Roundabout

Thats how it is right now, and what I'm trying to say is that it just shouldn't be that way, its stupid.

I know, and I'm saying that (IMO) it's a bad idea to make the storyline harder to make players do better in competitive play or whatever end-game content they're doing, because these players might simply have no interest in taking part of these. There is more than one way to play this game. and they're basically excluding people that don't want to do comp.

but what if casuals aren't interested in competitive play and/or in new PvE content such as the legendary dungeons? Why do you want to force them to learn/get good if they just want to play the game as breeders, shiny traders or whatever? Edit: even if you guys aren't making a casual game, there is more than one manner to play a MMO, not everyone must be a competitive player

If by future content you mean legendary dungeons then it's fine if they are hard, because it would be super rewarding for players to finish them and get a legendary pokemon or some other cool reward, so casuals might want to finally "get good" to beat them, but forcing everyone to "get good" and grind a lot to just beat the storyline is plain stupid imo, for the reason described above.

Yep it sucks, I took a long ass time to beat the Unova storyline, I had to transfer pokemons from other regions and level them there until I reached the level cap, because if I didn't I would have take a lot of more time to finish it, and tbh, repeatedly losing to a GYM leader or a rival can be kinda frustrating, even more for a new player and it might just cause them to leave. The base games aren't hard, and don't restrict the player as much for a good reason. If the goal of this is to discourage alt runs and if they were really breaking the economy (I remember some guy even got his alts banned bacause he used them to farming), and that will solve the problem then fine, but theres absolutely no point, in my opinion, to make the game harder like this as it just makes the game less friendly to newcomers and makes them more likely to leave. TL;DR: the absurdly hard GYM Leaders and the level cap makes the game unfriendly to newcomers and casuals and because of that they end up leaving.

13/11/13/2/31/31 Male LF shiny/$/perfect comps

thats not what they said when they banned it, its not because of chains because they tested the baton pass clause (1 bp/team) for a while but then decided to ban it entirely

its more of a pron than a con imo but the reason that they gave for it getting banned was not because it was used for passing boosts, but because people used it to pass substitutes and gain momentum, and as I see it U-Turn and Volt Switch can do that more efficiently than Baton Pass

serious question, can anyone explain? As far as I'm concerned the reason why it got banned was because of the sub + baton pass bullshit, but following that logic, aren't U-Turn and Volt Switch even more busted?

That scared me for a second. Thanks!

I cant even. What, why?

Alright, I got it. It's probably a better solution than moving Aron to ubers, if you guys decided that its uncompetitive or whatever.

Not in automated ones, but its still usable in team tournaments (if I'm not mistaken these are still at Silph CO.)

I don't get it. It's allowed in tournaments, then why not allow it in matchmaking? It's a fun gimmick.

If you don't want noobs taking part in these matches maybe adding a restriction based on the number of badges they own would be a better solution

Shiny Altaria Quiet - 13/11/13/2/31/31 how much is that one worth?

It hurts my eyes as it is now, please add an option for making the chat background darker

Is there one? Is everything that is supposed to be on BW (aside from legendaries) available? (so I can use another site to search for pokemon locations, etc)

Question: the pokemon stop gaining exp BEFORE it overlevels or AFTER it does and becomes useless?

Yup, thats one of the reasons why I didn't play it yet, I liked the second season of the anime (Rakuen) better, and didn't really like any of the main girls from the first season, but it feels wrong to not play the first VN and just start on the second or third IMO Kazuki >>> Asako >> Michiru > Julia > rest

not the main ones, only the spin-off (Idol Magical Girl Chiruchiru Michiru)

Yup, its my favorite anime And Kazuki is the best 2D girl of all time

old but gold

Dont worry, I won't let it A real big picture

You don't belong here.