I played with it off until about the 8th badge. I'm a butch mother fucker.
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The Exp. Share isn't bad by itself, but it's ridiculous in such an easy region as Kalos.
I played with the EXP share on for a while until I started getting overlevelled. Then turned it off and never looked back.
Pokemon is easy enough when you're a few levels below the opponents, let alone above.
Pokemon is easy enough when you're a few levels below the opponents, let alone above.
It's not just over leveling. It's strategy and type matchup, with some synergy. I once tried to beat the Emerald league with a level 89 Swampert TRAINED BY MYSELF, and got wrecked by Wallace's Ludicolo. After 7 attempts I gave up and caught Rayquaza to beat it. I dare you to train just your starter and beat the league just using it for battles on XY.
I didn't do that in emerald, but I did do that in Sapphire. Swampert rules. First try too! But since I don't have XY, I don't know how difficult it would be
If you buy a Pokemon game you did it becasue you love Pokemon not becasue you wanted to challenge yourself, lol. Considering how serious competitive player v player battling gets I kind of enjoy that the games are laxer. It gives you the freedom to include random crap like Sunfora on your team (if you happen to like Sunflora or whatever) And from a game design stand point it's fundamentally just a exp level-up RPG. Making it "harder" wouldn't actually make it harder it would just make it more boring cause you'd just end up spending more time grinding your level.
It's cool that lots of fans want to challenge themselves though.
It's cool that lots of fans want to challenge themselves though.
I REALLY hope that the ai in double battles is smart enough this time to NOT use helping hand for both pokemon.
plusle/minun are actually pretty scary early in game but they were never a threat because they both kept spamming helping hand on the same turn
plusle/minun are actually pretty scary early in game but they were never a threat because they both kept spamming helping hand on the same turn
Considering the pacing in RSE was fine and you only got the Exp. Share just before or just after the second gym... yeah, I think we're good.
But it was up to you when you got it. If i remember correctly, you got it after when either delivering the letter to Steven or the goods to Slateport. So its just before or after the second gym. But some people like myself instead of taking the ship back, waited until the third badge with rock smash and went through the tunnel.
Speaking of rock smash, i wonder how they will handle HMs in ORAS. Flash, Rock Smash and Dive are HMs in RSE but not in XY
They've added HMs mid-gen before - in HGSS, Defog was replaced with Whirlpool. I assume they'll add a Dive HM and keep Flash and Rock Smash as TMs.
Also, the sense of direction to the Exp. Share was pretty bad, so I assume they'll add something in that either tells you to go back to Steven's dad, or maybe Steven gives you it right there and then. Then again, he also gives you the Steel Wing TM and it's also speculated he may also give you a Mega Stone there this time around... this could get to be an item clusterfuck.
Actually the main idea behind Flash was that you need to beat Brawly's gym in order to be able to use it to explore Granite Cave. Of course nothing is stopping you back then from walking through Granite Cave first and getting to Steven in the dark lol
Rock Smash goes by roughly the same principle, but all it really does is to block off access to north of Mauville before beating Wattson. It can be replaced by shit like Strength or an NPC or something, no biggie either
Rock Smash goes by roughly the same principle, but all it really does is to block off access to north of Mauville before beating Wattson. It can be replaced by shit like Strength or an NPC or something, no biggie either
I really like the idea of Primal Devolution and wish all the megas were similar to that. My favorite mega designs are ones like Mega Garchomp where I like to believe millions and millions of years ago all Garchomp used to look like Mega Garchomp, but "evolved" into what they look like today. I think deep down I wish there was information on Pokemon during ancient times, before Pokedexs and computers.
Yeah, Challenge mode was a good idea, but GF was so dumb to make it unavaiable from the beginning. How was I supposed to start a game in that mode, if me and my friends bought the game at launch?
Besides, I'm on the pro side about the new exp share, the problem is how poorly Kalos is balanced. Between the first two gyms there's a huge gap, in both my runs I risked to go overlevel with my teams (and in the second run, on Y, I used a specifically breed team, so just imagine how fast they grew. By the time I reached the League I was on level 80, no kidding).
Besides, I'm on the pro side about the new exp share, the problem is how poorly Kalos is balanced. Between the first two gyms there's a huge gap, in both my runs I risked to go overlevel with my teams (and in the second run, on Y, I used a specifically breed team, so just imagine how fast they grew. By the time I reached the League I was on level 80, no kidding).
I know; at first I was getting really excited at the gap between the two gyms because I thought the whole region would be like that and the Gyms would be spaced out... and then after Grant I started picking up Badges sonic-speed.
Tbh, the real problem in Kalos is... Ramos. If you removed him, the gyms would have a lot more "spacier" feel, even if they really weren't.
besides, who the fuck cares about him
Thankfully, I don't recall Hoenn having any of that bullshit, so we'll be fine. The Exp. Share might throw some things off balance though, as I don't expect them to change the rosters' levels...
besides, who the fuck cares about him
Thankfully, I don't recall Hoenn having any of that bullshit, so we'll be fine. The Exp. Share might throw some things off balance though, as I don't expect them to change the rosters' levels...
Yeah, it would have made sense. But as I already said, that's probably for the better. STAB 100% accurate Thunder would be nightmarish.
We don't technically know any of this information yet, but from past experiences, I'm pretty confident that there will be a move tutor in this game. I doubt that the stats will be available to us before the game gets in stores (there might be a couple pre-release copies or leaks, though).
Yea you are probably right,Thanks tough :)
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