Luna.

I can go grab the necesary tools. and well I do have some experience working with machine learning and neural nets, but I dunno if that's the approach here. Would prob just try writing an algorithm. Looks like pple at standford etc have already been tinkering with stuff: https://web.stanford.edu/class/aa228/reports/2018/final151.pdf https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/technical-machine-a-pokemon-ai.69021/ https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/minimax-algorithm-in-game-theory-set-3-tic-tac-toe-ai-finding-optimal-move/ It said their bot managed to reach 1300+ elo on pokemon showdown, I dunno how good that is bc I havent battled competitively but if its beating players a bit that's good. For an expert trainer level, the bot might be able to calculate dmg from you and the pokemon, and then decide if it wants to switch or not, or have a gameplan. And the good ones can try to guess what pokemon you're trying to switch into by looking at your team that you've showed so far, and use a move/set up that will hit it. Nasty. That kind of ai would prob be only for gym leaders/main characters. The average people can have an ai that makes mistakes/plays like average/noob.

As for greninja, we dont have access to dark pulse etc but you can still assemble a nasty protean special attacker being squishy and not even being able to take alot of chip dmg, you usually send him later in the fight to outspeed and clean things up with an attack boosting item like expert belt, or a life orb if you can steal one and you can switch him into a psychic attack since it does no dmg. he gets stab + the bonus dmg from item and changes his resistances to suit the fight I bred a decent one with hidden power fire and ivs in the 30s with one stat 25+ - surf/hydro pump (hits fire, ground, rock), resists fire, water, ice, steel - hidden power fire (hits ice, bug, grass), resists fire, grass, ice, steel, fairy - extrasensory (hits fighting and poison) - bounce flying (lmao didn't have a good 4th move, so I kept this here) would prob replace with a dark pulse if I had it, shrugs to hit pyschic and ghost types

I think clefable is close to blaziken tier - bulk, sustain, moonblast to lower special attack, fake tears to lower special defense by 2 into moon blast can mean death. Magic guard makes him immune to burn/toxic/weather effects. And with leftovers and moonlight/solid defense and hp stats + ivs and nature, it will just keep healing, thunderwave for abuse. Clefable is ou on smogon for a reason. Even with a greninja and a soon to be mega aggron, I consider the clefable to be the star the team. This terror has easily smacked down each of the other main characters mega evolutions and team easily and would be broken if I could give it calm mind (+spAtk + spDef) I wouldnt need to use fake tears on every new pokemon if I stacked 2-4 calm minds. Even without access to softboiled and calm mind, it's pretty strong. I just finished aurora's fight and this guy took out 3-4 of aurora's pokemon by itself. I named him Boss lol. - Moonblast - Fake Tears - Thunder wave - Moonlight Been using fairy, steel, dragon core - clefable, aggron (slotted for mega aggron in team), flygon and then I have greninja (special attacker, hidden power fire, expert belt) and elecvire electric type might slot in gligar too. only thing Im lacking currently is a way to deal with ghost types.

I've been enjoying the game this week, and although I enjoy both reborn and desolation, I feel like desolation's story is better. Playing desolation, it feels like I'm almost playing a new game, that's better than pokemon (although I havent played much bc vanilla pokemon is boring and too easy). That being said, I wouldn't mind learning how to contribute to this project when I have time. I enjoyed it, so I don't mind giving back, and also help to develop something I liked. I do have programming skills but not very familiar with rpgmaker, but I could pick it up fast. I'm close to graduating and getting my degree in computer science, so I'm confident in being able to pick up the necessary info/skills to invest into this project. Things I'm interested on working on: custom trainer ai - different levels of trainers, unique trainers having unique ai to leverage their teams effectively. (switching mind games etc, making you feel like you were fighting an expert human player). I think this would add a lot of replayability to the game and make it much much more interesting. better breeding - this feature would be added on top of the normal breeding system. I think you should be able to invest more into the pokemon daycare, so that eggs are automatically deposited into boxes. (can set which box to deposit eggs in). Can also balance it by forcing you to pay credits for each egg deposited as well. Investing credits so that you can hire a hatcher who hatches eggs for you. (Up to a certain amount a time) - using the ev training room in the manor. You pay in cash after hiring him. by default he breeds from one box, but you can spend an exorbitant amount of credits so he can breed from another box as well. (selecting the boxes you want to breed from). You can upgrade the hatcher so that he can hatch eggs faster for you too/give him a pokemon with an egg hatching ability. optimization and qol fixes - trying to optimize performance in areas such as celia and blackview if possible after the first 2 are done. I have a $1200 pc and I notice frame drops. And fixing minor annoyances if I notice any. ie. making repels last longer. psychologist - could be way more expensive, but you could choose the nature you want. make it less grindy, but also make it so the price would be so that you would have to think whether it's worth it or not to do it. battle universities - elite places of study where you can pay a large amount of money to enter and learn about certain battle tactics about that schools unique Pokémon + the opportunity to earn them - competitions between schools for prizes/benefits. You can only join one. Probably located in celia/other places. Access to certain tms/move trainers (they can share some in common, but each school can have unique pokemon and tms that are very desirable) Although these changes would make the game less grindy, I think the difficulty would still be the same, just saves time. And I think the difficulty would even increase with trainer ai upgrades

It does help, but not much.

3rd. Balanced stats. Will let it attack well at low levels. Very high stats (add them all together to get a total number). You can change natures to the optimal nature later. And physical greninja is eh later, so you can use physical early on, and then take advantage of special with those ivs. Plus it's female so you can breed more with compatible pokemon - a team of greninjas xD.

This is a great game; I downloaded it recently and played all the way to the moment where the doctor comes to the house about lv 40/50. The battles are much harder, and the resources are scarce leading to me choosing tactics that I've never thought of using before. I used a meowth pickup army to grab rare candies while I'm ev training my main pokemon, and sold them for 20k each, and then bought all the ev training items, and then ev trained even faster. Did I mention that chansey is a monster? The only thing I'm missing is toxic or seismic toss, and I'll rename it to god. The ponyta I got was hilarious, and I stuffed pp up on it's bounce. It can spread status like a boss, and raise its speed. It literally soloed the aphophyll gym leader. I didn't even realize I needed it until I was stuck on shade, and found it was the only other fire type I could get that wasn't bad. Simsear wasn't there I had a panpour, and slugma sucks. Why would I use a panpour when I have a greninja :P? There's a lot of good things to say about this game, but something is stopping my rating from being a perfect score. It's the performance - there's lag sometimes which makes the game unenjoyable; maybe there's a way to perform optimization?