Anyone else worried about the same thing I'm worried about, that being losing all of your old Pokemon from HGSS and DPPt? From what I've heard, you will be able to trade over an event Raikou, Entei, or Suicune, to unlock Zoroark and Zorua. But, they've ONLY mentioned this,
"...will have some connectivity with the older games to trade over event pokemon..."
That scares me. Does this mean that I'll have to RETRAIN all of my pokemon that I use for competition? And in that statement, how will the metagame change when the total of almost 550 pokemon are included in the tiers? Will the tiers even stay the same? Needless to say, Zekrom and Reshiram will be banned, theres no doubt about it, but, what about the obligatory dragon evolution set?(Garchomp, Salamence, Flygon, Dragonite) What will that guy bring?
What will all of these newcomers bring? Will we be seeing new replacements for our old favorites? Will we even be able to capture our old favorites!? Will Pokemon like Blissey fall by the wayside when a new Special Wall is introduced? Or Sweepers like Salamence or Scizor, will they be cast aside, or idolized like they are now?
I have a strange sinking feeling that Nintendo will simply say, "Herp Derp you don't get any of ur old Pokes." Considering, they won't allow new Pokemon to be traded to the older games (lest paradoxes ensue) so how will we be able to trade our game winning teams to the newer generation? Will things be the same as RBY to GSC, where we have to trade only old Pokemon with old moves, and we have to beat a certain #of Gyms and we have to find a rock, and then we have to beat a Team, and quest after quest after quest, before finally we're allowed to use our old buddies?
Thats my rant for the day. :) Sayonara
"...will have some connectivity with the older games to trade over event pokemon..."
That scares me. Does this mean that I'll have to RETRAIN all of my pokemon that I use for competition? And in that statement, how will the metagame change when the total of almost 550 pokemon are included in the tiers? Will the tiers even stay the same? Needless to say, Zekrom and Reshiram will be banned, theres no doubt about it, but, what about the obligatory dragon evolution set?(Garchomp, Salamence, Flygon, Dragonite) What will that guy bring?
What will all of these newcomers bring? Will we be seeing new replacements for our old favorites? Will we even be able to capture our old favorites!? Will Pokemon like Blissey fall by the wayside when a new Special Wall is introduced? Or Sweepers like Salamence or Scizor, will they be cast aside, or idolized like they are now?
I have a strange sinking feeling that Nintendo will simply say, "Herp Derp you don't get any of ur old Pokes." Considering, they won't allow new Pokemon to be traded to the older games (lest paradoxes ensue) so how will we be able to trade our game winning teams to the newer generation? Will things be the same as RBY to GSC, where we have to trade only old Pokemon with old moves, and we have to beat a certain #of Gyms and we have to find a rock, and then we have to beat a Team, and quest after quest after quest, before finally we're allowed to use our old buddies?
Thats my rant for the day. :) Sayonara