Pokémon Scarlet & Violet - A Calm Mind Forever Voyaging - Mar 17 24 D

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Published on March 21, 2024 7:00:12 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGDu9nAjKt0

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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (2022)

Duration: 6:23

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Several hours after this video goes live, the fourth Tera Raid Battle event featuring Paradox Pokémon will become available, featuring Brute Bonnet for Scarlet players and Iron Hands for Violet players, though opposite version players can play each other’s raids to get the opposite version Paradox Pokémon (and, unlike the “Unrivaled” series, you can catch as many of them as you want). Both of these Pokémon are slow physical attackers with bulky, bottom-leavy designs, just as the first set (Great Tusk and Iron Treads) are Paradox Pokémon based on Donphan, the second set (Slither Wing and Iron Moth) are Paradox Pokémon based on Volcarona, and the third set (Flutter Mane and Iron Jugulis) are cave-dwelling Paradox Pokémon who float in midair, though Flutter Mane is vulnerable to Ground-type attacks.

Some of you may be wondering why I’m not putting those up. It’s not because they’re not special or that they’re only 5-star raids, as opposed to the Unrivaled series’ 7-star status. It’s because I plan to wait until the last one, then put them all up as one video compilation of the 14 Paradox Pokémon available on release. (The Paradox Pokémon released afterwards, the ones based on the Johto Beasts and the Swords of Justice, are unique Legendary Pokémon.

Type: Single Battle
Opponent: Sam
Battle Court: Pokémon League (Interior)
Music: Legends of Unova
My Pokémon: Alfred (Indeedee) (Male), Inés (Lumineon), Atlas (Slither Wing)
Opponent's Pokémon: ShieldMaiden (Lucario), Charamie (Gardevoir), Squeaks (Vaporeon)

Things were going as I had planned…until I made one error: I was too hasty in Terastallizing Atlas (Slither Wing) when it was first sent out. It was up against Charamie (Gardevoir) on very low HP, and any move I did would knock her out. I had overlooked the fact that Slither Wing’s Speed is one point higher than Gardevoir’s (81 versus 80), and Gardevoir, as a species, has no priority attacks (except Shadow Sneak, which is very rare among Gardevoir), meaning Atlas would’ve had one free attack to knock out Charamie, even with First Impression disabled. Otherwise, it has a type disadvantage, so I got nervous and Terastallized. (I guess that’s what happens after I do this battling after coming home after a long day. Not that it was a bad thing, that day. Got to see Dune: Part Two on one of the rare IMAX 70mm screens! There are less than 20 of them in the whole country. I saw Oppenheimer on that same screen the previous year.)

While ShieldMaiden (Lucario) and Charamie (Gardevoir) were as straightforward as you can get with Pokémon battles, somehow, I got caught in a trap when Squeaks (Vaporeon) came out. As you may (or may not) have noticed, Inés (Lumineon) was trained specifically to ensnare and defeat other Water-type Pokémon, but Terastallizing is a part of that strategy, and as I already used it up with Atlas (Slither Wing), this strategy wound up unable to execute. As a result, Squeaks was able to accumulate Calm Minds, making him untouchable from the special end. Six of them in all, maxing out Sp. Attack and Sp. Defense.

Well, as it seems, Terastallization was a key part of Sam’s plans too, and like with me, they did it too soon. I think Squeaks’s only damaging attack was Tera Blast, and due to that, I was actually able to regain lost momentum with Atlas. As it turns out, there are particular gaps in Sam’s team planning that I was able to fit through to not only undo all those Calm Minds, but go a bit further too.

I’m not entirely certain about any of the nicknames on Sam’s Pokémon, though as it seems, they got a female Lucario, which is rare because 7 in 8 Lucario (and Riolu by extension) are male, just as I lucked out with a female Lucario for Pokémon Battle Revolution’s Holly Pass (whom I nicknamed “Laura”).

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