Ranking Every Change Made in Pokemon Scarlet & Violet!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 มิ.ย. 2024
- Gen 9 brought about a slew of new changes to the series. Which ones worked and which didn't?
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(0:00): Good Morning!
(0:40): Battle Options
(2:22): Story Paths
(3:33): TM Crafting
(5:16): Tera Raid Battles
(6:50): Snow
(7:35): Status Conditions
(8:58): Random Encounters
(9:35): Battle Facilities
(10:30): Picnics
(11:52): Throwing Items - เกม
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Happy JPR Friday!! What was your favorite new Gen 9 feature?
Anniphilape ❤ he’s the best feature
Happy
This is the last day of Ash Ketchum
Let us be sąd for now
Its needed
Theeeen we can be happy
(Maybe u can do some video --> best/worst/ something from pokemon anime)
Breeding moves being so much easier to get
My favorite I have a few features I really like, terastilization, the mirror herb (to get egg moves), raid events, sandwich making, co-op and lastly the LP and material system
Happy JPR Friday indeed
I wish they had kept the evolution items from Arceus that let you evolve Pokemon that could previously only evolve via trade
you mean the Linking Cord
@@goGothitaLOL other items like the metal coat and reaper cloth were also updated to be useable items because of the removal of held items
I understand why the Linking Cord wasn't added in to some extent. You would've been wasting two held items otherwise assuming the rest of the trade items aren't reworked mechanically.
@@mbcmechachu What do you mean?
@@NinjaPickle consider the following, if say Metal Coat weren't coded to work like an evolutionary stone on Scyther in Paldea like it is now, that would mean that you'd be required to use it along with a Linking Cord in order to properly trigger the evolution in a Single-player experience. At that point why make it have an extra step?
Rip to repels, super repels, and max repels. We will never forget all the hard times you helped us through. Gone but never forgotten 1996-2022, legends die young.
honestly gen 8 was the 1st time i never bothered using repels since i didn't see a need too, but with how the series went, it was a matter of time until repels got dropped
Would be nice if Repels could clear the spawns. Because I hate running from a battle and automatically enter a new one because of a pokemon the game decided should run up on me, especially in Area Zero
@@AbasiMatthew We need something to stop the Lokix assault!
@@KertaDrake agreed. I think repels still have viability in the current games, but it would be to prevent accidentally running into tiny Pokemon you can't see or that just run directly into you/your path.
And also unbreakable tms like seriously, I'd rather find it in the wild rather than grinding them
Something that should also be mentioned is the removal of the Shiny Sparkle in the overworld.
I could understand why they did it due to how Pokemon spawn in Scarlet and Violet where if you despawn that specific Pokemon and respawn it, it will be a different Pokemon. But this becomes a big issue if you're trying to find a particular shiny that barely has any difference such as Tandemaus and becomes an even bigger pain if you're colourblind which was not an issue in Legends: Arceus which was literally the previous game.
On the other hand, it also feels like a necessary change due to how incredibly common Shinies are.
@@babulbi Shinies are more common in legends than Sv
I'd feel like adding a visible shiny sparkle effect would be better. Because let's say you hear a shiny sound effect and you can't find it because the pokemon despawned before you even saw it, that would suck
@@babulbi I’ve found so many more shinies in legends arceus than scarlet, they’re no where near as common as they were there
@@randomcommenter6498 They are, you just don't realize it because of the sound, so you have probably walked past many without noticing.
You forgot to talk about bottle caps requirements changing to level 50 from level 100. That’s HUGE for me who even if I don’t battle in competitive often, I like to have competitively viable Pokémon.
That was in SWSH
@@soaringsora5743Nope. Bottle caps were brought in in gen 7, but the level cap wasn't changed till gen 9.
@@goldoan Oh.
Came here to say, I 100% agree with Drowsy and Frostbite. Should have been kept. They could have kept Sleep for Rest only (self-inflicted), and changed everything else to Drowsy. Frostbite was perfect.
Frostbite would have been cool but i think sleep is better than drowsy
Frostbite is genuinely a great status condition that we need to keep in Pokemon
Frostbite would not only make Ice more relevant, but it would finally give Burn a counterpart for an easy way to lower Special Attack. It's not like Freeze happened more than once in a blue moon anyway.
Frostbite is cool but I think Sleep is necessary for non-sweeping grass like Amoonguss to be actually usable.
