There's also getting a 0 Spd IV for anyone that uses Gyro Ball.
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Pokémon Let's Go Eevee/Pikachu (Switch) announced; coming Nov 16th 2018
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Yeah, its inspired on Yellow, and has only the OG 151 plus the Alolan form.
The most annoying this is just the grind to play online period, honestly. That is, that stuff above Level 50 will be automatically reduced to Level 50, but if you're below that? Your level remains whatever it is. So you have to get to at least Level 50 to get online. Which doesn't sound that bad at first, 'cause what, it only takes a few minutes to get a Pokémon up that high if you grind the Elite Four or whatever, right? But when you want to try out a bunch of different stuff and see what works and what doesn't, having to get each one to Level 50 just to be able to use them at all gets tedious really, really, quickly. And that's without touching on stuff like EV training or breeding (for egg moves), which I don't think should actually go anywhere due to the diversity of builds and options they add for some many Pokémon that just isn't worth sacrificing at all just to make getting a competitive Pokémon a bit more speedy. Having those options and diversity matter so much more to me, especially when there's no way around grinding regardless.
Basically, no matter what they do, stuff like Pokémon Showdown will be better for trying stuff out and seeing what you like and don't like. Then once you find it, actually take the time to make it in the actual games and use it there. But testing stuff out on the main games themselves will never really be worth it for me, in comparison. Just too slow and tedious to make new team members and switch stuff out and get them ready for online, no matter what they do.
lots of competitive play requires a large time investment, pokemon is hardly exempt
also as much as I loathe IVs, getting perfect IVs has never been easier and breeding legitimately takes less time than watching a youtube video
True, this is valid in doubles.
This is true too.
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That said, both of the above scenarios could be handled with EVs. The current mechanics of the game have IVs for some specific things but imo those situations don't necessitate the mechanic. Especially given you can control most of these things with EVs. Need to be slower than your doubles partner, invest the EVs to necessitate. Confusion wise, you'd lose fine tuning there but largely no mechanic change is going to yield a 100% identical meta game but one without IVs wouldn't have a profound impact on the games imo.
None issue, just use your last 4 of 6 EVs to make your HP odd if necessary.
This is all pipe dreams since IVs aren't going anywhere obviously.
I think it's more that the game largely doesn't tell you the outcomes. It's like if the SMT games didn't tell you the result of fusion beforehand or hid which monsters could be fused. They need to stop with the whole "I don't know how this got here!" and just show you egg groups on stat screens and the egg moves from breeding two pokemon. Gamefreak overall needs to stop with the nonsense hiding/obfuscation of hidden stats and info and just show it like every other RPG out there. If they're afraid people will be overwhelmed have them require you to get a pokedex upgrade or something. Have it be an optional gear feature. Have them being be an advanced stats screen you can toggle on/off. There are too many things that require you to look outside the game to figure out, and despite having gens to fix it, they've only been adding in breadcrumbs of in-game info
My mistake. Yes, loss of access to bank for LGPE would be bad, although they do need to curb hacked pokemon somehow.
The games tell you all that stuff outside of egg moves.
You are going to get hacked pokemon regardless switch is already popped open
But the games only started being more open with those things semi-recently, which I think is his point.
No, they give you indicators of them. They never give you the actual, exact numbers. And the game definitely doesn't tell you egg moves anywhere
It would be less impactful if raising legitimate pokemon were significantly easier and more intuitive, I think.
They cannot curb hacked Pokémon. Switch is already wide open. PKHeX will be updated to support LGE/P within a few weeks of release. I do agree they need to stop illegal (that is to say Pokémon with data that is unobtainable) Pokémon from tournaments and online battling and trading but hacked Pokémon that have identical data to legitimate Pokémon can only be stopped if the console the game is on isn't hacked.
I'm really hoping these games do have Bank functionality and that the comment about being able to transfer Kanto Pokemon to the game from Go was just them referencing you only being able to transfer those before beating the game, and then after you can transfer others.
We have zero reason to think Bank functionality will be there for this game. I wish it weren't so
The only reason to think that it won't be is the comment about Kanto Pokemon from Go, but we don't know if that's just for the main game or not.
