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>Pokémon home update for ZA confirmed for tomorrow

>No news for Fire Red, Leaf Green yet, but rumored to be included.
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>>59119203
I want to say there's no reason FRLG shouldn't be included but knowing how the pokemon company works it'll added on some random day 6 months from now
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>>59119203
So this is gatcha slop, right? It's already confirmed we're not getting the whole pokedex on release. I'm gonna guess they'll be drip feeding pokemon into the game for years.
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>>59119203
Are there any known Eeveelution buffs?
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>>59119638
Its live service, at least for now not a gacha. There is randomness in the teams you can recruit from champions but I dont think you can pay for "more rolls" and whatever is playable in the season you can transfer so saying its a gacha is a stretch unless you don't own any other pokemon game.

They will change playable pokemons per season in ranked (apparently). So they do want people to keep paying for moves, pokemon and what not tho
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Can some gigachad give me a Mega Dragonite team with movesets and spreads

NOBODY is talking about this guy so it's hard for a complete beginner like me to start
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>>59119703
Mega Dragonite + Pelipper. Being a STAB Hurrican spammer is the best thing MDnite has going for it.
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>>59119647
>gengar loses encore
>incineroar loses knock off
These are the ONLY 2 moveset changes we know about. Nobody at PAX was allowed to look through movesets and all the early access poketubers hardly had time to look at any. We only know these 2 changes because Wolfey spotted them. So we'll likely be waiting until release day before we learn all the nerf/buffs.
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We get the Home update for ZA tomorrow. Hopefully we'll be able to datamine all the megas abilities. Bank apparently had all the data for megas despite not being able to transfer them or held items.
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>>59119638
just transfer everything from pokemon home, then it stops being a gacha
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Odds of getting new megas on release that we dont know about yet?

They have to make a mega maCHAMP[/spoiler] for CHAMPions, r-right?
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>>59119912
zero chance because they would’ve been advertising it
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>>59119945
Game's not out for another year, why would they advertise everything this way ahead?
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Is there more variety in singles "meta" than doubles?
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I just hope it includes ZA mega abilities.
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>>59119872
You don't understand. This is a POKEMON board, which means nobody here actually plays pokemon. Champions threads will be filled with crybabies and beggars since they didn't prepare for a game we knew about a year ago.
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>>59119986
This is all anyone really wants out of the Home update.
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>>59119638
>It's already confirmed we're not getting the whole pokedex on release. I'm gonna guess they'll be drip feeding pokemon into the game for years
God this is so gay if it's true
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>>59120025
It IS true. I don't know why you dumb fucks want the full pokedex so badly. Nobody wants to play with fucking Urshishit and Ogrecunt anymore.
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>Mobile games are now getting dex cut
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>>59120025
Its obviously true.

The way they can milk money is changing what pokemons are playable each season. They get to promote new games, avoid a stale meta and make special events.


I have been in the mood of getting Fire Red or Leaf Green to play this weekend and get some of the pokemons i cant catch in Scarlet, but having only like 10 pokemons from there in Champions definitely bothers me.

I dont want ZA or SS.
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I'm going to jump into Champions when it comes out. I have been completely out of the loop w/ competitive pokemon since shortly after the release of S/V (so about early 2023). I have not played ZA. What should I know about the current meta?
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>>59120112
It's weather wars galore currently on the Pre-Champions showdown server. Expect at least one weather setting (Mega-Froslass, Pelliper, Ttar, Prankster Whimsicott). Incineroar is pretty common to due to intimidate.

Archaludon is menace due to Stamina + Body Press so watch out for that too.
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>>59119967
No.
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>>59120112
pelipper archaludon, some pelipper archaludon, some people running pelipper archaludon or the least popular version pelipper archaludon

there's some extremely good players who see a bit of success with politoed archaludon however
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>>59120168
>already got master rank mark on my peli
Time to step up, Mr. Toad
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>>59120168
I love overcentralized metas because it means I can just play the hard-counter and get easy wins. That's right, go Pelipper and Archaludon.
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>>59120174
ah yes the hard counters like uhh, hmm.
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Pokemon Champions is the legacy battle system's retirement home. The main games will no longer feature it so expect severe streamlining.
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>>59120178
Runerigus I guess
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>>59120179
I could see this being true, but I also expect Winds and Waves to be turn based like usual.
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>>59120181
eats a hydro pump
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>>59120178
Gastrodon our lord and savior
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>>59120181
i press weather ball, ggs shake my hand
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>>59120168
It's the most blatantly obvious strong duo that doesn't take up your mega slot.

