I hated Sky Battles because the difficulty spiked so much from the surrounding trainers. I lost two 'mons that were otherwise levelled up fine in a Nuzlocke by getting into one.
This - there's one particularly notable example I remember. On Kalous Route 8, isn't there a Sky Trainer who has Pokemon a good ~8 or so levels above surrounding trainers. Even higher than the Gym Leader in the area after.I hated Sky Battles because the difficulty spiked so much from the surrounding trainers. I lost two 'mons that were otherwise levelled up fine in a Nuzlocke by getting into one.
To be honest seeing there's a lot of.... questionable pokes who can learn Dive and Surf... can you imagine Rhyperior doing a water battle? >_<Glad that underwater or dive battles were never introduced.
There's an easy way to get unlimited Silver Caps in Festival PlazaGotta complain about something that is making my attempt to make a No Holds Barred team much harder: how difficult it is to get Caps, even the Silver ones.
I have a Deoxys that only really misses on having a horrible Speed IV, but since getting a Cap without cloning or long Battle Tree streaks is incredibly difficult, I cannot patch that bad IV without someone else giving me a Cap on purpose.
I don't mind if I have to farm for Caps (after all, they are not meant to replace breeding) but it went overboard. You either have to break a 50+ streak on purpose (and you have to wait for the next day) or pray for one of the few unforgiving RNG-based methods to give you a Cap.
To make it even stranger, it's also called Thunder in japanese, so it's not a mistranslation.Why is the move called Thunder if it is lightning and why is Thunder not a sound-based move?
Funny how you mention Kyogre, Groudon and Deoxys in ORAS when only Rayquaza is easier to catch in that game than before.Don't know if this has already been mentioned but it annoys me that they have made legendary mons so easy to catch. They are supposed to be the gods of the pokemon games, and yet in ORAS you can catch Kyogre/Groudon/Deoxys with a couple ultra balls quite easily. In FR/LG i would knock Zapdos down to a sliver of hp and put it to sleep and still go through 40+ ultra balls without catching it and having to reset the game many times.
In fact, I believe Groudon and Kyogre were made a bit harder to catch in OR/AS than in R/S/E. Their capture rate was 5 before, but OR/AS made every Legendary that isn't Rayquaza (and available to catch) have the standard rate of 3.Funny how you mention Kyogre, Groudon and Deoxys in ORAS when only Rayquaza is easier to catch in that game than before.
It's a matter of RNG.
Yeah, and I've never been a fan of the low capture rates. Maybe it's just me looking back with an adult's perspective, but I never really felt more accomplished for wasting dozens of balls just to catch a legendary. It doesn't make it more challenging, just more tedious. (I also don't get why the Beldum line's capture rate is so low. The starters have 45 and are often never found wild, meanwhile Beldum has 3 and Take Down)Keep in mind that the games' primary demographic is young children, and while that doesn't excuse everything, it may explain some of these things, such as them handing players shiny toys on a silver platter.
You'd think that the better (or more useful, at least) the TM, the more expensive it is. U-turn being P$10,000 while Sunny Day is P$50,000 baffles me.How unnecessarily expensive the TMs at TM shops are. I blew about $600,000 today buying them. Really, $50,000 is way too much for just a TM. Sure some are just $10,000 or $30,000, but why can't they all just be the same price?
Also, is it me or is money really tight in this game? In all the others I've played my fortune is always easily over $3 million, but here I struggle to keep a balance of 700,000-800,000(now I'm broke).
Different people like different things from games. If you don't play the battle facilities, that's fine.I've never played any Battle Facilities and I play Pokemon since Blue was released 20 years ago :(
Mind you that they created this at the same time as they instated their policy of no more cross-generation evolutions. Sylveon will have to be seen as an exception in this regard.I've always wondered what were GF thinking when they made Eviolite. “Hey guys, let’s make an item that basically prevents us from giving 99% of existing Pokemon new evolutions in the future”?!?!?!??!