>>49603562Except the friendship modifier was totally meaningless because by the time you'd get Return in game all your Pokemon would already have long since had maxed-out Friendship from essentially no effort on your part. If they want to make friendship more significant and noticeable they should also make the ways you increase it actually meaningful.
>>49603538Removing it was the best movecut GF ever did. Return made every other physical move (save Facade) completely irrelevant because nothing could compete with consistent 102 BP and no drawbacks. Now you actually have a reason to consider Body Slam, Mega Kick, Slash, Double Edge, etc.
