 Hello friends welcome back to the channel in today's video we are going to be talking about the brand new move Terrablast and what potentially of an impact it could have on the competitive scene in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet once those games drop. So Terrablast is pretty much in the simplest form just hidden power on steroids but Terrablast is a normal type attack inflicted damage using either the special type or the physical attack of a Pokemon depending on which one is higher. Now this normal type attack will change into a certain type depending when a Pokemon terraforms or terastralizes and depending on what the terraform will be. So if a Pokemon terastralizes into a fire type then Terrablast will turn from a normal type into a fire type attack and depending on which attack stat is higher between its physical attack or its special attack then that will depend on what type of attack Terrablast will be. On top of this when a Pokemon does use the terastralization it does change its type obviously and it gains a boost to those same type attacking moves so again if a Pokemon terastralizes into a fire type it's going to get an additional boost onto any fire type attack so at the moment we're looking at it pretty much as the same as stab so same type attack bonus which is about 1.2 this could change nothing's been confirmed and until the games are actually released until we get a bit more information in a data mine etc this will be still up in the air. So it's a little different from hidden power in general where hidden power didn't really get much chance to get that same type attack bonus because you were kind of using it as a coverage move whereas Terrablast is always going to be getting that same type attack bonus every time you use it when you terastralize with one of your Pokemon. The other thing is we don't have any confirmation right now on the base power of this attack now that leaves a lot of things up to the big but for this video's purposes we're going to assume that it's going to be either around 60 base power or 80 base power that feels a safe space for us to kind of work on in regards to this new move. So how is it going to be impactful in the new format? So if we take something like Rotom Wash which has a fire terra type and it uses that terastralization and then it becomes that fire type once it's transformed and uses Terrablast which is coming off a base 60 at the moment base power attack. This Rotom is going to have no special attack investment it's not going to have a boosting nature at all it's just going to be a flat out standard Rotom just 31 IVs and it's Terrablast is going to come off its special attack which is naturally a higher attacking stat anyway. It will be a special type Terrablast fire attack with that 1.2 star boost or the terra boost that you're going to get once you've terastralized if that Rotom uses Terrablast into an Abomasno just your standard 4 HP Abomasno this is to show you how impactful this move can be. Abomasno is four times weak to fire type attacks but with no investment on the Rotom no boosting nature Terrablast at 60 base power is still picking up a one hit kill against Abomasno that's with no boosts no investment no anything so the power is quite strong so just imagine stacking this power with something like a life orb an expert belt or a choice specs item which you can do because the terastralization mechanic doesn't require you to hold an item this move can become even stronger now this is a pretty basic example but imagine if the base power of Terrablast isn't 60 base power and it's actually 80 base power which is totally possible now if we take the same Rotom as we did last time but this time we actually give it 252 EV investment in special attack we give it a boosting nature we give it a modest nature and then we give it the choice specs item to hold on top of that and we do the Terrablast attack at 80 base power and attack into your standard Amunus now Amunus is one of the more bulky grass types that you're going to get in the format so it generally never really gets picked off knocked out in one hit anyway well if we take this Rotom like we've just explained and use Terrablast once we've terastralized and it hits into this Amunus which has a sassy nature nearly max investment in HP EVs and a good chunk in special defense EVs and a special defensive boosting nature as well sassy the Terrablast 80 base power is going to be doing between 80 and 90% damage to this Amunus which is just nuts you think you get a little bit of chip onto your Amunus and then you terastralize with your Rotom and then you can just remove from the field that is pretty insane and that is showing you the power difference between 60 base power and that 80 base power what you can potentially achieve with this new move Terrablast which is so flexible on any Pokemon that you put it on I really do think the creep in power here shows you how impactful this move potentially will be in the new competitive format the other thing to think about as well is it if it is an 80 base power attack which I really don't think it will be I think it will be a 60 base attack power move but if it's 80 base attack power just think how beneficial it will be for just normal types because it is a normal type move anyway so they're normally going to have a normal type move to play off their you know same type attack bonus and they don't necessarily need to take up an additional slot to fit Terrablast onto this set anyway because they've already got this normal type attack that's high base power 100 accurate more than likely that they're going to be able to use and then freeze up another slot for them and then when they terastralize anyway they're going to have a move to play with with this new typing that they've got as well so normal types I feel are really going to benefit from this specific move and the terastralization mechanic as well on top of that and these are just a couple of examples of Terrablast and obviously like I've said this is all context it's just my opinion on what we can expect from this move but it's good to start thinking about this now with the games dropping in just over a month's time it's a good time to start thinking about things and how they're going to play in the competitive scene and this is what we're doing now and it's all about giving your opinions, talking about it and getting an idea of how things are going to work so you can get your head around it when they do drop but that's my opinions I'd love to hear your opinions on this subject in particular what you think the base power will be how impactful do you think it'll be and do you think it might be a little bit too overpowered or do you think it's quite balanced I personally think it's quite balanced although the the move is changing type you are going to get drawbacks with that when you change it to a new type of course you're going to obtain new weaknesses and you know new resistance and things like that so it's not all just one sided everything's good there are drawbacks with it and I feel like it will be quite a balanced mechanic that could change of course but let me know your thoughts down below in the comment section and if you found this video useful make sure you check this video out right here which goes into detail about another brand new move and how impactful it could be in pokemon scarlet and violet and that is shed tail you're definitely not going to want to miss this one so click here right now and it will take you over and we'll discuss how even more impactful this potentially could be in pokemon scarlet and violet thanks for tuning in friends have a great rest of the day and I will see you all in another video very soon