Pokémon Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield General Discussion

[Hal]

all I care about is that meowth now lmao

 

[Soot Sprite]

Do you think they'll be gigantamax forms for blastoise and venusaur since charizard was in that clip? I don't see why they wouldn't make a form for just charizard and not the other two.

 

[Sweetley]

Do you think they'll be gigantamax forms for blastoise and venusaur since charizard was in that clip? I don't see why they wouldn't make a form for just charizard and not the other two.

Would be nice, then again I wouldn't be surprised if it's just Charizard and the other two getting nothing, since Charizard is known for getting more attention than Blastoise and/or Venusaur because popularity and such.

After all, I would be more happy tbh if Pokemon from another Gens getting more attention, getting overall more Gen 1 Pokemon with new forms becomes so boring and stale at this point.

 

[Zane]

gigantamax Pikachu is just the fat Pikachu of yore ;__;

 

[Sweetley]

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[Noctis]

Just found out that in Sword and Shield, you can finally skip the catching tutorial. Praise Game Freak for
giving us this option.

Source btw: https://nintendoeverything.com/pokemon-sword-shield-lets-you-skip-the-catching-tutorial/

Sweet! They should've just done this since the beginning. While its great for first timers the rest of us don't need it.

 

[Sweetley]

Found another interesting information for those who want to reset for a shiny starter:

https://twitter.com/mattyoukhana_/status/1184834579322097664

 

[uwuzumakii]

I like the Gigantamax designs for Pikachu and Meowth, but I hate the concept as a whole. I wish Game Freak would focus more towards the traditional games than adding all of these useless gimicks. Take Mega Evolutions and Z-Moves, for example. Mega Evolutions were a pretty important plot point in X and Y but had almost zero representation is Sun and Moon, and neither Z-Moves OR Mega Evolutions are returning.

 

[AlyssaAC]

I'm not sure how I feel about Gigantamax Meowth. It looks a bit weird. X.X

Charizard looks cool though.

 

[-Apples-]

It’s getting closer to the release. In about 4 weeks.

The new Gigantamax Pokemon look weird.

 

[MelloDimensions]

I heard there was a new trailer. Anything actually promising?

 

[Tao]

I like the Gigantamax designs for Pikachu and Meowth, but I hate the concept as a whole. I wish Game Freak would focus more towards the traditional games than adding all of these useless gimicks. Take Mega Evolutions and Z-Moves, for example. Mega Evolutions were a pretty important plot point in X and Y but had almost zero representation is Sun and Moon, and neither Z-Moves OR Mega Evolutions are returning.

I think they should have just kept and expanded upon Mega evolutions and/or Z-moves.

Mega evolutions fit more with the franchise than any of their recent gimmicks. A game all about evolving? Here's a temporary 4th evolution. Makes sense. They had a few new ones in OR/AS too, but then just dropped the idea...I especially like that we just get a new cool looking form of Pokemon. I loved mega Pidgeot, mega Mawile and mega Gardevoir (especially given they were 3 new forms for 3 of my long time party members), but I'm pretty much never going to see those again without playing X/Y or OR/AS.

Z-moves were kind of the same, a special 5th move for one of your Pokemon. Neat. Same logic as with megas, we get 4 moves, here's one more 'once per battle' move for special occasions.

Gigantamax? Where the hell did this come from? I just don't understand the logic behind it. Did somebody at Game Freak just stay up watching Kaiju movies and thing "yea, that'll do". It's just so out of place and unnecessary, especially when it's not doing anything massively different from gimmicks they already had. Just change for the sake of change.



Gives me less hope for 'regional forms' being a staple. I like the idea of regional forms, but how long will they last until they're replaced with something more unnecessary and more stupid?

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Couldn't agree more.

The Gigantamax was a major turn off for me.

There's too much going on.
Mega stones, Z crystals.

STAHP.

 

[Corrie]

Yeah, I'm not a fan of the gimmicks either. I get they're trying to attract people/keep Pokemon fresh and exciting but that's like adding more and more decorations or icing to a cake. If the actual cake is lackluster, no amounts of icing or sprinkles can save it. That's not to say the Pokemon games are BAD, just if they ignore the base of the game and instead focus on the flashy stuff, eventually they'll fall apart. That's how I see it anyway.

 

[Sweetley]

I'm kinda surprised that we still don't know what the evolutions of the starters are. At least the middle evolutions would be nice to know. Makes me wonder if they will show them to us before the release of the games or if we have to discover them on our own this time.

 

[Corrie]

I'm kinda surprised that we still don't know what the evolutions of the starters are. At least the middle
evolutions would be nice to know. Makes me wonder if they will show them to us before the release of
the games or if we have to discover them on our own this time.

Legit right! Part of me wants a surprise but I wanna know the whole line before I choose so I don't get stuck with a crappy evo lol

 

[Flare]

I'm kinda surprised that we still don't know what the evolutions of the starters are. At least the middle
evolutions would be nice to know. Makes me wonder if they will show them to us before the release of
the games or if we have to discover them on our own this time.

iirc it was told that the starter evos were gonna be kept a secret this time. So we won’t know anything about them until the game releases. or if someone leaks the entire pokedex

 

[Dim]

I'd rather they continue mega evolutions tbh

 

[Corrie]

iirc it was told that the starter evos were gonna be kept a secret this time. So we won’t know anything about them until the game releases. or if someone leaks the entire pokedex

Let us pray for leaks!

 

[Dim]

scorbunny all the way....