Considering dryness is associated with beauty in Pokemon Contests, it could mean the Pokemon has a more "refined/mature" palate i.e. likes coffee and wine, think like how sweet is associated with cuteness.
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Check out a good martini sometime.Since Gen 3, there have been five main flavors in Pokemon, but Gen 9 seems to have made an alteration to those flavors with the Herba Mystica. Previously, everything used Sweet/Sour/Spicy/Bitter/Dry, but the Herba Mystica use Sweet/Sour/Spicy/Bitter/Salty.
Back when I played Emerald as a wee lad, I was very confused about what the hell a dry flavor was. I'm now in my mid 20's and I still don't really know what a dry flavor is. I hope Pokemon sticks with Salty for future flavor mechanics, because I think it's telling that one of the first suggestions you get when you Google search "dry flavor" is "dry flavor pokemon".
Potato skins are great. When I get a baked potato I eat the entire thing, skin included.Or maybe just tasted a potato skin (don't recommend).
Let me revise that because i too love a cooked 'tato skin: have you ever tasted an unteated potato ski. No wash, no heat, no seasonings, no oilsPotato skins are great. When I get a baked potato I eat the entire thing, skin included.
Now I'm imagining an over-dramatic Milotic who sips only the finest red wine.Considering dryness is associated with beauty in Pokemon Contests, it could mean the Pokemon has a more "refined/mature" palate i.e. likes coffee and wine, think like how sweet is associate with cuteness.
It does have those weird tube things.Why does Forretress get Smart Strike, where's the horn/thrusting appendage
option 1: the cannon(?) appendagesWhy does Forretress get Smart Strike, where's the horn/thrusting appendage
It also helps that the first time you get thereArea Zero is perfect. Genuinely feels like a modern day Cerulean Cave, except even more ominous due to having multiple high level encounters in the overworld, ominous music, and being far away from civilization. The presence of multiple final evolutions of 3 stage lines like Corviknight and Raichu really helps sell that the Pokemon there are on another level and that you shouldn't be there.
I absolutely adore Arven's team.
Something that bothers me about a lot of teams, even teams with a type specialty but especially ones without, is that they rarely have any thematic cohesion. I look at almost any team and the most I can draw from it is "that's just a bunch of Pokemon they threw together". Maybe on a type specialist's team there will be an off-type Pokemon whose flavor matches the type, but the roster rarely ever tells me anything about the trainer, save for sometimes their ace.
Arven's team is different. Obviously his ace is important to his character (Mabosstiff almost singlehandedly makes Arven one of the best characters in all of Pokemon) but instead of having the rest of his team be random picks, Game Freak had them all tie into his food theme. He's got a mushroom, an oyster, a block of salt, a hot pepper, and a gluttonous squirrel with berries stashed away in his tail.
My only gripe is that they don't seem to correspond to the flavors of the Herba Mystica. Arven uses Nacli to get the Bitter Herba instead of the Salty Herba, and uses Scovillain to get the Sour Herba instead of the Spicy Herba. They might still correspond to the five flavors independent on which he uses to get each herb, but I haven't really eaten any oysters or mushrooms so I don't know if they match up with Sour or Bitter (Greedent I assume would be Sweet, but with how varied the berries are in Pokemon he could honestly slot anywhere).
Adding on to the Blipbug appreciation, I used one in Sword.people said:Blipbug
The move relearner is available almost everywhere ?Really my only problem is that Bug Buzz is stuck behind the Move Tutor, which I didn’t really use so much of