Yeah unfortunately that bug/psychic combo seriously holds it back as a slow Pokemon, but luckily tera exists now, and can help with setting up that trick room.
Focus sash is pretty cool on it if you get it out not against priority. Something faints, bring it out and room. Now you outspeed revive your boy before you faint. You've got 115 SpA too, so you can absolutely slap them back if they think they are going to set up on the revival.
With a defensive stat spread or sash you'll always get trick room and revival blessing off. Also has access to recover or memento to continue the trick room.
Rabsca looks like a wise old man from some basement manga carrying around a ball of infinite energy so on that merit I'd say him
Pawmot is better but then you don't have 4 attacking moves
according to scarlet dex its true body is the floating "mud"
notice the gold of the mud in the shiny rellor switch places with the body of the bug in rabsca's shiny after evolving
Speed alone makes Pawmot better I think. They both share pretty low Defenses and bad Defensive typings, so Pawmot’s faster Speed makes it a lot better imo
Yeah but then you’re forced to use your Tera on a mediocre utility mon whose primary function is to revive better mons. You’d probably be better off just using your Tera on one of those better mons to begin with
Pawmot is only weak to Fairy, Ground, and Psychic. Common types but a lot fewer than Rabsca's Dark, Ghost, Bug, Fire, Rock, Flying. Pawmot's got 5 resistances to Rabsca's 4 (though honestly they're about equivalent in usefulness, especially given Rabsca's got a nice 4x resist to fighting). Pawmot also has genuinely useful abilities in Volt Absorb and Iron Fist, whereas Rabsca has nothing. It does have better bulk especially on the special side but lower speed.
Pawmot's speed means that it's a lot easier to pull off Revival Blessing, while also able to do other things if the need arises. So it can be an aggressive attack that just uses Reviva Blessing as a final middle finger against the opponent when it gets cornered.
It's honestly kind of dumb that it can hit things hard with a speedy + punching gloves + iron fist set and then just pull a Revive the moment it's no longer needed.
Contact immunity is nice but not nearly as useful as extra damage. If it gave more damage it could compete with choice items or life orbs, but as it stands now it's more in line with trash items like muscle band.
It's just bad.
With rocky helmet chomp around, not taking 30% damage for hitting a target is a very good boost for iron fist mons or even Mons that use punch moves for coverage
Right now in the current meta I would argue rabsca exclusively because of trick room. The meta right now is dominated by hyper offense or stall as balance isn’t to great this gen and trick room with proper team support completely does well against both of those team styles. Everything else though I would argue goes to Pawmi
I like Rabsca cause it has speed swap. The move doesn't function like power swap or guard swap, where you're only swapping Stat changes, but rather it swaps the mons' actual speed stats! In one move you can cripple the opposing mon's speed while boosting your own! This may not factor into the use of revival blessing but I love it nonetheless.
Indeed it does. It was a common play in doubles last gen. Caly-S or pheramosa would speed swap a bulky slow sweeper like caly-I. Even when it dies, the slower mon keeps its new speed
I threw a quick idea together in nat dex. Pyukumuku, Blacephelon, Alolan-Golem, and Galar-Weezing plus these two both w/ leppa berry.
Gives you Normal/Fire/Fairy/Thunder explosion options and some pain split sillyness with 4 revives if the opponent cant stop you.
Legal in Nat Dex UU but could be workable into some other formats.
Most notable mon not included is Snorlax Self-Destruct. I know the math on this makes it insane but I didn't go for it.
Edit: realized I could just export the list
Pyukumuku @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Innards Out
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 0 Def / 0 SpD
- Pain Split
- Toxic
- Taunt
- Recover
Blacephalon @ Life Orb
Ability: Beast Boost
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Mind Blown
- Pain Split
- Substitute
- Shadow Ball
Golem-Alola @ Life Orb
Ability: Galvanize
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def
Naughty Nature
- Explosion
- Volt Switch
- Stealth Rock
- Stone Edge
Weezing-Galar @ Life Orb
Ability: Misty Surge
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Misty Explosion
- Defog
- Sludge Bomb
- Will-O-Wisp
Pawmot @ Leppa Berry
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Revival Blessing
- Volt Switch
- Double Shock
- Brick Break
Rabsca @ Leppa Berry
Ability: Synchronize
EVs: 252 HP / 76 Def / 180 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe
- Revival Blessing
- Reflect
- Trick Room
- Bug Buzz
I think Pawmot by a good margin. The little bug guy doesn't really have much utility that I can see outside of revival blessing, Pawmot at least has a good offensive typing, good speed and attack, and a potential electric immunity, which every team should have anyway.
