>>37423989What this system achieves:
>No need for breeding >Any pokemon you catch in the wild could, theoretically, be competitive ready without hacking>Makes pokemon look less like machines that follow your every move and more like actual creatures>Makes the trainer look like an actual trainer>Allows the player to properly use EVs in the main game>The game can fully expect players to EV train in the main story, which, in turn, allows trainers to have an EV focus as well. They can now be properly defined as a person who focus on a single stat. A steel gym leader that pretends to care about defense above all can now have high defense EVs in their pokemon>Allows the gym leaders and champions to create better strategies>Would make for a more challenging game overall>Gives some sense to the "your pokemon are strong, they must love you very much" shit that people say every game>By the end of the game you would have a genuinely strong, online ready team without the need for grinding, if the EVs are wrong, you can easily change them since your pokemon love you at that pointI'm not sure how to implement pokemon levels in this system yet, maybe if a player doesn't bother to EV train their pokemon, they could still gain EVs to the point where they are still good even at the higher levels, this natural EV growth could be tied to their personality as well. It would also make sense for a pokemon personality to naturally change when it gains levels and progresses through the story.
As for that training facility, it could be a place where your pokemon can fight dummy pokemon, be given certain types of berries, compete against other pokemon or a place you just leave it for a while, it's very important that it both doesn't feel like a chore to do like super training, but also feels involved and fun for the player, it also needs to be as fast as EV training is right now by the end of the game, if the player knows what they're doing.
