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What changes would you implement, if any, to rebalance pokemon and to give each pokemon a unique niche?
For me:
>rework movepools, older tutor and tm moves would be unavailable.
>more signature attacks to increase variety and avoid cases where one pokemon is strictly better
>rebalance stats: most fully evolved pokemon would have a BST between 5 and 6 hundred, pokemon with detrimental abilities(e.g slaking) would be allowed a higher stat total
>fully evolved pokemon with BST<500 would be given remarkable abilities or attacks (sketch,transform,wonder guard etc)
>legendaries would remain largely unchanged
>introduce Traits as a subset of Abilities
>A pokemon could have an ability and a trait, just a trait, or just an ability
>it would be designed so that a pokemon wouldn't have more than 1 trait if it had multiple abilities and vice versa
>Traits would become passive abilities e.g levitate, heat proof, keen eye, inner focus,technician
>abilities would activate due to some trigger (turn ending, took damage, is poisoned) e.g(guts, speed boost,blaze)
>introduce a normal/ghost type because ghost/fighting coverage is 2 gud
This would allow for some of the weird anomalies to be addressed such as why beedrill who flies can be hit by ground attacks, and allow for weaker pokemon to get a trait and ability to get them up to par
