Pokémon Scarlet & Violet - Introducing the Jumpluff Team!
19My third team is ready to go! This will likely not be the finalized moves, Abilities, Natures, Tera types, and/or hold items, but the Pokémon are good with each other, and I am satisfied. (In fact, where Jumpluff is now, there used to be Electrode. As I'm still at a loss as to how to fit Electrode into one of my teams, I'll save that to solve for later.) I decided to put this video up one day early due to Big Run in Splatoon 3 going on over this weekend; the Big Run video will become available tomorrow, March 6th, 2023, as I'm waiting for the end results at the moment.
But I think some of you wanted to know what my thoughts were regarding the Pokémon Presents, so here they are! Each will be short, as I have limited description space:
The focus is very heavily into mobile games, with Pokémon Scarlet and Violet the only ones not on mobile platforms. Does anyone else get the feeling The Pokémon Company wanted Pokémon to go all-mobile, but Nintendo is the one stopping this? I liked seeing stuff like New Pokémon Snap and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX on the Switch. Would like to see more of those. That being said, we know the Game Boy Pokémon TCG and Pokémon Stadium 1 are coming to Nintendo Switch Online, so perhaps the Nintendo system launches will be a part of the Nintendo Directs instead.
Regarding the World Championships, I would like to get back into the TCG, but the bubble hasn't burst yet on these fools on TikTok opening booster packs and making videos of them, causing Pokémon cards to dramatically rise in price and putting them out of my budget. They don't even play the game! (I approached the TCG the same way as I do the video games: I competed in tournaments using unconventional decks.)
I have no plans to get Pokémon Sleep. I don't get enough of it anyway. I mean, it's about 1:15 AM when I'm typing this sentence. (Where's Komala in all this?)
Poké Ball Plus + is an awkward name.
Zacian has been placed into Pokémon UNITE, with Goodra later in March 2023 and Lapras the following month. But where are all the Generation IX Pokémon?
Pokémon HOME's integration with Pokémon Scarlet and Violet will be in "early 2023." We're in its third month now, so they got a little under four months to make it happen. I don't want to rush them, though I would like to put together more teams using the Pokémon you can get from HOME not available in Paldea. Delphox is at the top of my list.
The preview footage of Blueberry Academy shows what looks like a weather monitoring station. On the screen are silhouettes of Geodude and Mamoswine. Are their lines confirmed for The Indigo Disc?
I don't think Terapagos is that Pokémon at the bottom of Area Zero, the one illustrated in the Scarlet Book/Violet Book. Terapagos doesn't have that authoritative look that "third Legendary" Pokémon have always had, nor does it look like something with the power to provide the Paldea region with Terastallization. Rather, I think it's a junior, an assistant, or a depowered form.
Type: Single Battle
Opponent: よっしー (Yoshi)
Battle Court: Pokémon League (Interiors)
Music: Nemona
My Pokémon: Dandrea (Jumpluff), Atlas (Slither Wing), Inés (Lumineon)
Opponent's Pokémon: ノココッチ (Dudunsparce), パーモット (Pawmot), カイリュー (Dragonite)
This is a nontraditional Dudunsparce, as her purpose is to gain stat boosts with Coil, then Baton Pass them to somebody else. (Probably not Gholdengo.) However, both that Pawmot and that Dragonite are standard (to a particular extent). Pawmot's climb up the ranks is due to the frighteningly powerful Double Shock due to the Terastallization mechanic. It's a 120 power Electric attack whose intended downside is that the user loses its Electric typing (if it had one prior). Terastallization provides an exception to that because a Pokémon's Tera type can't be lost or changed to something else once it's undergone Terastallization, so Pawmot gets to have that powerful attack without a downside other than that no other Pokémon can Terastallize...
...Though that means Pawmot competes for Terastallization priority with Dragonite, one of the most common non-Paradox Pokémon right now in single battling. Another Pokémon that's benefited greatly from the mechanic, Dragonite's favorite Tera type is Normal in order to boost the power of those Extreme Speeds further. For anything that resists or is immune to Extreme Speed, there are Dragon Claw or Dragon Rush and Earthquake. That being said, it's not common for Dragonite to be using Fire Spin, though Roost can come up here and there; doing so with 50% or more of its HP left allows Multiscale to activate again (Dragonite takes half damage if it's at full HP).
So it was pretty neat to be able to hold my own with this team against that kind of pressure. It IS a drawn-out battle though, since Jumpluff ismore of a wall of support than a normal attacking Pokémon would be.
More on this team, its nicknames, and how it works later
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