I know that it technically isn't Gen VI, but it's always irked me how in HGSS you can't fly directly between Johto and Kanto, instead having to stop at the Pokemon League.
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(Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon
- Thread starter BriarRose
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Better than in the originals when you couldn't even do that. You had to fly to Mt. Silver, go to to the Pokemon League and over to the next route, then fly to Kanto.
Well to be fair, Phantump makes more sense in the woods by being 'born' from a rotting tree stump possessed by ...the spirit of a dead child (it's a Ghost type, we'll just run with it...) than a pumpkin.
Or take the damn Magnet Train once you get it operating that goes between Goldenrod and Saffron...
Come to think of it, why the HELL are the trainers on the SS Aqua in HG/SS not rebattleable?
Slowpoke is the fucking worst. It's extremely painful to dexnav, and especially when its HA is so viable.
DexNav on Route 101. I'm looking at you, Zorua.
Maybe he wanted someplace a bit secluded so he wouldn't be disturbed so often? Also much easier to do field work in a town surrounded by nature than in a crowded city.
At least they fixed that in ORAS.
It is kind of random for the Master Ball to be placed there. Like you'd think Mr. Stone would give you the Master Ball for helping his son and saving Hoenn after catching/defeating/calming Groudon or/and Kyogre. But nope, its randomly in a room with four other items in the villain's base. I guess maybe you could say Archie/Maxie were originally planning on using it to catch their legendary until they discovered the Orbs, but its an easy room to miss even if you are exploring around (I may sound mean saying this but if you're just running through not even bothering to explore the place then you're kind of asking to miss stuff).
I think one reason they don't let you rename is because they might be afraid if you do and the person who trades the Pokemon sees you did might get offended. Even if the Pokemon didn't have a nickname they're afraid you may nickname it something the original owner could take offense of. Silly I know, but there is a precedence...
Yeah, I decided just to unleash a Dragon Ascent on it and catch it later. Seriously GF, LET US SAVE BEFORE AND CHECK THEIR STATS AFTER! I mean we check the Pokedex anyway after catching them, might as well let us see their stat screen!
Maybe your Pokemon is holding the sub in front of it so even though if didn't get damage the Air Balloon still did? Does a Sub take damage from Ground-type Moves if Air Balloon is active? Still a bit silly, the Sub is suppose to take all damage no matter what.
Yeah, I prefer the animation not to happen if the move missed. I mean the animation is cool but I want there to be a payoff to the animation, otherwise its kind of disappointing and a waste of my time.
Yeah, I actually kind of like that you do visit previous places. Its nice to see a new place of course, but going back to previous places doesn't make them seem like they're one-and-done. Even better if they have new things for you to do in it upon returning with a stronger team and access to more HMs. And if I recall from the Hoenn backtracking they usually provide a shortcut to reach the previous places instead of having to go through the same route you did before. I like exploration in my games and want to be rewarded for my exploration, especially when they encourage it.
Also at a few points your Rivals asks if you want to go back to a certain location with them so they sort of fixed some of the backtracking there.
You know what really Grinds my Gears?
(Yes, I know, that's a horrible joke.)
Move incompatibility. Maybe I want a Lightning Rod Raichu with Surf (not that it achieves much in the way of coverage). And wouldn't some of us just love a Defog Poison Heal Gliscor, or a PerishTrap Sap Sipper Azumarill? But no. All of these things are, respectively: event, Gen IV HM, and Gen IV HM (Whirlpool), with Hidden Abilities. And because GameFreak won't let us use Ability Capsules to flip between standard and Hidden abilities, these wonderful ideas are forever stuck in the land of Hackmons (where even better possibilities arise).
I kind of wished they allowed you to maybe Move a move from one Pokemon to another Pokemon of the same species. Like you go to someone with two Pokemon of the same species, one have a move you want to place on the another (like an Egg/Event Move onto a Pokemon who has its Hidden Ability), and after paying them or doing something they take the move and transplant it over.
