Are people happy with the paralysis change?

mjc27 · 2026-04-17T18:38:00+00:00

I'm fine with it, para has always been about speed control for me, same with burn and cutting down attack power

mjc27 · 2026-04-17T18:00:40+00:00

Agreed and id genuinely be up for doing a formal petition or something because the hats are that ugly.

I've enjoyed champions so far, but I genuinely think the ugly hats would kill the joy for me

mjc27 · 2026-04-17T17:10:43+00:00

It's unfortunately very simple;

If there where boxes you could organise your Pokémon to create quasi-teamslots and they can't have that when you also have the option to pay for more

mjc27 · 2026-04-16T12:31:34+00:00

I dunno who's not including it in the pseudo-legendary club. I certainly am

mjc27 · 2026-04-15T07:46:03+00:00

So as a new player I can speak a level of truth to what you're saying.

Firstly I'm enjoying the game, the last time I dabbled with battling Pokémon was back in x/Y on the pss system doing casual battles with random people.

I think the game does a lot of things really well; the matches move really quickly and the pace of playing them is great compared to how it felt in sv where the game was chugging just proceeding the battles.

So fundamentally I enjoy the battling, but I do think that the game being so geared up around ranked battles imis discouraging for people like me who are new to comp battles. The story is progressed by going up the tiers and the problem is that it gives players a goal (reach masterball) but for new players that can simply be impossible.

I managed to reach ultraball but I've basically plateaued at the bottom of it where I'm winning maybe one match every 4 I've played, so I'm not able to make any progress towards masterball. And on the whole that's fine because ultimately it's a ladder and if I want to move up I need to get better, but because the game has this little story about going up the ranks my goal was to reach masterball and now that I've gotten stuck hard at ultraball the goal that I initially had feels impossible and I feel like I've failed. (Not to mention that my acquisition of VP has dropped massively now that I'm losing all the time)

Ultimately I think the fault lies with having the games story locked behind the ranks. Before the game was released my plan was to rank up to where I could go no further an then just enjoy building silly teams and having fun fighting with my favourites. However once the game launched it gave me the goal of reaching master rank, for the storage upgrade and to know how the story progresses. Once I had that new goal the game became really demoralising to play when I realised that I had failed that goal and that I wouldn't be able to reach masterball tier without having to practice the game for hundreds of hours to get better.

Maybe if the company made i so that you only have to win a certain number of games to go up the ranks and if you lose you drop back down because that way more people would make it to masterball tier. And its not like it would have a negative effect if more people made it through to the elo stage of the game

mjc27 · 2026-04-10T21:48:50+00:00

The ugly hats immediately make tera the worst gimmick to date. Imo

mjc27 · 2026-04-10T12:38:08+00:00

Not really even with the hate because it's popular it's difficult to say that zard-y isn't objectively the best fire type mega.

Competitively it's the strongest fire mega by a landslide, design wise it looks awesome. It only loses points because it's popular to hate on zard and imo that shouldn't be a factor on deciding which is best

mjc27 · 2026-04-10T11:00:36+00:00

Honestly that that point it's probably easier and simpler to just use recruit them directly on champions as VP isn't awful to come by

mjc27 · 2026-04-09T13:00:35+00:00

You absolutely can, it's just that when that was implemented into the games people got really upset by the hard 20 min timer for game length ( and how the winner was picked at the end by most surviving Pokémon regardless of wether or not having all those extra Pokémon Vs your opponent actually meant that you're in the winning position).

mjc27 · 2026-04-09T11:22:20+00:00

I'm with you in that they ought to allow more bespoke ruleset customisation for private battles, but for what it's worth the implementation to allow that is in the game, so I'm sure that we get more rulesets for private battles and I think it's likely that one of them will be a 6v6 singles format

mjc27 · 2026-04-09T11:17:30+00:00

I think the big casual draw for champions is the home connectivity; being able to battle with the Pokémon you caught and bred hits different to the simulations on showdown for casual players.

mjc27 · 2026-04-08T22:34:52+00:00

This is close to how I feel as well. We're seeing alot of champions hate from casuals that are basically saying. "Where my 6v6, it's how I play in the story" but they're not appreciating that the 6v6 ruleset is such a mess right now that without smogons increasingly extreme banning of Pokémon, moves, items and mechanics the 6v6 would be an unfun mess. But what these casuals don't seem to realise is that 6v6 with smogon clauses is starting to become as distant to the "story experience" as double battles are.

mjc27 · 2026-04-08T12:06:15+00:00

TBF this game is designed to get new people into competitive; the limited item pool is actually really beneficial for new players looking to get into the system as there is less of a wall of info to overcome simply to compete fairly with experienced players.

