Anybody else think about this yet? Since hord battles are alittle(or so we asume) unfair, that maybe there will be attacks designed for hord battles. Those attacks would likely only be used in hord battles, or have a higher multiplyer for hords? I don't know. Maybe we will have 4 hord attacks and 4 notmal battle attacks? 0.0 this is just a idea. I mean really? This would ne a cool thing to see. I mean sure surf and stuff attack multipul pokemon, but I just think attacks designed to battle against hords would be cool to.
I don't see this happening but it would be so cool. I guess because we've had Pokemon Contest and you never got a separate moveset for those.
Okay so here's what I think. There's two ways to go about Horde battles:
One would be that they are rare, can be found anywhere, and require no special condition to be met in order to find them. This one seems REALLY unlikely for several reasons.
And the other more logical approach, and what I think it will be like, would be similar to the 'double grass' in Gen V. If I remember correct, in Gen V 'double grass' was a lot harder to access, and you had to use HM's or work your way around to get to it. I think this is how they're going to go about doing Horde battles. I also think that, like gen V, Hordes aren't the only types of battle you can find in the 'Horde grass', also being able to find single battles. I don't know how they'll do this for caves, but with Surfing I think it'll just be a darker patch of water.
With the whole abilities, I thought that MAYBE they just won't include any Pokemon with abilities that'll just mind**** us out completely. Then I went on Serebii and it turns out Tauros has Intimidate. GG GameFreak.
One way of doing this is that one Pokemon is selected at random and only that Pokemon's ability plays out. But I deem this highly unlikely, and personally think that abilities will play out just as normal.
I would assume any multi-attack moves such as Rock Slide would affect all enemies in horde battles.
Yup, this is already confirmed as with Gogoat using Rock Slide against a bunch of Houndour.
Also, with people saying that they'll introduce a lot more wide-range attacks, I think this is most likely going to happen. In one of the battles they showed at the Japan Fair or something, Helioptile was seen using Rock Slide. Now, a few things on this.
1. I'm not sure about everyone else, but I never would've expected Helioptile to learn Rock Slide. Maybe after evolution, but not as it is.
2. The reason I bring this up, is because maybe they are introducing/making old multi-hits attacks more accessible. THEN again, Helioptile already learns Parabolic Charge, so not too sure..
