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Gren's early game is way better than most starters. Protean echoed voice rolls over early game fights Also physical non-Crest empoleon is mostly worse than bibarel imo.

not doing exact numbers since there's no way half these ideas are balanced Wishiwashi: At the start of Wishiwashi's turn, if it's not schooling, recover ~33-50% of its max health -lets it always utilize schooling form's much better offenses, but healing low enough that it's not invincible Dodrio: Whenever Dodrio acts, it also uses the move in its last moveslot at reduced effectiveness -Dodrio's dex always talks about its ability to execute complex plans because of its 3 heads, so that's the flavor justification. Might need to be limited to only attacking moves

it evolves by leveling up charjabug on terajuma island if you have a spare rare candy (which you probably will?) you can push Snover up to 41 to learn Blizzard, then level it back down to 40. Valarie has no way to change the field back and icy field neuters her team since it turns off swift swim and makes her water moves way less threatening. Her lead shouldn't be able to OHKO Abomasnow unless you're like 0 HP/Def IVs and a -def nature It's definitely annoying on a blind playthrough since your only options to improve your team are likely gonna be the pokemon in the jung

GREG GREG GREG GREG wrt Gren, my experience is that it's the best early game starter I've used so far (haven't used Torchic yet) because protean Echoed Voice + its speed just lets it win any singles fight and it's an amazing Hidden Power user. It falls off a bit after Valarie or so because the 50-60BP moves that were fine before just to hit stuff super effective stop cutting it, and there's not a ton of fights where Mat Block can put in a ton of work so you are stuck with Surf and Extrasensory + like, Night Slash or Hidden Power? But once you get Dark Pulse and Hydro Pump it gets a

crest beheeyem doesn't care about anything Nidoqueen does and can just set up with cosmic power/nasty plot/recover/energy ball. Boosting Recover's PP is appreciated but not necessary I'm pretty sure if you only bring one pokemon Nidoqueen doesn't even use toxic spikes there might be other stuff that solos but I think most of the stuff I've had sweep ryland had something else turn off sand first so it wasn't a true solo

gyarados has beaten every fight through the 13th gym on intense with no items "solo", and the rest are likely coming soon I say solo because two are used for doubles since it's buggy moxie and other stuff that lets you just get stronger and stronger through a fight is just super broken the game also has a pretty good split between singles and doubles challenging fights, although the ones generally considered most difficult are more often doubles That said, most late game stuff is gonna be pretty broken. There's already stuff that can already solo

It's worth noting that the Crest doesn't give a 50% boost like Strong Jaw. It's only 20%. Life Orb is better for pure damage purposes, the real benefit of the Crest is the priority boost

update, I forgot that you can get zygarde-10%

pokemon families not obtainable at all right now: every mythical and legendary except for Phione, Type: Null, and Silvally Magikarp Dratini Bagon Timburr Ferroseed Rufflet Honedge Hawlucha Klefki Mudbray Mimikyu Jangmo-o This includes associated evolutions. Wynaut is also not obtainable because the item required to breed it from Wobbuffet isn't available yet On top of that, there are some pokemon that are only currently obtainable from the mystery egg or as starters, making them mutually exclusive within their respective group

Grookey would break the game on a fundamental level by turning off terrains in every fight. The others are just really good at what they do.

Both crested and mega pokemon have a pretty wide range in power level. There's some that are still pretty weak for both (Crest Magcargo and Mega Audino). A lot of crests have pretty insane power gains but they are also buffing pokemon who are otherwise terrible, so even something like Ledian is still just a bit too good--its attacking power is insane but its speed tier is still just 85 with very bad physical bulk. On the other hand, around half of the mega evolutions are to pokemon who are already decent, if not great.

devs have confirmed on discord that the official terrains (grassy/psychic/misty/electric) are being separated from the other ones so that the gen8 Surge mons aren't such a problem. Even if you made all of them available super late, Grookey starter would be a problem

Long Reach reduces accuracy by 10% on Forest Field, so it might be related to that? Anyway, error with Emergency Exit works (because the official games are more inconsistent about it ) So how it works in the official games is if passive damage brings it below 50% it should immediately trigger even if holding a sitrus berry or something like that (and still consumes the berry). But if an attack is what brings it down and it recovers over 50% before it reaches its turn it stays in. Instead in rejuv, it always retreats.

Rage Powder doesn't always work on enemy mons.

I think the potions are useful info to have, even if it bloats