Well. Palafin isn't the face of a DLC package. Gamefreak really went nuts with the mons in DLC2 though. Just like sword and shield. Urshifu=Ogrepon Calyrex-Shadow=Terapagos-SuperRainbowSparkleForm
@nolanstone4723 ice rider is iron brute. New birds is the other 3 paradox. Hydrapple is kinda weird in that it doesn't seem similar to anything but it's definitely more of a glowup.
@@willreasoner4472 gen 9 is much more reasonable than the creep horror that was gen 8. I just think it's funny how a lot of the new moves are things like "always crits poison type pokemon if the game is played on a full moon; has a 25% chance to burn if the player lives in Asia or America, 30% to paralyze if they live in Europe, Africa or Oceania; transform the Pokémon in its hidden form which has the ability to switch out all the opponents"
@@ParkyMarz i don't have any problem beating Gen 8 with different teams. But a lot of Gen 9 the only answer is the same thing and I don't like them and I'm sick of every team being the exact same thing
@@willreasoner4472 Gen 8 was kinda only balanced around Dynamax letting a lot of interesting pokemon be good in an anti meta sense. Aside from Flutter Mane and Iron Hands to a degree, a lot of the really oppressive Pokémon came from Gen 8, like Urshifu, Rillaboom, and Arcanine H, not to mention that Gen brought us both Calyrex and Zacian.
@@cellP8 ehh- I get the feeling game freak have been looking for a gimmic to stick and since terapagos is cannon not unique they can wheel it out whenever. It's much more streamlined than megas too
you also forgot to mention it's great ability pre tera, tera shell, it make any move it takes, even multihit moves, resisted damage at full hp, which basically means it will always do something in the field even though it has low speed, basically always giving it set up options or just making it a great revenge killer/sweeper at end games, I have seen this thing live SD koraidons 5 hit scale shot (125 power) and tera water specs kyogre water spout, this mon is gonna be crazy
@@HindsightWildin maybe not broken at all, with the number of counters people can cook up. Anytime something like this happens, some smart people will find a counter usually.
@HindsightAFK I did the boss fight with ogrepon to really flex on Kieran and mold breaker procced after Tera shift. It could be an order of operations issue with the abilities, like Tera shift has priority over other abilities.
Fun Fact: Terapagos’ Tera Shell ability activates when it is at full HP, but can also activate through Substitute. If Shed Tail was used or Substitute is passed to a full HP Terapagos with Tera Shell, every hit on the Substitute will be resisted, including multi-hit moves. This makes Tera Shell more viable for a defensive Terapagos sweeper until the Substitute is broken and damage is dealt to it, where you can then Stellar Tera and replace your ability with Teraform Zero, along with the increase to its stats. The amount of turns for setup this strategy gains is substantial and possibly game winning in certain scenarios.
Leftovers with it is fun with how bulky it is often pokemon (even tera raids) barely deal enought to hit it out of leftover healing so it basically keeps looping back getting half dmg each turn, and if something hits you out enough you just tera and get over 100hp anyways
Something that people overlook is Tera Shell. In effect, it’s shadow shield on a Pokémon that can actually tank quite well on its own. There’s great potential to punish failed terrastalisation reads and it keeps Terapagos relevant outside of its terrastalised form.
I think what would have been an interesting balance to add as a part of the “Teraform Zero” ability is not allowing the Player to return Terapagos to its ball if it’s Terastallized. I’m sure it’s just because they were in the Underdepths, but in the story it breaks the master ball when Kieran tries to make it return, so using that as a drawback could have been interesting to balance it. That would also mean that if you were using it and it was going to go down soon, you couldn’t take it off the field and you just had to let it go down; it could make for interesting strategy I think.
Give starfall max pp and the held item Metronome and you have a strong move that hits everything on the feild and only gets stronger, combine that with any support pokemon that can either boosts it's states or cause the move to activate again and you got something amazingly good
In VGC, where battles only last a few turns, metronome isn't really worth it. Better to just go with specs for an immediate damage boost if you're gunna be using the same move every turn anyway. The only pokemon who can cause the move to activate for terapagos again is oranguru, a very niche and not that great pokemon on its own. Once again, a better use for a team slot would just be something else that can fire off powerful hits of its own and not be dead weight once terapagos is gone
Sorta feels like Pokémon needs a serious power reset at this point. We’ve got get the “super effective against everything always” Pokémon, sorta feels like it’s at the end of the power spectrum
@@MoxieBoosted oh gotcha. I def misunderstood the effect there. That’s better at least. I do think Pokémon could still deal with a soft reset, but that at least is better balanced than I had originally understood
Well, there is technically one Pokémon, that when holding one particular exclusive item, could actually do this. The Pokémon is Arceus, which is never legal in VGC, and the item is the Legend Plate, an item introduced in Legends Arceus that was so overpowered it never made it out of the No-PvP PLA.