I mean, I would love it if they did. But I'm not confident at this juncture
Even if Bank were compatible, I'm pretty sure only the 152 and Alolan Forms are the only Pokémon programmed into the game. So you'd only be able to transfer Kantonian Pokémon into it.
We don't know, keep in mind the models and animations for all of the other Pokemon are already done, so if Bank functionality is there I would imagine you could transfer any Pokemon.
I think the problem is actually having the Pokemon workable out in the overworld. Just because the animations for every Pokemon are done, that doesn't mean they've been prepped to interact with the geometry of the overworld in any way, let alone with the player character (if Onix is an indication of the fact that larger Pokemon are ridden rather than having them follow). If they plan on letting you bring forward the remaining ~700 Pokemon, they're going to have to do a lot of work to get those models consistent with what the ones they've already prepped are doing. Especially for the larger Pokemon since it seems they're of proper scale in the overworld now.
I'm guessing that Bank compatibility won't come until the 2019 game. The app will come out on Switch then and you'll be able to go from Let's Go to the 2019 games using some kind of poke transporter like for the (was it DS or virtual console?) games.
Edit: Also, this feels bad guys. I've never thought of myself as a gen 1 phanatic or anything like that, but I'm playing an edited version of Ultra Sun with every gen of pokemon in it and...well... I'm filling my team up with gen 1 mon! What's wrong with me?!? I'm just curious to see if this Sandshrew can be good!
Edit: Also, this feels bad guys. I've never thought of myself as a gen 1 phanatic or anything like that, but I'm playing an edited version of Ultra Sun with every gen of pokemon in it and...well... I'm filling my team up with gen 1 mon! What's wrong with me?!? I'm just curious to see if this Sandshrew can be good!
My concern is that the other Pokémon simply don't exist within the confines of LG. The heavy emphasis on Gen 1 ONLY (even to the point of blocking transfers of non-Gen 1 Pokémon from Go) implies to me that only those Pokémon have been implemented into the game, not only practically, but also at a programming level.
Let me reassure you that they would never ever ever ever hardcode only 152 Pokemon into the game, from a programming perspective. They need their behind the scenes stuff flexible. They could add 700 Pokemon to LGPE easily. (if they wanted to)
I'm not saying there's only space for the 152, just that the other 650 haven't been implemented in any functional way.
Again, like I said, we don't know if the Gen 1 only transfers is only for the main game or not. It could allow any transfer after beating the E4.
Except we know they've already implemented more than the original 150. There's Alolan forms and a brand-new Pokemon! We were told this.
Frankly, we know very little about the game right now and people have been panicking over false information in regards to things we do know about. E3 is in like a week or so, we'll find out more then.
Updating how different moves look might be taking them longer than expected. Gen1 has at least 165 moves, if its limited exactly to what the original had. The total for the most up to date count is 728, with an extra 35 z-moves (some of these desperately need improving on the animation side). A lot of them are simple, but its still being redone as evidenced by some of the animations in the trailer looking more polished like thunderbolt and explosion (?)
They already showed Shell Smash in the trailer, that's a Gen V move.
damn, you really caught that from a split second animation
Not having bank support would be odd considering one of their main points in the trailer was there being a brand new Pokemon.
Thats why I think they brought Pokemon following back for this game. I don't think its feasible to do it for every single Pokemon. They'll remove it again from the 2019 game.
The animations for it were already done in Sun & Moon for all pokémon
I do hope they keep it. I feel like Game Freak has a history of removing features for no reason though in new games.
They don't remove things for no reason.
People disliking the reason doesn't mean it was removed for no reason
If we didn't know Gen 8 was coming next year, I'd probably be jumping in with the doom & gloom. However, seeing as how my nephew struggled to get into Gen 6/7 (to the point I wrote this for NintendoLife http://www.nintendolife.com/news/20...kemon_main_series_could_learn_from_each_other, even suggested catching Pokémon like in GO, though I wanted wild battles still), I see it as a necessary evil to increase the userbase as even though people bash Game Freak for having such a view, kids do have lower attention spans and even some lower capabilities than when we were young.
As long as the casualisation doesn't invade the core core series and remains in the Let's Go core series, I'm happy.
They wanted to at least keep some current fans interested in the game. Changing the combat would probably be one risk too far.