Something that bugs me about the pokemon game series

DaftZuul

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    The fact that each Pokémon can only know 4 attacks at one time. In the show they know like all of there attacks, They should at least up the amount to Six or Eight, Pokémon are smarter than knowing only 4 attacks. Sure it keeps the game somewhat balanced. but doubling the attack amount wouldn't hurt anyone/thing

    Anyone else agree or have a good explanation on such a low limitation?
     
    I always thought that was annoying too. When I first played a pokemon game and it told me that my pokemon has to forget a move, I though: "you just can't forget something as important as a move!"

    But now it does not bother me.
     
    Trust me, if we had 8 attacks, it would rip the competitive battling metagame to shreds. Any Pokemon that could attack from both sides of the spectrum would instantly shoot to the top of the metagame. :#

    Bad idea is bad. Sorry.
     
    It sure can be annoying sometimes to have the four-moves-only limit, because there is too many good moves for a pokemon to learn, and you don't want it to forget anything. However, this makes it so challenging. Which moves should you keep and which forget? How are you going to make a perfect combination out of just four moves? If you add even two more, this would be a lot easier. Five moves could still be okay, but any more would be no good, I think.
     
    Whilst I think the whole metagame is petty and ridiculous - if everyone limited what they couldn't overcome the world would go straight to hell - the strategy of Pokemon would be completely trashed if the attack limit was upped. Four attacks is fine, it means you have to think about what you're doing. It sets Pokemon apart from other RPGs, and anything that sets an RPG apart from others these days is not to be dismissed.
     
    Actually in the show they only know 4, they end up learning something new and forgetting old ones.

    Look at Pikachu, he clearly only uses Thunderbolt, Iron Tail, Quick Attack, and Volt Takle. Piplup only uses Bide, Peck, Bubblebeam, and Whirlpool. I can go on and on.
     
    Yoom-Tah, doesn't Pikachu know Thunder? :#

    But this theory is hands-down disproven by the Orange Islands Champion, Drake, and his Dragonite. It knew like, 8-9 attacks :#
     
    YOOM-TAH said:
    Actually in the show they only know 4, they end up learning something new and forgetting old ones.

    Look at Pikachu, he clearly only uses Thunderbolt, Iron Tail, Quick Attack, and Volt Takle. Piplup only uses Bide, Peck, Bubblebeam, and Whirlpool. I can go on and on.
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    meh. This doesn't prove a whole lot. Its never been clearly said either way in the anime, and there has never been any mention of a pokemon foretting a move. its just one of those mysteries, like how geodude reproduce, or if levels are real, or an evil illusion from Lucifer.
     
    XD Eight attacks?

    Say g'bye to competitive battling. Any more than four would shatter the metagame into little pieces, and it would take quite a while to recover and redistribute tiers and such.

    It's fine for the shows/movies, but in game would never work.
     
    Disregarding the metagame, I think it's retarded that pokemon can't learn more attacks. Are their intelligence quotient that low that they can't remember more than 4 moves? Kind of pathetic, but I digress.
     
    Archeopterix said:
    Disregarding the metagame, I think it's retarded that pokemon can't learn more attacks. Are their intelligence quotient that low that they can't remember more than 4 moves? Kind of pathetic, but I digress.
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    Well for the sake of the actual game, yes they are pretty dumb XD...But I'm pretty sure in the show and movies they learn a lot more. I know in the actual series Pikachu learns a bunch.
     
    That's right... In the show they know tons of moves, and never have to forget any move.
    Not only Drake's Dragonite, a lot of other people's pokemons, including Ash's ones, know more than just four moves...
    Plus in the Anime they can *jump*, *dodge*, *run towards*, *hide*, *block*, and use a lot of other moves which are only normal.

    On the other hand, the in-game competitive battle theory would be ruined if more than four moves were learnable.
    Then, you'd be the one complaining again that "why is this game so darn easy? There's no challange at all!"

    But personally, I think there should have been at least five moves, just one more.
     
    Seriously, if we were allowed more than 4 attacks, Choice Scarf use would skyrocket and we'd be doing tiers based on speed brackets and nature uses rather than overall stats. :#

    Gengar, Heatran, Deoxys-S and Aerodactyl would just own the crap out of everything :#
     
    YOOM-TAH said:
    Actually in the show they only know 4, they end up learning something new and forgetting old ones.

    Look at Pikachu, he clearly only uses Thunderbolt, Iron Tail, Quick Attack, and Volt Takle. Piplup only uses Bide, Peck, Bubblebeam, and Whirlpool. I can go on and on.
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    ive seen pikachu use...

    thunder
    thunderbolt
    iron tail
    quick attack
    volt tackle
    discharge (the rise of darkrai)
     
    I'm seeing people say "in the show" a lot. Just remember that the games are the true canon and that the anime is the most inaccurate official depiction of the Pogeymanz world.

    Balancing issues aside (wtf is metagaming about?), the restriction to four moves is indeed stupid. Perhaps the capacity should increase every so and so levels the Pokemon gains, to reflect increased intelligence resulting from experience and whatnot... lol.
     
    PhantomSyndrome said:
    ive seen pikachu use...

    thunder
    thunderbolt
    iron tail
    quick attack
    volt tackle
    discharge (the rise of darkrai)
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    You've seen them over periods of time. Pikachu hasn't used Thunder in a long while, and I never have seen it use Discharge. :x Pokemon learn and forget things.

    Besides, if the move limit in the games were extended, it would create a large imbalance in the metagame.
     
    I thought Pikachu knows:
    Thundershock, Iron Tail, Quick Attack and Volt Tackle.
     
    PhantomSyndrome said:
    ive seen pikachu use...

    thunder
    thunderbolt
    iron tail
    quick attack
    volt tackle
    discharge (the rise of darkrai)
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    In the rise of Darkrai, Pikachu cooperated with Pachirisu to power up the gigantic tower, that is true..
    But Pikachu used thunderbolt, not discharge. Pachirisu was responsible for that piece of blue lightning ;)
     
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