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>Complain about ground-types, dark-types, poison-types and bug-types being unusable in raids a few years ago
>June 2021: Garchomp gets Earth Power
>"Cool! Not as good as Excadrill or Shadow Mamoswine, but it's pretty bulky compared to those two, more accessible due to the Community Day and can also be used as an alt. dragon-type for raids."
>June 2022: Hydreigon gets Brutal Swing
>"Cool! Not as good as Mega Gengar, Mega Houndoom, Shadow Honchkrow or Shadow Weavile, but it's pretty bulky compared to most ghost or dark-types and is more accessible due to the Community Day."
>Get excited for Teddiursa Community Day (November 2022) since this might mean that they'll raid the bar for ground-type DPS with High Horsepower
>Ends up being useless outside Master Premier
>"Fuck."
>End of Fall 2022: Shadow Mamoswine gets High Horsepower, making it by far the best ground-type in the game
>"...Thanks? Guess I no longer need these Garchomps or Excadrills though."
>Winter 2022-23 season adds Mega Swampert and Primal Groudon
>"Uh...Okay?"
>May 2023: They add Volcarona... at a basically impossible encounter rate
>"..."
>End of Spring 2023: Shadow Tyranitar gets Brutal Swing, making it by far the best dark-type in the game, DPS within reach of Mega Banette with WAY more bulk
"Bro what the fuck? Guess I'll just throw out all my other dark-types then."
>June 2023: Shadow Garchomp becomes available
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>Mfw we've finally come full circle with shadow Pokémon, where everything that used to be good/mandatory in 2018-19 is now good/mandatory in 2023 with their shadow or mega variants, and everything post-gen 4 (except Terrakion I guess) will probably never be useful ever again
>Mfw still no major buffs to poison or bug, and yet they're advertising Shadow Ledyba for this next rotation
I was really hoping the transition phase would've lasted a little longer, but it seems like it's already complete. Pikmin 4 can't come soon enough...