Sleep is better than drowsy. More predictable. Freeze needs to die
Know what else was brought to the breeding part of the picnic feature? The eggs will hatch to the baby forms each time, no incenses needed, although it would be kind of nice to give the 3+ perfect IVs to said hatchlings like even baby Pokémon got in XY from being in Undiscovered egg group
I sort of don’t like this change since you need to evolve the baby in order to continue with breeding. If you’re IV breeding without a high IV Ditto it’s a pain how many times you’d need to do it
It goes a long way to making the babies seem more natural. Before, the ones added after Gen II behaved more like a weird offshoot than true stage in the Pokémon's life cycle.
Anipoke Community: Goodbye Ash
JPR: Yes. Very Sad. Anyway...
LOL
Well, I mean the final episode just got released today/yesterday. Maybe he wanted to catch it first?
All Ash did was mislead poor young Pokémon fans picking up the games for the 1st time to use P!kachu and charge headfirst into an Onix or Rhydon.
Just messing ,, but still I'm sort of glad they changed up since they messed up his Classic design in 2019 anyway. Just before Covid hit in fact. 🙄 Why do some people keep trying to 'fix' what isn't broken?? 🤔 Restless human nature.
@@netweed09 ok bud, the new design is great. We all have different opinions.
@@Pigeon_loll Hmm, ok but he sure didn't last long. Lingering deeper regrets by the producers,, maybe ?
I'm convinced random encounters are a nostalgia thing. I've played the games since the beginning and good lord, it's like night and day now. It's so relaxing to explore.
I just like the surprise factor is all, but yeah I understand how looking for something specific for 15 min would be hell
@@nellewoodruff6337That's not even the worst part of random encounters. It's the obligation to fight a billion useless pokemon to get to the one you want. It creates a fatigue for the player, who gets bored doing the same fight over and over against a bidoof to get what you want.
Nah, Pokémon and stuff being distorted because of nostalgia? Never happens.
@@antoineleclerc5638 trying to get through Mt Moon or Rock Tunnel back in gen1 was it's own kind of torture. Cave randoms and swimming... Was not and am not a fan, nope.
100% agree. I can't imagine what type of maniac would prefer rng dice rolling over and over instead of just exploring an open world to find what you want.
one thing I will say is that the AI partners you can get in gen 9's raids are better then the ones in gen 8...because dear god several of the AI partners in gen 8's raids are horrendous
It helps immensely that the AI getting knocked out has no impact on the tera raid battle timer.
they listened to how much hate that cosmic power solrock got
@@chinatown3567 yeah, Martin was one of the worst allies since he more so wastes turns being an idiot
The AIs actually play smarter than actual people imo, they are just using the wrong Pokémon lmfao
I will never forget the magikarp that joined my two other players and I for the zeraora raid once.. We managed to pull through by a sliver, but that damn fish kept dying left and right😂
I think they removed the ability to turn off battle animations because of the raids. They’re ‘real time’ and it would really mess up other people if two different people have different animation selections.
And for the removal of the set style? Yeah, I agree. It’s awful.
I feel like they could have made it so that animations are on for raids regardless of your settings
@@CaptainObliviousV that's exactly what I was thinking
@@CaptainObliviousV They probably could’ve, it would’ve made sense. I’m not sure why they’d remove the option then. Maybe something about how the ‘physics engine’ (I groaned saying that) works? Like how Pokémon move around the environment when in battle? I dunno.
@beardoof You make a good point there. The way they format raids nowadays is just rife for problems. Almost like they were never tested properly, which is kinda funny considering Game Freak is a very small indy company with not a lot of experience.
@JohnDoe-pb4drNot exactly.
The move animations are off still off, but the Dynamaxing (giant pokeball) animation is still on, which is very, very annoying
The open world itself is my favorite change. But I do hate how long animations and how many unnecessary animations there are in raid battles. A lot of the time you’re sitting there with the clock running waiting on it to finish 3 set up moves in a row and the game to tell you, “you’re almost out of time”.
Or the raid battle menu stops you from selecting your attack and sometimes just skips your turn entirely.....
@@HyouVizer it’s so frustrating. I feel like Dynamax adventures has a better raid system.
