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I really hope the new forms or Megas or whatever do have a superpowered weather ability though. Like Rainstorm or whatever that's permanent again. I mean it's Kyogre.

In all honesty this would make the most sense, considering it's their shtick AND that they're legendaries. Other Pokemon shouldn't be able to use Drizzle and Drought perpetually.
 
They especially need to add some fire types. If I remember correctly your only choices for fire types were Torchic, Numel, Torkoal and Slugma.

They know that everyone picks the surperior Torchic so there is no need for other fire types... and if you didn't choose Torchic then that is your punishment.

#TeamTorchic
 
wow, did anyone see this ?

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is this real ?
 
I was thinking the same thing, but just trying to be hopeful.




I think hidden power could easily be based off a different innate value assigned to a pokemon. IVs in general are useless in its current form. If you argue they're there to be unique, that's wrong, because clearly you can get perfect IVs if you spend a tedious amount of time doing it. If you argue they're there to just further empower a pokemon, it's the same thing as having no IVs at all. Fuck that shit.
Honestly I think a better system if they wanted to keep the diversity is give every pokemon the same number of IVs but allocate it differently. You'd still have more optimal builds, but there'd be more variety and pokemon aren't going to be as blatantly superior just because you have more time
 
I feel like Ludicolo gets mentioned primarily as a joke, but that dude fucking tore through those gen 3 games. Give him Shadow Ball, Surf, Ice Beam and Giga Drain and he + Blaziken could pretty much take care of the entire game from Winona on up (never played Emerald; I've heard Tate & Liza are way harder). I think he'll really benefit from the expanded movepool/Enargy Ball (plus a possible mega?).

I love the design more than anything, but its typing and abilities are pretty boss too.
 
Honestly I think a better system if they wanted to keep the diversity is give every pokemon the same number of IVs but allocate it differently. You'd still have more optimal builds, but there'd be more variety and pokemon aren't going to be as blatantly superior just because you have more time

Yea, that sounds similar to the setup for EVs and natures.
 
1 > 2 > 3 = 4 = 6 > 5

I'm from the Yellow/Red/Blue/Green Era though.

Same, though I really didn't like Gen 2. Typhlosion was the only cool one (and Quilava was one of the best middle evos), but I didn't like Feraligatr. Meganium was cool looking, but it was also Meganium. Also I'm just burnt out on Gen 1, so my list would be

3=4>1>6>2>5.

If Grovyle just had a slightly cooler evo worthy of itself, Gen 3 would have my favorite starters by far. Gen 4 had solid ones though. 6 started with promise, but they all ended up being ok.

5 can burn.

Also I think Gen 3 has the coolest looking legendaries, but that's just me. CAN'T FUCKING WAIT
 
Honestly I think a better system if they wanted to keep the diversity is give every pokemon the same number of IVs but allocate it differently. You'd still have more optimal builds, but there'd be more variety and pokemon aren't going to be as blatantly superior just because you have more time

I agree with this, you could still allow IVs to be effected by breeding too, so you could breed to get the right ones, or you could just catch pokemon till you find them.
 
I agree with this, you could still allow IVs to be effected by breeding too, so you could breed to get the right ones, or you could just catch pokemon till you find them.
I agree that breeding to help make getting the iv set you want would still be included. It'd just make it so that you have to actually make choices between IV sets, and different sets for a given pokemon might need different spreads, Rather than perfect being optimal for anything unless you want to use hidden power (which is just as if not more annoying IMO)
 
Do you ever visit the other regions to capture / battle gym leaders like you do in Gold & Silver? I feel like if a game can basically include 2 games for the price of one then why buy anything else?

I always hate when you can't catch earlier pokemon in the newer games. The tagline is gotta catch em all.
 
Do you ever visit the other regions to capture / battle gym leaders like you do in Gold & Silver? I feel like if a game can basically include 2 games for the price of one then why buy anything else?

I always hate when you can't catch earlier pokemon in the newer games. The tagline is gotta catch em all.

No. Having two regions in the game caused one region to be short and another to be empty. To keep the balance, they'd have to lock you out of your Pokémon in the second region to avoid a repeat.

Also, the "Gotta Catch 'em All" tagline was absent from 2002 until 2013 and only exists in the west, not in Japan so it has no impact on the actual games.
 
I really hope most legendaries are available after these games and the inevitable X2Y2/Z. The guaranteed 3 perfect IVs is really convenient.
 
So according to Serebii the designs are definitely either new formes or mega evos, not just stylised drawings of the originals

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Pretty obvious really but still, confirmed.

Guess that means there will be at least some minor changes to the storyline.
 
No. Having two regions in the game caused one region to be short and another to be empty. To keep the balance, they'd have to lock you out of your Pokémon in the second region to avoid a repeat.

Also, the "Gotta Catch 'em All" tagline was absent from 2002 until 2013 and only exists in the west, not in Japan so it has no impact on the actual games.
Isn't that tagline in the new trailer though?
 
So according to Serebii the designs are definitely either new formes or mega evos, not just stylised drawings of the originals

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Pretty obvious really but still, confirmed.

Guess that means there will be at least some minor changes to the storyline.
#TeamFormes
 
I feel like if a game can basically include 2 games for the price of one then why buy anything else?

Because the games that only have one region have one good region instead of one half-baked one and one that sucks. Trying to cram in two just means splitting up the development resources.
 
What are the chances of Brendan and May being removed as protagonists?

I can't imagine any situation where they'd remove them both instead of just heavily redesigning them.

I think Lyra ended up being a product of HG/SS redesigning Ethan/Gold and not being able to easily reconcile Kris to fit with that style. RSE formed the basis of what would become the series art style so Brendan/May are already ahead of the curve.
 
I hope we can catch almost all legendaries in these (you could catch almost all of them in HG and SS). X and Y is SO disappointing in this matter... Really, not even a fucking catchable trio. No world wide events for them announced too, hell... Some of them are not even officially announced -__-
 
Because the games that only have one region have one good region instead of one half-baked one and one that sucks. Trying to cram in two just means splitting up the development resources.

Broke my heart when I realized as a kid how little was actually in gold/silver kanto :(

I wsh wed get a feature where you could directly carry over a hallf-of-fame team to a subsequent game from the get-go and play through a hard mode with appropriately-levelled pokemon. Id be perfectly ok with buying two games to get two actual regions, it would just be cool carrying a team through for that long.
 
The first footage of HG/SS was revealed on Pokemon Sunday, iirc. Or whatever it was called during Gen IV. I think it was like a week after the logos popped up.

Think we might see footage of ORAS on the current Sunday Pokemon Program this week or next?
 
The first footage of HG/SS was revealed on Pokemon Sunday, iirc. Or whatever it was called during Gen IV. I think it was like a week after the logos popped up.

Think we might see footage of ORAS on the current Sunday Pokemon Program this week or next?

Well, as I said earlier, Get TV is revealing them to its audience on Sunday, but whether or not there will be footage? I don't know just yet. We could find out tomorrow morning.
 
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