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>>58813273
The problem with gimmicks is that they make them mandatory. You either use them or lose. They should be balanced, let mega stones be Knock-ed Off and Trick-ed, let Z-moves be fully Protect-ed, let Dynamax be fully Protect-ed and Grass Knot-ed, let Terastallize be Soak-ed. The way they "cheat" gimmicks and simplify them removes all counters and limits strategies.

But yeah, Terra is hideous.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 16:46:02 No.58813309 Report

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I thought Terastalization was the best of the modern gimmicks from a conceptual standpoint, but it looks stupid and ugly and it's slow as shit. When playing the game I treated it like Z-Moves, in that there's no reason NOT to use them other than I don't need to and I don't want this fight to take twice as long as it needs to.

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Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 16:46:17 No.58813310 Report

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>>58813290
It's still ugly when they do it in the anime, you can barely see a DAMN

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 16:50:58 No.58813322 Report

Quoted By: >>58813466 >>58813751

>>58813273
>Best gimmick competitively and lore wise
>bad

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 16:53:03 No.58813324 Report

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>>58813273
I remember being glad that Dynamax was being left behind. Can’t wait for the same thing with Tera

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 17:05:42 No.58813356 Report

Quoted By: >>58813788

Tera was definitely the most balanced gimmick we've had. Fugly, sure.
It did give some mons a fighting chance.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 17:42:18 No.58813436 Report

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>>58813273
The crystal effect honestly looks really nice, especially considering how shit the rest of SV looks. It's the dumb hats that look bad.
Look at how shit Tera looks in Mastersex. It looks incredible in SV compared to this shitty texture.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 17:47:25 No.58813447 Report

Quoted By: >>58813524

>>58813307
>I have to…shield and grab in fighting games to win? AIEEEEEE WHY ARE THE MECHANICS OF THE GAME MANDATORY IT LIMITS MY STRATEGY

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 17:51:24 No.58813457 Report

Quoted By: >>58813490

What was your favorite tera/poke combo?
In regulation I, Caly Ice became extremely common in the ranked ladder for a time where I felt like every other battle was one. I ran tera-fire Giratina to completely wall all the most popular sets. Non-tera'd it had favorable matchups into the most popular Koraidon sets. Forced teras out of Caly Shadows too because of priority sneak.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 17:52:06 No.58813461 Report

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>>58813273
Its easily my most hated gimmick, it looks so god damn retarded, whoever green lit these "hats" needs to fired (probably was the fag that greenlit Mega Feraligatr)

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 17:55:32 No.58813466 Report

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>>58813322
Yes anon. It’s the same way good lore and being good competitively doesn’t stop a Pokemon from being bad because its design is dogshit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 17:58:51 No.58813474 Report

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>>58813278
>Removes the whole Pokemon franchise from existence

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 18:07:54 No.58813490 Report

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>>58813457
i quit playing comp very early on but i loved me some tera flying ironpress garganacl memesets

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 18:24:33 No.58813524 Report

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>>58813447
Yes, greater strategy is better.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 18:26:51 No.58813526 Report

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>>58813273
Tera is ugly as fuck but it's sadly the best of the bunch gameplay-wise. Mega/Gigantamax is just an additional legendary to build around on your team. Tera can be used pretty flexibly.
I just wish they looked better.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 20:12:18 No.58813751 Report

Quoted By: >>58813769

>>58813322
>Hats
Yes. Yes it is bad. I'm tired of sillyshit. The crystalization is cool and then the hats ruin it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 20:18:27 No.58813769 Report

Quoted By: >>58813777 >>58813781 >>58814014

>>58813751
They're crowns. You've lost the plot if you're mad about a fucking crown.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 20:20:51 No.58813777 Report

Quoted By: >>58813779 >>58813781

>>58813769
Those are some shitty crowns

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 20:22:43 No.58813779 Report

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>>58813777
You wear graphic tees and khakis

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 20:22:55 No.58813781 Report

Quoted By: >>58813784

>>58813769
>>58813777
I don't care WHAT they are.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 20:24:15 No.58813784 Report

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>>58813781
>I don't care
I don't care about you not caring

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 20:25:21 No.58813788 Report

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>>58813356
It’s easily the best one. The hats are dumb but mechanically it’s excellent.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 20:30:15 No.58813802 Report

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>>58813273
They look stupid

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 20:37:54 No.58813825 Report

Quoted By: >>58813932

>>58813307
tbf Dynamax can't be grass knotted for lore reasons, but yeah, it sucks that they're an unstoppable ultimate move

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 21:29:16 No.58813932 Report

Quoted By: >>58813980

>>58813825
Dynamax has a bunch of caveats that suck ass. I don’t think any of the other gimmicks have that beyond item modification effects not affecting megas or Z-crystals.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 21:43:07 No.58813980 Report

Quoted By: >>58814023 >>58814111

>>58813932
I was referring to all generational gimmicks, Dynamax specifically is more balanced than megas and z-moves tho

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 21:55:58 No.58814007 Report

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>>58813273
The idea of a crown for each Pokémon Type with that visual effect is cool. But the problem visually is that the crowns are hideous. Having proper crowns for each Type would look cool, not those hideous things. Maybe they thought it was funny or maybe they thought they needed each to be as totally obvious as the what Type they are. If the latter then not only is that not necessary and even then some aren't obvious anyway.

