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Improving In-game Mechanics

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 19:10:01 No.48208953 View View Reply Original Report

>number of Pokemon you can carry is now 8
>from PC you can select between Party Pkmn (up to the usual six) and Help Pkmn (up to 2)
>only the Party Pkmn can be used in battle
>Help Pkmn can't be used in battles once put into the Help Pkmn slots, even if you have a full team wipe
>If you want to use a Help Pkmn in battles you simply move it from Help Pkmn to Party Pkmn at a PC
>Help Pkmn must know at least one (1) move that interacts with the environment to be allowed to be put into the Help Pkmn slots
>this can be any HM, or moves like sweet scent or flash
>Party Pkmn that happen to know a move that interacts with the environment, however, can still use the moves outside of battle even if they are not in Help Pkmn slots

Did I fix it?
What are some of your ideas to help improve in-game play? No restrictions on ideas. Can be anything like what I said all the way to redesigning pkmn moves/abilities, and everything between.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 19:28:31 No.48209088 Report

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I had another idea too:

>Number of Pokemon you can now carry is 8
>In the Pokemon tab of the Start menu, the first six mons shown are treated as your current battling team
>The last two mons in your Party can't be used in battle once a battle officially starts
>However, when entering a trainer battle you may choose to use your first six mons or select the six you want to use, and the starter, before the battle starts
>For added challenge, you may choose to use less than six pokemon if desired, but no less than two (unless you only have one mon)
>At the start of a trainer battle, if the trainer has more than one mon, you can "ask" the trainer to make it a doubles battle. NPC trainers could have predetermined answers or randomly answer yes/no. Also, some NPC trainers can ask you to have doubles battles if you have more than one mon.
>Lastly, if one of the seventh or eighth Party slot mons has an Exp Share on it, even if it's not selected for battle it can still earn EXP. But only 1/3 of the EXP gained. However if the Exp Share is on one of the mons chosen for a battle, that Mon will get 1/2 EXP even if not used, and 2/3 EXP if used

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 22:41:35 No.48210324 Report

Quoted By: >>48211213

Fix what? HMs have literally never been bothersome. There's nothing wrong with every pokemon on your team having HMs on them in game.

Your other idea would make the game play even slower than it already does. You can already choose to use less than 6 and Gamefreak should be using more battle types throughout the game in the first place.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 23:00:59 No.48210431 Report

Quoted By: >>48211213

>>48208953
Help slot is redundant because the portable PC is a thing now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Sep 2021 01:05:59 No.48211213 Report

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>>48210431
Since when, galar? If so that's awesome, but it still forces a team slot at times to be occupied by a non-team mon. But these ideas I guess are meant for hacking older gens like 1-5.

>>48210324
HMs seriously bottleneck teams, primarily by cutting down training time by needing an HM dedicated mon for areas to progress. For instance in hgss, just traverse water unhindered you need surf waterfall whirlpool. In later gens they added dive and took out whirlpool, but it's still three moves split across spec and phys. And forces your water type into basically one role only. And if it's a dual type then it's pool gets gridlocked immediately. Then all of strength, cut, and rock climb are weaker than return and thus only useful as environmental moves. Fly forces your flier to get stuck with a physical, two-turn attack so if you wanted a special flier then youre either sacrificing a moveslot for bad coverage move (aerial ace is way better as a physical stab coverage move on a spec attacker) or else running two fly mons then forced to slot a ground type and/or steel type.
So yeah, HMs definitely hinder totally free team construction. And slowing down only trainer battles by maybe 10 seconds isn't really a downside when you consider how much more versatility in both team construction and battle styles you would to experience. I mean, you could play almost the whole game as a doubles battle style game and experience it much differently than someone who plays it singles. Or locking your teams to three at a time for most the game while still carrying six mons will allow much wider team selection without needing to only carry three mons at a time, or else being forced to send out your other mons if your choice of three faint.

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