A way too early thread on the Sword and Shield metagame

Earlier today Nintendo and Gamefreak announced the 8th generation of Pokemon games, Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield. Naturally, that means we get a new competitive landscape along with the new games.

What are some things you're hoping to see in the Sword and Shield meta? Any predictions on what gameplay features (megas, Z-Moves etc.) will return?

I feel like they should keep Z-Moves in the game, but don't focus on adding more, I'd prefer new megas. Or just new evolutions in general

just that we get a good meta this time

I'm not gonna hold my breath thy

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just that we get a good meta this time

I'm not gonna hold my breath thy

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I don't see what was particular bad with six or seven. Both were dramatically improved metas over gen 5.


Personally, I'm hoping that we see the trend continued of a more versatile meta. In gen 7 it felt like the meta changed a lot more frequently than in the past and that there were more viable options available to use.

It'd be nice to see more mon that work well because of useful niche abilities and moves though.

Id love if they just got back to basics and stopped trying to outpower creep the previous gen i,e gen 5 gave us excadrill, haxorus and pals with base 1235654 attack etc, then in gen 6 we got megas with even more insane stats, now we've got z moves to make shit even more powerful. Like just restart as if nothing existed before it and blocked backwards trade capability (see: gen 1+2 --- > gen 3 esque. A brand new fresh metagame without past gen influences. 1000 mons is too many, too many op fluff mechanics (z-rings, megas etc), too convoluted and 6 slots isnt enough for all of this tbh.

What I'm hoping to see and what I'll likely see are so different. I agree with DA in the sense that I also wish they would stop trying to outdo the previous generation. Hopefully we get some genuinely cool but not gamebreaking Abilities - stuff like Corrosion and Berserk were pretty cool.

In reality, we're probably gonna get some overpowered crap like holding 2 items at once cuz sword and shield (duh) and the child of Toxapex and Tentacruel. Though maybe since the region is based on Europe like Kalos we could get some new Megas.