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I can kinda see where they are coming from, it doesn't hurt me but from their perspective this seems like brainwashing children at a young age, or making parents have to do a little extra to keep their political ideals in tact. “But Pokémon said I could wear a dress” just opens a can of worms...
They should streamline this in future titles, or just toggle a “do not encounter” function so your character won’t trigger a battle if you get too close, easily toggled on in the main menu in case you see a shiny.
I honestly want them to include more modes too for champions, maybe include a battle tower mode vs NPCs or a rental-only mode to bring back factory.
I will admit item collecting was addicting on the legend bikes and hope that returns at some point.
Scarlet and Violet were some of the most grindy experiences for a competitive player on cart. You don't have pokerus for evs, you don't have fast locations to grind levels in like Horde battles (xp candy raids fixed this sort of) evs take a ridiculously long time, your temporary solutions range...
Yeah I collect cards and its crazy that these card shops never take advantage of the video games. You could do something actually cool like host video game tournaments for a pack or booster box. But nah, bring trade nights to trick kids that don't know any better or card tournaments hosted by...
Predicting Raichu Y takes inspiration from charizard Y and gains electric terrain as its ability, no speed increase but a massive increase in special attack and slightly into special defense, maybe a tiny bit in physical attacks. Iron pokemon about to go crazy if that's the case. Raichu X I...
Annoyed at the fate of Ash-Greninja. Maybe we will get a reveal in legends Za, but I honestly hope they don't throw it all in the dumpster. "This is the first pokemon in existence we will pretend never happened" despite merch going with it. Even journeys did everything possible to not show much...
I think in other games where there are cooldowns to your main attacks, there was also just an “attack” button that while you don’t do as much damage it keeps the flow of combat going if you used your other cooldowns. But I guess in ZA they want you to run around with your Pokémon and keep...
Charizard x did it first.
Also wonder if they would ever consider buffing base Pikachu or even Light ball. Obviously this Raichu attention is awesome, but does this mean the mascot is so outclassed its even worse to not evolve Pikachu nowadays? Even making Pikachu base 100 speed would be nice...
I almost wonder if Ultra Beasts may show up, or other "space" pokemon, Deoxys, Palkia, Necrozma, so many I think of. Or they just do what they did for Hoenn remakes and that's how you get lots of legendaries outside the main plot.
So excited to build Mega Raichu with volt tackle in electric terrain. With the description of Y that's probably what they were going for. Short battles that let's it unleash all its new power in a straight forward way lol. "No think, only tackle"
They definitely feel more like Mega Pikachu with Raichu elements rather than Mega Raichu with Pikachu elements lol, like one was so close to being purely raichu and then they gave him yellow furr and red cheeks lmao