Pokémon Sword & Shield - Big Birds - Feb 8 20 B

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Published on February 15, 2020 8:00:01 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QUtZ_MNxL8

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Pokémon Sword and Shield (2019)

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Something else that has been making the rounds lately in the Pokémon community are some troublemakers who have been giving away bogus Pokémon via Surprise Trade that causes the recipient's game to get stuck in a loop, forcing a restart, but putting them back in that loop once they go online with the game. As a result, the victims find themselves unable to go online. To my knowledge, this doesn't affect Pokémon HOME, but until the issue is resolved or blows over, I'd recommend avoiding doing any Surprise Trades in Pokémon Sword and Shield. I'm doing all of mine over HOME.

People are calling for Game Freak or The Pokémon Company to issue a patch for this so the sociopaths causing problems won't get away with it any longer. I remember hearing of incidents like these in the past, almost as soon as Wonder Trade was introduced. There has never been a patch for these incidents. Rather, every time, the perpetrators just get bored after a short time and move on. The only time I recall anything ever being patched post-release in a Pokémon game is for X and Y for the Lumiose save glitch. They DO get addressed in the programming, but typically in the following main series games.

Type: Single Battle
Opponent: Geonz (558)
Stadium: Turffield Stadium
Music: Hop 2
My Pokémon: Gwen (Galantula), Axel (Haxorus), Adelie (Eiscue)
Opponent's Pokémon: 钢铠鸦 (Corviknight), エースバーン (Cinderace), 摔角鷹人 (戰鬥飛鳥) (Hawlucha)


Now I remember why I never bothered with Chinese Pokémon names. Since I don't know any Chinese (and, by extension, I don't know any kanji), I have to copy-paste Pokémon species names for the information up above. But this is the first opponent I've faced who's taken things a step further, as that Hawlucha has been given a Chinese nickname. That's not Hawlucha's normal Chinese name--that would be the ones in the parentheses right after it. I spent about an hour and a half looking for the right characters to spell it out, going through a list, and even then I'm not entirely sure I got the right characters. In particular, I'm pretty sure I got the first character of that nickname wrong, but I can't find anything closer to it on the character map.


Now, I mentioned in the previous video that I predicted there would be more male Pokémon among my opponent's teams than female ones, so I would be better off having female Pokémon use Attract. (For the same reasons, I'd also have female Pokémon using Captivate and male Pokémon with Rivalry. That is, if I'll ever get to use Captivate again.) In the previous battle, I attributed all of the opponent's Pokémon being male to how five of the six of them are Eeveelutions, who are mostly male and thus that's the most likely outcome. This team has no such reason to be all male. Cinderace is the only one with a male-skewed gender ratio, and everything else is 50-50. Approximately, at least. Naturally, that means this team, too, would be a good one for Galvantula to come in and waste some opponent's turns while I get to set up.

Sure enough, they begin with Corviknight, which means I got to lay a Sticky Web and get in a Thunderbolt. Even if that Corviknight has Mirror Armor (and I'll assume every Corviknight wielded by an opponent has Mirror Armor until proven otherwise--which isn't hard to do as Corviknight's other Abilities, Pressure and Unnerve, provide notice while Mirror Armor does not), Corviknight was the first in line, meaning there's no Speed reduction from Sticky Web and thus it's not reflected back.

When Hawlucha went Dynamaxed and started building up Attack via Max Knuckle, though, I stayed calm. As long as Max Airstream wasn't being used, I had nothing to worry about because Eiscue's still there in the back, and I knew this one didn't have Mold Breaker because there was no notification of it. And my opponent knew that all the Attack boosts in the world won't do damage to Eiscue when that Ice Face is up, so they used Max Steelspike to instead boost Defense. Still, it was incredible that Hawlucha managed to hang on even after a Max Hailstorm. Of course, there's the residual damage to worry about.

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