We only have 19 more days until the release of Pokemon Black and White and with that, some new info leaked on twitter and 2ch today about what shows up in the Corocoro Special’s October issue that came out in Japan today. And it pretty much only says one thing.
Combination attacks.
Basically this is a possible new feature in the Double and Triple Battles. The basic gist is if you combine two or more certain attacks it creates a certain effect in the battle. The only examples we have at the moment to explain this are Oath of Grass, Oath of Fire and Oath of Water.
So, for example, if you combine Oath of Fire and Oath of Grass then you will create a field of fire that will burn the opponet’s pokemon for a certain amout of turns. If you combine Oath of Water and Oath of Fire it creates a rainbow and boosts the chances of secondary effects kicking in for your team mates. Then we have Oath of Grass and Oath of Water, and if you combine them then it creates a swamp like affect that reduces your opponent’s speed.
UPD: Added a legitimate picture. Looks like they will actually show the effects! 😀 Much better than my drawing I’ll tell you that! xD This officially makes it true! Yay! Who’s happy? 😀 (The text in the picture is what i said above explaining the combos)
Personally I think it’d be absolutley awesome! And the animations of the swamp, the field of flames and the pretty rainbow are absolutely awesome!! Nintendo has really gone above and beyond in this game 😀 Opinions? What do you guys think? Comment below!
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P.S. Anbody who missed my rainbow picture, it was really pretty. :3
P.S.S I’m going to bed now, it’s late, I have school tomorrow and my parent’s have the right to take away my laptop if i don’t. (Darn you parents….) If anythin’ pops up Kriff, Daigo or PJ will update this post 🙂 ‘Night!
Wow just when I thought they didn’t have any new battle mechanics… Hopefully they’ll reveal something along the lines of natures, abilities, physical/special split etc soon.
I doubt we’d get any details like that before the games are out. I could be wrong, I have been before, but m guess is this is the last ‘mechanic’ new info we’ll get (barring some details on these combos) until the games’ release.
Tbh I can’t even think of new battle mechanics let alone expect any. It’s very likely it’s all we’ll get, but you know there’s always hope 😉
I was hoping for both abilities to be present in Pokémon, like in Moguryuu’s case.
Don’t know what I mean? Take Shimama for example. Its abilities are Lightningrod and Motor Drive. If both its abilities were present, all Electric attacks would be drawn to it and its Speed would be boosted by these redirected attacks. Make sense?
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Like Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. ^^;
Yeah! I just realized that while I was playing EoT last night. 😀
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but what would happen if you combine roar of timr & spacial rend, it would create a big explosion, plus water + electric attacks would make electric attacks more powerful. but don`t we have 2 abilities that can combine with the oath attacks that can produce the same effects, namely drizzle and drought, oh that rainbow song by ICP, 1 OF THE SONGS THAT WAS FEATURED IN THE WORST BAND ALPHABET
i think it’s on;ly with certain moves (the oath moves) but we only have a small scan that could be fake, and a tweet so we’ll hafta see ;D
thought that would be awesome *_*
I think the scan’s been confirmed real by now, ozy. 😛
I think it would make perfect sense for Time Roar and Space Break (I prefer the Japanese names, in case you couldn’t tell) to have an effect similar to that of the Oath moves. Perhaps it would create a space-time distortion around the other team’s Pokémon that would raise and lower stats sporadically, or perhaps change the targets of attacks.
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I cannot believe Game Freak finally added combination attacks to the game! For years, the anime has been doing stuff like this, and now finally, WE get to do these kinds of attacks! It’s so awesome!
If they somehow find a way to add Pikachu’s infamous “thunder armor” combination attack from the anime, not only will that be hilarious, but also extremely cool.
So, now we’ve got large 3D cities, animated video clips, over 500 fully-animated Pokemon, video chat, the ability to enter another player’s game world, an external “global link” Internet service, 3 ways to connect to other players, and now, combination attacks.
Seriously, how are these little game cards not breaking from the sheer amount of stuff crammed into them? It simply staggers the imagination. XD
Lol, awesome…but now I hear Smogon fighting over which Pokemon can partner with which with the introduction of these combination attacks…
Does anyone else think that Denton will use these combinations because his badge has the colors red blue and green
i wouldn’t be suprised at this point 😀
now i can totally see him using combination attacks in the battle, it’d make it hella interesting :DD
I can imagine Dento as the kind of person who loves makign rainbows hahaha 😀
Lovin’ the combo attacks! Hope other elements will have a combo ability too.
Water + Ice = frozen pond! Opponents accuracy falls due to slipping. Lol
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What the heck combination moves?
SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like all of em! Wall of fire (Grass O+Fire O) Rainbow (Fire O+Water O) and Swamp Surf(lol!!) (Grass O+Water O)
I am going to try them all out!
P.S-What if u use all 3 of em in a triple battle?
it doesn’t say…but i’m sure there’s some kindof limit as to how many you can combine 😀
but then again it could make a SUPERPOWERFUL NOTHING CAN BEAT IT SUPER ATTACK!!!! :DDDD
BOOOM!
Oh Emm Gee.
This is officially my favourite thing about Black or White. Seriously. After all these years of the anime utilising combinations, we get to do it too! YAAAY 😀 😀 😀
[I’m sorry Gochirezeru, Mijumaru and Belle. You guys are super cool too.]
smexy