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IMO the ice cat and the fire fish are unhealthy. And althought some Paradox Mons are already broken per se, the Energy Boost item is a flexible Inteprid Sword.

I can be very wrong, but although the Tera-mechanic isn't very impressive, it seems way more balanced than Megas, Z-moves or D-max. IMO, all of those previous gimmicks were very unbalanced, but Tera-Forms seems to be very situational. You can say that Z-moves are also situational, but they...

I've had more hype with SwSh trailers than with SV so far, but maybe I'm sceptical after some disappointment. Anyway, the trailer showed some interesting stuff: -It seems the Gym Leader level scaling is very sophisticated. If they don't have levels, leveling up might be only important for...

Oh, I wasn't expecting Spain. Stills a game based on a north hemisphere country, but it's nice to see some latin culture on the Pokemon world. Would be cooler if it was based on a Latin America country, but I understand why they didn't. About the game, the starters are amazing but the graphics...

It's filled with pokemon and resources. Period. And it's the big point about this game. If you like the playstyle the game presents you, it's an amazing overworld, the graphics won't bother you and the game will flow perfectly. But it's a step away from the older formula and if you don't like...

Honestly, the game just begun to be fun after the first mini boss. Till that, it looked like a huge tutorial. But now I'm enjoying it completely. Great game already. I've been using the sneak tactic most of the time and already got a lvl 42 alpha Stantler. And if you walk away too much from...

I have no idea if PLA battle style can be applied on PS, probably it will demand a great workaround. It's not clear what exactly is a turn, it seems it uses a cycle of speed calculations based on style, move and speed status.

Specifically about Status, it seems reasonable that they might be trying to test them on PLA and maybe be introduced into the main series later. IMO, they look more balanced to PvP gameplay than the current status system.

An actual optimized Pokemon gameplay after so many years. With this trailer we could see how outdated are the main series games nowadays. Still a turn-based RPG, but with a decent overworld gameplay. If they port this style to new games and remakes, it would be awesome.

When SwSh was announced, I was hyped but concerned about the whole Dynamax feature. When the game came out, I was disappointed but not surprised (no meme intended). After all, it was just another beat 8 gyms pokémon game. Just a ok game. Now with Legends I'm more excited than I was with XY and...

I was running a Restalk PhysDef Calm Mind Primarina, which loses to pex, but set up on Seismitoad and Corviknight easily. Also wins against Dragons, Hatterene and even some Rotoms. Either way, the mon is great, and looks even more splashable than in last gen UU.

Talking about the returning mons, Primarina is the most impressive, IMO. You can use her either Specs or PhysDef. It loses to ferropex core, but trashes everything else in the tier.

Well, I do believe Celebi will be very valuable at this metagame. You can run a wallbreaker set with NP, Aura Sphere, Psychic and Giga Drain and keep almost every single Rocker bar jirachi under pressure. Seismitoad will hate it a lot because even with toxic It can't touch Celebi properly. And...

The discussion about to ban GDarm or GT is something I do believe should be better elighted on our Tiering Police. Ban something always happens because the community agrees that an element of the Metagame creates an uncompetitive environment. As many times, several aspects of a mon creates...

I don't agree with a quickban either. Maybe the meta can adjust. These are first impressions from a single day.