Discussion VideoGame / PokemonSwordAndShield

About the Video example for A.I Breaker, Galarian Darmanitan has a unique ability that locks it into using a specific move. The AI isn't repeatedly choosing to use a move in spite of it having no effect, the pokemon's ability is just forcing it to use the same move it first used, it's not a good example of the trope.

Should we make a note of how these games brought back the Generation VI-USUM messages for the Poké Balls such as if the Pokémon breaks free after the Let's Go! games completely changed the messages displayed?

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So, a few months ago, I was playing the Max Lair in The Crown Tundra for the first time and the A.I. was a lot smarter. For instance, if my Pokémon or someone else's used a status effect on the Dynamaxed Pokémon, another would have his Haunter use Hex to inflict double damage. Should that be an exception to the Artificial Stupidity thing?

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Does anybody have an issue with the Anti-Frustration Features entry being given its own page? It reads like a whole book.

I have an issue with an entry about how certain moves behave different for Max Raid battles under the Contractual Boss Immunity listing. Particularly about the fact that multi-hit moves are useless if they don't destroy the last segment of the barrier with the first hit. My Skill Link Cinccino and all the Delibirds from the Christmas Wild Area event beg to differ. Yes, if the first hit of the attack destroys the last segment of barrier, the remaining hits all do MASSIVE damage. But the remaining hits still do some damage even through the barrier if it's still in place. It's possible to take down a Max Raid pokemon without finishing off the barrier. The only time I've found that the extra hits is truly wasted is a specific instance on 5 star level raids. If the first hit takes down the last segment of the first barrier, and you deal more than enough damage to trigger the second one to appear, the game WILL cap your remaining damage to the amount that triggers the second barrier. (The health loss from the first barrier disappearing does still happen, though, and it happens after your attack finishes.)

I'm hesitant to just edit the main page, though. I wouldn't want to start an edit war...

I've had to revert a few edits making the assertion that this game nerfed or removed the obedience mechanic, so to set the record straight: Obedience has always been a patch against steamrolling the game with an overleveled traded mon, and as such has only ever applied to outsider pokemon. The Bulbapedia page can confirm this: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Obedience

Being able to raise your own mons as high as you want without disobedience has been possible since Red and Green; it just comes up more easily in this game because it's the first one to give out exp this readily.

Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.

It's unprecedented, but we may need a separate page for Later-Installment Weirdness for this game.

Hey, so would the fact that the three Legendaries are the only three Pokrmon unable to Dynamax, but possess 100-power Dynamax-killer moves, fall under Neccesary Drawback or Brought Down to Badass?

Wanting to avoid an Edit War here: I deleted the mention of the National Dex in the Put on a Bus entry because the National Dex not being in the game is not a cause of the number of usable Pokémon being cut. There was no National Dex in Sun and Moon either, but all Pokémon were still usable. The whole "bring back the National Dex" movement is a misnomer but someone still put the mention back in the entry without a reason.

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Could the argument be made that Chairman Rose is Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds?

Under Uniqueness Decay, it states that Noibat was previously the only Pokemon with Flying as a primary type. This is only true if you ignore the pure-Flying type Tornadus.

For anyone wondering what the big fiasco was with the namespace changing back and forth, please see this thread. The long and short of it is that PRE-RELEASE works may have a tendency to be subjected to Speculative Troping, where people speculate what will be in the final product with no actual proof of what will happpen. As such, the idea came to create an Advertising namespace to objectively list tropes that only apply to what has so far only been revealed in the trailers thus far.

In the end, the mods came to the conclusion that the Pokemon Sword and Shield work page will remain under administrative lockdown until the hype dies down a little. This isn't the only page under scrutiny from this experiment either.

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Trope to be added:

• Underground Monkey: As with the seventh generation, new "regional variants" of existing Pokémon, complete with type changes and new moves and abilities, are introduced.

Until next time...

Anon e Mouse Jr.

Probably should change that description of it being based of the United Kingdom to just say based on Great Britain, since the lack of Northern Ireland makes it an innacurate statement.

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