-
Welcome to Smogon! Take a moment to read the Introduction to Smogon for a run-down on everything Smogon, and make sure you take some time to read the global rules.
-
Congrats to the winners of the 2023 Smog Awards!
Un-Needed Aspects of Pokémon
- Thread starter Celever
- Start date
Except that you then have no item after you use up flying gem. Choice Band Brave Bird, barring an instance of Knock Off or Trick, is constant power you keep throughout the whole battle.
Ethers not being sold is my personal gripe against Pokemon. It's the number 1 reason that I'm always wary of teaching moves like Close Combat to my Pokemon; if I'm in a cave and run out of PP, I have to either hope there's a doctor or that I'm near the end (assuming I don't have Ethers or Leppa Berries). Leppa Berries do help, but it would be so much more convenient if I could just stroll into a Pokecenter and order up a dozen Ethers.
As for the similar abilities, flavor is the only reason: it would make no sense for Mr. Mime to have Solid Rock as opposed to Filter. In the case of Electivire, Motor Drive serves to fulfill a sort of concept; a moderately slow, powerful Pokemon that can overcome a weak point with an ability. Most ability variations are purely to fit a Pokemon's aesthetics better.
As for the similar abilities, flavor is the only reason: it would make no sense for Mr. Mime to have Solid Rock as opposed to Filter. In the case of Electivire, Motor Drive serves to fulfill a sort of concept; a moderately slow, powerful Pokemon that can overcome a weak point with an ability. Most ability variations are purely to fit a Pokemon's aesthetics better.
Gamefreak's bizzare need to make evolution items obnoxious to get.
I swear I could write a whole essay on how stupid and dumb it is that I can't just go to a pokemart and just buy these stupid items. ESPECIALLY the trade evolution items.
You either have to steal them off Pokemon (note: only some of the items are stealabe!), hope that some game-specific aspect gives them to you (Black City/White Forest in BW1, BW2's tower/tree giving items (BUT ONLY CERTAIN ITEMS BECAUSE________), the underground in DPt), grind pokemon up for the purpose of pick up, &/or grind for battle points.
To get the most out of some of these evolutions, you already have to put up with getting all the moves you want on them (for stones) and finding someone to trade with (for the rest) so...
Like,really, what is the logic here. Most of them aren't exceptionally amazing enough to warrant such walling off.
DID YOU KNOW that you can't even get Weavile or Gliscor before beating the e4 in XY? There is not a single razor fang or razor claw to be given or found outside the battle maison.
If you're playing DP, I hope you didn't waste your one, single Dubious Disk on a porygon2 you're not happy with!
I swear I could write a whole essay on how stupid and dumb it is that I can't just go to a pokemart and just buy these stupid items. ESPECIALLY the trade evolution items.
You either have to steal them off Pokemon (note: only some of the items are stealabe!), hope that some game-specific aspect gives them to you (Black City/White Forest in BW1, BW2's tower/tree giving items (BUT ONLY CERTAIN ITEMS BECAUSE________), the underground in DPt), grind pokemon up for the purpose of pick up, &/or grind for battle points.
To get the most out of some of these evolutions, you already have to put up with getting all the moves you want on them (for stones) and finding someone to trade with (for the rest) so...
Like,really, what is the logic here. Most of them aren't exceptionally amazing enough to warrant such walling off.
DID YOU KNOW that you can't even get Weavile or Gliscor before beating the e4 in XY? There is not a single razor fang or razor claw to be given or found outside the battle maison.
If you're playing DP, I hope you didn't waste your one, single Dubious Disk on a porygon2 you're not happy with!
This is...beyond words the most agreeable post in this thread. Especially in X/Y with Wonder Trade. I mean, some people might like to give their Pokemon their hold item that lets them evolve as a nice surprise for the person on the receiving end, but you have to grind at the Battle Maison for what amounts to just over a single run of the regular Singles challenge or a few near-perfect runs through the Battle Institute to get one item. Why couldn't they at least make one of each available outside of the Battle Maison, and/or not cost a ton of BP to obtain. (not to mention the Ability Capsule is kind of too expensive to be of much help)
Now...why the heck does rain have to screw up honey and Sweet Scent for calling Horde Battles? They really didn't need to do that. If you want to call up a horde of Zangoose and Seviper to catch one before they KO each other (harder for X thanks to Quick Attack spamming) rain shouldn't prevent you from being able to.