We also don't even have any terrain setters confirmed. So it's all weather wars right now when nobody can even build an expanding force team.
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>>59120178
Yzard, but it can turn the game into a coin flipping weather war pissing match if the pelipper/arch player is good.
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electro shot was a fucking mistake
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>>59120213
Switches to gastrodon
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>>59120235
sorry i lied i actually pressed tailwind
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Haven’t played competitive since SM. What are some good Singles mons?
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>>59120246
>Singles
who cares
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>>59120240
MY second slot trick roomed
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I don't think anyone is actually going to lead Peli+Arch right?
You'll keep pelipper in the back to fish for mega weather.
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>>59120267
>lead peli arch
>swap peli for politoed if opponent has weather
gg ez
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>>59120267
nice try
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>>59120269
>have 2 overlapping support mons with common weaknesses
u do u
>>59120294
>lose weather supremacy T1
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>>59120207
>>59120235
as someone who loves gastrodon but has zero experience with vgc, this is great news to me. what are some good mons to go along with gastrodon? I have a shiny charizard in Go, would charizard Y be good? what else?

i give zero fucks if my team is autistically optimized and min maxxxed, I just want some decent synergy to have fun and not get btfo in every battle when this game comes out. I have access to just about every mon through home, so that's not a concern.
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>>59120310
Hate to break it to you anon, but gastrodon isn't confirmed for Champions just yet
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>>59120247
Me hence the question
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I think I want to build a team around Mega Gengar, shadow tag sounds fun. Any suggestions?
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>>59120341
Flutter Mane
Calyrex-Shadow
Incineroar
Urshifu (rapid)
Rillaboom
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>>59120333
if gastrodons not in it, then i'm not playing. simple as.
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>>59120341
Perish trapping with Gengar and/or Politoed, also using the latter to manipulate weather and pair with backup rain abusers
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>>59120269
You simply don't lead pelipper if you see a torkoal in team preview
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>DUDE SHADOW TAG MEGA GENGAR IS GONNA BE SO BROKEN
>always gives you a chance to switch before mega evolving
I don't know what all the hype is about
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>>59120346
You joke but I actually want to use Flutter Mane whenever she's available even if she fills the same role as Gengar, just because I like Misdreavus a lot. If it were feasible I'd run an entire ghost team.
>>59120356
Good idea, I like Politoed.
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how many people are going to play this and drop it within the month?
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>>59120411
I dunno. there won't be a steamchart for you to shitpost over though.
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>>59120411
about 3
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>>59120411
Most casuals probably will
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>>59120411
It will be a game that twitter troons complain about constantly but continue to play religiously every day.
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>>59120461
I will keep complaining about the lack of pre-evos and play everyday, yes.
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>>59120411
Many people may not be enfranchised because the game is structured as a time sink.
They tout "accessability" a lot by removing things like IV's or simplifying EVs, yet the make it take 2 battles worth of time to change a single move.(250VP for a move, 200VP for victory) What they really mean is the game is more available to play.
At the end of the day this game is monetizing a core aspect of the Pokemon series that up till now was just granted.
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Mega Gengar has been speedcrept so badly by threats that I don't see it making big waves.
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>use my daily to hopefully get a viable mon
>my choice are hisuian avalugg, emboar, simipour, ariados, scovilain and watchog
Maybe the dexcut wasn’t a bad idea after all
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>>59120478
How many times are you low IQ niggers gonna post about VP per battle? The game has MISSIONS you retarded fuck. Most your VP will come from those. Nobody is gonna have to grind a million battles just to get VP.
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>>59120478
>200VP for victory
source?
> this game is monetizing a core aspect of the Pokemon series that up till now was just granted
>granted
>have to own full price games
and you can literally just transfer them
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>>59120491
>source?
https://youtu.be/pOfW-qdsvpU?si=MLMuY2tH5aLUBkTP
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>>59120488
And those missions will be frontloaded to hell to hook you in and then slow to a trickle
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>>59120501
do we get 200 at any rank? do we get 200 only for victory? do we get something if we lose?
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>>59120487
>aw sorry player, best we can do is Wailord
>would you like to purchase additional rolls using our in-game tickets*
>*purchased with real money
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>>59120512
idk anon. all we know is that winning in the lowest rank gives 200
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>>59120478
>>59120501
>>59120502
You are free to just transfer your pokemon from the main games, you know?
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>>59120512
You get 200VP.
Your questions don't matter.
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>>59120525
do they really not matter or are they just inconvenient to your agenda
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What's even the point of a game like this if out of a gazillion pokemon, everyone is basically forced to use the same handful or lose.

