I know lots of people like to rag on Unova being linear and the map bring a circle but after slogging through Gen IV it was a massive breath of fresh air not needing so many HMs to progress through the region. I am all for exploration and less linearity but Sinnoh was not fun to explore.
Not going to lie, those eyes look a bit goofy for my taste.
So did it become a Alchemist rather than a intelligent psychic then? That's the impression I get from it having an ability called "curious medicine".
Finally, I can purchase Sword and Shield now that they're updating the game from the beta version to the final version. The bundle sale helps too!
Literally all that changes between the two is that their defensive stats swap and like, a couple moves. When you actually look at the two of them closely it's surprising just how pointless Slowking looks aside from, what, learning Nasty Plot and Power Gem? And even then Bro gets the latter now through TR. Being a lot harder to acquire certainly doesn't help either. There's also the fact that Slowking didn't get a mega while Bro did, which is its own tangent of how some counterparts both got megas but others didn't (Gardevoir/Gallade, Sharpedo/Camerupt, but Beedrill and not Butterfree, Glalie but not Froslass, ect.).
Is the defog on entering something that hits both? If so..that might be the strongest enter effect in the game.
You're thinking of Haze (Defog removes hazards/terrain and lowers the opponent's evasion). And no it unfortunately only works on your ally, and therefore is useless in singles.
Didn't defog get full on Haze in Gen 5?
Defog doesn't affect stat changes.
Well Frankly GF only cares about Double Battles, the "OFFICIAL" tm format is 4v4 Double battles, it is pretty clear they give no crap to anything outside of that.
At the same time, they weirdly threw singles players a bone for once this gen out of the blue, such as Heavy-Duty Boots (grants immunity to entry hazards) and the buff to Rapid Spin (power raised by 30 and boosts speed). Both of these don't factor into doubles at all as hazards are almost never used there.
It wouldn't even be as bad if the main game actually utilized double battles more. At least then, the double battle exclusive moves and abilities don't feel as pointless.
I mean in the main game you only need to use cut once for story progression and the rest of the HM usage is for items and exploration. So you can ditch that Patrat as soon as your in the second city. Seriously, the only time you need cut is for the Dreamyard, which is like right after the first gym.
Maybe I'm getting old but all that video did was hurt my eyes, Jesus.
I was only mildly impressed tbh. It feels like ever since gen VI they've been doing an awful lot of this "LOOK HOW BIG THIS FRANCHISE IS! LOOK AT HOW MANY REFERENCES WE CAN CRAM INTO A MINUTE LONG VIDEO!" compilation stuff. It's like, yeah, we get it. Pokemon has a long and storied history, how about you put more effort into the now instead of constantly masturbating about the past? Oh right, nostalgia sells...
Digimon has been doing the exact same thing for the past five years too. The non stop Adventure pandering and nostalgia bait at the expense of any new material. Yet for some reason Digimon gets a free pass for sucking off Adventure and churning out new Omnimon/Gabumon/Agumon forms.
I already felt this early on when SwSh was released but on the plus side at least there's hope for the spinoffs to be good even if the main series disappoints. Mystery dungeon DX was a good remake and the upcoming new Snap looks promising.