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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (2022)

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Let's Play

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Here is the next Team Star Battle, and this one is the Navi Squad Base, otherwise known as the Poison Crew. Their leader is Atticus, the designer for the Team Star costumes, and has the appearance of a ninja, and his specialty in Poison-type Pokémon can make this a very tricky fight.

As for the rest of the description, I recommend watching the full video before reading past this point of the description

At the start of the video, I pick up some items that I have missed in Tagtree Thicket, and I evolve Girafarig into Farigiraf, and it needs to level up while knowing the move Twin Beam, which it learns at Level 32. Farigiraf has two new Abilities, Armor Tail protects it from priority moves, and Cud Chew has Farigiraf re-use the held Berry at the end of the next turn.
When you approach the base, you see a student and a Team Star Grunt, the student really wants to see Atticus, the boss of the Navi Squad, and we end up challenging the student, and with the Team Star Battle theme, he has a Gulpin and a Shroodle, he shouldn't be that hard with a good Psychic or Ground-type.
Then it is time to enter a Star Barrage, and you fight various Poison-type Pokémon, like Wooper, Seviper, Grimer, Varoom, and many others, and it is time to take on Atticus, the boss of the Poison Crew, and I thought he was a woman when I first saw him, but he's actually a guy, the student even refers to Atticus as "he", time to go over his team.
Skuntank: Sucker Punch, Toxic, Venoshock
Muk: Sludge Wave, Mud-Slap
Revavroom: Iron Head, Sludge, Assurance, Bulldoze
Navi Starmobile: Spin Out, Noxious Torque, Flame Charge, Smog

Atticus has three Pokémon, or four if you count the Starmobile. His Skuntank will likely use Toxic on the first turn, a good Ground-type can beat that, Revavroom is the evolution of Varoom, and one detail I noticed about the Starmobile is that not only is it a modified Revavroom, but you can see the Varoom being used for wheels.
The Navi Starmobile has Toxic Debris, which is the signature Ability of the Glimmet line, if you deal damage to the Starmobile, it scatters Toxic Spikes, and what I didn't realize when I went over Glimmet back when it was first available is that Toxic Debris only activates when hit by Physical moves. Noxious Torque is exclusive to the Navi Starmobile, this has a 30% chance of poisoning the target, and Spin Out is the signature move of Revavroom, it is a 100 Power Physical Steel-type move that decreases the user's Speed by two stages when used, and the Starmobile has Flame Charge to get that Speed back.
With Atticus out of the way, get a flashback where we see Atticus without his hood on while he talks with the other Team Star leaders, and after a bit of dialogue between Atticus and the student, we receive League Points from Cassiopeia, and then Penny comes and gives some materials to make more TMs, and you can craft TMs for the Elemental Punches after beating the Poison Crew Base.
You get the TM for Gunk Shot, while it is a powerful Physical Poison-type move, it has 70% accuracy, which is a drawback to the move, some of the Poison-type Pokémon already have Poison Jab through level up, they can use that for accuracy. There are some non-Poison-type Pokémon that can learn Gunk Shot, examples include Primeape, Donphan, Ursaring, Zangoose, and Breloom, while it can be passed down onto the Shuppet line with a Mirror Herb.

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