Another one is how hard it is to get Heart Scales in some games-but not others. Example: XY. Whenever i want to teach, say, Fire Punch to my Medicham, I've got to bring a Swords Dancer, a Gyarados with Rain Dance and Dragon Dance, AND my Quiver Dance Lilligant. And then: "Could you show me a Pokemon with Lunar Dance?" Plus Rock Smash gave me 3 heart scales and then nothing; I tried for a solid 2 hours. And all i wanted to do was get fire punch on my stupid Medicham. They should make it buyable from the Battle Maison (at least your mons contribute towards their moves) or bring back the Solaceon Newspaper dude (Lumiose has a newspaper too, so I feel that makes sense)
Meanwhile in Platinum, I'm rolling deep in scales...but I've used a whopping 2 (one to relearn Bullet Punch for Scizor and another to relearn AncientPower for Piloswine)
Meanwhile in Platinum, I'm rolling deep in scales...but I've used a whopping 2 (one to relearn Bullet Punch for Scizor and another to relearn AncientPower for Piloswine)
I find that most games have pretty easy ways to find Heart Scales. In XY, all you have to do is use Thief on Luvdiscs (you can find them in Cyllage City with the Old Rod 100% of the time iirc). Each one has a 50% chance of holding a Heart Scale. You can even use a Frisk Pokémon with Thief if you want to speed up the process.
Why didn't you just....use the old rod.
Luvdisc are 100% encounters. They hold Heart Scales 50% of the time. Just use thief.
That said, yeah, in games like FRLG its ridiculous since you can only really use Paras which is a rare encounter
You could just accumulate PokeMiles from Wonder Trading breeding spitbacks and then buy Heart Scales with them in Lumiose... Or fish for Luvdisc with the Old Rod and use Thief or Covet like others have mentioned. You'd want to boost your style rating in Lumiose as much as possible anyway to get the remaining Kanto starter Mega Stones for a reasonable price and Hatching Power. I've never had to bother with Tierno, honestly. Still, they could have had a person ask for moves that are less specific than having dance in their name so I can't exactly disagree.
Also, if you pay for Pokemon Bank, then it will be able to be kept online for a lot longer since the people using it are paying to keep it online, not to mention that $5.00 a year is almost nothing.
Ahaha, aha, ha... if only I could have your wealth.
if you have money to pay around 40$ a game and 150$ the 3DS, you can use 5$
Being able to customize your dudes for competitive play is cool, but having all three of IVs, EVs, and Natures is probably just one too many. Having any two of those three would still give players who paid attention and took time to worry about those things a significant competitive advantage over those who didn't.
I would like to nominate the idea of having level 100 as the maximum level. I know it's a nice round number, but having the max level at 80 would have been just fine.
I would like to nominate the idea of having level 100 as the maximum level. I know it's a nice round number, but having the max level at 80 would have been just fine.
The cutscenes. Okay, some people like them. But make them skippable.
I think Frustration is better than Return, actually. You just have to make sure to keep giving the Pokémon bitter herbs to keep its happiness at 0. But because Return is more common, you're less likely to be screwed over by Imprison. Not to mention that Transform/Imposter does not copy happiness, so if you face a Ditto or a Smeargle with Transform (both of which are very common in VGC), then they can't hit you that hard, since pretty much no one bothers to lower their happiness.
... people use Imprison?
Yes, it's relatively common in doubles, where you can prevent your opponent from setting up Trick Room or whatever by running said move + Imprison.
I definitely agree that the censorship system needs some reworking. I can see why having a censor would be good, but it suffers seriously from the Scunthorpe problem (the accidental censorship of benign words, seen in Viola, Spike, and the like) and is incredibly easy to circumvent. Any stricter system would ban even more perfectly reasonable names. To be honest, I don't see how any simple algorithm or banlist would be able to prevent people from naming their Pokémon something bad if they put their mind to it.
Thus, I feel that the censorship system should be removed. As much as I dislike naming Pokémon bad words, there's really no way to feasibly pull it off in a manner that is effective with minimal side effects.
On another note, I don't see the point of the Battle Test. It's supposed to test how well you battle, but really the algorithm it uses to determine that is less than stellar. It gives you no prizes for completing it, unlike the Battle Maison.
Thus, I feel that the censorship system should be removed. As much as I dislike naming Pokémon bad words, there's really no way to feasibly pull it off in a manner that is effective with minimal side effects.
On another note, I don't see the point of the Battle Test. It's supposed to test how well you battle, but really the algorithm it uses to determine that is less than stellar. It gives you no prizes for completing it, unlike the Battle Maison.