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Major game mechanic changes

Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2014 15:18:03 No.18720911 View View Reply Original Report

>Gen II
The split of the 'special' stat
>Gen IV
The physical-special split
>Gen VI
Mega evolutions

What do you think the most important or most game altering of these mechanic changes has been? Which is your favourite? do you wish any didn't happen?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2014 15:22:44 No.18720932 Report

Quoted By: >>18720981 >>18721000

Physical special split made everything better except robbing Typhlosion's thunderpunch ;_;

Fuck digivolving

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2014 15:23:52 No.18720945 Report

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I love all of them but I think my favorite would have to be the physical-special split. I literally can't play older gens anymore which sucks because I hate gen 4 and 5's visuals and regions.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2014 15:33:41 No.18720981 Report

Quoted By: >>18721077

>>18720932
Why don't they give Typhlosion a special attacking electric-type move? It needs one.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2014 15:37:28 No.18721000 Report

Quoted By: >>18721078

>>18720932
>Beginning to get into breeding and EVs in Emerald
>Breed Modest Treecko
>Wreck Battle Frontier with Leaf Blade/ThunderPunch/Crunch/Dragon Claw
>Physical/Special split
>Sceptile now useless as fuck
>

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2014 15:37:47 No.18721001 Report

Quoted By: >>18721093

You're forgetting Abilities in gen 3

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2014 15:55:22 No.18721077 Report

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>>18720981
He's not an electric type. Charizard could really use the same thing and it would make more sense given he's in the dragon egg group.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2014 15:55:23 No.18721078 Report

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>>18721000
I hate Mega evolutions but I really hope they'll give Sceptile one so it becomes usable again.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2014 15:58:05 No.18721093 Report

Quoted By: >>18721106

>>18721001
and natures

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2014 16:00:17 No.18721104 Report

Quoted By: >>18721114 >>18727664

>>18720911
>Kingler sinks deeper into obscurity with every major mechanic change
GF pls

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2014 16:00:28 No.18721106 Report

Quoted By: >>18722422

>>18721093
And proper IVs.
They more or less just indicated if a Pokémon was shiny in gen II.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2014 16:02:16 No.18721114 Report

Quoted By: >>18721133

>>18721104
>meanwhile Azumarill got stronger every fucking generation

Gen 2: introduced, worthless water pikachu
Gen 3: Huge Power
Gen 4: Phys/Special split, can use water moves boosted by huge power
Gen 5: More moves?
Gen 6: Fairy typing

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2014 16:05:33 No.18721133 Report

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>>18721114
Azurrel confirmed for GF favorite Pokemon
Hoeen Confirm this and Misty/Ash confirmed too

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2014 16:08:47 No.18721147 Report

Quoted By: >>18721192

Not mega evolutions, that's for sure. They're basically just glorified form changes and we've already had those. The gen 2 and 4 changes had a better effect on the game.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2014 16:15:19 No.18721192 Report

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>>18721147
I think they should have just given a buff to the Pokemon who recieved those evolutions, and those that recieved two megas could be given a secondary, different evolution that requires some item etc.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2014 17:31:43 No.18721703 Report

Quoted By: >>18721732 >>18721745 >>18727612

>>18720911
Gen 2:
- Spilt of the special stat
- Crits are not based on speed
- Sleeping Pokemon attack the turn they wake up
- Pokemon can unfreeze

Gen III:
- Natures introduced
- Abilities introduced
- Cap for EV introduced
- Removing the 999 cap for stats

Gen IV:
- Physical/Special split

Gen V:
Nothing really important

Gen VI:
- Megas introduced
- Electric types are immune to thunderwave, plant types are immune to spore moves.

The most important ones.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2014 17:35:40 No.18721732 Report

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>>18721703
did you forgot about held items in gen II on purpose or what?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2014 17:37:42 No.18721745 Report

Quoted By: >>18722355

>>18721703
I don't know but I think the introduction of Dark/Steel and Fairy in Gens 2 and 6 respectively are pretty big mechanics changes.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2014 17:42:22 No.18721776 Report

Quoted By: >>18721845 >>18722235

>Mega evolution
>most important change

They're a form change, nothing more. They're literally just the equivalent of GF introducing a bunch of new powerful Pokemon into the meta, the actual mechanic is completely worthless.

Fairy type, Steel nerf, grass/electric/ghost buff, multiple egg moves, and all little changes they made to moves this gen (especially Knock Off) are more important than Mega Evolutions.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2014 17:49:01 No.18721845 Report

Quoted By: >>18722212

>>18721776
if you don't like Mega evos good, but don't try to deny that it was an important change. Yes maybe they are "form change" but they made some useless mons into useful ones, and that's just with a few evos cherry-picking the most popular ones that's an important mechanic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2014 18:39:30 No.18722212 Report

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>>18721845
Like I said, they're not anything new. They just buffed a specific set of Pokemon and it had no real effect on any of the other Pokemon. It's like saying the Therians were the best mechanic of Gen 5 when they were just new forms.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2014 18:41:11 No.18722235 Report

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>>18721776
The fact that you can have only one of them, that you need an item slot for them, and that you can change the form of them IN the batlle, meaning you can for example abuse different abilities like Manectrics Lightning Rod makes them rather different from just some new pokemon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2014 18:57:32 No.18722355 Report

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>>18721745
They work the same way as before, there were just a few that were added and other that were changed.

Notably, the Fire type is the only one that got more resistances with every change to the type chart, being only second to Steel now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2014 19:00:18 No.18722374 Report

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Physical/special split is only such a good change because that's the way it should have been to begin with anyways.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2014 19:07:53 No.18722422 Report

Quoted By:

>>18721106
and EVs..?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Apr 2014 03:50:27 No.18727612 Report

Quoted By: >>18727624

>>18721703
Gen 5 brought critical captures and merged over world poison damage.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Apr 2014 03:51:50 No.18727624 Report

Quoted By:

>>18727612
Nerfed* damn auto correct

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Apr 2014 03:57:00 No.18727664 Report

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>>18721104
Are you serious? The split made Kingler much more viable, before that he had no stabs to work with its great attack.

It's just that Kingler is bad either way, but he did improve.

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