I hate making any major changes to Base Stats, and I prefer only new movesets.
Yeah, but Flareon's stats are one of its primary issues. Being unable to take physical hits and being slow is pathetic. Although I might have an alternative:
65 HP
130 Atk
65 Def
60 Sp. Atk
110 Sp. Def
95 Spd
We already have two other really slow Eeveelutions (Vaporeon and Umbreon), both of which are kind of tanky.
And that is what Fire-types are like. Powerful, relatively fast attackers that have mediocre defense.
Screech? How can Flareon emit screech?
Yeah, I am probably going to switch it with Leer at an early level. The only
potential Screecher is Jolteon.
Flamethrower is almost mandatory, but Fire Blast and Heat Wave is also selectable.
What good is it? Combusken and Blaziken can't learn Flamethrower unless they wait it out with Torchic or give it a TM.
Flareon can learn Superpower via tutoring (since Gen IV), so adding it to its level-up moveset is a good idea.
Okay.
I also have a few questions about the legendary dogs.
First of all, in two consecutive days, I have encountered (legit) and captured (with save state abuse)
all three of the dogs. This is before I even fought Clair!
I have renamed them to express my frustration:
Is it just me, or are they WAY TOO EASY to encounter? When I played HeartGold, I never even encountered one.
It felt kind of like this:
I almost want to release them because it just didn't feel
right to encounter them all so quickly.
I also found Jirachi but chose not to battle it (I didn't have Ultra Balls).
Still no Clair!
Seriously, using Advance Map, the legendaries are seriously too close together. (spoilers)
They really need to be spread out even more.
Also, just curious, is the Roar glitch fixed in this? You know, the one where if they use Roar, they disappear?
And lastly, is it possible to get the Crystal-style legendary music instead of a key change? Even better, a future goal may be to have unique music for each of the dogs like HGSS has.
Also, some other encounters that shouldn't exist:
- Wynaut on Route 35 (it is almost unfair for Whitney)
- Level 10 Tentacool in the water behind Clair's gym
- Level 5 (?) Tentacool on Route 43
- Magikarp in the water south of the Lake of Rage are significantly higher leveled than the ones actually in the lake
Also, some Hoenn suggestions:
- Dark Cave:
- Violet side should have Poochyena
- Blackthorn side should have Absol (get it, Dark types?)
- National Park
- Using two maps, split the Poké Ball in half. The top half should have:
- Caterpie
- Metapod
- Cascoon
- Silcoon
- Shroomish
- Surskit
- ...?