Probably an insta-ban in tournaments, but then again, I could see them letting people try it out and have some fun before slapping a ban on it. For non-legendary events of course (not sure what that’s called, I’m sure you’ll tell me)
I was wondering the same , i would guess, is just for the final form to have the 3 turtles, and probably have a baby mascot leggy , so you get a cute form even if it never sees plays , and you can get the 3 layer turtle on the final form
@@aaronolson6736 it does not, they probably gave terapagos base stats to avoid any possible bugs as you have to send terapagos to the battle in its normal form so it then can transform into the other two forms
Probably so that tera Terapagos is actually a full buff rather than just a design and ability change. Would be more underwhelming if regular Terapagos didnt have those stats. As for why regular Terapagos exists, probably just because tera Terapagos cant really move its body much, just float around.
No one is talking about the fact that once this Gens gimmick of teratallized is removed. Terapagos will be stuck at 600 BST. Which fits him. Being small and cute, like 96% of all mythical pokemon. Which means you can think of Terapagos as a Mythical pokemon that can transform into a Legendary Pokemon. Even the story surrounding him and back story lore sounds more like a Mythical Pokemon than Legendary.
It'll be interesting to see how gen 9 pokemon will fare once Tera it's gone. Also it'll be sad to lose Ogerpon's transformations, it's such an interesting gimmick
@@ParkyMarz I think that’s why they made a lot of these Pokémon at least useable without. Ogerpon and Terapagos need their Tera’s to be dominant, but they are still excellent Pokémon even without them.
I don’t understand the point of the small form having a different stat distribution, since it will always activate and it can’t be reversed during battle.
@@cyanconurekoraidon gets clapped by any decent fairy mon though and it can't really Tera out of is type weakness since it would become weak to terapagos. Zacian c would be good but would you really take zacian over other restricted mons?
@@overland_brew8197 I was going to get it mainly for the competitive battling but if it's just going to be one overpowered legendary I don't think I want to
Except for the fact that because of how overworld weather works in Scarlet and Violet, Teraform Zero is next to useless, unless the weather change is from moves like Sunny Day or abilities like Drizzle. Not only that, but Stellar Tera type Pokemon retain the type weaknesses, resistances, and immunities its base type normally has. Terapagos is therefore immune to the Ghost type, and by extension the Ghost Tera type, and vulnerable to the Fighting type, and therefore by extension the Fighting Tera type.
While it will probably be broken in stellar form, the base form might be better than you think. It keeps the same wide moveset and it has the terashell ability, which is like multiscale but BETTER. Multiscale works on the first hit. Terashell on all hits of the first move. Multiscale reduces the damage by half, meaning that if a supereffective move is used it will deal x1. Terashell makes all types ineffective, meaning that every move will deal x0.5 damage. This used in pair with set up moves like rock polish and calm mind will make it really dangerous, since it's initial stats are not incredible but they also aren't bad at all. The stellar form will be the best one, but that doesn't mean that this pokemon won't see play in future generations.
Being a Normal type with huge HP and high defenses is great against Calyrex, too, and if Calyrex tries to Terastalize defensively it can still hit super effectively with Starstorm. It feels like they designed Terapagos specifically to check/counter most of the best legendaries.
Also giving it leftoversbis kinda broken when it's not terastalized that makes it almost invincible with the only counters being a big enough amount of DMG or a multi hit move so leftovers don't fully heal it or using a status
It won’t get the chance outside of Online Competitions. Maybe at the near death of the game but by then we’re already prepping for Gen 10. Same thing happened in Sw/Sh.
Someone the other day threw a stellar tera serperior with tera blast at me. It raised its stats and this was before I even knew stellar tera blast lowered atk and sp atk so I was completely unprepared for it. Honestly I couldn’t help but respect the play.
I just hope they don't classify it as a restricted, solely because once Gen 9 is over and Tera is gone it won't have it's Stellar form anymore so it'd have to get by with it's regular 600 BST.
