My boy Scovillain getting a decent unique ability I KNOW that's right!! Still wouldn't cover up the fact that in most situations it would be cooked the moment its time in mega form runs out, but I'll take it 😅

Lucario Z getting Prankster is actually so funny to me hahahaha why exactly does it need it when it's that fast 😭

Staraptor with Close Combat and Contrary?

Love the abilities for Scovillain and I assume Mega Excadrill!

8 hours ago, HausofMayhem said:

Staraptor with Close Combat and Contrary?

Love the abilities for Scovillain and I assume Mega Excadrill!

I’m guessing it’ll have access to Superpower too so it would be one of the few pokemon to get Contrary and STAB! Not a huge fan of the bird but can’t deny that’s a pretty big selling point!

I don’t think they will change any movesets, Close Combat is enough for it tbh, annoyingly it doesn’t have Roost but it will be a really good bulky/fast attacker which is quite unique In itself. Decent support in doubles too as it gets Tailwind, it seems like it will have good role compression given it is decent in many facets. I didn’t expect it to be one of the big players from the new megas but it is an excellent ability for it.

HERE WE GO

Clefable: Magic Bounce

Victreebel: Innards Out

Starmie: Huge Power

Skarmory: Stalwart

Chimecho: Levitate

Chandelure: Infiltrator

Golurk: Unseen Fist

Floette: Fairy Aura

Meowstic: Trace

Hawlucha: No Guard

Crabominable: Iron Fist

Drampa: Berserk

Glimmora: Adaptability

Mega Dragonite: Multiscale

Mega Meganium: Mega Sol

Mega Feraligatr: Dragonize

Mega Chimecho: Levitate

Mega Froslass: Snow Warning

Mega Emboar: Mold Breaker

Mega Excadrill: Piercing Drill

Mega Chesnaught: Bulletproof

Mega Delphox: Levitate

Mega Greninja: Protean

Mega Scovillain: Spicy Spray

• LOADS of competitive items are unavailable!

• Some status effects work differently now:

  Paralysis: full paralysis chance is now only 1/8

  Sleep: 3-turn sleeps are removed, it's now max 2 turns
  Freeze: 25% of thawing out, max 3 turns

• Huge turnaround on rental teams - you can only rent an online team if you have all required Mons and items!

rip my dreams of drizzle drampa and corrosion victreebel 😭😭

Some of those abilities are ass, what’s the point in using your mega slot on Drampa for the same ability it already has? Why would you use your mega slot on something that needs to die for it to work (Victreebell)?! And an ability that’s useless in singles for Skarmory?! I know some of the abilities that were speculated or wanted by us felt like fanfic a bit but I am disappointed by a few of these.

Also apparently this runs terribly rip, I am gonna try in about an hour when I get home.

Wait WHAT THE f***KKK there’s no Life Orb, Assault Vest, Choice Band or Specs?! I lowkey see 0 point to playing this rn lmfao it’s just coming across incredibly lazy. I suppose lots will be added as it goes but why even launch it in this state??

loool this is a mess. also no 6 vs 6 in singles? hate that for us

They are going for the long run with this game. With such limited Pokémon (less than 200!) and a handful of items they are going to want to drip feed things in bit by bit, which is great for newcomers but also so sluggish for regular players!

It's a very brave move from them.

I am abroad so can't play until back unfortunately! Still debating my debut team too

Genuinely what does this offer at all, other than using new megas, half of which they’ve butchered anyway. Like it’s fair enough to have a separate game to focus on VGC and battling in general, but this has just launched in such a lazy way. I think the only interesting thing is having less Pokémon and a lower power level might see unique usage cases for Pokémon that otherwise would be thrown by the wayside so we’ll see how the meta evolves. And I do get the concept of slowly releasing things, having an ever evolving game, but launching like this is just piss poor.

It’s also funny how they marketed Mega Victreebell so much, right up to the point of it being on a few teams you get for free from the recruit thing in the game, and then made it scream PU with a horrible ability for its competitive design, even if thematically it makes sense.

Hawlucha fans, this is your time!

I’m screaming at how much they hate stall, they’ve nerfed Salt Cure as well it does basically nothing💀 Garganacl was one of the stall/defensive mons I really loved using.

