History Awesome / PokemonScarletAndViolet

* In the interim between ''The Teal Mask'' and ''The Indigo Disk'', Kieran TookALevelInBadass and has become the strongest trainer at Blueberry Academy dethroning Drayton as its champion. Too bad it came at the cost of his own mental wellbeing...

* In the interim between ''The Teal Mask'' and ''The Indigo Disk'', Kieran TookALevelInBadass and has become the strongest trainer at Blueberry Academy. Too bad it came at the cost of his own mental wellbeing...
** Just for reference, Kieran's ace, Hydrapple, is level 82. By pure level count, this puts him over the ''entire team of the original Pokémon Trainer Red,'' whose highest leveled Pokemon is a level 81 Pikachu. As of now, Kieran is the ''fifth strongest trainer in the entire franchise.''[[note]]As of the release of the DLC, the only other four trainers who outlevel him are Barry's rematch after getting into the Hall Of Fame 20 times in ''Platinum'' with his Lv. 85 starter, Red's ''[=HeartGold=] and ''[=SoulSilver=]'' team with his Lv. 88 Pikachu, Cynthia's ''Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl'' rematch after clearing Stark Mountain with her Lv. 88 Garchomp, and Director Cyrano's entire team being one half Lv.86, one half Lv.87.[[/note]]

** Just for reference, Kieran's ace, Hydrapple, is level 82. By pure level count, this puts him over the ''entire team of the original Pokémon Trainer Red,'' whose highest leveled Pokemon is a level 81 Pikachu. As of now, Kieran is the ''fourth strongest trainer in the entire franchise.''[[note]]As of the release of the DLC, the only other three trainers who outlevel him are Barry's rematch after getting into the Hall Of Fame 20 times in ''Platinum'' with his Lv. 85 starter, Red's ''[=HeartGold=] and ''[=SoulSilver=]'' team with his Lv. 88 Pikachu, and Cynthia's ''Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl'' rematch after clearing Stark Mountain with her Lv. 88 Garchomp.[[/note]]

** Just for reference, Kieran's ace, Hydrapple, is level 82. By pure level count, this puts him over the ''entire team of the original Pokemon Trainer Red,'' whose highest leveled Pokemon is a level 81 Pikachu. As of now, Kieran is the ''fourth strongest trainer in the entire franchise.''[[note]]As of the release of the DLC, the only other three trainers who outlevel him are Barry's rematch after getting into the Hall Of Fame 20 times in Platinum with his Lv. 85 starter, Red's HeartGold and SoulSilver team with his Lv. 88 Pikachu, and Cynthia's Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl rematch after clearing Stark Mountain with her Lv. 88 Garchomp.[[/note]]

** Just for reference, Kieran's ace, Hydrapple, is level 82. By pure level count, this puts him over the ''entire team of the original Pokemon Trainer Red,'' whose highest leveled Pokemon is a level 81 Pikachu. As of now, Kieran is the ''third strongest trainer in the entire franchise.''[[note]]As of the release of the DLC, the only other two trainers who outlevel him is Barry's rematch after getting into the Hall Of Fame 20 times in Platinum with his Lv. 85 starter, and Red's HeartGold and SoulSilver team with his Lv. 88 Pikachu.[[/note]]

** Just for reference, Kieran's ace, Hydrapple, is level 82. By pure level count, this puts him over the ''entire team of the original Pokemon Trainer Red,'' whose highest leveled Pokemon is a level 81 Pikachu. As of now, Kieran is the ''second strongest trainer in the entire franchise.''

* At the lowest point of Area Zero, the heroes find Terapagos, but Kieran catches it with a Master Ball when it looks like it's going to try to befriend the player character first. However, when it's sent out to battle, it's performance is underwhelming, even in Terastal Form, until Briar tells Kieran to Terastallize it, revealing the true Hidden Treasure of Area Zero, Terapagos Stellar Form. It's so powerful, that it's able to ''break it's Master Ball'' when Kieran tries to call it back.

* Moments from ''The Teal Mask'' DLC:
** From the backstory, Ogerpon finds that the Loyal Three have stolen three of her and her human friend's masks, on top of her human friend being nowhere to be found. Her subsequent RoaringRampageOfRevenge sees her doing significant damage to if not outright killing the Three (putting them in a state where the human villagers believe they're dead), all three of which she has a type disadvantage against (being pure Grass-type with the Teal Mask against all three of their part-Poison-types). Granted, it's immediately undercut by the villagers misconstruing the situation and chasing her away, but it's a stark reminder to BewareTheNiceOnes.
** When the Loyal Three get released and the player comes across them picking on Ogerpon near her den, the player ''immediately'' steps in to fight them. After beating Munkidori, Carmine and Kieran show up, which makes the Loyal Three run away. This impresses Ogerpon enough that she promptly warms up to the player character. Not to mention Carmine has this to say to the so-called-heroes:

