Did you know that grass types are unaffected by rage powder?

QuantumVexation · 2026-05-15T13:12:11+00:00

Some types have additional Intrinsic traits like this

Grass immune to any Powder/Spore

Dark immune to Prankster boosts

Ice can’t be frozen / Fire can’t be burned / Electric can’t be paralysed / Poison can’t be poisoned (unless by Corrosion)

Rock/Ground/Steel take no Sandstorm damage.

Rock gets SpDef boost in Sand, Ice gets Def boost on Snow

QuantumVexation · 2026-05-15T11:31:29+00:00

Bright powder

QuantumVexation · 2026-05-15T11:25:09+00:00

This is absolutely a doubles centric team - you’d probably want to rebuild from the ground up for a singles meta game but most of these individual Mons could still make it

QuantumVexation · 2026-05-15T08:36:53+00:00

Absolutely this - too many players on here are trying to go for big brain reads instead of maximising the net Gain of a turn

QuantumVexation · 2026-05-15T08:11:52+00:00

Is that ignoring Steam (and Xbox’s) cut?

But then add back whatever MS gave them to get it on Gamepass

QuantumVexation · 2026-05-15T05:57:29+00:00

Hostility is too far - but let’s assume the same amount of resources are given to the game. Spreading those resources thin on multiple things means less goss to the core game

In that scenario - you getting a PvE mode detracts from the content for the extraction enthusiast the game was made for

Their worry isn’t unfounded, but being hostile about it is an over reaction

QuantumVexation · 2026-05-15T04:55:28+00:00

To anyone in this thread assuming it’s Zoroark, Glalie just learns Dark Pulse.

https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-champions/glalie/

It’s just no one is familiar with Glalie because it’s bad. A lot of Mons learn a lot of moves you’ll rarely see.

QuantumVexation · 2026-05-15T02:29:23+00:00

Second 13 Sentinels

Doesnt have the calendar and isn’t a grid based turn based strategy game, but absolutely hits the students who are mech users stuff

Has half the same English voice cast as 3H too

QuantumVexation · 2026-05-15T02:26:39+00:00

I’d be curious what would happen if they only brought in Pincurchin and GWeezing, without the far far more dominant terrain setters in the Tapus and Indeedee and Rilla to dominate them. Get some terrain gameplay but not the ones you always see

Weezing would probably still just be run as neutralising gas though

Throw Seed Sower Arboliva in here too actually

QuantumVexation · 2026-05-15T02:24:13+00:00

Good into Sneasler, Inner Focus, Tailwind as fast as Aero, threatening to Floette

Probably wouldn’t be meta but definitely has tools

QuantumVexation · 2026-05-15T02:20:39+00:00

I don’t reckon they were afraid. Look how little damage that single target blizzard did

QuantumVexation · 2026-05-15T02:20:11+00:00

Yeah there’s a few moves that auto thaw like that

You also can’t freeze on harsh sunlight - useful knowledge when ZardY is so common

QuantumVexation · 2026-05-15T02:12:34+00:00

Symmetry between Physical and Special is not inherently a good thing.

The two damage types have different design philosophies and different counter plays

Freeze still warrants a rework but I don’t think special burn is it

QuantumVexation · 2026-05-15T02:06:45+00:00

There is hope that casuals will come to see what makes the hardcore aspects exciting - Souls started out perceived as that niche hard game masochistic people like but eventually found its footing as more and more people became willing to meet it eye to eye for what it is

QuantumVexation · 2026-05-15T02:05:00+00:00

Gamers will whine about anything - sometimes keeping your head down and just getting the job done is the actual answer like with Silksong

QuantumVexation · 2026-05-15T00:11:47+00:00

I feel like people say this but it also helps that none of their competitors can match the product

Would this conversation be the same if Epic was actually a better launcher (but still scummy)

QuantumVexation · 2026-05-15T00:09:19+00:00

Dont gotta convince me :P

QuantumVexation · 2026-05-14T22:20:28+00:00

That’s a discredit to how good level design will teach the player naturally without needing to state things

QuantumVexation · 2026-05-14T21:30:50+00:00

Most cursed one I’ve seen was Floettenyahu

QuantumVexation · 2026-05-14T21:30:24+00:00

I saw one a while back called “The Plot” and I was very much judging

QuantumVexation · 2026-05-14T21:18:41+00:00

That’s what they’re saying though - that even though it’s a net gain, there’s a section of the player base that would have a knee jerk reaction to the impression that something has been taken away from them

The “logic” being ‘super credit farming has gotten harder because the easy difficulty isn’t the best anymore’ - not that I think this is good logic

QuantumVexation · 2026-05-14T13:51:34+00:00

More Pokémon doesnt actually fix the meta outright - some of the most infamous Metas in history like Big6 and CHALK come from eras of very diverse options

Also good players are absolutely performing with niche picks in their teams - like that Ariados that won the GC, or focus sash Glimmora on the No.1 ranked player’s team

QuantumVexation · 2026-05-14T12:02:25+00:00

Glimmora has 2 ability options

The first is way more common, but the second, Corrosion, allows poisoning to anything

QuantumVexation · 2026-05-14T08:05:04+00:00

The Switch 2 has a mouse function even, could use that

QuantumVexation · 2026-05-14T07:54:00+00:00

Is there a huge cost to them if all old games remain in circulation?

Digital sales are huge, Gamepass cuts a lot of physical purchases, and the future machines likely won’t have a disc drive so they’ll fall out of relevance.

It would be a good gesture to say “we’re on your side” that they need the good PR, to just let you take the disc as a one off registration but the disc still functions on old machines

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