@@Chtsht23 100% agree, that kind of raid was fun swsh dlc. But Idk why the tera raid battle menu cant stay on and select attacks during raid boss phase changes smh
GameFreak buffing the Ice type 1 step per generation... while also improving every other type but Bug 10 steps per generation
I do like the idea of frostbite better than freeze since special attackers shouldn't be as priviliged, however I prefer sleep over drowsy since it's a shut down option that many slow grass types like Amoonguss, Breloom and Toedscruel depend on to actually be usable and removing it would deal a huge blow to the grass typing as a whole.
I actually agree with this. I kinda like freeze too because I just find it hysterical when it happens, unlike other stat effects that have dedicated moves, freezing is like once in a blue moon. I've never once frozen a pokemon but when I get frozen I get mad for a second and just start laughing cuz it's so rare. However, I can see why frostbite is better because of Sp. Attackers and it not stopping a pokemon from working for eternity.
But sleep is pretty good imo. I think it's fine. Yeah, it's annoying, VERY annoying, but I think it's one of the few things some Grass Types have besides Paralysis. I understand why people would like drowsy better but I prefer sleep as a mechanic. It's okay to have at least ONE really annoying status effect mechanic like that.
One issue I have with the lack of Battle Facility is that there is little to no end-game content post story. You can just do one repesting singles tourney and do the training at Star Facilities and otherwise you're largely dependent on playing with other people after that.
Hopefully we well see a good battle facility in the DLC the first part comes out in less then a week
it's important to remember that this game was developed at a similar time to legends arceus so it does make sense that some of the things it had aren't in this one (you could argue that the two teams should have worked together more though)
It’s frustrating how many people don’t realize this.
That said, I won’t be soft on Gen 10 if they don’t adapt some of Arceus’s better ideas
I have more hope for Team B considering the Young GameFreak Devs worked on PLA while Team A full of old Veterans did Pokemon S/V.
the overlap between teams is a thing too
This. I’m sure they’ve heard what people have had to say about both SV and LA, and I’m hoping that the next major game implements the best of both worlds. I wouldn’t even mind if they dialed back on the Open World to multiple instanced areas like in LA. Just make travel between the instances easier.
At the very least they can do miles better in unloading parts of the map that aren’t anywhere close to you.
@@chinatown3567 yeah. If you look at the credit for both games, there's a ton of people who worked on both. Like, just about all of them. From what I've been able to gather, there wasn't actually an A Team and a B Team, just one team working on two games at the same time.
It should do one way level scaling. It won’t lower anyone’s levels to match you, but if you surpass them by a large amount, they get a boost.
Now this is the type of level scaling I can actually get behind
Yup, just upscaling. Only for boss battles though, imo. And even then, I think gyms should be scaled by badges
Fair...like I don't want to feel overleveled. Like I took on Brasius Gym First and then most of the other gyms afterwards.
Then I absolutely curvestomped Katy because I thought Brasius was the first Gym Leader you would initially face. (Cause he was the first Paldean gym leaders shown in trailers.)
Making Exp Share mandatory was wayyy worse than removing Set mode. Exp Share always on fundamentally changes how the gameplay loop functions, and how some people (like myself) preferred to play the game.
Set mode being gone is annoying, but at least you CAN still “use” it from a functional standpoint. Exp Share on you cannot avoid it changing the experience of the game.
I don't like it either. I enjoyed Scarlet and Violet, but I still prefer the older games where you can play in a different style. Having exp share permanently on means I have to switch out party Pokemon all the time so they don't become over-leveled. It seems like in Scarlet and Violet, with all the optional trainer battles, Exp. Share should just be on by default but you should be able to turn it off if you want. It annoys me that we don't even get the option, and that's the problem. Okay, they want you to not play set style, they want you to use Exp. Share, so make those things the default, most people won't turn them off. But it would be nice if we could at least play differently if we want to.
Both are bad.
Dears developers, give players the choice.
We are all in agreement that removing player agency by removing options is bad. Next thing you know they'll just remove the ability to change the settings altogether because "why do you need to adjust volume in game, just alter the volume of your television or the Switch" or "why do you need to adjust camera speed, we decided that it should move at set pace we decided works and looks best for the game."
I agree with you on the 'typed' resources rather than the pokemon specific one. Or at least 'categorizing' each resource so you can mix and match. Something like pichu fur and shinx claws being 'physical electric resources' and toxel sparks and mareep wool being 'special resources', and Wild Charge needing 10 physical and 3 special resources. Still allows for some depth and nuance in the crafting, without being so overly specific that you need to hunt down a dozen of one specific pokemon because you are short.
