MOTW: Rage Powder

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Black and White are out! Hooray! Now with the official introduction of triple battles into the fighting mechanics our first MOTW article is diving head first into one of the most potentially complex fighting systems out there. Lets go!

With a whole new set of Pokemon out and a new set of moves, that’s what we’re going to be covering into the future, at least for a while here. So why Rage Powder?

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MOTW: Roar

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Roar, Yea, bet you didn’t see that one comin’ did you? Either as a featured article or a move you’d see in battle, Roar is definitely one of the more rare ones you’ll see out there. I’m curious as to why? It’s a phenomenal move that can seriously throw off your opponent. Over half of all Pokemon can actually learn it, and it’s more effective then you’d think...

 

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MOTW: Magical Leaf

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Introduced in Gen III, Magical Leaf shares similar characteristics to a couple of other moves that we’ve talked about before. It’s close relative is Aerial Ace, where it will hit your opponent no matter what sort of evasion they have built up, and no matter what your accuracy is sitting at as well. It also shares the same power rating of 60, but Magical Leaf is interesting as it is a very grass specific move. The few Pokemon that can learn it are almost strictly grass or psychic type.

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MOTW: Stealth Rock

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Like a ninja in the night, here’s Stealth Rock dropping a bomb on your team building strategies. It has become a very strategic and interesting topic amongst professional battling, and has been considered even to be banned based on how ridiculous it is. Entire teams and strategies can be built around this one move, and I’m going to try and sum up what it can all do for you, or what it can do TO you in a battle scenario.

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MOTW: Poison Jab

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I’m not gonna lie, this one’s gonna be a shortie. I’ll give you guys a little break from the longer articles like last week’s MOTW and give you a little breather here. If you’re like me you know that poison moves and Pokemon are really effective and useful in your team, but you don’t want to waste a move solely just to poison your opponent, I’ve got the answer for you. This week we’re talking about Poison Jab.

There honestly aren’t that many poison type damaging moves out there, and there are even less physical poison type moves, but Poison Jab is THEE best...

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MOTW: Sketch

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Now here’s an interesting concept for you. What if you could have a Pokemon that could learn every move in the game? “Amazing!”, you say, “Not such a thing could ever exist!?” Well it could, and there’s one move that makes that possible. Say hello to your little friend, Sketch.

Sketch is the most versatile and interesting move in the entire game. When you use it you gain the ability to learn whatever move was just played last in the field of battle by your opponent, so, theoretically, you can learn every single move in the game.

 

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MOTW: Guillotine

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Your dead. That’s it. It’s over. You were taken out in one hit. “How’s that even fraking possible!!?” You ask yourself. “I had a substitute on a Blissy with full health!!!” It’s totally possible. Welcome to Guillotine.

Guillotine is one of four moves in the entire game that can make nearly anything faint on contact. Pretty brutal. 

 

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MOTW: Baton Pass

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So there are a lot of different types of strategies for battle out there. There’s the Hail/Blizzard combo to make a super powerful ice attack. There’s the Thunder/Rain combo to create a really effective electrical attack. There are even methods of powering up your move set by giving yourself a status aliment, but there is no move quite like Baton Pass in it’s ability to ‘hand off’ a set of stats...

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