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One of my biggest pet peeves with ROMhacks has been that while they'll give all bosses great IVs, coverage and EV spreads, you still have to manually breed/EV train in order to get the same on your 'mons. Even with whatever QoL they offer, if it takes 20+ min to get a new recruit into your party up to speed in terms of IVs and EVs it's too much. Pokemon isn't fun when you can't just catch something interesting and use it and instead have to either breed it to try and get good IVs or grind in-game to get money for an IV NPC or something. If you're going to give opponents teams like it's Showdown then you should let me freely adjust my team's EVs/IVs in less than 10 seconds like it's Showdown too, otherwise I'm not interested
My ideal "hard" Pokemon game would be something like Shin Megami Tensei where you just get a new party member and they're good to go right away.
So imagine my fucking surprise when I learned Radical Red, which I refused to play for above reasons, recently had a patch which introduced "minimal grinding mode" where all Pokemon you encounter automatically have max IVs, and there are no EVs whatsoever (for you or for opponents).
Fucking finally! I will now play your game. This should be the default in every fangame. Most of these games (probably including RR) are janky as fuck anyway, why should I spend any additional time grinding my way through IV breeding and EV training? That's never been the fun part of Pokemon unless you have autism.
Any other fangames that have similar modes?