Like what's the point of having a heracross if its going to get shitted on by the meta.how can you have a "competitive" game where 90% of the roster are liabilities. I dont think anything game comes even close to how unbalanced this will be.
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>>59120555
>anon discover gacha for the first time
For every 6 stars pokemon there need to be be 20 one stars dexfiller
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>>59120555
Articuno had zero results prior to 2024.
There are different mons that can be well positioned in a given meta.
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>>59120578
>articuno had 0 used before they fixed the ice type in gen 9
wow
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>>59119203
Kitt sexo
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>>59120589
Thanks for agreeing you retarded nigger.
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>>59120555
>I dont think anything game comes even close to how unbalanced this will be.
its so funny that people say things like this, its like they were born yesterday
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>>59119638
>So this is gatcha slop, right?
yes and no
the recruitment system is more or less gacha, but it can also be entirely avoided if you've touched go or any mainline game in the last 10 years
even if you haven't, people have already organized efforts to gather a bunch of pokemon that can be brought to champions in exchange for fletchlings or something
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I haven't played doubles since gen 6
Is fake out still very strong on a lead? Are priority abusers like prankster/gale wings still good?
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>>59119955
champions is out in a week
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>>59120179
I genuinely feel that wifi battles might go extinct in future games if champions doesn't flop.
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>>59120797
yes to all, though gale wings got nerfed so now it only works when you have full hp
ergo, talonflame is more of a fast support mon now that clears hazards with defog or sets up instant tailwind
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>>59119778
>>59119986
I'm struggling to see why this wouldn't have new mega abilities, the update is for both ZA and Champions. The mobile version of Home lists mega abilities in the pokedex.
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>>59120797
There's a lot more fake out counterplay these days. Lots of mons gained immunity(inner focus) and covert cloak now exists.
It's a strong tool, but not nearly as strong as it was.
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>>59120815
the pla home update didn't include abilities for those mons, even though they had some coded in that game
that update also proves they can just leave things like that blank, so i would argue it's far more likely we won't actually know their abilities until champions drops next week
not a terribly long wait, but it would of course be nice if we didn't have to
i just wouldn't get my hopes up too far
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>>59120821
>muh plass replacement shitmon
that’s because they didn’t matter unlike mega evolutions
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>>59120821
PLA Home update is a pointless comparison, it released a year before SV in a time when no game used their abilities. And again this is literally the update for both ZA and Champions, on what planet does it not have basic data from those games?
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Has there been any confirmation that if a pokemon goes to Champions that it can go back to previous games? Some of my guys aren't done getting all their ribbons...
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>>59120816
armor tail, psy terrain, and ghost type as well
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>>59120840
Iirc Champions doesn’t change the games a Pokemon can move to, it’s transferring to ZA that is a one way trip
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>>59120832
even if we did pretend that was a metric any official pokemon product cared about, several of the pla mons saw a ton of success in competitive play
>>59120835
>And again this is literally the update for both ZA and Champions
the only game that's been confirmed for this update is z-a
no fr/lg, no champions
>on what planet does it not have basic data from those games?
this one
>z-a: has no abilities
>champions: compatability not being added with this update
solve for x
>>59120840
yes
mons that go to champions from home aren't locked there and can go back to home whenever you want
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>>59120840
Apparently you don't actually send Pokemon to Champions, they just get locked in Home when visiting, meaning no compatibility issues. This is info from C*ntro though so the credibility is a coin flip.
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>>59120794
They should restart the Magnemite Coil, that shit was dope back in Gen 5
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>>59120847
based
>>59120850
I knew they could go back to home, I meant like going to BDSP to get the daily or contest ribbons
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>>59120850
>the only game that's been confirmed for this update is z-a
Champions is, but not FRLG
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I'm really happy they're killing IV's for champions. This alone might save the game for me
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>>59120207
>>59120310
Gastrodon has not been confirmed yet. Seems like it has a high chance to appear but we don't know at this stage.
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>>59120310
calyrex shadow
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>>59120589
