Mazaryn

Yeah, the more I think about it, the more stupid it sounds... but there should be an option for those who's willing to risk the challenge to keep the pokemon they like. Also, I like the rest, especially the tutor idea I expanded on.

I'll admit this is mostly because I want a Pumpkaboo with Phantom Force (or even a good moveset) and I really don't want to evolve it to Gourgeist (It's pretty ugly), but I think this is probably something that would contribute to the game. A move tutor for teaching 'evolved' moves or type-beneficial moves to further expand movesets? ...or a devolution stone or something to devolve after learning the desired moves, which could probably be a bit easier to code in? But then it's not very useful except for the few pokemon that have evolution-restricted movesets. It's really frustrating when you have a pokemon that looks nice, but if you want a good moveset, you have to evolve it into something hideous. Or generally just... Nice pokemon with cruddy movelists. EDIT: I thought of a clever and entertaining way to implement the type-restricted tutor- there will be two of them somewhere in the region. One is a professional looking doctor who acts serious but kind and talks about a machine he developed using the DNA traces of various legendaries to bestow a possible powerful or useful move of a certain type to a pokemon of choice. The other is a fat balding car salesman-looking guy who gives a similar speech, but spoken like a bad television ad, peppered with unnecessary adjectives, and suspiciously demands that you not question his methods or ask how it works. Both will ask for a large amount of money or amount of a certain item, but... the trustworthy doctor is actually the scam- he'll teach the pokemon a very basic move (like Poison Sting for poison types), act shocked and apologize for the mistake, and refund you half (to lessen the hurt of the rip-off) and asks that you try again... for another fee, of course. On the other hand, the seedy salesman actually does teach the promised powerful/useful move, then proceeds to act offended that you're so shocked and surprised that he actually didn't rip you off.