Pokemon Legends: Arceus is a benchmark game, adding quite a bit to the franchise despite not being Gen 8's principal game. With 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the lot of new Pokemon entering the fray and the overhaul in battle mechanics reshaping how the game is played, some new mꦚoves were bound to come, too.
Legends: Arceus released 24 new moves, most of which are signature moves and all of which are listed below (although there are a few groups of moves clustered into single entries). Under the new battle mechanics, some of them are ultimately not that significant, some are quite useful in certain circumstances, and some are so important in a Pokemon's arsenal.
18 ♛ Power Shift
Power Shift is a pretty simple move: it switches the user's offensive and defensive stats.
Ultimately, it's way too niche and situational, and not worth spending either a turn or a moveslot on. It's down there with Power Split, Power Swap, and Power Trick as insignificant, essentially useless status moves that start with the word, "Power".
17 Chloroblast 🦋
Hisuian Electrode's Chloroblast is, fittingly, the most explosive move on here, for better or worse.
Chloroblast deals a ton of damage, to the tune of 120 base power, at perfect accuracy or at least close to it depending on the Style used. The problem comes with its secondary effects; it significantly lowers the user's action speed and deals a ton of recoil, usually half the user's max HP. It's great as a go-for-broke move when Electrode's already at low health, but it doesn't have much sensible utility in other situations.
16 🌱 Raging F🔥ury
Hisuian Arcanine's signature move, Raging Fury, is a solid enough Fire-type move, but it's neither reliable nor potent enough to stand out and replace staples like Fire Blast and Flamethrower. In fact, it has Fire Blast's inferior accuracy (85%) and is in the ballpark of Flamethrower's inferior base power (90).
What makes it different is its ability to fixate its user on the move, which has its own pros and cons. It's good in certain situations, but that doesn't help its standing against moves with purely positive secondary effects.
15 Bleakw🍎ind Storm, Wildbolt Stor♐m, Sandsear Storm, And Springtide Storm
All 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Forces of Nature, including the new Enamorus, got new signature moves. All of them are qu🌱ite similar, having the same ba𝓀se power and accuracy, and mostly the same special effects.
All have the very high 95 base power, but that's offset by just 80% accuracy. The original three's versions inflict status ailments 30% of the time, with Bleakwind Storm inflicting frostbite, Wildbolt Storm paralysis, and Sandsear Storm burn. Springtide Storm is a bit different, affecting stats instead, with it raising all of Enamorus' stats in her Incarnate forme and lowering the target's defensive stats in Therian.
14 ꦛ 🤪 Mountain Gale
Mountain Gale is a very imperfect attacking move, as it lowers the user's action speed and has just 85% accuracy. The one thing you can credit it for is that it hits pretty hard, at 100 base power.
The idea of a move like that belonging to a high-Attack-stat behemoth like Hisuian Avalugg sounds pretty🌳 tough; that is until you look at its horrible Speed stat which will further be harmed 🅰by the move lowering user action speed.
13 💜 Headlong Rush
With Earthquake not making the cut for Legends: Arceus, most Ground-types are missing that crucial attacking move they've relied on for years. Ursaluna (and Torterra) perhaps got Legends: Arceus' closest substitute to it: Headlong Rush.
It has the same 100 base power and 100% accuracy, though it does lower the user's defensive stats; it's essentially a Ground-type Close Combat. While lowering defenses aren't great, at least you could use it repeatedly if you're not getting hit.
12 Mystical Power 🌺 💃
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Another Legendary trio gets another new signature move shared among them: Mystical Power. While it technically works the same for all three of the Lake Guardians, it fits one of them better than the other two, thanks to the move's focus on the user's stats.
Mystical Power has a decent 70 base power and 90% accuracy. Its main selling point is its raising either the user's offensive of defensive stats, depending on which is higher. While it'd be nice on Uxie for getting defensive boosts, that kind of move is quite a bit better on offensive Pokemon, like Azelf or Mesprit with more Effort Levels spent on offensive stats.
11 Wave Crash 🍸
A Pokemon with as high an Attack stat as a (male) Basculegion deserves a high base power signature move. Unfortunately, while Wave Crash's base power is decent at 75, high it is not, at least to make a massive difference as an offensive Pokemon.
What's worse, it deals quite a bit of recoil, the standard 33% when not using Agile or Strong Style. All of this, despite the 100% accuracy, makes Wave Crash painfully mediocre.
10 𝓰 𒆙 Psyshield Bash
Wyrdeer's signature move is not quite game-changing, but it's very solid to have in an arsenal. Psyshield Bash is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a Psychic-type, 70 base power, 90% accuracy move that raises the user's defensive stats.
Stat boosts are always nice, but the 90% accuracy could be a bit better. It also just doesn't have as much to offer as Legends: Arceus' other new moves, thereby placing it in the middle of the pack.
9 Ceaseless Edge And Stone Axe 🧜
Hisuian Samurott's and Kleavor's signature move are exactly the same, just with different types: Ceaseless Edge being Dark-type and Stone Axe Rock-type. Both have 65 base power, 90% accuracy, and a high crit ratio, and deal several turns of passive damage via splinters, depending on the Style used.
The secondary effects are great, and its b🌸ase power is decent, but there will be times when all that could be for naught; that 90% accuracy has come back to bite battlers at the worst times.
