>>48841181My post got cut off before I could finish but that's fine. The entire hack will be in Double Battle format. This applies to all Trainers and Wild Pokemon. A new system will give you a bit more agency in choosing your starters; they won't be a generic selection of Oak's Lab Starter+Eevee/Pikachu, but will be curated to your playstyle preference.
You will not be able to level up in my hack, and your Pokemon therefore will not be able to evolve unless you use the Effigy in pic related. Every Pokemon in the game will have a set level. Right now, the intention is to use level 50, but there are considerations taking place about adjusting the level of certain monsters based on certain contexts or to compensate for certain weaknesses.
Whether the Effigy will be a consumable item or something you have to exchange with an NPC to get them to trigger evolution is up in the air. Testing of both methods will take place later tonight.
After the Player/Rival sprites are finished, I will commission the main antagonists, and then some custom NPC sprites. They are all based off of older Trainer artworks and character sheets. There are no betamons or fakemons however, but I may commission Gen 3 styled variants of earlier sprites if I feel like it.