Sometimes it's not just fixing. Sometimes it's certain mons interacting with a generational gimmick in just the right way. Look at normal tera choice band extremespeed Dragonite. Dnite was "okay" until Gen 9. A niche pick, generally seen as a worse Salamence. Now it's a dangerous threat next to Chien Pao. Or, looking back at Gen 8, physical Thundurus with Fly and Wild Charge; it was one of the best Dynamax users.
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>>59120883
do that for WW too, it's always been a garbage mechanic.
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>>59120179
That makes no sense. Why would the pvp for a game use a different battle system than the game itself.
>buy Pokemon Gen 12
>it has a real time battle system in game
>but multiplayer pvp is a turn based system that hasn't been in game in a decade
Either Champions will be updated to match the battle system of the main games, or the main games will stay turn based.
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>>59120809
It's Pokemon. If Champions isn't abandoned by the next console gen, it will get updates 6-12 months after the mainline games.
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>>59120987
In other news fuck Mega Dragonite it doesn’t even do anything cool it’s just normal Dragonite with 700 BST
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>>59121000
I agree it doesn't make sense, but there's words from the developers themselves that suggested(paraphrasing) they wanted to house the legacy battle system in Champions and that would allow GF to experiment with Pokemon's main series, as though they feel it's restricting them.
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>>59121023
Yep and you don't want to lose multiscale T1, so even running inner focus and absorbing a fake out is pointless.
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>>59121027
It should have gotten Aerilate with those giant wings on its head.
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>>59121000
Or the main games have their own online battle modes like ZA and don't interact with the classic format at all.
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>>59121030
>dragon/flying pseudo with Aerilate
Seems a bit redundant, no?
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>>59121037
It's better than bootsless Multiscale, and gives it accurate Flying STAB.
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>>59121023
it's a special attacking sidegrade. I don't see it being used outside rain teams though.
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>>59121032
Or Game Freak shouldn't be trying to fix what isn't broken, and actually make good turn-based JRPGs again.
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>>59120179
>ignoring teraleak to spew fanfiction
They outright said in teraleak files the "main" series (it's ALL "main series" to them btw) or rather paired new Gen entries and the DLC packs for them are the "classic" (read baby-easy for kids and casuals) formula and as such retain the "retarded child" turn-based battle engine (because that's far easier for children and normalfags to process than expecting them to have played twitch vidya to the point of "getting" the combat flow's adjustments to the proceedings (got bodied by 4 alpha carnivine in L: A as I couldn't just nobrain the cunts and they were gangbanging me after starting off badly). The catch scene displayed in the trailer sure does look like the "classic" catch attempt cutscene the non-Legends games received on Switch also (as well as every other fucking babby-tier entry in the series history has portrayed in SOME fashion).
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>>59121056
BW sucked lil bro
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>>59121091
The fact that Champions (ie. the new PvP hub) is still turn-based proves that your retarded gibberish is dead wrong.
It's the new battle systems that are aimed at the casual audience who refuse to play anything without the Pokémon branding.
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>>59121056
Based on the trailer it seems like it's still turn based, it's possible it'll be more like Arceus since that doesn't really work for multiplayer but is fine tor singleplayer.
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>>59121100
>pokémon used to make good jpgs
>automatically thinks of black/white
What did he mean by this?
I could've meant literally any other pre-Switch mainline game. Not just Gen 5.
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>>59121100
well yes, every gen sucked more than the last
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>>59121113
>Based on the trailer it seems like it's still turn based,
That's my point.
There nothing wrong with the original battle system as long as Game Freak balance their games properly.
Nufans just like being contrarian.
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were going to see pokemon change into arpg slop. its happening, deal
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>>59121110
>the fact that it's [HEADCANON]
Its existence is to kill showdown lad. That's why they're starting with two expired gimmicks before going to ANOTHER expired gimmick for L: G. But until 2028 and they saying "hey, VGC is on champions", assuming it's staying there is foolish (cart comps ensure everyone playing's a nice nintendrone and not some filthy phonemonkey, regardless how much per year they're paying).] And seeing as the engine for Champions is the default game engine for ALL the paired games (as again, they're kept retard child friendly and the trad game engine is so retard child friendly legitimately stalling out the clock on cunts was a legitimate strat on the tistic magnet that Champions is going to aid targeting with a C'n'D order). Enjoy watcing the sherminator or whatever the cunt's name is getting dragged into court for historic flagrant copyright abuse.
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>>59121091
The legacy battle system is much more elaborate than ZA. You'd have to be a mental midget to not see that clearly.
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>>59121133
Literally just play Xenoblade, bro.
It has an actual world to explore and you don't even need a new console to play it.
