Two new abilities have been revealed:
➡️ Eelevate
The Pokémon floats off the ground, making it immune to Ground-type moves, as well as the Spikes, Toxic Spikes, and Sticky Web statuses. When the Pokémon knocks out a target with an attack, its highest stat is boosted by 1 stage
➡️ Fire Mane
Boosts the power of the Pokémon’s Fire-type moves by 50%.
@recondirective A lot of new players don’t think protect is useful in singles because “nothing changes” but really it’s used to pass every other turn. It’s a free Moody, Speed Boost, Leftovers, leech seed, toxic or sandstorm dmg, and can makeweather/screens/tailwind/pp run out faster
@Thorturator12 Oh it was! I was almost convinced it was a CPU because “surely they wouldn’t do that in a real match” but no, they actually just stole that win from you for no reason 😭