Venonaut97

Am I the only one that remembers that there are Pokemon with 4 abilities? Both Rockruff and Chandelure have 4 abilities. How will they work with these changes? Can I never get dusk Lycanroc anymore?

Firstly, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, so if I've made a mistake could someone tell me where I should post this instead. Secondly, the reason I'm posting this is that I'm trying to look for other fangames to play while I wait for Reborn to finish, as well as for when Sword and Shield is out. I would prefer suggestions for finished Pokemon fangames, but I won't turn down any suggestions for any fangames still in development. Outside of Reborn, I've played Rejuvenation, Raptor, and Pokemon Brown. Overall, I liked Rejuvenation, so I will be playing it some more when it's updated again. As to Brown and Raptor, I did not like either that much. @Venonaut97 I merged your thread into the pinned "Pokemon Fan Game Recommendations [Community WIP]" thread. for finished fangames there's Uranium, Spork, Insurgence, Pyrite, Gray Topaz almost finished: Legends of the Arena (next update seems like it'll be the end), Empyrean (next update will have the E4 and postgame) I probably forgot some.

The thing that bothers me the most about the loss of the National Dex is how unnecessary this controversy was. Firstly, as people such as Vinnie have noted, Nintendo/Gamefreak already had the HD models of the Pokemon, so clearly they don't need to make that many more models. Obviously the problem has to deal with the fact that the Dynamax forms of the pokemon are separate models, which moreorless doubled the number of models that would have needed to be in the game, which means that the National Dex couldn't be added. That said, the unnecessary part of this controversy isn't that Dynamaxing shouldn't have been added, but rather that it could have been handled in a much more efficient way. The best solution that I can think of that could have been done to avoid this controversy would have been to scrap the "big" aspect of Dynamaxing, but keep all of the other elements. As such, Pokemon still gain power when in Dynamax form, they would still gain new moves (and maybe new animations?), and would still be limited by the 3 turn rule. In this situation you have still kept all of the interesting concepts of Dynamax Pokemon without having to add the poorly received aspect of giant Pokemon and the subsequent need for new models of every Pokemon. This solution keeps all of strategy of Dynamaxing, so the mechanic will still remain the same as it was before. The trade-off of this being that Dynamaxing and raid battles will look less impressive, which is a small price to pay imho.

Thanks for helping me, Purple. I hope you enjoy the shiny krabby.

my id is Venonaut97

I'll give you a yamask and a shiny krabby for the 2 fossils.

What do you want for them in return, Purple?

I'm currently trying to collect all of the fossil Pokemon, but am having trouble finding them all. I am missing the root and skull fossils, and am wondering if anyone is willing to trade me them or their reanimated counterparts. I currently have an extra helix and claw fossil, so if someone wants them in return, I'll happily give them up.

@Zander I will admit gyarados is the better sweeper due to attack power, 125 atk is much better than 90 sp atk, as well as in terms of how easy it is to set up. The only areas venomoth does better in are: having access to free hits via sleep powder, giga drain for healing, and having tinted lens to prevent bad type match-ups from ending the sweep. While these are great traits, they still don't hold a candle to gyarados's higher damage output and ease of setting up due to its bulkiness. I'll also admit that I did a poor job of trying to make my point, as I focused more on venomoth, and less on the idea that the game could already be broken. As to addressing how the game can be broken, I will give some examples of how venomoth and crobat already do this. Firstly, using venomoth I have managed to partially or fully sweep Corey, Shelly (once), Aya, Noel, and Radomus. Noel was very easy, as I was easily able to buff venomoth by using sleep powder to cover him. Radomus was a lot harder due to having the type advantage, but I still managed to take down 4 (almost 5) of his pokemon using only venomoth and crobat. As for Crobat, I was able to take ~85% of the giant steelix's health with crobat (think lax incense, confuse ray, and lots of double teams). Using the same tactics, and poison fang, crobat was able to take down ditto arceus by itself (Did this in 3-4 tries). Based on these cases, the game can already be broken, so adding gyarados at this point probably wouldn't be too much. Now, if you really want to worry about really breaking the game, I would worry more about getting the ability to mega evolve or having the z crystals.

That's nothing. Try dealing with a plus 6 quiver dance venomoth that has tinted lens. Not only will it wreck things with bug buzz, but tinted lens will double its attack power if used against a Pokemon that resists it. Sure Venomoth can't take hits, but if you can't outspeed it by that point, then the battle is already over. The game could already be broken, you just had to know what to look for.

I commend you for your dedication to this tradition. The main reason I didn't do this in reborn are shiny Pokemon, which are too valuable in my opinion to lose due to tradition. Btw, I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just pointing out how you're the better man for not caving in for things like shinies as I do.

My traditions in Reborn and in the canon games are: a. No crossbreeding (This blurs the line between individual species based on movepools) b. Never use legendaries for competitive/serious battles (Essentially I occasionally use legendaries against wild Pokemon post-game) c. Pokemon "inherit" the names of their counterparts from previous playthroughs/games d. Only use male Pokemon, except for all female species (All of my friends are guys, and I wanted to mirror that in Pokemon) e. No fairy types (Mostly because I don't like a lot of the fairy types, and partially because I feel that their typing is OP) f. Only use normal Pokeballs (Reborn kinda forced me to not follow this one)