It's the only pokemon I wanted this gen that isn't a massive dissapointment, with the exception of its gender ratio. I actually wanted a male one, haha. My entire team feels like it just went down the drain and now I have to do an eleventh hour revamp.
"Well, they probably will change the ability to something better then Wimp Out" *Reads Ability's name* "Nice, it changed" *It's literally the same thing* "GameFeak... Why..."
Roman 3MP1R3 I'd have made a new ability for it "Menace: When reducing an opposing Pokémon's hp below half it retreats and is swapped for a random Pokémon." basically the opposite of wimpout.
Roman 3MP1R3 Actually someone earlier clarified that Wimpods evolution makes its ability effect all Pokémon on the field, including the opponents pokemon. If that's true that's a damn good way to get rid of buffs
yea this time it works on everyone on the field. luckily golisopod has access to bulk up, swords dance, now buffed leech life, and a better version of razor shell
I was always going to choose litten when he was first revealed, and the design and base stats of Incineroar made me love him even more. I also like how gamefreak made the stats different and wonky with many of them, it just makes me want to find out the best strategies that I can possible make. Another fun fact is that Incineroar's base stat is exactly the same as Swampert's with only 5 points switched around in hp and attack, so you can see it as a fire and more bulkier version of Swampert as it gets intimidate as well. I also wanted to preorder from amazon of the dual steelbook case, but was waiting to get paid and it ran out of stock, so it looks like I'll be preordering the dual pack with the collectors edition guide book from gamestop.
Adam Nguyen stage 1 little koala Pokemon has a higher attack than infernape, hydreigon, swampert, mega alteria, feraligatr ( although feraligatr's HA let's it hit harder) , seviper, Snorlax ( curse let's it hit harder tho) And tied with tornadus?! Holy shit
Toucannon has a 490 BST which is decent, but it gets sheer force AND skill link!! Plus it has access to a bunch of skill link moves and a new powerful move called blast beak
Sadly, it's not that powerful, also let's just say, it's probably better just to use Type: Null but with an Eviolite, as the only stat that Sylvally gains is speed :(
pyukumuku actually does look pretty good. It has very solid defensive stats, and venom drench looks very threatening with the addition of a shitton of mons that can easily poison.
Alexander Wloka Yeah. I never thought he would be a sweeper or anything, so I'm actually pretty happy with the little sea cucumber's overall passiveness.
joshua frazier false ribombee is best bug it gets a base 90 bug move that isn't sound based and can heal your teams hp in doubles it also gets Quiver dance and baton pass on top of moonblast and high speed stats
Princess Ariel Ribombe is a close second. It surprised me how well it came far in terms of stats, and I love its type combination. However once I heard that Gollosipod's ability could effect the opponent's Pokemon as well. You pretty much have a Pokemon that can safely check itself out, and check out other Pokemon. Its a living Eject Button. Also that Leech Life buff is Bullshit.
No, the guys who got the game early and have been posting stuff on 4chan have confirmed that it works like Combee. Only females evolve, males stay Salandit forever.
Because Gamefreak was sick of the insane speed creep tha happened over the last two generations? Maybe now stall tactics and bulky offence/trick room teams will make a comeback.
sergersg erhersh yes this right here. everyone hitching about speed. you guys haven't even played yet and already saying everyone is slow?? you guys gotta realize this is a whole new gen. there's pokemon over 100 on at least 2 stats and y'all worried about speed?? ha ha
+Thatguytee really? we don't even have the games yet, there's no saying what will be good and what won't be. sure, we can use our knowledge of 6th gen's meta, but it's more than likely going to be a lot different this gen.
the anchor.... its ghost and....GRASS???!!! with an ability that only boosts steel type moves and only gets three steel type moves. wow thanks for that gamefreak
JT McGee yeah my heart broke when I saw it was a grass type :/ really hoping for ghost steel or ghost water. though what is up with its move anchor shot? idk if I saw it wrong but I saw it listed as a physical steel move and a special grass move. I must have seen it wrong.
LoL just now I get it. Ghost Grass boosting steel type moves...hahahahahaha When reading I imagined it being a steel type like stab x 2. lol. wow that's weird.
Honestly somebody needs to start a petition, I'm serious to tell Game Freak to change these Pokemons stats and some of their abilities, I'm sorry but they need help the fans can do a way better job than this
tomdude2000 And the saddest part is that pyukumukyu is a tank. And thus has no speed and is just are concentrated defense and special defense. Chansey 2.0
tomdude2000 And the saddest part is that pyukumukyu is a tank. And thus has no speed and is just are concentrated defense and special defense. Chansey 2.0
Salandit's flavor text: "Salandit females not only release toxic gases, they can also emit pheromones that attract males of all species, including Pokémon and humans. Inhaling these pheromones may cause opponents to be controlled by Salandit’s will".
