u/Zaxthork

This was also my 1st Playthrough. My sincere opinion about the game:

The level curve is broken, it becomes too easy if you use red/purple dens, specially max raid battles. The amount of exp you can receive there is crazy via candies. About the DLC: It's comfortable to do (simple and easy) but then you are too overleveled so I don't recommend it before the postgame. There are infinite items, technical machines and so, which makes any kind of team viable (weather teams, defensive, hyper offense...). Good story and game overall but it's the easiest Pokémon game in the franchise that I've played so far imo (only BDSP, PLA, S/V and Z-A left to play, which I'll play next in order). DLC was useful for some Ability Patch and Max Soup but still not needed, I'll skip it next time.

1. Hyper Offensive team for Pokémon Sword

2. Hyper Offensive team for Pokémon Shield

3. Balanced 6x Gigantamaxable team for Sword/Shield

I have a few other options tht could replace Alolan Raichu, which one do you prefer?

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1. Gardevoir

Ability: Trace

- Psychic

- Moonblast

- Thunderbolt

- Energy Ball

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2. Gengar (Can Gigantamax)

- Shadow Ball

- Sludge Wave

- Dazzling Gleam

- Energy Ball

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3. Toxtricity (Can Gigantamax)

- Boomburst

- Overdrive

- Sludge Bomb

- Snarl

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4. Togekiss

- Dazzling Gleam

- Air Slash

- Aura Sphere

- Nasty Plot

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5. Grimmsnarl (Can Gigantamax)

- Sucker Punch

- Spirit Break

- Light Screen

- Reflect

Loved the game, the story about the 7 heroes flashbacks is interesting and the spell/technique animations are cool, my fave ones were Guanyin, Four Seasons and Headbutt.

I rate the game with a solid 8.5/10

Things I regret:

I missed the Umbrology Spells because the Volcano events (didn't know that was missable damn haha) so the Ninja could be slightly better with Shadow Servant Spell. Missed Mighty Helm too for a similar reason so I took Rabbit Ears+ that helped vs Dread Queen. This is the first saga game I play, do you recommend me any other one or similar games?

This is a playthrough team I used to beat the Pokémon League without receiving damage (Samurott and Roserade weren't needed tho)