Mystery Gift Galarian Corsola Now Available In Pokémon Sword And Shield

Not going to use this pokemon but i need it for my pokedext.

Oh, the cute Corsola that Game Freak killed those effing monsters.

Forgot the Corsola and give me that 50 big nuggets! Yes please! Always need more money in this game since they changed the way EV training works and let us pump our battle slaves full of steroids instead of actually training them!

Joking aside though, that's really useful. I jumped back into the game yesterday - taking a small break from Xenoblade - to breed and train up the hidden ability starters 2 of which got massive buffs.

Shame that Sobble's family got such a useless ability though. Super crits are nice but way to inconsistent. But Scorbunny's Libero, is just the same ability Greninja had, changing typing to whatever move you use, and having STAB is so OP!

And Grookey's family getting grassy surge is awesome! He's the only Pokemon in the format for now with the ability and he puts in work with max HP and attack with assault vest!

@TheLightSpirit It was far better from gen 6 onward, but gen 8 has really made it easier than ever to make competitive Pokemon and I love it! Letting us use the vitamins is actually better than I ever expected it to get!

The only change left that I really want to see - would be making it possible to get hidden abilities on Pokemon that have a normal ability. I feel like the current system is just a relic from Gen 5's dream world. They could just introduce something similar to the bottle caps and hyper training but for hidden abilities.

So many Pokemon are made or broken by their HA and getting a shiny or g-max or something without the HA when it really needs it is still just a little soul crushing...

Then again, they've still come so far and I really love the changes they've made! It's now possible to make a 5IV perfect competitive Pokemon at level 100 fully EV trained in minutes! Even with HA breeding, I still only took about an hour an a half to make the HA starters yesterday.

Compared to 4th gen when I first was playing competitive Pokemon online, when getting more than 2 perfect IVs was a major feat, and you had to use the auto level wi-fi feature and input the stats into a fan made calculator just to see your IVs... It's no wonder probably 90% or more of players back then hacked all of their Pokemon!

I remember spending like 20 hours over the span of a week just building 6 Pokemon with 2 perfect IVs each and then EV training and leveling them all high enough to get the needed moves! If it still worked like that today - I'd have long since abandoned playing vs in Pokemon - and frankly I think the competitive scene would have died - or people would still be 90% or more hacking.

I already have it but I'll download it anyway.

Now, this is the good one

@Heavyarms55 EV training and breading for natures and IVs used to be a skill in patients and gen 4 is where it ended. It made most pokemon unique stat wise and also competive battles a bit more fun if both of you went in knowing you both didn't have perfect stats. Now essentially if you really take into account you can even change the nature with mints all you have to breed for is the HA and egg moves the rest you can change with items and max out in minutes.

@Heavyarms55 I think there's a new item called a ability capsule or something which can change your Pokémon ability if they have the option for a second or hidden

50 Nuggets!
That's a lot of money. Can I buy the expansion dlc with that?

@Lute-Waffle I’m not sure if it was changed in this generation, but the ability capsule only works for regular abilities, not hidden.

@Eel ah I'm probably mistaken then

@Lute-Waffle Goodness, I wish it worked that way. Alas, as others have already pointed out, they do not. You can only switch between regular abilities.