Pokemon Sword and Shield get a new mythical Pokemon called Zarude

Deleted User · Feb 27, 2020

Does this mean Darude Sandstorm meme will be making a comeback (Because it rhymes with Zarude)?

Wuigi · Feb 27, 2020

Pokemon only really lives from the design of the creatures nowadays as the gameplay is still the same, the level design is utter garbage even more monotonous than Final Fantasy 13 and the games are just too mediocre to still be interesting.
With the release of pokemon go they stopped to give a sh*t about mainline games as you can make an asset flip and get lots of money for zero effort and by giving consumers the option to waste a lot of time but it's free or waste a little less time and pay.
I'm looking forward to the second 30$ pass.

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LonelyPhantom said:
Does this mean Darude Sandstorm meme will be making a comeback (Because it rhymes with Zarude)?

inb4 someone teaches it the sandstorm move

zarude sandstorm

JuanMena · Feb 27, 2020

Zarude - Dandstorm?

VartioArtel · Feb 27, 2020

Rajang? Is that you?

smilodon · Feb 27, 2020

It's just a nargacuga on two feet.

AkiraKurusu · Feb 27, 2020

Pokemon ALSO has 488 species utterly missing, with the $30-per-piece DLC bringing back only ~200, along with missing some very important and useful moves like Return and Hidden Power.

In other words, until these are brought back, I don't care about Mythicals. #BringBackNationalDex

Uiaad · Feb 27, 2020

Always thought mythical and legendaries were meant to be special and you know ... rare ... guess game freak and nintendo didn't get the memo

chrisrlink · Feb 27, 2020

oddly looks like Zeraora from gen 7 wonder if their connected/related

RivenMain · Feb 27, 2020

paints it dark and green what should it's type be? dark grass bam~
I find it kinda pathetic.. Like I don't know I feel it with most of the newer pokemon. They aren't creatures I'd imagine walking around in a forest or wild or even in detective pikachu's world.. They're all anthropomorphic creatures a much more digimon thing than pokemon, but digimon does it much better.It's not cute, or cool, its a bad design. If you showed me a pic of it and didn't say it was a pokemon I'd just say it just looks ugly, but I wouldn't be able to guess it's origins.

Chary · Feb 28, 2020

sorry, not interested in the bland looking beta design reject of a proposed dark type grookey evolution that didnt make the cut

James_ · Feb 28, 2020

ZA ZARUDE-O

Pipistrele · Feb 28, 2020

It looks fine.

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AkiraKurusu said:
very important and useful moves like Return and Hidden Power.

Always considered those moves kinda trashy, actually - always replaced them with something else whenever I could

Patxinco · Feb 28, 2020

Just leaving this here

AkiraKurusu · Feb 28, 2020

Pipistrele said:
It looks fine.

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Always considered those moves kinda trashy, actually - always replaced them with something else whenever I could

Return is the strongest Normal-type physical move that doesn't have any kind of drawback, maxing out at 102 Base Power. Double-Edge, which is now the preferred Normal-type physical move due to being significantly stronger than Body Slam, inflicts recoil, which is very unfortunate; Thrash locks the user in for 2-3 turns then confuses the user; Mega Kick's inaccurate; Skull Bash has a charging turn. The loss of Return makes many physical Normal-type Pokemon (Greedent, Dubwool, Snorlax, Linoone, Obstagoon, Braviary, Diggersby, Bewear) noticeably worse, since they either have to choose the weaker Body Slam (if they get it at all), the recoil associated with Double-Edge, or Thrash's locking in and confusing, instead of having a solid 102 BP move with zero drawbacks.

As for Hidden Power, as long as the IVs line up, it gave many specially-oriented Pokemon access to types they otherwise wouldn't have had. For example, Raichu cannot get Ice-type coverage without Hidden Power, the Eeveelutions lose access to important type coverage, Rotom can't get Fighting-type coverage to go with its Ghost-type, Abomasnow and Reuniclus can't get Fire-type coverage now, and many more.

These, among the loss of other moves, severely restricts a significant proportion of the remaining, and new, Pokemon.

Pipistrele · Feb 28, 2020

AkiraKurusu said:
Return is the strongest Normal-type physical move that doesn't have any kind of drawback, maxing out at 102 Base Power. Double-Edge, which is now the preferred Normal-type physical move due to being significantly stronger than Body Slam, inflicts recoil, which is very unfortunate; Thrash locks the user in for 2-3 turns then confuses the user; Mega Kick's inaccurate; Skull Bash has a charging turn. The loss of Return makes many physical Normal-type Pokemon (Greedent, Dubwool, Snorlax, Linoone, Obstagoon, Braviary, Diggersby, Bewear) noticeably worse, since they either have to choose the weaker Body Slam (if they get it at all), the recoil associated with Double-Edge, or Thrash's locking in and confusing, instead of having a solid 102 BP move with zero drawbacks.

As for Hidden Power, as long as the IVs line up, it gave many specially-oriented Pokemon access to types they otherwise wouldn't have had. For example, Raichu cannot get Ice-type coverage without Hidden Power, the Eeveelutions lose access to important type coverage, Rotom can't get Fighting-type coverage to go with its Ghost-type, Abomasnow and Reuniclus can't get Fire-type coverage now, and many more.

These, among the loss of other moves, severely restricts a significant proportion of the remaining, and new, Pokemon.

Hm, I see, I kinda underrated them in personal playthroughs then =) Welp, that just means the change of meta - something that happens to every PvP-focused game eventually.

Plasmaster09 · Feb 28, 2020

AkiraKurusu said:
Pokemon ALSO has 488 species utterly missing, with the $30-per-piece DLC bringing back only ~200, along with missing some very important and useful moves like Return and Hidden Power.

In other words, until these are brought back, I don't care about Mythicals. #BringBackNationalDex

omfg this shit again
can people just accept that sometimes you end up losing things in the transition between games? gen 3 had this problem too, and fire red and leaf green fixed it.
so just. freaking. WAIT.

CheddaGuap · Feb 28, 2020

Patxinco said:
Just leaving this here

No $hit!

AkiraKurusu · Feb 28, 2020

Plasmaster09 said:
omfg this shit again
can people just accept that sometimes you end up losing things in the transition between games? gen 3 had this problem too, and fire red and leaf green fixed it.
so just. freaking. WAIT.

Except that Ruby and Sapphire had ALL 386, at the time, in their code; the Kanto and Johto Pokemon you couldn't legitimately catch weren't suddenly and inexplicably missing from the games' coding, and one could trade those missing Pokemon in freely, once they were available. Or use a Gameshark to catch them illegitimately.

It's not even remotely the same.

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