Recent content by ty_taurus

That's pretty interesting. It actually makes it sadder for me that IVs ultimately fail to portray that aspect to the vast majority of Pokemon players that even know what IVs are in the first place. It just reinforces my believe that it should be changed to something that not only succeeds at...

The problem with IVs is that it takes malicious grinding to actually get perfect Pokemon. Like it's literally hours of breeding, running back and forth to hatch eggs, and more breeding. This creates a huge time investment for anyone interested in actually competing in Pokemon online from their...

Has GameFreak ever stated that they believe IVs are important to Pokemon to make them feel different from one another? If not, I don't think we can safely make that kind of claim. Either way you slice it, IVs actually fail at doing that hence why places like here on Smogon, Pokemon are always...

GameFreak does have an abnormal skittishness around change with Pokemon, but I think saying that they will not do something might be a dangerous statement. It wasn't too long ago that some of us would be saying that GameFreak would not change a Pokemon's base stats for any reason, and then X and...

I liked many of your suggestions, but I did want to single out this part specifically and ask a question: Is it really a bad thing to redo things? Sure, it might not be best to redo everything all at once, but pretty much all other game series that I can think of make some pretty dramatic...

I actually don't like Natures either. The problem I have with them is that they're 25 of them and there's currently no way of changing them. Here's the thing, most Pokemon only benefit from 2-4 different Natures, meaning the other 21-23 are either indifferent or downright detrimental to any...

I hate breeding and I think it destroys the core themes of Pokemon. The anime and marketing campaigns would just love for you to believe that the Pokemon you catch in the wild can be trained through hard work and dedication to be the best of the best and compete with the toughest opponents by...

Unown by far. I know that a lot of people try and not consider Unown, but that's really now how the game works. Pokemon includes Unown as a fully evolved Pokemon, doesn't do anything interesting with Unown's alphabet theme or supposed power in numbers, and just exists to waste data space.

So, forgive me if this is not the best place for this topic, but I couldn't really find any page that seemed more appropriate. Basically, I wanted to bring up and talk about an interesting idea about how to buff the Generation 2 Bug/Flying Type: Ledian. I wanted to share the idea and also see...

Sometimes I wish I could just burn through the Pokedex and rebalance everything myself, but that's a pretty selfish solution, really. If the game was more restrictive with moves, and provided less tools and coverage moves to stronger stat mons while also providing better moves, tools, and...