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Responses in bold! I've been saying I'll update these hacks with a bug fix for a while now so I'll try to get some of your suggestions in at the same time.Hey! I'm going on a trip next month so I'll be starting another Nuzlocke of this, Eternal X this time. I wanted to run a few questions by you though first, partly because of playing through Photonic Sun since the last time I played.
1. For some of the changes you made in PSPM that aren't in this, do you have plans to bring them over for this as well? The first one to come to mind is Ghost/Normal Shuppet and Banette, and I ask because I saw you brought over the buffed Girafarig set (which I love by the way). On a related note I noticed looking through the documentation that some of the EXWY changes aren't in PSPM, like Poison/Dark Arbok, so I was wondering if you have plans to bring those over also.
I probably will bring all the Pokemon changes to both hacks at some point, not sure when that will be though. For some reason I can't recall I didn't want to change megas much in EXWY, so that's why the Banette changes aren't in yet.
2. Is there anywhere in the game to readily get a supply of Ability Capsules? This was really helpful in Photonic Sun for me and just in general I feel like because of the updated abilities you've applied to a lot of Pokemon it'd give players more opportunities to play around with that. In Photonic Sun I actually switched back and forth between Contrary and Strong Jaw Girafarig based on what I needed for a given boss battle, so it strategically helped also.
Yup! Much like PSPM they'll be available in all marts past a certain point, which is after you get your second badge IIRC. That's awesome, I was hoping people would use the Ability Capsules like that.
3. Another item I think would be helpful to have available for purchase somewhere ingame is Honey, with the updated horde encounters with desirable Pokemon such as starters it would definitely be more convenient. I actually did a clause in my previous Nuzlocke where if the horde encounters were sufficiently distinct from the other encounters in an area I could get a horde encounter as well (since in the standard games most horde encounters just yield pre-evolutions of other Pokemon on the route).
The shops are pretty cluttered as is, I'm not sure if I'd be able to find room for Honey anywhere unfortunately. You could always catch something with Sweet Scent instead (maybe use it just for the move and not in battle during a Nuzlocke).
4. I read through the thread to catch up on anything I might've missed and I saw you're considering adding some more TMs in place of less viable ones. I thought I would give you some suggestions of TMs to replace since quite a few options occurred to me when I saw that. TM63 Embargo immediately comes to mind, and I'm definitely in agreement with you about replacing Flash.
Embargo will definitely be getting replaced if I do modify more TMs; that and Flash will likely become Water Pulse or Play Rough and Aura Sphere. There's quite a bit of box checking/unchecking involved in that change though so it won't be until after I'm done with Emerald.
6. I also was wondering about some move updates. Some of the ones that occur to me are ones from PSPM, like the buff to Water Pulse (especially seeing as Mega Blastoise is potentially one of the first Megas the player can use), but a few others that came to mind for me were just little quality-of-life things like buffing Rock Smash (like with Cut it's needed in the overworld so I feel a buff would be helpful). With Rock Smash a buff to 60 base power for Technician users such as Ambipom, Kricketune, and Breloom has actually been on my mind for a little while now. Another idea of mine was that it could be helpful to add in another physical Fairy type move, I'm at a loss as to what could logically be changed to Fairy type but for the likes of Granbull and Belly Drum Slurpuff it could be a great aid. Alternatively an accuracy buff to Play Rough could be similarly helpful.
Yeah those would both be good changes. I could do Rock Smash with the next update, but buffing Water Pulse means rearranging a few level up movesets; if I can come up with a way to do that quickly I'll include it too. Another physical Fairy move would be great but I can't think of a good move to change either.
7. Massive side note but I love Fur Coat being on Pachirisu now, it's one of my favorite Pokemon so I'm definitely hoping to bend the rules of my Nuzlocke a bit so I can use one. :P
Haha, it's still not very good at attacking but it is very bulky now: 252 Atk Garchomp Earthquake vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Fur Coat Pachirisu: 128-152 (37.2 - 44.1%). It'll probably survive the whole run!
8. I saw you buffed the Big Root, do you have plans for buffs to any other items?
Possibly the pinch berries if that's a simple change, they'd be much better if they worked like they do in Gen VII.
Thanks for your attention to any and all of these! I understand you're busy with another romhack right now so obviously no rush on any of these, don't feel pushed to do them or anything! Thank you either way!
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