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Post by Speedy_Fox_IV on Aug 24, 2017 7:55:42 GMT -8
Colour me impressed. Both in the changes and the fact that 3DS hacking has advanced enough in the past 5 years that such changes are possible.
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Post by Aquadrop on Aug 24, 2017 8:53:04 GMT -8
I APPROVE 100%
Fire and Ice squad
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Post by It's Sky on Aug 24, 2017 9:30:06 GMT -8
Colour me impressed. Both in the changes and the fact that 3DS hacking has advanced enough in the past 5 years that such changes are possible. Thanks! The impressive thing is that it's only been in the last year or so that this has even been possible, and yet there are so many things that can be done. If I was feeling ambitious I could rewrite all the dialogue in the game and make reading it hurt less than bashing my face into a brick wall. |
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Post by PichuAuraGuardian19 on Aug 24, 2017 14:41:09 GMT -8
Colour me impressed. Both in the changes and the fact that 3DS hacking has advanced enough in the past 5 years that such changes are possible. Oh, trust me, I've seen even more hacking that could be considered much more insane. |
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Post by It's Sky on Sept 5, 2017 18:24:08 GMT -8
Haven't had much time to work on this, but here are a few notable changes: - Increased Togedemaru's movepool, giving it access to more Steel moves.
- Zing Zap now has +1 priority. I'm considering either lowering the damage or removing the flinch potential, as a priority electric move on its own seems dangerous.
- Powder Snow has been replaced with a new status move called Cryofreeze. It has low accuracy but has a 100% chance to freeze the target. (Think a less accurate Will-o-wisp, but it freezes instead of burning.) This has the potential to be very broken, so I'm not sure if it will be sticking around.
- Kommo-o can now learn all of the elemental punches as well as Aura Sphere. I think I gave it access to the Fire Blast TM as well, just for a bit of coverage.
A few things I've figured out: With the program I'm using it looks like mega evolutions only work properly on Pokémon which have multiple forms. For example, I could make Shaymin mega evolve into its Sky Forme, but not into any other Pokémon. Luckily for me, all of the Totem Pokémon save for Wishiwashi are treated as alternate forms which can have unique stats, so if I wanted to I could theoretically create a Mega Gumshoos, Raticate, Lurantis, Salazzle, Vikavolt, Mimikyu and Kommo-o, just to name a few. Also, it unfortunately doesn't seem possible to make a Pokémon evolve into one of its alternate forms. There go my hopes for turning Mega Audino into a proper evolution. I've made a bunch of other little tweaks as well, but am still in the process of documenting them all. In the meantime, what do you guys think about the things mentioned above? |
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Post by It's Sky on Sept 5, 2017 18:26:41 GMT -8
I also swapped Decidueye's base 70 speed with its base 100 special attack. You're welcome PichuAuraGuardian19. |
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Post by PichuAuraGuardian19 on Sept 6, 2017 12:26:58 GMT -8
I also swapped Decidueye's base 70 speed with its base 100 special attack. You're welcome PichuAuraGuardian19. That's a good choice. Decidueye really doesn't get many Special Attacking moves. At least, none as useful as his Physical Attacks. |
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Post by Marksman on Sept 7, 2017 8:53:06 GMT -8
I'm going to go through each of these suggestions individually. First, Psyduck and Golduck will definitely be getting psychic added. It's always seemed weird to me that not even Golduck had it despite their obvious psychic connections. Second is the great Charizard debate (And I guess this sort of extends to Gyarados as well.) There are a lot of arguments in favor of swapping both of their flying types for dragon, but I'm a bit hesitant. For Charizard, it does get the type change when it mega evolves, so I don't know that I want to take something special like that away from it. Also that would mean losing its ground immunity, which means Earthquake would murder it. As for Gyarados, I'm still on the fence about it. The reason why there were so few dragon Pokémon initially is that...well it used to be ridiculously strong. Nowadays things are a bit more balanced, but...I dunno. If the general consensus is that it would be better with dragon that's probably what I'll do. YES
THE PSYCHIC DUCK WILL FINALLY BE PSYCHIC!
Good, Charizard should die with earthquakes. xD But yeah... I guess you're right, flying does make sense with Charizard too. I don't really mind it's typing that much.
GYARADOS on the other hand... flying never made sense to me. We shall see.
