SeanRobert98

Oh my god. Thank you, I needed this! Hey, thanks for the reply! I do see your point because I'm only still at the 3rd gym and there's already a lot of content so I get that finding and changing all the strings would be annoying. I do want to say that I'm really grateful to the developers for the game because I eventually stopped playing Pokemon due to how easy it was and it's this game that made me want to play Pokemon again so thank you for everything! p.s. I'm sorry for double commenting, I just saw the MultiQuote button.

I've just started Pokemon Reborn a few days ago and so far I really love the game. I enjoy the challenge brought by building a competitive team out of Pokemon you've never used before and the strategic aspect of planning your team based on what the enemy has. One thing I can't understand though is why HMs are still relevant within the game? I can understand HMs like Surf and Waterfall (because they can still be used competitively) but others like Cut and Rock Smash just end up wasting a slot in one of your Pokemon's moveset which in a game where you're often fighting against teams that have a full team of 6 Pokemon with field buffs stacked against you and all those Pokemon have a proper thought out moveset, it often seems unfair and downright annoying. It's a hindrance that prevents us from fully utilising the Pokemon that we've been given and most players would end up using the last slot in their team as a HM slave when it could have very well been another Pokemon that they wanted to try out. Now, I do realised that HMs are used for progression in the game by locking players out of content until they've obtained the HM hence one possible solution is that when a person obtains a HM, they can then use it without teaching it to a Pokemon (if they do teach the move to a Pokemon, it should be able to be overwritten by other moves without going to the move deleter). If the team is worried about how this could affect the 'realness' (I used this word for lack of a better one) of the game. It could be said that when players are in possession of a HM within this region, they are able to temporarily teach is to Pokemon as their about to perform the task (kind of like a short jolt of memory) before being forgotten afterwards (thus it does not affect the remembered moves they already have).