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I will give them a few millions in microtransactions to make sure they get another taste of that forbidden mobage money fruit until they stop making those garbage mainline games. I already did it with GO, Unite and Pocket.
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>>59121136
And yet it's retard easy, where kids can sit for hours agonising over what move to use (or more likely "sit as a 4 year old sperg looking at the free marketing of the monsters, while it tries to work out what the fuck it should do, all the while without getting molested, pushed in a crate and mailed back to Momma until they make their move"). Yeah anon, that's the key factor in ANY long-standing well-appreciated mechanic - easy as fuck to understand and work within, high as fuck ceiling to get to top-level play competitively. Doesn't actually discredit anything I said and you'd have to be an autstic cunt to ignore the deliberate differences in the mechanics of both (because the Legends series is ALSO a more experimental game series, where they specific ally set out to present adifferent battle engine to what came before (while still holding some traits of it).
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>>59121159
>play [unrelated teen weeb angst horseshit]
Why the fuck would I want to play not!Pokémon pokémon on Switch? And what's funniest is I gave the exact same response (adjusted for game and system) to a mate IRL who suggested I play FFX on PS2. I don't care for non-Pokémon JRPG's because the JRPG/RPG formula isn't really my bag, unless it's somehow tied to a similar, but unrelated mechanic (BL series - shooting things earns points, which earn levels which earn perks which persist across play sessions, melding action/shoot 'em up style gameplay with RPG tropes). just accept Game Freak are beholden to the publisher and producer of the hardware they deveop for and not brown phonemonkeys who can't afford a new Switch 2.
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>>59121166
>easy as fuck to understand and work within, high as fuck ceiling to get to top-level play competitively.
Yes. That's what makes the og battle system so good.
Are just literally that stupid to not realise that you've just debunked yourself?
I don't see the point in reinventing the wheel when they struck gold on day one.
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>>59121182
>And what's funniest is I gave the exact same response (adjusted for game and system) to a mate IRL who suggested I play FFX on PS2.
Your friend is smart. If you like Legends Arseus' battle system, Final Fantasy 10 is something you should try out. Especially since it has been ported to Switch as well.
It's very linear, though. So it might not be for everyone.
>just accept Game Freak are beholden to the publisher and producer of the hardware they deveop for and not brown phonemonkeys who can't afford a new Switch 2.
Nintendo?
I doubt Nintendo wants Pokémon to turn into a Xenoblade knock-off, when they already own Xenoblade.
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>>59121133
They aren't going to kill Showdown. They don't want to kill Showdown, even with Champions existing.
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Does Dondozo do poorly into Archaludon? I haven’t seen people talk about it much
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>>59121266
yes. no tera to save it from weaknesses and low spdef
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Which items do you guys think will be most slept upon?
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>>59121269
Hard to say without abilities. Maybe Chimecho. Decent type, good bulk, and about as deep of a movepool as it would need.
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>>59121266
>Go go gadget Electro Shot
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>>59119203
>24 hours until we finally get mega ability confirmations
Who are you most excited for?
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I know a lot of people like tera, I do too, but it will be nice playing a meta that isn't so gambling heavy.
Tera fundamentally changed the way we play the game by making the first objective to force your opponent to burn tera just to get the ambiguity out of the way. You played this way to ensure you weren't putting all your chips in on one turn just to be wrong and lose the game right there.
High stakes bluffing is stressful. Mega formats aren't nearly as much of a mystery, you generally can guess from the team preview who is going to evolve allowing you to map out turns in advance easier.
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>>59121000
Also why literally make an explicit spinoff series with its own new systems of battling and then change the mainline to match them. It's like saying Zelda Four Swords Adventures is a sign that LOZ is gonna be a multiplayer co-op franchise from now on.
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>>59121283
Malamar
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>>59121269
Brightpowder. Looking at the PAX demo it's likely one of the freebie held items they'll start you out with. So we are gonna see a LOT of rng hax at launch.
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>>59121283
Falinks
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You guys wanna hear something nasty
Shed tail mega Dragonite
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>>59121277
Just looking at the calcs, Dozo has no problem standing in front of arch because EQ is an easy 2hko with commander.
Arch is outsped and only does about 40% with +1 electro shot. Pelipper doesn't get haze, so make sure you have that positioned somewhere.
Dozo + Tatsu teams are going to be really oppressive because Tatsu can mega after losing Dozo.
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>>59121287
It doesn't really matter anyways because between the starters having abilities listed on the website and the SV camera system being used in the trailer when that pikachu got caught I don't know what combat system gen 10 would even use if not turn base. Especially when it comes to underwater combat.

