Strategic Switching

[inspirations365]

Hello, all!

Let's say you have become great at Squirtle, Ivysaur, and Charizard.

Let me introduce you to an often overlooked or frowned upon characteristic of all three: The Switch!

Now, I'm sure you all know that if a strong attack is coming, and you switch pokemon, it will miss (be careful for afterwards!). This is good for a Squirtle/Ivysaur switch or Ivysaur/Charizard since the latter two are more difficult to KO. I've dodged my share of Volt Tackles from Pikachu with this.

But yesterday, I discovered something I haven't seen on any forums yet:

If a sticky bomb is stuck on you and you can't get to another character, switch pokemon and it will fall off.


So far this just seems to be an interesting characteristic, so I don't yet know any other applications to this, or what else it would work with (like the Screw Attack badge that I hate), but I'm sure with a little more play time, Pokemon Trainer could become an unstoppable force.

 

[TheLake]

Oooh good find! Does this work on snakes C4 attachment as well?

 

[inspirations365]

Dunno, I may try it out later today, if I can.

 

[Hmaal]

Yes it does I've tried it.

 

[Leahdybug]

it works with anything if you invicible and switch you lose it. if you metal you metla no longer.

 

[Sasuke_1259]

Pokemon are almost like separate characters

To the best of my knowledge, I believe that all the pokemon are treated separately when it comes to items. This can be good and bad:

I was invincible with charizard ( as in, I had an invincible star) and I was facing a fox, I thought "I might as well change to squirtle so I can catch him when I'm invincible". But when I changed, the invincible left and squirtle was normal. The INVINCIBLE was on charizard, not squirtle, so squirtle was not affected.

I was unable to check if - assuming I changed back to charizard ASAP - if the invincible would still be there, but I assume it would be gone (maybe a property of the poke ball lol).

This can be good in the case of Snake's C4, having a flower on your head from Lip's Stick, gooey bomb, etc.

I have not checked what happens to a smash ball or the dragoon parts: But if I remember correctly, I believe they stay on. Can anyone verify this?

 

[Hmaal]

I'm pretty sure that they do, and it would make sense.

 

[Captain Stupid]

thats a pretty cool find.

 

[squiser]

Yeah Smash Ball/Dragoon pieces stay with you when you switch.

 

[Knyaguy]

After you switch back to the "infected" pokemon will it still have the item on it?

 

[Bacon Man11]

This is cool. But to bad that I don't play with items.