Salazzle's move pool is insane...i mean:fake out,encore,knock off,poison gas,snatch ...plus very good offensive potential with overheat,sludge bomb and shit. Bb fairies
At least you don't have to waste a turn to switch out. So its still a good ability regardless. In case if you wanna make another quick tactic without wasting a turn
It's like they thought "We've made these things that shit on priority, so now everything can be slow as shit again.", completely ignoring the fact that they've slowly made everything pretty damn fast for the last few Gens meaning all the priority did was help out prioritize the already fast shit.
Tessa Bain I swear man. It's as if they want us to use Ash-Greninja over the starters given how much better it is than they are. MASSIVE SPOILERS AHOY After you beat the main story, eight gyms appear in Alola as well as an Elite Four and a champion. All of them have high level perfect IV pokemon, and after you beat the post-game story you unlock the post-post-game story with Anabell, Red, Blue, Colress, and the rest of the returning characters in the Battle Tree. Given how lackluster the starters are, I wouldn't bother using them at that point, and the slowmons that I would use are the ones with charm like Mimikyu. On the other hand, the bulkyness of a lot of these Pokemon isn't too bad. There are plenty of Z-Moves that boost speed along with every other stat. Most of them should be able to take a hit after being boosted by Z-Moves, and they should also have decent speed at +1. My guess is that they were made to be bulky and slow so that people would use Z-Moves competitively or at least the stat boosting ones. At least Marshadow is powerful, and some of the UBs could be great if you slap a scarf on some of them like that one UB with 170+ Atk and 109 speed. The Island Guardians are going to be the new genies, but at least they don't look like a pile of dicks.
Miles Hikari well I guess hoenn wouldn't be relaxing with annoying may and trumpets across every corner. The only chill place I can think of is the battle cor- never mind, the battle resort lol
It is technically an evolution, by the game. But lore-wise, all that happens is it breaks its helmet, so it gets faster. I thought that this was a cool thing for them to do. And, its supposed to be an Arceus experiment, so it makes sense that it's stats won't be as good as actual Arceus.
Roman 3MP1R3 oh, I didn't know it said power. But speed is still power, kinda, yeah? Maybe a 5-15 point increase on his offense, and a slight decrease in defense?
Texan Terror How? I don't wanna disagree with you, it's just that I want to start trying competitive battling in Sun and Moon... everything is kinda slow, but that's all I can see as bad. What's going on...?
Base Stats are all ludicrously low, speed distribution is terrible, too many 'mixed' attackers with solely physical/special movesets, too many Mono-types, hardly any new moves.
Kimmo-o: has higher base attack than special attack -- signature/unique move is special. Has access to belly drum and d-dance ... welcome to the Kommo-o region when you can see D-dance sets, belly drum sets or even special if you get that modest nature. It's going to hit like a truck.
Lee Soufiane Omari jst love how the community hasn't even touch the game yet and already judging it. what a world we live in. never thinking outside the box
Mojo Robo your only speculating what might happen. Until you experience it first hand how can you judge any of these leaks yet. Whatever you guys think I can't take it serious til I know exactly what's goin on but hey that's jst me
Daniel Arias You don't need to experience it for yourself to know how it's likely to work. For example, I have a decent amount of knowledge about how competitive Pokemon is usually played, so I can guess that Bewear might either be run with maxed out attack and HP or attack and speed EVs, and then be given a choice scarf. You can use previous experience to figure out things and judge them before they come out. Stop trying to keep people from giving their thoughts on things if they're negative.
Ouch. Type: Null and Silvally are unbreedable? So that means, if you want the NFE form in your collection, do you need to do like starters, Eevee, and fossils in gen1 and play through the games multiple times just for that? Even since Gold/Silver were released, I figured breeding would eliminate having to go through all that for evolution sets (especially since the only unbreedable Pokemon consist mainly of legendaries, which a single-stage), but I guess the exception was bound to come along at some point or other. On another note, I love how Wimpod and its evolution have pretty much the same ability, only it's named and described differently to make one sound cowardly while the other sounds tactical.
Hn Henrique Supposedly, the actual Pokemon itself is the seaweed wrapped around the anchor. The anchor, wheel and dials are pieces of wrecked ships that Dhelmise finds and carries around.
Golisopod just might be my new favorite Pokemon. I've been waiting for a extremely badass fully evolve Bug/Water type. Now I just need a Bug/Dragon type in my life...
Looking at these Pokemon's stats made me realize something that is (perhaps) very important. Game Freak internally made the majority of the Pokemon slow in exchange for (sometimes questionable) boosts because they want people to use the Pokemon that they want.They focused on z moves this time instead on pampering other favorables with Megas because of this very reason. Regardless of how "competitivly viable" one is, it mostly relies on us the player to make the sets, the plays as well as RNG. I like to think that Game Freak focused the most with UU and below, which is totally not a bad thing at all.
Minior can't be statused in shell form, can use White Herb with Shell Smash with Acrobatics, and gains base 100 offensive stats and blazing 120 Speed ON TOP of Shell Smash after being hit below half. That's disgusting
Bawbeh I was thinking of picking up this guy for my team, hoping it would be either Water/Ghost or Water/Steel. But now it doesn't make sense to have 2 Grass/Ghosts (I'm getting Decidueye) on my team. I guess it's grass because seaweed?? GG TrollFreak.
azaefe I believe Salandit and Salazzle are based on the mythological/ alchemical Salamander (a lizard born from burning fires that is also responsible for the name and inspiration of Charmander) and the living real-world Fire Salamander (an amphibian that was both named after and very likely inspired the previously mentioned mythical creatures).
