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I feel like in-game Pressure stalling would be neat for one battle and then the novelty would wear off and it'd become dreadfully boring. The last thing I want in a game I'm playing for fun is to consistently use a strategy that guarantees victory because of inadequate AI. I remember doing a...

Well I just re-read all of Nemona's dialogue on Bulbapedia to try and understand how she could possibly be compared to a sexual predator but I came up empty-handed. There's one kinda possessive quote from Mesagoza: ...but Nemona shows throughout the game that she's pretty self-aware about her...

Pokemon Fans Try Not To Make Everything Sexual Challenge (Impossible)

Ultimately I think it suits this thread better to discuss in-game lore and logic rather than game design choices, because if there isn't an immediately obvious explanation, the answer to "why did the devs do this?" will almost always be "they just thought it'd be neat"

Idk it makes sense to me with the context of previous games. At this point the pseudos as a group, as well as Misdreavus, have an established history of version exclusivity in the main series, while Gardevoir/Gallade, Jigglypuff, Amoonguss, Magneton, and Hariyama do not (I don't think White...

If they'd made the Paradox availability match the version exclusivity of the original mons there would 100% be people complaining that they missed an obvious opportunity to reinforce the Paradox theming

Totally agree with all your points except you get Sunny Day in the Radio Tower after the Team Rocket raid.

Decided to train a Bellibolt for grinding the raid but I got all the way to battling a Decidueye before realising it was a raid Bellibolt with Tera Water. It still works fine but I can never Tera else I reveal my shame to my raid partners and get wiped out by crit Leaf Blade haha I'm liking Big...

Took a few attempts, but managed to beat it without training a new mon. Used my physically defensive Umbreon alongside Miraidon, Bellibolt, and Toxtricity. For some reason I kept getting matched with people who were using the right mons but attacking immediately, ruining the strategy...

A bunch of Normal-types got worse (at least relative to everything else) between GSC and HGSS, mostly because STAB Headbutt with the Gen 2 Plain Badge boost is way more threatening than anything most other Pokemon are capable of doing through the midgame. In conjunction with physical Shadow Ball...

I'm assuming that they're continuing with the open-world model, in which case being able to at least partially walk up a mountain isn't out of the question in the early game. I was thinking of New Zealand specifically, which has a snowy mountain range spanning most of the South Island and a...

New Zealand seems unlikely, even though it would work really well as a Pokemon region. Australia would always be used as inspiration first and NZ would most likely either be a couple of misshapen blobs in the south-east corner of the map or not seen at all. It could work as a DLC, but I'm wary...

L + ratio + Screech + Belly Drum + Helping Hand + Thunder Punch Nah but I love Rowlet so I'm looking forward to this

I think you've misinterpreted that Wikipedia definition. The defining feature of a MacGuffin is not that it's "useless" but that it's interchangeable. In a treasure hunt story where the heroes want to find the big diamond before the bad guys do so they can sell it for big money, the diamond is a...

Mt Moon has never had dark sections requiring Flash for visibility and it's either impressive or flat-out bizarre that you've dissected an element of Gen 1 in such detail while apparently having hardly any memory of actually playing the games. While I don't agree with the idea that Mr Mime has...

I don't get why that's a weird quote? I mean it sounds a little unnatural as dialogue, but that's true of most random trainer quotes. Are people reading "harassing" and inferring a more serious meaning than just 'being a public nuisance' or 'intimidating passersby'? ...do people think all...

I mean given that you can't get materials from starter Pokemon (or Silvally or Mew) it makes sense that the TM materials for starter-exclusive moves would have to come from Pokemon that can't learn them, right?

Adding on to everyone else saying this was pretty straightforward: beat it first-try with an AI trainer in the party and with me using my SpDef Umbreon. Greninja just doesn't have the damage output to really threaten KOs so you have all the time in the world to debuff it and set up for big...

Sometimes it's hard to distinguish between 'big-brained' plays and cheese strats haha. Usually, once you see the strat it doesn't feel very smart or crazy anymore. Like, in my White mono-Grass run I swept N (after saccing everything else to get rid of Fusion Flare PP) and Ghetsis with SubSeed...

In general I agree that it can be a cool way to add characterisation, but with Calem/Serena they pretty much only express frustration about how they keep losing to the player in that middle stretch of the game after they've ditched Fletchling but before they've added any new members to their...