After using Terapagos I'm surprised at how solid it is without using Tera on it yet. It might not be anything to write home about as a bulky special attacker, since it lacks any semblance of a supportive movepool, but being able to get off one free calm mind makes it hit hard and take special hits better, and its offensive movepool makes Mew feel self conscious
Immediate stat boost upon entering battle, another stat boost upon stellar tera, resists first hit, gets rid of weather and terrain, spread damage, can't be resisted, doesn't get stat dropped from stellar tera, keeps tera boosts from stellar instead of losing after first time, makes breakfast, does taxes, gives you a back massage, and looks adorable. No, Gamefreak does not have a power creep problem. They have a power sprint problem.
I was thinking this Pokémon was surprisingly balanced compared to miraidon, koraidon , zacian and calyrex. Now that I know that it keeps the boost on all moves and knowing that the signature move becomes stellar type this Pokémon is insanely broken
"I cant wait to see what it can do in the competetive scene" well it might end up getting banned since a decent chunk of legendaries tend to end up like that except when its a anything goes kind of competetive.
Weezing is getting a new target to Neutralize. Idea: Neutralizing gas weezing prevents Terapagos from changing into its second form, which prevent its from transforming into its third form. Unless it doesnt work like that.
"Boosting its HP" THEY BROUGHT BACK DYNAMAX AND THOUGHT WE WOULDN'T NOTICE
Weakness Policy Terapagos gonna go crazy
Zygarde complete:
@Endershock1678 nah I prefer leftovers and calm mind
@@TheLudicrousLuvcomplete zygarde was so insane dynamaxed, mine had 1150 hp
I suspect Galarian Weezing is gonna go gangbusters haha
Palafin crying in the corner at how Zero to Hero don’t work like Tera Shift
Well. Palafin isn't the face of a DLC package. Gamefreak really went nuts with the mons in DLC2 though. Just like sword and shield. Urshifu=Ogrepon
Calyrex-Shadow=Terapagos-SuperRainbowSparkleForm
@@TogekissMyFroslassI like to call it stellarpagos
@@TogekissMyFroslass No way it's actually called the super rainbow sparkle form
@nolanstone4723 ice rider is iron brute. New birds is the other 3 paradox. Hydrapple is kinda weird in that it doesn't seem similar to anything but it's definitely more of a glowup.
@@Official_ViperYT it's stellar form but everyone should call it super rainbow sparkle form
Zygarde Complete walked so Terapagos can run
Zygod was pretty good in singles. It's something
The slug walked so the turtle can run?
@@GS-fr5xmwait till you see how fast that turtle is after a rock polish
With the way Gamefreak tPokemon now, this pokemon qill never see the light of day aftervthe next gen shift
The dog, snake, cell thing turned into Optimus prime, so this turtle could nuke the world with the power of all 18 types.
If Stellar Terapagos could change it's type like it did in boss battle, then Arceus would like to have a word with him
That terapagos would be PLA arceus at home
I used a LV 100 max EV Arceus and it beat it so who is the top dog now?
@@kusholchaudhury31yeah and in competitive everything should be lv 50 and EVd
It changed its type in the fight?
Arceus already needed to have a talk with SILVALLY about that. XD
“Wow, I can’t wait to see how strong it is in competitions-“
South Park voice: *”AAAAAND ITS GONE!”*
Right? Dude said "I can't wait to see it competitive" and my first thought was like; you won't get to see it because they'll ban it
How could they not lol
vgc doesn't ban pokemon tho
Update: The Stellar Tera-type has been banned! While Terapagos is strong, its not as strong as its niche turned out to be.
@@KevYGO nah, people always mean smogon (the organization, not the pokemon)
Man gamefreak really wanted to try some complicated stuff in this dlc
They just want to ruin competitive with ridiculous power creep. Most of Gen 9 is just in a completely different league
@@willreasoner4472 gen 9 is much more reasonable than the creep horror that was gen 8. I just think it's funny how a lot of the new moves are things like "always crits poison type pokemon if the game is played on a full moon; has a 25% chance to burn if the player lives in Asia or America, 30% to paralyze if they live in Europe, Africa or Oceania; transform the Pokémon in its hidden form which has the ability to switch out all the opponents"
@@ParkyMarz Thats some wild hyperbole. There's nothing even close to those kind of conditional requirements
@@ParkyMarz i don't have any problem beating Gen 8 with different teams. But a lot of Gen 9 the only answer is the same thing and I don't like them and I'm sick of every team being the exact same thing
@@willreasoner4472
Gen 8 was kinda only balanced around Dynamax letting a lot of interesting pokemon be good in an anti meta sense. Aside from Flutter Mane and Iron Hands to a degree, a lot of the really oppressive Pokémon came from Gen 8, like Urshifu, Rillaboom, and Arcanine H, not to mention that Gen brought us both Calyrex and Zacian.