*** Bonus points is the fact that Carmine's angry declaration actually scares the Loyal Three off.
** Perrin's sidequest to capture the Bloodmoon Beast on film. She already has a strong connection to ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'' what with her strong resemblance to Adaman and her partner Hisuian Growlithe, and she straight-up tells you that the beast is an Ursaluna. But then you reach the spot, the Ursaluna is not only enormous but clearly a different form from the ones in Hisui, Perrin accidentally angers it when the flash on her camera goes off... and then the ''Legends: Arceus'' music kicks in.
** [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome We don't see it]], but Kieran, a shy boy who's implied to be a bit of an outcast in town, manages to explain to all of Mossui Town that the legend they've believed for generations is entirely backwards. By the time the villagers see Ogerpon for the first time, they fully believe Kieran and welcome the ogre openly.
** ''The Teal Mask'''s main story is implied to take place over merely a few days, but within that timeframe, Kieran manages to train up his team enough to give you a decent fight, even if he does lose.
** The fight with Ogerpon is ''extremely'' cool. She changes her masks and Terastallizes each one, giving her a new type each time, and you have to fight all of them in succession. Ogerpon finally gets to fight at her full strength again, and even if you've had a high-level team since before the DLC came out, having to essentially do four fights in a row can catch you off guard if you weren't expecting it.
* Moments from ''The Indigo Disk'' DLC:
** In the interm between ''The Teal Mask'' and ''The Indigo Disk'', Kieran TookALevelInBadass and has become the strongest trainer at Blueberry Academy. Too bad it came at the cost of his own mental wellbeing...
** At the lowest point of Area Zero, the heroes find Terapagos, but Kieran catches it with a Master Ball when it looks like it's going to try to befriend the player character first. However, when it's sent out to battle, it's performance is underwhelming, even in Terastal Form, until Briar tells Kieran to Terastallize it, revealing the true Hidden Treasure of Area Zero, Terapagos Stellar Form. It's so powerful, that it's able to ''break it's Master Ball'' when Kieran tries to call it back.
*** The boss fight proper against Terapagos Stellar Form, starts with you and Carmine trying to subdue it. However, it's able to put up Tera Raid barriers, and every time the player Terastallizes their Pokémon to break the shield, Terapagos simply absorbs the Terastal energy to reform its shield. Carmine's Sinistcha quickly goes down, and the rest of her Pokémon are spent from having to fend off Area Zero Pokémon earlier. However, Kieran, with encouragement from the player character, manages to snap out of his funk and send out his Pokémon to help, exhausting Terapagos to the point where it can't absorb energy any more and allowing the player character to recapture Terapagos.

*** Bonus points is the fact that Carmine’s angry declaration actually scares the Loyal Three off.

** When the Loyal Three get released and the player comes across them picking on Ogerpon near her den, the player ''immediately'' steps in to fight them. After beating Munkidori, Carmine and Kieran show up, which makes the Loyal Three run away. This impresses Ogerpon enough that she promptly warms up to the player character.
** Perrin's sidequest to capture the Bloodmoon Beast on film. She already has a strong connection to ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'' what with her strong resemblence to Adaman and her partner Hisuian Growlithe, and she straight-up tells you that the beast is an Ursaluna. But then you reach the spot, the Ursaluna is not only enormous but clearly a different form from the ones in Hisui, Perrin accidentally angers it when the flash on her camera goes off... and then the ''Legends: Arceus'' music kicks in.

** ''The Teal Mask'''s main story is implied to take place over merely a few days, but within that timeframe Kieran manages to train up his team enough to give you a decent fight, even if he does lose.

** The fight with Ogerpon is 'extremely'' cool. She changes her masks and Terastallizes each one, giving her a new type each time, and you have to fight all of them in succession. Ogerpon finally gets to fight at her full strength again, and even if you've had a high-level team since before the DLC came out, having to essentially do four fights in a row can catch you off guard if you weren't expecting it.

** From the backstory, Ogerpon finds that the Loyal Three have stolen three of her and her human friend's masks, on top of her human friend being nowhere to be found. Her subsequent RoaringRampageOfRevenge sees her doing significant damage to if not outright killing the Three (putting them in a state where the human villagers believe they're dead) all three of which she has a type disadvantage against (being pure Grass-type with the Teal Mask against all three of their part-Poison-types). Granted, it's immediately undercut by the villagers misconstruing the situation and chasing her away, but it's a stark reminder to BewareTheNiceOnes.

** [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome We don't see it,]] but Kieran, a shy boy who's implied to be a bit of an outcast in town, manages to explain to all of Mossui Town that the legend they've believed for generations is entirely backwards. By the time the villagers see Ogerpon for the first time, they fully believe Kieran and welcome the ogre openly.