Wait, did we not get any new dark types besides Shitty ugly Alola forms!? WHAT A COP OUT, GAMEFREAK! Oh yeah Incineroar but that makes it worse because it looks like it was going to be fighting until switched to dark like an add on. But REALLY? one original dark type this gen? You can't deny that's messed up.
It's so funny how realistic it is that even after Wimpod went to the gym, trained its body to the fullest so it wouldn't get picked on anymore, it still remains a wimp in the end.
I'm glad that drampa has a superb special attack stat. I was worried about it having low offensive presence, going by the effect of its signature ability
lol. Almost all pokemon suck competitively. I think I'm going to use the jangmoo-o, litten and wimpod's evo and the rest of the team will be previous gen pokes. Such a let down.
Corey Palmer It's a shame that 95% of pokemon this gen needs trick room to be viable or even close, the starters are arguably worst or on par with gen 5, but they do have their usages however
+MAGIK BANANA so salandits evo, toxexes (the water-poison type with regenerater), mudsdale, Ribombee, and such are bad pokemon? I can agree with some, but not all are terrible. I mean, we've had some GOOD competitive pokemon that are VERY SLOW, but are UU/OU material. Look at Slowbro, he's VERY SLOW (30 base speed), but his typing, HA, his other stats, and movepool made up for it.
Bewear's stats are MIND BLOWING. His low defense doesn't matter cuz it's doubled with fluffy, and he has massive HP and Attack! The only real problem is his speed, but even so he outspeeds most of the new sun and moon pokemon. He has got to be competitive!
emergency exit works on all pokemon on the field, its ability wouldn't make sense if it was the same as wimp out plus the comma in the description adds to the fact that it covers all pokemon sensing danger, it would also add to its already menacing look
Looks like they blew all their speed budget for non legendaries on Ash Greninja and Salazzle.
T.O.F (Theories, opinions & facts)
Lol, I know. I don't get why everything is slow af.
Don't forget Ribombee
LMAO I noticed that as well. Maybe they are all lazy lol Lycanroc and Comfee are the only saviour in the speed department xD
Minior Core is pretty damn speedy as well
Ribonbee has 124 speed. only 2 points less than talonflame.
comfey surprisingly stronget than i expected
+Lord Wingnut faster than MUDSDALE
mudsdale was like 2000lbs so it's slower
faster than vikavolt
It's the only pokemon I wanted this gen that isn't a massive dissapointment, with the exception of its gender ratio. I actually wanted a male one, haha. My entire team feels like it just went down the drain and now I have to do an eleventh hour revamp.
Clyde man only lycan, and sandslash didn't disappointed on my team
*Sees wimpod's base speed*
"Niiice, it´s evo is gonna be super fast"
*Evo's speed is halfed*
"fuck you Alola"
jmatheu lol That's what I thought too.
"Well, they probably will change the ability to something better then Wimp Out"
*Reads Ability's name*
"Nice, it changed"
*It's literally the same thing*
"GameFeak... Why..."
At least it gets access to a lot of decent priority moves.
Bruh golisopod gets First impression, 90 base power fake out without the flinch, this thing is gonna be nuts
Blackluigi
Yeah, but does it get No Guard + Fissure?
Komala is... surprisingly strong?
Naudiz it doesnt have evolution
I'm sad it doesn't evolve.
Yeah, I was hoping it'd evolve into some kind of Normal/Dark nightmare-inducing Dropbear.
Guys think of Komala as the Tauros of Gen 7
Ikr, cute little cuddly plush has fkin 115 base attack. Wtf.
Pyuk with 5 base speed? 5 BASE SPEED? GAMEFREAK WHAT'RE YOU DOING?
pyukumuku is alolan shuckle
exactly what i was thinking
Nate Phan IKR
pyuk is def and sp.def only
I'm just curious about how it can use Memento. If you use it, will Innards Out activate on the opponent?
Otherwise...wtf Gamefreak?
Waits for Wimpods evo to see the insane change to its ability....oh...its the same...with a different name...
honestly double checked to make sure it wasn't wording it as the opposite
Roman 3MP1R3 I'd have made a new ability for it "Menace: When reducing an opposing Pokémon's hp below half it retreats and is swapped for a random Pokémon." basically the opposite of wimpout.
Jinx Jade that's what I thought it would be :(
Roman 3MP1R3 Actually someone earlier clarified that Wimpods evolution makes its ability effect all Pokémon on the field, including the opponents pokemon. If that's true that's a damn good way to get rid of buffs
Miles Hikari So it's dragon tail, but you get to decide the amount of damage?
This generation is full of demigods.
wimpod's evo is INSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSANE!
Still has Wimp Out though, just under a different name. Was hoping it would be something better when it evolves.
