(Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

Hugin said:
I've complained before and will again, GF is OBSESSED with letting the player only customize their char in ways GF approves of. They hate anything that is even slightly odd with gender and have artificially limited options for basically no reason on many occasions(how many gens did it take for women to be able to NOT carry a purse?).

Like, I'm not asking for a Saint's Row bulge slider or prosthetic limbs(though they should do that), but a character who wears larger than a size 2, actual color options for clothes, and removal of gender restrictions seem like basic options.
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Wait, aren't the player characters in SV literally the same model but with different default options?

At any rate, I know I'm not alone in this. Can we PLEASE have an option to not have to play as a literal child!?


As for the current discussions about buffs and move distributions and what not... Holy smokes y'all want some busted stuff.

Eeveelutions though...
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Might be the laziest "fix" in the book, but I'd want to give the Partner Eevee moves a shot at making them stand out a bit more. Not the loltastic coverage they would get if Eevee learned all the moves, but each Eeveelution getting its respective STAB move.

Speaking of which...

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Whoever gave Umbreon lower SpA than Attack deserves to step on a Lego and have a Baddy Bad day.
 
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ant4456 said:
c'mooon we can admit my ideas are mostly the mon going up 1 or maybe 2 tiers at most c'mooooooooon
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you can have your UU Eeveelutions but the monkey's paw tradeoff is that Eevee becomes an ultra-rare lategame encounter so that Ribbons Sylveon doesn't warp the entire single-player experience around itself, given that it's functionally a pseudo-legendary with always-active Hydration as soon as you max its affection
 
Cobalt Empoleon said:
you can have your UU Eeveelutions but the monkey's paw tradeoff is that Eevee becomes an ultra-rare lategame encounter so that Ribbons Sylveon doesn't warp the entire single-player experience around itself, given that it's functionally a pseudo-legendary with always-active Hydration as soon as you max its affection
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who gets Hidden Ability mons in singleplayer anyways? I think SV might have a way but it's pretty expensive to go for before the game finishes, or ig find an Eevee raid rarely?
 
Cobalt Empoleon said:
You know what, that's totally fair! I guess I'm assuming that Hidden Abilities are going to become much less special going forward, but it certainly hasn't happened yet
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Yeah I didn't really think about singleplayer bc I just assumed it didn't really matter

Raids can def have HAs early but outside of SWSH I never really did it, in SV it felt not really worth it when they can be like anywhere. In SWSH I'd check them in a playthrough and maybe catch some stuff, helps with the giant ass laser beam in a small world.

Did you know that for competitive reasons I did 300+ resets of a Lucario den to get the Hidden Ability once? 300+. That would have taken months at minimum of daily gameplay if I were to do it with zero exploits.
 
Bog Monster said:
You've never seen 3 McDonald's/Burger King/Wendy's right next to each other?
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At least they're different brands who don't outright share the same menu order list. My annoyance here comes from the same exact one being copy-pasted back-to-back-to-back to fill out space and how nonsensical it looks.
 
R_N said:
We probably will but I am guessing there likely wont be very many just because the pool of available gens to make megas out of has expanded considerably. Even if they mark Gen 8 & 9 as a no-go, and maybe give Gen 3 a rest since it had major ORAS focus, it's still 6 generations of Pokemon to draw on.
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tbh I doubt they'll care about not giving new gen pokemon megas for z-a. It took them one gen to give Applin and Duraludon new evolutions.
 
An annoyance I did remember: the timeline in Lwt's Go is like, very confusing. The main reason I wanted Johto sequels to exist at all is because I'm curious about how they would handle so many characters.

Also, I know it was just a cute joke at the fandom, but Lance teasing Oak as the champion annoys me because...well yeah, why can't we fight him? Clavell style, using the leftover starter in all its glory. So many Kanto revisits but no attempt at rescuing that idea. It would be a sick idea for a superboss, please GF.
VividBunnie said:
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I know Paldea is brimming with redundant eatery placements with the exact same menu (ex. many of the food stalls), but putting three of these together like this is a bit awkward in an attempt to fill up space when putting entryways you cannot pass through would have achieved the same thing.
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While I completely get your point and agree it should have been made better, I also have seen way too many situations like these in big cities here in Spain. It's kind of amusing.
 