I always felt that the whole ‘TMs no longer breaking’ was along the lines that the technology behind them inside the game universe was advancing.
Thing I hate about Tera Raids though, is for the higher star ones you always need a specific Pokemon with a specific build. It’s frustrating when you just want to grind them out for items, you pour money and resources into one Pokemon that will never be as useful again since it was specifically tailored for that one Tera fight
I would’ve like the box system from Legends to come back , imagine being able too see your Pokémon walking around a little gated off section at your house , or your mom asking you to let her use some of your Pokémon to help her around the house .
Would be really cool for a future game, like the protagonist the the son or daughter of a woman who owns a Pokémon ranch. Though it would mean that ‘bill’s pc’ or ‘boxes’ would probably be renamed to ‘mom’s pc’ or ‘mom’s ranch’. And then they’d have to figure out how you’re getting your mom to send the Pokémon over so quickly xD
I think why snow gives 50% defense only is to be the opposite of sandatorm which givea 50% special defense
Another thing I love about tera raids is the guaranteed capture of whatever Pokémon you fight. The amount of Pokémon I lost after winning in max raids, Gigantamax Pokémon especially, is huge. It took me almost ten max raids to finally capture a Gigantamax Gengar.
What I hate about Scarlet and Violet: WHY DO THE MATERIALS PUT A RED DOT IN MY BAG
At first, I did agree with you on the battle animations bit. When I saw that they removed the ability to turn them off, I just said, "Eh, that's no big deal." Then I started tera raids...
I couldn't tell you how many raid battles I lost in mid to post game not because of bad play, but because the timer ran out due to long move animations. I ended up hardly ever terastyllizing my pokemon to use a boosted move because it would always play that crown bloom animation before the move itself, adding even more wait time that I can't afford.
Some JPR content to fill, Ash's departure❤
As a competitive player, i think the loss of pokejobs is a huge L. The ability to train EVs without obsessive battling was a huge step up from previous generations, and i hope they bring it back in the dlc
i didn't even know they affected evs
@@slimestudios9748 There were specific jobs that unlocked a little bit into the game that did EV training.
But, You can still EV train without battling because Vitamins can be bought and you can fully EV train a stat with them (as of SwSh they removed the limitation that Vitamins couldn't be used once a stat was over 100. So now you can just use 26 of a vitamin to max out its respective stat)
I did the gyms/titans/bases in the very wrong order (Iron Treads was my second titan), which ended up being super fun! So, in a playthrough, *no* level scaling is fine, but I do think they should have it in one section or after postgame to make training less of a pain).
I think they just need to be more obvious about how the game is scaled. I had to learn for myself that levels increase based on how far away from Mesagoza the location is.
...There was a proper order to do things in?
I think the dynamic loyalty is great, where you aren't banned from catching something overlevelled like in SwSh and can't just boss the game with a random lv60 you found like in most older games; they hit the sweet spot right here IMO. Sure you can catch that level 45 boy, but until you're able to train lv45s they aren't going to care what you think... until they retroactively respect you
The issue with that perspective on being anti-level scaling is that, while it is true that you can have cool experiences with taking out challenges that are way beyond your current level, this will lead to the other side of the coin incredibly easily: fighting bosses that are complete pushovers due to the aforementioned challenge giving you so much exp that you outpace a good chunk of the other challenges.
I’ve seen people suggest team scaling, referencing the Origins specials with how Brock adjusts his team so that Red stands a chance, but my main issue with that is how it affects the aces. Using the Paldea leaders as the example: something like Bonsly, Swablu, or Toxel would be too weak as an ace even for the first gym, but Altaria and Toxtricity would be too strong for at least the first two gyms. I want the aces to remain consistent, since that’s the defining Pokémon of their team.
@@CaptainObliviousV I think they could easily have different aces for lower levels. It makes sense that they have a lot of different pokemon
@@TechnoArpan like I said, I want the aces to remain consistent, at least within the same evolution line.
Snow should have an alternate which is hail that contains both the normal haul benefits and the snow ones, so that the ice type can be actually a little good beyond good coverage/protean usage
Tera Raids is honestly the best feature for me. It's SUPER BUGGY but Tera Raids compared to SwSh are 10 times more fun and ALOT more rewarding.