As for the Ability Capsule, maybe have something like a Hidden Ability Capsule that unlocks a Pokemon's Hidden Ability but its harder to get. Like you got to beat a certain special trainer in the Battle Facility in order to have a chance of getting one.
I think they should have an Ability that if your Pokemon has the move like the Terrains or the various Rooms or maybe even things like Light Screen/Reflect/Tailwind that upon that Pokemon being sent out the move will activate. Of course you'll still need to waste a moveslot on it but at least it'll activate first thing before the battle starts.
I say this because honestly if they give such moves all their own Ability then we'll start getting way too many Abilities. Though I'd be alright with that if they removed the "2 normal Abilities/1 Hidden Ability" limit and just let a Pokemon have any Abilities it'll logically have (be them normal or Hidden). If Abilities were meant to be unique all Pokemon would have one Ability, but there are only some Signature Abilities and all the others I think should be flexible as Moves are.
Like what we discussed with making previous Gen Event Pokemon available through normal gameplay in the next gen, I think this would also fall under the same idea. Event Signature Moves are fine for the gen that Event Pokemon is in, but when next gen comes it should either learn it naturally or have a Move Tutor be able to teach it.
I think they need to bring back the difficulty setting they introduced in BW2 though this time NOT LOCK IT UNTIL YOU BEAT THE GAME! Make it an option right off the bat, I mean you're pretty much telling a player looking for a more difficult experience to play through the game two times! If you're going to do that at least also add in a New Game+.
I always wondered if maybe level caps would work in Pokemon, like each badge you get will raise your level cap a bit until beating the Champion you can level any Pokemon up to level 100. I know this may sound sacrilegious to some people but it would help in creating "boss" battles with Gym Leaders, Rivals, Villain Team Admins/Bosses, Elite Four, and the Champion (especially if they use a Pokemon who's level is above the cap). And if you're having problems well you can train your team of 6 to the level cap so you'll still have an advantage over the "boss" who most of their team will be below the cap. Also the cap may even get players to spread out training their other Pokemon when the one they're using reaches the cap as not needing to wait until they get the next badge to increase their level (and before you say it, no experience is wasted, instead the Pokemon would hold onto the experience until the cap is increased when they'll finally be able to benefit from the experience; pretty much what they did in the Colosseum games when you purify a Shadow Pokemon).
I'd imagine any lowercase letter as the first letter wouldn't look right.
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Hmm, kind of sounds like the Friend Safari Pumpkaboo thing is a glitch as it makes no sense. Could you try breeding for a different size Pumpkaboo with its Hidden Ability?
Because your Pokemon needs a rest from flying you across regions, you slave driver. :P
WOOT! Caught up on this thread. :D
Nah; if you breed a Pumpkaboo the baby comes out the same size as the mother (or father if you're breeding male + ditto). Which is really good tbh because breeding is already such a luck-based nightmare I don't want yet another 1 in 4 chance thrown in the equation. Just means this is annoying to get - luckily it's HA, Insomnia really isn't that good for it (it's not like it's really wanting it like Feraligatr and Serperior wanted theirs)
The problem is Pumpkaboo's other abilities aren't that great either. Either Pickup or Frisk. Frisk is alright I guess, but I wouldn't mind avoiding the random Dark Voids or Hypnosis.
Well I mean, Dark Void is available to two Pokémon, one of which is Darkrai - a banned legendary with a type advantage and stats that tend towards sweeping or assassinating. Why are you using Gourgeist against this. The other is Smeargle which I'm not sure what you're attempting to do against with Gourgeist either.
Hypnosis is very rare and barely used due to it's awful accuracy. Gourgeist already has a pseudo-immunity to sleep due to the most used ways of inflicting it outside of an Ubers mon lol are Sleep Powder and Spore.
Granted Frisk and Pickup are both... bad and Gourgeist would love a different ability, but Frisk at least consistently lets you to scout for items and work out what sort of set the opponent is running, if they're choiced so you can take advantage of that, etc. Frisk I'd say is the most useful of it's abilities by far.
