Charizard V would be a Basic Pokemon and Charizard VMAX is its evolution (essentially a Stage 1). See the English Pokemon V and VMAX reveals here:
That's assuming that Pokemon-V who are evolved Pokemon are all going to be Basics. Every Pokemon-V we've gotten so far doesn't evolve into anything and I'm pretty sure they haven't stated that all Pokemon-V are basics yet, so it's not quite safe to assume that the fully evolved ones are going to be Basics quite yet. We'll see when VMAX Rising comes out I guess. I can see it making sense either way, and it's probably going to go the way you mention it going, as it makes sense from a gameplay standpoint(going up to essentially stage 3 would be rough for a lot of Pokemon if they ended up doing this), but Pokemon isn't predictable, so I'm still holding out to see which way it goes.
Though I wonder if it means that Gigantamax Toxtricity will become available around the same time as the set releases.
I think he might be my favorite Pokémon this entire generation (him and Hatterene). The second I saw him during the leak cycle I fell in love, I just loved that smug look and the design. His ability also looks really fun too. He’s totally dorky but there’s also this really cool look it has, kinda gives me Garchomp vibes in a weird way. A lot of gen 8s designs I really love honestly, they really stepped it up this time around and it’s SwSh’s only real saving grace.
I roasted the hell out of the games, but at the end of the day I still picked up Shield because I just really loved some of the new designs. Most of them are absolutely on-point with the only true "miss" for me being Blipbug, and the fact that we only got 3 legends. I also happen to love pretty much all of the Gigantamax forms although I sympathize with the people who are angry at Megas being dead (they should have seen this coming, though).
Sorry for the awkward ping here, but what does Japan's return to its' monthly schedule mean? Were they simply delaying their products so that the West could catch up a little bit? Does your theory about Western releases happening on the same day as the last of the Japanese releases for the combined set still hold, erm...water?
They've been releasing monthly sets for a long time, but stopped with this new generation. So far the theory is that this is because they're letting us play catch up, which would happen in February when our first SwSh set releases. Now as we can see, starting in February in Japan, they're going to have monthly releases again it seems. So yes, the theory has been holding water to the letter.