Gamefreak making TMS breakable tho, was the worst decision they ever made and it's a sin that they thought it was even close to a good idea
Lets not forget the worst change: the removal of mass release
I don't get why they removed the chip damage from hail/snow, considering that sandstorm exists and does both, IE raising defenses and chip damage. Hell, both make sense thematically as well: sandstorm raises special defense because the particles in the air block some of the flames/water/air/etc. that would otherwise hit the pokemon, while snow/hail would add an additional layer of ice onto ice types, thereby raising their physical defenses. As to the chip damage, they either should've left it on both weathers, or taken it from both, instead of just continuing to make it clear that hail/snow is their least favorite weather type. It's really telling when the main selling point of snow is that you can set up aurora veil in one turn.
Actually hail to snow is a massive boost it may not seem like it but it’s one of the best changes that could’ve happened to the ice type
I think sleep is still better than drowsy because it adds a lot more luck like old confusion where every turn its a coinflip which sucks. Atleast with sleep there is only 2 turns of variance since the first turn you cannot wake up and the 4th turn you are guaranteed to wake up which makes it easier to play around
You might be able to argue this isn't new, coming from Legends, but having a permanent move pool and the ability to switch out moves on the fly is amazing.
Definitely on board with the tm materials. They could have had general terms for groups of pokemon like "electric fur" for stuff like thundwave and "sparks" for thunberolt. That way you can get one resource from multiple pokemon
The thing about level scaling is that you could get some challenge in the start by going off route but once you come back to the starting gyms they are just a joke
I think a sorta soft level scaling could work. Like the quote-on-quote last Gym Leader will always have level 50 Pokemon, but if you wait until the very end to challenge the first Gym Leader, they shouldn't still be at level 12
My favorite feature is definitely the introduction of Mirror herb. Getting egg moves are much easier and I hope they never remove the feature
I'd have to disagree with drowsy replacing sleep, primarily because it makes rest bad. What move used for bulk increases the damage you take? Also a chance to not attack is always annoying. Maybe a better replacement could be that it halfs both attacks as well as speed, but does no chip damage.
Favourite thing I'd say is the story stuff. It was nice, all of them had good things to them & being able to choose which one to focus on first was great (We save the puppy ASAP of course)
Least favourite is the removal of shiny sound & sparkles that Legends Arceus had. Hearing that sound and seeing the sparkles was pure seratonin and wonder. Now I run around, stop, spin frantically and live in the fear of missing a shiny because they're too similar to the original colors - or the lighting is muddying up the colors so much that they're hard to tell apart (if it happens to be night time in game... Good luck). Bonus negative on pokemon spawning inside cliffs - could easily miss a shiny just by literally being unable to know it existed in the first place
i wish they wouldve given more outfits and put sandwich effects on the different clothing pieces
No battle facility pissed me off. I used that to test stuff before going online.
One positive I enjoyed from Scarlet & Violet was choosing which bosses to fight whenever is convenient for you. While I can understand the argument with level scaling being implemented, I feel it would be odd if someone like Grusha was low leveled because of the amount of gym badges obtained, while the wild Pokémon potentially having higher levels than the Gym Leader in the same snowy location. On the other hand, one negative I have a problem with is breeding being more time consuming compared to Sword & Shield. While on paper the ability to breed Pokémon wherever sounds good, my personal issues stems from having to waste time in picnics for an egg to spawn. You’re unable to choose a pair of Pokémon to breed during picnics, start exploring elsewhere in the meantime, and immediately obtain one egg when starting another picnic. I’m more of the type who’d rather get a Pokémon with perfect IV’s, certain ability, and right nature in one session.
What about the removal of Fishing, Fossils, and Pokérus? Also, Scarlet and Violet don't have a way to level up Pokémon without having them in your party, like the Day Care, Poké Pelago, or Poké Jobs.
Removing the Battle Facility is a complete loss as its basically always been the main postgame activity providing a higher skill tier of battling and makes for a good practice ground for testing competitive Pokemon before testing them online.
Removing such a major piece of content without replacing it in a game with such an anemic postgame already is a huge loss, especially if GameFreak realise they can butcher the postgame and then sell it as DLC.
I find it disappointing that Pokémon don't interact with each other as much or at all in Picnics like they did in Pokémon Camp with Sword & Shield I also think they should've kept the mini games from Pokémon Amie.