This sounds comically terrible rn hahahaha I can’t with berries being the only real held items of note for a start, not to mention so many Pokemon and moves being unavailable, it’s giving playthrough teams rather than fully built competitive teams which is what the creators aimed for and what we were all expecting. I guess we’ll see how things go on as they add more Pokemon and more items as time goes by but I’m definitely not gutted to be missing out right now.

Also lol at some of these abilities for the new megas - it would be a bad time to be a Skarmory or Victreebel fan. They’d better do Scolipede justice.

I don’t know why Choice Scarf being a thing but not band or specs sends me the most lmfao. I mean I'd get not having held items at all more than them having a f***ing Oran Berry in a game where you’re set to level 50 anyway but not an Assault Vest💀 The fact official tournaments will be played on this as well, I guess and hope they’ll add more items before that. But like I said there’s adding content as they go and there’s launching it like this.

If they really wanted to simplify it they should have gone all or nothing, but that would be pretty shit imo, it wouldn’t be hard to just make an accessible battle simulator with everything.If anything the VP situation doesn’t make it accessible to newcomers anyway because you have to grind a lot of battles just to try things out, I guess there’s the ones they just give you which will be fine at lower levels when there’s people cutting about using Flash Cannon Kingambit 💀

Wait Mega Scovillain is fun, it’s by no means consistent but as it has redirection with Rage Powder it could be fun to use alongside a Hex user. I’ve tried it on Trick Room but obviously 75 speed is not ideal, there is definitely a few options. It has decent offensive stats to the point you could probs invest in bulk and try and get a little more out of it which I might do next, I wish they’d cut its speed to like 50 and added a bit to defences. Or even focused on special attack then used the attack points for defences, the physical side has all of its coverage but they’re low BP moves so you’d hardly use them anyway. It’s frustrating how almost there it is given we waited so long for a Fire/Grass type but then I guess Ogerpon stole its thunder there anyway lol.

Mega Meganium on rain or snow has also been fun since obv it still has still effects of sun for itself either way and provides coverage of types you wouldn’t always get on those types of teams.

16 hours ago, Liаm said:

Wait Mega Scovillain is fun, it’s by no means consistent but as it has redirection with Rage Powder it could be fun to use alongside a Hex user. I’ve tried it on Trick Room but obviously 75 speed is not ideal, there is definitely a few options. It has decent offensive stats to the point you could probs invest in bulk and try and get a little more out of it which I might do next, I wish they’d cut its speed to like 50 and added a bit to defences. Or even focused on special attack then used the attack points for defences, the physical side has all of its coverage but they’re low BP moves so you’d hardly use them anyway. It’s frustrating how almost there it is given we waited so long for a Fire/Grass type but then I guess Ogerpon stole its thunder there anyway lol.

Mega Meganium on rain or snow has also been fun since obv it still has still effects of sun for itself either way and provides coverage of types you wouldn’t always get on those types of teams.

Hearthflame Ogerpon could never be my spicy king! I’m so glad he’s got usage in this and won’t be as much as a laughing stock as he has been previously. A unique ability like Spicy Spray has so much potential especially when more Pokemon get added, and I can’t wait to use it!

8 hours ago, Doug said:

Hearthflame Ogerpon could never be my spicy king! I’m so glad he’s got usage in this and won’t be as much as a laughing stock as he has been previously. A unique ability like Spicy Spray has so much potential especially when more Pokemon get added, and I can’t wait to use it!

I worry the fun new megas will only get less viable as time goes on, but then regs will have different rules as they always do which is something that is always fun in doubles and keeps it fresh. Why am I imagining sacking it off to Dracovish to burn it and not get swept lmfao that already sounds fun.

Honestly since the game tracks usage I’d love them to do a showdown type Smogon tiers system, obv not exactly the same way, but idk this game could be way more customisable as time goes on and give a usage to basically anything if they play it right, big if.

I’m really f***ing bored of every team being sun lmao, the restrictiveness of the limited roster is really dampening the fun for me already

5 hours ago, Liаm said:

I’m really f***ing bored of every team being sun lmao, the restrictiveness of the limited roster is really dampening the fun for me already

Sounds more like Mega Charizard WHY

It’s not even that good it’s so easily countered it is driving me CRAZY💀