Precisely. Freeze mechanics can easily be tweaked. It strikes me as odd how on the type chart fire, grass, electric and ice are next each other each having an immunity to statuses that can be afflicted...seem to hint at this. They also seem to emphasize statues a lot in this gen and game mechanics in general.
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Precisely. Freeze mechanics can easily be tweaked. It strikes me as odd how on the type chart fire, grass, electric and ice are next each other each having an immunity to statuses that can be afflicted...seem to hint at this. They also seem to emphasize statues a lot in this gen and game mechanics in general.
I have to go with what Noah said since braise makes more sense.
Luvdisc, the only pokemon I harvest and release. With a 50% chance of getting a heart scale, they are useful for move remembering
I have to go with what Noah said since braise makes more sense.
^ Yeah I hadn't seen that post yet.
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Harvest and release? Why not just use Thief?
Don't have the move
Did you have Trick/Switcheroo?
No, though I once used Trick to get a metal coat from Steelix, after which my DS promptly died before saving. Stupid 5% item rate.
I'm pretty sure somethin' will happen.
They did give us Chomp and TornT in the end (and we all know what happened to them (well, the Shark is now spared thankfully)!
Ice does badly need a Boost - but then again, it is a pretty scary type when even a half-decent member comes along, we all know that too!
What would be the possibility of having a different set of legends for each game? X = Fairy Y= ???
Looking at the type chart again, I was hoping Rock was immune to Electric moves again.
On a side note:
Hidden Power Normal should be the new Hidden Power Fairy.
holy shit meowstic is adorable ahhhhhh
I'm not too thrilled about a lot of the designs I've seen so far but the newest shown Pokemon are pretty damn cool!
I'm not too thrilled about a lot of the designs I've seen so far but the newest shown Pokemon are pretty damn cool!
That's an interesting point: how are they going to fit Hidden Power Fairy into the existing IV system? They're backwards-compatible, so the IV system must be roughly the same.
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Simple: either not include it as an option, like Hidden Power Normal, or change the Hidden Power system to work off of something other than IVs.
That would be perfect! It would make breeding so much easier, too; I really hope that's what they've done now.
Are you from the old games > Hold on to the typing
Are you new > New system
this isn't hard, probably????
It takes some of the fun out of it being "hidden", but then again, most devout competitors already know which HP types to expect on which Pokémon. It makes it easier for those of us who don't worry too much about absolutely perfect IVs who also happen to train Pokémon that need a coverage move to a type they can't access.
However, I've agreed with the theory that R N just posted for a good while now. The work put into finding a Pokémon with the ideal HP type makes having it feel more rewarding.
I at first thought it was more complicated than that, but actually, considering that pokemon will be transferred through the cloud via Pokemon Bank, they could probably program that without too much trouble.
That's true.
They could just change the the types which are most common (~8% of IV spreads [which is bug, fighting, and grass]) to be less common and give those IV spreads to HP fairy.
Just drop it in to HP Normal or Dragons position imo.
More professionally I think they should just overhaul hidden powers.
More professionally I think they should just overhaul hidden powers.
In BW/B2W2 you can get Feebas and Milotic on Route 1. Doesn't seem like they will hide it again.
Well there you go. Dragon doesn't need to exist either.
Well, it's coded in, just no IV spreads access it.
It's not as simple as replacing a type. It's determined by a formula. If a type were added by simply increasing the amount of possible types, it will mess with the IV combinations - there will be no 31 speed HP Ice combinations for instance.
See above, it's not programmed in - it explicitly can't be selected.
There is precedence for having two sets of legendary trios in one gen, and kind of making them version exclusives (Swords and Genie trios, Thundurus and Tornadus being exclusives).
HP Dragon exists. But no one uses it because Ice also exists.
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