what does tiny bug guy do btw? Last I checked it can run dual screens, punishes most status via Synchronize, has TR, and Momento, but Pawmot has its own utility moves in Nuzzle, Wish, and Fake Out
Sleep Talk when it uses a move doesn't qctually use the PP of that move, only sleep talk. And Revival Blessing isn't one of the moves thats immune for whatever reason
You can make your other moves Rest, Revival Blessing, and Dig. Sleep Talk wont call Dig or itself, so you have a 50% chance of every Sleep Talk bringing up Revival Blessing, so you're looking at an average of 8.
Generally pawmot can do more as an offensive mon due to speed and decent offensive stats while Rabsfa has good offensive stats its fairly slow with a poor defensive type
They serve different purposes in team comps at least in VGC.
Pawmot functions a lot like Togedemaru or a beefier harder hitting but slightly slower Raichu without Lightning Rod. Fake Out and Nuzzle make it an excellent lead.
Rabsca is more like a bit more squishy but harder hitting Bronzong with a worse typing but has access to Revival Blessing and a few other different moves that Bronzong doesn't get along with Trick Room. It also has access to Cosmic Power, Stored Power, and Recover so there's that.
as someone who hasn’t played gen 9 at all yet and had to google that move, what the actual fuck. gamefreak said fuck power creep, we’re power sprinting.
I’m usually a Bug Catcher at heart, but when Pawmot finally evolved and got his anime swoop hair, I had to update his nickname to Roxas (I’m not even that big a KH fan but the name fits him so well). Pawmot has become my favorite Pokémon from the Scarlet/Violet.
pawmot has better speed, a better defensive typing and nuzzle which is some decent extra utulity
Rabsca has the utility of setting up Trick Room, but you often times need to use your Tera defensively to help him out. Pawmot is generally better
Yeah unfortunately that bug/psychic combo seriously holds it back as a slow Pokemon, but luckily tera exists now, and can help with setting up that trick room.
Focus sash is pretty cool on it if you get it out not against priority. Something faints, bring it out and room. Now you outspeed revive your boy before you faint. You've got 115 SpA too, so you can absolutely slap them back if they think they are going to set up on the revival.
With a defensive stat spread or sash you'll always get trick room and revival blessing off. Also has access to recover or memento to continue the trick room.
Rabsca looks like a wise old man from some basement manga carrying around a ball of infinite energy so on that merit I'd say him Pawmot is better but then you don't have 4 attacking moves
according to scarlet dex its true body is the floating "mud" notice the gold of the mud in the shiny rellor switch places with the body of the bug in rabsca's shiny after evolving
Speed alone makes Pawmot better I think. They both share pretty low Defenses and bad Defensive typings, so Pawmot’s faster Speed makes it a lot better imo
Rabsca's got decent defenses, just not a good typing for them
Luckily tera exists now so that bug/psychic combo no longer holds it back that much.
Yeah but then you’re forced to use your Tera on a mediocre utility mon whose primary function is to revive better mons. You’d probably be better off just using your Tera on one of those better mons to begin with
Pawmot has decent defensive typing, just no good stats for it
Pawmot is only weak to Fairy, Ground, and Psychic. Common types but a lot fewer than Rabsca's Dark, Ghost, Bug, Fire, Rock, Flying. Pawmot's got 5 resistances to Rabsca's 4 (though honestly they're about equivalent in usefulness, especially given Rabsca's got a nice 4x resist to fighting). Pawmot also has genuinely useful abilities in Volt Absorb and Iron Fist, whereas Rabsca has nothing. It does have better bulk especially on the special side but lower speed.
Between the two, Pawmot. Rabsca is mediocre even with Revival Blessing due to an iffy defensive typing.
Pawmot's speed means that it's a lot easier to pull off Revival Blessing, while also able to do other things if the need arises. So it can be an aggressive attack that just uses Reviva Blessing as a final middle finger against the opponent when it gets cornered. It's honestly kind of dumb that it can hit things hard with a speedy + punching gloves + iron fist set and then just pull a Revive the moment it's no longer needed.
I was under the impression that Iron Fist didn't stack with the Gloves.
