Gen 9 Starters in Pokémon GO

[@amauryMW3]

Hopefully the signature moves will help and be added sooner than later

[@SwagTips]

Yeah. It's always a bummer when it's like "Here's how cool this can be in 3 years"

[@MrSinister718]

Did you see their stat products? It would have to be signature moves that fully charge in two fast moves and OHK everything or just crash and freeze the opponents phone like a paralysis effect.

[@johnannand5449]

Skeledirge can also learn Snarl in the mainline games. It’s signature move Torch Song will probably be very similar (and hopefully better) to flame charge.

[@emmettbravakis7127]

I can't wait for my Quaquaval to be viable for raids in 2027. Like if I get a good IV I am just gonna sit on it until then

[@ssj2trunks103]

Wow kid you will be doing something else at time! Lol

[@AdrianBobeica]

Appreciate the quick update 👍

[@SwagTips]

Thank you!

[@Weav576]

Rillaboom is going to be the best non Megas grass types, as it had a higher attack with more bulk of 239 attack, 168 defense and 225 stanima with the highest max CP of non mega grass type starters and higher co of all starters in general outside of Megas. Superceding Primerina at a max of nearly CP 3800. Thus in the future when we have access to shadow Rillaboom with legacy Frenzy plant, it could very well become the #2 Grass attacker behind Mega Sceptile and superceding Kartana

[@thegreatgambeeno]

Well, my meowscblahblah has a nickname picked out for it. Also, last Skrelp traded to me from my daughter after go fest, 14-12-12 lucky, the swag drag.

[@danjackson5185]

"Ultra spacical" haha love it, I understand, 1000s wouldn't

[@MajinSageofDarkness]

Swag announcement before Niantic! Awesome!

[@SwagTips]

I'm technically a week late. They announced Paldea at worlds :B

[@lucasfriedman1730]

why can't they just announce it already

[@SwagTips]

Because they haven't changed their weak marketing for years and they aren't going to start now.

[@MrSinister718]

Power outage from Hilary lol

[@3kn7kradonk70]

imagine quaquaval with aqua step booosting atk and acrobatics and counter for the fast move

[@brianpena16]

Thanks for the great video! Btw Quaquaval stats are wrong in gamepress, its defense is supposed to be 159

[@kianmoran4869]

Quaxly gets wing attack… a potential move set eventually of wing attack hydro cannon and acrobatics/brave bird/close combat

[@jrpone]

It also gets counter

[@SwagTips]

STAB Counter > Wing Attack, but yes

[@TreFKennedy]

I miss Pokeminers giving us the heads up

[@SwagTips]

They're still kicking but yeah :'c

[@tylerf6583]

They do on discord, but its limited to what it originally was

[@ssj2trunks103]

@@SwagTipsyes they are but not for us! Lol

[@Instanence]

Still mad Niantic teased the new season and the link was a duck doing the griddy. I got flexed on I'm literally still crying

[@SwagTips]

PoGO's marketing has always been suspect at best, but the constant 👀emojis and links to effectively nothing is just bad

[@ChiTownShogun]

Why are we getting gen 9 starters before we gen 8 starters?

[@SwagTips]

It's all part of Hanke's plan.

[@abiskar9686]

Swag a charizard iv deep dive ?

[@mckinleyostvig7135]

God I hope Skeledirge gets Shadow Claw. Thank you Man of Swag for imparting your riches of wisdom and knowledge.

[@MeditativeHandle]

so these are not ranked using the same values calcy IV uses? I was sorting pokemon using the rankings when I realized the iv values weren't the same. help! now I'm too paranoid to sort anything until I figure out what's wrong

[@SwagTips]

? What do you mean

[@pedrowla2297]

Quack 2nd stage looks good too

[@SwagTips]

When the hair goes harder

[@huyiii2435]

All comes down to movesets but remember this is niantic here

[@jrpone]

Quaquavals stat product is similar to Machamp and Skeliridge is similar to Swampert

[@joelpitzel]

Middle Evolutions, PVP?

[@SwagTips]

Crocalor, maybe. All around, probably not :x

[@ulkas_stuff]

Optimism for the moves :D

[@SwagTips]

We can hope, but Gen 7 at release was a pretty big letdown.