A fish that can leap over mountains doesn't sound like a "flying" type to you? lol (sorry, just had to mention it) Honestly, I don't remember much from Gen 7... but from looking at the Pokedex... suggestions: Ribombee could use a slight buff to its stats (I've never seen someone actually use this Pokemon, sadly enough) Lurantis should be bug/grass and gain access to a few more bug-type moves (It is literally a praying mantis! It even learns some bug-type moves!) Crabominable needs more defense if it is to stay an ice type. (has too many weaknesses and is too fragile for it's slow speed. Kingler is faster, has better defenses, and around the same amount of attack. A GEN 1 Pokemon for crying out loud... Why is a crab Pokemon fighting AND ice, anyway? Water/fighting or water/ice, not that abomination..... Ha. I get its name now.) |
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Post by It's Sky on Sept 7, 2017 11:16:49 GMT -8
YES
THE PSYCHIC DUCK WILL FINALLY BE PSYCHIC!
Good, Charizard should die with earthquakes. xD But yeah... I guess you're right, flying does make sense with Charizard too. I don't really mind it's typing that much.
GYARADOS on the other hand... flying never made sense to me. We shall see.
A fish that can leap over mountains doesn't sound like a "flying" type to you? lol (sorry, just had to mention it) Honestly, I don't remember much from Gen 7... but from looking at the Pokedex... suggestions: Ribombee could use a slight buff to its stats (I've never seen someone actually use this Pokémon, sadly enough) Lurantis should be bug/grass and gain access to a few more bug-type moves (It is literally a praying mantis! It even learns some bug-type moves!) Crabominable needs more defense if it is to stay an ice type. (has too many weaknesses and is too fragile for it's slow speed. Kingler is faster, has better defenses, and around the same amount of attack. A GEN 1 Pokémon for crying out loud... Why is a crab Pokémon fighting AND ice, anyway? Water/fighting or water/ice, not that abomination..... Ha. I get its name now.) Crabominable suffers from the same problem as a majority of ice types--it can do damage when it hits but has so few chances to thanks to its abysmal speed. Offensively ice is an excellent type. It hits hard, checks major threats and a majority of its moves have the potential to freeze, which can absolutely destroy an opponent's strategy. The drawback? Ice is a TERRIBLE defensive type. It is weak to a lot of common types and only resists itself. Which begs the question of why GameFreak would give it to so many slow Pokemon. It's a glass cannon which you never get the chance to fire because the opponent always shoots first. Aside from Weavile and a handful of other speedsters there are almost no ice Pokemon who can take advantage of their type due to being (sometimes literal) walking glaciers. That's why you see a lot of ice moves being used competitively, but never by actual ice-types. STAB isn't worth the likelihood of getting blown to bits the second you make it onto the field. ...Sorry that I turned your idea into a rant. I have a LOT of thoughts about Ice. The rest of your suggestions are good too, and I'll see about working them in. |
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Post by Speedy_Fox_IV on Sept 7, 2017 15:40:54 GMT -8
YES
THE PSYCHIC DUCK WILL FINALLY BE PSYCHIC!
Good, Charizard should die with earthquakes. xD But yeah... I guess you're right, flying does make sense with Charizard too. I don't really mind it's typing that much.
GYARADOS on the other hand... flying never made sense to me. We shall see.
