Balance Changes

There are a number of stat changes, move adjustments, type interactions, and other balance changes made in Pokémon Sardonyx: Raised to Win. In many cases these are to make a given Pokémon more useful or powerful, or to balance gameplay around the Pokémon the player is given access to.

Shiny palette changes are listed here for lack of a better place to put them. New forms are not included, be they Regional Variants, Mega Evolutions, or other forms. Changes made in the official games are not listed.

Type Interactions

• Normal now resists and is Super Effective against Psychic and Fairy.
• Poison is now Super Effective on Water.
• Ice now resists Water, Grass, and Ground.

Move Changes

• Cut is now Steel-type and has a base power of 60.
• Strength is now Fighting-type.
• Flash is now Electric-type.
• Hidden Power now has a flat base power of 80.
• Luster Purge and Mist Ball now have a base power of 100.
• X-Scissor now has a high crit rate.
• Iron Tail's accuracy has been increased.

Pokémon Changes

Types

• Psyduck and Golduck are now Water/Psychic.
• Johtonian Noctowl is now Psychic/Flying.
• Celebi is now Fairy/Grass.
• Jirachi is now Steel/Fairy.
• Sinnohan Luxio and Luxray are now Electric/Dark.

Abilities

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• A number of Pokémon have been given a second common Ability.
  • Carvanha has been given Reckless, while Sharpedo has been given Streamlined.
  • Dusk form Lycanroc has been given Strong Jaw.
  • All main-game starter Pokémon:
    • Bulbasaur's line has Poison Touch.
    • Charmander's line has Super Luck.
    • Squirtle's line has Shell Armor.
    • Chikorita's line has Solar Power.
    • Cyndaquil's line has Quick Feet.
    • Totodile's line has Strong Jaw.
    • Treecko's line has Sniper.
    • Torchic's line has Justified.
    • Mudkip's line has Sap Sipper.
    • Turtwig's line has Natural Cure.
    • Chimchar's line has Mold Breaker.
    • Piplup's line has Huge Power.
    • Snivy's line has Intimidate.
    • Tepig's line has Pickup.
    • Oshawott's line has Weak Armor.
    • Chespin's line has Sturdy.
    • Fennekin's line has Rattled.
    • Froakie's line has Swift Swim.
    • Rowlet's line has Insomnia.
    • Litten's line has Defiant.
    • Popplio's line has Ball Fetch.
    • Grookey's line has Cacophony.
    • Scorbunny's line has Precise.
    • Sobble's line has Stakeout.
• A number of Pokémon have been given Hidden Abilities that did not have them prior.
  • Vibrava and Flygon have been given Tinted Lens.
  • Archen and Archeops have been given Rock Head.
  • Xerneas and Yveltal have been given custom Abilities.
  • Dusk form Lycanroc has been given Precise.
• A number of Pokémon have been given additional Hidden Abilities, not replacing their existing ones.
  • The Bulbasaur family has been given Harvest.
  • The Kantonian Charmander family has been given Evaporate, while Altaran has been given Hellfire.
  • The Squirtle family has been given Multiscale.
  • The Kantonian Horsea family has been given Leviathan.
  • The Tangela family has been given Snare.
  • The Sneasel family has been give Blacken.
  • The Houndour family has been given Hellfire.
  • Smeargle has been given Prankster.
  • Tyranitar has been given Blacken.
  • The Poochyena family has been given Blacken.
  • Absol has been given Blacken.
  • The Unovan Purrloin family has been given Blacken.
  • The Litwick family has been given Guiding Light.
  • The Deino family has been given Blacken.
  • The Goomy family has been given Leviathan.
• Some Pokémon have had Abilities replaced entirely.
  • Absol now has Moxie instead of Pressure.

Stats

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All stats are listed in the order of HP / ATK / DEF / SPATK / SPDEF / SPD

• Eevee has been given a BST of 330, with 55 across the board. All of its evolutions have been given a BST of 530:
  • Jolteon: 65 / 70 / 95 / 110 / 60 / 130
  • Vaporeon: 130 / 60 / 110 / 70 / 95 / 65
  • Flareon: 110 / 130 / 65 / 60 / 70 / 95
  • Espeon: 70 / 65 / 60 / 130 / 110 / 95
  • Umbreon: 110 / 60 / 95 / 70 / 130 / 65
  • Leafeon: 70 / 130 / 95 / 60 / 65 / 110
  • Glaceon: 95 / 60 110 / 130 / 65 / 70
  • Sylveon: 110 / 60 / 65 / 130 / 95 / 70
• Mienfoo and Mienshao have been given a BST of 330 and 530 respectively:
  • Mienfoo: 45 / 70 / 50 / 50 / 45 / 70
  • Mienshao: 70 / 130 / 70 / 90 / 60 / 110

Moves

• The entirety of the Eevee family has completely overhauled level-up movesets to allow the Mega Evolutions to make use of both STAB types.
• Rockruff and all forms of Lycanroc have had their level-up movesets tweaked and rebalanced.

Shiny Palettes

• Nidoqueen has been made purple, to better lie in theme with the rest of the family and mimic non-Shiny Nidoking.
• Cleffa, Clefairy, and Clefable are now cyan with yellow tips.
• Kantonian Persian is now black.
• Doduo and Dodrio are now blue.
• Eevee is now a more starkly-contrasted black and silver, Jolteon is orange and black, Espeon is a cooler green, and Leafeon is autumn-colored.
• Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres all share the same white and blue palette.
• Natu and Xatu now resemble non-Shiny Ho-Oh.
• Sunkern and Sunflora are now dark red and mint green.
• Torchic's family is now blue and black.
• The yellow accents on Mega Rayquaza are now red and blue.
• Buizel and Floatzel are now aqua blue and white.
• Sinnohan Garchomp is now a dark teal, while its Mega is dark red with cyan accents.
• Mega Lucario is now black, white, purple, and blue.
• Croagunk and Toxicroak are now black and red.
• Sneasel and Weavile are now black and white.
• Electivire is now black and cyan, while Magmortar is black and purple.
• Mienfoo and Mienshao now have gold accents.
• Fletchling's family is now blue, black, and white.
• Litleo and both forms of Pyroar are now black, white, purple, and blue.
• Castform and all of its forms have a black, white, and form-specific color palette.

Evolution Methods

• Mienfoo now evolves at level 30.
• Solosis now evolves at level 25, and Duosion at level 40.
• Inkay evolves by leveling up holding the Hourglass.
• All trade evolutions evolve by leveling up holding the Connecting Thread.
  • Unless they needed to be traded holding an item, in which case they simply need to hold that item instead.
• Shelmet and Karrablast evolve when leveled up at the same time.

Other

• Nidorina and Nidoqueen are now in the Monster and Field Egg Groups.