My favorite feature in Scarlet/Violet is you can finally JUMP PEOPLE OUR STUPID LITTLE TRAINERS CAN'T BE CONTAIN BY GRAVITY ANYMORE
Favorite change: As much as I find TM grinding inconvenient, that + having a portable “Daycare” incentivizes me to actually explore the region, rather than being tethered to a daycare center.
That and Bottle Caps only requiring you to be Lv. 50 instead of 100 to work.
Least favorite change: Pokejobs/Poke Pelago is gone and Vitamins are way more expensive than in Sw/Sh (10k LP vs. 2 BP). So if I want to EV train, I have to spend almost all my money or grind the old fashioned way with the Power items. It’s also frustrating that Auto-Battles don’t give EVs, because I thought that was the whole point.
Your intro sound will never tire me out, it's so catchy 😂
Sincerely, the only thing I want from Arceus to come back is the ability to crack the skull of a Togepi from behind by throwing a pokeball at it.
You can WATCH your pokemon breed during picnics. Ah yes dinner and a show.
i agree with everything other than the battle towers, i liked having the battle tower as an option just to practice, i found that very fun and it's really sad to see it go
The fact that they removed the Set mode makes me suspicious of that time some Pokémon Company employees came out saying that PC doesn't like Nuzlockes and the PR immediately told that they were wrong.
Also, it's yet another proof that Scarlet and Violet where basically the alpha version of Legend Arceus that was hastily put together and released because they needed a mainline game for Christmas season.
What universe are you in that you think this game was made hastily made from legends? Like I know it’s buggy but god damn that is the coldest take I’ve heard in a while.
@@Blaze-nm1uh just by looking at the state of it, I don't see it as such an extravagant theory. Even just in this video there was some jarring bugs I spotted in the gameplay.
@@FanzyKittenz nah Pokemon are just biased for Sinnoh
When you’re so early that Gaster wasn’t in the Void yet (a joke to the intro sound in this video):
I was not a fan of breeding being part of the picnic mechanic. It's annoying that I need to empty my entire party to breed a specific pokemon. I would've preferred a nursery pc box , where the rotom phone alerts you when the first egg is in the box and again when it's full. That way, you get portable breeding like in picnics but you don't have stop what you are doing empty your party and start a picnic.
What I like about the Tera-Raids is the fact that you actually have to put in some thought into the pokemon you yourself use. It added a focus on the Raidpokemons stats (ie Chansey and it's line being very easily taken oiut with physical moves and not Special moves.). What I also like about it is that the higher tier raids ask of a strategy as well. in SWSH you can slap on the enemy what ever, but in SV you NEED to boost stats and attack afterwards (Bellydrum Azumarill ftw)
Level scaling for gyms would be good but I also like having areas with different difficulties
I think they should've scaled gyms to badges like they are in lore and other boss fights would only upscale with no downscaling
Do people forget how buggy the Legends catching thing was? Most of the time my ball would go straight through the mon or worse, i'd actually succesfully sneak on one only for the ball to fail for no reason and it alerts the mon.
I mean, they never said sneak guaranteed capture. And personally, never seen anyone encounter the 1st bug
I think there should be level scaling but also have the gym leaders reference it, for example when registering for a gym they take down how many gym badges you have and that would determine the team the gym leaders have. I think this has been a thing in the anime but I can't remember for sure. Have a gym leader say "since you have three badges I will be using my 4th badge team" or whatever.
Legends Arceus was basically my ideal pokemon game. So many of those changes I liked and wanted being immediately reversed in the next mainline game was painful
I will always be an advocate for level scaling in open world pokemon games. At the very least, they should have level scaling for wild pokemon. If I want to wander all the way up the map to find a Frigibax before taking on any gyms, I want to be able to use it without having to worry about whether or not it will listen to me since I don't have enough badges.
If they don't have level scaling for boss fights, I think they should at least have some indication of difficulty/order based on levels in the game.
I think the overworld is the one thing that shouldn't scale because it destroys world building. It's like "this area has very dangerous pokemon!" but if you go there early they're level 10. boss battles should be scaled however, maybe just upscaling without downscaling
you forgot the feature where traded pokemon can be renamed, pretty much one of the best lol
said hey to you at Charlotte regional today, it was awesome to see you!
In pla, you could glide on braviary for a while before landing. In sv, you glide for like 30secs.. another unpopular opinion, I liked the fall and satchel mechanic
This game to me felt like 1 step forward 2 steps back from legends
Of all the changes Gen. 9 does, why; oh why, did they have to make TM breakable again?