i am rally eager to see how this mess will be handled in the upcoming generations where they throw the previous mechanics into the shadow realm
It’ll probably lose its Tera form like how Necrozma and the primals lost theirs when the mechanics were gone.
Unless tera will be the gimick that sticks
i wouldnt bet on it@@Aarenby
that is the most reasonable outcome@@Soafia
@@cellP8 ehh- I get the feeling game freak have been looking for a gimmic to stick and since terapagos is cannon not unique they can wheel it out whenever.
It's much more streamlined than megas too
They really added Almighty damage to Pokemon huh
Just like Shin Megami Tensei and their Megidola attack
@@SaltyMon yeah that's what I was referencing
Best comment 😂
@@SaltyMonjust wait until they start adding moves from Demi fiend
Watch out for when they add scripted insta-kill Megidolaons...
Cosmog: "Weakest stats of any legendary my ass"
Get in the bag
Get in the bag cosmog. *Jade says. Hugging necrozma after nicknaming it nebby.*
@@JadeTheProtogen1that’s NEBBY to you Jade
But doesn't cosmos have dumb high defenses
@@richardmerlau4926 your thinking of Cosmoem not Nebby
So basically we get 1 mega pokemon
Two
@@jvbon646 ogerpon gets stat buffs when tera?
@@strangerontheinternet291 technically yes since it gets a boost whenever it switches in while Terastalized
@@King_KitsuneThat isn't really a mega as it doesn't gain a base stat increase.
Exactly like Gen 7 and Necrozma, then?
you also forgot to mention it's great ability pre tera, tera shell, it make any move it takes, even multihit moves, resisted damage at full hp, which basically means it will always do something in the field even though it has low speed, basically always giving it set up options or just making it a great revenge killer/sweeper at end games, I have seen this thing live SD koraidons 5 hit scale shot (125 power) and tera water specs kyogre water spout, this mon is gonna be crazy
Basically a Crack Multiscale
@@MaaarrrrkExactly.
Bro has more transformations than an average dragon ball character
Bro really be on that "this isnt even my final form" type ahh shit 💀💀💀
This makes Incineroar of all things look *fair*. Oh boy
The difference is Incineroar was consistently good in every game while Terrapagos will most likely only be broken in this game
@@HindsightWildin maybe not broken at all, with the number of counters people can cook up. Anytime something like this happens, some smart people will find a counter usually.
Or weezing with neutralizing gas
@@JZX619 The comments section are saying that wouldn’t work
@HindsightAFK I did the boss fight with ogrepon to really flex on Kieran and mold breaker procced after Tera shift. It could be an order of operations issue with the abilities, like Tera shift has priority over other abilities.
Bro was so faire and balanced he ate the ban hammer on showdown before they had imported his sprite 😂
SORRY THEY WAT.
@@RainbowGod666They noped Terapagos before it was allowed to even be a sprite, lol
Turtles all the way down
Fun Fact: Terapagos’ Tera Shell ability activates when it is at full HP, but can also activate through Substitute. If Shed Tail was used or Substitute is passed to a full HP Terapagos with Tera Shell, every hit on the Substitute will be resisted, including multi-hit moves. This makes Tera Shell more viable for a defensive Terapagos sweeper until the Substitute is broken and damage is dealt to it, where you can then Stellar Tera and replace your ability with Teraform Zero, along with the increase to its stats. The amount of turns for setup this strategy gains is substantial and possibly game winning in certain scenarios.
they really made mega terapagos and thought nobody would notice
Leftovers with it is fun with how bulky it is often pokemon (even tera raids) barely deal enought to hit it out of leftover healing so it basically keeps looping back getting half dmg each turn, and if something hits you out enough you just tera and get over 100hp anyways
This thing really does sound crazy
Something that people overlook is Tera Shell. In effect, it’s shadow shield on a Pokémon that can actually tank quite well on its own. There’s great potential to punish failed terrastalisation reads and it keeps Terapagos relevant outside of its terrastalised form.
