Were coming to that age where rivals arent even challenging anymore, everyone just wants to be your friends and skip down the yellow brick road. What happened to the badasses I was used to? The rivals that actually wanted to surpass you and humiliate you through it? That ended at Gen 2.
They should really do something like the easy and hard mode for BW2, except without requiring to have an IR connection with another DS that finished the game..
If you mean in game, yes their blank stares looked really strange especially with only one facial expression.
the problem for me seems to be the lack of pokecentric art we're getting. The clothing just looks like generic clothing to fit anime memes instead of keeping consistency with the in-universe.
Well, the long and thin limbs also looks strange!
I really wish they would evolve some regular pokemon first and not just Mega-glue everything. Like Sableye. First stage pokemon should never get a mega. I'd rather a longer chain; and Mightyena needs a Third Stage before a Mega. Its really weak.
Definitely, regular evos should also be handed around. And yeah, given what happened with some pokemons, mega-evo is not always the answer.
That's why I said fix Mightyena, not mega-evolve. I seriously doubt a mega-evo would be all that useful right now on it. Its stats and etc are awfully close to being viable in general. But a lot of oversight from the devs made it fall short.
Intimidate worked wonders in single player in gen3. And it added up to its typing nicely given all ghost moves being physical at the time, and dark being super effective against them. But now that's not gonna work in ORAS..
And you'd be surprised, in general / multiplayer, in gen 6, its not as weak as people may think when it has moxie.
But it comes short as a physical sweeper.. Meaning that, you won't one shot most things until you're at +2 / +3 moxie boosts, even when super effective sometimes.(all its moves have under 90 base power, and the most powerful don't have STAB)
But +3 and up one shot most commonly seen offensive pokemons. The main issue is getting there, and lack of versatility, given right now there is basically one set viable for mightyena, and sucker punch is unreliable, and cant protect against burns crippling and etc..
In essence, the tools to make it work exist already, but the devs haven't lightened up, and just come up with the weirdest ideas ever. Like, it can't learn pursuit, but poochyena's entry go on and on about it chasing its pray to exhaustion.. Go figure..
And it doesn't lie in slapping the most OP ability you can think of, its just a question of moves and adding a little into its stats. Azumarill got +10 into its sp attack in X/Y, I really don't see why that was justified, and given they took such liberty, its kinda odd they didn't add up a little into other pokemon's stats..
But if they'd give us a mega and nothing else, its still better than nothing in the end..
I would probably have to disagree that somewhat challenging rivals ended at Gen 2, call me a "Genfiver" or whatever, but Hugh and N were not that bad. Considering N caught a legendary and the only rival to battle you with all 17 types at the time, and Hugh, while little developed, wasn't all that bad. But i will agree that rivals were best in its early stages, and that XYs rivals, or should I say tag-alongs, were boring, annoying, and easy as hell.
I liked Hugh, I actually gave him a very unflattering name, but, as the game progressed I kinda felt bad about it, because he wasn't such a dick after all..
Call me crazy, but I actually liked Cheren and Bianca as well !
I disliked all the "friends" in gen 6 though. And I kinda don't like Wally at all. Well, actually that's not true. The Adventure comics gave him such a fantastic role and made him interesting !
But in the game, I find him kinda arrogant at times.. And overall fighting him is a little more than a HM puzzle's worth in terms of fun or interest..
Yes...And there a vague emulation of his old moustache there as well or am I imaging it?
He always had a full beard ! Beards are where its at ! :P