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- Thread starter antemortem
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I thought the Rotom Pokédex being able to talk to the player was cute, and I am still saddened by the Rotom Phone's and Masters EX' Porygonphone's shared inability to talk.
MY MAN!!! Honestly the only issue was that you couldnt cut the dialogue when going to use it, but if they fixed that, itd be peak pokedex. I love the rascal
I was playing through some Galarian Star Tournaments for money grinding today, and I was pretty struck by how much characterization they could fit into the characters' dialogue. Makes me really feel like these characters deserved a better plot haha
To add on to this point with another unpopular opinion, Gen 6 arguably nerfed Psychic-types harder than Gen 2 (and it probably got nerfed harder than Dragon in gen 6 too).
Dark and Ghost moves were previously far less spammable due to being resisted by Steel. However, once Steel lost its resistance to Ghost and Dark, a lot more Pokemon began running Ghost and Dark moves as coverage moves to at least dent Steel-types they wouldn't otherwise be able to damage (which only got worse in Gen 8 due to Hidden Power being removed). Additionally, Knock Off being massively buffed made it a far more spammable attack that many Pokemon (both offensive and defensive) would run on most sets. This drastically hampered most Psychic-types defensively, since they are threatened by one of the most spammable attacks in the game, further compounding their existing weakness to another spammable attack, U-turn.
In addition, the introduction of Fairy-types hindered the limited defensive utility that Psychic-types had. Faries still resist Fighting, and are resistant to Dark and Bug rather than being weak to those moves. One could argue there is synergy between the two-types, but really I would argue that Fairy has much better synergy with Steel-types (a synergy that Psychic previously had).
This.
Psychic is all but irrelevant nowadays because Fairy straight up covers what it's supposed to do but better.
Which brings me to a new point.
Types need more unique attacks. They need more of an identity associated with their type instead of their go-to moves being the TMs most mons run for coverage.
For example, moves like Freeze-Dry and Ice-types. Iirc, no mons that aren't Ice learn it and it got an effect unique to it. Something that sets it apart.
Close Combat used to be a way better example of what I mean, but SwSh made it a TR and messed it all up.
Speaking of moves, I made a spreadsheet with all currently existing moves, and noticed that Psychic has only five Physical moves. Ever.
Psycho Cut, Zen Headbutt, Heart Stamp, Psychic Fangs, and Psyshield Bash. This includes one signature move from PLA, two former signature moves, and the only one you would see in competitive.
Only Fairy has less Physical moves, but unlike Fairy, I saw nobody clamoring for a new Psychic-type Physical move.
(I would like to suggest some ideas but there's apparently a "no wishlisting" rule in this forum.)
Psycho Cut, Zen Headbutt, Heart Stamp, Psychic Fangs, and Psyshield Bash. This includes one signature move from PLA, two former signature moves, and the only one you would see in competitive.
Only Fairy has less Physical moves, but unlike Fairy, I saw nobody clamoring for a new Psychic-type Physical move.
(I would like to suggest some ideas but there's apparently a "no wishlisting" rule in this forum.)
Psychic was primarily supposed to be special oriented oriented like how Fighting is supposed to be physical oriented. Same deal with Fairy as Special focused
It can cause both types to be rigid if we were to completely follow the “guidelines” of these types page-by-page.
Why would you remove Fire's resistance to Fairy?No fairy for a reason...
if we're going to play with deleting types, delete bug and dragon ez. very irrelevant teams on a "what does this type allows you to design" because it's not like there needs a mammal or bird type for them to design birds and mammals (which they realized with birds and changed it to flying but not with bugs... lol).
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No fairy for a reason...
Rip Skarm though
Having either Steel or Ice be immune to Dragon doesn't stop a dragon with a Fire move to run rampant.
Welcome back to competitive Gen 4.
Fairy was quite literally a balance patch type. The more you look at it, the more obvious it is. It wound up overtuned, but if you try to fix the old issues with the type chart, you'll eventually recreate the Fairy-type.
Yeah, coverage screws many things
Which is why I had it so Ice had a passive weather, Snow, which slows dragon and water types, and increases ice type speed
A bit much of an overcorrection, but Water is like the best starter type, and Draco Meteor is a nuke, so eh
What killed the Grass type?
THE ICE BEAM!
*super effective sound*
THE ICE BEAM!
*super effective sound*
I don't how popular the gens are, but my favourite gen is 8 and I think it's pretty underrated. In my opinion, Sword & Shield has the best designs out of all gens, both Pokémon and characters, or even the region itself.
^ Yeah, Gen 8 has a lot of interesting concepts. Undead fighter jet salamander! Slowbro with an arm cannon! An army of round boys who collectively look like a caterpillar! In that last case, Falinks feels a lot more thematically coherent than Exeggcute.
Ultra beasts are not legendaries
Scizor, Eleectivire and Lucario needs buffs.
Charizard was the worst gen 1 starter.
Truly hate Arceus. Fuck that goat.
There are two many physical attackers. Need more mixed and special attackers.
GF hates rock, bug and ice type.
Mega Sableye should have been a regular evolution instead of a mega evolution.
Starters should the strongest mons outside of legendaries and pseudos. Maybe couple more pokemon who cold be stronger but stop making weak starters.
Also all fully evolved starters should have a BST of 535.
Scizor, Eleectivire and Lucario needs buffs.
Charizard was the worst gen 1 starter.
Truly hate Arceus. Fuck that goat.
There are two many physical attackers. Need more mixed and special attackers.
GF hates rock, bug and ice type.
Mega Sableye should have been a regular evolution instead of a mega evolution.
Starters should the strongest mons outside of legendaries and pseudos. Maybe couple more pokemon who cold be stronger but stop making weak starters.
Also all fully evolved starters should have a BST of 535.
which pokemon?
Yeah I wondered too…
Another thing I loved in gen 8 is that you can have your Pokémon follow you around in the wild area!
Yeah I think this is widely accepted, they’re more a related group that is not the same, similar to Legends/Mythicals
Which two?
I don’t think we should really be trying to restrict the stats of mons and limiting other good designs to being weaker mons. I would prefer all starters to have the same BST tho.
Sorry for the typo. I meant too many.
Dragapult.
"Ice and Bug need buffs" is a common opinion, but "Rock needs buffs" is an interesting one. Rock is one of the better offensive types, Rock Slide is everywhere in Doubles, Stone Edge is both hated and feared, and Sandstorm increases their Sp. Def.
I guess its weaknesses (Fighting, Grass, Ground, and Water) are all inconvenient, but "needs buffs" is otherwise kinda vague. Increase the distribution of Power Gem, maybe?
In-game, I don't think there are any truly weak starters, let alone recently. Meganium struggles in Johto, sure, but it's far from the worst Pokémon in the region, and IIRC it's still usable in a playthrough. The Johto trio is also by far the most imbalanced in-game to my knowledge, Chikorita is clearly worse than Cyndaquil and Totodile.
What I would like to see for Starters is similar power levels within a trio. Yet even today, we got stuff like Incineroar being a lot better in Doubles than the two other Alolan starters. Competitively, it's all over the place, especially since Generation VI I feel like.
And not let me talk about publicity... *cough*Charizard*cough*
Preach!
Grass starters are usually struggle-tier regardless of the game. Of course, a lot of that has to do with the type itself like Meganium in Johto.
Rock is like Ice in the sense of it being full of slow bulky mons that got a ton of weaknesses. To make things worse, most of its moves have accuracy issues.
I get why one would want some buffs.