Gamefreak: what if we make rayquaza but turtle
I think what would have been an interesting balance to add as a part of the “Teraform Zero” ability is not allowing the Player to return Terapagos to its ball if it’s Terastallized. I’m sure it’s just because they were in the Underdepths, but in the story it breaks the master ball when Kieran tries to make it return, so using that as a drawback could have been interesting to balance it. That would also mean that if you were using it and it was going to go down soon, you couldn’t take it off the field and you just had to let it go down; it could make for interesting strategy I think.
Give starfall max pp and the held item Metronome and you have a strong move that hits everything on the feild and only gets stronger, combine that with any support pokemon that can either boosts it's states or cause the move to activate again and you got something amazingly good
In VGC, where battles only last a few turns, metronome isn't really worth it. Better to just go with specs for an immediate damage boost if you're gunna be using the same move every turn anyway. The only pokemon who can cause the move to activate for terapagos again is oranguru, a very niche and not that great pokemon on its own. Once again, a better use for a team slot would just be something else that can fire off powerful hits of its own and not be dead weight once terapagos is gone
Man, I can't wait till next gen, and this becomes one of the legends of all time
Sorta feels like Pokémon needs a serious power reset at this point. We’ve got get the “super effective against everything always” Pokémon, sorta feels like it’s at the end of the power spectrum
It's not tho. It's only super effective vs other tera.
@@MoxieBoosted oh gotcha. I def misunderstood the effect there. That’s better at least. I do think Pokémon could still deal with a soft reset, but that at least is better balanced than I had originally understood
Well, there is technically one Pokémon, that when holding one particular exclusive item, could actually do this. The Pokémon is Arceus, which is never legal in VGC, and the item is the Legend Plate, an item introduced in Legends Arceus that was so overpowered it never made it out of the No-PvP PLA.
It’s like if Palafin and Wishiwashi had an egg
Probably an insta-ban in tournaments, but then again, I could see them letting people try it out and have some fun before slapping a ban on it. For non-legendary events of course (not sure what that’s called, I’m sure you’ll tell me)
I like giving it assault vest and pairing it with grassy surge rillaboom so that it can bulk pretty much any attack
can't wait to see weezing team spawning to beat the turtle
its abilities arent effected by neutralising gas
It's sad when you remember that all Galapagos turtles are extinct 😢
I remember every time I look at this little guy 😓
I still wonder why they gave the initial form its own stats
I was wondering the same , i would guess, is just for the final form to have the 3 turtles, and probably have a baby mascot leggy , so you get a cute form even if it never sees plays , and you can get the 3 layer turtle on the final form
maybe neutralizing gas works on it
@@aaronolson6736nope doesn't work
@@aaronolson6736 it does not, they probably gave terapagos base stats to avoid any possible bugs as you have to send terapagos to the battle in its normal form so it then can transform into the other two forms
Probably so that tera Terapagos is actually a full buff rather than just a design and ability change. Would be more underwhelming if regular Terapagos didnt have those stats.
As for why regular Terapagos exists, probably just because tera Terapagos cant really move its body much, just float around.
The ultimate Tank. It soaks up damage like a Tank, and fires like a tank-Tank!
Gamefreak stop overtuning Pokémon impossible challenge
it still have the azelf symdrome where its not slow enough to use trick room but not fast enough to out speed everything
"Might be broken"
Things gonna be the most op mon since marshadow
Not only the weather but the ability also work against the camps and trick room
The power creep this gen is just... something else. I thought SW/SH were crazy
Gens 1-7 had power creep while gens 8 onwards have what I like to call power leap.
@@That_Doctor_Del_Fella that's actually a great way to put it lol
Terapagos the Rayquaza of gen 9
Fun fact: When terrastalized, terapagos'es base stat total goes from 600 to 700(+100 added) so basically it got mega evolution
No one is talking about the fact that once this Gens gimmick of teratallized is removed. Terapagos will be stuck at 600 BST. Which fits him. Being small and cute, like 96% of all mythical pokemon. Which means you can think of Terapagos as a Mythical pokemon that can transform into a Legendary Pokemon. Even the story surrounding him and back story lore sounds more like a Mythical Pokemon than Legendary.
