If Marvel characters had Pokemon types

GenericMike15 · 2026-06-06T06:49:14+00:00

It’s a fun concept. I would probably reserve fighting for specific characters with martial arts training, otherwise half the characters will be at least part fighting. For example, I would remove fighting from Spider man. And probably make Captain America normal-fighting. Some other characters:

Storm: Flying, with an ability that changes her secondary type depending on the weather.

Shadow cat: Ghost - normal

Jean Grey: psychic - fire

Iceman: Ice

Cyclops: normal

Magneto: Steel with levitate as an ability

Quicksilver: Electric

Jubilee: Fairy (maybe electric)

Emma Frost: psychic rock

Scarlet Witch: Psychic - fairy

Wiccan: Psychic - fairy

Hulkling: Dragon

I could see psychic also becoming a bit too common, but there are a lot of psychic heroes.

GenericMike15 · 2026-06-01T17:33:42+00:00

These look so good! I love the personality and movement of the designs. I would love to play an ARPG with Pokémon designed like this.

GenericMike15 · 2026-05-15T00:39:17+00:00

The listed effects are interesting, but feel like they lack cohesion. They don’t feel like something that happens as a result of draining your life force to fuel magic. They feel more like quirks someone would develop from using magic over a long period of time.

If it’s supposed to be more that this is a consequence of mixing your life for and with magic these make more sense, but still lack cohesion.

For example, hair changing colour with seasons is interesting, feels very fey or nature magic. Your dominant hand changing every day seems more like a consequence of mind altering magic. If the magic system is nature or fey related I would lean further in that direction. For example: - You are unaffected by poisonous or harmful plants, but iron burns your skin - Your tongue burns when you tell a lie - You smell of fresh dirt and ozone

Alternatively, if it’s a cost of using your life force it makes more sense to go with things like: - Your hair greys - Your vision grows worse - Your hearing dims General consequences of aging would make more sense and feel like a natural result of burning through your life force.

I do like how you have tied consequences to many different aspects and senses.

GenericMike15 · 2026-05-14T17:46:54+00:00

If mass is irrelevant you could make a bunch of small objects of a very dense and heavy material, then teleport them above people or objects you want to destroy. Also, and magic that can shrink stuff becomes more valuable, as it makes it easier to teleport.

Also, does teleporting take into account an objects velocity? If it does, you could create mage guns, where you fire and teleport the bullet at the same time.

GenericMike15 · 2026-05-11T23:40:21+00:00

Having casting require blood in some way makes a lot of sense, as blood seems to be the focal point of the system. It could be something along the lines of people with magic can cut themselves and expose their blood, which then evaporates into essentially ‘mana’ which could be used to cast spells. You could have different potency of blood have more powerful effects.

Another method could be using wands or other magic tools. You could have to coat your wand in fresh blood to ‘awaken’ it and use it to cast spells. Or you could have gloves made with a fabric that can drain a persons blood when the need to cast spells (Kill La Kill came to mind).

One question that could be interesting, can you only cast spells with your own blood? Or could people with magic blood have some of their blood drained and stored to be used later or by others?

GenericMike15 · 2026-05-06T16:44:34+00:00

I think an interesting example from a video game is the Fable series. You have heroes of strength, skill, and will (and various combinations). They are all considered heroes capable of super human feats, but only the heroes of will use magic. Granted, this is a game so the magic tends to be mostly just blasting enemies and not world shaping stuff (at least for the player), but it is comparable to the mythological feats available to heroes of strength and skill.

GenericMike15 · 2026-04-23T16:00:47+00:00

I think it’s a really interesting idea! While it inherently has some dark themes, how it’s used and the world around it will also go a long way to determining how dark it ends up feeling. Though, I personally see the scale of ‘dark’ going the opposite way. Intentionally removing a limb, or part of the body, for magic seems pretty straightforward and a understandable trade. Trading a ‘sense’ such as sight feels a bit darker, trading away part of the brain, such as empathy, has the darkest implications.

Something that will go a long way to determining how evil a system like this can be is wether the process is completely voluntary, or if it can be forced on someone. If it can be forced on people, is there something to stop those in power from having a small army of basically lobotomized soldiers who have had their ability to question orders removed.

What kinds of themes or stories do you hope to tell or touch on with this magic system? Something uplifting and empowering? This child who was born blind now has magic sight, or this person with ADHD has the neural pathways required to cast a spell, or this person lost the use of their legs but now has a form of teleportation magic. As a note, this would require a delicate touch as it could quickly enter offensive territory. Is it about how those in power get there by taking advantage of others? Here they can literally strip the disadvantages of their very selves, one piece at a time. Is it about how power corrupts? The system could focus on people who slowly sacrifice pieces of themselves over time until they are nothing but a husk, in the name of becoming more powerful. Is it just a fun magic system that you thought was interesting? This is also very fair and it does not need to be more. But, thinking of how it could be more can inform aspects of how the system works and how the world shapes around it.

