Fixing Scarlet and Violet's Gym Leaders

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  @Zoroark73 · 1 year ago

  Now this is a unique way of fixing gym leaders. I haven't seen anyone else discuss the Paldea leaders before. Pretty great buffs tbh, though one thing I've always been bothered by is why Kofu, the Seafood Chef Gym Leader, doesn't use the Seafood Chef Pokemon Dondozo? I get it's technically a titan, but Nemona uses Orthworm. Without Tatsugiri it wouldn't be crazy or anything, and it does have less attack than Veluza.

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  @Mario87456 · 1 year ago

  If there is one thing I don’t understand it’s that I don’t know why Iono doesn’t have a Magneton or Magnezone on her team. It should probably replace Electrode.

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  @krampusapprenticeofdarksan7870 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mggy0S2LLaM&amp;t=270">4:30</a> What I never understood was the fact Brassius design is dark and his hair is prickly yet he doesn&apos;t even use Brambleghast/Bramblin

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  @edscarlet865 · 1 year ago

  Even with all that, one other problem I had with all the trainers in Paldea is that... NONE of them understand what a Held Item is, or even use Potions.<br><br>Maybe give Katy&apos;s Teddiursa, Brassius&apos; Sudowoodo and Iono&apos;s Mismagius one Sitrus Berry to help them stat alive for... more than 1 turn, if any.<br>From then on, we can start getting 2 held items to help the strategy of the trainer and then 3 held items per team.<br><br>1. Like a Scope Lens on Kofu&apos;s Veluza and let&apos;s add a Sitrus on Crabominable.<br>2. For Larry, maybe giving Indeedee a Quick Claw for a possible Encore locking the player into a useles move, and give Staraptor a Toxic Orb to make Facade a real challenge.<br>3. Rhyme could have a Lum Berry on Mimikyu, because the only thing stopping the setup would be a status effect. And adding Take Down or Body Press on Houndstone paired with an Assault Vest and the ability Fluffy would do wonders for a gym leader that welcomes us into the last third of the game.<br><br>4. Tulip could lead with a Light Clay Medicham to at least give the rest of the team an 8-turn defense boost. &nbsp;Add a Sitrus Berry on Espathra and Leftovers on Florgess<br>5. For Grusha... adding a Focus Sash on Frosmoth, Assault Vest on Cetitan and a Life Orb for Gyarados. How does that sound?

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• FE

  @FergiesGarden · 1 year ago

  larry is the undisputed goat of gym leaders in my book. even cynthia doesnt hold a candle to him and im hopelessly in love with her

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  @000Dragon50000 · 1 year ago

  &gt; Adds constant snow<br>&gt; Removes Beartic (one of exactly two Slush Rush pokemon)<br>This is the one * I give this video haaha IDK if that was the best call.

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  @jaredadkinson · 1 year ago (edited)

  I wish Cinccino had been in the base game to be Grusha’s ace. He wears a scarf over his face like Cinccino does and Triple Axel feels like a fitting move for a snowboarder even though it’s obviously a figure skating move. And especially with Technician to boost its power, Triple Axel becomes really strong. It does also get Ice Spinner though which is a lot weaker, but equally fitting for Grusha. <br><br>I know they don’t use items, but Loaded Dice would help its movepool a lot, but it does still have Double-Edge, Gunk Shot, Play Rough, Seed Bomb, and Knock Off if it’s not using multi strike moves. Unfortunately, Technician without Loaded Dice only really helps with Triple Axel, Thief, and Trailblaze.<br><br>Cinccino Triple Axel (Technician boosted and all three hits) does more than twice the amount of damage than Gyarados Ice Fang. And Cinccino even gets access to to Tidy Up, which is just better Dragon Dance. And although they’d be inconsistent, Cinccino does have better coverage with its multi strike moves. AND even if Tail Slap gets just three hits, it outdamages Gyarados’s Waterfall

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• RJ

  @rjd1922 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mggy0S2LLaM&amp;t=156">2:36</a> Tarountula evolves at level 15, and Katy&apos;s Tarountula is level 14.

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• PO

  @pokelexy · 1 year ago

  FINALLY! I&apos;ve seen hundreds of these types of &quot;Fixing Hym Leaders&quot; videos, and none of them ever created a theme based on the gym leader&apos;s design... They usually slapp all the Pokémon introduced in that generation of the specific type, even if they didn&apos;t match at all.<br>I created my own version of the teams for every gym leader and for the Paldeas&apos;s one, some match with yours! Like for Katy, I gave her Combee, Spidops, and Teddiursa. Tho of them with the ability Honey Gutter, even if it&apos;s not relevant to the battle, give context to where Katy get the Honey she use to bake. And the moves Sweet Scent, Lick, Charm to represent the sweet part about the sweets she produce! <br>One day, I&apos;ll do a YouTube video for my channel too, but I&apos;m very happy to have found someone else that did an amazing job with the teams! Great work!! 😊<br>(Sorry if I made any grammar error, but English is not my first language 😅)

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  @lucemnoctis · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mggy0S2LLaM&amp;t=65">1:05</a> FACTS. FACTS! ONE HUNDRED PERCENT YES!

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  @UltaFlame · 1 year ago

  Part of the reason why npcs don&apos;t have full movesets is because it limits what the ai can select. That may sound like a downside, but the ai doesn&apos;t play like a real human &nbsp;so if you give it a limited selection you can exercise more control over the strategy it ends up using. I remember watching a playthrough where they used the ingame ai to control their pokemon in battle, resulting in the player giving their mons 2 or 3 moves or in a few cases only 1

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  @Zistheone2 · 1 year ago (edited)

  I think Gyarados also works as Grusha&apos;s tera ace since the theme and references behind its evolutionary line can parallel how he rose to fame as a professional snowboarder (as well as becoming a skilled gym leader by spending all of his time focusing on his goals). Plus, the fact that it&apos;s the atrocious pokemon could reflect Grusha&apos;s personal frustrations with his snowboarding career and how he lost everything after his accident.

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