Topic: Pokemon Sword & Shield

Remember Pokemon Stars?

I find it baffling that Samurott isnt water/steel. Blastoise too for that matter he totally should've been made Water/Steel in gen 2.

@Octane Ah yes...the totally a game says Eurogamer, no wait its a tech demo for internal testing says Eurogamer.

In fairness, that's another "rule" of Pokemon that doesn't really have to be there. I'm sure there are more ways they can experiment with starter types and introducing the type chart without having the starter triangle set-up.

That said, I'm not passionately against having the tradition Grass, Fire, and Water starters. I just think it's a bit of wasted potential.

@Buizel Fighting, Rock, Flying works almost exactly the same as Fire, Water, Grass. That could be interesting.

Was gonna say Psychic,Fighting,Dark but it wouldn't be fair.

It's less a rule and more a tradition of the main series, and what's more simpler than grass/water/fire as a rock/paper/scissors substitute? And who says you even need a trio of starters? Who says you need a set starter at all?

What if you actually caught a 'mon on the first route and that became your starter? Not like in Let's Go! where it's a set in stone singular, but a random choice of whatever is available on the route. There'd need to be a bit more variety in the starting route to really allow it, but that's one way of removing the starting tradition altogether.

With Eevee, it’s a weird case where if you want to evolve it, you must do it very early or else you miss out on basic elemental attacks (until you meet a move relearner), so it’s unlike with regular starter Pokémon that you can keep unevolved without missing out on moves. And basically the complete opposite of how other stone based evolutions work.

It was nice to have a game where you get to use an Eevee in its base form, and not worry about having to evolve it. But yeah, if you want your game to start with a regular Eevee, you must let the player evolve it as soon as possible.

Maybe! I did notice a few Pokémon learning moves upon evolution.

It would still potentially (temporarily) miss out on some moves if you take too long to evolve it, but yeah.

I'm thinking what kind of Weird moves we will get from Generation 8.
We got Mega Evolution from Generation 6.
We got Super Weird Z-Moves from Generation 7.
We got what moves from Generation 8 ?
A Scottish dance and pipebag chorus to support your Pokemons ? 😆

We will get a new special move where the trainer starts shouting scottish gibberish at the oponent to lower the stats of their pokemon.

The move reminder is more often than not found around mid-game, I think.

Let's hope the trend of keeping it until the elite four is not a new sort of rule.

love how they basically teased all the notable poketubers covering supposed leaks at the start of the video

Rumors:
•Spirit Armor for starters and Mewtwo.
•Liza and Charla make game appearances
•Teenage versions of Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise

@scottdevine48 Those aren't rumours by the way, you made them up!

They may not be rumors they are leaks.

@scottdevine48 They really aren't. What's the source?

Yeah, they're called Ivysaur, Charmeleon, and Wartortle.

@Tsurii Probably some fanfic stuff.

Liza could be the gym leader from Hoenn.

Charla idk.