This is the "Unpopular Opinions" thread, not "Make Suggestions For How Game Freak Can Buff Things As If They Or Anyone Else Cares" thread.
So what you're saying is that they're making unpopular opinions?
no one is bothered that ground types still arent immune to spikes?
rock types to stealth rock?
Wonderguard should be immune to hail , toxic spikes and spikes bc shedinja takes 0 from both actually.
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Recoil moves like Volt Tackle, Flare Blitz, Brave Bird, Wood hammer,
If the user inflicts no damage (such as if
Disguise takes the damage), they do not take recoil damage.
Would change that when it comes to Disquise and Ice face actually... to make recoil users get hit...
some moves like Submission should atleast confuse the target taking how low damage 80 power it has and takes 1/4 recoil damage for nothing really... and only chance to hit 80%? would give efffect of flinching with higher rate here taking its a recoil move... you pay a price for something here...
outclassified by Body Press now... power 80 and 100% hiting always...
the same with Take Down and Rock Climb,,, if you take recoil it should be worth it or not?
Wild charge , only does damage and no extra effect here... maybe some should do less damage on their respective terrains or weathers?
or get increased priority +1 to make sense? or get extra effect like wild charge could confuse the foe too at least.
Power whip is strong, but power whip 15% of missing but lacks effect? its a whip? what about making it get 30% of beeing a increased priority move or a switching move?
wood hammer I get that 120, recoil for 100% chance to hit... but the power whip should make sense here.. maybe lower power and give effect?
generally we have a lot overpowered moves, would rather have more effects and higher activation rates then pure power play and strenght only
Ground-types & Spikes: Ground-types aren't immune or resistant to themselves, so even if they made Spikes go off the Type Chart like Stealth Rock they'd still receive "full" damage when being sent out. And unlike Toxic Spikes where it could be assumed Poison-types are re-absorbing the poison in the spikes making them harmless, normal Spikes are presumably just a hard & sharp material so nothing to really "absorb".
Rock-types & Stealth Rock: Similar issue with Stealth Rock, but honestly Stealth Rock needs some other nerf. I still say it should be locked to only doing no more than 2x damage even on a Pokemon quad weak to Rock. Also maybe wouldn't be a bad idea having it only last for a number of activations (maybe something to consider for all Entry Hazards, giving them a wearing down effect unless more layers are laid down thus also giving a purpose them having 20+ PP).
Wonder Guard Indirect Damage Immunity: Eh, I wouldn't do that as we need some ways for other Pokemon to work around Wonder Guard. However I wouldn't argue giving it a "first turn" immunity to Indirect Damage so it doesn't immediately get knocked out when sent out on Stealth Rock, is Burned/Poisoned, or there's a Weather active.
Recoil Against Disguise/Ice Face: Why? How I interpret recoil is the Pokemon hits the target and then pushes itself to do extra damage at the risk of also hurting itself (essentially overexerting itself). However with Disguise and Ice Face the attacker so easily breaks these decoy defenses they don't have to exert the extra energy thus no recoil.
Submission, Wild Charge, Take Down & Rock Climb: Honestly I would just make Submission, Take Down, & Wild Charge all be 100 Power & 100 Accuracy. You're right, there's really no reason for these Moves to be Low Power/Low Accuracy with them doing recoil. But Submission are probably one of those Moves GF rarely remember exist let alone what it does as there are better Fighting-type moves (yet oddly it wasn't cut...). And of course there are plenty of other Moves that could use some adjustments before I would bother touching Submission. BTW Rock Climb doesn't do recoil, but it is a subpar Normal-type move that could use a readjustment (this is actually true for a lot of Normal-type moves).
Power Whip & Powerful Moves: Power Whip is fine, could maybe use a secondary effect (or maybe higher Power) but its main purpose is to hit hard which comes at the cost of being inaccurate. Let's also remember that not every move is made to be competitive. Thinking about it, may be an interesting challenge idea for someone to do a playthrough where they strictly focus on inaccurate moves and see how far they get (probably wouldn't make it a nuzlocke).
Not sure how unpopular an opinion this is or how appropriate it is for OI since it mainly pertains to competitive play, but I really dislike the concept of TRs. And it's not just because they're single-use; that much I can handle since they're all renewable through Max Raids. I'm talking about how, because the TR list is explicitly all of the best moves in the game, every Pokemon has too much movepool flexibility.
