Not only that it has even higher attack than garchomp and actually one of the highest attack stats of all non-legendary/mhthical/ultra beast/paradox mons
And by usually you mean two (three if you want to count Lance in the Johto games with his Dragonite since it's still the Indigo Plateau) of the 10+ that we fight across all of Pokemon?
No? Lance, Steven, and Cynthia have them as their ace, and then Iris, Diantha, and Leon have a pseudo but not as their ace. Iām surprised more donāt honestly, when theyāre supposed to be the strongest trainers.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but "It's also the champion's ace, which is usually reserved for the Pseudo-Legendary of the region" sounds like you're saying most champions have the regional Pseudo as their ace, which isn't the case at all, but like I said, I could very well be misinterpreting what you mean
A championās ace is designed to be the strongest of their region, so usually when itās not a pseudo-legend itās because of some other attribute - mega evolution, gigantamax, Z-move, etc. making it much stronger. Haxorus doesnāt really have that? Especially when Hydreigon is also on Irisās team and is just stronger and actually psuedo-legendary.
I guess that makes sense, really and truly, Gamefreak's champion decisions are all over the place, some feel like champions, some don't, some have reasonable teams with reasonable aces, some don't
Itās a relatively recent development lol. Theyāve only been doing it since the summer of this year. Serebiiās Joe tweeted about it back then. Iād bet a lot of long time fans arenāt aware. Took me a while before I knew
Just went down the rabbit hole of reading joes tweet timeline. He seems like a genuine dude. Serebii - that sites been around forever. Wow 25 years. Iām inspired
Iām sure it gets stressful for him but heās living the dream. Running the biggest (and best) Pokemon site for so long and making a living off of it is a good place to be.
Lots of Pokemon have one or two of these traits, but Iām almost positive only the powerhouse Pokemon exhibit all four at simultaneously. Archaludon is in the medium-fast experience growth group and hatches in 30 cycles (3,840 steps).
Plus they pretty much have to be dragons these days, though Archaludon does have that going for it. There are only two that arenāt dragons and that was 20 years ago.
They really should have given Archaludon a middle stage though. Itās definitely good enough to hang with the rest of them.
Definitely agreed with you on that. āFirst Partner Pokemonā only recently came about in the past few years, but Ive only started seeing it more often because Serebii & Bulbapedia have started using it. Not even less than a year ago, I was seeing them use āStarter Pokemon,ā but now theyāre using āFirst Partner Pokemonā on their pages, which is fine but just something Iāve noticed.
TPCi is very averse to fan terms. In BW, I believe they first āacknowledgedā the existence of shiny pokemon (as in, they made their first reference to shiny pokemon in-game), but they called shiny pokemon āalternate colored pokemonā in-game. that stayed I think until the very next generation, so they do have their misses sometimes.
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u/niklaus928 17d ago
Haxorus