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Triple battles

Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 17:45:32 No.58252559 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>58252619 >>58252623 >>58252628 >>58252718 >>58252774 >>58252804 >>58252887 >>58252897 >>58252929 >>58253172 >>58253254 >>58253307 >>58253333 >>58253347 >>58253404

soooo why where triple battles abandoned again? it seems like their pretty interesting and allow for cool team compositions

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 17:48:07 No.58252570 Report

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who the hell is damien

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 18:03:27 No.58252619 Report

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>>58252559
Prease understand, small indie developer, having 3 pokemon AND a trainer on screen at once would be too hard so we had to get rid of them for SM ;-;

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 18:05:34 No.58252623 Report

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>>58252559
i don't really know (laughs)

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 18:07:16 No.58252628 Report

Quoted By: >>58252633 >>58252637 >>58252717

>>58252559
it's just doubles except you instantly lose if you lost the pokemon order coin flip

garbage gimmicky shit no serious competitive player actually played

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 18:09:11 No.58252633 Report

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>>58252628
>garbage gimmicky shit no serious competitive player actually played
but enough about Gen 6+ gimmicks

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 18:09:57 No.58252637 Report

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>>58252628
Oversimplifying it. It was nice to have in small amounts in the story. Sky battles were dope too. Gimmicky short and sweet battles between friends are fun too

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 18:25:54 No.58252713 Report

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The real crime was scraping inverse battles.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 18:26:29 No.58252717 Report

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Too hard to balance with all the modern mechanics for little payoff

>>58252628
The fuck are you talking about, there's nothing coinflippy about triples, it's easily the most skill based format with how many positioning options there are

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 18:26:57 No.58252718 Report

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>>58252559
Triple battle was a boring concept
6vs6 now that's something that could be interesting

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 18:36:07 No.58252751 Report

Quoted By: >>58252929 >>58253163

>>58252718
>6vs6
How would it work

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 18:39:55 No.58252760 Report

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>>58252637
This. Imo triple/rotational, inverse and maybe even sky battles are more fun and tied to the combat than "press button for this epic animation" like megas, z moves or gigamax. despite appearances i actually liked the tera more
>t. never played VGC or competitive

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 18:43:48 No.58252774 Report

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>>58252559
They just don't mesh well in Pokemon compared to doubles. The Pokemon in the middle is just getting dogpilled and dying while the other two on the edge have little interaction.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 18:48:35 No.58252790 Report

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>>58252717
>it's easily the most skill based format with how many positioning options there are
I don’t think triples was ever explored seriously on a competitive level it was mostly just people fucking around with sturdy Shedinja and other funny things. If you forced it to be comp it’d probably just be perish trap and such nonsense

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 18:52:55 No.58252804 Report

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>>58252559
>why where triple battles abandoned again?
too much lag
20 fps or less

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 18:54:49 No.58252812 Report

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>>58252717
>there's nothing coin flippy about coin flipping if you should put your pokemon left or right

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 19:15:27 No.58252887 Report

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>>58252559
Starting from Sun and Moon, the trainer models appear during battles. This makes every trainer battle require more processing power since you have to load 4 models instead 2 in single battles and 6 instead 4 in doubles. They would have to load up to 8 models in triple battles and this is why the feature vanished from SM and didn't come back. Hordes also vanished together with triples. That said, Z-A shows that they could get triple battles to work now since there's a 4P battle royale mode and hordes are back.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 19:16:58 No.58252897 Report

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>>58252559
I vaguely recall this led to some really miserable battles involving stalls or some cases where battles REALLY dragged out

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 19:22:32 No.58252929 Report

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>>58252559
Futureproofed high poly models on 3DS + trainers shown in battle starting in Gen 7. Should've returned in Gen 8.
>>58252751
Triples, but with front and back rows.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 20:10:07 No.58253163 Report

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>>58252751
Entire team on the field at once
Everyone can attack everyone

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 20:11:48 No.58253172 Report

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>>58252559
The Shitch Poo would literally blow apart trying to run triple battles

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 20:32:13 No.58253254 Report

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>>58252559
I would like them better if you could hit anyone from anywhere, aka just doubles with one more. but no they wanted it to be different and "balanced" enough to be worth including.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 20:34:22 No.58253263 Report

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Triple battles sucked, but rotation battles were awesome.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 20:45:03 No.58253307 Report

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>>58252559
Lag. The 3DS games lagged a lot.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 20:45:11 No.58253309 Report

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>triple battles
>rotation battles
>sky battles
>hordes
>all gone
holy shit how has the series regressed as its technical limits expanded

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 20:47:47 No.58253315 Report

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>>58253172
This. The game would explode with stuff like hordes

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 20:49:06 No.58253320 Report

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How come hordes only came back in PLA when I get gangbanged by 4 alpha Garchomp?

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 20:51:32 No.58253333 Report

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>>58252559
they never emphasized them enough to begin with. there are maybe two memorable triple battles in the games they appear in, the charles fight is the only big one
compare that to tate & liza, the teamup with steven, the sinnoh traveling buddies, and just the sheer quantity of mandatory double battle fights in gens 3 and 4.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 20:55:09 No.58253347 Report

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>>58252559
they made the 3DS lag too hard and got left behind in the dust of history, simple as

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 20:56:22 No.58253351 Report

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I feel like at this point in the series wild encounters should be randomly between 1 and 6 and you should be able to choose a preferred format when battling any given trainer.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 21:00:11 No.58253367 Report

Quoted By: >>58253380

>>58253351
>I feel like at this point in the series wild encounters should be randomly between 1 and 6
i will accept this only if you can throw pokeballs without needing to whittle the horde down to a single pokemon

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 21:00:36 No.58253370 Report

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I really would have liked Triple Battles to have never left the series after their introduction, like with how Double Battles never left after being introduced. Triple Battles are so fun with three Pokémon at once, resulting in needing to manage positioning and range.

Also, it would have been good if the Wonder Launcher was kept too.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 21:03:29 No.58253380 Report

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>>58253367
of course, this should go without saying

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 21:11:27 No.58253404 Report

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>>58252559
Dropping rotation battles was the real crime

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 21:16:04 No.58253423 Report

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>>58253404
Rotation should be the standard format for VGC

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