How good are the new items in Scarlet and Violet

I ranked every NEW item in Scarlet and Violet - and some of them are BROKEN

#Pokemon #ScarletViolet #WolfeyVGC

[robisnon]

On the loaded dice, the effect is guaranteed. It changes any 2-3 hit rolls into 4-5 hit rolls, so you're always hitting a minimum of 4 times.

[grbear]

Fun fact about the mirror herb: you can give it to a Pokémon during picnics and it will copy egg moves that it can learn. It doesn’t consume the herb either.

[ZephWraen]

Mirror Herb may not be crazy in battle, but its hidden out of battle effect is crazy good.

If you give it to a pokemon with an open move slot and do a picnic it can learn any compatible egg move from another pokemon in your party that would normally require breeding to learn. Also it ignores egg groups.

For instance: Iron Hands' Belly Drum copied over to an Azumarill. Really useful for a certain 7* raid.

[ianmann]

Fun fact: Protective pads were actually introduced in Gen 7. I'm not gonna fault anyone for thinking they were new in Gen 8 because they weren't really used very much until SwSh. Still really interested to see where the new items fit in. I've seen mirror herb + Spicy Extract running around so maybe some of these items end up being really good.

[CreamFraiche]

Protective pads was used in singles on Urshifu rapid strike so that it didn't get wrecked by rocky helmet/rough skin or paralyzed with static. Punching gloves boosts surging strikes so it's literally just an upgrade to protective pads for Urshifu in singles at least

[Aegis]

I really like the items in this game, they're unique and you can get competitive items so early it's insane

[thedylanator]

loaded dice on a technician breloom using bullet seed actually adds up to quite a bit. Adding around 100 damage to the move in total.

[MrLuizilla]

One thing to note about the abilities of the Paradox Pokémon is that their boosts aren't all the same. For Speed you get a 50% increase, for all other stats its closer to 30%

[emilvalitov]

Actually, quite recently we found out that Protosynthesis and Quark Drive only boost your Speed by 1.5x, every other stat (Atk, Def, SpA, SpDef) is boosted only by 1.3x.

[y.kennard]

Also, about Ability shield, I think this item was made for Tera raids. Preventing something like Bronzong to be hit by earthquake when the boss cancels ability seems pretty nice.
(I didn't test this, though. Maybe the boss cancels bypass the item and in this case I have no idea why they made it.)

[adammorin]

The mirror herb also lets the parents in breeding to get the egg move and I’m surprised that it wasn’t mentioned.

[katy]

I’d love to see mirror herb in a Xerneas meta. It might be a counter against the Geomancy win button

[jond]

The ability shield is mainly going to be used for raids, because raid pokemon change your ability a lot

[personifiedcat]

Clear Amulet has been fun to use in the game. There are some pokemon clearly programmed to first lower stats before attacking. Because of clear amulet they can’t, but the game wasn’t program to understand like that like they do when an ability causes an action to fail, so they will just keep spamming stat lowering moves against your clear amulet mon (for example an umbreon kept using baby doll eyes)

[kargando]

The punching glove on an iron first Pokémon like crabominable could be pretty incredible, that protect against flame body is definitely a bonus too

[stevenreckling]

About the covert cloak, I think it would pair well with gholdengo. It's ability means that status moves don't effect it so if you block secondary effects of moves it can't be statused at all barring being given a flame orb or abilities.that activate on contact.

[AZV]

I've been trying Punching Glove on Annihilape and it suits it perfectly. Being able to power up vanilla Rage Fist a bit more while also avoiding getting punished by Rough Skin/Flame Body is very valuable, although it may be better items to run.
I believe it's an underrated item.

[lukaskback]

The Protective Pads were introduced in Sun and Moon, not Sword and Shield. They were used quite a lot in singles to avoid Static, Flame Body, Iron Barbs, Rough Skin and most importantly Rocky Helmet, especially on mons like Urshifu and Melmetal who rely on multi-hit moves.

[tomashogberg]

Loaded dice is definitely viable on some Pokémon, like physically offensive grass types that doesn’t get great physical moves but learns bullet seed — now that’s a 100-125 base power move!

[mug]

As soon as I saw clear amulet, I was shocked. Being immune to intimidate is insane.