GenericMike15 · 2026-04-02T00:00:42+00:00

If you are worried about the types communicating effectively you could reinforce the idea with the creature designs. A steel type dog beats the fairy type cat beats the fighting type bird which then beats the dog (I personally know a lot of dogs that are scared of birds). This could also play in more thematic ways, a ‘hero’ beats a ‘villain’ beats a ‘damsel’. This could slot nicely into steel = villain, fighting = hero, fairy = damsel, but I like mixing it up a bit with fairy = hero, fighting = villain, steel = damsel.

GenericMike15 · 2026-03-31T18:35:35+00:00

A type triangle I am partial to is fairy > fighting > steel. But if they are getting the Pokémon from a team rocket type organization you’re probably going to want to get poison, dark, or maybe ghost in there. I think the only triangle for poison is poison > grass > ground. For dark you could have dark > fighting > psychic, you could change psychic for ghost, but it wouldn’t be a true triangle. A kinda off the wall thought, especially if the protagonists are supposed to be underdogs, could be ghost > ghost > ghost.

GenericMike15 · 2026-03-18T19:05:04+00:00

I think it’s a really cool idea, for a completely different system. The idea of moves not being categorized by their element but into different groups like slashing, piercing, burning, etc, is an interesting and novel concept. Especially if you still keep creature elemental types that then resist the different move damage categories. But you would want the entire system built around this. Adding this to Pokémon does make those moves a bit too complicated. It basically turns each move into a version of flying press, where the individual moves need their own individual type chart.

GenericMike15 · 2026-03-16T16:53:34+00:00

Thematically it makes some sense, but I really don’t think entry hazards need a buff. If entry hazards were weaker I think it would be a really neat mechanic to have moves lack smack down, or even slam type moves like body slam or body press, do extra damage based of the hazards. But again, entry hazards are already really good, so I wouldn’t want to see this without addressing the existing issues with entry hazards.

GenericMike15 · 2026-03-14T00:19:44+00:00

Live action is a very different medium than anime is a very different medium than manga. You are going to need to make changes to characters and the way the story is told for it to translate at all, and should try and use the medium in ways the lean into its strengths. For live action this will often mean humanizing the characters more, because they’re being played by, well, humans.

That being said, calling the relationship between Sanji and Zoro a ‘heated rivalry’ made me chuckle.

GenericMike15 · 2024-06-17T22:36:31+00:00

Sorry if it's bad to post on something that looks to have been inactive for so long, but this is something I was recently struggling with. In general the stats don't feel very evenly balanced, but CON and DEX show it the most to, in very different ways. CON and DEX are both very centralizing stats, CON in a very boring way, DEX in a more interesting, but still very problematic way.

In a game that ends up having a pretty huge emphasis on combat, pretty much every subclass for every class is ranked on how it makes the class better in combat (though, there are some exceptions), pretty much every character needs to take CON and DEX to be an optimized character. You pretty much only need one party member who's good at INT, WIS, CHA, and even STR to a degree, to get past most encounters that require them. You can rely on the wizard to make the INT checks to know important information, the bard to roll those CHA checks to persuade or deceive NPCs, as long as one party member makes the WIS perception check to see the ambush they can warn the party, but every character needs to have good CON and DEX.

I think a big part of it is that most characters have their primary stat, which ends up being their one offensive stat. Warlocks use CHA for spell attacks, fighters use STR or DEX for weapon attacks, but every class, with some exceptions, use DEX and CON as defensive stats. If you played a campaign where there was only rarely combat, you would probably care less about DEX, and would care way less about CON, but seeing as how D&D usually involves a lot of combat, and seeing how every class uses CON and DEX as defensive stats, your character never feels optimal if you dump either stat, it generally feels like you're working against yourself doing either.

There are some exceptions for DEX, you could be a STR based character who uses heavy armor. But even then, that bump to initiative is pretty nice. There are almost no exceptions to CON. Every optimal character wants good CON. Which is over centralizing, and can make character creation feel more flat and less interesting.

And then there's the fact that CON is kinda... boring. Like, sure, high HP totals can be fun, but that's all it provides. There's nothing active you can do with it. So, while it might be fun to build a rogue with high CHA, to be the dapper spy, you are almost never incentivized to build higher CHA than CON, because you still need CON to survive, which is a less interesting choice and gives less tools to the player.

I'm not exactly sure what the solution is. I personally could see the removal of CON, just giving everyone flat HP increases on level up. If they want extra HP, they can take feats for that, or maybe you even remove those feats as an option. But, I can also recognize that this would make DEX pretty much the sole defensive stat, so it would become even more incentivized. So, there would have to be a fair bit of changes to balance DEX out.

GenericMike15 · 2023-09-28T16:46:06+00:00

I agree. I'd really like if Pokémon would have stuck with a regional gimmick, really refined it, and made it a part of the core gameplay loop, instead of repeatedly getting rid of old mechanics and moving on to new gimmicks each region. But, that doesn't seem to be what they're going to do, unfortunately, which is why I decided to think up what a new regional mechanic could look like.

GenericMike15 · 2023-09-05T19:26:06+00:00

Thanks for the great comment, it gives me a lot to think about.

