Palkia-O is better than Wake, but takes up a restricted slot. Also in single restricted it is outclassed by Miraidon, Calyrex-S, Kyogre. Even Dialga-O is better for Trick Room since its slower, bulkier and has a much better matchup vs Zacian-C and Flutter Mane.

This is a good write-up. There was one thing I was a bit unclear about. You mention that palkia-o is better than palkia-a in the 2 shield, and compare draco vs spacial palkia-o in the 1 and 0 shield, but I don't see a mention of how draco vs spacial palkia-o perform in the 2 shield.

Feb 28, 2022 · Is Palkia and Dialga with Psyche Up, paired with Geomancy Power Herb Xerneas. If you wanna take these two to pvp, its arguable that their need to hold items to retain origin forms, can very much limit your strategy. The best thing to do is not rely too much on a hyper offensive dialga, and run Palkia as a Thunder using rain counter in Sun teams.

Sep 4, 2023 · Then you can use Origin Forme Palkia’s vstar move to bring some of those energy back, supercharging Chien-Pao again so it can take another knockout. The main downside to this deck is if your opponent uses boss’s orders and takes out Baxcalibur, it will become more difficult to power up Chien-Pao enough to take knockouts on strong Pokémon

Mar 19, 2022 · And in Palkia'a case specifically, it just got absolutely shafted in terms of favoritism by everyone at GF/TPC. Weaker typing, weaker shiny variant, crapped on in M10 by Dialga and also outshined too in M12, absolutely no significant role in PMD, no Pokemon Conquest appearace, weaker signature move, susceptible to fairies.

Altered: 19-17-2, average 499.87 (gains Dialga-A and Dialga-O, loses Garchomp, Mamoswine, Palkia-O, Reshiram, Ursaluna) Overall, Dialga-O results with DM are only very slightly worse than with RoT. This makes sense -- DM and RoT are the same except for the debuff, but the debuff won't come into play very often because the nuke itself isn't used ...

Nov 22, 2021 · As Im reading the comments while trying to capture Palkia for the 5-6th reset, I luckily got it by paralyzing it & getting it down to the lowest HP possible with a Great Ball. It could be just luck since all it was doing was spamming it's slash and ancient power, the aqua ring was getting so chalked the first few fights tbh lol.

Yes and no. You're locked into the cover art legendary fight as part of the story. So the first time you encounter Dialga/Palkia you need to either catch it/kill it to leave that area and continue playing. So you'll have to shiny hunt it there (its not confirmed if you faint it the one that respawns post game can be shiny hunted).

Mar 19, 2022 · Finally there's Palkia's coverage which really gives it a cool niche over Kyogre. Life orb max quake is a guaranteed ohko onto Zacian, which means play rough Zacian has to be really careful of just dying immediately if the Palkia has trick room set up or if the Palkia is in tailwind.

Yeah no worries the meta changes all the time so I get it. Chien Pao is definitely still a good partner for this and then at that point you may end up switching to more of a Baxcalibur/Chien Pao build.