It'll be interesting to see how gen 9 pokemon will fare once Tera it's gone. Also it'll be sad to lose Ogerpon's transformations, it's such an interesting gimmick
What if Tera is here to stay
Tera Starstorm will likely be reworked to work without terastalization tho
@@ParkyMarz
I think that’s why they made a lot of these Pokémon at least useable without. Ogerpon and Terapagos need their Tera’s to be dominant, but they are still excellent Pokémon even without them.
Aww who’s the cutest Darkrai, ooh yes you are yes you are 😊
Honestly this stellar tera type feels like a "tera counter" type
I don’t understand the point of the small form having a different stat distribution, since it will always activate and it can’t be reversed during battle.
As a casual link battle guy, I can DEFINITELY WAIT to see what this does in the competitive scene
Modern legendaries trying to resist the urge to be broken challenge (impossible)
Scrap “modern” and replace it with “box art”
@@skeletorthebest7204
Yeah, bro acting like Kyogre and Groudon don’t dominate every meta they’re allowed in.
İts not even broken
@@Endershock1678or how the most broken pokemon ever is Gen 1 Mewtwo.
Were Miraidon and Koreidon broken? I haven't seen people talk about them anywhere as much as Flutter Mane and Urshifu
I was initially worried but a good counter is unburden focus sash sneasler.
Weezing neutralising gas stonks gonna go crazy once it becomes legal (if neutralising gas prevents tera shift from activating).
Sorry, but it doesn't.
Sadly, it doesn't
Neutralizing Gas doesn’t stop Forme changing abilities
Weezing is still nice for preventing Tera Shell and Tera Zero. It cant stop the forme change
It doesn't work. Stonks going down
It's just basically like shadow Lugia from DC hitting all super effective
Pretty cool
I’ve got a feeling this thing will be the Zacian of this generation
Looks like I'm not getting the dlc then
Nah, it needs Tera to function in VGC. And with Koraidon and Zacian-C I doubt it’ll be as good.
Next generation it’s definitely getting shafted.
@@cyanconurekoraidon gets clapped by any decent fairy mon though and it can't really Tera out of is type weakness since it would become weak to terapagos. Zacian c would be good but would you really take zacian over other restricted mons?
@@Polska_Editsyou aren't getting the dlc cause there's a strong legendary?
@@overland_brew8197 I was going to get it mainly for the competitive battling but if it's just going to be one overpowered legendary I don't think I want to
Its also a pretty good raid Pokemon bc it can hit everything with a very effective hit and is bulky
That pokemon is broken. Better ban magikarp.
Running
Chesto berry, rest, calm mind, rock polish, then starstorm made me sweep an entire team on showdown
Rapid spin could be viable as well. Removes all hazards.
600BST being a 'little mid' really says a lot about society
Mid for legends
I mean I'd argue its more about spread than anything else, but having more points to spread around is never a bad thing.
ngl kinda hope they make it so terapagos can terestalize in future gens or have an item that changes it to the big boi form
This thing with decorate Smeargle will be insane
We’re not going to get to see what it can do in the competitive scene for long because this thing is getting banned to Ubers nearly immediately lol
Terrapagos will be ravaging the competitive game with that PSI Starstorm omega.
I mean tbh even its tera shift form isn't awful considering it has better multiscale, meaning it basically gets a free turn
Terapagos really arrived believing he is Gojo Satoru and says "Nah, I'd win."
IT thought he was going to be a lot bigger but I love the fact that he’s just a little guy
In hindsight, the stellar tera ability could break weather and terrain which im pretty sure are very important...
This joker better never run into weezing.
Sadly, It's just straight up immune to the gas
Except for the fact that because of how overworld weather works in Scarlet and Violet, Teraform Zero is next to useless, unless the weather change is from moves like Sunny Day or abilities like Drizzle. Not only that, but Stellar Tera type Pokemon retain the type weaknesses, resistances, and immunities its base type normally has. Terapagos is therefore immune to the Ghost type, and by extension the Ghost Tera type, and vulnerable to the Fighting type, and therefore by extension the Fighting Tera type.
Yea i wasn't gonna use em but figured I'd try them out at least then learned it's amazing for tera raid battles
Rock Polish into a sweep. If an ally can boost its special attack and heal it, even better.
Daaaaaamn Pokémon has changed.
