) and copypasted the values for the other legendaries. I wouldn't put it past them, considering how they fucked up with Cleffa and Azurill decades ago.
I knew about Trans Marill but what happened with Cleffa?