Pokémon Scarlet & Violet - Snipe Left - Blueberry Prologue #4
9Last week, I went over the single battle Ranked usage charts to show how things had changed from November 2023 to December 2023. Now, it’s time for the double battle one, as documented on Pokémon HOME. This will be the last one for Regulation E, which allowed Pokémon up to the ones available in Teal Mask. After this will be the Regulation F rules, which allows anything available in Indigo Disk (except Restricted Pokémon). But for now, this is the last one before the likes of Archaludon, Raging Bolt, and such storm the scene:
1. Flutter Mane (±0)
2. Tornadus (Incarnate) (+2)
3. Urshifu (Rapid Strike) (+2)
4. Ogerpon (-2)
4A. Wellspring
4B. Heatthflame
4C. Cornerstone
4D. Teal
5. Iron Hands (-2)
6. Rillaboom (±0)
7. Arcanine (Hisuian) (+2)
8. Chien-Pao (±0)
9. Gholdengo (+2)
10. Landorus (Therian) (-3)
11. Indeedee (Female) (+5)
12. Chi-Yu (+2)
13. Heatran (-3)
14. Dragonite (-1)
15. Roaring Moon (-3)
16. Amoonguss (-1)
17. Torkoal (+6)
18. Urshifu (Single) (±0)
19. Armarouge (+3)
20. Landorus (Incarnate) (+19)
21. Iron Bundle (-2)
22. Farigiraf (-1)
23. Sinistcha (-6)
24. Ursaluna (Bloodmoon) (-4)
25. Kingambit (+2)
26. Ursaluna (Hisuian) (+3)
27. Cresselia (-1)
28. Dondozo (±0)
29. Grimmsnarl (-5)
30. Ninetales (Alolan) (-5)
31. Regidrago (+11)
32. Tatsugiri (Curly) (+8)
33. Lilligant (Hisuian) (+23)
34. Annihilape (-3)
35. Tyranitar (-2)
36. Regieleki (+9)
37. Sneasler (-3)
38. Hatterene (+31)
39. Glimmora (-7)
40. Moltres (Galarian) (-4)
41. Gastrodon (+3)
42. Milotic (-12)
43. Baxcalibur (-8)
44. Weezing (Kantonian) (-1)
45. Pelipper (-7)
46. Salamence (+6)
47. Scizor (+1)
48. Sylveon (+2)
49. Dragapult (+6)
50. Sableye (-5)
Hisuian Lilligant, Hatterene, Salamence, and Dragapult return to the top 50 after absences of varying lengths. Dusclops, Kommo-o, Hisuian Goodra, and Clefairy have fallen off the top 50 (though none of them are that far below).
Just like with single battles, while Indigo Disk Pokémon haven’t yet been allowed, the Indigo Disk TMs are, and they are what’s responsible for the Pokémon moving up a bunch. Hisuian Lilligant returns to the top 50 and lands solidly within upon receiving Upper Hand and Triple Axel. Upper Hand suppresses any priority attacks used to overcome her Chlorophyll-boosted Speed, while Triple Axel provides a means to hit many Pokémon for super-effective damage that she couldn’t before. Landorus Incarnate is approaching his more popular Therian form in popularity thanks to being a powerful and speedy special Ground-type Pokémon who gained access to Sludge Wave (123 power under Sheer Force) and Scorching Sands (136 power under Sheer Force and STAB).
But the biggest winner was Hatterene, who’s gone in the other direction in terms of Speed. She’s become a more popular Trick Room user by gaining Psychic Noise to shut down any Pokémon attempting to stall out that Trick Room and Expanding Force to deal splash damage while Psychic Terrain is in effect (which may be the reason behind Female Indeedee’s minor boost).
I deleted the Pokémon HOME mobile app and re-downloaded it to get the data to display again. Not sure what caused it though.
Type: Double Battle
Opponent: tb
Battle Court: Blueberry Academy
Music: Kieran 2
My Pokémon: Sceptile, Inteleon, Blaziken, Empoleon
Opponent's Pokémon: キュウコン (Ninetales) (Alolan), エアームド (Skarmory), タケルライコ (Raging Bolt), テラパゴス (Terapagos)
This team was not originally going to be a team of Pledge move users, let alone an all-starter team. In fact, the core of this team was going to be Inteleon, with critical hits boosted by Dragon Cheer, a move introduced in Indigo Disk. It’s just that two Pokémon in the Blueberry Pokédex who can learn Dragon Cheer happen to be Charizard and Sceptile.
Of course, the match where I try this out is the match against a team full of those “survives at 1 HP mechanics.” Though both Ninetales and Skarmory had them, the two of them are opening Pokémon with Ninetales setting up Aurora Veil and Skarmory setting up entry hazards (though those effects are pretty diminished in a ruleset like this one).
That brings us to the second part of this battle, after Ninetales fainted and Raging Bolt took her place. A sauropod-shaped Paradox version of Raikou, Raging Bolt has a fearsome move, Thunderclap, which works like an Electric-type version of Sucker Punch, augmented by a raised Sp. Attack from Booster Energy. One Thunderclap is curtains for Inteleon, so I was looking for ways to avoid this move. (In hindsight, there WAS a way for Inteleon to survive a successful Thunderclap; not sure if the battle would have proceeded in the same trajectory like that though.)
This was the only opponent I faced who had Alolan Exeggutor on their team, by the way. I would’ve been interested in knowing what this one could do. I would’ve also liked to see it on the field at the same time as Raging Bolt as two Pokémon with extremely long necks. I wonder if that could be a potential team theme…
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