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How much stock should be put into this score? Probably not much, but elsewhere on the Internet, plenty of critiques of the new Nintendo Switch 2 game can be found. For example, one of the top posts on the Pokemon Reddit page right now is a post all about how bad Aegislash is in the game and how it is not viable in the game at all.
What’s Wrong?
As the post details, it does not feel like the Pokemon’s Stance Change effects in real-time combat were thought through. In the late game, this issue really starts to rear its head because Aegislash can’t use a damaging move until it changes stances, which has its own animation. Then it needs to position to attack, which is another animation, and then attack, which is yet another animation. By the time this happens, you are often already dead.
Not only do the large number of votes up echo the sentiment, but many of the comments drive home the point as well.
“Aegislash is one of my favorites too, and yeah, it is basically unusable in long fights due to its terrible stance change animation delay and inability to mega-evolve,” reads one of the top comments. Another adds: “Yeah, it’s literally unusable.”