** From the backstory, Ogerpon finds that the Loyal Three have stolen three of her and her human friend's masks, on top of her human friend being nowhere to be found. Her subsequent RoaringRampageOfRevenge sees her doing significant damage to if not outright killing the Three (putting them in a state where the human villages believe they're dead) all three of which she has a type disadvantage against (being pure Grass-type with the Teal Mask against all three of their part-Poison-types). Granted, it's immediately undercut by the villagers misconstruing the situation and chasing her away, but it's a stark reminder to BewareTheNiceOnes.

* Adding onto TheReveal and the circumstances leading to it coming out of literally nowhere for players, the battle with the Protocol AI duplicate of Professor Sada/Turo, [[TrueFinalBoss who is the last Trainer you battle in the main story.]] [[https://youtu.be/PMVzCbx8atA The music that plays throughout]] only makes it that much better, making players claim [[BestBossEver it is the greatest battle in the game, if not]] ''[[BestBossEver the entire series.]]''

** Ortega built Team Star's Starmobiles. To put in this perspective, this kid is a good enough mechanic and engineer that he constructed not one, but ''five'' machines compatible with Revavroom, powerful enough to give them entirely new types, abilities, and even an exclusive move, '''all by himself'''!

** The buildup to bringing out Koraidon/Miraidon cannot be ignored here. The battle starts with your character attempting to throw out your lead Pokémon to battle, only for the system to lock the ball before you can (which is its own SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome; no prior hero or villain had the capability nor the idea to simply lock their enemies out of the Pokémon world's primary means of combat), meaning that [[InterfaceScrew you enter the battle with nothing on your side of the field]]. You spend the first few turns desperately trying each menu option, hoping that ''one'' of them might do something, only to be met each time by a message along the lines of "That won't work right now!" and an angry roar from the enemy Koraidon/Miraidon. And then, [[DarkestHour just as all seems lost]], [[ChekhovsGun the entry for Koraidon/Miraidon]] that's been at the bottom of the Pokémon select screen ''for almost the entire game'' begins glowing, and you realize that [[SpannerInTheWorks you still have one Poké Ball that the system]] ''[[SpannerInTheWorks hasn't]]'' [[SpannerInTheWorks locked...]]
*** If you loiter on the Pokémon status screen, Koraidon/Miraidon will start growling as an added hint that you can use it, but the fact your legendary actually speaks up and ''volunteers'' nicely concludes its arc. It let the original Professor die to save its life, and you cared for it the whole way. It's '''not''' [[LetsGetDangerous letting its counterpart kill its new friends now too.]]

* Finizen's evolutionary line might take people off guard for a moment, as its evolution, "Palafin", looks almost exactly the same aside from a heart-shaped spot on its chest, a denotation that it's in a "Zero Form", and a new ability called "Zero to Hero" that says that once it switches back into battle, it'll be in "Hero" form alongside a prompt to learn the move Flip Turn to facilitate this. What does this translate to? You now have a cetacean version of ''Superman'' on your team, [[SecretIdentity who just needed a moment to switch into its true self.]] In its Hero form, it can effortlessly lift cruise ships from the water with one fin and swim at a speed of 50 knots — over 50 miles per hour — to save any person or Pokémon in danger at sea. It's no slouch in combat, either, boasting a base stat total rivaling ''legendaries'', with its attack in particular being '''160'''. It is by far one of the strongest pure Water types, if not ''the'' strongest.
* Of all the Pokémon in the series, ''Dunsparce'' finally gets some love in a hilarious and unexpectedly cool fashion with a new signature attack; Hyper Drill. Unlike Drill Run, which has 80 power, a slight chance to miss, had a higher critical chance, and was Ground type, Hyper Drill is a STAB-granting Normal type move with 100 power, is fully accurate without modifiers, and temporarily ''breaks all physical shielding moves'' for the rest of the turn, as well as removing additional effects granted by similar moves. And when it levels up while knowing this move, it obtains its own evolution after years of fans jokingly and genuinely clamoring for one. And while Dudunsparce is mostly just "A larger and longer Dunsparce", its base stat total moves into the 500s and becomes decently focused on damage and HP, making Dudunsparce a formidable supporting offense team member if trained right.

* Paldea's regional pseudo-legendary is the Dragon/Ice type Baxcalibur: who is,[[note]]With the exception of Tyranitar, another contender for the crown, and one whose line can also be found in Scarlet[[/note]] basically, the closest the Pokemon franchise has come to having an ''actual Godzilla.'' Not only does its design and cry echo those of [[NotZilla the King of the Monsters]], its signature attack, Glaive Rush, has it striking the enemy with its oversize dorsal spine, by ''doing an inverted headstand version of [[Film/GodzillaVsMegalon Godzilla's famous tail-slide drop kick!]]''