I used my Gourgeist in Doubles on Wifi. The second I see a Smeargle or Darkrai I know it's a lead going to Dark Void me.
Well again, I don't know what you'd achieve against either of those with Gourgeist whether they had Dark Void or not.
He was my Suicidal Trick Room starter! When I saw one of them I had to pull out the other Trick Room starter on my team (which I experimented with a number of guys like Slowbro, Aromatisse, and Xatu). I was building a team around him and Mega Ampharos because I happened to love those two guys.
But now we're going WAY off topic.
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But that reminds me of one thing. I don't know if this has been brought up, but I hate how the Battle Maison and junk seem to adapt to your team as you go on. By the time I got to the 10th trainer in the Super Doubles, everyone had like a Weavile, Krookodile, Houndoom, or other strong and fast offensive darks that they liked to send out first (sometimes in pairs too!) just to fuck me over.
I wish they let you at least choose which Pokemon would go out first at the start of each battle. Then again no matter who goes out first it'll probably send out something that'll be strong against it. At least you can Mega Evolve (hmm, now thinking about it a Pokemon who's type changes upon Mega Evolving might mess with the AI's strategy).
Tell that to us who lose to the beloved Quick Claw + Horn Drill strategy. Oh, and it is hard to believe it doesn't CT you when it spams Water / Ground mons when you are running a Rain team. Thankfully, I had my Thundy carry Grass Knot to murder Swamperts, Gastrodons, etc.
I lost my 17-win Maison Singles streak because the game threw out a Double Team Magcargo against my Mega Scizor.
Things to hate in Oras
-When Mega Mawile was in OU
-When Mega Mawile was in OU
Double Team and the like are evil moves, and everyone should expect to have to stomach their wrath many times in the Battle Facilities, but this isn't the AI cheating. If they could program it to cheat or adapt to your team over time, I would hope they could program it to not do all the myriad of stupid things mentioned in the Dumbest things the AI has ever done thread, such as play 'weather wars' with itself.
But Mega Mawile was never in OU during ORAS (it was banned a few months before release) and that's a problem with a fan-devised ruleset, not the game itself.
"Oh, you caught Primal Groudon/Kyogre and want to check its IVs? All you have to do is complete one more gym, all of Victory Road, the Elite Four, the Champion, the battles with Courtney/Matt and Zinnia (x2), as well as battling Rayquaza and Deoxys before you can get to the Battle Resort. Have fun!"
I'd say this is a bigger problem with Latios/Latias which you're FORCED to get half way through the game. At least you can knock out Groudon/Kyogre and return to get them later. Of course you still have to catch Rayquaza so it also has the same problem.
Any of the games that force you to capture the Legendaries have this problem. BW did it with Reshiram/Zekrom (though they at least did them at the end of the first part of the game) & XY did it with Xerneas/Yveltal (where you still had to beat Lysandre, long cutscene, beat 8th Gym Leader, battle through the rivals with cutscenes, traverse Victory Road, defeat Pokemon League, watch credits, beat AZ, watch more cutscenes, talk with Sycamore to get ticket, and finally get to the IV judge).
Or defeat it and come back after you can access the Battle Resort... something you currently can't do with Xerneas/Yveltal. Can we please not be forced to catch the mascot legendary before the IV judge is available?
At least there's not much after Rayquaza, and is still viable with HP, Speed, and the attacking stat of choice being the only perfect ones. (provided the defenses aren't awful) I honestly preferred being given Latios than having to chase it down over a dozen times just to get it to a spot where I can SR it... (how I despise having to do that with the Kanto birds...)
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Well, IV calculators are a thing
True, but Xerneas/Yveltal come at level 50, where a 30 and 31 in any given stat will read the same. I'll ignore Reshiram/Zekrom because RNG abuse was a thing before Gen 6.