Also.. in lets go mode it will always transform into trestaform before attacking wild mons
If you’re wondering its tera makes its bst 700
Pretty sure it also gets a permanent boost instead of one per type, I only test in single player so I can’t promise that
It helped me defeat iron bundle in the seven star raids
While it will probably be broken in stellar form, the base form might be better than you think. It keeps the same wide moveset and it has the terashell ability, which is like multiscale but BETTER. Multiscale works on the first hit. Terashell on all hits of the first move. Multiscale reduces the damage by half, meaning that if a supereffective move is used it will deal x1. Terashell makes all types ineffective, meaning that every move will deal x0.5 damage. This used in pair with set up moves like rock polish and calm mind will make it really dangerous, since it's initial stats are not incredible but they also aren't bad at all.
The stellar form will be the best one, but that doesn't mean that this pokemon won't see play in future generations.
Get ready for seeing this thing in all teams
Being a Normal type with huge HP and high defenses is great against Calyrex, too, and if Calyrex tries to Terastalize defensively it can still hit super effectively with Starstorm.
It feels like they designed Terapagos specifically to check/counter most of the best legendaries.
Shed tail + Tera shell making all moves hit for 0.5 behind sub is crazyyy
Also giving it leftoversbis kinda broken when it's not terastalized that makes it almost invincible with the only counters being a big enough amount of DMG or a multi hit move so leftovers don't fully heal it or using a status
It won’t get the chance outside of Online Competitions. Maybe at the near death of the game but by then we’re already prepping for Gen 10. Same thing happened in Sw/Sh.
It's checkmate as soon it appears
I think terapagos would incentivize using neutralizing gas weezing to prevent it from transforming.
Someone the other day threw a stellar tera serperior with tera blast at me. It raised its stats and this was before I even knew stellar tera blast lowered atk and sp atk so I was completely unprepared for it. Honestly I couldn’t help but respect the play.
I just hope they don't classify it as a restricted, solely because once Gen 9 is over and Tera is gone it won't have it's Stellar form anymore so it'd have to get by with it's regular 600 BST.
terapagos is so sad tbh. I honestly expected a gigantic beast when terastalized
Awesome. Just another reason to run neutralizing gas weezing
"Might" is doing a hell of a lot of lifting here 💀
“MIGHT” be broken
The biggest understatement I’ve ever seen in my life
This is insane i need to use this thing
Bro what is going to happen to Terapagos in gen 10 when there is no crystallization
After using Terapagos I'm surprised at how solid it is without using Tera on it yet. It might not be anything to write home about as a bulky special attacker, since it lacks any semblance of a supportive movepool, but being able to get off one free calm mind makes it hit hard and take special hits better, and its offensive movepool makes Mew feel self conscious
Immediate stat boost upon entering battle, another stat boost upon stellar tera, resists first hit, gets rid of weather and terrain, spread damage, can't be resisted, doesn't get stat dropped from stellar tera, keeps tera boosts from stellar instead of losing after first time, makes breakfast, does taxes, gives you a back massage, and looks adorable. No, Gamefreak does not have a power creep problem. They have a power sprint problem.
Just battled someone online that used it. It was quite a struggle.
I was thinking this Pokémon was surprisingly balanced compared to miraidon, koraidon , zacian and calyrex. Now that I know that it keeps the boost on all moves and knowing that the signature move becomes stellar type this Pokémon is insanely broken
That boost does actually happen for it unless it is in a raid den.
The stellar type crystals that float around it look like candy
Imagine if the stellar type was the fabled combined type, Gamefreak needed really to buff Garganacl
Normal torlapagos looks so wierd like a fan disign or something
Problem is it will not work after that we’re going to completely redesign it if it is going to say even mildly viable in gen 10
All of creation is on the turtles back
im sure they will nerf something about it when it comes to competitive if its too strong it will get hit with a nerf stick
"I cant wait to see what it can do in the competetive scene" well it might end up getting banned since a decent chunk of legendaries tend to end up like that except when its a anything goes kind of competetive.
That'd why I talked about in in terms of its matchups into other legends
Weezing is getting a new target to Neutralize. Idea: Neutralizing gas weezing prevents Terapagos from changing into its second form, which prevent its from transforming into its third form. Unless it doesnt work like that.
It cant stop form changing abilities sadly
I wouldn’t mind a part 2, a friend said that I swear
Stellar terapagos looks like a small gigantamax form
This mom will only be viable with this type of battle concept being terstalizing if at anytime the coverege everything he falls off
Concidering its tera ability, and that it only has one form during fights (besides for tera), this is litteraly just mega rayquaza but not as good