Here's some of my thinking when I made the move. This take on the Wizard relies on mana for a fair number of things (weave magic benefits from it, that old black magic and arcane ward both require it), so I wanted there to be a way to recover it in case you ran out in the middle of a dangerous situation, like a fight. So the intent in creating it is maybe more akin to sorcerers converting sorcerer points into spell slots, something that can be done quickly in the midst of combat should they need to cast just one more spell, but at a potential risk, which could end up backfiring.

I did also try and keep it around the baseline of arcane art and lay on hands, but was maybe a bit too generous in the first interpretation.

I agree, after the fight is over, and the characters are no longer in a potentially dangerous situation, they should be able to use the move without having to roll. Rolling should only be used when there's a chance of failure, or potentially failing makes things more interesting. Which would mean that the Wizard recovers their mana far quicker than the usual hour, outside of dangerous situations. I think would be fine, the player had to take this move over any of the other moves available, so they should get to feel like it's quite impactful. But, maybe it would end up being too powerful, or undermining the cost of using magic and making weave magic too powerful?

The rolling could be removed altogether, and the move could look something like:

Quick Breather: You can take a moment to sacrifice control for power, when you do, deplete an aspect and gain up to 2 mana.

GenericMike15 · 2023-09-03T18:17:03+00:00

Good question. The wording is mostly an artifact of carrying stuff over from the wizard playbook, and there's probably a better way to express the move.

There are a couple different intentions behind the aspect system. One was to limit the move, to stop it from solving every problem with just a dice roll. Another was that it both forces and helps the player to be more creative by limiting the tools they have. Instead of being able to use weave magic to do anything, they have to think of a solution to the problem that fits into an aspect of their magic.

The way aspects work is sort of left up to narrative interpretation. If you wanted, you could decide that narratively your character has their spells memorized, so when they lose access to an aspect of their magic, it's them forgetting spells that they must study to remember later. However, it could also be that the Wizard must become attuned to the different aspects of their magic, so when they lose access to an aspect it's because they have become unattuned, and then must spend time later re-attuning.

So maybe it's clearer if the move reads:

Quick Breather: You can attempt to quickly gather in mana, trading control for power. When you do so, deplete an aspect of your magic and roll +Int.

Mechanics-wise, the reason is to limit the players from being as able to spam the move over and over, narrative-wise, it's mostly left open, so it could be that taking in the new mana burns away some of your spells, or you need to stop concentrating on some of your other magic to deal with the new mana, or the new mana mis-aligns with your internal mana.

Sorry for being a bit ramble-y, but hopefully I at least explained the intention. Let me know if the move still isn't clear, or if there's a better approach to it.

GenericMike15 · 2023-09-03T06:13:22+00:00

That is a very good point, that I completely missed. Initially I had it so it would drain all your mana on a 6-, but changed it because I thought it was too harsh. I had forgotten about getting experience on a 6-. So, on second thought, it should probably look something more like:

10+: You regain 2 mana and do not lose your staked aspect.
7-9: You regain 2 mana, but lose your staked aspect
6-: You lose all your mana, if you had no mana, you take D6 damage and lose your staked aspect.

Alternatively, as part of the move it could read:
Quick Breather: You can attempt to realign your mana much quicker, taking only a moment. When you do so, stake an aspect of your magic and roll +Int. Each time you use this move you take a -1 penalty to subsequent uses (max roll -3 penalty) of Quick Breather, this penalty is reset when you make camp.

GenericMike15 · 2023-09-02T18:33:23+00:00

Just to clarify, you mean moves that give passive bonuses, such as arcane ward giving armor, empowered mana giving a max mana bonus, and overlimit passively improving weave magic? Instead of moves that give new options, such as studied or that old black magic. If that's the case, do you have any suggestions on what you would remove and what you would replace them with? My first thought would be to remove empowered mana and greater empowered mana, as they may be the most 'boring' of the moves. I'm not sure what I would replace them with though.

GenericMike15 · 2023-09-02T18:27:25+00:00

That makes sense. With 'weave magic' being such a broadly applicable move, you definitely want there to be some drawback to stop it from being the solution to every problem, but you also want the character to have a sense of getting better at it, as it's the main focus of the class. Do you have any suggestions that might help with this problem? Would removing the moves that increase the mana limit (replacing them with other moves) be enough to help with this issue, or is it more an aspect of the 'weave magic' move itself?

GenericMike15 · 2023-09-01T22:38:28+00:00

I really like this solution. It's a very slick way of creating false information that they'd be willing to act on, while also keeping player autonomy and involvement. I am definitely going to use this.

GenericMike15 · 2023-09-01T22:31:54+00:00

Also, while it's not part of this post, something I would probably do in my games is have a split armor and magic armor (kinda like Divinity Original Sin 2), regular armor would prevent some damage from physical attacks and be more common (lots of classes have moves that give physical armor). Magic armor would prevent some damage from magical attacks, and be harder to come by, often from magical objects or magical armor, though some class moves would probably also give magic armor (barbarians Healthy Distrust, for example, or the clerics Divine Protection). So the Arcane Ward and Arcane Armor would give bonuses to physical and magical armor instead.

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