I think it make your opponent switch out now though!
yea this time it works on everyone on the field. luckily golisopod has access to bulk up, swords dance, now buffed leech life, and a better version of razor shell
Okay that makes me feel a bit better. I was getting kinda disappointed with a lot of the Water-types in this gen.
Adamant HP/Atk Assault Vest Golisopod anyone? Not to mention Leech Life is basically a bug's physical stab Giga Drain :D
Salandit and Salazzle are my new favorite pokemon. Design and stat..PERFECT.
it sucks lol
+MAGIK BANANA agree on salazzle
i read somewhere that its better if you catch a female one. do you know the reason? :)
kikirikos kikos wtf
lana delrey OU here they come!
Komala; a tiny koala pokemon that sleeps, has the same attacking power of Incineroar; a bipedal wrestling tiger.
Makes sense
Adam Nguyen Incineroar got the best stat spread of the starters imo preordered both sun and moon
I was always going to choose litten when he was first revealed, and the design and base stats of Incineroar made me love him even more. I also like how gamefreak made the stats different and wonky with many of them, it just makes me want to find out the best strategies that I can possible make.
Another fun fact is that Incineroar's base stat is exactly the same as Swampert's with only 5 points switched around in hp and attack, so you can see it as a fire and more bulkier version of Swampert as it gets intimidate as well.
I also wanted to preorder from amazon of the dual steelbook case, but was waiting to get paid and it ran out of stock, so it looks like I'll be preordering the dual pack with the collectors edition guide book from gamestop.
Adam Nguyen stage 1 little koala Pokemon has a higher attack than infernape, hydreigon, swampert, mega alteria, feraligatr ( although feraligatr's HA let's it hit harder) , seviper, Snorlax ( curse let's it hit harder tho) And tied with tornadus?! Holy shit
As cool as he is tho I'm using toucannon over him
Toucannon has a 490 BST which is decent, but it gets sheer force AND skill link!! Plus it has access to a bunch of skill link moves and a new powerful move called blast beak
This background music is pretty good.
Gyarados422 I think it's in-game music
mostafa mamdouh I know
How is something that's asleep faster than a Vikavolt... Poor Vikavolt he doesn't deserve this... Same for a lot more
Nothing deserves this. Incineroar is slower than litten!
with a chest that huge, anyone would have trouble moving quickly
Soko Still if he's supposed to be based on a wrestler or whatever he should be at least a bit more nimble and swift
Soko it honestly looks like a slower bulkier blaziken without speed boost
Silvally's even stats represent Arceus even MORE.
silvally was a REALLY bad attempt at creating another arceus haha
but it really looks cool
+AdaWongMistress Ik, I hope it'll be fun to use. I think I'll have to go with Fairy Silvally lol
Sadly, it's not that powerful, also let's just say, it's probably better just to use Type: Null but with an Eviolite, as the only stat that Sylvally gains is speed :(
For Alola gaining speed is good
+Amigo Bricks But type null doesn't have RKS system, which is HUUUGE.
pyukumuku has an outstanding 5 base speed! I expect to see that greatness in ubers because nothing can top that monster right there!
Pierce Bouchillon with all the people complaining about speed after the leaks, I expect pyukumuku caused an increase in blood pressure for a few.
I'm more shocked that it gets shutdown by taunt. Just look at that movepool!
pyukumuku actually does look pretty good. It has very solid defensive stats, and venom drench looks very threatening with the addition of a shitton of mons that can easily poison.
Alexander Wloka Yeah. I never thought he would be a sweeper or anything, so I'm actually pretty happy with the little sea cucumber's overall passiveness.
what does he have over shuckle, though
Whimpod's Evolution Colosopod just won this generation. And possibly... Best Bug type Pokemon.
DubskiDude wich effects every PoKemon on the battlefield
joshua frazier false ribombee is best bug it gets a base 90 bug move that isn't sound based and can heal your teams hp in doubles it also gets Quiver dance and baton pass on top of moonblast and high speed stats
i want it so bad hes really solid but also looks super sick he looks like a beast why is this game not out yet...
Princess Ariel Ribombe is a close second. It surprised me how well it came far in terms of stats, and I love its type combination. However once I heard that Gollosipod's ability could effect the opponent's Pokemon as well. You pretty much have a Pokemon that can safely check itself out, and check out other Pokemon. Its a living Eject Button. Also that Leech Life buff is Bullshit.
+joshua frazier Same here. I thought Ribombee was going to be the typical, bad bug type, but I was wrong after seeing its stats
Here comes the memes for this region (7.8/10 "needs faster Pokemon")
To be honest, the lack of speed seems kind of fitting to me, as it fits their 'laid back' lifestyles
+Lochash 0305 fittings to the lazyasses
Salazzle tho... I'm so glad I chose salandit for my team!!!
Smashachu but look it has to be female to evolve!
... or all Salandit become female upon evolving (?)
No, the guys who got the game early and have been posting stuff on 4chan have confirmed that it works like Combee. Only females evolve, males stay Salandit forever.
i dont really like/care about salandits evo :/ *maybe because i dont like female like pokemons* but salandit!! HE IS MY FAVORITE POKEMON IN ALOLA
The stats are right there for all to see. 87.5% of Salandit are Male, 100% of all salazzle are female.