JPR: "Good morning!"
Me, who does not live in N/S America: "I'm trying to settle down for bed, don't try to trick me into being wakeful!"
I always wanted to breed during a picnic
What's weird about the return of Sleep status, is there's no unique "sleeping form" when pokemon can literally sleep in picnics
So my theory for why you can’t picnic while on the bike is because you can’t get off the bike while in water, so it means the game doesn’t have to check for what kind of terrain you’re on (only slope and whether there are npcs or towns nearby). Considering how bad the game runs already, I’m ok with them not making it try to figure out more stuff
There's also the removal of overworld shiny sparkles/sounds, F-tier, it was useful for accessibility, and the change is especially bad with how small they made a lot of Pokemon and how many subtle shinies are in SV.
And some abilities lost their overworld effects. There's a number of spawn affecting abilities, like Static, Magnet Pull, and Flash Fire, along with Illuminate, that got their effects taken and relegated to sandwiches. I'd say B-Tier. It makes things easier and capable for every type, rather than the handful that had abilities for it.
Bring back L = A as an accessibility option!
To combat level scaling, I’d go into each challenge with a different team of pokemon then my elite 4 team. It made it fun to train up different teams of Pokémon to use for each challenge.
I laughed so hard when I discovered there was no level scaling in the games. It was like a constant reminder that there was an “optimal “ way to play the game while everyone tells you it’s fully open world and do whatever you want. It’s contradictory imo.
If anything, Snow is now similar to Sand which isn't much better thinking about. It only gives Rock types a Sp. Def boost in Sand (tho it also gives Ground and Steel types an immunity to the chip)
The only reason people consider Sand "good" is because of it's great setter (Tyranitar, and to an lesser extent Hippowdon) and abusers (Excadrill, Dracozolt, and Dracovish), every other pokemon with Sand Stream / Sand Rush more or less suck
Hail has A-Ninetales and it's Slush Rush abusers (the best one being Arctozolt, arguably Cetitan), almost every Slush Rush user is a Ice-Type with 65 spe or less (Cetitan being the fastes one at 73)
and besides, Rock and Ice are 2 heads of the same coin:
-Solid offensives
-God-awful defenses that's a detriment to any pokemon that just so happen to be part Rock or Ice (or worse, both *cough* Aurorus and H-Avalugg *cough*)
-Have a well-known move that nobody uses Rock nor Ice types for, cause of the reason above
-Too many slow bulky Rock or Ice pokemon, with very few fast ones in between (Weavile, Terrakion, A-Ninetales, Nihilego, Lycanroc-Dusk, G-Darmanitan, Chien-Pao)
-Their *now* now only boosts one of their defenses, but doesn't do much for them
-Both now also have a pseudo-legendary that's more or less carried by their pseudo-legendary status (600 BST well distributed stats, great movepool, bad typings)
It's 2023 and we still dont have voice acting. That's my biggest gripe. Pokemon has waaaay too many cut scenes with too much dialog.
I think part of removing the option to turn battle animations off is because of online play and at least *trying* to not desync each client too much. But either way...
This is not saying they were succcesful at all in that endeavour. Even while sitting in the same room as my partner and playing only locally it started desyncing so badly it was almost laughable. Sometimes he'd see my pokemon be fainted before I did..
Yeah frostbite definitely should’ve stayed. Everyone hates getting frozen. its a dog sh*t mechanic that is 99% luck whether you get thawed out quickly. The 1% is if the Pokémon that is frozen just so happens to have one of the very few moves that thaws yourself out in which a terrible thing becomes a slight inconvenience where said move might not be the strongest attack against the other pokemon but you have to click it anyways
Also yeah i hate the bias towards special moves
Arceus and SV were developed at the same time by different teams so most of the removed Arceus features are probably gonna come back since it was so well received
They should have just kept the hail chip damage. No idea why they thought it needed to be taken away
Frost bite lowers special attack
Drowsy lowers both defense
But still sleep and frozen are in the game, but limited for specific Pokémon.
Honestly my biggest complaint is the towns.
My favorite part of older gens is when getting to a town and getting to explore the buildings and talk to different people which seems almost entirely removed now. A lot of towns just seem to be... slapped down in the middle of a spot.