[@ulkas_stuff]

@@SwagTips oh yeah, like Inceneroar could only dream about being as viable as it's VGC self

[@RowletGod69]

Magic weed cat

[@SwagTips]

✨

[@merku2day]

Why they not releasing generation eight

[@SwagTips]

Doesn't exist. Never did.

[@jessicamendoza9407]

I hope floragato has some PvP viability. Literally one of the best middle evo designs of all time. & that’s coming from a Gen 1er

[@SourSalmon]

Unfortunately none of middle stage starters have any play in GBL, except for Marshtomp

[@XxNidokingbiggestfan3131xX]

Dartrix is good too

[@frederickdelius1106]

Is it just me or is there a type of theme with the starters? Not just straight up dancing. But soething like theater, idk. Anything with BB HC, and FP. Will be usuable.

[@cedricgant8535]

Frigibax/Baxcalibur deep dive next please 🙏🏾

[@SwagTips]

For the TCG? That's @jgrimesey's thing :U

[@Denizozzzy003]

​@@SwagTips I think he ment a deep dive for the new Psudo legendary of the Ice/Dragon mon

[@ztadiaz8606]

Paldea wooper next please!

[@SwagTips]

I could👀

[@aaronconklin5261]

Carbonk… lmao… you do have awesome content though!

[@naomiseadragon2676]

Sobble, Scorbunny, and Grookey: Are we a joke to you? For realies Niantic, I know hating on gen 8 has been a thing ever since Dexit was accounced but like, gen 8 has a lot of cool pokemon. I don't know why they're ignoring the gen 8 starters and moving to gen 9. Not like I dislike the gen 9 pokemon; it just feels like they're kinda going out of order even though we have some gen 8 pokemon in the game.

[@babyseal8822]

Just patience, remember when they release some gen 8 pokemon early before alola? And now we almost have the entire alola dex, just wait

[@sergi0t0tal]

There's just one question. Where are the gen 8 starters???

[@10DollarCowboy]

I have a local discord group and I want to set up a tournament for fun anyone have any any advice in the past I would use silk Road how is it done in 2023 again, this dose not need to be ranked and be nice if it could be but hoping just to do something for fun. I’d appreciate any advice.

[@WhosJohnGill]

Do you really think Rillaboom will get Frenzy plant before Meowscarada? They’re skipping Gen8 starters and giving us gen9 starters this year. So mixing up the order even more than before. Eh either way your point stands on Boom atk being higher than Meows

[@babyseal8822]

Of course rillaboom will getting frenzy plant before meowscarada, since we already get all kalos starter community day, we just need to wait for alola starter community day, and I'm pretty sure before we get three of them, the galar starter will be already in the game

[@BlkVenom]

I wonder why they skip gen 8

[@dangdiggity9916]

we have more gen 8 mons than gen 7 it feels like.

[@BlkVenom]

@dangdiggity9916 we didnt get the gen 8 starters but we get gen 9 starters?

[@SwagTips]

I'm not sure if Pokemon GO knows why they do what they do

[@BlkVenom]

@SwagTips i want my cinderace, and they're holding out on me.

[@jessicamendoza9407]

Because Gen 8 starters are actually the most forgettable starters

[@ssj2trunks103]

Everyone just keeps going at the Nerf am Buff of Pokémon am Carbin lol but something that it is right their in front of everybody’s nose… is that we lost Silph r, am PokeMiners are out of the game! Things can really go south here just bc we don’t have early info like before or a platform that players can play am try the new mons/ moves without been punished! Also opened the doors for Niantic to throw a curve ball am make everyone mad as heck! Lol

[@champusclipz2293]

2026...lol

[@geraldwade9252]

😈 'Promosm'

[@evolition7]

They are seriously running out of good designs huh?😅Meow looks better than the other two by a LARGE margin lol

[@SwagTips]

idk about you but the Feucoco line goes hard.

[@iksarguards]

Horrendous dancing duck is handily my least favorite starter design, it's not really close.

[@dannyichijou1588]

Why is the shirt so pricey

[@Hopkinsisland]

Who designed these freaks lol

[@xierotron]

Im so unhyped for this seen as they are useless until 2026, if pokemon go is even still going then