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replying to this a year later because I phased back into pokemon obsession again because my son is now getting into the card game honestly the biggest thing for type balance to me is that Ice needs a revamp. Even if every other typing stayed the same, Ice is just all fucked up. I'd change a few things surrounding it Resistances Current: Ice...and that's it Proposed: Ice, Water, Rock, debatably flying, but I'm fine adding just the other two. Ice is literally frozen water, so it should resist it not the other way around. Glaciers also historically carve through mountains, so a rock weakness never made any sense to me. Fighting Steel and Fire seem like a balanced amount of weaknesses that are also logical in the confines of the game. Rock is a weird one, as any change I would want to make to it because I tend to like Rock types so much, would probably unbalance the game even more but in their favor. I do think the Ground weakness should be shelved though. Nearly every rock pokemon...

Archaludon is fucking me up but…I don’t hate it Dripplin cool too, I liked base Applin more than either of its evos, I am surprised it got a new one at all though given it already had two

steel just always had way too many resistances, i would gladly trade a couple of those to do something that didnt make steel/rock so shit

it just hit me that the fairy being weak to steel thing is a fair folk’s weakness to iron reference, which is actually kinda clever. not sure why it took me this long to get that lol

its is a bit redundant but i dont see them ever removing a type, it could all fit under a generic “earth” or it could all just be “ground” and itd work but as-is the resists are just strange and they pair them together so often it makes tons of cool pokemon borderline unusable even just in the main game

ice should absolutely resist rock imo, glaciers carve through mountains and shit be here all day if i wanted to talk type fixes though, rock and ground definitely need some work. Why in the fuck are rock types weak to ground when almost all of them live underground ????

^this is exactly what I mean. There was a point where I was into competitive but it just stopped being fun and GF has demonstrated for like, half of my lifespan, that they fundamentally don’t know how to balance it in a way that’s more fun just nerfing stealth rocks alone would make the meta 50% more bearable to me. You should never lose half of your health just for switching in because you’re “the wrong type” (which they also won’t ever rebalance). With Spikes, Toxic Spikes etc they require multiple layers set up to get the most out of them thus there is a clear greater risk for greater reward. Stealth Rocks is just some bullshit nuke at no cost

yeah for me I got sick of the competitive aspect after playing showdown a while as a teenager bc GF is so dogshit at balance but I definitely don’t like using legends and broken shit. Breaks the immersion for me.

seafoam is exactly what I mean. there isn’t anything like that in swsh at least, course that’s partially because the base game did not even include any kind of legendary trio at all :giogio which idk, having the right configuration of legends really goes towards how much of a sense of culture the region ends up feeling like it has

i havent had a chance to play sv yet so my modern pokemon takes are based on my experience with swsh, it’s just such a weird game because you can see the skeleton of a good game buried somewhere way down in there, but it’s just suffocated by poor decisions and rushed releases like I don’t mind the route system at all, I wasnt tired of it, but you really have to do interesting things with it. Secret little pockets easy to miss with trainers or other stuff, weird rare pokemon only appearing in certain places etc. The older games do a decent job of this (remember stumbling on a trio of trainers in Crystal in some out of the way pocket I never visited which was neat) but even those don’t lean as hard into it as they could be. Pokemon has never been a story driven series, so any kind of lore etc. needs to be communicated through the world and they’re getting progressively shittier at doing that. My big issue with swsh is that they turned the gym challenge into the focus of the story...

im personally not big on open world stuff Id rather just have a really well designed world/map but as long as the open world had that too it would be fine obviously sword and shield were rushed but one of the biggest reasons they suck to me is the regular world and open world had nothing to do with each other and both suffer as a result.

their genius way of making the games “harder” is to just take away anything that actually makes them more convenient away i dont even care for super difficult mods or anything but obviously having played these since childhood, they really babyfied these last few gens

gamefreak trying to balance anything when they let stealth rocks exist as-is for like 10 years is hilarious

I don’t understand how Tink’s ability wasn’t Huge Power Azumarill gets that but not the fairy with a 2 ton hammer????? GF is so ass at balance which is why I stopped caring about competitive

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tier list this gen a lot of mid and just ok stuff for me legendary quartet is dope tho

tinkaton is shockingly my favorite this gen never thought I'd say that as every other gen my favorite is either a dinosaur or a bug or something abstract little fairy with a giant hammer thats also a jackass and knocks giant metal birds out of the sky is great though

I am normally all for simplified designs this is one of the first times im just kinda shocked at how there's just nothing to work with there like why does it have those red wolverine claws? how do they relate to the design in any way?

even when this one gets the 2d treatment there just....isn't anything there it looks like a rejected design that would've gotten remade into Aggron or something and naturally it has maybe the best stats of any pseudo legend :lul

I am usually such a sucker for dinosaurlike pokemon but man this is insanely bad, like bottom 10 designs in the franchise for me i never thought I'd see a pokemon suck for being under designed the hell are those red claws even for? why does it have no surface detail at all? Even Johto pokemon have more than that and their whole thing is being streamlined closest thing to a spinosaurus we;ve ever gotten too and they didn't capitalize on that at all, SMH