Man at first I thought I wouldn't like Pokkén, but now I'm liking it enough that I'd really hope to see a sequel that improves on a number of aspects of the original. It helps that it's a good game that allows me to pick up a number of underrepresented Pokémon, and lay the smack on overrated Pokémon like Lucario, Pikachu or Charizard for basically as long as I want to.
Say, guys. I'm just wanting to know whether you think that Arbok and/or Gyarados (including Mega Gyarados) will become playable or support Pokémon in the Pokkén sequel? Why do you think?
I think this is one of the aspects that needs the most fixing. Despite having a cast of 800+ varied creatues from all clades of life and then some, Pokkén fell into the trite, trodden trope of pretty much nearly only having a cast of "humans in fursuits": most if not all fighters are bipedals with two arms or otherwise fight like humans. Even Suicune, the token quadruped representation, majorly fights like a bipedal would and does not make use of any of the kinesthetical strengths quadrupeds have against bipeds, such as snap-and-drags, pouncing or flan tanking for counters (man, Terrakion would be interesting for that one). To make it worse, the one bird - Decidueye?
A bird with hands. It does not even have raptorial attacks except for the jump front dive.
What Pokkén needs and what would first drive me more to the sequel is a more varied cast, more selectable fighters, exploring different avenues of combat. Lileep or Cradily could be interesting representation and could explore a novel gameplay, based around moving in hops, clinging to the opponent and using constriction and hold moves rather than kicks and punches. A heavier built quadruped like Meganium or Terrakion could work snap-and-drags, ramming and body presses. A facultative quadruped like Feraligatr or Beartic with a stance system could be a trick opponent against players who are used to the bipedal tropes. And we could have birds - and dragons- that fight like aerial creatures, not to mention better profit from 3D movement during Open Phase.
Pokkén could be a very good and promising franchise to add more to Pokémon with. But first it has to get out of the boring, "easy print money" / "abuse overrated franchise icons" mindset that has been already killing the mainline games for over a decade.
