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@PhillyBeatzU I can see why they did it to simplify things but I feel like they could have just kept IVs around and just make them a toggle like what they did with the new EV system. That alone would have alleviated all of the convolution around it while retaining the niche interactions

IDK how I feel about IV's being removed from Pokemon Champions. I'm not a competitive VGC player but as a casual it was cool to try and 6 IV Pokemon as its own Activity . However this is its own game focused on battle. Maybe VGC players can chime in on this.

@NSuperGamerGuy Side eyes to Square enix out there charcging full price on gkc and offering not upgrade patch for cross gen switch 1 releases as a double fu to folks going for the switch 1 true physical + upgrade patch route.

If I have to pay a little extra for a world of less game key cards, that's a price I'm more than willing to pay. I'd love if third party companies did this to for Switch 2 games cough cough ATLUS cough cough Capcom

@BlazingDiancie @yuwuna69 Champions could also use the more competitive focus to make alterations of clone moves and clone abilities to shave off alot of unneeded bloat and/or give more distinctions between moves/abilities.

@BlazingDiancie @yuwuna69 would also be nice if detect was altered to be more distinct from protect. I would make it treats the accuracy of moves with a listed accuracy targeted to the user 0 for the turn. Would give it a niche use against urshifu but be weak against accuracy bypassing moves

they nerfed protect???

@JoeMerrick I know that the old system could be used as intel gathering for checking speed but that could be alleviated with the name order indicating this or animation intervals occuring in quick succession without turns taking eons waiting on every condition to occur and eating the timer.

@JoeMerrick Holy moly finally. If this applies to chip damage from weather and status conditions, I don’t have to wait centuries for each animation to go off one by one with a text pause after every single instance of a condition going off.

Unironically one of the best bits was seeing this hit both Pokémon at the same time rather than one after the other

@Deliquescing @BeatemupsWood I don’t think it’ll be that bad since most Nintendo games tend to drop below msrp prices after around a month or 2 in the UK. I’ve seen new switch 1 games drop to £35 after 2-3 weeks after launch and switch 2 games drop by £10-15 at some retailers.

@BeatemupsWood Yeah, it is. Though, I guess this does mean the input on the variable pricing will be more expansive than ever, in the UK, if it does expand how it's already done in the UK

Great news! So digital will be getting cheaper! … right? …… right Nintendo?

@costanzafanboy @iWillTheGamer Plus it would be weird if they didn’t add the pre evolutions in as it would mean cutting out Pikachu from the game and we know that they’ll never cut their mascot from any game.

@costanzafanboy @iWillTheGamer Not only that but it also erases a whole format in little cup so Im hoping the pre evo’s do get added eventually as a way of giving spotlights to more formats.

POKÉMON VGC WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. 🏆 Day 2 of Pokémon Champions deep dive dropped and the competitive barrier is GONE: ✅ IVs REMOVED: All Pokémon are 31 IVs by default. ✅ EVs REPLACED: New "Stat Point" system (32 max per stat). ✅ PP REWORKED: Moves like Protect & Sucker Punch adjusted for balance. ✅ MEGA ABILITES: Mega Dragonite (Multiscale) & Mega Froslass (Snow Warning) confirmed. ✅ SHINY POKEMON: Pokémon recuited from ranch CAN be shiny This is the most accessible Pokémon has ever been. April 8th is a new era. What are your thoughts?

@lRandomVGCFan @iWillTheGamer They could still technically do that via a capture card though having a recorder built in would still be nice.

@iWillTheGamer I just want creators to make tournament videos with real tournament gameplay

@rcortezdraws Body slam is deadass gonna be a better dragon rush

MEGA FERALIGATR with 160 attack stab Double Edge is gonna be insane

@PokeDailyPost Least that kind of ability could give it access to max damage heat crash, grass knots or low kicks (throw in heavy slam to its moveset) regardless of the opponents weight and also giving its other contact moves a small boost to lean into Emboar’s style being more weight oriented

@PokeDailyPost While Mold breaker is a solid ability, I do agree that its not good on Emboar. If they could have given it a unique ability, something that could max out the damage of moves that interacts with weight and slightly boost its contact moves up to 20% if the users heavier.

Why does Game Freak hate Emboar?

@_ry32 Tbf ghostwalker is kinda bad against this particular species since its multihit attacks can rip apart decoy stacks really fast

POV: when you trying new things and believing things could get better Photon saber so toughhhh!! #XenobladeChronicleX

@hippoqueenv @mirai_fanarts The funny thing is if we really look into the movesets of the johto gyms especially the og gen 2 games, not much of it actually threatens chikorita’s line despite the type advantage they have so more often than not, it can manage. Ironically, i’d say feralagatr was worse in gsc

@mirai_fanarts people seem to only pull the worst contexts of gen 2 and 4, inventing a pokemon game that doesnt exist solely to call chikorita useless yeah you dont get mareep in gen 2. but gust is physical and chikorita gets reflect earlier so it still does neutral damage

“Why are the first gyms so hard” well dear Chikorita thats because your trainer sucks ass and did not add mareep and a good flying type to the team smh

@animonmaster @Dirtybird345 @BeastMode4TM @PJiggles_ Even among the 5 moves in existence with garanteed crits, only one of them is a special attacking move in frost breath which it doesn’t even learn.

@animonmaster @Dirtybird345 @BeastMode4TM @PJiggles_ Inteleons main issue is that its a pokemon made to deal crit but just about every high crit move in the game are physical. Outside of snipe shot, the only other high crit special move are air cutter, razor wind aeroblast and spacial rend (latter 2 being legendary signatures).

Has Meganium finally beat the "worst starter ever" allegations and if so who is it now

@pleasantmilksh1 @ExceedXatu @JoeyPokeaim Ironically it can also counter opposing rain teams which could make it pretty good in some mirror matches barring any battles against zapdos.

@ExceedXatu @JoeyPokeaim You could run it in rain to weaken any fire counters and have plenty to of other mons to deal with flying.

@JoeyPokeaim You could run it on sand and hail teams and still rip 100bp sun boosted weather balls and get max synthesis healing in those weathers its kinda crazy

@keegan8226 @no_dupes Not even just that mega meganium doesn’t need sun to be active as it basically gets all the benefits of sun in its moves without the actually weather present so it could work in rain teams to cover its fire weakness or counter other rain teams with instant solar beams

@no_dupes I think meganium will likey have options and be a secondary mega for sunteams if they want to run duel megas

Yo im crying man Meganium and Feraligatr get a full course meal while emboar has "MOLD BREAKER" LOOOOOL

@AnisDrawn Also yes the gba did have a very short life before its successor came out going from 2001-2004 which is probably has one of the shortest lifespans of a Nintendo console

@AnisDrawn The lifespans of the consoles is also a factor as other mentioned the first 2 gens being at the end of gb/gbc, gba lasted 3 years before the ds released and the ds lasted 7 years and the 3ds lasted 6 years before the switch 1 released and the switch 1 of course lasted 8 years

Pokemon being the only ones to increase their game output every generation is so interesting compared every other franchise.