what is one thing in pokemon you would get rid of?

Started by Scorpio219 August 31st, 2010 4:48 AM
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it could be a pokemon, (luvdics)
feature,(voltorb flip)
anything you would want to get rid of in pokemon

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sadly i can already think of more for the 5th gen for the last 4 combined, (dream world...really, an whats with Gear?)
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I would get rid of the trade evolutions. I wanted a kingdra so bad on my Emerald that i trained my Seadra to level 100. Then i discovered it needs to be traded. T^T I don't want to buy two GBAs,and i have no friends with pokemon games.
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Pikachu's popularity. If it was just another Pokemon and didn't appear everywhere, I might not have the intense hatred for it that I currently do.

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I HATE having so many HMs! And they KEEP COMING. Seriously, besides surf and sometimes fly and occasionally cut, I never have the HM I need in my party so I always have to go back to a PC to get a pokemon that I don't like to use that's just loaded with HMs.
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Get rid of EV.

People will start having fun again instead of wasting days trying to get a perfect pokemon.
People who EV-train actually enjoy it, if at least for how it pays off. They do have fun, just in a different and more calculated way. Competitive battlers wouldn't battle competitively if they didn't like doing it.


I would eliminate the current HM system. Not HMs as a whole, since they do add to the game experience and whatnot. I just hate having to store away Pokemon on my in-game teams to make room for HM Slaves, or having to organize my teams differently to make sure I can use every HM. When it starts infringing on that sort of thing it annoys the hell out of me.

... That or Magmortar and Electivire.
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I would get rid of ev training. or just evs. Its a pain in my but to train my pokemon against a hundred of the same pokemon like their drones.

Technically speaking they are... but you dont have to make it feel like that.

Giving 10 proteins ect. I can understand but I mean cmon suprise me... Give something a bit more random than manipulatable evs.
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People who EV-train actually enjoy it, if at least for how it pays off. They do have fun, just in a different and more calculated way. Competitive battlers wouldn't battle competitively if they didn't like doing it.


I would eliminate the current HM system. Not HMs as a whole, since they do add to the game experience and whatnot. I just hate having to store away Pokemon on my in-game teams to make room for HM Slaves, or having to organize my teams differently to make sure I can use every HM. When it starts infringing on that sort of thing it annoys the hell out of me.

... That or Magmortar and Electivire.
I disagree with the competitive battling argument, since competitive battling existed before Gen 3 too.

Each to their own I guess, I am not competitive when it comes to video games, maybe it is just me.
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I disagree with the competitive battling argument, since competitive battling existed before Gen 3 too.

Each to their own I guess, I am not competitive when it comes to video games, maybe it is just me.
EVs existed prior to GenIII too, except it wasn't limited to only being able to max out two stats. One could theoretically max out all stats, and competitive battles operated under the assumption that one had done so already, similar to how one assumes perfect IVs in the current metagame. ;P

I'd do away with events. They're pointless and artificially inflate the trade value of relatively mundane pokemon. You know what I did with the event Jirachi I got off wifi last month? Erased along with the rest of my old HG file. I don't care for pokedex completion. XD

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I'd get rid of gimmick Pokemon (such as Chatot, Spinda or Farfetch'd). Most of the time, they're not worth using IMO.
I LOVE them! At least, some of them. And all Pokemon are worth using if you love them! I really can pown with my Dunsparce, but not in competitive play... But I don't care about that. I just use the pokemon I love:D
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I disagree with the competitive battling argument, since competitive battling existed before Gen 3 too.

Each to their own I guess, I am not competitive when it comes to video games, maybe it is just me.
Wait what? Competitive battlers have been battling since the days of R/B/Y and having fun with it. I used to battle competitively since I played Blue, and didn't fully get into it until G/S/C. Sure, those I battled against didn't use EV training, but we still had fun doing it.

So yeah, people have fun playing video games in their own way.

As for anything I would get rid of in Pokemon: trade evolutions. While Nintendo apparently likes to think that Pokemon players are social, some of us were stuck without anyone to trade with for years. I could never complete my Pokedex without cheating in Blue because of the lack of people to trade with. And that annoyed me more than the version exclusives, because that was understandable.

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Wait what? Competitive battlers have been battling since the days of R/B/Y and having fun with it. I used to battle competitively since I played Blue, and didn't fully get into it until G/S/C. Sure, those I battled against didn't use EV training, but we still had fun doing it.

So yeah, people have fun playing video games in their own way.

As for anything I would get rid of in Pokemon: trade evolutions. While Nintendo apparently likes to think that Pokemon players are social, some of us were stuck without anyone to trade with for years. I could never complete my Pokedex without cheating in Blue because of the lack of people to trade with. And that annoyed me more than the version exclusives, because that was understandable.
What?

I was saying competitive battling and EV were two separate things.......
The person disagreeing with me said those who EV train liked doing it, then brought up how competitive battlers battle because they have fun battling.
I just thought that competitive battling had nothing to do with EVs, like you said, you can have fun competitive battling without EVs.
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What?

I was saying competitive battling and EV were two separate things.......
The person disagreeing with me said those who EV train liked doing it, then brought up how competitive battlers battle because they have fun battling.
I just thought that competitive battling had nothing to do with EVs, like you said, you can have fun competitive battling without EVs.
I'm not referring to two people battling each other in a Pokemon game by saying "competitive battling". I'm referring to the actual competitive battling scene, in which EV-trained Pokemon are the norm and if you don't EV-train you can't hope to beat those who do. I know that not everyone who battles competitively EV trains, but most people who EV train battle competitively and do have fun by using the Pokemon they get out of it.

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when you surf you pokemon turns into a blob of blue,i mean come on you can have them follow but not be surfed on?

i agree, but then, imagine you had a magikarp or a crabby, imagin how small they would be

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I wouldn't get rid of trade evolutions, but I'd make alternate, rarer methods for each pokemon - i.e. a one-in-a-game item, untradeable, that when held, can evolve a trade-evo pokemon when it levels up. Obviously one for each trade-evo species.

I hated how Machoke, Seadra (even when levelled holding a Dragon Scale), Graveller and Kadabra wouldn't evolve in Emerald...even when I could trade, it kinda ruined their evolutions...