New Attacks
Three new attacks are added in the Adventures Abound Season.
- Grass-type Charged Attack－Trailblaze
- Ground-type Charged Attack－Scorching Sands
- Ice-type Charged Attack－Triple Axel
Trailblaze (Grass-type Charged Attack)
Trailblaze damage 65, energy consumption 50, DPE 1.3 and 100% +1 Atk on yourself. The effect of Trailblaze certainly improves the performance in the battle, but the DPE of only 1.3 shows that pokemon can't give opponent damage effectively, this may cause the condition that opponents barely hold the damage. In addition, the energy consumption of 50 is very hard to reach for pokemons who use high-damage, low-energy-charging fast moves. It is difficult for these pokemon to obtain the gain of increased attack. For pokemons who use low damage and high energy-charging, no matter how fast the fast moves charge , the benefits may not fully be presented because the damage of fast moves are always too small. So, Trailblaze is more suitable for pokemons with its fast moves that have a good balance between damage and charging. Therefore, the performance of Girafarig and Skuntank should be improved.
Scorching Sands (Ground-type Charged Attack)
Scorching Sands damages 80, energy consumption 50, DPE 1.6 and 30% -1 Atk of opponent. The energy consumption of Scorching Sands is 50, which is reluctantly considered low. Although DPE 1.6 is not top-notch, it at least has a certain degree of efficiency about the damage output. Overall, Scorching Sands is considered a not bad charged move.
As the data of the Scorching Sands and Earth Power are very similar, which is better has also aroused heated discussion among trainers, 傻豆 thinks that both have their own advantages and disadvantages, which is good and which is bad depends on the team and the role that pokemon to be.
- From the energy point of view, if five more points of energy from Earth Power will not make pokemon need to play one more fast move, then Earth Power will be a better choice, and if these five points of energy will make pokemon need to play one more move in the second and third charged moves, then it depends on the the role of pokemon and its ability to stay on the field for a long time, if yes for staying long time, it will be recommended to use the Scorching Sands, and conversely, the higher damage of Earth Power will be a better choice.
- From the damage point of view, the Scorching Sands compared to the Earth Power is more likely to avoid the condition that the opponents barely hold the damage, so if you find that the most of the Meta can hold the damage of Scorching Sands but can't old the damage of Earth Power, then it is recommended to use the Earth Power, otherwise Scorching Sands can be used. The same applies to Shadow Pokemon. Shadow Pokemon's damage bonus can reduce the opportunity that opponents hold the damage, so trainers can consider using Scorching Sands at this point. The Flygon in the figure below is an example.
| Move | Type | Damage | Energy Consumption | DPE | Effects |
| Scorching Sands |  | 80 | 50 | 1.6 | 30% chance -1 Atk opponent |
| Earth Power | | 90 | 55 | 1.63 | 10% chance -1 Def opponent |
The following figure shows the pokemons that can learn Scorching Sands, and it's not hard to find that most of them are spicy, so the join of Scorching Sands may not impact too much to the general environment. However, whether or not Diggersby will affect the Meta is still to be seen, because Diggersby encounters the bulky opponents is so relies on the Earthquake in order to deal considerable damage, if it change the move to Scorching Sands, will it need to throw an extra move to beat down the opponents? Besides, due to the debuff of the Earthquake, if the extra move is better than the damage loss of Earthquake still needs to be checked.
For the spicy, many of them, such as the Hippowdon and the Palossand, already have the Earth Power or Earthquake, so the overall performance improvement is not obvious.However, the Trapinch and Vibrava finally have powerful ground type move after learning Scorching Sands, which is one of the few characters with a significant increase in strength, so it is recommended for trainers who enjoy playing spicy.
Triple Axel (Ice-type Charged Attack)
Triple Axel damages 60, energy consumption 45, DPE 1.33 and 100% +1 Atk on yourself.Triple Axel's stats are very similar to Trailblaze's, and both are also auxiliary moves with buff and poor damage output, but since Triple Axel consumes five points less energy, it's more or less better to use than Trailblaze.
mong the pokemons that can learn Triple Axel, the one that has the best chance of becoming Meta is Hitmontop. Hitmontop's Stone Edge, which is used to target flying type pokemons, is the move with high energy consumption, but with Triple Axel, this shortcoming has been improved and make Hitmontop more flexible. In addition, Lopunny and Tsareena have also improved their speed to throw the moves and the hit points due to Triple Axel, so if you like to play the spicy, you may want to try them out in the new season!
Attack Availability Updates
After the start of Adventures Abound Season, many pokemon can learn more moves,
- Volt Switch:
Magnemite, Magneton, Magnezone, and Regieleki can learn Volt Switch. The Volt Switch Magnezone not only maintains the speed of energy charging, but also increases the damage created by fast move, this makes Magnezone easier to farm down opponents, which improves its overall performance greatly. - Blaze Kick：
Hitmonlee, Mienshao, Incineroar, Riolu, and Lucario can learn Blaze Kick. If Hitmonlee uses Blaze Kick instead of Close Combat, it loses the explosive power of Close Combat, but at least it avoids the debuff to make its performance more stable. - Breaking Swipe：
Steelix, Rhydon, Rhyperior, Sceptile, Heliolisk, and Regidrago can learn Breaking Swipe. The pokemons that have gained huge improvements are the Steelix, Rhyperior and Heliolisk. Steelix is so bulky such as if Breaking Swipe debuffs opponents, opponents may be put in an unattackable dilemma. Rhyperior has a chance to participate in the Master League due to its Dragon type hit point. Heliolisk finally owns the low energy cost charged move which can increase the flexibility. - Water Shuriken：
Accelgor is the only pokemon to learn Water Shuriken. Though it has improved its energy charging performance as a result, it already had Infestation in his moveset to provide good energy charging, so the overall improvement is not significant. - Mud Shot：
Swalot, Greedent, Croagunk, and Toxicroak can learn Mud Shot. Swalot and Greedent already have good energy charging performance, but after acquiring Mud Shot, their speeds for charging are faster and that makes their performance even better. Toxicroak can frequently throw the charged moves after acquiring Mud Shot, however, it already has a good performance as a Counter user, it will be interesting to see whether or not Mud Shot will make him stand out even more. - Magical Leaf：
Among the pokemons that can learn Magical Leaf, Mr. Mime is worth looking forward to because its improved energy charging makes it has the ability to master the high-energy-consuming charged moves. - Shellder：
The move itself is so bad, giving it is almost as bad as not giving it at all.
Conclusion
I'm sure you're all confused by the amount of information about the new season, so I'm going to summarize the pokemons that have a chance to shine at PVP due to the addition of new moves and the updates. I'm going to save the Attack Changes for the next article because some of them haven't been announced in detail yet.
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