That and we already have that leak of the melty pikachu that was in a turn base battle.
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>>59121295
How… fun.
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>>59120487
This is going to lead to various Pokemon being absolutely hated.
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>>59121295
>brightpowder
>focus band
>king's rock
>scope lens
>quick claw
>blunder policy
Here is your 6 free held items bro. Go farm those twitter clips!
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>>59121319
Honestly I think having both the Legends series for real time battles and prior settings and then the main series for turn based battles and new settings is perfectly fine. With Champions to focus on competitive instead of forcing people to constantly jump through hoops in the mainline games too.
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>>59120487
You do realise you can transfer in whatever you want from Home?
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>>59120519
Just transfer from the mainline games you dumbfuck. Home has 1 box for free so if you're using it purely for transfer instead of storage you're literally set.
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>>59121353
It'll be the issue that mobile kiddies have to deal with...

...Is what I WOULD say if they didn't also have access to GO.
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>>59121283
Golurk
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>>59121360
Yeah it's literally a non-issue. The only time you'd have issue with getting the pokemon you want is MAYBE if you literally have zero other pokemon games.
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>>59121358
I'm of the perspective that this app doesn't make pokemon more "accessible", just more available.
The person who doesn't already have boxes and boxes of competitive mons will have to spend an inordinate amount of time battling just to do basic things.
It's easy for us to say "just transfer bro" but we were already enfranchised and normies aren't. There are 27 million copies of SV sold worldwide and the conversion rate to VGC players is less than 1%. Likely more to do with time investment considerations rather than complexity.
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>>59121283
Darkrai
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>>59121309
eruption charizard y
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>>59121381
The thing is that you don't need boxes on boxes of competitive mons. IVs are removed so they don't transfer over, EVs seem to be changed so it's unlikely they'll transfer over, and movesets are by game instead of attached to the mon itself AND you can teach them in champions itself. Granted, Champions has a fee for all of those in in-game points, but even then the point remains all you really need is a single sample of a pokemon to then subsequently make it competitive ready. The only real stopping points are stuff like legendaries who we're not even sure are gonna be included in Champions at launch.
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>>59121283
It’s UTC not whatever time you think it is. So just under 12 hours
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>>59121390
Closest I can do is Fire+grass pledge.
150BP sun boosted STAB that uses Venusaur's chlorophyll speed and ZardY's SpAtk.
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>>59121398
The format isn't going to be double restricted for a good long while.
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>>59121405
Also sets swamp for 1/2 speed before additional buffs/debuffs
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>>59121407
Swamp is grass-water.
Fire-grass does 1/8th damage each turn to opponents.
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>>59121405
Only problem with this is you only get 1 hit because it uses both of their moves for 1 attack.
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>>59121406
Nah they already announced VGC on it. It'll just have both.
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>>59121419
Correct, but you only use it when your opponent has a fast threat on the field. You can catch them by surprise by outspeeding base 150s with just 100evs on a modest Venusaur.
It's entirely dependent upon westher supremacy though.
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>>59121309
Tough Claws M-Skarmory, just because Dactylfags would seethe that they'll never be the Bravest Bird
