I’ve been thinking, assuming that Legendary Pokémon will be catchable, that means that Birds, Beasts, Tower Duo, Creation Trio, Genies, and Island Guardians will have their HA avalible for use in Cartridge Formats in years, with notably the Genies and Island Guardians not being avalible since Dream Radar as well as being the first time Telephaty is avalible on the Island Guardians.
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I was thinking similarly but there's no guarantee that these raids can spawn HA versions of the legends (even if they totally should, it's been years since some of these HAs were released...). Since they seem to be the "boss" of the dens I suspect it'd be relatively easy to make a special exception for the abilities they can draw on.
I just realized Slowbro shoots out of Shellder's butt.
Through that logic, the Legendary Pokémon should not be caught at all. Anyway, I’m wondering how difficult the Legendary Raids will be. I’m hoping they are not Mewtwo tier difficulty, while that’s fun for the challenge,it would be a pain for us Competitive players who want to catch multiple copies for the competition.
Pfft. As far as inanimate object designs go, Regidrago's is absolutely killer. Prove me wrong.
Really? I'm not seeing complaints about them (outside of "why isn't Zapdos Electric/Fighting, and why Moltres isn't Fire/Dark?")
Well Mewtwo raids were meant as a event challenge and not catchable so defeating them was for the sake of challenge.
Personally I'm not expecting anything *special*, comparable difficulty to the 5 star raids except it's pokemon with actually high BST, so you might need to actually use type advantages rather than go in with whatever.
I do hope that HAs will be available though.
Mewtwo prrrrobably won't be the standard for these. Mewtwo was designed as a boss you couldn't even catch it. THese are designed to catch.
Ideally these raids are easier? From the little bits we see of exploration this sounds like a really extended affair just to reach them. Seems like you'll have to go through at least one, likely multiple, raid battles first. Having to go through X of those with a group of people just to get to the (no-doubt randomly selected) legend at the end and then deal with a super hard challenge just sounds exhausting even with Nintendo's online and raid battles themselves weren't already to begin with...
I'm not sure if I agree with this feeling. From both this and the original trailer, it just feels that rather than in the wild area, the "legendary" dens are in a cave where you just walk normally and then fight as usual.
They do speak of new co-op feature but never exactly iterated on what...
Did we really need another one? :P
I just realized that Rillaboom gets automatic priority the moment he hits the field with Grassy Surge and Grassy Glide. Looks like he can be a decent physical attacker in the higher tiers
pssst, it already was before and already is right now.
It's basically poor man's Tapu Bulu
The HA Galar starters are only available on the mobile version of HOME, right?
Did there really need to be more exclusive presents that those of us without smartphones can't get??
Did there really need to be more exclusive presents that those of us without smartphones can't get??
Grassy Slide is Special Though.
Rillaboom is faster though, and it has a Higher HP. I could see it having a niche as a Choice Scarf user, though lack of a Secondary STAB hurts an offensive Grass type.
Damn really? His SpA is pretty low
Well, lack of a secondary STAB... it's not like Tapu Bulu effectively had one in Gen VII.
Nah seems pretty easy to resolve. Regular Slowbro can mega evolve. Galarian Slowbro cannot. Done deal.
See also: Farfetch'd G gets to use Eviolite bonuses, regular Farfetch'd does not.
The co-op feature has always been the Den stuff. From the website in January
And the trailer calls it the co-op mode as well
Anyway, meanwhile.
This, to me, looks like you go on different paths but have little control otherwise. Some of them dont seem to have dynamax (good) but you definitely will likely have to deal with them eventually and I bet Legendary pokemon are only "deep" within them. So you'll likely be in here a long time regardless of if they're at the end or if there's no end at all.
As far as what i'm reading in the OU forums, they're actually talking of Band (same as Bulu, band + stab + terrain on 120 BP moves rends to hurt things, even resists) or utility (since it has solid bulk and passable typing with good support moveset).
Also, from what I heard from VGC players, Rillaboom should have a solid use in VGC since it doesnt result in you playing 3v4 just to have a terrain up.
Cinderace and Intelleon, sadly....
Tapu Bulu gets Play Rough according to the Datamine now.
The obvious solution would be that the mega would be locked to regular slowbro, under the same logic of regional evolutions. But, interestingly enough, you could make an argument that Mega G-slowbro would just be regular Mega Slowbro. Sure, the shellder starts in a different place, but since it's going to consume the entirety of the slowpoke anyway, that doesn't need to matter. Both slowpokes share statlines, so it's not unrealistic to expect the same HP and BST between the Slowbro forms. Shell armour is acquired in both, so that just leaves the typing. If we assume that G-slowpoke doesn't naturally lean towards poison, then it's reasonable to say the secondary type of Mega G-slowbro would just be Shellder's primary type i.e. Water.
We don't actually know this. To my knowledge, there is no information on if it's physical or special. Serebii says it's special, but Serebii also says Shell Side Arm is physical even though the website explicitly says "Shell Side Arm is a Poison-type special move", so Serebii is full of shit when it comes to these new moves.
If there's CPU co-op by god they better give us better CPUs to work with or this mode is an unplayable disaster
Let's avoid posting info from the datamine in this thread, please.
Anyways I love that Galarian Slowbro has a arm cannon, it can cosplay as Megaman or Samus and this make me wonder where shellder will go on G-Slowking, only the belly hasn't been bitten.
EDIT: I've totally forgotten that G-Slowking was already partially shown.
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