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TRs that used to be Egg or Tutor moves also had their distributions wildly expanded. The fact that so many Pokemon have a ton of coverage makes the idea of a "counter", in the traditional sense, shaky at best. Venusaur, for example, can no longer be safely walled by Steel-types thanks to its new access to Earth Power. This goes hand-in-hand with Dynamaxing, where a Pokemon can double its bulk and fire off Max coverage moves to brute force their way through a would-be counter.
The final reason I dislike TRs is admittedly a personal and extremely biased one, but I've historically been very into Pokemon breeding, and many traditional Egg moves got moved over. There's still a viable Egg move here and there (such as Fake Out Gothitelle), but by and large the remaining ones are moves you wouldn't ever need or want.
Addressing your last issue first, you may not like what I'm about to say. I think GF are wanting to pull away from having players required to breed a lot to get a good Pokemon. Hyper Training, Nature Mints, getting rid of Hidden Power, able to teach Pokemon moves from the same member of their species, slowly but surely they're getting rid of the reasons to Breed (to the point they may have to add some reasons to breed...). Really the only reason left to breed a lot is for Shiny Pokemon (as you only need to breed once or twice for an Egg Move which you can then Same Species Tutor).
And that leads us back to TRs pretty much teach a Pokemon a majority of the Egg Moves they would want (notably coverage). The thing about TRs is I think they may have made them TOO available. From Raid Dens and the Watt Traders you really aren't hard pressed to get a TR you want or use that TR if you have it. I would not be surprised if next gen they pull WAY back on the TR availability and you may have to jump through loopholes to get a certain TR (and when you do decide whether you want to use it cause may take some time to get another). And in doing that they'll bring back breeding for Egg Moves. Of course this is all hypothetical.
The second thing is why are there separate passes for the versions? Why can't we have one singular pass for the games? The only reason I can think of is because TPC wants to make as much money as possible, and gain money equivalent to a Switch game by charging separate passes for players who have both versions.
Well I think no matter what they would have required someone to pay again for the DLC for each version of the game they have. No, I think the reason they may have done two different passes is because GF are not good/lazy/rushed programmers.
Good programmers would be able to use "if-then" statements to make sure the version exclusive content (rival, wild Pokemon, Regina's trades) is only accessible by the version its planned to be in.
BUT GF have proven time and time again they're either not good/lazy/rushed programmers. For them it's just easier to make two passes and hard code the version differences (and this still holds true even if both DLC packs has the other's exclusive content, infact I wouldn't be surprised). Instead of doing "if-then" and then testing to make sure it works they "crl find+replace".
I wanted to talk about the GTS, and how Home has ruined it.
THIS on the otherhand was a cash grab and GF should be punished by Nintendo for pulling this stunt. Gutting it out of the main game to force people to use HOME and download it on their Switch and Mobile Phone (which I hope you have because if you don't then F@#$ YOU!) & then charging to transfer your Pokemon up from the past games (on top of also having to pay for Bank, which was said to be a service to ignore this very issue but I guess that was a blatant lie!).
Still, making the GTS its separate app does have a bunch of benefits.
Honestly I think people are fine having GTS being an app... BUT they also want a version of the GTS in the actual games themselves. The point of a GTS app is for ease of availability, not having to have the game in front of you if you wanted to do some trades with the Pokemon you have stored in HOME. However, if I am playing my game that I have a whole batch of different Pokemon on, why should I:
1. Save and close my game.
2. Open Switch's version of HOME.
3. Deposit Pokemon from my game into HOME.
4. Open Mobile's version of HOME.
5. Set up the trade you want with the GTS.
6. Open Switch's version of HOME.
7. Withdraw Pokemon from HOME into my game.
8. Open my game back up.
WHEN instead they could have just put a GTS in the game like they did in past generations!
This is literally cutting content out of the main game to make it more of a hassle & more restrictive to try and squeeze some extra money from people.
... MEANWHILE, if they wanted to sell their Premium Service, maybe they could have taken all that cut content from past games like Pokemon Contests, Pokemon Musicals, Pokeathlon, Battle Frontier, Dream World, Pokemon Refresh, Poke Pelago, etc. and added those to HOME. You know, stuff people actually want and many would pay for and would probably be worth buying into the Premium service especially if they supported it. But no, why give customers something they would gladly pay for when you can take away something they've grown accustomed to just so you could make squeeze out a few extra dollars. Just disgusting.