Why are all the Pokemon in Alola so fucking slow!?
God damn guys, lay off the fluffy pancakes.
yeah, now they are all fairys :D ....ITS EVEN WORSE D:
Because Gamefreak was sick of the insane speed creep tha happened over the last two generations?
Maybe now stall tactics and bulky offence/trick room teams will make a comeback.
sergersg erhersh yes this right here. everyone hitching about speed. you guys haven't even played yet and already saying everyone is slow?? you guys gotta realize this is a whole new gen. there's pokemon over 100 on at least 2 stats and y'all worried about speed?? ha ha
agreed but why IS MIMIKYU FASTER THEN DECIDUEYE?!?
+Thatguytee really? we don't even have the games yet, there's no saying what will be good and what won't be. sure, we can use our knowledge of 6th gen's meta, but it's more than likely going to be a lot different this gen.
the anchor.... its ghost and....GRASS???!!! with an ability that only boosts steel type moves and only gets three steel type moves. wow thanks for that gamefreak
JT McGee yeah my heart broke when I saw it was a grass type :/ really hoping for ghost steel or ghost water. though what is up with its move anchor shot? idk if I saw it wrong but I saw it listed as a physical steel move and a special grass move. I must have seen it wrong.
It having 3 stabs is amazing though! and it has great stats overall plus a great design so i might just have to put this on my team x)
Eh. Steel is muuuuuuuch more useful as a defensive type than an offensive one. Would've preferred a Steel/Ghost with Grass-STAB ability.
LoL just now I get it. Ghost Grass boosting steel type moves...hahahahahaha When reading I imagined it being a steel type like stab x 2. lol. wow that's weird.
Moss, okay Moss. That's all you need to know. Grass Ghost because of the moss covered around it. Now stop bitching/getting upset about the type!
WHY IS EVERYTHING SO FUCKING SLOW
Trick Room new meta.
I agree
Honestly somebody needs to start a petition, I'm serious to tell Game Freak to change these Pokemons stats and some of their abilities, I'm sorry but they need help the fans can do a way better job than this
Joseph Gurney lol
Kevin Gonzalez
Huh...? Lol, it's not that serious.
That Wimpod evolution is the most badass thing I've seen in years.
Eviolite Type:Null is gonna be insane!
eviolite got nerfed
PaulyD Oregon how?
it now has a 1.2 multiplier instead of 1.5
NO!!!!!
i refuse to believe this.
Golisopod is badass! It has earned a spot on my team.
his ability is going to hurt in competition.
Are we going to get names of the unnamed Cosmog evolution and Ultra Beasts soon?
Check the other videos, they're all there =)
4:55 is that the slowest pokemon ever???
Yes.
tomdude2000 And the saddest part is that pyukumukyu is a tank. And thus has no speed and is just are concentrated defense and special defense. Chansey 2.0
tomdude2000 And the saddest part is that pyukumukyu is a tank. And thus has no speed and is just are concentrated defense and special defense. Chansey 2.0
tomdude2000 Shuckle 2.0 c:
curse, toxic, recover/painsplit, protect, substitude, bide, counter
and that ability makes it so that you dont want to take it out in one hit
stall?
Only female Salandit evolve and the male ratio is 87.5% WTF
Combee all over again
Almost a beehive-situation.
what in god's name does that mean
GoldenArrow Combee: The sequel.
Salandit's flavor text: "Salandit females not only release toxic gases, they can also emit pheromones that attract males of all species, including Pokémon and humans. Inhaling these pheromones may cause opponents to be controlled by Salandit’s will".
In a series of videos full of letdowns by Gamefreak, at least we can appreciate that that grass ghost anchor Pokemon is sick.
Salazzle's move pool is insane...i mean:fake out,encore,knock off,poison gas,snatch ...plus very good offensive potential with overheat,sludge bomb and shit. Bb fairies
I am SOOOOOOO LOVING the in-game music! It's soothing, jazzy, cute and peppy!
WImpods evolution tho...
I love its design so much, but that ability tho :(
It affects all pokemon on the field I believe so it actually works out alright.
How do you figure that? The ability only says "the pokemon", referring to Golisopod. It doesn't say anything about other pokemon.
+Daniel Proctor A lot of people have been saying this and I just want to believe it.
At least you don't have to waste a turn to switch out. So its still a
good ability regardless. In case if you wanna make another quick tactic
without wasting a turn
Minior is the GOAT, Shell Smash + Acrobatics + Forme Change? EVERYTHING GONE
Mimikyu is actually good! thank god! Also, minior with shell smash! This time cute pokemon are also strong pokemon!
So we got another electric rodent. And in tradition, it sucks balls.
kommo-o gets poison jab. there is a god.
Salazzle = Perfection. So amazing ! She reminds me "Joanna" in Bernard and Bianca xD GO GIRL ! You will be in my team for sure
Well, Type:Null is going to be banned from LC.
