Pokémon Sword Playthrough 17: Taking Part in the Rotom Rally
1It is back to the Wild Area once again, and now it is time to explore a new area, which you can explore earlier, but you can't catch the Pokémon there, but now we can capture Pokémon around there. There is also the Rotom Rally, which is a nice minigame to play.
As for the rest of the description, I recommend watching the full video before reading past this point of the description
I find a TM for Tail Slap, which I didn't realize until now, but what's the point when Cinccino is the only Pokémon that can make use of it.
The nice thing about Rotom Rally is that it is a good way to grind Watts, and the first time you play, you get the TM for Thunder Wave, which can be helpful in catching Pokémon. I hate it when Pokémon break out, specially when paralyzed and at full health, and even if it is a Water-type and a Net Ball, which should never fail to catch a Pokémon if it is meant to be easy to catch.
In this video, I show off Motostoke Riverbank, Bridge Field, Stony Wilderness, Giant's Mirror, Dusty Bowl, Giant's Cap, and Hammerlocke Hills. You can access those areas when you first visit the Wild Area, but you can't catch the Pokémon there until after the 3rd Gym, and there is the TM for Facade, which is really good on any Normal-type Pokémon, specially if you get it early on in the game.
There are a bunch of new encounters in the Wild Area, and by Pokédex order, includes Clefairy, Togepi, Cottonee, Snorlax, Rhyhorn, Gothita, Solosis, Karrablast, Shelmet, Elgyem, Cubchoo, Rufflet, Vullaby, Skorupi, Litwick, Inkay, Sneasel, Sableye, Mawile, Maractus, Sigilyph, Riolu, Torkoal, Mimikyu, Cufant, Qwilfish, Frillish, Mareanie, Cramorant, and a few others. Gothita, Rufflet, and Mawile are exclusive to Sword, while Solosis, Vullaby, and Sableye are exclusive to Shield.
There is the Digging Duo, where you can get some cool items, including Fossils, evolution stones and a few others, and a Nursery, I find Route 5's Nursery to be better than this one.
It will take up the entire description to go over all the Pokémon found there, I wish annotations weren't removed.
In the Berry Trees, you can encounter Greedent, the evolved form of Skwovet. Greedent is fairly decent for being Galar's equivalent to Raticate, as it has great HP and good Attack and Defense, I find that Dubwool is better than Greedent, because Dubwool is very defensive and can take Physical hits better than Greedent, and another downside is that Greedent is very slow.
Cufant is a new Steel-type Pokémon, and this is that Elephant Pokémon that Chairman Rose sent out in the opening cutscene. Cufant's best stats are HP and Attack, and when it evolves, it is a great user of Heavy Slam, it does have a good Physical movepool that includes Play Rough, High Horsepower, and Superpower. This is not a bad Steel-type option, downside is that it is very slow.
In Shield only, you can encounter Galarian Corsola, which has a sad backstory, in its Pokédex entries, the Corsola population in Galar has gone extinct, and as a result, Galarian Corsola is now a Ghost-type, and it gets an evolution. From what I have heard, Galarian Corsola is a great user of the Eviolite thanks to its good defensive stats, and it can use Will-O-Wisp, Whirlpool, and Strength Sap to stall out the opponent, making Galarian Corsola an unbreakable wall. When it evolves, it sacrifices its Defense for Special Attack that rivals Chandelure, but with very low Speed, and I have heard about its Hidden Ability when it evolves, Perish Body, where if it is hit by a move that makes contact, the effects of Perish Song affects both it and the attacker. As for recommendations, it is very defensive as a Corsola, but the extra Special Attack at the cost of Defense can be risky, but it's not too bad if you are looking for a Ghost-type to add to your team.
The other Pokémon you can find is Cramorant, it is a Flying/Water-type with an interesting gimmick, if Cramorant uses Surf or Dive, it will come back with prey, it has two forms, its Gulping Form if it has over 50% of its HP remaining, where it will catch an Arrokuda, and if Cramorant is hit, it will spit Arrokuda out and deal 1/4th of the opponent's maximum HP. If it has less than 50% HP, it will instead catch a Pikachu, that form is called Gorging Form, and when Cramorant spits out its prey, the effect depends, if it is Arrokuda, the target's Defense drops, and if it is Pikachu, the target is paralyzed. Cramorant has well rounded stats, and you can teach it Surf through TR, it is a decent mixed attacker, as it can also use Drill Peck. It can also get some good TR moves, like Ice Beam, Superpower, and Throat Chop, it's not the worst option, but Cramorant is decent.
There are some very strong Pokémon, which include Snorlax, Drapion, Conkeldurr, Claydol, Beheeyem, Sigilyph, Braviary, Mandibuzz, Unfezant, Bellossom, Vileplume, Klinklang, Doublade, Rhydon, and a new Pokémon called Orbeetle, which is the final evolution of Blipbug, it evolves from Dottler at Level 30.
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