Pokemon Sword & Shield Gigantamax Moves
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Yeah a lot of people weren't fans of the whole dynamax/gigantimax stuff, it also got banned from competitive tournaments because of how broken it was (well except the official ones because of course Pokemon wanted to push their new gimmick) . I'm a bigger fan of Mega Evolution forms
Enchiladas
2025-09-27 14:32:33 +0000 UTCTo add on to Pyrodragon’s comment. Remember that in turn based games, numbers are everything. Calculations and probability are constantly being done with every action.
AlexThat200
2025-09-26 22:50:22 +0000 UTCDespite how some moves looked impressive, they didn't do much damage. This is usually because of 2 reasons: 1) Typing, a pokemon move may be stronger or weaker depending on both the type of the pokemon using the move, and the pokemon getting hit by it. 2) Stats, a pokemon will obviously do more damage the higher their offensive stats, and a pokemon will take less damage the higher their defensive stats.
Pyrodragon3993
2025-09-26 21:55:28 +0000 UTC7:25 A Pokémon "fainting" is just the term used to say when they've fallen in battle once its HP has reached 0. A term that serves as a safeguard from Pokémon battles just being "people forcing their pets to kill each other" (as other community members have been sure to tell ya). A Pokémon typically faints after taking enough damage from an opponent's attacks, but there are a few Pokémon moves that deal recoil damage to the user (and thus cause a Pokémon to make itself faint).
JT
2025-09-26 20:09:02 +0000 UTCThis was the main battle gimmick of Generation 8. Giant kaiju sized Pokémon battles. Ever since Generation 6, Pokémon has been giving each region a battle gimmick that represents that specific generation. Every time a Pokémon didn’t faint from these giant attacks, you thought it was just because they were weak. It’s more so that the games are heavily reliant on type matchups. You know, 🔥 beats 🌱, 🌱 beats 💧, 💧beats 🔥 . Of course it depends on the power of the move itself, but type matchups are the main source of damage. So if a Pokémon is resistant to what attack you use, nothing can be done about it. Especially since the area he’s using to showcase the Gigantamax Pokémon is the endgame area where the AI is a bit smarter.
AlexThat200
2025-09-26 19:31:35 +0000 UTCFight Night Friday repeated vouch: - The Complete History of Tekken Crossovers https://youtu.be/t0jN__ijCdE?si=PS94l0iUcSb6rUdx - Namco X series https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhDcJRCci7AyF4FAFSqWRR-8TF4eNV7aZ&si=PAAhMGCpbDtqwdBN Just gonna state this again, I don’t expect the whole playlist to be done. Just to look at the first game. Namco X Capcom.
AlexThat200
2025-09-26 18:06:40 +0000 UTCDynamax is what's known as a battle gimmick, introducted in Pokemon Sword and Shield. So far, there have been 4 big battle gimmicks introduced; Mega Evolution, Z-Moves, Dynamax and Terastallization. Mega Evolutions came first, and returned in the next generation, and are set to return in Pokemon Legends Z-A, as well as another upcoming game Pokemon Champions. Tera is also coming back in champions, but Z-Moves and Dynamax don't look to be returning, seemingly staying exclusive to their generations for now. Dynamax makes a pokemon really, really big, and upgrades all their moves into super powerful max-moves and gives them a bunch more HP. Gigantamax is another form of Dynamax, which gives the pokemon in question a new form and a new exclusive move, like Mega Evolution, which you saw here. You asked if there was something bigger than G-Max, and there absolutely is - Eternamax, exclusive to the source of this whole phenomenon; Eternatus. On it's own, Eternatus is already the largest Pokemon there is, bigger than a literal whale. So when it Eternamaxes, is becomes a whole new league of big, with the most powerful stats of any Pokemon so far - so strong we can never actually use it, only ever facing it as a boss battle. It'd be too strong in our hands... Personally I've never been a massive fan of Dynamax, it's always felt like something of an uninspired gimmick. It's also wildly unbalanced in my opinion, but there are plenty of competitive players that did enjoy it. Plus, in the anime, they really seemed like they didn't know what to do with these things - Dynamax Pokemon are so big that it doesn't really give them much range of movement in the stadiums these battles take place in, so more often than not they'd just be standing there, doing one big attack and that's it - or having two of them do attacks at the same time and have them clash in the middle. I'm really not surprised that Mega Evolution came back and these didn't.
HexKittie
2025-09-26 17:55:32 +0000 UTC