Therrion ' lol it will definitely be at least LC uber
Not really, it says it can't be breeded so getting one at level 5 is likely impossible
it will be strongr than eviolite dusclops
dsr95 Fair enough, it could be banned by default.
I really like how the golisopod ability its the same as wimpod but with name a description changed to make it look more like tatical and wise
Pyukumuku the new but worse Shukle?
plug out. More like the better Shuckle thanks to Innards Out and his access to recover.
Jacob's Gonna Get you Good m8 also can cure itself from status
MrMagikarp #PyukumukuTooGood
plug out. you can use it in doubled that purify move can be of use
he has unaware what is op
Mah boi Golisopod is 6'07", and that is just terrifying. I love it.
Why are a lot of these Alola mons so slow?
It's like they thought "We've made these things that shit on priority, so now everything can be slow as shit again.", completely ignoring the fact that they've slowly made everything pretty damn fast for the last few Gens meaning all the priority did was help out prioritize the already fast shit.
Super Bo I imagine because Hawaii and Alola are a place of peace and relaxation
Tessa Bain I swear man. It's as if they want us to use Ash-Greninja over the starters given how much better it is than they are.
MASSIVE SPOILERS AHOY
After you beat the main story, eight gyms appear in Alola as well as an Elite Four and a champion. All of them have high level perfect IV pokemon, and after you beat the post-game story you unlock the post-post-game story with Anabell, Red, Blue, Colress, and the rest of the returning characters in the Battle Tree. Given how lackluster the starters are, I wouldn't bother using them at that point, and the slowmons that I would use are the ones with charm like Mimikyu.
On the other hand, the bulkyness of a lot of these Pokemon isn't too bad. There are plenty of Z-Moves that boost speed along with every other stat. Most of them should be able to take a hit after being boosted by Z-Moves, and they should also have decent speed at +1. My guess is that they were made to be bulky and slow so that people would use Z-Moves competitively or at least the stat boosting ones. At least Marshadow is powerful, and some of the UBs could be great if you slap a scarf on some of them like that one UB with 170+ Atk and 109 speed. The Island Guardians are going to be the new genies, but at least they don't look like a pile of dicks.
Miles Hikari well I guess hoenn wouldn't be relaxing with annoying may and trumpets across every corner. The only chill place I can think of is the battle cor- never mind, the battle resort lol
Dude the soundtrack sounds amazing, the music at around 3:05 is so good
Silvally and Arceus get Draco by tutor, also WTF IS SILVALLY'S STAT CHANGES DURING EVO
It is technically an evolution, by the game. But lore-wise, all that happens is it breaks its helmet, so it gets faster. I thought that this was a cool thing for them to do.
And, its supposed to be an Arceus experiment, so it makes sense that it's stats won't be as good as actual Arceus.
well his description does say the helmet is holding back his speed, but yeah I expected at least a slight boost in power, too
Roman 3MP1R3 oh, I didn't know it said power. But speed is still power, kinda, yeah?
Maybe a 5-15 point increase on his offense, and a slight decrease in defense?
Or if they buffed his defense and lowered speed as Type:Null, then balanced his stats after evolution
Plus, they couldn't just make it Base 100s all across, or else it'd be a Mythical Legendary, which it's clearly not.
Bruxish with psychic jaws biting through barriers and light screens, that's a game changer.
Why is Oranguru in Sun when they announced it was a moon exclusive, vice Versace with Passimian
ikr i really wanted oranguru too
Sir Tim the Third Read the descrition
+Carlos Luis Arias ahhh. Kk
I love how the pokemon that can use moves while asleep gets sleeptalk
Salazzle best waifu.
Also, love how despite evolving into a badass fucking Tyranid, Gollsopod is still a coward as apparent with its ability.
Am I the only one who's happy that Comfey's stats are surprisingly really good?
For an attempt at trying to fix the metagame, they sure did a shit job at it.
Texan Terror
How?
I don't wanna disagree with you, it's just that I want to start trying competitive battling in Sun and Moon... everything is kinda slow, but that's all I can see as bad. What's going on...?
Djdragondrawer It ain't bad this year. Only these in-game Pokemon from Sun and Moon can be used this year so everything is slow.
Base Stats are all ludicrously low, speed distribution is terrible, too many 'mixed' attackers with solely physical/special movesets, too many Mono-types, hardly any new moves.
There's a ton of new moves, just given to specific pokemon :/
I feel like they just added more OU usable trick room pokemon
Kimmo-o: has higher base attack than special attack -- signature/unique move is special. Has access to belly drum and d-dance ... welcome to the Kommo-o region when you can see D-dance sets, belly drum sets or even special if you get that modest nature. It's going to hit like a truck.
There has to be some awesome weed in alola, otherwise I cant explain the speed stats...
Kommo-o: Has a powerful move called Clanging Scales. It also has Soundproof. Imagine them endlessly fighting for mating rights. XD
most fucked up pokedex in pokemon history
Why?
Lee Soufiane Omari jst love how the community hasn't even touch the game yet and already judging it. what a world we live in. never thinking outside the box
+Daniel arias
Dude we have the character designs, movesets, abilities, and BSTs of each pokemon, I'm pretty sure we're able to judge them now.
