Recent content by Hugin

You don't need one game. You need AT LEAST 2 of the most current release because of things like multiple copies of the starter or alt forms of Urshifu, as well as so you can reset one game and rush to the end to re-capture Xerneas because you need to run a different set on it and your current...

Forcing the player to stop, think, and change their team IS the goal of most of this. You seem to be operating on a different definition of "difficulty" than many of the other people here. I'm not looking for something impossible, I'm looking for boss fights that are more engaging than "Bring...

Which is what I mean when I say that aura is an underrated factor. Lucario was PUSHED as a new mascot. Milotic is Gyarados v2. Garchomp is the PseudoLegendary. Spiritomb has no weaknesses and is impossible to find. The player is going to remember the fight as being difficult, whether it was or...

This would make for an absolutely hilarious regional variant. Make a Water/Fighting(or whatever) version in a region and name it the default, while all other Corphish are labeled Corphish-H.

Honestly, that might be the easier fix. Just set whatever flag the AI uses to remember moves to default assume the player always has STAB. It would take some care to handle things like temporary typings(probably ignore them completely) and situations where the player has revealed 4 moves and...

I don't Gen 5, so I looked the mon up. Level 27 for an evolution when the base form has BST 295 is painful. Not unheard of, but painful. Both standard abilities are trash, probably relevant only against Elesa, and maybe not even then. Hidden ability is Sap Sipper, but if HAs are on the table...

I definitely think Aura is an underrated factor. Look at the other multitype champions. Blue has a whole team of rare, powerful mons. Red is literally Ash from the anime. Cynthia is powerful, sure, but the real issue is that she shows up with a Spiritomb, Lucario, Milotic, and a pseudolegendary...

Everybody is sleeping on WHY Espartha with Opportunist is her lead. The general strategy for players against any Champion is "Set up, sweep". Opportunist means she's copying the player's boosts, which makes that much less viable. Is it a perfect strat? Obviously not. But it does at least force...

The thing with Geeta is that she's "not the final battle" twice over. You have both Nemona and the Professor after her. These games also have Arvind and Penny to give multitype teams to. Given that, all the decisions related to her make sense(except for team order). That said, of the various...

I'd argue people undervalue Sacred Sword somewhat because of competitive assumptions. Close Combat is insane, yes, but it leaves you vulnerable to retaliation. 20 PP, Base-90 STAB that ignores defensive setup fills a lot of roles. In-game or for doubles battles, Sacred Sword is a perfectly...

That one honestly seems like someone screwed up when entering the data, swapped the levels around a little bit between Vulpix/Growlithe/Farfetched. On Evasion, the reason bosses use it is because these are games for children. The idea is "This will make the boss harder, forcing resets/training...

Geo engineering HYPE! (I'm in Construction Materials Testing officially/currently, but I got my start in a geo lab) As with a lot of aspects of the type chart, I'd be down for significantly increased alternate interactions between Ground/Rock and Water/Grass. The baseline is fine, but there's...

I think it's pretty clear that there's a pattern present. Whatever Nintendo calls it internally, "3-stage, 600 BST, Slow Growth Rate, near the end of the dex" is something that has been included every generation. That's pretty different from just 600 BST, which includes Archaludon, Terapagos...

You would think that's it, but, by generation: Charmander, Charmeleon, Charizard, Blastoise. Why do any of the Chars get it, and why Charmander but not Squirtle if we had to pick a pre-evo? Typhlosion(and H), Feraligatr. Because screw Meganium, amirite? Sceptile, Combusken, Blaziken, Swampert...

...Even by TM, Octillery doesn't learn it. Why? And why do so many starters(and almost all fire-type starters) learn it? Someone needs to sit down and figure out what that move actually means.