Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Trailer Reveals Legendary Pre-Evolution, Showcases Tera Ability
The Pokemon World Championship is ending on a bittersweet be aware with the franchise saying goodbye to Gen 8 of the mainline sequence, however that is additionally a good time to let Pokemon Scarlet and Violet shine with some new content material. The Pokemon Company solely launched three trailers within the span of six months for the Gen 9 video games, however at the moment’s closing ceremony was anticipated to incorporate some type of information about Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. This got here within the type of a brief trailer that went over a number of fascinating bits about how battles seem like within the upcoming Pokemon video games, in addition to a brand new critter altogether.
The trailer began with a showcase of the battle display for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, after which instantly revealed a brand-new critter that is known as Cyclizar, a Dragon/Normal hybrid that occurs to be the pre-evolution of each Koraidon and Miraidon. Cyclizar has an identical design to that of the 2 field Legendaries by having motorbike-like options, and it clearly shares the identical base sort as each Koraidon and Miraidon, with them being Dragon/Fighting and Dragon/Electric, based on leaks.
Cyclizar additionally has a brand new transfer that may seemingly be shared by different Pokemon accessible in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet — Shed Tail. This transfer creates a substitute, very like the homonymous transfer Substitute, however it additionally permits the consumer to modify out of battle, letting one other pocket monster within the occasion take its place. This is the most secure solution to swap Pokemon ever launched to the franchise, and it might see a variety of play in tournaments.
The trailer centered as soon as once more on the Terastal phenomenon and the way it may be utilized in battle to forestall supereffective harm or stop harm altogether, which is proven within the trailer by way of a Tyranitar Terastallizing right into a Ghost-type to keep away from a Fighting transfer. Speaking of Terastallization, the trailer additionally revealed that Pokemon Scarlet and Violet will embrace a STAB transfer that adjusts its typing to match that of the Pokemon’s Tera-type. This mode is named Tera Blast, which offers both bodily harm or particular harm relying on the consumer’s stats.
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet launch on November 18 on Nintendo Switch.