{"id":158051,"date":"2021-01-03T02:06:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T02:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/pokemon-go-machamp-payback\/"},"modified":"2021-01-03T02:06:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T02:06:59","slug":"pokemon-go-is-introducing-a-new-move-for-machamp-but-what-does-it-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/01\/03\/pokemon-go-is-introducing-a-new-move-for-machamp-but-what-does-it-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Pokemon GO is Introducing a New Move for Machamp, But What Does It Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are hundreds upon hundreds of moves across all\u00a0Pokemon\u00a0<\/em>games. And while some of these moves don’t make it into every game,\u00a0Pokemon GO<\/em><\/strong> has been somewhere for all kinds of moves\u00a0to appear. With\u00a0Pokemon GO<\/i><\/a> being a spinoff title in the franchise, many\u00a0move-related rules from\u00a0the mainline games\u00a0don’t apply,\u00a0so the mobile game has taken liberties with adjusting things like how many moves a Pokemon can learn.<\/p>\n

Just last month, it was announced the star of the\u00a0first\u00a0Pokemon GO<\/em> Community Day of 2021<\/a> would be Machop, bringing along the usual features, like a chance to encounter shiny Machop, a Special Research story, and of course, a Community Day exclusive move. During the event, players will have the chance to evolve any Machoke into Machamp in order to obtain a Machamp with the dark-type move, Payback. And while it isn’t known just yet how Payback will function in\u00a0Pokemon GO<\/em>, analyzing how it appears in mainline games and comparing it\u00a0to other moves in\u00a0Pokemon GO<\/em> could shed some light on how the new move will function in the mobile game.<\/p>\n

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While many moves are added and removed from\u00a0Pokemon GO<\/em>\u00a0rather freely, the addition of Payback raises some questions. In\u00a0the 4th\u00a0generation of\u00a0Pokemon<\/em> games,<\/a> the damage dealt by Payback would double from 50 to 100 if the user moved after the target, if the target switched out, or if the opponent used an item during battle.<\/p>\n

However, in the 5th generation of mainline\u00a0Pokemon<\/em> games, Payback was modified in order to be more balanced. From generation 5 and\u00a0onward, Payback’s damage\u00a0would not double if the target switched out. It’s worth noting that Volt Switch, a move originally focused on the mechanic of switching Pokemon, is a Fast Attack\u00a0in\u00a0Pokemon GO<\/em> and does not have anything to do with switching Pokemon in the game.\u00a0Additionally, since\u00a0the dark-type move\u00a0Pursuit,<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>which also relies on\u00a0switching Pokemon out, has not yet been added to\u00a0Pokemon GO<\/em>, it\u00a0seems\u00a0unlikely that such a mechanic will be implemented when bringing Payback to the game.<\/p>\n

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Although moves like Pursuit and Volt Switch may point to the special Community Day move Payback<\/a> not including a mechanic based on switching Pokemon, the move Avalanche may shed more light on how Payback could work in\u00a0Pokemon GO<\/em>.\u00a0In the mainline\u00a0Pokemon\u00a0<\/i>games, the power of Avalanche is doubled if the user is damaged by the target in the same turn. While this isn’t identical to how Payback works, it’s a very similar mechanic at play, since if an Avalanche user takes damage before it can attack, it is very likely that the opposing\u00a0Pokemon moved first.<\/p>\n

However, it’s important to note that unlike the previously mentioned Pursuit, Avalanche is a move\u00a0that has actually\u00a0been implemented into\u00a0Pokemon GO<\/em><\/a>. Since Avalanche doesn’t include any\u00a0power-boosting effects in the game, it is very likely that Payback will not include such a mechanic as well, but that’s not the only thing\u00a0that Avalanche could reveal about the new move.<\/p>\n

First, it may be safe\u00a0to assume that, due to its similarity to Avalanche, Payback could\u00a0also be a Charged Attack<\/a> as opposed to a Fast Attack. This is because in the mainline\u00a0Pokemon\u00a0<\/em>games, Avalanche deals 60 damage while\u00a0Payback deals 50 damage, and seeing as the power of moves scale by multiples of 5, the two moves aren’t so different from each other in terms of power either. Going off of the mainline Pokemon\u00a0<\/em>game\u00a0similarities,\u00a0since\u00a0Avalanche is a 90 power move and has a two-bar energy cost of 50 (45 in PvP battles) in Pokemon GO<\/em>, many theorize that Payback will\u00a0translate to\u00a0the game as an 80 power move with a two-bar energy cost of 50 (45 in PvP battles) as well, similar to a move like Drill Run.<\/p>\n

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In Pokemon GO\u00a0<\/em>PvP battles, Payback on Machamp could prove to be a real threat. At the moment, despite being one of the best fighting-type Pokemon in the game, Machamp is currently only capable of learning normal, fighting, rock, and steel-type moves. While its rock-type moves can\u00a0combat flying-types and its steel-type moves can\u00a0combat fairy-types, it has not had any coverage for psychic-type Pokemon until now. Having Payback on Machamp puts it at an advantage against potentially dangerous psychic or\u00a0ghost-type Pokemon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Raids, Payback could prove to be a rather double-edged sword. When it comes to Legendary Raids in Pokemon GO<\/em>, adding another strong dark-type move to the game puts players at a massive advantage. This is mostly due to the large amount of Legendary Pokemon that are part, if not fully, psychic-type. Payback could potentially deal massive damage to Legendary Raid bosses such as\u00a0Lugia, Deoxys, Cresselia, and even Mewtwo, not to mention the ghost-type Giratina, which has returned to Raids\u00a0in the past<\/a>.\u00a0The downside to all this, however, is that Machamp itself is of course weak to psychic-type attacks. However,\u00a0Pokemon GO<\/em>\u00a0players may be able to adapt to this downside in other ways.<\/p>\n

Although Machamp is weak to the very type it gains coverage against,\u00a0<\/em>players could\u00a0approach the situation in two different ways. One of these would be to brave the storm and go in with a party\u00a0full of Machamp with Payback, hoping for optimal damage output as quickly as possible. Another way would be to for players to know what they’re up against.\u00a0Pokemon GO<\/em>\u00a0offers players a recommended party to bring into battle during Raids, and the game tries not to recommend Pokemon weak to moves the Raid boss has.<\/p>\n

So, if trainers who have Machamp with Payback don’t see the Pokemon\u00a0appear in their recommended parties before Raids, it may be safe to assume that a Raid boss also has a move that could be lethal to Machamp. In turn, if players see their Machamp with Payback recommended against psychic-type Raid bosses, they\u00a0could be in the clear, since they game likely wouldn’t recommend Machamp if the psychic-type Raid boss also had a psychic-type move. Although\u00a0Pokemon GO<\/em>‘s Raid Bosses are always changing<\/a>,\u00a0the\u00a0Payback could\u00a0prove to be a big help very soon.<\/p>\n

Although speculation is high for how Payback could translate to\u00a0Pokemon GO<\/em>, it will be interesting to see how the move turns out\u00a0when Machop Community Day rolls around later this month. And looking to the future,\u00a0another strong dark-type move added to the game only opens the doors for more possible changes to the meta\u00a0with chances of more Pokemon learning the move via Charged TMs.<\/a>\u00a0For the time being, only time will tell how the brand new will shape up.<\/p>\n

Pokemon GO<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is available now on Android and iOS devices.<\/p>\n

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