Other than that it might be my favourite of the generational super mechanics.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 21:58:40 No.58814014 Report

Quoted By: >>58814020

>>58813769
Show me a crown that looks like a bouquet of flowers or a fucking AXE stuck in your head

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 21:59:27 No.58814020 Report

Quoted By: >>58814218

>>58814014
you're not very smart

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 21:59:54 No.58814023 Report

Quoted By: >>58814042 >>58814127

>>58813980
No it's not lmao
Dynamax was easily the most broken mechanic and an obvious case of the rich getting richer. Lets be real, you weren't going to dyna anyone but kyogre and you can find only a few instances where someone didn't just do it on their restricted.
You can complain that Megas were feast or famine and not universal, but ultimately they were only mons equivalent to a restricted or psuedo. Everyone had access to them and you could build teams around them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 22:03:12 No.58814029 Report

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>>58813273
I hate Teras so much

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 22:06:41 No.58814042 Report

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>>58814023
I probably just have trauma around mega-kanga lol

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 22:08:47 No.58814052 Report

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>>58813273
>

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Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 22:28:46 No.58814111 Report

Quoted By: >>58814140

>>58813980
I barely count megas as a gimmick. Maybe if every pokemon gets a mega it’ll be on par with the others.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 22:33:25 No.58814127 Report

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>>58814023
Was dynamax only ever used on the most obvious pokemon ever? Or was that image of it being used defensively and offensively with mind games thrown around everywhere total horseshit?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 22:37:31 No.58814140 Report

Quoted By: >>58814145 >>58814171

>>58814052
that's just pokemon 3d models being idiotic, if he had his hood always on he would've been decent

>>58814111
funnily enough, lore-wise, you'd just need to power the AZ's machine enough times to make a megastone for every pokemon

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 22:38:49 No.58814145 Report

Quoted By: >>58814167

>>58814140
>if he had his hood always on he would've been decent
lol
lmao even

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Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 22:46:24 No.58814167 Report

Quoted By: >>58814174 >>58814204

>>58814145
c'mon, it ain't that bad. It's not good or anything, but it's not THAT bad, it's ok

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 22:47:55 No.58814171 Report

Quoted By: >>58814200

>>58814140
>you'd just need to power the AZ's machine enough times to make a megastone for every pokemon
Sure that’s completely out of the question given it’s destroyed, and even then you’d need nothing short of a villain team leader who’d wanna willingly set off a nuke just so their favorite pokemon can get a mega. Even then given it was fired at the end of ZA gamefreak could always use that to bullshit an excuse to introduce more mega’s down the line if they want. Hell, i’d be willing to put money down that the comments about sycamore doing research abroad in “some far-off region” is their “in” to do just that

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 22:48:53 No.58814174 Report

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>>58814167
>offmodel slop
kek

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 23:00:15 No.58814200 Report

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>>58814171
I mean tbf the original use of the machine was to revive pokemon, but yeah in order to do that it needs to kill hundreds of other pokemon, so yeah not really feasible

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 23:02:33 No.58814204 Report

Quoted By: >>58814213

>>58814167
>it’s ok
It’s fucking stupid still. Stop trying to redeem this trash design, accept it’s a bad idea with a worse implementation you dumbfuck goofyfag.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 23:06:18 No.58814213 Report

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>>58814204
but goofy is nice :<

I agree on the goofy representation tho ahah

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 23:10:46 No.58814218 Report

Quoted By: >>58814978

>>58814020
You have no counter argument
They are not fucking crowns, fuck you

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jan 2026 04:10:16 No.58814917 Report

Quoted By: >>58815006

>>58813273
>7 Star Raids are now on loop
And just like that, the only reason I had left for playing SV died.

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Anonymous Wed 07 Jan 2026 04:32:50 No.58814978 Report

Quoted By: >>58815458

>>58814218
>They are not fucking crowns

>When a Pokémon Terastallizes, a Tera Jewel appears above the Pokémon’s head like a crown
>https://scarletviolet.pokemon.com/en-us/news/terastal_phenomenon/

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jan 2026 04:45:56 No.58815006 Report

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>>58814917
>Playing SV in the first place

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jan 2026 04:59:26 No.58815048 Report

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The main incomprehensible thing about the hats is this ancient thing represents the types with modern human objects like candles, water fountains, balloons
Just be a jewel with the type symbol and be done with it

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jan 2026 09:06:27 No.58815458 Report

Quoted By: >>58815654

>>58814978
>above the Pokémon’s head like a crown
>LIKE a crown
That doesn't make them LITERALLY crowns you fucking braindead mongoloid

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jan 2026 11:39:26 No.58815654 Report

Quoted By: >>58815769

>>58815458
That's what they're called in-game too.
You'd know this if you ever took those God-forsaken classes.
They're terastal crowns. I don't know why you're having an autistic melty over this.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jan 2026 12:37:52 No.58815769 Report

Quoted By: >>58816288

>>58815654
You can call a turd a candybar all you want too but it's not actually gonna turn a turd into chocolate, fucking retard

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jan 2026 16:33:37 No.58816288 Report

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>>58815769
you're not very bright

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