I'd bet that there's at least one pokemon that will only be available in a certain season. Otherwise it would be a lame gimmick. Having a polar bear that's only around in the winter would be a "neat" gimmick. I would guess that the way the seasons effect availble pokemon would be an extension of the way the day/night cycle does.
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I'd bet that there's at least one pokemon that will only be available in a certain season. Otherwise it would be a lame gimmick. Having a polar bear that's only around in the winter would be a "neat" gimmick. I would guess that the way the seasons effect availble pokemon would be an extension of the way the day/night cycle does.
Now you have me thinking of randomly encountering a SleepTalk SD/Body Slam Ursaring in some random cave somewhere. That'd be truly scary stuff if you don't have a resist. :D
On a serious note, that actually sounds a good way to immerse the player if some Pokemon could still be found hibernating in different seasons. I remember (Not sure if HGSS still does this, I haven't tried) that if you Headbutted a tree in GSC, sometimes you can find a Night/Day Pokemon that was asleep in there. I really thought that was a great thing back in the day. Also would allow players to catch certain Pokemon without waiting a week/month or so.
They removed it for HGSS. I was very dissapointed.
WonderTomb will die to Fire Fang, I believe. Wonder Guard shouldn't stop Hail/Sand Stream, etc from killing it either?
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Wait, shit, it is I who has been shown who is the boss.
Seriously, I am a retarded gay baby in real life.
Wait, shit, it is I who has been shown who is the boss.
Seriously, I am a retarded gay baby in real life.
Nope, Spiritomb is not weak to Fire attacks. Only Hail, Sandstorm, Burn, and Poison can kill it.
Notice he said Fire Fang, not any fire move. A glitch (or as glitchy as you can get dabbling with hacks) allows Fire Fang to be the only damaging move to damage Wonder Guard Spiritomb.
Well that is certainly strange; never would have guessed. I thought that shit was just straight up invincible.
Flareon can finally be useful!
Flareon cries with joy and happiness.
He knew his day would come someday. Rejoice!
Seriously now: i really wish (impossible, but heh) that they create a ability that allows the poke to use 5 moveslots and give it to Meganium.
Finally Meganium wouldn't be outclassed by every starter!
Imagine DualScreens+Sub Seed and a attack?
Or Sub SD with 3 moves?
Nice.
He knew his day would come someday. Rejoice!
Seriously now: i really wish (impossible, but heh) that they create a ability that allows the poke to use 5 moveslots and give it to Meganium.
Finally Meganium wouldn't be outclassed by every starter!
Imagine DualScreens+Sub Seed and a attack?
Or Sub SD with 3 moves?
Nice.
This reminds me of GSC where you can Headbutt a tree at night and you battle a sleeping Spearow. I was pretty bummed when it didn't work in HGSS.
Anyway, yeah, location changes like that would be neat for different seasons. Bats and bears only in caves in winter, no bugs. Certain flower Pokemon only available in the Spring. Sort of like Animal Crossing?
Although I know I'm getting my hopes up only to be crushed. We know how variable Pokemon are for night/day in the current generation. Not much.
Edit: Looking back I see this was already mentioned. Well I'm glad I'm not just crazy and imagining things that never happened :D
My vote's on Drifenberg.
I think that the idea of getting certain legendarys during specific seasons is going to be done in this game; considering the huge amount that were created last generation. Granted that most were part of events, I still think that there may be one or more this generation which will fall under this aspect.
Actually, this can happen in a non-hack setting.
Fire Fang bypasses Wonder Guard no matter what the type or Pokemon is.
For example, Fire Fang will hit a Porygon2 that Traced Wonder Guard.
Maybe it's just me, but this drought of information ever since CoroCoro is driving me mad.
I know,I want some more info on the starter evos and Desukan
You mean, you want some info on the starter evos and Desukan. We haven't had a single bit of info on them, have we? :|
I wouldn't expect anything on the starter evolutions, but it is a little surprising how little we've heard about Deathkarn and Dentula. I hope to hear more about them soon (and hopefully confirmation of Dentula's Bug/Electric typing... so cool!!). And also the broccoli-headed orange thing that I'm pretty sure is the "Brocco" leaked by the Play-Doh sets or whatever/
True,the thing is we are getting tons of info on the stupid Pokemon *cough* Mamanboo *cough* but when it comes to Denchura and Desukan,we get nothing. We better get something good about them or another leak soon.
I think, they will only change the encounter rate of certain Pokemon in the seasons. Say, the grass caterpillar has a 75% encounter rate during spring and summer, 50% during fall, and only 25% during winter. Of course they will include a few anomalies, like a [hypothetical] moth pokemon that only appears during summer (or w/e season) or make certain fire and ice types completely uncatchable in certain seasons but have high encounter rates in another. I think, that'd be the best way to do it.
As well as Perish Song if you get lucky.
I dunno, I think Mamanbou is really interesting. I'll definitely use it even if it's a stand-a-lone Pokemon, but the fact that it could possibly be related to Luvdisc gives me hope for more previous Pokemon getting evolutions.
Thats normal so it wont affect Spiritomb,I think.
Hopefully the will do alot of Gen 3 evos,Im rooting for a Crawdaunt evo with wicked Special Atk.
As someone who runs the Foresight/Rapid Spin combo on Hitmontop in UU, I should point out that a Foresight + Close Combat would also take out WonderTomb (or at least make it switch out, in which case whatever switches in takes a Close Combat to the face).
But Crawdaunt is primarily physical (not that the Special Attack is TERRIBLE but) so that would be a weird way to go with it.
Also Perish Song is one of those moves that effects EVERYONE, regardless of type, iirc.
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