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[Sword & Shield] Getting Shield

Corrin

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    • Hi everyone, my mother is getting me Pokemon Shield for Christmas and for the most part I have a team planned (based on what I know/old pokemon in the game) but I'm stuck on a water type as I'm starting with Scorbunny.

    I like to have a balanced team, pokemon of the primary types (grass, water, fire, electric) so I was wondering what water type worked for you? Which would you recommend?

    Thank you for your help!
     
    Figure

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    • Dreadnaw is good and you can get Chewtle on one of the first routes, especially if you are looking to use new Mons. You also get a lot of options once you can go to the wild area. Barraskewda (idk if that's how you spell but I don't care enough to check) hits like a truck as well.
     
    Sydian

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    • i actually didn't use a water type on my team, however i have heard good things about dracovish. might be a pain to get bc it requires a couple of certain fossils, but if you get it with the strong jaw ability, you're basically set for life.
     

    Alpha Snowdust

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    Hey! I'm getting Shield too (I was supposed to get it in July but other things came up)!
    In Sword, I chose Scorbunny. I didn't have a water type on my team... instead I had Tsareena to take out rock and water types. I wasn't too worried about Fire types tbh. My main water type on Sword is Rapid Strike Ursidifu. I don't know if you have the DLC though, and you would have to go through that storyline... and I think the main storyline too. In the Isle of Armor, I think you get the choice of Squirtle or Bulbasaur pretty early on? Isle of Armor has some pretty good water types too once they're evolved... like Wimpod.

    Outside of that, I definitely second Chewtle. Drednaw is a very good Pokemon from what I've seen. My sister used Barraskewda for a bit too.
     

    blokizas

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    I really didn't utilize a water type in my group, anyway I have heard beneficial things about dracofeu
     
    bobandbill

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    • Sandalphon said:
    I got Drednaw!
    Also, is Toxtricity or Manectric better?
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    Toxtricity gives you more coverage with the Poison typing for ingame stuff, although Manectric is faster. A shame the latter lost its mega evolution though, it's not really remarkable. I'd say Toxtricity.
     
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