Damn, that's a lot of Froslass
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Which Pokemon Families Were Used The Most In Boss Fights?
- Thread starter Yung Dramps
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Always interesting to see. Froslass is interesting to be used a lot.
Ok, so you may have noticed I changed the title of this post. This is due to a reconfiguring of the nature of the spreadsheet I've been considering for a long while and have finally decided to go through with in light of Mega Dimension's relative sparsity of new trainer Pokemon VS the additional Rogue fights.
When I first began this project, SWSH was the most recently released game. The concept of individual big Pokemon bosses like the Totems was still new and it was still uncertain if it'd remain an Alola-only thing. Well, evidently not! Clearly these types of fights are a permanent, integral part of how Pokemon games are designed now and I can't imagine they will be dropped anytime soon, so continuing to exclude them in a sheet I designed for the express purpose of cataloging Pokemon boss battle choices just doesn't make sense anymore.
What Is Now Being Counted
-Alola's Totem Pokemon, allies included
-Hisui's Noble Pokemon
-Paldea's Titans
-Lumiose and Hyperspace Lumiose's Rogue Mega Evolutions
-Miscellaneous Legendary battles (Ultra Necrozma, Eternamax Eternatus, Arceus etc.)
What Is Not Being Counted
-Max and Tera Raid Battles (too generic and widespread)
-Alpha Pokemon (also too generic and widespread)
-Regular Legendary encounters (i.e. the dreaded Ultra Ball lotteries)
As usual, let me know if I made any mistakes
When I first began this project, SWSH was the most recently released game. The concept of individual big Pokemon bosses like the Totems was still new and it was still uncertain if it'd remain an Alola-only thing. Well, evidently not! Clearly these types of fights are a permanent, integral part of how Pokemon games are designed now and I can't imagine they will be dropped anytime soon, so continuing to exclude them in a sheet I designed for the express purpose of cataloging Pokemon boss battle choices just doesn't make sense anymore.
What Is Now Being Counted
-Alola's Totem Pokemon, allies included
-Hisui's Noble Pokemon
-Paldea's Titans
-Lumiose and Hyperspace Lumiose's Rogue Mega Evolutions
-Miscellaneous Legendary battles (Ultra Necrozma, Eternamax Eternatus, Arceus etc.)
What Is Not Being Counted
-Max and Tera Raid Battles (too generic and widespread)
-Alpha Pokemon (also too generic and widespread)
-Regular Legendary encounters (i.e. the dreaded Ultra Ball lotteries)
As usual, let me know if I made any mistakes
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I decided not to count Terapagos a second time since you fight it individually immediately after Kieran loses control over it: in that context, the Kieran bit can be considered the first phase of a single fight unlike how Eternal Floette is used in Z-A
I just plain forgot about Ogerpon though, added
a million boss fights in new kalos games and still nobody wants aromatisse or slurpuff. this really does say a lot about notre sociètiée
Idk who could've gone with Slurpuff but Aromatisse is tragic because it would've fit Jacinthe perfectly
I could see a solid argument for counting Zack, Yvonne, Xavi and Rintaro since they are mandatory Boss fights for game progression:-) and later you can rematch them.
Josee, Mani, Andi and Asami are in the Grey area...
I counted first 4 are first 4 GL equivalents for the game:
https://www.deviantart.com/k2basior/art/Gym-Leader-and-Elite-Four-Progression-849246059