A fish that can leap over mountains doesn't sound like a "flying" type to you? lol (sorry, just had to mention it) Honestly, I don't remember much from Gen 7... but from looking at the Pokedex... suggestions: Ribombee could use a slight buff to its stats (I've never seen someone actually use this Pokémon, sadly enough) Lurantis should be bug/grass and gain access to a few more bug-type moves (It is literally a praying mantis! It even learns some bug-type moves!) Crabominable needs more defense if it is to stay an ice type. (has too many weaknesses and is too fragile for it's slow speed. Kingler is faster, has better defenses, and around the same amount of attack. A GEN 1 Pokémon for crying out loud... Why is a crab Pokémon fighting AND ice, anyway? Water/fighting or water/ice, not that abomination..... Ha. I get its name now.) It lacking a water type actually makes plenty of sense. It's based off of the Coconut Crab which is a land crab and thus is not an aquatic crustacean. |
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Post by Marksman on Sept 7, 2017 22:41:46 GMT -8
A fish that can leap over mountains doesn't sound like a "flying" type to you? lol (sorry, just had to mention it) Honestly, I don't remember much from Gen 7... but from looking at the Pokedex... suggestions: Ribombee could use a slight buff to its stats (I've never seen someone actually use this Pokémon, sadly enough) Lurantis should be bug/grass and gain access to a few more bug-type moves (It is literally a praying mantis! It even learns some bug-type moves!) Crabominable needs more defense if it is to stay an ice type. (has too many weaknesses and is too fragile for it's slow speed. Kingler is faster, has better defenses, and around the same amount of attack. A GEN 1 Pokémon for crying out loud... Why is a crab Pokémon fighting AND ice, anyway? Water/fighting or water/ice, not that abomination..... Ha. I get its name now.) Crabominable suffers from the same problem as a majority of ice types--it can do damage when it hits but has so few chances to thanks to its abysmal speed. Offensively ice is an excellent type. It hits hard, checks major threats and a majority of its moves have the potential to freeze, which can absolutely destroy an opponent's strategy. The drawback? Ice is a TERRIBLE defensive type. It is weak to a lot of common types and only resists itself. Which begs the question of why GameFreak would give it to so many slow Pokémon. It's a glass cannon which you never get the chance to fire because the opponent always shoots first. Aside from Weavile and a handful of other speedsters there are almost no ice Pokémon who can take advantage of their type due to being (sometimes literal) walking glaciers. That's why you see a lot of ice moves being used competitively, but never by actual ice-types. STAB isn't worth the likelihood of getting blown to bits the second you make it onto the field. ...Sorry that I turned your idea into a rant. I have a LOT of thoughts about Ice. The rest of your suggestions are good too, and I'll see about working them in. I agree on most of that... however, ice types are more than just glass cannons IMO. To my memory, ice-types are tanks, similar to steel-types, but specialize in sp. attacks while steel-types are physical attackers. Main issue is that ice-types have the most weaknesses, so... having a lot of def/sp. def doesn't mean much. Examples: Cloyster, Avalugg, Alolan Sandslash, Lapras, Jynx... Sure, there are Pokemon that don't fit the mold, but... eh, just my take on it. The biggest unintentional joke Pokemon to my knowledge: Aurorus. So much effort just to get this beauty, and then you realize just how terrible the Pokemon is in combat. Weak to six common types (4x weak to fighting and steel) and resistant to uncommon types (or at least types you would NEVER have out against an ice-type in the first place). Highest stat is HP of all things, and has a terrible speed stat (ha, ice-types). It dies to just about everything, and in one hit. Not a big fan of refrigerate (its main ability) either. Such a shame, because it looks so cool (ba dum tshhh)... Anyway, if ice-types had high speed, they'd probably be broken... but I do think Crabominable could use some help. As it stands, I'd rather run Kingler or Crawdaunt. |
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Post by Marksman on Sept 7, 2017 22:48:33 GMT -8
A fish that can leap over mountains doesn't sound like a "flying" type to you? lol (sorry, just had to mention it) Honestly, I don't remember much from Gen 7... but from looking at the Pokedex... suggestions: Ribombee could use a slight buff to its stats (I've never seen someone actually use this Pokémon, sadly enough) Lurantis should be bug/grass and gain access to a few more bug-type moves (It is literally a praying mantis! It even learns some bug-type moves!) Crabominable needs more defense if it is to stay an ice type. (has too many weaknesses and is too fragile for it's slow speed. Kingler is faster, has better defenses, and around the same amount of attack. A GEN 1 Pokémon for crying out loud... Why is a crab Pokémon fighting AND ice, anyway? Water/fighting or water/ice, not that abomination..... Ha. I get its name now.) It lacking a water type actually makes plenty of sense. It's based off of the Coconut Crab which is a land crab and thus is not an aquatic crustacean. ... So why is it an ice-type? Just because? :P Makes sense about not being a water-type, though... thank you for sharing your wisdom, sire. |
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Post by PichuAuraGuardian19 on Sept 8, 2017 7:53:20 GMT -8