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>>59121424
What does this post even mean?
A double restricted format won't even be imminent after Worlds this year.
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>>59121283
I want to see how they’ll redeem Malamar. If they even can, lmao
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>>59121285
Are dynamax metas also stressful?
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>>59121444
Yes, much more so.
Tera was a big step up from Dyna, I actually like tera.
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>>59121414
Oh my b
I only ever used pledge memes with a Mew team during Reg J with scarf rilla to bluff fake out
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>>59121444
dyna is god awful
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Will recently dexcut moves come back in Champions? Pursuit, Spotlight, Magic Coat, etc?
I'm inhaling copium.
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>>59121469
No chance.
Some mons may lose tools though and several mons need fewer good moves just to nerf.
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>>59121283
I'm also very interested in Pyroar, Dragalge, Staraptor, Drampa and Chandelure
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>>59121480
Some mons already lost tools, and PP values got nerfed on some moves.
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>>59121480
Stupid if true. Magic Coat in particular, mons with access to it could bait out Taunt and then set up Trickroom or whatever. It rewarded intelligent play.
Spotlight never got good distribution but it was basically a counter to the common redirection play.
But no, purge the big brain moves and keep the drooling idiot ones I guess.
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>>59121403
Yeah I was about to say we have like around 6 or so hours
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>>59121482
My totally 100% happening guesses
>Pyroar
Increases the power of Fire type moves to all allies and decreases damage of fire type moves towards allies
>Dragalge
Gives Poison / Toxic Poison a Leech Seed effect
>Staraptor
Contrary (because it's an emo design pokemon)
>Drampa
Drizzle
>Chandelure
Inverse Minds Eye
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>>59121283
Weren't they all leaked beforehand?
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>>59121584
Not all of them. Even the ones that did leak are unsure "?" because of the language barrier with the leaker and the version he played.
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>>59121407
Swamp is 1/4 speed
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>>59121283
Golisopod, just for confirmation on the Tough Claws rumor
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>>59121579
>Chandelure
>Inverse Minds Eye
I feel like MChandelure only got that weird eye because they realized it looked exactly the same as it's regular form in the menu icon without it lol.
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>>59121403
Do we have a solid time?
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>>59121702
Even if we know the exact time we don't know how long it will take the autists to check if the mega abilities are there.
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>>59121702
Goes down at 00:00 utc, supposed to come back up at 6:00 but serebii says it maybe be a staggered roll out
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>>59121709
You're kidding yourself if you don't think they'll have all of them in minutes.
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>>59121448
I still don't like Teras
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>>59121480
Can we get more moves distributed to weaker mons as well?
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>>59121785
this, hopefully the Petas on WiWa are better
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>>59121885
I can only imagine if they are including shit like Ariados and Emolga that they've given them SOMETHING new to their moveset.
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>>59121902
I thought those were included because of PLZA?
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>>59121709
>>59121766
if it works how we expect it to, itll literally be as simple as opening the pokedex in home and going to the relevant entries
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>>59121906
Exactly. Within minutes of it going live, possibly even beforehand.



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