Feel The Ground Shake (Pokemon - Ground-type specialist)

[Jambory]

Sparks bristle along the Manectric's fur. The blue-skinned hound jerks its head and with a flash of blinding light a new team member has suddenly replaced it on the field. An orange-bodied Pokémon wearing a far-too-innocent little smile.

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No officer, my jaw isn't on the floor. What are you saying?

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So I'm not gonna lie, I read "orange-bodied Pokémon wearing a far-too-innocent little smile" and thought it was going to be a Dedenne.

Thought it was going to be one of those classic "it might look puny, but it's actually ridiculously powerful," like Ash's Pikachu or Elesa's Tynamo.


But yeah, Rotom-Wash makes way more sense.

 

[Bob Saget]

Meta moves like Baton Pass, Roar, and Volt Switch really detract and distract from the suspense and spirit of "real" battling.

They're moves designed and implemented to make the poke-games artificial turn based battling less basic. But much like running onto a deadly field to apply a hyper potion to completely heal your pokemon 'between' moves, they do not hold up well when you ponder their realism and impact on battles.

 

[Kenshin135]

Meta moves like Baton Pass, Roar, and Volt Switch really detract and distract from the suspense and spirit of "real" battling.

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I agree that most of the switch moves are too gamified to work when applied to 'real' battles, but I do think Baton Pass holds up. At least the buff passing aspect. I imagine it something like using the mutual bond to the trainer to temporarily store and transfer the buffs during the switch.

A move like Roar should just make an opponent flee away, Whirlwind toss them away, Volt Switch/U-Turn are just moves that use recoil/momentum to create a bunch of distance after hitting, etc.

Same with Entry Hazards; activating on switch in is weird, I imagine them more like traps a target stumbles into by moving around.

 

[ThunderBasilisk]

Man this fight was amazing! And man that strat is perfect for a Dark type(though I do hope we see a Moxie fueled sweep at some point) and a a real battle turner. Cause it puts an opponents entire damn team on the clock. And with how many Toxic Spikes were laid down they're Badly Poisoned.

 

[LordVishnu]

He didn't note that Grass Knot was also being used differently here? It's normally a remote attack that strikes from below tripping you and converting gravity into Grass damage. Not a contact move that leaves a lash scar.

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Oops.

I'm guessing that Volt Switch here was being used by striking himself. Because normally Volt Switch does nothing if it can't damage.

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Nah. It really was just some Electric Aura cheat codes.