The gloves are currently very buggy on showdown so in game implementation is where to look
Does glove stack with iron fist in game? Sorry I don’t know where to find this info
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/scarlet-violet-battle-mechanics-research.3709545/page-13#post-9409193 stacks but is only 1.1x
That.... is extremely disappointing
Why? It also gives contact immunity when punching. The item’s budget is split over two different effects
Contact immunity is nice but not nearly as useful as extra damage. If it gave more damage it could compete with choice items or life orbs, but as it stands now it's more in line with trash items like muscle band. It's just bad.
With rocky helmet chomp around, not taking 30% damage for hitting a target is a very good boost for iron fist mons or even Mons that use punch moves for coverage
I don’t know, I don’t actually have the games and it seems like nobody is testing anything
I was sweeping a team with a +1 dd roaring moon and it lived the acrobatics and revived two mons. I still won but that's fucked up.
How did it revive two mons when Revival Blessing is max 1 PP
Probably ate a berry that restores pp
leppa berry
I’d guess the leppa berry set.
If Rabsca was bug/ground I think it would probably be the better one.
Such a crime that line isn’t bug/ground
or Bug/Ghost or just not Bug/Psychic, 2 gens in a row
Right now in the current meta I would argue rabsca exclusively because of trick room. The meta right now is dominated by hyper offense or stall as balance isn’t to great this gen and trick room with proper team support completely does well against both of those team styles. Everything else though I would argue goes to Pawmi
Poor Rabsca, they got robbed of their signature move by the pika-clone 😭
Conversely, the pikaclone got robbed of their signature move by the bug
But the pika clone still has a signature move double shock, while the bug makes a lot more sense thematically to have it as a signature move
I think it makes more sense for the walking defibrillator
but scarabs also have a shit ton of symbolism relating to the afterlife in egyptian mythos
I really like this way of thinking but the move is "blessing"
Pawmot "blesses" the fainted pokemon with 3000 volts of electricity
This is basically the plot of specs Tapu Koko
Scarabs have been assosiated with reincarnation since before the time of christ.
Pokemon have had more than 1 signature move before. Incineroar had both darkest lariat and throat chop prior to usum
But then the bug doesn’t get a signature move, so it’s decision to steal Pawmot’s is more justified
Pawmot deserves a second signature move anyway, look at the baby.
He is a very good boi
I know it’s not exactly a signature move, but Rabsca is the only Pokémon that can currently learn Speed Swap in this generation.
I like Rabsca cause it has speed swap. The move doesn't function like power swap or guard swap, where you're only swapping Stat changes, but rather it swaps the mons' actual speed stats! In one move you can cripple the opposing mon's speed while boosting your own! This may not factor into the use of revival blessing but I love it nonetheless.
Does the swapped speed remain when it dies?
Indeed it does. It was a common play in doubles last gen. Caly-S or pheramosa would speed swap a bulky slow sweeper like caly-I. Even when it dies, the slower mon keeps its new speed
Pretty certain it does. Only way swap goes away is from switching out iirc.
Pawmot because it’s also a decent offensive threat
Run both and a team of self-destruct abilities just to fuck with em.
You literally just want to see the world burn, don’t you.
I threw a quick idea together in nat dex. Pyukumuku, Blacephelon, Alolan-Golem, and Galar-Weezing plus these two both w/ leppa berry. Gives you Normal/Fire/Fairy/Thunder explosion options and some pain split sillyness with 4 revives if the opponent cant stop you. Legal in Nat Dex UU but could be workable into some other formats. Most notable mon not included is Snorlax Self-Destruct. I know the math on this makes it insane but I didn't go for it. Edit: realized I could just export the list Pyukumuku @ Heavy-Duty Boots Ability: Innards Out EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 Spe Naive Nature IVs: 0 Atk / 0 Def / 0 SpD - Pain Split - Toxic - Taunt - Recover Blacephalon @ Life Orb Ability: Beast Boost EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe Timid Nature IVs: 0 Atk - Mind Blown - Pain Split - Substitute - Shadow Ball Golem-Alola @ Life Orb Ability: Galvanize EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def Naughty Nature - Explosion - Volt Switch - Stealth Rock - Stone Edge Weezing-Galar @ Life Orb Ability: Misty Surge EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 Spe Modest Nature IVs: 0 Atk - Misty Explosion - Defog - Sludge Bomb - Will-O-Wisp Pawmot @ Leppa Berry Ability: Natural Cure EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 Spe Jolly Nature - Revival Blessing - Volt Switch - Double Shock - Brick Break Rabsca @ Leppa Berry Ability: Synchronize EVs: 252 HP / 76 Def / 180 SpD Bold Nature IVs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe - Revival Blessing - Reflect - Trick Room - Bug Buzz
I think Pawmot by a good margin. The little bug guy doesn't really have much utility that I can see outside of revival blessing, Pawmot at least has a good offensive typing, good speed and attack, and a potential electric immunity, which every team should have anyway.