I think if Gamefreak keeps the open world in the future, do loading zones into towns. I'd be fine with with a town having gates or the like that trigger a loading zone and giving a more traditional fixed camera angle town with lots to do in.
Now towns just feel hollow. If I'm not there for a gym or a shop, then the town just feels empty. One of the few negatives imo.
I understand your points but I think you should have compared the new changes without linking them to SWSH which we all know had a lot of those stuff wrong
I prefer sleep over drowsy. Since I kinda use Venomoth alot.
I will say in regards to the reversions from Legends Arceus, Legends is basically a spin-off title that is closer to an action RPG so, yeah, things are going to work differently in that game compared to the core series.
Also, I hate that we seem to be going back to breakable TMs, especially with how SV handle them. In SwSh with TRs and in BDSP while it was somewhat luck dependent, you only needed money/watts to obtain more TRs/TMs, but in SV not only do you need LP (which is a non-issue basically) but you need to have enough materials and if you don't you have to go beat up a bunch of wild pokemon to obtain them.
About levels, I think the Titans and Team Star bosses should have a fix level, but the gyms could have different levels and teams based on the number of badges you have. It would be more complex to do, but I think it would be more fun, GF could spend a bit more time doing it.
Also, it doesnt need to be drastic changes you know
I genuinely think that the targeting system in ScaVio and the targeting system in LA were developed by entirely different people. ScaVio’s is clunky as hell and barely works, while LA’s is one of the most crisp targeting systems ever, to the point where you don’t even need to zoom in to make some pretty accurate long shots with balls from the Feather series. I hope the next games have LA’s targeting system, without a single change. It’s that good imo.
both games were in fact made by different teams yes
@@scrunkore I mean beyond that. I suspect both games were made around the same time, and may have even had access to the same engine and tools. But they clearly took vastly different directions in how they made things like ride Pokémon and the targeting system
About level scaling an idea I think could work is for example
if you have 3 badges and challenge the 6th gym they will still have 6th gym levels
but if you go challenge the 1st gym, they will have 4th gym levels since you’re going for your 4th badge.
I get what you mean about the level scaling. At the beginning, I headed for the grass gym first and thanks to that had a decent challenge, but did the bug gym second to last and that made it extremely easy. I think they could've done something like add level scaling to the gyms where the gym leaders have a different team based on how many badges you have (since it's been implied a while now that gym leaders use different teams based on the challenger anyway) but maybe have static levels for the Titans and Team Star. Would make sense for the in game universe and give us as players the best of both worlds.
TMs, I agree that there are too many different materials, but overall I think this is the best system to date. Non breakable TMs gave your teams too strong and also too samey of a moveset early on. I remember in Let's Go, so many of my Pokemon had Headbutt and Dig for like half the game because those were much better moves than anything they learned through level up for a while.
Don't understand why they couldn't just have added the defense buff to Hail but whatever.
Kinda torn on sleep vs. drowsy, but I think Frostbite should have definitely been kept over Freeze, would've also worked well with the defense buff to ice types from Snow.
Guys, I'm thinking about buying a switch and I am fighting over which Pokémon game should I buy first: Sword or Scarlet?
Sword came first so to me it makes more sense, but Scarlet is the new game, with events, new raids etc. So I really cannot decide .
What do you recommend?
RE Level Scaling: why not give things minimum levels but if you have higher level Pokémon they'll change? If one wanted to throw in difficulty levels easy could be everything at its minimum, medium could have the lowest opponent level raised to your party's average level, hard could have the opponent's minimum level be your party's highest level
They could have just kept Hail and added the boost to it instead of making a new weather effect.
The mirror herb picnic I didn't know of I wasted a hour trying to get my pokemon a egg move but just gave up
A lot of the nerfs and rebalancing they've done is without a doubt an F tier change
Removing moves like Superpower from Lurantis and Rillaboom, and Grassy Glide from Rillaboom to name a few, on top of Protean/Libero only working once per switch in and Battle Bond just being a once per battle +1 Atk/Spd boost
It's just disappointing and removes viability of some pokemon almost entirely
Also RIP Scald
i like to 'watch' the TMs im looking for. if i then press right on the dpad i can see which what im still missing
I’ve always felt that Pokémon games should have difficulty settings which directly impact the level scaling of the game. Pokémon can go up to level 100 but often times the highest an opponent will get in the game is ok the 60s. There are about 30 more levels at that point to take advantage of that could make the game much more challenging.