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Rivalry in-game is very much a "guide dang it" moment. In each gen, there's specific fights that are known to be harder. And NPCs tend to have mons that match their gender. So Rivalry CAN be really good if all the tough fights are male and you're using a male mon or vice-versa(LBH GF almost...

Rolycoaly and Carkoal are both minecarts that run along tracks. Why isn't Coalossal a steam train? Leave the GMax design as a giant stationary furnace, sure, but the default form should be more interesting than a giant flaming pile of coal.

@ everyone, As someone who has used pseudolegends in a playthrough starting in the early game, I highly recommend it. It messes with the pacing and the difficulty curve in a really interesting way. Mod the game, trade some over, whatever, it's actually really good. And I don't mean just stick...

So many for me. Now, some challenge runs have helped. I did a run of Brilliant Diamond with the various event legends that game gives you and it was very fun, I did a run of SV that used a different team for each storyline and caught plenty of lategame stuff(And used the paradoxes for Postgame)...

Do you know what's in the ground beneath your feet? The only way to be sure is to drill down and check. This is a scientist, if possible near a drill rig or a construction site. And each mon is one of the things you can hit when coring. Sand, organics(I once opened a sample in the lab and a...

With Champions, I see 2 relevant things: They will want to be able to distribute Event mons with special moves that players have to do something to get. Ban Fissure Machamp. It's been very clear that they WILL NOT allow Fissure+No Guard to exist, and whatever rules are in place will be sure to...

I'm talking about changing dialogue depending on if you're male or female so that a potentially romantic line is only heard if it will be straight. Character customization so limited that bodies designated as male can't have long hair, while those designated as female can't have short hair. When...

Here's an unpopular opinion: The pokemon games aren't woke. I appreciate the fandom's efforts to fix that, but I think it's important that we remember what the source material actually is. Because, yeah, there's the imperialism of Alola/Hisui. The female characters are faster to speedrun for...

The entire Grounded/Airborne setup is just a mess and if I was in charge I'd change how that works completely(along with a million other changes). But yes, Roost should make every user vulnerable to Earthquake, but it shouldn't be messing with the rest of the type chart.

It'd be interesting if Pokemon leaned MORE into the utopia side of things. The world is peaceful enough that kids generally leave home at 10-15, spend a wandering from city to city on foot or via public transit, earning cash by having training matches with adults, figuring out how to survive on...

I didn't watch the later seasons of the anime, so maybe I'm missing something, but it always struck me as extremely uncomfortable that the Alola League, newly-founded as proof the islands can stand with the rest of the world, was won for the first time by an outsider to the islands who isn't...

Mark me down as someone who thinks Inner Focus Mega-Dnite would actually be very fun. Because you only need Multiscale once. So tank one attack with it and THEN mega and sweep. And this leads to all sorts of mindgames and 50/50s with using Inner Focus to dodge Flinch/Intimidate, or Multiscale to...

Mega-Dragonite: I feel like there's some sort of rule at TPC that megas are not allowed to do the obvious thing. Which makes sense to a certain degree for keeping things fresh, but also leads to a lot of avoidable bad/odd decisions. "Make mega-dnite look like Dragonaire" is a cool concept, so...

There's basically 4 ways they could make you get mons in Champions: Home transfers Premade rental mons Download other players teams via teamcode Showdownesque teambuilder Transfers have to be one option, but they also can't be the only option if phones are a way to play the game that doesn't...

My gut instinct is to do Humanoid Mon+Nonhuman Mon transformers. Emboar-Charizard, Venosaur-Roserade, Ceruledge-Mismagius. The easier option is just to do evolutions/form changes, but those seem boring.

Fundamentally, for an in-game run, both IVs and EVs are useless. Players won't notice them unless told and also the difficulty level doesn't matter. For various challenge runs, especially modded ones/fanhacks, they probably get patched(and also GF hates fanhacks). If you're playing some...

When we work together, when we're at our weakest, when we're underestimated, that's when we're at the strongest. So, we have 4 bugs, Kingler(crabs are bugs), and a computer bug. The character is a group of kids who all fight you as a unit, each of them training one mon even though it's a...

Water-type distribution in general. It's the unfortunate reality of the type's flavor and various decisions made early on in the series, but for most of the lifespan of the series, you could only get most water-type mons after you had access to Surf or the Good/Super Rod. Surf, of course, means...

The reason people still talk about Cynthia is that Cynthia, Leon, and Blue all have, not just multi-type champion teams, but multi-type teams specifically composed of mons that are reasonably considered broken. That's basically just the 3 of them. Any single-type champion just doesn't have the...

IME the Nidos are very much...They're really good as a route-clearing mon, since they're bulky, generally have 4 powerful attacks, useful immunities, and can one-shot most weak stuff. In major battles, they're more a "press in case of emergencies" button. Without a type advantage, they're going...