#Blueberry (my Walking Wake) is Gentle and Cherry (my Iron Leaves) is Quiet in case anyone was interested in knowing

[fierykitten2]

I feel like making a post about the Blaziken raids so here it is

Electric and Rock seem to be my main options for a defender (Ice and Steel are also options but Ice doesn’t resist Flying and Steel isn’t Supereffective against Flying. Also both would fall immediately to the first Fire-type move thrown my way). Great news for Lavender, my player character in Violet, who can use Lucifer and call it a day. Bad news for Rose, my player character in Scarlet, who’s gonna need to train up a Pokémon from scratch. Nothing saying an Electric Tera type Sandy Shocks won’t cut it, it’s just I assume there’s a reason I don’t ever remember seeing it suggested for raids (other than the fact I previously wasn’t interested in Scarlet-exclusive defender options because until Christmas, I only had Violet). I’ll look up ideal defenders closer to the time because of course I’d love a Blaziken with the Mightiest Mark. Hang on, I checked, Sandy Shocks and Miraidon are good choices for defenders. I just need to double check Punk’s Tera type (I think it might be Ground) and then do some training. Thinking about it, an Iron Thorns might not be a bad idea - it’s got both the types I said are the main options it’s just I saw Iron Hands (which I’m not trusting as a defender after how the Iron Bundle raids went) suggested and not it so there’s probably something preventing its species from being raid-viable. Anyway, after how the Hisuian Samurott raids went, I trust Lucifer as a defender and will use it as my defender in Violet

I wanna try and update when I’ve caught it in both versions just because. If I achieve that on separate days or give up in one version (probably Scarlet) I’ll update separately

As ever, I plan on putting it through the ESP afterwards. If my plan works out, I think it only makes sense to celebrate Blaziken the Unrivaled being my first 7-Star victory in Scarlet by putting it through the ESP in Scarlet. From now on, I’m going to have to make decisions on which game to put each Unrivaled Pokémon through the ESP in. My plan for the DLC starters is Hoenn + starters weak to the base game starter in Kanto, Johto, Unova and Alola in Scarlet and Sinnoh (yeah I know, I don’t like that trio but it’ll annoy me if I don’t do it) + starters strong against the base game starter in Kanto, Johto, Unova and Alola in Violet

Name-wise, earlier I said I would call my Scarlet Blaziken Chicken and my Violet Blaziken Blaze (I still prefer Violet so my Violet Blaziken gets the cooler name) but then I decided (because even though I believe Falcon’s overall starter would be Quaquaval, Blaziken definitely fits him. Well, it fits his Smash counterpart, which doesn’t count. But then again, especially if it’s got its hidden ability, Speed Boost… maybe not so Smash!Falcon-coded after all, maybe a bit Falcon-coded (you don’t get the F-Zero! prefix on that because that’s his canon version)) I want to call the Violet (F-Zero takes place in the future therefore I only allow myself to use names based on it in Violet) Blaziken Captain and my Scarlet Blaziken Blaze (I’m not letting the cooler name (between Chicken and Blaze) go to waste)

Oh yeah and I already headcanon that (because of how unpopular they are compared to the rest of their trios) Blaziken the Unrivaled is in a relationship with a theoretical Meganium the Unrivaled (what do you reckon? Bug Tera type? Fairy Tera type? Psychic okay probably not Psychic when Bug and Fairy are options. Speaking of, there are 17 starters (if my maths is correct) and 19 Tera types. They’re probably not gonna give any starters the Stellar Tera type and it seems unlikely that the Paldean starters are coming to raids. Plus, I’m willing to reckon they wouldn’t use the starter trio types. As much as I’d love to rule out the Normal Tera type (can’t believe you’d disappoint the one Rillaboom fan by giving it the most boring Tera type and you’re probably gonna do it to Primarina as well) I think the other Tera type likely to go unused this group is Dragon, because that was Charizard’s Tera type and it doesn’t fit into a nice little trio in the base game starters) and they met in a karaoke bar in Johto right at the end of Blaziken’s world tour (Blaziken the Unrivaled loves karaoke bars and met the Lucario from Smash at a karaoke bar in Kalos where Blaziken stayed for a lot longer than it did in any other region on its world tour which occurred about the same time as Lucario’s world tour and Lucario was devastated when he discovered Blaziken had left for another region (likely either Paldea or Galar) and they never saw each other again I swear the karaoke bar headcanon has nothing to do with me thinking Blaziken and Skeledirge should swap trios)

Oh yeah adding to that point when will I make the next 7-Star headcanon post? I’ll wait until all starters have been done and the same number of Past and Future Paradox Pokémon have been done (please Scream Tail event? Or Flutter Mane? Or Sandy Shocks?)