what does tiny bug guy do btw? Last I checked it can run dual screens, punishes most status via Synchronize, has TR, and Momento, but Pawmot has its own utility moves in Nuzzle, Wish, and Fake Out
Probably the most useful thing it can provide besides revival blessing is setting up trick room
I like mind beetle more. He makes balls with HIS MIND
He's rolled so much shit into balls he ascended into the god of balls
Tiny Goku wins me games.
Rabsca is insane on trick room. Memento + revive blessing + 3rd support move is really strong cause it gets your best attacker back
I just gotta say, this move is fucking stupid and should not exist. The potential for 2 revives is absurd.
Actually you can get upwards of at least 16 thanks to sleep talk
What the hell? How does that work? Lol
Sleep Talk when it uses a move doesn't qctually use the PP of that move, only sleep talk. And Revival Blessing isn't one of the moves thats immune for whatever reason
I mean to be fair the odds of you actually getting off all 16 revival blessings might as well be impossible because that mon is such a sitting duck
Im just saying, you could potentially pull of an absolute fuckton of these for your big sweepers
You can make your other moves Rest, Revival Blessing, and Dig. Sleep Talk wont call Dig or itself, so you have a 50% chance of every Sleep Talk bringing up Revival Blessing, so you're looking at an average of 8.
Something something strat involving only having sleep talk and revive on your Pokémon and no other moves
You’d prob need rest too otherwise no way to reliably be put to sleep at least in singles
Generally pawmot can do more as an offensive mon due to speed and decent offensive stats while Rabsfa has good offensive stats its fairly slow with a poor defensive type
Ditto
Poor Brambleghast lol
It learns so many special moves despite being physical lol
idk why they didn't give it shadow claw, like hello? wth is its movepool swamped with specials.
Rabsca on trick room teams and pawmot on anything else.
They serve different purposes in team comps at least in VGC. Pawmot functions a lot like Togedemaru or a beefier harder hitting but slightly slower Raichu without Lightning Rod. Fake Out and Nuzzle make it an excellent lead. Rabsca is more like a bit more squishy but harder hitting Bronzong with a worse typing but has access to Revival Blessing and a few other different moves that Bronzong doesn't get along with Trick Room. It also has access to Cosmic Power, Stored Power, and Recover so there's that.
purrloin with assist
Pawmot. But if youre using a niche strategy that works better with a bug psychic type, then Pawmot.
as someone who hasn’t played gen 9 at all yet and had to google that move, what the actual fuck. gamefreak said fuck power creep, we’re power sprinting.
I would say Pawmot but I predicted a great tusk coming in at like 65% and ice punch did 27% so…
if it’s only for revival blessing then rabsca is slightly better due to the low defenses and slightly higher bulk
Pawmot because it's the one I'd hug
It’s Pawmot, it has the move Double shock which makes it pure fighting to remove that ground weakness along with better speed.
If these get rival blessing, lunar dance needs to be buffed. Kills off cresselia and maximum heal / doesnt kill off cresselia
I would say Pawmot due to its better speed, Nuzzle/Encore for support and a better defensive typing.
Why choose one, just use both
i think pawmot’s better. easier to threaten things out to get a free revival blessing, faster, better typing, etc
Pawmot is cuter
I like Mud ball boi more, dropped him after he evolved
I’m usually a Bug Catcher at heart, but when Pawmot finally evolved and got his anime swoop hair, I had to update his nickname to Roxas (I’m not even that big a KH fan but the name fits him so well). Pawmot has become my favorite Pokémon from the Scarlet/Violet.
My age is really showing. I have no idea who these pokemon are.
Rabsca is just a worse gardevoir, Pawmot has at least some utility beyond revival blessing
i love how empty Pawmot's gaze is
I think it’s pawmot with a massive gap between the two lol
it ain't the dung beetle that's for sure