Friday, September 25, 2020

Grovyle (Pokémon Mystery Dungeon) – DEATH BATTLE! Analysis

Note: This analysis will focus on the Grovyle from the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon world, and will include media from the games, anime, and manga of said series. Feats from the mainline Pokémon games, as well as other side games, will not be included. The other games may be used for descriptions and footage purposes.


Background

After the fall of Temporal Tower caused by Darkrai, the world was shrouded in darkness. Dialga, the controller of time, became corrupted and wild, losing control over time. He was now known as Primal Dialga. This caused time to stop as well. The wind never blew, the sun never rose. Even rocks, raindrops, and icicles floated in the air.


The events of this horrible time sparked a fire in a certain Pokémon’s heart. Grovyle swore he would save the future with his human partner by traveling to the past with help from his friend Celebi and the Passage of Time. But to change the past, they would need the Time Gears and place them into Temporal Tower. Grovyle’s human partner had a special ability called the Dimensional Scream, which could show events of the past in an area that was connected to the Time Gears. They used this ability to track down the Time Gears in the past before going back.


However, when traveling to the past, there was an accident. Darkrai hunted down and attacked Grovyle and his partner as they traveled to the past. The human protected Grovyle from Darkrai’s attack, and this split up the two, as well as causing the human to lose their memories and change into a Pokémon. Grovyle seeked the Time Gears alone, with Primal Dialga’s agents, Dusknoir and his Sableye henchmen, chasing him down.


Through the many adventures he had, he was captured for stealing the Time Gears, brought back to the past and was forced to team up with Team Poképals, one of the members being his partner that he lost. They returned to the past to once again get all the Time Gears and travel to Temporal Tower. As they ventured through the Hidden Land, Dusknoir attacked and Grovyle sacrificed himself by shoving Dusknoir back into the dimensional hole to the future alongside himself.


In the future, Dusknoir learned of why Grovyle fought for the past, even though he knew that if Grovyle changed it, he would cease to exist. This changed Dusknoir’s heart and he, along with Celebi, fought the future Primal Dialga for one final battle to protect the past. The last view he saw before fading was the sun rising with Celebi… until one above even Dialga thanked them by preventing them from disappearing, as well as reviving the rest of the future Pokémon.


More Info

  • Height: 2’11” | 88.9 cm

  • Weight: 47.6 lbs. | 21.6 kg

  • Type: Grass

  • Classification: Wood Gecko Pokémon

  • Born in a future of darkness

  • Time traveling explorer

  • Can read the Unown language

  • Likes tsundere onion fairies


Equipment

Treasure Bag

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As an explorer, Grovyle carries a Treasure Bag that he fills with various useful items for his adventures. He has foods that can fill his belly, greatly restore his HP, cure negative status effects, or raise his IQ, as well as many types of seeds that cause other effects when eaten, both beneficial for Grovyle if he eats one or detrimental to his opponent if he makes them eat one. The most notable ones can create explosions, heal status changes and effects, raise movement speed, put one to sleep, petrify one for an indefinite amount of time until they’re interacted with, cause confusion, cross-eyedness, or blindness, warp one somewhere else, maximize Attack and Special Attack or minimize Defense and Special Defense, let one see invisible opponents and traps, turn one invisible themselves, or revive one with full HP if they faint.


Grovyle’s Treasure Bag also has room for throwing items, such as rocks that go in an arc and home in on opponents and spikes that stab them. He also has several types of bands, scarves, ribbons, bows, belts, caps, and glasses that can grant him different abilities depending on which one he’s holding. These can raise most of his stats, prevent status effects from being inflicted, prevent his belly from ever going down and emptying, stop his Attack and Special Attack from ever lowering, make items thrown always miss him or bounce back at opponents, let his own throwing items bounce off walls instead of just dropping to the ground or pierce through multiple opponents, pass off damage and effects to others nearby instead of taking it himself, make him sneakier to the point where he won’t wake others up when walking by and fighting, prevent traps he steps on from activating, warp him away at random, reveal invisible traps and opponents, locate the whereabouts of items and opponents, or allow him to walk through anything like water and walls.


