Pokémon Scarlet and Violet‘s The Teal Masks DLC launched us to a handful of name new Pokémon, and 2016 World Champion Wolfe Glick sat down to debate which of them look essentially the most promising in battle.
In a Sept. 16 video, the Pokémon champ and well-liked content material creator analyzed the brand new DLC ‘mons, together with Sinistcha, Dipplin, Bloodmoon Ursaluna, the Loyal Three, and the adorable Legendary that stole everyone’s hearts, Ogerpon. As an knowledgeable within the aggressive scene, Glick shared his ideas on the perfect and worst of the brand new bunch primarily based on their Skills, strikes, and stats.
The Pokémon that Glick discovered essentially the most fascinating was Ogerpon, who has 4 completely different types relying on which masks it wears. These masks and types include completely different typing and Skills, that means there’s quite a lot of flexibility and choices to work with on the subject of this Legendary Pokémon.
Ogerpon additionally will get entry to some actually good strikes like Ivy Cudgel, Horn Leech, Wooden Hammer, and Comply with Me. On prime of this, its Terastallized type comes with a further Potential that raises certainly one of its stats primarily based on its masks. Principally, there are quite a lot of artistic issues you are able to do with Ogerpon to make it suit your crew.
Glick additionally had quite a lot of constructive issues to say about Bloodmoon Ursaluna and Sinistcha. Bloodmoon Ursaluna is the particular attacking type of the usual Ursaluna that’s already recognized to be extremely robust. The scary bear not solely will get an Potential that permits it to hit Ghost Pokémon with Regular-type assaults but in addition a 140 base energy Regular-type assault referred to as Blood Moon that may deal large harm to most targets. Really, no Pokémon is protected from Bloodmoon Ursaluna.
Like Bloodmoon Ursaluna, Sinistcha is one other Pokémon that advantages from an ideal signature Potential and transfer. The distinction is that the matcha Pokémon makes for a greater help ‘mon than an offensive risk. That’s as a result of its Hospitality skill heals its allies when it switches into battle, and it has entry to Rage Powder for redirection, Power Sap to weaken bodily attackers, and Matcha Gotcha to doubtlessly burn targets. The latter two strikes additionally occur to heal Sinistcha, so it may well keep alive even longer to assist the crew.
Sadly, the opposite new Pokémon from the DLC don’t sound as robust. In accordance with Glick, Applin’s new evolution, Dipplin, “in all probability gained’t be tremendous good.” It has a novel signature Potential that lowers the opposing Pokémon’s evasiveness together with a helpful assault for velocity management, so there may very well be some area of interest methods to attempt, but it surely undoubtedly doesn’t stand out as a lot because the beforehand talked about ‘mons.
The identical goes for the Loyal Three—Okidogi, Munkidori, and Fezandipiti. All of them share the Toxic Chain ability that may badly poison their targets after an assault, which sounds extremely annoying for his or her opponent to take care of. Nonetheless, Glick thought of Okidogi to be beneath common, Munkidori to be disappointing, and Fezandipiti to be the perfect of the three, however nonetheless not wonderful. That is one more reason why they should be referred to as the Awful Three later within the DLC’s story.
After all, these are simply early first impressions of the brand new Pokémon from The Teal Masks DLC, so it’s completely attainable for any of those ‘mons to exceed expectations or underperform because the aggressive meta continues to shift.
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