Pokémon Sword & Shield - Flinch Mob - Jan 18 20 B

The background of your League Card in Pokémon Sword & Shield will alter the odds of a certain location being chosen for the multiplayer battle. If you have a town with a stadium in it, there will be a 50% chance it will be at that stadium, and the same goes for the Battle Tower when you use the Battle Tower icon backgrounds. (The other 50% is based on your opponent's League Card background.) In this case, I have a background for Hulbury while my opponent, マコト, has a background of...no location in particular. That means there's a 50% chance the battle will be at Hulbury Stadium and a 50% chance it'll be at the default unnamed (to my knowledge) stadium.

Since Spikemuth doesn't have a stadium, Spikemuth backgrounds count as the default stadium.

The settings seem to be chosen based on if they can accomodate a Dynamax Pokémon on both sides, since, of course, Dynamax and Gigantamax must be permitted for both sides. Most locales can't do that. There are some that can but were left out though. I can think of the Max Raid Battle dens and the Energy Plant. Any others I hadn't thought of?

Opponent: マコト (Makoto) (7)
Stadium: Hulbury Stadium
Music: Leon
My Pokémon: Greedent, Qwilfish, Aromatisse
Opponent's Pokémon: オーロンゲ (Grimmsnarl), ドラパルト (Dragapult), セキタンザン (Coalossal)

Since the previous video was so short, here's a second one for the day. (Also because otherwise, the end of this session would overlap with Galar Newcomers. I tried to participate in Galar Beginnings, but the game didn't acknowledge there was an event going on. Hopefully, it'll work this time.) I wasn't sure if the opponent in the previous match was Japanese, but I'm pretty certain of it this time, with having a clearly Japanese name in Japanese lettering and using Pokémon with Japanese names. (Of course, it could also be a weeb. It can sometimes be hard to tell. I've met one individual, for instance, who mentally tunes out any Pokémon information that isn't Japanese. He always refers to it as "Pocket Monsters" and was apparently unaware that non-Japanese games don't use yen as their currency. Of course, someone like him would not go online playing Pokémon games due to the high chance there would be a non-Japanese player on the other side.)

Those of you who have been following this team's battles would probably figure, but マコト was having a lot of trouble dealing with Greedent, especially after switching out from Grimmsnarl, as Greedent has a Dark-type move as an answer to Dragapult and a Ground-type move as an answer to Coalossal, the latter of which has the added benefit of being a weakness of Coalossal's that doesn't trigger Steam Engine (though as I discovered later, this Coalossal has Flame Body--an interesting choice, as people would expect Steam Engine and would thus avoid hitting him with Water-type moves anyway). Also, January 21st is Squirrel Appreciation Day, and this Greedent is a squirrel to be appreciated!

It was after Greedent had fainted that I started encountering trouble. Well, sort of. I had forgotten that Grimmsnarl had been switched out, not fainted, so I didn't bother with Trick Room. Had I remembered it, I would've done so. Not sure if the match's outcome would be any different though.

The way this match ended...that sort of thing just kind of happens to me, doesn't it? I would never have figured Dragapult is holding a King's Rock. The King's Rock grants a 20% chance of a flinch if the user moves first. If there's any Pokémon that a King's Rock would work better on than most others, it would be Dragapult, but because of its lack of reliability, people typically put other items on their Dragapults. Speaking of which, just as Coalossal has Flame Body, likely because people expect Steam Engine, this one has Cursed Body, probably because people expect Clear Body.

By the way, my opponent's Silvally does not have Self-Destruct, if you were wondering. It was also interesting seeing someone in Rank 4 use Mr. Rime.

[randomyoshi]

A taunt on a Dragapult? Didn't see that one coming.

[mrmostache]

I thought it was a 10% flinch on King's rock. A 5 hit attack would have about 41% flinch chance. Under the assumption it's 20% it would be about 67% chance.

[strategist]

Ah, I was hoping to see Mr. Ryme in action, oh well...


See I just happened to get Pokemon with kinda meh abilities and don't want to work to get the "correct" ones, so I guess I could use that to my advantage!

[BigKlingy]

Oh CRAP! Galar Newcomers is NOW?! I thought I had until the 30th to register. Crap crap crap. My team isn't fully ready.... no, I spent the better part of the last two weeks working on it...

[Anaxisca]

So that Dragapult has a King room that has a 20 change of a flinching... Interesting pick. I wonder if can stack with Rock Slide and Iron head (both are 20 accurate ) The reason is because these moves are commonly in double and it can decide the battle. And if yes, which pokémon would fit well(for me faster pokemon defenely will help a lot expecely after a trick room or a Tailwind. Togapiss would a interesting choice however it more a follow user and probably wants the Lum Beaty or weaknesses polecly more).

I might use for me team but I not sure(and if yes probably on Corvoknight to improve Iron Head flich).

[ImNtInsane]

I really thought you were going to win this one. When I see an opponent with a rarely used Pokemon team like yours, I'm always unconfident. Like, what kind of magic tricks that little brat is going to use against me ? :')