>>29837991The big problem just ends up being that GF has no real competition. There are games about catching monsters and battling them like Yokai Watch.
Ive never played Yokai Watch myself, but I do realize its fans. However it hasn't reached the world wide phenomenon that is pokemon yet. When a new pokemon game comes out, everyone is hyped, everyone is excited, each new coro coro having everyone on the heat of their seats. Its a corporate monster with a long history and no one really able to fight back, and that is kind of a big issue.
Essential it just means they can do whatever they want and they really wont lose anything, no matter how stupid the choices they make may be.
I dont even know if they test how useful a pokemon will be or not. I mean considering they were shocked that people used special attacking Aegislash, despite giving it a monstrous special attack stat and special attack moves, that basically tells me they have no understanding of their own game.
Some people say that not every pokemon is meant to be good, and I can understand that to a slight extent, but really whats the point of something like Pyukumuku? Its entire strategy was based around letting the opponent hit it from high health, and what did they do? Gave it basically no HP, but skyrocketed its defenses. Basically ensuring you will never one hit the poor bastard, and instead receive the most minimal damage possible.
The diving bell spiders stats are awful, and despite being a spider gets no access to sticky web.
Not to mention all the new pokemon are apparently extremely rare so anyone who actually managed to avoid spoilers may end up missing a good portion of the new pokemon with no idea they could of even captured them several routes back.
And Z moves are looking worse and worse requiring you to put a useless move like splash on your pokemon that you could just use sword dance for a similar effect for. Its all truly awful choices.
