weather effects

[Mab]

let's talk weather! the first weather effects were added to the game in Gen II and we've been getting more different types with different effects ever since then. the current list:

• Harsh/Very Harsh Sunlight
• Rain/Heavy Rain
• Sandstorm
• Hail
• Fog
• Mysterious Air Current

Do you try to use weather effects to your advantage in battle? Would you change or remove an existing weather type? Are there any other types of weather you'd like to see in the future?

 

[mireka]

I never really used the weather effects but I'm sitting here trying to think of what other weather we could even have?? Maybe I'm not thinking of one but what if there was a move or ability called "white out" that maxed out hail and rain even more so there was zero visibility? I have no idea how that could even effect battle or what even good it would do but LOL maybe anot her pokemon could benefit from it

 

[Mab]

for example, some of the ideas for weather types and effects I think would be interesting:
sleet: All Pokémon except Water or Ice-types take damage and are slowed.
cloudy: Flying-types' accuracy is halved. Sunny Day's damage is halved.
hurricane: All Pokémon except Flying-types take damage each turn. Flying-types' speed is doubled.

 

[Lunar]

I kinda like them, they add a new dimension to battles but I've never attempted to utilise them cause my teams are so diverse that only one or maybe two Pokemon would benefit.

 

[tokyodrift]

I'd like to see them do more with Fog in particular. I think there are many ways that they can about making it a pretty unique weather. Hopefully it'll get used sooner rather than later when the D/P/Pt remakes come along in the future. I do think they should expand on current weather such as Heavy/Intense Sandstorm/Hail. I've always thought weather was pretty unique but i do think competitive gives it a pretty bad name.

 

[Degurchaff]

I would like them to use the fog weather effect To do something instead of lowering the accuracy by a small amount
Maybe it could power up some type of Fog based move?

I tend to use Sunny day most of the time to power up my Fire type moves if the battle takes too long
Or if the opponent's pokemon is stronger than mine and need a little boost to finish the job.

 

[smocks]

I would also like to see more use of the fog, but not too much otherwise we'll have to bring back Defog yikes

I tend to use the sunlight weather in competitive battling, soooooo helpful for my team but one time I'd used the hail in competitive and it wasn't that bad. I just tend to hate weather like the hail, I especially hate sandstorm the most and even more in game.

(Ik this isn't weather but the battlefield effects are a pretty interesting concept that's overlooked and I would like to see more of that be implemented into the future games)

 

[tokyodrift]

fog isn't entirely useless as it does have a few very underrated in-battle effects:

• Multiplies Accuracy of all Pokémon battling by 6/10.
• Doubles the power of Weather Ball (but does not change its type).
• Causes Solar Beam to have its power halved.
• Causes Moonlight, Synthesis, and Morning Sun to only recover ¼ of max HP.

 

[Mab]

HOPEFULLY hms will not be returning at all in future games, so I'm excited to see if Fog will actually make a return without having to waste a slot for an otherwise completely useless move that clears it. I'm sure they can think of a better way to make it work.