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Supercell Slam is better than Zing Zap unless y'all trying to round off a Jirachi/Togekiss core.

Granted, it's a pretty horrible drawback but compared to what we had since the split is like...
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W-We good! We eating! :psycry:
 
Valoo said:
Minor thing that’s cropped up a bit in the last few games, but the primary type arbitrarily being swapped upon evolution annoys me. Ursaluna should be Normal/Ground, not Ground/Normal!
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Personally speaking, I find this pretty cool when it happens! The idea of one type taking over as the primary type after evolving is pretty cool to me - like it's starting to embody that aspect more. Ursaluna makes perfect sense for this, since it evolved with a peat block, coated itself with mud, and can manipulate swamps.

That said, I can see why it would be annoying to someone as well since it makes the evolutionary line a bit less congruous (even if in a way I personally think is neat)
 
Going back into Eeveelutions, I agree with giving -ate to all of them would be lazy “fix” and doesn’t help much in long term due fo their coverage issue. Them being stereotypical of the type they’re based on in terms of stat distribution - with Flareon being an odd one out that worked against it while Umbreon being another that worked for it - doesn’t help their case either. I def pick up Fur Coat as Flareon’s second normal Ability though, I’m surprised I’m not the only one who thought of that!

With how likely GF rather give something for Eevee than trying to help the Eeveelutions - the ones that made Eevee famous to begin with - doesn’t help at all, I doubt the Eeveelutions themselves will be buffed up to par. And the absurd power creep is GF’s own fault to begin with, so trying to buff the rest at insane power level isn’t going to be a healthy solution either.

I’d be lying if I said that Pokémon isn’t full of bad and baffling game designs that are difficult to justify, even harder as they were meant for children. What I can say is that they are better at making physical designs for Pokémon and human characters than anything else.

A buddy of mine on Discord - who I shall not name to avoid potential witchhunting - spotted a lot of bothersome things about Pokémon‘s game design, including repeats, of which I agree with several and I’ll leave it at that.

As for the copy-pasted restaurants in SV… well aside of implication of in-universe mega-monopolisations, that’s another example of the games needing more time and manpower (not either / or).
 
I've said before, what GF needed to do was take Dexit further. Eliminate more mons, kill all transfer movepools, and then completely rebalance everything they brought into the gen. Come in with a basic idea of "this is what a non starter/pseudo/derp 3 stage line should look like" and then completely rework things like Politoed, Alakazam, and Magnezone to fit with that. Not identical BSTs, but at least have some idea of what each point in the line should look like from a competitive perspective, time to evolve in-game, power at lvl 20/40/60, etc. And then they could steadily do that with each new entry in the series, bringing back mons and adding new ones to fit their established balance point.

Would that be easy? Nope. Would they succeed? Based on past balance attempts, hell no. But it would have justified Dexit to the fanbase and also at least been closer than their current joking approach to balance.

If they had done that, then the balance for the Eeveeloutions would be interesting. You can accept that they're going to be weaker in-game than comparable 2-stage mons(Arcanine over Flareon, Clefable over Sylveon) because the flexibility in-game of "Caught an Eevee, can make it the type I need" is worth lower stats. But then having lower stats means that you can make the competitive movepool better without being broken. I think you make Eevee unable to breed. The Eeveeloutions, meanwhile, are their own egg group(no crossover) capable of passing on any moves EXCEPT STABs. So a Jolteon and a Leafeon can produce an Eevee with Agility and Mud Shot that you turn into a Sylveon.

Again, would that be easy or balanced? Probably not. Would it be an improvement over the current situation? IDK if it could be worse.
 
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