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Again, this is the non-competitive player suggesting adjustments to balance the competitive meta-game, but... Ability: Keen Eye This Pokémon's base accuracy for any move is increased by [10-30%]. [In addition, this Pokémon's accuracy is further increased during a Fog weather effect.] This...

Mmm, I often find speculating about game design more interesting than the games themselves... I don't play Pokémon anywhere near a competitive level, but I have friends that do and I often lurk on Smogon. I understand the implications some mechanics have on the metagame, and so I was...

I came up with this design about three years ago: Evolution: Firoar -> Leofrite -> Lyonite Fire/Ghost I have sketches of the first two stages as well, but I didn't take any pictures of them at the time... >.< I also had sketches for the other two starters: A Grass Pokémon based...

Voted for aragornbird. My reasoning is the same as always: Both sprites are incredibly well done, and achieve their quality in vastly different ways. To prefer one over the other is a subjective opinion, as both are perfect in their own executions. (I've, unfortunately, almost completely...

I also agree that aragornbird's is amazing. My favorite, I think. Right behind him are Atyroki and DarthVader317, in my opinion.

Okay. This is the point you need to address. You are not "fixing" anything, thus the discrepancy. As you said, EVO is making "new" pokemon, ala CAP. The whole point of going with a concept first was that it would become "secure", regardless of the pre-evo. An independently designed concept...

Your beliefs and motives in regards to EVO seem to be rather contradictory. First, I disagree with the notion that CAP and EVO should both be about creating new OU pokemon (only CAP should do that, and EVO should be about "fixing" them), but it seems like we've already decided to move in that...

It seems fairly illogical to me that a decision would be made to ban certain OU pokemon with the logic still being that a concept comes before its respective pokemon, as has already been determined. If an OU pokemon would best fit a concept, then that's what should logically be done. And, as...

I Elegy doesn't win, I am going to cry. And then I'm going to collectively slap every single person who did not vote for him. I have the means.

Elegy of Emptiness CyzirVisheen Atroyki

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to enter this time either. I don't want to submit a design if I didn't feel it was subjectively-objectively (lol) the best design. Elegy should get the win this time. That's not to say that the other designs aren't good -- I saw some others I was really...

I've got a lot of uni work at the moment, so I may or may not make a submission. However, in the meantime, Elegy has my full support: Love it. Yes, it is. It's the perfect execution of your idea. I don't know why you thought about changing it. For the love of god, use this design, not...

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To be honest, the best approach to EVO from a game designer's perspective is to select the pokemon first, and then define a proper concept or niche afterwards. Unfortunately, I'm afraid too many people in the community are under the impression that the last attempt at EVO failed because the...

The concept should be good because of the pokemon it is associated with. It should work because it takes advantage of that particular pokemon's strengths and niche. If the submission is good, one shouldn't be able to separate the two without it lacking something or needing to be revised. If...

In CAP, yes. But we can only afford to be general in CAP because our pokemon selection process is as general as it can be -- we actually make up the pokemon. In EVO, we don't. We're essentially "fixing" a gameplay role/niche to be relevant to the metagame. It doesn't serve well to be...

You're talking about during your Phase 2, correct? Then this should be a non-issue, since I'm assuming the TL would eliminate fanboyish submissions in the_arctic_one's proposal as well. It works both ways. Yes, it should. By offering, say, five different pokemon under one umbrella concept...

I just want to clearly reiterate my belief that not involving the selected pokemon-to-be-evolved from the very first step is going to lead to an inferior product for the metagame. I don't want to see EVO trashed on the grounds that it was a "lesser CAP" when it can be so much more. This is...

First, I want to say I fully support the_arctic_one's suggestion for the initial submission process. I've mentioned it before, but starting with just a strict Concept Poll will doom EVO to being a redundant, more restrictive CAP. It's not taking advantage of EVO's strengths. It will become...

Yes, I agree. But read what I said: Is a Farfetch'd evolution intrinsically broken? Or would an improper execution of said evolution make it broken? If fanboys want to select Farfetch'd, that's fine. We're presumably going to evolve him anyway, it's just a matter of when. We would...