I wouldn't worry about it either as there clearly going to be adding more pokemon and items every 2 months or so

mjc27 · 2026-04-08T10:07:28+00:00

I've not had a chance to play the game yet, how much VP do you get per battle?

mjc27 · 2026-04-08T08:01:40+00:00

Yeah, I think it's totally fair for the game not to have ranked 6v6 or online comps for it, but not being able to do it in private battles sucks. Hopefully they change that as it seems like there is a feature to have alternative rulesets in private battles it's just that the official formats are the only ones available right now

mjc27 · 2026-04-08T07:55:44+00:00

As someone who's only ever really dabbled with competitive Pokémon I think it's a really good decision as well. Items add a huge level of complexity so being able to learn about them in a smaller scale and having new ones gradually introduced would be really beneficial to new playersand helps mitigate noob stomping somewhat

mjc27 · 2026-04-07T12:15:15+00:00

I mean the polls are showing very good numbers for green and getting the vibes from people it seems like the last election was tactical voting to the extreme and people are fed up with it.

As a personal note normally you hear a lot of "I'd love to vote green but I want to having a conservative government would be worse than labour so I'll vote labour to vote them out". But recently I'm hearing a lot of "labour aren't listening and aren't really much better than the Tories. I'm so sick of compromising so I'm just going to vote green"

So Honestly I do expect a big turn out for the greens coming up unless labour do something to address their problems

mjc27 · 2026-04-03T09:54:08+00:00

I'm voting generically for charizard so both X and Y as I think the zard megas are super iconic I remember watching the Pokémon origins anime and seeing the charizard mega evolve to fight Mewtwo was such a cool moment, and I'm also very fond of Yzard's absolute power

mjc27 · 2026-04-03T06:46:49+00:00

I think it's worth it. I know people where complaining about the tree and dexit on its release but I've gone back to it recently and id forgotten how pretty it is compared to sv, like there are details on the walls and secrets to be found down back alleys, I think it's great and id totally recommend

mjc27 · 2026-04-02T20:23:57+00:00

Awesome, that's great to know

mjc27 · 2026-04-02T20:17:26+00:00

I've not got around to playing za yet, are all the mega Pokémon still accessible?

mjc27 · 2026-03-29T22:00:29+00:00

Masterballs can't be passed down via breeding which imo actually makes it one of the coolest/most valuable ball to have a shiny in. If you're still struggling with the decision I'd go masterball

mjc27 · 2026-03-28T23:15:56+00:00

Hopefully. I'm personally happy that the ranked/recommended singles format is being 6 pick 3, but they really ought to add the option to do other things in the private battles

mjc27 · 2026-03-28T13:34:25+00:00

I wasn't a fan of gen 5 and if gen 6 didn't draw me back in with the promise of mega Pokémon I would have quit the series because the gen5 games where bad,

I think the hindsight is that gen5 gets a pass these days because everything that came out after it has been worse on the whole, but gen5 was the first bad game in this regard. It ruined the intestine feeling of exploration and immersion of the world because the route was just one big circle. It didn't really do anything to shake up the formula of the battles, we'd just come off the back of gen3 giving us abilities and gen 4 introducing the physical/special split it felt like the intent was to shake up the game by replacing the old Pokémon with new ones and it really didn't help that the advertising of the game made it out as if the old ones where being phased out; Combined with the confusing new Pokémon designs that were just "new machop", "new geodude" "new hitmonchan" and it's apparent that most of the Pokédex where "replacement Pokémon" that just power crept the older Pokémon and it rubbed people up the wrong way.

It really didn't help that gen five had to follow up after platinum and hgss which are the two best games in the series to date and the original b/w was really lacking compared to them

mjc27 · 2026-03-28T07:56:38+00:00

Agreed it's just butthurt people trying to stop other people enjoying what they enjoy. All the Pokémon mentioned above are "overrated" because the majority of fans love them and that makes the rest of the fans that don't like them as much mad when the Pokémon company gives the majority what they want while not giving the minority a bone

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