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It's been confirmed that El has had an Elite 4 room designed and implemented into E19, so it's likely that he will be fought as an Elite 4 member. El was much more involved in Team Meteor than Fern, so I doubt Fern would get sacked from Reserve Leader if El got away scot-free. Fair point, she was after all a Dragon type user during the online league. Flygon can also learn some more boosted special attacks on New World, such as Earth Power, Signal Beam and Swift(transfer move), combined with Draco Meteor.

That's what I'm sayin'. I don't recall Flygon being used yet except from Clown Indra and maybe 1 or 2 random trainers, so no important trainers. Saphira may use one, but we don't know that yet so it can't be counted. If the Dev's didn't make the change in E19 then I feel that it was a missed opportunity to use a somewhat strong, underused Pokemon to give it some spotlight(no hate on the Dev's though, there also could have been sentimental value with Terra and Garchomp). Could literally just copy and paste Garchomp's moves and such onto a Flygon and it would pretty much be the same thing(except a somewhat weaker physical attack).

Despite Garchomp being 4x weak to Ice, Garchomp has a speed stat of 102, whilst Swampert has 60. The only Ice types that outspeed Garchomp at an equal level are Ninetales-A, Weavile/Sneasel, Froslass and Cryogonal, and with Garchomp's coverage and a lack of Ice Beam, if your Ice type can't tank an attack and OHKO it, then you're up shit creek without a paddle. Grass types however are much more plentiful, and a lot have more than 60 Speed so Swampert will be having a rough time. I see where you're coming from with Swampert being bulkier, but it doesn't really matter if Swampert can survive more hits if Garchomp doesn't get hit in the first place. I'm not saying that Terra having Swampert is a bad idea, it would imo make her an easier fight. Her Garchomp, Quagsire and Palossand usually give me a bit of trouble, and I'm sure I'm not the only one so this slight nerf to her might've been helpful.

Sandslash-A is Blake's ace, and is used by two other trainers. Draco lowers Sp.A, so if a Pokemon has higher Sp.D on that field their Special stat won't decrease after using Draco, which removes the drawback of each Draco being weaker than the last. As for why both characters use Garchomp, I think the teams of each character were designed by different people who didn't know that they had chosen the same Pokemon as the ace, but was kept in as Garchomp was fitting to both (although Terra could instead use a Flygon who is the same type, and has only slightly lower Sp.D and Speed which can also learn the same moves/have the same strategy). Swampert is also fairly slow, so it wouldn't be as threatening as Garchomp as the Grass type exists, although it could probably live one due to the assault vest. Also, probably worst than this is Aster&Eclipse and Hardy who each had different aces(Hardy's ace originally was going to be Gigalith), but were changed to be Lycanroc (All different forms but still the same pokemon, Dusk and Midday are practically the same minus Tough Claws).

Gardevoir is Radomus' Pokemon who can speak English, and likes to be outside her pokeball like Pikachu in the anime. There isn't really a reason to not count her as his ace. Many trainers in the game use 'filler' pokemon, who are strong pokemon that fill spaces in a characters team if there is no suitable replacement, and to help maintain the difficulty while using different sets. Some examples of these include: Scizor(Fern, Solaris & Titania), Excadrill(Terra, Solaris & Titania), Sandslash-A(Serra, Blake & Titania(Damn Titania keeps copying everyone)), and Togekiss(Ciel, Victoria & Adrienn). Metagross, I believe is only used by Radomus(although I suspect Lin will use one) so it could very well be used by another character whilst not being as overused as some of the previously mentioned, nor is it another characters ace.

According to the Wiki: Eve's name is a word play on 'evening', a reference to her Espeon

Turning this thread back towards hype, what do we think Ace's team will consist of? I doubt they will specialize in Psychic type as we already have Radomus, Eve and potentially Anna, although Pokemon like Delphox and Alakazam seem fitting, as well as Zoroark and Porygon-Z as Ame did say they specialize in the art of illusions and the eternal dark witchcraft of computer wizardry.

Or perhaps when the expansion of the universe reverses in the 'Big Crunch' and collapses into a singularity, resulting in a second Big Bang. (Which is probably when Lin gets her hands on that Arceus)

What if it was a prank and she meant Spring for the Southern Hemisphere

There is no gym in the Jasper ward, so I'm guessing you mean the Beryl ward. If you have defeated Taka and ZEL in the double battle, then you should just have to walk north and there will be some further dialogue, then you can head to the gym. Once in the gym you will need to make the 6 reactors on the bottom floor all the same colour by using the panels on each one(I think they need to be pink, but it is an easy fix to change them to blue if I am wrong). A door should open up and boom, Corey!

Agreed, and with Kommo-o having Bulletproof and Tyrantrum having Rock Head, they'll be immune to the quake collapse. Kommo-o also has a custom Z-move, and covers Ice and Rock(which is good against her two confirmed members, especially in Cave). She could also have Turtonator(God forbid) which covers some weaknesses and is also immune to the quake collapse.

If you can't abuse the Dragon's Den field with your own dragons, then turning the field to Cave would definitely be the way to go. Clanging Scales only gets a 1.5x boost in Cave as opposed to the 2x boost in Dragon's Den, but yeah it is still something to be wary of. Would probably be worth sacking off a mildly bulky pokemon to use Subzero Slammer. Kommo-o and Tyrantrum are the only two pokemon that I can think of that can really make use of the Cave field.

D-dance + Sash/Multiscale sweep would probably be a viable strat

That Mega Ampharos is getting sent to the afterlife 252 Atk Tough Claws Charizard-Mega-X Outrage vs. Lvl 95 252 HP / 252+ Def Ampharos-Mega: 374-444 (102.4 - 121.6%) -- guaranteed OHKO 252+ Atk Dragonite Outrage vs. Lvl 95 252 HP / 252+ Def Ampharos-Mega: 324-384 (88.7 - 105.2%) -- 31.3% chance to OHKO

Correct, but keep in mind that in that 'tournament', PULSE Mr.Mime only fought on a neutral field. In a much earlier Dev Blog, Marcello mentions that despite having a big part in creating the fight, and knowing the gimmick of the fight, he could do fuck-all against it. I suggest that this 'gimmick' is what makes the battle so difficult, and because the PULSE isn't an official league member, they didn't have any battles in their optimal environment in the AI tournament. The gimmick is probably a field effect that beefs up the Mime, potentially something like the mirror field.

Supposedly PULSE Mr.Mime is near-indestructible

That Saphira uses a Mega-Charizard X

So does this mean that we fight them on either Big Top Arena or Fairy Tale Field as they boost Swords Dance, or are we getting a new field/updated field?

I think she said that it will be included somewhere in the E19 download folder

No

Ame's 'Coloring the Reborn Map' livestream, it has been posted on youtube

With the pace that the hype train/plane/thing is moving at, the community beta testing could be just 'round the corner :D

I believe they did say that the terrain moves and abilities will replace existing terrains as it has done in the past, as they didn't want to remove strategies that people had already built teams around.

Don't we all? They tend to be a lot more interesting and in some cases more humorous than the boring ol' good guys.