Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: The strongest attack of the game that has even been banned in the competitive

When we evaluate the power of a Pokémon we must pay attention to all the details. It is not enough just to look at your attributes or take a look at the power of blows and skills. When we deepen a little more, we can find real atrocities that Game freak added to the game to tell us the origin of each of the creatures that populate the Pokédex of Scarlet and Violet, but which are an aberration from the competitive point of view. A situation to which evard's evolutionary line is a protagonist, introduced in the franchise at the beginning of this ninth generation.

The most powerful attack of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet

evard evolves to Hound stone when reaching level 30 or higher at night. In doing so, he learns a new blow called Last Respects, a Ghost physical attack that barely has 50 power points. To get an idea, this is a little more than half of the damage that Shadow Ball movement can do, which has always been one of the most common among Ghost Pokémon. However, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet developers went far in creating a side effect to the exclusive Sandstone attack for now.

In a single battle with six Pokémon, this attack can reach 300 of power and become the most powerful in the entire franchise. Not even the so-dreaded Z-moves or Explosion can compare to the released power of Hound stone when he is the team's last living member. You don't even have to go so far-far is a very strong blow with just a few defeated allies. The situation is reinforced if we take into account the statistics of evard's evolution, which we may have included in the team to complete the adventure.

In addition to being weak in special attack (SP.ATK) that we will not use under any circumstances, Hound stone is weak due to its speed. However, he has a skill that solves all his problems. This is the well-known Sand Rush, which doubles the speed when we are under the effects of the sandstorm weather condition. Thus, in the competitive there were even players who sacrificed their entire team to get Hound stone fight on this purpose, throwing the same attack six times in a row and overcoming the fight in a tremendously simple way.

The only counterattack on this simple strategy is the use of priority attacks like Aqua Jet or having a normal type creature on the team. However, it is not that simple. Thanks to his high defenses, Hound stone is a difficult to overthrow Pokémon unless he prepared beforehand. Due to this circumstance, Smog on, the most important non-official competitive combat community, has decided to ban it. This is a preventive decision and perhaps in the future they allow it to be used without this blow. However, until then, some time will still have to pass.

So far, Hound stone is the only legal Pokémon with Last Respects. We cannot say that it is worth banishing a blow if there is only a Pokémon to learn it. The necessary proof that an attack must be forbidden is that many creatures can take advantage of it. It seems that with the launch of the Pokémon Home there will be others that will have access to the Last Respects, and they will be very strong. If this is true, we can review the situation to ban the blow to minimize the damage, explained Smog on members, referring to Basclegio's possible arrival with this attack.

It should be noted that Smog on decisions are made with the entire community of competitive battle players one against one in mind, but do not affect the official Pokémon Scarlet and Violet circuit known as VGC. Therefore, you may want to add a normal type Pokémon to your team if you are entering double battles, where Hound stone is still tremendously strong. In addition, Hounds tome can still be used in the Uber category, which includes legendary and other high-power creatures and in which there are almost no rules. He is so powerful that he can hit Portion, Myrmidon or Flutter Mane.

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