A fish that can leap over mountains doesn't sound like a "flying" type to you? lol (sorry, just had to mention it) Honestly, I don't remember much from Gen 7... but from looking at the Pokedex... suggestions: Ribombee could use a slight buff to its stats (I've never seen someone actually use this Pokémon, sadly enough) Lurantis should be bug/grass and gain access to a few more bug-type moves (It is literally a praying mantis! It even learns some bug-type moves!) Crabominable needs more defense if it is to stay an ice type. (has too many weaknesses and is too fragile for it's slow speed. Kingler is faster, has better defenses, and around the same amount of attack. A GEN 1 Pokémon for crying out loud... Why is a crab Pokémon fighting AND ice, anyway? Water/fighting or water/ice, not that abomination..... Ha. I get its name now.) It lacking a water type actually makes plenty of sense. It's based off of the Coconut Crab which is a land crab and thus is not an aquatic crustacean. It lacking a water type actually makes plenty of sense. It's based off of the Coconut Crab which is a land crab and thus is not an aquatic crustacean. ... So why is it an ice-type? Just because?  Makes sense about not being a water-type, though... thank you for sharing your wisdom, sire. Well, Crabominable is also a play on the Abominable Snowman. Having used one myself, I think it should definitely have more Speed and more Defense. I honestly don't mind it keeping its Ice typing because it's the first Ice/Fighting-type. |
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Post by PichuAuraGuardian19 on Sept 8, 2017 8:03:18 GMT -8
Crabominable suffers from the same problem as a majority of ice types--it can do damage when it hits but has so few chances to thanks to its abysmal speed. Offensively ice is an excellent type. It hits hard, checks major threats and a majority of its moves have the potential to freeze, which can absolutely destroy an opponent's strategy. The drawback? Ice is a TERRIBLE defensive type. It is weak to a lot of common types and only resists itself. Which begs the question of why GameFreak would give it to so many slow Pokémon. It's a glass cannon which you never get the chance to fire because the opponent always shoots first. Aside from Weavile and a handful of other speedsters there are almost no ice Pokémon who can take advantage of their type due to being (sometimes literal) walking glaciers. That's why you see a lot of ice moves being used competitively, but never by actual ice-types. STAB isn't worth the likelihood of getting blown to bits the second you make it onto the field. ...Sorry that I turned your idea into a rant. I have a LOT of thoughts about Ice. The rest of your suggestions are good too, and I'll see about working them in. I agree on most of that... however, ice types are more than just glass cannons IMO. To my memory, ice-types are tanks, similar to steel-types, but specialize in sp. attacks while steel-types are physical attackers. Main issue is that ice-types have the most weaknesses, so... having a lot of def/sp. def doesn't mean much. Examples: Cloyster, Avalugg, Alolan Sandslash, Lapras, Jynx... Sure, there are Pokémon that don't fit the mold, but... eh, just my take on it. The biggest unintentional joke Pokémon to my knowledge: Aurorus. So much effort just to get this beauty, and then you realize just how terrible the Pokémon is in combat. Weak to six common types (4x weak to fighting and steel) and resistant to uncommon types (or at least types you would NEVER have out against an ice-type in the first place). Highest stat is HP of all things, and has a terrible speed stat (ha, ice-types). It dies to just about everything, and in one hit. Not a big fan of refrigerate (its main ability) either. Such a shame, because it looks so cool (ba dum tshhh)... Anyway, if ice-types had high speed, they'd probably be broken... but I do think Crabominable could use some help. As it stands, I'd rather run Kingler or Crawdaunt. I'm going to start off by saying I do agree with you on the whole bulky Ice-types thing. I just wanted to add something regarding one of the examples you listed. Regarding Alolan Sandslash, I have seen it used pretty well, despite it having a number of weaknesses. One thing that benefits it is if you have its Hidden Ability Slush Rush, which is basically the Hail equivalent of Sand Rush. It does require set-up, so it's not the best Mon, but I'd say it at least has more potential than some of these other bulky Ice-types. Not to mention it can learn Leech Life, which is very handy with healing. It also has access to Aurora Veil if you wanted to make it a tank. Also, fun fact: Ice-types don't have the most weaknesses. Rock and Grass do. |
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Post by Marksman on Sept 8, 2017 20:15:20 GMT -8
It lacking a water type actually makes plenty of sense. It's based off of the Coconut Crab which is a land crab and thus is not an aquatic crustacean. ... So why is it an ice-type? Just because? :P Makes sense about not being a water-type, though... thank you for sharing your wisdom, sire. Well, Crabominable is also a play on the Abominable Snowman. Having used one myself, I think it should definitely have more Speed and more Defense. I honestly don't mind it keeping its Ice typing because it's the first Ice/Fighting-type. ... The name comes after the Pokemon is designed, no? And I get the name, trust me. Yeah... but a weak mon is a useless mon IMO. If it has to get crushed by everything, at least give it some amazing bulk. |
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