Pokémon Scarlet & Violet - Iron Chief - Blueberry Prologue #3
10I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned it before, but the Pokémon battle videos are still the ones that I regularly make detailed tags for. This is because “Pokémon” is also often spelled without the accent mark, and there are other various details, mechanics, and terminology that I don’t necessarily mention in my description, such as the generation, abbreviations (like “PSV” for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet), and, in cases like this video, Pokémon names in other languages.
For instance, my opponent in this video has French Pokémon names. To that end, I can assume my opponent communicates in French. I’ll include a list of all of their Pokémon in both English and French, but I’ll also include my own Pokémon in both English and French too.
Here is what I put together as tags for this video, which I copy and paste into the “tags” field in the uploader:
pokemon, pokémon, scarlet, violet, scarlet and violet, psv, game freak, creatures, the pokemon company, paldea, generation xi, gen xi, gen 9, terastal, carmen, online, match, wi-fi, battle spot, battle stadium, doubles, double battle, blueberry prologue, blueberry academy, terarium, online competition, timo, sceptile, jungko, empoleon, pingolèon, charizard, dracaufeu, blaziken, braségali, chef-de-fer, iron boulder, roc-de-fer, iron chief, méganium, meganium, charmilly, alcremie
Type: Double Battle
Opponent: Kelnon
Battle Court: Blueberry Academy
Music: Terarium Pokémon
My Pokémon: Sceptile, Empoleon, Charizard, Blaziken
Opponent's Pokémon: Roc-de-Fer (Iron Boulder), Chef-de-Fer (Iron Crown), Méganium (Meganium), Alcremie
One thing to keep in mind, though, is that these Pokémon names only reflect the language of their home games, not the language of the player. For instance, observe how Alcremie’s name is just “Alcremie” in this match, even though Alcremie’s French name is “Charmilly.” That means Alcremie came from a game whose language is not French (most likely English, Spanish, or Italian, the latter two of which use the English names for nearly all Pokémon except Paradox Pokémon.)
I suppose here is where I should provide context to Iron Boulder and Iron Crown. Just as Iron Leaves was available through some Tera Raid Battle events and is based on Virizion, Iron Boulder and Iron Crown are the other two members of this trio and are based on Terrakion and Cobalion. Just as Iron Leaves trades Virizion’s Fighting-type for a Psychic-type, so do Iron Boulder and Iron Crown trade their Fighting for Psychic too. They also have signature moves of their own: Iron Boulder has Mighty Cleave, a physical Rock-type move with 95 power that can hit through Protect (and, just as importantly, has 100% accuracy, which very few physical Rock-type attacks have); and Iron Crown has Tachyon Cutter, a special Steel-type move with 50 power but hits twice (making it a special counterpart to Gear Grind, albeit with perfect accuracy). Their stats differ as well, with Iron Crown having more even stats compared to Cobalion’s focus around Defense and Speed, and Iron Boulder being way, way faster than its bulky frame would have you assume at the cost of its defenses. And, of course, all three have Quark Drive instead of Justified.
One other difference is aesthetic: all three of the Paradox Pokémon counterparts to the Swords of Justice have different animations all around. In the overworld, they’ll move like real quadrupedal robots (which is harder to animate than it looks). In battle, they stay much stiller than their organic versions, and their horns fold out like blades. And when they faint, their heads spin around and around.
As for this match, this probably began with a Morton’s Fork dilemma for Iron Boulder. My opponent might have been predicting a Fire Pokémon from me, but instead, I began with Grass and Water, and Iron Boulder is weak to both, and it was a matter of not whether Iron Boulder would be targeted by an attack, but which one. Well, by now, you know this is a Pledge team, and you’ll know what’s coming from the moment this battle began. This is also a demonstration of how the second Pledge Pokémon moves immediately after the first one—Empoleon would have no way of outrunning Iron Crown on the first turn otherwise.
Whatever early lead I had with the swamp and Iron Boulder falling early, though, was negated by what I think was a Bright Powder on Meganium. This hold item, a mainstay since Generation II but rarely used because of its lack of reliabiity, reduces the accuracy of any moves aimed at the holder by 10%. That might not seem like much, but that was enough to keep this Meganium in play longer than you’d think, and actually put me on the back foot afterwards.
My opponent was wearing the Ball Guy Helmet, one of the clothing items sold by Atticus at the auctions in Porto Marinada after you finish the Team Star side story that comes with Indigo Disk.
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