Mojo Robo your only speculating what might happen. Until you experience it first hand how can you judge any of these leaks yet. Whatever you guys think I can't take it serious til I know exactly what's goin on but hey that's jst me
Daniel Arias You don't need to experience it for yourself to know how it's likely to work. For example, I have a decent amount of knowledge about how competitive Pokemon is usually played, so I can guess that Bewear might either be run with maxed out attack and HP or attack and speed EVs, and then be given a choice scarf.
You can use previous experience to figure out things and judge them before they come out. Stop trying to keep people from giving their thoughts on things if they're negative.
Minior is a MONSTERS. With those inicial defenses, acess to shell smash, and post half hp boost that thing is gonna be OU for sure
Ouch. Type: Null and Silvally are unbreedable? So that means, if you want the NFE form in your collection, do you need to do like starters, Eevee, and fossils in gen1 and play through the games multiple times just for that? Even since Gold/Silver were released, I figured breeding would eliminate having to go through all that for evolution sets (especially since the only unbreedable Pokemon consist mainly of legendaries, which a single-stage), but I guess the exception was bound to come along at some point or other.
On another note, I love how Wimpod and its evolution have pretty much the same ability, only it's named and described differently to make one sound cowardly while the other sounds tactical.
well kommo-o has poison jab...welp that's his fairy coverage right there m8s
The Anchor is ghost/grass?
Wut...
It's ability gives STAB to steel type moves without giving it the third type
It only learns 3 steel moves...
I'm not saying its bad the ability.
I like him, just wierd.
Look at the steel moves it learns though. This thing will be strong
Hn Henrique Supposedly, the actual Pokemon itself is the seaweed wrapped around the anchor. The anchor, wheel and dials are pieces of wrecked ships that Dhelmise finds and carries around.
If these are the soundtracks for the games then im gonna love this
Only 9 Pokemon have a base speed higher than 90.....
Golisopod just might be my new favorite Pokemon. I've been waiting for a extremely badass fully evolve Bug/Water type.
Now I just need a Bug/Dragon type in my life...
Looking at these Pokemon's stats made me realize something that is (perhaps) very important. Game Freak internally made the majority of the Pokemon slow in exchange for (sometimes questionable) boosts because they want people to use the Pokemon that they want.They focused on z moves this time instead on pampering other favorables with Megas because of this very reason. Regardless of how "competitivly viable" one is, it mostly relies on us the player to make the sets, the plays as well as RNG. I like to think that Game Freak focused the most with UU and below, which is totally not a bad thing at all.
The song starting at 2:21 is so soothing and awesome.
Minior can't be statused in shell form, can use White Herb with Shell Smash with Acrobatics, and gains base 100 offensive stats and blazing 120 Speed ON TOP of Shell Smash after being hit below half. That's disgusting
the BGM is so damn good, is it from Pokemon Sun and Moon ?
Salazzle : 100% Female
Slandit : 87.5 % Male 12.5 % Female
Oh God Combee Again...
That water-bug guy looks awesome. definitely using him on my team.
Did anyone else notice that Drampa can learn fly?
VideoGameRemixes Yeah...but it has no wings...
Same thing with Dodrio. It doesn't have wings, but no one questions about that.
Well yeah, but for one its a flying type, and two, the Pokedex entry can kind of give some insight on that
Have you seen Falcor?
BJD106 I've heard about him . Doesn't change my awe though.
I'm so glad Komala is kind of strong, it really represents a koala, destructive but adorable...
So Kommo-o is the psedu-legendary of the region then? Nice
Its best fighting type coverage is brick brake, focus miss and sky uppercut :/
I don't understand why its signature move is Special while basically every other move it learns is a physical move.
+Chill Villain it gets dragon dance!!
to think the higher of its two offensive stats is *the same as the lower of non-mega salamence's two offensive stats*
Man I'm still salty. He is my favorite of all the new gen mons and he probably wont make it into OU.
Dhelmise (The ghost anchor) has a really... interesting type and ability combo going on. Can't wait to try it out. :)
Dhelmise, ability: steel worker, powers up steel type moves,signature move: anchor shot, steel type physical 80bp move
type?
GRASS GHOST CAUSE LOL
It basically gives it a third stab. I actually really like the ability,
Masterlouie yea it's a great ability and he's got a good movepool to take advantage of that too, but it still doesn't make sense
Bawbeh I was thinking of picking up this guy for my team, hoping it would be either Water/Ghost or Water/Steel. But now it doesn't make sense to have 2 Grass/Ghosts (I'm getting Decidueye) on my team. I guess it's grass because seaweed?? GG TrollFreak.
It effectively has 3 STABs now.
why would you pick decidueye when dhelmise is superior in every way other than speed, in which decidueye doesn't even have useful speed anyways.
mimimkyu is going to be an awesome stallbreaker, taunt+wow+stab play rough+broken ability +things like SD/Wood hammer
*Sees Type:Null's stats and gets excited for Silvally's stats...*
Gamefreak y u do dis?