Grovyle can also use a multitude of TMs and HMs to learn many other types of moves he wouldn’t know naturally. Finally, he has access to many, many Wonder Orbs that, unlike seeds and held items, can affect entire rooms of allies or opponents due to their widespread range. Grovyle can use them to escape from almost any situation, raise stats, lower the stats of others, knock opponents back, warp others away, turn invisible, frighten, confuse, pause, or petrify opponents, cause them to be put to sleep, cower, or muzzle them, steal an item from them, draw all items on the floor to him, briefly transform an opponent into a decoy that can’t do anything and is targetted by everyone, set, show, or destroy hidden traps, deal damage back to opponents who attack him like a counter, swap places with someone else, transmutate an opponent into another living being or an item, turn water and magma into normal floor tiles, reveal the locations of all items or opponents, change the weather to sunny, rainy, a sandstorm, or a hailstorm, allow him to walk through anything, or instantly defeat an opponent.


Luminous Orbs

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Luminous Orbs are one of the many items Grovyle has in his Treasure Bag, but they definitely are the ones he uses the most. Normally, a Luminous Orb reveals the entire map of the floor he’s on while showing the locations of opponents and items. However, Grovyle uses these for a different purpose. He can activate one and use the bright flash it creates to blind others, usually so he can escape.


Powers & Abilities

Moveset

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Grovyle knows a variety of different moves for battle, whether they’re physical, special, or status moves. He’s fast, so he can usually get off quick attacks or status moves. Usually, his special attacks would deal more damage than his physical attacks due to his Special Attack being higher than his Attack. Since Grovyle’s a Grass-type Pokémon, his Grass-type attacks deal 50% more damage. This only covers moves he has been shown to use, or can reasonably learn in time since he can level up in the In the Future of Darkness Special Episode and starts at level 46. A list of his other level up moves not mentioned here can be found here. Finally, while not exactly moves, Grovyle can also attack normally with physical strikes or launch multiple razor-sharp leaves as projectiles. The following is a list of all the moves Grovyle can use:



Overgrow

Every Pokémon possesses a natural passive Ability. For Grovyle, his Ability Overgrow raises the power of his physical and special Grass-type moves by 50% if his HP is at a third or less of its maximum.


IQ Skills

IQ is essentially how smart one is. For Pokémon such as Grovyle, IQ can also grant passive skills depending on how high it is. These don’t always have to be on, meaning if one skill in particular wouldn’t be good to have in a certain situation, it is able to be turned off. The following is a list of all the IQ skills Grovyle has:


  • Item Master: Lets Grovyle use or throw his held items.

  • Course Checker: Lets Grovyle automatically know if there are obstacles in the way before he performs an action.

  • Exclusive Move-User: Makes Grovyle only use moves, though he won’t attempt to use them if he is out of energy to use a certain move or if using linked moves would delink them if used again.

  • Dedicated Traveler: Makes Grovyle focus more on traveling than fighting.

  • Item Catcher: Lets Grovyle catch and hold an item thrown at him, though he can’t do this if he’s already holding one.


Feats

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Strength & Attack Potency


Speed


Durability


Training & Experience


Weaknesses

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As a Grass-type Pokémon, Grovyle is naturally weak against Flying, Poison, Bug, Fire, and Ice-type attacks. Also, if his belly empties, he will continuously take more and more damage due to hunger. When it comes to intelligence, Grovyle is cunning and resourceful, but can fall for devious traps, as well as be caught off guard, sometimes because he’s just too innocent of a guy.


Summary

Advantages

  • Possesses many types of items in his Treasure Bag that can benefit himself with healing, stat buffs, and etc. or negatively affect opponents with stat debuffs, status effects, etc.

  • Can blind opponents to get away or get a chance to attack with Luminous Orbs

  • Can deal damage while healing himself with Absorb

  • Has many blade-like attacks that he can use like Leaf Blade, Fury Cutter, False Swipe, and X-Scissor

  • Can avoid attacks, drag others underground, and sneak attack others with Dig

  • Can counter damage taken back with Pursuit or avoid attacks altogether with Detect

  • Can lower Defense with Screech and raise his own Speed with Agility

  • Has useful projectile attacks like Bullet Seed and Energy Ball, as well as being able to launch razor-sharp leaves

  • Can gain an immense boost in power for his Grass-type attacks if he’s low on HP

  • Can catch most thrown items with his Item Catcher IQ Skill


Disadvantages

  • Is weak to Flying, Poison, Bug, Fire, and Ice-type attacks

  • Will take constant damage if his belly is empty

  • Can fall for traps and be caught off guard

  • Is too innocent

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