* After 27 years, Primeape finally gets an evolution, and it is a monster both in story and competitively. With a base stat total of 535 and amazing stat distribution, Annihilape is a LightningBruiser with the nearly perfect STAB offensive type of Fighting/Ghost and a signature move that grows more powerful the more it gets hit. It is the Pokémon equivalent of [[Franchise/StreetFighter Akuma]] and should be treated with just as much dread. It got to the point that it was among the first wave of bans from singles competitive play, not even a month after the games' release.

** The buildup to bringing out Koraidon/Miraidon cannot be ignored here. The battle starts with your character attempting to throw out your lead Pokémon to battle, only for the system to lock the ball before you can (which is its own SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome; no prior hero or villain had the capability nor the idea to simply lock their enemies out of the Pokemon world's primary means of combat), meaning that [[InterfaceScrew you enter the battle with nothing on your side of the field]]. You spend the first few turns desperately trying each menu option, hoping that ''one'' of them might do something, only to be met each time by a message along the lines of "That won't work right now!" and an angry roar from the enemy Koraidon/Miraidon. And then, [[DarkestHour just as all seems lost]], [[ChekhovsGun the entry for Koraidon/Miraidon]] that's been at the bottom of the Pokémon select screen ''for almost the entire game'' begins glowing, and you realize that [[SpannerInTheWorks you still have one Poké Ball that the system]] ''[[SpannerInTheWorks hasn't]]'' [[SpannerInTheWorks locked...]]
*** If you loiter on the Pokemon status screen, Koraidon/Miraidon will start growling as an added hint that you can use it, but the fact your legendary actually speaks up and ''volunteers'' nicely concludes its arc. It let the original Professor die to save its life, and you cared for it the whole way. It's '''not''' [[LetsGetDangerous letting its counterpart kill its new friends now too.]]

* Finizen's evolutionary line might take people off guard for a moment, as its evolution, "Palafin", looks almost exactly the same aside from a heart-shaped spot on its chest, a denotation that it's in a "Zero Form", and a new ability called "Zero to Hero" that says that once it switches back into battle, it'll be in "Hero" form alongside a prompt to learn the move Flip Turn to facilitate this. What does this translate to? You now have a cetacean version of ''Superman'' on your team, [[SecretIdentity who just needed a moment to switch into its true self.]] In its Hero form, it can effortlessly lift cruise ships from the water with one fin and swim at a speed of 50 knots — over 50 miles per hour — to save any person or Pokemon in danger at sea. It's no slouch in combat, either, boasting a base stat total rivaling ''legendaries'', with its attack in particular being '''160'''. It is by far one of the strongest pure Water types, if not ''the'' strongest.
* Of all the Pokemon in the series, ''Dunsparce'' finally gets some love in a hilarious and unexpectedly cool fashion with a new signature attack; Hyper Drill. Unlike Drill Run, which has 80 power, a slight chance to miss, had a higher critical chance, and was Ground type, Hyper Drill is a STAB-granting Normal type move with 100 power, is fully accurate without modifiers, and temporarily ''breaks all physical shielding moves'' for the rest of the turn, as well as removing additional effects granted by similar moves. And when it levels up while knowing this move, it obtains its own evolution after years of fans jokingly and genuinely clamoring for one. And while Dudunsparce is mostly just "A larger and longer Dunsparce", its base stat total moves into the 500s and becomes decently focused on damage and HP, making Dudunsparce a formidable supporting offense team member if trained right.

* After 27 years, Primeape finally gets an evolution, and it is a monster both in story and competitively. With a base stat total of 535 and amazing stat distribution, Annihilape is a LightningBruiser with the nearly perfect STAB offensive type of Fighting/Ghost and a signature move that grows more powerful the more it gets hit. It is the Pokemon equivalent of [[Franchise/StreetFighter Akuma]] and should be treated with just as much dread. It got to the point that it was among the first wave of bans from singles competitive play, not even a month after the games' release.

** Finally, Eri was the one who designed the training regimen that Team Star went through to get stronger. It worked so well, the only trainers who outlevel her are: Geeta (the Top Champion of Paldea), Nemona (an established Champion rank trainer in her own right), Penny (the Big Boss of the team), Clavell (the literal headmaster of Uva and Naranja academy), the Gym Leaders during their rematches, and the AI Professors (who literally come packing an entire team of ancient/futuristic super-Pokemon)!

** Mela trained the large group of Charcadets that power Team Star's Starmobiles, and is the go-to fixer of the team. She's outright stated to be capable of resolving any problem the Team runs across.

* There's something CrazyAwesome about Brassius turning his Sudowoodo into [[BecomingTheMask an actual Grass-type]].