Black&Blue lmao XD
It's a weaker Arceus what do you expect? And base 95 all around is not bad
***** That's the point. It's a weak Arceus without Extreme Speed or Recover
Mimikyu is a jack-of-all-trades and I absolutely love it
How is Oranguru faster than Vikavolt? Come on.
YEEEEAAAAAHHHHH KOMALA ISN'T BAD!! I am so happy :)
Did anyone else notice Salazzle has form count: 1? Everything else without an extra form has 0... and its 100% female so no male form...
Troy Simiele
thanks! finally someone noticed.
Neri Lupo and Mimikyu has 3
Troy Simiele
ofc. one for the totem one, one for the normal and one for the broken disguise.
Dhelmise is a Ghost Grass type, yet it has an ability that powers up Steel type moves.
this basically gives him a 3rd STAB move. Honestly I think this ability with his signature steel type move is really good.
Salandit only evolves if it's female!! O_o
Salazzle confirmed as the new Vespiquen.
Serpentking789 wonder what kind of salamander they based this on.
azaefe I believe Salandit and Salazzle are based on the mythological/ alchemical Salamander (a lizard born from burning fires that is also responsible for the name and inspiration of Charmander) and the living real-world Fire Salamander (an amphibian that was both named after and very likely inspired the previously mentioned mythical creatures).
thats weird, does that mean salazzle mate with young salandits O.o
multiYellowHorse it mates with any pokemon that belongs to its egg group.
some of these are wicked!
Pyukumuku is like Shuckle jr. I like it!
Wait, did we not get any new dark types besides Shitty ugly Alola forms!?
WHAT A COP OUT, GAMEFREAK!
Oh yeah Incineroar but that makes it worse because it looks like it was going to be fighting until switched to dark like an add on. But REALLY? one original dark type this gen? You can't deny that's messed up.
BlackRaveBow incineroar
Yeah, shit. At least the alolan forms are cool. (Excluding Persian)
persian is godlike. Never speak illy of alolan persian again
1. That doesn't make it better.
Wow Tortunator with Shell smash, definetely OU, happy for him.
this is less than Kalos
seriously before gen 6, we'd get 100 new pokemon minimum....now it looks like we barely got half as much
This is actually more than Kalos
no its less not counting alola forms which aren't technically new.
72 in Kalos, 81 in Alola
72 in Kalos, 81 in Alola
bro this isn't even all of the pokemon.
So glad to know the Kammo-o's stats!
Tfw silvally is discount arceus.
SWOLEPOD IS A WATER/BUG TYPE
im so disappointed with these speed stats its unbelievable lmao
Did anyone notice that Minior can learn Shell Smash by level AND its core form offensive stats are 100/100/120. Oh, and it learns explosion via TM.
MY BRO KOMALA HAS NO EVO. FFS. I AM RIOTIN. FUCK THIS, NOT GETTING THE GAMES.
It's so funny how realistic it is that even after Wimpod went to the gym, trained its body to the fullest so it wouldn't get picked on anymore, it still remains a wimp in the end.
There are a few gems but overall this gen looks dissapointing
I'm glad that drampa has a superb special attack stat. I was worried about it having low offensive presence, going by the effect of its signature ability
lol. Almost all pokemon suck competitively. I think I'm going to use the jangmoo-o, litten and wimpod's evo and the rest of the team will be previous gen pokes.
Such a let down.
ryan knight speed isn't everything. some of these pokemon have insane numbers, like how vikavolt has over 140 on the special attack
Corey Palmer It's a shame that 95% of pokemon this gen needs trick room to be viable or even close, the starters are arguably worst or on par with gen 5, but they do have their usages however
Marcello Mancini lol, I did say they have their usages
+MAGIK BANANA so salandits evo, toxexes (the water-poison type with regenerater), mudsdale, Ribombee, and such are bad pokemon? I can agree with some, but not all are terrible. I mean, we've had some GOOD competitive pokemon that are VERY SLOW, but are UU/OU material. Look at Slowbro, he's VERY SLOW (30 base speed), but his typing, HA, his other stats, and movepool made up for it.
yo bewear may be one one of the most bulkiest physical attackers yet
Love the komo-o evolution line. The pseudo legendariy of gen 7
Bewear's stats are MIND BLOWING. His low defense doesn't matter cuz it's doubled with fluffy, and he has massive HP and Attack! The only real problem is his speed, but even so he outspeeds most of the new sun and moon pokemon. He has got to be competitive!
The anchor is just a better Decidueye.... Words cannot describe my salt right now...
emergency exit works on all pokemon on the field, its ability wouldn't make sense if it was the same as wimp out plus the comma in the description adds to the fact that it covers all pokemon sensing danger, it would also add to its already menacing look
Huh... I knew Dhelmise (Anchor) would be Ghost, but the Grass secondary typing really caught me by surprise
Base 100 speed or anything near it looks like a godsend amidst all these pokes.
Why is Kommo-o highest power physical fighting move Sky uppercut?
Drampa gets fly!?!
"I think i done seen about everything, when I see an elephant fly!" XD