MhicKy

Yeah.. For me individuality comes in the EVs, Nature, Abilities and Moves, since different combinations of these can create different types of Pokemons, 2 good examples are Nidoking/Queen and Tyranitar, they both can be either P.Attacker or Sp.Attacker depending on the combination you choose, IVs are just a waste of time since you can get everything on 31 anyway while also being impactful on the flow of the battles, I mean, a Pokemon with base 100 speed but with a 31 IV can outspeed a 110 speed with 0 IV (maybe even a 120 speed with 0 IV).. Usually I would roll with the debug mode just to change the IVs of the pokemons I capture to 31 just to skip the breeding process but since this will be a new version under a new engine I really doubt that the v12 debug mode will still be working.. So I wished there would be a more legit way to speed up the process or skip altogether..

Oof, you trying a Steel run?! Good luck! *salute* Imma just do a gen8 run

I would highly suggest starting a fresh new save since many things will change in previous areas such as gym leaders having new team compositions but it's up to you. Also, a small request, can the Ditto we capture have, like, 31IVs on everything? Breeding is such a boring process and consume too much time that I could be using making progress in the story.. (Or, I dunno, disregard IVs completely, like, every pokemon either comes with all 0s or 31s)

We managed to get to the "nice" page, guys! Happy Bellsprout!!

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I am shacking in my boots! Can't wait to restart for the 7th time! (Or was it 8th?) I gonna make a full gen8 team!

Well, I sure am glad to read Zumi's response to this chronicle.. I reckon Pokemon might end up failing one day because of Game Freak adding too many new gimmicks while scrapping old ones.. I sure dislike they removing megas tho'.. My Mawile is useless now.. And yeah, Crests are good since they tend to be kinda balanced and give chance to weaker Pokemon to become really good, I never used a Skuntank up until I got the Crest, that was nice

I just kinda wonder how Rejuvenation will look in when it's finally finished.. We have Mega-Evoltuions, Z-Moves, Crests, Dynamax (Kinda).. If GameFreak keeps creating new gimmicks and Rejuvenation keeps adding them to the game I feel like this can become quite a mess in the future, I have hope that the devs will just find a work-around it like what they are going to do with Dynamax, depends on the upcoming new gimmicks since they can add a new thing that might become hard to implement or even impossible..

Ugh.. Dynamax.. I am glad Jan and Zumi aren't adding the new mechanic but instead placing them as megas, I still don't get why GameFreak felt it was a good idea to remove the mega evolutions and z-moves to introduce this entirely new mechanic that is just a Frankenstein version of both.. I mean, creating things that gets scrapped in the next gen isn't something new but at least the previous scrapped mechanics weren't that impactful on the battle gameplay (like secret bases and the beauty contest).. Now we have these 2 battle mechanics that went completely useless after gen8.. (I am also bias since Mawile is my favorite and vanilla Mawile isn't competitive viable). I am afraid to what kind of diabolical plans GameFreak has for the franchise in gen9..

It's true since Jan actually got positive for covid in, I believe, the middle of 2020.. At this rate I feel like the game would actually be out if all this crap wasn't happening.. "The new normal".. What a depressing world.. I wanna go back to the 90s where my main concern was grades..

Well I expected v13 to take too long even before I knew the update was going to be the biggest one just because of gen8 as a whole, I mean, you gotta make new sprites, code the new pokemons, add new moves and items, update old trainers and gyms, just by that alone I already knew this would take long anyway and then there's the fact that v13 will be as big as 3 updates.. Either way, can't wait to restart my savefile to check all the changes and new Pokemons! Don't care a lick for Pokemon Arceus or the remakes of Pearl and Diamond, I just want v13 of Rejuv and v19 of Reborn.

I am just here wondering what are the new event pokemon added.. There are still plenty of pokemon in v12 that couldn't be caught because they are going to be event pokemon, some of the starters like Torchic and Chimchar are a good example of this and, well, Magikarp. I am just excited to start catching again!

Oh boy.. Here's the short version.. HL stands for Half-Life, a game made by Valve in 1998 and it was the game that kickstarter the company (the same one who owns Steam), they made Half-Life 2 and following that 2 extra episodes to the game, HL2 Episode1 and HL2 Episode 2, which "ended" with many questions yet to be answered as the series was not yet completed, at first, it was suppose to have a HL2 Episode 3 but it took SO LONG that Valve just came up and said they would make HL3 at that point, alas, to this day, the game is yet not released even tho' it had a massive fanbase and plenty of people are upset that the game never actually had any conclusion, Valve currently have not spoken about the game in years and it's already guessed that the IP was abandoned UNTIL they made HL:Alyx, a VR game in the same universe (still not HL3 tho').. HL2 Episode2 was released in 2007, it's been 14 YEARS.. So yeah, I was basically making a joke of v13 is taking a heck of a lot of time to complete by saying it will be released after HL3.. OFC it's just a joke, the bar is already at 88% so..

v13 will be released when Valve announce HL3

I got ninja'd.. But yes! 88%!! 12% more to go, dawgies

We all are, kid.. We all are.. It's been my most hyped Pokemon game ever since I found it, I don't care about that new open-world(?) Pokemon game that was announced, where v13 at?!

It was 80%, then it went up to 85% and now it's been on 86% for a while. I still check this bar everyday just in case so I know it did go up but it been stuck in there for some time now.

Just adding here, the megas are included, just not for you yet *wink wink nudge nudge*

Wow, this thread blew up! I am glad to hear that most people agree that IVs are just a waste of time, I use debug mode just to skip myself from wasting so much time in this, like @AdamAsh123456 said, I don't like to use it to give myself stuff, just to tweak the IVs and even so I feel dirty while doing it.. That's why I always wanted IVs to be totally disregarded even in a mod or in the core game itself.

Then it's probably because of something else then (the mod, more likely), since I play the unmoded version of the game.

I played the hardest mode once and never saw that.. I even played it in debug mode so.. I don't know where this is going.. Unless there was some change that I am unaware off (I've been offline of this forum for a year). But if this mechanic do exist, why is it only exclusive of the hardest difficulty tho'? I mean, Casual doesn't really need the 31IVs in everything but the Reborn Style (normal difficulty) kinda does, specially around Terajuma. -EDIT- I just checked, I don't know why you told me this but that's just false.. I started a new game in Intense Mode and my starter didn't had all IVs on 31.. Then I decided to capture some other Pokemon to see if that's just the starter and he also didn't had all IVs on 31.. So I don't know if you're confusing something here or just lying to me for some reason..

I am hardcore against IVs, I think this mechanic is unnecessary and just time consuming.. EVs and Nature are fine since they can be costumized to the trainers needs and a good example of this are Pokemons like Nidoking/Queen and Tyranitar, these pokemons can have both Special or Physical Attacker builds depending on how you spread the EVs and their Nature, because EVs have limitations and Natures have downsides they are balanced mechanics that only enrich the gameplay HOWEVER IVs are extremely pointless since they have no limitations or downsides are all, you can have any Pokemon have 31IVs and all 6 stats, it just consumes a ridiculous amount of time to do so and the worst part is that IVs can be a decisive part of, for example, if you Pokemon attacks first or not.. I even asked before in the v13 thread if someone was willing to make a mod that just disregards IVs entirely or make all Pokemons encountered (either wild or trainners) full 31IVs.

No problem, had the same issue in my laptop as well and I remember someone helped me the same way since I didn't knew about the Fn key function