Recent content by Kitsunine

Thinking that GameFreak let the teraleak happen is so wildly crazy, I don’t know what to say. On top of just the pure intellectual property damages and strategic information, employees’ names and addresses were released as part of that. Build versions of the games, including this *unreleased*...

Anyone who thinks the battle system for the mainline games is dramatically changing doesn’t understand how important it is to The Pokemon Company to keep the games as accessible as possible for an unusually young audience. They really want to keep the “I learned to read playing Pokemon” audience...

They’ve already confirmed through the gameplay previews that Megas are the only Pokemon that can do any sizable damage to Rogue Megas as well. Standard Pokémon’s damage is reduced against them. Considering that gameplay dynamic against the boss system, I wouldn’t be surprised if GameFreak is...

There was a huge contingent who thought it was Flying too.

I agree with this. I also think that in formats that allow multiple gimmicks, a team will only be allowed to use one per battle. But we’ll see.

It’s likely just world building for fun. Why does Drifloon’s Pokedex mention it likes to kidnap children? For fun.

Just $0.02 from a perpetual lurker… Following both this thread and the policy review one, it generally feels like many on the pro-ban side are arguing on the case of it being unhealthy while many on the anti-ban side are arguing on the case of it being not broken. Whenever the two sides of a...

Home integration isn’t delayed each generation because of development time. It’s because they want you to spend your time capturing all the Pokemon in-game instead of transferring them down.

People take the ‘canon’ of Pokemon existing when and where wildly too seriously. The only ‘canon’ that’s ‘real’ is the latest game. Pokemon has literally introduced the idea of the games taking place in different alternate universes to explain away the discrepancies. It doesn’t matter. They’ll...

I’m kinda surprised by how many people here and elsewhere are talking about how ‘small’ the map is and how little wild space there is. And I think that’s based in a lot of people assuming that the game will lock us to specific districts with new ones unlocking as we progress. But we’ve been...

Possibly. I think Megas for the Kalos starters and regional forms for the ZA starters is also on the table.

It’s not a retcon. Its pretty clear at this point that this is taking place after XY.

Kokoloko tiering isn’t about countering power creep and this misconception seems way too common. Kokoloko tiering is about getting a tier to a balanced state as quickly as possible and then reintroducing questionable Pokemon to see if they wildly offset it. It’s intended to maximize the...

I imagine it’ll be the generation when X/Y get the remake treatment. I agee and think you’re probably exactly right here. Just to be clear, I don’t have a problem with generational mechanics as a concept. I just think tying specific creatures to them in a creature collection franchise to be a...

Mechanic-based form changes are a huge game design mistake for this franchise in particular if you’re not going to support that mechanic indefinitely. This is a franchise that wants you to obsessively love creatures, makes extra special creatures, and then throws them away. Wild business choice...